So, because you've seen SQL queries that grow out of control, SQL is a disaster?:)
I've seen ruby code that is beyond any explainable logic (or anti-logic, for that matter) - does that mean ruby sucks? No, it just means that untrained/uneducated people are using it. I've seen C code that makes you want to cry all night for not choosing career as car repairmen. Is C bad because of that, or idiots are using it?
NoSQL and ORM stuff were invented for people who can't gasp set theory. Which is sad, to say at least.
I have HTC Legend. I was thinking about switching to Desire, but from what the guy is saying, Desire seems to be much worse phone than the Legend. I don't have problem with screen brightness, flash is working flawlesly and my battery runs up to two days (I can squeeze maybe three if I stay of the TowerDefence games). I'll be sticking with the Legend since it seems to me that it is much much better phone than the IPhone.
I'll make sure I never hire you!
There are developers on the market who take their jobs seriously. They made a bug. They're to blame. (Not that I'm defending attackers, but I just don't care!) You need to write your code right. The way you're putting it, you can write it good and well and demand decent money. But since no one is paying decent money you're writing poor code. That just makes you a poor developer.
You should try some of the Linux-based operating systems. Yesterday I installed new Ubuntu. Prior doing that I backed up my root partition (I have/home - something like Documents and Settings - on different partition). I merely copied files to my USB disk. Took like 10 minutes for 8 gigs of data. Then I installed Ubuntu 7.04, hated the fonts, convinced that they're different than in 6.06 (or the rendering is different), I restored my backup back to 6.06. Just copied the files. 10 minutes.
In unix world, you usualy just copy the files!
No stupid registry things. (Ok, let's forget for a second that there is gconf:( )
Using Debian then and now Ubuntu I have much less fuss than I it with Windows. Ok, I am quite familiar with Debian, so Ubuntu is a breeze, but 7.04 is realy realy realy user friendly! It downloads the codeces and stuff automaticaly, all you have to do is say 'yes, buntu, do it for me!'. Neat!:)
The only thing I'm missing from Windows world are games. Yes, there is Quake and UT and likes, but I miss Need for Speed and Age of Empires.... They run under Cedega, but they're unplayable (P4@1.7+768MB+Radeon9600 - those work under WindowsXP quite well).
Seriousley, try Ubuntu (or any other distro, but I feel that you'll have least fuss with Ubuntu), and see how thigns are done there. Then, maybe, you'll see why UAC concept is not that good, esp. the way Microsoft implemented it.
Although coding in VB6 these days has little sense, most of you here state silly reason why not using VB (it's not geekish enough?) I've been using Visual Basic from version 4 for professional developement, mainly for creating gui frontends for database systems (mainly Informix these days). It is a bit stupid to go program a 3D raytracer in Visual Basic, or mp3/divx encoder/decoder, but for creating 'stupid' database application it's an excellent tool. Rapid prototyping of the whole system can be easily made using Access.mdb files and Visual Basic as frontend, that can be easily ported to SQL server, with the frontend unchanged. At my pre-former company (they were doing wholesales and retail sales, as well as service shops for cell phones) I created (almost) complete informational system for sales/warehouses/financial departmens (human resources and sort-of-CRM were missing) using Visual Basic nad MSSQL 2000. It was a breeze. They previousley had FoxPro application, wich was easily ported to Visual Basic, and it's still in use. Aplication is installed on 150 computers, and connects to 12 replicated MSSQL servers. System is stable and easily maintained. VB is used strictly for presentation layer, since bussines logic is in MSSQL. I can't think of better tool for doing something like that than Visual Basic. FoxPro could be a good choice only if it were more stable. That was 2002. These days I'd go with python/glade/gtk for the presentation layer, or maybe Mono application? I have tested python/glade/gtk, and that works pretty well on both linux/windows. The developement is not so rapid as with Visual Basic, but python is far more powerfull, and yet still simple enough. Glade helps a lot with creating user interface, and postgres is almost as good as MSSQL (try setting up merge replication with postgres as MSSQL offers you before you rant about postgres beeing better than MSSQL). Havent tried mono yet, I'm waiting for the Dapper release, haven't had luck in compiling MonoDevelop 0.11 with breezy or debian testing. Visual Basic was (was!) excellent tool if you needed to create various data entry or reporting applications. Doing such stuff in C/C++ was expensive and as it turns out - stupid.
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So, because you've seen SQL queries that grow out of control, SQL is a disaster? :)
I've seen ruby code that is beyond any explainable logic (or anti-logic, for that matter) - does that mean ruby sucks? No, it just means that untrained/uneducated people are using it. I've seen C code that makes you want to cry all night for not choosing career as car repairmen. Is C bad because of that, or idiots are using it?
NoSQL and ORM stuff were invented for people who can't gasp set theory. Which is sad, to say at least.
Not cool for so long now (Google). But, so is my country (Croatia).
Smells like Siemens....
I did. It failed so nice :) But it's a bliss to reinstall and then put /home and /etc stuff back to its place.
I have HTC Legend. I was thinking about switching to Desire, but from what the guy is saying, Desire seems to be much worse phone than the Legend. I don't have problem with screen brightness, flash is working flawlesly and my battery runs up to two days (I can squeeze maybe three if I stay of the TowerDefence games). I'll be sticking with the Legend since it seems to me that it is much much better phone than the IPhone.
I'm running HTC Legend with Android 2.1. No mods, nothing. Much better than the IPhone. Ligher, smaller, cozier, everythingier :)
I'll make sure I never hire you! There are developers on the market who take their jobs seriously. They made a bug. They're to blame. (Not that I'm defending attackers, but I just don't care!) You need to write your code right. The way you're putting it, you can write it good and well and demand decent money. But since no one is paying decent money you're writing poor code. That just makes you a poor developer.
The decade ends on 31.12.2010,not today. We still have one more year :)
My Qentium Multo has no problem with that JavaScript. I see Preview before I even hit it.
I just love this :)
You should try some of the Linux-based operating systems. Yesterday I installed new Ubuntu. Prior doing that I backed up my root partition (I have /home - something like Documents and Settings - on different partition). I merely copied files to my USB disk. Took like 10 minutes for 8 gigs of data. Then I installed Ubuntu 7.04, hated the fonts, convinced that they're different than in 6.06 (or the rendering is different), I restored my backup back to 6.06. Just copied the files. 10 minutes.
In unix world, you usualy just copy the files!
No stupid registry things. (Ok, let's forget for a second that there is gconf :( )
Using Debian then and now Ubuntu I have much less fuss than I it with Windows. Ok, I am quite familiar with Debian, so Ubuntu is a breeze, but 7.04 is realy realy realy user friendly! It downloads the codeces and stuff automaticaly, all you have to do is say 'yes, buntu, do it for me!'. Neat! :)
The only thing I'm missing from Windows world are games. Yes, there is Quake and UT and likes, but I miss Need for Speed and Age of Empires.... They run under Cedega, but they're unplayable (P4@1.7+768MB+Radeon9600 - those work under WindowsXP quite well).
Seriousley, try Ubuntu (or any other distro, but I feel that you'll have least fuss with Ubuntu), and see how thigns are done there. Then, maybe, you'll see why UAC concept is not that good, esp. the way Microsoft implemented it.
Although coding in VB6 these days has little sense, most of you here state silly reason why not using VB (it's not geekish enough?) I've been using Visual Basic from version 4 for professional developement, mainly for creating gui frontends for database systems (mainly Informix these days). It is a bit stupid to go program a 3D raytracer in Visual Basic, or mp3/divx encoder/decoder, but for creating 'stupid' database application it's an excellent tool. Rapid prototyping of the whole system can be easily made using Access .mdb files and Visual Basic as frontend, that can be easily ported to SQL server, with the frontend unchanged. At my pre-former company (they were doing wholesales and retail sales, as well as service shops for cell phones) I created (almost) complete informational system for sales/warehouses/financial departmens (human resources and sort-of-CRM were missing) using Visual Basic nad MSSQL 2000. It was a breeze. They previousley had FoxPro application, wich was easily ported to Visual Basic, and it's still in use. Aplication is installed on 150 computers, and connects to 12 replicated MSSQL servers. System is stable and easily maintained. VB is used strictly for presentation layer, since bussines logic is in MSSQL. I can't think of better tool for doing something like that than Visual Basic. FoxPro could be a good choice only if it were more stable.
That was 2002. These days I'd go with python/glade/gtk for the presentation layer, or maybe Mono application? I have tested python/glade/gtk, and that works pretty well on both linux/windows. The developement is not so rapid as with Visual Basic, but python is far more powerfull, and yet still simple enough. Glade helps a lot with creating user interface, and postgres is almost as good as MSSQL (try setting up merge replication with postgres as MSSQL offers you before you rant about postgres beeing better than MSSQL). Havent tried mono yet, I'm waiting for the Dapper release, haven't had luck in compiling MonoDevelop 0.11 with breezy or debian testing.
Visual Basic was (was!) excellent tool if you needed to create various data entry or reporting applications. Doing such stuff in C/C++ was expensive and as it turns out - stupid.