Now, as an alpha geek (Slashdot on Saturday? guilty) I'd be the first to say that geeky isn't something to avoid or be ashamed of. But trying to claim that something very obviously geeky isn't, won't help get more women into IT.
SVN over http is noticably slower than svn+ssh through svnserve in my experience. The "svn book" seems to lean towards http, since (IIANM) it was there first, but svnserve really is a simpler choice. (Useradd and you're set.)
I've actually never had an svn repository local to me. (I used perforce locally for 3 years.) I suspect svn+ssh is within a factor of 2 or 3 of perforce..l. certainly fast enough for anyone used to cvs.
I don't care if there are text ads on the side of an anti-froogle. I don't even care if they keep "sponsored results." I just want it to do its best to keep all the yahoo stores etc out of my search results on this hypothetical site.
If you seriously can't see the difference between having to run "make install" (oh, and good luck if autoconf didn't get things right) and "java -jar myapp.jar" you have never developed an application worth the name.
VCs never "knock down your door to give you money." Even if you are God's own biotech researcher.
Personally, I think if you want to go the entrepreneurship route, you'll learn in 3 years from starting your own business and bootstrapping (even if it ultimately fails) than getting an MBA. MBAs are for middle managers.
There were actually some nuanced places, like the old Sith guy in the cave that tortures you and the other cadet. And the options you have with Mission at the very end if you choose the dark path. (Won't spoil it for you if you haven't seen it, but it's so evil it's good.)
And I disagree that the game gets harder when you make dark side choices; there's just as many times it's easier. For example, at the beginning when you can threaten the droid shop owner instead of forking over $2k.
Thanks to the submitter for dwelling on the negative...
On a more positive note, there's a lot to like in the new groups interface. My favorite is Atom feeds. Bringing Usenet into the 21st century, if a couple years late.:)
Not once millions of files are encoded, they can't. Joe User wouldn't be happy if suddenly windows auto-update meant his kids' birthday videos don't work anymore.
"Within weeks production had accelerated into a 'mild' crunch: eight hours six days a week. Not bad... When the next news came it was not about a reprieve; it was another acceleration: twelve hours six days a week, 9am to 10pm."
I wish the submitters for these things understood that 90% of the obfuscation is done post-debugging with perl scripts... (The remaining 10% is the clever part.)
I don't think the ps1/2 mips chip is SGI's at all. It doesn't have a test-and-set instruction, for one thing. (Which is why postgresql is such a dog on the ps2 -- you need TAS for quick mutex support.)
So it really has no business being mentioned in the context of first-mover 3d games. We're glad you liked it; we're even glad it was the first you played, but not everyone here was born in the '80s.
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there are more options for python on the web than Zope, which even many pythonistas consider overengineered and even un-pythonic in many ways.
WebWare and Quixote are probably the biggest; another called SnakeSkin was just announced as having reached 1.0 today.
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ASP.NET is infinitely better designed than classic ASP. (Not perfect by any means -- ASP.NET should be next to "leaky abstraction" in the dictionary -- but they got a LOT right this time around.)
PHP5 has more features than PHP4 but is aggressively backwards compatible, thus, with a few exceptions it's as crufty as ever.
I would pick OpenACS over ASP.NET but I would pick ASP.NET over PHP5 or most J2EE stacks.
I would definitely pay that kind of money for community-created mods if I knew it had gone through some kind of BioWare QA process. Sifting through thousands (?) of mods on fan sites just isn't worth the time.
Slashdot Mirror
What are you doing on slashdot?!
WTH are they smoking?
Now, as an alpha geek (Slashdot on Saturday? guilty) I'd be the first to say that geeky isn't something to avoid or be ashamed of. But trying to claim that something very obviously geeky isn't, won't help get more women into IT.
I think you're reading way too much into most of these.
:P
For instance, "Will it cost me any money?" sounded like Martin was joking with Rob, and Rob joked right back with "just as much as Debian."
Maybe you're just too used to IM to realize that professional interviews don't included smileys for the humor-impaired.
Huh, I just re-read the interview to be sure, and it seemed to me that IGE was quite reasonable in their responses. Even the "PR mouthpiece" ones.
SVN over http is noticably slower than svn+ssh through svnserve in my experience. The "svn book" seems to lean towards http, since (IIANM) it was there first, but svnserve really is a simpler choice. (Useradd and you're set.)
I've actually never had an svn repository local to me. (I used perforce locally for 3 years.) I suspect svn+ssh is within a factor of 2 or 3 of perforce..l. certainly fast enough for anyone used to cvs.
PuTTY converts to svn:/ svn.ht ml
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham
(much) smaller project than mono, obviously; interesting all the same.
I don't care if there are text ads on the side of an anti-froogle. I don't even care if they keep "sponsored results." I just want it to do its best to keep all the yahoo stores etc out of my search results on this hypothetical site.
If you seriously can't see the difference between having to run "make install" (oh, and good luck if autoconf didn't get things right) and "java -jar myapp.jar" you have never developed an application worth the name.
As a troll though, congrats I guess.
Working janatorial is a death sentence? ... oh, wait, I thought I was somewhere else. Carry on.
OS X does NOT fly on a G4 with a low-end graphics card. It gets by, but it's not going to make true believers out of the unconverted masses.
VCs never "knock down your door to give you money." Even if you are God's own biotech researcher.
Personally, I think if you want to go the entrepreneurship route, you'll learn in 3 years from starting your own business and bootstrapping (even if it ultimately fails) than getting an MBA.
MBAs are for middle managers.
There were actually some nuanced places, like the old Sith guy in the cave that tortures you and the other cadet. And the options you have with Mission at the very end if you choose the dark path. (Won't spoil it for you if you haven't seen it, but it's so evil it's good.)
And I disagree that the game gets harder when you make dark side choices; there's just as many times it's easier. For example, at the beginning when you can threaten the droid shop owner instead of forking over $2k.
Thanks to the submitter for dwelling on the negative...
:)
On a more positive note, there's a lot to like in the new groups interface. My favorite is Atom feeds. Bringing Usenet into the 21st century, if a couple years late.
it's the dark swarm + ultralisks.
google for py2exe.
Not once millions of files are encoded, they can't. Joe User wouldn't be happy if suddenly windows auto-update meant his kids' birthday videos don't work anymore.
"Within weeks production had accelerated into a 'mild' crunch: eight hours six days a week. Not bad... When the next news came it was not about a reprieve; it was another acceleration: twelve hours six days a week, 9am to 10pm."
I wish the submitters for these things understood that 90% of the obfuscation is done post-debugging with perl scripts... (The remaining 10% is the clever part.)
I don't think the ps1/2 mips chip is SGI's at all. It doesn't have a test-and-set instruction, for one thing. (Which is why postgresql is such a dog on the ps2 -- you need TAS for quick mutex support.)
So it really has no business being mentioned in the context of first-mover 3d games. We're glad you liked it; we're even glad it was the first you played, but not everyone here was born in the '80s.
there are more options for python on the web than Zope, which even many pythonistas consider overengineered and even un-pythonic in many ways.
WebWare and Quixote are probably the biggest; another called SnakeSkin was just announced as having reached 1.0 today.
PHP5 has more features than PHP4 but is aggressively backwards compatible, thus, with a few exceptions it's as crufty as ever.
I would pick OpenACS over ASP.NET but I would pick ASP.NET over PHP5 or most J2EE stacks.
overpriced, underpowered, that sort of thing.
I would definitely pay that kind of money for community-created mods if I knew it had gone through some kind of BioWare QA process. Sifting through thousands (?) of mods on fan sites just isn't worth the time.
Yes, I remember what happened when the ipod was first announced and all the naysayers got this uncomfortable bitter look when it took off.
Still, who the hell wants to look at pictures on a small lcd or display them on tv?
MPEG-2 or 4 I could understand (doesn't iRiver's next player do this?), but photos? Big deal.