Dying breed I know (according to "markers"), but when I want to play a game, I use a PC, because the screen is larger, and the input devices are better.
And also when I'm out and about, I'm actually there to do something or enjoy something, not look at my phone.
I don't care how many humanities courses you take, you're not going to take away anything significant from history or philosophy or ethics or civics or music, when going to MIT. It's just not gonna happen. There isn't time, it's NOT the reason you go there, and has jack shit to do with the value of your degree.
Everyone's already got 800 or close on the verbal portion of their SAT, nobody's going to learn how to be a better writer or communicate more effectively by taking a crappy HASS-D.
One thing jumped out at me in the article in the third link... technetium's abundance looks way too high. It doesn't even exist on Earth, yet it's shown on the order of Molybdenum and Tin in the graph of relative abundance of elements in the universe.
I'm not a cosmologist and Google's no help... anyone want to chime in?
I am not in the USA so also got the "we can't log you in" message in a new window. If you now click the blue "OK" button instead of just closing the window then it provides you with a URL in the form
htttp://static.ak.facebook.com/connect/xd_arbiter/fjk6sKjilfjiowj.js?#
and a scary message in 12-point bold red
"SECURITY WARNING: Please treat the URL above as you would your password and do not share it with anyone."
They don't lock session-specific URLs to a single IP address? And maybe these URLs don't expire often?
Not an axe, axes are not used to split wood. That is a splitting maul, mauls and wedges are used to split wood. And that is actually probably closer to a froe than a maul.
These are management issues, not developer issues. Yes, as a developer myself I like being able to use my own judgement. But I don't get paid to work on my own projects, I get paid to build for others - and frankly, the client's management is out of whack if they don't make the important decisions themselves, and I'm out of whack if I don't try to make sure they're informed enough to do it.
And the whole thing about being told to cut corners just to get stuff out the door... that's not an ethical decision, it's a business decision.
Sit, stand, kneel. A simple way to keep the rabble comfortable for those awfully long Latin masses. I worked out that they were onto something one day when I decided I needed to do more than sit all day. Now I sit, stand, and kneel (kneeling chair) at an adjustable desk. I even cross myself when I feel particularly silly.
I mean it's a great opportunity, but whoever employed you ought to have had their heads examined letting you take all that responsibility (and risk) like that.
I finished the last revision nearly a decade ago. Haven't touched it since, and it's still running today.
I had a job where I did everything once, wrote a full-blown ERP system for hundreds of users, all by myself. Everything. Though I was salaried, sometimes I worked whole weekends, or to 2 in the morning - not because I had to, but because I wanted to. No politics, no being just a cog in a machine, no project management, no BS. Just me and code, giving people what they needed and making their jobs easier. It was my dream job, my first and best job, and I've never had anything like it since.
This DevOps movement the author speaks of... I've never seen it, not in all the years I've looked to find it again. He may complain that it's bad, bad for the industry, but I would take it in a heartbeat.
Is that what I was, a DevOp? I miss it so much I can taste it.
Enough of this talk of efficiency and carbon neutrality and environmentalism - in the long run none of these measures will do jack shit for the real problem.
Environmental catastrophe is not inevitable. Developed for god knows what reason, we've had the solution for years. Terrible, but costs almost nothing, and more humane than war.
Mark my words we shall see this come to pass, since restraint is against everyone's moral and religious views.
Time was - companies like this would give this sort of stuff away to get [younger] people hooked on these technologies. Would Microsoft want to get kids hooked into nice wholesome activities like MS-SQL, C#,.net or VB - or let them pick up stuff like LAMP an Python from their friends on the street.
Giving the stuff away is a way to groom the next up-and-coming generation into drinking your Kool-Aid. If they don't do this - they have only themselves to blame when the next generation grows up to be FOSS zellots...
No, sir, and LAMP doesn't have any of its own Kool-Aid drinkers.
That shitty database MySQL...
And f*ck Python.
Actually, Python's great. Lots of brilliant work posted to Project Euler in Python. Just... scripting languages aren't the greatest for large, real applications that change. Especially if you don't want to have to cover absolutely everything with unit tests.
Download Paradise Lost onto your phone and have a listen while you're driving to pass the time. Start with Book 4, Part 2.
I'm not religious, but Milton was highly intelligent and gave a lot of thought to questions like these; I found his work interesting and highly entertaining.
You like Tolkien, right? Milton's work is the great-grandaddy of Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, and every bit as good.
what will happen when everyone not only has the ability to manufacture everything they need, but also an inexhaustible and independent source of power?
for the article, but the basic premise is correct; major steps remain to make programming better, improvements that cannot simply be dismissed as adding training wheels for the unskilled.
For example - code may remain text-based, but it desperately needs to be decoupled from the file system.
Slashdot Mirror
who wants to pay for a crappy phone game?
Dying breed I know (according to "markers"), but when I want to play a game, I use a PC, because the screen is larger, and the input devices are better.
And also when I'm out and about, I'm actually there to do something or enjoy something, not look at my phone.
A human can live healthy with 0 carbs intake for an entire year, providing they use fat to substitute for energy intake.
... but you fail to mention that this causes irreversible damage by making them a brittle diabetic.
Fuq disqus.
when growth finally levels off some marketing jackass declares it dead.
I don't care how many humanities courses you take, you're not going to take away anything significant from history or philosophy or ethics or civics or music, when going to MIT. It's just not gonna happen. There isn't time, it's NOT the reason you go there, and has jack shit to do with the value of your degree.
Everyone's already got 800 or close on the verbal portion of their SAT, nobody's going to learn how to be a better writer or communicate more effectively by taking a crappy HASS-D.
Look closer at that plot, it looks like there is no dot for technetium, it is skipped over with the next dot being for z=44, ruthenium.
Damn, you're right.
"Let's just ignore that point since it's off the chart."
Boo.
One thing jumped out at me in the article in the third link... technetium's abundance looks way too high. It doesn't even exist on Earth, yet it's shown on the order of Molybdenum and Tin in the graph of relative abundance of elements in the universe.
I'm not a cosmologist and Google's no help... anyone want to chime in?
In an ideal world, Ooho would replace the 50 billion plastic bottles that Americans consume each year.
Sorry, but I've never consumed a plastic bottle.
It's not a particularly interesting question, either.
I am not in the USA so also got the "we can't log you in" message in a new window. If you now click the blue "OK" button instead of just closing the window then it provides you with a URL in the form htttp://static.ak.facebook.com/connect/xd_arbiter/fjk6sKjilfjiowj.js?# and a scary message in 12-point bold red "SECURITY WARNING: Please treat the URL above as you would your password and do not share it with anyone."
They don't lock session-specific URLs to a single IP address? And maybe these URLs don't expire often?
Wow, FB is more hackable then I thought.
All for performance, I'm sure.
Not an axe, axes are not used to split wood. That is a splitting maul, mauls and wedges are used to split wood. And that is actually probably closer to a froe than a maul.
It's nothing like a froe.
These are management issues, not developer issues. Yes, as a developer myself I like being able to use my own judgement. But I don't get paid to work on my own projects, I get paid to build for others - and frankly, the client's management is out of whack if they don't make the important decisions themselves, and I'm out of whack if I don't try to make sure they're informed enough to do it.
And the whole thing about being told to cut corners just to get stuff out the door... that's not an ethical decision, it's a business decision.
Sit, stand, kneel. A simple way to keep the rabble comfortable for those awfully long Latin masses. I worked out that they were onto something one day when I decided I needed to do more than sit all day. Now I sit, stand, and kneel (kneeling chair) at an adjustable desk. I even cross myself when I feel particularly silly.
I mean it's a great opportunity, but whoever employed you ought to have had their heads examined letting you take all that responsibility (and risk) like that.
I finished the last revision nearly a decade ago. Haven't touched it since, and it's still running today.
I had a job where I did everything once, wrote a full-blown ERP system for hundreds of users, all by myself. Everything. Though I was salaried, sometimes I worked whole weekends, or to 2 in the morning - not because I had to, but because I wanted to. No politics, no being just a cog in a machine, no project management, no BS. Just me and code, giving people what they needed and making their jobs easier. It was my dream job, my first and best job, and I've never had anything like it since.
This DevOps movement the author speaks of... I've never seen it, not in all the years I've looked to find it again. He may complain that it's bad, bad for the industry, but I would take it in a heartbeat.
Is that what I was, a DevOp? I miss it so much I can taste it.
Enough of this talk of efficiency and carbon neutrality and environmentalism - in the long run none of these measures will do jack shit for the real problem.
Environmental catastrophe is not inevitable. Developed for god knows what reason, we've had the solution for years. Terrible, but costs almost nothing, and more humane than war.
Mark my words we shall see this come to pass, since restraint is against everyone's moral and religious views.
Happens all the time.
Most of the games there - even the very best of them - are totally free, and never ask users for money.
I feel the author is offering up his own kind of snobbery.
Time was - companies like this would give this sort of stuff away to get [younger] people hooked on these technologies. Would Microsoft want to get kids hooked into nice wholesome activities like MS-SQL, C#, .net or VB - or let them pick up stuff like LAMP an Python from their friends on the street.
Giving the stuff away is a way to groom the next up-and-coming generation into drinking your Kool-Aid. If they don't do this - they have only themselves to blame when the next generation grows up to be FOSS zellots...
No, sir, and LAMP doesn't have any of its own Kool-Aid drinkers.
That shitty database MySQL...
And f*ck Python.
Actually, Python's great. Lots of brilliant work posted to Project Euler in Python. Just... scripting languages aren't the greatest for large, real applications that change. Especially if you don't want to have to cover absolutely everything with unit tests.
Yeah LAMP is used everywhere, but it's overrated.
How long is your commute?
Download Paradise Lost onto your phone and have a listen while you're driving to pass the time. Start with Book 4, Part 2.
I'm not religious, but Milton was highly intelligent and gave a lot of thought to questions like these; I found his work interesting and highly entertaining.
You like Tolkien, right? Milton's work is the great-grandaddy of Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, and every bit as good.
And that's not behavior fit for a company that's poised to take over the future
What does 'poised to take over the future' mean, exactly? And on who's authority is 'fit behavior' defined?
Not yours, I'd wager.
Can't wait for the Rift for this!
Oh, wait, FB bought it.
what will happen when everyone not only has the ability to manufacture everything they need, but also an inexhaustible and independent source of power?
Hint: it ends very, very badly.
As much as their purchase of Oculus Rift bothered me, I think I can see where it's going now.
Some day, everyone will have a VR camera on their cellphones or Google Glass. Yahoo will try to catch up, but it won't matter.
for the article, but the basic premise is correct; major steps remain to make programming better, improvements that cannot simply be dismissed as adding training wheels for the unskilled.
For example - code may remain text-based, but it desperately needs to be decoupled from the file system.