Actually, there was another movie in the vein of 'Startup.com' that I thought was much better done, called 'E-dreams'. It follows the guys from Kozmo.com as they near their anticipated IPO, which gets derailed due to the arrival of the big crash. It does tend to focus on the business side more than the tech side, but it was highly entertaining.
I just thought it was refreshingly honest technology reporting. New technology we were promised this year has snowball's chance in hell of actually coming out this year. It will be late.
When "XM kills off" (as you say) Howard Stern completely in the morning drive, I'll personally be happy to drop a 50 pound brick onto my genitals. Why? Cause I'm 100% sure that'll never happen.
It's an interesting paradox you present. If Howard Stern goes off the air, he won't be able to have you on the show to drop a 50 lb brick on your genitals.
Well, I'm in definite agreement with you there. The lawyers have the ABA, the doctors have the AMA, and all we programmers have are a bunch of Libertarians who freak out whenever anybody even mentions the 'U' word.
Meanwhile it's working nicely for the doctors and the lawyers while we lose our shirts.
Not that you'll need a shirt if you choose beach bum route.
It's also interesting that doctors and lawyers have the good sense to put some of their wealth in to lobbying efforts. The only lobbying I ever hear about that's IT-related involves raising H1B caps. IEEE seems to try to represent and go against these sorts of things, but they usually get shouted down it seems...
BTW, some of the stations on XM have commercials b/c essentially they're broadcasting CNN or some other station's content. But there's always BBCNews for commercial free news.
There are quite a few out-of-work lawyers. You'd be amazed. Thanks to most Americans litigation-happiness, most of them stay employed helping people sue the Zoo because they touched a railing that was too hot, or suing a school because their kids grades were too low, or suing McDonald's for making them fat. Right now they're doing what they can to exacerbate the US's health care crisis by litigating malpractice insurance into the stratosphere.
If money is A number 1 probably programming is not the way to go, unless you do something having to do with homeland security. That's probably the new gravy train, and as an American Citizen you'll definitely get preferential treatment in that area, I would think.
On another note, you'd really like to be a beach bum? That sounds crushingly dull to me.
To inject my own, worth-the-money-it-cost-you opinion in to this, if you really love CS, you should stick with it. What else are you going to do? This country has FAR TOO MANY lawyers as it is, so unless you went into something specific and tech-oriented (patent law), that's no good. You could go to business school and be an unemployed MBA, but you might hate the coursework and your classmates.
If you are reasonably good, and more importantly, very driven, you should be able to find something. India can't totally replace all US programmers and we can't have all IT functions being done from remote locations regardless of our fine technical advances.
People still decide to be artists, writers, mathematicians, etc. even though those have never been sure roads to wealth or even solvency. Sometimes you just have to do what you have to do. You're fortunate to love what you're doing now. It just won't be the cake-walk getting a job that it was in 1999.
Low unemployment sounds great at first, then you start noticing how many 'Hey, I used to be a programmer' comments you get from Wal-Mart employees when you wear your geek T-shirt there.
Low unemployment, sure, but are people shifting to jobs that pay less?
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OK, I follow you now. Maybe if the author had said 'set up his booth more before launching into his pitch', or something, it would have been clearer. Overall a good review, that just confused me a bit.
To be fair, that would be outside the scope of the book. It covers Java itself, the core language as an O'Reilly book might call it. I find it to be quite handy and well-written and agree with the reviewer for the most part.
I may check out Java Rules now. To easy to make fun of that name: Hey dude, Java Rules!
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I also liked the short prose sections, and thought the author could have spent more time setting out his stall before launching in to the items.
What does 'setting out his stall' mean? I picture somebody settling on to the toilet and opening the newspaper, but in the context I don't think that's what you meant.
This is very true, however most of the time management won't buy into re-writing so bugs won't occur, I guess it reminds them how screwed up the initial development effort was and hurts their ego.
>"Go on the job market"? What bullshit-speak! >Translation: A few thousand programmers would >lose their jobs. Many would have trouble finding >work. Some would lose their homes and cars after >being unable to make the payments. Many would >incur debts and financial troubles that would >hound them for decades. Others would be forced >to move far away from their families and friends >to accept work elsewhere in the country. You >don't dump a few thousand people out of work and >then expect that they will be absorbed back into >the job market within a few weeks.
Don't forget that when enough people rack up these debts and can't pay them, you have a cataclysmic debt collapse that screws up the economy in ways that make recent troubles look like not having enough money to by a spare Lexus for when the other one is in the shop.
Actually while I like Epinions overall, it does seem to be susceptible to some of the 'you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours' behavior wrt the web of trust.
Also you sometimes see people posting lots of really positive reviews of reviews, presumably to kiss up to each other, but having designated epinions editors whose reviews of reviews are weighted more heavily seems to have helped that.
That said, I then found these editors' opinions to vary pretty wildly. Some gave me really good reviews, while others gave me lukewarm reviews when the work and thought on my end were essentially equal. It was an interesting illustration of how subjective these things are. Ah well, at least my ratings don't go on my permanent record...
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Wow dude, how'd you post that message from 1999? Do you have a time machine?
Heh heh, my wife bought Vice City for me for Xmas...
Who's going to say no to that? There are only so many people working at those 'Pioneer Days Old Time Village' type places who could say no.
Actually, there was another movie in the vein of 'Startup.com' that I thought was much better done, called 'E-dreams'. It follows the guys from Kozmo.com as they near their anticipated IPO, which gets derailed due to the arrival of the big crash. It does tend to focus on the business side more than the tech side, but it was highly entertaining.
'The Fat Guy' being 'Nedry', an anagram for 'Nerdy' right up there with Lisa Simpson's anagram for Jeremy Irons, 'Jeremy's Iron'.
I just thought it was refreshingly honest technology reporting. New technology we were promised this year has snowball's chance in hell of actually coming out this year. It will be late.
It's an interesting paradox you present. If Howard Stern goes off the air, he won't be able to have you on the show to drop a 50 lb brick on your genitals.
Meanwhile it's working nicely for the doctors and the lawyers while we lose our shirts.
Not that you'll need a shirt if you choose beach bum route.
It's also interesting that doctors and lawyers have the good sense to put some of their wealth in to lobbying efforts. The only lobbying I ever hear about that's IT-related involves raising H1B caps. IEEE seems to try to represent and go against these sorts of things, but they usually get shouted down it seems...
BTW, some of the stations on XM have commercials b/c essentially they're broadcasting CNN or some other station's content. But there's always BBCNews for commercial free news.
If money is A number 1 probably programming is not the way to go, unless you do something having to do with homeland security. That's probably the new gravy train, and as an American Citizen you'll definitely get preferential treatment in that area, I would think.
On another note, you'd really like to be a beach bum? That sounds crushingly dull to me.
If you are reasonably good, and more importantly, very driven, you should be able to find something. India can't totally replace all US programmers and we can't have all IT functions being done from remote locations regardless of our fine technical advances.
People still decide to be artists, writers, mathematicians, etc. even though those have never been sure roads to wealth or even solvency. Sometimes you just have to do what you have to do. You're fortunate to love what you're doing now. It just won't be the cake-walk getting a job that it was in 1999.
Good luck.
As someone who works near someone with a 'Yellow Rose Of Texas' ringtone, I strongly agree with Mr. Coward on this one.
Low unemployment, sure, but are people shifting to jobs that pay less?
OK, I follow you now. Maybe if the author had said 'set up his booth more before launching into his pitch', or something, it would have been clearer. Overall a good review, that just confused me a bit.
For real, I was gonna go for the obvious goof on Rapper's Delight myself but saw it had been done, pretty well too, I dug it.
To be fair, that would be outside the scope of the book. It covers Java itself, the core language as an O'Reilly book might call it. I find it to be quite handy and well-written and agree with the reviewer for the most part.
I may check out Java Rules now. To easy to make fun of that name: Hey dude, Java Rules!
What does 'setting out his stall' mean? I picture somebody settling on to the toilet and opening the newspaper, but in the context I don't think that's what you meant.
True, it just takes one barely functional joker who cranks out crap insecure code that wows marketing to ruin it for everyone...
The moderators shot their wad on the ten similar posting preceding this one, I think.
This is very true, however most of the time management won't buy into re-writing so bugs won't occur, I guess it reminds them how screwed up the initial development effort was and hurts their ego.
Don't forget that when enough people rack up these debts and can't pay them, you have a cataclysmic debt collapse that screws up the economy in ways that make recent troubles look like not having enough money to by a spare Lexus for when the other one is in the shop.
Naw, I don't think it was a mere attempt, that thoroughly succeeded at being bad.
Also, everybody took the flags out of their car windows. Clearly this shows the terrorists have won.
Also you sometimes see people posting lots of really positive reviews of reviews, presumably to kiss up to each other, but having designated epinions editors whose reviews of reviews are weighted more heavily seems to have helped that.
That said, I then found these editors' opinions to vary pretty wildly. Some gave me really good reviews, while others gave me lukewarm reviews when the work and thought on my end were essentially equal. It was an interesting illustration of how subjective these things are. Ah well, at least my ratings don't go on my permanent record...
Plus IBM has all those cool company songs.