Comment Re:Pfff... (Score 0, Troll) 1213
Yes, it is the same piece of crap as xp, nt, w95,
How To Find Bad Programmers 359
AmberShah writes "The job post is your potential programmer's first impression of your company, so make it count with these offputting features. There are plenty of articles about recruiting great developers, but what if you are only interested in the crappy ones?" I think much of the industry is already following these guidelines.
Comment Re:Son of WGA (Score 4, Insightful) 819
Yes awefully kind of them to let you use the software that you bought and paid for.
The Final Release of Apache HTTP Server 1.3 104
Kyle Hamilton writes "The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache HTTP Server Project are pleased to announce the release of version 1.3.42 of the Apache HTTP Server ('Apache'). This release is intended as the final release of version 1.3 of the Apache HTTP Server, which has reached end of life status There will be no more full releases of Apache HTTP Server 1.3. However, critical security updates may be made available."
Comment A Tab is 8 spaces nothing more, nothing less (Score 2, Insightful) 390
It is really unfortunate the IDE's let people change the tab setting and even more unfortunate that IDE's like Eclipse and IntellJ come with it incorrectly set to 4 spaces. This has the effect of totally buggering the code when viewed in any context other than one with the same settings. Printers and most code viewers use an 8 character tab stop.
Yes things work fine if you forbid mixing tabs and spaces in indent but, in my experience this does not work in practice.
Comment Re:Linux Gripes (Score 0) 458
Sorry, I can't let this pass but
we like our OSes because they're simple and functional, with no headaches involved.
does not describe any Windows installation that I have ever used. I'm chained to a windows desktop at work and it is slow, buggy and in general dis-functional. All of the Office tools completely suck, what were they thinking when they created Office 2007? Last week I had to copy an excel spread sheet to my Mac laptop and edit it under Numbers because Excel would not let me move or delete columns for some reason.
Linux on the other hand, does just work. It is fast, robust and consistent. The old, it is a pain to install and configure bullshit has not been true for many years. The fact is that to install Fedora or Ubuntu requires one disk and is up and running with all hardware supported in less than an hour. No scouring the Internet for drivers, no reboot install, reboot install, reboot install loop.
I don't know what your problems were in your two years for trying, but I can tell you for a fact that they were not Linux.
iPhone-Controlled Helicopter With AR Games 51
andylim writes "Parrot has unveiled a remote-controlled helicopter that boasts augmented reality games. The helicopter is controlled using an iPhone or iPod Touch's accelerometer and touchscreen. There's a camera on the front of the helicopter, which you can use to navigate and to play augmented reality games, including a game that involves fighting a gigantic robot."
Comment Wrong on all accounts (Score 5, Insightful) 580
Having worked as a programmer for many years, all I can say is poorly commented and undocumented code is unprofessional and I would rather
rewrite it than try to decipher it. I've heard all of these excuses before and all I can say to the people that make them is: Your code is not as
good as you think it is.
Comment This is a good thing (Score 4, Insightful) 468
I don't personally see any down side of having all of Murdoch's content removed from my searches. If I want news, I want the real deal, not the Faux News spin on it.
Also I can't imagine two entities that deserve each other more, it's a marriage made in hell.
Comment Re:And In Related News: (Score 1) 584
Yes and you can breath ok as long as no one unplugs the machine.
Comment Windows 7 (Score 2, Insightful) 627
Same pig, new dress.
Comment Re:Sharepoint makes me mad (Score 1) 275
i work at a major university that is moving TO SharePoint, despite many of the dev and manager types here being mac fanbois and linux fans.
I guessing that the dev and manager types were left out of the decision making process to move to sharepoint. Just as they will be left out when trying to use it from a Mac or Linux box.
Most of your post is saying "but if you're left handed and wear a blind fold cars suck because the stick shift is at your right hand and you need to see the road and other cars". Take off the blind fold and get an automatic.
Wtf?
Comment Re:Sharepoint makes me mad (Score 3, Interesting) 275
I'll second that. Give me a mediawiki for collaboration and content, and a subversion repository for document storage and i'm happy. Shitepoint is just another crappy M$ product that is a pain to use and tries to lock you to their other crappy products.
Comment Try - A Reasonable Price (TM) (Score 0) 377
A company will sell 3 times as many games at $20 than at $50. It also helps to make the game actually worth the $20 in the first place.
Comment Re:Exchange-Outlook-SharePoint, baby! (Score 0, Troll) 394
I would give up my children to be free of that combo. Not one of those tools works well either by itself or together. Sharepoint in particular has no value what so ever and Outlook and Office are steaming piles of shit.
Can't wait for Google Wave to be available hopefully it will crush Outhouse/Exchange.
