Underneath all the 3-D prims and scripts and what-not, Second Life is the virtual experience that lets you be a gold jacketed Century21 Real Estate Agent as far as I can tell (but WITH A TAIL! AWESOME!). Not sure if it's about killing cool, maybe just exposing the lack of intrinsic coolness.
I am head of HR at a company that recently got an award for our integration of NPA personality theory into the hiring process.
Please nobody tell anybody in the HR community about this.
Thanks.
In the Pacific, not far from where my plane was shot down, and I was comforted by thoughts of freedom of action in space.
no, that's the other George Bush...
http://www.fortfreedom.org/b11.htm
>someone to build a complete (may be 90%)databese
Databesity is a growing problem in the US.
Get rid of all that extra data you don't need, fight databesity.
He also wrote 'How to drive your competition crazy' when he was at Apple in the early 90's, but in the early 90's I don't recall Apple driving anybody crazy except maybe their shareholders.
Finally, I often hear from Java advocates that the memory-lebensraum problem and the speed problem are due to programmers not understanding the internals well enough to work around their flaws. This is not said to be true of any other programming language on Earth, as far as I know.
True, and in the article a similar excuse is used for Swing's Lameitude:
Swing disasters continue to give Java a bad name. Swing is a brilliant, although hard to learn, API. But the vast majority of Swing applications are so bad that they give Swing and therefore Java a bad name.
So...it's a language for the 'average programmer' (also from the article), but 'average programmers' are making it look bad? Er, OK.
In conclusion, the article is worse than Graham's, but took less time to read anyway.
"Some of our employees, however bright they may be, have only a hazy idea about the rest of the world," he said."... and this is different from the rest of America how exactly?
You have to take out the phrase 'however bright they may be' in that case.
there are a bazillion ads for J2EE people, making me wonder if the title of the article here could possibly be anything stupider than 'Java is Back!'. Don't call it a comeback, it's been here for years, as a wise man once said.
J2EE, on cursory examination, seems to exist to turn 1 person projects into 5 person projects, and 5 person projects in to $5 million projects. Great for programmers, no doubt about it.
Good to hear taking a class helped you out, I may go do the same as protection in case I find myself unemployed down the road.
A friend of mine was a programmer at IBM. He said his stint there started with several weeks of training, and the first thing they said in training was 'we are going to de-program you, then we are going to reprogram you'. Meaning clean all the junk you learned in college out of your minds and build back up.
I worked with a guy who got laid off from IBM a while back. He would entertain us all with horror stories of his treatment at the hands of IBM. For example, getting interrogated Law And Order style by a table full of management types when he missed a deadline by one day. He was paid very very well while there, so he put up with it. It didn't make IBM sound like a great place to spend your 80 hours a week.
This can not be repeated enough. Rob Enderle is so profoundly worthless as both a technology analyst and a writer in general that I urge anyone to do a quick Google search to see for yourself how you'd be better off getting your technical news and information from, well, I don't know, Courtney Love.
Keep posting the SCO stories, keep the Astroturfers busy and confined.
It's kind of like a honeypot for astroturfers. I stopped reading SCO stories around when the stock dropped below $5. They are so doomed. Let the astroturfers turf away in these stories the rest of us can ignore.
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Yeahbut when you run the HURD on that that will be AWESOME!
I attached a handle to my roomba so I can control it by hand.
It sounded like somebody dropped a bucket of ping pong balls to me.
Underneath all the 3-D prims and scripts and what-not, Second Life is the virtual experience that lets you be a gold jacketed Century21 Real Estate Agent as far as I can tell (but WITH A TAIL! AWESOME!). Not sure if it's about killing cool, maybe just exposing the lack of intrinsic coolness.
I am head of HR at a company that recently got an award for our integration of NPA personality theory into the hiring process. Please nobody tell anybody in the HR community about this. Thanks.
You left out: we appreciate that you have a choice of airline, and we thank you for flying Southwest today.
I'd be down with that only if they charged the Score:x, Funny people too...
In the Pacific, not far from where my plane was shot down, and I was comforted by thoughts of freedom of action in space. no, that's the other George Bush... http://www.fortfreedom.org/b11.htm
I sure was.
Students at CSU Harpo and CSU Groucho breathed a sigh of relief on finding their campuses were not affected. No word at this time on CSU The Man.
>someone to build a complete (may be 90%)databese Databesity is a growing problem in the US. Get rid of all that extra data you don't need, fight databesity.
No doubt, esp those company songs IBM had...
I'm sure you read a lot further than Sam did.
That's when it's great if you can work from home. I find home a much better environment than the office for getting things done lately.
You mean both smoke AND drink beers? Woah, look at you!
He also wrote 'How to drive your competition crazy' when he was at Apple in the early 90's, but in the early 90's I don't recall Apple driving anybody crazy except maybe their shareholders.
Who's running for class president?
True, and in the article a similar excuse is used for Swing's Lameitude:
Swing disasters continue to give Java a bad name. Swing is a brilliant, although hard to learn, API. But the vast majority of Swing applications are so bad that they give Swing and therefore Java a bad name.
So...it's a language for the 'average programmer' (also from the article), but 'average programmers' are making it look bad? Er, OK.
In conclusion, the article is worse than Graham's, but took less time to read anyway.
You have to take out the phrase 'however bright they may be' in that case.
He'll double-punch your Starbucks coffee club card if you tip him well.
- there are a bazillion ads for J2EE people, making me wonder if the title of the article here could possibly be anything stupider than 'Java is Back!'. Don't call it a comeback, it's been here for years, as a wise man once said.
- J2EE, on cursory examination, seems to exist to turn 1 person projects into 5 person projects, and 5 person projects in to $5 million projects. Great for programmers, no doubt about it.
Good to hear taking a class helped you out, I may go do the same as protection in case I find myself unemployed down the road.A friend of mine was a programmer at IBM. He said his stint there started with several weeks of training, and the first thing they said in training was 'we are going to de-program you, then we are going to reprogram you'. Meaning clean all the junk you learned in college out of your minds and build back up.
I worked with a guy who got laid off from IBM a while back. He would entertain us all with horror stories of his treatment at the hands of IBM. For example, getting interrogated Law And Order style by a table full of management types when he missed a deadline by one day. He was paid very very well while there, so he put up with it. It didn't make IBM sound like a great place to spend your 80 hours a week.
This can not be repeated enough. Rob Enderle is so profoundly worthless as both a technology analyst and a writer in general that I urge anyone to do a quick Google search to see for yourself how you'd be better off getting your technical news and information from, well, I don't know, Courtney Love.
It's kind of like a honeypot for astroturfers. I stopped reading SCO stories around when the stock dropped below $5. They are so doomed. Let the astroturfers turf away in these stories the rest of us can ignore.