Comments for Audible Smirk

Comment on What’s the matter with the Heartland, or why teaching science can suck by sol

sol — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:29:12 +0000

I always find misplaced anti-Christian elitism like this amusing. The US became a world power with a majority of the population, including a lot of smart people, not believing in Darwinian evolution. There is no reason that this needs to change. Most scientific - and all engineering - work is unrelated to evolutionary biology.

I thought your characterisation of Bobby Jindal was funny. Jindal converted to Catholicism in high school, before he took an honors degree in biology from Brown. Yet despite his Ivy League biology degree he supports the teaching of ID.

And while it is possible - maybe even likely - that the majority of immigrants to the US from India and China are not Christian, Christianity is a growing religion amongst both nationalities. Christianity is the third largest religion in India, with over 24,000,000 adherents in 2001. Christianity is the majority religion amongst Chinese Americans and there are over 1,000 Chinese churches in the US. China may have the largest Christian population of any country in the world, because while the Chinese government says there are only 100 million, research at Shanghai University indicates the real total may be as high as 300 million.

So what you may find is that the Indian and Chinese immigrants are not only valuable to American scientific and engineering work, but also revitalising American Christianity.

Comment on General Motors going to be bankrupt? (on this day July 2, 1954) by UK food rationing to return?? « Audible Smirk

UK food rationing to return?? « Audible Smirk — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:53:02 +0000

[...] General Motors going to be bankrupt? (on this day July 2, 1954) [...]

Comment on Wall Street financiers spinner class smackdown by Google RIA client that is a CLI « Audible Smirk

Google RIA client that is a CLI « Audible Smirk — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:40:38 +0000

[...] Wall Street financiers spinner class smackdown [...]

Comment on Parody or real? A girl software developer by thomaslfowler

thomaslfowler — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:36:35 +0000

Some say Java is already the next COBOL… Good luck on the architect ambition, I made the transition about 3 years ago. I’m still not sure what my job description is, other than dealing with all sides on a project and doing what needs to be done. Problem with “architecture” is just that, it’s really not well defined and there are lots of different architect titles. Will look at the blog.

Comment on Parody or real? A girl software developer by sarajolene

sarajolene — Sat, 31 May 2008 04:19:36 +0000

Hi Thomas, I am a real girl… I believe there still are “just coding” jobs out there…. however, after I get more experience under my belt I’m going to have t move up the ladder for fear of becoming the antiquated COBOL developers of today. So far my mission is to become an Systems Architect… I think that’s a grown up nerd that’s not stuck in the coding position or in the business end of things (too much).

Anyway, you can check out my blog at GirlDeveloper.com… glad to see people are reading!

Comment on Java Tournament Championship by thomaslfowler

thomaslfowler — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:15:40 +0000

Seam isn’t a web framework by itself, it has to be used with a framework, which would likely be JSF. I suppose I could have selected a ‘JSF stack’, like JSF/Facelets/Seam/Ajax4JSF/RichFaces, etc. but I went with entering JSF alone, with the acknowledging that integration libraries are available to carry out tasks not in the spec.

Comment on Java Tournament Championship by techiexchange

techiexchange — Fri, 16 May 2008 09:08:55 +0000

Hi,
What about Jboss Seam in this tournament??

Comment on Java web framework tournament by Java Tournament Championship « Audible Smirk

Java Tournament Championship « Audible Smirk — Wed, 14 May 2008 14:48:57 +0000

[...] Read the description and explanation of the [...]

Comment on Java Tournament Championship by thomaslfowler

thomaslfowler — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:21:48 +0000

Hmm, yes and no. The scores are sort of like a modified Pugh matrix (management is familiar with these) where I compared criteria and a judgment comparing the relative strengths of all the criteria. Note that the criteria include documentation and support (published books/materials, user community size, etc), not simply technical merits of the frameworks. Grails I think did come out slightly ahead on technical criteria.

Comment on John Hagee says Tony Blair to be the Antichrist by thenewworldorder33

thenewworldorder33 — Mon, 12 May 2008 23:32:57 +0000

THE ANTICHRIST IS ALREADY AT POWER ! AND THE WORLD IS DOOMED.
JUST LOOK AT THE WEATHER AROUND THE WORLD ! LOOK AT ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE EARTH BREAKING THE 1ST LAW .
LOOK FOR THE LAW # 1 AND ASK YOURSELF THIS ?
DO I PRAY TO ANY=OTHER THAN THE HOLY AND THE ONLY GOD ?
DO I SEE JESUS AS GOD WHEN HE PRAYS TO SOMEOE ELSE WHO IS GOD !
DO I PRAY THE ROSARY TO MARY INSTEAD OF GOD ? DO I HELP AS MANY PEOPLE IN NEED EACH DAY OF MY LIFE ?
IS MY FAITH WITH GOD REAL !
EXAMPLE …. WHEN THE POPE TRAVELS ANYWARE WHY? DOES HE , NEED GUARDS ETC . IF HE HAS FAITH IN GOD WHY USE GUARDS WHEN GOD IS YOUR GUARD ?????