Malazan makes the rantings of the crazy guy sitting on the bus sound coherent. It has no plot, and the author makes shit up as he goes along. It's actually the only book I've ever thrown out rather than give away, because I couldn't torture another human being by letting them read it. I've read a lot of bad fantasy over the years, it was by far the worst.
There is almost no such thing as "minor enhancement that shouldn't effect the schedule". They all effect the schedule, and many end up costing multiples of the time originally estimated. They also have a tendency to multiply, and together make a significant schedule impact. Treat them the same as you would any other change request, with the same process and adjust the date as needed.
Yes, they weigh nothing in backpacks. But the only reason to have a backpack is if you're carrying a computer around. If you don't need the netbook, you leave the backpack at home which is much more convenient.
I live in America- if you want to go anywhere you have to fly, no high speed rail.
Doesn't matter, the netbook still has no advantage over the laptop. The annoyance of a laptop is having to carry it. Either you need to lug around a backpack or you need to lug it around under your arm just like a laptop. Both are a pain in the ass, I hate carrying things. So I'm not going to do it- I'm going to just bring my cell phone unless I absolutely need a full computer, in which case I'll bring the laptop. I don't need the hassle of synching files to a third device. It needs to fit in my pocket, or it's no advantage over just bringing the laptop.
Neither does a cell phone if you keep it in wifi only mode. And a netbook with access to the cell network for increased connectivity will be just as expensive.
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I bought one of the first generation EEE PCs and loved it. I'd never buy another netbook again. What killed them wasn't tablets, it was smart phones.
I mean I really want one of two things- a full computer to be usable anywhere, or a computer that can be used anywhere. For the first, they have the laptop. For the second, they have the smart phone. The downfall of the netbook is it won't fit in your pocket. I never actually took my netbook anywhere except vacations because I still had to carry it. May as well bring a laptop then, the only advantage of the netbook was the weight. I have no use for something bigger than my pocket unless I need to do serious work which requires a full sized keyboard, and in that case I want a full sized screen. Tablets and netbooks both fail.
Netbooks and tablets both are evolutionary dead ends. In 10 years the only computer you own will be a smart phone, and you'll plug it into a docking station when you need a full keyboard (and some of those docks may be laptop sized for business trips).
No, I hate them on any OS I've ever used. It doesn't matter how well or poorly they're done, they waste my time. Trust me, I've seen them on many many OSes. They piss me off on all of them. It's not that they're done poorly, I don't want them done at all. I know this is hard for many Apple cock guzzlers to realize, but not everyone wants flashy and shiny. I want bare bones absolute minimalism for all my UI elements.
No, they 100% are. I hit a command. That means I want the phone to do something- most likely show me some data or run some calculations. It should do that, and anything that delays it from showing me the results of that are wasteful and annoying.
Screen wipes are now polished? I detract 100 points from them- they're pointless, annoying, and a waste of my time. That looks like a giant point in Android's favor to me.
Buy a no-contract cell phone or a used one on ebay, and just don't sign up for any carrier. The reason no one sells it is the market for such a device is tiny and shrinking.
Who said I was a good driver? I'm average. And thinking to times I ride with friends, I think a large percentage of them will briefly turn their heads while talking to passengers. It's a fairly natural thing to do, looking at the person you're talking to. Just not a safe thing.
For the record, I obviously think banning talking while driving is inane. I think hands free cell phones should be allowed..
No, I benefit by out performing the market significantly. This year I'm up 8.5% (market is roughly flat, going by the S&P 500). Last year I did 48%, the market did 13%. I've outperformed by more than 5% for the past 5 years (when I took control over my own stocks), although outperforming in 2008 was done by just getting my money the hell out.
Margin has uses, but if you're borrowing at all times, you're a fucking idiot. All good strategies have cash reserves so you can buy on dips and do cost averaging or react to new opportunities. Borrowing at all times prevents that. Margin should only be used short term when you're committing that cash reserves. And even then you should do so carefully and not max out your borrowing. My personal rule is that I need to be able to absorb a 50% loss without hitting the margin call threshold, I won't borrow more than that. And I think I've had any margin for only about 1 week this year on a short term arbitrage play.
Or he saved up money. I'm a small investor, and it's extremely rare for me to have any margin loans. Most of the time I'm 12-25% cash, so I can buy on dips. How did I get the money? I saved, spending only a fraction of what I make every year. Even if I was borrowing on margin it wouldn't be safe to borrow more than an additional 10-15%, otherwise I'd risk losing everything on a margin call.
There's plenty of criticisms to make on the stock market (it's basically legalized gambling, especially when investing for price increases rather than dividends), but this one is completely invalid.
Yes, so long as you redefine the word "free" to mean whatever they claim it means. Which seems to have no bearing on what the rest of the world considers it to be.
No, ads are always a horrible thing. You're wasting my time and attention without permission. If you're an advertiser or sell advertising, you're a piece of shit and I wish hell were real so you could burn in hell in it for all eternity.
And yes, that's the polite version of what I think about them. I'll pay for content, but I block all ads and refuse to give money to ad supported services.
It's not rationalization, it's prioritization. The most important thing to me is atmosphere. I want to enjoy going to work, and I want to work with people I could consider friends as well as coworkers. I'll happily sacrifice other considerations to do so. Any place that doesn't see me walking in with an Einstein t-shirt and doesn't either laugh or think it's a cool shirt isn't a place that I'd enjoy working at. It's a good first filter.
Life's too short to put up with bullshit. Hopefully when you grow up you'll realize that.
I show respect for others by not assuming they're stupid enough to care about my clothes. If they are, then I know I didn't want to work there anyway.
I'd actually get nervous if a programming interviewee didn't come in in jeans and a t-shirt or close equivalent. Come in a suit and I wonder why you're dressing up to try and impress me. The only logical answer is that you don't think you can impress me with your code or prblem solving skills.
Since Adam Smith. Both parties having full information is one of the foundations of a theoretical free market. If either party doesn't have it, the market is unfree by definition.
Yes, this means that there is no such thing as a free market in the real world.
NDK allows you to write apps core logic in C++ and link to Java via JNI. But the JNI has a high cost, and your UI will be written in Java because the framework only has hooks for Java. The NDK is really there for games and multiplatform apps to port to Android. A tiny percentage of apps use it.
As someone who's written some touch intensive apps for Android- there really was bad touch input. On some phones I was seeing 9 months ago, the touch input driver could spike to 60-70% CPU (measured by running top through an adb shell) while doing continual touch events. Not all phones were like that (I don't even think a majority were), but a significant number of models used that driver.
Multi-core isn't going to help basic UI issues, those will all be running on a single core. The problem is Android isn't really written to be efficient. XML based UIs running in Java (with garbage collection occurring who knows when), a codebase that's frequently convoluted and an architecture that sometimes looks like someone took the Gang of Four book and tried to use every pattern at once. I mean seriously, why does setting a selection on a text view require a selection class rather than a start and end index in the widget?
If you want to fix it, you need a complete overhaul of the framework and quite likely rewrite chunks of it in C or C++.
But here they weren't even relying on already released open source. They were relying on a company releasing source to a product that hadn't yet been released. That's idiotic, especially without a plan for what to do if the company decides not to go through with it.
If you started a company who's success was dependent on a third party with no contractual obligation giving away something for free, you deserve to fail. For sheer stupidity of not having a backup plan, if nothing else.
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Malazan makes the rantings of the crazy guy sitting on the bus sound coherent. It has no plot, and the author makes shit up as he goes along. It's actually the only book I've ever thrown out rather than give away, because I couldn't torture another human being by letting them read it. I've read a lot of bad fantasy over the years, it was by far the worst.
There is almost no such thing as "minor enhancement that shouldn't effect the schedule". They all effect the schedule, and many end up costing multiples of the time originally estimated. They also have a tendency to multiply, and together make a significant schedule impact. Treat them the same as you would any other change request, with the same process and adjust the date as needed.
Yes, they weigh nothing in backpacks. But the only reason to have a backpack is if you're carrying a computer around. If you don't need the netbook, you leave the backpack at home which is much more convenient.
I live in America- if you want to go anywhere you have to fly, no high speed rail.
Doesn't matter, the netbook still has no advantage over the laptop. The annoyance of a laptop is having to carry it. Either you need to lug around a backpack or you need to lug it around under your arm just like a laptop. Both are a pain in the ass, I hate carrying things. So I'm not going to do it- I'm going to just bring my cell phone unless I absolutely need a full computer, in which case I'll bring the laptop. I don't need the hassle of synching files to a third device. It needs to fit in my pocket, or it's no advantage over just bringing the laptop.
Neither does a cell phone if you keep it in wifi only mode. And a netbook with access to the cell network for increased connectivity will be just as expensive.
I bought one of the first generation EEE PCs and loved it. I'd never buy another netbook again. What killed them wasn't tablets, it was smart phones.
I mean I really want one of two things- a full computer to be usable anywhere, or a computer that can be used anywhere. For the first, they have the laptop. For the second, they have the smart phone. The downfall of the netbook is it won't fit in your pocket. I never actually took my netbook anywhere except vacations because I still had to carry it. May as well bring a laptop then, the only advantage of the netbook was the weight. I have no use for something bigger than my pocket unless I need to do serious work which requires a full sized keyboard, and in that case I want a full sized screen. Tablets and netbooks both fail.
Netbooks and tablets both are evolutionary dead ends. In 10 years the only computer you own will be a smart phone, and you'll plug it into a docking station when you need a full keyboard (and some of those docks may be laptop sized for business trips).
No, I hate them on any OS I've ever used. It doesn't matter how well or poorly they're done, they waste my time. Trust me, I've seen them on many many OSes. They piss me off on all of them. It's not that they're done poorly, I don't want them done at all. I know this is hard for many Apple cock guzzlers to realize, but not everyone wants flashy and shiny. I want bare bones absolute minimalism for all my UI elements.
No, they 100% are. I hit a command. That means I want the phone to do something- most likely show me some data or run some calculations. It should do that, and anything that delays it from showing me the results of that are wasteful and annoying.
Screen wipes are now polished? I detract 100 points from them- they're pointless, annoying, and a waste of my time. That looks like a giant point in Android's favor to me.
Buy a no-contract cell phone or a used one on ebay, and just don't sign up for any carrier. The reason no one sells it is the market for such a device is tiny and shrinking.
Who said I was a good driver? I'm average. And thinking to times I ride with friends, I think a large percentage of them will briefly turn their heads while talking to passengers. It's a fairly natural thing to do, looking at the person you're talking to. Just not a safe thing.
For the record, I obviously think banning talking while driving is inane. I think hands free cell phones should be allowed..
I'm not sure that talking to a passenger doesn't have more of an impact. If someone is in my front seat, I want to turn and face them when talking.
No, I benefit by out performing the market significantly. This year I'm up 8.5% (market is roughly flat, going by the S&P 500). Last year I did 48%, the market did 13%. I've outperformed by more than 5% for the past 5 years (when I took control over my own stocks), although outperforming in 2008 was done by just getting my money the hell out.
Margin has uses, but if you're borrowing at all times, you're a fucking idiot. All good strategies have cash reserves so you can buy on dips and do cost averaging or react to new opportunities. Borrowing at all times prevents that. Margin should only be used short term when you're committing that cash reserves. And even then you should do so carefully and not max out your borrowing. My personal rule is that I need to be able to absorb a 50% loss without hitting the margin call threshold, I won't borrow more than that. And I think I've had any margin for only about 1 week this year on a short term arbitrage play.
Or he saved up money. I'm a small investor, and it's extremely rare for me to have any margin loans. Most of the time I'm 12-25% cash, so I can buy on dips. How did I get the money? I saved, spending only a fraction of what I make every year. Even if I was borrowing on margin it wouldn't be safe to borrow more than an additional 10-15%, otherwise I'd risk losing everything on a margin call.
There's plenty of criticisms to make on the stock market (it's basically legalized gambling, especially when investing for price increases rather than dividends), but this one is completely invalid.
We're geeks. Computers are on that list. So back to bitching about the lack of hard drives.
Yes, so long as you redefine the word "free" to mean whatever they claim it means. Which seems to have no bearing on what the rest of the world considers it to be.
No, ads are always a horrible thing. You're wasting my time and attention without permission. If you're an advertiser or sell advertising, you're a piece of shit and I wish hell were real so you could burn in hell in it for all eternity.
And yes, that's the polite version of what I think about them. I'll pay for content, but I block all ads and refuse to give money to ad supported services.
It's not rationalization, it's prioritization. The most important thing to me is atmosphere. I want to enjoy going to work, and I want to work with people I could consider friends as well as coworkers. I'll happily sacrifice other considerations to do so. Any place that doesn't see me walking in with an Einstein t-shirt and doesn't either laugh or think it's a cool shirt isn't a place that I'd enjoy working at. It's a good first filter.
Life's too short to put up with bullshit. Hopefully when you grow up you'll realize that.
I show respect for others by not assuming they're stupid enough to care about my clothes. If they are, then I know I didn't want to work there anyway.
I'd actually get nervous if a programming interviewee didn't come in in jeans and a t-shirt or close equivalent. Come in a suit and I wonder why you're dressing up to try and impress me. The only logical answer is that you don't think you can impress me with your code or prblem solving skills.
Since Adam Smith. Both parties having full information is one of the foundations of a theoretical free market. If either party doesn't have it, the market is unfree by definition.
Yes, this means that there is no such thing as a free market in the real world.
NDK allows you to write apps core logic in C++ and link to Java via JNI. But the JNI has a high cost, and your UI will be written in Java because the framework only has hooks for Java. The NDK is really there for games and multiplatform apps to port to Android. A tiny percentage of apps use it.
As someone who's written some touch intensive apps for Android- there really was bad touch input. On some phones I was seeing 9 months ago, the touch input driver could spike to 60-70% CPU (measured by running top through an adb shell) while doing continual touch events. Not all phones were like that (I don't even think a majority were), but a significant number of models used that driver.
Multi-core isn't going to help basic UI issues, those will all be running on a single core. The problem is Android isn't really written to be efficient. XML based UIs running in Java (with garbage collection occurring who knows when), a codebase that's frequently convoluted and an architecture that sometimes looks like someone took the Gang of Four book and tried to use every pattern at once. I mean seriously, why does setting a selection on a text view require a selection class rather than a start and end index in the widget?
If you want to fix it, you need a complete overhaul of the framework and quite likely rewrite chunks of it in C or C++.
Pretty easily. Just more expensive.
But here they weren't even relying on already released open source. They were relying on a company releasing source to a product that hadn't yet been released. That's idiotic, especially without a plan for what to do if the company decides not to go through with it.
If you started a company who's success was dependent on a third party with no contractual obligation giving away something for free, you deserve to fail. For sheer stupidity of not having a backup plan, if nothing else.