Let's dig up some rumors about someone who says that someone said something and see how many people we can convince that they're thoroughly despicable.
You don't need the news for that. I get that here all the time on Slashdot.
Seldom do you see certified bridge engineers cutting a pasting features of a bridge design into another another.
I'm not so sure about that. I worked a few years in construction with my father. He examined the blueprints for every project carefully to order his list of materials and occasionally finds minor mistakes that he need to correct on the ground. One day he found a three-foot wide mistake between two pages of the blueprint for the same wall. The architect called bullshit because the two pages line up perfectly with each other. So my father had the architect and main contractor walk the layout on the ground for the foundation before it got poured. Lo and behold, a three-foot wide gap was found that prevented the wall from lining up.
That problem was in the blueprint and not how the foundation guys laid the layout, although the main contractor yelled at them for not catching the mistake soon.
I was a black box tester for nearly seven years. When I graduated from community college with A.S. degree in computer programming in 2007, I wanted to get a job as a white box tester. Never got hired. Went into I.T. support and the rest was history.
They'll have a new job in three months anyway, so why would they care that the software is crap, insecure and unsupportable?
The lead programmer (or project manager) should review the code and then beat them with a pointy stick if code was unacceptable. I'm not a professional programmer but I was a software tester for nearly seven years. The lead programmer for the developers I worked with was responsible for the quality of the code in each build. Sometimes programmers got fired if they can't do their job.
The underlying problem is that too many programmers are willing to copy and paste code rather than think through what they need to code.
Remember the left-pad crisis that broke the Internet because a developer removed his npm packages over a dispute? How hard is to write a left-pad function?
I chose instead to program an EPLD and presented my solution to the TA with a single IC.
Too many people have forgotten what circuit design was before processors. I took electronics courses in the early 1990's. I recently got back into it now that I'm older and have the money to pursue it as a proper hobby. Whenever I ask on an electronics forum how to do something without a processor, I don't get any answers. The default answer to every problem these days is to drop a processor in and figure out the rest in code.
Did you eat them, in addition to your 1500 calorie a day diet? Is that why you weigh 350 pounds? A loser like that probably thinks he gets fired because everyone is jealous. Maybe calls it a lay off while trolling slashdot, remembering when he could get a job in government IT. Maybe self publishes a vanity novel online and thinks anyone cares.
Look in the mirror, asshat, and find the real loser.
Their RAM budget for the answer sheet was 256 bytes.
Unlikely. Many of the handheld electronic toys from the 1970's didn't have processors. Without a processor, you don't need RAM. The games were hard coded in logic gates
Grade 3 homework problem: find the volume of a person and calculate how many people can fit in your house.
Or how many college students can fit into a five-bedroom Victorian? Answer: 13.
Figuring out an unclaimed $500 long distance phone bill each month was nearly impossible. (My parents gave me a calling card so I wasn't involved with mathematical discussions.) When the city declared that each household could only put out three garbage cans per week (we were putting out seven garbage cans), and no one wanted to pitch in for dumpster service, everyone moved out. The last guy out had the privilege of notifying the landlord that original tenants moved out ten years before. We had 300+ people at our going away party and the police promptly shut us down at 10PM.
As a kid, I loved the Coleco Wiz Quiz: The Computer Question & Answer Game. Each cartridge book had 1,001 trivia questions. I was on my third cartridge book when I had my first epiphany by noticing a specific pattern between all three cartridge books: the answer for question #1 was the always same, so was the answer for question #2,..., so was the answer for question #1001. Since I had memorized the sequence for 1,001 questions and answers, it took me 15 minutes to go through the third cartridge book without ever reading the questions and answers. I got each and every question right. My immediate action was to throw the game into the trash, as knowing the sequence took the fun out of learning new trivia questions.
What I learned from this epiphany was that I could recognize patterns. When I got an Atari 2600 a few years later and started playing video games, I found more patterns and started beating the video games. I would later work at Accolade/Infogrames/Atari (same company,
different owners, multiple personality disorder) for six years (1997-2004), testing 60+ video games, writing 30,000+ bug reports and leading ten titles through testing. When I got into IT support, I became an expert troubleshooter because I could recognize patterns and find solutions.
Basic on an Apple II....and pretty much every other computer at that point. That pretty much was the choice for learning how to program back in the mid-80's.
Logo for the Apple II was popular at my middle school at that time. I didn't like the class because I found out I came from a "poor" family that couldn't afford an Apple ][ and didn't get cable for MTV. We went from just being kids to kids with socioeconomic identifiers.
Logo was my first programming language. Indirectly through the Big Trak toy (the 1970's version, not the iPhone version). Directly on the Apple ][ in the seventh grade (1983).
I was never diagnosed with autism. Everyone just assumed I had autism by my appearance. Never mind that I routinely scored the annual evaluations on the genius side ("statistical flukes"), had a college-level reading comprehension after eight years in Special Ed classes (school officials couldn't call that a "statistical fluke"), and skipped high school to go to community college.
Did you write the hosts file software before or after you were diagnosed as a retard?
You're confusing me with Linus Torvalds. I didn't touch Linux until 1997.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but how would you know?
When my late father passed away, I sat down at his desk to sort through his paperwork and discovered that it was organized the same way as I organized my desk. We have never discussed how to organize our desks.That made settling his estate quite easy. The older I get the more I become my father.
My mother didn't start having affairs with other men until after I was born. Mongolism was the proper term back in the 1970's. Which I didn't have but I did have an undiagnosed hearing loss in one that would account for speech impediment. My father was my biological father.
One of the great mysteries in my family is how I was born (second child) as a ten-pound bowling ball (doctor told my moms she had twins) to two very skinny people. Of course, I had to look like the poster child mongolism and promptly got diagnosed as mentally retarded by the school system. My father stopped drinking, my mother started drinking.
When I took my car over to Sear's to get new tires a few years ago, I was told that I had a oil leak from the drain plug and the mechanic showed me it was the crimped foil gasket. I recently had my oil changed by Jiffy Lube. I drove over to Jiffy Lube, they took a look at it and informed me that the new drain plug got installed wrong. I asked them, "What new drain plug?" They couldn't explain to me how or why I got a new drain plug.
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Let's dig up some rumors about someone who says that someone said something and see how many people we can convince that they're thoroughly despicable.
You don't need the news for that. I get that here all the time on Slashdot.
Even with your 800 headhunters that you talked to 10 times a day for two years?
You need to work harder at misrepresenting my positions. How do you ever expect to get ahead in life as a Troll?
Seems to me you are extremely inefficient in your "energy expended" to results ratio.
That's because people are involved. If this was rocket science, 92 million Americans would have coal miner jobs.
Seldom do you see certified bridge engineers cutting a pasting features of a bridge design into another another.
I'm not so sure about that. I worked a few years in construction with my father. He examined the blueprints for every project carefully to order his list of materials and occasionally finds minor mistakes that he need to correct on the ground. One day he found a three-foot wide mistake between two pages of the blueprint for the same wall. The architect called bullshit because the two pages line up perfectly with each other. So my father had the architect and main contractor walk the layout on the ground for the foundation before it got poured. Lo and behold, a three-foot wide gap was found that prevented the wall from lining up. That problem was in the blueprint and not how the foundation guys laid the layout, although the main contractor yelled at them for not catching the mistake soon.
I was a black box tester for nearly seven years. When I graduated from community college with A.S. degree in computer programming in 2007, I wanted to get a job as a white box tester. Never got hired. Went into I.T. support and the rest was history.
We shouldn't be asking why people are copying bad code, we should be asking why they need to.
Not sure why you're rephrasing my statement.
They'll have a new job in three months anyway, so why would they care that the software is crap, insecure and unsupportable?
The lead programmer (or project manager) should review the code and then beat them with a pointy stick if code was unacceptable. I'm not a professional programmer but I was a software tester for nearly seven years. The lead programmer for the developers I worked with was responsible for the quality of the code in each build. Sometimes programmers got fired if they can't do their job.
Shitty mediocre life, real ugly and fat, and you "write blogs" hoping someone would read them so you can get a tenth of a penny.
I'm on track to make an extra $50+ in advertising revenues on Slashdot this money.
The underlying problem is that too many programmers are willing to copy and paste code rather than think through what they need to code.
Remember the left-pad crisis that broke the Internet because a developer removed his npm packages over a dispute? How hard is to write a left-pad function?
I chose instead to program an EPLD and presented my solution to the TA with a single IC.
Too many people have forgotten what circuit design was before processors. I took electronics courses in the early 1990's. I recently got back into it now that I'm older and have the money to pursue it as a proper hobby. Whenever I ask on an electronics forum how to do something without a processor, I don't get any answers. The default answer to every problem these days is to drop a processor in and figure out the rest in code.
Did you eat them, in addition to your 1500 calorie a day diet? Is that why you weigh 350 pounds? A loser like that probably thinks he gets fired because everyone is jealous. Maybe calls it a lay off while trolling slashdot, remembering when he could get a job in government IT. Maybe self publishes a vanity novel online and thinks anyone cares.
Look in the mirror, asshat, and find the real loser.
Their RAM budget for the answer sheet was 256 bytes.
Unlikely. Many of the handheld electronic toys from the 1970's didn't have processors. Without a processor, you don't need RAM. The games were hard coded in logic gates
Grade 3 homework problem: find the volume of a person and calculate how many people can fit in your house.
Or how many college students can fit into a five-bedroom Victorian? Answer: 13.
Figuring out an unclaimed $500 long distance phone bill each month was nearly impossible. (My parents gave me a calling card so I wasn't involved with mathematical discussions.) When the city declared that each household could only put out three garbage cans per week (we were putting out seven garbage cans), and no one wanted to pitch in for dumpster service, everyone moved out. The last guy out had the privilege of notifying the landlord that original tenants moved out ten years before. We had 300+ people at our going away party and the police promptly shut us down at 10PM.
Here in the US, we are stuck with Common Core revelations.
Are people still making a fuss about Common Core now that Obama is out of office?
As a kid, I loved the Coleco Wiz Quiz: The Computer Question & Answer Game. Each cartridge book had 1,001 trivia questions. I was on my third cartridge book when I had my first epiphany by noticing a specific pattern between all three cartridge books: the answer for question #1 was the always same, so was the answer for question #2, ..., so was the answer for question #1001. Since I had memorized the sequence for 1,001 questions and answers, it took me 15 minutes to go through the third cartridge book without ever reading the questions and answers. I got each and every question right. My immediate action was to throw the game into the trash, as knowing the sequence took the fun out of learning new trivia questions.
What I learned from this epiphany was that I could recognize patterns. When I got an Atari 2600 a few years later and started playing video games, I found more patterns and started beating the video games. I would later work at Accolade/Infogrames/Atari (same company, different owners, multiple personality disorder) for six years (1997-2004), testing 60+ video games, writing 30,000+ bug reports and leading ten titles through testing. When I got into IT support, I became an expert troubleshooter because I could recognize patterns and find solutions.
Basic on an Apple II....and pretty much every other computer at that point. That pretty much was the choice for learning how to program back in the mid-80's.
Logo for the Apple II was popular at my middle school at that time. I didn't like the class because I found out I came from a "poor" family that couldn't afford an Apple ][ and didn't get cable for MTV. We went from just being kids to kids with socioeconomic identifiers.
Logo was my first programming language. Indirectly through the Big Trak toy (the 1970's version, not the iPhone version). Directly on the Apple ][ in the seventh grade (1983).
That explains your autism.
I was never diagnosed with autism. Everyone just assumed I had autism by my appearance. Never mind that I routinely scored the annual evaluations on the genius side ("statistical flukes"), had a college-level reading comprehension after eight years in Special Ed classes (school officials couldn't call that a "statistical fluke"), and skipped high school to go to community college.
Did you write the hosts file software before or after you were diagnosed as a retard?
You're confusing me with Linus Torvalds. I didn't touch Linux until 1997.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but how would you know?
When my late father passed away, I sat down at his desk to sort through his paperwork and discovered that it was organized the same way as I organized my desk. We have never discussed how to organize our desks.That made settling his estate quite easy. The older I get the more I become my father.
Batman Voice: "My parents are dead!"
My mother didn't start having affairs with other men until after I was born. Mongolism was the proper term back in the 1970's. Which I didn't have but I did have an undiagnosed hearing loss in one that would account for speech impediment. My father was my biological father.
It's not everyday you get genius-level commentary. ;)
One of the great mysteries in my family is how I was born (second child) as a ten-pound bowling ball (doctor told my moms she had twins) to two very skinny people. Of course, I had to look like the poster child mongolism and promptly got diagnosed as mentally retarded by the school system. My father stopped drinking, my mother started drinking.
They're using Python 3 and not Python 2. I switched my codebase to Python 3 and uninstalled Python 2 a few years ago from my Windows PCs.
When I took my car over to Sear's to get new tires a few years ago, I was told that I had a oil leak from the drain plug and the mechanic showed me it was the crimped foil gasket. I recently had my oil changed by Jiffy Lube. I drove over to Jiffy Lube, they took a look at it and informed me that the new drain plug got installed wrong. I asked them, "What new drain plug?" They couldn't explain to me how or why I got a new drain plug.
Is there seriously ANY thread on Slashdot that you don't shit up telling people what a miserable financial failure you are?
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