Face. it, most work fits in the category of being unskilled and monotonous. We just don't like to think about it wheny it applies to our own field.
Hah.. speak for yourself.
Do you really think that companies are requiring people with high education for no reason, and they could just as easily get anyone in at far lower prices to do the high skilled jobs?
Pfft.. 2013 is the year when Windows RT/8 on Surface will force Linux to retreat out of tablets/smartphones and back onto Chinese "smart-fridge" interfaces and escalator firmware where it belongs.
Disclaimer: I am a Red Hat Certified consultant with 20 years UNIX experience looking on in terror as Microsoft renders my life obsolete.
Speaking your commands is definitely the way of the future, but I think they also need to make the window manager 3D if they want to stay ahead of the game.
I like the new start menu. If you're on a desktop just hit start and type what you want and you'll see what you're after right away. Aside from what the GP said the copy dialog is better (comes with a chart), if you're on two monitors each monitor has its own taskbar which is nice, it boots up really quickly, etc.
Definitely worth it for $40 (and as IT guys we are kind of obliged to get with the tech trends early)
Every phone and every OS has its problems, and happy users probably aren't as vocal; it would be good to know how Windows Phone users who are also iOS and Android users compare them for reliability.
Jesus Christ since when has a Slashdot submission on Microsoft software having issues actually been even handed about it?!
Congrats you troubleshooted a problem and wrote a tool. Us 20-somethings could never do that.
I know I'll get modded into oblivion but all this "oh I am so experienced and young people are so clueless" stuff is horseshit. I know some older coders that are terrible, I know some that are good. I know some younger coders that are terrible, I know some that are good.
Last week someone came to me and requested that the DotNetNuke wiki we added for them be able to copy and paste full Word documents (including images) straight into the WYSIWYG editor. We got them to compromise on having to upload images manually, though able to copy and paste from Word, but now the formatting for their pages now looks terrible.
It'd be good to add something to Wikipedia to let people create bullet points and add references etc without using the code, but I'm sure they won't try and make a real "Word-processor" like editor.
A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to its investors from their own money or the money paid by subsequent investors, rather than from profit earned by the individual or organization running the operation.
I don't see those 3 crucial elements in this definition.. Also John Gruber (a healthcare economist and professor at MIT, consultant to the Obama administration on healthcare policy) described Social Security as a Ponzi scheme in his (publically available) microeconomics lectures (unfortunately I can't find which one it was).
That's not to say it was or wasn't a crowning achievement, but it is projected to go bankrupt without major adjustment and you can draw parallels to a Ponzi scheme..
I'm a 25 year old, I use SQL all day and used C for my personal projects and as part of my computer science course. (And not just hello world, but UNIX threading / network programming / signalling and network stack emulation.)
I also work with a 38 year old who is a much better coder than myself, not in all ways but certainly in all but a few niche areas, and a 42 year old who does fit the stereotype of old people being afraid of new technologies (but who will readily learn if he wants to).
That's our dev team; a 25 year old, 38 year old and 42 year old.
Basically these stereotypes are just bullshit. I cringe just as much hearing about how "younger programmers can't do this" as when I hear how "older programmers can't do that".
If only there was some system to reward people based on how hard they work; some way of motivating people to work hard for their own benefit as well as the commune.. (Perhaps with some form of redistribution for those who justifiably can't contribute.)
It depends what sort of thing it is, how complex it is, whether the software is the kind of thing that can be tested easily or if the rules are embedded in the spaghetti, etc, etc.
One person given 200KLOC of complex spaghetti to rewrite though, if with little documentation outside of the code, and software that doesn't lend itself to automated testing, where the spaghetti logic is of consequence to the business.. that could be a very, very long project (years, easily).
I've had laptops stolen from me, and I've had people copy my homework without my permission. I'd never mistake these two things as similar.
They're both unpleasant for the victim
They're both illegal (assuming the homework is copyright to make a better analogy)
They both give the perpetrator something for no work which another had to work for (which disincentives working for things)
They both leave the victim with less value (the value lost from the laptop, and the value that is presumably lost in your homework if more people have the same homework)
Theft is defined (by Google define:) as "the action or crime of stealing", where stealing is defined as "Take (another person's property) without permission" or "Dishonestly pass off (another person's ideas) as one's own", so I don't really see why the word "theft" would irk you so much.
That having been said even if it was the wrong word; so what? Does this somehow affect your judgement on whether SAP's subsidiary was morally right, or is this just nitpicking over a word?
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It's just a payment service.. I've used it 3 times in the last two weeks, dozens of times over the last year.
Not in either of the places I work..
Face. it, most work fits in the category of being unskilled and monotonous. We just don't like to think about it wheny it applies to our own field.
Hah.. speak for yourself.
Do you really think that companies are requiring people with high education for no reason, and they could just as easily get anyone in at far lower prices to do the high skilled jobs?
[Citation needed]
Pfft.. 2013 is the year when Windows RT/8 on Surface will force Linux to retreat out of tablets/smartphones and back onto Chinese "smart-fridge" interfaces and escalator firmware where it belongs.
Disclaimer: I am a Red Hat Certified consultant with 20 years UNIX experience looking on in terror as Microsoft renders my life obsolete.
Speaking your commands is definitely the way of the future, but I think they also need to make the window manager 3D if they want to stay ahead of the game.
It's funny because he's dead.. *g*
It truly is the worst UI ever made. It is not logical, practical, or offers any advantage.
People tend to say the same thing about any shift in UI.
having to roll back to a restore point a few times (in the past month) everything has been smooth sailing
Maybe quit hacking the registry and disabling necessary services?
I like the new start menu. If you're on a desktop just hit start and type what you want and you'll see what you're after right away. Aside from what the GP said the copy dialog is better (comes with a chart), if you're on two monitors each monitor has its own taskbar which is nice, it boots up really quickly, etc.
Definitely worth it for $40 (and as IT guys we are kind of obliged to get with the tech trends early)
Every phone and every OS has its problems, and happy users probably aren't as vocal; it would be good to know how Windows Phone users who are also iOS and Android users compare them for reliability.
Jesus Christ since when has a Slashdot submission on Microsoft software having issues actually been even handed about it?!
Congrats you troubleshooted a problem and wrote a tool. Us 20-somethings could never do that.
I know I'll get modded into oblivion but all this "oh I am so experienced and young people are so clueless" stuff is horseshit. I know some older coders that are terrible, I know some that are good. I know some younger coders that are terrible, I know some that are good.
Last week someone came to me and requested that the DotNetNuke wiki we added for them be able to copy and paste full Word documents (including images) straight into the WYSIWYG editor. We got them to compromise on having to upload images manually, though able to copy and paste from Word, but now the formatting for their pages now looks terrible.
It'd be good to add something to Wikipedia to let people create bullet points and add references etc without using the code, but I'm sure they won't try and make a real "Word-processor" like editor.
A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to its investors from their own money or the money paid by subsequent investors, rather than from profit earned by the individual or organization running the operation.
I don't see those 3 crucial elements in this definition.. Also John Gruber (a healthcare economist and professor at MIT, consultant to the Obama administration on healthcare policy) described Social Security as a Ponzi scheme in his (publically available) microeconomics lectures (unfortunately I can't find which one it was).
That's not to say it was or wasn't a crowning achievement, but it is projected to go bankrupt without major adjustment and you can draw parallels to a Ponzi scheme..
I'm a 25 year old, I use SQL all day and used C for my personal projects and as part of my computer science course. (And not just hello world, but UNIX threading / network programming / signalling and network stack emulation.)
I also work with a 38 year old who is a much better coder than myself, not in all ways but certainly in all but a few niche areas, and a 42 year old who does fit the stereotype of old people being afraid of new technologies (but who will readily learn if he wants to).
That's our dev team; a 25 year old, 38 year old and 42 year old.
Basically these stereotypes are just bullshit. I cringe just as much hearing about how "younger programmers can't do this" as when I hear how "older programmers can't do that".
So what you're saying is "no, it isn't a viable alternative" ?
Don't you get it? It has been used for 20 years. What are you complaining about?
Pff. Apache + hadoop + mysql + varnish. Easy.
The other day I had to write a red-black tree in my CS152 class, now that's a tough problem!
The key piece here is that slackers can't hide.
If only there was some system to reward people based on how hard they work; some way of motivating people to work hard for their own benefit as well as the commune.. (Perhaps with some form of redistribution for those who justifiably can't contribute.)
Damn, I'm stumped.
.. the worst /. discussion ever?
Wow you're on a roll with the tiresome Windows security jokes! Almost as much of a roll as a Windows security consultant yuk yuk yuk
about quantum entanglement and the possibility of making a functional Maxwell's demon?
Are they those floating red things in Doom?
It depends what sort of thing it is, how complex it is, whether the software is the kind of thing that can be tested easily or if the rules are embedded in the spaghetti, etc, etc.
One person given 200KLOC of complex spaghetti to rewrite though, if with little documentation outside of the code, and software that doesn't lend itself to automated testing, where the spaghetti logic is of consequence to the business.. that could be a very, very long project (years, easily).
I've had laptops stolen from me, and I've had people copy my homework without my permission. I'd never mistake these two things as similar.
Theft is defined (by Google define:) as "the action or crime of stealing", where stealing is defined as "Take (another person's property) without permission" or "Dishonestly pass off (another person's ideas) as one's own", so I don't really see why the word "theft" would irk you so much.
That having been said even if it was the wrong word; so what? Does this somehow affect your judgement on whether SAP's subsidiary was morally right, or is this just nitpicking over a word?
There are accountants (or any sort of professionals) that don't use spreadsheets?