Well then, software engineering clearly is 'real' engineering.
Tell me, created many bridges lately in which the budget was cut in half, the timescales reduced by two thirds, the width of the gap you're crossing doubled, the traffic changed from cars to trains, back to cars then become cars on trains, and the construction crew outsourced to India, all after you've already laid the foundations? And still delivered?
Stop fucking comparing a 60 year old maturing discipline with a completely unrelated millenia old one then.
Do you need an education in science to call yourself an engineer? YES!
Bullshit.
Now admittedly physics grads make (in my experience) the best software engineers but pretending you have to study science at degree level to become a software engineer is elitist bullshit.
Computer science graduates tend not to become great software engineers.
But your arguments were flawed to start with. Software engineering and software development are not the same thing at all. Any cunt can get a program to work, learning the engineering disciplines around that takes time, experience and study.
Think of it this way: - a developer gets code to work - an engineer gets code to work in a predictable manner - a scientist explores how the code works
A great engineer doesn't need to know how, they need to know what. A scientist will know the theory but may not be able to apply it in practice. A developer may get lucky.
Just getting people to understand what code runs where (javascript on browser, C# on server)
I just had to work with a CS graduate who insisted that you couldn't possibly rebuild a web page in the browser as it had to be done server-side.
Finding an example that proved him wrong turned out to be quite tricky. I started with "Open a web page. You choose which one" and to get solid proof of dynamic page creation we actually had to go to the website he chose.
After all, you're talking about playing with the big boys here. They got where they are because they're good at it, not because they lucked into some useful information.
Make just the slightest mistake when you make your moves and you'll be obliterated. And lets face it: if you're in IT it's probably not because you have great people skills, political acumen, charisma or connections.
If the IT support teams at my company downed tools we'd start losing revenue within minutes, start losing profit within hours and start losing customers daily.
I'd give the company around 3 weeks to reach an irreversible point from which it wouldn't recover.
IT may be a cost centre but good luck running your business without it.
The reasoning is both fallacious and just plain wrong. Allowing anonymity does NOT make criminal behaviour impossible to detect, either the act of criminality or necessarily the individual responsible. Even if you can't detect the individual the fact that the criminality has occurred can still be detected and addressed.
If I steal a gun, shoot someone with it and run off without being identified, I've still committed a crime. Even if the police can't identify or find me they can provide redress to my victim and assure that the person from whom I stole the gun better secures it in the future. Actions to reduce crime can be taken despite the anonymity.
So no, the reasoning is very flawed and the question of whether to remove anonymity or the classification of actions as 'crime' doesn't even need to arise.
The little problem of the holocaust being a well documented, well evidenced and very real persecution of millions of people does seem to make you look like an idiot.
But even racist idiots should be allowed to express their views - not least so that other people can educate them about their bigotry, their stupidity and how amused we are by them.
I guess you're next going to tell us that tens of millions of people didn't die in the Gulags. Which racial group would you like to blame for that one?
I bought a house, and gaining value has fuck all to do with it. Any gains in value are completely offset by the gains in value of any other house I might want to move to.
I bought because the maths was simple: Pay £250/month for a single room in a shared house, or pay £400/month for a whole flat to myself.
Now factor in the two years at the start where I covered the extra £150/month by getting a lodger in at £250/month and I had the same 'shared accommodation' as renting, but at a net £100/month less.
Move onto my current house, which I bought with a mortgage around 15 years ago.
Mortgage 15 years ago: £400/month Equivalent rent 15 years ago: Around £350-500/month Mortgage last year : £400/month Equivalent rent last year: Around £700-900/month
So I've saved money on rent over that period, I haven't been kicked out, I've had the choice on when to redecorate. I've also had to do some investment - a new bathroom, new carpets, general upkeep.
But the mortgage rent comparisons stop last year because..
Mortgage now: £0 Equivalent rent now: £700-900
Fuck 'gain in value', look how much money I'm saving every single month because I sat down in 1997 and did some forward planning.
You're in the game, and you're going to say anything you can to keep it going.
Wipe my house value to zero and I still wont be paying rent. Shit, knock a digit off the price of every house in the country and I'll celebrate with you. I'll also go out and buy 7 of them because they'll pay back massively in rental income.
Keep it going? No. I can afford a five bedroom house with snooker room, swimming pool and paddock every bit as much as someone on minimum wage: Not at all. I just chose certain sacrifices some time ago that help me minimise outgoings now.
3-4 years ago I subscribed to Metaboli (http://www.metaboli.co.uk/ ) who offer a tiered subscription service.
I got good value for money, and only really unsubscribed because I started building a good Steam library that grows as quickly as I can play the games.
As people are predicting with EA the games aren't the latest/greatest versions, but they've been around for a few years now and they're still in business so it's clearly a sustainable model.
I do however need to see public announcements by military leaders that they've shot down a multi-engined aircraft in the vicinity at the time of the incident as evidence.
Russia has been deceitful, aggressive, manipulative and acting illegitimately when it comes to the Ukraine since the start of this crisis. Much like the US and the EU, but it does mean that I refuse to believe anything without some pretty solid evidence. So please, do share..
The whole point of going in-memory inside the main 12c database is that sometimes the alternative to the $23k (list price; negotiate 60-90% off that) is buying a new CPU and licensing the whole database ( + options + OS + etc -> far far more than $23k) on that.
So although normally I bemoan Oracle's exceedingly unfriendly licensing model on this occasion it's not terribly surprising.
Refusing to get off an aircraft: arrested Refusing to leave an airport: arrested Shouting/being abusive to staff in an airport: risk of arrest Being calm and stating clearly that you disagree and will not be able to comply: very very rarely arrested, and often leads to successful lawsuits
We don't know whether he was being calm, abusive, aggressive, relaxed or just completely silent, so it's hard to know where on the scale he fits.
I agree that staying calm and refusing to remove the twitter comment would have left him unable to fly, although it may not have required him to leave the airport. He could have gone to the ticket desk for another carrier, purchased new tickets and left on a different aircraft, then claimed from SW for the costs, delay, etc. He chose not to.
How is it a threat? If I post "lmrik is wrong, it's not a threat" is that a threat to you?
Statement of fact : not a threat. Statement of subjective opinion : not a threat. Recommendation of action : potential threat. Statement of intended action : threat. Threat of action subject to conditions : threat.
If he'd said "..is rude and you should slap her when you see her" then that may be a threat. If he'd said "..is rude and I'm going to punch her in the face" then that may be a threat. If he'd said "..is rude and unless I get onto the first three rows of this aircraft I'm going to get back off, hunt her down, rip her legs off and use them to beat to death the passenger that nicked my seat" then that's an interesting court case around whether it's an actionable threat or mere venting of frustration.
So his time isn't more important than everyone else. Accepted. But his time isn't less important than everyone else either. So why shouldn't he have the opportunity to keep his bag close to him and benefit from the same ease of disembarking that everybody else enjoys?
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Well then, software engineering clearly is 'real' engineering.
Tell me, created many bridges lately in which the budget was cut in half, the timescales reduced by two thirds, the width of the gap you're crossing doubled, the traffic changed from cars to trains, back to cars then become cars on trains, and the construction crew outsourced to India, all after you've already laid the foundations? And still delivered?
Stop fucking comparing a 60 year old maturing discipline with a completely unrelated millenia old one then.
Do you need an education in science to call yourself an engineer? YES!
Bullshit.
Now admittedly physics grads make (in my experience) the best software engineers but pretending you have to study science at degree level to become a software engineer is elitist bullshit.
Computer science graduates tend not to become great software engineers.
But your arguments were flawed to start with. Software engineering and software development are not the same thing at all. Any cunt can get a program to work, learning the engineering disciplines around that takes time, experience and study.
Think of it this way:
- a developer gets code to work
- an engineer gets code to work in a predictable manner
- a scientist explores how the code works
A great engineer doesn't need to know how, they need to know what. A scientist will know the theory but may not be able to apply it in practice. A developer may get lucky.
Just getting people to understand what code runs where (javascript on browser, C# on server)
I just had to work with a CS graduate who insisted that you couldn't possibly rebuild a web page in the browser as it had to be done server-side.
Finding an example that proved him wrong turned out to be quite tricky. I started with "Open a web page. You choose which one" and to get solid proof of dynamic page creation we actually had to go to the website he chose.
Don't forget that deleting it implicitly creates a copy of it in your 'deleted items' folder.
Now you're a creator too.
Sure, good luck with that one.
After all, you're talking about playing with the big boys here. They got where they are because they're good at it, not because they lucked into some useful information.
Make just the slightest mistake when you make your moves and you'll be obliterated. And lets face it: if you're in IT it's probably not because you have great people skills, political acumen, charisma or connections.
You condescending fuck.
If the IT support teams at my company downed tools we'd start losing revenue within minutes, start losing profit within hours and start losing customers daily.
I'd give the company around 3 weeks to reach an irreversible point from which it wouldn't recover.
IT may be a cost centre but good luck running your business without it.
And perl is definitely better than awk/sed.
No. People learn perl then think they can program. It just goes wrong.
The reasoning is both fallacious and just plain wrong.
Allowing anonymity does NOT make criminal behaviour impossible to detect, either the act of criminality or necessarily the individual responsible.
Even if you can't detect the individual the fact that the criminality has occurred can still be detected and addressed.
If I steal a gun, shoot someone with it and run off without being identified, I've still committed a crime. Even if the police can't identify or find me they can provide redress to my victim and assure that the person from whom I stole the gun better secures it in the future. Actions to reduce crime can be taken despite the anonymity.
So no, the reasoning is very flawed and the question of whether to remove anonymity or the classification of actions as 'crime' doesn't even need to arise.
The little problem of the holocaust being a well documented, well evidenced and very real persecution of millions of people does seem to make you look like an idiot.
But even racist idiots should be allowed to express their views - not least so that other people can educate them about their bigotry, their stupidity and how amused we are by them.
I guess you're next going to tell us that tens of millions of people didn't die in the Gulags. Which racial group would you like to blame for that one?
Maybe. I stand by my statement though.
You went into overdraft because of a credit card bill?
Sorry but that's just poor financial management.
I bought a house, and gaining value has fuck all to do with it. Any gains in value are completely offset by the gains in value of any other house I might want to move to.
I bought because the maths was simple: Pay £250/month for a single room in a shared house, or pay £400/month for a whole flat to myself.
Now factor in the two years at the start where I covered the extra £150/month by getting a lodger in at £250/month and I had the same 'shared accommodation' as renting, but at a net £100/month less.
Move onto my current house, which I bought with a mortgage around 15 years ago.
Mortgage 15 years ago: £400/month
Equivalent rent 15 years ago: Around £350-500/month
Mortgage last year : £400/month
Equivalent rent last year: Around £700-900/month
So I've saved money on rent over that period, I haven't been kicked out, I've had the choice on when to redecorate. I've also had to do some investment - a new bathroom, new carpets, general upkeep.
But the mortgage rent comparisons stop last year because..
Mortgage now: £0
Equivalent rent now: £700-900
Fuck 'gain in value', look how much money I'm saving every single month because I sat down in 1997 and did some forward planning.
You're in the game, and you're going to say anything you can to keep it going.
Wipe my house value to zero and I still wont be paying rent. Shit, knock a digit off the price of every house in the country and I'll celebrate with you. I'll also go out and buy 7 of them because they'll pay back massively in rental income.
Keep it going? No. I can afford a five bedroom house with snooker room, swimming pool and paddock every bit as much as someone on minimum wage: Not at all. I just chose certain sacrifices some time ago that help me minimise outgoings now.
Roommate or house/flatmate?
There's a significant difference in quality of life.
3-4 years ago I subscribed to Metaboli (http://www.metaboli.co.uk/ ) who offer a tiered subscription service.
I got good value for money, and only really unsubscribed because I started building a good Steam library that grows as quickly as I can play the games.
As people are predicting with EA the games aren't the latest/greatest versions, but they've been around for a few years now and they're still in business so it's clearly a sustainable model.
It was when I sought CBT (a lots of money on it because insurance didnt cover it
Your insurance plan doesn't cover CBT - http://cbtpictures.tumblr.com/ ?
Damn you need to switch provider.
Oh? Please, do share.
I do however need to see public announcements by military leaders that they've shot down a multi-engined aircraft in the vicinity at the time of the incident as evidence.
Russia has been deceitful, aggressive, manipulative and acting illegitimately when it comes to the Ukraine since the start of this crisis. Much like the US and the EU, but it does mean that I refuse to believe anything without some pretty solid evidence. So please, do share..
The whole point of going in-memory inside the main 12c database is that sometimes the alternative to the $23k (list price; negotiate 60-90% off that) is buying a new CPU and licensing the whole database ( + options + OS + etc -> far far more than $23k) on that.
So although normally I bemoan Oracle's exceedingly unfriendly licensing model on this occasion it's not terribly surprising.
This is what debuggers are for.
(No, I've never tried debugging a kernel. Yes, I can think of how to start, and no, I can't be arsed)
Given that 'green' energy can't meeting total demands anyway, switching to 'green' energy merely relocates the issue.
Total energy use = green + dirty, and your specific part of that equation doesn't change the equation.
Fuck no. I just had my first meal since Monday, why do I need to break a mere car journey?
And yet they have a record, which implies that the Tesla can't sustain a mere 66mph for just 310 miles.
I'm finding myself continually underwhelmed by these electric cars.
Well, we're both making assumptions here.
Refusing to get off an aircraft: arrested
Refusing to leave an airport: arrested
Shouting/being abusive to staff in an airport: risk of arrest
Being calm and stating clearly that you disagree and will not be able to comply: very very rarely arrested, and often leads to successful lawsuits
We don't know whether he was being calm, abusive, aggressive, relaxed or just completely silent, so it's hard to know where on the scale he fits.
I agree that staying calm and refusing to remove the twitter comment would have left him unable to fly, although it may not have required him to leave the airport. He could have gone to the ticket desk for another carrier, purchased new tickets and left on a different aircraft, then claimed from SW for the costs, delay, etc. He chose not to.
Only in Tennessee, elsewhere they'll misuse the wrong batch of drugs to torture him to death.
Oddly this isn't seen as a bad thing.
How is it a threat? If I post "lmrik is wrong, it's not a threat" is that a threat to you?
Statement of fact : not a threat.
Statement of subjective opinion : not a threat.
Recommendation of action : potential threat.
Statement of intended action : threat.
Threat of action subject to conditions : threat.
If he'd said "..is rude and you should slap her when you see her" then that may be a threat.
If he'd said "..is rude and I'm going to punch her in the face" then that may be a threat.
If he'd said "..is rude and unless I get onto the first three rows of this aircraft I'm going to get back off, hunt her down, rip her legs off and use them to beat to death the passenger that nicked my seat" then that's an interesting court case around whether it's an actionable threat or mere venting of frustration.
I still don't see how "..is rude." is a threat.
So his time isn't more important than everyone else. Accepted.
But his time isn't less important than everyone else either. So why shouldn't he have the opportunity to keep his bag close to him and benefit from the same ease of disembarking that everybody else enjoys?