Why not just use a more traditional numbering convention and then you don't have to worry about it. Only introduce major architectural changes in major releases and only break compatibility then. Do a major release approximately once a year.
I know, its crazy and radical, but I think it just might work.
Really, so people who love the civil war and collect artifacts from it and do battle re-enactments aren't geeks?
That sounds like prime history geekery to me, they are passionate, they know far more than average about the subject and "normal" people who don't share this particular passion really don't want to hear them drone on for hours about how some particular battle went.
And they will explain to you why your non expert test is really not a good way to test if someone is geeky in this particular subject. They will then spend an hour or so providing you with a better set of 10 questions and writing up a multi-page answer for each one.
Honestly I am finding it a pain in the ass as an individual user. I have several machines at home and at work and most of them are now 2 major versions behind on Firefox. I don't have time to be updating my browser all the damn time either and "Regular" users probably do it even less often. Sure waiting years between major releases isn't good either, but there has to be a middle ground.
I suspect that the actual decriminalization, such as what was done in Massachusetts, is much more likely to lead to over all legalization. What is going on in California is there is now a huge lobby of business owners who are not really interested in marijuana becoming available to people for recreational use or the creation of taxes on it, plus a population of users who don't really have that much to gain.
Just because you might end up voting pragmatically in the next election doesn't mean you should tell your congressmen that you will support them when they vote against your interests.
That depends on what you mean. When you say "using" I think you are thinking every day... when I hear it, I hear "regularly."
Considering some of the long term (weeks to months) mood benefits that are associated with these drugs, tripping once a month could easily be considered "using" and might not be so harmful.
which is one of the reasons I cannot support medical marijuana as a path to legalization. Its a crock and all it does is move the profiteering from criminal enterprises to "legit" ones... same people... different name.
its considerably more broad. It covers more than just medical marijuana and it would in theory allow for states to legalize recreational or medical use.
This could also open up the possibility of tax gains at a state and possibly even federal level, which would be very appealing right now. It might at least give this bill a bit more traction than the previous ones got. I don't expect it to go anywhere but one can at least hope that there will be more debate.
An application that quickly and easily does something for you is very useful. I didn't pay for it, but a few months ago while on the highway I wanted to find the closes wendys, I could have gone to wendys.com and entered a zip code I grabbed from Google maps and my current location and then looked for the closest one, but it was way faster to download an app that finds burger joints, set it to only look for wendys and let it go. In the time the first solution would have taken I would have driven well past the nearest wendys before I knew it was there. With the application I quickly and easily got what I needed.
Now, I probably would not have paid a buck for that but sometimes a specialized app to do exactly what you want, right now, is worth a little something. It may be a specialized yellow pages, but at least I got the burger I wanted.
That is an understandable way to feel, but if you really think about the level of complexity, nothing a carpenter does is nearly as complex as most applications. If you thought of ever line of code as a single piece of clockwork connected with other pieces of clockwork, an average application would be a clockwork construction about the size of a tractor trailer. The level of complexity is actually kind of staggering when you think about it. I'm often amazed that software works as well as it does.
Your off by a bit categorizing these execs. They were brought in so they could fill out the company for sale and then they get to collect huge severance packages. Its likely that many of them were old friends of other high level execs at skype brought in to get a nice little pay day on whomever bought the company.
To be fair, some of those engineers will find jobs soon, they may have just lost their jobs to a closure or consolidation or outsourcing even if they are good. At any given time, some percentage of the unemployed engineers are new to being unemployed and will get a job soon. Some of them have likely been out of work for a long time and those are probably bad engineers (or engineers who have decided they want to do something else, or have started their own project but are still collecting unemployment in the meantime).
You can't generalize about the unemployed quite that much. A year and a half ago I was unemployed and I had no trouble finding a job in about 4 months of looking and honestly, I was being pretty picky about what I applied for.
What practice is that exactly? I'm not quite clear what you want changed (though I agree, unlocked phones don't make much sense in the US give the plan structures)
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That'll show em.
Why not just use a more traditional numbering convention and then you don't have to worry about it. Only introduce major architectural changes in major releases and only break compatibility then. Do a major release approximately once a year.
I know, its crazy and radical, but I think it just might work.
I'm just not sure just answering the questions correctly is sufficient to have passed :-)
Really, so people who love the civil war and collect artifacts from it and do battle re-enactments aren't geeks?
That sounds like prime history geekery to me, they are passionate, they know far more than average about the subject and "normal" people who don't share this particular passion really don't want to hear them drone on for hours about how some particular battle went.
And they will explain to you why your non expert test is really not a good way to test if someone is geeky in this particular subject. They will then spend an hour or so providing you with a better set of 10 questions and writing up a multi-page answer for each one.
That's when you know you are dealing with a geek.
That Miss USA isn't a geek just because she is a girl, or is it because she is attractive?
I haven't met her myself, but isn't it actually quite possible that she is a history geek?
How often do you honestly re-start your browser? My machine stays up for months at a time and I only restart the browser if it crashes.
Honestly I am finding it a pain in the ass as an individual user. I have several machines at home and at work and most of them are now 2 major versions behind on Firefox. I don't have time to be updating my browser all the damn time either and "Regular" users probably do it even less often. Sure waiting years between major releases isn't good either, but there has to be a middle ground.
we better hire more cops to protect us from all these bad people :-/
We got it decriminalized in Massachusetts based on a popular vote for a binding ballot initiative.
This idea that nobody is doing anything about this is simply false.
And I know a ton of Autistic people who developed Autism after getting vaccinations.
I suspect that the actual decriminalization, such as what was done in Massachusetts, is much more likely to lead to over all legalization. What is going on in California is there is now a huge lobby of business owners who are not really interested in marijuana becoming available to people for recreational use or the creation of taxes on it, plus a population of users who don't really have that much to gain.
Just because you might end up voting pragmatically in the next election doesn't mean you should tell your congressmen that you will support them when they vote against your interests.
That depends on what you mean. When you say "using" I think you are thinking every day... when I hear it, I hear "regularly."
Considering some of the long term (weeks to months) mood benefits that are associated with these drugs, tripping once a month could easily be considered "using" and might not be so harmful.
For my money thought, Psilocybin all the way.
which is one of the reasons I cannot support medical marijuana as a path to legalization. Its a crock and all it does is move the profiteering from criminal enterprises to "legit" ones... same people... different name.
its considerably more broad. It covers more than just medical marijuana and it would in theory allow for states to legalize recreational or medical use.
This could also open up the possibility of tax gains at a state and possibly even federal level, which would be very appealing right now. It might at least give this bill a bit more traction than the previous ones got. I don't expect it to go anywhere but one can at least hope that there will be more debate.
Its a fun little game. I would recommend checking it out.
An application that quickly and easily does something for you is very useful. I didn't pay for it, but a few months ago while on the highway I wanted to find the closes wendys, I could have gone to wendys.com and entered a zip code I grabbed from Google maps and my current location and then looked for the closest one, but it was way faster to download an app that finds burger joints, set it to only look for wendys and let it go. In the time the first solution would have taken I would have driven well past the nearest wendys before I knew it was there. With the application I quickly and easily got what I needed.
Now, I probably would not have paid a buck for that but sometimes a specialized app to do exactly what you want, right now, is worth a little something. It may be a specialized yellow pages, but at least I got the burger I wanted.
That is an understandable way to feel, but if you really think about the level of complexity, nothing a carpenter does is nearly as complex as most applications. If you thought of ever line of code as a single piece of clockwork connected with other pieces of clockwork, an average application would be a clockwork construction about the size of a tractor trailer. The level of complexity is actually kind of staggering when you think about it. I'm often amazed that software works as well as it does.
Your ignorance is staggering.
Your mistake is assuming they are victims at all. That's not really the way it works at the executive level.
Your off by a bit categorizing these execs. They were brought in so they could fill out the company for sale and then they get to collect huge severance packages. Its likely that many of them were old friends of other high level execs at skype brought in to get a nice little pay day on whomever bought the company.
All science is just bastardized version of physics when you get right down to it.
To be fair, some of those engineers will find jobs soon, they may have just lost their jobs to a closure or consolidation or outsourcing even if they are good. At any given time, some percentage of the unemployed engineers are new to being unemployed and will get a job soon. Some of them have likely been out of work for a long time and those are probably bad engineers (or engineers who have decided they want to do something else, or have started their own project but are still collecting unemployment in the meantime).
You can't generalize about the unemployed quite that much. A year and a half ago I was unemployed and I had no trouble finding a job in about 4 months of looking and honestly, I was being pretty picky about what I applied for.
What practice is that exactly? I'm not quite clear what you want changed (though I agree, unlocked phones don't make much sense in the US give the plan structures)