Manager is an idiot, boss is a fool. Secretary is hot, and pretends to be interested in what you have to say. Honestly, I think she's a little creeped out by the way you hang around the desk.
Being delusional comes with the job, and you start to think she might be interested in you, but she's not.
Work is miserable. And it doesn't matter if you're the lowest technology guy on the totem, or the highest. No matter what you do, you'll always be a codemonkey as long as you're here. Underpaid, never appreciated, and locked away in the closest cubicle to the printer closet. Count your blessings, they could have stuck you in the basement.
You keep on working because you find solace in this. The code is a easy, and it's an escape from the reality of the job.
The worst part is, that the art of it is completely inconsequential.
Nobody wants art. You've been shot down every time you ever try to improve something, and now you save invention for your own time. It'll pay off one day, but you can't see the end in sight yet.
They want fast. So you give them fast. Then they decide they don't want that either, but you're good enough at what you do not to piss them off enough to fire you.
Then there's the new guy who hasn't been totally dehumanized yet; the one who feels the constant need to talk about standards, and clean code. The one that has aspirations of being appreciated. At the end of his third day of training, he tells you how your code is technically sound, but very ugly.
You can't help but laugh to yourself about it. You used to be him. It's so long ago now that you can barely remember yourself though. He's a code monkey too. Or he will be, soon enough.
You tell him to wait two years. His code won't come fast enough for management either.
As for you... nobody realizes it yet, but you're on your way out. And the only way out is to find a business guy out of college who will worship your technical ability, and do something new yourself. Soon, it'll be time to reclaim your soul from the soulless marketing company or devil of a corporate entity you sold it to all that time ago.
Soon, you'll be free.
In a decade, the company you've left won't change one iota. If they survive that long.
I like to mix them. It's been my experience that there are microsoft solutions that do stack up in terms of performance. SQL Server for example is a great compliment to php on linux/apache (once you hammer out the buffer limitations in php.ini).
These studies always make IT departments look like idiots who only looking to hire unskilled idiots to run their systems. Personally, I find the notion of hiring the least qualified people to run my systems that will break at some point to be kind of silly. You're going to need to have people that know how to use your systems whatever those systems are. Which is cheaper? Don't know, don't care. There isn't a big enough difference in terms of manpower to make a difference. You need to troubleshoot anything you implement to get it to run the way you want it to, no matter what the license terms or base price of the product is.
If that's the basis for comparison, it's a very poor comparison indeed.
Many many many old programmers, and even not so old programmers become curmudgeony. Which strikes me as odd considering that programmers are supposed to be agents of change and progress. As a programmer, personally, I pride myself on the ability to learn a new language in a weekend. I enjoy writing new kinds of code for new kinds of tasks, and I enjoy finding the right tool for the problem. I've been in this business for fifteen years. I've been through the whole lifecycle for a programmer, and I keep kicking. I love what I do. I am an artist, and I do it on my own time.
I am, in my estimation, also the exception to the rule. To date, I've known three other programmers of my grade and specialty personally. I respect them.
The problem with guys just out of school is that they don't actually know much of anything. Especially over the last five years or so. Schools (and I'm generalizing) don't hire seasoned veterans to teach courses in computer science. They hire seasoned professors.
And while it might be great to learn a lot of the things you pick up in school while you have the time to do it; it's been my experience that half these kids don't know how to work on a production floor. Especially when they're just out of school. They need more time to ramp up, and it's usually about a year an a half before they get their sea legs.
The thing I will say for these kids though, they're fucking fearless when it comes to asking for the highest bill rate possible.
It's unrealistic to assume this kind of change would be anywhere but the internals of the windows operating system. You've got all kinds of devices, other than pc's, other than windows machines, devices that are not even computers at all that would be affected if it's done by the isp.
And even if it does solve the problem of windows... it's not solving the core issue, which is that even despite years of promising security for windows machines... Microsoft has been unable to deliver. Now they're talking about how to protect the rest of the world from their inability to secure their own product.
If this were any other product in any other sector, this would be totally and completely unacceptable.
I think it's clear that Microsoft needs to get out of the operating system business, and stick to server products where they actually do a competent job of things.
Dumbest fucking slashot article, EVER. I'm not even going to say why it's stupid, because that would make me as bad as the fucking dipshit that just wasted two minutes of my life. Urgh!
But...Linux far out numbers windows in the server room. Running a server on windows is like taking your head and slamming in a doorway 100 times, its painful.
Linux outnumbers windows on every platform except the commodity PC.
Running Windows in a server room is no picnic.
It's exploited more often, and more successfully than Linux. The attacks, in my observation have also been more deadly. Maybe Linux hackers need to get off their lazy asses, and write some malware that's worthy of it's name! Yeah, that's it. Why not come up with a way to take down a Linux box as thoroughly as they can their windows counterparts? I mean, if what I'm hearing here is correct... it's childsplay, right?
Look, you can give me benchmarks, and tell me that Linux is as bad as Windows all day. Until I see it , first hand (and I would have by now)... I'm not going to believe you.
Yeah, I totally agree. Babies aren't cute at all without hand cannons and state of the art metal suits to shoot machine gun wielding bunnies in the third world. Seriously. Who the hell do they think they're fooling?
that this is an issue with the size of your hash... I think. Check the message boards for documentation. Others have had this same issue. It's not FTP that's the problem. It's the implementation. Try others.
Switching to a new protocol, especially one like UDP that has no built in error correction is going to be complicated and costly. Especially if you can fix the issue with FTP; which, I think you can.
Why do people feel the need to control quirky geniuses who are doing nothing wrong? Seriously, there's nothing in this example that's out of the ordinary, except for the women's t-shirts. That's what you get for having a casual work place. My thought would be that if the author has such a problem with this guy, maybe he needs to be skilled enough to replace him.
LOL, really.
Holy hell. And this isn't the first idiotic article this guy has written. I wonder if it takes a special skill set to be a jackass columnist for a pc magazine.
Heh heh.
I haven't tried that one. I'll wait for the linux version.
Thing I have to wonder though; if dreamweaver dies... does that mean that we get to see a related end to ignorant know nothing columnists?
What I'm not getting about all this is how they think they can compete with a hobbled os, when Linux netbooks provide a full featured OS, complete with netcams, voice recognition, no application limits like this one, and more. I mean, shouldn't they be trying to make the case against using Linux on netbooks, rather than for it?
A long long time ago, at least in tech years; back in the glory days of 2001, some friends and I came up with a very similar idea. We applied an extra layer for clustering; but basically the same idea. The problem we had, as I see it now; in hindsight, was that writing the thing was pretty straight forward. At least for our group; but distributing it would have taken venture capitol. After the OSS fiasco that was Shorthand, we agreed that conventional distribution was the only way to get something like this (what the hell do you even call it?) out to the masses. Out of the hundred or so VC's we approached, we heard the same thing every time. Something like this, they would say, is a conflict of interest for any VC. Why? Because it's too out there. It's too different. Sure it's a good idea. But jesus christ man, you'll get yourself shot with something like that. I believe this guy knows what he's doing; or he's heard about what we were doing. Probably the former. I wish him the best of luck in not getting shot.;)
So far so good on the beta front. Everything I hated about Vista, and some of the things I hated about XP are gone. Not a lot of exciting new features, but it's no more annoying than working on Ubuntu.
So far though, there are a few weird quirks in it. It behaves strangely when you take it off of hibernate, for example. It's hard to totally shut the thing down at all, especially after you're logged in. Oh, and the address bar for windows explorer still sucks decomposing monkey balls. Of all the things they could have learned from linux gui's, they had to pick that one!
But, that said; it's faster than vista, and does not appear to have as many compatibility issues. You can really see the difference in performance. Mine's got a 459 mb memory footprint right now, which dare I say is smaller than my smallest Windows XP. So yeah. I think Windows 7 is going to be a hit. Or, if it's not a hit... I don't think it'll be the kind of blunder Vista was.
Far as releases,
You know, they say this was the biggest beta sample they've ever gotten. If they keep these things public (like they should be), I don't see why you would need more than one or two betas.
So if one terrorist says "I'm a Muslim" then everyone who doesn't immediately renounce their own Islamic faith is a terrorist too?
But by not denouncing the act (or denouncing it with a "but") they are supporting it. Tacit approval, look it up.
Why should every Muslim have to individually denounce every act of terrorism? When was the last time every christian denounced every individual abortion clinic bombing?
Actually,
I really like mine. Prefer it to the iPhone. For one thing, it's smaller and lighter than the most recent iPhone, which is a brick by comparison.
And I'm not sure what the author of the article is talking about when he/she says that there's a steep learning curve.
Sigh...
more apple fanboys putting down a perfectly good product they've never used, I suppose.
Whichever.
My six year old had no problem getting it.
We got hit with this one two weeks ago on one of our older windows applications.
It had it's way three times over with our client's web server and really made us look stupid. In our defense though... the app was written back in 01 by an entirely different agency. The hacker behind this attack also installed a script on the server side to rerun the attack, when it detected the database had been repaired. He also found and disabled directory security on the admin section of the app, and attempted to reconfigure IIS.
Will it run on Linux?
This one won't because it depends on the EXEC function in SQL server. But if you write unecapsolated SQL code and leave your errors turned on, on *any* production web server... expect to be hacked. I don't think that's the fault of linux or apache so much as it is the fault of bad coders and methods that we knew were dangerous ten years ago.
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Manager is an idiot, boss is a fool. Secretary is hot, and pretends to be interested in what you have to say.
Honestly, I think she's a little creeped out by the way you hang around the desk.
Being delusional comes with the job, and you start to think she might be interested in you, but she's not.
Work is miserable. And it doesn't matter if you're the lowest technology guy on the totem, or the highest.
No matter what you do, you'll always be a codemonkey as long as you're here. Underpaid, never appreciated, and locked away in the closest cubicle to the printer closet. Count your blessings, they could have stuck you in the basement.
You keep on working because you find solace in this.
The code is a easy, and it's an escape from the reality of the job.
The worst part is, that the art of it is completely inconsequential.
Nobody wants art. You've been shot down every time you ever try to improve something, and now you save invention for your own time. It'll pay off one day, but you can't see the end in sight yet.
They want fast.
So you give them fast.
Then they decide they don't want that either, but you're good enough at what you do not to piss them off enough to fire you.
Then there's the new guy who hasn't been totally dehumanized yet; the one who feels the constant need to talk about standards, and clean code. The one that has aspirations of being appreciated. At the end of his third day of training, he tells you how your code is technically sound, but very ugly.
You can't help but laugh to yourself about it. You used to be him. It's so long ago now that you can barely remember yourself though. He's a code monkey too. Or he will be, soon enough.
You tell him to wait two years.
His code won't come fast enough for management either.
As for you... nobody realizes it yet, but you're on your way out.
And the only way out is to find a business guy out of college who will worship your technical ability, and do something new yourself. Soon, it'll be time to reclaim your soul from the soulless marketing company or devil of a corporate entity you sold it to all that time ago.
Soon, you'll be free.
In a decade, the company you've left won't change one iota.
If they survive that long.
Classic legal stance from the losers. If having success in the marketplace alludes you, sue sue sue.
not to buy the ps3, there you go.
Sony will sue you if you try to do anything useful with it.
Now, if you'll excuse me... I've got a hacked Wii I've been neglecting.
I like to mix them. It's been my experience that there are microsoft solutions that do stack up in terms of performance. SQL Server for example is a great compliment to php on linux/apache (once you hammer out the buffer limitations in php.ini).
These studies always make IT departments look like idiots who only looking to hire unskilled idiots to run their systems. Personally, I find the notion of hiring the least qualified people to run my systems that will break at some point to be kind of silly. You're going to need to have people that know how to use your systems whatever those systems are. Which is cheaper? Don't know, don't care. There isn't a big enough difference in terms of manpower to make a difference. You need to troubleshoot anything you implement to get it to run the way you want it to, no matter what the license terms or base price of the product is.
If that's the basis for comparison, it's a very poor comparison indeed.
Many many many old programmers, and even not so old programmers become curmudgeony. Which strikes me as odd considering that programmers are supposed to be agents of change and progress. As a programmer, personally, I pride myself on the ability to learn a new language in a weekend. I enjoy writing new kinds of code for new kinds of tasks, and I enjoy finding the right tool for the problem. I've been in this business for fifteen years. I've been through the whole lifecycle for a programmer, and I keep kicking. I love what I do. I am an artist, and I do it on my own time.
I am, in my estimation, also the exception to the rule.
To date, I've known three other programmers of my grade and specialty personally. I respect them.
The problem with guys just out of school is that they don't actually know much of anything.
Especially over the last five years or so. Schools (and I'm generalizing) don't hire seasoned veterans to teach courses in computer science. They hire seasoned professors.
And while it might be great to learn a lot of the things you pick up in school while you have the time to do it; it's been my experience that half these kids don't know how to work on a production floor. Especially when they're just out of school. They need more time to ramp up, and it's usually about a year an a half before they get their sea legs.
The thing I will say for these kids though, they're fucking fearless when it comes to asking for the highest bill rate possible.
It's unrealistic to assume this kind of change would be anywhere but the internals of the windows operating system.
You've got all kinds of devices, other than pc's, other than windows machines, devices that are not even computers at all that would be affected if it's done by the isp.
And even if it does solve the problem of windows... it's not solving the core issue, which is that even despite years of promising security for windows machines... Microsoft has been unable to deliver.
Now they're talking about how to protect the rest of the world from their inability to secure their own product.
If this were any other product in any other sector, this would be totally and completely unacceptable.
I think it's clear that Microsoft needs to get out of the operating system business, and stick to server products where they actually do a competent job of things.
Dumbest fucking slashot article, EVER.
I'm not even going to say why it's stupid, because that would make me as bad as the fucking dipshit that just wasted two minutes of my life.
Urgh!
I hope this one gets modded up. Great Oz, genius!
But...Linux far out numbers windows in the server room. Running a server on windows is like taking your head and slamming in a doorway 100 times, its painful.
Linux outnumbers windows on every platform except the commodity PC.
Running Windows in a server room is no picnic.
It's exploited more often, and more successfully than Linux. The attacks, in my observation have also been more deadly. Maybe Linux hackers need to get off their lazy asses, and write some malware that's worthy of it's name! Yeah, that's it. Why not come up with a way to take down a Linux box as thoroughly as they can their windows counterparts? I mean, if what I'm hearing here is correct... it's childsplay, right?
Look, you can give me benchmarks, and tell me that Linux is as bad as Windows all day. Until I see it , first hand (and I would have by now)... I'm not going to believe you.
Yeah, I totally agree. Babies aren't cute at all without hand cannons and state of the art metal suits to shoot machine gun wielding bunnies in the third world. Seriously. Who the hell do they think they're fooling?
that this is an issue with the size of your hash... I think.
Check the message boards for documentation. Others have had this same issue.
It's not FTP that's the problem. It's the implementation. Try others.
Switching to a new protocol, especially one like UDP that has no built in error correction is going to be complicated and costly.
Especially if you can fix the issue with FTP; which, I think you can.
I think this person has a point.
Let's re-evaluate. But in doing so, let's be fair.
A programmer is only as good or as bad as the direction he gets.
I propose creating a new kind of middle manager.
You know... someone competent who has a basic understanding of process and why it's important to spend the time to put it in place, lol.
Or am I asking too much?
Why do people feel the need to control quirky geniuses who are doing nothing wrong? Seriously, there's nothing in this example that's out of the ordinary, except for the women's t-shirts. That's what you get for having a casual work place. My thought would be that if the author has such a problem with this guy, maybe he needs to be skilled enough to replace him.
LOL, really. Holy hell. And this isn't the first idiotic article this guy has written. I wonder if it takes a special skill set to be a jackass columnist for a pc magazine.
Heh heh. I haven't tried that one. I'll wait for the linux version. Thing I have to wonder though; if dreamweaver dies... does that mean that we get to see a related end to ignorant know nothing columnists?
Seems like bad economies spur this sort of thing. You'll recall Mcbride, or that company that claimed to own the shopping cart last time around.
What I'm not getting about all this is how they think they can compete with a hobbled os, when Linux netbooks provide a full featured OS, complete with netcams, voice recognition, no application limits like this one, and more. I mean, shouldn't they be trying to make the case against using Linux on netbooks, rather than for it?
A long long time ago, at least in tech years; back in the glory days of 2001, some friends and I came up with a very similar idea. We applied an extra layer for clustering; but basically the same idea. The problem we had, as I see it now; in hindsight, was that writing the thing was pretty straight forward. At least for our group; but distributing it would have taken venture capitol. After the OSS fiasco that was Shorthand, we agreed that conventional distribution was the only way to get something like this (what the hell do you even call it?) out to the masses. Out of the hundred or so VC's we approached, we heard the same thing every time. Something like this, they would say, is a conflict of interest for any VC. Why? Because it's too out there. It's too different. Sure it's a good idea. But jesus christ man, you'll get yourself shot with something like that. I believe this guy knows what he's doing; or he's heard about what we were doing. Probably the former. I wish him the best of luck in not getting shot. ;)
Extremely well said.
So far though, there are a few weird quirks in it. It behaves strangely when you take it off of hibernate, for example. It's hard to totally shut the thing down at all, especially after you're logged in. Oh, and the address bar for windows explorer still sucks decomposing monkey balls. Of all the things they could have learned from linux gui's, they had to pick that one!
But, that said; it's faster than vista, and does not appear to have as many compatibility issues. You can really see the difference in performance. Mine's got a 459 mb memory footprint right now, which dare I say is smaller than my smallest Windows XP. So yeah. I think Windows 7 is going to be a hit. Or, if it's not a hit... I don't think it'll be the kind of blunder Vista was.
Far as releases, You know, they say this was the biggest beta sample they've ever gotten. If they keep these things public (like they should be), I don't see why you would need more than one or two betas.
Just a thought.
No. Judaism and Christianity both have something Islam does not. Maturity. Islam, as you'll recall is the youngest of the abrahamic religions.
But by not denouncing the act (or denouncing it with a "but") they are supporting it. Tacit approval, look it up.
Why should every Muslim have to individually denounce every act of terrorism? When was the last time every christian denounced every individual abortion clinic bombing?
Actually, I really like mine. Prefer it to the iPhone. For one thing, it's smaller and lighter than the most recent iPhone, which is a brick by comparison. And I'm not sure what the author of the article is talking about when he/she says that there's a steep learning curve. Sigh... more apple fanboys putting down a perfectly good product they've never used, I suppose. Whichever. My six year old had no problem getting it.
We got hit with this one two weeks ago on one of our older windows applications. It had it's way three times over with our client's web server and really made us look stupid. In our defense though... the app was written back in 01 by an entirely different agency. The hacker behind this attack also installed a script on the server side to rerun the attack, when it detected the database had been repaired. He also found and disabled directory security on the admin section of the app, and attempted to reconfigure IIS. Will it run on Linux? This one won't because it depends on the EXEC function in SQL server. But if you write unecapsolated SQL code and leave your errors turned on, on *any* production web server... expect to be hacked. I don't think that's the fault of linux or apache so much as it is the fault of bad coders and methods that we knew were dangerous ten years ago.