When you now get new icons, you get new-speak. Whatever the double-speak or the next double-Icons look would like? So if you don't get the next bunch of icon's "meaning", you might be so not brainwashed.

I'm little surprised I did not see the Hacker's Jargon's version of fun vs. disciplined Language list. The fun category goes as "Languages Of Choice"(LOC). The disciplined category goes as "bondage-and-discipline"(B&D). They included C, Perl, Python, Java and LISP for LOC and Pascal, Ada, APL, or Prolog for B&D. And worst than B&D is COBOL. A love for Fortran and Assembler shows that one is a real programmer. But for me, APL was fun and my first language. The only interesting thing about PASCAL was that it introduced me to Data Structures. The Hackers associate APL with B&D. There's no discipline at all. You can't read it. You throw cryptic symbols together until you see the results you want then store it in a user defined function. I would put LISP in the B&D category and then say they wanted it to be fun and created JavaScript. I do mostly C++ so I have not done much with C#. But if you like C# the most, that's cool.

Developers might be what is called a programmer analyst. A programmer needs natural language pseudo code from an application designer who received specifications from executives and marketing. I think the stigma put on programmers comes from the hacker world, not the password hacking, virus creating types but what I find described at an old-hackers-jargon site being here. A programmer is like a code-grinder in an electronic data processing shop. We're developers because hackers don't like programmers or their EDP environments.

Learning to code in APL will eventually will be as readable as Ancient Greek.

It seems that when these ideas are presented above, it is assumed that the ball(s) are attracted by a force below the rubber surface. I might say that it is in the center of that expanding rubber "balloon". Now here is an interesting clue. It has been discovered that not just the universe is expanding, the expansion is accelerating. The balls or mass-objects are not attracted to anything, it is the moving rubber surface that is accelerating toward the mass-objects(balls). If the expansion of the universe was just at a constant rate, there would be no gravity. It all runs on dark energy. It's just a thought. No, I didn't do the math.

On Facebook, there are these "memes", One I particularly like is, "Being a good programmer is 3% talent and 97% not being distracted by the internet". So now, it looks like that task will be even harder :wtf: . I thought that Microsoft was good for business. All this imposed distractions, reminded me on how Huxleyan (i.e. Brave New World) our existence is becoming :omg:.

Evil deserves no role. If we did not have evil then we would have no problem not knowing what good is. We would be happy as ever never asking the question.

Small ISV's? How about any small business? We are entering a time of having to submit to a ruling class. It is not restricted to being in government. I found an interesting comment in an article by a professor named Angelo M. Codevilla who wrote the article: "America's Ruling Class -- And the Perils of Revolution"[^]. He said, "In general, the country class includes all those in stations high and low who are aghast at how relatively little honest work yields, by comparison with what just a little connection with the right bureaucracy can get you. The country class is convinced that big business, big government, and big finance are linked as never before and that ordinary people are more unequal than ever." I do not believe in punishing the large corporations with taxes. It is that oppression that forces some toward greed as it looks to the little guy. It is survival for the corporate executives. I would prefer to be conservative and not oppress the business world but I think there are 'evil' corporations. It comes from a "ruling class" mentality. So do we want-to-be ISVs and already ISVs need to form a "tea-Party"? As Codevilla reflects in closing: "Suffice it to say that the ruling class’s greatest difficulty—aside from being outnumbered—will be to argue, against the grain of reality, that the revolution it continues to press upon America is sustainable. For its part, the country class’s greatest difficulty will be to enable a revolution to take place without imposing it. America has been imposed on enough." So to oppose the current trends, we have to organize and become like minded which goes against the "I" in ISV. I think it is important to understand the flow of things, know the times. Microsoft might have been friendly once, but it might be time to leave bondage.

I have not tried this but there is a "community version" available for download from visual-paradigm. All I have been looking for is a quick reference cheat sheet for recalling what are the various lines and arrows for class diagrams. I have not found one reduced to one page. http://www.visual-paradigm.com/product/vpuml/[^] Sometimes, one must learn by doing. Good luck. :)

I made it ... so what do I do with it ? (personal projects are so lonely) I have been working on an OpenGL project, which is a kind of CAD application. The requirements for a vector oriented drawing program to become a true and professionally useful CAD application is actually a monumental task which for timely results, needs several developers, not just one. I have to settle for just making a 3D vector drawing program. Yes, I am using OpenGL for the 3D and its Z-buffer feature. I am not majoring on rendering. I am interested on how my application helps users draw and model in 3D. So far, I am its only user. I can imagine a lot about features. This kind of keeps my project in the "Alpha" stage of development. A bit of inspiration comes from a product called SketchUp. "Beta" stage means that the project is feature complete. My web site home.earthlink.net/~rdwofrdw[^] is where I have screenshots. Some Job Search sites say one should be busy with something that exercises one's job skills. I cannot work on my project indefinitely in isolation. How do I find the social benefits that my project could potentially bring? Does it get me a job that I would like? Does this become a business? Thanks, -RonDW