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Cloudy with a chance of reboots.
Source: Pinboard
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"Wouldn't you prefer a nice game of chess?"
Source: Photon Storm
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"This is the voice of world control. I bring you peace."
Source: GigaOm
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And when everyone's superuser, no-one will be.
Source: Ars Technica
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You can't IPO your way out of death and taxes.
Source: remarkedly
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Ads and answers are pushing search results below the fold.
Source: CNET
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Three great tastes that taste great together.
Source: dosync
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Answer: Both yes and no
If you believe that following endless rules, aimed at producing 'beautiful' code and letting all kinds of frameworks do most of the job for you is all there is, then I can understand why you are bored.
Recently I dug out some stuff I did on my first PC, a 386. 3D graphics, or better the 2.5D graphics that were common at that time to squeeze a little more performance out of the code. All in all it was just 4 kilobytes of hand written assembly, but it got the job done. And it still does after all that time. Even after all the generetions of hardware that have come and gone since then, that code still runs and is as fast as hell. The only crutch I had to use was DOSBox, as Windows 7 sure does not provide a working DOS environment anymore.
So, if you want to do some interesting programming, then throw away all the rules and the nice comfortable frameworks. When you are on your own and have to do your own thinking, then things will certainly become interesting again. Just stop painting by the numbers and start painting freestyle again. And it might open your eyes to how wasteful and sluggish things have become by now.
I'm invincible, I can't be vinced
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I put a language in your language so you can hack while you hack.
Source: fogus
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"We're doomed... we'll never make it."
Source: asymco
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"This is the Voice of Doom calling. Your days are numbered..."
Source: NYTimes.com
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...and you can play with the source code, too.
Source: Wired
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http://www.theage.com.au/technology/security/hacking-fears-symantec-tells-customers-to-disable-software-20120126-1qieg.html[^]
Security firm Symantec took the rare step of advising customers to stop using one of its products, saying its pcAnywhere software for accessing remote PCs is at increased risk of getting hacked after blueprints of that software were stolen
I tell friends and relatives all the time to disable (and in fact, uninstall) Symantec. Good to see the company itself is catching up with the times. I'm just wondering what anti-virus they are suggesting people use instead.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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yes, good that they are honest, it will be good for them in long run. One of my previous company was using it officially!
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