Microsoft cannot afford to lose browser dominance before Longhorn happens. If they do, web applications will start to replace Windows applications and microsoft will not be able to do anything about it. MS needs rich clients or at least obfuscated "standards" or their monopoly is useless.
I mean, apply everywhere. Any job you think you might possibly be able to do. If you get one nibble for every hundred resumes -- well, these days, in the post-.bomb world, that's not bad. Now, in many companies, your resume will just get thrown out because you don't match some HR monkey's checklist
I disagree completely. You need to find a few companies that you're interested in, find more than one contact to the person that's hiring (even if it's through another employee at the company), and figure out how you can help the company.
You should never apply for more jobs than you can keep straight, the whole idea is to send a cover letter that creates interest, a resume if they want details and then to gently push, push, push. You want to surround the person that's hiring, everywhere s/he turns is your name. You need to find an idea/project/desire that the company/department is working on/starting/or thinking about and explain how you could help.
This is how one get's a job. Sending out resume's from Monster is a waste of your time and is the reason that HR monkeys with checklists exist.
If you think the Wachowski brothers "borrowed" the plot and philosophy from GITS, watch Dark City. It's essentially the same plot as the first matrix (that is, the one with a plot) and the scenery of Dark City indubitably influenced The Matrix.
If you read the article, you'd see that they're talking more about encouraging their army of PhD's to publish their research than open-sourcing whatever proprietary code they have.
I'll burn karma for this but... Windows XP is not bloated compared to your average Linux distribution. The amount of extra programs and utilities you get when you do a default install in say debian or red hat tops that of XP. Sure, you can choose not to install any of them but the same rings true for XP.
I agree that many, even most, linux distributions comes with a ton of extra programs and utilities . In fact, I'd guess that "user-friendly" linux distro's come with more programs that Windows; however, Windows is more bloated because it's extra programs and utils slow it down to a freakin crawl.
My (largely) computer-illerate wife boots only into Xandros on her newer pc, because XP is so slow.
I read this article in the paper version of Wired and had a few problems with it. Although Wired is a fun source of tech "news", the amount of speculation and flat-out imagination abounds.
Moore's first law is a two-edged sword - more transistors for the same price is great for computers, but it's hell on batteries: As the processor power doubles, the power consumption also rises.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but:
Malone, the author, is exaggerating by implying that the size of a transistor is remainaining constant while the number of transistors doubles. As I understand it, the smaller the processor, the less power it requires. Is this right?
Sure the chip industry needs to work on energy usage (perhaps through either fuel-cell batteries for lap-tops). Also, Malone is merely following the wagon with Intel's recent processor naming change. They've already figured out, that cycles are losing their prior applicability.
Hey ST,
The little advice I can offer merely backs up the two prior good posts. Find a community and a web programmer in that community willing to help you.
Out of personal interest, what type of a community is it? (I'm a web programmer.)
A lot of programmers who engage in craft programming are just messing around. As craft programming was defined in this discussion, I agree with you. What company wants a product that depends upon a new/shiny widget which, by definition, no one knows very well and hasn't been in production before?
However, imho this is not the sole definition of craft programming. When I write a short recursive function or a sweet efficient data structure I consider myself to be crafting code. I'll spend time and thought on the code, because I'm excited about it. This is craft programming.
We're confusing craft programming with new shiny stuff because new shiny stuff is exciting and programs are only crafted when their author is excited. Craft programming will happen as long as the programmer is 1) excited by and 2) proud of his/her work.
6a. Drink lots of fluids. This forces you to make bathroom breaks, which causes you to not look at your computer screen for a few minutes, and to focus on things that are further away. Caffeine or alcohol can help speed up the urgency for bathroom breaks, but I find I'm more productive with caffeine in me, as opposed to alcohol.
And of course, sugared sodas and alcohol also include extra calories, so you'll have to adjust your diet to compensate for the extra intake. Yes, water works, but I'm not just all that big on drinking water. And there have been studies that show links from nutrasweet and short term memory loss.
I drink a lot of water and do the bathroom break thing, but my five-minute vacations are cigarette breaks. Almost one every 90 minutes.
I can't find the story now, but a month ago or so, I read that Apple is barely meeting cost with the $99 cent download. They're trying to make it up with $300 iPods.
This is on Slashdot because Google is cool, even though Google's accelerating proliferation of software/services is challenging their motto ('Don't be evil').
Admittedly, we'd all like to see some duplication of the Window's toolbar for Gnome and the IE taskbar for Opera, but google is still a street creditable company with cool projects.
Programmers are more productive in Visual Studio than coding in vi/emacs/...
The difference between vb and perl/shell-scripting and VC++ and non-graphical C++ is an attitude towards programming. An MS programmer is less informed, even about his/her own program. When something goes wrong and MS programmer doesn't know how to fix it, possibly because its the fault of closed code.
Because the programmer is less informed, s/he has to stumble through coding. One cannot write a vb program and expect it to work, it must be ran countless times (moreso than a perl or bash, etc script) because the programmer does not and can not really know the language. (And they charge for documentation.)
Microsoft simply has better marketing than many Linux companies, which is why they will continue to dominate the industry, unless Linux kicks up its advertising campaign and targets the big guys.
Ummm, the interesting thing about this is that IBM is running those high-priced, celebrity linux commercials. Microsoft released a 'free white paper'. It seems to me that MS isn't spending that much money.
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Microsoft cannot afford to lose browser dominance before Longhorn happens. If they do, web applications will start to replace Windows applications and microsoft will not be able to do anything about it. MS needs rich clients or at least obfuscated "standards" or their monopoly is useless.
Now, in many companies, your resume will just get thrown out because you don't match some HR monkey's checklist
I disagree completely. You need to find a few companies that you're interested in, find more than one contact to the person that's hiring (even if it's through another employee at the company), and figure out how you can help the company.
You should never apply for more jobs than you can keep straight, the whole idea is to send a cover letter that creates interest, a resume if they want details and then to gently push, push, push. You want to surround the person that's hiring, everywhere s/he turns is your name. You need to find an idea/project/desire that the company/department is working on/starting/or thinking about and explain how you could help.
This is how one get's a job. Sending out resume's from Monster is a waste of your time and is the reason that HR monkeys with checklists exist.
If you think the Wachowski brothers "borrowed" the plot and philosophy from GITS, watch Dark City. It's essentially the same plot as the first matrix (that is, the one with a plot) and the scenery of Dark City indubitably influenced The Matrix.
If you read the article, you'd see that they're talking more about encouraging their army of PhD's to publish their research than open-sourcing whatever proprietary code they have.
I agree that many, even most, linux distributions comes with a ton of extra programs and utilities . In fact, I'd guess that "user-friendly" linux distro's come with more programs that Windows; however, Windows is more bloated because it's extra programs and utils slow it down to a freakin crawl.
My (largely) computer-illerate wife boots only into Xandros on her newer pc, because XP is so slow.
Add Xandros to the Easy list, my tech-illiterate wife and young children have been successfully using it for a while now.
Moore's first law is a two-edged sword - more transistors for the same price is great for computers, but it's hell on batteries: As the processor power doubles, the power consumption also rises.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but: Malone, the author, is exaggerating by implying that the size of a transistor is remainaining constant while the number of transistors doubles. As I understand it, the smaller the processor, the less power it requires. Is this right?
Sure the chip industry needs to work on energy usage (perhaps through either fuel-cell batteries for lap-tops). Also, Malone is merely following the wagon with Intel's recent processor naming change. They've already figured out, that cycles are losing their prior applicability.
The little advice I can offer merely backs up the two prior good posts. Find a community and a web programmer in that community willing to help you.
Out of personal interest, what type of a community is it? (I'm a web programmer.)
However, imho this is not the sole definition of craft programming. When I write a short recursive function or a sweet efficient data structure I consider myself to be crafting code. I'll spend time and thought on the code, because I'm excited about it. This is craft programming.
We're confusing craft programming with new shiny stuff because new shiny stuff is exciting and programs are only crafted when their author is excited. Craft programming will happen as long as the programmer is 1) excited by and 2) proud of his/her work.
So whatd'ya think?
Sean,
What kind of a developer are you looking for?
And of course, sugared sodas and alcohol also include extra calories, so you'll have to adjust your diet to compensate for the extra intake. Yes, water works, but I'm not just all that big on drinking water. And there have been studies that show links from nutrasweet and short term memory loss.
I drink a lot of water and do the bathroom break thing, but my five-minute vacations are cigarette breaks. Almost one every 90 minutes.
I can't find the story now, but a month ago or so, I read that Apple is barely meeting cost with the $99 cent download. They're trying to make it up with $300 iPods.
Admittedly, we'd all like to see some duplication of the Window's toolbar for Gnome and the IE taskbar for Opera, but google is still a street creditable company with cool projects.
Are there any slashdotters that plan on/are selling short SCO stock? I'm not sure that I'm that confident.
Programmers are more productive in Visual Studio than coding in vi/emacs/...
The difference between vb and perl/shell-scripting and VC++ and non-graphical C++ is an attitude towards programming. An MS programmer is less informed, even about his/her own program. When something goes wrong and MS programmer doesn't know how to fix it, possibly because its the fault of closed code.
Because the programmer is less informed, s/he has to stumble through coding. One cannot write a vb program and expect it to work, it must be ran countless times (moreso than a perl or bash, etc script) because the programmer does not and can not really know the language. (And they charge for documentation.)
Microsoft simply has better marketing than many Linux companies, which is why they will continue to dominate the industry, unless Linux kicks up its advertising campaign and targets the big guys. Ummm, the interesting thing about this is that IBM is running those high-priced, celebrity linux commercials. Microsoft released a 'free white paper'. It seems to me that MS isn't spending that much money.