British mouths are like diamonds; the funky teeth bend light around them causing them to sparkle and glow unnaturally, and they absorb all colors except yellow.
Oh, and I forgot the best part: if your employer requires a uniform, there's an expectation that they're going to either buy them for you, or reimburse you for buying the uniforms. I have to buy my own clothes, now.
I'm not convinced this is the best way to begin. I think you should start with the computer equivalent of an explosion. Give the student something they can manipulate nearly instantly and see results in real time as changes are made instead of the tedious non-interactive write/compile/debug rigamarole. There's plenty of time to explain the details once the hook is set. The questions as to how the underlying code works will come, and NASM will be waiting patiently. Logo was an effective starting point for many of us in the industry and it's not because the syntax of Logo is universal or even relevant to the work we do now.
The button fetish of the PC user is something that needs to be studied. It is like the cup holder fetish of the SUV buyer. I am sure both are symptoms of a previously unpublished metal issue in humans.
Yeah, because playing games is way better when you have to put finger in front of the tiny screen. The only thing better is multitouch, because putting many fingers in front the tiny screen is teh awesome! Oh, and using accelerometers for precise control isn't the definition of frustration, particularly when you have your fingers on the screen at the same time in order to use other controls. It's completely natural. The utility of dedicated controls is a failed experiment that Steve Jobs will finally save us from.
And, who needs cupholders? We have hands that we can hold cups with right? Unless someone doesn't have hands, they don't need cupholders, so they shouldn't have them. Yeah, that's pretty funny. And what's the deal with Grapenuts? They're not grapes; they're not nuts. That's funny, too.
Actually, they didn't sell hardly any until they started listening to their customers and came out with a USB Windows filesystem compatible iPod. And the 1st gen iPhone was a dismal failure until Apple gave customers what they wanted vis-a-vis 3G, native applications, and carrier subsidies.
So yes, nobody cares about new Apple products until they pull their heads out of their butts and listen to their customers.
I predict: tablet is dismal failure, on the Apple TV level until next rev.
I have the same exact issue. It feels like I'm not getting anything done for weeks, because the program isn't written and the deadline is looming. I may take a few false starts just to get going doing something, but eventually the best design hits me and I'm off like a bolt of lightning.
I think UML would make it easier to look like I'm doing something when I'm just thinking.
That's usually the case, but sometimes you write a piece of code that is so creative to solve a problem, it's not that someone else is incapable of reading it, rather they can't comprehend the complexity of the code. I've done that a few times.
Even though the piece of code solves the problem it is bad code. Chances are, if someone else can't understand it, you won't be able to understand it in two years when you need to go back and maintain that code. Unless you can comment the heck out of it, incomprehensible code is worthless from a long term standpoint. I have a long standing policy of discarding code that I think is particularly clever, because as a rule, it is almost impossible to maintain. If I have to spend two days figuring out what I did last year that was so "elegant", then it's a failure.
If you come up with a clever piece of programming, either comment it so that a non-programmer can understand it without coaching or toss it and write something more simple. I usually find that once a correct algorithm is discovered that solves a problem, a simply coded, maintainable solution can be written. Memory, storage and processor cycles get cheaper and cheaper every year; there's no need to be stingy with them for the sake of pride.
You're obligated to comply with a lawful order from a police officer. Failing to do so is unlawful. So if the cop says,"tell them to leave [because you've created a dangerous situation by being here]" you'd better comply, or you'll get sent down. Just because they told him to do it with twitter makes no difference.
They claimed that the earlier version supported it properly too. Are they still lying about it or has it really been implemented this time? I work at a bank. Do you want me to bet your personal financial information on Apple's bullshit claims of security?
Not according to recent hardware reliability studies. Apple notebooks ranked 4th in reliability, after Asus, Toshiba, and Sony. That fact doesn't seem to support your hyperbole.
Can't sync with Outlook (the phone doesn't have on-device encryption that would satisfy Exchange policies).
They should've just made it to lie about its policy enforcement to Exchange server like the iPhone did. That way it'd be banned from my corporate network like my iPhone was. Thanks Steve, you're such a smart guy.
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You are the reason a 5-room bungalow near Cupertino costs $2.5 million.
A 5-roomed "bungalow"? Okey doke, Rich Uncle Pennybags.
British mouths are like diamonds; the funky teeth bend light around them causing them to sparkle and glow unnaturally, and they absorb all colors except yellow.
Widget is a "window gadget".
It really has no appropriate use outside of a UI... but yea, people use it anyways because it sounds cool.
Ooh, a real-life in-the-wild Retcon!
Oh, and I forgot the best part: if your employer requires a uniform, there's an expectation that they're going to either buy them for you, or reimburse you for buying the uniforms. I have to buy my own clothes, now.
Perhaps you misunderstand: now, I don't have to think much about what I wear; then I didn't have to think at all about what I wore.
I haven't had to wear one in almost 20 years, but when I did, I liked it, because then I didn't have to think about what I was going to wear to work.
Maybe they're trying to send you guys a not-so-subtle message that maybe your business casual is a bit too casual?
It also makes copy/paste and other issues a real pain in the ass.
Ctrl-V, TAB or Shift-TAB.
Wow, that's a huge inconvenience. You're right. What other minor nuisances would you like to inflate?
I'm not convinced this is the best way to begin. I think you should start with the computer equivalent of an explosion. Give the student something they can manipulate nearly instantly and see results in real time as changes are made instead of the tedious non-interactive write/compile/debug rigamarole. There's plenty of time to explain the details once the hook is set. The questions as to how the underlying code works will come, and NASM will be waiting patiently. Logo was an effective starting point for many of us in the industry and it's not because the syntax of Logo is universal or even relevant to the work we do now.
The button fetish of the PC user is something that needs to be studied. It is like the cup holder fetish of the SUV buyer. I am sure both are symptoms of a previously unpublished metal issue in humans.
Yeah, because playing games is way better when you have to put finger in front of the tiny screen. The only thing better is multitouch, because putting many fingers in front the tiny screen is teh awesome! Oh, and using accelerometers for precise control isn't the definition of frustration, particularly when you have your fingers on the screen at the same time in order to use other controls. It's completely natural. The utility of dedicated controls is a failed experiment that Steve Jobs will finally save us from.
And, who needs cupholders? We have hands that we can hold cups with right? Unless someone doesn't have hands, they don't need cupholders, so they shouldn't have them. Yeah, that's pretty funny. And what's the deal with Grapenuts? They're not grapes; they're not nuts. That's funny, too.
Actually, they didn't sell hardly any until they started listening to their customers and came out with a USB Windows filesystem compatible iPod. And the 1st gen iPhone was a dismal failure until Apple gave customers what they wanted vis-a-vis 3G, native applications, and carrier subsidies.
So yes, nobody cares about new Apple products until they pull their heads out of their butts and listen to their customers.
I predict: tablet is dismal failure, on the Apple TV level until next rev.
Haven't you learned that the world is only what I see on TV right in front of me right now?
Yeah, that unprovoked Soviet invasion was totally the US's fault. Our bad, dog.
Yes, because Afghanistan was an educational utopia before they started in with the harboring terrorists thing, of course.
Too bad the world isn't really like hindsight says it was.
I blame your selective memory for making you think your computer is slower than what had remember 20 years ago.
Yeah, that's great, but you have to live in Sweden or Finland, blech.
I have the same exact issue. It feels like I'm not getting anything done for weeks, because the program isn't written and the deadline is looming. I may take a few false starts just to get going doing something, but eventually the best design hits me and I'm off like a bolt of lightning.
I think UML would make it easier to look like I'm doing something when I'm just thinking.
That's usually the case, but sometimes you write a piece of code that is so creative to solve a problem, it's not that someone else is incapable of reading it, rather they can't comprehend the complexity of the code. I've done that a few times.
Even though the piece of code solves the problem it is bad code. Chances are, if someone else can't understand it, you won't be able to understand it in two years when you need to go back and maintain that code. Unless you can comment the heck out of it, incomprehensible code is worthless from a long term standpoint. I have a long standing policy of discarding code that I think is particularly clever, because as a rule, it is almost impossible to maintain. If I have to spend two days figuring out what I did last year that was so "elegant", then it's a failure.
If you come up with a clever piece of programming, either comment it so that a non-programmer can understand it without coaching or toss it and write something more simple. I usually find that once a correct algorithm is discovered that solves a problem, a simply coded, maintainable solution can be written. Memory, storage and processor cycles get cheaper and cheaper every year; there's no need to be stingy with them for the sake of pride.
Then you get your first bill, and discover they're still charging you for a Lamborghini... actually, for 10 Lamborghinis.
You've pretty much described the purchase of every Apple product.
I agree, filing charges was way out of line. His only real mistake was not asking permission, and getting that permission in writing.
That's what I said last time I got arrested for borrowing my neighbors car.
You're obligated to comply with a lawful order from a police officer. Failing to do so is unlawful. So if the cop says,"tell them to leave [because you've created a dangerous situation by being here]" you'd better comply, or you'll get sent down. Just because they told him to do it with twitter makes no difference.
They claimed that the earlier version supported it properly too. Are they still lying about it or has it really been implemented this time? I work at a bank. Do you want me to bet your personal financial information on Apple's bullshit claims of security?
Not according to recent hardware reliability studies. Apple notebooks ranked 4th in reliability, after Asus, Toshiba, and Sony. That fact doesn't seem to support your hyperbole.
http://theappleblog.com/2009/11/17/apple-ranks-a-lackluster-fourth-in-notebook-reliability-study/
Now people's Windows machines work perfectly. Microsoft Windows - a product of Apple, Inc.
...but they now cost 1000x more than they should and they only do what robot warlord Steve Jobs thinks you should be able to do.
They should've just made it to lie about its policy enforcement to Exchange server like the iPhone did. That way it'd be banned from my corporate network like my iPhone was. Thanks Steve, you're such a smart guy.
"Sporadically bugs: iDoesn't. Droid does."
Yeah, tell that to the iPhone browser next time it shits out without warning. iDoes, too.