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No need, let me explain. Back in the day men had hair in their chests, programmers wrote their own alloc()/dealloc(), and managers believed waterfall would sol

No need, let me explain. Back in the day men had hair in their chests, programmers wrote their own alloc()/dealloc(), and managers believed waterfall would solve all problems, production used to measured by line count. That notion still goes on many heads out there. Now, if you still want a citation here's one... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Cessna_citation_503CC.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Cessna_ci...

guard-of-terra 14y ago
Bullshit. Back in the day men killed each other and then ate corpses. But don't try to base any article on the premise that people still practice cannibalism widely, do you?
- qxcv 14y ago
  With good reason, too. The primitive societies you're talking about (and, for the most part, the ideologies that drove them) are dead, so to write articles about them would be daft. OTOH, many PHBs and their various ideologies are still very alive (i.e. [0]), so it would make sense to write an article about them. [0]: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/154733/my-boss-decided-to-add-a-person-to-blame-field-to-every-bug-report-how-can-i http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/154733/my-bos...
  - guard-of-terra 14y ago
    Still you have to actualy back up your claims. Remembering some ancient history is not sufficient.
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- wildranter 14y ago
  I think we didn't have computers in the era you're referring to. I was talking about the seventies. I gave you clues about that when I talked about the memory management functions and waterfall. Anyway, you seem to have some anger management issues and this is not the place to sort it out. You should look for help.
  - guard-of-terra 14y ago
    Many open source developers (I imagine more than 25% but probably less than 50%) are from countries like China, Poland, Brazil or Russia. We didn't have computers in seventies. We didn't hear about waterfall except from the books blaming it. We never counted our lines as a metric. It's not in our culture, which is rather young. So it could rather be about cannibals. You seem think that by assaulting me you get free out of a stupid statement. Guess why, you don't.
    - wildranter 14y ago
      Assault is a loaded word to describe a honest observation based on a needless graphic picture you painted. You might not need help to sort out your anger issues. But you certainly need some work on your politeness skills. Here's a tip on the importance of that, politenes is appreciated as much as rudeness is abhorred. Now onto your claims about open source developers from Brazil, Russia, India, Poland, and China. I'm going to ignore the fact you only backed it up with your imagination, and focus on the interesting part, your assumption. You assumed that all these fellow programmers didn't have access to books, older programmers, nor even computers, in the seventies. Despite of the fact that programmers from these countries have been consistently shipping great software for decades. What really staggers me is that you assume on behalf of all these people that they lack culture, just to prove your point. Do humanity a favor, and go read a book [0]. Or at least try to leave home so you can talk to people, and finally work on your poor social skills. [0] http://www.amazon.com/Coders-Work-Reflections-Craft-Programming/dp/1430219483 http://www.amazon.com/Coders-Work-Reflections-Craft-Programm...
      - guard-of-terra 14y ago

guard-of-terra 14y ago

Bullshit. Back in the day men killed each other and then ate corpses. But don't try to base any article on the premise that people still practice cannibalism widely, do you?

qxcv 14y ago
With good reason, too. The primitive societies you're talking about (and, for the most part, the ideologies that drove them) are dead, so to write articles about them would be daft. OTOH, many PHBs and their various ideologies are still very alive (i.e. [0]), so it would make sense to write an article about them. [0]: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/154733/my-boss-decided-to-add-a-person-to-blame-field-to-every-bug-report-how-can-i http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/154733/my-bos...
- guard-of-terra 14y ago
  Still you have to actualy back up your claims. Remembering some ancient history is not sufficient.
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wildranter 14y ago
I think we didn't have computers in the era you're referring to. I was talking about the seventies. I gave you clues about that when I talked about the memory management functions and waterfall. Anyway, you seem to have some anger management issues and this is not the place to sort it out. You should look for help.
- guard-of-terra 14y ago
  Many open source developers (I imagine more than 25% but probably less than 50%) are from countries like China, Poland, Brazil or Russia. We didn't have computers in seventies. We didn't hear about waterfall except from the books blaming it. We never counted our lines as a metric. It's not in our culture, which is rather young. So it could rather be about cannibals. You seem think that by assaulting me you get free out of a stupid statement. Guess why, you don't.
  - wildranter 14y ago
    Assault is a loaded word to describe a honest observation based on a needless graphic picture you painted. You might not need help to sort out your anger issues. But you certainly need some work on your politeness skills. Here's a tip on the importance of that, politenes is appreciated as much as rudeness is abhorred. Now onto your claims about open source developers from Brazil, Russia, India, Poland, and China. I'm going to ignore the fact you only backed it up with your imagination, and focus on the interesting part, your assumption. You assumed that all these fellow programmers didn't have access to books, older programmers, nor even computers, in the seventies. Despite of the fact that programmers from these countries have been consistently shipping great software for decades. What really staggers me is that you assume on behalf of all these people that they lack culture, just to prove your point. Do humanity a favor, and go read a book [0]. Or at least try to leave home so you can talk to people, and finally work on your poor social skills. [0] http://www.amazon.com/Coders-Work-Reflections-Craft-Programming/dp/1430219483 http://www.amazon.com/Coders-Work-Reflections-Craft-Programm...
    - guard-of-terra 14y ago