lollancf37's comments

At the same time, write a small post about it and tweet on it so that you can let everyone know about it. This articl was great by the way.

LMAO

Seriously how the fuck can we earn money that way and still be considered as an honest citizen ???

What's wrong with those bastards ?

The tone doesn't matter. Context is of course of importance but let's face it, even if with a good lawyer you can defend almost anything. Steve Job's attitude is clearly set on death and destruction to his enemies lol.

Well my Kindle 3G doesn't work anymore, I was planning on buying the new one... Now I know I won't. Thanks for the reminder

I fail to see the point of this article. Since when thiking long term has to do with not adapting to its market ?? I've never heard of any company which fallowed to the letter a 5 years plan to the letter now, or 15 years ago. If you think that, please stop.

The value of short term thinking is that it's more fitted to our time. We do not build companies to last forever, we might as well cut the cost of thinking long term and try stuff until it's profitable enough to be bought...

Thank you.

You'll notice that I didn't talk about managment and the value that companies put (or don't put) in IT ...

What amazed in those kind of post, is that people who actually work in the industry are not bother by the actual lack of evidence in those kind of claim. I respect the opinion of Ben Lakey and Steve Jobs but they are opinions not laws.

I mean seriously, regardless of the job or the level of awesomness of someone, who likes to work with incompetent collegues ?????

They are thousands of bad developpers out there ? Seriously ? How do you judge ?? How do you know ??

Personally I know tons of developpers who works on awesome things at home but do shit at work 365 days a year. Simply because that is what is required of them. Careful here, I am not saying that, this is the case for everyone and that I have explained everything. I'm just saying that it will be nice if in our industry we stopped putting so much ego in everything we are doing. If you are a A, A+, A++, S++X37 developper good for you, truly.

From my little experience ( ~= 5 years ) there is not much state of the art project going on in the industry. Most project sucks from a technical point of view.

Also from my little experience, recruitment is fucking hard. Ask Google.

In a way, that is amazing. Truly.

lmao Nice one.

"Corruption is everywhere. Pakistan is hardly different. Even in the UK you'll find corrupt politicians or entrepreneurs. Perhaps they are less so (or simply better at it?) but this simply won't stop any time soon."

You can't even begin to compare the corruption of North countries and South countries. The level of corruption in U.K. is far less, with surely bigger impact on the world because of the power of U.K. in the world than what you can find in a country like Pakistan or Nigeria.

In short, yes corruption is everywhere that in itself is not an argument.

"This poor education leads Zardari (a corrupt politician who has ties to the murder of Murtaza Bhutto) only coming to power due to a three way effect of a sympathy vote (assassination of Benazir Bhutto), bribery and threats to people who work on his land (he is one of the largest land owners in Sindh). Nowhere else in the world would a criminal become the president of a nation."

No it's not. I won't go further.

lol

His motivation and will to make his project exist is out of the ordinary and I respect that.

However his behaviour is just shameful. I guess the end, justify the means ...

Still I don't like it, one bit.

I had a good laugh, thanks for posting.

What do you mean by useful ? Seriously what is really useful in all that "Please code / Please don't code" story ? In itself nothing, it's all a matter of opinion. That doesn't make it less interesting.

So putting the sentence "Please don't learn to code" out of context is just not fair and misleading. He wrote this post like he wrote everything else he does, with his style. You have the right not to like it but please do not state your opinion as fact. How does the post is more useful ?

The idea that everyone should learn to program doesn't disturb me at the least but it's just a waste of time. Comparing programing langage with english, french, russian or whatever is just a joke. The day the first words of a baby will be the binary representation of "Mommy" I'll rethink about it.

In truth those who want to get involved in programming for whatever reason (as a hobby, professionally, by curiousity ...) are those who should learn to program. So let's drop the hype, pleadge and let's keep those good websites which help to get started. I find knowing how to program really useful, empowering, fun and challenging but not everyone has to feel the same way and not every programmer feels like I do. That is what Jeff Attwood tells in this post, while humouring himself with the movement. So please learn to code, if you want to but you'll still be cool if you don't.

Good luck

From what you say, I don't think that you communicated all that you've said to your bosses. If what you say are facts and not your opinions, I think that you should go to see them and tell them what you think, what you want. It's okay to be involved with people at work, it's not okay to use this as an excuse.