Comment Re:Excellent (Score 1) 322
I remember the Howdy Doody show on TV. I remember Brillcream... and used it. I graduated highschool before the moon landing.
I have -shoes- older than you !! 8-b
He,He...
And get off of my lawn.
I remember the Howdy Doody show on TV. I remember Brillcream... and used it. I graduated highschool before the moon landing.
I have -shoes- older than you !! 8-b
He,He...
And get off of my lawn.
There can be more than one way to do things. If the user does something expecting a result, then if possible that result should occur.
Some things are mutually exclusive, but the idea that there is only one way to do it shows a lack of imagination. And maybe some hubris.
By the way, I have a programmer's text editor that has the autosave configurable. And also has a save-as. I find that they work well together if the autosave is not set too short.
The change to Save-as had the unfortunate effect of lost functionality. If you do not see this, then you are a part of the developer's problem.
The users want to save the current state without saving over the previous state. The "upgrade" is destroying the previous state. The new version looses functionality.
If the developers do not think that is important, and the users do, then the developers are automatically wrong...
Can we stop using the term "engineer"? It's not only meaningless, it does a serious disservice to actual engineers.
A Software Engineer is a person with degrees and experience in both Engineering and Programming/Computer Science.
There really is such a thing. And it makes a difference to the resulting applications.
(Of course, a lot of people claim a lot of things and the term is sometimes abused.)
"Politics and the English Language", George Orwell.
...
Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account."
That sounds clear to me... Maybe you are reading it in the wrong dialect? 8-)
No list is complete without Vernor Vinge's _True Names... and Other Dangers_. I don't care if it's a book, instead of an article, but still, it's required reading.
I second that! The world described is much more advanced, but we are getting into some of the same problems now.
how? the spelling is horrific, the grammar atrocious, and the logic faulty. who doesn't like programming advice who can't program natural language.
You should cut them a little slack; most natural language interpreters will parse anything by aggressively guessing how to correct typos and syntax errors (unless they support the -W or --pedantic flags). It makes it damned hard to debug.
Bad writing slows down processing significantly, though. And that is -my- time they are wasting!
... Here's a few pages to get a taste of the style: http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~wagner...
Heh!
It's amazing how many arguments reduce to the people arguing about the meaning of words!
Maybe we should start with defining our terms? 8-)
... Even if the project don't seem to fix/care about the bugs, it can help other developers to see that is a common bug and fix it anyway.
Yes. And even if they ignore most bug reports, they might not ignore the one in question. Sending the bug report at least gives it a chance.
... But only 300 books? That appears insane. Somebody must have decided that storage was limited, so the book collection should be limited...and not bothered to check what the reasonable limits were.
Those are not the EPROMs that you are thinking of. The storage is probably much less than you think.
I'm just shocked to learn that squids can read.
Yeah!!! Well... Jarheads are great, everyone should have one tied up in their back yard to protect their house!
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Lots of people in their 40s and 50s and 60s have mediocre jobs writing 200 lines of code per quarter in some large corporation.
BTW what's the typical amount of code that one writes in a quarter in a programming job? I just want to know some stats.
"Lines of Code" has been known to be a very bad metric, since before you were born. Hell, almost before even I was born!
Don't be ridiculous.
They're all managing programmers.
Those who Can, do. Those who can't, Manage!
Developers usually don't use the help, mostly because they developed it or just look at the source
There must be testing by people who are -not- the developers. Developers get "blind spots" and don't know about stuff that they don't use, like help files. There is plenty of need, in open source, for volunteers who are not technical. See "naive tester".
The major difference between bonds and bond traders is that the bonds will eventually mature.