Before starting my own company I worked fo a little software-company. I got my job there without any much interview and despite being very very young helped to create some of their most important software-Libraries, they are using.
But after a few months, I also was told to supervise some of the hiring-interviews and/or to do some interview by myself.
There was always a programming task involved, which was clearly very hard, but proved (IMHO) nothing. I wouldn't have passed the test, but I showed, that I am useful. We hired some people, which definitly passed the test, but I didn't want them, and they fired them sooner or later.
And I stoped working for this company too, because it sucked my soul out. After being accused of something, I didn't do, there was the point, were no agreement could be reached. And so I left and it was the happiest day in my life, altough I miss some of my coworkers.
> do you think they would of included a pop-up blocker in IE if it wasn't for the torrent of complaints on places like/. ?
Yes, or no. They give a shit, what people like you and me think, they only listen to you, if you decide to buy 20.000 copies of MacOS X if they don't include the features you want.
Get over it. The good old times (which I never experienced, I am too young) in IT are over. The only thing a customer has, is money. You don't give it to them, they don't make any money any more, they do, what you want. Another way, of course, is going public. But in the case of bugs in software noone is really harmed. You likely will not get the same public attention as Nader or Ford with its exploding tires.
I choose carefully, which company delivers me with my goods. I have to. THIS is my duty as a consumer and customer.
> p.s. Thanks for not getting turned off by the tone of my previous rant, everyone needs a little vent now and then;)
> So what? Since when did it become mandatory to launch a boycott the moment you noticed a company doing something wrong? What bizarre world do you live in where everything is good or evil? There's nothing that irritates me more than people trying to apply binary logic to a system where it doesn't fit then going on about how easy it is.
Yes you are sure. But there is a president (a reelected president, I think) which showed as all that everything in the world works this way.
And yes, I think you should start a boycott if you are noticing anything. Tell me, which other ways do I have as a consumer?
> Stop being so self-rightious and pretending you're on the TRUE side of some binary world.
I am European, I am always on the "wrong" side of the world. And I love it there.
But maybe you can enlighten me: Tell me which ways do I have to show a company, that I don't like what they are doing???
> I breathe polluted air, so according to your logic I can't complain about the polluters.
You didn't get the point of my argument. You can complain about pollution or polluters, but you can NOT drive then a big pickup, which consumes 20 to 30 litres per kilometer (which is 4 to 6 times more than my car, which is also big, but I live in Europe)
> Granted, I have no choice, literally, and the monopolization of hardware and software are related. Not the best example, but one that serves up the point.
Whenever something new comes up, some new CPU (e.g. Transmeta), some new Operating System (e.g. BeOS) noone bothers to think one minute about buying one of these. IMHO you have/had enough choices. If you look at the history of PCs and Software there was always a better choice, which didn't win any points.
> I think the core of the "evil" argument is the lack of regulation. Very few privacy protecting laws. The failure to do anything about the MS monopoly. The google cache which stores copyrighted data. The never expiring google tracking cookie. The spyware madness. The spam epidemic. The lack of disclosure of security violations in computer systems, especially for banks and other finanical institutions. Shady marketing practices. Poor product quality and return policies. EULAs. Shrink-wrap "licenses."
Most of these things came out of "no regulation" from the "land of the brave and the unlimited freedom". Yes, you must not show your identity, you have not to tell the government where you live and so on. But this lack of regulation is also applied, where there is a immident need of regulation: in the "free" economy.
> Moving to the forest or somesuch and giving up on technology is both defeatist and counter-productive. We need these tools just to get by.
I own a business, which earns its money with computer and software (oh yes, I am "evil" too *harhar*). But I really don't think, that computers did anything to improve social life, lifestyle, feed children in third world countries. They are tools, which makes people not necessary any more, no more, no less.
Oh. This is soooo sweet!
How many/.ers are here and rant about evil cooperations and so on.
And how many of them are using a PC with IBM/Intel/AMD-CPU, from Dell/Apple/Sony/whatsoever and so on...
This is sooo typical: On the one hand ranting about evil cooperations and on the other hand trying to feed from their hands....
Yes and there is on of your problems. Maybe you don't have to deal with international characters (is there anything behind US borders?) but I have. And character-delimited files are no easy way to exchange data (especially with multibyte characters)
I like XML. It is a great way to describe data in ordered structures and it enhances interoperability.
There is only a problem with "old" programmers. They don't like structured data. They like some weired hacks better.
No it is not fear. I work in IT, I earn my money with computers and I really don't want an electronic counting system. But I am lucky, I live in the real free world, in Europe.
Have you overlooked the prices for 40 or 60 GB harddiskes recently? (I guess they are using 1,8" like in the iPods) And you get a Linux-Environment and a free SDK. So I don't think it's overpriced...
I don't see this so straight. Redhat is still distributing a lot of money to the Fedora (as far, as I know).
I can't go for Debian, because I don't like the GPL, I don't like "stable" version with about 5 years old software, I don't like to rewrite my config-files every time I updated my "unstable".
IMHO Fedora is a great distro.
This IS working for me since Fedora Core 2. I am very very satisfied with Fedora (except the thing about MP3-playing)
But you can't get everything for free. You get a very good operating system with some very good additions to it. So why bother?
If this is not satisfactory, then go to some Debian based solution. I tried, and I returned.
> As for being concerned about rogue states getting their hands on a supercomputer... that is what the US export regulations are for!
I just have to say: There are more things between earth and sky than the Americans can think off.
Very good point!!
And I think, that you are right. Not everything has to have a direct purpose.
Maybe none of the greatest works of art would have been produced if all people had thought like the first poster....
> It's not about the feelings but about Red Hat's legal threat to very existence of CentOS.
Therefore it cannot be ignored.
Have you read the article??? No one (even RedHat) does want to destroy CentOS. It is only a matter of a trademark, which is protected and therefore RedHat has every Right to forbid the use of it, if they don't want it.
And with this step, trying to make them comparable. If you find another "thing" you try to compare it to your database and, "oh my gosh", we already know this one...
I believe that this is a mistake.
> You can perfectly well compare the sequence of two homologous genes from two species and knowing the function of one you can guestimate the function and domains of the other.
Not exactly. This is is a common misbelief. You can say, that these two specimen you compared, are from an equal race, but not exactly from the same species.
No, this is exactly NOT what we need. This is something a geek needs.
You can't compare species with their DNAs. This is a great misbelief. An animal is more than just a little DNA (the same as a human). But this is one further example of throwing some technology and money at a subject, which it doesn't need this and destroying it therefore.
> Besides, Britney Spears is pretty hot man...hehe.
Yeah, but that's not the fact, she should be famous. She should be famous for singing, because she sells herself as a singer.
The problem is not (only) bad taste. Maybe people don't think enough (oh yeah, not only maybe, that's for sure)...
It is not only that. It is not really very effective to write Viruses for an Apple-PC. I use them for a long time and I understand some of the techniques they used in their Operating-System.
So it is not only because of there little market-share (if you look, where Macs are used, they are a perfect target, IMHO)
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Before starting my own company I worked fo a little software-company. I got my job there without any much interview and despite being very very young helped to create some of their most important software-Libraries, they are using.
But after a few months, I also was told to supervise some of the hiring-interviews and/or to do some interview by myself.
There was always a programming task involved, which was clearly very hard, but proved (IMHO) nothing. I wouldn't have passed the test, but I showed, that I am useful. We hired some people, which definitly passed the test, but I didn't want them, and they fired them sooner or later.
And I stoped working for this company too, because it sucked my soul out. After being accused of something, I didn't do, there was the point, were no agreement could be reached. And so I left and it was the happiest day in my life, altough I miss some of my coworkers.
>Complain
/. ?
;)
Nope. I think wrong way.y
> do you think they would of included a pop-up blocker in IE if it wasn't for the torrent of complaints on places like
Yes, or no. They give a shit, what people like you and me think, they only listen to you, if you decide to buy 20.000 copies of MacOS X if they don't include the features you want.
Get over it. The good old times (which I never experienced, I am too young) in IT are over. The only thing a customer has, is money. You don't give it to them, they don't make any money any more, they do, what you want.
Another way, of course, is going public. But in the case of bugs in software noone is really harmed. You likely will not get the same public attention as Nader or Ford with its exploding tires.
I choose carefully, which company delivers me with my goods. I have to. THIS is my duty as a consumer and customer.
> p.s. Thanks for not getting turned off by the tone of my previous rant, everyone needs a little vent now and then
No Problem. I work in IT. I am used to it *g*
Have I said, that I hate /. for not being possible to edit posts?
> So what? Since when did it become mandatory to launch a boycott the moment you noticed a company doing something wrong? What bizarre world do you live in where everything is good or evil? There's nothing that irritates me more than people trying to apply binary logic to a system where it doesn't fit then going on about how easy it is.
Yes you are sure. But there is a president (a reelected president, I think) which showed as all that everything in the world works this way. And yes, I think you should start a boycott if you are noticing anything. Tell me, which other ways do I have as a consumer?
> Stop being so self-rightious and pretending you're on the TRUE side of some binary world.
I am European, I am always on the "wrong" side of the world. And I love it there.
But maybe you can enlighten me: Tell me which ways do I have to show a company, that I don't like what they are doing???
But once again, I live in the real free world.
> I breathe polluted air, so according to your logic I can't complain about the polluters. You didn't get the point of my argument. You can complain about pollution or polluters, but you can NOT drive then a big pickup, which consumes 20 to 30 litres per kilometer (which is 4 to 6 times more than my car, which is also big, but I live in Europe) > Granted, I have no choice, literally, and the monopolization of hardware and software are related. Not the best example, but one that serves up the point. Whenever something new comes up, some new CPU (e.g. Transmeta), some new Operating System (e.g. BeOS) noone bothers to think one minute about buying one of these. IMHO you have/had enough choices. If you look at the history of PCs and Software there was always a better choice, which didn't win any points. > I think the core of the "evil" argument is the lack of regulation. Very few privacy protecting laws. The failure to do anything about the MS monopoly. The google cache which stores copyrighted data. The never expiring google tracking cookie. The spyware madness. The spam epidemic. The lack of disclosure of security violations in computer systems, especially for banks and other finanical institutions. Shady marketing practices. Poor product quality and return policies. EULAs. Shrink-wrap "licenses." Most of these things came out of "no regulation" from the "land of the brave and the unlimited freedom". Yes, you must not show your identity, you have not to tell the government where you live and so on. But this lack of regulation is also applied, where there is a immident need of regulation: in the "free" economy. > Moving to the forest or somesuch and giving up on technology is both defeatist and counter-productive. We need these tools just to get by. I own a business, which earns its money with computer and software (oh yes, I am "evil" too *harhar*). But I really don't think, that computers did anything to improve social life, lifestyle, feed children in third world countries. They are tools, which makes people not necessary any more, no more, no less.
Oh. This is soooo sweet! How many /.ers are here and rant about evil cooperations and so on.
And how many of them are using a PC with IBM/Intel/AMD-CPU, from Dell/Apple/Sony/whatsoever and so on...
This is sooo typical: On the one hand ranting about evil cooperations and on the other hand trying to feed from their hands....
Yes and there is on of your problems. Maybe you don't have to deal with international characters (is there anything behind US borders?) but I have. And character-delimited files are no easy way to exchange data (especially with multibyte characters) I like XML. It is a great way to describe data in ordered structures and it enhances interoperability. There is only a problem with "old" programmers. They don't like structured data. They like some weired hacks better.
No it is not fear. I work in IT, I earn my money with computers and I really don't want an electronic counting system. But I am lucky, I live in the real free world, in Europe.
Have you overlooked the prices for 40 or 60 GB harddiskes recently? (I guess they are using 1,8" like in the iPods) And you get a Linux-Environment and a free SDK. So I don't think it's overpriced...
> They're going to die just like novell, BSD, and > Microsoft are. IMHO MS is nowhere dying any fast soon.
I don't see this so straight. Redhat is still distributing a lot of money to the Fedora (as far, as I know). I can't go for Debian, because I don't like the GPL, I don't like "stable" version with about 5 years old software, I don't like to rewrite my config-files every time I updated my "unstable". IMHO Fedora is a great distro.
Oh yeah! Let's try and start a flamewar, wouldn't we? Would be amusing....
This IS working for me since Fedora Core 2. I am very very satisfied with Fedora (except the thing about MP3-playing) But you can't get everything for free. You get a very good operating system with some very good additions to it. So why bother? If this is not satisfactory, then go to some Debian based solution. I tried, and I returned.
> As for being concerned about rogue states getting their hands on a supercomputer... that is what the US export regulations are for! I just have to say: There are more things between earth and sky than the Americans can think off.
You live in America. In Europe there are very hard and consequent laws for the security of personal data. And we are all doing very very fine...
Very good point!! And I think, that you are right. Not everything has to have a direct purpose. Maybe none of the greatest works of art would have been produced if all people had thought like the first poster....
> It's not about the feelings but about Red Hat's legal threat to very existence of CentOS. Therefore it cannot be ignored. Have you read the article??? No one (even RedHat) does want to destroy CentOS. It is only a matter of a trademark, which is protected and therefore RedHat has every Right to forbid the use of it, if they don't want it.
I hope, we are talking about biology *g*
And with this step, trying to make them comparable. If you find another "thing" you try to compare it to your database and, "oh my gosh", we already know this one... I believe that this is a mistake.
My problem is, that I am no native English-speaker and in this topic my vocabulary is far to small to express it properly ;-)
> You can perfectly well compare the sequence of two homologous genes from two species and knowing the function of one you can guestimate the function and domains of the other. Not exactly. This is is a common misbelief. You can say, that these two specimen you compared, are from an equal race, but not exactly from the same species.
Then go get a Dell! But don't complain afterwards!
No, this is exactly NOT what we need. This is something a geek needs. You can't compare species with their DNAs. This is a great misbelief. An animal is more than just a little DNA (the same as a human). But this is one further example of throwing some technology and money at a subject, which it doesn't need this and destroying it therefore.
> Besides, Britney Spears is pretty hot man...hehe. Yeah, but that's not the fact, she should be famous. She should be famous for singing, because she sells herself as a singer. The problem is not (only) bad taste. Maybe people don't think enough (oh yeah, not only maybe, that's for sure)...
It is not only that. It is not really very effective to write Viruses for an Apple-PC. I use them for a long time and I understand some of the techniques they used in their Operating-System. So it is not only because of there little market-share (if you look, where Macs are used, they are a perfect target, IMHO)