I know I could come up with something, but I have no idea if it is truly the best course of action, how easy it will be to implement with existing systems, or any of the logistical stuff on how long each section will take under the rest of the team with their experience.
It's called faking it till you make it. When you present your proposal/architecture do it with confidence. I just saw Julie & Julia this weekend that had a great quote about presenting work: "No excuses, no explanations." Not sure if she said it first (or at all) but it's the way to go most of the time.
Maybe I should make that my sig as the whole quote would actually fit...
This is the same attitude that puts every project behind schedule, because 20-something morons who have never seen a project managed competently think it's supposed to be that way.
In my experience that's usually because some 30-something moron passed a lot of their bad habits onto their subordinates as if they were revelations from the lord himself.
I personally tend to shy away from hiring developers who brag about living in the office as it says to me that they don't know how to work smart, only hard (which leads to sloppiness). Living in the office also leads to "office as home" syndrome which totally destroys your developers ability to know when they're working or not. This leads to a never-ending cycle of almost-working developers eating up time and power through all hours of the night without a lot to show for it.
90% of the time a smart and hard 8 hours is all that's necessary to get what you need out of your devs (or your job if you are a dev.) If you're constantly working all hours of the night you're either:
1. Getting ripped off by your employer
2. Being managed by an incompetent
3. Incompetent yourself
4. Some combination thereof
I wish I knew how to better articulate this to others but I can never seem to get the point across. Something tells me posting this here isn't going to solve that but I can dream.
Don't forget the throngs of over-40 dot com crashers who stock on Apple lifestyle devices. They're an big part of the market share too (or even more judging from what I see on the subways) and they love to be told what to do. It's a kind of a technical "Step on my cubes" kind of thing.
My vote would be to tone it down a bit and just flash up the first three results of the predictive search below the bar just to give you the flavor instead of the whole result. I think there are ways to do this already with browser extensions but I'm cool with my search as-is at the moment so haven't investigated.
One could just make a little script that automatically presses enter every time you type a key in a google search bar and you'd have essentially the same thing. That actually sounds a little annoying but we'll have to see where they're going with it.
What is funny is that when speaking of a hypothetical future people can't have fun with it and instead ground it in the now. Kind of takes the fun out of scifi.
Yes but with proxies you could be in many places at once without the hassle of space travel...which I think will remain a hassle to some degree for a millennium to come. Primitive robot proxies seem like 50-70 years away. It's short term but if I squint really hard I can see myself alive to at least drive a virtual robot across the moon.
I'm being snark-serious. What I wrote is clearly a fantasy that flaunts our current knowledge about how the universe works.
I think it's only a matter of time before a lot of previously held ideas about light, matter, gravity, etc are going to have to be heavily rethought. The emergence principal has been rearing it's ugly head quite a bit recently in unexpected places and it's possible that the speed of light is an emergent property of the universe, not a hard or set one.
It's just a hunch, not science, and will likely be wrong but who cares. It's a comment board and I can dream of all the quantum proxy robots I like!
But seriously, controlling external devices we are linked to seems like a far more plausible solution to long-term space exploration then figuring out how to manage and maintain our extremely space-unfriendly bodies for ungodly amounts of time.
That's not to say there wouldn't be exo-planet colonization. Just that most of the exploring would be done via proxy and snack bribes.
Quantum entanglement-based teleportation will enable us to create robots, teleport them to far away lands, and then said robot will teleport back the video, sensor data, etc instantly as if it were a computer sitting on the floor next to you.
This robot will be controlled via our brains and will essentially be an extension of our cyborg bodies. It will keep us out of harm's way while also letting us feel like we're on the ground doing the exo-planet exploring ourselves.
True true although I think people back in the day said the same thing about distortion as an effect (it's not an effect, it's a problem!). Distortion had been alive and well for quite some time when I was born so I have no hard information to back up that claim.
The keyboard and mouse model is old and doesn't need to be used for everything.
Yes but the keyboard and mouse WORK for (just about) everything and have a very standardized set of features and I/Os. The term "touch screen" on the other hand doesn't refer to any hard standard other than "use your fingers" but that could mean anything these days.
Example: Are we talking about a touch screen point-of-sale system for a bar or a mapping app on a Perceptive Pixel multi-touch wall? They're practically apples to oranges in every way other than the fact that they're "touch screen."
The keyboard and mouse are going to be with us for a long time to come as some computer use cases are just never going to be as simple as touch, tap, pinch and spread (think of Photoshop, Illustrator, Final Cut, Reason, etc.) I just don't see creative and admin types being able to easily swap a touch screen for such a robust input method as the keyboard and mouse. I work with many types of touch screens in my line of work and they all require a keyboard and mouse to do the actual work on the app before compiling/completing for touch...that should tell you something.
Autotune is and has been used for a long time without your knowledge to alter individual voice pitches without the sustained pitch bend that's so noticeable today. It's just a particular setting you don't like, not Autotune. I'm sure Autotune is propping up a bunch of artists you already listen to (as it is for a lot of the artists I listen to), it's just set to "not-annoying" so you don't notice it.
I believe "word-of-mouth" and "showing people how to play the song" was the previous method of copying before all this modern technology. Not exact but good enough. If Happy Birthday wasn't copyrighted I would site it as a modern example we are all familiar with.
You must be an actual astute politico as your comment showed a more-than-passing familiarity with the subject matter at hand. It can actually happen!
I ultimately think this mosque non-controversy is an acceleration in the race over the cliff and will mark a pivotal moment in the ugly GOP unraveling of the early 21st century. The payola thing has been well-known in a lot of circles for some time now and isn't surprising. Astroturfing was the original online GOP credibility-gap-management tactic (that they stole from the porn industry btw) and this payola scandal is just an extension of that.
I also live under Bloomberg's mayor-ship so I have mixed feelings about him as a politician. I generally like his style and most of his convictions but have mixed feelings about his actions...especially that whole extending term limits thing. That was fucked.
If you've ever compared the average grammatical talent of liberal and conservative bloggers/commenters it will clearly show that the Democratic party are the party of grammar Nazis...and I refudiate it.
Pixar's success is nothing to do with Jobs, it's their movies.
If I remember correctly it's largely the freedom that Pixar gives to it's directors and writers to do the story/movie they want to do that has made them so successful (ask Brad Bird). They trust smart entertaining people to make smart entertaining movies without focus-grouping and watering-it down to death. Ultimate creative freedom doesn't sound like a Jobs-style edict to me but I don't know anyone at Pixar and can't confirm this. Maybe he he holds the patent for needy robotic child-lamps or something.
If you ask me, it's academia that is important and significant, and industry is just something you have to do for food.
Wow. Academia and industry are mutually exclusive to "important and significant?" Really? As someone who hasn't required higher education to be successful in the IT industry that strikes me as a particularly disingenuous statement considering the topic.
I'm fairly well-versed on most of the "developing" skills on that list (and hire people for those skill sets myself) so I can tell you first-hand that I'm not getting those skills from people who went to college for them. Like them I had to work to educate myself which also includes the ability to judge the quality of mysterious information (i.e the internet) and the ability to read something, think about it and then actually put it into practice in a meaningful and effective way.
Has anyone here on Slashdot ever interviewed an IA that went to school for it? I've interviewed about 25 in the past year and not a single candidate had academic instruction on how to engineer a usable site. They all took it upon themselves to learn the skill set. In fact...The IA/UX/Strategist self-education barrier has done a great job of weeding out those who are serious about a sound design/engineering process and those who just use it as a slogan. College education on the other hand tells me little to nothing about the commitment a candidate has to their field and their process. That's why it's always on the bottom of people's resumes. College is an after-thought when judging the effectiveness of a person.
Could it be possible that both industry and academia have largely become lazy lumbering group-think institutions that endlessly point fingers are each other over who's more evil while smart people in their garages continue to be the main innovators that really push the limit of what's possible? Maybe. But at least that's a much more fair over-generalization.
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I'm not a dev, never been a dev, and never went to school...but at least I know how to properly inject myself with SQL.
I'm going to go tie-off.
I know I could come up with something, but I have no idea if it is truly the best course of action, how easy it will be to implement with existing systems, or any of the logistical stuff on how long each section will take under the rest of the team with their experience.
It's called faking it till you make it. When you present your proposal/architecture do it with confidence. I just saw Julie & Julia this weekend that had a great quote about presenting work: "No excuses, no explanations." Not sure if she said it first (or at all) but it's the way to go most of the time.
Maybe I should make that my sig as the whole quote would actually fit...
This is the same attitude that puts every project behind schedule, because 20-something morons who have never seen a project managed competently think it's supposed to be that way.
In my experience that's usually because some 30-something moron passed a lot of their bad habits onto their subordinates as if they were revelations from the lord himself.
I personally tend to shy away from hiring developers who brag about living in the office as it says to me that they don't know how to work smart, only hard (which leads to sloppiness). Living in the office also leads to "office as home" syndrome which totally destroys your developers ability to know when they're working or not. This leads to a never-ending cycle of almost-working developers eating up time and power through all hours of the night without a lot to show for it.
90% of the time a smart and hard 8 hours is all that's necessary to get what you need out of your devs (or your job if you are a dev.) If you're constantly working all hours of the night you're either:
1. Getting ripped off by your employer
2. Being managed by an incompetent
3. Incompetent yourself
4. Some combination thereof
I wish I knew how to better articulate this to others but I can never seem to get the point across. Something tells me posting this here isn't going to solve that but I can dream.
As opposed to yourself - an apple hater who always sees the worst in other people?
The worst in other "people?"
What would that be?
Don't forget the throngs of over-40 dot com crashers who stock on Apple lifestyle devices. They're an big part of the market share too (or even more judging from what I see on the subways) and they love to be told what to do. It's a kind of a technical "Step on my cubes" kind of thing.
My vote would be to tone it down a bit and just flash up the first three results of the predictive search below the bar just to give you the flavor instead of the whole result. I think there are ways to do this already with browser extensions but I'm cool with my search as-is at the moment so haven't investigated.
One could just make a little script that automatically presses enter every time you type a key in a google search bar and you'd have essentially the same thing. That actually sounds a little annoying but we'll have to see where they're going with it.
Indie game development industry, meet the indie music industry. I think the two of you will get along nicely.
If I was being funny you wouldn't have to ask.
What is funny is that when speaking of a hypothetical future people can't have fun with it and instead ground it in the now. Kind of takes the fun out of scifi.
Yes but with proxies you could be in many places at once without the hassle of space travel...which I think will remain a hassle to some degree for a millennium to come. Primitive robot proxies seem like 50-70 years away. It's short term but if I squint really hard I can see myself alive to at least drive a virtual robot across the moon.
Ugh. Avatar hasn't even crossed my mind. I was thinking more like Terminator meets Snow Crash meets Star Trek.
Does anyone know a site which visualizes all the extra solar planets in something like a cool rotating, zoomable, star trek like map?
MS's WorldWide Telescope is cool too. It also has a Mars map that's fun.
I'm being snark-serious. What I wrote is clearly a fantasy that flaunts our current knowledge about how the universe works.
I think it's only a matter of time before a lot of previously held ideas about light, matter, gravity, etc are going to have to be heavily rethought. The emergence principal has been rearing it's ugly head quite a bit recently in unexpected places and it's possible that the speed of light is an emergent property of the universe, not a hard or set one.
It's just a hunch, not science, and will likely be wrong but who cares. It's a comment board and I can dream of all the quantum proxy robots I like!
I've been found out!
But seriously, controlling external devices we are linked to seems like a far more plausible solution to long-term space exploration then figuring out how to manage and maintain our extremely space-unfriendly bodies for ungodly amounts of time.
That's not to say there wouldn't be exo-planet colonization. Just that most of the exploring would be done via proxy and snack bribes.
Quantum entanglement-based teleportation will enable us to create robots, teleport them to far away lands, and then said robot will teleport back the video, sensor data, etc instantly as if it were a computer sitting on the floor next to you.
This robot will be controlled via our brains and will essentially be an extension of our cyborg bodies. It will keep us out of harm's way while also letting us feel like we're on the ground doing the exo-planet exploring ourselves.
And there will be snacks.
True true although I think people back in the day said the same thing about distortion as an effect (it's not an effect, it's a problem!). Distortion had been alive and well for quite some time when I was born so I have no hard information to back up that claim.
The keyboard and mouse model is old and doesn't need to be used for everything.
Yes but the keyboard and mouse WORK for (just about) everything and have a very standardized set of features and I/Os. The term "touch screen" on the other hand doesn't refer to any hard standard other than "use your fingers" but that could mean anything these days.
Example: Are we talking about a touch screen point-of-sale system for a bar or a mapping app on a Perceptive Pixel multi-touch wall? They're practically apples to oranges in every way other than the fact that they're "touch screen."
The keyboard and mouse are going to be with us for a long time to come as some computer use cases are just never going to be as simple as touch, tap, pinch and spread (think of Photoshop, Illustrator, Final Cut, Reason, etc.) I just don't see creative and admin types being able to easily swap a touch screen for such a robust input method as the keyboard and mouse. I work with many types of touch screens in my line of work and they all require a keyboard and mouse to do the actual work on the app before compiling/completing for touch...that should tell you something.
Stop using Autotune as an effect. It's annoying.
Autotune is and has been used for a long time without your knowledge to alter individual voice pitches without the sustained pitch bend that's so noticeable today. It's just a particular setting you don't like, not Autotune. I'm sure Autotune is propping up a bunch of artists you already listen to (as it is for a lot of the artists I listen to), it's just set to "not-annoying" so you don't notice it.
I believe "word-of-mouth" and "showing people how to play the song" was the previous method of copying before all this modern technology. Not exact but good enough. If Happy Birthday wasn't copyrighted I would site it as a modern example we are all familiar with.
You must be an actual astute politico as your comment showed a more-than-passing familiarity with the subject matter at hand. It can actually happen!
I ultimately think this mosque non-controversy is an acceleration in the race over the cliff and will mark a pivotal moment in the ugly GOP unraveling of the early 21st century. The payola thing has been well-known in a lot of circles for some time now and isn't surprising. Astroturfing was the original online GOP credibility-gap-management tactic (that they stole from the porn industry btw) and this payola scandal is just an extension of that.
I also live under Bloomberg's mayor-ship so I have mixed feelings about him as a politician. I generally like his style and most of his convictions but have mixed feelings about his actions...especially that whole extending term limits thing. That was fucked.
liberal arts = thinking = reading = dictionaries = definition of liberal arts = localman needs to go back to school
If you've ever compared the average grammatical talent of liberal and conservative bloggers/commenters it will clearly show that the Democratic party are the party of grammar Nazis...and I refudiate it.
They are merely employing tactics that the other side figured out first.
You gonna back that up with facts Shiv?
how does one deal with such zombified people?
It's the question of the decade without any decent answers. Flaming them on comment boards is fun, sure, but it doesn't help.
I had high hopes for Jon Stewart at the turn of the century but he already preaches to the converted so no help there.
Forced sterilization seems extreme.
Suggestions?
Pixar's success is nothing to do with Jobs, it's their movies.
If I remember correctly it's largely the freedom that Pixar gives to it's directors and writers to do the story/movie they want to do that has made them so successful (ask Brad Bird). They trust smart entertaining people to make smart entertaining movies without focus-grouping and watering-it down to death. Ultimate creative freedom doesn't sound like a Jobs-style edict to me but I don't know anyone at Pixar and can't confirm this. Maybe he he holds the patent for needy robotic child-lamps or something.
If you ask me, it's academia that is important and significant, and industry is just something you have to do for food.
Wow. Academia and industry are mutually exclusive to "important and significant?" Really? As someone who hasn't required higher education to be successful in the IT industry that strikes me as a particularly disingenuous statement considering the topic.
I'm fairly well-versed on most of the "developing" skills on that list (and hire people for those skill sets myself) so I can tell you first-hand that I'm not getting those skills from people who went to college for them. Like them I had to work to educate myself which also includes the ability to judge the quality of mysterious information (i.e the internet) and the ability to read something, think about it and then actually put it into practice in a meaningful and effective way.
Has anyone here on Slashdot ever interviewed an IA that went to school for it? I've interviewed about 25 in the past year and not a single candidate had academic instruction on how to engineer a usable site. They all took it upon themselves to learn the skill set. In fact...The IA/UX/Strategist self-education barrier has done a great job of weeding out those who are serious about a sound design/engineering process and those who just use it as a slogan. College education on the other hand tells me little to nothing about the commitment a candidate has to their field and their process. That's why it's always on the bottom of people's resumes. College is an after-thought when judging the effectiveness of a person.
Could it be possible that both industry and academia have largely become lazy lumbering group-think institutions that endlessly point fingers are each other over who's more evil while smart people in their garages continue to be the main innovators that really push the limit of what's possible? Maybe. But at least that's a much more fair over-generalization.