If I ever see you or anyone else texting while driving, I'll pull your from your car and beat the living shit out of you. You do NOT endanger me or anyone else because you just couldn't wait to twitter some bullshit.
"OMG LOL, this pissed of puertorican is flashing his lights behind me."
"OH GOD NO HE IS GETTING OUT HIS CAR LOL what to do."
"GPS coordinates are x:y. Please, need medic."
All jokes aside, your attitude in traffic is more endangering and agressive. I've seen enough people cutting of others to "show them a lesson", or to retaliate on a mistake they made in traffic or something they weren't aware about. It generates more agression, risktaking and by extension endangers more because you want to pick out 1 person that you feel at that moment is "out of line"?
Furthermore, you'd rather physically harm someone because he "could potentially have harmed you" or "brougth you into danger"? That's a double standard...
If people were more tolerant in traffic, less accidents would result of it. Sign someone you see texting or flash shortly with your lights (not agressively) to draw focus helps more then dragging someone out of their vehicle without even being aware whats going on or yelling at someone, it'll bring others in danger and you'd be doing what you are trying to avoid, right? Driving "defensively" (noticing the guy is texting or distracted and taking into account he'll react different and more slowly you can take that into account and change your behavior to avoid accidents instead of causing at least one on his face.) It doesn't make texting while driving "ok", but it helps reduce risk, we're with millions on the same roads every day, we have to look for eachother and kindof look out for those retards who can't think for themselves or see the "bigger picture", like we do for people who can't in other aspects of their lives.
instead of holding the phone up by your face where you can see the road you have to hold it down in your lap.
Why not? I hold my Android phone in my right hand often to switch my music, which is connected to my aux-port in my car. (there's no bluetooth in my company car, but I do love the 9.5mm aux port. A bluetooth headset while the Android is plugged into the aux-port works as well for controls on my headset resting around my neck but it's kindof a silly setup.)
If those alarms would fire if I were to switch my tunes (just slide over the screen for the "next random song") I'd be bound to CDs and wont be able to listen my podcasts.
car: "Put the phone down.." "Just two seconds.. must.. find.." car: "If you don't put the phone down I'll turn around" ".. good song.. next.. next.." car: "You've been warned.." "Oh no! Toyota-bug!!"
Depending on my mood alone, I have a different typing style. At work I have a different chair which forces a more upright posture, which changes my typing.. also the type of thing I would be typing: if I'm inspired my typing is very fast and in a continious stream, in a chat it's often less quick.
I doubt there is anyone who has a continious typing habit. It's just a curiosity and technical exercise, the "pedo"-tag helps them justify their work
No, the term "man cave" is used by idiotic jock-wannabes.
The concept has been introduced in the 90s in the "new man" pseudo-psychology thinking of/for women. The "mancave"-state of mind is described in "Men are from Mars, Women from Venus", where they describe men need some off-time staring in the fire to wind down, while women need to verbalize and socialize to achieve the same thing.
Hence resulting in conflict as the "man" wants to chil lout, watch a game, do man-stuff to process his day or forget about it, while the wife is verbalizing hoping for an emotional response, while the man is just "mhhmmhhh"-ing resuling in a perceived neglect on the wifes' side.
Though, this representation of "man" vs "woman" with their mismatching doesn't compliment my worldview as I find it very single-sided (one author feeding the masses what they think they want to hear taking it as truth) and a bit flawed kindof perception. (projection from within himself outwards to the world, which reeks a bit of sense of superiourity and inflexibility in one's ability to rationalize and come to new insights: "my experience and way I'm navigating life can be extrapolated to absolute truth to apply to most or even all man and with my absolute knowledge I can guide people to be more as I".
but real working life doesn't run to that timetable
Why is this an issue in a global connected world, with different timezones and artificial light? The tendency of "Millenials" would be that they accept more flexibility in work, yet fit it into their lifestyle and are allowed to shift their hours around. (teleworking, catching up hours after 5, some even come in at 7 to be able to leave at 3)...
I walk in at work between 10 and 11am. My clients know that if they book me earlier I'll show up, but am useless all day. It's something I wished wasn't so, but simply "sleeping earlier" just throws me off balance or I'm laying awake in bed.
My schooltime was hell because of this; I dragged myself through classes but was more trying to stay awake as being able to pay attention... Just one hour more in bed would've been a world of difference to me and I would not have the perception of suffering through it and fighting each morning with myself to get up and through the day to stay awake.
For some reason, my biorithm is delayed compared to the "general population"; I get productive and creative in the afternoon and have it peak around midnight to wind down and end up going to sleep around 3-4am. Before noon, I'm waking up and useless, it's when I generally follow up on email but don't get anything significant done.
So again, I cope well, I get my work done and get praised. You can't be creative or brilliant in just a certain timeslice, it's about getting your work done. Nobody cares when; you have to wait for Singapore to wake up to start working to get your issues resolved, the US to wake up to go through your communication and get a reply... I have my 8 hours a day (and more) I'm comitted to my clients, but never 9-5.
The funny thing is, while traveling to the USA, I've recognized bottles that Retail here for ~$35 (9 dollars), with tags of 250 dollars
When I was in Chicago, in a pretty decent restaurant, we were served a 70-80usd wine. To me it tasted like the 5usd wines we get in supermarkets, it was a horrid dissapointment.
As a Belgian we are sortof central in Europe and have access to a wide palette of wines. I'm not a wine-fanatic nor claim in-depth wine knowledge, but I do taste a difference and appreciate one wine more as the other. I've tasted from the lower to the upper section and indeed, one wine isn't the other and generally (not always) the higher in price the more rich and complex the wine gets in taste which are high in demand but have are more limited as the mass produced wines. Yet you can get a 5-10$ Riesling which might be closer to your personal taste (it's very sweet, yet each year you have another wine, depending on harvarst and the weather) or want a more spicy wine with alot of depth.
Usually, people who taste wine and do the "wine weekends" on vinyards just enjoy the wines, and when they find some that they really enjoy (no two wines should taste the same) they stock up a dosen of them to share the experience or be able to relive the experience on occasion. The (un-)availability bumps up the price usually, but you have good wines that atste very good in a pretty medium price range.
They do not do it for the price-tag persé or virtual-dick display. But I get the sense this attitude isn't shared where there isn't such a variety of wines, even though the US seems to be producing more and more wine, the variety or the imports are not the same or in a simular price category if you'd roam around in Europe.
imho you drink wine because you like it and appreciate the experience, which is usually unique. Not to "look advanced", or try to fake to be "a connaisseur" nor to impress anybody.
Rush jobs typically exhibit signs of low quality and lack of attention to detail.
And also attention and preserverence..
For a PBX project I had a friend speak about 40-50 phrases. The pace went really good to start with, but slowed down to the end and quality went down signigicantly where I had to really motivate her to keep on going. Even though the first 10 sentences she wanted to "perfect" them with nuances and redo them, I urged her to just get as much done and have it reviewed after, which proved the best tactic as she progressively got more worn out and moved to an attitude of "I want to get this over with, this is very tiring", as she got progressively more drained.
He'll end up planning server installation within the hour; "real geeks can setup a server in 1.2 minutes", he'll mock you.
"But, they already chosen the different components, invested time comparing and haven't installed software on it, they're just clicking the parts together", will end up in deafmans' ears.
Soon enough, they'll call you a slacker because you took 3 days to get that server-rig running with redundancy system to be able to support your SLA-contracts.
It might last, but it wont take long before people find other ways to do the things they want to do. it's always been like this. All it takes is enough people adjusting to it, it spreading and becoming more convenient until it raises brows enough to slap it down.
I've been teaching my 7 year old how to program, and they think it is a really cool thing to do
I can imagine that, then they're still very eager to learn and i'd imagine it's more sortof a puzzle, while they integrate the concepts (also mathematical, I find programs to be downwards compatible with mathematics, but not a requirement to grasp the programming concepts) and learn how to deal with correctness (the compiler doesn't forgive)
It sounds like a large added value for these children, but only when they have the inclination themselves and enjoy the entire interaction (very likely with you as guidance, in a "playtime" setting while they get creative with it.)
Stimulation is really good, sometimes I wished my parents were more stimulating as I was left to find it myself (a screwdriver and librarycard saved my childhood and teen days:)
I was always told my "generation of programmers" would be the last who will be articulate in both procedural and OOP programming and will most of the time or migrate the one to the other, be the last to maintain procedural languages while the next generations will only be schooled to understand OOP-concepts.
That was the period.NET 1.1 was being a horrible pain, and.NET 2.0 was the new promised land after Java (they've took the main concepts, and sortof sweeped the horrible things under the carpet in a VB-like fashion).
I must say, I've often been the "new guy who refactors the messy monster code nobody is wanting to come near" and haven't seen much full OOP-implemented architectures, mostly an improvisation of a mix of technologies...
I'm guessing the next generation will be schooled directly in C# as you say... As it teaches OOP-concepts, doesn't have the "transitional and historical workaround", and helps you protect yourself against making too big fuckups.
I wrote my first Basic program in 1983, when I was 7, on a ZX Spectrum. By 13 I was writing in assembler
I really wonder what your demography was, and the profession of your father/mother...
For me personally, I cannot envision myself programming at 7. Around that time there was just the commondore 64 around in very specific households; I used to go play space invaders on the commondore of my friend, but we never got further as typing in the commandline to start something up (and go play outside while we waited it to boot up) and his parents and brother being very protective about the PC and the PC-time allowed. So there was no programming for me at all around that age, other then gaining a great interest playing alot of nintendo, tiger games, or even 70s "television" games.
Up until my 14th I just screwed open my electronic toys trying to understand it, to the hating of my parents because I'd just drive it for a while until bored and get out the screwdrivers. I kept on doing that until I hit puberty and tried to screw other things, unsuccessfully mostly. Around that age the internet started to integrate in my life, but I was with the first few percentage of people even aware of the internet. This is where my programming-story started: before I already wrote retarted batch-files but with the internet I moved up to mIRC programming bots (printing out the full manual and reading over it day and night, those were the days) to help with fileserving, got into FTP-concepts to circumvent the ISP "port blocking" and eventually went to JavaScript because the animated gifs were sortof retarted but I had problems getting the gist of Turbo C. After understanding the concept of JavaScript, becoming pretty decent at it (and webconcepts with it) I was forced to look into PHP and databases. Once I got bored with that, I wanted to do "real things", and picked up C++ in which I've ended up doing socket and LPT programming. After that, picking up new languages and getting things done has become simpler and simpler.
But it's hard for me to imagine programming at the age of 7 (other then a VCR or something), I really didn't have the information or environment until I had a internet hookup. And that concept only came into my home with my brother starting IT at uni (which he gave up pretty soon for consultancy and certifications.)
Facebook has peak activity during working hours, where people try to multitask and "network".
For me it's often a relief in between stuck moments to help to put my thoughts for a minute off the task that's blocking or I'm not progressing in to come back "reset", while keeping current with my network (most of my "facebook friends" are professional relations)
At night, I end up reading and studying, sometimes until 3am. Nothing specific, just following curiousity: facebook is dead around that time, my friends in the US and Canada start to get active around those hours but by then I'm not too interested in socializing, I rather withdraw at night and recharge after a day of being social in the workenvironment and performing as a consultant.
My insomnia has given me an extra edge though, while it takes a while for me to get kickstarted (only around midday I start to get productive, before that it's following up, answering emails, meetings, drinking lots of coffee and waking and define my priorities for the day..) but my productivity goes way up in the afternoon until about 19:00. After which I sport until 22:00, have dinner and study until 3-4am. Usually, I'm working on seperate projects, giving me about 5-6 extra hours in the evening/night while others "rest in front of their tv", "raise their kids", "please the wife" or sleep and catch up in the weekend (I usually go out partying on fridaynight until saturday morning and catch up sleep the rest of the weekend while I prepare for the week to come.) In all honesty though, I only can put out that amount of working (extra projects) for 3 months straight after I crash and need a while to recuperate, so I try to keep it in less extremes yet I do get at least an additional 5 hours out of my day.
I like classical music, if this was done in MY country, I'd make it my mission to destroy any and all of these classical music blaring speakers.
I agree. It took me also a bit of maturing to enjoy classical music, the complexity in it and what it moves in a person. To me it's really like human excellence...
Making it into a "weapon", creating a generation of yought seeing it as a weapon, load it with alot of negative association, it'll destroy your classical appreciation, or value attributed to it, in your next generation and hence you'll eventually whipe out the record of it, don't you think?
There's alot of art, history and knowledge lost in history because of lack of appreciation or value attributed to it.
Liters which translates, for water, to roughly the same to kg.
According to Wiki, an olympic pool as a minimum volume of 2,500 m3 (88,000 cu ft) or
2,500,000 L (550,000 imp gal; 660,000 US gal) which would be filled with 2500 tons of water.
hence, you could fill up 2400 olympic pools (6 000 000 / 2500 ).
If you take into account the atmospheric pressure, weight of ice and perfect ratio between the water - kilos conversion that number might variate a bit.
If you have only webdevs you tend towards the sort of security mess we are seeing here. If you have only programmers you end up with a site that is butt ugly and useless from a user interface perspective.
This is a very valid point, yet "programmer" and "webdev" is often seen as very closely related with a blurry line; in my experience a "webdev" is a programmer who's proficient with webtechnologies, but usually has a blind spot for design. (or the inability to be visually creative and create pretty interfaces, but might be brilliant with logical creativy and finding solutions). The agencies I've worked for had the design part done by "designers" who drew a few designs, shook hands on one and had a "webdev" implement it. They never touched the websites, just sliced up images when they were done.
Maybe my strong reaction was rather based on the difference of concept we have from "webdev" and "programmer", for me they're very closely related wheras you seem to see the "webdev" as a designer with a course of HTML or something alike:)
They don't understand any of the implications of what they are doing and only know how to take results from a database and display it in a nice looking web page.
Well, there are many like that, and in essence that's webdevelopment, right?
Consider an application where you can control the logical flow, you need to know your basic language and your GUI's behave the way you expect. Done.
Now, for being a webdeveloper you need to know HTML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, MS SQL,.NET (preferably working knowledge of 3.5 and playing around with WCF/WPF), AJAX-concepts and implementation, various toolkits and libraries in place, XML, XSLT, JSON, WebServices, COM+ interaction, and need strong afinity around security concepts and be aware of injection methods, sniffing, current state of hashing algorithms, make sense of server technology and scaling (if your server is in fumes, you need to kickstart it) so that extends to IIS, Apache. If you're going more the el cheapo/opensource approach, it's mostly a box running Apache, MySQL and PHP (for which you need to subtle differences through different releases) often Mediawiki too, so you'll need to find your way around a Linux station and often are deploying and setting up such a box ad hoc as well... It adds up quite fast if you've consulted a bit and in each environment encounter different setups, architectures and approaches.
"Web development" has gotten pretty involving to get the pretty display, for which there isn't really a good methodology anymore as the web has evolved in such a way the "hypertext markup" combined with "style sheets" sortof feels dated. (that's why you have XAML, Flash, Flex,.. trying to solve the problem adding to complexity).
I do agree; webdev is pulling data and storing data while showing it in a pretty way, modify the page based on that and have a fluid user experience. However, those lasts are pretty difficult if there's a clear idea about the result and you need to depend on external parties (IE bugs, FF bugs, toolkits bugs, API frameworks with bugs,...) to get your thing done.
I think webdevs are the gluers between all these frameworks and layers, there's maybe not much writing logic, but trying to make sense of the mess and compiling and stringing very specific technologies (legacy or hyped new) together in order to have a functional and pleasing result.
It's odd to me that there's a general looking down on webdevelopers, not just from non-techies, but also from techies whoe feel their work is "so much more significant" because "they have to think more and aren't a code monkey", yet wouldn't survive in an unstructured choatic environment where you have to think on your feet and act quick when things fall out and can't have flow in a straight line (say "I'll write function x and y today, and nobody will bother me all day while I do so") but are constantly interrupted or required to take some action, asap and efficient, while you're juggling a dosen projects, maintaining another handful and are trying to please clients. Plus ofcourse, get new projects worked out, writing analyses and following up/leading communication of 3rd parties in order "to hook up that webservice the client wanted to implement" and god knows what.
But yes, it's just displaying stuff on a page, right? I can show you complex systems (webbased stockmarket software fe.) which makes your head spin and cry in desperation (I've seen some break up and give up on the legacy mess), yet it's all "just showing data in pretty boxes" and "pulling it from a datasource" (stock market floor) and "saving it" (processing orders with business rules and automating processing of orders all within legal limitations) all to meticious specification of the clients, all with their own perculior wishes?
"But they are the lazy programmers and we don't know what the hell they are doing, but they have no concept of the implications of their work, sir.". Put
developer convenience trumps common sense everytime
You're clearly not writing software for a living...
There are a few things more important than security: time to delivery and budget.
Colour this with unrealistic expecations and you get situations like these:
"What's your estimate?"
*honest assessment*
"Ok, so if you work harder, you can do it in less time right? (all programmers are soo lazy.. I read that somewhere)"
"Well, it depends on what I encounter while bringing this analysis into reality..."
"Just make it work so we have something to show for by date xx-xx-xxxx" ^
Even in large coorperations with large budgets, the smaller one's usually are more idealistic but are on a tight budget.
Because alot of developers are struggling with getting the "damn thing to work", and there are so many shifts in deadlines, "security", as a seperate item, often is neglected because people are relieved they're having something "up and running".
I do agree though, that initial design and architecture should be welldefined and requires extra attention with security measures and considerations built-in, whereas many developers are running around with such a sense of urgency and pressure they just want to get to "coding thing" instead of thinking first what and how they'll code it, yet it doesn't change or improve the environment and pressure which results in these things.
As for what the hell the magic is, above and beyond being a giant iPod/iPhone, I do not know.
They just ran out of creative magic and scaling magic; they make these things the size of a single room and magically shrink it to fit in the palm of your hand. These "iPads" are just the failed and misfired "monday magic" models they try to get rid off, explaining the lack of webcam and other "missing features". Someone must've thought "we need less magic for these, and you can hold them better, because they're bigger!'
"My god, you're a genius! QUICKLY! Lets get this on shelves!" was the sound of Apple losing all it's appeal and creative, innovative edge. As I see it, the only edge they had was "sexy design" for designers et al, but if they bring out years of the same cloned models, something must be completely exhausted or they're playing it conservatively safe. (again, losing their "edge")
Is it also me, or has their "elegantly efficient"-edge evolved to a "minimalistic yet not really that appealing in use"-approach?
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"OMG LOL, this pissed of puertorican is flashing his lights behind me."
"OH GOD NO HE IS GETTING OUT HIS CAR LOL what to do."
"GPS coordinates are x:y. Please, need medic."
All jokes aside, your attitude in traffic is more endangering and agressive. I've seen enough people cutting of others to "show them a lesson", or to retaliate on a mistake they made in traffic or something they weren't aware about. It generates more agression, risktaking and by extension endangers more because you want to pick out 1 person that you feel at that moment is "out of line"?
Furthermore, you'd rather physically harm someone because he "could potentially have harmed you" or "brougth you into danger"? That's a double standard...
If people were more tolerant in traffic, less accidents would result of it. Sign someone you see texting or flash shortly with your lights (not agressively) to draw focus helps more then dragging someone out of their vehicle without even being aware whats going on or yelling at someone, it'll bring others in danger and you'd be doing what you are trying to avoid, right? Driving "defensively" (noticing the guy is texting or distracted and taking into account he'll react different and more slowly you can take that into account and change your behavior to avoid accidents instead of causing at least one on his face.) It doesn't make texting while driving "ok", but it helps reduce risk, we're with millions on the same roads every day, we have to look for eachother and kindof look out for those retards who can't think for themselves or see the "bigger picture", like we do for people who can't in other aspects of their lives.
Why not? I hold my Android phone in my right hand often to switch my music, which is connected to my aux-port in my car. (there's no bluetooth in my company car, but I do love the 9.5mm aux port. A bluetooth headset while the Android is plugged into the aux-port works as well for controls on my headset resting around my neck but it's kindof a silly setup.)
If those alarms would fire if I were to switch my tunes (just slide over the screen for the "next random song") I'd be bound to CDs and wont be able to listen my podcasts.
car: "Put the phone down.."
"Just two seconds.. must.. find.."
car: "If you don't put the phone down I'll turn around"
".. good song.. next.. next.."
car: "You've been warned.."
"Oh no! Toyota-bug!!"
Depending on my mood alone, I have a different typing style. At work I have a different chair which forces a more upright posture, which changes my typing.. also the type of thing I would be typing: if I'm inspired my typing is very fast and in a continious stream, in a chat it's often less quick.
I doubt there is anyone who has a continious typing habit. It's just a curiosity and technical exercise, the "pedo"-tag helps them justify their work
The concept has been introduced in the 90s in the "new man" pseudo-psychology thinking of/for women.
The "mancave"-state of mind is described in "Men are from Mars, Women from Venus", where they describe men need some off-time staring in the fire to wind down, while women need to verbalize and socialize to achieve the same thing.
Hence resulting in conflict as the "man" wants to chil lout, watch a game, do man-stuff to process his day or forget about it, while the wife is verbalizing hoping for an emotional response, while the man is just "mhhmmhhh"-ing resuling in a perceived neglect on the wifes' side.
Though, this representation of "man" vs "woman" with their mismatching doesn't compliment my worldview as I find it very single-sided (one author feeding the masses what they think they want to hear taking it as truth) and a bit flawed kindof perception. (projection from within himself outwards to the world, which reeks a bit of sense of superiourity and inflexibility in one's ability to rationalize and come to new insights: "my experience and way I'm navigating life can be extrapolated to absolute truth to apply to most or even all man and with my absolute knowledge I can guide people to be more as I".
Why is this an issue in a global connected world, with different timezones and artificial light? The tendency of "Millenials" would be that they accept more flexibility in work, yet fit it into their lifestyle and are allowed to shift their hours around. (teleworking, catching up hours after 5, some even come in at 7 to be able to leave at 3)...
I walk in at work between 10 and 11am. My clients know that if they book me earlier I'll show up, but am useless all day. It's something I wished wasn't so, but simply "sleeping earlier" just throws me off balance or I'm laying awake in bed.
My schooltime was hell because of this; I dragged myself through classes but was more trying to stay awake as being able to pay attention... Just one hour more in bed would've been a world of difference to me and I would not have the perception of suffering through it and fighting each morning with myself to get up and through the day to stay awake.
For some reason, my biorithm is delayed compared to the "general population"; I get productive and creative in the afternoon and have it peak around midnight to wind down and end up going to sleep around 3-4am. Before noon, I'm waking up and useless, it's when I generally follow up on email but don't get anything significant done.
I do identify with the problems described as delayed sleep phase syndrome
So again, I cope well, I get my work done and get praised. You can't be creative or brilliant in just a certain timeslice, it's about getting your work done. Nobody cares when; you have to wait for Singapore to wake up to start working to get your issues resolved, the US to wake up to go through your communication and get a reply... I have my 8 hours a day (and more) I'm comitted to my clients, but never 9-5.
When I was in Chicago, in a pretty decent restaurant, we were served a 70-80usd wine. To me it tasted like the 5usd wines we get in supermarkets, it was a horrid dissapointment.
As a Belgian we are sortof central in Europe and have access to a wide palette of wines. I'm not a wine-fanatic nor claim in-depth wine knowledge, but I do taste a difference and appreciate one wine more as the other. I've tasted from the lower to the upper section and indeed, one wine isn't the other and generally (not always) the higher in price the more rich and complex the wine gets in taste which are high in demand but have are more limited as the mass produced wines. Yet you can get a 5-10$ Riesling which might be closer to your personal taste (it's very sweet, yet each year you have another wine, depending on harvarst and the weather) or want a more spicy wine with alot of depth.
Usually, people who taste wine and do the "wine weekends" on vinyards just enjoy the wines, and when they find some that they really enjoy (no two wines should taste the same) they stock up a dosen of them to share the experience or be able to relive the experience on occasion. The (un-)availability bumps up the price usually, but you have good wines that atste very good in a pretty medium price range.
They do not do it for the price-tag persé or virtual-dick display. But I get the sense this attitude isn't shared where there isn't such a variety of wines, even though the US seems to be producing more and more wine, the variety or the imports are not the same or in a simular price category if you'd roam around in Europe.
imho you drink wine because you like it and appreciate the experience, which is usually unique. Not to "look advanced", or try to fake to be "a connaisseur" nor to impress anybody.
And also attention and preserverence..
For a PBX project I had a friend speak about 40-50 phrases.
The pace went really good to start with, but slowed down to the end and quality went down signigicantly where I had to really motivate her to keep on going. Even though the first 10 sentences she wanted to "perfect" them with nuances and redo them, I urged her to just get as much done and have it reviewed after, which proved the best tactic as she progressively got more worn out and moved to an attitude of "I want to get this over with, this is very tiring", as she got progressively more drained.
There are automated services for this: suicidemachine.org
He'll end up planning server installation within the hour; "real geeks can setup a server in 1.2 minutes", he'll mock you.
"But, they already chosen the different components, invested time comparing and haven't installed software on it, they're just clicking the parts together", will end up in deafmans' ears.
Soon enough, they'll call you a slacker because you took 3 days to get that server-rig running with redundancy system to be able to support your SLA-contracts.
It might last, but it wont take long before people find other ways to do the things they want to do. it's always been like this. All it takes is enough people adjusting to it, it spreading and becoming more convenient until it raises brows enough to slap it down.
And then, the next alternative will sprout up.
... where all our money went?
I can imagine that, then they're still very eager to learn and i'd imagine it's more sortof a puzzle, while they integrate the concepts (also mathematical, I find programs to be downwards compatible with mathematics, but not a requirement to grasp the programming concepts) and learn how to deal with correctness (the compiler doesn't forgive)
It sounds like a large added value for these children, but only when they have the inclination themselves and enjoy the entire interaction (very likely with you as guidance, in a "playtime" setting while they get creative with it.)
Stimulation is really good, sometimes I wished my parents were more stimulating as I was left to find it myself (a screwdriver and librarycard saved my childhood and teen days :)
I was always told my "generation of programmers" would be the last who will be articulate in both procedural and OOP programming and will most of the time or migrate the one to the other, be the last to maintain procedural languages while the next generations will only be schooled to understand OOP-concepts.
That was the period .NET 1.1 was being a horrible pain, and .NET 2.0 was the new promised land after Java (they've took the main concepts, and sortof sweeped the horrible things under the carpet in a VB-like fashion).
I must say, I've often been the "new guy who refactors the messy monster code nobody is wanting to come near" and haven't seen much full OOP-implemented architectures, mostly an improvisation of a mix of technologies...
I'm guessing the next generation will be schooled directly in C# as you say... As it teaches OOP-concepts, doesn't have the "transitional and historical workaround", and helps you protect yourself against making too big fuckups.
I really wonder what your demography was, and the profession of your father/mother...
For me personally, I cannot envision myself programming at 7. Around that time there was just the commondore 64 around in very specific households; I used to go play space invaders on the commondore of my friend, but we never got further as typing in the commandline to start something up (and go play outside while we waited it to boot up) and his parents and brother being very protective about the PC and the PC-time allowed. So there was no programming for me at all around that age, other then gaining a great interest playing alot of nintendo, tiger games, or even 70s "television" games.
Up until my 14th I just screwed open my electronic toys trying to understand it, to the hating of my parents because I'd just drive it for a while until bored and get out the screwdrivers. I kept on doing that until I hit puberty and tried to screw other things, unsuccessfully mostly. Around that age the internet started to integrate in my life, but I was with the first few percentage of people even aware of the internet. This is where my programming-story started: before I already wrote retarted batch-files but with the internet I moved up to mIRC programming bots (printing out the full manual and reading over it day and night, those were the days) to help with fileserving, got into FTP-concepts to circumvent the ISP "port blocking" and eventually went to JavaScript because the animated gifs were sortof retarted but I had problems getting the gist of Turbo C. After understanding the concept of JavaScript, becoming pretty decent at it (and webconcepts with it) I was forced to look into PHP and databases. Once I got bored with that, I wanted to do "real things", and picked up C++ in which I've ended up doing socket and LPT programming. After that, picking up new languages and getting things done has become simpler and simpler.
But it's hard for me to imagine programming at the age of 7 (other then a VCR or something), I really didn't have the information or environment until I had a internet hookup. And that concept only came into my home with my brother starting IT at uni (which he gave up pretty soon for consultancy and certifications.)
They were proven to slow down the flow and cluster the explosive molecules around the magnet, slowing the combustion down.
(the magnet trick is snakeoil.)
Facebook has peak activity during working hours, where people try to multitask and "network". For me it's often a relief in between stuck moments to help to put my thoughts for a minute off the task that's blocking or I'm not progressing in to come back "reset", while keeping current with my network (most of my "facebook friends" are professional relations)
At night, I end up reading and studying, sometimes until 3am. Nothing specific, just following curiousity: facebook is dead around that time, my friends in the US and Canada start to get active around those hours but by then I'm not too interested in socializing, I rather withdraw at night and recharge after a day of being social in the workenvironment and performing as a consultant.
My insomnia has given me an extra edge though, while it takes a while for me to get kickstarted (only around midday I start to get productive, before that it's following up, answering emails, meetings, drinking lots of coffee and waking and define my priorities for the day..) but my productivity goes way up in the afternoon until about 19:00. After which I sport until 22:00, have dinner and study until 3-4am. Usually, I'm working on seperate projects, giving me about 5-6 extra hours in the evening/night while others "rest in front of their tv", "raise their kids", "please the wife" or sleep and catch up in the weekend (I usually go out partying on fridaynight until saturday morning and catch up sleep the rest of the weekend while I prepare for the week to come.) In all honesty though, I only can put out that amount of working (extra projects) for 3 months straight after I crash and need a while to recuperate, so I try to keep it in less extremes yet I do get at least an additional 5 hours out of my day.
That was way beyond my expectations... Brilliant!
You can ignore the spaces in code, those aren't variables...
I'm really curious to see an analysis and some code samples from you where you planned and implemented space variables...
I agree. It took me also a bit of maturing to enjoy classical music, the complexity in it and what it moves in a person. To me it's really like human excellence...
Making it into a "weapon", creating a generation of yought seeing it as a weapon, load it with alot of negative association, it'll destroy your classical appreciation, or value attributed to it, in your next generation and hence you'll eventually whipe out the record of it, don't you think?
There's alot of art, history and knowledge lost in history because of lack of appreciation or value attributed to it.
1 metron ton = 1000 kilograms
Liters which translates, for water, to roughly the same to kg.
According to Wiki, an olympic pool as a minimum volume of 2,500 m3 (88,000 cu ft) or 2,500,000 L (550,000 imp gal; 660,000 US gal) which would be filled with 2500 tons of water.
hence, you could fill up 2400 olympic pools (6 000 000 / 2500 ).
If you take into account the atmospheric pressure, weight of ice and perfect ratio between the water - kilos conversion that number might variate a bit.
This is a very valid point, yet "programmer" and "webdev" is often seen as very closely related with a blurry line; in my experience a "webdev" is a programmer who's proficient with webtechnologies, but usually has a blind spot for design. (or the inability to be visually creative and create pretty interfaces, but might be brilliant with logical creativy and finding solutions). The agencies I've worked for had the design part done by "designers" who drew a few designs, shook hands on one and had a "webdev" implement it. They never touched the websites, just sliced up images when they were done.
Maybe my strong reaction was rather based on the difference of concept we have from "webdev" and "programmer", for me they're very closely related wheras you seem to see the "webdev" as a designer with a course of HTML or something alike :)
Well, there are many like that, and in essence that's webdevelopment, right?
Consider an application where you can control the logical flow, you need to know your basic language and your GUI's behave the way you expect. Done.
Now, for being a webdeveloper you need to know HTML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, MS SQL, .NET (preferably working knowledge of 3.5 and playing around with WCF/WPF), AJAX-concepts and implementation, various toolkits and libraries in place, XML, XSLT, JSON, WebServices, COM+ interaction, and need strong afinity around security concepts and be aware of injection methods, sniffing, current state of hashing algorithms, make sense of server technology and scaling (if your server is in fumes, you need to kickstart it) so that extends to IIS, Apache. If you're going more the el cheapo/opensource approach, it's mostly a box running Apache, MySQL and PHP (for which you need to subtle differences through different releases) often Mediawiki too, so you'll need to find your way around a Linux station and often are deploying and setting up such a box ad hoc as well... It adds up quite fast if you've consulted a bit and in each environment encounter different setups, architectures and approaches.
"Web development" has gotten pretty involving to get the pretty display, for which there isn't really a good methodology anymore as the web has evolved in such a way the "hypertext markup" combined with "style sheets" sortof feels dated. (that's why you have XAML, Flash, Flex, .. trying to solve the problem adding to complexity).
I do agree; webdev is pulling data and storing data while showing it in a pretty way, modify the page based on that and have a fluid user experience. However, those lasts are pretty difficult if there's a clear idea about the result and you need to depend on external parties (IE bugs, FF bugs, toolkits bugs, API frameworks with bugs, ...) to get your thing done.
I think webdevs are the gluers between all these frameworks and layers, there's maybe not much writing logic, but trying to make sense of the mess and compiling and stringing very specific technologies (legacy or hyped new) together in order to have a functional and pleasing result.
It's odd to me that there's a general looking down on webdevelopers, not just from non-techies, but also from techies whoe feel their work is "so much more significant" because "they have to think more and aren't a code monkey", yet wouldn't survive in an unstructured choatic environment where you have to think on your feet and act quick when things fall out and can't have flow in a straight line (say "I'll write function x and y today, and nobody will bother me all day while I do so") but are constantly interrupted or required to take some action, asap and efficient, while you're juggling a dosen projects, maintaining another handful and are trying to please clients. Plus ofcourse, get new projects worked out, writing analyses and following up/leading communication of 3rd parties in order "to hook up that webservice the client wanted to implement" and god knows what.
But yes, it's just displaying stuff on a page, right? I can show you complex systems (webbased stockmarket software fe.) which makes your head spin and cry in desperation (I've seen some break up and give up on the legacy mess), yet it's all "just showing data in pretty boxes" and "pulling it from a datasource" (stock market floor) and "saving it" (processing orders with business rules and automating processing of orders all within legal limitations) all to meticious specification of the clients, all with their own perculior wishes?
"But they are the lazy programmers and we don't know what the hell they are doing, but they have no concept of the implications of their work, sir.". Put
You're clearly not writing software for a living...
There are a few things more important than security: time to delivery and budget.
Colour this with unrealistic expecations and you get situations like these:
"What's your estimate?" *honest assessment* "Ok, so if you work harder, you can do it in less time right? (all programmers are soo lazy.. I read that somewhere)"
"Well, it depends on what I encounter while bringing this analysis into reality..."
"Just make it work so we have something to show for by date xx-xx-xxxx"
^
Even in large coorperations with large budgets, the smaller one's usually are more idealistic but are on a tight budget.
Because alot of developers are struggling with getting the "damn thing to work", and there are so many shifts in deadlines, "security", as a seperate item, often is neglected because people are relieved they're having something "up and running".
I do agree though, that initial design and architecture should be welldefined and requires extra attention with security measures and considerations built-in, whereas many developers are running around with such a sense of urgency and pressure they just want to get to "coding thing" instead of thinking first what and how they'll code it, yet it doesn't change or improve the environment and pressure which results in these things.
Give the Koala's sex-education, hand out condoms and demonize gay sex, because it's for teh gays...
They just ran out of creative magic and scaling magic; they make these things the size of a single room and magically shrink it to fit in the palm of your hand. These "iPads" are just the failed and misfired "monday magic" models they try to get rid off, explaining the lack of webcam and other "missing features". Someone must've thought "we need less magic for these, and you can hold them better, because they're bigger!'
"My god, you're a genius! QUICKLY! Lets get this on shelves!" was the sound of Apple losing all it's appeal and creative, innovative edge. As I see it, the only edge they had was "sexy design" for designers et al, but if they bring out years of the same cloned models, something must be completely exhausted or they're playing it conservatively safe. (again, losing their "edge")
Is it also me, or has their "elegantly efficient"-edge evolved to a "minimalistic yet not really that appealing in use"-approach?