I think it would be alot more fun if they just
stripped everyone naked before passing through
security. You get your cloths back at the final
destination, oops we lost your cloths...
We could add a third class section to airplanes
the naked orgy cuddle pile section. If your going to
get naked with strangers you might as well enjoy
yourself. Instead of seatbelts, assorted leather
restraints would be provided to insure passenger
safety in turbulent weather. These would be fitted
by a leather clad steward or stewardess (preference marked when you purchase your ticket).
The biggest reason the US is going to lose
programming talent is the threat of out sourcing.
I've got 25 years of experience, and I keep
wondering if and when I will have to change
careers. I have no interest in managing people
1/2 way around the world. I'd rather learn to
dry wall honestly, atleast they can't outsource
that!
Put yourself in the place of the poor kid this
web page is written about. They of course claim
that he "recovered from autism" because of all the
abuse. I'd say he learned to compensate for being
autistic inspite of the abuse. If ABA is so great
where are all the ex patients raving about how
wonderful it was for them?
Sumlin ABA Program Notes
Given the large number of Aspies/autistics in the
technical field. I really wish we'd see an article
about the abuses that happen in ABA make it to
the top here.
Don't worry soon they will have a cure. No more
autism epidemic, all the kids will be aborted.
Thirty years later they will be wondering why
there are no eccentric geniuses anymore. Some
third world country which didn't have the money
for genetic screening will suddenly find itself
winning a good fraction of the Nobel prizes.
Notice on a medline search how every biological
component of autism is a "dysfunction", "disorder"
or "defective". Normally a condition which gives
you almost 50% more immune cells would be considered a good thing. Expecially considering
that most I know on the spectrum are very rarely
sick with colds or flu. But no its a "disordered"
immune system.
If your chasing down your own memory leaks your not
l33t. Thats why I say people need to learn there
profession. Atleast in C++ there is no excuse for
memory leaks what so
ever. In C memory leaks are still a sign of sloppy
coding, although its easier for them to squeek
by.
In C++ you can use the STL and smart pointers where speed
isn't super critical. But you can still hand code
memory allocation/pointer code when you need to,
encapsulating it cleaning in a class.
At a high level C++ really doesn't need to look
any different than Java, but at a low level you
can still go down the the metal.
I've got multi threaded C++ server code on linux that runs for years at
a time without leaking memory. I've never run it
through a memory leak checker, I just coded it
without ever using new/delete/malloc/free in the
high level code. It has plenty of special purpose
code using new/delete/pointers encapsulated in
classes where its easy to keep track of stuff.
You mean they are going to castrate Fortran such
that idiots can use it, and only idiots will want
to use it?
We don't need Java, we need people to f$cking learn
to program. You get payed decent money for
programming don't you have the responsibility to
actually learn your profession, rather than
depending on castrated tools to prevent you from
getting into trouble?
People seem to understand this in war, but they
keep up this pretense that software can and should
be spec'd fully before the first line is written.
In the real world as opposed to the CS classroom,
you iterate and evolve software. Anyone who thinks
they can design a complex system down to the last
bit is a fool. At best they will make stilted
complex software forced fitted to an obsolete
design document.
Screw the fucking acronyms and design methology
du jour. Natures already shown us how to
develop complex system, its called evolution.
Like it or not, your down to the last bit
design documented software is going to evolve.
Just as its about done, there is going to be
a new sales requirement, just get used to it.
Cut with the grain not against it. This is the
real world, not a CS professors fantasy world.
Thats not to say documentation isn't useful,
however its better to document what really exists,
than documenting a fantasy system, which then
must be force fitted to that fantasy.
Anyone with any experience in the Leather Scene
(S&M) knows that pain perception is highly
subjective. Its not at all surprising that the
placebo effect works quite well on pain.
Fork bombs only work if you can log into the system
in question. This is a bit lower priority than your
usual vulnerabilities which allow outside attacks.
Every few years someone decides the solution to
all our problems lies in going back to the 1970s
with mainframes and terminals.
Now this might be useful for a handful of
supercomputing style tasks. But for most real world
work, the PC on your desk is vastly overpowered
already, and rapidly getting faster.
A Knopix CD will effectively solve most of these
issues that would be solved by the 1970s
approach. Most users today don't remember what
a pain it was dealing with power hungry sysadmins.
Back when I started programming it was flow charts
and "top down programming". I did neither, I
visualized what the program was going to do. Then
eventually it was UML and specing the hell out of
everything as though you where a government
contractor. I still visualized was the code and
data structures where going to do. Then extreme
programming, tomorrow who knows what they will
try to shove down our throats.
Stop worrying about the latest "way you
have to do it". Go out and hire people
who have a history of getting good software
written, and let them
do it the way it works for them. Hint, you
will have alot easier time hiring good people
if your not trying to cram some silly academics
theory down there throats...
Programming isn't a science its an art.
One thing that always turned me off about the BSD
projects was the amount of ego and politics. The
only thing the BSD crowds hated more than Linux was
the other versions of BSD. Meanwhile Linux
supporters where much more concerned with the real
threat, Microsoft.
Of course if every software company worked that way,
we'd have a few dozen programs in the world. The
realities of super critical, and not so critical
software is quite a bit different.
Ask the customer if they want to pay 10 times
more and wait 10 times longer for there software.
If they do, then see if they write you a check,
or just go buy the software that was written in
a timely manner anyways:)
The sad thing is all the swindlers crowing about
an epidemic of autism. Autism/Asperger's have been
around forever.
In the old days high functioning autistics where
simply called eccentrics. Or geniuses if they
where men like Newton or Einstein. Einstein had a
substantial speech delay as a child, while I don't
know about Newton's childhood his adulthood is
certainly consistent with autism.
Autism now though is looked at only as something
that makes parents lives difficult. Of course
this difficulty is added to by quacks telling
parents horror stories and selling 'therapy'.
"Your child will live in an institution forever
unless you mortgage your house to pay me to
abuse them 40 hours a week.". When they child
finally learns to talk (as most speech delayed
children do), they take credit, but they won't
take credit for the childhood lost to 'therapy',
or the mental trauma inflicted.
What the 'experts' really arn't going to want
to talk about is the fact that atleast 1/2 of
autistics arn't straight. A small survey showed
about1/4th gay/bi, and the remainder transexual,
or asexual. One also encounters many in the
various fetish scenes. Autistics make the best
play partners. By comparison most normal people
seem like the walking dead when it comes to
anything beyond sucking and fucking. Our whole
bodies are wired, not just our cocks.
Hydrogen is not an energy source, its a very
inefficient way of transporting energy produced
by other sources. Why are we wasting money on
hydrogen cars at the same time the government is
about to shutdown amtrak? We'd be much better off
using electricity to power bullet trains like europe
has.
I wonder if this has any relation to synaesthesia.
It appears that those who see auras are in general
those with synaesthesia, in this case sensory
information about the person is transformed into
an aura.
Quantum computing will fail, I believe when we try
to actually squeeze magic out of quantum theory
we will find its limits. This will be better than
quantum computing having worked, as it will finally
show us a way beyond the current interpretations of
quantum mechanics.
XML, Java, SQL, J2EE, JSP, etc.
Take something that could have run on a C64 with a
TCP stack, and make it require 1/2 gig of ram and
run slower than 6502 assembly would have.
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Russia has a better safety record than we do, they
don't put as much effort into safety. Rather they
put efforts into making things cheaply, which
translates into simplicity, which translates
into less failure modes.
Its kind of like software. Try to sell some simple
reliable perl code to "an interprise", and they
want it rewritten using oracle, XML and Java, and
a dozen other "technologies". The thing cost 100
times more, runs like a pig, and is much less
reliable as a result of throwing money at it.
Java is way way over hyped, not to
mention proprietary.
You can program C++ using classes such as
std::string in a manner similar to the java
string class. This eliminates most of the buffer
overrun issues that plague many C programs.
But unlike java you can bit
twiddle when you need to, ideally encapsulating
your twiddling in a class.
Java is simply a straight jacket for programmers,
but straight jackets can't prevent logic errors.
Your data is still at risk through stupid
programming mistakes.
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I think it would be alot more fun if they just stripped everyone naked before passing through security. You get your cloths back at the final destination, oops we lost your cloths...
We could add a third class section to airplanes the naked orgy cuddle pile section. If your going to get naked with strangers you might as well enjoy yourself. Instead of seatbelts, assorted leather restraints would be provided to insure passenger safety in turbulent weather. These would be fitted by a leather clad steward or stewardess (preference marked when you purchase your ticket).
The biggest reason the US is going to lose programming talent is the threat of out sourcing. I've got 25 years of experience, and I keep wondering if and when I will have to change careers. I have no interest in managing people 1/2 way around the world. I'd rather learn to dry wall honestly, atleast they can't outsource that!
Put yourself in the place of the poor kid this web page is written about. They of course claim that he "recovered from autism" because of all the abuse. I'd say he learned to compensate for being autistic inspite of the abuse. If ABA is so great where are all the ex patients raving about how wonderful it was for them?
Sumlin ABA Program Notes
Given the large number of Aspies/autistics in the technical field. I really wish we'd see an article about the abuses that happen in ABA make it to the top here.
Don't worry soon they will have a cure. No more autism epidemic, all the kids will be aborted. Thirty years later they will be wondering why there are no eccentric geniuses anymore. Some third world country which didn't have the money for genetic screening will suddenly find itself winning a good fraction of the Nobel prizes. Notice on a medline search how every biological component of autism is a "dysfunction", "disorder" or "defective". Normally a condition which gives you almost 50% more immune cells would be considered a good thing. Expecially considering that most I know on the spectrum are very rarely sick with colds or flu. But no its a "disordered" immune system.
If your chasing down your own memory leaks your not l33t. Thats why I say people need to learn there profession. Atleast in C++ there is no excuse for memory leaks what so ever. In C memory leaks are still a sign of sloppy coding, although its easier for them to squeek by. In C++ you can use the STL and smart pointers where speed isn't super critical. But you can still hand code memory allocation/pointer code when you need to, encapsulating it cleaning in a class. At a high level C++ really doesn't need to look any different than Java, but at a low level you can still go down the the metal. I've got multi threaded C++ server code on linux that runs for years at a time without leaking memory. I've never run it through a memory leak checker, I just coded it without ever using new/delete/malloc/free in the high level code. It has plenty of special purpose code using new/delete/pointers encapsulated in classes where its easy to keep track of stuff.
You mean they are going to castrate Fortran such that idiots can use it, and only idiots will want to use it? We don't need Java, we need people to f$cking learn to program. You get payed decent money for programming don't you have the responsibility to actually learn your profession, rather than depending on castrated tools to prevent you from getting into trouble?
People seem to understand this in war, but they keep up this pretense that software can and should be spec'd fully before the first line is written. In the real world as opposed to the CS classroom, you iterate and evolve software. Anyone who thinks they can design a complex system down to the last bit is a fool. At best they will make stilted complex software forced fitted to an obsolete design document. Screw the fucking acronyms and design methology du jour. Natures already shown us how to develop complex system, its called evolution. Like it or not, your down to the last bit design documented software is going to evolve. Just as its about done, there is going to be a new sales requirement, just get used to it. Cut with the grain not against it. This is the real world, not a CS professors fantasy world. Thats not to say documentation isn't useful, however its better to document what really exists, than documenting a fantasy system, which then must be force fitted to that fantasy.
Anyone with any experience in the Leather Scene (S&M) knows that pain perception is highly subjective. Its not at all surprising that the placebo effect works quite well on pain.
Fork bombs only work if you can log into the system in question. This is a bit lower priority than your usual vulnerabilities which allow outside attacks.
Who wants virgins? Gimme 72 experienced perverts! Now that would almost be worth dying for :)
Every few years someone decides the solution to all our problems lies in going back to the 1970s with mainframes and terminals. Now this might be useful for a handful of supercomputing style tasks. But for most real world work, the PC on your desk is vastly overpowered already, and rapidly getting faster. A Knopix CD will effectively solve most of these issues that would be solved by the 1970s approach. Most users today don't remember what a pain it was dealing with power hungry sysadmins.
Back when I started programming it was flow charts and "top down programming". I did neither, I visualized what the program was going to do. Then eventually it was UML and specing the hell out of everything as though you where a government contractor. I still visualized was the code and data structures where going to do. Then extreme programming, tomorrow who knows what they will try to shove down our throats. Stop worrying about the latest "way you have to do it". Go out and hire people who have a history of getting good software written, and let them do it the way it works for them. Hint, you will have alot easier time hiring good people if your not trying to cram some silly academics theory down there throats... Programming isn't a science its an art.
One thing that always turned me off about the BSD projects was the amount of ego and politics. The only thing the BSD crowds hated more than Linux was the other versions of BSD. Meanwhile Linux supporters where much more concerned with the real threat, Microsoft.
Of course if every software company worked that way, we'd have a few dozen programs in the world. The realities of super critical, and not so critical software is quite a bit different.
Ask the customer if they want to pay 10 times more and wait 10 times longer for there software. If they do, then see if they write you a check, or just go buy the software that was written in a timely manner anyways :)
Now to confuse things more, personally I find if (!ptr) clearer than if (ptr == NULL)
The sad thing is all the swindlers crowing about an epidemic of autism. Autism/Asperger's have been around forever.
In the old days high functioning autistics where simply called eccentrics. Or geniuses if they where men like Newton or Einstein. Einstein had a substantial speech delay as a child, while I don't know about Newton's childhood his adulthood is certainly consistent with autism.
Autism now though is looked at only as something that makes parents lives difficult. Of course this difficulty is added to by quacks telling parents horror stories and selling 'therapy'. "Your child will live in an institution forever unless you mortgage your house to pay me to abuse them 40 hours a week.". When they child finally learns to talk (as most speech delayed children do), they take credit, but they won't take credit for the childhood lost to 'therapy', or the mental trauma inflicted.
For more on the man behind ABA therapy, see: http://www.farviolet.com/rewrite/autism/lovaas.mht ml
What the 'experts' really arn't going to want to talk about is the fact that atleast 1/2 of autistics arn't straight. A small survey showed about1/4th gay/bi, and the remainder transexual, or asexual. One also encounters many in the various fetish scenes. Autistics make the best play partners. By comparison most normal people seem like the walking dead when it comes to anything beyond sucking and fucking. Our whole bodies are wired, not just our cocks.
Hydrogen is not an energy source, its a very inefficient way of transporting energy produced by other sources. Why are we wasting money on hydrogen cars at the same time the government is about to shutdown amtrak? We'd be much better off using electricity to power bullet trains like europe has.
I'd say that paying SCO to file a frivolous lawsuit to make Linux look bad counts as evil.
I wonder if this has any relation to synaesthesia. It appears that those who see auras are in general those with synaesthesia, in this case sensory information about the person is transformed into an aura.
Quantum computing will fail, I believe when we try to actually squeeze magic out of quantum theory we will find its limits. This will be better than quantum computing having worked, as it will finally show us a way beyond the current interpretations of quantum mechanics.
XML, Java, SQL, J2EE, JSP, etc. Take something that could have run on a C64 with a TCP stack, and make it require 1/2 gig of ram and run slower than 6502 assembly would have.
Russia has a better safety record than we do, they don't put as much effort into safety. Rather they put efforts into making things cheaply, which translates into simplicity, which translates into less failure modes.
Its kind of like software. Try to sell some simple reliable perl code to "an interprise", and they want it rewritten using oracle, XML and Java, and a dozen other "technologies". The thing cost 100 times more, runs like a pig, and is much less reliable as a result of throwing money at it.
I'm going to hook up one hundred mechanical hands and set myself to world fondleable! Then sell access to the streaming video of the results.
Just imagine in the future on Microsoft systems, e-mail viruses and spam will be able to reach out and grope you.
As was said by someone about passing out in an S&M scene "passing out is a very effective safe word".
Likewise dying is an effective lawsuit defense strategy. Its hard to attach someones wages when they are dead...
How do you plead? Your Honor the defendant pleads dead.
Java is way way over hyped, not to mention proprietary.
You can program C++ using classes such as std::string in a manner similar to the java string class. This eliminates most of the buffer overrun issues that plague many C programs. But unlike java you can bit twiddle when you need to, ideally encapsulating your twiddling in a class.
Java is simply a straight jacket for programmers, but straight jackets can't prevent logic errors. Your data is still at risk through stupid programming mistakes.