Comment Re:Paywall (Score 1) 154
What year is this?
Why would you hire a bricklayer to glue fake bricks to the front of your house?
What year is this?
Why would you hire a bricklayer to glue fake bricks to the front of your house?
We traded a significant fraction of the power in North America, Western Europe and Australia on an Access database that shelled to a FORTRAN simulation engine for forecasts...
Top that horror story.
To web enable it. I showed them how to call 'new Access.application("shitstorm.mdb")' from ASP. I will go to hell for that.
I guess I just topped my own horror story.
Former shysters can hold any public office they want. All they have to do is give up their license to practice law forever.
Otherwise they will continue to build a system designed primarily to enrich fucking lawyers.
Someone with mod points doesn't understand Boole's algebra.
You don't know the difference between an internet connection and redundant leased lines, yet felt compelled to comment?
I saw some Peugeot badged Z cars last time I was in Europe.
WTF is anybody interested in computers doing at a liberal arts school? Identify the fundamental mistake.
If you understand Boole's algebra you not only understand netmasks, but why they are that way.
If you are a coder and don't know what bitwise AND, OR, NOT and XOR are you are a clown.
Anybody who understands bitwise logic, understands netmasks at a level beyond most IT janitors.
They told you it was a step up and you believed them?
I sysadmined until I proved my chops as a programmer. At that point I was too valuable to keep around as an IT janitor.
There are architects that draw pretty pictures of un-buildable things. They suck.
But some are actually trained and skillful. Didn't come from a pure art background.
The old joke is: 'A building designed by and Architect might fall down, but a building designed by an Engineer should be torn down.'
Nissan is owned by the French. Not getting a frog mobile is plenty of reason to avoid them.
When dealing with barratry the best bet is to avoid the courts and go straight for the curb stomp.
Shysters defend their own. I think lawyers should be barred from holding public office.
I never beat myself that hard.
Janes ATF and Flight Unlimited II were my favorites back then. Escort Mothra to Monster Island! Shoot down Gamora.
Loving Asseto Corsa on the DK2.
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"