And YOU are absolutely right. I still don't understand why they think they're in the advertising business. It's not like they don't have some software things to work on.
Despite what Gates said, the reality is much more likely they need the patents Yahoo! holds, not the people who did the work.
I've got no religious axe to grind, but the notion of the Pope, leader of an all-male band of wealth-hording pious virgins (sprinkled with assorted paedophiles), exhorting opinions on sex (a somewhat undignified act) and human dignity, is simply priceless. Should he wish to improve his own dignity rating (before waxing on ours), he could lose the hat and the robes and the mumbo-jumbo and go back to university so he could understand the things he's yapping about.
Geesh Mr. Pope, shut up already. Your influence far outweighs the respect your opinions garner by anyone with half a brain. And that probably makes you dangerous. Look at all the sick (aids) and starving (famine, big families) people in the 3rd world you've talked into avoiding condoms. Technically you might be responsible for more deaths than Bush.
The last time I inherited a big bag of crappy, undocumented code (3 years ago), I built my own tool with PHP and Postgres. This system was an old baseball scores-collection system for a media company. It was written in C in the early 90's on SunOS. The code had NO module headers, and almost no in-line comments. Variable names were poor, and there was no paper documentation of any kind - just the code.
I figured I needed to go through each source file and write down a one-liner as to what I thought it contained. So my database table had a column to hold the actual source code, and a column for my comment (and other columns which I'll get to later). So I wrote a quick 'import' procedure to store each file as a row on my table. Then I built a low-quality web GUI to let me examine the source, and add a comment.
Then I realized I needed to sort all the source files into 'bins'. Libary code in this bin, mainlines in that bin, include files in another bin, scripts over there, etc. etc. So I added a table or two and enhanced my GUI to let me do just that. I quickly realized I needed to be able to search through all the source code at once for wild-carded strings, so I built a function to do that as well (Postgres text columns support this nicely).
At the end of the day, I had a decent way of sorting, grouping, and documenting all the source files without actually modifying them - and that gave me a HUGE leg up on understanding the lay of the land. Fortunately my boss didn't mind the extra couple of weeks it took to build this little system;-)
I don't know much about lasers (or anything, really), but 500 feet through surface-level air has gotta difuse a small laser at least somewhat. Pain and headaches for two hours? Come on! Somebody, puhleeze do the math. That pilot has gotta be lying, no? Or maybe the couple was using the new Lego Laser their son got last Christmas - don't they put out a few gigawatts?
Watching someone *really* get murdered causes the brain to change. Watching gore & violence causes the brain to change to a lesser amount. Watching a child receive a mild spanking results in less change. Watch a leaf fall causes even less. It's called extrapolation, a bedfellow of The Scientific Method.
I've been in a few war rooms, control centers, command centers, etc etc etc over the years. Even helped design one a little. 4 Flat screens is all they've got? Four? That's no war room. Scuffle closet maybe?
Ever since 2.0.0.8, Firefox is crashing regularly on both my Win2k and XP (both fully patched) boxes. New Firefox releases keep coming fast this year, but do they ever address these stability issues? Is anyone else getting regular (2-3 per week) crashes? Do I need to quit surfing for free porn in the.ru domain on my Win95 box with no firewall? (ok, that last part was actually bs).
Sounds like you did all the right things - I'd hire you in a snap. Don't let the micro-managers of the world get you down - their heads will be rolling down the same street soon.
The AP doesn't accept advertising like other publications because it's not a publication. Instead, it's a member-owned, not-for-profit news-collection cooperative. Even in that environment, the watering down of editorial talent, the elevation of business goals over integrity, and even the layout of head office in Manhattan speak volumes. Editorial integrity and talent is being chisselled away by the MBA's in the search for profit and power. The AP occupies 3 floors on West 33rd Street. The top-most floor is occupied by the president and his vps, the accountants, and the HR people. Why are they on the top floor? Aren't they 'farthest' from the news? There's even a loft, a patio, and a private kitchen and shower for the president up there. The next floor has all the computer geeks and artistic types. The lowest floor is where the action is - all the news guys. Of course this setup is typical of most companies. If you want to know what's left of your editorial talent - look in the basement.
I wrote a calendaring web app a few years back, and it was certainly a half-done web-based solution some seriously missing features. I wish you had included mine in your survey, because I still don't have any customers for it.
I had a job interview down at nyse about six years ago (and I'm glad I didn't get it - someone blew up the two towers next door about six months later). Part of their infrustructure is on OpenVMS/C++. I know these boxes were doing something highly critical, but I don't know exactly what. Since the stories aren't mentioning replacing these OpenVMS boxes, I would assume that some of the critical processing is still happening on these systems.
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... bogus Cisco gear from China typically includes network modules, WAN interface cards, gigabit interface converters, and less expensive routers
It's easy to identify this bogus gear in the wild. It's really really heavy, because it's made of lead.
And YOU are absolutely right. I still don't understand why they think they're in the advertising business. It's not like they don't have some software things to work on.
Despite what Gates said, the reality is much more likely they need the patents Yahoo! holds, not the people who did the work.
- spinLock
I've got no religious axe to grind, but the notion of the Pope, leader of an all-male band of wealth-hording pious virgins (sprinkled with assorted paedophiles), exhorting opinions on sex (a somewhat undignified act) and human dignity, is simply priceless. Should he wish to improve his own dignity rating (before waxing on ours), he could lose the hat and the robes and the mumbo-jumbo and go back to university so he could understand the things he's yapping about.
Geesh Mr. Pope, shut up already. Your influence far outweighs the respect your opinions garner by anyone with half a brain. And that probably makes you dangerous. Look at all the sick (aids) and starving (famine, big families) people in the 3rd world you've talked into avoiding condoms. Technically you might be responsible for more deaths than Bush.
The last time I inherited a big bag of crappy, undocumented code (3 years ago), I built my own tool with PHP and Postgres.
;-)
This system was an old baseball scores-collection system for a media company. It was written in C in the early 90's on SunOS. The code had NO module headers, and almost no in-line comments. Variable names were poor, and there was no paper documentation of any kind - just the code.
I figured I needed to go through each source file and write down a one-liner as to what I thought it contained. So my database table had a column to hold the actual source code, and a column for my comment (and other columns which I'll get to later). So I wrote a quick 'import' procedure to store each file as a row on my table. Then I built a low-quality web GUI to let me examine the source, and add a comment.
Then I realized I needed to sort all the source files into 'bins'. Libary code in this bin, mainlines in that bin, include files in another bin, scripts over there, etc. etc. So I added a table or two and enhanced my GUI to let me do just that. I quickly realized I needed to be able to search through all the source code at once for wild-carded strings, so I built a function to do that as well (Postgres text columns support this nicely).
At the end of the day, I had a decent way of sorting, grouping, and documenting all the source files without actually modifying them - and that gave me a HUGE leg up on understanding the lay of the land. Fortunately my boss didn't mind the extra couple of weeks it took to build this little system
I think this guy's take on things is totally right on. (Disclaimer: I suppose that's because I get top marks on his scoring system)
Here's a snippet from my post:
I don't know much about lasers (or anything, really)...
and here's one from yours: maybe you should read up on the subject before posting about it
Maybe you should read a post thoroughly before responding to it?
I don't know much about lasers (or anything, really), but 500 feet through surface-level air has gotta difuse a small laser at least somewhat. Pain and headaches for two hours? Come on! Somebody, puhleeze do the math. That pilot has gotta be lying, no? Or maybe the couple was using the new Lego Laser their son got last Christmas - don't they put out a few gigawatts?
First post? Someone had to do it.
I like the way Microsoft markets Apple iTunes - by continually stepping on their own wanker!
Watching someone *really* get murdered causes the brain to change. Watching gore & violence causes the brain to change to a lesser amount. Watching a child receive a mild spanking results in less change. Watch a leaf fall causes even less. It's called extrapolation, a bedfellow of The Scientific Method.
My point is that such technology (fMRI) has limits and is thus unable to detect events below those limits. Did you read my post? ;-)
It's pretty hard to tell what changed when we lack the devices to measure it!
Your brain 'changes' when you watch a leaf fall too - we just don't have the delicate instrumentation to detect it.
Indeed I do have FireBug installed. Are you having problems with it?
No, but I'm using Yahoo! Mail - their new one with lotsa Ajax. And the crash usually occurs when I navigate away from the tab with Yahoo! mail.
I wasn't sure what FTFA meant, so I looked it up.
So now I'm trying to figure out what this has to do with the Filipino Task Force on AIDS
I've been in a few war rooms, control centers, command centers, etc etc etc over the years. Even helped design one a little. 4 Flat screens is all they've got? Four? That's no war room. Scuffle closet maybe?
Thank you, I will!
Ever since 2.0.0.8, Firefox is crashing regularly on both my Win2k and XP (both fully patched) boxes. New Firefox releases keep coming fast this year, but do they ever address these stability issues? Is anyone else getting regular (2-3 per week) crashes? Do I need to quit surfing for free porn in the .ru domain on my Win95 box with no firewall? (ok, that last part was actually bs).
Sounds like you did all the right things - I'd hire you in a snap. Don't let the micro-managers of the world get you down - their heads will be rolling down the same street soon.
The AP doesn't accept advertising like other publications because it's not a publication. Instead, it's a member-owned, not-for-profit news-collection cooperative. Even in that environment, the watering down of editorial talent, the elevation of business goals over integrity, and even the layout of head office in Manhattan speak volumes. Editorial integrity and talent is being chisselled away by the MBA's in the search for profit and power. The AP occupies 3 floors on West 33rd Street. The top-most floor is occupied by the president and his vps, the accountants, and the HR people. Why are they on the top floor? Aren't they 'farthest' from the news? There's even a loft, a patio, and a private kitchen and shower for the president up there. The next floor has all the computer geeks and artistic types. The lowest floor is where the action is - all the news guys. Of course this setup is typical of most companies. If you want to know what's left of your editorial talent - look in the basement.
I wrote a calendaring web app a few years back, and it was certainly a half-done web-based solution some seriously missing features. I wish you had included mine in your survey, because I still don't have any customers for it.
Poor Al Gore - looks like he invented the very weapon that will destroy the US.
You're completely alone in that feeling, as I'm sure a significant number of slashdot'ers are about to confirm.
I had a job interview down at nyse about six years ago (and I'm glad I didn't get it - someone blew up the two towers next door about six months later). Part of their infrustructure is on OpenVMS/C++. I know these boxes were doing something highly critical, but I don't know exactly what. Since the stories aren't mentioning replacing these OpenVMS boxes, I would assume that some of the critical processing is still happening on these systems.