FOSS is communistic and will fail accordingly. One Governing body will ALWAYS fail in light of a free exchange of ideas and the resulting competition.
Don't think so? Get a history book and get your read on. Suck it freetards.
Here endith the lesson.
Open Source is starting to get on my nerves.
I love open source about 90% of the time. But FF and Eclipse are turning into a bloated sacks of fark that makes MS's worst bloated sack of fark look like notepad.
Let me see.... Right now FF is using 450 megs of ram and Eclipse is @ 358 megs.
A browser using 450 megs of ram? I close out all but one browser window and it is still using 450 megs. Open what? Suck what?
If a site has a flash video (like Youtube), FF pegs the processor of my 3 yr old (1.8 gig P4 - 1.28 gig ram) laptop and grinds it to a farking halt. Unusable.
Flash videos also pegs my 2.8 gig duel processor HP box. Nice.
No wonder I think that OSS zealots are idiots.
"But OSS is FREE!"
So is dirt. Blow me.
My thought pattern. >> Spuds >> biology > DNA >> DNA = Persistent Data store >> So much data in on molecule. >> IS DNA relational? Can you query it? That is a fuck load of data!! Will databases become biological? How do you query a cell? Will we be able to make living mater into a hard drive? Will I sleep tonight?
The intranet I work with at work is a nightmare. I hate it. It is the spaghetti monster from hell. I have written some crappy code in the past but this thing takes the cake. When I first started I thought that I just didn't "get it"... that the guy before me had some mojo I just couldn't get my head around. Now I know he was a bad coder and a horrible architect.
Smart? yes. talented? Sorta. Good? no.
Both my boss and myself DREAD having to deal with his code.
My second thought:
I want a mentor. There is no one that I work with that can bring me to the next level with Coldfusion. My boss is a gifted programmer but he is a VB Jedi and is still learning CF. He has taught me a lot but I want an Andrés Segovia type mentor. Someone who will not take no for an answer, whip me into shape, and teach me the ways of the code warrior.
I am truly ready, willing and able.
I love web dev. I love to talk shop. I went to the web designers chat room on yahoo chat. I asked a question. I was abused, ridiculed, tormented and mocked for asking a question in a forum that encouraged people to share knowledge.
What I found there was a group of elitist, abusive, condescending, too cool for Christmas, jaded assholes. It disgusted me in a manner is beyond words. They are the most insecure, trash talking, gossiping, "look he is down, kick him" bitches I have ever seen in my life.
If geeks conducted themselves in real life in the same manner that they do online, their bodies would litter the streets.
I am ashamed that I even share genome with these cretins.
Every time I get one of their "Tech updates" it has at least one story that fans the flame of the eternal (and in my opinion, STUPID) holy war. My opinion is that software (OS's included) are tools to get a job done. Look, it is a hammer, not a freaking religion. For 99% of the population computers are, much like a truck, a means to an end and not the end themselves. But of course there are always those people who become emotionally involved with their tools and have those stickers of Calvin, of Calvin and Hobbes, peeing on the rival truck's logo. Ford drivers have Calvin peeing the Chevy Logo and vice versa. Most people would probably agree that the whole Chevy vs. Ford debate is a big adolescent prick wagging contest and, at its core, is pretty damn stupid. If you look at it from this vantage point, the whole Windows vs. Linux argument here is basically on the same level. It is a bunch of "grown ups" carrying on like kids on a playground except the mantra of "my dad can beat up your dad" has been replaced with "my Operating System can beat up your Operating System"
I am an IT professional. In being so I keep up on the latest trends by reading blogs and subscribing to trade journals and newsletters like InfoWorld, IDG, DevShed.com, internet.com, devx.com and so on. In comparison to these journals, ZDNet reads like a gossip column. Some of these "Tech Update" have more in common with Joan Rivers's coverage of Hollywood red carpet events than IT professional's covering industry events and trends (you know who you are). Do any of the aforementioned trade journals partake in ZDNet's brand of IT yellow journalism? In a word, no. They offer sound, competent coverage of pertinent industry news, developments and tools. Often times they do have their own slant or agenda but they don't use sensationalism to drive traffic to their website's comment section. I would wager that the majority of the traffic on the ZDNet news and blog site is generated by their "discussion" section.
I use Linux freakin every day. I develop on the LAMP stack, among others. It is a fantastic platform. We also develop using the Microsoft, Adobe, Sun and New Atlanta stacks. Why? There are several reasons, but mostly because it is more cost effective. Visual Studio is a fantastic product. Java is, well Java. Flash and Flex don't have viable alternatives, and we can get ColdFusion apps out the door in half the time it takes to develop them using "free" platforms like LAMP or .NET.
I use Open/closed Source tools every day. For instance my primary IDE is Eclipse. Eclipse is absolutely astounding. But I also use DreamWeaver, mostly because it is the best tool for building web based GUI's. My Databases of choice are MySQL, Derby and MS SQL Server, in that order. I love MySQL. It is by far my favorite, but SQL Server's Data Transfer services make MySQL look like a child's play thing. Mind you, all of them are outstanding at what they do. They just do different things better than the other. Do I care if they are Open Source or not? Not really. Just as long as they do what I want them to do and gets me from Point A to point B in the most efficient, practical and cost effective manner.
I use Windows as my OS of choice. Why? One reason is that a good portion of my day in, day out tools run on Windows with out having to kludge together a work around or have some apps be crippled or semi functional, like I would with Linux. Another is that Macs, while very nice, are still too expensive. The other reason is that *I don't like* the Linux desktop environment. I have tried to like it. I really have. I tried to switch in earnest. I used it almost exclusively for three months, so I know. But after 12 weeks of kludging together a work-arounds and a few rounds of dependency hell, I finally said screw it. I need to get some work done.
What really bothers me is that I have been played for a fool by the editors of ZDNet. Once again they have sucked me into this time wasting and ultimately futile debate, AGAIN. I stopped get the ZDNet news letters a year or two back for the same reason. But I started to do so again, despite the flame bait that they use to drive traffic to their site, because they do have items of professional and personal interest. It is rather insidious how they drag you into the fray. But now I am going to back off and port the energy that I have wasted in this mindless debate into developing my skills on BOTH Windows and *nix platforms.
And remember, you are being played as a fool in order to pad another mans bank account. Y'all have fun pounding sand. One day it might turn into glass.
I inherited a huge intranet at my new job. It is all done using CFWACK (ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit) procedural style development. No biggie. I have been do that sort of development for years... I learned CF using CFWACK as my guide. But my predecessor loved arrays... As my boss told me "I cannot express to you how much that man loved arrays". It was not some sort of neurosis... this man was psychotic about it. The site is littered with him literally creating and parsing arrays for the sake of doing so. He literally spent four months converting the site from using query datasets to arrays. So there is four months of bat shit crazy code that I have to un-scramble. The man was a human code obfuscater. Oh, and did I mention that the man did not indent his code? I mean, AT ALL? Ever? Never ever?
This is what I wrote my boss the other day:
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 12:10 PM
To: Michael Reynolds
Subject: ArrayNew = My Life sucks
I am really, really, REALLY, REALLY starting to hate arrays. If people made cars the way my predecessor made data structures a go cart would be the size of an oil tanker, have 400 steering wheels, no brakes and starting it would require more secret hand signals than an epileptic third base coach on meth.
Z
Here is an example of the shit I have to deal with:
When ever I see ArrayNew I know that my life is going to suck. All I have to say is why in the fark don't you use the variable names? I mean, CF casts the query as a structure with the variable scope being the name of the query for fucks sake. Why in the name of all that is not stupid do you need to turn it into yet another data structure?
I am all about Open Source. I love it. It has changed computing and has contributed
to the betterment of all users. I use TONS of OS Software and at work I am
known as the Open Source Guy.
But I HATE Open Source fundimentalists. They are nothing more than elitist,
intellectual bigots and snobs. That is why I use the term Open Sores as a category
on my blog
So when I saw on fullasagoog.com that Apollo
was featured on slash dot I HAD to look.
JD on EP was nice enough to highlight some of the comments
My overall impression is that there are many reactionary attacks based on insufficient study of source materials, as well as an impressive number of defenses based buttressed by observable reality. One unstated subtext among many attacks seems to be "I don't like it so no one must be permitted to use it." Overall trend is positive, though.
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=227249&threshold=1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=18406815#1840702
illegalcortex (1007791)
Just give up. Otherwise, this will eventually end with them complaining that it doesn't run on the VIC-20.by MaggieL (10193)
Nobody *made* them call it a "cross-operating system runtime"...excuse us for asking how many operating systems it crosses.
They could have just called it a "proprietary thing to build apps with", but somehow that sounds less appealing.
illegalcortex (1007791)
I'd hate to be the sporting goods salesman when you people come around to ask about the cross-country skis...
MaggieL (10193)
illegalcortex (1007791)
I'd hate to be the sporting goods salesman when you people come around to ask about the cross-country skis...
"How much country can I cross with these skis?" is so unreasonable to ask...
Look at it this way: if your OS portfolio is Mac and Windows, then you're about as "cross-platform" as Excel is.
"Can I cross water with these skis?"
"Well, no, not really. They're not water skis..."
"HAH! Do you realize water covers almost 71% of the Earth's surface. So you're telling me these skis are useless on over two-thirds of the planets surface?!"
"Uh, I'm not really sure what that has to do with-"
"And these skis, can they be used on mountains?"
"Well, mountains with snow and-"
"Not rocky mountains? What part of the definition of the word 'country' says that it doesn't include rocks?"
"Again, I don't really see-"
"And how about roads?"
"Roads?"
"Yes, roads. Streets. Boulevards. Avenues. And sidewalks. And freeway entrance ramps. And stairs."
"Look, are you actually going to buy these skis?"
"Why would I buy these skis? I live in Los Angeles and it never snows. So until you come out with some skis that can be used in downtown LA, I suggest you stop calling these "cross-country" skis. Also, I don't have any legs, you insensitive clod!"
The part about the stairs cracked me up.
Look.... If something will run on Windoze (sic), Mac and Linux, or 99% of the machines out there, then it is cross platform.
