I know it's been well voted for, but Python is amazing for teaching. It has flexibility, plenty of advanced capabilities, and helps to teach good code practices. With indentation required, it helps create readible code, and can be used by both novices and experts easily. The supercomputing center here uses it extensively for a variety of tasks, as well as the uni teaching it for intro to programming.
At the internship level, you shouldn't be complaining about the pay, and enjoying and treasuring the experience.
You're correct, the pay wasn't as important. But when you're getting paid significantly less, and working significantly more, it can be a bit frustrating. But if it wasn't an internship, I probably would have moved on from such a company quickly.
Ok, so maybe this should have been obvious. One of my internships ended up being for a company that eventually taught me only one thing; pick your jobs carefully. I picked a small company that had a programming internship, got picked up, and found out quickly that I was THE programmer. Turns out they do this regularly, and use the cheapest labor they can find to do their projects. In turn, the permenant staff which was less skilled was making 3 times as much while I worked my ass off and they played horse shoes outside during hot days.
Lesson learned? 1. Check out the capability of your employers, supervisors, and fellow employees just as they check you out. 2. Don't be afraid to ask LOTS of questions!
Thanks for the revision, it does help. Using advanced LOOKING code is indeed useless, but there is something to be said for efficient and elegent code that is also sensibly readible. It is indeed what makes the difference between sloppy and supreme coders. Thanks for the clarification, and apologies for being one of the "...people flaming my trigger-happy 'submit' skills."
bring in ideas from Perl or C to my PHP code to make it look more advanced...
You, sir, are a detriment to coding. By using more advanced looking code, rather than equally simple and equally effective, you are hurting yourself, your employer, and whoever has to clean up the mess you leave behind. It's easy to write supremely complex code that no one will understand in a week. I do it all the time in Perl, and if I don't thoroughly comment it, I forget what it did. The difficulty is in writing elegant, clean code which is easily understandable by whoever will eventually replace you.
You haven't played many MMORPG's have you? No matter how much bitching takes place, 90% of the users will stick through it due to the amount of Ph4t l3w7 they have accrued over time. Any time a server comes down people incite mass protest and push for abandoning, but the second it's back up, it's game on.
Don't misquote. He said the cops and the law have no respect for you. He did NOT say they had no respect for the law or the rights of citizens. You can respect the law and citizens as a whole without respecting some douche that tries to whine his way out of an extreme speeding ticket which he rightfully deserved.
If that's the only matter of importance, a cellphone works fine. Pen & Paper is still the best for notetaking, unless you can afford a tablet PC. Even then, there's something to be said for Pen & Paper. Just because elctronics can do the job, doesn't make them the best tool. If more programmers went back to pen & paper occasionally, and avoided trial & error coding, the world would be a better place.
It's steps like this (by Microsoft and previously Nintendo) that may lead developers to return to the PC development environment. If the console corporations get greedy enough, the console will become a less lucrative platform. If the costs to develop on the platform become higher than supporting the variety of hardware on PC's, then developers will choose the lowest cost alternative. This could mean large studios coming back to PC's with more releases and better titles.
However, the damage done to employees isn't your decision to make, even if it means saving more in insurance. You can't choose not to place a pregnant employee in a labor intense job just because they're pregnant. It doesn't work that way, and verges on labor law violations.
Hey, this is an easy money maker. In most nations these days, laws prevent any sort of this discriminatory nature. They have to absolutely prove that a specific trait is part of a job related task, and your aptitude for illness or disease is not a legal denial for employment. This will last about as long as it takes to file a lawsuit.
Not sure how many remember, but Google used to have RSS a few years back. They then discontinued it due to it being linked so much as to cause bandwidth problems according to the search giant. Interesting that they waited so long to re-release it.
I think that when Darl came on board, he simply saw it as the best defense being a good offense, and hoped scare tactics would work. After all, with the similarity in the OS's, the odds of finding a single line of similar code seem high. Plus, I seriously doubt he imagined IBM would take this as such a serious battle. Here we are years later with a possible end in sight, and perhaps some due karma being paid.
I have to agree. I know it's a little old, but Fallout 2 was just as good, if not better than the original. There are plenty of sequels that have outshined the original. The problem comes when a sequel is made only for profit, against the desires of the programmers and developers. If the PHB's decide it is sequel worthy and the dev's don't, it won't be worth the buy.
Although it seems it would be simple enough to use electrical tape to change some letters and fool the technology.
No, I've never stiffed a gas station, most of em make little enough money as is. But, people need to start looking at the criminal gains that this technology allows before they implement it. Much of this tech makes it easier for criminals, as they never have to be ID'd, and criminal warfare will become far easier as more info is gathered, databased and utilized.
One that really interested me was where a handgun would only fire if the user was wearing a ring on their finger.
I agree, there ARE good uses for RFID. I do not believe, however, that those uses involve placing personal information out and available for the first person that breaks the encryption.
How is it supposed to be kept safe if it's on your license plate? What happens when someone hacks up a reader for it and can walk around scanning parking lot cars til they find an appealing victim?
Just because something is proprietary doesn't make it inherently evil. It's when that proprietary info is abused against competitors. VMWare is opening up at least a portion, and maybe more will follow. F/OSS isn't always the best model for companies. Would you expect a game company to produce entirely F/OSS? Companies still have to make a profit in order to continue production. Don't get me wrong, I'm a HUGE F/OSS fan, and I appreciate the efforts of HP/IBM in sponsoring such efforts, but it doesn't mean I expect everyone to give away all the work they put into something.
Slashdot Mirror
I know it's been well voted for, but Python is amazing for teaching. It has flexibility, plenty of advanced capabilities, and helps to teach good code practices. With indentation required, it helps create readible code, and can be used by both novices and experts easily. The supercomputing center here uses it extensively for a variety of tasks, as well as the uni teaching it for intro to programming.
At the internship level, you shouldn't be complaining about the pay, and enjoying and treasuring the experience.
You're correct, the pay wasn't as important. But when you're getting paid significantly less, and working significantly more, it can be a bit frustrating. But if it wasn't an internship, I probably would have moved on from such a company quickly.
Ok, so maybe this should have been obvious. One of my internships ended up being for a company that eventually taught me only one thing; pick your jobs carefully. I picked a small company that had a programming internship, got picked up, and found out quickly that I was THE programmer. Turns out they do this regularly, and use the cheapest labor they can find to do their projects. In turn, the permenant staff which was less skilled was making 3 times as much while I worked my ass off and they played horse shoes outside during hot days.
Lesson learned?
1. Check out the capability of your employers, supervisors, and fellow employees just as they check you out.
2. Don't be afraid to ask LOTS of questions!
Thanks for the revision, it does help. Using advanced LOOKING code is indeed useless, but there is something to be said for efficient and elegent code that is also sensibly readible. It is indeed what makes the difference between sloppy and supreme coders. Thanks for the clarification, and apologies for being one of the "...people flaming my trigger-happy 'submit' skills."
bring in ideas from Perl or C to my PHP code to make it look more advanced...
You, sir, are a detriment to coding. By using more advanced looking code, rather than equally simple and equally effective, you are hurting yourself, your employer, and whoever has to clean up the mess you leave behind. It's easy to write supremely complex code that no one will understand in a week. I do it all the time in Perl, and if I don't thoroughly comment it, I forget what it did. The difficulty is in writing elegant, clean code which is easily understandable by whoever will eventually replace you.
I think I'd be a little scared if I was walking by an advertisement in a game town and saw 20 dwarves standing and just staring at a T&A ad.
You haven't played many MMORPG's have you? No matter how much bitching takes place, 90% of the users will stick through it due to the amount of Ph4t l3w7 they have accrued over time. Any time a server comes down people incite mass protest and push for abandoning, but the second it's back up, it's game on.
Don't misquote. He said the cops and the law have no respect for you. He did NOT say they had no respect for the law or the rights of citizens. You can respect the law and citizens as a whole without respecting some douche that tries to whine his way out of an extreme speeding ticket which he rightfully deserved.
If that's the only matter of importance, a cellphone works fine. Pen & Paper is still the best for notetaking, unless you can afford a tablet PC. Even then, there's something to be said for Pen & Paper. Just because elctronics can do the job, doesn't make them the best tool. If more programmers went back to pen & paper occasionally, and avoided trial & error coding, the world would be a better place.
It's steps like this (by Microsoft and previously Nintendo) that may lead developers to return to the PC development environment. If the console corporations get greedy enough, the console will become a less lucrative platform. If the costs to develop on the platform become higher than supporting the variety of hardware on PC's, then developers will choose the lowest cost alternative. This could mean large studios coming back to PC's with more releases and better titles.
Red Windshield of Death
That's because of the new Windows Vista critical error, or the RSOD, which has been implemented for easier determination of serious crashes.
Oh, you meant blood on the windshield... Nevermind.
However, the damage done to employees isn't your decision to make, even if it means saving more in insurance. You can't choose not to place a pregnant employee in a labor intense job just because they're pregnant. It doesn't work that way, and verges on labor law violations.
Exactly. If anything, it will cost the business more in ergonomically safe work equipment. By not knowing about the disability, they are less liable.
Hey, this is an easy money maker. In most nations these days, laws prevent any sort of this discriminatory nature. They have to absolutely prove that a specific trait is part of a job related task, and your aptitude for illness or disease is not a legal denial for employment. This will last about as long as it takes to file a lawsuit.
Not sure how many remember, but Google used to have RSS a few years back. They then discontinued it due to it being linked so much as to cause bandwidth problems according to the search giant. Interesting that they waited so long to re-release it.
I think that when Darl came on board, he simply saw it as the best defense being a good offense, and hoped scare tactics would work. After all, with the similarity in the OS's, the odds of finding a single line of similar code seem high. Plus, I seriously doubt he imagined IBM would take this as such a serious battle. Here we are years later with a possible end in sight, and perhaps some due karma being paid.
I have to agree. I know it's a little old, but Fallout 2 was just as good, if not better than the original. There are plenty of sequels that have outshined the original. The problem comes when a sequel is made only for profit, against the desires of the programmers and developers. If the PHB's decide it is sequel worthy and the dev's don't, it won't be worth the buy.
Although it seems it would be simple enough to use electrical tape to change some letters and fool the technology. No, I've never stiffed a gas station, most of em make little enough money as is. But, people need to start looking at the criminal gains that this technology allows before they implement it. Much of this tech makes it easier for criminals, as they never have to be ID'd, and criminal warfare will become far easier as more info is gathered, databased and utilized.
One that really interested me was where a handgun would only fire if the user was wearing a ring on their finger.
I agree, there ARE good uses for RFID. I do not believe, however, that those uses involve placing personal information out and available for the first person that breaks the encryption.
And yet you post anonymously...
How is it supposed to be kept safe if it's on your license plate? What happens when someone hacks up a reader for it and can walk around scanning parking lot cars til they find an appealing victim?
Why not just implant them in babies at birth, in case they're kidnapped. It'll never get abused.
/sarcasm
Just because something is proprietary doesn't make it inherently evil. It's when that proprietary info is abused against competitors. VMWare is opening up at least a portion, and maybe more will follow. F/OSS isn't always the best model for companies. Would you expect a game company to produce entirely F/OSS? Companies still have to make a profit in order to continue production. Don't get me wrong, I'm a HUGE F/OSS fan, and I appreciate the efforts of HP/IBM in sponsoring such efforts, but it doesn't mean I expect everyone to give away all the work they put into something.
I disagree. I think most slashdotters don't use Linux at WORK. You know, where they spend most of their time posting and reading.
Why exactly? Because they are gaining more supporters through community offerings?