I've had more clashes with my current boss (female) than with my 3 previous bosses (all male) combined, but she's also the best of the lot at cutting through the crap and getting things done.
But what counts even more is that the person is a good working fit with the senior programmer in general, and appears to be someone who can learn as they go (because no matter how good their C++ skills are, they're going to be DOING IT WRONG according to the senior programmer).
Very very true! I'm not a C++ guy, but everytime I got put on a different COBOL project, I had to adjust to a different way of doing it.
I'm a man, and I'm head of my household. Both of us are reasonably safe as long as we don't try to exercise our rights.
Would it crash
At college we used to say that only a fool would have win at the end of his autoexec.bat. The rest of us would run windows when we needed it, from the DOS prompt as God intended. I had a friend who ran OS/2 2.1 with a text-mode shell that multitasked MS-DOS apps, and that was far more useful at the time than Windows was, since all our apps were DOS apps back then.
IIRC, I got a machine in that era that had an autoexec.bat already set up. One of the first things I did was comment out the "win".
COBOL is a very readable language. That didn't stop people from writing code that could rival the worst Perl code as far as understanding it went.
I agree that writing Java is not much fun.
My state doesn't put the SSN on the driver's license, but it did for years. By now I'd guess every 2-bit hacker from here to Russia probably has it.
Ororo only has one power, but when that one power is weather control, who needs more? I can't think of any male mutants with that level of power, except Magneto.
Yup. And it's not just true for the President. My city recently had a primary for mayor. The 3 choices were the current mayor, with a history of raising taxes and spending on "projects" while neglecting failing infrastructure, a crazy guy who doesn't even LIVE in the city, and some guy nobody's ever heard of. The crazy guy got eliminated, so the big race will be between the status quo and the no-name guy. I don't think no-name has a chance.
I've never had a problem with att--, oh look, a squirrel!
It's possible for a programmer to write good documentation, but only if:
1. They're writing it for other programmers, preferably ones already familiar with the product.
2. They're able to think like a non-programmer.
#2 is very rare, IME.
Compared to what? C might be high-level compared to Assembler, but it was low-level compared to Basic, Fortran, and COBOL.
What about all the people that can ONLY get AOL in their rural areas (the Comcast "go fuck yourself" zones)? It seems strange to think less of them for living in the wrong place.
Well, people in the middle of their farms, milking their cow with a pitchfork sticking out their back pocket, aren't usually considered tech-savvy themselves, even if they DON'T use AOL.
I was with my GF on Sunday. However, I did spend Saturday with my mom, some of it helping her get a cellphone because her landline quit working and AT&T never showed to fix the durn thing.
I think I still have a free account. I vaguely remember them talking me into it back when I got broadband at the turn of the century. I don't remember what my username was.
Software production is assumed to be a line function, but it is run like a staff function. -- Paul Licker
