Two bodies at a computer is more efficient because of {insert psycho-industrial babble here}.
OK, we all know that if there was somebody else in the cubicle with us, we would be working instead of reading/. right now. THAT'S why it's more efficient.
Soyuz 1: 1 guy. His parachute failed to open, and in the time between the failure and the splat, he loudly cursed the people who rushed that spacecraft into production. Hey! Take a look at the splat. Poor Komarov, may he RIP.
Soyuz 11: oops! no air! 3 guys dead.
Total: 4 in the air.
Americans:
Challenger: kaboom, 7 killed.
Total: 7 in the air.
--- on the ground---
Russians:
1960: Nedelin disaster. General Nedelin and 200 other rocket experts killed on the ground when the rocket blew up.
Total: 201 on the ground
Americans:
Apollo 1: Test goes bad when fire kills three astronauts inside the capsule.
Total: 3 on the ground.
---
So there you go. The Russian space program is STILL worse when you consider the safety record.
Good point. Check out http://www.users.drak.net/Homepages/whitedragon/ba th_bombing.html. Don't confuse this one data point as something close to "evidence" but it does point out that bad stuff has happened in the past. That was the worst school disaster *ever*, but unless you lived in Michigan in the Lansing area, I doubt you would have heard about it. Go ahead, ask your grandparents if they remember. They probably never heard of it.
I'm not quite sure why hardly anybody I work for uses CVS. Here where I work, bunches of people use Linux for their work. We have clients that we port from VAX, AIX, SUNOS, etc. to Linux. Just yesterday I finished mods to the linuxthreads code to allow stacks on the initial thread to be larger than 2 megs. We did that because we're porting some FORTRAN code from VAX to Linux, using some compatibility libraries that our company originally wrote for other UNIX systems. Fortran declares space on the stack mostly, so 2 megs wasn't enough.
So, it's not like we're not into hard core Linux hacking here, but by the time I get onto projects (my job is mainly doing the really hard stuff that nobody else can figure out) the version control system has already been picked out, and it's usually rcs or pvcs.
At home, I use CVS. One thing I forgot to mention is that CVS is great for use as a "briefcase" system. I can make changes in source on multiple computers, like my laptop and my desktop machine, and when I need to integrate the two, I just commit it into the archive and update the other copy. Plus, I keep my source always checked out on one machine, while the archive resides on another machine. If one machine fails, I still have relatively up to date copies on the other machine. EZ redundancy.
It all calls money. Companies that have no problem dropping millions for a 30 second superbowl spot somehow think that their IT department should be a profit center, and they make techies life hard when their websites cost more than they make.
That sort of silliness reminds me of Jostens. Jostens is a company that makes class rings. Anyway, some moron in that company looked around at their computer staff and figured out that they had a negative monetary balance for their department. How to solve that problem? Make the IT department a profit center! They could hire them out to build systems for other companies. Everyone would be profitable and happy. WRONG! After getting spanked hard, they stopped that nonsense. Somewhere along the line they forgot that the IT department is a *cost* associated with doing business, just like marketing. Companies need to realize that websites are the same thing. They will probably lose money, but if they are done right, they will help to drive business to other parts of the company.
but the last time I actually was able to use it in a job that I was paid for was 1993.
I've used pvcs lots, and rcs too. Can I tell you how much it sucks when some fool on the team comes in at 6:30 AM and locks the one single header that everyone needs, and doesn't check it in until he goes home at 4PM?
a) CVS is great for that situation. It would also help to lay out header files in a smart way. Alas, I hardly ever get to start a project, but I sure as hell finish them.
b) pvcs sucks because of the rule that the suckiest and most selfish programmer on the team also happens to be a bright and cheery early riser, just so he can check out that important file before I get my hands on it.
c) I haven't mentioned clearcase. The less said about that horrendous mess the better.
I've got a TiVo and one can only HOPE that they are selling my usage information. They will see that I never ever watch "The Golden Girls" but I do watch "Babylon 5". Maybe the networks will get a clue.
Rocket: Collect call from Atlas Itsaboy, will you accept charges?
Mission Control #1: No.
Mission Control #2: Who was that?
Mission Control #1: It was our rocket. It's a boy.
Mission Control #2: Wait a second.... (flips through large manual). HEY! It's not a boy, it's a GIRL. Range Safety! We've got a bird out there with a sexual identity crisis!
Range Safety: I'm on it. It says here that Atlas is a masculine name. I don't see the problem on my screens.
Mission Control #1: She's developing nominal thrust. And she's vaguely cigar shaped too.
Mission Control #2: In cases like this we just wait to see what happens. Perhaps she'll achieve orbital insertion. Plenty of time to evaluate the situation before re-entry.
It forwards to my real e-mail address for free. I only use startrekmail.com on the internet. Sort of the same thing as using the name "King Africa" even though you're a 9 year old girl.
By that logic, you could argue that a place as sparsely populated as Antarctica would almost *never* get a nice internet connection.
But, you can't generalize the average population per square mile.
It just so happens that probably every single person in Antarctica has an internet connection. It also happens that the vast majority of Canadians live within 100 miles of the U.S. border. This makes things relatively *easier* for any type of internet deployment in Canada.
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Two bodies at a computer is more efficient because of {insert psycho-industrial babble here}.
/. right now. THAT'S why it's more efficient.
OK, we all know that if there was somebody else in the cubicle with us, we would be working instead of reading
That's why Linux is great. You can fixup that useless caps lock key to be the left-side enter key.
"The sky is not falling, but the sky is hanging a little low."
Why is that quote funny to me?
Want to count the number of dead?
OK, HERE WE GO:
Russians:
Soyuz 1: 1 guy. His parachute failed to open, and in the time between the failure and the splat, he loudly cursed the people who rushed that spacecraft into production. Hey! Take a look at the splat. Poor Komarov, may he RIP.
Soyuz 11: oops! no air! 3 guys dead.
Total: 4 in the air.
Americans:
Challenger: kaboom, 7 killed.
Total: 7 in the air.
--- on the ground---
Russians:
1960: Nedelin disaster. General Nedelin and 200 other rocket experts killed on the ground when the rocket blew up.
Total: 201 on the ground
Americans:
Apollo 1: Test goes bad when fire kills three astronauts inside the capsule.
Total: 3 on the ground.
---
So there you go. The Russian space program is STILL worse when you consider the safety record.
Two russian missions have ended in the death of the crew. One American mission has ended in the death of the crew.
The Soviet Union/Russia has a worse safety record than the US. Get over it.
What you say?
If you had a point in there, musta got lost somewhere down the line.
All you've proved is that some people know about it today, but back in 1927, news was slower to travel.
Good point. Check out http://www.users.drak.net/Homepages/whitedragon/ba th_bombing.html. Don't confuse this one data point as something close to "evidence" but it does point out that bad stuff has happened in the past. That was the worst school disaster *ever*, but unless you lived in Michigan in the Lansing area, I doubt you would have heard about it. Go ahead, ask your grandparents if they remember. They probably never heard of it.
I'm not quite sure why hardly anybody I work for uses CVS. Here where I work, bunches of people use Linux for their work. We have clients that we port from VAX, AIX, SUNOS, etc. to Linux. Just yesterday I finished mods to the linuxthreads code to allow stacks on the initial thread to be larger than 2 megs. We did that because we're porting some FORTRAN code from VAX to Linux, using some compatibility libraries that our company originally wrote for other UNIX systems. Fortran declares space on the stack mostly, so 2 megs wasn't enough.
So, it's not like we're not into hard core Linux hacking here, but by the time I get onto projects (my job is mainly doing the really hard stuff that nobody else can figure out) the version control system has already been picked out, and it's usually rcs or pvcs.
At home, I use CVS. One thing I forgot to mention is that CVS is great for use as a "briefcase" system. I can make changes in source on multiple computers, like my laptop and my desktop machine, and when I need to integrate the two, I just commit it into the archive and update the other copy. Plus, I keep my source always checked out on one machine, while the archive resides on another machine. If one machine fails, I still have relatively up to date copies on the other machine. EZ redundancy.
My professors used to get pr0n on their video projection systems in front of the whole class. That was always fun.
Someone moderated me troll? That is damn funny. Now I understand how George Bush became President.
Jeez man, your article reminds me of a commercial for dictionaries!
It all calls money. Companies that have no problem dropping millions for a 30 second superbowl spot somehow think that their IT department should be a profit center, and they make techies life hard when their websites cost more than they make.
That sort of silliness reminds me of Jostens. Jostens is a company that makes class rings. Anyway, some moron in that company looked around at their computer staff and figured out that they had a negative monetary balance for their department. How to solve that problem? Make the IT department a profit center! They could hire them out to build systems for other companies. Everyone would be profitable and happy. WRONG! After getting spanked hard, they stopped that nonsense. Somewhere along the line they forgot that the IT department is a *cost* associated with doing business, just like marketing. Companies need to realize that websites are the same thing. They will probably lose money, but if they are done right, they will help to drive business to other parts of the company.
but the last time I actually was able to use it in a job that I was paid for was 1993.
I've used pvcs lots, and rcs too. Can I tell you how much it sucks when some fool on the team comes in at 6:30 AM and locks the one single header that everyone needs, and doesn't check it in until he goes home at 4PM?
a) CVS is great for that situation. It would also help to lay out header files in a smart way. Alas, I hardly ever get to start a project, but I sure as hell finish them.
b) pvcs sucks because of the rule that the suckiest and most selfish programmer on the team also happens to be a bright and cheery early riser, just so he can check out that important file before I get my hands on it.
c) I haven't mentioned clearcase. The less said about that horrendous mess the better.
I've got a TiVo and one can only HOPE that they are selling my usage information. They will see that I never ever watch "The Golden Girls" but I do watch "Babylon 5". Maybe the networks will get a clue.
Rocket: Collect call from Atlas Itsaboy, will you accept charges?
Mission Control #1: No.
Mission Control #2: Who was that?
Mission Control #1: It was our rocket. It's a boy.
Mission Control #2: Wait a second.... (flips through large manual). HEY! It's not a boy, it's a GIRL. Range Safety! We've got a bird out there with a sexual identity crisis!
Range Safety: I'm on it. It says here that Atlas is a masculine name. I don't see the problem on my screens.
Mission Control #1: She's developing nominal thrust. And she's vaguely cigar shaped too.
Mission Control #2: In cases like this we just wait to see what happens. Perhaps she'll achieve orbital insertion. Plenty of time to evaluate the situation before re-entry.
It forwards to my real e-mail address for free. I only use startrekmail.com on the internet. Sort of the same thing as using the name "King Africa" even though you're a 9 year old girl.
You mean there's a PONY in there? Cool!
Which one? The alcoholic Russians or the gun carrying Merkins?
If Katz wants his geek revolution, I think he should have it. It is a far far worse article than has ever been written before.
By that logic, you could argue that a place as sparsely populated as Antarctica would almost *never* get a nice internet connection.
But, you can't generalize the average population per square mile.
It just so happens that probably every single person in Antarctica has an internet connection. It also happens that the vast majority of Canadians live within 100 miles of the U.S. border. This makes things relatively *easier* for any type of internet deployment in Canada.
Katz, you'll never be as good as Jerry Springer.
This ain't a revolution. We're just programmers.
Pyrotechnics
Man with TiVo record at best quality and make video tape the way *he* likes it.
All this planet are belong to you!
But this planet are belong to us!
He must have thought the line went "keeps on plucking".