I recently had to take an elective in my CS graduate program. Being a seasoned Java professional, I figured a 500-level JAVA class would be a breeze. Boy was I wrong. The instructor was one of these old-school CS purists who HATED Java and loved C++. Each lecture was about how to do some low-level task in Java, and why C++ was so much better for that task (duh). He broke just about every standard Java coding convention that the compiler would allow. Multiple classes per file, ignoring the package structure. Each class was named like: "Class_ptr_adptr" (a class for a pointer adapter [wha???]), methods were named: "func_crt_inst()" (function create instance). And he REFUSED to call them "methods", in favor of "functions". I have no idea why some would deliberately choose to teach an entire course on Java if they hate it so much.
Also, when i was an undergrad (c1996), I had a MIS course where the prof was trying to exmplain the meaning of a URL, say "www.company.com". She drew on the board a venn-like diagram, three circles, each one enclosing the next smaller, resembling a bull's eye. In the outermost, she wrote "www", then "company" and "com" in each of the inner 2 and explained "So www stands for th entire world wide web, "company" is for the company you are trying to reach, and "com" means "communicate".
My wife is nursing the baby and it turns out that human breasts can spray that milk quite a distance. My macbook had breast milk spattered all over it and in every crevice.
I have to agree here. I work for a big 'ol boring publishing company as a software engineer. It's not the "sexiest" place to work. No, there's no free sushi in the caf. But, they pay me slightly above market, they have a liberal telecommute policy, generous time-off, have great health benefits. I sometimes think about sending my resume to Google, but then i think - do i really want to be part of that elitist techno-snob culture? (I have a degree from a state college woud they even consider me in the first place???) And what am I really getting for it - looooong hours and the ability to _tell_ people i work for google. That's really all it is. I mean, just how much more do non-managers make at google than other companies? I think I'll take my nice work/life balance with a pretty darn good, although not earth-shattering, salary.
+1,000,000,000 Can't be said enough. There is irrefutable evidence that we are going to destroy the atmosphere, which in turn will destroy the planet. Gore has just summed it all up nicely for the layperson to understand. The most troubling thing (ya know, besides the imminent end of the world) is that the oil, auto, and other capitalist lobbies goddamn well know it - and instead of doing the right thing; innovating for leaner, cleaner products, they fud the hell out of it in the interests of padding their already astronomical bonuses.
If I was in their position, of course I'd recruit heavily at those schools. You know that someone from a school like that is smart. But it's very wrong to assume that someone that comes from a lesser known shcool isn't smart. And it's downright insane to start asking someone with great professional experience about their education.
I'm probably the most succesful person to ever come out of my college's 2nd rate cs program. I started out at the very bottom with a crappy underpaid development job and worked my a$$ off to get where I am. I had to becasue I didn't have that big name education to wear as a badge. If I went to an interview and some snooty elitist started giving trouble about going to 'state u' now that i have almost 10 years experience, i'd probably just get up and walk out.
PS - to the Clemson guy: Um, I would've punched that guy right in the face. Clemson is a nationally recognized research university. What the hell do they want you to say? What a bunch of garbage.
I interviewed at Direct Revenue about 18 months ago. It's funny to hear thier version of what they do - they simply call it "contextual ad-based marketing". The whole place seemed very sketchy and unprofessional. When the sketchy manager walked me past the group he called "forensic computing" - I instantly knew I was in a spyware factory.
I met with some other sweaty, twitchy geek who asked me to solve some algorithmic/data-structure type problem. He was very persistent and specific - harping on the minor details. After I got out of there, I realized he was actually tring to get ideas for a problem he was working on - not tech-ing me for the position.
Told the equally shady recruiter to f-off & turned them down for another offer. Glad I did it, but I'm shocked that they are the focus of an article on BW. Surprised they're even still around...
I've gone over to Digg from time to time, but I've never stayed there because I just don't enjoy it as much. Slashdot, to me, is a discussion site. The articles are really just prompts that get people talking; the real "content" isn't in the links / TFAs -- which are mostly just stuff you can find on Google News most of the time anyway -- but in the discussion itself.
Agree 100%. Half the time (like so many others) i don't even RTFA.
The very existence of the acronym "RTFA" shows how valued the discussions are.
Disagree 100%
I've personally never met a programmer that i would even consider "decent" that didn't have a degree.
The fundamental theories and concepts of CompSci are probably used in everyday work more than most other fields.
Good for them. The freedom of speech includes the freedom not to speak. They can publish or not publish as they see fit.
of course they can publish or not publish as they see fit. But you think it's "good for them" that that reason they choose not to publish the cenerpiece of controversy in that insane situation is clearly fear of attack by a small extremist minority?
That's extortion.
You have only yourself to blame. You elected, the government that is implementing these useless measures as a propaganda stunt.
Really. Just who did I elect?
Is there any doubt that we have lost the war on terror? should we even bother fighting it anymore? We repeatedly show these extremist nutcases that they can get whatever it is they want by terrorizing us. Every article about these ridiculous cartoons on CNN.com ends with a disclaimer:
CNN has chosen not to reprint the cartoons out of repect for Islam
when all I can read is
CNN has chosen not to reprint the cartoons out of fear of getting firebombed
proof that we have lost:
Yeah, Osama may be on the run in remote areas of Pakistan & Afghanistan, but it takes me 40 mins to get through security at the airport, and I have to have my personal belongings searched to ride the subway.
The only perfect CMS:
Content gets put into XML with editor of your choice, you pull content into your app either at runtime, or make some custom automated publishing script.
Any packaged CMS will be way to bloated, and will be a nightmare to integrate into your architecture. Most likely - you will finding yourself bending your app around the CMS.
I'll just say this-
If you are white and interviewing for a non-managerial tech job, if the person that the position reports into is foreign - just turn around and walk right out the dooor. Don't waste your time. The whole time he's just thinking about you chumming with the VP about the golf trophy on your desk, and how the VP never stops to ask about the statue of Ganesh on his.
You could nail every question, but you never had a chance.
Not trying to be inflammatory, just trying to shed some light on an equally disturbing, but less visible issue.
What do you mean by "obsolete"? I have a 2+ yo 3G ipod and it works just dandy. Just because I can't squint real hard and watch the newest U2 video deosn't make it "obsolete".
article covers all good points.
Except it gave sIFR a real break. In my opinion, sIFR is more dangerous than good. I have flash installed so I can watch flash movies, use interactive graphs, and a few very well-designed user interfaces. I don't need go cross-eyed from deciphering long paragraphs in Led Zeppelin "Houses of the Holy" font.
I love execs who want to blow the user out of the water by bombarding them with flashing colors, words flying around the screen, impossibly tricky navigations, etc.
Small business owners are embarassingly worse. These morons will never understand that fresh, updated, relevant content combined with inuitive UI is infinitely more important than flashy colors and effects [slashdot, craigslist]
sIFR is a barrell of kerosene being thrown on that fire, once the PHB's hear that buzzword flying around.
Ok-
Scanning and making available published sheet music is a no-no. But if I enjoy playing music, and I want to share with others how I think a particular song is played, I should be free to do so.
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I recently had to take an elective in my CS graduate program. Being a seasoned Java professional, I figured a 500-level JAVA class would be a breeze. Boy was I wrong. The instructor was one of these old-school CS purists who HATED Java and loved C++. Each lecture was about how to do some low-level task in Java, and why C++ was so much better for that task (duh). He broke just about every standard Java coding convention that the compiler would allow. Multiple classes per file, ignoring the package structure. Each class was named like: "Class_ptr_adptr" (a class for a pointer adapter [wha???]), methods were named: "func_crt_inst()" (function create instance). And he REFUSED to call them "methods", in favor of "functions". I have no idea why some would deliberately choose to teach an entire course on Java if they hate it so much. Also, when i was an undergrad (c1996), I had a MIS course where the prof was trying to exmplain the meaning of a URL, say "www.company.com". She drew on the board a venn-like diagram, three circles, each one enclosing the next smaller, resembling a bull's eye. In the outermost, she wrote "www", then "company" and "com" in each of the inner 2 and explained "So www stands for th entire world wide web, "company" is for the company you are trying to reach, and "com" means "communicate".
My wife is nursing the baby and it turns out that human breasts can spray that milk quite a distance. My macbook had breast milk spattered all over it and in every crevice.
/. during lunch...
Last time I read
I have to agree here. I work for a big 'ol boring publishing company as a software engineer. It's not the "sexiest" place to work. No, there's no free sushi in the caf. But, they pay me slightly above market, they have a liberal telecommute policy, generous time-off, have great health benefits. I sometimes think about sending my resume to Google, but then i think - do i really want to be part of that elitist techno-snob culture? (I have a degree from a state college woud they even consider me in the first place???) And what am I really getting for it - looooong hours and the ability to _tell_ people i work for google. That's really all it is. I mean, just how much more do non-managers make at google than other companies?
I think I'll take my nice work/life balance with a pretty darn good, although not earth-shattering, salary.
+1,000,000,000
a r/
Can't be said enough. There is irrefutable evidence that we are going to destroy the atmosphere, which in turn will destroy the planet. Gore has just summed it all up nicely for the layperson to understand. The most troubling thing (ya know, besides the imminent end of the world) is that the oil, auto, and other capitalist lobbies goddamn well know it - and instead of doing the right thing; innovating for leaner, cleaner products, they fud the hell out of it in the interests of padding their already astronomical bonuses.
If you haven't checked this one out, it makes a nice compliment to An Inconvenient Truth: http://www.sonyclassics.com/whokilledtheelectricc
C'mon man, Ringo's great!
The most amazing thing is that there are people who thing the "Gates Borg" icon is lame and no longer relevant. ARE THEY KIDDING???
d'oh
Hey everybody-
Toby Keith posts on slashdot!
Where you from, pal? My guess: you're form the south or midwest and you've never left the town you grew up in...
If I was in their position, of course I'd recruit heavily at those schools. You know that someone from a school like that is smart. But it's very wrong to assume that someone that comes from a lesser known shcool isn't smart. And it's downright insane to start asking someone with great professional experience about their education. I'm probably the most succesful person to ever come out of my college's 2nd rate cs program. I started out at the very bottom with a crappy underpaid development job and worked my a$$ off to get where I am. I had to becasue I didn't have that big name education to wear as a badge. If I went to an interview and some snooty elitist started giving trouble about going to 'state u' now that i have almost 10 years experience, i'd probably just get up and walk out. PS - to the Clemson guy: Um, I would've punched that guy right in the face. Clemson is a nationally recognized research university. What the hell do they want you to say? What a bunch of garbage.
I interviewed at Direct Revenue about 18 months ago. It's funny to hear thier version of what they do - they simply call it "contextual ad-based marketing". The whole place seemed very sketchy and unprofessional. When the sketchy manager walked me past the group he called "forensic computing" - I instantly knew I was in a spyware factory. I met with some other sweaty, twitchy geek who asked me to solve some algorithmic/data-structure type problem. He was very persistent and specific - harping on the minor details. After I got out of there, I realized he was actually tring to get ideas for a problem he was working on - not tech-ing me for the position. Told the equally shady recruiter to f-off & turned them down for another offer. Glad I did it, but I'm shocked that they are the focus of an article on BW. Surprised they're even still around...
I've gone over to Digg from time to time, but I've never stayed there because I just don't enjoy it as much. Slashdot, to me, is a discussion site. The articles are really just prompts that get people talking; the real "content" isn't in the links / TFAs -- which are mostly just stuff you can find on Google News most of the time anyway -- but in the discussion itself. Agree 100%. Half the time (like so many others) i don't even RTFA. The very existence of the acronym "RTFA" shows how valued the discussions are.
Disagree 100% I've personally never met a programmer that i would even consider "decent" that didn't have a degree. The fundamental theories and concepts of CompSci are probably used in everyday work more than most other fields.
Good for them. The freedom of speech includes the freedom not to speak. They can publish or not publish as they see fit. of course they can publish or not publish as they see fit. But you think it's "good for them" that that reason they choose not to publish the cenerpiece of controversy in that insane situation is clearly fear of attack by a small extremist minority? That's extortion. You have only yourself to blame. You elected, the government that is implementing these useless measures as a propaganda stunt. Really. Just who did I elect?
Is there any doubt that we have lost the war on terror? should we even bother fighting it anymore? We repeatedly show these extremist nutcases that they can get whatever it is they want by terrorizing us. Every article about these ridiculous cartoons on CNN.com ends with a disclaimer: CNN has chosen not to reprint the cartoons out of repect for Islam when all I can read is CNN has chosen not to reprint the cartoons out of fear of getting firebombed proof that we have lost: Yeah, Osama may be on the run in remote areas of Pakistan & Afghanistan, but it takes me 40 mins to get through security at the airport, and I have to have my personal belongings searched to ride the subway.
The only perfect CMS: Content gets put into XML with editor of your choice, you pull content into your app either at runtime, or make some custom automated publishing script. Any packaged CMS will be way to bloated, and will be a nightmare to integrate into your architecture. Most likely - you will finding yourself bending your app around the CMS.
I'll just say this- If you are white and interviewing for a non-managerial tech job, if the person that the position reports into is foreign - just turn around and walk right out the dooor. Don't waste your time. The whole time he's just thinking about you chumming with the VP about the golf trophy on your desk, and how the VP never stops to ask about the statue of Ganesh on his. You could nail every question, but you never had a chance. Not trying to be inflammatory, just trying to shed some light on an equally disturbing, but less visible issue.
Horribly written, lots of (mostly) un-referenced statistics without any analysis. Rambles on without any real point. Anything groundbreaking here?
What do you mean by "obsolete"? I have a 2+ yo 3G ipod and it works just dandy. Just because I can't squint real hard and watch the newest U2 video deosn't make it "obsolete".
article covers all good points.
Except it gave sIFR a real break. In my opinion, sIFR is more dangerous than good. I have flash installed so I can watch flash movies, use interactive graphs, and a few very well-designed user interfaces. I don't need go cross-eyed from deciphering long paragraphs in Led Zeppelin "Houses of the Holy" font.
I love execs who want to blow the user out of the water by bombarding them with flashing colors, words flying around the screen, impossibly tricky navigations, etc.
Small business owners are embarassingly worse. These morons will never understand that fresh, updated, relevant content combined with inuitive UI is infinitely more important than flashy colors and effects [slashdot, craigslist]
sIFR is a barrell of kerosene being thrown on that fire, once the PHB's hear that buzzword flying around.
Ok- Scanning and making available published sheet music is a no-no. But if I enjoy playing music, and I want to share with others how I think a particular song is played, I should be free to do so.
"I tell you to end your [enjoy] life. I wish I could, but I'm too late." -Ozzy