We've tried that already. The feedback was ignored.
It's obvious that whoever is working on the new site either lacks the skills or the desire to match the functionality of the current interface. No amount of feedback is going to change that, and so the Beta will always suck.
Do they want to stop the complaining? That's easy. They don't have to get rid of the beta. They just have to formally commit to keeping the classic interface available, and make it straightforward to use it instead.
It's funny; if this happened on any other site the Slashdot editors would be all over posting stories about "censorship."
Whichever editor is doing this: how about you at least have the balls to admit it? Just put up a notification on the front page that you're downmodding all complaints about the beta site.
And yes, since you probably think you can do it without people realizing -- it's pretty damn obvious that it's an editor doing it, not normal users. Huge numbers of posts are getting hit with "offtopic" mods, all at the same time.
People hated the 2006 redesign, too, and yet they are still here. Why would they acknowledge a problem that by all past indication will disappear within a couple of weeks/months?
The classic interface continued to be available. That's what I've been using. The big difference now is that they want to remove the old interface.
If the "new site" had been designed by competent programmers, then it would have been a trivial matter to swap between the "new" and "old" interfaces. Apparently it is not. They must have hired the contractors that couldn't get a job working on healthcare.gov.
Continue to turn the comments threads into a trash heap to drive people away. And don't forget to turn on your ad blocker. Do what you can to get their attention until they publicly acknowledge that this is a mistake -- because they're not going to pay attention otherwise.
By now, a professional organization would have at least acknowledged the complaints. Slashdot hasn't yet, and I'm willing to bet they never do. For a site that posts so many stories complaining about what other people do, they're remarkably slow to admit when they make a mistake.
Continue to turn the comments threads into a trash heap to drive people away. And don't forget to turn on your ad blocker. Do what you can to get their attention until they publically acknowledge that this is a mistake -- because they're not going to pay attention otherwise.
The fact that every comment thread is being overrun with complaints about the beta site is going to drive a lot of people away. That costs/. money as the ad revenue disappears. And that's apparently all that those running the show understand.
If there's anything that I've learned in the last 15 years about Slashdot, it's that they essentially ignore all complaints. Giving them "feedback" about the new site isn't going to do anything. Depriving them of their money -- that might get their attention.
The second way carbon-14 can be created in the Earthâ(TM)s atmosphere is if the Sun suddenly belched high energy particles our way. In other words, the Sun might have emitted a superflare 1000 times larger than usual which then engulfed the Earth.
There was a time when astronomers would have immediately ruled out this possibility as well. But last year, astrophysicists calculated that sun-like stars can produce superflares of this size about once every 3000 years.
The "seems unlikely" appears to be an invention of KentuckyFC, enabled by samzenpus.
Would anyone hire any of these graduates for a software engineering position? I don't think I would unless they had some real world work experience to back it up. It sounds like these short programs are producing coders, not engineers. There's a big difference between the two.
Companies are replacing many software engineers with low-paid outsourced "coders" with similar credentials to what these people will end up with. I suppose that in theory, the people coming out of these programs would be qualified to compete for those jobs.
In general, herbivores are tasty. Carnivores and omnivores? No way.
This is at least partly cultural. Cats, dogs, bears, various reptiles, fish, whales, insects -- just to name a few animals off the top of my head that are carnivorous or omnivorous and are used as food with some frequency. If it's possible to eat it, chances are that somebody does -- and even considers it a delicacy.
This is a perfect example of why is should be possible to give an app temporary permission to do something, or to selectively deny permissions. This type of authentication is something that only needs to be done once over the lifetime of the device. If I was using it, I would just copy/paste the code -- and someone who is less paranoid could allow the facebook app to read their text messages at setup time, and then deny that permission from that point on. Instead what we end up with is that after you've gone through that authentication step, Facebook will be able to read your text messages forever more.
But I assume that most people are just going to shrug and install the app anyway. I know that way back when, facebook would bug me to give them my email password so that they could go look up all my contacts. It's hard to believe that people actually fall for crap like that -- but apparently they do.
Which doesn't make any claims about the intent of QWERTY being to slow typists down. The expectation that a keyboard layout designed specifically for typing speed would result in faster typing than one that was designed primarily to prevent jams is not at all unreasonable.
When will people get their facts straight? QWERTYdid not prevent jamming by making people type slower.
The post you replied to didn't claim that it did. Why do I get the feeling that you were just looking for a place to "correct" somebody about the QWERTY layout, and this was the best place that you could find?
This is nothing. Last year Americans bought 309 million Windows PCs, but they bought over 11 billion paper clips. It is clear that Microsoft has lost its stranglehold on the paperclip/Windows PC market.
You will find that in most countries, including the US, that discrimination based on nationality is a privilege reserved for the state. That is, it is taken to be the same as racism, as it ought to be, everywhere except when the state is discriminating against you entering or being permitted to work in the country. Once you get past the barrier of immigration discrimination, the law expects you to be treated the same as anyone else who is legally permitted to work in the country.
Regardless of the legality, my post was in reply to someone who was making unfounded claims of racism.
There are some pretty good reasons why so many people just stop paying attention to those who jump to racism to explain any injustice.
When he requested a salary of $60,000 a year or more for the employee, equivalent to what his white American counterparts received, he was told instead to offer $50,000, which was 'good money for an Indian.'
Is there any evidence that non-white Americans were being paid less for the same job? Or is this just an attempt to insert race into a discussion where it probably does not belong?
As for the rest of your problem, just set up a second Gmail address with a nonsensical middle name (first initial).turnip.(common last name)@gmail.com and have it forward to your "real" gmail address. Problem solved.
This is actually a good idea even if you don't have the problem that the original poster had. I created a new gmail account with that general idea a little while back which I use for things like online retailers. It makes it really easy to filter those emails out of my personal inbox, which can be a pain sometimes otherwise.
The name+extension@gmail.com addresses would let you do something similar, but they've got a couple serious drawbacks -- many (in my experience, probably "most") websites will reject an email address with a + sign, and also it exposes your actual personal address. Using a separate gmail address solves those.
I do wish that Google would come up with a proper disposable email address solution.
Bus stops, however, aren't free. Especially when they involve building extra pullouts, which is pretty much required to maintain traffic flow in areas with high traffic.
It's true that there is a general benefit to the public to have people use mass transit (public or private), but exactly how much that benefit is, in comparison to maintaining the bus stops, isn't exactly easy to quantify.
It wasn't that Google hired the buses. It was that Google's buses were using the public-transit bus stops, interfering with the regular buses. That's an entirely reasonable objection, if Google wants to run buses then let them arrange all the infrastructure needed themselves or pay the transit system for using public bus stops.
If interfering with regular buses was actually the problem, then I don't see that having Google pay for the privilege of using the bus stops solves anything.
I can't find any evidence that that was really an issue, though. It sounds like this is more of a money thing -- complaints that Google employees are using infrastructure built for the public buses without having to pay for it. From that perspective, I agree that it is sensible to have Google pay to use them.
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We've tried that already. The feedback was ignored.
It's obvious that whoever is working on the new site either lacks the skills or the desire to match the functionality of the current interface. No amount of feedback is going to change that, and so the Beta will always suck.
Do they want to stop the complaining? That's easy. They don't have to get rid of the beta. They just have to formally commit to keeping the classic interface available, and make it straightforward to use it instead.
It's funny; if this happened on any other site the Slashdot editors would be all over posting stories about "censorship."
Whichever editor is doing this: how about you at least have the balls to admit it? Just put up a notification on the front page that you're downmodding all complaints about the beta site.
And yes, since you probably think you can do it without people realizing -- it's pretty damn obvious that it's an editor doing it, not normal users. Huge numbers of posts are getting hit with "offtopic" mods, all at the same time.
People hated the 2006 redesign, too, and yet they are still here. Why would they acknowledge a problem that by all past indication will disappear within a couple of weeks/months?
The classic interface continued to be available. That's what I've been using. The big difference now is that they want to remove the old interface.
If the "new site" had been designed by competent programmers, then it would have been a trivial matter to swap between the "new" and "old" interfaces. Apparently it is not. They must have hired the contractors that couldn't get a job working on healthcare.gov.
Continue to turn the comments threads into a trash heap to drive people away. And don't forget to turn on your ad blocker. Do what you can to get their attention until they publicly acknowledge that this is a mistake -- because they're not going to pay attention otherwise.
By now, a professional organization would have at least acknowledged the complaints. Slashdot hasn't yet, and I'm willing to bet they never do. For a site that posts so many stories complaining about what other people do, they're remarkably slow to admit when they make a mistake.
Continue to turn the comments threads into a trash heap to drive people away. And don't forget to turn on your ad blocker. Do what you can to get their attention until they publically acknowledge that this is a mistake -- because they're not going to pay attention otherwise.
Screw staying on topic.
The fact that every comment thread is being overrun with complaints about the beta site is going to drive a lot of people away. That costs /. money as the ad revenue disappears. And that's apparently all that those running the show understand.
If there's anything that I've learned in the last 15 years about Slashdot, it's that they essentially ignore all complaints. Giving them "feedback" about the new site isn't going to do anything. Depriving them of their money -- that might get their attention.
The actual quote from the article:
The second way carbon-14 can be created in the Earthâ(TM)s atmosphere is if the Sun suddenly belched high energy particles our way. In other words, the Sun might have emitted a superflare 1000 times larger than usual which then engulfed the Earth.
There was a time when astronomers would have immediately ruled out this possibility as well. But last year, astrophysicists calculated that sun-like stars can produce superflares of this size about once every 3000 years.
The "seems unlikely" appears to be an invention of KentuckyFC, enabled by samzenpus.
Would anyone hire any of these graduates for a software engineering position? I don't think I would unless they had some real world work experience to back it up. It sounds like these short programs are producing coders, not engineers. There's a big difference between the two.
Companies are replacing many software engineers with low-paid outsourced "coders" with similar credentials to what these people will end up with. I suppose that in theory, the people coming out of these programs would be qualified to compete for those jobs.
Single creature eats far less than an entire city - check.
I thought that the whole problem with dragons is that they do tend to eat an entire city...
In general, herbivores are tasty. Carnivores and omnivores? No way.
This is at least partly cultural. Cats, dogs, bears, various reptiles, fish, whales, insects -- just to name a few animals off the top of my head that are carnivorous or omnivorous and are used as food with some frequency. If it's possible to eat it, chances are that somebody does -- and even considers it a delicacy.
Also; newspapers will attract a lot more attention with "embryonic" in the headline than "pluripotent adult".
Well, yes; lying to your audience is what a lot of "journalists" do to get more readers. Just take a look at the supermarket checkout line sometime.
This is a perfect example of why is should be possible to give an app temporary permission to do something, or to selectively deny permissions. This type of authentication is something that only needs to be done once over the lifetime of the device. If I was using it, I would just copy/paste the code -- and someone who is less paranoid could allow the facebook app to read their text messages at setup time, and then deny that permission from that point on. Instead what we end up with is that after you've gone through that authentication step, Facebook will be able to read your text messages forever more.
But I assume that most people are just going to shrug and install the app anyway. I know that way back when, facebook would bug me to give them my email password so that they could go look up all my contacts. It's hard to believe that people actually fall for crap like that -- but apparently they do.
At its simplest, Slashdot combines editor quality control and insight with crowd-sourced harvesting to cover the 'News for Nerds' space.
BWA HA HA HA HA! Apparently CmdrTaco's new career is in comedy.
Which doesn't make any claims about the intent of QWERTY being to slow typists down. The expectation that a keyboard layout designed specifically for typing speed would result in faster typing than one that was designed primarily to prevent jams is not at all unreasonable.
When will people get their facts straight? QWERTYdid not prevent jamming by making people type slower.
The post you replied to didn't claim that it did. Why do I get the feeling that you were just looking for a place to "correct" somebody about the QWERTY layout, and this was the best place that you could find?
I don't know what is then.
If you really don't know, then try visiting a dying person for once. This guy made a less painless exit from life than most people will.
There are some good arguments against the death penalty, but this isn't one of them.
This is nothing. Last year Americans bought 309 million Windows PCs, but they bought over 11 billion paper clips. It is clear that Microsoft has lost its stranglehold on the paperclip/Windows PC market.
You will find that in most countries, including the US, that discrimination based on nationality is a privilege reserved for the state. That is, it is taken to be the same as racism, as it ought to be, everywhere except when the state is discriminating against you entering or being permitted to work in the country. Once you get past the barrier of immigration discrimination, the law expects you to be treated the same as anyone else who is legally permitted to work in the country.
Regardless of the legality, my post was in reply to someone who was making unfounded claims of racism.
There are some pretty good reasons why so many people just stop paying attention to those who jump to racism to explain any injustice.
It's about race (ethnicity really) being used as a basis to pay someone less money.
Nationality. Not race or ethnicity. There's zero reason to think that an Indian-American would have been offered a lower salary.
When he requested a salary of $60,000 a year or more for the employee, equivalent to what his white American counterparts received, he was told instead to offer $50,000, which was 'good money for an Indian.'
Is there any evidence that non-white Americans were being paid less for the same job? Or is this just an attempt to insert race into a discussion where it probably does not belong?
As for the rest of your problem, just set up a second Gmail address with a nonsensical middle name (first initial).turnip.(common last name)@gmail.com and have it forward to your "real" gmail address. Problem solved.
This is actually a good idea even if you don't have the problem that the original poster had. I created a new gmail account with that general idea a little while back which I use for things like online retailers. It makes it really easy to filter those emails out of my personal inbox, which can be a pain sometimes otherwise.
The name+extension@gmail.com addresses would let you do something similar, but they've got a couple serious drawbacks -- many (in my experience, probably "most") websites will reject an email address with a + sign, and also it exposes your actual personal address. Using a separate gmail address solves those.
I do wish that Google would come up with a proper disposable email address solution.
Bus stops, however, aren't free. Especially when they involve building extra pullouts, which is pretty much required to maintain traffic flow in areas with high traffic.
It's true that there is a general benefit to the public to have people use mass transit (public or private), but exactly how much that benefit is, in comparison to maintaining the bus stops, isn't exactly easy to quantify.
It wasn't that Google hired the buses. It was that Google's buses were using the public-transit bus stops, interfering with the regular buses. That's an entirely reasonable objection, if Google wants to run buses then let them arrange all the infrastructure needed themselves or pay the transit system for using public bus stops.
If interfering with regular buses was actually the problem, then I don't see that having Google pay for the privilege of using the bus stops solves anything.
I can't find any evidence that that was really an issue, though. It sounds like this is more of a money thing -- complaints that Google employees are using infrastructure built for the public buses without having to pay for it. From that perspective, I agree that it is sensible to have Google pay to use them.
Here I was thinking that this would be an advertisement for some bigass truck.
(Which most of their customer base will buy to tool around the suburbs in.)
What To Do?
"Endeavor to be one of the people writing the algorithms" would probably be a good idea.