The article is about dealing with IT admins to whom management has punted the responsibility of making the rules.
Please explain who else should make the rules. The cleaning lady? Ok, I let her make the IT rules. May I in return make the rules how a surgeon has to operate? I can assure you I have no idea from medicine, so I am definitely not hindered by any facts or necessities.
about how sometimes IT admins can be over-protective, too controlling, not understanding, etc.
I don't really think this is the point. Of couse, as in each and every job, there are competent and incompetent IT employees, too.
But in my experience, those who complain loudest about IT usually are those who are the least qualified to distinguish a competent from an incompetent admin.
Don't rise to the bait. Users who are trying to thwart the system are a valuable resource.
Oh, if you put it that way... I think I start stealing stuff in my company tomorrow. If I am caught.. hey, I am a valuable resouce and just demonstrated some...erm... problem. But you are allowed to the explain to my, why you think what I did was wrong. We don't want to let it become a moral issue, won't we?
An intelligent person, so not you, would have compared an IT department not with a plumber, but with a fire department. Of course, they are assholes too, which only want to spoil your fun and feel great by forbidding you to smoke in several places.
I am so glad I don't work in system administration anymore. Tools like you really were a pest. My first job was system administration. The person I replaced was a really good administrator. If good administrator means that he was liked by the rest of the company. Ok, when I examined the server I discovered a rootkit, some unknown outside party had access to this company's servers for month, but hey, shit happens. This is only a small problem as long as the employees were able to surf their porn sites. I built a firewall, cleaned the servers and all computers in this company and generally closed a whole bunch of security holes. What happened? Did I get thanked? Bah, a few weeks later I had a very inconvnient talk with the boss. Sure, I was the BOFH and the mobbing started. Everything worked under the old administrator, why can I idiot not keep everything as convenient as my predecessor? For instance he never forced anybody to use scp instead of ftp to get their files. And really all websites worked. I quit after about three month. Don't know what happened. Perhaps they were able to get their old, good administrator back. At least for a while. Because what I know, is that this company does not exist anymore.
Could not care less. WindowMaker is my choice. And that's the reason I don't care much about such 'usibility tests': I don't need to care. On Linux I am not stuck with good, bad, or idiotic design decisions. There are plenty of alternatives for almost everything.
Normally I think it is good style to pronounce it the way the developers intended it to be pronounced. And this is 'cute'. However, in this case they simply were not able to make it commonly enough known. If you are in the right group, more or less only seasoned Qt developers, 'cute' is fine. Anywhere else you might get funny looks. You might even get this look under seasoned Qt developers when you say that you are a 'cute developer'. Unless of course, you are a coding girl with the appropriate looks.
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I am sure those improvements and fixes will sooner or later make it into the LGPL version. Neither Nokia nor Digia can have an interest in both versions drifting too far apart.
I am using the 4.8 branch for quite a while. I certainly did not try everything Qt offers, but I think I can say that networking and the webkit stuff really improved. Usually the *.*.0 versions are a bit 'shaky', so I am really looking forward to 4.8.2
I would not care. I don't flip channels that much so it is mostly one adjustment per channel. Definitely an improvement. The only drawback.... this law means nothing where I live.
If the user has selected windows classic, why cant the applications also decide to dispense with all the bells and whistles and provide a clean UI?
I am software developer. And sorry, can't do this. Not because I don't want to, but it costs money.
I would actually like to set one knob that says, "I know what I am doing, treat me like an adult" all the way down to "I can't find my own nose in fog"
Again, sorry. Idiots rule. I would like to provide you with a clean interface, I do those for my own stuff, but idiots want bloated junk and that's where the money lies.
the OPERA group is really going out on a limb now.
Why? They made an experiment, got some results they could not explain and asked for help. Good scientific behaviour. I see no reason why they should 'go out on a limb'.
..on sourceforge and one on gitorious and a proven track record of successfully finished projects. I don't do "brain teasers". If someone wants to hire me, I am a freelancer, he might check whether or not I fit into the team. But I don't jump through hoops to prove my technical skills.
Website? Laws? Punishments? Forget it. There can only be a technical solution. Find some way to make planes impervious to this kind of attack.
I personally would not have a problem with it, that when someone is pointing a laser pointer at a plane and is caught, she is skinned alive. But since 'idiot' and 'asshole' is among the most common human traits, this would hardly cause a ripple in the gene pool and would do nothing to improve the safety of planes.
Another possible solution would be to forbid laser pointers. Good luck with that.
...or is it most of the poster here, who bash him? Did he say that C/Java/whatever decays, or only the worth of people who use this skills?
I can imagine an interpretation of his statement, which would make sense. In my youth I coded in BASIC, Forth, PASCAL... This was somewhen in the middle ages. I was ok for that time, but today those skills are decayed to nothingness. I made some money in JAVA projects. Only a few years ago. Since then I didn't use JAVA at all. I image it would be much more difficult for me to find a JAVA project now.
So the marketability skills certainly do decay, but usually only if they are not constantly used.
Up to now the usual job interviews were totally sufficient. No fancy guessing games. And with each successful project in my cv the interviews get shorter and easier. When I get called back, it is a former customer who wants to know whether I am free or not. I am freelancer and usually booked out.
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Please explain who else should make the rules. The cleaning lady? Ok, I let her make the IT rules. May I in return make the rules how a surgeon has to operate? I can assure you I have no idea from medicine, so I am definitely not hindered by any facts or necessities.
I don't really think this is the point. Of couse, as in each and every job, there are competent and incompetent IT employees, too.
But in my experience, those who complain loudest about IT usually are those who are the least qualified to distinguish a competent from an incompetent admin.
Oh, if you put it that way... I think I start stealing stuff in my company tomorrow. If I am caught.. hey, I am a valuable resouce and just demonstrated some ...erm... problem. But you are allowed to the explain to my, why you think what I did was wrong. We don't want to let it become a moral issue, won't we?
An intelligent person, so not you, would have compared an IT department not with a plumber, but with a fire department. Of course, they are assholes too, which only want to spoil your fun and feel great by forbidding you to smoke in several places.
I am so glad I don't work in system administration anymore. Tools like you really were a pest. My first job was system administration. The person I replaced was a really good administrator. If good administrator means that he was liked by the rest of the company. Ok, when I examined the server I discovered a rootkit, some unknown outside party had access to this company's servers for month, but hey, shit happens. This is only a small problem as long as the employees were able to surf their porn sites. I built a firewall, cleaned the servers and all computers in this company and generally closed a whole bunch of security holes. What happened? Did I get thanked? Bah, a few weeks later I had a very inconvnient talk with the boss. Sure, I was the BOFH and the mobbing started. Everything worked under the old administrator, why can I idiot not keep everything as convenient as my predecessor? For instance he never forced anybody to use scp instead of ftp to get their files. And really all websites worked. I quit after about three month. Don't know what happened. Perhaps they were able to get their old, good administrator back. At least for a while. Because what I know, is that this company does not exist anymore.
Could not care less. WindowMaker is my choice. And that's the reason I don't care much about such 'usibility tests': I don't need to care. On Linux I am not stuck with good, bad, or idiotic design decisions. There are plenty of alternatives for almost everything.
Nothing more to say.
So what? So it is one of the few exceptions that prove the rule. Does not faze me a bit.
Yes, but only because the religious leader was male.
Ooops... Yes, you are right.
Normally I think it is good style to pronounce it the way the developers intended it to be pronounced. And this is 'cute'. However, in this case they simply were not able to make it commonly enough known. If you are in the right group, more or less only seasoned Qt developers, 'cute' is fine. Anywhere else you might get funny looks. You might even get this look under seasoned Qt developers when you say that you are a 'cute developer'. Unless of course, you are a coding girl with the appropriate looks.
;-)
I am sure those improvements and fixes will sooner or later make it into the LGPL version. Neither Nokia nor Digia can have an interest in both versions drifting too far apart.
It involves webkit, which is a 3rd party package. The documentation of webkit is not the best, to put it friendly. Maybe this is a part of the reason?
I am using the 4.8 branch for quite a while. I certainly did not try everything Qt offers, but I think I can say that networking and the webkit stuff really improved. Usually the *.*.0 versions are a bit 'shaky', so I am really looking forward to 4.8.2
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I would not care. I don't flip channels that much so it is mostly one adjustment per channel. Definitely an improvement. The only drawback.... this law means nothing where I live.
I am software developer. And sorry, can't do this. Not because I don't want to, but it costs money.
Again, sorry. Idiots rule. I would like to provide you with a clean interface, I do those for my own stuff, but idiots want bloated junk and that's where the money lies.
Again... only a small fraction of the neutrinos appeared to be faster. If your theory is correct... explain why the majority was too slow then.
the OPERA group is really going out on a limb now.
Why? They made an experiment, got some results they could not explain and asked for help. Good scientific behaviour. I see no reason why they should 'go out on a limb'.
Again the question.. If they calculate something wrong, why does it affect only a tiny amount of neutrinos?
You overlook something. Not all the neutrinos are faster than light. Only a little fraction. So the distance only shorter for some neutrinos?
Hollywood also crapped on 'Hitchhiker to the Galaxy'. And still the old BBC series and the books are fun.
..on sourceforge and one on gitorious and a proven track record of successfully finished projects. I don't do "brain teasers". If someone wants to hire me, I am a freelancer, he might check whether or not I fit into the team. But I don't jump through hoops to prove my technical skills.
Website? Laws? Punishments? Forget it. There can only be a technical solution. Find some way to make planes impervious to this kind of attack.
I personally would not have a problem with it, that when someone is pointing a laser pointer at a plane and is caught, she is skinned alive. But since 'idiot' and 'asshole' is among the most common human traits, this would hardly cause a ripple in the gene pool and would do nothing to improve the safety of planes.
Another possible solution would be to forbid laser pointers. Good luck with that.
...or is it most of the poster here, who bash him?
Did he say that C/Java/whatever decays, or only the worth of people who use this skills?
I can imagine an interpretation of his statement, which would make sense. In my youth I coded in BASIC, Forth, PASCAL... This was somewhen in the middle ages. I was ok for that time, but today those skills are decayed to nothingness. I made some money in JAVA projects. Only a few years ago. Since then I didn't use JAVA at all. I image it would be much more difficult for me to find a JAVA project now.
So the marketability skills certainly do decay, but usually only if they are not constantly used.
Up to now the usual job interviews were totally sufficient. No fancy guessing games. And with each successful project in my cv the interviews get shorter and easier. When I get called back, it is a former customer who wants to know whether I am free or not. I am freelancer and usually booked out.