Where testers don't get to touch it until it's ready for testing?
The later a bug is found the costlier it is to fix it.
And if your projects run late (who are we kidding: WHEN your projects run late) the first two things to be cut down are documentation and testing.
Do daily automated testing and you find many errors before they become critical.
(IIRC, IANAL in Germany anyone can bring a copyright case to court, it doesn't have to be the actual owner of the copyright) Nope, false.
Only the copyright-owner is allowed to file a case. However, Harald Welte (author of things like IPTABLES) is german and head of gpl-violations.org.
The people who get the data in the first place are as corrupt as the advertisers.
Marketing still is pure manipulation. Apple is a fine example:
They offer sub-par hardware (Iphone without 3G, Macbook without great colors...) with an alternative OS to incredible high prices.
They use chinese sweatshop-labor, highly toxic chemicals and somehow still have a positive image.
That is pure evil manipulation.
The difference is that it is unthinkable that most companies should have a "Chief Plumbing Officer", but the IT world seems to think that they need to be involved at the highest reaches of every company's management. The difference is: If the toilets on floor 11 fail (get clogged; whatever), the people on floor 11 can continue to work.
If the domain-server for floor 11 fails, the cannot do _anything_ in most businesses. Each _SECOND_ the IT-infrastructure isn't available costs serious money.
And you can always let a stranger pee in your toilets, but you should never let a stranger anywhere near the main data-servers...
I'd imagine FSF without RMS would be like FSF Europe. I know nothing about FSF Europe apart from the fact that it exists, despite being a FSF associate member and European.
To me, RMS is the FSF. That's exactly my fear.
I am a member of the Fellowship of the FSFE and get their bi-annual letter and all of their press-releases, but that isn't really much.
RMS is a great leader, but he really shines as a spokesperson: he is easily recognized and creates awareness. No matter who you speak to: they all have an opinion about him.
Athlon64 2800+; 512 MB DDR-Ram, 80 Gig Hdd
1000 GigaByte/month at 100Mbit/s
29/month
If you are paying 220$ just for a download-proxy, you are being ripped off.
"that ejabberd XMPP server can be used to develop a distributed Twitter-like system."
What the hell does that mean?
I don't know whether to apply the "alphabetsoup" tag or the "stopturningnounsintoverbs" tag. Where do you see a verb that used to be a noun?
ejabberd is an XMPP-server (that apache HTTP server -> that ejabberd XMPP server)
"can be used to develop" should be obvious
"a distributed": in this case this means that the network does not have a central server; the administration is distributed among the different XMPP-servers
"Twitter-like system": a system like twitter (twitter.com afaik).
Reading comprehension isn't your strong point, n'est-ce pas?
And that's the problem with your post. You might be a sysadmin, but real work is more than maintaining windows pcs. Lots of companies are involved with businesses that heavily rely upon analyzing large amounts of information. If you aren't aware of any reason to have more than 4 gigs of ram, you are simply ignorant of what really goes on in the modern economy. And you are ignorant if you really think that more than 1% of all users do things where they need that ram.
99% of the users are simple work-drones who need email, calendaring and ms-office.
Ah a fellow Article-reader. we must both be new here.
The thing that drives me nuts about this article is that I have been making this very argument for more than 10 years now, since my family tried to push me into CS school. The simple fact is that I was already writing in assembly in early high-school, and C shortly after that. As a manager and later, as a small-business owner, I've interviewed dozens of people with CS degrees who claimed they were programmers, only to find out quickly in an interview that they haven't the foggiest clue what a compiler does, or any relevant understanding of how a data structure manages to exist. Pointers? what are those? Why did you laugh when I said GOTO? Garbage collection? That's on Thursday.
I do not think that the source of this problem lies in the curriculum. The huge Problem is that no mayor company that i know of is looking for programmers who know what the best data-structure for a certain sub-problem is. They want someone who has $array_of_bullshit_bingo_words in his resumé. As long as companies are using that approach to hiring they will continue to drive universities into the wrong direction.
I don't know that there will be no call for the type of programming CS programs teach today, in the future... in fact the way I see it, 70% of the apps that business runs on can be done in the "plumber at the store" style. Many of these require intimate understanding of the problem domain, which is one thing that CS used to be fairly lacking in prior to the "Java Shift"..
The plumber may really be the right analogy here: most plumbers did not actively pursue that career. They are plumbers because it was a way to get money.
The 80/20 gap is a good way to describe it: 80% of the people in the IT-industry go home at 5PM and do not touch/think about a computer till 9AM the next morning. Those are the guys who will be developing in JAva (but only if someone from the 20% did set up their environment&IDE correctly). These are the guys who consider unit testing to be unnecessary and who think that sourcecode-versioning is an unfair chore.
Five years down the road they have not added one ounce of knowledge to their brain. They are simply ballast, but the companies haven't gotten that part of the message yet. Instead the companies think about outsourcing and out-contracting.
To get to the point: universities only do what the companies want. We have a mayor problem on our hands: we have a high demand for IT-workers, but only IT-people who are in it "for the fun" will be delivering good work. Dumbing down the curriculum leads to more graduates, but 80% of the graduates will be useless in 5 years when their skillset is heavily outdated. Just keeping your skillset current is not enough in this industry; you have to constantly learn new things (unless you are the lucky guy who is a PROLOG-consultant robbing the banks;-) ).
But when it comes to serious applications for big iron, Java just ain't it. I guess what I'm suggesting is that Java is a great language for non-programmers to learn to get a task done quickly and painlessly. I hope you don't take offense at this, I'm simply pointing out where the language's strengths really apply That is not the strength of Java_the_language; it's the strength of Java_the_a_huge_collection_of_libraries.
That is no side-effekt.
The copyright-owner can _ALWAYS_ choose whichever damn license catches his fancy, including some evil, sign-to-sell-your-soul-style EULA.
It is working as intended.
Worth also mentioning that its not only open and being implemented as part of Mono, its being directly supported by MS and the Silverlight team. As in "Will always lag behind Silverlight, no Silverlight-Dev is working on Moonlight and Silverlight 2.0 will be announced before Moonlight 1.0 is ready". Same as with.NET.
And Silverlight 2.0 will be available on Mac (and, via third party, Linux). AKA as buggy, lacking features (like VBA in MS Office) and (for the third-party linux port) half-finished and always one version behind.
Thanks, but no thanks.
I'm sorry, but I feel the same thing with every new programming language and/or paradigm. It's just a bunch of busy work to learn a new syntax, find all the best-of-breed libraries, and work around the unforeseen limitations. In the end, you're not more than a negligible amount better than before, and you've wasted a year of your life. Are you really advocating stagnation? Learning just for learnings sake keeps your brain healthy.
Are there still people out there who believe in the silver bullet? I mean, I understand there are always new people coming into the practice, but I believe we can mature as a group. Nobody advocates GOTO any more, maybe we can stop advocating the endless language churn? It seems like an enormous waste of time. Some languages are better for certain tasks than others. I think we just need to come clear and say: there is no language that is better at everything than any other language.
I mean, follow your bliss, if you've got great ideas, implement them. I've written redundant libraries because I wanted to see how it would be done. Explore, enjoy. But understand that since LISP we've been able to do whatever we wanted to do, so it's all just hand waving at this point.
More power to Ruby. Rails. Python. Whatever. I'm still hacking Perl at the moment and I don't see any compelling reason to switch. I can do what I need to do. I'm sure that your language of choice cuts the mustard too. When the next 10 Super Languages Of The Future (tm) come out in the next decade, I'll enjoy reading about them and watching as they run into their own particular issues because...
Effective Software Design Is Hard. You use Perl and have fun with it. Good for you. I stopped using Perl and switched to Python when i realized that writing unreadable code in Python is hard while writing readable code in perl is hard.
South Park is the worst fucking piece of shit out there. The only ones who watch it are the fucktarded sheeple who should be eliminated from the gene pool. Interestingly enough, that could have been a quote fromS outhpark.
The method of assigning homework is to give 3 lines on what a program needs to do. For example, write an FTP client that you can use to download a file. The method of grading is if you can download a file or not. The decision on how to get the HW done with the least amount of time spent is an architectural challenge.
Which is what the parent hates: people who only think about getting the product out of the door and who sacrifice things like maintainability.
Even firefox and Mozilla did a few complete rewrites of the various parts. Rewrites are part of programming unfortunately. The nice thing about rewrites is that the programmers now have experience on how to do things better and are able to better compartmentalize the code. I wouldn't say rewrites are terrible things - though they do annoy management and people above to no end.
Firefox & Mozilla are prime examples of bad codebases. We all know the disaster that was the last rewrite in-house at Netscape.
_SOME_ re-writes are necesary and usefull, but a company where the usual way to add a new feature is a re-write of the whole software is doing somethign wrong.
So my impression so far is that Valve doesn't care enough about the PS3 to do the port themselves, or to carefully track EA progress on the contracted port or to step up after this horrible PR snafu and promise that everything will be smoothed out before release.
So far I am not impressed with Valve and their commitment to anything besides MS platforms. Yup, they don't care about the PS3.
Or more realistically: being a pure microsoft-shop they do not have the necessary knowledge to port the orange box to ps3. Makes sense to outsource that work (especially if you don't believe the ps3 is going to be important).
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It is neither relevant nor informative; it's funny.
Gmail paper was the 2007 april's fool joke...
The later a bug is found the costlier it is to fix it. And if your projects run late (who are we kidding: WHEN your projects run late) the first two things to be cut down are documentation and testing. Do daily automated testing and you find many errors before they become critical.
Said the citizen after passing roughly 300 CCTVs on his way to the interview booth.
Only the copyright-owner is allowed to file a case. However, Harald Welte (author of things like IPTABLES) is german and head of gpl-violations.org.
The people who get the data in the first place are as corrupt as the advertisers. Marketing still is pure manipulation. Apple is a fine example: They offer sub-par hardware (Iphone without 3G, Macbook without great colors...) with an alternative OS to incredible high prices. They use chinese sweatshop-labor, highly toxic chemicals and somehow still have a positive image. That is pure evil manipulation.
You mean the PC-gaming market, which suffers from _heavyly_ piracy?
Sorry, that is no replacement for the money-printing machine that Office is.
To me, RMS is the FSF.
That's exactly my fear.
I am a member of the Fellowship of the FSFE and get their bi-annual letter and all of their press-releases, but that isn't really much.
RMS is a great leader, but he really shines as a spokesperson: he is easily recognized and creates awareness. No matter who you speak to: they all have an opinion about him.
Athlon64 2800+; 512 MB DDR-Ram, 80 Gig Hdd 1000 GigaByte/month at 100Mbit/s 29/month If you are paying 220$ just for a download-proxy, you are being ripped off.
What the hell does that mean?
I don't know whether to apply the "alphabetsoup" tag or the "stopturningnounsintoverbs" tag. Where do you see a verb that used to be a noun?
ejabberd is an XMPP-server (that apache HTTP server -> that ejabberd XMPP server)
"can be used to develop" should be obvious
"a distributed": in this case this means that the network does not have a central server; the administration is distributed among the different XMPP-servers
"Twitter-like system": a system like twitter (twitter.com afaik).
Reading comprehension isn't your strong point, n'est-ce pas?
And that's the problem with your post. You might be a sysadmin, but real work is more than maintaining windows pcs. Lots of companies are involved with businesses that heavily rely upon analyzing large amounts of information. If you aren't aware of any reason to have more than 4 gigs of ram, you are simply ignorant of what really goes on in the modern economy. And you are ignorant if you really think that more than 1% of all users do things where they need that ram.
99% of the users are simple work-drones who need email, calendaring and ms-office.
Ah a fellow Article-reader. we must both be new here.
The thing that drives me nuts about this article is that I have been making this very argument for more than 10 years now, since my family tried to push me into CS school. The simple fact is that I was already writing in assembly in early high-school, and C shortly after that. As a manager and later, as a small-business owner, I've interviewed dozens of people with CS degrees who claimed they were programmers, only to find out quickly in an interview that they haven't the foggiest clue what a compiler does, or any relevant understanding of how a data structure manages to exist. Pointers? what are those? Why did you laugh when I said GOTO? Garbage collection? That's on Thursday.
I do not think that the source of this problem lies in the curriculum. The huge Problem is that no mayor company that i know of is looking for programmers who know what the best data-structure for a certain sub-problem is. They want someone who has $array_of_bullshit_bingo_words in his resumé. As long as companies are using that approach to hiring they will continue to drive universities into the wrong direction.I don't know that there will be no call for the type of programming CS programs teach today, in the future... in fact the way I see it, 70% of the apps that business runs on can be done in the "plumber at the store" style. Many of these require intimate understanding of the problem domain, which is one thing that CS used to be fairly lacking in prior to the "Java Shift". .
The plumber may really be the right analogy here: most plumbers did not actively pursue that career. They are plumbers because it was a way to get money.The 80/20 gap is a good way to describe it: 80% of the people in the IT-industry go home at 5PM and do not touch/think about a computer till 9AM the next morning. Those are the guys who will be developing in JAva (but only if someone from the 20% did set up their environment&IDE correctly). These are the guys who consider unit testing to be unnecessary and who think that sourcecode-versioning is an unfair chore.
Five years down the road they have not added one ounce of knowledge to their brain. They are simply ballast, but the companies haven't gotten that part of the message yet. Instead the companies think about outsourcing and out-contracting.
To get to the point: universities only do what the companies want.
We have a mayor problem on our hands: we have a high demand for IT-workers, but only IT-people who are in it "for the fun" will be delivering good work. Dumbing down the curriculum leads to more graduates, but 80% of the graduates will be useless in 5 years when their skillset is heavily outdated. Just keeping your skillset current is not enough in this industry; you have to constantly learn new things (unless you are the lucky guy who is a PROLOG-consultant robbing the banks
That is no side-effekt.
The copyright-owner can _ALWAYS_ choose whichever damn license catches his fancy, including some evil, sign-to-sell-your-soul-style EULA.
It is working as intended.
And IBM succeded in getting the Cognos-owners to accept the buyout.
Are you really advocating stagnation? Learning just for learnings sake keeps your brain healthy.
Are there still people out there who believe in the silver bullet? I mean, I understand there are always new people coming into the practice, but I believe we can mature as a group. Nobody advocates GOTO any more, maybe we can stop advocating the endless language churn? It seems like an enormous waste of time.
Some languages are better for certain tasks than others. I think we just need to come clear and say: there is no language that is better at everything than any other language.
I mean, follow your bliss, if you've got great ideas, implement them. I've written redundant libraries because I wanted to see how it would be done. Explore, enjoy. But understand that since LISP we've been able to do whatever we wanted to do, so it's all just hand waving at this point.
More power to Ruby. Rails. Python. Whatever. I'm still hacking Perl at the moment and I don't see any compelling reason to switch. I can do what I need to do. I'm sure that your language of choice cuts the mustard too. When the next 10 Super Languages Of The Future (tm) come out in the next decade, I'll enjoy reading about them and watching as they run into their own particular issues because...
Effective Software Design Is Hard.
You use Perl and have fun with it. Good for you. I stopped using Perl and switched to Python when i realized that writing unreadable code in Python is hard while writing readable code in perl is hard.
Huh? Java 6 will be released under the GPL.
http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-super-cache/ ! Does not work with the standard debian-install of wordpress (plugin does not like symlinks) !
The method of assigning homework is to give 3 lines on what a program needs to do. For example, write an FTP client that you can use to download a file. The method of grading is if you can download a file or not. The decision on how to get the HW done with the least amount of time spent is an architectural challenge.
Which is what the parent hates: people who only think about getting the product out of the door and who sacrifice things like maintainability.Even firefox and Mozilla did a few complete rewrites of the various parts. Rewrites are part of programming unfortunately. The nice thing about rewrites is that the programmers now have experience on how to do things better and are able to better compartmentalize the code. I wouldn't say rewrites are terrible things - though they do annoy management and people above to no end.
Firefox & Mozilla are prime examples of bad codebases. We all know the disaster that was the last rewrite in-house at Netscape._SOME_ re-writes are necesary and usefull, but a company where the usual way to add a new feature is a re-write of the whole software is doing somethign wrong.
The parent has no clue and is confusing the GPL with the LGPL.
So far I am not impressed with Valve and their commitment to anything besides MS platforms. Yup, they don't care about the PS3.
Or more realistically: being a pure microsoft-shop they do not have the necessary knowledge to port the orange box to ps3. Makes sense to outsource that work (especially if you don't believe the ps3 is going to be important).