You don't understand, what is going to become of all the contractors and tenders paid with the taxpayers' money? Have you thought about that, you insensitive clod!? It's the wrong commission that is going after Google; it shouldn't be the one for Privacy and Freedom but the one for Competition ;)

Listen guys, privacy is toast anyway... if anything Google is making us acknowledge this and move along.

Hats off. These days it's rather difficult to find reasonable, competent and professional people in the field; therefore I won't pass this occasion for a well deserved praise.
Definitely good advice, there would be so much more unnecessary stress and emotion if this attitude was more widespread.

+1

Heil Hitler then...

There's a setting for that: System Preferences > Personal > General | Show scroll bars : Always
Indeed it is annoying but you can change it...

Quick let's found a new startup! I have a name: "carify"
No? Doesn't it sound good?! No, wait a minute, don't just walk away like that... hey!

I used to work on an online product support team... ha, ha what a travesty. The foreman used to - among other things - bash me for "typing too slow" and "thinking too much" over my replies when the other team members were swiftly and productively typing away at our customers.

Oh yeah, pity that those touch typing heroes were constantly hitting the del key... metric morons.

In life, you get what you ask for... if not worse

send him a crate of beer ;)

Hi all, in all this discussion about Cisco, RedHat and Microsoft certs no-one has yet mentioned the Java certifications; I'm talking about SCJP 6.0 (now renamed OCPJP 6, with 7 in beta), SCJD and the other certs for Java enterprise application development. Any opinions about these?

I'm skimming through an SCJP manual and - while I already know most of it - there are more than a few small details that did bite me back... but I'm still debating whether it's worth the effort to actually take the exam.

I second this, the trick is to STOP and THINK. But get ready to fight for the privilege.

Many managers will just be fine with the hacked together solution and will probably complain about:

• your poor productivity
• your academic mindset
• your lack of focus
• your insufficiently result oriented approach

Don't let them bog you down, they're wrong although in their defense they simply can't see the difference and it doesn't matter to them. Besides, a properly engineered solution will not introduce the sort of design issues that keep them busy in the first place. Don't worry, just move forward and hop around; possibly in a different role every time.

The Mythical Man Month is a good read, definitely a good read. I could go on with TDD and Enterprise Patterns but let's look out of our industry and get a construction site management manual; you won't understand every technical detail but you should take note of the coordination strategies. Engineering is about craftsmanship but also how to get 100 such fellow craftsmen working together.

Oh, and be weary of Agile and other fad words... ;)

You mean choice to starve?

fuck you, sociopath

Yeah and apparently this Schettino idiot was trying to impress a "not-so-hot-but-as-long-as-she's-willing-it's-ok" blondie (see over here) to get some pr0n action.

Apparently though, he guzzled a whole bottle of wine before heading for the bridge where he took command and sailed the damn thing like a plane acrobat on an airfield show.

What an unmitigated idiot...

Even if one wanted, to think of such a level of incompetent misery would he a hazard; a cheap scriptwriter wouldn't dare such obviousness. I can't find a link but when the story of the blondie came out, an italian cartoonist said that "reality has surpassed imagination", referring to the comparison between Berlusconi and Schettino.

This whole story is such a paroxistically obvious to the point of stupidity anaphor... I'm blown away by it.

But what if the Big Bang never happened?

Every time I read about webs of matter spanning across such distances, considering the time required to form these I remember the refreshing perspective put forward by this beautiful little book.

You're making a fallacious syllogism; life expectancy has increased due to better sanitation, improved medical techniques, and workplace security, not industrialization of food manufacturing. It may very well be, although difficult to prove, that we haven't reaped all the possible increase in life expectancy, because of the worsening quality of our food sources. As an European, my mind immediately goes to the obesity epidemic in the US...