I agree completely.. I can see the need for certain aspects of software engineering, but when it comes down to it, I can get the job done so much faster if you just leave me alone and let me approach it in a way that makes sense to me. I don't want to draw fucking UML diagrams, because they don't help me figure out the problem at all, and they waste my time.
However, a lot of these things become more important when working with other people..
One thing that I could NEVER get used to in university was programming "on paper", if you know what I mean. Just give me a compiler...
And that's why School, as it is structured today, is no longer applicable to the way the real world is structured.
The idea of sticking thousands of kids with different backgrounds and different opinions and viewpoints and ethics into one building and teaching them the exact same way is becoming more and more obsolete. Education begins at home.
Somehow I can't help but find this particularly disturbing. I can *almost* (almost, but not) find it logical that RIAA record companies would want to crack down on file sharing. But suing someone for writing software that records music?
Not only are there already millions of programs out there that can do the same job (ie, recording line-in from the soundcard), although they may not categorize and name the files, it is not exactly breaking news that people can record the radio.
People have been recording radio shows for decades, and I even know people who have recorded shows on their computers, because tapes don't last 2 hours. What exactly has this man done wrong? We are at the point where we are suing people for merely writing useful utilities. This is beyond "too far", it is plain disturbing.
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you don't have much of a sense of humour, do you? (*sigh*) well I thought it was funny... ;-)
first things I disable in Word when I start it up are: Check Spelling as you Type, Check Grammar as you Type.
there's nothing more annoying than a word processor flagging misspellings as you're trying to formulate a thought...
And when I'm spell checking, I invariably disable grammar checking. It's just too strict, and gets annoying very fast.
I agree completely.. I can see the need for certain aspects of software engineering, but when it comes down to it, I can get the job done so much faster if you just leave me alone and let me approach it in a way that makes sense to me. I don't want to draw fucking UML diagrams, because they don't help me figure out the problem at all, and they waste my time.
However, a lot of these things become more important when working with other people..
One thing that I could NEVER get used to in university was programming "on paper", if you know what I mean. Just give me a compiler...
wait, so what exactly is so hard about grep, find, and locate?
And that's why School, as it is structured today, is no longer applicable to the way the real world is structured. The idea of sticking thousands of kids with different backgrounds and different opinions and viewpoints and ethics into one building and teaching them the exact same way is becoming more and more obsolete. Education begins at home.
I couldn't agree more.
Somehow I can't help but find this particularly disturbing. I can *almost* (almost, but not) find it logical that RIAA record companies would want to crack down on file sharing. But suing someone for writing software that records music?
Not only are there already millions of programs out there that can do the same job (ie, recording line-in from the soundcard), although they may not categorize and name the files, it is not exactly breaking news that people can record the radio.
People have been recording radio shows for decades, and I even know people who have recorded shows on their computers, because tapes don't last 2 hours. What exactly has this man done wrong? We are at the point where we are suing people for merely writing useful utilities. This is beyond "too far", it is plain disturbing.
I should have put "dangers of the internet" in quotes. yeah. Not my words.