The Xserve tech specs pdf, pointed out by MacRumors indicates that the 90nm G5 has arrived (okay, will arrive in 6-8 weeks).
I am dismayed that Steve did not take the needs of obsessive geeks like myself into account when he chose to skip of the 90nm tidbit and the XGrid beta in today's keynote.
Hopefully there are even more omissions that will be uncovered in the next few days of MacWorld.
I am shocked to discover how many truly brilliant programmers there are posting today. I had not idea that it was so easy to write a homegrown framework. It sounds like there are many people who can, at the beginning of a project (with a perfect idea of the requirements and need for future application growth), in a night or a week, code up a high performance bug free foundation upon which they can base their project! Their team members (do such genius programmers even need to work with other people?) must be so happy to have people like this around.
I guess I should give up programming now since I apparently have to compete with such amazing skills. I am still stuck dealing with unrealistic deadlines, shifting requirements, existing systems, temmates with different skill sets, etc.
Maybe if I go back to school, or meditate to find my inner programmer I can learn to right beautiful code which scales well and also extends nicely without the pesky problems of new bugs, regression bugs, the need to refactor, extend, etc. on my first try.
Until then I guess I will just struggle along trying to learn from the experience of others, reuse solutions which are known by a large number of people and are recognized by employers and perrs. For us mere mortals it would seem these frameworks are a necessary evil.
-E
p.s. When are the afore mentioned geniuses going to extoll the virtues of writing your own operating system, text editors and media players? It must be really nice to not have to deal with the complexities and unexpected behaviors of such complicated systems when you can just roll your own! In fact, why should we even bother with web browsers and servers when we can just go the pure path with custom client applications and servers for every conveyor of data on the internet?
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The Xserve tech specs pdf, pointed out by MacRumors indicates that the 90nm G5 has arrived (okay, will arrive in 6-8 weeks).
I am dismayed that Steve did not take the needs of obsessive geeks like myself into account when he chose to skip of the 90nm tidbit and the XGrid beta in today's keynote.
Hopefully there are even more omissions that will be uncovered in the next few days of MacWorld.
I guess I should give up programming now since I apparently have to compete with such amazing skills. I am still stuck dealing with unrealistic deadlines, shifting requirements, existing systems, temmates with different skill sets, etc.
Maybe if I go back to school, or meditate to find my inner programmer I can learn to right beautiful code which scales well and also extends nicely without the pesky problems of new bugs, regression bugs, the need to refactor, extend, etc. on my first try.
Until then I guess I will just struggle along trying to learn from the experience of others, reuse solutions which are known by a large number of people and are recognized by employers and perrs. For us mere mortals it would seem these frameworks are a necessary evil.
-E
p.s. When are the afore mentioned geniuses going to extoll the virtues of writing your own operating system, text editors and media players? It must be really nice to not have to deal with the complexities and unexpected behaviors of such complicated systems when you can just roll your own! In fact, why should we even bother with web browsers and servers when we can just go the pure path with custom client applications and servers for every conveyor of data on the internet?