I also name files in sensible ways, but that doesn't mean that I always immediately know which of my program (code) files contains a particular function (no, this isn't Java of course). The containing text search would be handy... if it worked. I've had instances before now when it doesnt match the exact phrase I input even though it was in the files, due to punctuation, spaces or whatever. Had to use grep in the end...
I played battles with only a few token ground units and an armada of bombers I also played battles with not a single air unit. C&C never gave me this choice.
Not a troll, but have you tried C&C:Generals and/or Zero Hour? In these games it is definitely possible to do what you mention.
Isn't that precisely what the patent office is supposed to do? The problem is that they are inundated with so many requests that they don't have the resources (or desire for that matter) to adequately analyze and process each application.
From what I gather patent offices don't do thorough checks on prior art, only on prior patents. It's really up to the filer these days to check for prior art. If there is some the patent may be granted but will then be knocked over in court by some other company. Someone told me that it's estimated that 80% of patents are invalid, presumably they just haven't been tested in court yet.
Joe Blow with dollar signs in his eyes and his shiny new degree in using Java, who doesn't understand the little black box he's entering commands into... I should be able to put down "Assembler: x86, z80, s/390" and the idiot HR guy should know everything else is a simple matter of syntax.
I understand your sentiments, but I disagree. While assembly gives you a good grounding in languages it does not make you the master of all. I know assembly, C, C++, Java, Perl, and various others but when I recently started my new job, there are people here who know almost none of the above, don't understand the internal workings of a computer (not all people who program took CS degrees of course) , but they are very very good coders at what they do (in this instance, Prolog). I would be suspicious that someone who loved assembly a lot might not use the paradigms of other languages properly. As a similar example, ever seen what happens if you let a die-hard C hacker loose on Java?
Thinking about it (sorry to reply twice), with all this outsourcing to India they could have a halfway-house in outsourcing to the UK and getting two employees for the price of one! Interesting that a UK graduate (nominally a match for a US graduate) could cost so much less. Hell, the UK should have loads more IT jobs than it does at the cheap prices it's offering.
I scoured all the comments to find one like this - because its exactly what I was thinking! I am a recent graduate (Computer Science, 1st), started on just above 19k GBP, and among my friends that's considered pretty good going. Are living costs really that much higher in the US?
here in the UK it is almost impossible to buy a plain black and white basic phone.
Very true, the orange/O2/etc shop will not sell you a phone without the latest stuff. But since all these people getting new phones aren't using their old phones, you can buy them all on eBay! Thats where I "upgraded" (more of a lateral shift to be honest) my phone when my old Nokia gave up the ghost, and where I would buy a new one if my current one ever breaks.
Let's face it, as long as there is a human element involved, there will be difference of opinion , no matter what the topic is about. And editing out parts which you don't necessaryly agree to is censorship.
Hopefully they therefore adopt the best approach and let all sides/opinions be represented so that people can decide for themselves.
OSS does not have a future in a developing market like India.
It depends on the ethos there. Over in the UK and the US very few companies (as in software houses) create OSS. A lot of people do work on OSS in their spare time, and of course companies like RedHat use OSS but the vast majority of third-party software is closed-source. So if India is even slightly freer in their thinking than here then they will probably contribute more to OSS.
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If you put any sport into similar words you can make it look silly, especially Cricket.
Cricket doesn't need any words to make it look silly! Though possibly cricket is similar to american football in that both games seem impossibly long and dull to those not interested in them whereas I presume fans view it differently.
The foreign gov'ts allowed their people to be abused, but it was Western companies who were the ones taking advantage
There was nothing stopping the companies from offering the workers the same rights as Western workers (e.g. reasonable working hours, decent safety standards, medical plans etc) but they didn't, specifically to save money. As I said before, nothing illegal, but it still seems like a bad way of increasing profit.
What Western companies often did was take advantage of the poor employment laws abroad (health and safety etc) to reduce the expenditure beyond just cheaper wages. They then have no interest in making the employment laws better for their workers (but then companies rarely do), and the foreign governments don't (in many cases) want to improve the laws as it might drive the income away. Nothing here is illegal but it does strike me as taking advantage.
While you are right the article does state "It would be really interesting to work in Bangalore," he says. "But I was told, 'Daniel, it is against the law for you to work here. You can come here on vacation, but you can't work here.'", exact reasons are not given. I'd be interested as to the specifics that stopped him working in India.
Correct me if I'm wrong but it is hard enough for foreigners to get American work permits that it isn't too far off no-one. Have you got a reference on the Indian law? Does it specify just Americans or is it other nationalities too?
Two wrongs do not make a right, but the USA, along with most Western nations have been taking advantage of other nations through trade with developing nations for years (sweatshops anyone?), unfortunately it is just the way the world works.
Actually AFAIK an Indian programmer would have a pretty hard time going to America and getting a job there, they would similarly need a work permit to work in America. So the propaganda goes both ways.
Having done the whole interviewing (as the interviewee) business at the end of last year, here goes:
Interview skills are tricky, especially if you lack self-confidence. Try and maintain eye contact (very important) and remember to speak clearly. Body language says a lot, sitting hunched up makes you look particularly like a geek!
If you can't answer a question it's usually better to admit it than spend time umming and ahhing or making something up. That way you'll seem honest, upfront while not indecisive. Revise before the interview, I got asked about my current company's "important values" in my interview, and didn't know them.
Attitude is important as well, advice I got on interviews was to remember that "you are interviewing them as much as they are you" - ask them questions, about career development, training, whatever you like. I find it is best to go in thinking "I don't need this job anyway" - desperation and overeagerness do not really help, being relaxed and interested is better than begging for the job.
As for the second one, I spoke to my interviewers after I started work and they were describing how for a previous applicant they had real difficulty getting answers out of him other than yes or no. Interviews are a chance to let the candidate talk and if the interviewer doesn't try to facilitate that then they are not much cop, but if the interviewee won't still open up then there's not much more they can do. Interviewers usually give a chance to let you add anything you feel relevant later on, which is definitely a must.
It is a sad fact of life that not all good candidates actually interview well, I'd like to think that good interviewers can work round that but not all of them do. Good luck in your future job-hunting!
It seems I should have explained myself better with regard to ByVal and ByRef. It is not really the difference that bugs me but that whereas with C(++) you see the difference in the function prototypes, it is never as obvious when calling a VB function whether your parameter can be changed. Because the extension feels like it was tacked on to the language and is not used as often as say pointers in C, I don't always consider checking for a byref, and then trouble starts.
As for variant types, no I don't like dynamically typed languages much. I use perl but don't build anything big in it because of the holes that would appear (someone else, in this topic I think, likened letting perl be used for big projects to letting someone who could patch some electrics design them from scratch).
My main reason against them is that it leads to sloppy programming once the program grows. Take any perl function and tell me whether it takes lists, scalars, or hashes or references, and you can't tell without looking into the function, and even then you can pass the wrong times and have subtle effects rather than major errors, and this might not be noticed until runtime when an obscure path of execution is taken, something that is eliminated with static checks in other languages.
As for languages I use, since you asked my main language is C++, I also use Perl for small tasks (mainly text conversion) and use Prolog at work.
Doom2 was awesome for it's time, but I wouldn't want an updated-graphics version of it, since it isn't anything special compared to today's standards
Do you mean that the graphics for Doom II weren't amazing? Personally I absolutely love the game, and would put it up there with any of today's modern FPSes (admittedly with the openGL graphics of the ports but hey why not have them!) because it was fun. Sure it was simple, had no plot, but playing the actual game was more fun to me than any FPS I've played since (I mean the actual core FPS elements, not comparing it to Deus Ex or anything). It's like the Tetris of FPSes, simple and great fun.
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To which I retort: BS Player. And his points about screenshots could easily be combined, I'm not seeing much content in the article to be honest.
I also name files in sensible ways, but that doesn't mean that I always immediately know which of my program (code) files contains a particular function (no, this isn't Java of course). The containing text search would be handy... if it worked. I've had instances before now when it doesnt match the exact phrase I input even though it was in the files, due to punctuation, spaces or whatever. Had to use grep in the end...
Not a troll, but have you tried C&C:Generals and/or Zero Hour? In these games it is definitely possible to do what you mention.
From what I gather patent offices don't do thorough checks on prior art, only on prior patents. It's really up to the filer these days to check for prior art. If there is some the patent may be granted but will then be knocked over in court by some other company. Someone told me that it's estimated that 80% of patents are invalid, presumably they just haven't been tested in court yet.
Quite possibly - at that age I'd imagine watching gay porn isn't exactly cool...
Clearly the mods were looking for a "too explicit for a public message board" mod ;-)
I understand your sentiments, but I disagree. While assembly gives you a good grounding in languages it does not make you the master of all. I know assembly, C, C++, Java, Perl, and various others but when I recently started my new job, there are people here who know almost none of the above, don't understand the internal workings of a computer (not all people who program took CS degrees of course) , but they are very very good coders at what they do (in this instance, Prolog). I would be suspicious that someone who loved assembly a lot might not use the paradigms of other languages properly. As a similar example, ever seen what happens if you let a die-hard C hacker loose on Java?
Thinking about it (sorry to reply twice), with all this outsourcing to India they could have a halfway-house in outsourcing to the UK and getting two employees for the price of one! Interesting that a UK graduate (nominally a match for a US graduate) could cost so much less. Hell, the UK should have loads more IT jobs than it does at the cheap prices it's offering.
I scoured all the comments to find one like this - because its exactly what I was thinking! I am a recent graduate (Computer Science, 1st), started on just above 19k GBP, and among my friends that's considered pretty good going. Are living costs really that much higher in the US?
Its an album title, by Oasis.
Very true, the orange/O2/etc shop will not sell you a phone without the latest stuff. But since all these people getting new phones aren't using their old phones, you can buy them all on eBay! Thats where I "upgraded" (more of a lateral shift to be honest) my phone when my old Nokia gave up the ghost, and where I would buy a new one if my current one ever breaks.
Hopefully they therefore adopt the best approach and let all sides/opinions be represented so that people can decide for themselves.
Spot on! Yeah this can be modded redundant all you like, but I agree with that guy totally ^^^^^
It depends on the ethos there. Over in the UK and the US very few companies (as in software houses) create OSS. A lot of people do work on OSS in their spare time, and of course companies like RedHat use OSS but the vast majority of third-party software is closed-source. So if India is even slightly freer in their thinking than here then they will probably contribute more to OSS.
Cricket doesn't need any words to make it look silly! Though possibly cricket is similar to american football in that both games seem impossibly long and dull to those not interested in them whereas I presume fans view it differently.
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/30/ 0441238&mode=thread&tid=127&tid=186&tid=21 2 I guess one two out of three originals ain't bad for slashdot!
The foreign gov'ts allowed their people to be abused, but it was Western companies who were the ones taking advantage There was nothing stopping the companies from offering the workers the same rights as Western workers (e.g. reasonable working hours, decent safety standards, medical plans etc) but they didn't, specifically to save money. As I said before, nothing illegal, but it still seems like a bad way of increasing profit.
What Western companies often did was take advantage of the poor employment laws abroad (health and safety etc) to reduce the expenditure beyond just cheaper wages. They then have no interest in making the employment laws better for their workers (but then companies rarely do), and the foreign governments don't (in many cases) want to improve the laws as it might drive the income away. Nothing here is illegal but it does strike me as taking advantage.
While you are right the article does state "It would be really interesting to work in Bangalore," he says. "But I was told, 'Daniel, it is against the law for you to work here. You can come here on vacation, but you can't work here.'", exact reasons are not given. I'd be interested as to the specifics that stopped him working in India.
Two wrongs do not make a right, but the USA, along with most Western nations have been taking advantage of other nations through trade with developing nations for years (sweatshops anyone?), unfortunately it is just the way the world works.
Actually AFAIK an Indian programmer would have a pretty hard time going to America and getting a job there, they would similarly need a work permit to work in America. So the propaganda goes both ways.
Interview skills are tricky, especially if you lack self-confidence. Try and maintain eye contact (very important) and remember to speak clearly. Body language says a lot, sitting hunched up makes you look particularly like a geek!
If you can't answer a question it's usually better to admit it than spend time umming and ahhing or making something up. That way you'll seem honest, upfront while not indecisive. Revise before the interview, I got asked about my current company's "important values" in my interview, and didn't know them.
Attitude is important as well, advice I got on interviews was to remember that "you are interviewing them as much as they are you" - ask them questions, about career development, training, whatever you like. I find it is best to go in thinking "I don't need this job anyway" - desperation and overeagerness do not really help, being relaxed and interested is better than begging for the job.
As for the second one, I spoke to my interviewers after I started work and they were describing how for a previous applicant they had real difficulty getting answers out of him other than yes or no. Interviews are a chance to let the candidate talk and if the interviewer doesn't try to facilitate that then they are not much cop, but if the interviewee won't still open up then there's not much more they can do. Interviewers usually give a chance to let you add anything you feel relevant later on, which is definitely a must.
It is a sad fact of life that not all good candidates actually interview well, I'd like to think that good interviewers can work round that but not all of them do. Good luck in your future job-hunting!
As for variant types, no I don't like dynamically typed languages much. I use perl but don't build anything big in it because of the holes that would appear (someone else, in this topic I think, likened letting perl be used for big projects to letting someone who could patch some electrics design them from scratch).
My main reason against them is that it leads to sloppy programming once the program grows. Take any perl function and tell me whether it takes lists, scalars, or hashes or references, and you can't tell without looking into the function, and even then you can pass the wrong times and have subtle effects rather than major errors, and this might not be noticed until runtime when an obscure path of execution is taken, something that is eliminated with static checks in other languages.
As for languages I use, since you asked my main language is C++, I also use Perl for small tasks (mainly text conversion) and use Prolog at work.
Do you mean that the graphics for Doom II weren't amazing? Personally I absolutely love the game, and would put it up there with any of today's modern FPSes (admittedly with the openGL graphics of the ports but hey why not have them!) because it was fun. Sure it was simple, had no plot, but playing the actual game was more fun to me than any FPS I've played since (I mean the actual core FPS elements, not comparing it to Deus Ex or anything). It's like the Tetris of FPSes, simple and great fun.
I usually found Communism to be best... ;-)