The problem is the people who own the site(s) and not the users. Treat your site like your living room - do not tolerate people who piss on your living room floor. Bounce them out, clean up and apologise to your other guests.
You're right. For me this has involved ejecting many regulars who take on an air of self importance - that the community would not survive without them. But guess what - it does and a regular ejection of a bully just makes things better for everyone and several more members rise - an a couple of them go down the route of ejection.
We try so hard on our communities to prevent this sort of behaviour - which usually spills over from places like Facebook and Reddit. Tough moderation then turns into complaints about freedom of speech. (Yes, I know your reply has been moderated as 'funny' - but this is so true! Civil online spaces are disappearing.)
Anyways, this could be an opportunity to develop a new-ish community. Yep, I never give up on this shit despite everyone telling me that communities are dead, long live facebook / reddit.:(
Better yet, BizX has flipped/. and renamed it./ and sold it to Monster (Dice's competitor?). A new CSS signifying a move to the 2.0 interwebs would have been nice, after all flippers are known to use some spit and polish.
A good web designer needs some fundamental architecture skills that are derived from math or science classes which teach you how to break down a problem into smaller bits, which bits to solve first and some fundamental boolean logic.
A good web designer is not someone who throws in bootstrap, jquery and some pretty shit on a website. He/She understand how to break down the HTML/JS/CSS into smaller meaningful bits, how to include these bits depending on where and when they're needed. They understand how benchmarking goes (how long does it take a web server to respond, if the stack is sending a 1MB response from Alaska to Brisbane..).
I could go on and on about how much I've started to HATE people who copy paste shit, buy a theme, tweak a few colors, find some jquery snippets and animate a headline and go on to call themselves web designers.
Over the last few days the public has gained an unusually detailed insight into how hard Google will fight to protect its users against government overreaching, even when this involves only a single user's data.
"A 10th of the speed doesn't matter if it is 100th the price..."
I'd think that it starts mattering when you run out of time (think of order volumes over XMAS.. ). There are only so many robots you can deploy, given the size of a warehouse.
There you go - YouTube video of the iHerb "vending machine"... pretty cool to it work - skip to around 1:18 to see the "vending machine"... watch the whole thing to see how optimising the packing, before it gets stocked helps speed things up.
I think the future of massive warehouses will involve RFIDs and standardised packaging. Products are packed far too randomly... if standard packages were deployed, robots dexterity could perhaps be reduced?
I am sure there is a very significant technical challenge getting those awesome aircraft back in the air and more importantly getting them back on the ground safely. However, the link is pure and simple link bait and an extremely low quality rehash of the official website.
I assumed coming from a publication like Network World, there would be some geekery in the article... but was left sadly disappointed.
I very seriously agree... but as a small "community" business, we do need an app or two to allow our users to connect with our websites. Simple things like push messaging to send them notifications, lean data delivery (no need to deliver entire html pages for every pageview) etc etc.
So, the choice is - do we choose a single hybrid framework and learn that, or do we develop for IOS / Android / Windows phones natively and learn three things?
In terms of frameworks etc...as long as we can communicate to a PHP / MySQL driven back end, which spits out JSON / XML - the front end can be redone over some time. I think...
I think it is important enough to have atleast one 'skunk-works' type project that every developer needs to work on, just to keep up with what will be boring a year or two down the road.
I avoided "not boring" for a couple of years and for the last month, while I look at hybrid mobile apps, I am stunned by my lack of knowledge and the abundance of terms, concepts and technologies that mean nothing to me... angular, ionic, grunt, promises, JSX, reactjs, compass, gulp, firebase... the list could go on and on and on, these are just things I've started researching over the last few weeks, to make sure I make the right choice.
Every organisation needs a "not boring" slot of time for their developers. Not for product that needs to ship NOW.. but for stuff that may need to ship next year.
May I suggest that you go back in time (or go into the future) and look for a video called "EPIC" or "Googlezon".
A lot of this is possible with crowdsourcing, but use machine driven processes for the basics - far too many agendas out there once your site / service becomes popular. Look at text / sentiment analysis engines and mashups with larger public databases to drive facts.
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+1 - Like an onion, there are layers to this story which have not been peeled.
I wish I could mod you up. :)
The problem is the people who own the site(s) and not the users. Treat your site like your living room - do not tolerate people who piss on your living room floor. Bounce them out, clean up and apologise to your other guests.
You're right. For me this has involved ejecting many regulars who take on an air of self importance - that the community would not survive without them. But guess what - it does and a regular ejection of a bully just makes things better for everyone and several more members rise - an a couple of them go down the route of ejection.
We try so hard on our communities to prevent this sort of behaviour - which usually spills over from places like Facebook and Reddit. Tough moderation then turns into complaints about freedom of speech. (Yes, I know your reply has been moderated as 'funny' - but this is so true! Civil online spaces are disappearing.)
Anyways, this could be an opportunity to develop a new-ish community. Yep, I never give up on this shit despite everyone telling me that communities are dead, long live facebook / reddit. :(
But, we're no longer sprites in a material world. :)
Assuming reddit updates their git repo, the changes over the next few days should make the vulnerability more obvious.
Better yet, BizX has flipped /. and renamed it ./ and sold it to Monster (Dice's competitor?). A new CSS signifying a move to the 2.0 interwebs would have been nice, after all flippers are known to use some spit and polish.
Does that mean we can expect cordova based apps (perhaps even Meteor?) to run on an Xbox One?
Now I wish I had started a company called Continuum.
+1 for having a sense of humor. :)
You paid money for Slashdot and could not work out a lower user id than 4433507 as a part of the sale?!??!
I'd go for 666 if you were you. :)
And I thought it was some sort of MoDeM software which would enable you to use your phone as a modem. :)
BUT .. it is big-data in the clouds, so everything is forgiven.
One of my favorite TV shows is Rocket City Rednecks. Changed my opinions (just a little bit!) about people from Alabama. :)
Hate to say this, but NO, NO and a big NO.
Designers yes - web designers NO.
A good web designer needs some fundamental architecture skills that are derived from math or science classes which teach you how to break down a problem into smaller bits, which bits to solve first and some fundamental boolean logic.
A good web designer is not someone who throws in bootstrap, jquery and some pretty shit on a website. He/She understand how to break down the HTML/JS/CSS into smaller meaningful bits, how to include these bits depending on where and when they're needed. They understand how benchmarking goes (how long does it take a web server to respond, if the stack is sending a 1MB response from Alaska to Brisbane ..).
I could go on and on about how much I've started to HATE people who copy paste shit, buy a theme, tweak a few colors, find some jquery snippets and animate a headline and go on to call themselves web designers.
Can you use something simple like the group version of Lastpass / setup their accounts and manage their passwords / revoke access?
What are those insights?!?!?
"A 10th of the speed doesn't matter if it is 100th the price..."
I'd think that it starts mattering when you run out of time (think of order volumes over XMAS .. ). There are only so many robots you can deploy, given the size of a warehouse.
There you go - YouTube video of the iHerb "vending machine"... pretty cool to it work - skip to around 1:18 to see the "vending machine" ... watch the whole thing to see how optimising the packing, before it gets stocked helps speed things up.
I think the future of massive warehouses will involve RFIDs and standardised packaging. Products are packed far too randomly ... if standard packages were deployed, robots dexterity could perhaps be reduced?
I am sure there is a very significant technical challenge getting those awesome aircraft back in the air and more importantly getting them back on the ground safely. However, the link is pure and simple link bait and an extremely low quality rehash of the official website.
I assumed coming from a publication like Network World, there would be some geekery in the article... but was left sadly disappointed.
I wish I could mod you up. Spot on ...
I very seriously agree ... but as a small "community" business, we do need an app or two to allow our users to connect with our websites. Simple things like push messaging to send them notifications, lean data delivery (no need to deliver entire html pages for every pageview) etc etc.
So, the choice is - do we choose a single hybrid framework and learn that, or do we develop for IOS / Android / Windows phones natively and learn three things?
In terms of frameworks etc.. .as long as we can communicate to a PHP / MySQL driven back end, which spits out JSON / XML - the front end can be redone over some time. I think...
I think it is important enough to have atleast one 'skunk-works' type project that every developer needs to work on, just to keep up with what will be boring a year or two down the road.
I avoided "not boring" for a couple of years and for the last month, while I look at hybrid mobile apps, I am stunned by my lack of knowledge and the abundance of terms, concepts and technologies that mean nothing to me ... angular, ionic, grunt, promises, JSX, reactjs, compass, gulp, firebase... the list could go on and on and on, these are just things I've started researching over the last few weeks, to make sure I make the right choice.
Every organisation needs a "not boring" slot of time for their developers. Not for product that needs to ship NOW.. but for stuff that may need to ship next year.
May I suggest that you go back in time (or go into the future) and look for a video called "EPIC" or "Googlezon".
A lot of this is possible with crowdsourcing, but use machine driven processes for the basics - far too many agendas out there once your site / service becomes popular. Look at text / sentiment analysis engines and mashups with larger public databases to drive facts.