A question to IT KBers - what are prospects of finding an IT job in Auckland?

[jrandom]

The name Jon Britten comes to mind ...... according to JRandom statement he must be an idiot

You've read the Tim Hanna biography?

I'm pretty sure that Britten would have made a fuckin' awful computer programmer.

[imdying]

The name Jon Britten comes to mind ...... according to JRandom statement he must be an idiot


I never could spell properly and putting words in the correct order ..... time waster for me cause no matter how times i look at a sentence it always look the same

So i tend to write like I speak (according to my wife) which is apparently wrong as well ...... go figure

You're taking his statement as an absolute, which as he's clearly pointed out, it isn't. Fact is, it is used as an indicator, as he said.

[-df-]

It's not a matter of direct causality; the simple fact is that a high level of literacy is correlated with high general intelligence.

what a load of crap...

Based on what you have said you must have a low level of literacy...considering I've seen and had to work with your code.

Get off ya high horse

EDIT: I've seen some good code you have produced....but I've also seen some shockers.

[jrandom]

I've seen and had to work with your code.

Small world, eh? What project(s) would that be on, then?

I've seen some good code you have produced....but I've also seen some shockers.

I never claimed anything in particular about myself. You gotta try and read my statements on this subject without taking it personally or looking to 'take me down a peg'. I'm just reporting on what I've observed.

Goodness knows I've learned and grown over the years.

I'd be fascinated to hear your comments in detail...

[enigma51]

A good programmer (embedded or "general") is someone with the ability to look at all the issues and make decisions that will give the required outcome and more. If those issues are related to the limitations of the coding language then a good programmer will find a way to make it work. If its a hardware issue (ex 32bit memory allocation) then a good programmer has the ability to overcome those issues.

Everthing else is a plus.

I have worked with people who have perfect english written and spoken but yet there ability to problem solve is about as good as 5 year old. On the other side of the scale is people that i have worked with who's english (or native language) written skills are way shiter than mine but yet they are some of the most inteligent people i have ever met.

the one thing i have found is (espically amongst english speaking people) that the better the english the more arrogant the person.

[enigma51]

what a load of crap...

Based on what you have said you must have a low level of literacy...considering I've seen and had to work with your code.

Get off ya high horse

EDIT: I've seen some good code you have produced....but I've also seen some shockers.

I would put money on the fact that JRandom's code is one of those where a simple printf("Hallo world"); becomes a 1000 line piece of code.

[jrandom]

I would put money on the fact that JRandom's code is one of those where a simple printf("Hallo world"); becomes a 1000 line piece of code.

Except I'd spell it 'hello'.

[enigma51]

Except I'd spell it 'hello'.

Okay that is funny i will give that one!

[avgas]

I'm reporting on a correlation I've observed between quality of written communication and ability to write computer programs.

Can retards write programs? Shit i thought they only made Java games?

[enigma51]

Classical case of spelling being no use in coding

Hallo is a salutation or greeting in the German language

Which mean even though Hallo is german your could still undertand it!

[enigma51]

Can retards write programs? Shit i thought they only made Java games?

dont forget java websites!

[avgas]

Can you a cite an example? The APIs don't actually go anywhere...

Been a while - but last one i recall was i lost some serial comms stuff (it was 5 years ago).
Then NETBUEI went by-by.
have always scraped through though - internet is fulla people who are smarter than I. I leave the PC on occasion to get pussy and do manly things.
Oh and while im here talking about crap i hate....
Fuck PROTOCOLS!

[jrandom]

Been a while - but last one i recall was i lost some serial comms stuff (it was 5 years ago).
Then NETBUEI went by-by.

Be grateful, that shit keeps us in a job auw.

If everything worked properly and didn't need changing we'd have to go do some real work for a living instead.

[avgas]

dont forget java websites!

yep some dumbass things float out their in the web:

- "Should i make my website completely flash?"

- ' Array_1[your entire memory] ' - thanks JAVA

- Code with no description at all

- H-Code with an H-List, P-list.....

- "I have an idea - i will build my website starting with a Table"

- Programs written WITHOUT a flow diagram, then fixed, then debugged, then fixed, then compiled, then fixed, then built, the released only to find the whole thing could be half as many lines if you just did it right from the start (and did a plan first).

- I have an HMI, now how do i do the rest of the code.

[avgas]

Be grateful, that shit keeps us in a job auw.

If everything worked properly and didn't need changing we'd have to go do some real work for a living instead.

Lol its funny how right you are.......i no longer do much programming as i found myself out of work