How do you like those apples?

What would be a good book to read describing ancient Christianity? I read a couple books describing how Christianity went east first and then west. This gives a hint to the similarities to Buddhism.

I'm not sure why I generally just hang out in one of the over flow sites :)

I'm sorry, I posted this comment to the wrong article... sigh.

... but the Chinese are actively doing it - as seen here in 2007.
Sometimes we to just shut up and do it else we'll have deja vu like solar energy or nuclear power

... but the Chinese are actively doing it - as seen here in 2007.
Sometimes we to just shut up and do it else we'll have deja vu like solar energy or nuclear power

I like many other programmers that have been around for a while have seen this come full circle again. I remember when Turbo Pascal became more OO and in my teens I spent a summer learning how to develop less procedurely and more OO. At the end of the summer I re-wrote a lot of code and in the end thought that it wasn't worth it. I know a lot of developers who develop procedurely in a OO language. While that frustrates me when I have to work on their code, it does show that OO isn't the only way to get the job done. Similarly is architecture, I code using MVVM like it's a religion. Hardly the fastest and most productive way to get something done, but at least when someone has to work on my code, they know where to find what they're looking for. May God help the poor soul that has to dig through my old FORTRAN code.

If you're a developer in a software house, then yes, younger people that know newer technologies than dinosaurs like myself. However, if you work in a company as a developer knowing different aspects of business help and are not always taught in school. So, the younger guy has to ask the dinosaur how CRM, ERP, AR / AP flows through a system. Fortunately for me, I enjoy learning new technologies (I have several projects going in Silverlight 4 MVVM, etc). The bad part is that I know of the other tools and sometimes I want to use the best tool for the job, where are the noobs want to use the latest tool for the job - even if it ends up being more work. However, I do not agree that people should be paid more for no other reason than that they showed up to work for a longer period of time. Earn your keep and salary. If you're underpaid, find a new job that pays more. Can't do that? Then you are not underpaid.

... that the data will actually be removed vs archived or "marked as deleted". You should never have put that information out there to begin win. I'm relatively confident that in 10 years people will be wishing that they never signed up and updated FaceBook. Their past will haunt them... kinda like my old UseNet posts. Ah they days when all you had to do was hack a BBS and format the HD to remove all of your unflattering history were glorious.

Someone had to say it, be kind.

They can stop the processor. It's the data that's in the HD that's important. It's kind of like saying that I'm going to make a vehicle anti-theft device. When you steal the car, the radio won't work.

Don't forget about the innerwebs - that got kinda popular.

How about the numeric values of "facebook" 6 1 3 5 2 15 15 11 = 58 * .84 = 49 The same value as "Faceboob" ASCII you say? "Facebook": 70 97 99 101 98 111 111 107 = 794 * .86 = 667 Same as "Facebo[" Okay, not nearly as interesting.

Nah, he has a Cyrix Cx486DX CPU.

Think like an OO programming language. First you select the namespace, then the class, then the member. Think of the internet, first you select WWW, then the site, then the top level domain. I argue that the correct date format should be year.month.day.hour.minute.second. Think about naming your directories by date, for instance, you want to sort all of the picture you took of your girlfriend from your cell phone. If you were to name the directories by month, day, year, you would group all of the March's together and when you open the picture of your girlfriend you could inadvertently open the image of your girlfriend last year... good luck explaining that one. BUT if you were to name the directories by year, month, day, then you'd be able to get more pictures :D