"Document your application, requirements, constraints, and system interactions (what the engineer does). Then write the code (what the coder does)."
I was taught years ago to always pseudocode or flowchart first for all but the simplest programs; so I write pseudocode within stub functions that I create in the program before I do any real coding and there are my comments. All that's left is translating the comments to code and it's done. No need to comment while coding or go back and add comments just to appease someone.
It is less stressful than trying to remember every code detail until the program is finished and certainly makes troubleshooting easier.
Boss: We are changing everything over to Visual Studio.Net. Specifically C#.
Employee: But I don't know C#. I'll quit if you change.
Boss: CALL! Let's see what you have. You have a soft programming market card, a programming jobs contracted overseas card, another job not lined up card, a large number of hungry programmers that would love your job card, and a dying Windows programming IDE experience card. Uh, you don't even have an ace.
Employee: So! What do you have?
Boss: You're job replaced by a local contract agency by tommorrow afternoon. Goodbye and best of luck.
It's a bad habit to start being a quitter when things aren't favorable. Every job has something about it that sucks or will eventually suck as things change - that's why it's called a job!
It was only in 2003 that California tried to pass a law allowing illegal aliens the right to get a drivers license.
I can see a fight brewing in the Supreme Court between the states and federal government over the Real ID Act especially since the federal government is telling states who they can issue drivers licenses to.
Even worse, Arizona drivers licenses do not expire until the 65th birthday. When will the federal government decide that is entirely unreasonable for reasons of national security and require a new license every four years?
The Real ID Act is a bad start to something worse. I hope it gets to the Supreme Court soon and gets struck down.
I also hope that someone in the Senate has the guts to fight this and get it killed. I always thought that the federal government wasn't supposed to infringe upon states rights, but then I may be confused. A drivers license is a right to drive granted by a state - it is not an identification card.
The root of the problem is that drivers licenses are used as identification and they should have never been used as ID. Can you use your hunting license as ID when you pay for something with a credit card? How about any other licenses for that matter? Maybe if hunting licenses and business licenses had photos on them then they could be used as identification too?
The Federal government wants a national identification card for all Americans but they can't have it directly without startling a lot of people and scaring some. As a result, they'll coerce states to do it instead so that it seems a little more palatable.
It strikes me as strange that anyone is concerned about a national identification card in the first place. If you have an American passport then you have an American national ID document. If you have a social security card then you also have an American national ID document but it has no photo on it.
If the federal government required everyone to get a new social security card with their photo on it then I'd have no problem with it. Is the photo going to make any difference anyway? At least with the social security card idea, the federal government wouldn't by usurping control from the states.
"It doesn't sell its citizens massively fattening foods and mindless TV that attempts to turn the whole country into a giant farm of happy, mindless, fat cash cows for a few select billionaires to milk dry."
I guess that I'll have to drop my dream of starting a restaurant and becoming a millionaire.
And the parent poster was modded insightful?
Try this for insightful: the US government doesn't sell the food to its' citizens and doesn't give everyone a TV and produce mindless sitcoms for everyone to watch.
It's called supply and demand - Americans want to eat fattening tasty foods and watch TV that is senseless on occassion.
By the way, WalMart is also not a government entity. Just because they're huge and BUY FROM, NOT OWN sweatshops does not mean that all American business does this.
America isn't perfect by any stretch and business can be evil. However, I can talk bad about the US president without going to a prison camp.
I'd suggest that you take a trip to North Korea and express your concerns about their evil ways to everyone that will listen.
After you get out of prison, if you don't die of disease first, write a book about it and tell us Americans just how evil we are - you might even become a millionaire by selling fat, dumb, Americans reading material.
Even better, maybe you could appear on talk shows promoting your book and get to be on the coveted TV. I for one have never actually seen what a person talking out of their *ss looks like and would probably watch the show.
Just like the Soviet Union when they were putting nuclear missiles in Cuba and almost started a nuclear was with us? We were just as insane as they were and ready to push the button.
Just like the US when our defense computers had a glitch in the early 80's and almost triggered a nuclear strike?
Just like the Soviet Union crumbling and suddenly loosing hundreds of radioactive materials? When that happened, our government was concerned that some nut would get the bomb. Musharaf got it.
What happens when the "moderate" Musharaf is overthrown one day and replaced by a more populist Islamic fundamentalist? Will Pakistan still not be stupid? Or, will they just sell nuclear technology to every fundamentaliist Islamic terrorist?
Historically, every military technology eventually proliferates no matter how much effort is put into keeping it a secret. It's only a matter of time before someone uses a nuclear weapon again.
It's not a matter of stupidity - it's a matter of insanity. An insane person (car bomber, evil dictator, etc...) would likely use the bomb. Just how insane is Kimbo really?
Pakistan may be an ally but is clearly not our friend. The fact that we were able to coerce their help with Afghanistan is impressive espcially since they support the jihadists: "There has always been a tacit understanding that Pakistan's bomb will be used to regain the glory of Islam and defend the "rights" of the Muslims wherever they are persecuted by infidel powers. This was truly an Islamic bomb." (http://www.paktoday.com/islamic.htm)
Our military is going after the buyers instead of the dealers. We should have obliterated Pakistan when we went to Afghanistan. What enemy of Islam will Pakistan sell nukes to next?
"Let's face it, if South Korea weren't completely held hostage and likely to lose 10^6 people in a week should a real war break out, North Korea would have already have been invaded."
That's certainly a factor but I don't think that it's the only factor. NK doesn't have oil. NK doesn't provide us with any militarily strategic position since we are already in South Korea. NK doesn't have lunatic jihadists running around the Middle-East blowing themselves and others up. And lastly, it wasn't fundamental Buddhists, Taoists, Confucianists or any religious fundamentalists from an Asian country that attacked the USA.
When we were attacked on 9/11, we didn't have major forces ready to launch a major strike in the Middle-East as we do now. Now, if we are attacked again, whichever country has the jihad terrorists better hand them over since there are large numbers of American troops within striking distance rather than a month away from establishing a presence and attacking.
In fact, Iran should be hoping that another 9/11 doesn't happen and that the terrorists aren't based in Iran. That would likely be enough of an excuse to attack from both Iraq and Afghanistan.
I never believed the WMD thing because I figured that Saddam probably used up everything that we sold him back in the '80s. I also never thought that it was about oil. It's about military position and strength in the Middle-East.
Just buy stuff from Fry's Electronics or CompUSA only when it is on sale - compute the difference between normal price and sale price as the money saved for the company.
Each time you purchase something, tell your boss how much you saved the company by buying the stuff on sale.
Just think, at the end of a year you could show your boss that you saved the company thousands of dollars and yet still have new equipment.
My wife always buys things on sale and always tell me how much money she has saved us. Somehow, even with all the money saved were still broke...
Yes this is sarcasm, but don't be surprised if at least one manager actually buys this as saving the company money.
"I hate watching Sun destroy itself like it's doing."
It seems to me that the company has vision but has no idea what to do with it. Java will probably eventually fall to.Net and Mono. Java was a great technology when it first became available (still is even with its' drawbacks) and yet Sun didn't seem to know how to profit from it or what to do with it. Now Sun has no idea what to do with their operating system (give it away?).
Sun should be the R&D department of a bigger company that can figure out how to capitalize on technologies and that is the likely future of Sun as I see it. I just hope that it isn't Microsoft that wins the bid for them when they go on the auction block.
There should be some mechanism to discourage companies from doing such stupid things as attempting to patent "isNot". What's next "isNull"? Since Microsoft has hordes of cash, they could just attempt to patent everything in the computer industry and see what sticks and then do an SCO on everyone.
Is it possible that Steve and Darl are actually related?
I guess if you can't make money selling your software then at least you can make money obtaining idiotic patents and filing frivolous lawsuits to coerce companies to pay you something.
"SCHIEFFER: Let's go to a new question, Mr. President. Two minutes. And let's continue on jobs.
You know, there are all kind of statistics out there, but I want to bring it down to an individual.
Mr. President, what do you say to someone in this country who has lost his job to someone overseas who's being paid a fraction of what that job paid here in the United States?
BUSH: I'd say, Bob, I've got policies to continue to grow our economy and create the jobs of the 21st century. And here's some help for you to go get an education. Here's some help for you to go to a community college.
... (continues and closes with)...
And so the person you talked to, I say, here's some help, here's some trade adjustment assistance money for you to go a community college in your neighborhood, a community college which is providing the skills necessary to fill the jobs of the 21st century. And that's what I would say to that person."
I'm conservative, but I'm not going to blindly follow or reject someone based on their political label. To the person whose unemployment is about to run out and is unable to find a job, even with a bachelors degree, such a statement was stupid and insensitive.
Let me paraphrase it for you: "we're creating jobs and we'll give you money to go get education so that you can get a job and that's all you'll get."
Yep, he said it. He said that was how he would help the unemployed. Apparently the only people that are unemployed are uneducated.
I had no trouble deciding who to vote for after Bush made that dimwitted comment.
So what would Mr. President say to people that graduated with an associates degree last year in information technology or programming and that are still unable to find work? Go back to the community college again and train for something else?
That settles it. I'm going back to school to be an instructor at a community college.
Microsoft did have bundled antivirus software with Windows for Workgroups years ago. Norton Antivirus and McAfee stayed on course and Microsoft finally dropped the antivirus software.
It'll eventually happen to IE as well. When the cost of maintenance and public outcry gets to great, Microsoft will finally pull the plug on IE.
Is the author related to that guy in the Dell commercials that keeps using duct tape and twenty year old computers to do things? He'd probably love to get his hands on that fine laptop in the Dell commercial that comes with the gigantic hardshell case.
Get Rich Now in your own publishing business! Just read search engine help files and drone and on and on about what the help file says and make big money blathering on about it!
But wait there's more! Included free will be the guide to Getting Rich telling people how to perform intuitive and obvious computing tasks. Act now!
Moderator: Please summarize why the American people should choose you as their President. Bush: Kerry looks French so vote for me because I'm more American. Kerry: Bush is a cowboy running around the globe causing trouble so vote for me because I'll quit pissing everyone off. Bush: Oh yeah! At least the boogie man will not hurt us on my watch because I was in the National Guard. Kerry: I got more Purple Hearts than you do so I'm not afraid of the boogie man and I'll protect us from him too. Besides you never showed up for duty.
Moderator: Enough of that! What are your views on the environment? Bush: I like going on campouts, and I'll make sure that the American people are safe when they go camping. Kerry: I'd like to help companies move manufacturing offshore to better help our environment. If there are no companies here to pollute the environment then it will be safe.
Moderator: Lastly, your views on the economy. Bush: The economy is doing fine. Since we've reclassified chefs and short order cooks as product assemblers, our manufacturing sector has grown tremendously. But we have to keep those jobs safe from terrorists by conducting regular background checks. Kerry: I would help the economy by encouraging companies to stay here in America instead of offshoring. This would stop the drain of jobs and help boost our economy.
Vote a 3rd party - any party. I'm also voting Liberatian. If there was a large enough protest vote then maybe the Democrats and Republicans would wake up.
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Agggh!!! (panting and sweating)
It was only a dream. It was only a dream. It was only...
(continues rocking and mumbling)
"Document your application, requirements, constraints, and system interactions (what the engineer does). Then write the code (what the coder does)."
I was taught years ago to always pseudocode or flowchart first for all but the simplest programs; so I write pseudocode within stub functions that I create in the program before I do any real coding and there are my comments. All that's left is translating the comments to code and it's done. No need to comment while coding or go back and add comments just to appease someone.
It is less stressful than trying to remember every code detail until the program is finished and certainly makes troubleshooting easier.
Thanks now I can't get that #$%@ chant out of my head!
Boss: We are changing everything over to Visual Studio.Net. Specifically C#.
Employee: But I don't know C#. I'll quit if you change.
Boss: CALL! Let's see what you have. You have a soft programming market card, a programming jobs contracted overseas card, another job not lined up card, a large number of hungry programmers that would love your job card, and a dying Windows programming IDE experience card. Uh, you don't even have an ace.
Employee: So! What do you have?
Boss: You're job replaced by a local contract agency by tommorrow afternoon. Goodbye and best of luck.
It's a bad habit to start being a quitter when things aren't favorable. Every job has something about it that sucks or will eventually suck as things change - that's why it's called a job!
Which is more secure an OS with more small holes or an OS with large holes but fewer of them?
It was only in 2003 that California tried to pass a law allowing illegal aliens the right to get a drivers license.
I can see a fight brewing in the Supreme Court between the states and federal government over the Real ID Act especially since the federal government is telling states who they can issue drivers licenses to.
Even worse, Arizona drivers licenses do not expire until the 65th birthday. When will the federal government decide that is entirely unreasonable for reasons of national security and require a new license every four years?
The Real ID Act is a bad start to something worse. I hope it gets to the Supreme Court soon and gets struck down.
I also hope that someone in the Senate has the guts to fight this and get it killed. I always thought that the federal government wasn't supposed to infringe upon states rights, but then I may be confused. A drivers license is a right to drive granted by a state - it is not an identification card.
The root of the problem is that drivers licenses are used as identification and they should have never been used as ID. Can you use your hunting license as ID when you pay for something with a credit card? How about any other licenses for that matter? Maybe if hunting licenses and business licenses had photos on them then they could be used as identification too?
The Federal government wants a national identification card for all Americans but they can't have it directly without startling a lot of people and scaring some. As a result, they'll coerce states to do it instead so that it seems a little more palatable.
It strikes me as strange that anyone is concerned about a national identification card in the first place. If you have an American passport then you have an American national ID document. If you have a social security card then you also have an American national ID document but it has no photo on it.
If the federal government required everyone to get a new social security card with their photo on it then I'd have no problem with it. Is the photo going to make any difference anyway? At least with the social security card idea, the federal government wouldn't by usurping control from the states.
"It doesn't sell its citizens massively fattening foods and mindless TV that attempts to turn the whole country into a giant farm of happy, mindless, fat cash cows for a few select billionaires to milk dry."
I guess that I'll have to drop my dream of starting a restaurant and becoming a millionaire.
And the parent poster was modded insightful?
Try this for insightful: the US government doesn't sell the food to its' citizens and doesn't give everyone a TV and produce mindless sitcoms for everyone to watch.
It's called supply and demand - Americans want to eat fattening tasty foods and watch TV that is senseless on occassion.
By the way, WalMart is also not a government entity. Just because they're huge and BUY FROM, NOT OWN sweatshops does not mean that all American business does this.
America isn't perfect by any stretch and business can be evil. However, I can talk bad about the US president without going to a prison camp.
I'd suggest that you take a trip to North Korea and express your concerns about their evil ways to everyone that will listen.
After you get out of prison, if you don't die of disease first, write a book about it and tell us Americans just how evil we are - you might even become a millionaire by selling fat, dumb, Americans reading material.
Even better, maybe you could appear on talk shows promoting your book and get to be on the coveted TV. I for one have never actually seen what a person talking out of their *ss looks like and would probably watch the show.
"It forces all sides to not be stupid."
Hah!
Just like the Soviet Union when they were putting nuclear missiles in Cuba and almost started a nuclear was with us? We were just as insane as they were and ready to push the button.
Just like the US when our defense computers had a glitch in the early 80's and almost triggered a nuclear strike?
Just like the Soviet Union crumbling and suddenly loosing hundreds of radioactive materials? When that happened, our government was concerned that some nut would get the bomb. Musharaf got it.
What happens when the "moderate" Musharaf is overthrown one day and replaced by a more populist Islamic fundamentalist? Will Pakistan still not be stupid? Or, will they just sell nuclear technology to every fundamentaliist Islamic terrorist?
Historically, every military technology eventually proliferates no matter how much effort is put into keeping it a secret. It's only a matter of time before someone uses a nuclear weapon again.
It's not a matter of stupidity - it's a matter of insanity. An insane person (car bomber, evil dictator, etc...) would likely use the bomb. Just how insane is Kimbo really?
Pakistan may be an ally but is clearly not our friend. The fact that we were able to coerce their help with Afghanistan is impressive espcially since they support the jihadists: "There has always been a tacit understanding that Pakistan's bomb will be used to regain the glory of Islam and defend the "rights" of the Muslims wherever they are persecuted by infidel powers. This was truly an Islamic bomb." (http://www.paktoday.com/islamic.htm) Our military is going after the buyers instead of the dealers. We should have obliterated Pakistan when we went to Afghanistan. What enemy of Islam will Pakistan sell nukes to next?
"Let's face it, if South Korea weren't completely held hostage and likely to lose 10^6 people in a week should a real war break out, North Korea would have already have been invaded."
That's certainly a factor but I don't think that it's the only factor. NK doesn't have oil. NK doesn't provide us with any militarily strategic position since we are already in South Korea. NK doesn't have lunatic jihadists running around the Middle-East blowing themselves and others up. And lastly, it wasn't fundamental Buddhists, Taoists, Confucianists or any religious fundamentalists from an Asian country that attacked the USA.
When we were attacked on 9/11, we didn't have major forces ready to launch a major strike in the Middle-East as we do now. Now, if we are attacked again, whichever country has the jihad terrorists better hand them over since there are large numbers of American troops within striking distance rather than a month away from establishing a presence and attacking.
In fact, Iran should be hoping that another 9/11 doesn't happen and that the terrorists aren't based in Iran. That would likely be enough of an excuse to attack from both Iraq and Afghanistan.
I never believed the WMD thing because I figured that Saddam probably used up everything that we sold him back in the '80s. I also never thought that it was about oil. It's about military position and strength in the Middle-East.
Just buy stuff from Fry's Electronics or CompUSA only when it is on sale - compute the difference between normal price and sale price as the money saved for the company.
Each time you purchase something, tell your boss how much you saved the company by buying the stuff on sale.
Just think, at the end of a year you could show your boss that you saved the company thousands of dollars and yet still have new equipment.
My wife always buys things on sale and always tell me how much money she has saved us. Somehow, even with all the money saved were still broke...
Yes this is sarcasm, but don't be surprised if at least one manager actually buys this as saving the company money.
"I hate watching Sun destroy itself like it's doing."
.Net and Mono. Java was a great technology when it first became available (still is even with its' drawbacks) and yet Sun didn't seem to know how to profit from it or what to do with it. Now Sun has no idea what to do with their operating system (give it away?).
It seems to me that the company has vision but has no idea what to do with it. Java will probably eventually fall to
Sun should be the R&D department of a bigger company that can figure out how to capitalize on technologies and that is the likely future of Sun as I see it. I just hope that it isn't Microsoft that wins the bid for them when they go on the auction block.
There should be some mechanism to discourage companies from doing such stupid things as attempting to patent "isNot". What's next "isNull"? Since Microsoft has hordes of cash, they could just attempt to patent everything in the computer industry and see what sticks and then do an SCO on everyone.
Is it possible that Steve and Darl are actually related?
I guess if you can't make money selling your software then at least you can make money obtaining idiotic patents and filing frivolous lawsuits to coerce companies to pay you something.
Before they patent zero they'll probably patent "nothing" and try to include zero as falling under the "nothing" patent.
Aiiee!!! Whew it was just a dream...
Er, um, since we are now safe from terror, is the war on terror over and I didn't see the headline?
You know, there are all kind of statistics out there, but I want to bring it down to an individual.
Mr. President, what do you say to someone in this country who has lost his job to someone overseas who's being paid a fraction of what that job paid here in the United States?
BUSH: I'd say, Bob, I've got policies to continue to grow our economy and create the jobs of the 21st century. And here's some help for you to go get an education. Here's some help for you to go to a community college.
And so the person you talked to, I say, here's some help, here's some trade adjustment assistance money for you to go a community college in your neighborhood, a community college which is providing the skills necessary to fill the jobs of the 21st century. And that's what I would say to that person."
Washington Post Debate Transcript
I'm conservative, but I'm not going to blindly follow or reject someone based on their political label. To the person whose unemployment is about to run out and is unable to find a job, even with a bachelors degree, such a statement was stupid and insensitive.
Let me paraphrase it for you: "we're creating jobs and we'll give you money to go get education so that you can get a job and that's all you'll get."
Yep, he said it. He said that was how he would help the unemployed. Apparently the only people that are unemployed are uneducated.
I had no trouble deciding who to vote for after Bush made that dimwitted comment.
So what would Mr. President say to people that graduated with an associates degree last year in information technology or programming and that are still unable to find work? Go back to the community college again and train for something else?
That settles it. I'm going back to school to be an instructor at a community college.
Microsoft did have bundled antivirus software with Windows for Workgroups years ago. Norton Antivirus and McAfee stayed on course and Microsoft finally dropped the antivirus software. It'll eventually happen to IE as well. When the cost of maintenance and public outcry gets to great, Microsoft will finally pull the plug on IE.
I'm tired of the limited, featureless current crop of viruses.
At least the new "Windows enhanced official viruses" will be full of features, but I still intend to try out the home version before going "pro."
No wonder gun control doesn't work! It's the bullets that are the blame, so there should be bullet control.
"Guns don't kill people, stupid motherf...s with guns kill people." Chris Tucker, Money Talks
Is the author related to that guy in the Dell commercials that keeps using duct tape and twenty year old computers to do things? He'd probably love to get his hands on that fine laptop in the Dell commercial that comes with the gigantic hardshell case.
Get Rich Now in your own publishing business! Just read search engine help files and drone and on and on about what the help file says and make big money blathering on about it!
But wait there's more! Included free will be the guide to Getting Rich telling people how to perform intuitive and obvious computing tasks. Act now!
Moderator: Please summarize why the American people should choose you as their President.
Bush: Kerry looks French so vote for me because I'm more American.
Kerry: Bush is a cowboy running around the globe causing trouble so vote for me because I'll quit pissing everyone off.
Bush: Oh yeah! At least the boogie man will not hurt us on my watch because I was in the National Guard.
Kerry: I got more Purple Hearts than you do so I'm not afraid of the boogie man and I'll protect us from him too. Besides you never showed up for duty.
Moderator: Enough of that! What are your views on the environment?
Bush: I like going on campouts, and I'll make sure that the American people are safe when they go camping.
Kerry: I'd like to help companies move manufacturing offshore to better help our environment. If there are no companies here to pollute the environment then it will be safe.
Moderator: Lastly, your views on the economy.
Bush: The economy is doing fine. Since we've reclassified chefs and short order cooks as product assemblers, our manufacturing sector has grown tremendously. But we have to keep those jobs safe from terrorists by conducting regular background checks.
Kerry: I would help the economy by encouraging companies to stay here in America instead of offshoring. This would stop the drain of jobs and help boost our economy.
Vote a 3rd party - any party. I'm also voting Liberatian. If there was a large enough protest vote then maybe the Democrats and Republicans would wake up.