Why would doing something you like for money stop being fun. Sure some parts of the job, may not be enjoyable but others our. Even in hobbies you may not enjoy every single aspect of that hobby.
I like my job, solving problems is great fun. Are there things I would rather do yes, but that doesn't mean work is not enjoyable. There is nothing about work that implies that it cannot be fun.
As for the percentage of the population who enjoy there work it is hard to say because I can only draw from my personal experience, probably the same as you
I have always thought that charging for email sent to me would be a great way of reducing spam. Just a small fee say 5 cents or so, refundable if receiver says it is ok.
It would means companies could still advertise but it would have to be something useful, so as to make it worth while to send the advertising. The money shouldn't go to the person receiving the email as to avoid scams sending people money. If you get an unexpected bill for $1,000,000 then you will know you computer is infected with a virus and take steps to remove it (fee waived) Make the writer of the virus liable for fee so it would be worth investigating, and really risky financially to write it. (this may require law changes)
I think it would be a great way for somebody to make money, while reducing the amount of junk mail. I am not an entrepreneur so not me.
Of course you would have to make email more traceable.
But we have javascript, which probably no more secure than java, especially now that we are now adding more features to it, canvas, websockets.
The thing is I see no need for more attack vectors so we might as well limit them not use java/flash on the web browser.
I run executable all the time, All apps should run in a vm by default, and only get access to real stuff if I explicitly say so, otherwise all data is faked to the app.
I don't see how this scored 4 when the parent scores 2, it even states that the problem is slow response from oracle. Nothing against you zero.kalvin, just the rating system seem a bit screwed.
While I agree with inconsistencies are a problem but not the only one. The other two are: 1. consistent scale measures mili, centi, kilo.. are consistent across all types of units e.g kg, mg km, mm etc 2. base 10 is what people are used to counting in so easier to work with, nothing wrong with base 16, 12, 2 but our counting system is base 10, so it is simpler to work with base 10. 0xAF is easy to multiply by 0x10 hard to multiply by 10, 175 is hard to multiply by a 0x10 easy to multiply 10
But the rest of the time you have a bunch of useless comments sitting around that are not relevant, slowing down your real work so it is harder to get the job done.
Removing needed old functionality once tested should be the exception not the rule. Coding for the exception is just silly, true going through version control is a bit more time consuming (not majorly so) but in some ways it is also better since you have runnable code, with the same structure and you can see exactly what is happening.
"just Git 'R Dun!" which I think means just get it done, is a good way to dig yourself a nice big hole, you have to get it done right, surprisingly this turns out to be the fastest solution in most cases anyway since you don't have deal with the edge cases that so called quick solution created.
The only time you should comment out a deletion is if the code is it is being temporarily removed.
Just dreaming, if we can do this why can't we eventually have a home lab were we grow the stuff and just print a steak or two for dinner?
Why not the print of the whole meal? download a recipe then print it. all ingredients could be sourced from your home "farm" or you could buy them of course.
Not really. The only customers who are confused are tourists from outside North America. Everyone here understands that when the price says $6.99 they will be expected to pay more than $6.99 - So no, there's no confusion.
Unless of course you want to know what the actual price (seem a reasonable thing to want to know) without doing some math. Also I thought taxes differ from state to state, so if you are from out of state you may not no the price.
That's the only one. The government would love it if the taxes were built into the price as it shields them from view.
Well you can always put it on the receipt saying tax paid, I for one want to know how much I actually have to pay. Tax paid is secondary.
When the federal value-added tax was instituted in Canada in the late 80s a number of stores *did* try posting their prices as "tax included." Their sales immediately plummeted as consumers fled their stores in favour of competitors with 'lower prices' - Even though the prices were exactly the same. The few retailers that had included the tax immediately backpedalled and showed their prices as pre-tax.
This is the real reason it isn't listed people are lazy and do not do the math (human nature), so the products appear cheaper. So shops benefit from it, since you think you are spending less. People don't usually even round up $6.99 to $7 and retailers know it. You have to legislate that prices must include tax otherwise no one will do it.
So, number system is base 10, so multiplication, adding, subtracting, converting scales is easier in tens, yes if you want quarters, thirds and 12ths (halves are just as easy in 10s), But what you really want is to a particular accuracy. Don't get me wrong fractions are awesome but not that necessary for measurement. Imperial is not even consistent within itself so you have to know how many feet in yards 3 not 12. 5,280 feet in a mile so obvious and easy to figure out, We could use binary as well its easier only 2 digits to remember
I agree with the comments these features would be valuable additions to C++, but this does not make it any worse than C which I assume RMS uses. Templates while by no means perfect are a vast improvement from passing around void *. As with any feature care needs to be taken to use them appropriately.
I think the argument is they won't even move to C++, I have had this problem trying to convince people at my work to switch, C++ isn't the best language for the job but at least it is a little bit of progress, for goodness sake you can even write the exact same code as in C.
Also why is hiding an memory safety linked, C is lacking in memory safety just as much as C++, maybe even more so you can't even append to a string in C without worrying about memory.
Although I agree porn is not necessarily bad I don't know If it is a good teaching aid either. I think most porn is not a realistic portrayal of sex, and really doesn't excuse parents from explaining sex to their children.
Sorry, the main point was you need a developer license to place stuff on your iphone. The point about compiling is you would have to be above your average user to do so. As far as I am aware you can't just install a binary on your iphone (unless jailbroken) it has to be signed for that particular phone.
What are you on about, you can't even upload software that you wrote yourself to your own phone without paying the fee. What non-programer will pay a $99/year fee to to compile, and upload software to their phone, if they even know what compile means. And officially they have to buy a mac as well to do that.
1. I think Microsoft would do there own marketing, I very much doubt they will just leave it up to a search on the apple store, and if they do well it no more than the marketing of any other app.
2. Billing and distribution, say office cost $100, (I think it costs $279 for home and office version now) $30 a copy to bill and distribute I would be surprised if it cost $1.
Microsoft is not complaining about the fixed cost (which I am sure they pay more then $99 since they have more than 1 developer) the are complaining about the cost per unit.
Yes I know making a point that $99 doesn't cover all costs of any app. But you also knew that the GP was probably referring normal developer not Microsoft.
How is a gallery even comparable, you need physical space, a salesman standing there saying how great that picture is. The marginal cost of selling an app is pretty close to zero, or should be, if not perhaps competition is needed to bring that cost down. Yes there are fixed costs but you also pay a annually fee to be a developer.
That being said, charging a percentage of the sale price piece of art is a bit silly too. It should be based on cost of selling + profit not, well you are making lots of money so I can screw you more. Although I don't believe the art gallery business is that profitable, could be wrong.
It also happens for financial transactions, does transferring or investing $1,000,000 a thousand times harder/more expensive than doing the same $1000.
I live in NZ too, but NZ have treaties with the US to extradite criminals and that is OK. People shouldn't be able to evade justice by simply going to another country. What does bother me is the extent that the Police and the spy agency seemed to bend over backwards to arrest Dotcom. Why was the GCSB even involved how is what Dotcom did any possible threat to our national security?
It implies some not so savoury goings on within these departments, and the department of immigration for letting Dotcom have residency in the first place.
That being said I am also proud that they are being put in their place, I can't imagine that happening in the US. There are always going to be corrupt people transparency and forgiveness are the only ways I can see of controlling it.
Forgiveness is necessary because otherwise the people in power will never allow transparency. Everybody makes mistakes and if they don't believe people will forgive them they will just try to hide them.
As you said it is the "Right to due process" a right cannot simply be circumvented because it is inconvenient, or cost not efficient. Murderers get this right and go free because of lack of evidence. Why is it that what Dotcom (assuming he is completely guilty) is worse than a murderer making it ok for his rights to be ignored? Because he "stole" from some rich people?
I agree that the spy agency behaved badly but the New Zealand courts are rightly putting them in their place, it is the way the system is meant to work.
No agency, department or person is perfect. That is why we have checks and balances like courts.
If this wasn't working Dotcom would have simply been extradited and but fortunately that is not the case. It shows there are at least some parts of New Zealand with power, that have not gone completely insane over the global threat to world stability that people copying movies poses.
Also, you were faced with the requirement to trade one part of yourself for another. This is not a requirement for others. You're still not "normal" and so you had to make compromises in order to appear more "normal." It's tragic, but I completely get what you're saying -- I live the same life.
I think everybody does this to one extent or another, it is not unique to Aspergers, or you if anyone here has always fitted in an never had to make compromises in order to do so I would like to here about it. (perhaps/. is not the best place to ask).
But I agree with you on being yourself and striving to be normal, I to have come to the conclusion I will just be myself (which is pretty awesome in my opinion, no arrogance there), if people like me fine, if people don't that's fine too. I have better things to do with my life than worry about what other people think of me, that's their problem. I would rather have a few good friends, than lots of not so close friends.
Note: I don't think I have Aspergers, maybe the opposite I have to restrain myself from going around being too nice to people. But I can't stand fake niceness, or deception of any sort really.
Separating Asperger's from Autism is strange to me.
I think there is a typo here based on the rest of the comment (maybe a not at the beginning)
I can see it, Asperger is at the low impact end of Autism, so comparing Bad Aspergers to Bad Autism is comparing to very different parts of the Autistic spectrum. Where you are on the spectrum makes a huge difference. My daughter is slightly autistic (diagnosed) and at 5 appears quite normal to the casual observer apart from delayed speech (and people miss that too), but has other behavioural if you watch carefully irrationally scared of some things, annoyed slightly by loud noises, quite tidy, goes to anyone far to easily, very independent, smart, wicked sense of humour, affectionate. Overall she is quite pleasant to be around and easy to look after, she is quite capable of succeeding in life.
Only if you define the brain as not working properly (in Aspergers), that is very subjective thing to do just because someone does not think they way you think they should doesn't mean it is not functioning properly.
Yes to the point where you can't function in society then it a disorder, but at what point does a disorder become just a difference. We need people to think in lots of different ways in order to solve our problems. What may be a disorder in its strongest form may be an advantage in its weaker forms.
Empirical evidence backs this up. For example, in a 2008 book, the researchers James Bessen and Michael Meurer found that for nonchemical patents, the costs of patent litigation began to exceed the benefits of holding patents in the 1990s. Software and business patents were particularly prone to litigation.
David Kappos is the one who is ill informed, and how exactly is his stats include any business that has a trademark. Also how do they measure innovations from the article it sound like they use patients/copyright/trademarks to judge. Well I don't think anybody would argue that the current system doesn't produce patients, and lots of business have them.
Kappos cited a Patent Office report released earlier this year that supposedly shows that "intellectual property" industries "supported the jobs of 40 million American workers, or 27.7 percent of all US jobs." But as we pointed out at the time the report was released, those figures mostly reflect a ludicrously broad definition of "IP-intensive industry." Any industry that makes use of trademark protection is counted as an "IP" industry, meaning that (as we put it in April) "if you hang sheetrock, bag groceries, or answer phones at a paper mill for a living, you're probably in an 'IP-intensive' industry as far as the Obama administration is concerned."
Same sort of thing, I now have a media centre and now on the rare occasions I do watch live TV I find myself pausing and waiting for the ads to finish, then skipping them. It strange I now just find ads so annoying.
If you are standing next to the shoe box you are still going to die. Sometimes you aim at the wrong shoe box. Although I don't quite believe that the missiles are that accurate and do miss on occasion.
The point is if Israel wanted to kill Palestinians civilians there would be a lot more dead.
Since your statement is on an individual basis not referring to the overall strategy of the military. I believe there are some solders in Israel that kill civilians on purpose. There are always bad apples in any population, I would be surprised if Israel was any different.
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Why would doing something you like for money stop being fun. Sure some parts of the job, may not be enjoyable but others our. Even in hobbies you may not enjoy every single aspect of that hobby.
I like my job, solving problems is great fun. Are there things I would rather do yes, but that doesn't mean work is not enjoyable. There is nothing about work that implies that it cannot be fun.
As for the percentage of the population who enjoy there work it is hard to say because I can only draw from my personal experience, probably the same as you
quick search give a bunch of numbers:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/carminegallo/2011/11/11/your-emotionally-disconnected-employees/ 70% unhappy
http://articles.businessinsider.com/2010-10-04/strategy/30001895_1_new-job-passion-careers 80% unhappy.
http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-201_162-6056611.html 55% unhappy and rising but you would expect that sort of thing with shrinking job market, since more people have to settle.
I have always thought that charging for email sent to me would be a great way of reducing spam. Just a small fee say 5 cents or so, refundable if receiver says it is ok.
It would means companies could still advertise but it would have to be something useful, so as to make it worth while to send the advertising.
The money shouldn't go to the person receiving the email as to avoid scams sending people money.
If you get an unexpected bill for $1,000,000 then you will know you computer is infected with a virus and take steps to remove it (fee waived)
Make the writer of the virus liable for fee so it would be worth investigating, and really risky financially to write it. (this may require law changes)
I think it would be a great way for somebody to make money, while reducing the amount of junk mail. I am not an entrepreneur so not me.
Of course you would have to make email more traceable.
But we have javascript, which probably no more secure than java, especially now that we are now adding more features to it, canvas, websockets.
The thing is I see no need for more attack vectors so we might as well limit them not use java/flash on the web browser.
I run executable all the time, All apps should run in a vm by default, and only get access to real stuff if I explicitly say so, otherwise all data is faked to the app.
I don't see how this scored 4 when the parent scores 2, it even states that the problem is slow response from oracle.
Nothing against you zero.kalvin, just the rating system seem a bit screwed.
While I agree with inconsistencies are a problem but not the only one. The other two are: .. are consistent across all types of units e.g kg, mg km, mm etc
1. consistent scale measures mili, centi, kilo
2. base 10 is what people are used to counting in so easier to work with, nothing wrong with base 16, 12, 2 but our counting system is base 10, so it is simpler to work with base 10. 0xAF is easy to multiply by 0x10 hard to multiply by 10, 175 is hard to multiply by a 0x10 easy to multiply 10
But the rest of the time you have a bunch of useless comments sitting around that are not relevant, slowing down your real work so it is harder to get the job done.
Removing needed old functionality once tested should be the exception not the rule. Coding for the exception is just silly, true going through version control is a bit more time consuming (not majorly so) but in some ways it is also better since you have runnable code, with the same structure and you can see exactly what is happening.
"just Git 'R Dun!" which I think means just get it done, is a good way to dig yourself a nice big hole, you have to get it done right, surprisingly this turns out to be the fastest solution in most cases anyway since you don't have deal with the edge cases that so called quick solution created.
The only time you should comment out a deletion is if the code is it is being temporarily removed.
Just dreaming, if we can do this why can't we eventually have a home lab were we grow the stuff and just print a steak or two for dinner?
Why not the print of the whole meal? download a recipe then print it. all ingredients could be sourced from your home "farm" or you could buy them of course.
Not really. The only customers who are confused are tourists from outside North America. Everyone here understands that when the price says $6.99 they will be expected to pay more than $6.99 - So no, there's no confusion.
Unless of course you want to know what the actual price (seem a reasonable thing to want to know) without doing some math. Also I thought taxes differ from state to state, so if you are from out of state you may not no the price.
That's the only one. The government would love it if the taxes were built into the price as it shields them from view.
Well you can always put it on the receipt saying tax paid, I for one want to know how much I actually have to pay. Tax paid is secondary.
When the federal value-added tax was instituted in Canada in the late 80s a number of stores *did* try posting their prices as "tax included." Their sales immediately plummeted as consumers fled their stores in favour of competitors with 'lower prices' - Even though the prices were exactly the same. The few retailers that had included the tax immediately backpedalled and showed their prices as pre-tax.
This is the real reason it isn't listed people are lazy and do not do the math (human nature), so the products appear cheaper. So shops benefit from it, since you think you are spending less. People don't usually even round up $6.99 to $7 and retailers know it. You have to legislate that prices must include tax otherwise no one will do it.
Not being able to mention a movie (without a fee) to your friends so they can watch it too.
Isn't the whole point they want people reading web site?
So, number system is base 10, so multiplication, adding, subtracting, converting scales is easier in tens, yes if you want quarters, thirds and 12ths (halves are just as easy in 10s), But what you really want is to a particular accuracy. Don't get me wrong fractions are awesome but not that necessary for measurement. Imperial is not even consistent within itself so you have to know how many feet in yards 3 not 12. 5,280 feet in a mile so obvious and easy to figure out, We could use binary as well its easier only 2 digits to remember
I agree with the comments these features would be valuable additions to C++, but this does not make it any worse than C which I assume RMS uses. Templates while by no means perfect are a vast improvement from passing around void *. As with any feature care needs to be taken to use them appropriately.
I think the argument is they won't even move to C++, I have had this problem trying to convince people at my work to switch, C++ isn't the best language for the job but at least it is a little bit of progress, for goodness sake you can even write the exact same code as in C.
Also why is hiding an memory safety linked, C is lacking in memory safety just as much as C++, maybe even more so you can't even append to a string in C without worrying about memory.
Although I agree porn is not necessarily bad I don't know If it is a good teaching aid either. I think most porn is not a realistic portrayal of sex, and really doesn't excuse parents from explaining sex to their children.
Sorry, the main point was you need a developer license to place stuff on your iphone. The point about compiling is you would have to be above your average user to do so. As far as I am aware you can't just install a binary on your iphone (unless jailbroken) it has to be signed for that particular phone.
What are you on about, you can't even upload software that you wrote yourself to your own phone without paying the fee. What non-programer will pay a $99/year fee to to compile, and upload software to their phone, if they even know what compile means. And officially they have to buy a mac as well to do that.
1. I think Microsoft would do there own marketing, I very much doubt they will just leave it up to a search on the apple store, and if they do well it no more than the marketing of any other app.
2. Billing and distribution, say office cost $100, (I think it costs $279 for home and office version now) $30 a copy to bill and distribute I would be surprised if it cost $1.
Microsoft is not complaining about the fixed cost (which I am sure they pay more then $99 since they have more than 1 developer) the are complaining about the cost per unit.
Yes I know making a point that $99 doesn't cover all costs of any app. But you also knew that the GP was probably referring normal developer not Microsoft.
How is a gallery even comparable, you need physical space, a salesman standing there saying how great that picture is. The marginal cost of selling an app is pretty close to zero, or should be, if not perhaps competition is needed to bring that cost down. Yes there are fixed costs but you also pay a annually fee to be a developer.
That being said, charging a percentage of the sale price piece of art is a bit silly too. It should be based on cost of selling + profit not, well you are making lots of money so I can screw you more. Although I don't believe the art gallery business is that profitable, could be wrong.
It also happens for financial transactions, does transferring or investing $1,000,000 a thousand times harder/more expensive than doing the same $1000.
I live in NZ too, but NZ have treaties with the US to extradite criminals and that is OK. People shouldn't be able to evade justice by simply going to another country. What does bother me is the extent that the Police and the spy agency seemed to bend over backwards to arrest Dotcom. Why was the GCSB even involved how is what Dotcom did any possible threat to our national security?
It implies some not so savoury goings on within these departments, and the department of immigration for letting Dotcom have residency in the first place.
That being said I am also proud that they are being put in their place, I can't imagine that happening in the US. There are always going to be corrupt people transparency and forgiveness are the only ways I can see of controlling it.
Forgiveness is necessary because otherwise the people in power will never allow transparency. Everybody makes mistakes and if they don't believe people will forgive them they will just try to hide them.
As you said it is the "Right to due process" a right cannot simply be circumvented because it is inconvenient, or cost not efficient. Murderers get this right and go free because of lack of evidence. Why is it that what Dotcom (assuming he is completely guilty) is worse than a murderer making it ok for his rights to be ignored? Because he "stole" from some rich people?
I agree that the spy agency behaved badly but the New Zealand courts are rightly putting them in their place, it is the way the system is meant to work.
No agency, department or person is perfect. That is why we have checks and balances like courts.
If this wasn't working Dotcom would have simply been extradited and but fortunately that is not the case. It shows there are at least some parts of New Zealand with power, that have not gone completely insane over the global threat to world stability that people copying movies poses.
Also, you were faced with the requirement to trade one part of yourself for another. This is not a requirement for others. You're still not "normal" and so you had to make compromises in order to appear more "normal." It's tragic, but I completely get what you're saying -- I live the same life.
I think everybody does this to one extent or another, it is not unique to Aspergers, or you if anyone here has always fitted in an never had to make compromises in order to do so I would like to here about it. (perhaps /. is not the best place to ask).
But I agree with you on being yourself and striving to be normal, I to have come to the conclusion I will just be myself (which is pretty awesome in my opinion, no arrogance there), if people like me fine, if people don't that's fine too. I have better things to do with my life than worry about what other people think of me, that's their problem. I would rather have a few good friends, than lots of not so close friends.
Note: I don't think I have Aspergers, maybe the opposite I have to restrain myself from going around being too nice to people. But I can't stand fake niceness, or deception of any sort really.
Separating Asperger's from Autism is strange to me.
I think there is a typo here based on the rest of the comment (maybe a not at the beginning)
I can see it, Asperger is at the low impact end of Autism, so comparing Bad Aspergers to Bad Autism is comparing to very different parts of the Autistic spectrum. Where you are on the spectrum makes a huge difference. My daughter is slightly autistic (diagnosed) and at 5 appears quite normal to the casual observer apart from delayed speech (and people miss that too), but has other behavioural if you watch carefully irrationally scared of some things, annoyed slightly by loud noises, quite tidy, goes to anyone far to easily, very independent, smart, wicked sense of humour, affectionate. Overall she is quite pleasant to be around and easy to look after, she is quite capable of succeeding in life.
Only if you define the brain as not working properly (in Aspergers), that is very subjective thing to do just because someone does not think they way you think they should doesn't mean it is not functioning properly.
Yes to the point where you can't function in society then it a disorder, but at what point does a disorder become just a difference. We need people to think in lots of different ways in order to solve our problems. What may be a disorder in its strongest form may be an advantage in its weaker forms.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WwAQqWUkpI
Even the article referenced states that this is not the case (from http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/us-patent-chief-to-software-patent-critics-give-it-a-rest-already/):
Empirical evidence backs this up. For example, in a 2008 book, the researchers James Bessen and Michael Meurer found that for nonchemical patents, the costs of patent litigation began to exceed the benefits of holding patents in the 1990s. Software and business patents were particularly prone to litigation.
David Kappos is the one who is ill informed, and how exactly is his stats include any business that has a trademark. Also how do they measure innovations from the article it sound like they use patients/copyright/trademarks to judge. Well I don't think anybody would argue that the current system doesn't produce patients, and lots of business have them.
Kappos cited a Patent Office report released earlier this year that supposedly shows that "intellectual property" industries "supported the jobs of 40 million American workers, or 27.7 percent of all US jobs." But as we pointed out at the time the report was released, those figures mostly reflect a ludicrously broad definition of "IP-intensive industry." Any industry that makes use of trademark protection is counted as an "IP" industry, meaning that (as we put it in April) "if you hang sheetrock, bag groceries, or answer phones at a paper mill for a living, you're probably in an 'IP-intensive' industry as far as the Obama administration is concerned."
Maybe you are being sarcastic.
Same sort of thing, I now have a media centre and now on the rare occasions I do watch live TV I find myself pausing and waiting for the ads to finish, then skipping them. It strange I now just find ads so annoying.
If you are standing next to the shoe box you are still going to die. Sometimes you aim at the wrong shoe box. Although I don't quite believe that the missiles are that accurate and do miss on occasion.
The point is if Israel wanted to kill Palestinians civilians there would be a lot more dead.
Since your statement is on an individual basis not referring to the overall strategy of the military. I believe there are some solders in Israel that kill civilians on purpose. There are always bad apples in any population, I would be surprised if Israel was any different.