Reminds me of my time at University, an English University studying English literature not English as a foreign language.
A fellow student decided to to test the marking system and wrote an entire 2000 word essay in this fashion. Simply wrote sentence after sentence that would collect positive marks but made absolutely no attempt to link them in any meaningful way.
If you actually 'read' the essay it was pure gobbledygook, if you just skimmed through it looking for valid points about the literature you would see many.
He got either a top B or bottom A if I remember correctly.
Offset against the millions of megawatt hours that have been burned by development teams wrestling with IE inconsistencies over the years I think they still have some way to go.
I was working at the NHS (National Health Service in the UK) a few years back when a 'flu pandemic' was being predicted, bird flu I think. Anyway, as a developer there I was pulled into a meeting to discuss plans to create some sort of emergency website with contact details if things went really bad.
Whilst we waited for various people to get on the phone etcetera the guy next to me, a very senior doctor in the service, started moaning about why he was there. To paraphrase and the figure I use is one I just plucked out of my head but you get the idea...
"I don't know what all the panic is about. The prediction for deaths from this flu over winter are 40 thousand. Pretty much every year 40 thousand people die from flu, it's just that this one has a name."
Location is a factor but in my world (web & JavaScript development in London, England) there is such a shortage of talent for the demand that many companies will hire just about anyone who demonstrates a basic grasp and enthusiasm.
Some on this thread have obviously had worse experience of ageism but I'd actually tend to err on the side of life experience when hiring a developer. Or at least I'd like a good mix of youthful exuberance and wily know how on my team. I've frequently worked with guys in your age bracket and generally find them much easier to communicate and compromise with (there are always some compromises when a team builds software).
Pick a language. Personally I'd chose a 'web' language, JavaScript, c#, ruby, python, hey whatever... and I'll maybe attract some ire here but that's where the money is and I'm confident it still will be in 4 years time.
Get dabbling/learning and start pushing some small open source projects up onto sites such as http:www.github.com coupled with a http://www.linkedin.com/ profile and you may well find that job comes knocking before the 4 years are up.
Start with a general discussion about how you might standardise code so that it's easier to switch between areas as a team. Little things like naming conventions and code formatting. If you can't get buy in to that then abandon ship.
Otherwise, introduce tools to start enforcing those rules. Hey let him decide what most of them are.
After this hopefully you have broken the barrier of being able to speak about each others code and you've planted a seed in his head that a bit of formalisation isn't a bad thing.
They should have just slapped together a quick photo posting app, maybe given it the option of applying a few filters to said photo and then tried to sell them that.
The Japanese character set is bigger, bolder and to my western eye rather scruffy and scrawly. All characters are also the same size as CAPS so it feels like their websites are shouting at you.
I was working on a Japanese site recently and during production we had it all set to English so that we knew what we were referring to within it. Design wise it was a nicely put together clean and simple site. As we neared the end of development we switched it all over into Japanese and suddenly it looked crowded and messy and as though there was too much going on in the page.
If you, switch the Japan Airlines example into English http://www.jal.co.jp/en/ it becomes much more palatable to the western eye.
Levels were boring and linear, the vast majority of the game provided no challenge what so ever, the boss battles were ludicrously specific in the way they had to be conducted, the story line was dull and dry and it was far too short.
But I loved playing the thing (on the Wii) and actually went back and did it a second time.
Slashdot Mirror
Search for restaurants and the area of map that you have focused will show restaurants. They've removed some buttons that you didn't need to click.
Reminds me of my time at University, an English University studying English literature not English as a foreign language.
A fellow student decided to to test the marking system and wrote an entire 2000 word essay in this fashion. Simply wrote sentence after sentence that would collect positive marks but made absolutely no attempt to link them in any meaningful way.
If you actually 'read' the essay it was pure gobbledygook, if you just skimmed through it looking for valid points about the literature you would see many.
He got either a top B or bottom A if I remember correctly.
Offset against the millions of megawatt hours that have been burned by development teams wrestling with IE inconsistencies over the years I think they still have some way to go.
If Hospital IT speak the truth then you have a game on your hands. Win it.
I was working at the NHS (National Health Service in the UK) a few years back when a 'flu pandemic' was being predicted, bird flu I think. Anyway, as a developer there I was pulled into a meeting to discuss plans to create some sort of emergency website with contact details if things went really bad.
Whilst we waited for various people to get on the phone etcetera the guy next to me, a very senior doctor in the service, started moaning about why he was there. To paraphrase and the figure I use is one I just plucked out of my head but you get the idea...
"I don't know what all the panic is about. The prediction for deaths from this flu over winter are 40 thousand. Pretty much every year 40 thousand people die from flu, it's just that this one has a name."
Location is a factor but in my world (web & JavaScript development in London, England) there is such a shortage of talent for the demand that many companies will hire just about anyone who demonstrates a basic grasp and enthusiasm.
Some on this thread have obviously had worse experience of ageism but I'd actually tend to err on the side of life experience when hiring a developer. Or at least I'd like a good mix of youthful exuberance and wily know how on my team. I've frequently worked with guys in your age bracket and generally find them much easier to communicate and compromise with (there are always some compromises when a team builds software).
Pick a language. Personally I'd chose a 'web' language, JavaScript, c#, ruby, python, hey whatever... and I'll maybe attract some ire here but that's where the money is and I'm confident it still will be in 4 years time.
Get dabbling/learning and start pushing some small open source projects up onto sites such as http:www.github.com coupled with a http://www.linkedin.com/ profile and you may well find that job comes knocking before the 4 years are up.
Good luck & enjoy.
But... It can be done.
Start with a general discussion about how you might standardise code so that it's easier to switch between areas as a team. Little things like naming conventions and code formatting. If you can't get buy in to that then abandon ship.
Otherwise, introduce tools to start enforcing those rules. Hey let him decide what most of them are.
After this hopefully you have broken the barrier of being able to speak about each others code and you've planted a seed in his head that a bit of formalisation isn't a bad thing.
Rince & repeat upping it a notch each time.
Yep these were the scenes of chaos outside Apple store Covent Garden this morning: https://twitter.com/mmalex/status/264296937665212417/photo/1/large
+1 http://bit.ly/RFEHRk
They should have just slapped together a quick photo posting app, maybe given it the option of applying a few filters to said photo and then tried to sell them that.
Je pense que cela peut être facilement évité.
Well according to this post http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/15/2338229/scientists-study-how-little-exercise-you-need?utm_source=feedburnerGoogle+UK&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+(Slashdot)&utm_content=Google+UK earlier today. A person's maximum heart rate can be calculated: "very roughly, by subtracting our age from 220".
From these two 'facts' that I have learnt today I conclude that once your maximum heart rate drops to 106 - you die.
Not as unusual as you might think: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-01/16/tvshack-guy-can-be-extradited
or push it off the ledge.
Why would you play a game like Diablo offline?
it wasn't raining at the time though.
'A circuit is considered to be closed when electricity flows from an energy source to the desired endpoint of the circuit.'
from here
Why would you discourage people from linking to your website?
Didn't the video show it running on an iPhone?
The Japanese character set is bigger, bolder and to my western eye rather scruffy and scrawly. All characters are also the same size as CAPS so it feels like their websites are shouting at you.
I was working on a Japanese site recently and during production we had it all set to English so that we knew what we were referring to within it. Design wise it was a nicely put together clean and simple site. As we neared the end of development we switched it all over into Japanese and suddenly it looked crowded and messy and as though there was too much going on in the page.
If you, switch the Japan Airlines example into English http://www.jal.co.jp/en/ it becomes much more palatable to the western eye.
I deny the deniers! Not sure what a denialist is though.
It's interesting to see EA stepping into this market. Surely a sign of things to come.
Levels were boring and linear, the vast majority of the game provided no challenge what so ever, the boss battles were ludicrously specific in the way they had to be conducted, the story line was dull and dry and it was far too short. But I loved playing the thing (on the Wii) and actually went back and did it a second time.
"Customers USB Devices Infecting Photo Kiosks".
Personally I use Gansta Lorum Ipsum or Corporate Ipsum depending on the mood.