can we start on the "Yo Momma" taunts now?
Yo momma is so unstable...when she crash, Microsoft don't even bother analyzing her crash report!
can we start on the "Yo Momma" taunts now?
Yo momma is so unstable...when she crash, Microsoft don't even bother analyzing her crash report!
Today one of my colleagues suffered through a conference call in which one person was the lone critic of a plan to use web services for the communication layer in a multi-server image analysis system. My colleague's favorite quote from the meeting came from the critic: "I can't think of anything more difficult than hosting images on a web server."
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He should keep trying. With a bit of effort he could have a really cool light display and a mechanism for keeping pesky carolers off his lawn.
"DECK the halls with... Hey, why are my feet tingling?"
@da Doctah said:
Waves don't explode, they collapse. Hasn't anybody actually read Schrödinger?
My personal experience is that I always have a hard time getting enough work to do in the first few weeks I'm on a new job. Five weeks is a bit extreme, however. My advice is to keep asking nicely for more work. I'm sure it will get better soon.
I don't often laugh out loud at these WTFs, but that comment did it for me. I guess machine architecture is much more subjective than I've been led to believe. "Does 0xFFFF represent -1 on this processor? Well, that's a matter of opinion, isn't it?"
@stratos said:
But Ouch!! parsing xml inside of cobol, wouldn't it be easier to use some fancy new language as glue to do the xml handeling and let it feed cobol with stuff cobol likes to eat. I've never worked with cobol though, so my opinion on that isn't worth much.
Oh, no, you misunderstood. They're not parsing the XML purely in COBOL, 'cause that would be just nuts. They're also parsing the XML in assembly language ([i]i.e.[/i], VMS Macro)!
Jetcitywoman loves to tell me how great VMS is because you can so easily link together modules built in any language. Build up a program out of a little C here, a little COBOL there, no problem. And I know this is true, because I worked with VAX/VMS back in college and used to mix Pascal and C and assembler with no effort -- no _stdcall BS, etc., etc. -- just tell the linker what you're trying to do and it all just worked. Pretty neat, actually. I had to wait for .NET to come along before I could mix languages with the same degree of ease on the Windows platform.
So, why not get a nice open-source XML parser written in C or C++, for example Xerces or Expat and link that in when you need to parse XML? Don't want to port it to VMS yourself? Why not just download Xerces for VMS from HP's website?
I used to, but that was four years ago. I recall that I really didn't like it initially, but got used to used it pretty quickly. I very much liked the fact that you batch up a number of file check-ins as a single transaction. If one file didn't go through, e.g., because it needed to be merged, the whole transaction got rolled back. The result was that you would not break the build by checking in only some of your interdependent changes.
Sorry, but I nominate the confusing design as a WTF and the PM is just a hapless victim. Sometimes the users are clueless only because we (the developers) were too clever by half.
The id attribute on the body is "libra." I'm a Libra. I wonder if Skip O'Conen is a Libra, too.