Everyone loves to hate on Google now that they're no longer the scrappy underdogs. But after walking around the "Googleplex" I can't say I've ever seen a company where the engineers were happier.
It's the usual Slashdot jeasously. Anyone who has any sort of success must be torn down. I'm a loser so I'll sit around Slashdot pumping myself up by putting others down.
I was going to slam you for that statement, but then I realize you aren't some devious spinmaster, but some OSS lackey. You'll be one of the first to strap on the bomb and drive to Redmond when the Source Code wars break out.
I feel for your and you inability to see the faults on both sides.
Right, and arrest people who wear anti-Bush t-shirts in a time of war. This is a very serious time and the country must stand together
Freedom of speech must stand throught the good times and the bad. You'd like people to be thoughtful and couterous and think how you do, but with freedom comes the freedom to be an ass. I hope the asses speak loudly here and piss a bunch of people off. It's crude, but it's their right, and it shows the freedoms we have. On a brighter day, the views of Stallman piss alot of people off, so now is the perfect time to continue the tradition.
So, you know what I say to all this? In a true Slashdot tribute to the guy who died, we killed his site too. Ha Ha.
Yeah, but the big boys will lose. If people go to CNN.com, all of their hits are on CNN. If they go to google news, only a small portion of their hits will be CNN. The more news sites out there, the less chance a certain page will get hit. This is only good for the smaller sites that people don't know about.
Yet another classic ruined by an unnecessary sequel.
They didn't even make the movie yet and you're already pissing on it.
Honestly, I hope it blows, and I hope Brooks makes a ton of money, and I hope he makes a third which blows even more, and I want Lucas and Brooks to make a Seinfeldesque bizarro world Christmas special featuring Anakin and Dark Helmet and all their friends that look alike, and I want Kenner to release the special edition "Ruining geek childhood memories" action figure line. I just like seeing all you cranks bitch and moan over pointless things that you have no control over. It's great that you take this all so personally.
When the media and the general public give a shit. Most people don't care about using the correct prissy geek definitions. To the average Joe, trekker = trekkie, hacker = cracker. Who cares.
The funny and somewhat sad thing is that you are one of "them". You are a member of the dumb, stupid, unwashed masses. You're aware of yourself, and think you are better then the rest, but you are just another average joe. We all are.
So should LoTR have also died when Tolkien died in 1973?
It's all about the people who carry the torch. If Jackson's movies tanked, we'd all be crying that it should have died. But they didn't. And we didn't.
Only a partial view of the truth. The real model is simple though:
Something happens somewhere in the world. One of the two follows:
a) Immediate outcry from a large portion of/. readers. The end is near. ex: Bill Gates farts
"Gates just shot himself in the foot. This really leaves a bad taste in my mouth" (Score:5,Insightful)
"Gates is just a copycat. He has nothing on a Stallman fart" (Score:5,Informative) --or-- b) Fanboy circle jerk ex:Peter Jackson releases source code for LOTR trilogy
"Jackson is one of the great humanitarians of our time" (Score:5,Insightful)
"According to this link, Lucas refuses to OS the Star Wars Trilogy. This is why Lucas will never hold a candle to Jackson" (Score:5,Informative)
"My presssccciousss" (Score:5,Funny)
The sources? Its was the bad grammar and spelling, and the awful color scheme that clued me in. The common traits of all your favorite extremist web sites. Don't believe me?
Bah, Not even close to the days before they even invented sound. Walking uphill barefoot in 4 feet of snow and you needed nothing to get your adrenaline going.
How can we be sure that *any* information is true?
No information is true. It's only an intrepretation of a reality we cannot comprehend. A presentation of information is a view into the creator's model that serves as their intreptation of the information. Even worse, propagation of information is just repeated translation of presentations among incompatible models. It's like telling someone something then letting them pass it around the room. At the end it's different than it was at the beginning. Agreed upon standards like numbers help the problem some, but it still exists.
So sometimes, most of the time, "just getting the job" done can really destroy you in the long run
Microsoft has dominated for almost 20 years. How long is this 'long run' for them?
What you describe is a situation where the database is no longer good enough. The new version probably should have started earlier if you've hit a point where you're running into problems.
The goal of (business) software engineering is not to build a rock-solid system, but to build a system that the customer is happy with. With each new version you have a split of developing new features and also trying to anticipate what is going to cause problems in the future to decide which battles are worth fighting. A good engineer will always keep on top of the flaws which will eventually cause problems down the road. It becomes a juggling act of adding new features, anticipating problems, guessing what the customer will want in the future, and fixing problem areas such as code written because of a bad predicition, or "don't want to miss delivery" hack code.
In the land of ever-changing requirements you'll always be fixing or tweaking something. But as long as the customer continues to be happy, you're golden.
I think the main point here is that MS has tried to appeal to people by saying that it's easy to be a sysadmin, that anyone can set up a network and run it.
Ahh, but it is easy to be a sysadmin and setup a network in the Windows world. Good network? probably not. Secure network? probably not. However, it's going to be good enough for people to get their work done. I once saw a small company with a terrible network. The configuration was an abomination and security was lax. Everyone in the company drove an SUV or luxury sedan (Mercedes, etc...)
If the bonehead sysasdmin somehow sticks up a firewall and figures out that spyware is bad, then that is golden. Sure they could get hacked and have sensitive data stolen and go into financial ruins, but probably not. They can get robbed or have their building burn down too, but probably not.
Microsoft is good enough. Perfect? Far from it, but good enough. That's why they're the king.
I think the number of good programmers out there is declining. There are hordes of sysadmins and low-level coders, more than ever, but most of them aren't that good.
C++ programmers, definitely. I don't see many young developers with much, if any, C++ experience. Unless you're in a niche (simulations, games), you're doing Java.
Schools seem to generate decent Java grads nowadays, however you can't expect a Java developer to pick up C++ the way many of us C++ites picked up Java back in the day. It's always easier to pick up newer technologies than older ones. C++ is falling into the Ada/Smalltalk realm where the old dogs are the only competent ones.
Slashdot Mirror
Everyone loves to hate on Google now that they're no longer the scrappy underdogs. But after walking around the "Googleplex" I can't say I've ever seen a company where the engineers were happier.
It's the usual Slashdot jeasously. Anyone who has any sort of success must be torn down. I'm a loser so I'll sit around Slashdot pumping myself up by putting others down.
Hmmm, kind of like I just did.
C'ya Slashdot. Over and out...
software that works the way it' supposed to
I was going to slam you for that statement, but then I realize you aren't some devious spinmaster, but some OSS lackey. You'll be one of the first to strap on the bomb and drive to Redmond when the Source Code wars break out.
I feel for your and you inability to see the faults on both sides.
Right, and arrest people who wear anti-Bush t-shirts in a time of war. This is a very serious time and the country must stand together
Freedom of speech must stand throught the good times and the bad. You'd like people to be thoughtful and couterous and think how you do, but with freedom comes the freedom to be an ass. I hope the asses speak loudly here and piss a bunch of people off. It's crude, but it's their right, and it shows the freedoms we have. On a brighter day, the views of Stallman piss alot of people off, so now is the perfect time to continue the tradition.
So, you know what I say to all this? In a true Slashdot tribute to the guy who died, we killed his site too. Ha Ha.
Too bad that doesn't usually work. With some big name brands, the XP install is tied to the type of computer
I don't understand why the sites would complain.
Yeah, but the big boys will lose. If people go to CNN.com, all of their hits are on CNN. If they go to google news, only a small portion of their hits will be CNN. The more news sites out there, the less chance a certain page will get hit. This is only good for the smaller sites that people don't know about.
Yet another classic ruined by an unnecessary sequel.
They didn't even make the movie yet and you're already pissing on it.
Honestly, I hope it blows, and I hope Brooks makes a ton of money, and I hope he makes a third which blows even more, and I want Lucas and Brooks to make a Seinfeldesque bizarro world Christmas special featuring Anakin and Dark Helmet and all their friends that look alike, and I want Kenner to release the special edition "Ruining geek childhood memories" action figure line. I just like seeing all you cranks bitch and moan over pointless things that you have no control over. It's great that you take this all so personally.
When will the media get this right??
When the media and the general public give a shit. Most people don't care about using the correct prissy geek definitions.
To the average Joe, trekker = trekkie, hacker = cracker.
Who cares.
Having a LUG meeting could be a security threat with the right type of people :)
I'm thinking more of a biohazard.
2nd post modded redundant? You must be flagged a deviant.
Troublemaker
RTFA fool, they already do
Agree 100%
That resource cap makes me think that they have a non-free version waiting in the wings...
The funny and somewhat sad thing is that you are one of "them". You are a member of the dumb, stupid, unwashed masses. You're aware of yourself, and think you are better then the rest, but you are just another average joe. We all are.
Think about it.
So should LoTR have also died when Tolkien died in 1973?
It's all about the people who carry the torch. If Jackson's movies tanked, we'd all be crying that it should have died. But they didn't. And we didn't.
Six of one and half a dozen of the other. . ?
/. readers. The end is near.
Only a partial view of the truth. The real model is simple though:
Something happens somewhere in the world. One of the two follows:
a) Immediate outcry from a large portion of
ex: Bill Gates farts
"Gates just shot himself in the foot. This really leaves a bad taste in my mouth" (Score:5,Insightful)
"Gates is just a copycat. He has nothing on a Stallman fart" (Score:5,Informative)
--or--
b) Fanboy circle jerk
ex:Peter Jackson releases source code for LOTR trilogy
"Jackson is one of the great humanitarians of our time" (Score:5,Insightful)
"According to this link, Lucas refuses to OS the Star Wars Trilogy. This is why Lucas will never hold a candle to Jackson" (Score:5,Informative)
"My presssccciousss" (Score:5,Funny)
The sources?
Its was the bad grammar and spelling, and the awful color scheme that clued me in. The common traits of all your favorite extremist web sites.
Don't believe me?
Bah,
Not even close to the days before they even invented sound. Walking uphill barefoot in 4 feet of snow and you needed nothing to get your adrenaline going.
Damn lazy kids these days.
Wait until some bozo figures out how to install Linux on it.
It'll happen. You know it.
How can we be sure that *any* information is true?
No information is true. It's only an intrepretation of a reality we cannot comprehend. A presentation of information is a view into the creator's model that serves as their intreptation of the information. Even worse, propagation of information is just repeated translation of presentations among incompatible models. It's like telling someone something then letting them pass it around the room. At the end it's different than it was at the beginning. Agreed upon standards like numbers help the problem some, but it still exists.
but what about Bail Bondsmen? Or Private Investigators? Repo Men?
Or how about terrorists? Down with the technology because it can be used for evil. Sounds like Patriot Act reasoning.
We must be free, we must be free. But they can't be free because they're bothering me.
Enough damned RIAA-related posts already.
When RIAA posts stop generating site traffic, they'll stop posting them.
So sometimes, most of the time, "just getting the job" done can really destroy you in the long run
Microsoft has dominated for almost 20 years. How long is this 'long run' for them?
What you describe is a situation where the database is no longer good enough. The new version probably should have started earlier if you've hit a point where you're running into problems.
The goal of (business) software engineering is not to build a rock-solid system, but to build a system that the customer is happy with. With each new version you have a split of developing new features and also trying to anticipate what is going to cause problems in the future to decide which battles are worth fighting. A good engineer will always keep on top of the flaws which will eventually cause problems down the road. It becomes a juggling act of adding new features, anticipating problems, guessing what the customer will want in the future, and fixing problem areas such as code written because of a bad predicition, or "don't want to miss delivery" hack code.
In the land of ever-changing requirements you'll always be fixing or tweaking something. But as long as the customer continues to be happy, you're golden.
I think the main point here is that MS has tried to appeal to people by saying that it's easy to be a sysadmin, that anyone can set up a network and run it.
Ahh, but it is easy to be a sysadmin and setup a network in the Windows world. Good network? probably not. Secure network? probably not. However, it's going to be good enough for people to get their work done.
I once saw a small company with a terrible network. The configuration was an abomination and security was lax. Everyone in the company drove an SUV or luxury sedan (Mercedes, etc...)
If the bonehead sysasdmin somehow sticks up a firewall and figures out that spyware is bad, then that is golden. Sure they could get hacked and have sensitive data stolen and go into financial ruins, but probably not. They can get robbed or have their building burn down too, but probably not.
Microsoft is good enough. Perfect? Far from it, but good enough. That's why they're the king.
I think the number of good programmers out there is declining. There are hordes of sysadmins and low-level coders, more than ever, but most of them aren't that good.
C++ programmers, definitely. I don't see many young developers with much, if any, C++ experience. Unless you're in a niche (simulations, games), you're doing Java.
Schools seem to generate decent Java grads nowadays, however you can't expect a Java developer to pick up C++ the way many of us C++ites picked up Java back in the day. It's always easier to pick up newer technologies than older ones. C++ is falling into the Ada/Smalltalk realm where the old dogs are the only competent ones.
Good luck...
So this round peg doesn't fit in the square hole?
Well, my friend, you just get yerself a knife and carve off them troublesome curvey sides.
Only here can a question with no answer be modded informative ;)