Sounds like you've never gotten a tattoo. Before you get one you build up all this inherent meaning and long-term significance to the tattoo. Afterwards, you realize that it's just a cool picture (or phrase, whatever) that you wanted. Even if times and tastes change it's a cool link to who you were back when you got it.
Good gravy man, that's like table creation 101. A few hundred thousand records with mostly read operations, rare updates, occasional inserts? That problem has been solved, thousands of times already.
Just grab some digital collections software (Omeka) or customize some Drupal or code up a quick model in Rails/Django and you're in business. Omeka would probably be the quickest startup and provide the capability for tons of rich metadata.
No want/need for a public web interface? Don't set one up. Done. Lunch time!
Except for the data entry, that's going to be some fun data entry.
If it's a "randoms balg site of awesome" then I don't think anyone going to it is there for a fast page load. They either care about the crappy content enough to wait or will be gone in less than a second anyway.
Also, if they're on dialup I'm sure they're using Opera with its Turbo feature and image management to compress or eliminate all that crap.
2. Do you have any idea how complicated and gigantic a JavaScript whitelist would be? Also a bad idea as folks would just migrate to pulling javascript from whitelisted domains.
3. [could not parse] Do you mean that "allow all for this page" or "allow all for this domain" doesn't do what you want?
Because it's worth the hassle. XBox Live is so far above the network gaming offerings from the PS3, Wii, and PC (yes, and PC) that it isn't even funny. My friends and family love the party feature, even spread out over some states we can all get together and have a fun time o' gaming that isn't restricted to one game. You can even use the feature to watch movies together, but we've never used that.
Maybe I'm coming at this from too much of a web developer's perspective, but it sure seems to be that the *display* of an application is a very different thing than the *model* of the application. Surely in the world of GUI application development the UI isn't hardcoded to the model?
I can write a web application that uses the same backend, with widely disparate frontends depending on the accessing device or the specific context requested by the client (i.e. they want to display the desktop view on their phone or vice versa).
Doubt it. It turns out users like the inability to install viruses along with all the crappy screensavers and free games they want to install. Yes, the walls keep the users in; but they also keep the device secure.*
* More secure than an open desktop with a user who wants to browse the Internet for silly software (esheep, blinking lights, free screensavers, etc. etc.)
Yeah, that's the "current Parental Controls". This would be an order of magnitude simpler. I know, because I setup my grandmother with a Mac and even Simple Finder was too much. Multitasking, settings, windows, etc. Ideally we'd be able to setup a iPad-like screen with big buttons that runs one application at a time with absolutely zero user configuration possible (email accounts and the like having been setup by the admin account).
If I were Apple I'd make a desktop iOS a user option like the current Parental Controls. Locking specific users into a walled garden of uncomplicated settings and apps sure would be nice for grandparent support.
I didn't buy an iPad expecting all development at Apple to stop. In fact, if you buy a first generation iDevice you really should expect that it will be obsolete in half the time of a second generation iDevice. It doesn't mean the iPad will suddenly become a brick when the iPad 2nd gen comes out with it's kinect video interface and gigabytes of memory or whatever; it just means that a cool device has a new version.
I have a 1st gen iPod touch, but I certainly don't except the app devs to support it.
1) iPod Touches are a minimal chunk of the iPhone market to begin with
2) 1st Gen iPod Touches are even more minimal than that
I hardly think that their profits will be driven by supporting this aging device, but quite the opposite. Time they spend getting their app backwards compatible could be better spent adding awesome features.
So: [a, b, c] has 2 things in it since the last index is 2?
More concretely:
people = ["those who know binary", "those who don't", "those who use zero-based indices"] people[0] # 00 in binary => "those who know binary" people[1] # 01 in binary => "those who don't" people[2] # 10 in binary => "those who use zero-based indices"
Yikes! So instead of getting to code my models, etc. in ruby or python I have to write XML? Thanks for the pointer, but I don't think I'll be heading down that road.
That's only because you haven't taken a serious look at Django or Rails. Every diehard PHP coder that I've shown something like the Django admin interface, web form creation/management or something like ActiveRecord and fundamentally integrated testing in Rails has been absolutely stunned at how much low-level work has either been obviated or eliminated entirely. Both frameworks really free you to work on the high level fun stuff of a web application.
If you want a quick look at Django and don't mind not "getting" it all, the book "Practical Django Projects" is most excellent.
For Rails you'll probably get the most out of "Rails for PHP Developers".
Hey now, you can't "whoosh" and argue at the same time. You either agree to pretend that your original post was a joke (whoosh) or you can continue to futilely argue.
Luckily I happen to work at an institution with a subscription to the OED. Let's look shall we?
c1250 Gen. & Ex. 3775 Alle he sunken e ere wi-in, Wi wifes, and childre, and hines-kin.
Yeah, that 1250 is the year the quote was written. This usage is also specifically referring to sunk into the earth.
All told, their examples for the word "sink" have 55 uses of the work sunk and 0 of the word sinked. Sinked is listed as an obscure, colloquial use though.
The argument for centuries has been between sank and sunk, sinked is right out.
"Now" they are pushing preg functions? Everything I've read on PHP for the last five years has been drilling "use preg instead of ereg because ereg is slow and going away". This isn't a sudden switch either, you've already had months to transition and you still have many more months before you need to cut over.
I can live with the settings file, PHP has many more fundamental flaws than disparate configurations. The only real configuration schism I'm aware of was register_globals vs. not register_globals.
Global namespace stuffed full of built-in functions. Inconsistent argument order for built-in functions (needle, haystack || haystack, needle). Inconsistent naming scheme for built-in functions. PHP is a dumb language when it comes to including other code, it doesn't even have a concept of "other" code: an include/require statement just dumps the entire contents of the file being pulled in.
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Sounds like you've never gotten a tattoo. Before you get one you build up all this inherent meaning and long-term significance to the tattoo. Afterwards, you realize that it's just a cool picture (or phrase, whatever) that you wanted. Even if times and tastes change it's a cool link to who you were back when you got it.
Good gravy man, that's like table creation 101. A few hundred thousand records with mostly read operations, rare updates, occasional inserts? That problem has been solved, thousands of times already.
Just grab some digital collections software (Omeka) or customize some Drupal or code up a quick model in Rails/Django and you're in business. Omeka would probably be the quickest startup and provide the capability for tons of rich metadata.
No want/need for a public web interface? Don't set one up. Done. Lunch time!
Except for the data entry, that's going to be some fun data entry.
If it's a "randoms balg site of awesome" then I don't think anyone going to it is there for a fast page load. They either care about the crappy content enough to wait or will be gone in less than a second anyway.
Also, if they're on dialup I'm sure they're using Opera with its Turbo feature and image management to compress or eliminate all that crap.
1. Citation needed.
2. Do you have any idea how complicated and gigantic a JavaScript whitelist would be? Also a bad idea as folks would just migrate to pulling javascript from whitelisted domains.
3. [could not parse] Do you mean that "allow all for this page" or "allow all for this domain" doesn't do what you want?
Good gravy man, are we talking about *tigers* bumping into the console or do you have it resting on some kind of frictionless surface?
Because it's worth the hassle. XBox Live is so far above the network gaming offerings from the PS3, Wii, and PC (yes, and PC) that it isn't even funny. My friends and family love the party feature, even spread out over some states we can all get together and have a fun time o' gaming that isn't restricted to one game. You can even use the feature to watch movies together, but we've never used that.
Maybe I'm coming at this from too much of a web developer's perspective, but it sure seems to be that the *display* of an application is a very different thing than the *model* of the application. Surely in the world of GUI application development the UI isn't hardcoded to the model?
I can write a web application that uses the same backend, with widely disparate frontends depending on the accessing device or the specific context requested by the client (i.e. they want to display the desktop view on their phone or vice versa).
Doubt it. It turns out users like the inability to install viruses along with all the crappy screensavers and free games they want to install. Yes, the walls keep the users in; but they also keep the device secure.*
* More secure than an open desktop with a user who wants to browse the Internet for silly software (esheep, blinking lights, free screensavers, etc. etc.)
Yeah, that's the "current Parental Controls". This would be an order of magnitude simpler. I know, because I setup my grandmother with a Mac and even Simple Finder was too much. Multitasking, settings, windows, etc. Ideally we'd be able to setup a iPad-like screen with big buttons that runs one application at a time with absolutely zero user configuration possible (email accounts and the like having been setup by the admin account).
If I were Apple I'd make a desktop iOS a user option like the current Parental Controls. Locking specific users into a walled garden of uncomplicated settings and apps sure would be nice for grandparent support.
Google over the Post Office for IT work, are you kidding me?
"You don't know what it's like out there! I've *worked* in the private sector. They expect *results*."
I didn't buy an iPad expecting all development at Apple to stop. In fact, if you buy a first generation iDevice you really should expect that it will be obsolete in half the time of a second generation iDevice. It doesn't mean the iPad will suddenly become a brick when the iPad 2nd gen comes out with it's kinect video interface and gigabytes of memory or whatever; it just means that a cool device has a new version.
I have a 1st gen iPod touch, but I certainly don't except the app devs to support it.
1) iPod Touches are a minimal chunk of the iPhone market to begin with
2) 1st Gen iPod Touches are even more minimal than that
I hardly think that their profits will be driven by supporting this aging device, but quite the opposite. Time they spend getting their app backwards compatible could be better spent adding awesome features.
So submit well written story summaries for the news items you think are underreported. /. is community driven news after all.
Yeah, but then your mobile phone is translating the pinyin (with varying degrees of accuracy, depending on your phone) into actual Chinese characters.
Completely incorrect. Did you get your pinyin education from a Firefly-Chinese site? Pinyin has tone markers.
Besides, anyone with a Chinese name wouldn't be using pinyin: it's a scheme for western speakers.
"Live" TV hasn't been an unadulterated feed from a video camera for years.
You count things by their list indices eh?
So: [a, b, c] has 2 things in it since the last index is 2?
More concretely:
people = ["those who know binary", "those who don't", "those who use zero-based indices"]
people[0] # 00 in binary => "those who know binary"
people[1] # 01 in binary => "those who don't"
people[2] # 10 in binary => "those who use zero-based indices"
people.length # => 3 (11 in binary)
Yikes! So instead of getting to code my models, etc. in ruby or python I have to write XML? Thanks for the pointer, but I don't think I'll be heading down that road.
Young children also shouldn't be generalized I guess. My two year old uses books for reading.
Getting back to the article, he also finds the iPad highly enjoyable, but not as a book reader. Fish pond is the favorite there.
How does the app store "splinter the web"?
That's only because you haven't taken a serious look at Django or Rails. Every diehard PHP coder that I've shown something like the Django admin interface, web form creation/management or something like ActiveRecord and fundamentally integrated testing in Rails has been absolutely stunned at how much low-level work has either been obviated or eliminated entirely. Both frameworks really free you to work on the high level fun stuff of a web application.
If you want a quick look at Django and don't mind not "getting" it all, the book "Practical Django Projects" is most excellent.
For Rails you'll probably get the most out of "Rails for PHP Developers".
Have fun!
Ugh, I blocked that one from memory. You know you're in for a fun time when the function has "magic" in its name.
Hey now, you can't "whoosh" and argue at the same time. You either agree to pretend that your original post was a joke (whoosh) or you can continue to futilely argue.
Luckily I happen to work at an institution with a subscription to the OED. Let's look shall we?
c1250 Gen. & Ex. 3775 Alle he sunken e ere wi-in, Wi wifes, and childre, and hines-kin.
Yeah, that 1250 is the year the quote was written. This usage is also specifically referring to sunk into the earth.
All told, their examples for the word "sink" have 55 uses of the work sunk and 0 of the word sinked. Sinked is listed as an obscure, colloquial use though.
The argument for centuries has been between sank and sunk, sinked is right out.
http://www.grammarphobia.com/blogger-blog/2010/01/honey-i-sunk-boat.html
"Now" they are pushing preg functions? Everything I've read on PHP for the last five years has been drilling "use preg instead of ereg because ereg is slow and going away". This isn't a sudden switch either, you've already had months to transition and you still have many more months before you need to cut over.
I can live with the settings file, PHP has many more fundamental flaws than disparate configurations. The only real configuration schism I'm aware of was register_globals vs. not register_globals.
Global namespace stuffed full of built-in functions. Inconsistent argument order for built-in functions (needle, haystack || haystack, needle). Inconsistent naming scheme for built-in functions. PHP is a dumb language when it comes to including other code, it doesn't even have a concept of "other" code: an include/require statement just dumps the entire contents of the file being pulled in.
I could go on.
Yes, I code PHP for a living.