The worst programmers I've met are the ones who are heads down and program. They are usually very arrogant and think they are gods. Case in point, there's a guy I currently work with who is a disaster. People are in awe of him because he will work until 4am and has improved the performance of our application 100-fold.
The problem is that during the design phase, he completely disregarded all of our design recommendations and did things his way. It turned into a complete disaster, with nothing working as it should, deadlocks and complete lack of scalability, etc. So yes, he worked until 4am to improve things and did improve the performance from the initial disastrous numbers, but it was all his own fault! As well, because he was so arrogant and stubborn, he ended up producing something that no one wants anymore because the interface is too abstract and hard to use. Now, our the product is being shut down before it has even launched, because we couldn't convince any consumers to "wait until the next release" to get it to do what they actually want. All the fellow programmers think he's an asshole, but all of the managers who don't understand what he does will undoubtedly promote him.
The best programmers are the ones who keep it simple, design things excellently and program it once, with maybe a couple of iterations of performance enhancement. I've met plenty of brilliant programmers in my time, and these are the key traits that they exhibit. The "brilliant", nerdy programmers that heads-down program are rarely any better than a smart, easy-going programmer that both works hard and spends more time listening to their customers and making common sense design decisions.
It's funny how governments, especially the US government, are so worried about how cyberwarfare could affect their businesses, etc. However, they really couldn't give a rat's ass about human lives. Case in point, 100k+ Iraqi citizens killed in the war. What a horrible travesty and a crime against humanity that war was. I don't see them talking about how countries could stop attacking regular civilians, but oh, don't do anything that might destabilize our business infrastructure!
The Internet and Google cache are forever. You have no idea who or what could malign your good name. It might not be you, it could be someone else that posts on a message forum about you. You have no control over your name anymore.
The only protection you have is security through obscurity. I'm blessed with a very, very common name. That fact, in addition to my early decision in the mid 1990s to never post anything under my real name has made me completely anonymous. I have about 30 email addresses, each with different uses so that they can't be searched for. I have several different "personas" that I write under, and I try to maintain different writing style each time, different spelling mistakes, etc.
This is about the only thing you can do, it's too late for us, but you can keep your children's name generic so they can't be found easily on Google, and to teach them not to be complete dumbasses and do something they will regret forever.
The aliens have taken over the Kreml
Blame California's anti-car lobby attacking everything they can. They can't get regular gasoline cars off the roads, because those are too common, so they attack niches, including diesel.
And it affects those of us that live thousands of miles away from California, because whatever they do, the EPA does 5 years later. And, because California is the biggest car market in the world, and 13 other states have signed up to California's emissions standards (which are both misguided and set to California's unique geography,) carmakers either have to meet the ridiculous California emissions standards, or not sell to some of their biggest markets.
The emissions controls on the TDI, required to meet California (and now EPA, actually) standards cost $3-5k on top of the cost of everything else. (Yes, the TDI is optioned like a high-spec gas model. Options cost automakers almost nothing, and are a good way to hide things like expensive emissions controls. VW makes a LOT more on a high-spec 2.5 or 2.0T gas Jetta than they do on a TDI.)
Oh, and everything that has to be done to meet emissions... means that the thing gets about 20 MPG less than it would without the emissions controls - 60 instead of 40 MPG, on the highway.
That's my experience in testing active/active.
You may be interesting in this though.
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2009-October/001279.html
i wonder if this is a kind of smack talk. Moz guy might be wagging his finger at Google with a bit of a threat implied.
i doubt Moz would get in bed with M$, they're pseudo rivals with supposedly opposing views on what to charge for software. Sorta.
The world "wholesome" needs to be retired. It has been misused for decades now.
It's also one of those words what indicate that you should listen with skepticism. It differs greatly from person to person and generation to generation. I'm sure that in pre-civil rights era south (and even today as we see sometimes) they considered their antics "wholesome."
noisy diesels have sold well in Europe (thanks in part to diesel fuel subsidies)
pray, tell, which Europe are you writing about ? is it Europe nearby Jupiter ? Did NASA discover semi-intelligent life there (intelligent enough not to tax fuels, not intelligent enough to stop from subsidising them) ?
It was in 1978-79! =:-D
In Bastad - the Swedish Saint Tropez...
And here I thought The Final Countdown movie was going to be real life!
Citi, JPM And Nelnet were implicated in a huge student loan conspiracy to commit fraud. Not only do they make hand-over-fist on student loan interest, they were apparently engaging in fraudulent activity such that they made EVEN MORE money. That's what greed gets you...
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money. -- Arthur Miller
