My advice, having been a programmer and sysadmin for 14 years, is for you to learn Linux and Windows sysadmin; you'll be a much more well-rounded developer, and us sysadmins will hate you less when you know and can understand the pain we feel when we have to deploy and support your overengineered and crafty shit.:-)
You don't have to be a master sysadmin, but you should be comfortable doing it...
I used to work for a place with a very technical product, and had 5+ year C++ programmers doing tech support. We were authorized with specific clients to push out patches developed by support techs for special circumstances or blatant errors without needing to go through the full QA and review cycle. It wasn't done very often, and since it was a database product we were very terrified to do it for fear of data corruption. Even if we never gave the patch to a customer, our work often ended up as the approved fix.
Some fixes truly are simple, even if the problem is horrible.
80% of the time? The ONLY time I haven't found an solution to a problem using Google is with
1. Bleeding edge hardware (ATI/NVIDIA you suck) (Closed or Open Source) 2. Rare Technologies (MAPI, RogueWave you suck) 3. Code I write myself.
I'd say closer to 99.9% of the time. It is however how you phrase your solution, and I find that my ability to solve problems correctly is mostly my ability to distill a problem down to a 10-20 term Google phrase.
Yes, the local shop carries 100% Kona, and Jamaican Blue Mountain (which I can't really stand). My favorite times in Maui were sitting outside BadAss and just watching the waves break...
But my mates girlfriend buys the $8 blend crap at Stop & Shop.:(
Welcome to corporate procurement, where box of 10 reams of paper costs the company $100 of which $26 goes to the vendor, and $74 gets split amongst the collection of individuals who brought the vendor in as kickbacks.
Where a $1500 computer we could purchase from newegg is $3000 from lenovo simply because it has a three year warranty.
It's amazing the consistency you can get at a single store as well. My local dunkin's makes a sweet cup of coffee in the mornings, 5 - 7, but after that I can't get a good tasting cup until the next day. I'm not sure if it's just that the machines are clean or the crew, but the dunkin's two miles away makes crap every day of the week.
I've got a Treo 700 with a tethered data plan for $80/month with a 4GB cap. Use that and a decent power-managing laptop, and I average 4-5 hours unplugged. I get 600 or 750minuts of airtime, free nights and weekends, and unlimited SMS. Gosh, I remember when SMS was free for me...
During a recent crazy snowstorm up in the metro Boston area, I spent four or five hours camped out in a Bertucci's eating, drinking, having coffee, surfing the net on my evdo card, and doing work on my english final. I get more "work" done out of the office than in it.
I've got a dunkin donuts down the street, a starbucks a mile away, and if I'm not brewing my own dunkin' beans, I'm buying at Coffee Sensations, which has an unbelievable selection of hot coffee on tap, REAL Kona beans, hot food, free wifi and a dining area uncluttered with 100's of useless branded trinkets blocking the way and making an already crowded store less appealing.
Starbucks might be hip if it wasn't for the crass commercialism...
How much of every cup of starbucks coffee is advertising?
hear hear! Finding GOOOD Paranoia GMs is tough though. He must have a sarcastic wit, quick as lightning, and have a sadistic personality to boot. If your characters survive unto a second gaming session you're either very lucky, or a commie mutant traitor and need to be shot.
By that token, every egg and every sperm spilt on the ground is tantamount to murder, since life truly begins with one's parents and the living cells that are their genetic material.
Same here. I think it helps that I grew up driving tractors with suicide knobs and popping wheelies in the backhoe (not a tough thing to do, really).:-)
Pretty much the only time I drive two handed is highway cruising, at the 4 and 8 o clock, or in snow or rain.
In Massachusetts, signals are NOT a courtesy but the Law. If you cause an accident because of a failure to signal, you're going to A) Get cited and B) Pay all the damages.
As far as I know, there are no more direct-drive propulsion systems left in the US Navy. Almost all of the are some form of turbine powered electric drive.
Cellphones are banned because they want you using the $5/min skyfones.
It's only the ubiquitousness of cellphones now that they're thinking of changing their tunes. But you'll only get an AT&T flight, or a Verizon flight, or a Sprint flight. Not all three.:-/
| I cry bullshit.
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| Dec 2006, 17" macbook pro, starting price $1999
| Dec 2007, 17" macbook pro, starting price $2799
|
| Dropping prices my ass.
Nice try, selling the 2006 low-end 15" as a 17". In the real world the price stayed the same - which still means Apple drops prices, just not for all products.
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You're right. I did some travelling in the Wayback Machine, and you're right. I was wrong.:-/ Huh, I could have sworn they were far cheaper back in the day. Must be confused.
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My advice, having been a programmer and sysadmin for 14 years, is for you to learn Linux and Windows sysadmin; you'll be a much more well-rounded developer, and us sysadmins will hate you less when you know and can understand the pain we feel when we have to deploy and support your overengineered and crafty shit. :-)
You don't have to be a master sysadmin, but you should be comfortable doing it...
I used to work for a place with a very technical product, and had 5+ year C++ programmers doing tech support. We were authorized with specific clients to push out patches developed by support techs for special circumstances or blatant errors without needing to go through the full QA and review cycle. It wasn't done very often, and since it was a database product we were very terrified to do it for fear of data corruption. Even if we never gave the patch to a customer, our work often ended up as the approved fix.
Some fixes truly are simple, even if the problem is horrible.
80% of the time? The ONLY time I haven't found an solution to a problem using Google is with
1. Bleeding edge hardware (ATI/NVIDIA you suck) (Closed or Open Source)
2. Rare Technologies (MAPI, RogueWave you suck)
3. Code I write myself.
I'd say closer to 99.9% of the time. It is however how you phrase your solution, and I find that my ability to solve problems correctly is mostly my ability to distill a problem down to a 10-20 term Google phrase.
I'm sorry, I thought I was clear that that was a data AND voice plan.
Verizon Wireless does offer a ~$40 broadband plan.
Coworking, interesting concept, best suited for urban/dense suburban areas I'd guess?
Yes, the local shop carries 100% Kona, and Jamaican Blue Mountain (which I can't really stand). My favorite times in Maui were sitting outside BadAss and just watching the waves break...
:(
But my mates girlfriend buys the $8 blend crap at Stop & Shop.
Welcome to corporate procurement, where box of 10 reams of paper costs the company $100 of which $26 goes to the vendor, and $74 gets split amongst the collection of individuals who brought the vendor in as kickbacks.
Where a $1500 computer we could purchase from newegg is $3000 from lenovo simply because it has a three year warranty.
It's amazing the consistency you can get at a single store as well. My local dunkin's makes a sweet cup of coffee in the mornings, 5 - 7, but after that I can't get a good tasting cup until the next day. I'm not sure if it's just that the machines are clean or the crew, but the dunkin's two miles away makes crap every day of the week.
I've got a Treo 700 with a tethered data plan for $80/month with a 4GB cap. Use that and a decent power-managing laptop, and I average 4-5 hours unplugged. I get 600 or 750minuts of airtime, free nights and weekends, and unlimited SMS. Gosh, I remember when SMS was free for me...
During a recent crazy snowstorm up in the metro Boston area, I spent four or five hours camped out in a Bertucci's eating, drinking, having coffee, surfing the net on my evdo card, and doing work on my english final. I get more "work" done out of the office than in it.
I've got a dunkin donuts down the street, a starbucks a mile away, and if I'm not brewing my own dunkin' beans, I'm buying at Coffee Sensations, which has an unbelievable selection of hot coffee on tap, REAL Kona beans, hot food, free wifi and a dining area uncluttered with 100's of useless branded trinkets blocking the way and making an already crowded store less appealing.
Starbucks might be hip if it wasn't for the crass commercialism...
How much of every cup of starbucks coffee is advertising?
Yeah, it's called TrueCrypt, and I use it everyday.
Jeez, some of us figured that out 8 years ago when we invented auction sniping...
Come on, that's like three extra lines of code?
hear hear! Finding GOOOD Paranoia GMs is tough though. He must have a sarcastic wit, quick as lightning, and have a sadistic personality to boot. If your characters survive unto a second gaming session you're either very lucky, or a commie mutant traitor and need to be shot.
By that token, every egg and every sperm spilt on the ground is tantamount to murder, since life truly begins with one's parents and the living cells that are their genetic material.
But hey, then we're all murderers.
Unless you define "Logic" as "faith" in which case, you'd be right. And a crackpot.
I can objectively demonstrate that if I put one unit next to another unit, I will have two units.
Logic.
The antithesis of Faith.
I worship the sun... But I don't pray to the sun. I don't want to presume on our friendship. No, I don't pray to the sun. I pray to Joe Peschi...
~ Apologies to George Carlin.
ex-cox ?
I have an air-raid siren as a ringtone for my boss and any work number.
It is so very NOT appreciated by my boss.
Same here. I think it helps that I grew up driving tractors with suicide knobs and popping wheelies in the backhoe (not a tough thing to do, really). :-)
Pretty much the only time I drive two handed is highway cruising, at the 4 and 8 o clock, or in snow or rain.
In Massachusetts, signals are NOT a courtesy but the Law. If you cause an accident because of a failure to signal, you're going to A) Get cited and B) Pay all the damages.
As far as I know, there are no more direct-drive propulsion systems left in the US Navy. Almost all of the are some form of turbine powered electric drive.
12 MP photos. Videos. iTunes.
Hell, my personal photo collection alone is approaching 120GB, and that's for the past 3 or 4 years.
Cellphones are banned because they want you using the $5/min skyfones.
:-/
It's only the ubiquitousness of cellphones now that they're thinking of changing their tunes. But you'll only get an AT&T flight, or a Verizon flight, or a Sprint flight. Not all three.
I hate the free market, sometimes.
It's called yum, and you can create your own repositories with little effort.
This problem has been "conquered" on Linux platforms for at least seven years.
| I cry bullshit.
|
| Dec 2006, 17" macbook pro, starting price $1999
| Dec 2007, 17" macbook pro, starting price $2799
|
| Dropping prices my ass.
Nice try, selling the 2006 low-end 15" as a 17". In the real world the price stayed the same - which still means Apple drops prices, just not for all products.
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You're right. I did some travelling in the Wayback Machine, and you're right. I was wrong.