Nowadays it's easier to have discussions with pro-lifes or intelligent designers than with "learned" people.
Sure, lucm, is that because all of the things you want to say are what they want to hear?
Notice how you didn't say anything to challenge them and their agenda.
One of my best friends is a Jehovah's witness. We've been arguing for over 15 years about the bible (I'm more on the atheist side) and we're still friends.
That is the biggest problem faced in the U.S. today. If it wasn't written in a more than two millennia old book it just isn't true.
This is completely wrong.
Science-based beliefs are the new bible. One is either a Darwinist global warmist or religious scum taking money from Big Oil. There is no longer room for discussion or dissent. Just hint at possible issues with carbon-14 dating and you're branded a creationist. Discuss the climategate and you're automatically a global warming denier.
It's just like the switch between Republicans and Democrats over the last century. Nowadays it's easier to have discussions with pro-lifes or intelligent designers than with "learned" people.
I see nothing wrong with your OpenGL example. You basically used python to flush out requirements and determined that you needed a more robust language to get you to the next level. That's the "nail it then scale it" approach, which is pure engineering.
Ah, the cry of the "programmer" who churns out barely functional junk. Let us know how you get on after your non-job is automated.
"Good enough" means fit for purpose. If you go beyond that you're not solving a business problem, you're feeding your OCD on the company's dime, like an office manager that puts barcodes on office chairs.
In small doses, writing VBScript is a guilty pleasure. It's like snorting coke; you only do it on special occasions and you know it's bad for you, but it's still enjoyable for a limited time.
Seems everyone I run into these days who says "I'm a software engineer" has zero CS instinct
That's because software engineering has very little to do with computer science. A software engineer solves real-world problem with software.
How many cops do you run into these days that have more than the strict minimum knowledge of the law needed to do their job? Does that make them incompetent cops, or is it possible that maybe a different skill set is required?
If you want to stick to academia and horse around in labs that depend on grant money and alumni, knock yourself out, nobody is stopping you - there will always be a need for abstract thinkers. But out there in the real world, people must build things on time and on budget, and while we all wish that the best algorithms and the most elegant code is the way to achieve that, when push comes to shove, shipping the product is what pays the bills and if that means ugly code, then ugly code it is. Do you think the POS software on the cash register that allowed you to buy grocery this week is a masterpiece, or that the algorithm that decides when and how to to take over your car brakes is flawless? No, it's probably full of bugs and hard-coded passwords and antipatterns. But guess what, you still got that food in your fridge and you've made it alive on the freeway. Good. Enough.
Microsoft revenue has grown in a more or less linear fashion since the 90s
The reason being the growing number of people having access to a computer (China, India for instance).
No, the split between US and foreign markets revenue has been roughly the same for many years (almost 50/50). If anything, foreign revenue went down a bit recently because of the generalized suspicions toward US companies, thanks to the NSA.
Yeah it's almost like a fundamental part of the system can have two purposes.
Ah, so either when you said "it was primarily designed with servers in mind" you were making shit up, or you are when you say that it fundamentally has two purposes. No need to explain further, you're busted.
Most available satellite-based Internet remains almost as limited now as when it was introduced two decades ago. It's slow and provides users only with a unidirectional download link. But there's something about the connections that made them highly attractive to Turla members: most satellite links are unencrypted and can be intercepted by anyone within a radius of more than 600 miles. That means a connection between someone located in, say, a remote location in Africa and a satellite-based ISP can be monitored or even hijacked by an attacker.
I never understood they mobile strategy. Windows Phone isn't a bad product; it looks good, has decent features out of the box. But they scare developers away with their app store clone and their mysterious release cycles for the o/s and sdks. And they did buy a big manufacturer but did nothing with it. What is wrong with those people?
They are making money with the tablets though - now about a billion per quarter. Maybe that's the plan, Surface Phone. I think I'm gonna increase my MSFT position just in case. With Windows 10 revenue starting to pour in this is going to be a good year in Redmond.
First, startups are a thing of the past. Funding has dried up and acquisitions are no longer a thing. I wouldn't be surprised to see Macbooks sinking further with them, like a bad memento of a mad era.
Second, as much as I respect Microsoft for their magnificent business skills, working with Azure on a daily basis is truly horrible. The whole portal reminds me of a demented SharePoint, it feels like something that has been designed by many teams that hate each other, and the price premium over AWS just doesn't reflect any added value. Deployment is clunky, plans and tiers and services are confusing, and the whole multi-subscription model is just retarded. It doesn't feel like there's a clear direction or leadership in that part of the business, although they are basically printing money.
Which is amazing considering that a few years ago, 98% of people used their flagship product, Windows, while now only 38% of people do (Netcraft, 2016). They've done a really good job pivoting to maintain revenue while customers have dumped their traditional products en masse.
What kind of numbers are those? Please provide a link.
As far as I know, Netcraft only monitors web servers and there's just no way IIS ever had a 98% market share. Even with Azure going full blast it would never go anywhere near that, especially since a lot of Azure customers run Linux.
Computers running OSX have substantial developer mindshare.
Macbooks correspond to roughly 7% of the pc market, and yet OSX only corresponds to 3% of the o/s market. Guess what more than half of the Macbooks are running.
In any event, be it 3% or 7%, that's the entire market, not just developers. I don't know what "substantial" means to you but for Microsoft it's a drop in the ocean.
rural area, only other choice is satellite, which would be just as bad.. perhaps worse, because the wired connection from the satellite 'modem' could not be set to 'metered' - which i made sure is now set on their pc.
From a security perspective, the only thing worse than a satellite internet access point is maybe going to Moscow airport and connecting randomly to a "free" wifi endpoint.
I'm sorry you don't actually administer any servers and therefore can't appreciate it.
Good point. Nowadays we have $15/hr visa workers for that - they get along very well with their counterparts when they call Red Hat helpdesk - maybe I could put you in touch in case you're looking for a job. I hear Infosys is on a hiring spree this winter.
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what planet are you on?
Look at the mods on my post. QED.
Nowadays it's easier to have discussions with pro-lifes or intelligent designers than with "learned" people.
Sure, lucm, is that because all of the things you want to say are what they want to hear?
Notice how you didn't say anything to challenge them and their agenda.
One of my best friends is a Jehovah's witness. We've been arguing for over 15 years about the bible (I'm more on the atheist side) and we're still friends.
The new death rate for black women in the US is on par with that of developing countries.
In other news, insurance companies make record profits since Obamacare
That is the biggest problem faced in the U.S. today. If it wasn't written in a more than two millennia old book it just isn't true.
This is completely wrong.
Science-based beliefs are the new bible. One is either a Darwinist global warmist or religious scum taking money from Big Oil. There is no longer room for discussion or dissent. Just hint at possible issues with carbon-14 dating and you're branded a creationist. Discuss the climategate and you're automatically a global warming denier.
It's just like the switch between Republicans and Democrats over the last century. Nowadays it's easier to have discussions with pro-lifes or intelligent designers than with "learned" people.
I see nothing wrong with your OpenGL example. You basically used python to flush out requirements and determined that you needed a more robust language to get you to the next level. That's the "nail it then scale it" approach, which is pure engineering.
"Good. Enough."
Ah, the cry of the "programmer" who churns out barely functional junk. Let us know how you get on after your non-job is automated.
"Good enough" means fit for purpose. If you go beyond that you're not solving a business problem, you're feeding your OCD on the company's dime, like an office manager that puts barcodes on office chairs.
In small doses, writing VBScript is a guilty pleasure. It's like snorting coke; you only do it on special occasions and you know it's bad for you, but it's still enjoyable for a limited time.
Good thing Obama is no longer president, or we would be nuking Russia for their "hacking" of a US airline...
It would never happen. They would just call the Scorpion guy and get him to rollback a buggy Windows Update like he did at LAX in 2014.
Seems everyone I run into these days who says "I'm a software engineer" has zero CS instinct
That's because software engineering has very little to do with computer science. A software engineer solves real-world problem with software.
How many cops do you run into these days that have more than the strict minimum knowledge of the law needed to do their job? Does that make them incompetent cops, or is it possible that maybe a different skill set is required?
If you want to stick to academia and horse around in labs that depend on grant money and alumni, knock yourself out, nobody is stopping you - there will always be a need for abstract thinkers. But out there in the real world, people must build things on time and on budget, and while we all wish that the best algorithms and the most elegant code is the way to achieve that, when push comes to shove, shipping the product is what pays the bills and if that means ugly code, then ugly code it is. Do you think the POS software on the cash register that allowed you to buy grocery this week is a masterpiece, or that the algorithm that decides when and how to to take over your car brakes is flawless? No, it's probably full of bugs and hard-coded passwords and antipatterns. But guess what, you still got that food in your fridge and you've made it alive on the freeway. Good. Enough.
tell me what language doesn't acquire new features over time that you have to learn and maintain?
VBScript. I guess they got it right the first time.
That's what C++ needs: More features!
True. The guy should go and write more Seinfeld episodes instead.
No I mean how can someone talk on behalf of the "silent" majority
Microsoft revenue has grown in a more or less linear fashion since the 90s
The reason being the growing number of people having access to a computer (China, India for instance).
No, the split between US and foreign markets revenue has been roughly the same for many years (almost 50/50). If anything, foreign revenue went down a bit recently because of the generalized suspicions toward US companies, thanks to the NSA.
That's called a microaggression.
in this case, it's more like a nanoaggression or a picoaggression.
Yeah it's almost like a fundamental part of the system can have two purposes.
Ah, so either when you said "it was primarily designed with servers in mind" you were making shit up, or you are when you say that it fundamentally has two purposes. No need to explain further, you're busted.
Check this piece on ars technica:
http://arstechnica.com/securit...
Most available satellite-based Internet remains almost as limited now as when it was introduced two decades ago. It's slow and provides users only with a unidirectional download link. But there's something about the connections that made them highly attractive to Turla members: most satellite links are unencrypted and can be intercepted by anyone within a radius of more than 600 miles. That means a connection between someone located in, say, a remote location in Africa and a satellite-based ISP can be monitored or even hijacked by an attacker.
I never understood they mobile strategy. Windows Phone isn't a bad product; it looks good, has decent features out of the box. But they scare developers away with their app store clone and their mysterious release cycles for the o/s and sdks. And they did buy a big manufacturer but did nothing with it. What is wrong with those people?
They are making money with the tablets though - now about a billion per quarter. Maybe that's the plan, Surface Phone. I think I'm gonna increase my MSFT position just in case. With Windows 10 revenue starting to pour in this is going to be a good year in Redmond.
First, startups are a thing of the past. Funding has dried up and acquisitions are no longer a thing. I wouldn't be surprised to see Macbooks sinking further with them, like a bad memento of a mad era.
Second, as much as I respect Microsoft for their magnificent business skills, working with Azure on a daily basis is truly horrible. The whole portal reminds me of a demented SharePoint, it feels like something that has been designed by many teams that hate each other, and the price premium over AWS just doesn't reflect any added value. Deployment is clunky, plans and tiers and services are confusing, and the whole multi-subscription model is just retarded. It doesn't feel like there's a clear direction or leadership in that part of the business, although they are basically printing money.
Once in a while I stumble upon a "real" vi on a unix machine somewhere and it's not fun.
Which is amazing considering that a few years ago, 98% of people used their flagship product, Windows, while now only 38% of people do (Netcraft, 2016). They've done a really good job pivoting to maintain revenue while customers have dumped their traditional products en masse.
What kind of numbers are those? Please provide a link.
As far as I know, Netcraft only monitors web servers and there's just no way IIS ever had a 98% market share. Even with Azure going full blast it would never go anywhere near that, especially since a lot of Azure customers run Linux.
Computers running OSX have substantial developer mindshare.
Macbooks correspond to roughly 7% of the pc market, and yet OSX only corresponds to 3% of the o/s market. Guess what more than half of the Macbooks are running.
In any event, be it 3% or 7%, that's the entire market, not just developers. I don't know what "substantial" means to you but for Microsoft it's a drop in the ocean.
rural area, only other choice is satellite, which would be just as bad.. perhaps worse, because the wired connection from the satellite 'modem' could not be set to 'metered' - which i made sure is now set on their pc.
From a security perspective, the only thing worse than a satellite internet access point is maybe going to Moscow airport and connecting randomly to a "free" wifi endpoint.
As their revenue dwindles let this be a lesson.
Microsoft revenue has grown in a more or less linear fashion since the 90s. Doesn't stop idiots from announcing their imminent doom for over 25 years.
Microsoft will be porting emacs hotkeys to MS Word
Maybe that will help all those poor emacs virgins.
I'm sorry you don't actually administer any servers and therefore can't appreciate it.
Good point. Nowadays we have $15/hr visa workers for that - they get along very well with their counterparts when they call Red Hat helpdesk - maybe I could put you in touch in case you're looking for a job. I hear Infosys is on a hiring spree this winter.