I have always felt that "Ask Slashdot" is the haven for the "simplified answers".
I'm not going to try to break down the variety of scenarios where he should or shouldn't make the leap. Rather, my focus is on the "big picture"; if he has a family, it's not about his selfish needs anymore. If he doesn't, he can be as selfish as he wants.
If you have a family to support, stay put. You have a good, stable job. Your "boredom" is immaterial to providing for your family. In short, get over yourself. You are working for more than just yourself now.
If you don't have a family to support: Take it. Now's the time to make your mistakes. The worst thing that happens is that the company goes bust, you have some peanut butter and ramen days as you find another job. If it's just you, then it's no big deal, right?
Don't misunderstand me; I'm not saying that rote memorization is worthless. As you rightly pointed out, repeated exposure leads to memorization. A good programmer has strengths in many different areas.
My overall point being that an IDE won't lead to degraded quality of programmer. You aren't atrophying skills by using an IDE, you are simply making your life easier ( which is critical when we're talking about more than personal projects ).
Look, it's nice when you are well versed enough in a language to not have to lookup method/function names, nor their arguments. But let's face it, it's hardly the mark of an amazing programmer to have a photographic memory.
Programmers solve problems. Being able to understand the problem well enough to develop a solution for it is far more important a skill. Writing well documented code using a uniform style further boosts the quality of the output by helping make it maintainable.
An IDE is, at worst, neutral in this regard, if not beneficial for assisting in the last point.
Opinions are like assholes, everyone's got 'em. However, they are *just* opinions and thus should not be incorporated into your decision making process. Even the grossly ignorant have opinions after all, should we start incorporating those in to the equation too?
Snowden's status is remarkably simple; The US government is violating the 4th amendment. Snowden exposed this at great risk to himself. ie; Hero.
Of course with Snowden being the hero and patriot in this little tale, what does that make our government?
Actually, done right, firing squad is probably quite painless for the executed. A couple shots to the head, and I'm pretty sure the prisoner won't be feeling anything any longer. Hell, they won't even have time to hear the shot from the gun.
It's messy, sure, but it's largely painless done right.
It hurts how relevant this cynicism is to corporate america. Having had the...um..."pleasure", of working for several stores ( grocery, retail and a few specialty. Best not to ask ), large and small, IT is treated with, at best, neglect. Usually, however, it's more along the lines of resentment. Like they feel pressured to allocate budget money to IT that they feel might be better put towards anything else, but since everyone else is doing it they feel like they should too.
You can use the reviews on every major site if you know how to read them. It's actually fairly simple; the best reviews are meaningless. Aside from the obvious shill risk, they also don't usually tell you much.
No, the best reviews are the lowest reviews, possibly the "middle of the road" reviews too. Read those. Those often will have real data that you can use ( failed after a week, has annoying click, doesn't work with x, ect.. ).
There's a bit more to it than that, but that should get you rolling. As you read more reviews, you get a feel for the idiots, shills and other wasted reviews.
Sorry, but to anyone who's worked with users in any serious capacity for any length of time, this is kind of obvious. And when I say "Kind Of", I mean "blindingly".
The best way to make the tools that help your users is to understand their job. Get in there and do it yourself. Only then will you have the knowledge you need to create the tools that will really save them time.
The reality is that the project was a failure for the same reason most projects fail; piss poor leadership.
And I'm not talking about a leadership 'team'. That's a bullshit term designed to deflect blame. You start with a leadership "team", you are already taking a big step towards failure. You need one person in charge who's actually in charge; able to have complete dictatorship control over the project who will be held responsible if it fails.
If you don't dilute responsibility, and find the right person to put in charge, you will probably wind up with a successful project. It's really that simple.
Been in the industry a while, worked with a lot of IT admins. It is a rare admin that understands the scientific process. That can think about problems rationally. That can put aside their own bias and do the job in front of them.
Wish it were different, I truly do. I spend my days cleaning up these admins' mess more often than not. But it is what it is.
Given the innuendo of the clip, one might think we're expected to feel outrage about this because the daughters AND mom don't want it. But guess what? Dad gets a say too, and no; that is not outrageous. Mom must have thought he would be a pretty spiffy father because she slept with him at least twice.
Just because one or both of the parents changed their minds does not mean dad loses his "father" status. His opinion is equal to mom's, and I'm glad the court decision reflected that.
I don't think so. This isn't a problem that gaming can fix; the industry doesn't have the ability to prevent jr from playing inappropriate games. Hell, it's not even their place to say what is or is not inappropriate.
This is a a problem facing PARENTS, and is one that is self-created in that it's parental ignorance and apathy.
The gaming industry has fulfilled their responsibilities; they are clearly marking the games to reflect the content in the games. That's the delineation between the industry and the parent's spheres of responsibility.
Microsoft doesn't move quickly, and over the last couple years, they don't move intelligently.
With the change of management pending, and the fact that some of top contenders for the top spot are...um...remarkably surprising...I wouldn't expect a technical response to this, but rather a legal one.
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I have always felt that "Ask Slashdot" is the haven for the "simplified answers".
I'm not going to try to break down the variety of scenarios where he should or shouldn't make the leap. Rather, my focus is on the "big picture"; if he has a family, it's not about his selfish needs anymore. If he doesn't, he can be as selfish as he wants.
If you have a family to support, stay put. You have a good, stable job. Your "boredom" is immaterial to providing for your family. In short, get over yourself. You are working for more than just yourself now.
If you don't have a family to support: Take it. Now's the time to make your mistakes. The worst thing that happens is that the company goes bust, you have some peanut butter and ramen days as you find another job. If it's just you, then it's no big deal, right?
Don't misunderstand me; I'm not saying that rote memorization is worthless. As you rightly pointed out, repeated exposure leads to memorization. A good programmer has strengths in many different areas.
My overall point being that an IDE won't lead to degraded quality of programmer. You aren't atrophying skills by using an IDE, you are simply making your life easier ( which is critical when we're talking about more than personal projects ).
Look, it's nice when you are well versed enough in a language to not have to lookup method/function names, nor their arguments. But let's face it, it's hardly the mark of an amazing programmer to have a photographic memory.
Programmers solve problems. Being able to understand the problem well enough to develop a solution for it is far more important a skill. Writing well documented code using a uniform style further boosts the quality of the output by helping make it maintainable.
An IDE is, at worst, neutral in this regard, if not beneficial for assisting in the last point.
Not that I don't believe it, necessarily. Merely that it can't be trusted. At all.
At least this one admits to working for MS.
I swear, I have seen more shills flood the internet advocating Windows8 than for any other product in history.
And trust the free market for once. If there's a worker shortage, then wages will rise until demand and supply equalize and there is no more shortage.
Ah...I think I now see his motivation.
You have to admit, it's clever.
Opinions are like assholes, everyone's got 'em. However, they are *just* opinions and thus should not be incorporated into your decision making process. Even the grossly ignorant have opinions after all, should we start incorporating those in to the equation too?
Snowden's status is remarkably simple; The US government is violating the 4th amendment. Snowden exposed this at great risk to himself. ie; Hero.
Of course with Snowden being the hero and patriot in this little tale, what does that make our government?
Actually, done right, firing squad is probably quite painless for the executed. A couple shots to the head, and I'm pretty sure the prisoner won't be feeling anything any longer. Hell, they won't even have time to hear the shot from the gun.
It's messy, sure, but it's largely painless done right.
Maybe by other senior managers.
It hurts how relevant this cynicism is to corporate america. Having had the...um..."pleasure", of working for several stores ( grocery, retail and a few specialty. Best not to ask ), large and small, IT is treated with, at best, neglect. Usually, however, it's more along the lines of resentment. Like they feel pressured to allocate budget money to IT that they feel might be better put towards anything else, but since everyone else is doing it they feel like they should too.
And it shows.
Correction: Anything that doesn't move fast enough!
I notice it says the goal is to "protect democracy*", but doesn't seem to mention the Bill of Rights or, specifically, the 4th amendment.
Telling, although not surprising.
* - It's possibly worth noting here that the United States is a republic, not a democracy.
That's cute.
What did you think the stock market was?
You can use the reviews on every major site if you know how to read them. It's actually fairly simple; the best reviews are meaningless. Aside from the obvious shill risk, they also don't usually tell you much.
No, the best reviews are the lowest reviews, possibly the "middle of the road" reviews too. Read those. Those often will have real data that you can use ( failed after a week, has annoying click, doesn't work with x, ect.. ).
There's a bit more to it than that, but that should get you rolling. As you read more reviews, you get a feel for the idiots, shills and other wasted reviews.
Actually, I think that was just a fancy way of saying "We're not changing it, so return your product...if you can".
After all the material that's been leaked by Snowden, is there any question that the man is a patriot?
So what does that make our government?
Sorry, but to anyone who's worked with users in any serious capacity for any length of time, this is kind of obvious. And when I say "Kind Of", I mean "blindingly".
The best way to make the tools that help your users is to understand their job. Get in there and do it yourself. Only then will you have the knowledge you need to create the tools that will really save them time.
And we thought it was expensive and past deadline NOW.
The reality is that the project was a failure for the same reason most projects fail; piss poor leadership.
And I'm not talking about a leadership 'team'. That's a bullshit term designed to deflect blame. You start with a leadership "team", you are already taking a big step towards failure. You need one person in charge who's actually in charge; able to have complete dictatorship control over the project who will be held responsible if it fails.
If you don't dilute responsibility, and find the right person to put in charge, you will probably wind up with a successful project. It's really that simple.
Been in the industry a while, worked with a lot of IT admins. It is a rare admin that understands the scientific process. That can think about problems rationally. That can put aside their own bias and do the job in front of them.
Wish it were different, I truly do. I spend my days cleaning up these admins' mess more often than not. But it is what it is.
Given the innuendo of the clip, one might think we're expected to feel outrage about this because the daughters AND mom don't want it. But guess what? Dad gets a say too, and no; that is not outrageous. Mom must have thought he would be a pretty spiffy father because she slept with him at least twice.
Just because one or both of the parents changed their minds does not mean dad loses his "father" status. His opinion is equal to mom's, and I'm glad the court decision reflected that.
I don't think so. This isn't a problem that gaming can fix; the industry doesn't have the ability to prevent jr from playing inappropriate games. Hell, it's not even their place to say what is or is not inappropriate.
This is a a problem facing PARENTS, and is one that is self-created in that it's parental ignorance and apathy.
The gaming industry has fulfilled their responsibilities; they are clearly marking the games to reflect the content in the games. That's the delineation between the industry and the parent's spheres of responsibility.
Microsoft doesn't move quickly, and over the last couple years, they don't move intelligently.
With the change of management pending, and the fact that some of top contenders for the top spot are...um...remarkably surprising...I wouldn't expect a technical response to this, but rather a legal one.
The unspecified issues is that their infrastructure can't handle that many users.
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