I'm unfamiliar with Google Scholar; I was speaking of Google in general, and it specifically was less useful that my university resources. I apologize if I confused you, and thanks for the info!
See, that would be useful. Especially if decent abstracts are provided of copywritten items. I'd happy use a per-pay system if I can at least get some idea of what I'm buying. That's what I like about Safari Books online so much.
The best way to learn the code is to start fixing some low or medium severity bugs. Something that's not a sev1 is either not so endemic to the system that changing it breaks everything, nor is it likely to be some random data corruption issue that will be impossible to find. It will be stupid user-input problems, or interaction issues.
Most of my productive code learning was in the first three months of bug-fixing. I think that's why most newhires end up on bug fixing as a rule - it's the fast-path to comprehension.
I just did a biography on E.A. Poe, and it wouldn't have been nearly as good if I didn't have a decent dead-tree version of his life story and access to other writing through EBSCO and Lexis Academic. There is a LOT of digital content available to researchers online, you just have to pay for it.
I'm lucky in that my IT fee at my local comm. college includes access to Medline, pubmed, ebsco and about 30 other online repositories. Google can't match that.
Windows 2000 hibernate used to be hit or miss, but XP has been rock solid for me, until I upgraded to 2GB of memory, when it broke. Then I had to get the hotfix to make it work again, and it's back to being rock solid.
I mostly just use standby back and forth on my drive home from work, (short enough) but if I'm about to run out of battery in Starbucks, say, I have the hibernate option.
I had a coworker, 99, 2000 maybe who had the entire Microsoft internal knowledgebase from Stream on a collection of a dozen CDs. As a developer, those CDs were like gold-plated gold. I'm sorry I don't have them anymore...
Our old 24x7 support phone was this way. We had a $9.95 plan from Verizon with 30 incoming minutes a month that we fought like hell to keep every time we needed a new phone. We didn't get very many calls on it, so we didn't want to throw money away. We'd only use it long enough to take down the users name and number and call them back from a landline.
I disagree. Microsoft's second level tech support, or the MSDN support guys, are absolutely wonderful. It's the first level support that's farmed out to call centers like Stream that sucks rocks.
It's bad enough MSDN Library still doesn't work properly with Firefox after three years of using it. It took until last year for Microsoft.com to work even remotely well in a non-IE browser... I can only imagine how many people will stop using microsoft.com altogether.
If it wasn't required to visit windowsupdate.com, it would be the nail in IE's coffin.
Me... my kabar mule has got me in trouble several times, the case blends into the strap on my backpack. I finally had to surrender it at Logan as I didn't have a car I could go stash it in, and Logan doesn't seem to have ANY mail facility whatsoever.
10: Data dedup -> means single-instance storage. That powerpoint you sent around about the companies revenue results for 2007. Instead of 200 copies on the network, only ONE is stored. Or for backups, instead of backing up 200 copies of the same Windows Server 2003 installation, only one is stored to tape. The saving can prove to be immense.
Some products even posit to do block-level changes, so if one page of a word document changes, then only those blocks that changed will be copied. Products from Data Domain and others are entering this space.
I think it can be said that the greatest advancements in human achievement have come with the availability of vast quantities of fresh clean water, and surpluses of food so unimaginable as to end up wasting upwards of half of it.
When people are fat, well fed and free to frolick in cool streams under a noon-day sun, they tend to spend more time thinking, and less suffering.
Cairo. If DNF has longevity, Cairo should certainly knock it from the top vaporware slot of the decade. Promised since 1996, we still don't have it... And Microsoft products are still bollocks to operate.
So is every other product... WTF ever happened to computers being simple to use?
Silly me, when I power on my aircard, and watch the traffic meter when I open Slashdot.org and run up to 320K pretty fast, image traffic sucks. Microsoft.com is work, CNN is absolutely horrible. You take the hit up front caching navigation images and the like, but don't try and claim the problem doesn't exist. It's VERY demonstrable if you take 10 minutes to try.
I should add though, that memory leaks are the easiest of problems to fix assuming you have good regression/unit test coverage or an application load generator. Purify + browsing google, youtube and slashdot in 500+ tabs should have fixed them up pretty nicely.
It's been done in every single commercial software company I've worked for. While we may get lucky and stumble across something in analysis when we've run out of coffee and are just sitting looking through pages upon pages of code trying to refactor something, odds are your problem won't get fixed until you can help us repro it.
Test cases are nice, but clear and concise instructions are good, too. Vague generalizations about what you were doing at the time are useful, but only to a point.
I would rather have one truly OPEN platform to build a computer infrastructure on, than any configuration of Windows and Unix superculture. Operating systems are a solved problem; Witness the co-opting of BSD by Apple. I've been dying for Windows to "run" on a Linux core for years. I think it would be Microsoft's best move - a win32 personality on Linux, and you get to get out of the kernel business.
Ah, but I'm talking out of my ass... I don't want twenty platforms, but one truly open one, and I get that with Linux.
Microsoft is so obsessed with creating APIs that it's built itself a house of cards it doesn't know how to deal with. I've grown to like Vista in my few short hours of using it. It's a pain in the ass, because it's so different, but so was WindowsXP. But I won't be developing applications with the Windows API or.Net. I'm tired of Microsoft obsoleting everything I write, though they may continue to support it. I'm sick of their bundling (I can no longer get IIS as a separate download). I'm sick of them treating me like I'm a pirate, every other download on Microsoft.com requires "validation."
Slashdot Mirror
I cry bullshit.
Dec 2006, 17" macbook pro, starting price $1999
Dec 2007, 17" macbook pro, starting price $2799
Dropping prices my ass.
+1 WTF: Spit coffee out my nose!
I'm unfamiliar with Google Scholar; I was speaking of Google in general, and it specifically was less useful that my university resources. I apologize if I confused you, and thanks for the info!
See, that would be useful. Especially if decent abstracts are provided of copywritten items. I'd happy use a per-pay system if I can at least get some idea of what I'm buying. That's what I like about Safari Books online so much.
Google Scholar with EBSCO, etc... great.
The best way to learn the code is to start fixing some low or medium severity bugs. Something that's not a sev1 is either not so endemic to the system that changing it breaks everything, nor is it likely to be some random data corruption issue that will be impossible to find. It will be stupid user-input problems, or interaction issues.
Most of my productive code learning was in the first three months of bug-fixing. I think that's why most newhires end up on bug fixing as a rule - it's the fast-path to comprehension.
I just did a biography on E.A. Poe, and it wouldn't have been nearly as good if I didn't have a decent dead-tree version of his life story and access to other writing through EBSCO and Lexis Academic. There is a LOT of digital content available to researchers online, you just have to pay for it.
I'm lucky in that my IT fee at my local comm. college includes access to Medline, pubmed, ebsco and about 30 other online repositories. Google can't match that.
Windows 2000 hibernate used to be hit or miss, but XP has been rock solid for me, until I upgraded to 2GB of memory, when it broke. Then I had to get the hotfix to make it work again, and it's back to being rock solid.
I mostly just use standby back and forth on my drive home from work, (short enough) but if I'm about to run out of battery in Starbucks, say, I have the hibernate option.
Good stuff.
We have it. It's called yum. :-D
I had a coworker, 99, 2000 maybe who had the entire Microsoft internal knowledgebase from Stream on a collection of a dozen CDs. As a developer, those CDs were like gold-plated gold. I'm sorry I don't have them anymore...
Our old 24x7 support phone was this way. We had a $9.95 plan from Verizon with 30 incoming minutes a month that we fought like hell to keep every time we needed a new phone. We didn't get very many calls on it, so we didn't want to throw money away. We'd only use it long enough to take down the users name and number and call them back from a landline.
In august I'll have had my cellphone and the same number for 10 years.
I disagree. Microsoft's second level tech support, or the MSDN support guys, are absolutely wonderful. It's the first level support that's farmed out to call centers like Stream that sucks rocks.
It's bad enough MSDN Library still doesn't work properly with Firefox after three years of using it. It took until last year for Microsoft.com to work even remotely well in a non-IE browser... I can only imagine how many people will stop using microsoft.com altogether.
If it wasn't required to visit windowsupdate.com, it would be the nail in IE's coffin.
Me... my kabar mule has got me in trouble several times, the case blends into the strap on my backpack. I finally had to surrender it at Logan as I didn't have a car I could go stash it in, and Logan doesn't seem to have ANY mail facility whatsoever.
10: Data dedup -> means single-instance storage. That powerpoint you sent around about the companies revenue results for 2007. Instead of 200 copies on the network, only ONE is stored. Or for backups, instead of backing up 200 copies of the same Windows Server 2003 installation, only one is stored to tape. The saving can prove to be immense.
Some products even posit to do block-level changes, so if one page of a word document changes, then only those blocks that changed will be copied. Products from Data Domain and others are entering this space.
I think it can be said that the greatest advancements in human achievement have come with the availability of vast quantities of fresh clean water, and surpluses of food so unimaginable as to end up wasting upwards of half of it.
When people are fat, well fed and free to frolick in cool streams under a noon-day sun, they tend to spend more time thinking, and less suffering.
Cairo. If DNF has longevity, Cairo should certainly knock it from the top vaporware slot of the decade. Promised since 1996, we still don't have it... And Microsoft products are still bollocks to operate.
So is every other product... WTF ever happened to computers being simple to use?
All similar to the sorts of problems that plagued 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation nuclear power plants. They'll get licked, eventually.
Just before you all got RIF'd, right? This was 2001, right? :-)
Silly me, when I power on my aircard, and watch the traffic meter when I open Slashdot.org and run up to 320K pretty fast, image traffic sucks. Microsoft.com is work, CNN is absolutely horrible. You take the hit up front caching navigation images and the like, but don't try and claim the problem doesn't exist. It's VERY demonstrable if you take 10 minutes to try.
I should add though, that memory leaks are the easiest of problems to fix assuming you have good regression/unit test coverage or an application load generator. Purify + browsing google, youtube and slashdot in 500+ tabs should have fixed them up pretty nicely.
It's been done in every single commercial software company I've worked for. While we may get lucky and stumble across something in analysis when we've run out of coffee and are just sitting looking through pages upon pages of code trying to refactor something, odds are your problem won't get fixed until you can help us repro it.
Test cases are nice, but clear and concise instructions are good, too. Vague generalizations about what you were doing at the time are useful, but only to a point.
I would rather have one truly OPEN platform to build a computer infrastructure on, than any configuration of Windows and Unix superculture. Operating systems are a solved problem; Witness the co-opting of BSD by Apple. I've been dying for Windows to "run" on a Linux core for years. I think it would be Microsoft's best move - a win32 personality on Linux, and you get to get out of the kernel business.
Ah, but I'm talking out of my ass... I don't want twenty platforms, but one truly open one, and I get that with Linux.
Microsoft is so obsessed with creating APIs that it's built itself a house of cards it doesn't know how to deal with. I've grown to like Vista in my few short hours of using it. It's a pain in the ass, because it's so different, but so was WindowsXP. But I won't be developing applications with the Windows API or .Net. I'm tired of Microsoft obsoleting everything I write, though they may continue to support it. I'm sick of their bundling (I can no longer get IIS as a separate download). I'm sick of them treating me like I'm a pirate, every other download on Microsoft.com requires "validation."
Someone needs to concoct some excuse and validation for a suit of "criminal legislation" and "shameless graft" we can charge these people with.