Did anyone else notice that when Rosemary's baby was born a group of Japanese tourists went through the apartment where the Little Devil was laying and took photos? I almost fell out of my seat laughing at that one.
On 6/1/05, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wow, so *this* is what it's like being the parent of Rosemary's baby! > > I wonder if there has ever been a more OT thread? > > Allow me to summarize all the salient points, and perhaps this thread > can die peacefully... > > (1) Patterns are good, but don't cram'em in everywhere you have any > problem to solve. And if you DO feel the need to cram'em in everywhere, > I can suggest one other place you should be cramming them. > > (2) OOP is great, but don't give me a 500-class hierarchy to walk. I > can comprehend the geometry of a tesseract, but not some of the > convoluted messes some people spew out just because they read the terms > inheritance, polymorphism, composition and overloading in some "Teach > Yourself To Take Someone's Job That Actual Knows Their Ass From Their > Elbow In 24 Hours" books. > > (2a) Don't give me 5 classes with 5,000 lines of code a piece either! > Your someone that would use a damned goto if it was implemented! > > (3) If you never did Assembly, you suck (Laugh, damn it! That's a joke! > Ooooooorrrr is it??) > > (4) IDEs are fine, but if you can't do yourself what those 3 buttons you > just clicked did for you, get outta my shop. Look, I use a lathe rather > than widdle the decorative legs on my kitchen chairs, but the point is I > COULD widdle them if I wanted to. Using modern development tools is > much like that. > > (4a) If you can't debug your own damned code without a bouncing ball > leading you through line-by-line, you have no business writing that code > in the first place. I'm not suggesting you HAVE to put a System.out > after each line of code, but if your relying on the IDE to hold your > hand to understand what's going on in your own code, hit yourself with a > hammer, please. > > (5) Much like the Red Sox until their World Series win, LISP proponents > are never going to stop whining about how great their language of choice > is until it's king of the hill. In other words, they're never going to > stop whining. > > (6) C/C++ creates unmaintainable nightmare code. If you suck at it. > Same for Java. Same for LISP. Same for Pascal. Same for ADA. Same > for f'ing BASIC. Anyone see a pattern here?!? (Let me be the first to > name it: it's Frank Zammetti's "ProgrammersSuckNotLanguages" pattern). > > (7) The Timex Sinclait 1000/ZX81 is the PC we should all have on our > desktops. If you want to "multitask", buy two. > > (8) The German version of Outlook is stupid because to us Americans it > looks like everyone is talking about Root Beer all the time (Review the > thread... review the thread...) > > (9) Nothing is complex. There's your Zen moment for the day. > > (10) Corollary to #9: Everything is complex. Buddhist moment for the day. > > (Zen. Buddhist. Zen-Buddhist. I admit, I don't know what I'm talking > about!) > > (11) Most of you apparently went to school in the Alps because it seems > to have snowed a lot and been very uneven ground. And you did funny > things with news periodicals. > > (12) Struts 1.3 uses the CoR pattern. Or maybe it's the IoC pattern. > Or maybe it's the RTFM pattern. Could be the WtF pattern. No one > knows. (That's another joke... geez, if I have to tell you that I'm > really not doing a good job, am I?!?) > > (13) Wednesday is the new Friday apparently. > > (14) C is such a lousy language that NOBODY would EVER use it. Sorry > Linus, I guess that whole kernel thing of yours was a big mistake. > Ditto for Windows. Ditto for Halo. Ditto for <insert your favorite > COTS piece of software here more than likely>. C++ is C with MORE > chances to blow your foot off. Again, if you suck. Conclusion: > everything should be written in Logo. I dare say no one has ever > written a buggy, insecure piece of software in Logo. Better Logo than > actually knowing what your doing. God forbid. > > (15) Everyone has an opinion, No one is afraid to use it. This, > interestingly enough, is the exact opposite of nuclear weapons: few have > them, everyone is afraid to use them! > > (16) If you ever have a philosophy final where the assignment is simply > to prove that the chair in the middle of the room exists, write "What > chair??" in the middle of the paper, hand it in and walk out. Rejoice > in your 5-seconds A+. > > Ok, I'm done. I got a kid bugging me to play Area 51. Time to get my > butt kicked. > > Frank > > > Rahul Akolkar wrote: > > Allow me to define a new marker (Way, ) times 3 OT. I have left OT in > > for existing filters. > > > > -Rahul > > > > P.S.- > > 1) I suspect this is how DJ went to programming school [ > > http://www.bedlam.syol.com/ascendin.jpg ]* > > 2) You can convince the peasant Leon, given gas prices [ > > http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/images/v22/i4/p53_tractor.jpg > > ]* > > > > *[All images copyright respective websites ] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Frank W. 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