Fair, and we could probably all do with a little less stress on ourselves.
Really the main thing I think for the OP is just to make sure you're not trying to juggle remembering all the things you need to do.
For me, documenting what needed to be done freed my mind up from wondering frequently if I was remembering to do things. Saves you from that constant "Oh yeah, I was supposed to ______ today/tomorrow/yesterday" feeling.
That's really the main takeaway for me from GTD, not all the methods and contexts and everything, just lowering mental overhead.
I carry a stack of index cards everywhere. Write down every single damn thing that I need to ever think about.
I get home, throw them all in a pile.
Either late that evening, or early in the morning, I go through and make a list on a fresh index card of the things I need to take care of that day. Things that relate to a certain topic, say, musical endeavors, get put into a stack of similar cards. When I can, I pin these to the wall in columns by topic. Things that would only require a few clicks on a computer are generally done immediately.
Documents relating to these topics go into folders on my computer where digital, but anything that can be reasonably printed is printed, and put into a filing cabinet. The cabinet does not have a great deal of organization, and is a weak point. It does have a lot of papers about shit I'll hopefully read someday, and scrawly crazy notes that are probably garbage.
I've tried OmniFocus, the To-Do feature in iCal, different online todo lists (Remember the Milk?), and the ToDo app and Notes app on my iPhone. None of these things are working great for me. I'd like to perhaps 'go digital', but I haven't found the right setup. Hoping I'll get some fresh ideas from the comments here.
I agree with you, but it is very difficult to have "pro" Web development subsystem if you can't run Java apps. The Amazon EC2 tools and the YUI Javascript compressor are two examples of staple web dev tools that are Java-based, not to mention the popular Eclipse IDE which some use.
This is true in the near-term, but in no way are these things required to make or run a web-app
Also, keep in mind that it's entirely possible for the developer community which uses these tools to maintain their own JVM if they need these things rather than it being on Apple's shoulders.
Java seems completely necessary now, but many languages that were 'necessary' for business like COBOL don't seem to be on too many people's mind now (not to discriminate, I'm sure there's still COBOL apps running and being maintained somewhere now).
I tried to use Ubuntu earlier this year on a Thinkpad and found a bunch of things lacking. I think that Thinkpads are held up around here as being a great laptop, and I really like how they look but I didn't enjoy using it so much. Unfortunately the thing worked a great deal better in Windows than Ubuntu but I'm not willing to give up a useful command line and Cygwin doesn't cut it.
Quiet, bad speakers
Tiny, poor touchpad, not much for scrolling webpages which is what mine mainly gets used for.
Not the handsomest screen on the block
Fan noise
Unreliable sleep/standby, found that for best results I needed to put it in standby myself instead of just closing the lid.
Problems connecting, and staying connected to some wifi networks. Found myself doing a lot of ifconfig up and such to massage it right.
3 hours max of battery, usually more like 2. With the 9 cell. Got more like 5 in Windows.
I am sure I could come up with a few other things. Granted there are all sorts of plusses I didn't make a list of, and I liked having a choice of window managers.
I also had a Dell laptop (from work) at the time, one of their 'high end workstations', which was around a $2500 laptop new in 2009 which was a far worse computer than my ~$1000 Thinkpad.
If someone actually builds a laptop whose industrial design approaches Apple's level in some way (Thinkpads are close...) and has decent power management, I will be a happy man. I check in on the PC BSD project from time to time as well and hope that picks up more steam.
In 2005, while being interviewed for a documentary titled First on the Moon: The Untold Story, Aldrin told an interviewer that they saw an unidentified flying object. Aldrin told David Morrison, an NAI Senior Scientist, that the documentary cut the crew's conclusion that they were probably seeing one of four detached spacecraft adapter panels. Their S-IVB upper stage was 6,000 miles away, but the four panels were jettisoned before the S-IVB made its separation maneuver so they would closely follow the Apollo 11 spacecraft until its first midcourse correction.[36] When Aldrin appeared on The Howard Stern Show on August 15, 2007, Stern asked him about the supposed UFO sighting. Aldrin confirmed that there was no such sighting of anything deemed extraterrestrial, and said they were and are "99.9 percent" sure that the object was the detached panel.[37][38][39]
I'm a recent graduate. I bet the majority of students, even those in the Linux club, would be hard pressed to write hello world in Perl without Googling. Speaking of, the culture at my school was very dictated by Google, and Google doesn't have much to say about Perl these days.
I don't think I did a single assignment in school which required me to even touch a line of Perl, and we had projects in assembly, C, etc. which I understand some programs these days don't touch so much (and focus on more high level languages, Java, etc.)
The general reaction to "I write a lot of Perl scripts at my internship" during school from peers was basically 'WTF?' followed by questions of how I dealt with the syntax, how hard it is to read, etc. I had the same reaction myself until I was writing a fair number of scripts in it. Even experienced developers at my current job (mostly Ruby shop) who never did much sysadmin stuff tend to have a hugely negative reaction to it.
The flexibility/portability thing is just awesome. It's awesome to be able to jump on just about any UNIX box and have Perl 5 there. With that and a little bash you can get just about anything done on the command line on a system you haven't had a chance to set up to your liking. use strict is great too when the programs get a little larger, though usually that means its time for a different language (if you ask me).
I'm guessing I'll never write a line of code targeted at Perl 6. By the time that is included with bare OSes and such, I'm sure they'll have a Ruby/Python/other language interpreter waiting for me. Or I'll just keep using Perl 5. Ain't broke, and such..
Of course you could say that letting people use the Internet or calculators isn't testing their own personal intelligence. Then again, if you ask them a math problem, are they cheating if they use a piece of scrap paper to work it out? Are they cheating if they use the symbols and tricks of mathematics that they've learned?
So in my case, I've used my graphing calculator as a crutch for a long time to remind me of math identities, or to confirm that this or that is equal to 1 to make sure I'm not going on a mathematical wild goose chase. I don't know if it makes me any less intelligent that I am not great at memorizing math formulae, but it does affect my ability to perform at a high level of mathematics.
So maybe the "important part" is that I know how to use the facts when presented to me, but what if I had the depth of knowledge to remember the proofs of these "simple facts" that some might think I don't need to know via rote memorization? I think I would be more intelligent and better at math if I could juggle the low level concepts of the identities at hand as well as apply them to higher level problems. And in some way, the availability of tools to relieve me of keeping a good understanding of the proofs, axioms and identities is inhibiting my ability to know them.
I still don't blame the existence of the tool. But I think it does require an adjustment of my own approach, and an awareness of the limitation of the tools and of weaknesses I might be acquiring in my critical thinking by relying on them.
I would argue that anything that would fall under the category of "prescriptive grammar" has nothing to do with dumbness. And as a fluent/native speaker of the language you are posting in, I think it would be quite difficult for you to make a very egregious grammar mistake, as your brain probably wouldn't have generated the sentence to begin with. Sometimes this can happen if you are doing extensive editing and change verb tenses or some such, but it's usually not so bad. Can't imagine reading a few badly worded slashdot posts is rearranging your generation of deeply rooted linguistic knowledge such as your syntax.
With spelling, as long as mistakes are relatively minor, and don't introduce additional ambiguity into your writing, I don't see a problem with either. As we're quite aware, we generally decide what word we are reading based on context and first/last letters, with intermediate letters having dramatically less importance. Spelling is mostly convention, is a moving target over time, and is simply not very interesting.
My spelling has both gotten worse and better with the computer. Some words I was unsure about have been 'red squiggly lined' to me enough that I remember the real spelling. Other words I rely on the spell checker now to assure me of the correct spelling. Yesterday I was making a handwritten note and could not remember how to spell a word. I tried to confirm my choice by typing the letters in the air and seeing if it felt correct.
Anyone care to enlighten me to why the ___ it matters how many Apple devices there are compared to how many TVs there were in 1959? Somebody playing madlibs with summaries?
Software patents are already ruining everything, and then its just like the USPTO throws these sorts of things out as a big 'fuck you' to everyone who cares about this issue.
This shit seriously makes my head hurt. Fuck patents, and fuck Microsoft for even applying for such a shitty redundant patent. I hate everybody.
What's the difference, for the sake of your argument, between using the STL and using existing C libraries for data structures instead of creating your own? glib anyone?
ok, but why are they working massive overtime? Is it because the job requires them to ("do it or you're fired") or is it the pay that requires them to ("If I don't pick up 6 extra shifts I can't pay my rent next month").
According to an article from someone who went "undercover" at the factory for awhile, people were picking up shifts because they needed the money. So maybe it will help.
I think you're missing the point. I don't think anyone here has a problem with Muslims finding cartoons offensive. I can't relate to their offense at this, but that's no surprise. The problem is this being used as a reason to block access to a huge website like Facebook such that no one in the country can access it.
If we made a website declaring Jesus Christ was a homosexual, wouldn't this anger Christians in this country and don't you think that certain individuals would want the website banned?
Given your example, I quickly searched Facebook to see if there was any results for "Jesus is gay". Lo and behold, there is a group with 200 people who like "Jesus is Gay" as well as an app which has a picture of Jesus open-mouth kissing Satan. I'm not someone who wants to throw the US in your face as the shining example of everything good and warm and fuzzy, but I am sure fucking glad this country isn't banning Facebook because of content such as mentioned above.
So lets not be hypocrites here, the majority of Americans support censorship for cultural reasons
I just find it hypocritical that people can switch from being for free speech in one instance but then when it's free speech that can apply to America suddenly we have to crack down and censor.
I seriously don't know what the fuck you're talking about. We have all kinds of nutjobs here in the US who want all kinds of shit taken down, banned, etc. Last I checked I could still pick up a copy of 'Howl' at the bookstore.
Are we for censorship or not?
I'm always against censorship. I don't see the hypocrisy that you're accusing vague swaths of Slashdot with for having regarding this issue. I am completely against governments limiting the materials available to their citizens based on ANYTHING, including religion, even if its the state religion, even if 99.99% of the population follows this religion.
Really bothers me that you're at +4 right now. Is everyone's brain dead this weekend?
Slashdot Mirror
Have you tried the "Not giving a fuck" method?
Fair, and we could probably all do with a little less stress on ourselves.
Really the main thing I think for the OP is just to make sure you're not trying to juggle remembering all the things you need to do.
For me, documenting what needed to be done freed my mind up from wondering frequently if I was remembering to do things. Saves you from that constant "Oh yeah, I was supposed to ______ today/tomorrow/yesterday" feeling.
That's really the main takeaway for me from GTD, not all the methods and contexts and everything, just lowering mental overhead.
Basically using GTD.
I carry a stack of index cards everywhere. Write down every single damn thing that I need to ever think about.
I get home, throw them all in a pile.
Either late that evening, or early in the morning, I go through and make a list on a fresh index card of the things I need to take care of that day. Things that relate to a certain topic, say, musical endeavors, get put into a stack of similar cards. When I can, I pin these to the wall in columns by topic. Things that would only require a few clicks on a computer are generally done immediately.
Documents relating to these topics go into folders on my computer where digital, but anything that can be reasonably printed is printed, and put into a filing cabinet. The cabinet does not have a great deal of organization, and is a weak point. It does have a lot of papers about shit I'll hopefully read someday, and scrawly crazy notes that are probably garbage.
I've tried OmniFocus, the To-Do feature in iCal, different online todo lists (Remember the Milk?), and the ToDo app and Notes app on my iPhone. None of these things are working great for me. I'd like to perhaps 'go digital', but I haven't found the right setup. Hoping I'll get some fresh ideas from the comments here.
I logged in and your robot didn't say anything to me after saying 'Hi'! What gives?
I agree with you, but it is very difficult to have "pro" Web development subsystem if you can't run Java apps. The Amazon EC2 tools and the YUI Javascript compressor are two examples of staple web dev tools that are Java-based, not to mention the popular Eclipse IDE which some use.
This is true in the near-term, but in no way are these things required to make or run a web-app
Also, keep in mind that it's entirely possible for the developer community which uses these tools to maintain their own JVM if they need these things rather than it being on Apple's shoulders.
Java seems completely necessary now, but many languages that were 'necessary' for business like COBOL don't seem to be on too many people's mind now (not to discriminate, I'm sure there's still COBOL apps running and being maintained somewhere now).
I agree.
However, I think humans walking around on other planets and objects and living in space is fucking awesome.
Anything that gets other taxpayers interested in space and tech is good news to me.
I am sure I could come up with a few other things. Granted there are all sorts of plusses I didn't make a list of, and I liked having a choice of window managers.
I also had a Dell laptop (from work) at the time, one of their 'high end workstations', which was around a $2500 laptop new in 2009 which was a far worse computer than my ~$1000 Thinkpad.
If someone actually builds a laptop whose industrial design approaches Apple's level in some way (Thinkpads are close...) and has decent power management, I will be a happy man. I check in on the PC BSD project from time to time as well and hope that picks up more steam.
A naval force would be a better bet at battling piracy than a bunch of nerds.
In 2005, while being interviewed for a documentary titled First on the Moon: The Untold Story, Aldrin told an interviewer that they saw an unidentified flying object. Aldrin told David Morrison, an NAI Senior Scientist, that the documentary cut the crew's conclusion that they were probably seeing one of four detached spacecraft adapter panels. Their S-IVB upper stage was 6,000 miles away, but the four panels were jettisoned before the S-IVB made its separation maneuver so they would closely follow the Apollo 11 spacecraft until its first midcourse correction.[36] When Aldrin appeared on The Howard Stern Show on August 15, 2007, Stern asked him about the supposed UFO sighting. Aldrin confirmed that there was no such sighting of anything deemed extraterrestrial, and said they were and are "99.9 percent" sure that the object was the detached panel.[37][38][39]
I stopped reading after the first sentence.
Goes without saying around here I believe...
It's not hip to bash Perl these days
I disagree!
I'm a recent graduate. I bet the majority of students, even those in the Linux club, would be hard pressed to write hello world in Perl without Googling. Speaking of, the culture at my school was very dictated by Google, and Google doesn't have much to say about Perl these days.
I don't think I did a single assignment in school which required me to even touch a line of Perl, and we had projects in assembly, C, etc. which I understand some programs these days don't touch so much (and focus on more high level languages, Java, etc.)
The general reaction to "I write a lot of Perl scripts at my internship" during school from peers was basically 'WTF?' followed by questions of how I dealt with the syntax, how hard it is to read, etc. I had the same reaction myself until I was writing a fair number of scripts in it. Even experienced developers at my current job (mostly Ruby shop) who never did much sysadmin stuff tend to have a hugely negative reaction to it.
The flexibility/portability thing is just awesome. It's awesome to be able to jump on just about any UNIX box and have Perl 5 there. With that and a little bash you can get just about anything done on the command line on a system you haven't had a chance to set up to your liking. use strict is great too when the programs get a little larger, though usually that means its time for a different language (if you ask me).
I'm guessing I'll never write a line of code targeted at Perl 6. By the time that is included with bare OSes and such, I'm sure they'll have a Ruby/Python/other language interpreter waiting for me. Or I'll just keep using Perl 5. Ain't broke, and such..
What's a desktop?
Sent from my iPad
i found it self deprecating
But does it run Flash?
Make sure you get the extended warranty if you plan on running Flash on that internal power supply
Of course you could say that letting people use the Internet or calculators isn't testing their own personal intelligence. Then again, if you ask them a math problem, are they cheating if they use a piece of scrap paper to work it out? Are they cheating if they use the symbols and tricks of mathematics that they've learned?
So in my case, I've used my graphing calculator as a crutch for a long time to remind me of math identities, or to confirm that this or that is equal to 1 to make sure I'm not going on a mathematical wild goose chase. I don't know if it makes me any less intelligent that I am not great at memorizing math formulae, but it does affect my ability to perform at a high level of mathematics.
So maybe the "important part" is that I know how to use the facts when presented to me, but what if I had the depth of knowledge to remember the proofs of these "simple facts" that some might think I don't need to know via rote memorization? I think I would be more intelligent and better at math if I could juggle the low level concepts of the identities at hand as well as apply them to higher level problems. And in some way, the availability of tools to relieve me of keeping a good understanding of the proofs, axioms and identities is inhibiting my ability to know them.
I still don't blame the existence of the tool. But I think it does require an adjustment of my own approach, and an awareness of the limitation of the tools and of weaknesses I might be acquiring in my critical thinking by relying on them.
Good points though!
I would argue that anything that would fall under the category of "prescriptive grammar" has nothing to do with dumbness. And as a fluent/native speaker of the language you are posting in, I think it would be quite difficult for you to make a very egregious grammar mistake, as your brain probably wouldn't have generated the sentence to begin with. Sometimes this can happen if you are doing extensive editing and change verb tenses or some such, but it's usually not so bad. Can't imagine reading a few badly worded slashdot posts is rearranging your generation of deeply rooted linguistic knowledge such as your syntax.
With spelling, as long as mistakes are relatively minor, and don't introduce additional ambiguity into your writing, I don't see a problem with either. As we're quite aware, we generally decide what word we are reading based on context and first/last letters, with intermediate letters having dramatically less importance. Spelling is mostly convention, is a moving target over time, and is simply not very interesting.
My spelling has both gotten worse and better with the computer. Some words I was unsure about have been 'red squiggly lined' to me enough that I remember the real spelling. Other words I rely on the spell checker now to assure me of the correct spelling. Yesterday I was making a handwritten note and could not remember how to spell a word. I tried to confirm my choice by typing the letters in the air and seeing if it felt correct.
" You might as well allow NYT editors to write articles like "Popo caps a bitch after she tried to jack a 7-11"
Are you listening NYT? I will buy print and web editions of your paper, as well as follow you on Twitter if this starts happening.
Australian police arrest a subject for illegal surveillance for overhearing another parties conversation while walking down the street.
Anyone care to enlighten me to why the ___ it matters how many Apple devices there are compared to how many TVs there were in 1959? Somebody playing madlibs with summaries?
In this economy, they're really going to be missing that $11. Maybe if they hit another jackpot they'll have enough for lunch.
Software patents are already ruining everything, and then its just like the USPTO throws these sorts of things out as a big 'fuck you' to everyone who cares about this issue.
This shit seriously makes my head hurt. Fuck patents, and fuck Microsoft for even applying for such a shitty redundant patent. I hate everybody.
What's the difference, for the sake of your argument, between using the STL and using existing C libraries for data structures instead of creating your own? glib anyone?
Had similar results as you on Safari on my MBP, but not getting the video to render on my iPhone. Anyone else having this?
ok, but why are they working massive overtime? Is it because the job requires them to ("do it or you're fired") or is it the pay that requires them to ("If I don't pick up 6 extra shifts I can't pay my rent next month").
According to an article from someone who went "undercover" at the factory for awhile, people were picking up shifts because they needed the money. So maybe it will help.
If we made a website declaring Jesus Christ was a homosexual, wouldn't this anger Christians in this country and don't you think that certain individuals would want the website banned?
Given your example, I quickly searched Facebook to see if there was any results for "Jesus is gay". Lo and behold, there is a group with 200 people who like "Jesus is Gay" as well as an app which has a picture of Jesus open-mouth kissing Satan. I'm not someone who wants to throw the US in your face as the shining example of everything good and warm and fuzzy, but I am sure fucking glad this country isn't banning Facebook because of content such as mentioned above.
So lets not be hypocrites here, the majority of Americans support censorship for cultural reasons
I just find it hypocritical that people can switch from being for free speech in one instance but then when it's free speech that can apply to America suddenly we have to crack down and censor.
I seriously don't know what the fuck you're talking about. We have all kinds of nutjobs here in the US who want all kinds of shit taken down, banned, etc. Last I checked I could still pick up a copy of 'Howl' at the bookstore.
Are we for censorship or not?
I'm always against censorship. I don't see the hypocrisy that you're accusing vague swaths of Slashdot with for having regarding this issue. I am completely against governments limiting the materials available to their citizens based on ANYTHING, including religion, even if its the state religion, even if 99.99% of the population follows this religion.
Really bothers me that you're at +4 right now. Is everyone's brain dead this weekend?
I'd like to posit that Apple doesn't have complete control over what content is available for the iPhone/iPad, because it has a web browser.
Still, I'd be happy to see an alternative to the App Store or some compromise on their approval process.