The speed with which Russian scientists jump into claiming priority over any discovery made in the West has become a running joke at international conferences. Give a presentation on toilet flushers and rest assured that some Dimitri or other will start shouting from the back row that the toilet with all its accessories was invented in Russia decades before the West even knew there was shit.
- Joao Magueijo, in his book "Faster than the Speed of Light"
While, as a Canadian, I agree with you, it should be noted, in all fairness to our cousins to the south, that the Canadian Thanksgiving used to be in November also, but it was moved to October when November 11th was established as Remembrance Day.
We use scrum, and it's working for us
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But like any process, scrum won't work unless you have buy-in from every level. I think it took us almost a year before we really got into a groove with scrum and started getting really big benefits out of it.
Developers now work without meddling from management for at least the duration of a sprint (a month). We can focus and get lots of work done.
Transparency has built trust between the developers and the other stakeholders, like testers, usage experts, and management. There's far, far less tension between these groups. And whatever tension that does exist is kept off the shoulders of the developers.
We were a small company, bought out by a very large one, and now our group and our process is starting to be viewed as a model for other groups in the company to emulate, because we're (apparently) far more efficient, and we're getting a lot more work done.
We don't use XP (although we do have a lightweight code review process). The benefits of XP weren't quite as evident to us, so it's not something we mandate - developers can do it sometimes at their discretion.
No, wait a minute. Maybe the joke is on us. Self-righteous outrage over a gag? That's the ultimate in geekiness. They're all just playing along. It's a counter-joke, right?
A more interesting question is whether someone could write a bot that could run a whole bunch of queries and eventually piece together an entire work.
And if so, then I'd venture that Google needs to do something to assure the Authors Guild that they protect against that kind of abuse. Not that I think it would be all that difficult.
So many people shrieking, "99.4% sucks!!" It seems almost like karma whoring. Yeah, yeah. It sucks. So don't buy it. Can we move on?
It depends on how the outages occur, doesn't it? If it means you occasionally need to redial, that's not a big deal at all. But if it means you might be without service for a whole day every few months, then that's terrible. There's a few subscribers who have piped up here with generally positive comments. Me, I can't say from personal experience.
But to put it in perspective, in many places outside of first-world countries, I suspect 99.4% would be better reliability than you can get with any kind of service.
When you look at the issue of buffer overruns, eight to 10 years ago in software development, you did not know how much space you might need for something so you just create a big buffer zone to allow things to happen. Who knew that people could go exploit that and use that buffer space to do malicious things?
I'm speechless. I have no words. Except... W... T... F! is he blathering on about?!?
'Cuz I never use the numeric keypad. It's a giant waste of space for me, and I'm forced to put my mouse very far to the right because of it. I curse the numeric keypad. *shakes fist* Curse you, numeric keypad!
And if you could put a keypad right on the main keyboard and have it display the numbers right there, then there is even less reason to have it! Mini! Mini!
Please tell me you didn't really mean to imply that all technical sophistication has nothing to do with user functionality and ergonomics;).
Certainly not.:-)
But then (at least to my mind), "pretty widgets" doesn't imply user functionality and ergonomics, either.
I think we agree: a product with great technical sophistication can be killed by a bad user interface (which is also technical to some extent), but lack of effective marketing to bring the product to peoples' attention can make both irrelevant.
But instead of pasting the background (And cheating), you crop the first photo to the dimensions of the monitor in the second photo.
I don't know if you mean more than usual when you say "crop," but that's exactly how some of them had to have been done - the ones where the screen is placed at an angle to the camera - because not only do you have to crop the first picture, you need to shear it in a specific way to get the perspective right.
GIMP has this great function for that - called "perspective transformation.":-)
The real killer is if you're using a non-flat monitor, you should technically correct for the curvature of the screen. That's where I drew the line and gave up.
You can optimize in many different ways: for run-time performance, maintainability, extendibility, usability, compatibility, and probably a bunch of other ways I can't think of just now.
Many of these are at odds with each other. And since computers are getting faster, I think it's perfectly reasonable to start trading off run-time performance with some of these other things.
<disclaimer> I am a physics postgrad involved in one of the searches for dark matter.</disclaimer>
Whoa. Wait a minute, as this gives you more credibility than 99% of Slashdot, I'd say that's the opposite of a disclaimer.
I've only heard the term from Star Trek [...] I've certainly never had [tachyons] mentioned in class!
Yeah, I wasn't sure, but I doubted that any evidence for tachyons has yet cropped up. The counterpart that I was thinking of (as another poster has mentioned) was "tardyons." I don't think I've ever heard of these "bradyons." Sounds kinda hokey, even for physicists.;-)
Am I thinking of a different term, or aren't "baryons" just the counterpart to "tachyons?" And where tachyons are supposed to always travel faster than light, baryons always travel slower. In other words, I thought baryons represent everything we usually mean when we say "matter."
Is this a case of a reporter being out of his depth?
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I stand corrected. Well, that's how it was explained to me, but obviously, it was not so simplistic. Old holidays seldom are. :-)
While, as a Canadian, I agree with you, it should be noted, in all fairness to our cousins to the south, that the Canadian Thanksgiving used to be in November also, but it was moved to October when November 11th was established as Remembrance Day.
Thank you.
But like any process, scrum won't work unless you have buy-in from every level. I think it took us almost a year before we really got into a groove with scrum and started getting really big benefits out of it.
Developers now work without meddling from management for at least the duration of a sprint (a month). We can focus and get lots of work done.
Transparency has built trust between the developers and the other stakeholders, like testers, usage experts, and management. There's far, far less tension between these groups. And whatever tension that does exist is kept off the shoulders of the developers.
We were a small company, bought out by a very large one, and now our group and our process is starting to be viewed as a model for other groups in the company to emulate, because we're (apparently) far more efficient, and we're getting a lot more work done.
We don't use XP (although we do have a lightweight code review process). The benefits of XP weren't quite as evident to us, so it's not something we mandate - developers can do it sometimes at their discretion.
I mean, seriously. How can they ruin a perfectly good musical by putting ewoks into it?
Why would they say that, if the term "bug" didn't exist?
The term "bug" has been around since long before that incident. I think the comment was just a joke.
There's an easy solution.
Everyone should complain.
It's just a harmless gag.
Yeah, I know! This is ridiculous.
No, wait a minute. Maybe the joke is on us. Self-righteous outrage over a gag? That's the ultimate in geekiness. They're all just playing along. It's a counter-joke, right?
Uh... right?
I have a bit of a bone to pick with that headline... it's not a "software glitch." The software was probably working exactly as it was intended to.
The problem was the process by which passwords were being assigned.
Where is that "+1 Funny-to-some-but- may-induce-vomiting- in-others" moderation I've always wanted?
A more interesting question is whether someone could write a bot that could run a whole bunch of queries and eventually piece together an entire work.
And if so, then I'd venture that Google needs to do something to assure the Authors Guild that they protect against that kind of abuse. Not that I think it would be all that difficult.
So many people shrieking, "99.4% sucks!!" It seems almost like karma whoring. Yeah, yeah. It sucks. So don't buy it. Can we move on?
It depends on how the outages occur, doesn't it? If it means you occasionally need to redial, that's not a big deal at all. But if it means you might be without service for a whole day every few months, then that's terrible. There's a few subscribers who have piped up here with generally positive comments. Me, I can't say from personal experience.
But to put it in perspective, in many places outside of first-world countries, I suspect 99.4% would be better reliability than you can get with any kind of service.
When you look at the issue of buffer overruns, eight to 10 years ago in software development, you did not know how much space you might need for something so you just create a big buffer zone to allow things to happen. Who knew that people could go exploit that and use that buffer space to do malicious things?
I'm speechless. I have no words. Except... W... T... F! is he blathering on about?!?
Look at the size of the escape key! Yeah, baby.
'Cuz I never use the numeric keypad. It's a giant waste of space for me, and I'm forced to put my mouse very far to the right because of it. I curse the numeric keypad. *shakes fist* Curse you, numeric keypad!
And if you could put a keypad right on the main keyboard and have it display the numbers right there, then there is even less reason to have it! Mini! Mini!
Please tell me you didn't really mean to imply that all technical sophistication has nothing to do with user functionality and ergonomics ;) .
Certainly not. :-)
But then (at least to my mind), "pretty widgets" doesn't imply user functionality and ergonomics, either.
I think we agree: a product with great technical sophistication can be killed by a bad user interface (which is also technical to some extent), but lack of effective marketing to bring the product to peoples' attention can make both irrelevant.
Please tell me you didn't really mean to imply that technical sophistication is achieved by making pretty widgets.
But instead of pasting the background (And cheating), you crop the first photo to the dimensions of the monitor in the second photo.
I don't know if you mean more than usual when you say "crop," but that's exactly how some of them had to have been done - the ones where the screen is placed at an angle to the camera - because not only do you have to crop the first picture, you need to shear it in a specific way to get the perspective right.
GIMP has this great function for that - called "perspective transformation." :-)
The real killer is if you're using a non-flat monitor, you should technically correct for the curvature of the screen. That's where I drew the line and gave up.
Too! Many! Nested quotes!
Argh.
I think the answer to this question has more to do with how you define "terrorist" than anything else.
nobody cares about optimizing code anymore.
You can optimize in many different ways: for run-time performance, maintainability, extendibility, usability, compatibility, and probably a bunch of other ways I can't think of just now.
Many of these are at odds with each other. And since computers are getting faster, I think it's perfectly reasonable to start trading off run-time performance with some of these other things.
<disclaimer> I am a physics postgrad involved in one of the searches for dark matter.</disclaimer>
Whoa. Wait a minute, as this gives you more credibility than 99% of Slashdot, I'd say that's the opposite of a disclaimer.
I've only heard the term from Star Trek [...] I've certainly never had [tachyons] mentioned in class!
Yeah, I wasn't sure, but I doubted that any evidence for tachyons has yet cropped up. The counterpart that I was thinking of (as another poster has mentioned) was "tardyons." I don't think I've ever heard of these "bradyons." Sounds kinda hokey, even for physicists. ;-)
Thanks for your reply.
Am I thinking of a different term, or aren't "baryons" just the counterpart to "tachyons?" And where tachyons are supposed to always travel faster than light, baryons always travel slower. In other words, I thought baryons represent everything we usually mean when we say "matter."
Is this a case of a reporter being out of his depth?
Or maybe it's me, a Slashdot poster?
Place your bets! :-)
No password length can match a biometric, especially mine.
Help me out, are you dissing the security of your own password, or are you bragging about the size of your biometric?