Troll me, but fucked if I'm going to leave the good ol USA for India, when so many people from India (half of our IT staff here) are coming to the US because opportunity and life is better in general in the US. If I can't work in IT, I can work in construction, sales, anything. I can work. If I love to code that much, I can do it after work at home as a hobby.
I see no benefit to uprooting my entire life to go to India so I can write code for so little money, when I can get a temp job here that will pay the rent while I'm submitting resumes and waiting to land a job in IT in the US.
Wow. I don't think I could feel your pain any clearer. We constantly deal with this. It is extremely frustrating when we ask for advice and or feedback from the field and recieve nothing. So often times we request input prior to writing a line of code... a sort of "ok - this is what we are writing. IS IT OK?" and without missing a beat someone has major problems with the final release. Yet management seems to balk at admonishing those whos feedback was saught and not recieved, instead blaming the software for failing the organization.
If you take nothing from this, take that you're not alone in this world.
How true, how true:) Although, this is coming from a VB job. My position, as a senior software engineer, is one of having to produce massive amounts of working code in short periods of time. Yeah, it sucks. Yeah, it's against everything I hold dear about programming. But Yeah, it pays the bills readily. So we used to use VB for ActiveX mixed with ASP for web front ends where necessary (MS was mandated from above.)
Now we've moved to.NET and I have seen massive productivity from myself and my staff - and most importantly, it's f'in nice to be back in a C type syntax. Nothing was worse than code sans-line-terminators!
So yeah, JAVA would be ok but wasn't allowed (prior to my obtaining this position) and VB was already prolific in the enterprise so the move to.NET and C# was more than alright with me.
Yeah, it's crappy. But heck, it's a move in the right direction. I know certain people (cough... slashdotters) are quite protective of the purity of writing unmanaged code.
But that said, I have never developed software more rapidly than in C#..NET has trippled my productivity (on the Windows platform) and my approval rating at work has skyrocketed as I have rolled out several solutions on.NET that are stable, solid, and effective.
I really wish that Linux had a stable.NET equivelent (sp?) - cause then I could completely abandon Windows at home. But as long as I can code C# with such RAD success, Linux is going to have catching up to do.
I applaud MONO. It's far from ready, but keep going. Keep working. Please - make MONO (or something else) as good as C#,.NET, and Windows Forms (and hell, ASP.NET) is. RAD is so important in the real world, that Linux would only benefit - incredibly - from a.NET like solution.
Well, I can't say this is a good thing. If only one qualified, then the rest need to go back to the drawing board.
It's the same in any situation. If you lower your expectations, you'll get a lesser product/whatever. If it can't make it 200 miles, then it isn't worthy of being in the race.
I can agree with this. Absolutely. I think the point of my post is basically that while linux does build on a solid base, Microsoft is just now actually stumbling upon a solid base.
I mean seriously, if MS was still building upon the Windows ME base, people would be demanding blood.
Despite conventional wisdom and some articles to the contrary, sometimes complete ground-up software rewrites are necessary. Windows 2003 is - for my money - one of the best server systems around. Its stability is equal to the linux servers I run, and finally it installs completely locked down.
Windows 2003 wouldn't be possible if 90% of its codebase was from the WinNT 3.1 kernel.
Even Macs - OSX is so completely different than OS9 that they can't even be compared fairly. OS9 was dead in the water before it came out - the rewrite of the OS (albeit on the BSD kernel) was necessary to allow Mac to continue to compete at all.
I like Sygate Personal Firewall Pro. Set it up and before you hand of the PC, enable every application that you know needs access to the internet - including Mozilla. Then give the "just click no" mandate listed above. This way, nothing without permission will ever be able to communicate with the outside world.
Just be sure to enable some of the tricky ones - Windows Update, IM clients, etc. If they want an application to have access (mom installs Raphsody lets say) set up an appointment or VNC session to do the approval for her.
It's kept my family pretty virus free - along with auto-updates for virus scan, windows update, auto-defragmentation with Diskeeper, and auto-virus scanning twice a week.
Actually, their computers are in better shape then mine after the same time period. Perhaps I should hold myself to the same rules!
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Don't forget massive incompatibility and upgrade hassles. :)
Yeah man, but massive incompatability and upgrade hassles are what keep some of us employed! GO DARPA!
Troll me, but fucked if I'm going to leave the good ol USA for India, when so many people from India (half of our IT staff here) are coming to the US because opportunity and life is better in general in the US. If I can't work in IT, I can work in construction, sales, anything. I can work. If I love to code that much, I can do it after work at home as a hobby.
I see no benefit to uprooting my entire life to go to India so I can write code for so little money, when I can get a temp job here that will pay the rent while I'm submitting resumes and waiting to land a job in IT in the US.
But that's just me.
Wow. I don't think I could feel your pain any clearer. We constantly deal with this. It is extremely frustrating when we ask for advice and or feedback from the field and recieve nothing. So often times we request input prior to writing a line of code... a sort of "ok - this is what we are writing. IS IT OK?" and without missing a beat someone has major problems with the final release. Yet management seems to balk at admonishing those whos feedback was saught and not recieved, instead blaming the software for failing the organization.
If you take nothing from this, take that you're not alone in this world.
How true, how true :) Although, this is coming from a VB job. My position, as a senior software engineer, is one of having to produce massive amounts of working code in short periods of time. Yeah, it sucks. Yeah, it's against everything I hold dear about programming. But Yeah, it pays the bills readily. So we used to use VB for ActiveX mixed with ASP for web front ends where necessary (MS was mandated from above.)
.NET and I have seen massive productivity from myself and my staff - and most importantly, it's f'in nice to be back in a C type syntax. Nothing was worse than code sans-line-terminators!
.NET and C# was more than alright with me.
Now we've moved to
So yeah, JAVA would be ok but wasn't allowed (prior to my obtaining this position) and VB was already prolific in the enterprise so the move to
Yeah, it's crappy. But heck, it's a move in the right direction. I know certain people (cough... slashdotters) are quite protective of the purity of writing unmanaged code.
.NET has trippled my productivity (on the Windows platform) and my approval rating at work has skyrocketed as I have rolled out several solutions on .NET that are stable, solid, and effective.
.NET equivelent (sp?) - cause then I could completely abandon Windows at home. But as long as I can code C# with such RAD success, Linux is going to have catching up to do.
.NET, and Windows Forms (and hell, ASP.NET) is. RAD is so important in the real world, that Linux would only benefit - incredibly - from a .NET like solution.
But that said, I have never developed software more rapidly than in C#.
I really wish that Linux had a stable
I applaud MONO. It's far from ready, but keep going. Keep working. Please - make MONO (or something else) as good as C#,
Well, I can't say this is a good thing. If only one qualified, then the rest need to go back to the drawing board.
It's the same in any situation. If you lower your expectations, you'll get a lesser product/whatever. If it can't make it 200 miles, then it isn't worthy of being in the race.
My 2 cents, anywho...
Would copyright law give you legal action to have the domain name turned off, since the content it points to is infringing so horribly obviously?
I can agree with this. Absolutely. I think the point of my post is basically that while linux does build on a solid base, Microsoft is just now actually stumbling upon a solid base.
I mean seriously, if MS was still building upon the Windows ME base, people would be demanding blood.
Despite conventional wisdom and some articles to the contrary, sometimes complete ground-up software rewrites are necessary. Windows 2003 is - for my money - one of the best server systems around. Its stability is equal to the linux servers I run, and finally it installs completely locked down.
Windows 2003 wouldn't be possible if 90% of its codebase was from the WinNT 3.1 kernel.
Even Macs - OSX is so completely different than OS9 that they can't even be compared fairly. OS9 was dead in the water before it came out - the rewrite of the OS (albeit on the BSD kernel) was necessary to allow Mac to continue to compete at all.
I like Sygate Personal Firewall Pro. Set it up and before you hand of the PC, enable every application that you know needs access to the internet - including Mozilla. Then give the "just click no" mandate listed above. This way, nothing without permission will ever be able to communicate with the outside world.
Just be sure to enable some of the tricky ones - Windows Update, IM clients, etc. If they want an application to have access (mom installs Raphsody lets say) set up an appointment or VNC session to do the approval for her.
It's kept my family pretty virus free - along with auto-updates for virus scan, windows update, auto-defragmentation with Diskeeper, and auto-virus scanning twice a week.
Actually, their computers are in better shape then mine after the same time period. Perhaps I should hold myself to the same rules!