The Fujitsu 4726 is the One True Keyboard. No others compare. No others should waste their time applying to compare, until they get the ergonomics and quality of construction down pat.
I'm not saying the alternative is pure, utter chaos. You're deriving the opposite. I'm saying that people work better when they can concentrate for periods of time they directly control. Just because you infer the opposite is therefore also what I'm arguing doesn't make it so: people work *better* in a quiet, non-disruptive environment.
There is no way to prove anything here, and therefore forensics will be a waste of time. The guy could've easily made another copy of the CDs during the time he had them in his possession. Therefore, there's no point in wasting time doing forensics on the drives in question.
Joel already says that Class A people should hire Class A people, and ignore the rest. Therefore, the rhetorical environment Joel is talking about already, presumably, has Class A people, and thus the logical conclusion is that he thinks that Class A people do their best work when they can do it without interruptions.
The thing is, you need to control when you can be interrupted, and when interruptions *shouldn't* happen. It's silly to expect your coworker to conform to your mental schedule.
You can't feed greatness with greatness unless you're both working on *exactly* the same problem at that instant.
No, Google's wrong on this count unless there's a some way to give their workers a quiet environment where they can think uninterrupted.
Not only that, but when you're writing something complex, you can't have someone wandering in and distracting you--or turning around in their chair and interrupting you with a stupid question. Internally, we all know that writing something big requires that a bunch of things be kept fresh in your mind while you do so, and that an interruption--any interruption--will make it all fall down like a house of cards.
It's easy to collaborate with a team if you're on the same floor together--but if you don't have the ability to close your door and put a "don't bug me" sign on it, it's going to be a lot harder to get complex things done.
Joel Spolsky agrees with me: In "Joel on Software" on pg. 24: "Do programmers have quiet working conditions?"
[...] it's so easy to get knocked out of the zone. Noise, phone calls, going out for lunch, having to drive five minutes to Starbucks for coffee, and interruptions by coworkers--especially interruptions by coworkers--all knock you out of the zone.
He explains it very simply: If your coworker sits there and asks you a dumb question because he knows you know the answer, you may have just saved him 15 seconds of lookup-time on Google, but now he's gone and cost you 15 minutes or more while you try to resume what you were just doing.
It's so cliche that every time I read some uninformed pleb use the term I want to shear their skull and scoop out their brains! It's worse than the "information superhighway" *shudder*. Thank god that died a quick death around here.
... or you can just use -exec, and you don't *ever* have to worry about CLI arg limitations.
*shrug* If you want to be bitten by a bizarre CLI arg limitation every few years (which makes it just that much harder to track down) be my guest. I'll stick with -exec and never--ever--have to worry about the problem. Even once.
find . -type f -print -exec grep regexp \{} \;... which works better because you get all the filenames, and you don't have to do any workarounds with/dev/null.. which might not work if you're on a weird system.
Apps crashing != Holy fuck the whole system just died on me
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In the book "Hackers" by Steven Levy, there is an implication that Sierra, with Ken Thompson, implicitly tolerated drug and alcohol abuse in the early games development studios he commanded. There were huge parties, huge hangovers, and general debauchery on a regular basis. Obviously this kind of atmosphere wouldn't be tolerated today--if only for the potential liability, but I wanted to ask you whether or not you found, in your experience, addictive personalities being attracted to the game programming and design profession? Did you ever have any negative (or positive) experiences related to drug use in and around your offices, especially in the early days? Do you condone (or not) the use of mind-altering substances as a creative aid during the design phase?
Putting aside their (potential lack of) work ethic for the time being and concentrating solely on the economic value of the artistry of game design, of those users you knew for a fact were using drugs, did you find them to be more or less creative than normal people?
The person involved is not making money in his chosen profession, is not paying taxes, and is therefore not a productive member of society.
There's a reason why non-compete clauses are often struck down. They're generally illegal the way they're worded anyway, and it has nothing to do with "government interference." You can't contract your basic human rights away.
Actually, Ghenghis Khan did more for our current state of public health care (assuming you're in one such country) than the Romans did. And public education. And technological advancement.
Don't waste your time with newer knock-offs! The Fujitsu 4726 is the best keyboard ever made, and they're making more of them now. There's no point in pining away for the old Model M: The Fujitsu fills that void perfectly.
If you want to be able to use your keyboard as a defensive weapon in case of intruders, look no further.
In a previous post, I discussed the exact whys:
The Fujitsu is a superior keyboard, and probably the best keyboard that is currently on the market, and I'll describe why, in nice convenient bullet form.
. The backslash is big (double-wide!) and right near the top-right where it's supposed to be.
. There are almost no obnoxious extra keys that take up the space where other keys used to be. The Windows key is the only addition, and it's right in where the empty space between Ctrl and Alt used to be. Big deal.
. The Function, Printsc/etc, Esc, Insert->PgUp, Arrow Keys, and Numeric Keypad, are all in the classic layout and where we all learned they'd be. PgUp and PgDown aren't transposed.
. The numeric keypad isn't missing.
. The Shift and Backspace keys are triple-wide and easy to see.
. Control is at the bottom-left, right where you'd expect it to be. Even a former Commodore user like myself can find them without hunting.
. The tactile response of the keyboard is a buckling spring; therefore, you're not wondering whether you hit the key. If you felt it go past the buckling point, you hit it. No need to verify whether or not you did.
. The audible click of the keyboard is a secondary feedback mechanism that also tells you very clearly when you've hit one of the keys. It's not so loud it's obnoxious though. The clicky sound is about on par with the old IBM M line of keyboards, or maybe just a tad less.
. It's still for sale. Fujitsu still makes them!
. They're heavy duty. Really heavy-duty. You could easily brain someone with one and plug it back in and keep working. I've often pounded hard enough to break any lesser keyboards. Mine seem indestructible. The only time I ever broke a key was when a 2-lb flashlight landed on it from about seven feet up, and the only thing it did was shatter a single key: the underlying mechanisms were intact and fine. Plus in a replacement from another old keyboard and I'm off to the races.
. The keys are sturdy and can be easily removed and repositioned to match your current keyboard layout, without fear of hurting the keyboard. In the slightest.
What point is there in leaving the glyphs off the keys? You're never going to learn where F6 is by heart: you don't use it enough. Other keys are similar. I've been typing for something like 20 years and more, and I can type without looking at the keyboard, even without using a standard hand position: that doesn't mean I don't need to peek every once in a while.
Besides, when you're in the dark in front of your computer screen you can't see the keys anyway: but they're there as a convenience for you if you need them.
Telling people they'll type faster if they have to learn key position is pretty condescending. Wouldn't it be better to take a design like the Fujitsu and try to improve on it, instead, hard as that may be?
Here's a PDF describing the features and quality of the Fujitsu 4726:
..all the retailers I know track receipts by both unique receipt numbers, and any consumer data they can get their hands on. Retailers that don't have computerised inventory tracking mechanisms really need to dredge themselves out of the 19th century.
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The Fujitsu 4726 is the One True Keyboard. No others compare. No others should waste their time applying to compare, until they get the ergonomics and quality of construction down pat.
http://www.fcai.fujitsu.com/pdf/FKB4726.pdf
Buy one, and you'll never buy another keyboard again.
And how much time do *you* spend in front of your computer?
They'll notice that you're allowed to play on the computer more than they are, and for longer stints, and they're going to get resentful.
Don't say I didn't warn you.
I'm not saying the alternative is pure, utter chaos. You're deriving the opposite. I'm saying that people work better when they can concentrate for periods of time they directly control. Just because you infer the opposite is therefore also what I'm arguing doesn't make it so: people work *better* in a quiet, non-disruptive environment.
There is no way to prove anything here, and therefore forensics will be a waste of time. The guy could've easily made another copy of the CDs during the time he had them in his possession. Therefore, there's no point in wasting time doing forensics on the drives in question.
Doubtful..
Human task switching considered harmful: this I would agree with.
Joel already says that Class A people should hire Class A people, and ignore the rest. Therefore, the rhetorical environment Joel is talking about already, presumably, has Class A people, and thus the logical conclusion is that he thinks that Class A people do their best work when they can do it without interruptions.
The thing is, you need to control when you can be interrupted, and when interruptions *shouldn't* happen. It's silly to expect your coworker to conform to your mental schedule.
You can't feed greatness with greatness unless you're both working on *exactly* the same problem at that instant.
No, Google's wrong on this count unless there's a some way to give their workers a quiet environment where they can think uninterrupted.
It's easy to collaborate with a team if you're on the same floor together--but if you don't have the ability to close your door and put a "don't bug me" sign on it, it's going to be a lot harder to get complex things done.
Joel Spolsky agrees with me: In "Joel on Software" on pg. 24: "Do programmers have quiet working conditions?"
He explains it very simply: If your coworker sits there and asks you a dumb question because he knows you know the answer, you may have just saved him 15 seconds of lookup-time on Google, but now he's gone and cost you 15 minutes or more while you try to resume what you were just doing.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000
In this, I think Google has it wrong.
Bad choice. That book is terrible!
You==stupid.
Didn't want to ask them about the drugs, huh?
Chickens!
One of the simplest words to spell, and it *still* gets past the editors.
*sigh*
It's so cliche that every time I read some uninformed pleb use the term I want to shear their skull and scoop out their brains! It's worse than the "information superhighway" *shudder*. Thank god that died a quick death around here.
"However, sudog's command is still rather odd."
I take that as an excellent compliment..!
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Thanks for clarifying for me, I was away for a few days.
... or you can just use -exec, and you don't *ever* have to worry about CLI arg limitations.
*shrug* If you want to be bitten by a bizarre CLI arg limitation every few years (which makes it just that much harder to track down) be my guest. I'll stick with -exec and never--ever--have to worry about the problem. Even once.
Or even better:
... which works better because you get all the filenames, and you don't have to do any workarounds with /dev/null.. which might not work if you're on a weird system.
find . -type f -print -exec grep regexp \{} \;
xargs sucks.
Just use -exec. It's slower, but easier and you don't have to fight with line-endings, spaces in the filenames, and stupid cli arg limitations.
Why waste your time fighting with DOS commands?
UNIX Utils, Natively Compiled for Windows
kill `ps auxww | grep -i processname | grep -v grep | awk '{ print $2 }'` ... only wimps use pgrep and pkill..!
Apps crashing != Holy fuck the whole system just died on me
Woops. :-) Sorry about that, to both Kens.
In the book "Hackers" by Steven Levy, there is an implication that Sierra, with Ken Thompson, implicitly tolerated drug and alcohol abuse in the early games development studios he commanded. There were huge parties, huge hangovers, and general debauchery on a regular basis. Obviously this kind of atmosphere wouldn't be tolerated today--if only for the potential liability, but I wanted to ask you whether or not you found, in your experience, addictive personalities being attracted to the game programming and design profession? Did you ever have any negative (or positive) experiences related to drug use in and around your offices, especially in the early days? Do you condone (or not) the use of mind-altering substances as a creative aid during the design phase?
Putting aside their (potential lack of) work ethic for the time being and concentrating solely on the economic value of the artistry of game design, of those users you knew for a fact were using drugs, did you find them to be more or less creative than normal people?
You == wrong.
The person involved is not making money in his chosen profession, is not paying taxes, and is therefore not a productive member of society.
There's a reason why non-compete clauses are often struck down. They're generally illegal the way they're worded anyway, and it has nothing to do with "government interference." You can't contract your basic human rights away.
Therefore you &= stupid.
Actually, Ghenghis Khan did more for our current state of public health care (assuming you're in one such country) than the Romans did. And public education. And technological advancement.
Don't waste your time with newer knock-offs! The Fujitsu 4726 is the best keyboard ever made, and they're making more of them now. There's no point in pining away for the old Model M: The Fujitsu fills that void perfectly.
If you want to be able to use your keyboard as a defensive weapon in case of intruders, look no further.
In a previous post, I discussed the exact whys:
The Fujitsu is a superior keyboard, and probably the best keyboard that is currently on the market, and I'll describe why, in nice convenient bullet form.
. The backslash is big (double-wide!) and right near the top-right where it's supposed to be.
. There are almost no obnoxious extra keys that take up the space where other keys used to be. The Windows key is the only addition, and it's right in where the empty space between Ctrl and Alt used to be. Big deal.
. The Function, Printsc/etc, Esc, Insert->PgUp, Arrow Keys, and Numeric Keypad, are all in the classic layout and where we all learned they'd be. PgUp and PgDown aren't transposed.
. The numeric keypad isn't missing.
. The Shift and Backspace keys are triple-wide and easy to see.
. Control is at the bottom-left, right where you'd expect it to be. Even a former Commodore user like myself can find them without hunting.
. The tactile response of the keyboard is a buckling spring; therefore, you're not wondering whether you hit the key. If you felt it go past the buckling point, you hit it. No need to verify whether or not you did.
. The audible click of the keyboard is a secondary feedback mechanism that also tells you very clearly when you've hit one of the keys. It's not so loud it's obnoxious though. The clicky sound is about on par with the old IBM M line of keyboards, or maybe just a tad less.
. It's still for sale. Fujitsu still makes them!
. They're heavy duty. Really heavy-duty. You could easily brain someone with one and plug it back in and keep working. I've often pounded hard enough to break any lesser keyboards. Mine seem indestructible. The only time I ever broke a key was when a 2-lb flashlight landed on it from about seven feet up, and the only thing it did was shatter a single key: the underlying mechanisms were intact and fine. Plus in a replacement from another old keyboard and I'm off to the races.
. The keys are sturdy and can be easily removed and repositioned to match your current keyboard layout, without fear of hurting the keyboard. In the slightest.
What point is there in leaving the glyphs off the keys? You're never going to learn where F6 is by heart: you don't use it enough. Other keys are similar. I've been typing for something like 20 years and more, and I can type without looking at the keyboard, even without using a standard hand position: that doesn't mean I don't need to peek every once in a while.
Besides, when you're in the dark in front of your computer screen you can't see the keys anyway: but they're there as a convenience for you if you need them.
Telling people they'll type faster if they have to learn key position is pretty condescending. Wouldn't it be better to take a design like the Fujitsu and try to improve on it, instead, hard as that may be?
Here's a PDF describing the features and quality of the Fujitsu 4726:
http://www.fcai.fujitsu.com/pdf/FKB4726.pdf [fujitsu.com]
Be informed! Join the anti-crappy-keyboard revolution!
..all the retailers I know track receipts by both unique receipt numbers, and any consumer data they can get their hands on. Retailers that don't have computerised inventory tracking mechanisms really need to dredge themselves out of the 19th century.