1st week: Help desk ticket assigned to someone that doesn't work there any more!
2nd week: Assigned to queue for "first person who is available" to take it. Translated: "They cherry pick jobs that are easy out of the list"
3rd week: Assigned to someone that's on vacation.
4th week: reassigned to someone who is present, they email me at 4:45pm telling me they "need more information" and they're going on vacation starting at 5pm.
5th week: They come back from vacation and work with me to install part of outlook so DTS jobs on the sql server can send email.
As I understand it this is catching calls to the GL renderer and saving the 3d data. I don't see any reason why you couldn't do it with directx as well. Any gotchas there? It might be a fun project.
Every company I've ever worked at told me there would be training, but there was always some reason I would never get it. The budget got cut later, what I was working on was 'critical and we can't spare the time', etc. Your professional development is your concern, not theirs.
If your profession is less important than your home life you probably should consider changing things to match your priorities. But, then there's that pesky rent bill to consider...
I tried using this service. The majority of the jobs submitted seemed to be people's homework assignments. I was unable to land even a single job for less than what I would get at mcDonalds. People who can survive on pennies per day were willing to work much cheaper than I could.
admittedly I don't anything odd with my linux boxen, but I've never seen a kernel problem. They're much more stable than any windows machine I've ever run. I do just the reverse, linux servers only.
"Now the real problem with this is what it does to the discussion. Last night a nice story was posted. It came from one of our "Problem" users. And dozens of comments were posted about this user. The conspiracy theories. The hostility. Now a lot of this is normal Slashdot Forum Faire. Thats fine. But the problem is that often when this occurs, it swamps out the real discussion. The messenger becomes the story.
I think this sucks."
I submit a lot of peoples behaviour is dependent on the environment they find themselves in. An otherwise honest person will steal food without a qualm if it means life or death. Slashdot's environment provides a place for bad behaviour to happen without hindrance, and thus encourages it.
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Is this good engineering? Too many of the newbs out of school have one language under their belt, so everything is solved using it, even when it shouldn't be. Just my 2 cents
I've always done what you did. I've had employers ask me to stay and help train a replacement, I've had some politely tell me it was ok to leave immediately, and some escort me out of the building. I wouldn't take it personally. They don't have any assurance you won't damage the company so they're being safe. There are a lot of lawyers out there;)
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I had a really rough time with a deployment. My dev machine has admin privledges so I can install software on it. We purchased the Pegasus Image toolkit for graphics manipulation and included it in the developed application. The application would not run on any of the deployed machines unless they logged in under my personal user account and had admin privs granted on that machine. It would change the cursor to an hourglass for a few seconds and then do nothing. There was no message, no event log, nothing. It turned out the.net security system was the problem. My app was never getting started since the DLL containing the image control was a.NET assembly and it was not in the global assembly cache for.NET. Once I added the DLL to the cache manually it worked fine. There's an option to do that in the install project but it's not shown by default and there's no indication you need it.
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It's deployment. I found coding and the IDE to be very nice but deploying a program was as hard, or harder, than it's ever been.
If you wanted to really test in an environment that matches production you'd have to substitute the web server you use in production for webrick. Sounds like a good part of what people like is just a flexible IDE
I know people that don't test at all. A lot of people that test minimally ("it works on my box" or "IE 5 required"), and almost none that spend much time on testing.
I'll see if I can find more about the test environment. If it generates the unit tests I'd be interested in seeing more about that.
I just misunderstood. Evidently there's a built in webserver as part of the IDE. The step of publishing and switching environments to test your code is removed from the cycle.
I've seen a lot of people that tout short cuts as "revolutionary improvements". I've also cleaned up after a lot of them made horrendous messes. I thought this was one of them
"The typical development cycle for testing a change to a web app has steps such as configure, compile, deploy, reset, and test. This is very time consuming. The Rails development environment has none of this. You simply make a change and see it work. Don't make the mistake of dismissing this as a minor point. It's hard to overstate how much this improves productivity and helps you maintain a creative flow without interruption."
So they don't test anything? They just modify production code directly? Sounds like something only suitable for college kids and amateurs that leave messes behind for someone else to clean up.
I believe a lot of bugs are not caused by programmers, but by the environment they're forced to work in. I am regularly told what language I will be allowed to write the code in, what database server software I must use, and when the code must be done. I have repeatedly asked for regression testing software or testing hardware and my requests are always refused. The management believes the bugs are cheaper than the cure. This guy is either spouting nonsense for political gain or he's not spent any time finding out what he's talking about. In either case his opinion is worth nothing.
I make a hammer. I sell the hammer. Someone uses it to kill their neighbor in a dispute. It's my fault? Think about your stance instead of just regurgitating someone else's foolishness.
mnemonics make it simpler. Think of a phrase that's important to you personally, such as "now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country". For site #1 use the first letter of each word as your password: "nittfagmtcttaotc". For site #2 use the second letter, etc. If the word is short substitute the site number. It can be easily remembered without any paper to prompt you and generates long passwords not findable by dictionary attacks.
I hope they didn't waste taxpayer money on that study.
Crimes precipitated by the use of the information provided by an anonymous source are a different matter. The anonymous source didn't commit the crime and aren't responsible for it. They still need protection when reporting criminal behaviour, which I think is only provided adequately by anonymity.
I heard an interview with whistle blowers and all of them said they'd really paid a big price for their actions. I don't think the law protects them as much as you think.
The watergate example did spring to mind for me too. Nixon was dirty, so did it really matter what the motivation of the guy who ratted him out was?
He might not have been caught without deep throat so in that case good came from using an anonymous source. The guilty got caught.
I'm sure the press tries to check these anonymous tips out to see if they're factual. They avoid looking stupid for reporting silly stuff and prevent damage lawsuits. So I don't see where this has gotten out of control.
No, I've never been attacked by an anonymous source (that I know of). I suspect it might have happened in a couple employment situations though. I don't think embittered whispers in the dark will ever go away until the last human dies.
>I'd argue that anonymous sources should be permitted so long as the reporter, managing editor, and the affiliated media organization are all on the hook for both civil and criminal complaints arising from stories arising from anonymous sources. Think of it as Sarbanes-Oxley for the press. 8-)
Well, I thought slander and libel lawsuits performed that function. I agree but I don't see how what's in place is not working.
Slashdot Mirror
1st week: Help desk ticket assigned to someone that doesn't work there any more!
2nd week: Assigned to queue for "first person who is available" to take it. Translated: "They cherry pick jobs that are easy out of the list"
3rd week: Assigned to someone that's on vacation.
4th week: reassigned to someone who is present, they email me at 4:45pm telling me they "need more information" and they're going
on vacation starting at 5pm.
5th week: They come back from vacation and work with me to install
part of outlook so DTS jobs on the sql server can send email.
Woo hoo!
As I understand it this is catching calls to the GL renderer and saving
the 3d data. I don't see any reason why you couldn't do it with directx
as well. Any gotchas there? It might be a fun project.
Every company I've ever worked at told me there would be training,
but there was always some reason I would never get it. The budget
got cut later, what I was working on was 'critical and we can't spare
the time', etc. Your professional development is your concern, not theirs.
If your profession is less important than your home life you probably
should consider changing things to match your priorities. But, then there's
that pesky rent bill to consider...
Can you say "conspiracy"
I tried using this service. The majority of the jobs submitted seemed
to be people's homework assignments. I was unable to land even a single
job for less than what I would get at mcDonalds. People who can survive
on pennies per day were willing to work much cheaper than I could.
I read through the article and it looks like they're having driver problems, not kernel problems. We all know all hardware is flawless... ;)
admittedly I don't anything odd with my linux boxen, but
I've never seen a kernel problem. They're much more stable
than any windows machine I've ever run. I do just the reverse,
linux servers only.
Quote:
"Now the real problem with this is what it does to the discussion. Last night a nice story was posted. It came from one of our "Problem" users. And dozens of comments were posted about this user. The conspiracy theories. The hostility. Now a lot of this is normal Slashdot Forum Faire. Thats fine. But the problem is that often when this occurs, it swamps out the real discussion. The messenger becomes the story.
I think this sucks."
I submit a lot of peoples behaviour is dependent on the environment they find themselves in. An otherwise honest person will steal food without a qualm if it means life or death. Slashdot's environment provides a place for bad behaviour to happen without hindrance, and thus encourages it.
Is this good engineering? Too many of the newbs out of school
have one language under their belt, so everything is solved using it,
even when it shouldn't be. Just my 2 cents
I've always done what you did. I've had employers ask me to stay and help train ;)
a replacement, I've had some politely tell me it was ok to leave immediately,
and some escort me out of the building. I wouldn't take it personally. They
don't have any assurance you won't damage the company so they're being safe.
There are a lot of lawyers out there
I had a really rough time with a deployment. My dev machine has .net security system was the problem. My app .NET assembly and it was not in the global assembly .NET. Once I added the DLL to the cache manually it
admin privledges so I can install software on it. We purchased
the Pegasus Image toolkit for graphics manipulation and included
it in the developed application. The application would not run
on any of the deployed machines unless they logged in under my
personal user account and had admin privs granted on that machine.
It would change the cursor to an hourglass for a few seconds and
then do nothing. There was no message, no event log, nothing.
It turned out the
was never getting started since the DLL containing the image
control was a
cache for
worked fine. There's an option to do that in the install project
but it's not shown by default and there's no indication you need
it.
It's deployment. I found coding and the IDE to be very nice but
deploying a program was as hard, or harder, than it's ever been.
If you wanted to really test in an environment that matches
production you'd have to substitute the web server
you use in production for webrick. Sounds like a good
part of what people like is just a flexible IDE
>Don't get Stuck on Stupid! Of course they test!
I know people that don't test at all. A lot of people that
test minimally ("it works on my box" or "IE 5 required"),
and almost none that spend much time on testing.
I'll see if I can find more about the test environment.
If it generates the unit tests I'd be interested in seeing
more about that.
I just misunderstood. Evidently there's a built in
webserver as part of the IDE. The step of publishing
and switching environments to test your code is removed
from the cycle.
I've seen a lot of people that tout short cuts as
"revolutionary improvements". I've also cleaned up after
a lot of them made horrendous messes. I thought this
was one of them
"The typical development cycle for testing a change to a web app has steps such as configure, compile, deploy, reset, and test. This is very time consuming. The Rails development environment has none of this. You simply make a change and see it work. Don't make the mistake of dismissing this as a minor point. It's hard to overstate how much this improves productivity and helps you maintain a creative flow without interruption."
So they don't test anything? They just modify production
code directly? Sounds like something only suitable for college
kids and amateurs that leave messes behind for someone else
to clean up.
If they don't like how it looks they're free to write their own better looking one.
I believe a lot of bugs are not caused by programmers, but by the
environment they're forced to work in. I am regularly told what
language I will be allowed to write the code in, what database
server software I must use, and when the code must be done. I have
repeatedly asked for regression testing software or testing
hardware and my requests are always refused. The management believes
the bugs are cheaper than the cure. This guy is either spouting
nonsense for political gain or he's not spent any time finding
out what he's talking about. In either case his opinion is worth
nothing.
I make a hammer. I sell the hammer. Someone uses it to kill
their neighbor in a dispute. It's my fault?
Think about your stance instead of just regurgitating someone
else's foolishness.
mnemonics make it simpler. Think of a phrase that's important to you personally, such as "now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country". For site #1 use the first letter of
each word as your password: "nittfagmtcttaotc". For site #2 use the second letter, etc. If the word is short substitute the site number. It can be easily remembered without any paper to prompt
you and generates long passwords not findable by dictionary
attacks.
I hope they didn't waste taxpayer money on that study.
Which is supposed to be good...
and can do color or black and white copies without ;)
the computer being turned on. Well, who turns off
their computer anyway?
Crimes precipitated by the use of the information provided by an anonymous source are a different matter. The anonymous source didn't commit the crime and aren't responsible for it. They still need protection when reporting criminal behaviour, which I think is only provided adequately by anonymity.
I heard an interview with whistle blowers and all
of them said they'd really paid a big price for their actions. I don't think the law protects
them as much as you think.
The watergate example did spring to mind for me too. Nixon was dirty, so did it really matter what the motivation of the guy who ratted him out was?
He might not have been caught without deep throat so in that case good came from using an anonymous source. The guilty got caught.
I'm sure the press tries to check these anonymous
tips out to see if they're factual. They avoid
looking stupid for reporting silly stuff and
prevent damage lawsuits. So I don't see where
this has gotten out of control.
No, I've never been attacked by an anonymous
source (that I know of). I suspect it might have
happened in a couple employment situations though.
I don't think embittered whispers in the dark
will ever go away until the last human dies.
>I'd argue that anonymous sources should be permitted so long as the reporter, managing editor, and the affiliated media organization are all on the hook for both civil and criminal complaints arising from stories arising from anonymous sources. Think of it as Sarbanes-Oxley for the press. 8-)
Well, I thought slander and libel lawsuits performed that function. I agree but I don't see how what's in place is not working.