Maybe they could have just put printed pictures, well protected. Why use a disc they won't know how the fuck use, so they are pissed at us before even meeting?
At the very least put an Ikea-like manual (no text, just pictures, where things just "click") with it.
By the time you're collecting Social Security, it's pretty much 95% bitching (the other 5% consisting mostly of bragging about your retarded grandkids, who you think are geniuses for some reason).
The slashdot population will no doubt spend that 5% doing something else. Probably bitching to new programmers about how their language is crap because it was designed for retards, as opposed to the ones we used to have that really exercised the brain.
From TFA: "The search engine giant said that with these images, people wouldn’t need to travel to these locations or learn to scuba dive or learn to swim for that matter in order to explore these amazing locations."
I'm starting to think that street view is really starting to mess with tourism. At least repeat visitors. I worked in Tel-Aviv around 15 years ago, always wanted to come back for a visit, but once the street-view'ed the city and I was able to check out where I lived, worked, and so on I just though "pretty much the same" and closed the browser.
This 'check everything' from home will soon take a hit on the beauty of traveling, and being places worth seeing.
You're missing the point. It's not "my" process. I'm usually a developer in the team that is working on the client's development systems following *their* process to the letter. Telling me that the process is broken doesn't help me at all. The process is what it is and since we have to live with it the best thing sysadmins and devs can do is cooperate a bit so that it's less painful for everyone.
Have you actually worked as a contractor for any major corporation? Many of the replies I see here seem to come from students that know the theory pretty well, have no fucking idea how the real world is like.
If Dev and Prod aren't identical, then their Configuration Management team has failed.
They usually aren't hardware wise for budget reasons, hardly ever are configuration and environment wise (considering other running programs as part the environment) and they definitely aren't identical user base wise.
While I understand devs shouldn't modify anything in prod, denying access to the system to see in real time what the fuck is going on when something doesn't work is just asking for the solution to take 10x, frustration, finger pointing and longer hours (usually the developers and often unpaid).
Seriously, nothing wrong in telling the developer "come down with me, I'll start the damn thing in front of you, you can check a bit of the system to you go back with a clue".
It's hardly violent to think you should fight people who don't respect the law of the land that they live on.
You must be an American.
What if those people are respecting the laws of the land *they* live on and you just happen to get pissed from overseas? Still hardly violent to burn their embassies?
As a systems administrator, nothing frustrates me more than when a developer sends me an e-mail that says "install this".
Try to see it from the developers perspective. Usually you are someone who expects to be given lots of info, but for security reasons and others (typically that you are staff and the developer is likely to be a contractor, so you can't be bothered) won't tell the developer very important stuff he needs to know about where the software is deployed, including system configuration details, what other stuff is running there and so on.
Also, very often getting a meeting with you is harder than meeting the Pope. When/if the developer gets the meeting you tell him that his software is one of the many you need to deal with (as opposed to him, which one cares about his little program) so you are basically not prepared to accommodate him at all. For example if a library is being used and it needs to be able to have 1024 open files or whatever and your decided someday that he limit was 512, the developer is fucked. Meetings and more meetings, involving bosses, to have that limit raised.
Did anyone bother to mention limits in production that aren't there in dev? No. I'm still waiting to see that kind of requirement detail in any project.
If the Configuration Management team cannot do it themselves, then they need to send it back to the developer for better packaging or instructions.
Sorry, no. I couldn't disagree more. I've worked in places like that, were developers were unable to get close to the production servers, things wouldn't work in production (but worked fine in dev) and we were unable to do anything except send builds with more and more debug info, working late nights to get things done, with a client more and more pissed each day.
Then it turns out that contrary to what they said, dev and prod wasn't identical, in a number of important things such as library versions.
If the install team is unable to install it by fuck's sake *get a developer see the installation process by himself* so he can come back just once with all the data he needs.
Sony revises the design of an existing product to use smaller, cheaper parts, fewer materials and higher shipping density, markets it as a new and improved model to boost sales and sells it for just as much as the old one.
Yes, most companies try to do it, it's called increasing the profit margin by being more efficient. Nothing evil about it.
Why on earth would I want bathroom breaks monitored you might say? Because it would make it possible to correlate bathroom breaks with the state of the bathroom is found sometimes. And that, being someone who takes pride of leaving it as I find it (except for temporary smell intensity) is something I find priceless.
In fact I'm all for at least 5% of the bonuses being linked to this.
Ah, and don't get me started on Google's super big fuck up with nexus q. So you got one in Google io but couldn't be bothered to open it until you were back in Europe? Here, your first job is figuring out how to download the app.
To be honest I'm much more annoyed by market (or zone, region, whatever) imposed by retards. For example you can't download Citibank usa application from Europe. You happen to have an account in a USA branch? too bad.
If the P2P software uploaded 9,250 copies of each song to other users, then Thomas isn't paying more than retail.
You wouldn't reach a ratio of 1:9250 even seeding from a 10 Gbit/s connection on TPB torrent, seriously. And even if you did, if you wanted to buy 9250 copies of the same CD I'm sure it would be a lot cheaper than what these crooks wants to get.
In my experience, comments are usually as clever as the writer, and as good as his code. When it's my code and my comments by the way the quality of the comments seems to diminishes as the code ages, even with the file timestamp not changing.
Anyway I remember discussing comments vs self-explaining code with a coworker. Eventually we ended discussing magic numbers (usually they warrant SOME explanation), he just told me he used #defines which made thing a lot more clearer. After the coffee, I checked some of his code:
// Validación de cuenta bancaria
#define ONCE 11
#define DOCE 12
(In Spain bank accounts have a simple check embedded so you can easily verify is a bank account number is incorrect, and the algorithm requires to validate the results of the calculation with the values in positions 11 and 12).
But I have a tendency to put stuff in a cart and not buy it right away.
I wonder if that works in my favor?
Maybe once. But once they notice most likely they'll increase the price of in-cart items a bit every day, to rush you into buying.
Anyway I wouldn't worry much about this technology. They're still playing cat & mouse with SEO (and losing) so it won't take long before it's possible to figure out what the absolute lowest price is and how to get it. So this could backfire.
Well, then you are already in youtube. The only difference now is that you are indexed.
And that's a rather huge difference. There's a tremendous difference between "you might be seen" and "every move you made is recorded, indexed and cross-referenced automatically".
Really? How exactly do my possible apparences in youtube become "every move you made is recorded, indexed and cross-referenced automatically".? There seem to be even more amazing technology somewhere.
If it doesn't worry you, you'd feel right at home in East Germany, which utilized a manual system to keep tabs on everyone. This is basically the same system, only automated.
You realize that the patent is about "Identify Real-World Objects In Videos", right?
And no, it doesn't worry me. Comparing this to East Germany is absurd and probably insulting to those who suffered its regime.
You were present at a certain event, and someone took a vid of that event
Somehow you ended up in the vid
And the vid was uploaded to youtube, by someone other than you
Well, then you are already in youtube. The only difference now is that you are indexed. If it worries you, just look for yourself (assuming you can somehow) and if you show up ask for the video to be taken down, or for your image to be blurred, assuming you have any legal right to do that.
The larger question, unaddressed in this patent, is whether we want our individual personal data to be tagged, filed, and logged without permission or choice."
How is a video uploaded to youtube 'individual personal data"? Sometimes it seems like we just want to complain about stuff.
I definitely want my (very few) youtube videos categorized, and most importantly, I want to be able to look for video contents.
By the way, the IO keynote demoed a search by content on pictures uploaded to google drive (the speaker typed 'pyramid' and the search returned 2 pictures with background pyramids), so this seems like an obvious improvement over that.
Also, a fellow developer of mine used to say "Don't do today what you can leave for tomorrow; it's possible that you don't have to do it after all". When he said that I was in my 20s, he was north of 40. Back then, he sounded like a slacker. Fuck, was he right.
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Maybe they could have just put printed pictures, well protected. Why use a disc they won't know how the fuck use, so they are pissed at us before even meeting?
At the very least put an Ikea-like manual (no text, just pictures, where things just "click") with it.
By the time you're collecting Social Security, it's pretty much 95% bitching (the other 5% consisting mostly of bragging about your retarded grandkids, who you think are geniuses for some reason).
The slashdot population will no doubt spend that 5% doing something else. Probably bitching to new programmers about how their language is crap because it was designed for retards, as opposed to the ones we used to have that really exercised the brain.
From TFA: "The search engine giant said that with these images, people wouldn’t need to travel to these locations or learn to scuba dive or learn to swim for that matter in order to explore these amazing locations."
I'm starting to think that street view is really starting to mess with tourism. At least repeat visitors. I worked in Tel-Aviv around 15 years ago, always wanted to come back for a visit, but once the street-view'ed the city and I was able to check out where I lived, worked, and so on I just though "pretty much the same" and closed the browser.
This 'check everything' from home will soon take a hit on the beauty of traveling, and being places worth seeing.
Then your process is screwed up.
You're missing the point. It's not "my" process. I'm usually a developer in the team that is working on the client's development systems following *their* process to the letter. Telling me that the process is broken doesn't help me at all. The process is what it is and since we have to live with it the best thing sysadmins and devs can do is cooperate a bit so that it's less painful for everyone.
Have you actually worked as a contractor for any major corporation? Many of the replies I see here seem to come from students that know the theory pretty well, have no fucking idea how the real world is like.
If Dev and Prod aren't identical, then their Configuration Management team has failed.
They usually aren't hardware wise for budget reasons, hardly ever are configuration and environment wise (considering other running programs as part the environment) and they definitely aren't identical user base wise.
While I understand devs shouldn't modify anything in prod, denying access to the system to see in real time what the fuck is going on when something doesn't work is just asking for the solution to take 10x, frustration, finger pointing and longer hours (usually the developers and often unpaid).
Seriously, nothing wrong in telling the developer "come down with me, I'll start the damn thing in front of you, you can check a bit of the system to you go back with a clue".
It's hardly violent to think you should fight people who don't respect the law of the land that they live on.
You must be an American.
What if those people are respecting the laws of the land *they* live on and you just happen to get pissed from overseas? Still hardly violent to burn their embassies?
The developer should be developing. Not testing. That's QA/production.
Yes. And when the prod guys says "it doesn't work" where does the shit end up eventually?
As a systems administrator, nothing frustrates me more than when a developer sends me an e-mail that says "install this".
Try to see it from the developers perspective. Usually you are someone who expects to be given lots of info, but for security reasons and others (typically that you are staff and the developer is likely to be a contractor, so you can't be bothered) won't tell the developer very important stuff he needs to know about where the software is deployed, including system configuration details, what other stuff is running there and so on.
Also, very often getting a meeting with you is harder than meeting the Pope. When/if the developer gets the meeting you tell him that his software is one of the many you need to deal with (as opposed to him, which one cares about his little program) so you are basically not prepared to accommodate him at all. For example if a library is being used and it needs to be able to have 1024 open files or whatever and your decided someday that he limit was 512, the developer is fucked. Meetings and more meetings, involving bosses, to have that limit raised.
Did anyone bother to mention limits in production that aren't there in dev? No. I'm still waiting to see that kind of requirement detail in any project.
If the Configuration Management team cannot do it themselves, then they need to send it back to the developer for better packaging or instructions.
Sorry, no. I couldn't disagree more. I've worked in places like that, were developers were unable to get close to the production servers, things wouldn't work in production (but worked fine in dev) and we were unable to do anything except send builds with more and more debug info, working late nights to get things done, with a client more and more pissed each day.
Then it turns out that contrary to what they said, dev and prod wasn't identical, in a number of important things such as library versions.
If the install team is unable to install it by fuck's sake *get a developer see the installation process by himself* so he can come back just once with all the data he needs.
Sony revises the design of an existing product to use smaller, cheaper parts, fewer materials and higher shipping density, markets it as a new and improved model to boost sales and sells it for just as much as the old one.
Yes, most companies try to do it, it's called increasing the profit margin by being more efficient. Nothing evil about it.
Why on earth would I want bathroom breaks monitored you might say? Because it would make it possible to correlate bathroom breaks with the state of the bathroom is found sometimes. And that, being someone who takes pride of leaving it as I find it (except for temporary smell intensity) is something I find priceless.
In fact I'm all for at least 5% of the bonuses being linked to this.
Here's the paper: http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~chunyip/publications/mobicom12-peng-accounting.pdf
DNS requests, which are not counted by the carriers as data usage.
I'd love to see a source for this.
Well, a source to anything actually, but it seems to much to ask around here these days...
Ah, and don't get me started on Google's super big fuck up with nexus q. So you got one in Google io but couldn't be bothered to open it until you were back in Europe? Here, your first job is figuring out how to download the app.
To be honest I'm much more annoyed by market (or zone, region, whatever) imposed by retards. For example you can't download Citibank usa application from Europe. You happen to have an account in a USA branch? too bad.
If the P2P software uploaded 9,250 copies of each song to other users, then Thomas isn't paying more than retail.
You wouldn't reach a ratio of 1:9250 even seeding from a 10 Gbit/s connection on TPB torrent, seriously. And even if you did, if you wanted to buy 9250 copies of the same CD I'm sure it would be a lot cheaper than what these crooks wants to get.
In my experience, comments are usually as clever as the writer, and as good as his code. When it's my code and my comments by the way the quality of the comments seems to diminishes as the code ages, even with the file timestamp not changing.
// Validación de cuenta bancaria
Anyway I remember discussing comments vs self-explaining code with a coworker. Eventually we ended discussing magic numbers (usually they warrant SOME explanation), he just told me he used #defines which made thing a lot more clearer. After the coffee, I checked some of his code:
#define ONCE 11
#define DOCE 12
(In Spain bank accounts have a simple check embedded so you can easily verify is a bank account number is incorrect, and the algorithm requires to validate the results of the calculation with the values in positions 11 and 12).
But I have a tendency to put stuff in a cart and not buy it right away.
I wonder if that works in my favor?
Maybe once. But once they notice most likely they'll increase the price of in-cart items a bit every day, to rush you into buying.
Anyway I wouldn't worry much about this technology. They're still playing cat & mouse with SEO (and losing) so it won't take long before it's possible to figure out what the absolute lowest price is and how to get it. So this could backfire.
I find it really interesting that Google spent three times as much on this as they spent on paying lawyers to actually argue the case.
Being google maybe they decided to write the software in-house with a few well paid developers.
Can't Bruce just leave the actual ipods with all the music on them?
It's not like once Apple hears about his death the ipods will self destroy...
And that's a rather huge difference. There's a tremendous difference between "you might be seen" and "every move you made is recorded, indexed and cross-referenced automatically".
Really? How exactly do my possible apparences in youtube become "every move you made is recorded, indexed and cross-referenced automatically".? There seem to be even more amazing technology somewhere.
If it doesn't worry you, you'd feel right at home in East Germany, which utilized a manual system to keep tabs on everyone. This is basically the same system, only automated.
You realize that the patent is about "Identify Real-World Objects In Videos", right?
And no, it doesn't worry me. Comparing this to East Germany is absurd and probably insulting to those who suffered its regime.
How about the following scenario ...
You were present at a certain event, and someone took a vid of that event
Somehow you ended up in the vid
And the vid was uploaded to youtube, by someone other than you
Well, then you are already in youtube. The only difference now is that you are indexed. If it worries you, just look for yourself (assuming you can somehow) and if you show up ask for the video to be taken down, or for your image to be blurred, assuming you have any legal right to do that.
The larger question, unaddressed in this patent, is whether we want our individual personal data to be tagged, filed, and logged without permission or choice."
How is a video uploaded to youtube 'individual personal data"? Sometimes it seems like we just want to complain about stuff.
I definitely want my (very few) youtube videos categorized, and most importantly, I want to be able to look for video contents.
By the way, the IO keynote demoed a search by content on pictures uploaded to google drive (the speaker typed 'pyramid' and the search returned 2 pictures with background pyramids), so this seems like an obvious improvement over that.
No disrespect, but we developers also have a name for people that describe developers the way you do :-)
Project Managers?
No, that's too generic and also includes perfectly fine bosses who know how to make the most of their teams.
Also, a fellow developer of mine used to say "Don't do today what you can leave for tomorrow; it's possible that you don't have to do it after all". When he said that I was in my 20s, he was north of 40. Back then, he sounded like a slacker. Fuck, was he right.
Mind if I quote you?
Go ahead (minus the dyslexia).