Not only that, their sound quality SUCKS. At least here in Madison, whenever I call someone with an iPhone, it sounds like its switching to some archaic network and then the other person sounds muffled, like they are talking on a speaker phone.
Think of the millions of dollars in lost productivity Friday when thousands of Mac users stay home from work so they can play with the shiny new calculator in Snow Leopard.
Personally I took off work today as soon I saw this announcement. I'll be in my bunk...
You've pretty much guaranteed now that I (and probably many others) will spend the rest of our mod-points modding your posts in other discussions Flamebait. Have a nice day!
I worked at a place that named all the servers after fantasy places: Landover, Andor, Krynn, etc. We had an SGI R3000 named Gastropod because it was so slow. My current Linux server is called skynet, though it's more likely to break down in some horrible way than take over the world. Lately I've gotten lazy - my MacBook is just called MacBook, and my two test Linux machines are linux32 and linux64.
15 years later though and my primary workstation is still called Andor.
No, "real developers" do as much as they can to meet a deadline. No more... but often quite a bit less.... Unlike a "professional" who will stop as soon as possible and get the hell out, because there is no reason for any more, and usually reason for less.
Bullshit.
I don't know what cube farm you met these "real developers" of yours at but in my business "professionals" do what it takes to make the customer happy.
Having shipped dozens of commercial products in somewhat niche markets I can tell you that if you want to eat you do a great job and keep doing it, working directly with key customers if necessary to craft tools that will help them do their jobs better/faster/easier.
And being part of a small company means my income is directly based on those of my users, and in this economy it means working my ass off on as many projects as possible to keep the fridge full and shoes on my kids' feet, and each and every one of them has to be near-perfect at V1.0. There is no "fix these known things in a patch after we release."
I've seen more than my share of open source projects where your "non-real programmers" got tired and stopped at the horribly designed config file, or documentation, or at the "well it works good enough for me" part and people should be *glad* to sift through the code to figure out how it works.
*Professional* programmers have to go that extra 20% at the end, which usually takes 90% of the time, to make the software into a polished, finished, product, and we have to do it in such a way to minimize idiot user questions, which *will* happen, so we don't waste all our money dealing with tech support. Your open-source guys can just say "read the source" if you don't understand something.
Just because one can understand memory allocations and pointers doesn't mean one wants to have to deal with them manually in all their programs.
Then use a framework, like Qt, that deals with all of that for you.
I write graphics software, and C++ allows me to write very efficient, flexible, and maintainable code that runs on a variety of architectures. Just because you don't need to mess around with pointers, that doesn't mean everyone doesn't need to.
I haven't been to a "Micky D's" or a "Pedophile-looking King dude" in probably 6-7 YEARS. And I haven't had any uncontrollable diarrhea since then either... Hmmmm..
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What if everyone started telecommuting? Would they then charge a tax for working at home?
Not only that, their sound quality SUCKS. At least here in Madison, whenever I call someone with an iPhone, it sounds like its switching to some archaic network and then the other person sounds muffled, like they are talking on a speaker phone.
Yes but do they run iFart?
But that might lead to someone experimenting with
30 PRINT "Hello " A$$
And that spells a naughty word. Can't have that!!
Linux has had an in here for some years now, due to earlier 64 bit support
We were running 64 bit Windows NT on Alpha chips in 1994. When did Linux first provide 64 bit support?
Glenn Beck is that you?
Hard to imagine this would have been tagged Troll if it had been about Windows or Linux.
Think of the millions of dollars in lost productivity Friday when thousands of Mac users stay home from work so they can play with the shiny new calculator in Snow Leopard.
Personally I took off work today as soon I saw this announcement. I'll be in my bunk...
Yes please.
But really - can't take a joke?
You've pretty much guaranteed now that I (and probably many others) will spend the rest of our mod-points modding your posts in other discussions Flamebait. Have a nice day!
I worked at a place that named all the servers after fantasy places: Landover, Andor, Krynn, etc. We had an SGI R3000 named Gastropod because it was so slow. My current Linux server is called skynet, though it's more likely to break down in some horrible way than take over the world. Lately I've gotten lazy - my MacBook is just called MacBook, and my two test Linux machines are linux32 and linux64.
15 years later though and my primary workstation is still called Andor.
There are no tentacle porn apps, so I really don't get the interest.
So who's mother was the hamster?
I may be an arrogant bastard enough to claim that I'm a pretty competent "professional" programmer, yeah.
But not enough of one to comment any more on what some AC asshole posts.
No, "real developers" do as much as they can to meet a deadline. No more... but often quite a bit less. ...
Unlike a "professional" who will stop as soon as possible and get the hell out, because there is no reason for any more, and usually reason for less.
Bullshit.
I don't know what cube farm you met these "real developers" of yours at but in my business "professionals" do what it takes to make the customer happy.
Having shipped dozens of commercial products in somewhat niche markets I can tell you that if you want to eat you do a great job and keep doing it, working directly with key customers if necessary to craft tools that will help them do their jobs better/faster/easier.
And being part of a small company means my income is directly based on those of my users, and in this economy it means working my ass off on as many projects as possible to keep the fridge full and shoes on my kids' feet, and each and every one of them has to be near-perfect at V1.0. There is no "fix these known things in a patch after we release."
I've seen more than my share of open source projects where your "non-real programmers" got tired and stopped at the horribly designed config file, or documentation, or at the "well it works good enough for me" part and people should be *glad* to sift through the code to figure out how it works.
*Professional* programmers have to go that extra 20% at the end, which usually takes 90% of the time, to make the software into a polished, finished, product, and we have to do it in such a way to minimize idiot user questions, which *will* happen, so we don't waste all our money dealing with tech support. Your open-source guys can just say "read the source" if you don't understand something.
How's that for generalizations?
Is there a way to mod the entire article down? That would be a useful feature.
Sounds like they need to get the Milliard Gargantubrain or the Googleplex Star Thinker working on a solution, and fast!
Maybe he's hiking in Brazil. Did anyone ever think of that?
I can only hope that at some future date a court will decide which light beer truly is the best tasting.
It's quite possible that none of them are the best tasting. You need flavor to actually have taste, don't you?
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I think bigger problems are C++'s complexity, the presence of pointers, the use of include files, and the lack of garbage collection.
Funny - I see all of those things as advantages.
Just because one can understand memory allocations and pointers doesn't mean one wants to have to deal with them manually in all their programs.
Then use a framework, like Qt, that deals with all of that for you.
I write graphics software, and C++ allows me to write very efficient, flexible, and maintainable code that runs on a variety of architectures. Just because you don't need to mess around with pointers, that doesn't mean everyone doesn't need to.
Some are speculating that the upcoming District 9 is the half life movie
And they would be wrong. The premise of District 9 isn't even close to that of Half Life.
Yeah, the Spider Man movies sucked so much they only made almost a Billion dollars EACH world-wide.
I use New Balance.
I haven't been to a "Micky D's" or a "Pedophile-looking King dude" in probably 6-7 YEARS. And I haven't had any uncontrollable diarrhea since then either... Hmmmm..
In Communist China, iPhone kills you...
Sorry - I'm dead inside.