In the old days, speculation would have run rampant, were the plane terrorists puppets of the Soviets? If they were, armed forces to Defcon 1, missiles and submarines spooled up and waiting, all on a hair trigger.
The old guard knew and feared Mutually Assured Destruction... these terror bombers don't, it's amazing, actually, how to create an army of one-use bombs.
See I've been that guy, the jack of all trades, who picked up the slack when needed and did more than just my "core job." If you're getting your primary responsibilities and tasks and projects done, there's no reason why you can't be "that guy" helping out wherever possible. More people know you, sing your praises, and spread word about your skills to others, including to their superiors.
Then again, I've only done this in companies smaller than 2000 people, you YMMV.
Then again, it has burned me when two projects I was involved in started both turning sour at the same time - you're boss has to know what's going on and let him prioritize things. If other people need your help, they'll make their case to your boss - let him deliver the bad news.
Honestly, I believe the shoot-down theory is bunk, but you don't need a missile (and commensurate explosives residue) to take down a modern airliner. A few 20mm rounds from a cannon (all active USAF/Navy interceptors have cannons) shredding the aft control surfaces or the cockpit is enough to do it.
Not that I believe it. I remember the state of cockpit "security" before 9/11. I know how easy it would have been to take control of a plane if you had the motive, means and opportunity.
No, I certainly don't think wooden boats could compare to a modern post-PanaMax container ship. Hence why I prefixed MY post with [Troll], which I thought it was pretty obvious it was.:-)
Which is utter bullshit, because of this wonderful invention called a computer, which has databases, which store information about lines and phone numbers. How do you think the carriers dealt with it for so long with collect calling? The system is in place. The reality of wireless in the USA is that when it was deployed, receiving party had to pay simply because the rates were $3-10 per minute. And inertia has kept that firmly in place, even though there are more wireless phones than wired in the USA now.
PHP has already come and gone with a major version incompatible change with the whole globals fiasco. Hindsight 20/20 and all that, it was still a major pain in the ass, having to have two versions of PHP installed to run my apps, simply because a language "allowed" developers to do poor, security-sacrificing things....
In my personal experience, when I left BASIC behind nearly 20 years ago, all my languages have had sub-context delimiters
VB:
If ( cond ) then End If
C++/C
if ( cond ) { }
Java
if ( cond ) { }
Even though some of those languages support excluding the delimiters, I never do. I never got in that habit, even with JavaScript. I only barely can contain myself from fixing all the code I maintain when other people do it (patching rules are - no prettiness patches for prettiness sake)... grrr.
Python violates that in such a manner that I really can't work with it. Doesn't make it good, or bad, but it's ODD - it's the ONLY language I've ever thought about using that does it that way. I couldn't wrap my brain around it.:-/
Back in the olden days you couldn't download a software package lickety-split like you can today... Entire 680MB CDs in less than 10 minutes on broadband... That's why the software shelves devolved to mostly quickbooks, turbotax, and video games.
I'm with you wrt C++, though I am predominantly Java these days... I've been keeping up with the new standardization effort - I like the idea of repurposing auto to replace the nastiness that is template variable declaration.
I know for a fact that certain components of Amazon's caching architecture *WERE* in C++, as I supported them deploying ObjectStore for their caching tier. I'm not sure they're *STILL* using it (last I knew was late 2004).
But something of that size is certain to have an agglomeration of tools and languages.
If you mean applets, you could be sort of right. But FTP has been doing this for years (ncftp), and webdav is suitable for doing it now... so you're mostly wrong, insofar as you have stated. Feel free to elaborate...
I found a vi keybinder extension for Eclipse and LOVE it. Now if only Ultraedit would adopt a vi interface, I'd use it. And if they went back to MDI tiled windows. WTF is it with everyone going to tabbed-interfaces? With my super-wide monitor, I can have multiple pages up now side by each....:-/
Well, I came into it in 1994, NFS was already king of the land, and Solaris/SUNOS wasn't. And I really don't get your "hard to administer" bit. If your UID/GIDs are set properly, no big deal... NFS mounts aren't any worse than the myriad of other text file edits that have to be made on *nix hosts.
I guess I'm curious, not trying to start a war or anything...
Strip out J2EE (except the servlet engine) and you've got a much simpler language. J2EE was an evolution in a shit-ton of best-practices that really didn't seem to pan out very well. Software is still hard to write, hard to maintain, hard to build extensible, reusable engines...
I can't tell you the amount of C++ libraries that I've chewed through over the years and the horrible experiences I've had getting different mallocs to work together, debugging combination debug and release configurations...
90% of the stuff I use written in C++ and VB and Python is also kludgy and prone to failure.
It's not the language, it's the author.
Java epitomizes the whole write-once-run-anywhere wish all us developers wish were reality. It's pretty close, but implementation and platform differences still exist. The fact though is that writing file system and socket code and complicated DB-centric software is easy with Java, and it has a huge and robust toolset built around it.
It has it's failings, just like any other language...
Only time I've ever seen Slashdot feel the/. effect was 9/11. Mostly that's because slashdot is a nearly 100% text site, and isn't crushed trying to ship megabytes of gif's jpg's and flash objects to 100,000 visitors.
Yah, but back then you didn't have to listen to twenty cube mates talking on the phone, some idiot in the kitchenette barking mad laughter at some cute girls antics trying to get laid...
You got fresh air, birds chirping, sunshine (and rain and snow)... and all the efficiency your OWN hands could produce.
Granted you died at 50... but who's to say that's not any better than our sealed boxes of unproductive futile commercialism of today?
I'll never forget the time I bought a $48 HP deskjet at CompUSA. The salesdroid comes over trying to sell me the warranty package for replacement.
Him: Would you like to buy an extended warranty with that? Me: I'm good man. Him: What if your printer breaks? You can get a one year coverage policy that'll replace it. Me: Really? What's it cost? Him: 50 dollars - me looks at printer price tag - Me: For that price, I could just buy a new printer and have two dollars left over... - him walks away -
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Absolutely right...
In the old days, speculation would have run rampant, were the plane terrorists puppets of the Soviets? If they were, armed forces to Defcon 1, missiles and submarines spooled up and waiting, all on a hair trigger.
The old guard knew and feared Mutually Assured Destruction... these terror bombers don't, it's amazing, actually, how to create an army of one-use bombs.
See I've been that guy, the jack of all trades, who picked up the slack when needed and did more than just my "core job." If you're getting your primary responsibilities and tasks and projects done, there's no reason why you can't be "that guy" helping out wherever possible. More people know you, sing your praises, and spread word about your skills to others, including to their superiors.
Then again, I've only done this in companies smaller than 2000 people, you YMMV.
Then again, it has burned me when two projects I was involved in started both turning sour at the same time - you're boss has to know what's going on and let him prioritize things. If other people need your help, they'll make their case to your boss - let him deliver the bad news.
Honestly, I believe the shoot-down theory is bunk, but you don't need a missile (and commensurate explosives residue) to take down a modern airliner. A few 20mm rounds from a cannon (all active USAF/Navy interceptors have cannons) shredding the aft control surfaces or the cockpit is enough to do it.
Not that I believe it. I remember the state of cockpit "security" before 9/11. I know how easy it would have been to take control of a plane if you had the motive, means and opportunity.
No, I certainly don't think wooden boats could compare to a modern post-PanaMax container ship. Hence why I prefixed MY post with [Troll], which I thought it was pretty obvious it was. :-)
Which is utter bullshit, because of this wonderful invention called a computer, which has databases, which store information about lines and phone numbers. How do you think the carriers dealt with it for so long with collect calling? The system is in place. The reality of wireless in the USA is that when it was deployed, receiving party had to pay simply because the rates were $3-10 per minute. And inertia has kept that firmly in place, even though there are more wireless phones than wired in the USA now.
That's why it's retarded.
OMG the sky is falling...
What were we doing for the first 10,000 years of prehistory before the invention of the steel-hulled boat?
And they got the slap on the wrist instead of the complete breakup that they deserved, specifically thanks to the new Bush Administration.
sigh...
:-P
same difference.
PHP has already come and gone with a major version incompatible change with the whole globals fiasco. Hindsight 20/20 and all that, it was still a major pain in the ass, having to have two versions of PHP installed to run my apps, simply because a language "allowed" developers to do poor, security-sacrificing things....
regards.
In my personal experience, when I left BASIC behind nearly 20 years ago, all my languages have had sub-context delimiters
:-/
VB:
If ( cond ) then
End If
C++/C
if ( cond ) {
}
Java
if ( cond ) {
}
Even though some of those languages support excluding the delimiters, I never do. I never got in that habit, even with JavaScript. I only barely can contain myself from fixing all the code I maintain when other people do it (patching rules are - no prettiness patches for prettiness sake)... grrr.
Python violates that in such a manner that I really can't work with it. Doesn't make it good, or bad, but it's ODD - it's the ONLY language I've ever thought about using that does it that way. I couldn't wrap my brain around it.
Not if you want responsive UI's. Threading is a must.
:-)
And ultimately why 90% of the GUI interfaces out there are crap whenever your system starts to get slightly loaded...
Peace. I've tried Python. Personally I dislike it, but I'll never ban if from my system simply on religious grounds...
Back in the olden days you couldn't download a software package lickety-split like you can today... Entire 680MB CDs in less than 10 minutes on broadband... That's why the software shelves devolved to mostly quickbooks, turbotax, and video games.
Curious... When Java and C# are built on the syntax that C++ created you call it baroque? Care to give some opinions/examples?
I'm with you wrt C++, though I am predominantly Java these days... I've been keeping up with the new standardization effort - I like the idea of repurposing auto to replace the nastiness that is template variable declaration.
I know for a fact that certain components of Amazon's caching architecture *WERE* in C++, as I supported them deploying ObjectStore for their caching tier. I'm not sure they're *STILL* using it (last I knew was late 2004).
But something of that size is certain to have an agglomeration of tools and languages.
If you mean applets, you could be sort of right. But FTP has been doing this for years (ncftp), and webdav is suitable for doing it now... so you're mostly wrong, insofar as you have stated. Feel free to elaborate...
I found a vi keybinder extension for Eclipse and LOVE it. Now if only Ultraedit would adopt a vi interface, I'd use it. And if they went back to MDI tiled windows. WTF is it with everyone going to tabbed-interfaces? With my super-wide monitor, I can have multiple pages up now side by each.... :-/
Well, I came into it in 1994, NFS was already king of the land, and Solaris/SUNOS wasn't. And I really don't get your "hard to administer" bit. If your UID/GIDs are set properly, no big deal... NFS mounts aren't any worse than the myriad of other text file edits that have to be made on *nix hosts.
I guess I'm curious, not trying to start a war or anything...
Strip out J2EE (except the servlet engine) and you've got a much simpler language. J2EE was an evolution in a shit-ton of best-practices that really didn't seem to pan out very well. Software is still hard to write, hard to maintain, hard to build extensible, reusable engines...
I can't tell you the amount of C++ libraries that I've chewed through over the years and the horrible experiences I've had getting different mallocs to work together, debugging combination debug and release configurations...
Hah, at least you're honest...
90% of the stuff I use written in C++ and VB and Python is also kludgy and prone to failure.
It's not the language, it's the author.
Java epitomizes the whole write-once-run-anywhere wish all us developers wish were reality. It's pretty close, but implementation and platform differences still exist. The fact though is that writing file system and socket code and complicated DB-centric software is easy with Java, and it has a huge and robust toolset built around it.
It has it's failings, just like any other language...
Only time I've ever seen Slashdot feel the /. effect was 9/11. Mostly that's because slashdot is a nearly 100% text site, and isn't crushed trying to ship megabytes of gif's jpg's and flash objects to 100,000 visitors.
I really don't understand the hard-on the world has for multitouch...
:-/
It's great in some use cases, but keyboards are still top dog for getting things done....
Just carry an EPIRB. If you need 911 or search and rescue, you'll get both with one simple device.
Yah, but back then you didn't have to listen to twenty cube mates talking on the phone, some idiot in the kitchenette barking mad laughter at some cute girls antics trying to get laid...
You got fresh air, birds chirping, sunshine (and rain and snow)... and all the efficiency your OWN hands could produce.
Granted you died at 50... but who's to say that's not any better than our sealed boxes of unproductive futile commercialism of today?
I'll never forget the time I bought a $48 HP deskjet at CompUSA. The salesdroid comes over trying to sell me the warranty package for replacement.
Him: Would you like to buy an extended warranty with that?
Me: I'm good man.
Him: What if your printer breaks? You can get a one year coverage policy that'll replace it.
Me: Really? What's it cost?
Him: 50 dollars
- me looks at printer price tag -
Me: For that price, I could just buy a new printer and have two dollars left over...
- him walks away -