I learned dvorak in college under peer pressure from two roommates who wouldn't tell me how to switch their keyboard layouts to qwerty on their linux boxes. I haven't used qwerty as my primarily layout since about 1996.
I had one summer internship which didn't give me privs to switch keyboard layouts and I had to jump back and forth between my home and work computer. It's annoying for the first few minutes of going back to qwerty but it's a breeze from there, meaning that I was up to full speed but I missed the comfort of dvorak.
One thing that's annoying is using the command line. For some reason it takes me longer to adjust to back qwerty for command line use than in other applications.
I know it has nothing to do with skills, experience, etc. but 2.5? At the very least that says something about your work ethic.
Or it could say something about what school he attended. Not all colleges give out As like wine at at art showing. Personally I think the 2.5 should be a decent GPA, with anything above 3.0 outstanding.
The number of years isn't as important as the number of product lifecycles. It looks much better on a resume to see someone involved in >3 releases of the same product or family of products, even if they worked on different portions.
Ease of use? Only partially. Some of their "principles" defy ease of use (forced automatic saving which takes word processing back to the BETTER MAKE SURE YOU WANT TO HIT THAT KEY days of the manual typewriter, only one way to do things which can go against user preferences.)
This is only because file-saving is something you've been trained with. It's actually quite nice not having to worry about saving. The auto-save feature is present in IDEA Intellij. Make changes to source, run a build, step back in the undo or local history to revert incorrect changes. I wish more applications did this.
I did part of the IB program in high school, but ditched it to instead focus on AP exams to get me further ahead when I started college. My younger brother and sister did the full thing and while they ended up getting about 2 semesters of college credit, they also acquired some good experience through the community service and research paper requirements. The IB standards are definitely well above US standards for high school, by the way.
I agree. I'm considering discontinuing my tmobile web service because it's just not worth it. It takes way too long to create a GPRS connection and in the meantime I have to sit there waiting for a response.
With google text messaging, however, I can fire off the request and keep walking, and get a nice little buzz in my pocket indicating some search results. With most cell phone plans it's much more practical to upgrade the text messaging plan than to add on an internet plan.
The problem I have with IP is patents are granted to people who have yet to create an invention. Patents should only be granted to actual, functional devices.
They generally are. When I was working on a project that hand some patentable pieces, we had monthly meetings with lawyers. While a fully functional device was not explicitly required, it gave the patent application greater weight. Furthermore, patent lawyers seem to advise completely building the device, whether a proof of concept or production-ready. This helps that practical limitations are exposed, and on the other hand also demonstrates any unforcasted additional features that can be used to strengthen the patent application.
You shouldn't. There isn't any widespread application support (although it seems to come with a few goodies), and at this price tag they're not going to get much of an audience. It would be more prudent to run Windows 3.1.
Neither can I, but just like you I have Eclipse open on my other monitor. I prefer it to emacs and vi, but for Java I'd use IDEA anyday. It's easier to use, the refactoring tools are sweet and it's much easier to integrate with configuration management and a build system. There aren't as many plugins, but I found most of them to be stable*.
* except for the ResourceBundle editor which choked on huge.properties files in the project path.
Time has told us that people are never happy with a single, limited, box - when games consoles went up against home computers, the latter won. Games consoles only came back when it became normal to have both a computer and a console.
Can you cite some evidence to support this, or at least tell us which durations of time you're talking about? When was it abnormal to have both a computer and a console? They essentially serve different needs, even when it comes to gaming.
I don't think you're making an unreasonable statement here, but my (admittedly cursory) observation, more people seem to have gaming consoles than gaming PCs, if only because the initial cost is so low. I'm talking about mainstream, not our little geek world.
Your original premise is indisputably correct however (although you probably didn't need to go through a lengthy sea analogy). Yes...different people have different needs.
Kudo's to you -- Modd this one Way UP!!!
The beauty of this is its simplicity. It is a great way to show PHB's the fact the IE is flawed, and not all the other browsers out there. I would just add that you may want to have a plan for the PHB's arguement over the extra charge.
PHB: What is this $2,000 charge for?
Developer (pulling out 2 images of page without IE hacks): here is what your page looks like in IE, and here what it looks like in all other browsers.
Developer: (pausing for effect) And this would have only cost you X dollars.
I design webpages as a hobby, as an activity for enjoyment. (I am a High School Math teacher by trade) I have created (what I find) to be some wonderful designs, only to have them F'ed up by I.E. when I try to show them to a friend or colleague. Then spend hours fixing it in IE and trying not to break it in everything else. I have mostly given up on IE.
I guess this explains why you think it's a good idea to snub customers. As important as web standards are, cross-browser site compatibility is NOT the customer's problem to solve. It's the developer's problem. To give an analogy, let's say you were paying a moving company $2000 to move your stuff from Chicago to LA. Then they say that it will take a month instead of 2 weeks unless you pay $1500 extra because one of the stretches of highway is rough and doesn't have nice rest/gas stations. Are you going to start lobbying and writing to state officials for highway improvements or simply find another moving company? I think the latter is more likely.
I don't do freelance web development anymore, but if I did I'd be happy to compete with the original poster for his business by using internally available and re-usable tools/techniques to solve the compatibility problems. Yes, I've had frustrating times in the past trying to resolve differences in, say, the IE vs Gecko event model or the box model. But solving these things once, re-using the solution, and smiling nicely when the customer comes back for another project is good business.
Microsoft could open-source VB6. This is a perfect opportunity for them to show that they are truly open.
This is probably one of the more constructive posts on this topic.
I don't think VB6 programmers are upset about not being able to build new applications in VB. Since they're on the Microsoft train they'd probably love to take on.net projects since it's the sexy new thing for them. I think the main issue is the fact that they probably have a gigantic codebase built on VB6 to fit some gargantuan business needs.
Someone mentioned that giving VB6 to the community would be a bad move for MS from a competitive advantage standpoint. This is only true from one standpoint: if VB6 is free, why use.net. Yes.net is probably orders of magnitude better of a platform, but free is free, and some customers would probably love to have at the VB6 platform, even sans MS support.
So the question is whether the potential loss of revenue for releasing VB6 OS is greater than the value of goodwill and lowered support costs. Then again MS has every right to simply cut support.
Honestly if I were a VB6 developer I'd consider this a good thing. I'd point my finger at MS discontinuing support then start writing up nice expensive proposals to my customers for migrating the existing VB6 codebase to.net. That's probably a good few years of consulting revenue. Money in the bank.
I just only recently got into Belgian beers, and settled for a while on Lindemans. I've heard good things about Gueze, and I'll definitely try the New Glarus's.
Thanks for the tip.
Crap. New Glarus's is going to be hard to get in Seattle it looks like. I can't seem to find a way to get it shipped out here from Wisconsin.
Some people do hear better than others. however LPs are terrible.
I had lots or records and great turntables (AR and technics). Records were a nightmare. Static, cleaning dust with disc washer etc.etc.. Making sure the needle was wieght right. Then the sound was pretty excellent. Even with all that pre CDs still sounded better.
An playing LPs in your car was always easy.
No wonder they still selling millions of albums on "vynl"
As a DJ I've bought and still buy a significant number of vinyl records, and in fact probably own more LPs than CDs. I love my 1200s and crates of records, but I still wish vinyl sounded as good as CDs and didn't require maintenance. My shoulders, back, and arms also wish the 12 inch records could magically go on a diet and trim down to CD sexiness.
Sure, there are some aesthetic listening qualities to playing stuff on vinyl. Some people like the slight static/crackle sounds and the other random artifacts that they'll call enhancements. After spending way too much time previewing records in reference headphones for years I think I could do without such artifacts.
That said, whenever I'm playing out at parties or a club I've noticed that no one wants to see someone spin CDs. There's some aesthetic aspect of nightlife that makes people think that 12 inch rotating dics look cool. And somehow spinning vinyl appears to be an artform, whereas using CDs is relegated to the respectfulness of queuing up something in winamp. Oh well.
If professors really want to stop cheating, they need to take the initiative to assign work that requires creativity on the part of the students as opposed to submitting code that could be a cut and paste of textbook examples.
While yes, it's a great idea for professors to put out creative assignments, students should be expected to have enough backbone to not cheat simply because it's risky, a bad idea, counter-productive to their education, and simply wrong.
That's not to say that students shouldn't collaborate and share information -- it's a good thing for CS majors to be able to actually communicate with each other. Students just need to complete and submit their own work.
These categories can be added to your iTunes playlists. Right-click the category / header (or empty space to the right of said categories / headers) to change or add subjects. 100% customizable. If anything, one could say that iTunes is the more flexible of the two.
He's talking about the browse boxes that show up when you press the browse button in the upper right or if you hit CTRL-B. He's right...it's only limited to genre, artist, album. It wouldn't be a bad idea to have boxes available for any field, although I tend to just use the search box exclusively.
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I had one summer internship which didn't give me privs to switch keyboard layouts and I had to jump back and forth between my home and work computer. It's annoying for the first few minutes of going back to qwerty but it's a breeze from there, meaning that I was up to full speed but I missed the comfort of dvorak.
One thing that's annoying is using the command line. For some reason it takes me longer to adjust to back qwerty for command line use than in other applications.
Mod parent up. He has a clue.
Or it could say something about what school he attended. Not all colleges give out As like wine at at art showing. Personally I think the 2.5 should be a decent GPA, with anything above 3.0 outstanding.
I love the irony of this being moderated -1 redundant.
The number of years isn't as important as the number of product lifecycles. It looks much better on a resume to see someone involved in >3 releases of the same product or family of products, even if they worked on different portions.
This is only because file-saving is something you've been trained with. It's actually quite nice not having to worry about saving. The auto-save feature is present in IDEA Intellij. Make changes to source, run a build, step back in the undo or local history to revert incorrect changes. I wish more applications did this.
I did part of the IB program in high school, but ditched it to instead focus on AP exams to get me further ahead when I started college. My younger brother and sister did the full thing and while they ended up getting about 2 semesters of college credit, they also acquired some good experience through the community service and research paper requirements. The IB standards are definitely well above US standards for high school, by the way.
With google text messaging, however, I can fire off the request and keep walking, and get a nice little buzz in my pocket indicating some search results. With most cell phone plans it's much more practical to upgrade the text messaging plan than to add on an internet plan.
They generally are. When I was working on a project that hand some patentable pieces, we had monthly meetings with lawyers. While a fully functional device was not explicitly required, it gave the patent application greater weight. Furthermore, patent lawyers seem to advise completely building the device, whether a proof of concept or production-ready. This helps that practical limitations are exposed, and on the other hand also demonstrates any unforcasted additional features that can be used to strengthen the patent application.
You shouldn't. There isn't any widespread application support (although it seems to come with a few goodies), and at this price tag they're not going to get much of an audience. It would be more prudent to run Windows 3.1.
That's nice.
Well his site visitors are suing search terms. He must have some harsh customers.
Neither can I, but just like you I have Eclipse open on my other monitor. I prefer it to emacs and vi, but for Java I'd use IDEA anyday. It's easier to use, the refactoring tools are sweet and it's much easier to integrate with configuration management and a build system. There aren't as many plugins, but I found most of them to be stable*. * except for the ResourceBundle editor which choked on huge .properties files in the project path.
Ok this makes sense then. I was thinking the 90s-now timeframe.
Can you cite some evidence to support this, or at least tell us which durations of time you're talking about? When was it abnormal to have both a computer and a console? They essentially serve different needs, even when it comes to gaming.
I don't think you're making an unreasonable statement here, but my (admittedly cursory) observation, more people seem to have gaming consoles than gaming PCs, if only because the initial cost is so low. I'm talking about mainstream, not our little geek world.
Your original premise is indisputably correct however (although you probably didn't need to go through a lengthy sea analogy). Yes...different people have different needs.
I guess this explains why you think it's a good idea to snub customers. As important as web standards are, cross-browser site compatibility is NOT the customer's problem to solve. It's the developer's problem. To give an analogy, let's say you were paying a moving company $2000 to move your stuff from Chicago to LA. Then they say that it will take a month instead of 2 weeks unless you pay $1500 extra because one of the stretches of highway is rough and doesn't have nice rest/gas stations. Are you going to start lobbying and writing to state officials for highway improvements or simply find another moving company? I think the latter is more likely.
I don't do freelance web development anymore, but if I did I'd be happy to compete with the original poster for his business by using internally available and re-usable tools/techniques to solve the compatibility problems. Yes, I've had frustrating times in the past trying to resolve differences in, say, the IE vs Gecko event model or the box model. But solving these things once, re-using the solution, and smiling nicely when the customer comes back for another project is good business.
This is probably one of the more constructive posts on this topic.
I don't think VB6 programmers are upset about not being able to build new applications in VB. Since they're on the Microsoft train they'd probably love to take on .net projects since it's the sexy new thing for them. I think the main issue is the fact that they probably have a gigantic codebase built on VB6 to fit some gargantuan business needs.
Someone mentioned that giving VB6 to the community would be a bad move for MS from a competitive advantage standpoint. This is only true from one standpoint: if VB6 is free, why use .net. Yes .net is probably orders of magnitude better of a platform, but free is free, and some customers would probably love to have at the VB6 platform, even sans MS support.
So the question is whether the potential loss of revenue for releasing VB6 OS is greater than the value of goodwill and lowered support costs. Then again MS has every right to simply cut support.
Honestly if I were a VB6 developer I'd consider this a good thing. I'd point my finger at MS discontinuing support then start writing up nice expensive proposals to my customers for migrating the existing VB6 codebase to .net. That's probably a good few years of consulting revenue. Money in the bank.
Thanks for the tip.
Crap. New Glarus's is going to be hard to get in Seattle it looks like. I can't seem to find a way to get it shipped out here from Wisconsin.
I want my beer to taste like, um, beer - not razzberries, lemons, etc.
I generally agree with you, but here's an exception: Lindeman's Framboise.
tasty....
I'm an Amazon employee. You just hit the nail on the head. Trust me on this one.
He's got a point. Knowing the leads for all these games is analogous to knowing the director to hollywood movies.
An playing LPs in your car was always easy.
No wonder they still selling millions of albums on "vynl"
As a DJ I've bought and still buy a significant number of vinyl records, and in fact probably own more LPs than CDs. I love my 1200s and crates of records, but I still wish vinyl sounded as good as CDs and didn't require maintenance. My shoulders, back, and arms also wish the 12 inch records could magically go on a diet and trim down to CD sexiness.
Sure, there are some aesthetic listening qualities to playing stuff on vinyl. Some people like the slight static/crackle sounds and the other random artifacts that they'll call enhancements. After spending way too much time previewing records in reference headphones for years I think I could do without such artifacts.
That said, whenever I'm playing out at parties or a club I've noticed that no one wants to see someone spin CDs. There's some aesthetic aspect of nightlife that makes people think that 12 inch rotating dics look cool. And somehow spinning vinyl appears to be an artform, whereas using CDs is relegated to the respectfulness of queuing up something in winamp. Oh well.
While yes, it's a great idea for professors to put out creative assignments, students should be expected to have enough backbone to not cheat simply because it's risky, a bad idea, counter-productive to their education, and simply wrong.
That's not to say that students shouldn't collaborate and share information -- it's a good thing for CS majors to be able to actually communicate with each other. Students just need to complete and submit their own work.
He's talking about the browse boxes that show up when you press the browse button in the upper right or if you hit CTRL-B. He's right...it's only limited to genre, artist, album. It wouldn't be a bad idea to have boxes available for any field, although I tend to just use the search box exclusively.