As someone who has grown his hair long twice in the last four years for donation purposes, I feel like the opposite could also be said.
This probably says more about women liking a guy *with a mind of his own* than just another robot. Buck the trends... stand out a little bit... be proud of it. Women love that shit.
Imagine your the head of a major energy corporation and at a dinner party one night, you get to chatting with some software engineer who works on things that are used on computers all over the world.
It seems feasible that sooner or later you might talk about algorithm efficiency, and the guy ends up saying something like "yeah, I suppose if I did *that* instead, it would probably use more power."
So the energy company dude pays some engineer handsomly to toss is a little extra waste. That ineffcient algorithm is now silently generating $5million/year in *free* revenue.
An interesting thing happened to me the other day.
I do use Facebook on occasion, generally as a way to aggregate a few of my interests into one place I can go for articles and such.
So the other day I go on and all of a sudden there are several "Suggested Posts" promoting engagement rings. Eh? Really? I have not been looking for engagement rings online or anywhere else, so I found it odd these ads (again, not just one, there were several from different jewelers) were targeting me.
I go ask my girlfriend, "hey, were you looking at engagement rings on my computer?" She had an awkward look about her and went on to say that she wasn't, *but*, she was looking at them on her computer at work.
Interesting.
We are not labeled on FB as "In a relationship", and any posts between us are usually because we were at the same housewarming party or something (along with a bunch of other people). Despite the fact that we aren't obviously in a relationship, FB still knows that I need to be seeing ads for engagement rings. While I don't intend on proposing to her anytime soon, the idea is still there, so it's not like the targeted ad was innaccurate.
Maybe this guy in TFA has a mother who is plus-sized and her birthday is in two weeks? These types of inferences are happening more and more, so don't be surprised when you see an ad for a product that you would never buy *for yourself* because maybe their goal is to get you to buy for that person close to you that they know you would want to buy something for.
I think it's interesting that you're not willing to use Adblock but you're willing to use Noscript.
...it certainly feels pretty unethical for me to block the only way they have to recoup that money.
In my case, the website I run for our family's small business generally relies on users having javascript enabled. I don't do anything nasty with it... I use it for AJAX content updates for a slick search feature that allows you to browse the entire catalog without endless page reloads. I use it for the checkout process so that you can login or create a new account from there without having to go to some other page and fill out forms to create an account. I use it to allow you to modify your cart from the checkout page without having to go back to the cart page.
I do all these things as a convenience to the user, and as the only developer our business has, the time it takes me is not trivial, so forgive me if I am a bit annoyed when someone describes their unwillingness to use Adblock due to ethical reasons and at the same time say they use Noscript.
Yes, the problem for me is the advertisers and other asshole out there using Javascript for annoying purposes on sites that generally don't serve any real purpose other than to make their owners advertising money. I am totally fine with you wanting your browsing experience not to be corrupted by these people, just keep in mind that there are in fact sites out there that may also be using these tools *for your benefit*.
...and for the record, our site does not serve any advertisements other than our own (and never will).
Right now, this country hates itself. The political divide between Red and Blue is preventing us from fixing the things that need fixing. If this is the case, then it's not far off that secessation is going to be much more strongly considered by some states/regions.
It's difficult to read something along the lines of societal collapse and not see the writing on the wall.
Speaking of non-violent crime, that's basically the problem in Oakland. Yes, it's a big city with poor crime statistics, but the areas it does the worst in are non-violent types, things like car theft and robbery.
One of these days that little bastard child of a city that is Oakland (at least compared to the *perceptions* outsiders have of it in relation to neighboring San Jose and San Fran) is going to get on its feet and become that proud and honorable place to live again.
I get the sense that this is a goverment project that is going to be viewed as highly successful, especially with that small of a budget. I am okay with this, Oakland is due for a makeover.
Do you think you're right? I'm not sure if you are, considering they have also played on Monday, Thursday, and Saturday (probably some Fridays and potentially other days as well if you go back earlier than 1950).
Since the number of times they've played on days other than Sunday are fewer, maybe they're like 5-0 on Saturday, which means Saturday would be their highest winning percentage day, especially considering there have been a lot of terrible Sundays.
Pick two random dates between 1950 (or earlier... arbitrary cut-off) and today. Then go to that date and find all the sports scores from that day. Do some random math on those scores independently. Then take those two results and do some more random math between the two.
Add in more Nth days as you please.
That enough entropy for you? I guess it might not be. I suppose you could also factor in which days of the week the Cleveland Browns are likely to win on, since that is definitely random.
What I am curious about is why someone is trying to run an e-commerce site on shared hosting.
If you build a brick and mortar store, do you also go cut-rate and have the walls built by some highschooler with a hammer and a saw?
If you intend to make money selling things online, do yourself and your customers a favor and fork out the necessary $50-100/mo (and up, depending on traffic) for proper hosting. I have been a customer of Nexcess for a handful of years, and not only are their servers highly tuned for the Magento platform, their support is fantastic, so I'm giving them a free plug. Not only will you have proper iron, you also have access to their support teams, which can be worth the hosting cost alone in many cases.
I don't have any experience with Drupal specifically, my main platform is Magento which is also known to be a big resource hog. This is not an unsolvable problem, though. There are plenty of caching libraries out there that resolve the issue of performance, some of them are built into the platform, some are server side, and some are third-party additions.
TL;DR invest in your business and stop trying to do things cut-rate.
In my experience of building e-commerce sites (over roughly five years) the actual *building* of the site isn't the difficult part. I've taken a barebones install of Magento (or Prestashop, etc) and themed the front-end, by myself, in just two/three weeks. Looking at this site, I can't imagine the front-end would take any longer.
The proverbial iceberg, though, is what you're looking at. The bits that take the most time are all the logistics bits like shipping, payment processing, which customers can purchase what, how are discounts handled, tiered pricing, product entry, admin training, etc. I would guess that 90% of my conversations with clients over the years involve some logistics bit, not whether the buttons on the checkout page are the correct color of blue.
And then to top all that off, you have the infrastructure to worry about. You aren't necessarily dealing with a web server and that's it. You might have a cluster of web servers that need to talk to a cluster of SOLR servers. You might have to implement solutions for payment processing servers.
In the end, these items all take a great amount of time not because of how complex they are to implement, but instead it has everything to do with the *people* that are organizing this information. Hell, can you just imagine the nightmare it must have been to get all the insurance companies to provide all their data/plans in a standardized format so they could be integrated to the store front?
In the end, though not unexpectedly, they ran out of time and testing was shat upon. Every relatively complex site I have ever built or worked on has had testing shat upon. Now that I have just a single site that I develop and work on, testing happens all the time since I am my own boss as far as deciding what I need to work on. For every other project out there where the developers aren't the ones that even have a say in what areas are focused on, testing will always be a second-class citizen.
Until such revolutionary change comes about in medicine, choosing not to vaccinate a child *is* particularly evil, as it endangers not only the child but everyone around him or her.
Yes, because it really is much much better for that child to grow up in an overcrowded world where violence is more likely to erupt and they can instead die in a horrible war from a horrible weapon.
And for a good long while, I used NetZero without the artificial time limits or banner ads. There were simple hacks out there to make NetZero a great ISP you didn't have to pay for.
A couple of months ago, I was brainstorming how I would set up a simple irrigation control system that was tied to a simple interface I could access remotely. There are already systems out there that I have used in the past where the control system can be dialed into remotely with a regular old modem, and then it serves up its own little web page where you can switch off zone 5, or delay all zones 10 minutes, or whatever.
My system would be the same, though the interface would more likely be an app on a smartphone, and the connection would be over 3G and powered by solar. I keep thinking the same thing... what port scanning hacker out there is going to try and flood my garden?
So then I thought, well, what if I had the 3G connection, but I didn't route the traffic over the internet at large? Is it possible to use a 3G cellphone as an old-school DUN connection instead? The app on the smart phone would initiate a DUN connection to the 3G phone sitting next to the irrigation system. In order to access the system, you have to know the phone number to dial into as well as authentication credentials.
I haven't really looked much into it, but I think this is a great possibly for "The Internet of Things" to actually flourish and still be safe from prying eyes. Is anyone familiar with using cell phones as a DUN connection?
Right, because this is the kind of thing you should think of when considering a stealthy approach
I guess you could remove vocal chords or something. but for that matter, I'm quite sure that someone has already considering the noise of the demo robot and noise cancellation features would be included on a production model (or, you know, don't power it with a lawnmower engine).
I guess. That top menu really needs a touch of Javascript (instead of using CSS:hover) so there is a slight delay before the menu pops out. Very annoying to inadvertently pop that menu when you're scrolling way down the page. Sticky headers are often more trouble than they fix.
One general comment about the look that I don't like: the old design is very plain and not much more than a lot of text. This is a good thing. One of the main reasons we geeks like to spend time on here (especially during the day when we should be working) is that/. has a very innocuous look to it. Someone glancing at our screen as they walk by introduces nothing of importance. We're the geeks, not them... they don't know that what we're reading is not related to work...
Once you start plastering all these useless images and snazzy design elements everywhere, now people will know we are goofing off... we'll have to find another site that disguises itself well.
They've kept their breakpoint rather wide, I am guessing they are only worried about two, "desktop" and "mobile", instead of breaking "desktop" into two breakpoints (small screen, wide screen) and "mobile" into two breakpoints "tablet" and "phone" (and, incidentally, small screen netbooks, etc).
Actually, with this redesign, making the browser window smaller will actually make the comments wider.
I think what this probably came down to was a discussion between the developers/designs and the monetizers. They went with a responsive design, which is a good thing; however, it almost looks like that went with a responsive design simply for the sake of having a responsive design, not because they wanted to provide various users with meaningful design based on their context.
I will ape each of the comments above about the narrow comments column. It's not a great design at all, which I am assuming is the result of a "compromise" between the designs and the monetizers. The designers didn't want to devote that much right-col space to frivilous content, but the monetizers did, because, well, they don't give a shit about the users or the content, they simply want to make sure the links to DICE jobs are there as well as other affiliate content. I would not be surprised if the comment column is actually the "better" of two versions (as far as width/readability).
In the end I think you'll find a third CSS breakpoint for the responsive design will be the solution. This breakpoint will accomodate those of us on large, wide monitors, and will make better use of the available whitespace. Go ahead and abandon the 980px page width on the large screens and bump it up to something desirable (1200 would be a good start!). Of course, just bringing back the fluid design for large screens would also be a good option, but I can understand how that might make your lives more difficult.
If you want to just do the lazy thing, change the right-col to a collaspable panel so that users can "minimize" it and regain that real estate.
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As someone who has grown his hair long twice in the last four years for donation purposes, I feel like the opposite could also be said.
This probably says more about women liking a guy *with a mind of his own* than just another robot. Buck the trends... stand out a little bit... be proud of it. Women love that shit.
Imagine your the head of a major energy corporation and at a dinner party one night, you get to chatting with some software engineer who works on things that are used on computers all over the world.
It seems feasible that sooner or later you might talk about algorithm efficiency, and the guy ends up saying something like "yeah, I suppose if I did *that* instead, it would probably use more power."
So the energy company dude pays some engineer handsomly to toss is a little extra waste. That ineffcient algorithm is now silently generating $5million/year in *free* revenue.
And in the same sense, does a married man have free will? At first it might appear so, but upon further investigation it is clear that he does not.
If $6/mo for Netflix is too "unreasonable" for your taste, then I suggest it's time to look for a new employer.
An interesting thing happened to me the other day.
I do use Facebook on occasion, generally as a way to aggregate a few of my interests into one place I can go for articles and such.
So the other day I go on and all of a sudden there are several "Suggested Posts" promoting engagement rings. Eh? Really? I have not been looking for engagement rings online or anywhere else, so I found it odd these ads (again, not just one, there were several from different jewelers) were targeting me.
I go ask my girlfriend, "hey, were you looking at engagement rings on my computer?" She had an awkward look about her and went on to say that she wasn't, *but*, she was looking at them on her computer at work.
Interesting.
We are not labeled on FB as "In a relationship", and any posts between us are usually because we were at the same housewarming party or something (along with a bunch of other people). Despite the fact that we aren't obviously in a relationship, FB still knows that I need to be seeing ads for engagement rings. While I don't intend on proposing to her anytime soon, the idea is still there, so it's not like the targeted ad was innaccurate.
Maybe this guy in TFA has a mother who is plus-sized and her birthday is in two weeks? These types of inferences are happening more and more, so don't be surprised when you see an ad for a product that you would never buy *for yourself* because maybe their goal is to get you to buy for that person close to you that they know you would want to buy something for.
I think it's interesting that you're not willing to use Adblock but you're willing to use Noscript.
...it certainly feels pretty unethical for me to block the only way they have to recoup that money.
In my case, the website I run for our family's small business generally relies on users having javascript enabled. I don't do anything nasty with it... I use it for AJAX content updates for a slick search feature that allows you to browse the entire catalog without endless page reloads. I use it for the checkout process so that you can login or create a new account from there without having to go to some other page and fill out forms to create an account. I use it to allow you to modify your cart from the checkout page without having to go back to the cart page.
I do all these things as a convenience to the user, and as the only developer our business has, the time it takes me is not trivial, so forgive me if I am a bit annoyed when someone describes their unwillingness to use Adblock due to ethical reasons and at the same time say they use Noscript.
Yes, the problem for me is the advertisers and other asshole out there using Javascript for annoying purposes on sites that generally don't serve any real purpose other than to make their owners advertising money. I am totally fine with you wanting your browsing experience not to be corrupted by these people, just keep in mind that there are in fact sites out there that may also be using these tools *for your benefit*.
...and for the record, our site does not serve any advertisements other than our own (and never will).
+1.
Right now, this country hates itself. The political divide between Red and Blue is preventing us from fixing the things that need fixing. If this is the case, then it's not far off that secessation is going to be much more strongly considered by some states/regions.
It's difficult to read something along the lines of societal collapse and not see the writing on the wall.
Speaking of non-violent crime, that's basically the problem in Oakland. Yes, it's a big city with poor crime statistics, but the areas it does the worst in are non-violent types, things like car theft and robbery.
One of these days that little bastard child of a city that is Oakland (at least compared to the *perceptions* outsiders have of it in relation to neighboring San Jose and San Fran) is going to get on its feet and become that proud and honorable place to live again.
I get the sense that this is a goverment project that is going to be viewed as highly successful, especially with that small of a budget. I am okay with this, Oakland is due for a makeover.
Do you think you're right? I'm not sure if you are, considering they have also played on Monday, Thursday, and Saturday (probably some Fridays and potentially other days as well if you go back earlier than 1950).
Since the number of times they've played on days other than Sunday are fewer, maybe they're like 5-0 on Saturday, which means Saturday would be their highest winning percentage day, especially considering there have been a lot of terrible Sundays.
Pick two random dates between 1950 (or earlier... arbitrary cut-off) and today. Then go to that date and find all the sports scores from that day. Do some random math on those scores independently. Then take those two results and do some more random math between the two.
Add in more Nth days as you please.
That enough entropy for you? I guess it might not be. I suppose you could also factor in which days of the week the Cleveland Browns are likely to win on, since that is definitely random.
What I am curious about is why someone is trying to run an e-commerce site on shared hosting.
If you build a brick and mortar store, do you also go cut-rate and have the walls built by some highschooler with a hammer and a saw?
If you intend to make money selling things online, do yourself and your customers a favor and fork out the necessary $50-100/mo (and up, depending on traffic) for proper hosting. I have been a customer of Nexcess for a handful of years, and not only are their servers highly tuned for the Magento platform, their support is fantastic, so I'm giving them a free plug. Not only will you have proper iron, you also have access to their support teams, which can be worth the hosting cost alone in many cases.
I don't have any experience with Drupal specifically, my main platform is Magento which is also known to be a big resource hog. This is not an unsolvable problem, though. There are plenty of caching libraries out there that resolve the issue of performance, some of them are built into the platform, some are server side, and some are third-party additions.
TL;DR invest in your business and stop trying to do things cut-rate.
I wouldn't be so sure.
In my experience of building e-commerce sites (over roughly five years) the actual *building* of the site isn't the difficult part. I've taken a barebones install of Magento (or Prestashop, etc) and themed the front-end, by myself, in just two/three weeks. Looking at this site, I can't imagine the front-end would take any longer.
The proverbial iceberg, though, is what you're looking at. The bits that take the most time are all the logistics bits like shipping, payment processing, which customers can purchase what, how are discounts handled, tiered pricing, product entry, admin training, etc. I would guess that 90% of my conversations with clients over the years involve some logistics bit, not whether the buttons on the checkout page are the correct color of blue.
And then to top all that off, you have the infrastructure to worry about. You aren't necessarily dealing with a web server and that's it. You might have a cluster of web servers that need to talk to a cluster of SOLR servers. You might have to implement solutions for payment processing servers.
In the end, these items all take a great amount of time not because of how complex they are to implement, but instead it has everything to do with the *people* that are organizing this information. Hell, can you just imagine the nightmare it must have been to get all the insurance companies to provide all their data/plans in a standardized format so they could be integrated to the store front?
In the end, though not unexpectedly, they ran out of time and testing was shat upon. Every relatively complex site I have ever built or worked on has had testing shat upon. Now that I have just a single site that I develop and work on, testing happens all the time since I am my own boss as far as deciding what I need to work on. For every other project out there where the developers aren't the ones that even have a say in what areas are focused on, testing will always be a second-class citizen.
Until such revolutionary change comes about in medicine, choosing not to vaccinate a child *is* particularly evil, as it endangers not only the child but everyone around him or her.
Yes, because it really is much much better for that child to grow up in an overcrowded world where violence is more likely to erupt and they can instead die in a horrible war from a horrible weapon.
And for a good long while, I used NetZero without the artificial time limits or banner ads. There were simple hacks out there to make NetZero a great ISP you didn't have to pay for.
A couple of months ago, I was brainstorming how I would set up a simple irrigation control system that was tied to a simple interface I could access remotely. There are already systems out there that I have used in the past where the control system can be dialed into remotely with a regular old modem, and then it serves up its own little web page where you can switch off zone 5, or delay all zones 10 minutes, or whatever.
My system would be the same, though the interface would more likely be an app on a smartphone, and the connection would be over 3G and powered by solar. I keep thinking the same thing... what port scanning hacker out there is going to try and flood my garden?
So then I thought, well, what if I had the 3G connection, but I didn't route the traffic over the internet at large? Is it possible to use a 3G cellphone as an old-school DUN connection instead? The app on the smart phone would initiate a DUN connection to the 3G phone sitting next to the irrigation system. In order to access the system, you have to know the phone number to dial into as well as authentication credentials.
I haven't really looked much into it, but I think this is a great possibly for "The Internet of Things" to actually flourish and still be safe from prying eyes. Is anyone familiar with using cell phones as a DUN connection?
Right, because this is the kind of thing you should think of when considering a stealthy approach
I guess you could remove vocal chords or something. but for that matter, I'm quite sure that someone has already considering the noise of the demo robot and noise cancellation features would be included on a production model (or, you know, don't power it with a lawnmower engine).
BLM lands are still open, you may visit and use undeveloped lands as you would normally. It is only the facilities that are closed.
Don't eat the fugu.
Don't you mean "irregardless"?
How the hell do you expect them to see who kicks first?
As long as your kid's apathetic teacher isn't banging the chef, I suppose things will be okay.
I guess. That top menu really needs a touch of Javascript (instead of using CSS :hover) so there is a slight delay before the menu pops out. Very annoying to inadvertently pop that menu when you're scrolling way down the page. Sticky headers are often more trouble than they fix.
One general comment about the look that I don't like: the old design is very plain and not much more than a lot of text. This is a good thing. One of the main reasons we geeks like to spend time on here (especially during the day when we should be working) is that /. has a very innocuous look to it. Someone glancing at our screen as they walk by introduces nothing of importance. We're the geeks, not them... they don't know that what we're reading is not related to work...
Once you start plastering all these useless images and snazzy design elements everywhere, now people will know we are goofing off... we'll have to find another site that disguises itself well.
They've kept their breakpoint rather wide, I am guessing they are only worried about two, "desktop" and "mobile", instead of breaking "desktop" into two breakpoints (small screen, wide screen) and "mobile" into two breakpoints "tablet" and "phone" (and, incidentally, small screen netbooks, etc).
Actually, with this redesign, making the browser window smaller will actually make the comments wider.
I think what this probably came down to was a discussion between the developers/designs and the monetizers. They went with a responsive design, which is a good thing; however, it almost looks like that went with a responsive design simply for the sake of having a responsive design, not because they wanted to provide various users with meaningful design based on their context.
I will ape each of the comments above about the narrow comments column. It's not a great design at all, which I am assuming is the result of a "compromise" between the designs and the monetizers. The designers didn't want to devote that much right-col space to frivilous content, but the monetizers did, because, well, they don't give a shit about the users or the content, they simply want to make sure the links to DICE jobs are there as well as other affiliate content. I would not be surprised if the comment column is actually the "better" of two versions (as far as width/readability).
In the end I think you'll find a third CSS breakpoint for the responsive design will be the solution. This breakpoint will accomodate those of us on large, wide monitors, and will make better use of the available whitespace. Go ahead and abandon the 980px page width on the large screens and bump it up to something desirable (1200 would be a good start!). Of course, just bringing back the fluid design for large screens would also be a good option, but I can understand how that might make your lives more difficult.
If you want to just do the lazy thing, change the right-col to a collaspable panel so that users can "minimize" it and regain that real estate.
When are they *not* coming for more money?
Every single November there is another "we need to fund education" bill that asks for more money to spend on education. Your state may be similar.
I understand the difference between state and federal, but in this case "they" refers to the same thing.