The point of the progress bar is NOT really to measure progress. It's to tell the user if the software is working (and they should continue exercising waiting) or if it silently failed and they should end task the broken application. Until either users start exercising infinite patience or all developers start writing defect free software this will be required.
Progress as actual progress (ie. predicting what you are going to do with your internet connection while you are waiting for a download to complete) is not possible, but not required to convert a "crash" into an annoyance. That said, on my current project the first step of creating the progress bar is to estimate how long the process will take but this is mainly because some tasks can take days and users get antsy if the progress bar updates less frequently than every 1-2 minutes.
Yes. You aren't doing the IO on the UI thread and posting a message to update the UI, even once per second, will slow down the transfer by an insignificant amount of time and improve the UX dramatically.
I did not buy a phone or tablet with a full web browser because I wanted a shitty, dumbed down, version of the web. Some CSS tweaks to make UI elements easier to touch and remove hover selectors are OK, but anything beyond that is not wanted or needed.
Except it isn't support "the latest" or else... its support XP or else and 10 years from now its likely to be the same deal with windows 7, not widows 8.
IANAL either, but as far as I know the 5th amendment protects everyone all the time. Meaning that the government can never compel you to incriminate yourself even if you are not accused of a crime at that moment.
Zimmerman, not Martin, is the accused here so of course he should be entitled to what ever exculpatory evidence he can find. If the "Miami girl who said she was on the phone with Martin just before the shooting" wanted her social media postings protected on 5th amendment grounds and the court found that they weren't protected there might be a story here, but the summary at least doesn't hint at that.
I have been paid for writing open source software but only in the following context:
Open source project X almost meets our needs, however it is missing the following 3 features. I could spend two weeks implementing those features (but we will need to contribute it back to the project) or two months implementing the library from scratch, which do you prefer?
Basically, I would say that you need to present a very concrete value proposition in front of the customer and let them pick... starting an open source project as a contractor and on the customers dime is pretty much always going to be a non-starter.
The percentage of real users with javascript disabled is much lower than 80%... so if these numbers are real It seems reasonable that the bulk of them are bots.
Kickstarter works really well for funding albums and art projects from people who have already established a reputation in their art form, because if you scam your fans your done. I'm not sure anyone is really dumb enough to fund a startup that way...
what you see is not what google bot sees. They generate a page with a bunch of phrases for the crawlers (through UA sniffing and/or IP address) and another for normal users.
If you already know where it is from the IP look up all you need is a car, your laptop's WiFi MAC address and some tool that will sniff it out of the air. Then you can go to the police with physical evidence that it is where you think it is.
What doesn't exist in real life? Physical constraints that create natural monopolies? If that is your argument its going to take more than a one liner to convince me.
I do agree that those most in need of regulation are not regulated enough and those least in need of it are (arguably) regulated too much, but as a small business owner I am far more concerned about collusion among established players then I am with being over regulated. The fix is to flip it... regulate small business less and big business more (though more mostly means enforcing the ones that already exist). If you have some idea on how to make that happen I'd love to hear it.
No. For wireline, they exist because you have to tear up the street to run cable and get easements on private property in order to run cable. It is in the public's best interest to minimize how much the roads get torn up and in the public's best interest to have a neutral arbiter between the needs of the individual property owner and the telecom provider providing service to the wider community. For wireless, service requires consuming part of the finite available frequency. Without regulation in each individuals best interest to use the most desirable frequency and the highest power that they can, which results in worse wireless service for everyone.
Because telecom forms natural monopolies that require regulation and social networks offer services that you can choose not to use and thus require less regulation. The real problem is that not enough people care about privacy for an alternative with strong privacy protection (which would likely be a paid service) to be a viable business.
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The point of the progress bar is NOT really to measure progress. It's to tell the user if the software is working (and they should continue exercising waiting) or if it silently failed and they should end task the broken application. Until either users start exercising infinite patience or all developers start writing defect free software this will be required.
Progress as actual progress (ie. predicting what you are going to do with your internet connection while you are waiting for a download to complete) is not possible, but not required to convert a "crash" into an annoyance. That said, on my current project the first step of creating the progress bar is to estimate how long the process will take but this is mainly because some tasks can take days and users get antsy if the progress bar updates less frequently than every 1-2 minutes.
Yes. You aren't doing the IO on the UI thread and posting a message to update the UI, even once per second, will slow down the transfer by an insignificant amount of time and improve the UX dramatically.
I did not buy a phone or tablet with a full web browser because I wanted a shitty, dumbed down, version of the web. Some CSS tweaks to make UI elements easier to touch and remove hover selectors are OK, but anything beyond that is not wanted or needed.
How do you report a bug to Microsoft? The last time I tried it either had to be a security vulnerability or you had to pay for the privilege...
they have been offline for some time now...
Except it isn't support "the latest" or else... its support XP or else and 10 years from now its likely to be the same deal with windows 7, not widows 8.
IANAL either, but as far as I know the 5th amendment protects everyone all the time. Meaning that the government can never compel you to incriminate yourself even if you are not accused of a crime at that moment.
Zimmerman, not Martin, is the accused here so of course he should be entitled to what ever exculpatory evidence he can find. If the "Miami girl who said she was on the phone with Martin just before the shooting" wanted her social media postings protected on 5th amendment grounds and the court found that they weren't protected there might be a story here, but the summary at least doesn't hint at that.
I have been paid for writing open source software but only in the following context:
Open source project X almost meets our needs, however it is missing the following 3 features. I could spend two weeks implementing those features (but we will need to contribute it back to the project) or two months implementing the library from scratch, which do you prefer?
Basically, I would say that you need to present a very concrete value proposition in front of the customer and let them pick... starting an open source project as a contractor and on the customers dime is pretty much always going to be a non-starter.
The percentage of real users with javascript disabled is much lower than 80%... so if these numbers are real It seems reasonable that the bulk of them are bots.
the only one of those that actually mattered was deleting your cookies... its not browser specific tech.
Kickstarter works really well for funding albums and art projects from people who have already established a reputation in their art form, because if you scam your fans your done. I'm not sure anyone is really dumb enough to fund a startup that way...
It is exactly the same. This is just a team attempting to solve that challenge by crowd sourcing document assembly.
your browser and/or OS will ship with some defaults... most people will just use those.
Sure you can, you just need dedicated hardware for it.
RFID, maybe with a camera as backup, seems like the way to go.
note however that https://google.com/ will redirect you to http://www.google.com
what you see is not what google bot sees. They generate a page with a bunch of phrases for the crawlers (through UA sniffing and/or IP address) and another for normal users.
Embrace Android or die... those are pretty much your options at this point.
If you already know where it is from the IP look up all you need is a car, your laptop's WiFi MAC address and some tool that will sniff it out of the air. Then you can go to the police with physical evidence that it is where you think it is.
What doesn't exist in real life? Physical constraints that create natural monopolies? If that is your argument its going to take more than a one liner to convince me.
I do agree that those most in need of regulation are not regulated enough and those least in need of it are (arguably) regulated too much, but as a small business owner I am far more concerned about collusion among established players then I am with being over regulated. The fix is to flip it... regulate small business less and big business more (though more mostly means enforcing the ones that already exist). If you have some idea on how to make that happen I'd love to hear it.
No.
For wireline, they exist because you have to tear up the street to run cable and get easements on private property in order to run cable. It is in the public's best interest to minimize how much the roads get torn up and in the public's best interest to have a neutral arbiter between the needs of the individual property owner and the telecom provider providing service to the wider community.
For wireless, service requires consuming part of the finite available frequency. Without regulation in each individuals best interest to use the most desirable frequency and the highest power that they can, which results in worse wireless service for everyone.
Because telecom forms natural monopolies that require regulation and social networks offer services that you can choose not to use and thus require less regulation. The real problem is that not enough people care about privacy for an alternative with strong privacy protection (which would likely be a paid service) to be a viable business.
If you play it the agenda seems pretty clear. since you need everything to win except for Guam and its associated satellites.
Entity Framework works pretty well for simple DB stuff.