Well, Eclipse is a major step in the right direction, despite its shortcomings (the structure of the SWT library and its limitations in comparision w/ Swing, its bulk, etc.).
When you program Eclipse RCP applications, you don't just spend less time fudging around w/ GUI widgets and more time plugging in large chunks of functionality provided to you (for free) in the framework. Tasks that would have taken me months alone have been shortened up to a matter of weeks...
Bizarrely enough, I can kick off Eclipse (disabling bytecode verification and fixing the memory to 256MB), and it takes almost a long as starting a new shell instance...
Not apples-to-apples, but I'm still really surprised (and disappointed) that the PS doesn't start up much faster...
It takes a few seconds for the prompt to appear, and if I run a "dir" operation with both cmd.exe and PS in a directory with hundreds of files, cmd.exe will beat it in seconds.
I'm not running a slow machine(core duo 2, 1GB of RAM). Is there something that needs to be configured to make it suck less?
If they clean house (like they should), do they still turn a profit? Or do they eat less of a loss than if they left them alive (as broke and limping as they were)?
They do get their clientèle, which is good for them. They also get a larger (if almost all) of the internet advertising market...
Heh, easier stated than done. I interviewed there once when I was living in NYC; the employees there truly are scumbags. When I went into the interview, I wasn't too serious about it, since I wasn't really looking to go into an advertising field. I figured that it would be good interview experience.
First, I was asked the same questions by 3 different interviewers. I didn't have very good answers for them, because they were looking for a windows system developer, which I was not. They probably would have known this if THEY TOOK THE TIME TO READ MY RESUME. The best was the last interview w/ this douche named Nitram. He started grilling me about windows system processes and kernel locks, to which I did not know the answers SINCE I WAS PRIMARILY A *NIX PROGRAMMER. Again, things that would have been clear if they spent the 3 minutes or so to glean over my resume.
It was a really bizarre experience, and things didn't look good over there. When Adblock has the ability to kill off most of your revenue, you know your ship ain't going to be above the waterline for much longer. The arrogance and stupidity I experience from them is probably part of the reason they had issues hiring people or retaining good people.
If Google or MS ever does buy them out, I imagine there will be quite the housecleaning...
BTW: Through the interview process, they referred to their ads as "creatives". Nice doublespeak right there.
> unless there's something blindingly obvious that I'm missing?
Yes. It's called mail forwarding. And now my parents mailbox (which is where I get US mail forwarded to) will now be filling up with junk mail from my old home location. Well, at least for the next 7 months...
And Speakeasy still has my credit card information. Fortunately, another incident at my credit union has resulted in a reissuing of my card, so I won't have to worry about BB having that info now:)
I was a happy Speakeasy customer for about a year. Then I moved out of the country, and had to cancel my account. I'm wondering what happens now, since Best Buy now has access to my information:(
When I used to ride the Long Island Railroad to work, you'd occasionally see an asshole passenger start fighting with one of the train conductors about some inane shit. And you know what would happen next? The conductor would apologize for the inconvenience, EXPLAIN WHY SUCH AND SUCH HAPPENED, and do all of this in a calm, firm, non aggressive tone. Most passengers accepted the answer, sat down, and STFU for the rest of the ride.
That's professionalism in a people-oriented job position. Maybe corporate america should start hiring LIRR conductors for customer service training...
You'd have to be a complete idiot for thinking there are such things as "suspicious packages" in this world. That's about as real as our enemy , Drugs, whom we've been fighting a war against for at least 20 years, and our other enemy, Terror, whom we've been battling against for about 5 years.
The real point was that we prioritize terrorist threats that don't exist above all else and put real problems (Katrina, minimum wage, health care, education) well below it. Sorry you didn't get that.
We spend lots money to be able to defuse a benign, blinking LED toy within a few hours, but we don't spend the same kind of money to fix a devastated region in the United States within a year.
Go to Flickr and search for "new orleans destruction" and sort by recent. It's been almost a year and a half and there are still neighborhoods that are completely leveled.
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Supporting article
http://smugmug.com/
http://www.slashnet.org/forums/Slashdot-20001005.html
Just do a control-F and type in "ebay".
Interesting history...
This pretty much sums up what will happen if the permit is passed.
Well, Eclipse is a major step in the right direction, despite its shortcomings (the structure of the SWT library and its limitations in comparision w/ Swing, its bulk, etc.).
When you program Eclipse RCP applications, you don't just spend less time fudging around w/ GUI widgets and more time plugging in large chunks of functionality provided to you (for free) in the framework. Tasks that would have taken me months alone have been shortened up to a matter of weeks...
Bizarrely enough, I can kick off Eclipse (disabling bytecode verification and fixing the memory to 256MB), and it takes almost a long as starting a new shell instance...
Not apples-to-apples, but I'm still really surprised (and disappointed) that the PS doesn't start up much faster...
It's slower than cold molasses up a hill.
It takes a few seconds for the prompt to appear, and if I run a "dir" operation with both cmd.exe and PS in a directory with hundreds of files, cmd.exe will beat it in seconds.
I'm not running a slow machine(core duo 2, 1GB of RAM). Is there something that needs to be configured to make it suck less?
If they clean house (like they should), do they still turn a profit? Or do they eat less of a loss than if they left them alive (as broke and limping as they were)? They do get their clientèle, which is good for them. They also get a larger (if almost all) of the internet advertising market...
Heh, easier stated than done. I interviewed there once when I was living in NYC; the employees there truly are scumbags. When I went into the interview, I wasn't too serious about it, since I wasn't really looking to go into an advertising field. I figured that it would be good interview experience.
First, I was asked the same questions by 3 different interviewers. I didn't have very good answers for them, because they were looking for a windows system developer, which I was not. They probably would have known this if THEY TOOK THE TIME TO READ MY RESUME. The best was the last interview w/ this douche named Nitram. He started grilling me about windows system processes and kernel locks, to which I did not know the answers SINCE I WAS PRIMARILY A *NIX PROGRAMMER. Again, things that would have been clear if they spent the 3 minutes or so to glean over my resume.
It was a really bizarre experience, and things didn't look good over there. When Adblock has the ability to kill off most of your revenue, you know your ship ain't going to be above the waterline for much longer. The arrogance and stupidity I experience from them is probably part of the reason they had issues hiring people or retaining good people.
If Google or MS ever does buy them out, I imagine there will be quite the housecleaning...
BTW: Through the interview process, they referred to their ads as "creatives". Nice doublespeak right there.
> unless there's something blindingly obvious that I'm missing?
:)
Yes. It's called mail forwarding. And now my parents mailbox (which is where I get
US mail forwarded to) will now be filling up with junk mail from my old
home location. Well, at least for the next 7 months...
And Speakeasy still has my credit card information. Fortunately, another incident at
my credit union has resulted in a reissuing of my card, so I won't have to worry about
BB having that info now
Hello Blue Shirt morons.
:(
I was a happy Speakeasy customer for about a year. Then I moved out of the country, and
had to cancel my account. I'm wondering what happens now, since Best Buy now has
access to my information
When I used to ride the Long Island Railroad to work, you'd occasionally see an asshole passenger start fighting with one of the train conductors about some inane shit. And you know what would happen next? The conductor would apologize for the inconvenience, EXPLAIN WHY SUCH AND SUCH HAPPENED, and do all of this in a calm, firm, non aggressive tone. Most passengers accepted the answer, sat down, and STFU for the rest of the ride.
That's professionalism in a people-oriented job position. Maybe corporate america should start hiring LIRR conductors for customer service training...
I've been pretty happy with these guys:
http://www.smugmug.org/
Granted, they don't have the kind of communities that Flickr does, but I find them more than sufficient for my photos...
You'd have to be a complete idiot for thinking there are such things as "suspicious packages" in this world. That's about as real as our enemy , Drugs, whom we've been fighting a war against for at least 20 years, and our other enemy, Terror, whom we've been battling against for about 5 years.
The real point was that we prioritize terrorist threats that don't exist above all else and put real problems (Katrina, minimum wage, health care, education) well below it. Sorry you didn't get that.
We spend lots money to be able to defuse a benign, blinking LED toy within a few hours, but we don't spend the same kind of money to fix a devastated region in the United States within a year.
Go to Flickr and search for "new orleans destruction" and sort by recent. It's been almost a year and a half and there are still neighborhoods that are completely leveled.
You mean New Orleans is good as new now?