Happy Birthday Google
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Google has indeed made the web easier to access, with the main side effect IMO of making it easier for technically clueless people to take on programming work, and students to cheat on their homework. I sure as hell hope their dreams of global domination do not come true.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
Christian Graus wrote:
making it easier for technically clueless people to take on programming work, and students to cheat on their homework
Ooops .. even the most technically sound people do search stuff across the net using Google. I would say, Google has eased the learning curve for every developer. I strongly believe everyone on this forum has used Google at some point of time in his career to find stuff quickly!
Sucess is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
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Google has indeed made the web easier to access, with the main side effect IMO of making it easier for technically clueless people to take on programming work, and students to cheat on their homework. I sure as hell hope their dreams of global domination do not come true.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
I found CP by entering a programming question in Google -- almost any programming question you Google returns CP pages in the result. That may mean that the clueless can find their way here, but it also means that those who do know what they're doing can get what they need from here, too.
I'll see your roundabout, and raise you two swings.
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...with the main side effect IMO of making it easier for technically clueless people to take on programming work, and students to cheat on their homework... Hmm, and this place here did not help at all?
A while ago he asked me what he should have printed on my business cards. I said 'Wizard'. I read books which nobody else understand. Then I do something which nobody understands. After that the computer does something which nobody understands. When asked, I say things about the results which nobody understand. But everybody expects miracles from me on a regular basis. Looks to me like the classical definition of a wizard.
CDP1802 wrote:
Hmm, and this place here did not help at all?
Not as much, because we tend to try to help in ways that require people to think and learn. Google tends towards copying and pasting code you don't understand.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Christian Graus wrote:
making it easier for technically clueless people to take on programming work, and students to cheat on their homework
Ooops .. even the most technically sound people do search stuff across the net using Google. I would say, Google has eased the learning curve for every developer. I strongly believe everyone on this forum has used Google at some point of time in his career to find stuff quickly!
Sucess is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Sushant Joshi wrote:
Ooops .. even the most technically sound people do search stuff across the net using Google.
That's true. The difference is, we understand what we read. The people who don't understand it at all, still manage to find hte codez nowadays, with google.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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I found CP by entering a programming question in Google -- almost any programming question you Google returns CP pages in the result. That may mean that the clueless can find their way here, but it also means that those who do know what they're doing can get what they need from here, too.
I'll see your roundabout, and raise you two swings.
Mark Wallace wrote:
That may mean that the clueless can find their way here, but it also means that those who do know what they're doing can get what they need from here, too.
True - the point is that the clueless are able to churn out something that appears to work, nowadays, b/c of google mostly.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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I found CP by entering a programming question in Google -- almost any programming question you Google returns CP pages in the result. That may mean that the clueless can find their way here, but it also means that those who do know what they're doing can get what they need from here, too.
I'll see your roundabout, and raise you two swings.
Mark Wallace wrote:
That may mean that the clueless can find their way here, but it also means that those who do know what they're doing can get what they need from here, too.
I admire your sense of humor bro. I would like to know only one thing, before opening CP for the first time, how did you have an idea about the conent present in the site/page ?!?! Whether you accept or not, everyone is clueless (with clueless I mean naïve/beginner) for the first time.
Sucess is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
modified on Monday, September 27, 2010 3:35 AM
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Sushant Joshi wrote:
Ooops .. even the most technically sound people do search stuff across the net using Google.
That's true. The difference is, we understand what we read. The people who don't understand it at all, still manage to find hte codez nowadays, with google.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
Christian Graus wrote:
That's true. The difference is, we understand what we read. The people who don't understand it at all, still manage to find hte codez nowadays, with google.
No mate, I disagree, even if you are able to search something on the net using Google, still you need elementary understanding of the technology and programming concepts to apply it. I don't believe that people are simply downloading the stuff from net and directly pasting it all over without knowing a bit of it.
Sucess is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
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CDP1802 wrote:
Hmm, and this place here did not help at all?
Not as much, because we tend to try to help in ways that require people to think and learn. Google tends towards copying and pasting code you don't understand.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
What I meant is, that there will always be people who will mis- or even abuse any service they can get their hands on. But this does not reduce the value of the service.
A while ago he asked me what he should have printed on my business cards. I said 'Wizard'. I read books which nobody else understand. Then I do something which nobody understands. After that the computer does something which nobody understands. When asked, I say things about the results which nobody understand. But everybody expects miracles from me on a regular basis. Looks to me like the classical definition of a wizard.
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So its Google's 12th Birthday, Happy Birthday Google !! May your dream of global domination come true...
Done baby, done. --Mr.Google. :)
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke
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Mark Wallace wrote:
That may mean that the clueless can find their way here, but it also means that those who do know what they're doing can get what they need from here, too.
I admire your sense of humor bro. I would like to know only one thing, before opening CP for the first time, how did you have an idea about the conent present in the site/page ?!?! Whether you accept or not, everyone is clueless (with clueless I mean naïve/beginner) for the first time.
Sucess is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
modified on Monday, September 27, 2010 3:35 AM
Sushant Joshi wrote:
Whether you accept or not, everyone is clueless (with clueless I mean naïve/beginner) for the first time.
Very true. I've also heard the same sentiment expressed as: "There are no difficult problems. There are only easy problems I don't yet know how to solve." and "Everything is difficult until you know how to do it."
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Christian Graus wrote:
That's true. The difference is, we understand what we read. The people who don't understand it at all, still manage to find hte codez nowadays, with google.
No mate, I disagree, even if you are able to search something on the net using Google, still you need elementary understanding of the technology and programming concepts to apply it. I don't believe that people are simply downloading the stuff from net and directly pasting it all over without knowing a bit of it.
Sucess is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Sushant Joshi wrote:
I don't believe that people are simply downloading the stuff from net and directly pasting it all over without knowing a bit of it.
You need to follow programming forums a bit more :)
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So its Google's 12th Birthday, Happy Birthday Google !! May your dream of global domination come true...
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Not a happy day for Google. Orkut got attacked with Cross Site scripting last saturday.
Arun Jacob My Technical Blog : Code.NET
Arun Jacob wrote:
Orkut got attacked
:omg: Nah, Indians don't mind; have moved to Facebook (finally...) :)
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Christian Graus wrote:
making it easier for technically clueless people to take on programming work, and students to cheat on their homework
Ooops .. even the most technically sound people do search stuff across the net using Google. I would say, Google has eased the learning curve for every developer. I strongly believe everyone on this forum has used Google at some point of time in his career to find stuff quickly!
Sucess is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
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So its Google's 12th Birthday, Happy Birthday Google !! May your dream of global domination come true...
Yeah, Happy Birthday Google! I hope you give me back Public Calendar Search feature :~ The "Search Public Calendars" button is missing from my Google Calendar[^]
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Christian Graus wrote:
That's true. The difference is, we understand what we read. The people who don't understand it at all, still manage to find hte codez nowadays, with google.
No mate, I disagree, even if you are able to search something on the net using Google, still you need elementary understanding of the technology and programming concepts to apply it. I don't believe that people are simply downloading the stuff from net and directly pasting it all over without knowing a bit of it.
Sucess is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Sushant Joshi wrote:
I don't believe that people are simply downloading the stuff from net and directly pasting it all over without knowing a bit of it.
You don't help out much in the forums do you? :-D
I have CDO, it's OCD with the letters in the right order; just as they ruddy well should be
Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads
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Christian Graus wrote:
That's true. The difference is, we understand what we read. The people who don't understand it at all, still manage to find hte codez nowadays, with google.
No mate, I disagree, even if you are able to search something on the net using Google, still you need elementary understanding of the technology and programming concepts to apply it. I don't believe that people are simply downloading the stuff from net and directly pasting it all over without knowing a bit of it.
Sucess is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
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Yeah, Happy Birthday Google! I hope you give me back Public Calendar Search feature :~ The "Search Public Calendars" button is missing from my Google Calendar[^]
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Mark Wallace wrote:
That may mean that the clueless can find their way here, but it also means that those who do know what they're doing can get what they need from here, too.
I admire your sense of humor bro. I would like to know only one thing, before opening CP for the first time, how did you have an idea about the conent present in the site/page ?!?! Whether you accept or not, everyone is clueless (with clueless I mean naïve/beginner) for the first time.
Sucess is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
modified on Monday, September 27, 2010 3:35 AM
Sushant Joshi wrote:
Whether you accept or not, everyone is clueless (with clueless I mean naïve/beginner) for the first time.
No argument here (although I think you either misunderstood what I wrote or you're replying to the wrong person). Cluelessness is themed, though, and has depth -- and applies to everything, not just coding. For example, I jump from project to project, and project element to project element, so frequently that I can find being myself clueless several times a week, and have to spend a lot of time trying to understand WTF I'm looking at, reading up, and tinkering to see how things really work. Some of the things I have problems with, I could implement very easily in other ways, and people who know the (for me, new) way could well look down at me as clueless -- until they have to implement it in a (for them, new) way that I'm familiar with, when I could look down on them as being clueless. So we're all clueless, really. And the average Barbie would look down on almost everyone in CP for not knowing enough about different brands of eye shadow (maybe not DD -- have you seen the black line around the daleks' eyeballs?). So I don't have a problem with cluelessness, as long as it's accompanied by a willingness to learn, rather than "SNED CODS PLEEZZZ!"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark Wallace wrote:
That may mean that the clueless can find their way here, but it also means that those who do know what they're doing can get what they need from here, too.
I admire your sense of humor bro. I would like to know only one thing, before opening CP for the first time, how did you have an idea about the conent present in the site/page ?!?! Whether you accept or not, everyone is clueless (with clueless I mean naïve/beginner) for the first time.
Sucess is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
modified on Monday, September 27, 2010 3:35 AM
To add to Mark's point - one thing that you see a lot in the forums here is somebody voting you down because you don't supply them with the code to solve their problem. They seem to labour under the misapprehsion that this is rentacoder, and take it as a personal affront that you don't do their thinking for them.
I have CDO, it's OCD with the letters in the right order; just as they ruddy well should be
Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads