No, but you also don't tell your manager that for example the program has using statements in it and that that's a bad thing because it "confuse[s] the fuck out of people". When it's only confusing if you only know C++, but to C# programmers there's nothing confusing about it. Similarly with for example inner classes in Java. Just because they don't have the same access rules as they do in C++ doesn't make it "confusing" to use them in Java.
The only people who should try to read the code are those who know the language. And knowing the language includes knowing the operator precedence rules.
Being 21 years out of college, it took me 15-20 minutes to build out the basic structure of the console app for the sorting demo and shake the cobwebs off my old CS degree memories and implement it. Which seems to me about right, considering.
You're simply selecting for fresh grads and making excuses up for it later, of course. I commend you on giving younguns a chance and training them (rare nowadays). I just don't know why you need that mass of utter bullshit you wrote to help you justify it in your mind.
It's amazing how clueless some people are. "They" would be a "he", who's well known in computer tech for having created that language (not originally called "JavaScript") and its first implementation. It was written in 10 days.
I wouldn't train my replacement for 5 years pay. It's not all about me. Unfortunately my economic future is moderately tied to that of my fellow countrymen, as far as the ratio between the productive and non-productive. If an employer wants to say F U to the American worker, they can try to make it work all by their lonesomes.
There are two kinds of companies when it comes to hiring; the ones where the hiring managers have all the power, and the ones where HR has all the power.
I've never gotten past the gatekeeper kind, because I need to talk to the person with a need, to be noticed.
Yes. Windows 8 is a Windows Vista. Like Windows 7, Windows 8's successor will just be a tweaked version of its predecessor, but sheeple will insist that the predecessor was worst evar and the successor is a ginormous improvement. Expect this alternating flop/success cycle, based on absurdly exaggerated perceptions and the bandwagon effect, to continue for quite some time.
I expect there will be no relief in sight until Americans start electing politicians that put the interests of Americans first.
We no longer vote in the interests of all Americans. A majority now votes to screw over and steal from fellow Americans. It is a cultural death spiral, as more people decide to join the team that's winning, for however much longer the game can even last.
My experience is that the problem is too much govt. oversight. At least in my industry they don't say okay we need a system to do this, how much will it cost, how will you implement it, okay, that looks fine, now go ahead and do it! It's no I want it done this way, and then two weeks later I want it done that way, and then I want it totally changed to this, and now that.
The unethicalness of govt. contracting co.'s is in saying sure whatever to all of that, because they get paid all the same. I get paid all the same too, but I want to get something done. And so do my coworkers.
The problem is that for the govt. reps, it's not their money, they don't give a shit, and they're unaccountable so they don't have to. They can use it as an ego-stroking fest, because the contracting company will worship their every word as long as the funding spigot stays open. So none of the big-wigs in either party to the transaction care if anything ever gets done.
Or for a non-trivial set of combinations of operations. Take an installer that has to be able to upgrade just about any of a number of possible applications in a business's suite of related apps, and applying patches, in order, to support up to three versions back. Where different applications can be at different suite versions (customer pays for upgrades of some apps faster than others). It's just not feasible to make a progress bar account for all of those possibilities to be accurate.
jQuery has said they will continue to support IE8 as long as it's a significant factor on the web. I.e. jQuery is not dropping support of it and ushering in its death, IE8's eventual dying will usher in jQuery's dropping support of it. And IE8's dying will only *begin* in a year and three months from now.
And when three competing companies (Microsoft, Google, Apple) are working together on Webkit it's hardly a monopoly.
Fascinating. So Leftists aren't against monopolies because it limits consumer choice in products, but only because it limits consumer choice in vendors.
Netbooks were cute, but tablets are sexy, I guess. Less is more; I'd argue that removal of the keyboard goes a long way towards appealing to Average Joes, because it's a visual reminder of the inherent nerdiness of computing devices and having them. So even if they can do the same or less but for more money, more people see themselves as having a tablet vs. something that looks like a scaled-down geek machine.
Yup, it was partly a timing thing. MS was transitioning at the time to a next gen of their OS with more security and other overhead, ahead of even where most desktop hardware was at the time, and then this niche of older, even slower componentry became hot, and MS didn't have a good offering for it.
Glad I snatched up an XP Home based 12" netbook, before they were outlawwed at that size I guess and before XP ceased being available. I don't think I've ever seen mine get into the 2nd GB I added to it, but while my desktop runs Vista like a dream, I'd hate to try that on the portable.
"Thanks, Dell, for your 27 inch 1920 x 1200 display"
It's a nice, relaxed.30 dot pitch after staring intently at code on a 23" 1920 x 1080 all day. I couldn't come home to more of that same.
Unfortunately it looks like ass with IE9's new partial-pixel font rendering and I had to uninstall it. The pixels on this are too big to not readily show the fuzzing (smoothing) that algorithm is doing.
What older eyes really need is 2560 x 1600 and fonts enlarged via OS DPI settings. I'm hoping in a couple of years they'll be available as non gray market and not 30" and $1250 either.
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You didn't specify the language but every programmer should know at least that logical and bitwise operations happen before comparison ones.
No, but you also don't tell your manager that for example the program has using statements in it and that that's a bad thing because it "confuse[s] the fuck out of people". When it's only confusing if you only know C++, but to C# programmers there's nothing confusing about it. Similarly with for example inner classes in Java. Just because they don't have the same access rules as they do in C++ doesn't make it "confusing" to use them in Java.
The only people who should try to read the code are those who know the language. And knowing the language includes knowing the operator precedence rules.
Or you're supposed to be in management by now. And you've slowed down and can't possibly hope to keep up with the 20-somethings.
Any other cliches we've missed that are impossible to apply to everyone who's a 40-something programmer?
Don't confuse what's offered as a last-ditch possibility with the actual recommendation.
Being 21 years out of college, it took me 15-20 minutes to build out the basic structure of the console app for the sorting demo and shake the cobwebs off my old CS degree memories and implement it. Which seems to me about right, considering.
You're simply selecting for fresh grads and making excuses up for it later, of course. I commend you on giving younguns a chance and training them (rare nowadays). I just don't know why you need that mass of utter bullshit you wrote to help you justify it in your mind.
It's amazing how clueless some people are. "They" would be a "he", who's well known in computer tech for having created that language (not originally called "JavaScript") and its first implementation. It was written in 10 days.
I wouldn't train my replacement for 5 years pay. It's not all about me. Unfortunately my economic future is moderately tied to that of my fellow countrymen, as far as the ratio between the productive and non-productive. If an employer wants to say F U to the American worker, they can try to make it work all by their lonesomes.
It might not be possible to ask the more direct question, "what does a using block do?", in a multiple-guess format without giving away the answer.
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Won't someone please think of the jobs?
There are two kinds of companies when it comes to hiring; the ones where the hiring managers have all the power, and the ones where HR has all the power.
I've never gotten past the gatekeeper kind, because I need to talk to the person with a need, to be noticed.
What's that, the name if Vito and Kip formed a band?
Yes. Windows 8 is a Windows Vista. Like Windows 7, Windows 8's successor will just be a tweaked version of its predecessor, but sheeple will insist that the predecessor was worst evar and the successor is a ginormous improvement. Expect this alternating flop/success cycle, based on absurdly exaggerated perceptions and the bandwagon effect, to continue for quite some time.
Or better yet, have the H1B's train their replacements.
We no longer vote in the interests of all Americans. A majority now votes to screw over and steal from fellow Americans. It is a cultural death spiral, as more people decide to join the team that's winning, for however much longer the game can even last.
My experience is that the problem is too much govt. oversight. At least in my industry they don't say okay we need a system to do this, how much will it cost, how will you implement it, okay, that looks fine, now go ahead and do it! It's no I want it done this way, and then two weeks later I want it done that way, and then I want it totally changed to this, and now that.
The unethicalness of govt. contracting co.'s is in saying sure whatever to all of that, because they get paid all the same. I get paid all the same too, but I want to get something done. And so do my coworkers.
The problem is that for the govt. reps, it's not their money, they don't give a shit, and they're unaccountable so they don't have to. They can use it as an ego-stroking fest, because the contracting company will worship their every word as long as the funding spigot stays open. So none of the big-wigs in either party to the transaction care if anything ever gets done.
Or for a non-trivial set of combinations of operations. Take an installer that has to be able to upgrade just about any of a number of possible applications in a business's suite of related apps, and applying patches, in order, to support up to three versions back. Where different applications can be at different suite versions (customer pays for upgrades of some apps faster than others). It's just not feasible to make a progress bar account for all of those possibilities to be accurate.
I didn't think an ex-president would go so far as to resort to arson, but I guess those Republicans really hate science that much.
jQuery has said they will continue to support IE8 as long as it's a significant factor on the web. I.e. jQuery is not dropping support of it and ushering in its death, IE8's eventual dying will usher in jQuery's dropping support of it. And IE8's dying will only *begin* in a year and three months from now.
Okay, so it's okay if we have basically only one choice in browser as long as we have multiple choices in operating system to run it on.
Fascinating. So Leftists aren't against monopolies because it limits consumer choice in products, but only because it limits consumer choice in vendors.
Netbooks were cute, but tablets are sexy, I guess. Less is more; I'd argue that removal of the keyboard goes a long way towards appealing to Average Joes, because it's a visual reminder of the inherent nerdiness of computing devices and having them. So even if they can do the same or less but for more money, more people see themselves as having a tablet vs. something that looks like a scaled-down geek machine.
Yup, it was partly a timing thing. MS was transitioning at the time to a next gen of their OS with more security and other overhead, ahead of even where most desktop hardware was at the time, and then this niche of older, even slower componentry became hot, and MS didn't have a good offering for it.
Glad I snatched up an XP Home based 12" netbook, before they were outlawwed at that size I guess and before XP ceased being available. I don't think I've ever seen mine get into the 2nd GB I added to it, but while my desktop runs Vista like a dream, I'd hate to try that on the portable.
FTFY, chances are. (Not you personally but your employer's HR department.)
"Thanks, Dell, for your 27 inch 1920 x 1200 display"
It's a nice, relaxed .30 dot pitch after staring intently at code on a 23" 1920 x 1080 all day. I couldn't come home to more of that same.
Unfortunately it looks like ass with IE9's new partial-pixel font rendering and I had to uninstall it. The pixels on this are too big to not readily show the fuzzing (smoothing) that algorithm is doing.
What older eyes really need is 2560 x 1600 and fonts enlarged via OS DPI settings. I'm hoping in a couple of years they'll be available as non gray market and not 30" and $1250 either.