Privacy: You've got a smartphone. I've got a smartphone. Everybody's got a smartphone. Seriously, if your employer feels at all hostile or big brother, can't you do you personal email, FB, Twitter, etc. on your phone?
Chatter: it's a corporate communication service. It's a given that your company is monitoring it. Hell, that's the half the point of using it. So the complaint here is that Salesforce is using yet another half-assed metric to evaluate employee performance? It can't be worse than a dozen other "measures" of employee performance I've seen over the years. Hell, maybe it's better.
Did you just play politics right after complaining about people playing politics?
Here's a tip for next time: if you had used a semicolon instead of a period, you could have made a statement and then contradicted yourself in the same sentence.
I was once involved in a project where this sort of thing was going on, and those that had the better looking GUI got the nod.
I'll settle for the one that HAS A GUI.
This guy's advice is good for his target services and audience. In particular: he's giving advice with no existing relationship with a programmer, who are going to jump feet-first into elance, guru, odesk, and vworker. These first-time users of the services will be lucky to see a project through to a remotely satisfactory conclusion if they only hire one programmer.
Having been in that position once, I can vouch for what he's saying: you'll be ignorant enough of the criteria you should be using, that it's going to be very useful to hire 2-3 programmers for a small milestone up front. You'll get the guy who completely ignores the spec, and sends you something he cobbled together in 10 minutes. You'll get the guy who eats up the full time allotted, then at the very end cancels the project and refunds the money. And you'll get the guy who's actually a solid, communicative programmer, and gets the job done. Then you go forward with that guy.
It's going to be rare that, on your first use of these services, you can make a decision based on a close call, evaluating code quality, UI design, and so on. No, you'll be evaluating "did the project get completed AT ALL?". And you'll learn a lot about how to find people using these services, and how to write better specs yourself, so that you don't waste everyone's time in the future.
You have to appreciate that on/., a post that simply repeats part of the article summary is modded +2 Informative-- and rightfully so, as it's responding to a post that asks a question explicitly addressed in the summary.
I searched the linked articles, and several articles linked from those, but couldn't find the word "clarify" in any of Yelp's statements. In fact, the only use I found was also in quotes, in the Ars article.
It appears Ars has decided to substitute scare quotes for "commentary." Readers ought to be informed that the "journalist" may be misleading them, because in fact, Yelp's changes (as "reported" by Ars) do not aim to "clarify how advertising affects listing."
(Please note that my last use of quotes was not intended to scare, but to set off language that came from another source. Sorry if I frightened anyone.)
They all worked on small projects. Where the mythical man-month applies is in the combined effort on a large, sufficiently complex project.
You're just quibbling about details. If they can get 40 interns to do 40 small problems quickly, they can certainly get 40 interns to do 10 large problems even faster. Just like 9 pregnant women can make a baby in one month. Or they can keep the original 9 month schedule, but pool their efforts to create one super-huge baby.
Good point. Since corporations were granted their personhood in 1884 there has never been a corporation as President or even Governor.
What about more basic rights, like marriage? Yeah, yeah, "mergers" give you all the same benefits. If that's so, why not let them call it marriage?
You ask me, get the government out of this whole marriage thing, and let individuals, their faiths, and their churches decide if they want to let AOL be "wedded" to Time Warner. In the mean time, the government can call AOL and Time Warner "civil partners".
After that, maybe we can end this horrid business of corporations being bought and sold. Disgusting!
I often wondered what was so special about the iPhone. I have never got a satisfying answer.
If you're saying the iPhone isn't appealing to you, great. Fine. Whatever. Have some free mod points from people who agree with you.
If you're saying you don't understand people-- if you're saying you honestly try to put yourself in other folks' shoes, try to empathize with them, try to see why they love what they love, but you just can't-- well, congratulations, you're a geek. You've come to the right place.
Assuming LEDs last 2.5 times as long as LEDs, we conclude that LEDs last infinitely long and there is nothing superior except for LEDs.
The study was commissioned by an LED manufacturer. In order to reach the desired result, they had to redefine 2.5 as the multiplicative identity. At least they're up front about it. ("Up front" being, in fact, quite important-- you don't want to see what they did to the associative property.)
I find it interesting that a website filled with people who are normally outraged at the idea of video surveillance in a public place with everyone's knowledge is so accepting of the idea of audio surveillance in a public place without everyone's knowledge.
I find it interesting that after reading a website constantly filled with talk of restricting government power and expanding personal freedom, you don't see a difference between government power and personal freedom.
"There's nothing game developers can do to stop them."
Really? How much are you selling your used copy of Battlefield 1943 for? About the same amount you sold your used copy of Castle Crashers for, right?
This rant is years out of date. Game publishers are already figuring out all sorts of ways around the used games "problem". Rather than pursue the legislation red herring, they're trying market-driven approaches: lower prices; downloadable games; free content for registering; purchaseable downloadable content; long-lived multiplayer modes; "freemium".
Strangely, by pursuing market-driven solutions instead of lobbyist-driven solutions, it looks like both the publishers and the gamers will benefit. Weird.
Stolen property. If you steal property, you must report its fair market value in your income in the year you steal it unless in the same year, you return it to its rightful owner.
Since piracy is stealing, I don't have to pay taxes on anything I pirate as long as I seed long enough for the RIAA to download a copy?
When you decide to start punishing non-customers rather than finding ways to entice them into being customers, that's a really bad sign.
Then it's a good sign that they're enticing non-customers into being customers, right?
Gears of War 2 has special downloadable maps for people who buy the game new. People who buy it used still get the full single-player game, plus full multiplayer functionality-- they just don't get the bonus maps.
They've identified a problem with their business model, and instead of legislating to protect their business model (like the recording industry), they've found a solution. What's the problem?
If they don't know that phasers and torpedoes are two completely different things, I don't expect them to understand the various intricacies of the franchise.
And if you don't know that a person's actual statement and the AP's summary of it are two completely different things....
And PNP RPGs are just watered down LARPs. Real men strap on plate armor and beat each other over the head with swords, until they become tired and pop over to Denny's for a burger.
Wait, WHAT!? Sure, until today, I had no idea how many classes Warhammer Online had. I also had no idea how many cities they have. And if they'd just launched a game with two capital cities, I would have been perfectly happy.
But now I know that they'll be launching with fewer capital cities than they thought they might. And how can I play a game with fewer capital cities!?
Not to mention the races. They went from what, X+4 to X? How am I supposed to play a game with only X classes!? Obviously Warhammer needed X+4 classes to be at all good.
I have to say, I'm still holding out a little hope. But if they cut any more things I've never heard about from some number to some other number, I'll be really angry!
Gmail strips JS, and doesn't display images unless you specifically tell it to.
How much are people going to be willing to pay for a service that doesn't even work for gmail users? I suppose you could make the image alt text say "pretty, pretty please click the display images button", but most users still aren't going to bother. They'll delete the message or mark it spam, and get on with their day.
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Privacy: You've got a smartphone. I've got a smartphone. Everybody's got a smartphone. Seriously, if your employer feels at all hostile or big brother, can't you do you personal email, FB, Twitter, etc. on your phone?
Chatter: it's a corporate communication service. It's a given that your company is monitoring it. Hell, that's the half the point of using it. So the complaint here is that Salesforce is using yet another half-assed metric to evaluate employee performance? It can't be worse than a dozen other "measures" of employee performance I've seen over the years. Hell, maybe it's better.
Did you just play politics right after complaining about people playing politics?
Here's a tip for next time: if you had used a semicolon instead of a period, you could have made a statement and then contradicted yourself in the same sentence.
I was once involved in a project where this sort of thing was going on, and those that had the better looking GUI got the nod.
I'll settle for the one that HAS A GUI.
This guy's advice is good for his target services and audience. In particular: he's giving advice with no existing relationship with a programmer, who are going to jump feet-first into elance, guru, odesk, and vworker. These first-time users of the services will be lucky to see a project through to a remotely satisfactory conclusion if they only hire one programmer.
Having been in that position once, I can vouch for what he's saying: you'll be ignorant enough of the criteria you should be using, that it's going to be very useful to hire 2-3 programmers for a small milestone up front. You'll get the guy who completely ignores the spec, and sends you something he cobbled together in 10 minutes. You'll get the guy who eats up the full time allotted, then at the very end cancels the project and refunds the money. And you'll get the guy who's actually a solid, communicative programmer, and gets the job done. Then you go forward with that guy.
It's going to be rare that, on your first use of these services, you can make a decision based on a close call, evaluating code quality, UI design, and so on. No, you'll be evaluating "did the project get completed AT ALL?". And you'll learn a lot about how to find people using these services, and how to write better specs yourself, so that you don't waste everyone's time in the future.
Would it kill you to do your fucking job...? No? Clean out your desk.
One way or another, that policy's going to have a pretty high turnover rate.
You have to appreciate that on /., a post that simply repeats part of the article summary is modded +2 Informative-- and rightfully so, as it's responding to a post that asks a question explicitly addressed in the summary.
I love it when religion tries its hand at something
As long as we're sharing our turn-ons, I love it when Slashdot finds new and exciting things to anthropomorphize.
I searched the linked articles, and several articles linked from those, but couldn't find the word "clarify" in any of Yelp's statements. In fact, the only use I found was also in quotes, in the Ars article.
It appears Ars has decided to substitute scare quotes for "commentary." Readers ought to be informed that the "journalist" may be misleading them, because in fact, Yelp's changes (as "reported" by Ars) do not aim to "clarify how advertising affects listing."
(Please note that my last use of quotes was not intended to scare, but to set off language that came from another source. Sorry if I frightened anyone.)
They all worked on small projects. Where the mythical man-month applies is in the combined effort on a large, sufficiently complex project.
You're just quibbling about details. If they can get 40 interns to do 40 small problems quickly, they can certainly get 40 interns to do 10 large problems even faster. Just like 9 pregnant women can make a baby in one month. Or they can keep the original 9 month schedule, but pool their efforts to create one super-huge baby.
Good point. Since corporations were granted their personhood in 1884 there has never been a corporation as President or even Governor.
What about more basic rights, like marriage? Yeah, yeah, "mergers" give you all the same benefits. If that's so, why not let them call it marriage?
You ask me, get the government out of this whole marriage thing, and let individuals, their faiths, and their churches decide if they want to let AOL be "wedded" to Time Warner. In the mean time, the government can call AOL and Time Warner "civil partners".
After that, maybe we can end this horrid business of corporations being bought and sold. Disgusting!
I often wondered what was so special about the iPhone. I have never got a satisfying answer.
If you're saying the iPhone isn't appealing to you, great. Fine. Whatever. Have some free mod points from people who agree with you.
If you're saying you don't understand people-- if you're saying you honestly try to put yourself in other folks' shoes, try to empathize with them, try to see why they love what they love, but you just can't-- well, congratulations, you're a geek. You've come to the right place.
Assuming LEDs last 2.5 times as long as LEDs, we conclude that LEDs last infinitely long and there is nothing superior except for LEDs.
The study was commissioned by an LED manufacturer. In order to reach the desired result, they had to redefine 2.5 as the multiplicative identity. At least they're up front about it. ("Up front" being, in fact, quite important-- you don't want to see what they did to the associative property.)
They need a better gimmick if they want me to buy it. No server = no buy!
You wouldn't buy it anyway, you dirty PC pirate.
Damn, everyone's really dismissing this out of hand.
But just think: if such a tax DID pass, it could raise as much as $154.5M!!!
I find it interesting that a website filled with people who are normally outraged at the idea of video surveillance in a public place with everyone's knowledge is so accepting of the idea of audio surveillance in a public place without everyone's knowledge.
I find it interesting that after reading a website constantly filled with talk of restricting government power and expanding personal freedom, you don't see a difference between government power and personal freedom.
for me, as a married guy with a kid, a hobby done in moderation means once a week, tops.
Your posting history shows that you post more than once a week. Is that part of your chores, or part of your job?
Why is there this sense that we have to be busy doing things all the time?
Please remain in your location. A squad will be sent over shortly, and you will be "optimized".
"There's nothing game developers can do to stop them."
Really? How much are you selling your used copy of Battlefield 1943 for? About the same amount you sold your used copy of Castle Crashers for, right?
This rant is years out of date. Game publishers are already figuring out all sorts of ways around the used games "problem". Rather than pursue the legislation red herring, they're trying market-driven approaches: lower prices; downloadable games; free content for registering; purchaseable downloadable content; long-lived multiplayer modes; "freemium".
Strangely, by pursuing market-driven solutions instead of lobbyist-driven solutions, it looks like both the publishers and the gamers will benefit. Weird.
Stolen property. If you steal property, you must report its fair market value in your income in the year you steal it unless in the same year, you return it to its rightful owner.
Since piracy is stealing, I don't have to pay taxes on anything I pirate as long as I seed long enough for the RIAA to download a copy?
When you decide to start punishing non-customers rather than finding ways to entice them into being customers, that's a really bad sign.
Then it's a good sign that they're enticing non-customers into being customers, right?
Gears of War 2 has special downloadable maps for people who buy the game new. People who buy it used still get the full single-player game, plus full multiplayer functionality-- they just don't get the bonus maps.
They've identified a problem with their business model, and instead of legislating to protect their business model (like the recording industry), they've found a solution. What's the problem?
If they don't know that phasers and torpedoes are two completely different things, I don't expect them to understand the various intricacies of the franchise.
And if you don't know that a person's actual statement and the AP's summary of it are two completely different things....
And PNP RPGs are just watered down LARPs. Real men strap on plate armor and beat each other over the head with swords, until they become tired and pop over to Denny's for a burger.
"After all, you often don't get to see the EULA until after you buy the software and open the box."
In this case, the updated EULA is downloaded and displayed to you after you launch the game. So by the time you've read it, you've broken it.
Seriously though, this is not a huge deal
Wait, WHAT!? Sure, until today, I had no idea how many classes Warhammer Online had. I also had no idea how many cities they have. And if they'd just launched a game with two capital cities, I would have been perfectly happy.
But now I know that they'll be launching with fewer capital cities than they thought they might. And how can I play a game with fewer capital cities!?
Not to mention the races. They went from what, X+4 to X? How am I supposed to play a game with only X classes!? Obviously Warhammer needed X+4 classes to be at all good.
I have to say, I'm still holding out a little hope. But if they cut any more things I've never heard about from some number to some other number, I'll be really angry!
Gmail strips JS, and doesn't display images unless you specifically tell it to.
How much are people going to be willing to pay for a service that doesn't even work for gmail users? I suppose you could make the image alt text say "pretty, pretty please click the display images button", but most users still aren't going to bother. They'll delete the message or mark it spam, and get on with their day.
And fuck your nitpicking - copying is stealing. Period.
I hope you don't mind-- I just stole-pasted your last sentence.