I think "open source" just needs to get out of our vocabulary completely. It irks me when a project is "open source", but "no one is allowed to touch it except these few developers". It is either open, or it isn't. Instead call that "visible source". If it is open and community driven, it is "community source". If it is GNU, it is "free source".
It makes sense for DARPA to do this, because it reduces the chance of a soldier using technology/software that is insecure. My first reaction was to laugh as well, but it makes a lot more since for the military to use an App Store, even more so than it does to have one in OS X and Windows.
Artist: "So what should this thing look like?"
NASA engineer: "It's 600 light-years away. How the @#$% should I know!"
Artist: "Picking a planet from an old Star Trek episode at random then."
NASA engineer: "Ok. But no funny stuff. Save the stars, rainbows, and unicorns for your acid trips."
Artist: "Nebulous clouds in the background- check."
I've eaten at restaurants that have failed, and sometimes I have no idea why they aren't a success. Price reasonable, food is good, location is about the same as the successful ones, but no customers.
If the location is about the same as the successful ones, then the problem could still be location. Or perhaps marketing/advertising. Or perhaps wrong market (food is good to you, but not to the clientele they should be targeting. Just to say it is "the luck of the draw" is wrong. There is good and bad luck, fate, blessing, curse, etc. but you can many times more be successful with the right preparation and experience.
That's what I said, but you said it more concisely. If this were code, your solution would probably have rated higher than mine.
But, after many (too many) years as a developer now, I can say that programming is about as much an art as carpentry. You can do beautiful things with both, but in the end it is about the artifacts and how they are used. They *are* measurable, and providing decent metrics for software development *is* possible. The biggest problem is that we don't want to admit that it is just a really difficult problem; instead we give up. And giving up is what is BS.
The first big problem though is lack of metrics and insight into what developers are doing. I worked on a team and helped implement big brother software on a large development team's computers. The problem was that there was too much data and the company that implemented the software then tried to provide inadequate visualization (e.g. 40% of time was spent on JSP/Java editing, 10% on a web browser, etc.) and just knowing *what* people are working on is not enough. You have to have metrics based on the output, so looking at source control has to play a part. The other metric that is important is customer satisfaction, number of customers, and possibly the effect of features/solutions on the amount of money made. That is the tough part to correlate to the work done. But without metrics, surveys, etc. you have nothing. And as Edie Brickell once said, "There's nothing I hate more than nothing."
Measuring developer output/metrics effectively is a tough problem. Developers could solve it, but if they do, then they have to both change the way that they work and possibly work harder. Developers are smart enough to know that the metrics will be misused, even if the logic used to produce them is valid. Therefore, any solution will be ridiculed by the development community as insufficient, but the degree to which it is ridiculed will lessen as the solution improves. A solution though, is inevitable if development continues.
That's like asking the school bully not to beat you up and take your lunch money.
He does it every day, he's going to do it every day, and now it's your turn.
I wouldn't go that far. In the case of Hitchhiker's Guide, there was just no way to ever do Douglas Adams justice. When he was alive the first movie was made, which was absolute crap and involved a papier-mâché second head on Zaphod, but everything else was forgettable. The hollywood movie did a good job on the "so long and thanks for the fish" song, but the rest was forgettable. Now the fact that only a papier-mâché head and a completely overdone song about dolphins leaving the earth are remembered from the video versions of Hitchhiker's is classic, and Adams possibly would have liked that rather than them being hailed as the bees' knees.
Could get him a Kindle with audiobooks. Also, call Amazon and talk to a rep and ask to speak with someone there with experience in the blind using Kindles. It may be a small number of users, but they really need to support it, even if they can't read text books without getting into fights with the audiobook people. Or better yet, just an ipod shuffle. Good luck. The world can be quite an awful place for the blind, and they get shafted while other minority groups (of race, sex, sexual orientation, religion or lack of, drug legalization advocates) get all of the attention these days. It is sick, imo, that they get treated so poorly.
I thought real men just got up from the chair, went to the fridge, grabbed a PBR, popped it open, had a few gulps, said "ahhh", farted, then burped, then grabbed a wrench and started tuning their '57 chevy, after which they cleaned their gun, build a shed out back, killed a bear with their bare hands, shot a man, and then went to sleep by the campfire with one eye open.
"She has also variously called for more research on whether there is a link between ADHD and internet use, and has also questioned whether increases in autism might be down to too much screen time."
No, the problem is that today we have to diagnose everything. Once you put a name on it, then doctors and pharmacists can help you "fix" it. Both a primary physician and a psychiatrist who specializes in ADHD recently told me that ADHD is overdiagnosed. When doctors that see it all the time tell you it is over diagnosed, then you should start to question whether we should just accept that the rate of ADHD is actually rising.
In addition, Asperger syndrome is getting a lot of publicity in the past several years, and now there is even a main character in a popular TV show "Parenthood" that has it. If you are looking at the ground instead of into people's eyes now instead of "shy" they say you are borderline Asperger's.
When will this madness stop? Why can't we just call people "hyper", "slow", "lazy", "shy", "wierd", "dumn", or "scary"? Those words carried less baggage with them and people didn't obsess about them. It is one thing if you can truly help someone get better, but in many cases it is just a label and another reason to feel like you were handed the short end of the stick rather than to give you reason to try to be normal on your own.
Slashdot Mirror
Fog Creek Elementary?
No thanks. The open-source movement has a hard enough time without having the effort split on the gender line.
A hummingbird or an insect? A pellet gun and a fly swatter should do just nicely.
I think "open source" just needs to get out of our vocabulary completely. It irks me when a project is "open source", but "no one is allowed to touch it except these few developers". It is either open, or it isn't. Instead call that "visible source". If it is open and community driven, it is "community source". If it is GNU, it is "free source".
I saw him in the data center, and chased him onto the roof where he parachuted to a motorcycle, but we caught him!
Unless you have something to run it on that you'd want to run it on, why does it matter?
It's better to burn out than to fade away, Shigeru. Live strong!
It makes sense for DARPA to do this, because it reduces the chance of a soldier using technology/software that is insecure. My first reaction was to laugh as well, but it makes a lot more since for the military to use an App Store, even more so than it does to have one in OS X and Windows.
Artist: "So what should this thing look like?"
NASA engineer: "It's 600 light-years away. How the @#$% should I know!"
Artist: "Picking a planet from an old Star Trek episode at random then."
NASA engineer: "Ok. But no funny stuff. Save the stars, rainbows, and unicorns for your acid trips."
Artist: "Nebulous clouds in the background- check."
If Captain Kirk could do it, so can you! You need to be using Siri a lot more, and call it "Computer..."
But, I don't see how I could develop on a tablet. Too much depends on a thicker OS than iOS/Android.
I've eaten at restaurants that have failed, and sometimes I have no idea why they aren't a success. Price reasonable, food is good, location is about the same as the successful ones, but no customers.
If the location is about the same as the successful ones, then the problem could still be location. Or perhaps marketing/advertising. Or perhaps wrong market (food is good to you, but not to the clientele they should be targeting. Just to say it is "the luck of the draw" is wrong. There is good and bad luck, fate, blessing, curse, etc. but you can many times more be successful with the right preparation and experience.
Who's giving up? You really think you can speak for every one of us? Who died and made you God.
David Carradine.
Keepin' it in their back pocket to recover when a distraction is needed from some other larger screw-up.
Security camera footage + Kinect technology + massive computational power and behavioral logic = "JETSON!!!!!"
Here's one.
That's what I said, but you said it more concisely. If this were code, your solution would probably have rated higher than mine. But, after many (too many) years as a developer now, I can say that programming is about as much an art as carpentry. You can do beautiful things with both, but in the end it is about the artifacts and how they are used. They *are* measurable, and providing decent metrics for software development *is* possible. The biggest problem is that we don't want to admit that it is just a really difficult problem; instead we give up. And giving up is what is BS.
The first big problem though is lack of metrics and insight into what developers are doing. I worked on a team and helped implement big brother software on a large development team's computers. The problem was that there was too much data and the company that implemented the software then tried to provide inadequate visualization (e.g. 40% of time was spent on JSP/Java editing, 10% on a web browser, etc.) and just knowing *what* people are working on is not enough. You have to have metrics based on the output, so looking at source control has to play a part. The other metric that is important is customer satisfaction, number of customers, and possibly the effect of features/solutions on the amount of money made. That is the tough part to correlate to the work done. But without metrics, surveys, etc. you have nothing. And as Edie Brickell once said, "There's nothing I hate more than nothing."
Measuring developer output/metrics effectively is a tough problem. Developers could solve it, but if they do, then they have to both change the way that they work and possibly work harder. Developers are smart enough to know that the metrics will be misused, even if the logic used to produce them is valid. Therefore, any solution will be ridiculed by the development community as insufficient, but the degree to which it is ridiculed will lessen as the solution improves. A solution though, is inevitable if development continues.
Please, Hollywood, don't spoil Doctor Who.
That's like asking the school bully not to beat you up and take your lunch money. He does it every day, he's going to do it every day, and now it's your turn.
I wouldn't go that far. In the case of Hitchhiker's Guide, there was just no way to ever do Douglas Adams justice. When he was alive the first movie was made, which was absolute crap and involved a papier-mâché second head on Zaphod, but everything else was forgettable. The hollywood movie did a good job on the "so long and thanks for the fish" song, but the rest was forgettable. Now the fact that only a papier-mâché head and a completely overdone song about dolphins leaving the earth are remembered from the video versions of Hitchhiker's is classic, and Adams possibly would have liked that rather than them being hailed as the bees' knees.
Tire sealant.
That was pretty specific. Is this a reference I am not understanding?
Have you ever done tire sealant? No? That's why.
Someone griefed the hell out of it. Now they have to redo the whole f-ng thing.
Could get him a Kindle with audiobooks. Also, call Amazon and talk to a rep and ask to speak with someone there with experience in the blind using Kindles. It may be a small number of users, but they really need to support it, even if they can't read text books without getting into fights with the audiobook people. Or better yet, just an ipod shuffle. Good luck. The world can be quite an awful place for the blind, and they get shafted while other minority groups (of race, sex, sexual orientation, religion or lack of, drug legalization advocates) get all of the attention these days. It is sick, imo, that they get treated so poorly.
I thought real men just got up from the chair, went to the fridge, grabbed a PBR, popped it open, had a few gulps, said "ahhh", farted, then burped, then grabbed a wrench and started tuning their '57 chevy, after which they cleaned their gun, build a shed out back, killed a bear with their bare hands, shot a man, and then went to sleep by the campfire with one eye open.
Funny- I've never been able to get a horse to take me where I want to go, ever since I started driving that car.
"She has also variously called for more research on whether there is a link between ADHD and internet use, and has also questioned whether increases in autism might be down to too much screen time." No, the problem is that today we have to diagnose everything. Once you put a name on it, then doctors and pharmacists can help you "fix" it. Both a primary physician and a psychiatrist who specializes in ADHD recently told me that ADHD is overdiagnosed. When doctors that see it all the time tell you it is over diagnosed, then you should start to question whether we should just accept that the rate of ADHD is actually rising. In addition, Asperger syndrome is getting a lot of publicity in the past several years, and now there is even a main character in a popular TV show "Parenthood" that has it. If you are looking at the ground instead of into people's eyes now instead of "shy" they say you are borderline Asperger's. When will this madness stop? Why can't we just call people "hyper", "slow", "lazy", "shy", "wierd", "dumn", or "scary"? Those words carried less baggage with them and people didn't obsess about them. It is one thing if you can truly help someone get better, but in many cases it is just a label and another reason to feel like you were handed the short end of the stick rather than to give you reason to try to be normal on your own.