Dude, it's only 2 letters before you variable name. And if your engineers are not keeping up with 2 simple things - type and scope - they you have shoddy coders anyhow. So normally you name your variable "numberOfTiles" say. Now with Hungarian you add 2 characters - ad "i" for integer and a "c" for class level variable say, so the Hungarian notation for this variable is icNumberOfTiles. Again, if your engineers cannot keep up with this, then you are not engineering.
right, so you prefer a large enterprise system with minimal variable names that really don't capture the context/meaning of the variable in the first place. bah
If you are writing code for just a computer, then go back to assembly. We have 4gl languages that are so abstracted the computer actually operates on the code very efficiently (Java, PHP, Ruby). Why the inefficiency? So humans can modify the code better. So Humans can understand the code. Hence the power of Hungarian notation.
BUZZ wrong answer. You do not write code for computer. You do not even write code for the human who is developing the solution. You write code for one reason: to help the human who has to maintain your code do so quickly and efficiently. That's why adding tools into your code, like hungarian notation, is so crucial. I want the scope, type, and a verbose message telling me wtf the variable is for. Sure, I don't really need that when first writing the code, but it's crucial to help me edit/maintain the code down the road.
So is this being used to create huge rainbow tables? How many characters out can you go? I saw someone selling rainbow tables for SHA-1 out to 15 characters at DefCon on 2 DVD's for like 10$...
People who really do mission-critical computing go for IBM big iron and/or SUN hardware. They have redundancy capacity as crazy as build in redundant motherboards. Mommy, can I borrow 300,000 for a new server? http://www.sun.com/servers/index.jsp?cat=Sun%20Fir e%20High-end%20Servers&tab=3 I want one for my new workstation!
but all you would have to do is pass a law making the financial institutions responsible for all of the costs and hassles involved with identity theft, and it would never happen again. No so much. The banks will do some bean counting cost analysis, do little more than they are doing, and just pass that extra most of doing business onto the consumer.
Big freaking deal! I can run a huge, international, blah blah website on Access 2000 if you give me a big enough piece of hardware! Heck, isn't that what SQL Server basically is, anyway?:)
You think it made me feel good to throw you under a bus, metaphorically? You think it make me look good to hire you and then have you not show up for work multiple times? You are wrong. You made me look very bad. Adam, I went OUT OF MY WAY to get you multiple jobs - I sold you, I praised you, I was really on your team. When I was in a crunch, and had you in a place where we really depended on you, you let us down many times. You were either sick, or took money off to hit the beach - and Monday is a crunch time. It's just a matter of being a man of your word, and you could not simply do what YOU said you would do - over and over again. I don't want you to like me. I want you to stop responding to my Slashdot posts.
Then why the fuck are you tracking my Slashdot posts and harassing me? I do not follow your activity.
Yes, I do call people on Sunday nights, late, and pay people the moment they pick up the phone, if they pick up the phone. We were releasing a site as part of a very large internationally exposed project, dude.
You are (still) an at-will employee. I never technically fired you, you are right. I wanted to keep you around for other projects . I did not speak to you for 3 weeks cause (1) I had a site to deploy and (2) I was furious with you to the point that I really had nothing to say. And when I did call you to offer you more work, you pissed in my face. So be it.
Look Adam Prall, this is long over. You are the one who is trolling me on Slashdot. Not the other way around. Leave me alone and I will pay you the same respect.
Maybe if you actually were online 1/2 the time when you promised to me, I would not have fired you. After rounds of being sick, missing promised dates, etc. We all agreed it was time to let you go. Adam, you are one of the most brilliant graphic designers/software people I know. Yes, software too. Yes, you are really good. But you do not have a strong case of business integrity. For example, you take every Monday off? Give me a break. We need someone we can depend on.
Yea, Generalists will ALWAYS get a job, but for industry standard salarys. That cool! It's a good living, and we should all be lucky to be in IT where the going is a lot better than any other industry (except for lawyers).
But move into GUI's and you're screwed...Nothing is ever clean again, no one is ever happy about it for long Yea, but I work hourly. And I love working with client code. JavaScript is like working with Java back in the beginning - Write once, debug everywhere. Good luck, you seem really smart with a great skill set. Don't be afraid to look around for other work if you want more money - and focus on hourly, consulting work. You will make more money.
As it happens, in fact, I'm a Java programmer as well; I've been doing it since 1998. Then you might want to consider "selling" yourself as a Java programmer. Maybe consider getting the latest Java Programmer cert (it's easy). Good Java guys make excellent money.
Since then I've worked in mostly corporate environments as a programmer. I program well in Java, C#, Perl, and Python. I can get by in COBOL, and I program well in javascript, but I don't enjoy it. I've been certified in administration of three different unix environments, and I've administered databases ranging from TurboIMAGE/XL legacy databases running on MPE/iX machines, all the way up to Oracle databases running on modern blade servers. You will not get a solid salary writing Perl, Python or especially Cobol. Java(php), XHTML, JavaScript and CSS and the skills that pay very well now. Especially if you understand stuff like MVC programming and design patterns. Generalists do not make a lot of money (what, you are around 75k now?) it's deep experts with hot skills that make the big bucks. Heck, if you know Java very well and can get over your dislike of JavaScript, I'd hire you myself. I just hired a 26 year old kid who is a PHP/JavaScript master for 70/hr (around 140k/year @ 2000 hours)
The problem is that you are a admin/script writer. You admit this clearly by touting your know-how of PERL of all things.
When folks ask, what do I write in? I say, Java (since 1.0.2, I'm now into 6), HTML (really, XHTML 1.0) CSS/JavaScript (my AJAX runes on even IE 5), etc. I have Software Development experience ranging from big teams at GE to small elite teams. Right now, I can make around 150k easily/year. I know Perl, PHP, etc. But I admit to these last.
The moment I'm not useful I know they will fire me that day. But right now, these specific skillz pay very well.
Have you ever tried to fire a federal employee? You need to go through a hearing, file paperwork, dink their file more than once, etc. And, Federal employees have unions, you would need to possibly go through an entire court case for each firing... Unfortunately you just can't fire an IRS employee for failing a security test. Especially 60% of them in on shot.
My finance has her own email, blog, and website. I help her with her website (I got it SEO'ed on google), I keep her computer running - all while respecting her privacy. I have never read her email and I have admin access on her box. She also respects my privacy. She also cleans, cooks and takes care of me at the house while I work from home. It's called mutual respect. Taking care of each other. It's not that hard. This article misses that point altogether.
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Dude, it's only 2 letters before you variable name. And if your engineers are not keeping up with 2 simple things - type and scope - they you have shoddy coders anyhow. So normally you name your variable "numberOfTiles" say. Now with Hungarian you add 2 characters - ad "i" for integer and a "c" for class level variable say, so the Hungarian notation for this variable is icNumberOfTiles. Again, if your engineers cannot keep up with this, then you are not engineering.
I prefer variable names that verbosely describe purpose, scope and type.
right, so you prefer a large enterprise system with minimal variable names that really don't capture the context/meaning of the variable in the first place. bah
I meant to say "computer operates on the code very inefficiently"
If you are writing code for just a computer, then go back to assembly. We have 4gl languages that are so abstracted the computer actually operates on the code very efficiently (Java, PHP, Ruby). Why the inefficiency? So humans can modify the code better. So Humans can understand the code. Hence the power of Hungarian notation.
BUZZ wrong answer. You do not write code for computer. You do not even write code for the human who is developing the solution. You write code for one reason: to help the human who has to maintain your code do so quickly and efficiently. That's why adding tools into your code, like hungarian notation, is so crucial. I want the scope, type, and a verbose message telling me wtf the variable is for. Sure, I don't really need that when first writing the code, but it's crucial to help me edit/maintain the code down the road.
Does this mean ATI will actually deliver stable drivers for windows? That would be a first!
So is this being used to create huge rainbow tables? How many characters out can you go? I saw someone selling rainbow tables for SHA-1 out to 15 characters at DefCon on 2 DVD's for like 10$...
People who really do mission-critical computing go for IBM big iron and/or SUN hardware. They have redundancy capacity as crazy as build in redundant motherboards. Mommy, can I borrow 300,000 for a new server? http://www.sun.com/servers/index.jsp?cat=Sun%20Fir e%20High-end%20Servers&tab=3 I want one for my new workstation!
This could have been a lot worse. It could have been some weird masturbation machine that was having problems! Ouch!
You have got to be kidding - you really think a CS/Adobe shop is going to move to a Microsoft product? Not on your life!
Big freaking deal! I can run a huge, international, blah blah website on Access 2000 if you give me a big enough piece of hardware! Heck, isn't that what SQL Server basically is, anyway? :)
You think it made me feel good to throw you under a bus, metaphorically? You think it make me look good to hire you and then have you not show up for work multiple times? You are wrong. You made me look very bad. Adam, I went OUT OF MY WAY to get you multiple jobs - I sold you, I praised you, I was really on your team. When I was in a crunch, and had you in a place where we really depended on you, you let us down many times. You were either sick, or took money off to hit the beach - and Monday is a crunch time. It's just a matter of being a man of your word, and you could not simply do what YOU said you would do - over and over again. I don't want you to like me. I want you to stop responding to my Slashdot posts.
Then why the fuck are you tracking my Slashdot posts and harassing me? I do not follow your activity.
Yes, I do call people on Sunday nights, late, and pay people the moment they pick up the phone, if they pick up the phone. We were releasing a site as part of a very large internationally exposed project, dude.
You are (still) an at-will employee. I never technically fired you, you are right. I wanted to keep you around for other projects . I did not speak to you for 3 weeks cause (1) I had a site to deploy and (2) I was furious with you to the point that I really had nothing to say. And when I did call you to offer you more work, you pissed in my face. So be it.
Look Adam Prall, this is long over. You are the one who is trolling me on Slashdot. Not the other way around. Leave me alone and I will pay you the same respect.
Maybe if you actually were online 1/2 the time when you promised to me, I would not have fired you. After rounds of being sick, missing promised dates, etc. We all agreed it was time to let you go. Adam, you are one of the most brilliant graphic designers/software people I know. Yes, software too. Yes, you are really good. But you do not have a strong case of business integrity. For example, you take every Monday off? Give me a break. We need someone we can depend on.
Go away Adam Prall. Don't die, just fuck off.
Fuck off an Die.
Cool man. When you are ready to move, toss me your resume, I'll see what I can do for you. We all work from home in my company.
The problem is that you are a admin/script writer. You admit this clearly by touting your know-how of PERL of all things.
When folks ask, what do I write in? I say, Java (since 1.0.2, I'm now into 6), HTML (really, XHTML 1.0) CSS/JavaScript (my AJAX runes on even IE 5), etc. I have Software Development experience ranging from big teams at GE to small elite teams. Right now, I can make around 150k easily/year. I know Perl, PHP, etc. But I admit to these last.
The moment I'm not useful I know they will fire me that day. But right now, these specific skillz pay very well.
For that matter there is also SAMP (http://hell.jedicoder.net/?p=62) - dang, PHP screams on a multi-million-dollar enterprise SUN server! WHOO HO!
Have you ever tried to fire a federal employee? You need to go through a hearing, file paperwork, dink their file more than once, etc. And, Federal employees have unions, you would need to possibly go through an entire court case for each firing... Unfortunately you just can't fire an IRS employee for failing a security test. Especially 60% of them in on shot.
My finance has her own email, blog, and website. I help her with her website (I got it SEO'ed on google), I keep her computer running - all while respecting her privacy. I have never read her email and I have admin access on her box. She also respects my privacy. She also cleans, cooks and takes care of me at the house while I work from home. It's called mutual respect. Taking care of each other. It's not that hard. This article misses that point altogether.