And the same people are also too retarded to understand source code management (What's a git?), so they can't even understand an entire dimension of just how shit LabView is.
Where I work we have a factory floor that needs equipment to test products after they are manufactured. There are a couple of LabView-based testers. They need an entire PC with monitor and keyboard and a full install of Windows, and then you have to add a bunch of I/O boxes. And it has multiple windows doing stuff.
Meanwhile, I made a few testers based on re-purposing one of our embedded controllers (ARM Cortex M3 with only 64K of RAM!). They have a simple UI based on an actual product of ours (without a bunch of GUI controls all over the place, because there's no room for that crap on a 3" QVGA screen), and the whole thing takes up about half a cubic foot, so they can easily put it on a shelf when they're not using it.
There is one thing the LabView stuff can do that mine absolutely can't, and that is that one of them tests multiple boards at the same time for a test that takes a minute or two. (These are all tests for different products.)
Also, just try using source code management (such as svn or git) with graphical programming languages. Even if they save in something sort of text-based (like XML), it's much harder to track and merge changes. And it's impossible when they save code as binary blobs. (LabView, I'm looking at YOU.)
This is the number one reason why graphical programming languages are dead in the water from the start for any but the smallest toy projects.
Oh, this is perfect. I just got another of those insert messages. It said "We listened, here is our response."
There was nothing else in that box. Apparently they do have a response: NOTHING
(Unless maybe the word "here" was a link, and some betard decided that web links looked too boring, and changed the CSS to remove the underline and make them the same color as body text.)
Seriously, I want to see this become an episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine. I feel quite confident that the writers of that show can come up with every possible stupid result of cops using Google Glass.
Some of you have suggested we're not listening; on the contrary, some of us are 'listening' pretty much full-time.
Except that they have been listening to us like/dev/null listens to its input. They were getting feedback from us, but WE were not getting any response from THEM, and then we were dragged kicking and screaming into using it.
I remember when they changed to the current "D2" system. They did have some reasons that the original system wasn't efficient on the back-end or something. I wasn't really happy with the change, but they did make some tweaks that fixed the worst of it, and what eventually got me to stay was being able to collapse threads, a novel concept at the time. The text still expands beyond the right edge of the window when I use browser zoom, but there's enough useless whitespace on the left to be just right at the zoom level I need for my eyesight.
This beta has all the feel of the worst of cargo-cult web design. And we all feel like it was dumped on us, with had no sign that they were ever willing to back down on even a single aspect of it. That was what, four months ago? In all that time, nobody has addressed the plethora of complaints about the design, or if they did, it wasn't anywhere I could see it. It took a major revolt, triggered by forcing people over to it, to get them to even acknowledge that people didn't like it.
And for what it's worth, I have a gut feeling that the editors didn't like it either, but had to keep silent to avoid the wrath of whichever PHB was behind the push for it, biding their time for the inevitable fecal rotary impeller moment. And I'm sure that I was not alone as a regular at moderating and voting down submission queue spam in leaving the queue full of rants and even modding up a few of the first rants in article threads.
But I am serious: if they decide to force the new UI upon us, in anywhere near the condition as it first appeared, I am leaving and not coming back. I did it once before with Fark, and I can do it again.
The fact that the ONLY person held responsible for 4 Americans being killed in Benghazi is a filmmaker in California.
You apparently never watched the "film", because you didn't put "filmmaker" in quotes. Seriously, I thought I was being trolled when I followed a link to it. The best part is that you can tell where they dubbed in the "anti-Mohammed" words, because the audio quality was better than the rest of this freshman college student quality "film".
Except for the little problem that the first hack probably won't happen until it's already been installed into a few hundred thousand of cars. Kind of hard to "put an end to that" when you basically have to bring in an enormous number of cars one-by-one to have it disabled. And I can be sure there will be a first hack, because the kind of people who come up with crap don't understand computer security (or cryptography), which means it will become as wide open as DVD CSS.
How do you plow ice? Also, how do you either plow before snow falls, or how do you plow when the roads get blocked with stranded semis that can't even get up a slight slope on the ice that formed in 30 minutes? This was a salt-and-gravel problem.
Don't forget that all those trucks still need maintenance even during the years they never get used. You can't just throw an internal combustion vehicle into a shed for three years and expect it to be drivable as-is. Batteries, fuel (gasoline goes bad after a few months), fluids (motor oil becoming sludge), rust, tires (only 5 years or shelf life even if you never use them), etc. It wouldn't be so bad if you had attachments for vehicles that are already used for something else during the summer months.
Besides, snowplows are for moving piles of deep snow out of the way, not 1-2 inches that will probably be gone (and the roads dry) within 24 hours. More importantly, you can't plow black ice.
But seriously, the main problem is that you are assuming that all winter weather is the same. Protip: it isn't. Down south, even if it comes out of the clouds as snow, it can still melt on the way down to form freezing rain. The worst kind of winter weather (aside from a white-out blizzard) is when liquid precipitation hits frozen ground. Do you know how a Zamboni works? The last thing it does is pour water on the ice to give it a nice smooth surface. The difference is that rink ice is a lot colder (16-24F), so you might even get some traction on it. And there are no hills in an ice rink.
Many of the semis were indeed in the leftmost lane. And the middle lane, and the right lane. When you go sideways on black ice in a semi, you go SIDEWAYS, and can even jackknife. That was one of the things that made this so bad.
It's not the snow, it's the ice. You can't plow black glaze ice. Plows are for moving piles of snow around, not that you can even trust a plow that's been sitting in a shed doing nothing for three years since the last time it was used. All that was necessary is for freezing rain to glaze the roads long enough to block them with disabled vehicles, and then it doesn't matter how much snow you might get on top of it.
Those of us down south would be happy to drive on 2 inches of actual fluffy snow with at least a little traction instead of glazed black ice that leaves the roads as slick as if a Zamboni had just gone by. That's what happens when you get freezing rain, or if the roads are already damp from rain or melted snow when the temps go back below freezing. And then we have a lot of freeway flyovers and elevated lanes because it's usually only a problem one day a year, if that much, and they freeze up much easier from the cold air blowing under them.
I was taking in the BS that TFA was dishing out, and was being spread on the news. IDGAF what anyone in Atlanta or GA government says, nor do IGAF to go out of my way to look up the hourly details of weather a thousand miles away from me.
I was just quoting TFS for the weather report, since I have no particular reason to go looking at the details of Atlanta weather myself.
On the other hand, there was a similar (though less spectacular) error made by the Round Rock ISD (school district just north of Austin) the other day. They made a decision at 3AM to keep the schools open because they basically stuck their heads out the window and said "Nope, no ice on the roads and it's above freezing!", when the hourly forecasts had been predicting freezing temperatures AND precipitation from 5-7am. So the school buses ran at 6AM, started to pick up a few kids and got stuck on the ice, resulting in a bunch of hungry stranded kids (they're all on freebie breakfasts now) and angry parents.
you fucking shut your city down when the forecast calls for 2 inches
"We don't want to be accused of crying wolf," said Gov. Nathan Deal, who pointed out that the storm had been forecast to just brush the south side of the city.
That was part of the problem. The forecast didn't call for 2 inches, it predicted that the ice/snow would miss Atlanta, though not by much.
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And the same people are also too retarded to understand source code management (What's a git?), so they can't even understand an entire dimension of just how shit LabView is.
Where I work we have a factory floor that needs equipment to test products after they are manufactured. There are a couple of LabView-based testers. They need an entire PC with monitor and keyboard and a full install of Windows, and then you have to add a bunch of I/O boxes. And it has multiple windows doing stuff.
Meanwhile, I made a few testers based on re-purposing one of our embedded controllers (ARM Cortex M3 with only 64K of RAM!). They have a simple UI based on an actual product of ours (without a bunch of GUI controls all over the place, because there's no room for that crap on a 3" QVGA screen), and the whole thing takes up about half a cubic foot, so they can easily put it on a shelf when they're not using it.
There is one thing the LabView stuff can do that mine absolutely can't, and that is that one of them tests multiple boards at the same time for a test that takes a minute or two. (These are all tests for different products.)
Also, just try using source code management (such as svn or git) with graphical programming languages. Even if they save in something sort of text-based (like XML), it's much harder to track and merge changes. And it's impossible when they save code as binary blobs. (LabView, I'm looking at YOU.)
This is the number one reason why graphical programming languages are dead in the water from the start for any but the smallest toy projects.
Oh, this is perfect. I just got another of those insert messages. It said "We listened, here is our response."
There was nothing else in that box. Apparently they do have a response: NOTHING
(Unless maybe the word "here" was a link, and some betard decided that web links looked too boring, and changed the CSS to remove the underline and make them the same color as body text.)
Seriously, I want to see this become an episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine. I feel quite confident that the writers of that show can come up with every possible stupid result of cops using Google Glass.
Thank you for acknowledging us.
That in fact was the main problem.
Some of you have suggested we're not listening; on the contrary, some of us are 'listening' pretty much full-time.
Except that they have been listening to us like /dev/null listens to its input. They were getting feedback from us, but WE were not getting any response from THEM, and then we were dragged kicking and screaming into using it.
I remember when they changed to the current "D2" system. They did have some reasons that the original system wasn't efficient on the back-end or something. I wasn't really happy with the change, but they did make some tweaks that fixed the worst of it, and what eventually got me to stay was being able to collapse threads, a novel concept at the time. The text still expands beyond the right edge of the window when I use browser zoom, but there's enough useless whitespace on the left to be just right at the zoom level I need for my eyesight.
This beta has all the feel of the worst of cargo-cult web design. And we all feel like it was dumped on us, with had no sign that they were ever willing to back down on even a single aspect of it. That was what, four months ago? In all that time, nobody has addressed the plethora of complaints about the design, or if they did, it wasn't anywhere I could see it. It took a major revolt, triggered by forcing people over to it, to get them to even acknowledge that people didn't like it.
And for what it's worth, I have a gut feeling that the editors didn't like it either, but had to keep silent to avoid the wrath of whichever PHB was behind the push for it, biding their time for the inevitable fecal rotary impeller moment. And I'm sure that I was not alone as a regular at moderating and voting down submission queue spam in leaving the queue full of rants and even modding up a few of the first rants in article threads.
But I am serious: if they decide to force the new UI upon us, in anywhere near the condition as it first appeared, I am leaving and not coming back. I did it once before with Fark, and I can do it again.
Except he's on a one year cruise or something. So I guess we're totally fucked.
As opposed to Canadian Democrats? Or French Democrats?
...and the man who empties the bins dumps them all into a garbage truck with only a single bin.
I'd like to register .ing, then I could use it with every verb in the English language! run.ing! ski.ing! danc.ing! fuc... er you get the point.
The fact that the ONLY person held responsible for 4 Americans being killed in Benghazi is a filmmaker in California.
You apparently never watched the "film", because you didn't put "filmmaker" in quotes. Seriously, I thought I was being trolled when I followed a link to it. The best part is that you can tell where they dubbed in the "anti-Mohammed" words, because the audio quality was better than the rest of this freshman college student quality "film".
Writing code for your own amusement without any purpose in mind is not a very logical way to spend your time.
Neither is sitting on a couch watching a bunch of grown men run around a field carrying and/or kicking a ball.
I'm just wondering how you can fail to understand the distinction between adult stem cells and embryonic stem cells.
Except for the little problem that the first hack probably won't happen until it's already been installed into a few hundred thousand of cars. Kind of hard to "put an end to that" when you basically have to bring in an enormous number of cars one-by-one to have it disabled. And I can be sure there will be a first hack, because the kind of people who come up with crap don't understand computer security (or cryptography), which means it will become as wide open as DVD CSS.
Better yet, combine this with the Brits' beloved Gatso speed cameras for a double win!
How do you plow ice? Also, how do you either plow before snow falls, or how do you plow when the roads get blocked with stranded semis that can't even get up a slight slope on the ice that formed in 30 minutes? This was a salt-and-gravel problem.
Don't forget that all those trucks still need maintenance even during the years they never get used. You can't just throw an internal combustion vehicle into a shed for three years and expect it to be drivable as-is. Batteries, fuel (gasoline goes bad after a few months), fluids (motor oil becoming sludge), rust, tires (only 5 years or shelf life even if you never use them), etc. It wouldn't be so bad if you had attachments for vehicles that are already used for something else during the summer months.
Besides, snowplows are for moving piles of deep snow out of the way, not 1-2 inches that will probably be gone (and the roads dry) within 24 hours. More importantly, you can't plow black ice.
But seriously, the main problem is that you are assuming that all winter weather is the same. Protip: it isn't. Down south, even if it comes out of the clouds as snow, it can still melt on the way down to form freezing rain. The worst kind of winter weather (aside from a white-out blizzard) is when liquid precipitation hits frozen ground. Do you know how a Zamboni works? The last thing it does is pour water on the ice to give it a nice smooth surface. The difference is that rink ice is a lot colder (16-24F), so you might even get some traction on it. And there are no hills in an ice rink.
Many of the semis were indeed in the leftmost lane. And the middle lane, and the right lane. When you go sideways on black ice in a semi, you go SIDEWAYS, and can even jackknife. That was one of the things that made this so bad.
Male bovine manure is even more slippery.
SEXIST!
You wake up in the morning and you see some snow. Hey, no school!
Great. So what do you do when it starts at noon? That's what happened to Atlanta.
It's not the snow, it's the ice. You can't plow black glaze ice. Plows are for moving piles of snow around, not that you can even trust a plow that's been sitting in a shed doing nothing for three years since the last time it was used. All that was necessary is for freezing rain to glaze the roads long enough to block them with disabled vehicles, and then it doesn't matter how much snow you might get on top of it.
Those of us down south would be happy to drive on 2 inches of actual fluffy snow with at least a little traction instead of glazed black ice that leaves the roads as slick as if a Zamboni had just gone by. That's what happens when you get freezing rain, or if the roads are already damp from rain or melted snow when the temps go back below freezing. And then we have a lot of freeway flyovers and elevated lanes because it's usually only a problem one day a year, if that much, and they freeze up much easier from the cold air blowing under them.
I was taking in the BS that TFA was dishing out, and was being spread on the news. IDGAF what anyone in Atlanta or GA government says, nor do IGAF to go out of my way to look up the hourly details of weather a thousand miles away from me.
I was just quoting TFS for the weather report, since I have no particular reason to go looking at the details of Atlanta weather myself.
On the other hand, there was a similar (though less spectacular) error made by the Round Rock ISD (school district just north of Austin) the other day. They made a decision at 3AM to keep the schools open because they basically stuck their heads out the window and said "Nope, no ice on the roads and it's above freezing!", when the hourly forecasts had been predicting freezing temperatures AND precipitation from 5-7am. So the school buses ran at 6AM, started to pick up a few kids and got stuck on the ice, resulting in a bunch of hungry stranded kids (they're all on freebie breakfasts now) and angry parents.
you fucking shut your city down when the forecast calls for 2 inches
"We don't want to be accused of crying wolf," said Gov. Nathan Deal, who pointed out that the storm had been forecast to just brush the south side of the city.
That was part of the problem. The forecast didn't call for 2 inches, it predicted that the ice/snow would miss Atlanta, though not by much.
How do you think dragons breathe fire? They light their belches on fire.
We just have to hope that there aren't any herbivorous dragons that eat beans.