People keep suggesting this, but time and again we find that the reason that highly specific tagged addresses are getting spammed is that someone leaked or compromised a list.
I used to be a member of a professional society. I started getting spam to the unique, tagged, address I'd used to register with them. I pointed this out on a mailing list. I got threatening notes from them about how they didn't appreciate me implying that they had sold addresses or been compromised...
Blizzard ignored queries from me about the sudden appearance of spam (from their servers, even) to unique, tagged, addresses. A week after they blew me off, there was an announcement that they'd been compromised, so maybe they actually did investigate, but they sure never got back to me in any way.
So basically, I don't think you can convince them unless they start out caring.
Since people are all the same, there will be a single answser to any such question that will work better for everyone than the alternatives. People all need, and want, the same amount of face-to-face social interaction, and there is a single testable level of social interaction which will produce the best results for all the workers. Innovation and creativity do not in any way vary based on traits which might differ between people. So, for instance, if it's true that an autistic employee can maintain mental stability and productive work while working remotely and never meeting coworkers face-to-face, that will be true for all the other employees. And if it's true that someone with ADHD finds an open office space with other people doing other things nearby more distracting than empowering, it'll be true for all the other employees.
Note that there's at least some places that are solving this problem in a very different way: They provide shared office space to people who don't work for the same companies or on the same projects, so they can have the physical and social benefits of "an office" -- but one very close to them, and convenient to them. While still getting the other benefits of remote work. Or doing a small business thing that doesn't have other employees. This apparently works decently for some people.
The problem with it is that it's crappy stuff with a huge marketing budget.
Go look at their demo units. Note how all the other speakers are set up so you can swap between speakers and compare the same music using multiple different speakers, but the Bose stuff is carefully separated and uses different audio tracks custom-recorded to sound okay with it.
It's marketing fluff on top of unusually poor hardware.
What I'm going to do about it, though, is hack that damn console and pirate each and every game
Unless your name is GeoHot, no you're not.
And if your name is GeoHot, no you're not, until it's been out already for five years.
I'm done paying before I can evaluate the quality.
No, sorry, that's not how it works. You haven't "truly enjoyed" an AC game since AC2? So you're looking for some deep fulfillment from these games that they are no longer providing? And you think the problem is the games?
A good point. If you are not having fun playing games, learn to play.
Specifically, taking into account the high incidence of atypical neurologies, and the problems caused by things like "but I *really really* need to concentrate so only interrupt me if it's genuinely that important", stuff like that. But underneath it all, that implies a pretty solid database of items.
I have tried several times to figure out what on earth you are saying, and I've come up empty.
In C, it is possible for me to allocate an object, fail to free it, and end up having leaked memory. It is also possible for me to retain a pointer to something that was freed, and get surprising behaviors from that. I can overrun buffers. Heck, I occasionally do, although it's usually pretty rare for me.
None of these are possible in Lua.
I am not sure what the "difficult parts of pointers" you're thinking of are, but I write a fair bit of Lua, I never worry about pointers in it, and I don't have any problems.
I like to think I'm okay at C. I certainly don't generally find it particularly intimidating. I've written kernel code, though not much. I maintain a program that emulates root privileges by intercepting syscalls -- and which works on Linux and OS X. I'm basically clear on how this works.
But when I do iOS/Android stuff, I have a pretty strong preference for Lua, because I don't always want to be thinking about pointers. And yes, LuaJIT is... plenty fast. The mere fact that it's a JIT implementation means that it can beat precompiled code for real use cases, and even when it doesn't, it's not as though it's particularly slow.
Don't assume this is only of interest to people who think C is hard. C's by far the language I'm best in, and I still see plenty of appeal here.
Nonsense. I use multiple keyboard layouts, and switching it up is actually a good thing.
I like Dvorak because it takes a lot less effort to type. I can still type qwerty if I have reason to. Heck, I am right now, on this keyboard. I swap them around. Life's good.
I am inclined to think that facebook is not the right tool for communicating about things you don't want people to associate with you.
That said, I also note that I overall get much better results being "out" about being autistic than I did when people didn't know. (Of course, I didn't know either for most of that time.)
I think the question is, can you not do it? Answer for me: No.
My strategy: I wrote a program which read in a grid of letters (it actually just ignored spaces, so I laid them out in a hex shape), did the collating to produce the strings for each direction, then did, for each clue, four matches: ^re$, ^re, re$, and re. It then displayed the best match it had found. I'd post what this looks like, but the Slashdot comment system won't let me. (Apparently, "too many junk characters", and also no way to make spaces work.)
And it produced one of these dumps for each of the three sets of clues.
Then I ran that in another window in a loop, once a second, and started solving. Was super fun. Got it done early enough to sleep some, too. A++. Fun. Would solve more.
It's certainly possible to do programming work in your free time if you can find someone who needs a small amount of stuff done and can deal with being the secondary priority to your real job. I've been doing it on and off for at least a decade now, and I make enough money at it to make for tax headaches. Requires a lot of attributes that you might not need in the regular scheduled day job world; you get to be the entire team, testing and QA and documentation included. No safety net. Can be sorta stressful. Can also be fun.
Counting the full value of a paid product as the "value" of a free download: Reprehensible and dishonest if you're talking about "pirated" software, music, or movies. Totally acceptable and obviously fair for open source projects.
I don't know that I'd call the sideloading exactly a "workaround". That's just turning on the normal developer features and using them; only real nuisance value there is the thing where sideloaded apps are harder to get to.
(Disclaimer: I'm planning to ship something for Nook, which is why I happened to find out how to load stuff on it.)
Consistent user interface. "Theoretically this could be done if someone got around to it" isn't good enough; you have to demonstrate a shipping product which has one. I've never found an Android phone that could do that.
Also, for a really trivial case: Pick any specific application which only exists on one platform. Computers are devices to run apps; if the specific app you want is an Amiga app, you need either an Amiga or an Amiga emulator. If you want an iPhone app, you need something that runs iOS apps.
Pretty much agreed. I use Android and iOS devices galore (I get a lot for app development).
I consistently find that the iOS UI is superior, with a handful of very narrow exceptions. (Example: Swype. That's it; that's the example I can think of.) Since iOS 4 or so, I've pretty much always been able to navigate iOS devices. Android keeps coming up with shiny new interfaces for the home screen, and I have ended up completely stumped by them when they did things like "a row of transparent outlines in the shape of the apps that would be on the other side of the next screen tells you you could swipe to another screen of apps". Want full-screen apps? No longer allowed, so far as I can tell; apps aren't allowed to turn off the last little bit of menu area. (On the Nook, this is particularly annoying since it's quite bright.)
The Google Play store is useless; it used to be 90% of all reviews were ads for warez sites, I haven't bothered looking in months to see whether it's improved. It's also very hard to find apps that aren't shovelware like " sound board" apps which are not actually licensed. I spent a while trying to find a PDF reader for Android that was remotely comparable in quality to GoodReader; I gave up. There isn't one. There's nothing that's close to either the speed or the user interface. That's pathetic.
There's an old saying: You have to understand the rules before you can break them. Android's user experience is what happens when people who absolutely do not understand any of the rules systematically break all of them just because they think rules are bad.
At least one popular SDK (Corona) requests permissions for all sorts of things. And, in fact, it uses network permissions for chatting with the ad services you might use, even if you don't use them, unless you take steps to prevent this. This is something the devs have agreed is a problem and will eventually fix.
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People keep suggesting this, but time and again we find that the reason that highly specific tagged addresses are getting spammed is that someone leaked or compromised a list.
I used to be a member of a professional society. I started getting spam to the unique, tagged, address I'd used to register with them. I pointed this out on a mailing list. I got threatening notes from them about how they didn't appreciate me implying that they had sold addresses or been compromised...
Blizzard ignored queries from me about the sudden appearance of spam (from their servers, even) to unique, tagged, addresses. A week after they blew me off, there was an announcement that they'd been compromised, so maybe they actually did investigate, but they sure never got back to me in any way.
So basically, I don't think you can convince them unless they start out caring.
Since people are all the same, there will be a single answser to any such question that will work better for everyone than the alternatives. People all need, and want, the same amount of face-to-face social interaction, and there is a single testable level of social interaction which will produce the best results for all the workers. Innovation and creativity do not in any way vary based on traits which might differ between people. So, for instance, if it's true that an autistic employee can maintain mental stability and productive work while working remotely and never meeting coworkers face-to-face, that will be true for all the other employees. And if it's true that someone with ADHD finds an open office space with other people doing other things nearby more distracting than empowering, it'll be true for all the other employees.
Note that there's at least some places that are solving this problem in a very different way: They provide shared office space to people who don't work for the same companies or on the same projects, so they can have the physical and social benefits of "an office" -- but one very close to them, and convenient to them. While still getting the other benefits of remote work. Or doing a small business thing that doesn't have other employees. This apparently works decently for some people.
The problem with it is that it's crappy stuff with a huge marketing budget.
Go look at their demo units. Note how all the other speakers are set up so you can swap between speakers and compare the same music using multiple different speakers, but the Bose stuff is carefully separated and uses different audio tracks custom-recorded to sound okay with it.
It's marketing fluff on top of unusually poor hardware.
What I'm going to do about it, though, is hack that damn console and pirate each and every game
Unless your name is GeoHot, no you're not.
And if your name is GeoHot, no you're not, until it's been out already for five years.
I'm done paying before I can evaluate the quality.
No, sorry, that's not how it works. You haven't "truly enjoyed" an AC game since AC2? So you're looking for some deep fulfillment from these games that they are no longer providing? And you think the problem is the games?
A good point. If you are not having fun playing games, learn to play.
Specifically, taking into account the high incidence of atypical neurologies, and the problems caused by things like "but I *really really* need to concentrate so only interrupt me if it's genuinely that important", stuff like that. But underneath it all, that implies a pretty solid database of items.
No, not true at all. RTFA. This was not a reviewer treating it as a petrol car. This was a reviewer actively trying to screw it up.
Fast, simple, portable, good licensing terms, specifically designed to be easily embedded, more than one implementation available.
I have tried several times to figure out what on earth you are saying, and I've come up empty.
In C, it is possible for me to allocate an object, fail to free it, and end up having leaked memory. It is also possible for me to retain a pointer to something that was freed, and get surprising behaviors from that. I can overrun buffers. Heck, I occasionally do, although it's usually pretty rare for me.
None of these are possible in Lua.
I am not sure what the "difficult parts of pointers" you're thinking of are, but I write a fair bit of Lua, I never worry about pointers in it, and I don't have any problems.
I like to think I'm okay at C. I certainly don't generally find it particularly intimidating. I've written kernel code, though not much. I maintain a program that emulates root privileges by intercepting syscalls -- and which works on Linux and OS X. I'm basically clear on how this works.
But when I do iOS/Android stuff, I have a pretty strong preference for Lua, because I don't always want to be thinking about pointers. And yes, LuaJIT is... plenty fast. The mere fact that it's a JIT implementation means that it can beat precompiled code for real use cases, and even when it doesn't, it's not as though it's particularly slow.
Don't assume this is only of interest to people who think C is hard. C's by far the language I'm best in, and I still see plenty of appeal here.
If that were true, they could test for the STD. I assume these people are not quite *that* stupid.
No, but I was assuming people could see the relevance of "similar behavioral traits."
Nonsense. I use multiple keyboard layouts, and switching it up is actually a good thing.
I like Dvorak because it takes a lot less effort to type. I can still type qwerty if I have reason to. Heck, I am right now, on this keyboard. I swap them around. Life's good.
I am inclined to think that facebook is not the right tool for communicating about things you don't want people to associate with you.
That said, I also note that I overall get much better results being "out" about being autistic than I did when people didn't know. (Of course, I didn't know either for most of that time.)
It's not as though it's unheard of for identical twins to have similar hobbies...
It did seem a little... more information than I really needed, yes.
I sort of assumed everyone knew, because when has Google ever cared about privacy?
I am pretty sure that it is implicitly "all letters".
No, they mean ".*". A .* is zero or more characters. In some cases, yes, that means zero.
I think the question is, can you not do it? Answer for me: No.
My strategy: I wrote a program which read in a grid of letters (it actually just ignored spaces, so I laid them out in a hex shape), did the collating to produce the strings for each direction, then did, for each clue, four matches: ^re$, ^re, re$, and re. It then displayed the best match it had found. I'd post what this looks like, but the Slashdot comment system won't let me. (Apparently, "too many junk characters", and also no way to make spaces work.)
And it produced one of these dumps for each of the three sets of clues.
Then I ran that in another window in a loop, once a second, and started solving. Was super fun. Got it done early enough to sleep some, too. A++. Fun. Would solve more.
It's certainly possible to do programming work in your free time if you can find someone who needs a small amount of stuff done and can deal with being the secondary priority to your real job. I've been doing it on and off for at least a decade now, and I make enough money at it to make for tax headaches. Requires a lot of attributes that you might not need in the regular scheduled day job world; you get to be the entire team, testing and QA and documentation included. No safety net. Can be sorta stressful. Can also be fun.
Counting the full value of a paid product as the "value" of a free download: Reprehensible and dishonest if you're talking about "pirated" software, music, or movies. Totally acceptable and obviously fair for open source projects.
I don't know that I'd call the sideloading exactly a "workaround". That's just turning on the normal developer features and using them; only real nuisance value there is the thing where sideloaded apps are harder to get to.
(Disclaimer: I'm planning to ship something for Nook, which is why I happened to find out how to load stuff on it.)
Okay:
Consistent user interface. "Theoretically this could be done if someone got around to it" isn't good enough; you have to demonstrate a shipping product which has one. I've never found an Android phone that could do that.
Also, for a really trivial case: Pick any specific application which only exists on one platform. Computers are devices to run apps; if the specific app you want is an Amiga app, you need either an Amiga or an Amiga emulator. If you want an iPhone app, you need something that runs iOS apps.
Pretty much agreed. I use Android and iOS devices galore (I get a lot for app development).
I consistently find that the iOS UI is superior, with a handful of very narrow exceptions. (Example: Swype. That's it; that's the example I can think of.) Since iOS 4 or so, I've pretty much always been able to navigate iOS devices. Android keeps coming up with shiny new interfaces for the home screen, and I have ended up completely stumped by them when they did things like "a row of transparent outlines in the shape of the apps that would be on the other side of the next screen tells you you could swipe to another screen of apps". Want full-screen apps? No longer allowed, so far as I can tell; apps aren't allowed to turn off the last little bit of menu area. (On the Nook, this is particularly annoying since it's quite bright.)
The Google Play store is useless; it used to be 90% of all reviews were ads for warez sites, I haven't bothered looking in months to see whether it's improved. It's also very hard to find apps that aren't shovelware like " sound board" apps which are not actually licensed. I spent a while trying to find a PDF reader for Android that was remotely comparable in quality to GoodReader; I gave up. There isn't one. There's nothing that's close to either the speed or the user interface. That's pathetic.
There's an old saying: You have to understand the rules before you can break them. Android's user experience is what happens when people who absolutely do not understand any of the rules systematically break all of them just because they think rules are bad.
At least one popular SDK (Corona) requests permissions for all sorts of things. And, in fact, it uses network permissions for chatting with the ad services you might use, even if you don't use them, unless you take steps to prevent this. This is something the devs have agreed is a problem and will eventually fix.