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Comment: Give me homebrew anyday. (Score 1) 390

by Maltheus (#46486107) Attached to: Lies Programmers Tell Themselves

The biggest lie developers tell themselves is, "why reinvent the wheel when we just save time by using some off-the-shelf framework"? I've never seen any time saved, in these circumstances. Everything works great until you inevitably encounter the one thing you can't do with it and you end up spending even more time adapting it, than you would have just writing your own framework in the first place.

And then there's the insanity that comes with trying to upgrade a mix of off-the-shelf frameworks at the same time. While I'm not a big fan of most developers' homebrew approaches, at least I'm not working with a black box, and I at least have the option of improving it over time.

Comment: I've permenantly disabled chrome. (Score 2) 295



Comment: Soon to be Peggy the Project Manager (Score 1) 333

by Maltheus (#46352869) Attached to: Will Peggy the Programmer Be the New Rosie the Riveter?

Most women I've encountered in IT usually go into middle management. At pretty much every job I've ever had, most of the managers are women, they all claim to have come from a programming background, but there are hardly any female programmers (maybe one of two among the testers) who stick with it.

Comment: Terrorists More Incompetent than Emo Teenagers (Score 4, Insightful) 510

by Maltheus (#46015509) Attached to: Senator Dianne Feinstein: NSA Metadata Program Here To Stay

So which is it? Is our police state so incomptent that it can't stop disturbed teens from shooting up schools, or are the terrorists so incompetent that they can't manage similar (or worse) carnage? And other than 9/11, it's not like we were swimming in attacks before they went all Stasi on us.

The Constitution is the law here, and the only criminals we need to be focused on are the ones in our own government. They gave away the freedoms that Al Qaeda could never take from us and that makes them worse in my book.

Comment: What's happened to google? (Score 1) 255

by Maltheus (#45979397) Attached to: Google Removes "Search Nearby" Function From Updated Google Maps

Pretty much everything Google has done over the last couple of years has been for the worse. Every interface has been dumbed down. Many useful features have been removed, even from their basic search engine. The android navigation app, is now an accident waiting to happen, with each basic function require a half a dozen tiny button clicks all over the screen. They've made it impossible to comment on anything or leave a review, without a dummy account (and then why bother), and don't even get my started on the Google+ kool-aid. I liked it in sips until they decided to waterboard me with it.

I use Google products less these days and will continue that trend. I was fine with them raping my data, back when they were providing ever increasing utility, but whoever is running the show over there now has replaced the goose that laid the golden eggs, with your ordinary shit dropping variety.

Comment: Big stars, bigger explosions.... (Score 1) 1029

Before I go to a movie, I read the reviews (user reviews, not the junket critics), and if they describe the movie as having "big stars, bigger explosions, and top-notch special effects", then I don't bother. That basically means they didn't put any time into the story.

Special effects haven't meant anything to me since CGI came into widespread use. Give me a halfway decent story, and I'll start going to the movies again.

Comment: Re:Oh, look! Just what the economy needs! (Score 1) 600

by Maltheus (#44178151) Attached to: Obamacare Employer Mandate Delayed Until After Congressional Elections

When last I contracted (2008-09), and had to pay for my own insurance, I paid $180/month. Pretty sure that price has at least doubled, since the ironically named ACA passed, but even then it's just over $4000 a year. If what you're saying is true, and companies are wasting that much, then it's no wonder the (real) economy hasn't been able to recover.
