Same for me too... In most cases I just "see" the code in my head as soon as I read a feature request or task (or the design if it's for something very big and complicated).
And yeah people usually bend the rules for me (without me even asking most of the time) but I don't really fit any of the 3 descriptions...I'm quirky no doubt but I don't create problems. Hell, my job is to solve problems.
So it's a quid pro quo situation, the rules are usually bent to make me comfortable so that I can work better and be even more productive.
See where I'm going with this?
I'd agree with the guy based on the premise that if someone can't type quickly then he mustn't have spent a lot of time typing ergo hasn't spent a lot of time coding.
That's a reasonable assumption to make, however this is not to say that someone who types quickly is a better coder- - but someone who keeps staring at the keys[1] would be a bad coder.
Does this make any sense to anyone else?
[1] Unless you gave him an unfamiliar or in some way strange, to him, keyboard.
That's weird...In situations were I've come closing to dying the only thing in my mind was how to avoid it (and obviously I was successful) while at times that I'm bored and my mind wonders into the subject then I get scared.
Maybe because I used to do a fair amount of extreme sports as a kid like skiing, mountain biking (a lot of that), doing stupid things with my dad's car etc that I eventually got a handle on dangerous situations.
Any person with "normal" brain chemistry will fear death, acceptance though may depend on literacy, critical thinking and the like...
How can someone relate to an animal in order to sympathise with it and support its "rights"?
Don't get me wrong I'm not some sadistic freak that tortures animals but c'mon here...
I can relate to human torture because I can mentally put myself in the shoes of the tortured person a bit.
But no, I wouldn't/don't care about animal rights and I'll keep devouring them for a long, long time.
Until they take over and make us their pets no...no sympathy from me.
I'll sum it up in a simple math expression to make it clearer:
life + death = 1 - 1 = 0
I'd rather stay in 1...and don't anyone give me one of that you live forever through memories crap.
From my point of reference the world seizes to exist when I die since there will no more be a point of reference.
I love how you completely ignore the basic premise of my remark[1] while continuing to write something that sounds correct, albeit ignoring the whole context.
Same shit with computers. Most people are not at all literate. They have never seen a command line and shouldn't have to. If you can use a command line to do installs, well guess what? You have a good deal more literacy than most of the population. You are no computer grand master but then that wasn't what was being talked about.
Then these people are not technically literate, thus not included in my initial comment at all...
You just have to accept that being technically literate means understanding the basics of something and being able to trouble shoot a bit on your own. It does not mean being able to do everything, it does not mean being an expert at things. Technically literate doesn't mean "Competent programmer," or "Expert technical support."
No I don't and no it doesn't, logic prevents me from doing so...
I'll throw you an example:
Understanding that most (all?) math computations can be achieved just by additions does not mean someone is math literate.
Knowing the alphabet does not make someone literate...
You're adequate at spinning things, you should work in PR.:)
[1] Technically literate people are not afraid of copy pasting something out of a forum in a black box with a blinking cursor dubbed "Terminal".
Also command line wasn't a Windows thing that Ubuntu then "dubbed" as "Terminal".
Command line is command line.
A l-i-n-e where you -i-n-s-e-r-t commands, so either way the article writers themselves are illiterate, technically or otherwise.
PS. This whole rebuttal is ridiculous.
I was just making a joke from the usual high-horse geek/. perspective, but thanks for giving me something to kill time anyways.;)
PS2. How could you possibly know that I'm no "computer grand master"?
Even among PC Pro’s technically literate readership, only 4% are running a Linux OS[...]
[...]then venture into Ubuntu’s equivalent of the command line – dubbed Terminal – and enter a couple of lines of code to start the installation. Hardly a user-friendly experience, and an unwanted throwback to the days of Windows 3.1.
rofl, I actually have a PoC picture in my camera for the latter...and there I was thinking that my father was wasting his time while he was documenting history...
You beat me to the punch...The technology is still under development, like when the first flat screen TVs came out....
Everybody needs to stop whining right now and give it time. No-one is forcing you to buy it anyways, f'ing hell...
Yeah that's certainly entertaining and all but...do we have any real tests with real results?
And by "real" I mean tests that includes all HTML5 specifications...
Erm....not realy man. The fact that is developer friendly doesn't make it user "un-friendly".
Granted I bought the G1 dev edition for that reason (and for the hardware QWERTY kb), I have friends who really enjoy it, even without any programming knowledge.
Honestly, I haven't written any significant amount of code for it but I really like the fact that If I needed to I could very easily do so with minimal restrictions.
Hell I can even write C binaries for it, albeit with a little bit more effort.
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Same for me too... In most cases I just "see" the code in my head as soon as I read a feature request or task (or the design if it's for something very big and complicated).
And yeah people usually bend the rules for me (without me even asking most of the time) but I don't really fit any of the 3 descriptions...I'm quirky no doubt but I don't create problems. Hell, my job is to solve problems.
So it's a quid pro quo situation, the rules are usually bent to make me comfortable so that I can work better and be even more productive.
See where I'm going with this?
I'd agree with the guy based on the premise that if someone can't type quickly then he mustn't have spent a lot of time typing ergo hasn't spent a lot of time coding.
That's a reasonable assumption to make, however this is not to say that someone who types quickly is a better coder- - but someone who keeps staring at the keys[1] would be a bad coder.
Does this make any sense to anyone else?
[1] Unless you gave him an unfamiliar or in some way strange, to him, keyboard.
Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
That's my point -.-
Damn...I should paying more attention to the previewing... :P
That's weird...In situations were I've come closing to dying the only thing in my mind was how to avoid it (and obviously I was successful) while at times that I'm bored and my mind wonders into the subject then I get scared.
Maybe because I used to do a fair amount of extreme sports as a kid like skiing, mountain biking (a lot of that), doing stupid things with my dad's car etc that I eventually got a handle on dangerous situations.
Any person with "normal" brain chemistry will fear death, acceptance though may depend on literacy, critical thinking and the like...
How can someone relate to an animal in order to sympathise with it and support its "rights"?
Don't get me wrong I'm not some sadistic freak that tortures animals but c'mon here...
I can relate to human torture because I can mentally put myself in the shoes of the tortured person a bit.
But no, I wouldn't/don't care about animal rights and I'll keep devouring them for a long, long time.
Until they take over and make us their pets no...no sympathy from me.
I'll sum it up in a simple math expression to make it clearer:
life + death = 1 - 1 = 0
I'd rather stay in 1...and don't anyone give me one of that you live forever through memories crap.
From my point of reference the world seizes to exist when I die since there will no more be a point of reference.
Getting my appendix out would also be a natural part of life that I accept but I'd rather avoid it...
See my point?
In that case...thank you as well.
I'd like to thank you on behalf of those of us who want to live forever...making room for the immortals if awfully kind of you.
...that puts everything I access on the WWW under scrutiny.
Why should anybody?
Same shit with computers. Most people are not at all literate. They have never seen a command line and shouldn't have to. If you can use a command line to do installs, well guess what? You have a good deal more literacy than most of the population. You are no computer grand master but then that wasn't what was being talked about.
Then these people are not technically literate, thus not included in my initial comment at all...
You just have to accept that being technically literate means understanding the basics of something and being able to trouble shoot a bit on your own. It does not mean being able to do everything, it does not mean being an expert at things. Technically literate doesn't mean "Competent programmer," or "Expert technical support."
No I don't and no it doesn't, logic prevents me from doing so...
:)
/. perspective, but thanks for giving me something to kill time anyways. ;)
I'll throw you an example:
Understanding that most (all?) math computations can be achieved just by additions does not mean someone is math literate.
Knowing the alphabet does not make someone literate...
You're adequate at spinning things, you should work in PR.
FYI, I make a mean Soutzoukakia
[1] Technically literate people are not afraid of copy pasting something out of a forum in a black box with a blinking cursor dubbed "Terminal".
Also command line wasn't a Windows thing that Ubuntu then "dubbed" as "Terminal".
Command line is command line.
A l-i-n-e where you -i-n-s-e-r-t commands, so either way the article writers themselves are illiterate, technically or otherwise.
PS. This whole rebuttal is ridiculous.
I was just making a joke from the usual high-horse geek
PS2. How could you possibly know that I'm no "computer grand master"?
Even among PC Pro’s technically literate readership, only 4% are running a Linux OS[...]
[...]then venture into Ubuntu’s equivalent of the command line – dubbed Terminal – and enter a couple of lines of code to start the installation. Hardly a user-friendly experience, and an unwanted throwback to the days of Windows 3.1.
Yeah...technical literacy at its finest...
rofl, I actually have a PoC picture in my camera for the latter...and there I was thinking that my father was wasting his time while he was documenting history...
You beat me to the punch...The technology is still under development, like when the first flat screen TVs came out....
Everybody needs to stop whining right now and give it time. No-one is forcing you to buy it anyways, f'ing hell...
Why was that modded as flamebait? It's quite insighful actually...parent makes a good point.
Yeah that's certainly entertaining and all but...do we have any real tests with real results?
And by "real" I mean tests that includes all HTML5 specifications...
I thought it printed LEGO creations from LEGO blocks.
Y’know, your average 3D printer... but with LEGO bricks.
That would be cool.
I love how a 3D printer is now referred to as "an average 3D printer [no big deal]".
I'm stilled quite fascinated by that technology...
Ooooh sick burn dude! /I'm Greek :P
That's why I tell people to stop smoking cigarettes..smoke mini-cigars instead...
Hell, if you're gonna do something wrong at least do it right...
holding different platform specific implementations: http://blogs.adobe.com/cantrell/images/ireverse/FB_projects.jpg
That's doesn't seem all that impressive...
This is not some lame phone being advertised...This is actual *news*.
Freaking great news...
*drool* I don't usually get carried away by these things but I WANT ONE! *drool*
Unless you're a hardcore brainwashed fanatic suicide bomber, religion pretty much goes out the window when your life's on the line...
Erm....not realy man. The fact that is developer friendly doesn't make it user "un-friendly".
Granted I bought the G1 dev edition for that reason (and for the hardware QWERTY kb), I have friends who really enjoy it, even without any programming knowledge.
Honestly, I haven't written any significant amount of code for it but I really like the fact that If I needed to I could very easily do so with minimal restrictions.
Hell I can even write C binaries for it, albeit with a little bit more effort.
If what I said is true then I guess so...But as I said, I'm not sure...Maybe someone who has tried something similar recently can enlighten us...