Do they allow to have a different language for voice and text already? I know Android supports it, but navigation apparently not. I don't want to use my phone in Spanish just because I am in Spain and need navigation help. But I do need the street names to be understandable which they aren't with the English voice.
It's also the same marketoids that get bonuses for sales that wouldn't have been possible if the coders hadn't put in huge amounts of unpaid overtime modifying production code to include ( non existent) features that the marketoids promised the customer without consulting the production team first.
Well, try to see it another way:
1) It's possible that the marketing team promised those features because it was the only way to sell the product. Your attitude seems to be going to the marketing/sales team and saying "This is what we made, go sell it, even if it's not what you could sell".
2) How is it their fault that you do unpaid overtime? Don't do it or ask for it to be paid.
PS. I'm a developer but I've been around. I've been in a couple of places where the software team wasn't listening about what the potential customers wanted (we were too full of ourselves to listening to sales I guess) and the places went down of course. By the way a potential customer is someone how has the money to buy the product and is able to make a purchasing decision. It's not another developer who think some feature would be cool to have for some reason.
Some companies would not want me giving out the code I've written for them.
The fact that you refuse to share code you written for others to a potential employer says something about you.
The fact that you don't have any code that you haven't written for anyone but yourself also says something about you.
Anyway when I personally interview someone I prefer to show them some code instead and ask for their opinion. There's many possible answers, and they tell a lot about the person: Some of them will say "Oh, this won't compile because...", others "this seems like a function that draws a circle", others will say "this is going to eat a lot of memory", or "this indentation makes me want to shoot someone", etc.
We didn't. But I see lots of comments here about the US being a bully. The problem (here) is not that the US is a bully, which isn't new, but that the Spanish government caved.
Also, to add some relevant info, this law was written with the previous government (changed last month) but passed by the new one. And this is a two party country (for being in power purposes I mean, there's lots of parties but doesn't matter much here). So you can see that we are fucked here.
Anyway - we do have a tendency to pass laws that eventually aren't enforced, so this can be just one of them. For example, and this is my car analogy, you can see what we do with traffic signs.
Well, anyone looking to make some big bucks in the next 1-3 year should start learning IPv6. Nothing major needed, just setup a IPv6 network at home, if you can rent an external server with IPv6 in any of the many data centers that already offer it, and play with it.
It's not a lot of effort and there will be many highly paid job offers soon.
If we are going to mess with the calendar no less then let's start with the basics. The day has a length that is related to a significant event so we can leave it as it is.
But do we really want 7 day weeks? I think this needs some thought....:-)
Already I've already seem some development companies demo financial software on striped SSD's as if that's what everyone runs these days.
I think it's a fair assumption if you are selling financial software to a financial company that they will buy a SSD if that's a requirement. Just because developers aren't optimizing for a small footprint these days it doesn't mean there's no optimization being done. It just means that they optimize for something else (development cost, feature set, or whatever their business plan says is most important).
By the way when you see a computer game demo these days, do you think "These guys are on crack if they think everyone's got one of those cards?", or "With these recommended specs what is this written in, VisualBasic?" ?
Even if the Android advertisements would include features, I have a strong feeling it would be something like "Freedom! 1 GHz processor! 128MB RAM!", ie. just listing specs. That isn't interesting. Users don't know what and why.
OK. Then if you were a manufacturer that made phones with say, 32 GB (let's assume that's double the maximum everything else), market it?
Obviously is google so they'll probably do it right... but anyway: There's pages are seem to be updated every few seconds, with zero actual new content (maybe moving things around). For example, each time I look for some open source program filtering by date (last 24 hours) I'm getting results in softwaretopic.informer.com , regarding that program.
So, if they want to focus on freshness of the information, removing 'rehashed' stuff is probably a lot better than just using whatever date is page says it's from.
There's a lot of other crimes that are dangerous to neighbors, why just this one? And no I'm not advocating for all (or none), just asking why this one is singled out.
Please let me know where you abandon, I mean park your car each day. Thanks.
So the bar are places now where one can leave his phone for days and pick it up at his convenience a few days later provided he puts money in a meter or something? Seriously?
The right thing to do with something that isn't yours is not to pick it up and sell it. Duh. He will learn a lesson from this.
Well, did he pick it up, remove the SIM card so the owner couldn't just call it and ask about it? Or did he keep it at home waiting for the owner to call and after a few days decided to sell it?
And since I've already stated where I work, I was one of the people who replaced a contractor. I take in somewhere between a third and a half of what the contractor did and you bet your ass I get more done as a full-time employee, even on just the 1 or 2 duties that the contractor had vs. the many more I also have now.
Well, my guess then if you are that good is that in not much time you'll just leave and come back as a contractor yourself, so you get paid what you are worth.
Plenty. In Spain, but I think it's safe to consider this a rather general thing.
And to be honest, with the amount of public workers around here (3 million, total population around 45), there just shouldn't be any contractors, well paid or not.
People having life time jobs make less than people willing to work on a day-by-day basis, with twice the hours, triple the productivity, working in any location the job requires? Really?
I hope this is the first of a series of articles called 'real life eye openers'. To be distributed among public workers worldwide.
And no way in hell the administrator of such a project would ask Slashdot what to do with it.
Why not? Believe it or not there's lots of clever people here (lazy as hell, but clever), and you might actually get good ideas. Just because you ask here doesn't mean you are going to actually do whatever is suggested. But getting feedback for a nerd community can't hurt...
All i can say is it is good that i didnt rely on any of those services. This tells me not to rely on google for any services.
Well, I guess it's google who would tell you to fuck off them. They offer a number of services, some of them are here to stay, and other are experiments (not necessarily tech experiments, they can be business experiments, too) and if they don't go well, they go off the market - same as every other product.
Anyway, feel free to ask google for a full refund on whatever you spent on those services.
An important piece of the article is where is says that this device will come with an "Amazon prime" subscription. Amazon prime provides 2nd day delivery to all orders at no cost.
So why on Earth would someone want to get *physical* stuff from amazon if they have a reader that gets its content electronically? This alone makes me thing that amazon doesn't intend this to be a book reader (even if it can display PDFs). It's probably just another tablet, and amazon doesn't expect people with kindles to buy it...
And yes, I know that amazon ships things other than books. But I think Amazon prime is only worth it for people that get regular shipments from amazon (maybe 2 a month or so), and I can't think of anything other than books that one would buy that often from amazon.
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I assume this is just a theoretical analysis. Well, eventually a team of coders will get to do it... and guess what, they'll use it of themselves.
:-)
I expect this team to have lots of backstabbing fun
Voice navigation more specifically.
Do they allow to have a different language for voice and text already? I know Android supports it, but navigation apparently not. I don't want to use my phone in Spanish just because I am in Spain and need navigation help. But I do need the street names to be understandable which they aren't with the English voice.
It's also the same marketoids that get bonuses for sales that wouldn't have been possible if the coders hadn't put in huge amounts of unpaid overtime modifying production code to include ( non existent) features that the marketoids promised the customer without consulting the production team first.
Well, try to see it another way:
1) It's possible that the marketing team promised those features because it was the only way to sell the product. Your attitude seems to be going to the marketing/sales team and saying "This is what we made, go sell it, even if it's not what you could sell".
2) How is it their fault that you do unpaid overtime? Don't do it or ask for it to be paid.
PS. I'm a developer but I've been around. I've been in a couple of places where the software team wasn't listening about what the potential customers wanted (we were too full of ourselves to listening to sales I guess) and the places went down of course. By the way a potential customer is someone how has the money to buy the product and is able to make a purchasing decision. It's not another developer who think some feature would be cool to have for some reason.
Some companies would not want me giving out the code I've written for them.
The fact that you refuse to share code you written for others to a potential employer says something about you.
The fact that you don't have any code that you haven't written for anyone but yourself also says something about you.
Anyway when I personally interview someone I prefer to show them some code instead and ask for their opinion. There's many possible answers, and they tell a lot about the person: Some of them will say "Oh, this won't compile because...", others "this seems like a function that draws a circle", others will say "this is going to eat a lot of memory", or "this indentation makes me want to shoot someone", etc.
I expect the Spanish to show cojones over this.
We didn't. But I see lots of comments here about the US being a bully. The problem (here) is not that the US is a bully, which isn't new, but that the Spanish government caved.
Also, to add some relevant info, this law was written with the previous government (changed last month) but passed by the new one. And this is a two party country (for being in power purposes I mean, there's lots of parties but doesn't matter much here). So you can see that we are fucked here.
Anyway - we do have a tendency to pass laws that eventually aren't enforced, so this can be just one of them. For example, and this is my car analogy, you can see what we do with traffic signs.
Well, anyone looking to make some big bucks in the next 1-3 year should start learning IPv6. Nothing major needed, just setup a IPv6 network at home, if you can rent an external server with IPv6 in any of the many data centers that already offer it, and play with it.
It's not a lot of effort and there will be many highly paid job offers soon.
If we are going to mess with the calendar no less then let's start with the basics. The day has a length that is related to a significant event so we can leave it as it is.
But do we really want 7 day weeks? I think this needs some thought....:-)
Already I've already seem some development companies demo financial software on striped SSD's as if that's what everyone runs these days.
I think it's a fair assumption if you are selling financial software to a financial company that they will buy a SSD if that's a requirement. Just because developers aren't optimizing for a small footprint these days it doesn't mean there's no optimization being done. It just means that they optimize for something else (development cost, feature set, or whatever their business plan says is most important).
By the way when you see a computer game demo these days, do you think "These guys are on crack if they think everyone's got one of those cards?", or "With these recommended specs what is this written in, VisualBasic?" ?
Even if the Android advertisements would include features, I have a strong feeling it would be something like "Freedom! 1 GHz processor! 128MB RAM!", ie. just listing specs. That isn't interesting. Users don't know what and why.
OK. Then if you were a manufacturer that made phones with say, 32 GB (let's assume that's double the maximum everything else), market it?
Obviously is google so they'll probably do it right... but anyway: There's pages are seem to be updated every few seconds, with zero actual new content (maybe moving things around). For example, each time I look for some open source program filtering by date (last 24 hours) I'm getting results in softwaretopic.informer.com , regarding that program.
So, if they want to focus on freshness of the information, removing 'rehashed' stuff is probably a lot better than just using whatever date is page says it's from.
There's a lot of other crimes that are dangerous to neighbors, why just this one? And no I'm not advocating for all (or none), just asking why this one is singled out.
Don't want to be called stupid? Don't say stupid things.
Want to call someone stupid without consequences? Do it in slashdot.
FTFY.
Are you that stupid
Go fuck yourself or learn to discuss without insulting. Posts are yours are one of the reasons slashdot is doomed.
Please let me know where you abandon, I mean park your car each day. Thanks.
So the bar are places now where one can leave his phone for days and pick it up at his convenience a few days later provided he puts money in a meter or something? Seriously?
The right thing to do with something that isn't yours is not to pick it up and sell it. Duh. He will learn a lesson from this.
Well, did he pick it up, remove the SIM card so the owner couldn't just call it and ask about it? Or did he keep it at home waiting for the owner to call and after a few days decided to sell it?
Is it sold to consumers as a game?
Yes.
And since I've already stated where I work, I was one of the people who replaced a contractor. I take in somewhere between a third and a half of what the contractor did and you bet your ass I get more done as a full-time employee, even on just the 1 or 2 duties that the contractor had vs. the many more I also have now.
Well, my guess then if you are that good is that in not much time you'll just leave and come back as a contractor yourself, so you get paid what you are worth.
Do you have any first-hand experience with this?
Plenty. In Spain, but I think it's safe to consider this a rather general thing.
And to be honest, with the amount of public workers around here (3 million, total population around 45), there just shouldn't be any contractors, well paid or not.
People having life time jobs make less than people willing to work on a day-by-day basis, with twice the hours, triple the productivity, working in any location the job requires? Really?
I hope this is the first of a series of articles called 'real life eye openers'. To be distributed among public workers worldwide.
And no way in hell the administrator of such a project would ask Slashdot what to do with it.
Why not? Believe it or not there's lots of clever people here (lazy as hell, but clever), and you might actually get good ideas. Just because you ask here doesn't mean you are going to actually do whatever is suggested. But getting feedback for a nerd community can't hurt...
I want it to work, but you need to convince some sites to use it first
I'll save a couple of steps by saying "I must be new here".
Take mine too, but for fuck's sake, don't bring that letter size shit to new devices! Do A4 please.
Damn right. Single vendor lockin is never a good idea if avoidable.
It IS avoidable. You can export all your Google stored stuff (pictures, emails, whatever). It's called Google take out.
http://www.dataliberation.org/
Of course most people are lazy and won't do it, then complain if something is lost.
All i can say is it is good that i didnt rely on any of those services. This tells me not to rely on google for any services.
Well, I guess it's google who would tell you to fuck off them. They offer a number of services, some of them are here to stay, and other are experiments (not necessarily tech experiments, they can be business experiments, too) and if they don't go well, they go off the market - same as every other product.
Anyway, feel free to ask google for a full refund on whatever you spent on those services.
An important piece of the article is where is says that this device will come with an "Amazon prime" subscription. Amazon prime provides 2nd day delivery to all orders at no cost.
So why on Earth would someone want to get *physical* stuff from amazon if they have a reader that gets its content electronically? This alone makes me thing that amazon doesn't intend this to be a book reader (even if it can display PDFs). It's probably just another tablet, and amazon doesn't expect people with kindles to buy it...
And yes, I know that amazon ships things other than books. But I think Amazon prime is only worth it for people that get regular shipments from amazon (maybe 2 a month or so), and I can't think of anything other than books that one would buy that often from amazon.