I can't wait for the next big fad to come along in software so developers will put their energy into something else and quit putting notifications into everything.
... I could name a dozen other companies off the top of my head who are adding more features than I want. Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Mozilla, Adobe, my cable company, my phone company... and that's just from looking at a list of what I have running right now. I could probably hit a hundred if I actually started making a list. Does anyone want to hear details of how the A/C controls in a 2016 Corolla are objectively worse than they were in a 1986 Corolla?
Apple is probably mid-pack in terms of "shit I didn't ask for and don't want".
> It should be possible for a browser to detect when a click on an anchor tag > gets intercepted by a javascript onclick that goes to a completely different > URL, and for the browser to throw a big fat warning instead.
It should be possible that a status bar would show you EXACTLY what you're about to click on (bonus: it should not be over-writeable by JavaScript) but OOPS TOO LATE FUCK YOU THAT SHIP HAS SAILED STATUS BARS ARE UGLY SO WE GOT RID OF THEM LOLOMGWTFQQB!!!!!111 - Signed, All major browser makers
> When I was first taught to code in FORTRAN, we were > told that we really needed to create a flow chart detailing > every statement before writing any code.
My dad started programming in the late 60s. Back then, programmer time was cheap and machine time was expensive.:-)
(Also, punch cards had a bit of latency compared to today's save-build-run.)
> As an extreme example, nobody wants to collect garbage, repair toilets, clean > septic tanks, etc. But because it's needed, society pays a lot for it - enough to > entice some individuals to live with the stink and do it for a living. If a UBI > causes some of these people to quit and take up more "satisfying" lines of > work, the prices of these services will go up
There are a lot of variables in play. Maybe instead of one guy HAVING to do a lousy job for 40 hours/week just to survive, maybe UBI would make it so people could get by OK, and two people could do the job for 20 hrs/week each for a little extra money without being *too* miserable.
I too would like some changes in phone hardware, but if you want OS updates, go with iOS. Every iPhone has received at least 2 major updates, and some have had as many as 4. Original iPhone: Ran iOS 1, 2, 3 3G: 2, 3, 4 3GS: 3, 4, 5, 6 4: 4, 5, 6, 7 4S: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 5: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 5S: 7, 8, 9, 10 6: 8, 9, 10 6S: 9, 10 7: 10 Not counting phones that are still supported, the AVERAGE has been three updates per model. Including the version it shipped with, the AVERAGE iPhone ran FOUR versions of iOS. You can complain about a lot of things about Apple, but "not supporting old devices" isn't one of them. Maybe they could do more. Maybe they could release security updates for old devices that no longer get feature updates. But still, they lead the industry. Some flagship Android phones don't even ship with the CURRENT version of Android.
> I've owned my house for about 15 years now, bought it when I > was 26. Home ownership has a lot of disadvantages that I > didn't consider when buying.
Well, it should be worth quite a bit more now than when you bought it. If you don't want it, sell it.
When your work moved, or those jobs came along, you could have rented out your house and rented yourself another place. I'll bet the current monthly rental value of your house is well above your mortgage payment from 15 years ago.
> Finally, as a homeowner you are more exposed to swings of the market.
Rents go up and down too. In some markets they can double in a small number of years. Other markets climb at least steadily. If your rent goes up 5% per year it'll double in 15 years. Compare that to having the exact same mortgage payment every month from the day you close to the day it's paid off -- not to mention that magical day when you pay off your mortgage AND YOU GET TO KEEP STAYING THERE FOR FREE! (Minus bills and upkeep and taxes, but still -- a HELL of a lot less than rent.) Do you want to keep working and paying rent until the day you die? Are you depending on social security? (Good luck with that!) Or do you have investments? Do those investments have a guaranteed return? One thing I know -- come hell or high water, I get to keep my house once it's paid off, barring very rare circumstances.
If you rent for a long time, every penny you spent on rent is gone. As a homeowner, you're sitting on a nice valuable asset. If you don't want to own it anymore, sell!
You haven't discovered anything a thousand other people couldn't have told you. The basic finances are VERY straightforward; the only surprise should have been the EXACT amount of upkeep needed.
And it's not like home ownership has NO benefits and renting has NO downsides. I'd rather put up with twice as many home-related headaches than be back in an apartment with neighbors on every side of me. Renting a house is only as good as the landlord. When you own, you have to fix your own stuff, but you also GET to fix your own stuff, the way you want to, and as soon as you want to. If something breaks in a rental, you get to deal with, and then wait on, the landlord or management company.
tl;dr: renting and owning each have pros and cons. How they balance out depends on the person.
I wasn't expecting a +5 for that, but who modded it off-topic? It was in direct response to the parent -- "It's a place where the new rules where white/CIS/men are all bad things, and everyone else is good."
Fun fact: he said that either 15 years ago or 25 years ago -- I forget if it was in "Platypus Man" or "Big Steaming Pile of Me".
Well, technically, typing the characters isn't fun, but solving problems is. Creating something that actually ACCOMPLISHES something is a great feeling. Type type type save run IT WORKS! is awesome.
At least, that's why I do it. Not sure about anyone else.
They are "special" because I don't carry them with me. I have tissues and napkins on desks and tables at home and work, but since I don't use microfiber cloths for ANYTHING, I never have them on me. I have a few -- one that came with each device -- in a drawer at home. If I sneeze on my laptop, I'm not going to make a special trip to the store to take care of it.
"There's a simple way of doing that with a microfiber with a soap and water solution on it."
So a special cloth, soap, and water is "simple" -- as opposed to when I get something on a plastic or metal laptop and I can wipe it with just a single napkin or paper towel?
> No servers, No way to run virtual machines on a PC, and a MAC > cant hold more than like 2 or 3... The fact that you cant buy a mac > with 10 processors or 1 TB of RAM is just crazy to me.
It's almost as if the vast majority of consumers on the planet aren't network admins.
Slashdot Mirror
Or Yale?
I can't wait for the next big fad to come along in software so developers will put their energy into something else and quit putting notifications into everything.
... I could name a dozen other companies off the top of my head who are adding more features than I want. Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Mozilla, Adobe, my cable company, my phone company... and that's just from looking at a list of what I have running right now. I could probably hit a hundred if I actually started making a list. Does anyone want to hear details of how the A/C controls in a 2016 Corolla are objectively worse than they were in a 1986 Corolla?
Apple is probably mid-pack in terms of "shit I didn't ask for and don't want".
> It should be possible for a browser to detect when a click on an anchor tag
> gets intercepted by a javascript onclick that goes to a completely different
> URL, and for the browser to throw a big fat warning instead.
It should be possible that a status bar would show you EXACTLY what you're about to click on (bonus: it should not be over-writeable by JavaScript) but OOPS TOO LATE FUCK YOU THAT SHIP HAS SAILED STATUS BARS ARE UGLY SO WE GOT RID OF THEM LOLOMGWTFQQB!!!!!111
- Signed,
All major browser makers
> When I was first taught to code in FORTRAN, we were
> told that we really needed to create a flow chart detailing
> every statement before writing any code.
My dad started programming in the late 60s. Back then, programmer time was cheap and machine time was expensive. :-)
(Also, punch cards had a bit of latency compared to today's save-build-run.)
> As an extreme example, nobody wants to collect garbage, repair toilets, clean
> septic tanks, etc. But because it's needed, society pays a lot for it - enough to
> entice some individuals to live with the stink and do it for a living. If a UBI
> causes some of these people to quit and take up more "satisfying" lines of
> work, the prices of these services will go up
There are a lot of variables in play. Maybe instead of one guy HAVING to do a lousy job for 40 hours/week just to survive, maybe UBI would make it so people could get by OK, and two people could do the job for 20 hrs/week each for a little extra money without being *too* miserable.
Always fun to post on Slashdot, where ACTUAL FACTS get modded down.
Or not enough nudity. Anyone else remember the 80s? :-/
Breaking news: suppliers hate middlemen who take a cut.
Film at 11.
I too would like some changes in phone hardware, but if you want OS updates, go with iOS. Every iPhone has received at least 2 major updates, and some have had as many as 4.
Original iPhone: Ran iOS 1, 2, 3
3G: 2, 3, 4
3GS: 3, 4, 5, 6
4: 4, 5, 6, 7
4S: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
5: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
5S: 7, 8, 9, 10
6: 8, 9, 10
6S: 9, 10
7: 10
Not counting phones that are still supported, the AVERAGE has been three updates per model. Including the version it shipped with, the AVERAGE iPhone ran FOUR versions of iOS. You can complain about a lot of things about Apple, but "not supporting old devices" isn't one of them. Maybe they could do more. Maybe they could release security updates for old devices that no longer get feature updates. But still, they lead the industry. Some flagship Android phones don't even ship with the CURRENT version of Android.
> I've owned my house for about 15 years now, bought it when I
> was 26. Home ownership has a lot of disadvantages that I
> didn't consider when buying.
Well, it should be worth quite a bit more now than when you bought it. If you don't want it, sell it.
When your work moved, or those jobs came along, you could have rented out your house and rented yourself another place. I'll bet the current monthly rental value of your house is well above your mortgage payment from 15 years ago.
> Finally, as a homeowner you are more exposed to swings of the market.
Rents go up and down too. In some markets they can double in a small number of years. Other markets climb at least steadily. If your rent goes up 5% per year it'll double in 15 years. Compare that to having the exact same mortgage payment every month from the day you close to the day it's paid off -- not to mention that magical day when you pay off your mortgage AND YOU GET TO KEEP STAYING THERE FOR FREE! (Minus bills and upkeep and taxes, but still -- a HELL of a lot less than rent.) Do you want to keep working and paying rent until the day you die? Are you depending on social security? (Good luck with that!) Or do you have investments? Do those investments have a guaranteed return? One thing I know -- come hell or high water, I get to keep my house once it's paid off, barring very rare circumstances.
If you rent for a long time, every penny you spent on rent is gone. As a homeowner, you're sitting on a nice valuable asset. If you don't want to own it anymore, sell!
You haven't discovered anything a thousand other people couldn't have told you. The basic finances are VERY straightforward; the only surprise should have been the EXACT amount of upkeep needed.
And it's not like home ownership has NO benefits and renting has NO downsides. I'd rather put up with twice as many home-related headaches than be back in an apartment with neighbors on every side of me. Renting a house is only as good as the landlord. When you own, you have to fix your own stuff, but you also GET to fix your own stuff, the way you want to, and as soon as you want to. If something breaks in a rental, you get to deal with, and then wait on, the landlord or management company.
tl;dr: renting and owning each have pros and cons. How they balance out depends on the person.
I wasn't expecting a +5 for that, but who modded it off-topic? It was in direct response to the parent -- "It's a place where the new rules where white/CIS/men are all bad things, and everyone else is good."
Fun fact: he said that either 15 years ago or 25 years ago -- I forget if it was in "Platypus Man" or "Big Steaming Pile of Me".
Why am I seeing ads on TV telling me how great Northrop Grumman is? As much as I'd like to have my own B2 they're a little pricey and hard to park.
"For two hundred years, the best thing you could be was a white guy with a few bucks in the bank. I come along, PFFT! Fuck you, party's over."
—Richard Jeni
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Well, technically, typing the characters isn't fun, but solving problems is. Creating something that actually ACCOMPLISHES something is a great feeling. Type type type save run IT WORKS! is awesome.
At least, that's why I do it. Not sure about anyone else.
Just follow current best practices and change your iris every 90 days.
> No?
No. The meter's off. :-)
There once was a man from Nantucket
Who told all his lawyers to suck it.
He took a big toke,
Gave up on his joke,
Got really high and said "fuck it."
Ladies and gentlemen, step right in...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...
Why the link to the middleman page at Axios instead of going straight to the NYT article?
Google's stuff is cheap or free, and schools have no money.
They are "special" because I don't carry them with me. I have tissues and napkins on desks and tables at home and work, but since I don't use microfiber cloths for ANYTHING, I never have them on me. I have a few -- one that came with each device -- in a drawer at home. If I sneeze on my laptop, I'm not going to make a special trip to the store to take care of it.
"There's a simple way of doing that with a microfiber with a soap and water solution on it."
So a special cloth, soap, and water is "simple" -- as opposed to when I get something on a plastic or metal laptop and I can wipe it with just a single napkin or paper towel?
> No servers, No way to run virtual machines on a PC, and a MAC
> cant hold more than like 2 or 3... The fact that you cant buy a mac
> with 10 processors or 1 TB of RAM is just crazy to me.
It's almost as if the vast majority of consumers on the planet aren't network admins.
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