I would never take a job if they didn't give me thorough technical interview, including writing actual code. Otherwise you take a big chance of working with a bunch of chumps, which sounds exactly like what happened to you.
What kind of twisted logic caused you to work in C++ for 16 years? Pure stubborness or lack of carreer mobility? The WISH LIST of the UPCOMING C++ standard includes absolutely basic things like
- Threads
- GUI Support (not real GUI support mind you, just things like call backs that make this easier)
- Database support
When Java, which you so offhandedly distain, had things java.lang.Thread, Swing, and JDBC since Java2.
The biggest problem with Nemises: Councellor Troy lived, Data died. Data was one of the best characters on the show! If they wanted to kill someone it would have been a perfect opportunity to kill off Troy. They love affair between Troy and Number 1 was always so lame--neither of them could act. I hated when they had whole episodes devoted to them.
That and there were whole parts of the movie that were never explained, like half thought-out ideas. E.g. what was the whole mind meld/sex scene/mind healing all about?
Actually I did an essay that showed that our minds were fundamentally superior to computers or any turing machine. You can check it out here if you're interested: For Against
We've had 10 digit dialing for a while in Toronto. Why do you need to enter a 1 at the beginning? It's a sign long distance over here. 0 for collect. I thought that was standard. How is dialing a 1 before every number going to increase the number of available phone lines?
That said not having area codes relate to 'area' (having more then one area code in the same house) is a pain. That's one of the things that suck about IP addresses. You can't tell where the computer by looking at it's IP (well not with a lot of research first.) Does IPv6 have this ability?
Yes, 78,000 is realistic. 780,000 lines/18 months is impossible for one person. 100/lines a day is very good. 3 lines/day is what you would do if you were trying to write perfect code.
In addition 50-100K lines of code is appropiate for a web browser.
If corporations don't like the idea of people hyper-linking they should use a different protocol then http. It's that simple--if you use the web then you agree to the concept of hyper-linking. It's a foundation of the technology.
If corporations find that http is too loose & free for their lawyers liking they can invent and use something else. They are trying to have it both ways--and in the process expropriate a public resource.
Most programmers use some kind of logging & trace mechanism when debugging. For the most part you know where the problem is located and it takes longer to 'run program to cursor', then do watches on the variables, then it is to just do a log(Level.DEBUG, "variable", var) and run the program.
Using a debugger is rarely more effective. Some situations demand it, e.g. a bug caused by a compiler bug.
Perhaps language & IDE's should concentrate development on helping with the kind of debugging tools that programmers actually use, then sophisticated debuggers.
At the very least using System.out.println() should not be necesary. VB has Debug.print although for various reasons it's really annoying to use. E.g. it doesn't clear itself on every program run.
It's not the creating the ability to forge Bill Gates signature that is illegal. It would be the actual forging of Bill Gates signature in order to perpetuate fraud that would be.
I don't see what legal reasons these people were afraid of other then a costly groundless lawsuit by a large corporation.
You would think that describing business rules in a logical, unambiguous manner is a matter of common sense. However, after dealing with my share of users I have come to realize that it is a great skill--and is a good chunk of the reason we get paid so much.
I'll never forget the time we spent weeks trying to figure out this one business rule for a system that tracked Employee's Sick Leave Credits. We'd go to meetings with the users and think we have it. Then we'd realize later why it didn't quite make sense and bring it up at the next meeting. Finally turned out to be that, to them, when an employee was 'away' they were absent without credits, while we thought that that when an employee was 'away' they were just absent.
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I would never take a job if they didn't give me thorough technical interview, including writing actual code. Otherwise you take a big chance of working with a bunch of chumps, which sounds exactly like what happened to you.
What kind of twisted logic caused you to work in C++ for 16 years? Pure stubborness or lack of carreer mobility? The WISH LIST of the UPCOMING C++ standard includes absolutely basic things like - Threads - GUI Support (not real GUI support mind you, just things like call backs that make this easier) - Database support When Java, which you so offhandedly distain, had things java.lang.Thread, Swing, and JDBC since Java2.
"a company I worked for previously"
:)
I wonder if getting your boss to correct people higher up then you on the pecking order had anything to do with that
The biggest problem with Nemises: Councellor Troy lived, Data died. Data was one of the best characters on the show! If they wanted to kill someone it would have been a perfect opportunity to kill off Troy. They love affair between Troy and Number 1 was always so lame--neither of them could act. I hated when they had whole episodes devoted to them.
That and there were whole parts of the movie that were never explained, like half thought-out ideas. E.g. what was the whole mind meld/sex scene/mind healing all about?
Actually I did an essay that showed that our minds were fundamentally superior to computers or any turing machine. You can check it out here if you're interested:
For
Against
We've had 10 digit dialing for a while in Toronto. Why do you need to enter a 1 at the beginning? It's a sign long distance over here. 0 for collect. I thought that was standard. How is dialing a 1 before every number going to increase the number of available phone lines?
That said not having area codes relate to 'area' (having more then one area code in the same house) is a pain. That's one of the things that suck about IP addresses. You can't tell where the computer by looking at it's IP (well not with a lot of research first.) Does IPv6 have this ability?
Yes, 78,000 is realistic. 780,000 lines/18 months is impossible for one person. 100/lines a day is very good. 3 lines/day is what you would do if you were trying to write perfect code.
In addition 50-100K lines of code is appropiate for a web browser.
If corporations don't like the idea of people hyper-linking they should use a different protocol then http. It's that simple--if you use the web then you agree to the concept of hyper-linking. It's a foundation of the technology.
If corporations find that http is too loose & free for their lawyers liking they can invent and use something else. They are trying to have it both ways--and in the process expropriate a public resource.
Most programmers use some kind of logging & trace mechanism when debugging. For the most part you know where the problem is located and it takes longer to 'run program to cursor', then do watches on the variables, then it is to just do a log(Level.DEBUG, "variable", var) and run the program.
Using a debugger is rarely more effective. Some situations demand it, e.g. a bug caused by a compiler bug.
Perhaps language & IDE's should concentrate development on helping with the kind of debugging tools that programmers actually use, then sophisticated debuggers.
At the very least using System.out.println() should not be necesary. VB has Debug.print although for various reasons it's really annoying to use. E.g. it doesn't clear itself on every program run.
It's not the creating the ability to forge Bill Gates signature that is illegal. It would be the actual forging of Bill Gates signature in order to perpetuate fraud that would be.
I don't see what legal reasons these people were afraid of other then a costly groundless lawsuit by a large corporation.
You would think that describing business rules in a logical, unambiguous manner is a matter of common sense. However, after dealing with my share of users I have come to realize that it is a great skill--and is a good chunk of the reason we get paid so much.
I'll never forget the time we spent weeks trying to figure out this one business rule for a system that tracked Employee's Sick Leave Credits. We'd go to meetings with the users and think we have it. Then we'd realize later why it didn't quite make sense and bring it up at the next meeting. Finally turned out to be that, to them, when an employee was 'away' they were absent without credits, while we thought that that when an employee was 'away' they were just absent.