I was like, ooh, never heard of Minecraft, then I watched the youtube video and was all, ooh I want to play. And I bet 1K others are all doing the same thing right now 'cuz the site's on its knees.
You mean, asking programmers to work 11 hours a day just to keep their job is just a good way to get rid of your best employees. Insults to the workforce generally work exactly opposite of "survival of the fittest" - the fittest are the first to leave, because they can get a new job just like that. The worst programmers are the last to leave, because they're glad they even have a job.
Again, it's all back to definition- science does answer if you only allow us define exactly what human rights are in the first place. And if the definition is one that science can't handle (i.e. the assertion becomes non-falsifiable), then the whole discussion sails off into irrelevance.
A common misinterpretation of paradigms is the belief that the discovery of paradigm shifts and the dynamic nature of science (with its many opportunities for subjective judgments by scientists) is a case for relativism: the view that all kinds of belief systems are equal, such that magic, religious concepts or pseudoscience would be of equal working value to true science. Kuhn vehemently denies this interpretation and states that when a scientific paradigm is replaced by a new one, albeit through a complex social process, the new one is always better, not just different.
How we reject and defeat all the philosophical and religious assertions that we can know nothing, is the very definition of science.
All the so-called great philosophy questions can be answered definitively if you allow for the terms to be properly defined. The profession of the philosopher is to refuse adequate definition to these questions, so that they are unanswerable by design; their work is no better or more useful than religions assertions.
Some port authorities do mandatory searches and automatically imprison you (sometimes indefinitely, with no right to trial) for carrying weapons of any kind on your ship. Generally this occurs around areas where there are pirates.
That's really odd because I made a point to fly without ID (a few years ago) to make sure we still had the right to do it, and I didn't have any problems aside from being searched more thoroughly. Have the laws changed? I was under the impression that a denial of that sort violated federal law.
Sorry, but if an application wasn't designed with testing in mind, *especially* when it's had a bunch of developers doing whatever they want, to cover it with testing it's faster to write it from scratch (this will include re-designing the database). I've seen no exceptions. If you can't justify a complete rewrite, you can't in good conscience justify adding tests in general.
If you do test, don't cheap out and just say "NUnit" - all the free products have really crappy interfaces. BUY something. If you're a Microsoft shop, go with the built-in testing features.
If it's 300 students in a big lecture hall it just doesn't matter if there are laptops. The point when a laptop does matter is when the classroom is around a size that the professor only needs to take a few paces and ask the student to put it away at a normal voice level. And really how hard is it for the teacher to clearly state their preferred classroom policy on the first day? What need is there of debate, or a uniform policy?
After I graduated from MIT and went out into the "real world", everyone was like, we'll hire you because you can do anything. And if there was any truth in that, it came mostly as self-fulfilling prophecy; I owe much of my success to the simple faith my first bosses gave me. Tell anyone that they'll be great in some way they haven't yet realized and get them to really believe it and see what happens. The effect of a high-value degree is a double-edged sword, though, as it can set internal expectations that are extremely difficult to shed. I have to say, looking back, the effect of the education itself was quite inconsequential.
I don't understand how the entire country can be having this conversation about reducing spending without any mention of the defense budget. Last time I checked it was nearly twice all other federal discretionary spending combined, without even counting the wars. And it's still massively disproportionate to the rest of the world. Seriously. No mention of it, at all, on news, radio, or paper? Not even NPR? I don't get it.
The donation system isn't working out because it's not INTEGRATED with the Wikipedia workflow. What is it with the pleading picture that pops up everyone once in a while? How stupid can you get? Just give users the opportunity to become "paying members" while they are going about their normal business. Put a link for "become a paying member (it's cheap!)" at the header of every edit page. Make the cost small, like $5/month, and automatically recurring. You wouldn't need to offer any privileges to being a paid member other than allowing users to show it in their status. I bet you nearly every single one of those 1%'ers that do most of the work would member up, and many more besides.
I've been arguing with customers for years that moving thick clients to web applications almost always makes deep, unacceptable sacrifices to basic usability, but everyone's all "web 2.0" this and "cloud" that. Look at how amazing these JavaScript frameworks are. We can do anything a thick client can do. Oh, really? Pfff. Not from where I'm looking. Forget the users, I guess.
Could we be seeing the beginnings of collective efforts that become so powerful that superpowers try to fight them... and LOSE? We talk about Chinese control of the internet, and worry about net neutrality, but I wonder if we're not all sitting on a sleeping giant, one that's already grown past a point of no return and has yet to truly swing its club.
It would be a mistake for you to assume everyone uses computers the same way you do. Children are industrious and youth offers a critical window for acquiring fluency for nearly everything. Very few people can make money playing baseball, but anyone with real computer skills can put food on the table. And if he spends hours and hours reading Wikipedia or starts learning how to code, that's huge - look at that, a budding scientist, programmer, or researcher wielding the greatest tools for learning and knowledge that man has ever created! Who knows what he'll do? I certainly wouldn't deny the little guy.
It has been my experience that frameworks such as these frequently make trivial exercises nontrivial, for the sake of implementing an idea or serving a need in a way that most would call ill-conceived, bloated, far out of the realm of sanity. How much information in this book would anyone call timeless truth? How much is instead incidental complexity, gotchas, meaningless detail, and syntax of usage? In software, beware the pursuit of an academic objective for its own sake without any regard to practicality or usability.
A simple design that can achieve great complexity, that's beauty; a greatly complex design that can achieve only simple behavior, that's humor.
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Guess I'm out of the loop, but this site is so abysmally slow that "most popular indie game of 2010" didn't exactly come to mind when I saw it.
I was like, ooh, never heard of Minecraft, then I watched the youtube video and was all, ooh I want to play. And I bet 1K others are all doing the same thing right now 'cuz the site's on its knees.
You mean, asking programmers to work 11 hours a day just to keep their job is just a good way to get rid of your best employees. Insults to the workforce generally work exactly opposite of "survival of the fittest" - the fittest are the first to leave, because they can get a new job just like that. The worst programmers are the last to leave, because they're glad they even have a job.
Again, it's all back to definition- science does answer if you only allow us define exactly what human rights are in the first place. And if the definition is one that science can't handle (i.e. the assertion becomes non-falsifiable), then the whole discussion sails off into irrelevance.
I quote from Wikipedia's article on paradigm shift:
A common misinterpretation of paradigms is the belief that the discovery of paradigm shifts and the dynamic nature of science (with its many opportunities for subjective judgments by scientists) is a case for relativism: the view that all kinds of belief systems are equal, such that magic, religious concepts or pseudoscience would be of equal working value to true science. Kuhn vehemently denies this interpretation and states that when a scientific paradigm is replaced by a new one, albeit through a complex social process, the new one is always better, not just different.
How we reject and defeat all the philosophical and religious assertions that we can know nothing, is the very definition of science.
This reminds me of a comic about an engineer at a philosopher conference.
All the so-called great philosophy questions can be answered definitively if you allow for the terms to be properly defined. The profession of the philosopher is to refuse adequate definition to these questions, so that they are unanswerable by design; their work is no better or more useful than religions assertions.
Some port authorities do mandatory searches and automatically imprison you (sometimes indefinitely, with no right to trial) for carrying weapons of any kind on your ship. Generally this occurs around areas where there are pirates.
Wow. + Informative, but very saddening. Thanks.
That's really odd because I made a point to fly without ID (a few years ago) to make sure we still had the right to do it, and I didn't have any problems aside from being searched more thoroughly. Have the laws changed? I was under the impression that a denial of that sort violated federal law.
I'm 95% sure that the homeless man with the golden voice is a sociopath.
Sorry, but if an application wasn't designed with testing in mind, *especially* when it's had a bunch of developers doing whatever they want, to cover it with testing it's faster to write it from scratch (this will include re-designing the database). I've seen no exceptions. If you can't justify a complete rewrite, you can't in good conscience justify adding tests in general.
If you do test, don't cheap out and just say "NUnit" - all the free products have really crappy interfaces. BUY something. If you're a Microsoft shop, go with the built-in testing features.
If it's 300 students in a big lecture hall it just doesn't matter if there are laptops. The point when a laptop does matter is when the classroom is around a size that the professor only needs to take a few paces and ask the student to put it away at a normal voice level. And really how hard is it for the teacher to clearly state their preferred classroom policy on the first day? What need is there of debate, or a uniform policy?
After I graduated from MIT and went out into the "real world", everyone was like, we'll hire you because you can do anything. And if there was any truth in that, it came mostly as self-fulfilling prophecy; I owe much of my success to the simple faith my first bosses gave me. Tell anyone that they'll be great in some way they haven't yet realized and get them to really believe it and see what happens. The effect of a high-value degree is a double-edged sword, though, as it can set internal expectations that are extremely difficult to shed. I have to say, looking back, the effect of the education itself was quite inconsequential.
I don't understand how the entire country can be having this conversation about reducing spending without any mention of the defense budget. Last time I checked it was nearly twice all other federal discretionary spending combined, without even counting the wars. And it's still massively disproportionate to the rest of the world. Seriously. No mention of it, at all, on news, radio, or paper? Not even NPR? I don't get it.
The donation system isn't working out because it's not INTEGRATED with the Wikipedia workflow. What is it with the pleading picture that pops up everyone once in a while? How stupid can you get? Just give users the opportunity to become "paying members" while they are going about their normal business. Put a link for "become a paying member (it's cheap!)" at the header of every edit page. Make the cost small, like $5/month, and automatically recurring. You wouldn't need to offer any privileges to being a paid member other than allowing users to show it in their status. I bet you nearly every single one of those 1%'ers that do most of the work would member up, and many more besides.
I've been arguing with customers for years that moving thick clients to web applications almost always makes deep, unacceptable sacrifices to basic usability, but everyone's all "web 2.0" this and "cloud" that. Look at how amazing these JavaScript frameworks are. We can do anything a thick client can do. Oh, really? Pfff. Not from where I'm looking. Forget the users, I guess.
The only time I use caps lock is when I unintentionally hit it. I've been prying that and the insert key off my keyboards for years.
Thing is, we do massacre civilians; our history (US), current and otherwise, is full of senseless atrocity.
Could we be seeing the beginnings of collective efforts that become so powerful that superpowers try to fight them... and LOSE? We talk about Chinese control of the internet, and worry about net neutrality, but I wonder if we're not all sitting on a sleeping giant, one that's already grown past a point of no return and has yet to truly swing its club.
I always thought programming would be an ideal industry to bring back the idea of a Guild.
No matter what the pay scale, only the inexperienced and those lacking talent put up with the kind of crap that "we just need a programmer" leads to.
Gold? Cinnamon? It's a delicious discovery for science! See, it's not toxic at all, we can drink a ton of it!
You're right, wrong form. Better said with limericks.
It would be a mistake for you to assume everyone uses computers the same way you do. Children are industrious and youth offers a critical window for acquiring fluency for nearly everything. Very few people can make money playing baseball, but anyone with real computer skills can put food on the table. And if he spends hours and hours reading Wikipedia or starts learning how to code, that's huge - look at that, a budding scientist, programmer, or researcher wielding the greatest tools for learning and knowledge that man has ever created! Who knows what he'll do? I certainly wouldn't deny the little guy.
It has been my experience that frameworks such as these frequently make trivial exercises nontrivial, for the sake of implementing an idea or serving a need in a way that most would call ill-conceived, bloated, far out of the realm of sanity. How much information in this book would anyone call timeless truth? How much is instead incidental complexity, gotchas, meaningless detail, and syntax of usage? In software, beware the pursuit of an academic objective for its own sake without any regard to practicality or usability.
A simple design that can achieve great complexity, that's beauty; a greatly complex design that can achieve only simple behavior, that's humor.