Plenty of chains exist, some (like namecoin) are based on Bitcoin. (btc-e has a list of 'em).
However a coin on each chain is only worth the amount someone else will pay for it. And for none-bitcoin that is not much. Litecoin seams to have some traction (as a micro payment focused version).
Greenheart released a business simulator where the player creates and sells video games. They released a time-limited version of their game on torrent sites. Instead of normal time limitations (for example play 30 in-game days then get kicked out) they slowly ramped up the piracy level so each game released would sell progressively worse "due to piracy"; stopping the player from being able progress.
I've read a few articles on BitCoins in City AM (free rag for City types) so it is "known" by the folks in The City. I've seen a few article in the main stream press. As I work for a press monitoring agency I can go back this up a little. The following papers have had an article with "bitcoin" in the title within the last 28 days: The Daily Telegraph, International Herald Tribune, The Independent, bbc.co.uk, nbcnews.com and La Tribune.
I'd say it is talked about outside of the slashdot tech crowd.
Rather than head to the gym, head down to your local fencing/football/whatever club. You are more likely to make the time if you have fun doing it. If you can cycle to work. During your lunch hour go for a run and eat at your desk after the run. Zombies, Run! helped me with this. [ https://www.zombiesrungame.com/ ] It may be worth trying something like http://www.gym-pact.com/ as well. It has meant that the last two weeks that have been extra crappy at work, and I've not been able to run during lunch I've made the effort to go for a run on the weekend.
To use the split screen (rather than the windowing) you just to state in the manifest that the app supports this feature. Assuming your UI is designed to work at "odd" resolutions it should just work (not tried it yet).
As someone who uses this feature a lot (but in a limited scope), I disagree.
Having a stopwatch and the notepad (S-Note) open is very useful for recording exercise routines. Having a web page open a webpage open at the same time as the notepad means you can take notes while reading.
font sizes on both stop signs and computer screens should be getting bigger, not smaller.
I'm confused by this. The font size stays the same, just like in Windows.
It appears the difference is that Cornerstone allows the user to decide which app would be windowed, however MultiWindow requires the developers of the application to support it. Googles complain appears to be arround users mistaking an application that does not support Cornerstone for a crappy application. Which is kind-off fair
It comes down to the test you give and how you mark it. First and for most you are NOT trying to find out if they can write bubble sort of what have thee. You want to know what this guy thinks is good code. So give 'em a problem that lets them hang them self. We use a basic calculator question that takes in a file (have they read the IO tutorials or better yet know Commons.IO) parses it and the executes it.
Don't mark it on if it works (that is -1 "point", not instant fail). Mark it on what the code is like compared to your internal standards. Do you do TDD? Do you think every senior developer should be doing TDD before they even consider them self to be above "junior"? Yes, then what are the tests like? Do they have just one assert in each test method or are they testing the world. Have they over or under engineered? Have they just given main method that does the world? How did they handle file IO and unit tests?
You usually need at least 1,000 to 10,000 lines of code to have any idea about the quality of the code you're reviewing.
Based on experience interviewing I'd have to strongly disagree with that. You can't get a full idea on them, but you can get a very good idea on what they feel is good programming practices. The amount of utter utter tosh we received for a senior position was just astounding. May did not write tests get but bigged up their TDD experience, add on to that the number of people who feel "production quality" code means throwing everything into a single class and using Strings to hold all their data.
It also offers a jumping board for questions in the interview.
If you want to review his code prior to the hire, just ask him what open-source projects he's contributed to.
We ask (and look about) for that as well, but it can be hard to work out what the applicant actually did, assuming they have worked on OSS projects. Plus by giving a test we have a common understanding of the problem space as we have all done the test where as something in an OSS project that may look ugly to us might simply be as we don't have the required experience in the problem space. Finally you have speed to evaluate. Digging through a OSS source base for the work that the applicant has done is hard and time consuming. Reading a reasonably small known problem where all the work is the applicants is quick, and given a short amount of time you will have a set of instant "No"s (like the test folder being empty).
The downside to stylii was always that it's easy to lose them
So very very true. Hopefully the holder in the newer devices don't suck as badly as they did on WinMo HTCs. Don't think any of my stylii lasted more than 6 months on that.
For notes in meetings I don't bother with handwriting-to-text, just scribble away. As quick and readable as writing on paper and I don't have to carry a paper pad or raid supply cupboards for pens.
I do sometimes use the handwriting-to-text for short emails and the like while on the move. Slightly faster than the on screen keyboard. I'd prefer a real keyboard, but alas the likes of the HTC Wizard seam to have vanished.:( If the HTC Wizard and the Galaxy Note 2 mated I'd be one very happy bunny.
I'd not write code or a document with a stylus. But I'd use a PDA with a stylus over a laptop or pen & paper in a meeting any day.
Meanwhile all websites are now getting the stupid, slow, flash-based limited Fisher-Price
See, not enough phones/tablets going down the Galaxy Note route of including a stylus so web developers do not feel the need to make it finger friendly .;)
Cue the guy who thinks his tablet has greatly improved his life/productivity/etc. and actually thinks you can use a tablet efficiently for meaningful work.
Not quite. Smartphones killed a precursor - PDAs, but some tablets (and bigger smartphones) are bringing them back (Yeay Galaxy Note).
You don't do the same work with PDA as you do with a PC (Laptop or desktop), but you do do productive, efficient work with one.
Slashdot Mirror
Plenty of chains exist, some (like namecoin) are based on Bitcoin. (btc-e has a list of 'em).
However a coin on each chain is only worth the amount someone else will pay for it. And for none-bitcoin that is not much. Litecoin seams to have some traction (as a micro payment focused version).
Greenheart released a business simulator where the player creates and sells video games. They released a time-limited version of their game on torrent sites. Instead of normal time limitations (for example play 30 in-game days then get kicked out) they slowly ramped up the piracy level so each game released would sell progressively worse "due to piracy"; stopping the player from being able progress.
> Downloading the torrent is like... copyright infringement.
Not if the owner of the game made it available, which in this case they did. The torrent version is a time limited demo.
I don't think it is likely, not down to branding but no one would go to "books.amazon[.com]" directly anyway.
Most will go to google/bing/the magic bar thingie and type "books amazon". The "dot" is too "techy".
The 4chan and MIT aspects of the story do make it "Nerdy".
I've read a few articles on BitCoins in City AM (free rag for City types) so it is "known" by the folks in The City.
I've seen a few article in the main stream press. As I work for a press monitoring agency I can go back this up a little. The following papers have had an article with "bitcoin" in the title within the last 28 days: The Daily Telegraph, International Herald Tribune, The Independent, bbc.co.uk, nbcnews.com and La Tribune.
I'd say it is talked about outside of the slashdot tech crowd.
But is NK likely to see them as random dudes on the internet or The Forces Of American Evil!
I love how this thread swings wildly between Surface RT and Surface Pro.
Is Surface Pro "progress"? After all that is what you compared to your two year old netbook.
Rather than head to the gym, head down to your local fencing/football/whatever club. You are more likely to make the time if you have fun doing it.
If you can cycle to work.
During your lunch hour go for a run and eat at your desk after the run. Zombies, Run! helped me with this. [ https://www.zombiesrungame.com/ ]
It may be worth trying something like http://www.gym-pact.com/ as well. It has meant that the last two weeks that have been extra crappy at work, and I've not been able to run during lunch I've made the effort to go for a run on the weekend.
To use the split screen (rather than the windowing) you just to state in the manifest that the app supports this feature. Assuming your UI is designed to work at "odd" resolutions it should just work (not tried it yet).
Samsung have an app store. It is not very good.
For the higher end (PDA-focused) devices, hardware input methods.
For the low end you have custom shells in software and some custom software.
As someone who uses this feature a lot (but in a limited scope), I disagree.
Having a stopwatch and the notepad (S-Note) open is very useful for recording exercise routines. Having a web page open a webpage open at the same time as the notepad means you can take notes while reading.
I'm confused by this. The font size stays the same, just like in Windows.
Agreed. I don't own a I phone, I own a PDA with a phone tacked on (Note 2).
It appears the difference is that Cornerstone allows the user to decide which app would be windowed, however MultiWindow requires the developers of the application to support it. Googles complain appears to be arround users mistaking an application that does not support Cornerstone for a crappy application. Which is kind-off fair
Cornerstone - Make it application opt-in.
So the same as everything else during the interview process. Follow what you think is a good practice.
It comes down to the test you give and how you mark it. First and for most you are NOT trying to find out if they can write bubble sort of what have thee. You want to know what this guy thinks is good code. So give 'em a problem that lets them hang them self. We use a basic calculator question that takes in a file (have they read the IO tutorials or better yet know Commons.IO) parses it and the executes it.
Don't mark it on if it works (that is -1 "point", not instant fail). Mark it on what the code is like compared to your internal standards. Do you do TDD? Do you think every senior developer should be doing TDD before they even consider them self to be above "junior"? Yes, then what are the tests like? Do they have just one assert in each test method or are they testing the world.
Have they over or under engineered? Have they just given main method that does the world? How did they handle file IO and unit tests?
Based on experience interviewing I'd have to strongly disagree with that. You can't get a full idea on them, but you can get a very good idea on what they feel is good programming practices.
The amount of utter utter tosh we received for a senior position was just astounding. May did not write tests get but bigged up their TDD experience, add on to that the number of people who feel "production quality" code means throwing everything into a single class and using Strings to hold all their data.
It also offers a jumping board for questions in the interview.
We ask (and look about) for that as well, but it can be hard to work out what the applicant actually did, assuming they have worked on OSS projects. Plus by giving a test we have a common understanding of the problem space as we have all done the test where as something in an OSS project that may look ugly to us might simply be as we don't have the required experience in the problem space.
Finally you have speed to evaluate. Digging through a OSS source base for the work that the applicant has done is hard and time consuming. Reading a reasonably small known problem where all the work is the applicants is quick, and given a short amount of time you will have a set of instant "No"s (like the test folder being empty).
I disagree. The quality of code (even for a simple test) between someone new to the field and some one experienced is noticeable.
I do timed (2 hour) coding tests.
Don't care if you finish. But I do care if you don't write tests or can not follow simple instructions
So very very true. Hopefully the holder in the newer devices don't suck as badly as they did on WinMo HTCs. Don't think any of my stylii lasted more than 6 months on that.
For notes in meetings I don't bother with handwriting-to-text, just scribble away. As quick and readable as writing on paper and I don't have to carry a paper pad or raid supply cupboards for pens.
I do sometimes use the handwriting-to-text for short emails and the like while on the move. Slightly faster than the on screen keyboard. I'd prefer a real keyboard, but alas the likes of the HTC Wizard seam to have vanished. :(
If the HTC Wizard and the Galaxy Note 2 mated I'd be one very happy bunny.
I'd not write code or a document with a stylus. But I'd use a PDA with a stylus over a laptop or pen & paper in a meeting any day.
See, not enough phones/tablets going down the Galaxy Note route of including a stylus so web developers do not feel the need to make it finger friendly . ;)
Stylus based input.
Not quite. Smartphones killed a precursor - PDAs, but some tablets (and bigger smartphones) are bringing them back (Yeay Galaxy Note).
You don't do the same work with PDA as you do with a PC (Laptop or desktop), but you do do productive, efficient work with one.
Free speech right here is badly worded. The ISP, as a common carrier should not play with content unless asked to by the recipient.