Perhaps the most important thing of all... The chair
I disagree. The most important thing for me is the three hot blonde Swedish girls that welcome me every morning when I enter my cubicle. Every few minutes, they massage my legs, fetch me a coffee or otherwise make sure I'm comfortable.
Partially I'm lucky, but I help the luck by keeping an eye on the jobs advertisements.
Of course, you could be the type that likes to complain but nevertheless rather watch Lost instead of spending five minutes scanning through jobs advertisements.
I'm not one of those "you can do whatever you want" type of guys, I'm just putting the balance back. The only thing my parents gave me, was a good education.
UUh, raw nerves? Oracle has a history of buying and killing off products. If Jeremy could hit Sleepy Cat team's raw nerves at this moment, what were they thinking of when selling off to Oracle?
It's fine to block, as long as IT remembers that there's obviously some need. So provide an alternative, if the need is in the interest of the company.
ANY delay in the next version of windows will have ZERO effect on Microsoft's market.
Zero effect on its market, I agree. But it's affecting the employees. But have you had the "pleasure" of working under a manager who kept delaying the release? They can have all sorts of reasons, but the bottom line is that this really, really sucks for morale.
For a development team, it enormously helps to have this date to which you can work to. And if it's rescheduled time and time again, you start to get sick and tired.
Now I just have to push it to the other people in the company.
You can try, but you'll succeed anyway using it yourself. I used it on a piece of the codebase and in the next teammeeting, said I'd "found some potential bugs with this new tool". People will get interested. That's actually how I found out about FindBugs, because of a colleague who was impressed with me using PMD.
Yeah, you can install both. However, they work somewhat different. FindBugs works on the whole codebase. You can run it as a plugin, but it doesn't really integrate. It just starts up in a different window. PMD works on the file level and sits in the context menu of the Java source editor.
Since they have a different field of analysis (directory vs. file), you get completely different findings...
I tried FindBugs as well as PMD. Although the latter only examines sources per file, I found it much easier to use because it had so much less "false positives". Also, I found the PMD Eclipse plugin is better integrated. The author is also a slashdot user, by the way.
The conundrum is that end users want to consume something that is already available [...] Since computer geeks are somewhat stunted in their ability to do the latter due to emotional and mental disabilities, they seek their immortality [...]
This reflects in OpenOffice its API as well. A few years ago, I tried to create a document programmatically using the Java UNO api. It ran up to thirty lines, when all I wanted was something like:
Document doc = new Document(); doc.setText("Hello World");
This thing is so freaking baroque, with all sorts of nifty objects, interfaces, patterns and god knows what. It's really overengineering at its best.
I worked at Oracle and then you get a more privileged account: you could also read the special comments (starting with percent sign) that other employees entered.
Sometimes in support notes, there would be pretty funny things.
Support: Have you restarted the Oracle server?
Customer: Yes, and it still doesn't work.
Support: % He freaking didn't restart it Can you reboot the whole server?
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The problem is too much light, damnit! If those idiots keep shedding more, all will not be well.
It wasn't meant sarcastic though, I just thought it should be modded funny.
I disagree. The most important thing for me is the three hot blonde Swedish girls that welcome me every morning when I enter my cubicle. Every few minutes, they massage my legs, fetch me a coffee or otherwise make sure I'm comfortable.
Modded insightful. Only on slashdot...
To add to parent poster: if you're working in X, the xwrits package is great for this.
Of course, you could be the type that likes to complain but nevertheless rather watch Lost instead of spending five minutes scanning through jobs advertisements.
I'm not one of those "you can do whatever you want" type of guys, I'm just putting the balance back. The only thing my parents gave me, was a good education.
Heh, maybe 'bribable' is a better word.
Let me describe my work:
You've become a mindless work drone. And the most stupid thing is, YOU DID IT TO YOURSELF.
UUh, raw nerves? Oracle has a history of buying and killing off products. If Jeremy could hit Sleepy Cat team's raw nerves at this moment, what were they thinking of when selling off to Oracle?
WELL ACTUALLY YES
You're completely right. However, IT is there to provide security as well as services. And IMHO, you and the ABN AMRO guy are forgetting the latter.
And would you like to elaborate why is it a great idea?
Zero effect on its market, I agree. But it's affecting the employees. But have you had the "pleasure" of working under a manager who kept delaying the release? They can have all sorts of reasons, but the bottom line is that this really, really sucks for morale.
For a development team, it enormously helps to have this date to which you can work to. And if it's rescheduled time and time again, you start to get sick and tired.
That's a recipe for a burnout.
Tabs. Seriously, tabs rock in a terminal.
You can try, but you'll succeed anyway using it yourself. I used it on a piece of the codebase and in the next teammeeting, said I'd "found some potential bugs with this new tool". People will get interested. That's actually how I found out about FindBugs, because of a colleague who was impressed with me using PMD.
Since they have a different field of analysis (directory vs. file), you get completely different findings...
All three slashdotters who are married do not need to reply and tell me I'm wrong. [ Reply to This ]
I tried FindBugs as well as PMD. Although the latter only examines sources per file, I found it much easier to use because it had so much less "false positives". Also, I found the PMD Eclipse plugin is better integrated. The author is also a slashdot user, by the way.
Carrie? Carrie Bradshaw? Is that you?
Sometimes in support notes, there would be pretty funny things.
Yes.
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