I just looked at the picture and saw an unwarranted (and stupid) attack on "Strawberry Shortcake".
You must not have any sisters. Anyone who has been
subject to the saccharine sweetness that is
Strawberry Shortcake would support any amount of
mockery.
I don't know anyone who has ever used, is using or ever will use AOL.
Uh huh. And uncle Steve is bringing his
friend Bruce to Thanksgiving dinner. Bruce seems
nice, maybe he can help uncle Steve find a nice girl
to marry.
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In blast terms that makes it only four times as powerful as the 1995 Oklahoma bombing device
So data is measured as a percentage of the
information contained in the Library of Congress
and
bomb yield is rated as a number of Oklahoma City
Federal Building truck bombs.
Other measuring sticks from the world of
current events:
information
content of an official statement by number of
words is measured in Rumsfeld poems, Jingoism
can be measured in "freedom fries", and the likelihood
of a simple task being screwed will henceforth be
measured in dimpled chads.
BTW... I wouldn't install that POS "development suite" if *they* paid *me*.
So what do you use for development?
I admit I used to dislike IDEs because they were
not productive.
Recent versions of Visual Studio and SlickEdit
have changed my mind on that score. A large
project becomes nearly unmanageable with just
'make', and I hate wasting time investigating
crashes caused by stale object files and the like.
Sure you can rebuild everything
*every* time, but once build
time gets over 20 minutes this really cuts into
your work flow.
Plus, once you get used to file browsers and class
browsers you have a hard time giving them up.
One of the hardest hit (right after the web guys)
departments at my employer was HR.
Kind of hard to feel sorry for them, as you
pointed out they are mostly useless.
It always seemed like there was actual work that
HR could be doing, but instead they were sitting
around meeting rooms coming up with awful
motivational crap or losing paperwork.
If you're one of the people that writes software that spews out messages like, "Would you like me to save this file?" And "I'm sorry, but there was an error." etc...
PLEASE, STOP DOING IT NOW!
Okay, I'll revert to my old all purpose error message:
"User is a dumbass".
The day of the HTML "developer" making 100k a year are long past.
Good riddance to those days. Worst thing about the
boom was all the loudmouthed "web guys" in
bars bragging about how much money they made.:)
Browsing employment ads recently, employers seem to want an ever expanding set of skills and experience.
The only people we are still interviewing have
very specialized knowledge to go along with a
diverse skillset. A checklist of certs and skills
may get HR interested in your resume, but the
interviewers will dig pretty deep to find out
how useful you would be working with them.
The HS kid may be able to build you a toy system
(the majority of web site programming), but unless
you lucked into an extremly talented (and motivated)
amateur that will be the most you can expect.
Professional programmers are well aware of the
problems with the state of the art in their
profession. So we'd appreciate it if the bitter
engineers in the peanut gallery would keep the noise
down. Thank you.
Dude, he was totally trying to burn you! He was
trying to show that you had no problem keeping women
away because you are unappealing and unlikely to
have that problem.
Which is silly, really, because it's not like
you were claiming you had to beat off-...
repel the
ladies with a stick. Now the laddies on the other
hand...
I've racked my brain trying to figure out why Tcl is hated by so many in the "pop" geek community.
I'm not a "pop" geek and I don't hate tcl, but it
is never my first choice for a solution.
The only answer that I've been able to come up with is the fact that those making the complaints are those who: a) do not actually know Tcl and haven't taken the time to understand it
I've used tcl off and on for several years. Many
people probably first run into it as I did, as
the scipting/configuration langauage of a device
or application. In my case it was the only way to
do things that should have been much simpler. I
learned the language and managed to do what I
needed, but I always felt like just shoving it
out of the way and doing something simpler.
and b) are zealots of some other scripting language.
What can I say, I prefer perl, python, a shell,
or my own quick and dirty parser.
A third possible reason that comes to mind is perhaps that some people just can't stand the idea of something that doesn't even closely resemble C-style syntax.
Maybe the creators of C got something right.
I think some more realistic reasons people don't
like tcl are those who: a) have performance
requirements or b) need a large module library
that can be easily ported or c) prefer an
environment with quick turn around like lisp or
python.
It depends on the systems that will be using it, the
cipher type used, the systems it must pass through,
and so on.
16 characters is a pretty good rule of thumb for
maximum length (mostly because people use md5
incorrectly). There is usually no
minimum unless
a front end application (or policy system) enforces
one.
While I like a lot of Dick's writing, I think that _Blade Runner_ was far superior to the book. As with many writers, Dick's novels often are hit and miss. Lots of good ideas that often doesn't finish well. Further what works in a book doesn't always work in a movie (and vice versa).
I like PKDs short stories a lot more than his
novels. He was great at spinning out an idea and
writing a very entertaining story around it. I've
seen more than a couple of his ideas turned into
full length novels, television shows, or movies.
Too bad he so often failed to follow up on them
himself, or tried to and failed.
I mean, really. This treaty has been signed, and ratified on the advice and consent of the Senate. Surely it had other reasons than simple masochism for doing so.
Sure in addition to the periodic resurgence of
guilt over being America (simple masochism)
there were probably
short term gains from this act of appeasement.
In 1972 there was no way that this act was aimed
at any nation other than the US. The fact that we
signed it was short-sighted and we should look at
modifying or annuling it.
Besides Bush has already put us in violation of the
1967
Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States
in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space,including
the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies
, which disallows any space-based weapon
systems.
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Ever head of an attractive nuisance ?
Some of us have the odd notion that we are the government of this country.
You must not have any sisters. Anyone who has been subject to the saccharine sweetness that is Strawberry Shortcake would support any amount of mockery.
Uh huh. And uncle Steve is bringing his friend Bruce to Thanksgiving dinner. Bruce seems nice, maybe he can help uncle Steve find a nice girl to marry.
So data is measured as a percentage of the information contained in the Library of Congress and bomb yield is rated as a number of Oklahoma City Federal Building truck bombs.
Other measuring sticks from the world of current events: information content of an official statement by number of words is measured in Rumsfeld poems, Jingoism can be measured in "freedom fries", and the likelihood of a simple task being screwed will henceforth be measured in dimpled chads.
So what do you use for development?
I admit I used to dislike IDEs because they were not productive.
Recent versions of Visual Studio and SlickEdit have changed my mind on that score. A large project becomes nearly unmanageable with just 'make', and I hate wasting time investigating crashes caused by stale object files and the like. Sure you can rebuild everything *every* time, but once build time gets over 20 minutes this really cuts into your work flow.
Plus, once you get used to file browsers and class browsers you have a hard time giving them up.
My hat is off to you AC, best synopsis ever!
It always seemed like there was actual work that HR could be doing, but instead they were sitting around meeting rooms coming up with awful motivational crap or losing paperwork.
PLEASE, STOP DOING IT NOW!
Okay, I'll revert to my old all purpose error message: "User is a dumbass".
I can't believe that MS has not done this already. The domain model is not a good fit outside the context of an intranet.
Good riddance to those days. Worst thing about the boom was all the loudmouthed "web guys" in bars bragging about how much money they made. :)
Browsing employment ads recently, employers seem to want an ever expanding set of skills and experience.
The only people we are still interviewing have very specialized knowledge to go along with a diverse skillset. A checklist of certs and skills may get HR interested in your resume, but the interviewers will dig pretty deep to find out how useful you would be working with them.
Okay, but I'm giving the maintenance programmers your email address.
Then he has grown up in the last six years.
I mailed him patches several years ago for some of his scripts. He was very defensive and did not seem to understand cgi attack methods.
And the author is *very* defensive about it. I'm surprised he went along with the gag.
Professional programmers are well aware of the problems with the state of the art in their profession. So we'd appreciate it if the bitter engineers in the peanut gallery would keep the noise down. Thank you.
Presentation Manager looked a lot like CDE. The win95 desktop was more mac-like (with progman compatability in the menus) than cde-like.
I don't know what your point was?
Dude, he was totally trying to burn you! He was trying to show that you had no problem keeping women away because you are unappealing and unlikely to have that problem.
Which is silly, really, because it's not like you were claiming you had to beat off- ...
repel the
ladies with a stick. Now the laddies on the other
hand...
I'm not a "pop" geek and I don't hate tcl, but it is never my first choice for a solution.
The only answer that I've been able to come up with is the fact that those making the complaints are those who: a) do not actually know Tcl and haven't taken the time to understand it
I've used tcl off and on for several years. Many people probably first run into it as I did, as the scipting/configuration langauage of a device or application. In my case it was the only way to do things that should have been much simpler. I learned the language and managed to do what I needed, but I always felt like just shoving it out of the way and doing something simpler.
and b) are zealots of some other scripting language.
What can I say, I prefer perl, python, a shell, or my own quick and dirty parser.
A third possible reason that comes to mind is perhaps that some people just can't stand the idea of something that doesn't even closely resemble C-style syntax.
Maybe the creators of C got something right.
I think some more realistic reasons people don't like tcl are those who: a) have performance requirements or b) need a large module library that can be easily ported or c) prefer an environment with quick turn around like lisp or python.
It depends on the systems that will be using it, the cipher type used, the systems it must pass through, and so on.
16 characters is a pretty good rule of thumb for maximum length (mostly because people use md5 incorrectly). There is usually no minimum unless a front end application (or policy system) enforces one.
I like PKDs short stories a lot more than his novels. He was great at spinning out an idea and writing a very entertaining story around it. I've seen more than a couple of his ideas turned into full length novels, television shows, or movies. Too bad he so often failed to follow up on them himself, or tried to and failed.
Many of these scams target the elderly. The 90k is likely the rapidly disapearing capital that they live on.
Ah! Touche!
According to Strunk and White, when verbifying tradenames the resulting word is no longer capitalized.
Yes, I'm joking - but for some reason I hate seeing 'google' used as a verb.
or 'nm'.
Sure in addition to the periodic resurgence of guilt over being America (simple masochism) there were probably short term gains from this act of appeasement.
In 1972 there was no way that this act was aimed at any nation other than the US. The fact that we signed it was short-sighted and we should look at modifying or annuling it.
Besides Bush has already put us in violation of the 1967 Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space,including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies , which disallows any space-based weapon systems.