I hate to give any answers when Bennett has already provided several pages of answers to his own question, but...
It failed because success has nothing whatsoever to do with the business model, or economics, or novelty, or any of the things that people traditionally tell you matter. It failed because someone else had a similar product but with better marketing. The hype drove that industry, not issues of economics or convenience. Once Uber become the fashion then everything else was destined to lose.
I don't get a "read more" link. How can I get that so that I don't have to page down many times before I can see the comments. The only other things on slashdot this long as the in depth movie and book reports, which I also wish were just links to another website.
I didn't care about Hasselton that much before, but recently he's been showing up with terrible regularity.
Some of this is frustration over the bait-and-switch I think. We see what looks like an interesting subject in the RSS feed, then when we look at the article then its disappointing. Similar to the disappointment of being sent to a paywalled site, or a click-bait site, etc. It's a continuing reminder of the decline and fall of Slashdot.
And then there's the question of how this guys sneaks past the moderators and editors. Does he have blackmail material on them, is he a part of the inner circle of friends that run the place, or what?
No one abuses slashdot as much as he does though. No one else turns slashdot into their private blog service.
Every other poster typically has a short summary (as this article does) which is then followed by a link to a longer article on some other site. However in this case the short summary is followed by an extremely long article in-line. Why is Hasselton exempt from the editing that other posters are given?
And people do not know in advance if they're getting rickrolled by Hasselton or not. We don't see the author's name in the RSS feed, only the subject.
We have specialized web sites devoted to publishing a bloggers rambling stream of consciousness posts. Slashdot has never been about being a blogging site but instead a site that presented news followed by responses and commentary from readers. Whether you like Hasselton or hate him, he is definitely abusing the Slashdot service.
Aren't there web sites other than slashdot that lets someone post their blogs rather than having to run their own servers? If not, someone should create one, and call it something like "the spot for blogs" or "blogspot.com" for short. Then we can isolate blogs in their own niche of the internet separate and distinct from the news part of the internet.
Cleaning up after the previous group is normal, even if the previous group was good. Commercial software always has unreasonable deadlines, which is more important than quality. There is never time later to go and clean stuff up. So open source, in many cases but not all, tends to be a bit better because more time can be taken. Though open source can be bad too, since it's a part time hobby.
From my experience, the self-taught programmers and those who "learned" in high school absolutely are very bad at good programming style.
Ie, look at physics. I had none in high school, other people did take it, but we both took intro physics and neither one found it easy. Testing out if it is not a favor since the later classes assume you went through proper college level rigor.
If by some rare fluke someone really does know the material then its still better to take that class and get the easy grade as a freshman when they'll be inundated with stress from all the other classes. Entering college is a massive culture shock, especially for the smart students who slid through high school without expending effort.
How do you prove they know the content? Someone who's an expert in JavaScript may be totally unprepared for a class that's in a reasonable language. Plus so many of these students are arrogant and insist that they know it all, but ultimately end up not doing to well (not because they can't handle the material but because they think they know it all and don't study). MIT taught their (hard) intro class in Scheme partially because it was very unlikely for any intro student to be familiar with it (plus they still have not degraded themselves to become a trade school like most universities with CS programs).
When I proctored the beginning programming class in early 80s, those students with some prior experience had a tougher time of it. Many were adamant that they already know how to program but it was all Basic, and they were confused by introductory concepts like structured programming, recursion, etc. The class had no curve though and was pass/fail. Actually the curve was very rare for me in college, most profs stated the requirements and if you met them you got the grade, and if everyone got an A then that was ok, though it was rough when the prof was tough so once class there were only two of us out of 30 with As.
I've seen a similar thing in math where students who tested out of beginning calculus were struggling to keep up in the second class/
Because it sounds like a joke. The pre-printed cardboard probably fits only one phone type, the response on most phones is not good enough to do head tracking very well, network response is too slow and this completely depends on that since there is no local computer to do the processing. I can barely get my phone to search on google in a responsive manner.
On the other hand Oculus Rift sounds like a joke also.
I don't hate him. But that doesn't mean I want him yammering on. Post a short summary, like almost every slashdot article, then include a link to the longer blog post. It's not hard. I'd rather have the click bait.
Is there a significant difference between Assange and Wikileaks? There used to be but then there was a falling out and nasty accusations tossed around. If this were a corporation that decided it would be a swell idea to make a statue of the chairman of the board, one would think at the very least that there was a lot of ass kissing going on and probably that the CoB was in on the plan.
That's why most customs stations now feature a special security check. An agent taps lightly on every statue going through customs, whispers "we're here", and then waits a bit to see if anything happens.
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I hate to give any answers when Bennett has already provided several pages of answers to his own question, but...
It failed because success has nothing whatsoever to do with the business model, or economics, or novelty, or any of the things that people traditionally tell you matter. It failed because someone else had a similar product but with better marketing. The hype drove that industry, not issues of economics or convenience. Once Uber become the fashion then everything else was destined to lose.
I get all this from the RSS feed, no link to click on. There is no hint whatsoever that it's a Bennett posting until after the article has shown up.
A tedious ill-informed windbag who hasn't heard of blogs.
But it's still the wrong word. Droll means amusing.
I don't get a "read more" link. How can I get that so that I don't have to page down many times before I can see the comments. The only other things on slashdot this long as the in depth movie and book reports, which I also wish were just links to another website.
I didn't care about Hasselton that much before, but recently he's been showing up with terrible regularity.
Some of this is frustration over the bait-and-switch I think. We see what looks like an interesting subject in the RSS feed, then when we look at the article then its disappointing. Similar to the disappointment of being sent to a paywalled site, or a click-bait site, etc. It's a continuing reminder of the decline and fall of Slashdot.
And then there's the question of how this guys sneaks past the moderators and editors. Does he have blackmail material on them, is he a part of the inner circle of friends that run the place, or what?
No one abuses slashdot as much as he does though. No one else turns slashdot into their private blog service.
Every other poster typically has a short summary (as this article does) which is then followed by a link to a longer article on some other site. However in this case the short summary is followed by an extremely long article in-line. Why is Hasselton exempt from the editing that other posters are given?
And people do not know in advance if they're getting rickrolled by Hasselton or not. We don't see the author's name in the RSS feed, only the subject.
We have specialized web sites devoted to publishing a bloggers rambling stream of consciousness posts. Slashdot has never been about being a blogging site but instead a site that presented news followed by responses and commentary from readers. Whether you like Hasselton or hate him, he is definitely abusing the Slashdot service.
Aren't there web sites other than slashdot that lets someone post their blogs rather than having to run their own servers? If not, someone should create one, and call it something like "the spot for blogs" or "blogspot.com" for short. Then we can isolate blogs in their own niche of the internet separate and distinct from the news part of the internet.
Cleaning up after the previous group is normal, even if the previous group was good. Commercial software always has unreasonable deadlines, which is more important than quality. There is never time later to go and clean stuff up. So open source, in many cases but not all, tends to be a bit better because more time can be taken. Though open source can be bad too, since it's a part time hobby.
From my experience, the self-taught programmers and those who "learned" in high school absolutely are very bad at good programming style.
Ie, look at physics. I had none in high school, other people did take it, but we both took intro physics and neither one found it easy. Testing out if it is not a favor since the later classes assume you went through proper college level rigor.
If by some rare fluke someone really does know the material then its still better to take that class and get the easy grade as a freshman when they'll be inundated with stress from all the other classes. Entering college is a massive culture shock, especially for the smart students who slid through high school without expending effort.
How do you prove they know the content? Someone who's an expert in JavaScript may be totally unprepared for a class that's in a reasonable language. Plus so many of these students are arrogant and insist that they know it all, but ultimately end up not doing to well (not because they can't handle the material but because they think they know it all and don't study). MIT taught their (hard) intro class in Scheme partially because it was very unlikely for any intro student to be familiar with it (plus they still have not degraded themselves to become a trade school like most universities with CS programs).
Harcourt Mudd College.
Some places it seems to be, other places it's not used at all. When it is used it seems to be for lower division classes mostly.
When I proctored the beginning programming class in early 80s, those students with some prior experience had a tougher time of it. Many were adamant that they already know how to program but it was all Basic, and they were confused by introductory concepts like structured programming, recursion, etc. The class had no curve though and was pass/fail. Actually the curve was very rare for me in college, most profs stated the requirements and if you met them you got the grade, and if everyone got an A then that was ok, though it was rough when the prof was tough so once class there were only two of us out of 30 with As.
I've seen a similar thing in math where students who tested out of beginning calculus were struggling to keep up in the second class/
"We only engaged in immoral activities because the alternative was less profitable. So you can see that we had no choice but to comply."
Because it sounds like a joke. The pre-printed cardboard probably fits only one phone type, the response on most phones is not good enough to do head tracking very well, network response is too slow and this completely depends on that since there is no local computer to do the processing. I can barely get my phone to search on google in a responsive manner.
On the other hand Oculus Rift sounds like a joke also.
Um, why? No, I mean zee!
Except that Rick Astley was slightly interesting, and promises never to run around or let us down.
Quick Slashdot game of the day: "Bennett Haselton" is obviously an anagram of something. What is it?
I replaced the battery on my Android, but I had to put it back together with duct tape which makes the touch screen hard to use.
Sometimes even a geek needs to feel pretty, no matter what gender.
I don't hate him. But that doesn't mean I want him yammering on. Post a short summary, like almost every slashdot article, then include a link to the longer blog post. It's not hard. I'd rather have the click bait.
Is there a significant difference between Assange and Wikileaks? There used to be but then there was a falling out and nasty accusations tossed around. If this were a corporation that decided it would be a swell idea to make a statue of the chairman of the board, one would think at the very least that there was a lot of ass kissing going on and probably that the CoB was in on the plan.
That's why most customs stations now feature a special security check. An agent taps lightly on every statue going through customs, whispers "we're here", and then waits a bit to see if anything happens.
There exists the possibility that someone knows how IT works and yet still does not approve.
Your argument would make sense if Keurig was the only machine or the best machine that did this. But it's not.