if the developer is be let go because they refuse to use an IDE, there is more going on
Yeah, some kind of mental illness or religious hallucinations on part of the developer in question, which in and off it self is reason enough to get rid of him.
Any developer refusing to use an IDE is retarded.
And any employer making such a statement regarding an employee would be opening themselves up for paying damages from creating a hostile work environment. The safe thing to do, which is also the proper thing is to document performance. If performance is sub-par, then meet with the employee to discuss what can be done to improve it. At the next review, if it hasn't improved, then meet again and put them on notice that if it doesn't improve they will be terminated. Anything else, you open the door for a lawsuit.
Which is proof you have never worked in an Enterprise development situation.
Actually you would would be quite wrong. If one worked in an enterprise development situation, one would know that there is a multitude of personnel law that would dictate that you must have cause to terminate an employee, or at least apply enforcement equally among all employees. Or if this employee were a contract employee, then the contract would dictate the conditions.
Either way, you normally could not fire somebody for simply refusing to use an IDE, at least not without opening your firm for legal action. You could, however, terminate them for not meeting performance goals, which would probably be the case if they weren't using an IDE, but then the cause would be their sub standard performance, not whether or not they use an IDE or not.
Of course, maybe this situation took place outside the US, where different laws may be in effect.
Well, if you'll put on your cyncial hat, the in-utero treatment you wish for already exists: plannedparenthood.com
In America, about 90% of diagnosed DS fetuses are aborted. That is an interesting percentage, since polls indicate that more that 20% of Americans think abortion should be illegal under all circumstances. At least half of those people are apparently hypocrites, willing to make an exception for their own convenience.
Those two statistics are totally unrealated as most DS fetuses come from parents with a genetic predisposition to DS and not the general population. So, you are extrapolating the behavior of small population to the whole population. That would be an invalid application of statistics and lead to false conclusions.
With regards to a child with a disability, it's a lot like schroedinger's cat, you don't know what you will do until you are faced with the situation (or open the box, so to speak). You will also find that many of these couples that terminate their pregnancy also get themselves sterilized to prevent future pregnancies.
So, like rape and incest, using down syndrome and abortion as a generalization for the population as a whole is a statistically invalid application.
Assuming we could silence the extra chromosome in an entire human being what sort of results would we see? I'm curious to see the changes that would occur over weeks if not years.
Could it reverse the neurological issues?
Considering that the technique involves inserting RNA into each cell, it is unlikely to possible to use on people who already have down syndrome. At best, if ever perfected and approved, it would be used in IVF techniques before the fertilized egg is implanted.
I'll say the same thing to you. Was he/she meeting performance expectations as outline in his/her reviews? If so, then what difference does it make. If not, then he/she wasn't fired for not use an IDE but for sub-par performance. At least one would hope terminating an employee is performance (and documented, too) and not something that would leave the door open to questions of discrimination.
Maybe he was arrogant, but unless all arrogant employees are fired, then that isn't actually grounds (insubordination could be, though). Besides, most developers are arrogant. That's part of the culture. So again, assuming this scenario is true and it happened in the US, one would hope the company in question had documentation on the developer's performance to support termination or a violation of company policies or if a contractor some way in which he/she breach a contract. Otherwise, they, the company doing the firing, have opened themselves up to litigation.
It's hard to believe, but employees do have some rights under US law, whether they realize it or not and it is likely that simply being terminated for not using an IDE is going to violate them.
Okay, I'll post one more time. Here is your original comment:
My friend fired a developer for refusing to use an IDE.
I'm sorry, but no developer can ever be as productive using text editors over IDEs, once they man up and learn how to use them. For instance, renaming a class method that is called by numerous other classes is a 3 second operation in Eclipse, and possibly hours long in bash, with a much higher chance of breaking something. In fact, most refactoring operations cannot be done efficiently outside of an IDE.
You may notice in the first sentence you state that your friend fired a developer and the only reason given was for refusing to use an IDE. Then you have a paragraph expressing your opinion on programmer productivity, but who gives a damn. Maybe if it was your friends opinion, you know, the one who fired the guy. But using logic, you know if a then b, your opinion doesn't fit into the equation.
In later posts, you have now shifted from offering your opinion on how much less productive a programmer is who does not use an IDE to the guy who was fired is arrogant. Here is the quote:
No, I presented my opinion that he was arrogant based on his refusal to use an IDE. It doesn't change my argument at all. He got fired for refusing to use an IDE, no more, no less.
Again, the original statement you made was that your friend had fired a developer for not using an IDE and you have now interjected your own bias that the person in question was arrogant based on his refusal to use an IDE.
This is an interesting dilemma as either your friend is discussing confidential personnel issues with you and should be fired himself (or herself) or you are simply making assumptions about something you know nothing about. Since I do not know your friend, the benefit of the doubt goes to them which means that you are making assumptions about something you know nothing about.
You seem oblivious to the fact that what the problem is even about. It has nothing to do with whether or not somebody is more productive with or without and IDE. It is your calling the developer arrogant for not using one. The irony is that when we make such strong assumptions about others, where we presume to know what they are thinking or what their intentions are when we really have no way of knowing it is we, ourselves who are displaying arrogance. But then, maybe that is why you are so familiar with the characteristics or arrogance.
I don't know what you want an argument to counter. I basically agree that in most situations, an IDE makes a programmer more productive. On the other hand, most cases does not mean all cases and exceptions do exists. I have programmers working for me right now on dumb terminals coding COBOL for a legacy mainframe application. An IDE isn't even an option in their case. I am working on assembler code for a proprietary chip that even with an IDE, the instruction set would be available, so it would be little more than a text editor.
My point that I was making, that you seem to want to ignore, is that all developer projects use metrics to measure performance. If the developer was meeting those metrics successfully, then who care whether he was using and IDE or not. If he was below expectation as defined by the metrics, then he was let go because of his performance, not because his refusal to use an IDE.
Because in the end, if he was performing as expected, even without using an IDE and was actually let go because he didn't use the IDE, there better be a policy somewhere that requires it or the company has exposure, because most likely it had nothing to do with the use of an IDE, or at least the company would have a very difficult time defending that as the cause.
No, I presented my opinion that he was arrogant based on his refusal to use an IDE. It doesn't change my argument at all. He got fired for refusing to use an IDE, no more, no less.
Since you have strayed away from the topic at hand, I can only assume that you cannot possibly debate my points anymore, and are just going to stick to your old biases.
Thanks for playing, have a nice day.
You are right, since we can change the parameters to anything we want whether there is evidence or not, then my opinion is that the developer in question is an older developer and this doesn't have anything to do with arrogance but is really age discrimination and the manager and you, yourself, are guilty of this bias. Nothing you say can change that opinion as there is no evidence you have presented and there is a strong correlation in the argument you have framed that you are secretly circumventing the real issue and trying to deflect the issue.
Thank you for playing!
No seriously, see, what one can do when there is no evidence to support one's position and we only use opinion and innuendo. All that has been presented is that the developer refused to use an IDE and was fired. You have interjected that he was arrogant, but nowhere has any evidence of that been given. It is simply your opinion. Likewise, then, my opinion is just as valid that it has nothing to do with arrogance, but is really age discrimination, or maybe gender bias or even prejudice due to the color of the developer's skin.
We can play this game forever, which is why it is always better to base discussions on the information presented instead of interjecting outside information that cannot be corroborated.
> Although, right now I am doing assembly on a a custom chip. Do you have an IDE for me,
One of the following might be appropriate: Keil, Codewarrior, AVR Studio, MPLab, CubeSuite+, HEW, Xilinx ISE, Quartus, or ISPLever. Look at Keil first... if it's even a halfway-modern chip or popular chip, they probably have an IDE for it, and it's probably a damn good one. For m68k, Codewarrior is pretty much the gold standard (though if you're starting from scratch now, Keil is probably a better time-investment).
I agree, however, one of the requirements for this project is that the tools run on the platform it is being developed on. Think of a large government organization that likes to keep secrets. So, while those IDEs are very good, they would be outside the sandbox that is allowed.
"Was the developer's code inferior in a way that an IDE would improve?"
is obviously "yes". It's sort of implied in the description.
Nobody would say "Gosh, Sergey, you are the most brilliant person I've ever met, you are like Neo rearranging reality with your code, and you've already made me a million dollars in productivity improvements during the first week you've worked here. Your output is unmatched among any mortals, but you're fired because you don't use an IDE, and nothing else matters."
Wouldn't that answer depend on the language? For instance if one is programming assembly for pic processors, an IDE won't make much of a difference. If one is programming COBOL for a mainframe banking application, likewise an IDE won't make much of a difference. If one is using one of the.Net languages or Java or C++, then an IDE will probably make a difference, but it would really depend on what part of the project the individual was working on before even that determination could be made.
You are making assumptions that were not presented. Nowhere, in any of the posts was it said the developer in question was arrogant. All that was stated was that he was fired for refusing to use an IDE, no more, no less. You shouldn't read more into things than what is actually posted. Doing so betrays your own biases.
I never said any such thing. Although, right now I am doing assembly on a a custom chip. Do you have an IDE for me, I'd love for you to increase my productivity. Of course, there is only 256K ram available.
There is nothing wrong with IDEs, however, they are simply a tool, no more and no less.
Look at it this way: if a project needed a simple Java package name changed, and a developer said "Ok, I'll have that done by tomorrow", would you keep them on board knowing that using the right tool for the job would have taken 3 seconds?
It depends, is the person a valuable member of the team or somebody I'm looking for an excuse to let go? Chances are, if the developer is be let go because they refuse to use an IDE, there is more going on. Why didn't that preference turn up during the interview process? Unless, maybe this is an older long term employee and a newer, younger manager..... But, no, it probably is just because the manager knows best and knows that everybody programs better with and IDE.
My friend fired a developer for refusing to use an IDE.
I'm sorry, but no developer can ever be as productive using text editors over IDEs, once they man up and learn how to use them. For instance, renaming a class method that is called by numerous other classes is a 3 second operation in Eclipse, and possibly hours long in bash, with a much higher chance of breaking something. In fact, most refactoring operations cannot be done efficiently outside of an IDE.
I would have fired your friend. Was the developer coding below expectations? Was the developer's code inferior in a way that an IDE would improve? Was the developer productivity a problem? If the answer to any of those questions is "No," then what difference does it make what tool he/she uses. IDEs are good for some things and lousy for others. Refactoring is something they are good for, but at the same time, if it is taking 3 seconds to do in Eclipse and hours in bash, then something else is wrong, regardless, that example assumes one is going to be refactoring on a regular basis. If that is the case, then the IDE is making up for other programmer inefficiencies.
If you have a productive developer, who cares what editor/IDE they are using? The job of a manager is to remove the obstacles that keep employees from being productive, not making them jump through hoops.
Name any location with three words, I can do it with two numbers: Latitude and Longitude. So for the Peter Pan stature in Kensington Gardens, it is lat/lng:55.9494,-3.2000. The other advantage of using lat/lng is that if you aren't quite there, you know what direction you need to go, whereas if you are at hippo.jumbo.pimple and are trying to get to union.prop.enjoy, which way would you go?
Looks like they just copied the VLC link by accident. There was only one link there(besides its probably a virus and not a real VLC copy anyways). Yawn.
Doesn't matter if it was by accident or not. They are effectively stating that all links listed in their requests are violating their copyrights and taking legal action through the DMCA. Maybe it was a mistake, but before bringing legal action, which is what the takedown notice is, they should have verified the infringement. The assumption under US law is innocent until proven guilty. HBO had the burden of proof and they failed to exercise due diligence. What if they had grab some the legitimate site of some business by mistake?
The take down request was bogus and HBO should be fined for their bogus request. Whether it was a mistake or not, does not factor into the equation. Maybe next time they will actually check that the content does infringe their copyrights.
Ironic you chose those wordsthe First Lady was, "for the first time in her life", "proud to be an American." I think we the people need to speak our minds and let The Man know we don't want to give up our rights as Americans. Doesn't this mean the terrorists are winning if their actions cause our government to infringe on our rights?
Except that the infringement of rights was occuring even before 9/11. Using terrorist and national security as the reason are only ploys to keep the public at bay. So, technically, the terrorists aren't winning, because all the surveilance and infringement doesn't have anything to really do with them. They were just a means to an end by those in power.
Hand pump out enough gasoline to start a generator, and use it to power the pumps for dispensing?
I'll play. And where do you get the generator from? I'm pretty sure if it were as simple as hand pumping or using a generator to get gas from the storage tanks, then when there are natural disasters, people would do exactly that. However that is not the case.
That really should have read no gasoline, heating or cooling... instead of no gasoline heating or cooling. The heating and cooling was referencing climate control depending on what time of year this hit (or hemisphere).
Still, while it would be possible to use a generator to power the gas pumps, you won't be able to run down to the local Home Depot and pick one up and just wire it in. For one, they just don't stock that many. And secondly, it is unlikely that they would have one large enough for a gas station to use to run it's pumps. Then there is the whole business of how the gas distributor is going to fill the trucks to get the gas to the station in the first place.
Put differently, look how disruptive a major storm can be and that is usually over a limited geographic area so that the rest of the country can marshal resources and send help. Now expand that to an entire continent or the planet.
Meh, US society would be a hell of a lot better off if we did absolutely nothing to mitigate terrorist attacks than as things stand now. Sadly, "give me liberty or give me death" has largely been replaced by "keep me safe at all costs" in popular sentiment.
That's besides the point. But as Benjamin Franklin said: "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
There are many reasons power can be out for quite a while; weather, earthquake, equipment failure, etc. The point is that short term, less than a few days, without power should be able to be handled by individuals. If a catastrophe is going to happen if the power goes out for a few days there is a much bigger issue than space weather.
PS. I see this as another misuse of a word to sensationalize a story. Space weather may cause local problems but not catastrophes.
Yes there are, but with the exception of equipment failure when sever weather or earthquake occur, don't we call those natural disasters? Maybe disasters and catastrophes are two different things? From the article, though, they aren't talking about power being off for a few hours in a small area, but the power grids being destroyed world wide and taking a year or more to rebuild them. Satellites would be destroyed, so most communications would be out, even if power were restored. It might not be a catastrophe like the people in Pompei experienced, but for modern societies, they would have real problems.
Look at that cruise ship that was without power for a few days, now imagine that scenario across the entire country. No electricity also means no water, no gas (both natural and gasoline), no oil, no manufacturing no retail no nothing. Sure there are emergency generators but they aren't meant to last for a year and when their fuel runs out where will they get more from? The local gas station doesn't have a generator to pump the gas out of the ground.
The article is not crying out "Prepare for the end of the world!" No, all it is saying is that steps should be taken to harden the power grid and essential systems so that if an event occurs, power can quickly be restored.
It isn't uncommon to lose power for about a week with storms in this area. We loose power for about 9 hours probably once a year or so and for a week about once every 10 years. We all manage to survive. You can't stop the storms, so you deal with it. I don't see these solar storms as any worse and they are MUCH less frequent.
You are talking about a small geographic area, they are talking planet wide and actually for an entire year.
I always hear about solar flares/storms etc. and the damage they can/will cause, but I have never once been affected by them. Seems like much ado about nothing.
You've probably hear alot but never been directly affected by terrorist attacts either. Doesn't mean that the risk isn't real and that society shouldn't prepare for it just incase.
9 hours no electricity? what a catastrophe. I've done that for 9, 18, 24 or so hours, it was called camping
Depends. If your oxygen concentrator doesn't run for 9 hours or you can't keep your insulin cold for 9 hours, yeah it could be a catastrophe. If you have lederly parents to care for or young children, yes it could be a problem. But if you are just thinking of no light bulbs or tv, yeah, then it probably isn't a big deal. OTOH, no subways, elevators, mass transit, gasoline heating or cooling (depending on the time of the year and your location), no emergency response or telephones to even contact them. Would that be a catastrophe? For some it could very well be.
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if the developer is be let go because they refuse to use an IDE, there is more going on
Yeah, some kind of mental illness or religious hallucinations on part of the developer in question, which in and off it self is reason enough to get rid of him.
Any developer refusing to use an IDE is retarded.
And any employer making such a statement regarding an employee would be opening themselves up for paying damages from creating a hostile work environment. The safe thing to do, which is also the proper thing is to document performance. If performance is sub-par, then meet with the employee to discuss what can be done to improve it. At the next review, if it hasn't improved, then meet again and put them on notice that if it doesn't improve they will be terminated. Anything else, you open the door for a lawsuit.
Which is proof you have never worked in an Enterprise development situation.
Actually you would would be quite wrong. If one worked in an enterprise development situation, one would know that there is a multitude of personnel law that would dictate that you must have cause to terminate an employee, or at least apply enforcement equally among all employees. Or if this employee were a contract employee, then the contract would dictate the conditions.
Either way, you normally could not fire somebody for simply refusing to use an IDE, at least not without opening your firm for legal action. You could, however, terminate them for not meeting performance goals, which would probably be the case if they weren't using an IDE, but then the cause would be their sub standard performance, not whether or not they use an IDE or not.
Of course, maybe this situation took place outside the US, where different laws may be in effect.
Well, if you'll put on your cyncial hat, the in-utero treatment you wish for already exists:
plannedparenthood.com
In America, about 90% of diagnosed DS fetuses are aborted. That is an interesting percentage, since polls indicate that more that 20% of Americans think abortion should be illegal under all circumstances. At least half of those people are apparently hypocrites, willing to make an exception for their own convenience.
Citations:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/1576/abortion.aspx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_syndrome#Abortion_rates
Those two statistics are totally unrealated as most DS fetuses come from parents with a genetic predisposition to DS and not the general population. So, you are extrapolating the behavior of small population to the whole population. That would be an invalid application of statistics and lead to false conclusions.
With regards to a child with a disability, it's a lot like schroedinger's cat, you don't know what you will do until you are faced with the situation (or open the box, so to speak). You will also find that many of these couples that terminate their pregnancy also get themselves sterilized to prevent future pregnancies.
So, like rape and incest, using down syndrome and abortion as a generalization for the population as a whole is a statistically invalid application.
Assuming we could silence the extra chromosome in an entire human being what sort of results would we see? I'm curious to see the changes that would occur over weeks if not years.
Could it reverse the neurological issues?
Considering that the technique involves inserting RNA into each cell, it is unlikely to possible to use on people who already have down syndrome. At best, if ever perfected and approved, it would be used in IVF techniques before the fertilized egg is implanted.
I'll say the same thing to you. Was he/she meeting performance expectations as outline in his/her reviews? If so, then what difference does it make. If not, then he/she wasn't fired for not use an IDE but for sub-par performance. At least one would hope terminating an employee is performance (and documented, too) and not something that would leave the door open to questions of discrimination.
Maybe he was arrogant, but unless all arrogant employees are fired, then that isn't actually grounds (insubordination could be, though). Besides, most developers are arrogant. That's part of the culture. So again, assuming this scenario is true and it happened in the US, one would hope the company in question had documentation on the developer's performance to support termination or a violation of company policies or if a contractor some way in which he/she breach a contract. Otherwise, they, the company doing the firing, have opened themselves up to litigation.
It's hard to believe, but employees do have some rights under US law, whether they realize it or not and it is likely that simply being terminated for not using an IDE is going to violate them.
Okay, I'll post one more time. Here is your original comment:
My friend fired a developer for refusing to use an IDE.
I'm sorry, but no developer can ever be as productive using text editors over IDEs, once they man up and learn how to use them. For instance, renaming a class method that is called by numerous other classes is a 3 second operation in Eclipse, and possibly hours long in bash, with a much higher chance of breaking something. In fact, most refactoring operations cannot be done efficiently outside of an IDE.
You may notice in the first sentence you state that your friend fired a developer and the only reason given was for refusing to use an IDE. Then you have a paragraph expressing your opinion on programmer productivity, but who gives a damn. Maybe if it was your friends opinion, you know, the one who fired the guy. But using logic, you know if a then b, your opinion doesn't fit into the equation.
In later posts, you have now shifted from offering your opinion on how much less productive a programmer is who does not use an IDE to the guy who was fired is arrogant. Here is the quote:
No, I presented my opinion that he was arrogant based on his refusal to use an IDE. It doesn't change my argument at all. He got fired for refusing to use an IDE, no more, no less.
Again, the original statement you made was that your friend had fired a developer for not using an IDE and you have now interjected your own bias that the person in question was arrogant based on his refusal to use an IDE.
This is an interesting dilemma as either your friend is discussing confidential personnel issues with you and should be fired himself (or herself) or you are simply making assumptions about something you know nothing about. Since I do not know your friend, the benefit of the doubt goes to them which means that you are making assumptions about something you know nothing about.
You seem oblivious to the fact that what the problem is even about. It has nothing to do with whether or not somebody is more productive with or without and IDE. It is your calling the developer arrogant for not using one. The irony is that when we make such strong assumptions about others, where we presume to know what they are thinking or what their intentions are when we really have no way of knowing it is we, ourselves who are displaying arrogance. But then, maybe that is why you are so familiar with the characteristics or arrogance.
I don't know what you want an argument to counter. I basically agree that in most situations, an IDE makes a programmer more productive. On the other hand, most cases does not mean all cases and exceptions do exists. I have programmers working for me right now on dumb terminals coding COBOL for a legacy mainframe application. An IDE isn't even an option in their case. I am working on assembler code for a proprietary chip that even with an IDE, the instruction set would be available, so it would be little more than a text editor.
My point that I was making, that you seem to want to ignore, is that all developer projects use metrics to measure performance. If the developer was meeting those metrics successfully, then who care whether he was using and IDE or not. If he was below expectation as defined by the metrics, then he was let go because of his performance, not because his refusal to use an IDE.
Because in the end, if he was performing as expected, even without using an IDE and was actually let go because he didn't use the IDE, there better be a policy somewhere that requires it or the company has exposure, because most likely it had nothing to do with the use of an IDE, or at least the company would have a very difficult time defending that as the cause.
No, I presented my opinion that he was arrogant based on his refusal to use an IDE. It doesn't change my argument at all. He got fired for refusing to use an IDE, no more, no less.
Since you have strayed away from the topic at hand, I can only assume that you cannot possibly debate my points anymore, and are just going to stick to your old biases.
Thanks for playing, have a nice day.
You are right, since we can change the parameters to anything we want whether there is evidence or not, then my opinion is that the developer in question is an older developer and this doesn't have anything to do with arrogance but is really age discrimination and the manager and you, yourself, are guilty of this bias. Nothing you say can change that opinion as there is no evidence you have presented and there is a strong correlation in the argument you have framed that you are secretly circumventing the real issue and trying to deflect the issue.
Thank you for playing!
No seriously, see, what one can do when there is no evidence to support one's position and we only use opinion and innuendo. All that has been presented is that the developer refused to use an IDE and was fired. You have interjected that he was arrogant, but nowhere has any evidence of that been given. It is simply your opinion. Likewise, then, my opinion is just as valid that it has nothing to do with arrogance, but is really age discrimination, or maybe gender bias or even prejudice due to the color of the developer's skin.
We can play this game forever, which is why it is always better to base discussions on the information presented instead of interjecting outside information that cannot be corroborated.
End of discussion.
> Although, right now I am doing assembly on a a custom chip. Do you have an IDE for me,
One of the following might be appropriate: Keil, Codewarrior, AVR Studio, MPLab, CubeSuite+, HEW, Xilinx ISE, Quartus, or ISPLever. Look at Keil first... if it's even a halfway-modern chip or popular chip, they probably have an IDE for it, and it's probably a damn good one. For m68k, Codewarrior is pretty much the gold standard (though if you're starting from scratch now, Keil is probably a better time-investment).
I agree, however, one of the requirements for this project is that the tools run on the platform it is being developed on. Think of a large government organization that likes to keep secrets. So, while those IDEs are very good, they would be outside the sandbox that is allowed.
I think this
"Was the developer's code inferior in a way that an IDE would improve?"
is obviously "yes". It's sort of implied in the description.
Nobody would say "Gosh, Sergey, you are the most brilliant person I've ever met, you are like Neo rearranging reality with your code, and you've already made me a million dollars in productivity improvements during the first week you've worked here. Your output is unmatched among any mortals, but you're fired because you don't use an IDE, and nothing else matters."
Wouldn't that answer depend on the language? For instance if one is programming assembly for pic processors, an IDE won't make much of a difference. If one is programming COBOL for a mainframe banking application, likewise an IDE won't make much of a difference. If one is using one of the .Net languages or Java or C++, then an IDE will probably make a difference, but it would really depend on what part of the project the individual was working on before even that determination could be made.
You are making assumptions that were not presented. Nowhere, in any of the posts was it said the developer in question was arrogant. All that was stated was that he was fired for refusing to use an IDE, no more, no less. You shouldn't read more into things than what is actually posted. Doing so betrays your own biases.
How about just peter.pan.london? Or if you really want to get creative, peterpan.statue.london.
There are more than one Peter Pan statues in London.
I never said any such thing. Although, right now I am doing assembly on a a custom chip. Do you have an IDE for me, I'd love for you to increase my productivity. Of course, there is only 256K ram available.
There is nothing wrong with IDEs, however, they are simply a tool, no more and no less.
Look at it this way: if a project needed a simple Java package name changed, and a developer said "Ok, I'll have that done by tomorrow", would you keep them on board knowing that using the right tool for the job would have taken 3 seconds?
It depends, is the person a valuable member of the team or somebody I'm looking for an excuse to let go? Chances are, if the developer is be let go because they refuse to use an IDE, there is more going on. Why didn't that preference turn up during the interview process? Unless, maybe this is an older long term employee and a newer, younger manager..... But, no, it probably is just because the manager knows best and knows that everybody programs better with and IDE.
My friend fired a developer for refusing to use an IDE.
I'm sorry, but no developer can ever be as productive using text editors over IDEs, once they man up and learn how to use them. For instance, renaming a class method that is called by numerous other classes is a 3 second operation in Eclipse, and possibly hours long in bash, with a much higher chance of breaking something. In fact, most refactoring operations cannot be done efficiently outside of an IDE.
I would have fired your friend. Was the developer coding below expectations? Was the developer's code inferior in a way that an IDE would improve? Was the developer productivity a problem? If the answer to any of those questions is "No," then what difference does it make what tool he/she uses. IDEs are good for some things and lousy for others. Refactoring is something they are good for, but at the same time, if it is taking 3 seconds to do in Eclipse and hours in bash, then something else is wrong, regardless, that example assumes one is going to be refactoring on a regular basis. If that is the case, then the IDE is making up for other programmer inefficiencies.
If you have a productive developer, who cares what editor/IDE they are using? The job of a manager is to remove the obstacles that keep employees from being productive, not making them jump through hoops.
Name any location with three words, I can do it with two numbers: Latitude and Longitude. So for the Peter Pan stature in Kensington Gardens, it is lat/lng:55.9494,-3.2000. The other advantage of using lat/lng is that if you aren't quite there, you know what direction you need to go, whereas if you are at hippo.jumbo.pimple and are trying to get to union.prop.enjoy, which way would you go?
Sometimes newer isn't better.
Looks like they just copied the VLC link by accident. There was only one link there(besides its probably a virus and not a real VLC copy anyways). Yawn.
Doesn't matter if it was by accident or not. They are effectively stating that all links listed in their requests are violating their copyrights and taking legal action through the DMCA. Maybe it was a mistake, but before bringing legal action, which is what the takedown notice is, they should have verified the infringement. The assumption under US law is innocent until proven guilty. HBO had the burden of proof and they failed to exercise due diligence. What if they had grab some the legitimate site of some business by mistake?
The take down request was bogus and HBO should be fined for their bogus request. Whether it was a mistake or not, does not factor into the equation. Maybe next time they will actually check that the content does infringe their copyrights.
Ironic you chose those wordsthe First Lady was, "for the first time in her life", "proud to be an American." I think we the people need to speak our minds and let The Man know we don't want to give up our rights as Americans. Doesn't this mean the terrorists are winning if their actions cause our government to infringe on our rights?
Except that the infringement of rights was occuring even before 9/11. Using terrorist and national security as the reason are only ploys to keep the public at bay. So, technically, the terrorists aren't winning, because all the surveilance and infringement doesn't have anything to really do with them. They were just a means to an end by those in power.
Hand pump out enough gasoline to start a generator, and use it to power the pumps for dispensing?
I'll play. And where do you get the generator from? I'm pretty sure if it were as simple as hand pumping or using a generator to get gas from the storage tanks, then when there are natural disasters, people would do exactly that. However that is not the case.
You are correct, thank you.
That really should have read no gasoline, heating or cooling... instead of no gasoline heating or cooling. The heating and cooling was referencing climate control depending on what time of year this hit (or hemisphere).
Still, while it would be possible to use a generator to power the gas pumps, you won't be able to run down to the local Home Depot and pick one up and just wire it in. For one, they just don't stock that many. And secondly, it is unlikely that they would have one large enough for a gas station to use to run it's pumps. Then there is the whole business of how the gas distributor is going to fill the trucks to get the gas to the station in the first place.
Put differently, look how disruptive a major storm can be and that is usually over a limited geographic area so that the rest of the country can marshal resources and send help. Now expand that to an entire continent or the planet.
Meh, US society would be a hell of a lot better off if we did absolutely nothing to mitigate terrorist attacks than as things stand now. Sadly, "give me liberty or give me death" has largely been replaced by "keep me safe at all costs" in popular sentiment.
That's besides the point. But as Benjamin Franklin said: "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
There are many reasons power can be out for quite a while; weather, earthquake, equipment failure, etc. The point is that short term, less than a few days, without power should be able to be handled by individuals. If a catastrophe is going to happen if the power goes out for a few days there is a much bigger issue than space weather.
PS. I see this as another misuse of a word to sensationalize a story. Space weather may cause local problems but not catastrophes.
Yes there are, but with the exception of equipment failure when sever weather or earthquake occur, don't we call those natural disasters? Maybe disasters and catastrophes are two different things? From the article, though, they aren't talking about power being off for a few hours in a small area, but the power grids being destroyed world wide and taking a year or more to rebuild them. Satellites would be destroyed, so most communications would be out, even if power were restored. It might not be a catastrophe like the people in Pompei experienced, but for modern societies, they would have real problems.
Look at that cruise ship that was without power for a few days, now imagine that scenario across the entire country. No electricity also means no water, no gas (both natural and gasoline), no oil, no manufacturing no retail no nothing. Sure there are emergency generators but they aren't meant to last for a year and when their fuel runs out where will they get more from? The local gas station doesn't have a generator to pump the gas out of the ground.
The article is not crying out "Prepare for the end of the world!" No, all it is saying is that steps should be taken to harden the power grid and essential systems so that if an event occurs, power can quickly be restored.
It isn't uncommon to lose power for about a week with storms in this area. We loose power for about 9 hours probably once a year or so and for a week about once every 10 years. We all manage to survive. You can't stop the storms, so you deal with it. I don't see these solar storms as any worse and they are MUCH less frequent.
You are talking about a small geographic area, they are talking planet wide and actually for an entire year.
I always hear about solar flares/storms etc. and the damage they can/will cause, but I have never once been affected by them. Seems like much ado about nothing.
You've probably hear alot but never been directly affected by terrorist attacts either. Doesn't mean that the risk isn't real and that society shouldn't prepare for it just incase.
9 hours no electricity? what a catastrophe. I've done that for 9, 18, 24 or so hours, it was called camping
Depends. If your oxygen concentrator doesn't run for 9 hours or you can't keep your insulin cold for 9 hours, yeah it could be a catastrophe. If you have lederly parents to care for or young children, yes it could be a problem. But if you are just thinking of no light bulbs or tv, yeah, then it probably isn't a big deal. OTOH, no subways, elevators, mass transit, gasoline heating or cooling (depending on the time of the year and your location), no emergency response or telephones to even contact them. Would that be a catastrophe? For some it could very well be.