the most valid point here is profit motive. most of these bad attitudes just don't get it. they view it as a problem. i have a hard time thinking anyone who would comment like that has any financial woes, in the business sense, to manage (aside from maybe taking large salaries to the bank in the case of the grumpy gurus out there). that makes you learn to compromise, which is a skill they obviously lack. in the current system, you need to make money somehow. OSS is compatible with this, but the people who *need* to be convinced of this will never know it unless the attituders learn the fine art of give and take.
in my.bash_profile i change colors for different users: xtermset -fg "White" -bg "DarkBlue", and I change them back via my.bash_logout. That gives me a real clue what I'm doing real quick. But I use a boring prompt:
if test "$UID" = 0; then
PS1='%n@%m:%~ # '
else
PS1='%n@%m:%~ > '
fi
I once bet a friend from China that our paper currency was heavier than his. Not having a great scale here I turned to the web seeking the weight of the differnt currencies and came up dry...very dissappointing. that was about 5 months ago and the last time I looked was about two months ago.
I work as an engineer at an enterprise software company who has just made what they consider a strategic move into providing application availability software for the MS platform. With software to help monitor and diagnose problems in Windows, SQL Server and Exchange, we're betting that big companies are going to start viewing their MS investments to be as critical as their Unix and Mainframe platforms over the next few years. In short, we're betting you'll be a success.
This move, in what has been a very Unix company until now, started an internal debate over the viability of MS as a 24x7 platform. That quickly became external as many clients began to echo these concerns with comments like, "I don't need monitoring for my MS boxes because I just reboot whenever I have a problem and it goes away." How would you answer the change that MS is not ready to be a 24x7 platform?
I went to college and got a degree in Philosophy. So now I'm a software engineer and I find myself wondering why I went at all sometimes. Sure, I had many good times, but I could have had those outside school. I also learned a bunch, but more from the books than anything else - which I surly could have gotten outside school. So, since you seem more than apt to be able to find interesting and rewarding career paths as you are today, will you even bother with college - or will that just be a big waste of time and money?
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I took a degree in Philosophy, with a concentration on the philosophy of religion. A year later, I was programming in Perl and maintaining a medium sized website for a living. People always ask, "do you do anything with what you learned in college?" I always tell them that the skill I learned was focus and clear thought - a requirement for both reaching spiritual states of mind and keeping all your variables in scope.
i took two vacation days recently to prepare for my 2 year old's birthday party. the first day i ended up onsite at a client fixing someone else's mess and by the third conference call i'd been summoned to on the second day my wife was about ready to divorce me.
my boss decided not to count these days against my vacation and to give me two more vacation days as a reward for being so helpful. all i could think of is when you find something wrong with a product (i.e. mouse in a twinkie) and then the company sends you a whole case of to make up for it...as if you'd want the same thing after seeing what it was like that time...
while i have seen the age of coders make a difference, you are never too old to be and admin. anyone whose been dealing with these f***ing silcon nightmares for over 20 years can get a job as a sys/network admin in the blink of an eye.
My degree is in philosophy, and I remember all too well the month we spent on Singer and other so called 'bio-ethicists'. I wrote a paper on it called Singer's Song, in which I simply state that men like this - far from being heroes as Katz would have it - only serve the interests of a stale and entrenched institution of education. (ironic thing for a guy with a philisophy degree to say, i know) Basically, the considerations Singer gives these types of topics are only food for the thought of those too disinterested in the realities surrounding them to actually do anything about it. So they donate money, talk about it and lament the fates of the less fortunate. How about volunteering? How about working for a non-profit? How about backing it up, whatever your 'it' of the day might be.
It just makes me mad to hear people actually worry about the genetic selection and termination of human life by the technocratically superior while there is so much termination going on from something as real - and preventible - as hunger. It's as if natural selection had been turned on its head.
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the most valid point here is profit motive. most of these bad attitudes just don't get it. they view it as a problem. i have a hard time thinking anyone who would comment like that has any financial woes, in the business sense, to manage (aside from maybe taking large salaries to the bank in the case of the grumpy gurus out there). that makes you learn to compromise, which is a skill they obviously lack. in the current system, you need to make money somehow. OSS is compatible with this, but the people who *need* to be convinced of this will never know it unless the attituders learn the fine art of give and take.
in my .bash_profile i change colors for different users: xtermset -fg "White" -bg "DarkBlue", and I change them back via my .bash_logout. That gives me a real clue what I'm doing real quick. But I use a boring prompt:
if test "$UID" = 0; then
PS1='%n@%m:%~ # '
else
PS1='%n@%m:%~ > '
fi
I'm still waiting for the homebrew multi console device. that way I can have a 21" monitor for every machine! =)
I once bet a friend from China that our paper currency was heavier than his. Not having a great scale here I turned to the web seeking the weight of the differnt currencies and came up dry...very dissappointing. that was about 5 months ago and the last time I looked was about two months ago.
I work as an engineer at an enterprise software company who has just made what they consider a strategic move into providing application availability software for the MS platform. With software to help monitor and diagnose problems in Windows, SQL Server and Exchange, we're betting that big companies are going to start viewing their MS investments to be as critical as their Unix and Mainframe platforms over the next few years. In short, we're betting you'll be a success.
This move, in what has been a very Unix company until now, started an internal debate over the viability of MS as a 24x7 platform. That quickly became external as many clients began to echo these concerns with comments like, "I don't need monitoring for my MS boxes because I just reboot whenever I have a problem and it goes away." How would you answer the change that MS is not ready to be a 24x7 platform?
I went to college and got a degree in Philosophy. So now I'm a software engineer and I find myself wondering why I went at all sometimes. Sure, I had many good times, but I could have had those outside school. I also learned a bunch, but more from the books than anything else - which I surly could have gotten outside school. So, since you seem more than apt to be able to find interesting and rewarding career paths as you are today, will you even bother with college - or will that just be a big waste of time and money?
I took a degree in Philosophy, with a concentration on the philosophy of religion. A year later, I was programming in Perl and maintaining a medium sized website for a living. People always ask, "do you do anything with what you learned in college?" I always tell them that the skill I learned was focus and clear thought - a requirement for both reaching spiritual states of mind and keeping all your variables in scope.
i took two vacation days recently to prepare for my 2 year old's birthday party. the first day i ended up onsite at a client fixing someone else's mess and by the third conference call i'd been summoned to on the second day my wife was about ready to divorce me.
my boss decided not to count these days against my vacation and to give me two more vacation days as a reward for being so helpful. all i could think of is when you find something wrong with a product (i.e. mouse in a twinkie) and then the company sends you a whole case of to make up for it...as if you'd want the same thing after seeing what it was like that time...
while i have seen the age of coders make a difference, you are never too old to be and admin. anyone whose been dealing with these f***ing silcon nightmares for over 20 years can get a job as a sys/network admin in the blink of an eye.
My degree is in philosophy, and I remember all too well the month we spent on Singer and other so called 'bio-ethicists'. I wrote a paper on it called Singer's Song, in which I simply state that men like this - far from being heroes as Katz would have it - only serve the interests of a stale and entrenched institution of education. (ironic thing for a guy with a philisophy degree to say, i know) Basically, the considerations Singer gives these types of topics are only food for the thought of those too disinterested in the realities surrounding them to actually do anything about it. So they donate money, talk about it and lament the fates of the less fortunate. How about volunteering? How about working for a non-profit? How about backing it up, whatever your 'it' of the day might be.
It just makes me mad to hear people actually worry about the genetic selection and termination of human life by the technocratically superior while there is so much termination going on from something as real - and preventible - as hunger. It's as if natural selection had been turned on its head.