Our Fearless Leaders Suck
Am I the only person feeling a mild sense of shame at some of the content that our fearless leaders deem to be newsworthy enough to plaster over Java news sources? Exactly how many Fox News type news sites does a programming language need anyway?
I mean, javalobby is a good example. Rick Ross regularly makes us cringe with his earnest yet oh so embarrassing offers of help to NASA. Just as we’ve all managed to wince our way past that, he pulls another one and asks his adoring masses whether javalobby should run on JDK 1.5….BETA 1. One has to wonder if senility sets in early in java-related people. What is particularly astounding about the lunatic 1.5 JDK suggestion was the number of yes votes it got. Do those people really have so little to do with their time?
The serverside is no better. Every time Rickard farts it makes the front page..’Rickard farted today, it made an interesting noise, what do you think? Does he have a point? What is your view on farting in a Rickard-like manner?’ In fact, the damn thing is slowly becoming nothing more than an editorialised aggregator. If I wanted to know what a bunch of fuckwits think, I’d read javablogs.
Of course, javablogs itself isn’t exactly a haven of high brow intellectuals. Can someone explain to me the exact purpose of announcing every IDEA EAP build on your blog and having it show up on javablogs? No really, I’d like to know how the minds of such people work. I mean, did you think ‘there are tons of people out there who want to know about IDEA EAP releases, but they never check the IDEA EAP site, so I must help them’? Or perhaps you thought that maybe you could convert some unbelievers by bombarding them daily with new releases?
JRoller is no better, needless to say. Instead of killing all politicians, I’d like to suggest a far more constructive approach; killing all armchair politicians. There are few things more offensive than a bunch of rednecks whose idea of international travel is Canada and Mexico indulging in a group circlejerk around a picture of Ashcroft.
Of course, I realise that all this complaining isn’t particularly constructive (when is it ever!), and I understand that it can’t be helped, that with any large group, the majority will be spastics. I can’t help but feel mildly depressed and sad about it though. Far too many worthless sods have a voice these days.
February 10th, 2004 at 5:53 pm
A worthless sod me?
I’m more loved than PooMonkey.
Aren’t I? Aren’t I?!?! Sigh.
—
Thank you! Thank you!
I’ll be here all night – please tip your waitress.
February 10th, 2004 at 5:54 pm
http://jroller.com/page/rickross/20031010 – Once again, Hani – you are ever the inspiration! — Rick
February 10th, 2004 at 6:29 pm
What I hate is the increasing number of wanna-be bilers who try to copy you.
Gotta run I think I just heard Rickard fart. After I bask in his brown cloud, it’s off to download the latest EAP from intellij.net.
February 10th, 2004 at 6:29 pm
What was this bile about?
February 10th, 2004 at 7:15 pm
you forgot to mention the java lobby super secret hand shake. What they don’t tell you is that it’s also a secret sign to participate in gay sex.
February 10th, 2004 at 8:06 pm
Hani, 90% of EVERYTHING is crap, and includes your bile blogs. Ashcroft’s poo still smells like roses, though. Just ask a jroller blogger.
February 10th, 2004 at 8:37 pm
Hey Fate – didn’t Rick Ross found that #java channel you love so much? Better be careful, he may still have the founders pwd and he’ll bump you right out! :))
February 10th, 2004 at 8:48 pm
http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.jsp?thread_id=23869
Bravo Hani! I couldn’t believe this post on The Serverside. Typical JBoss propaganda about some academic conference about which nobody gives a shit. The only redeeming moment was from somebody who thought the conference was a sham because Omigod “The community and AOP will pay the price because Rickard’s paper wasn’t accepted.” Nobody’s seen Rickard’s AOP, but we all know it’s bigger than everyone elses. No surprise Oberg and Marc worked together at some time. Every megalomaniac deserves a paranoid schizophrenic.
February 10th, 2004 at 8:50 pm
Hani,
you don’t understand… When Rickard farts he is spreading alien intelligence around. You should be grateful.
February 10th, 2004 at 10:04 pm
Whether or not Marc F wiped his ass with Rickard’s paper, who cares. However, Rick Ross is a different story. He’s done some valuable lately by uncovering the real identity of poomonkey. The juvenile audience of JRoller should be spared such filth.
February 10th, 2004 at 10:14 pm
Congrats, Hani, another content free post!
February 10th, 2004 at 10:16 pm
Hani is perfecting the pointless rant. Maybe it will avert ulcers or something.
February 10th, 2004 at 10:55 pm
I think what happened was that the all-powerful Marc Fleury — who controls the universe — snapped his fingers and uttered “Rickard Begone!”. At that very moment the entire AOSD selection committee fell to their knees and chanted ‘Thy wish shall be our command, Oh Great Overlord’. And so Rickard’s paper was gone.
Because we all know Rickard’s paper could not have been rejected just because it sucked, right?
February 10th, 2004 at 11:01 pm
EAT A DICK!!!!
February 10th, 2004 at 11:44 pm
IDEA EAP Build #1154 is out. Get it while its hot :)
http://www.intellij.net/eap/index.jsp
February 11th, 2004 at 5:37 am
Tonto, are you gay?
I just started a self-help programme to “come out straight” 4 months ago. I find the articles in http://www.narth.com very helpful. However, I’m still looking for support group in nearby churches that can provide me a “mentorship programme”.
Please consider quitting your gay life. It can lead you to life-threatening habits.
Remember: gay is not genetic, well… for most of us.
February 11th, 2004 at 8:28 am
Yep, you guessed it. After the lone ranger gig went belly up, I joined the village people. The lone ranger was supposed to join too, but the other band members decided going with the cop was cooler than a masked man.
The Java handshake must be some sort of secret plan to turn straight Java developers queer?
I assume your class was based on your own personal expierience? I also suspect you just like hanging around butch men and your class is just a front.
February 11th, 2004 at 9:22 am
so rickard is a worthless sod ? :)
February 11th, 2004 at 10:09 am
Dear Anonymous,
you wrote: “Hey Fate – didn’t Rick Ross found that #java channel you love so much? Better be careful, he may still have the founders pwd and he’ll bump you right out! :))”
#java is on EFNet, there’s no such thing as founders password you ignorant fuck.
February 11th, 2004 at 10:50 am
Hey boxface – so what? he still could have kept it with the bot. It would’ve been better than you fags ruining the whole damn channel at any rate. Last I saw you’d opped some guy that does nothing but talk about wanting to but*f*ck everyone. You’re the ignorant fsck.
February 11th, 2004 at 3:41 pm
Over the past few weeks, I’ve learned to look past Marc Fleury’s ugly plans for the future. I’ve learned to look past some of the overbearing things Fleury has said. I’ve even learned to look past his attempts to do the entire country a grave disservice. But I cannot stay silent about Fleury’s incomprehensible and unforgivable audacity regarding a specific event that recently occurred. With this letter, I hope to reveal the truth about Fleury’s histrionics. But first, I would like to make the following introductory remark: Fleury’s stories about clericalism are particularly ridden with errors and distortions, even leaving aside the concept’s initial implausibility. On a completely different tack, one of his myrmidons once said, “Fleury should create a beachhead for organized mercantalism because ‘it’s the right thing to do’.” Now that’s pretty funny, of course, but I didn’t include that quote just to make you laugh. I included it to convince you that after hearing about his egocentric attempts to spawn delusions of frotteurism’s resplendence, I was saddened. I was saddened that he has lowered himself to this level.
There are those who are informed and educated about the evils of antipluralism, and there are those who are not. Fleury is one of the uninformed, naturally, and that’s why the pen is a powerful tool. Why don’t we use that tool to analyze his perorations in the manner of sociological studies of mass communication and persuasion? I’m sticking out my neck a bit in talking about his strictures. It’s quite likely he will try to retaliate against me for my telling you that teenagers who want to shock their parents sometimes maintain — with a straight face — that Fleury’s mistakes are always someone else’s fault. Fortunately, most parents don’t fall for this fraud because they know that the tone of Fleury’s slogans is eerily reminiscent of that of sordid, wishy-washy rascals of the late 1940s, in the sense that the only weapons Fleury has in his intellectual arsenal are book burning, brainwashing, and intimidation. That’s all he has, and he knows it. Some people don’t seem to mind that Fleury likes to institutionalize sex discrimination by requiring different standards of protection and behavior for men and women. What a wrongheaded, intransigent world we live in! People who are attacked by disdainful doofuses basically have three options. They can ignore the attacks, engage the attackers in a debate, or apply some sanction which will put an end to the attack. And there you have it. Marc Fleury demonstrates a terrible, inaccurate, even ghastly, misuse of history with his lascivious, witless conjectures.
February 11th, 2004 at 5:35 pm
damn chiara did you swallow a dictionary
February 11th, 2004 at 6:10 pm
Chiara,
Marc Fleury isn’t that powerful. He does seem to have a strange power over you though.
I think you’re just in lust with Rickard.
February 11th, 2004 at 6:22 pm
Yeah it seems really gay to “announce” someone else’s work. There’s one guy who likes to do that a lot on Javablogs…why he thinks he has the right to announce Hibernate, etc. releases is beyond me.
February 11th, 2004 at 6:25 pm
You are absolutely right about the lets-use-jdk1.5-BETA-for-production madness. The zeroth commandment of a responsibile sysadmin is: DON’T FIX WHAT AIN’T BROKE. Using a BETA for a heavily visited production site is pure folly. If I where javalobby admin I would wait for 1.5.1 before deciding whether perform the rollout or not!
A simple comment about helping NASA debug its code: before mouthing aloud such ideas, have a look at this URL: http://www.fastcompany.com/online/06/writestuff.html …and then ask yourself if you ever wrote a single line of code THAT way…
Hani, I ADMIRE your courage in writing things that lot of people think but have not guts of voicing.
February 11th, 2004 at 7:50 pm
You take any notice at all of javalobby or the serverside? Well, you get the fearless leaders you deserve.
February 11th, 2004 at 10:39 pm
> damn chiara did you swallow a dictionary
No, she swallowed… guess what… a brownish banana
February 11th, 2004 at 10:40 pm
>> damn chiara did you swallow a dictionary
> No, she swallowed… guess what… a brownish banana
Wrong, it was actually a dicksionary
February 11th, 2004 at 11:08 pm
And she didn’t swallow the dictionary…she stuck it somewhere else. Just thinking about it makes me want to punch the Clown.
February 12th, 2004 at 3:48 am
Clown Puncher Rules OK!
February 12th, 2004 at 11:20 am
I’ll tell you one of the worst things about that #java channel. Even since @rick left it, it’s become proprietary. If you go in there and talk about any app server besides Orion they boot you out. Now if you want to call the channel #orion or #orionjava, fine – you’ve got the right. But #java really now qualifies as an academic name like #compsci or #physics or #c since they’re teaching it everywhere now. Why this vendor bias?
I’m not getting kicked out of #physics for talking about strange vs. charmed quarks ???
I like Fate – I know he knows his stuff and I’m not a fan of Fleury’s either, I joined a couple of his projects a long time ago and found him to be a prick in general. I also benchmarked Orion to be the fastest app server IMO but if you’re grabbing a generic name you should keep it generic.
February 12th, 2004 at 2:02 pm
Dumbass, you only get booted for saying stuff like: I like using JBoss because it tickles when I stab myself in the face with my desk. Mention whichever appserver you want. JBoss isn’t one though.
February 12th, 2004 at 4:35 pm
I think I’ve had enough of this shite. Everybody that uses Java seems to be a moron, and the industry is going straight to hell, to boot. I think its off to c# for me, and the vaunted heights of a community at gotdotnet hosted by the constant, paternal presence of Microsoft, eager to squash any upsurges of idiocy. C# doesn’t just have managed code – its got a managed community as well, and these days, with the rise of OSS lunatics spoiling everything everywhere, that’s a very good thing indeed.
February 12th, 2004 at 6:40 pm
yeah, Erm’s right! Bugger this free speech shit, freedom of association or whatever, what we need is a nice benevolent dicktator like M$ to CUT THE CRAP!!! Police this open-sore bitch slapping, you know – zero-tolerance – that sort of thing, banish the buggers to Siberia, what we need is a nice comfortable revenue stream, line these idealistic utopian crap-dreaming asshats against the wall I say!
February 12th, 2004 at 9:32 pm
That’s right, I’m in this for the money, not because I “like computers” (I hate them. Oh God, so much) and not because I want to convert the uniserse to my stupid POV regarding some irrelevant crap like OSS Software. You never see open source toaster or open source microwave oven or open source television zealots, God knows why computing appliances attract such maniacs but there you go. I want a quiet life, workign with sensible people who realise the proper place that computers occupy in our society – which is being quiet, hopefully making our lives somewhat easier, and earning me cash. Thanks.
February 13th, 2004 at 3:10 pm
Hey jw – I got booted for asking a question about BEA.
February 13th, 2004 at 10:52 pm
I think malevolent would work better here rather than benovolant