For guilty, I actually find this good. Follows the tenement of not profiting from crime. For being found innocent and needing to pay though... only in America it seems.
Yes, and I'm sure that lions think about the universe of experience of the animal that they're currently tearing to shreds. The same goes for crocodiles as they crunch the bones of an animal that happens to get too close to the water, and shortly afterwards drown them. Surely wolves think the same. How about the average house cat that chews the legs off a bird that's still alive, tormenting it for hours until the owner hits it with a shovel to put the poor thing out of its misery. Nah, it's character builder when nature does it.
This is what I love about the PITA (Yes, I know it's PETA, get the joke buddy) trustafarian types. You know the ones, that tell everyone they're screwing the planet whilst living off of daddy's trust fund. Nature is violent. Nature is gruesome. The coal face of society is no different. It's only within our bubble of existence that we can maintain the suspension of disbelief that we, and all things surrounding us are immortal "universes of experiences".
Given the choice of 10,000 mice dying for the sake of medical technology to save even 1 life is more than worth it to most of human society. Disagree with me? What if that life is your life, or the life of your child.
Please, for the sake of rational agents everywhere, leave your hippie rubbish at the door.
Oh, and at the end of your tenure you are tendered a nice fat bill to pay for your stay (~$30 a night). Pretty sure a $900/month retirement home would be a better choice.
Not to be rude, but can I get a citation for that? Would be an awesome factoid for dinner conversation.
You can learn Fortran, COBOL and all those languages. Wonderful. But a language is not what you get paid for. You get paid for knowledge of the codebases you work on, as it's not the language that you can read from a textbook that's work money, but the unwritten conventions in the code base.
Remember that old joke, "What? Why did you charge me $10,000 to replace a fuse?!?" "Well sir, $1 for the fuse, $9999 to know which one to replace."
I'm forever grateful for the "Old fart" (as you so endearingly put it) that hammered exactly those topics, plus introduced the wonders of Djikstra et al into my coding.
And like he used to say. Youth and enthusiasm are always trumped by Age and Treachery!
Actually, the GP is pretty spot on. There are two types of sales people generally, the Hustlers that tend to act like a hairdryer at management, playing buzzword bingo to provide the required level of synergy with the current corporate strategy, or the sales types that tend to understand what they are selling, and explain the benefits of the products.
Contrary to popular belief, most programmers are not socially inept basement dwellers at the mom's house. The sales person does not need to know 100% of the technical aspects, they need to be able to convey what can be done at a coarse level, and then for detail, reference a skilled programmer.
Furthermore, if you are selling into a corporate scenario rather than a small business, your business owner will at best "know of" programming. They will want to know what your product will do for his business, and let his technical guys determine if it really will do that. Really, I have yet to meet a CEO or any other Chief (Insert middle title here) Orifice that has programmed in the last 5 years.
Hence, you'll need a standard winer and diner sales person for the C(X)O's and/or middle line executives/enterprise architects, and a technical sales person for the developers/team leads investigating the technology on a ground level.
Speaking of infrastructure, why doesn't the government protect the tube and DLR from those evil nasty snowflakes. Seriously. 3cm of snow, and all of London grinds to a halt.
I still don't know how an underground can be affected by snow on the surface.
Forget Al quaeda with a nuke, how about a few giant snow machines?!?
Israel was not established and ratified as a purchased country. It was held by the brits from the second world war, and when the British Mandate was about to expire, they declared independence. It was ratified as a country by the UN, which is quite distinct from the international law doctrine of natural ratification through the declaration of war upon another sovereign.
Even though I'm probably feeding the worst kind of troll, I thought I would correct it before more misinformation was spread.
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There we go. If he marries one of them he's off the hook.
Well, he'll probably wisely choose the death penalty anyway...
Astronaut. Must have experience with moon landing.
early programmers couldn't earn a college degree in something that hadn't been created yet.
And yet, recruiters would still think so.
Actually I was thinking more along the lines of the hilarity here where apple fanboi's are forced to think of the children.
For guilty, I actually find this good. Follows the tenement of not profiting from crime. For being found innocent and needing to pay though... only in America it seems.
Yes, and I'm sure that lions think about the universe of experience of the animal that they're currently tearing to shreds. The same goes for crocodiles as they crunch the bones of an animal that happens to get too close to the water, and shortly afterwards drown them. Surely wolves think the same. How about the average house cat that chews the legs off a bird that's still alive, tormenting it for hours until the owner hits it with a shovel to put the poor thing out of its misery. Nah, it's character builder when nature does it.
This is what I love about the PITA (Yes, I know it's PETA, get the joke buddy) trustafarian types. You know the ones, that tell everyone they're screwing the planet whilst living off of daddy's trust fund. Nature is violent. Nature is gruesome. The coal face of society is no different. It's only within our bubble of existence that we can maintain the suspension of disbelief that we, and all things surrounding us are immortal "universes of experiences".
Given the choice of 10,000 mice dying for the sake of medical technology to save even 1 life is more than worth it to most of human society. Disagree with me? What if that life is your life, or the life of your child.
Please, for the sake of rational agents everywhere, leave your hippie rubbish at the door.
Oh, and at the end of your tenure you are tendered a nice fat bill to pay for your stay (~$30 a night). Pretty sure a $900/month retirement home would be a better choice.
Not to be rude, but can I get a citation for that? Would be an awesome factoid for dinner conversation.
You can learn Fortran, COBOL and all those languages. Wonderful. But a language is not what you get paid for. You get paid for knowledge of the codebases you work on, as it's not the language that you can read from a textbook that's work money, but the unwritten conventions in the code base.
Remember that old joke, "What? Why did you charge me $10,000 to replace a fuse?!?" "Well sir, $1 for the fuse, $9999 to know which one to replace."
As long as you can prevent them from fucking up too badly
What's your secret? Where can I subscribe to your newsletter?!?
Damn straight.
I'm forever grateful for the "Old fart" (as you so endearingly put it) that hammered exactly those topics, plus introduced the wonders of Djikstra et al into my coding.
And like he used to say. Youth and enthusiasm are always trumped by Age and Treachery!
Actually, the GP is pretty spot on. There are two types of sales people generally, the Hustlers that tend to act like a hairdryer at management, playing buzzword bingo to provide the required level of synergy with the current corporate strategy, or the sales types that tend to understand what they are selling, and explain the benefits of the products.
Contrary to popular belief, most programmers are not socially inept basement dwellers at the mom's house. The sales person does not need to know 100% of the technical aspects, they need to be able to convey what can be done at a coarse level, and then for detail, reference a skilled programmer.
Furthermore, if you are selling into a corporate scenario rather than a small business, your business owner will at best "know of" programming. They will want to know what your product will do for his business, and let his technical guys determine if it really will do that. Really, I have yet to meet a CEO or any other Chief (Insert middle title here) Orifice that has programmed in the last 5 years.
Hence, you'll need a standard winer and diner sales person for the C(X)O's and/or middle line executives/enterprise architects, and a technical sales person for the developers/team leads investigating the technology on a ground level.
Without the fusion detonator, and excluding the giant crater where Elbonia used to be, yes!
This give me flashbacks to what the "average user" produced back in the day, armed and dangerous with FrontPage.
Please, for the sake of my retinas, I hope that something better comes out of this.
Fed the troll. Check. Now for the chickens.
Speaking of infrastructure, why doesn't the government protect the tube and DLR from those evil nasty snowflakes. Seriously. 3cm of snow, and all of London grinds to a halt.
I still don't know how an underground can be affected by snow on the surface.
Forget Al quaeda with a nuke, how about a few giant snow machines?!?
Sounds like the Twits and Facepalmers have a Web 2.0 version of Amway to me. Friends selling to friends (about to be former friends).
Would be great for people with a fear of flying to watch I'm sure!
Obviously someone drives to the mailbox.
And don't pet my Mog.
What I really want is algorithm that allows me to have my cake and eat it too [wikipedia.org].
Easy one. Buy two cakes. qed
The bird flu the coop a long time ago.
That and the windy city blows.
Don't insult people.
Well, at least this will be new tool to get messages through the thick skulls of certain managerial PHB's.
Now we'll get David Cameron begging for donations to the government.
Israel was not established and ratified as a purchased country. It was held by the brits from the second world war, and when the British Mandate was about to expire, they declared independence. It was ratified as a country by the UN, which is quite distinct from the international law doctrine of natural ratification through the declaration of war upon another sovereign.
Even though I'm probably feeding the worst kind of troll, I thought I would correct it before more misinformation was spread.