Mr. Gandhi has his cause and effect a little mixed up, and I think he's implying that new development shouldn't ever introduce new bugs, which is a little silly.
He does have a valid point about testing before putting code into production and being able to roll back changes. That's all pretty obvious stuff.
The mention of managers pressuring for changes, but not allowing for adequate testing time is also typical.
I think society benefits when a criminal gets killed breking into someone's home or robbing a store. That's what I was agreeing with. Self-defense is a good thing.
I don't think killing people randomly is a good idea! So no, killing abortion doctors is bad, and sabatoge is bad.
As far as suicide bombing. The Palestinians were backed into a corner and retaliated the only way possible. At least they have some pride. Never the less more could be gained by living peacably with the Israelis, if the Israelis held up their end of the deal. That situation is rotten on both sides if you look at the almost 100 year history of it.
[the government is] not going to care any more about yours or mine.
No, but on the other hand it would literally have to destroy whole cities if 50% of the inhabitants were actively resisting. That would tend to make the prize of victory worth very little. Besides, for one's own dignity it is better to go down fighting.
I've concluded a similar thing. Reading Adam Smith you realize that the wealth of a country is based upon what it produces. Having thought about what we produce here, it seems there are a lot more leeches on the process (non-producers) than actual producers.
The up side is that there is TONS of arable land here, so it is unlikely that there would be starvation on a mass scale. Maybe I'm wrong. This is all a bit depressing.
I think our lifestyles have outgrown our means and really the only way to curb that is to stop consuming so much and relying more upon ourselves. Since I was young I've had an apocolyptic outlook and to some extent I prepare for that to this day. I think everyone should learn how to survive in their own backyard, shoot a gun, and in general be as self-sufficient as possible. I know it's not possible to be 100% self-sufficient though.
We've become fat and happy. Either its time to head for the butcher or trim it down a little.
The Mac Team at Microsoft seem to be a lot better at putting things together than the PC Team. Internet Explorer is actually quite nice to use on a Mac, as are things like Office.
Compared to Safari? I don't think so, although I'll admit Office is about the best application in its class for Mac or any other platform. I've never tried Keynote though.
Safari has never crashed on me, is scriptable via Apple Script, has Tabs, blocks popups, and generally looks much nicer. On the other hand IE crashes, does not block popups, does not have tabs, is ugly, and may be scripable (I don't know).
The only thing I'll give IE, is that once in a while for certain sites I'll have to use it. For example my girlfriend must use it when registering for classes online. Safari doesn't cut it, although I believe Mozilla may for this task.
It's YOUR job to assure that you are using the correct tools for the job, NOT the guy who makes the tools!
They have a name for it "due diligence".
I havn't had OS X flake out (it's never crashed per se), but like twice in a year and a hafl, and both incidents were after a considerable amount of "up time". This is good enough for me and my mp3s, recreational programming, writing, and games.:)
In and of itself it is not, but companies and people only have so many resources they can throw at things, and it so happens that maybe some companies would rather innovate than fix bugs, and too some extent that is good.
Doesn't matter, as soon as you click through that EULA you've already accepted that the software is not necessarily reliable....could reliability standards stifle innovation? How hard is it to design something that works well and is extremely robust, yet, be creative and innovative in its design?
Have you ever designed/written software? It's not as easy as it may sound! We try. I try. I do my best at all the design and coding work I do, but sometimes still fall short. I find many of my bugs, I'm entirely sure that there are some I don't find.
Software is *MUCH MORE* complex than a bridge or many "real" devices. It is likely that it will never be perfect.
On the practical side though, if people demand "perfect" software the price for software will sky rocket. No one can afford 100% bug free software. Therefore there will always be that chance of unreliability.
I have to agree with Microsoft here as much as I hate to admit it.
That said... maybe if you put it in as a feature request that could be activated as a system preference... well then you might just get somewhere. If you're not snide about these things, you just might find that they'll take you a bit more seriously.
Yes, yes. I did it exactly like that, and no I wasn't snide.... Of course it should be an option just like under X.
The post was supposed to be funny. And in my opinion a feature request is just a low-priority bug anyway. I think most developers look at feature requests in this light.
Moreover, I'm also a very experienced computer user.... been using and programming them for well-over 15 years and I'm only 25 (good ol' TSR-80...). As a developer my life would be more difficlut if I had to develop on a platform that didn't support focus follows mouse! Of course I'd get used to it, but there's nothing like typing into a window that is below another.
You just have to learn to keep your mouse in the window you want to be active.... actually focus upon entry-only is my mode of operation.
The Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) world has much the same problem you do.
They model their products with several different analysis codes, each with its own input and output format. This generates a gob of data, and is currently managed in ad hoc ways, is not easy to integrate with other results and wastes the time of lots of engineers.
The product we've come up with to manage both the models, the process for executing the models, and the data generated by running the models is a software framework called CoMeT (Computational Modeling Toolkit).
We are also capable of managing different versions of the model, parameter studies, and some basic data mining. The whole thing is scriptable with Scheme.
Unfortunately, we are a commercial software company, and the software is still under development, although everything I mentioned above can currently be done. We are mostly working on a front end now, although we still need to make a few improvements to the framework and add support for many analysis codes.
The reason I'm replying to this is that your list of requirements is a perfect subset of ours. We are aiming our product at CAE in the mechanical and electrical domains (Mechatronics).
I know, it's not free, but we feel we've done some very innovative things and it has taken several people many years of low pay to get this far. We really want to make some money off it eventually....:)
If you want more information check out the web-site or email me here. We're in need of proving this technology in a production environment so maybe we can work something out.
1. The education the college gives you goes way beyond doing a job. You'll gain a perspective of the world that would be hard to get any other way. I'd reccomend college just for that. Make sure to take lots of liberal arts classes so as to make yourself a more "round" person.
3. Yeah high school sucks. In fact I'd call it the biggest waste of four years of my life.
4. Can't hurt.
5. I would definitely go to college, but I'm not entirely sure I would still study CS. I would have gone for one of those riskier liberal arts degrees, perhaps history, and tried like hell to be a foreign policy analyst of the Far East. As it is I got a minor in history, and the word is not up on me going back to school. On the other hand, I do like programming about 75% of the time. I just feel I could be doing better things with my time.
I hate to break it to you, but part of life is risk. It seems that technology has dulled our capacity to accept risk, but with that comes a lessened capacity to experience life. See what I mean?
Totally. We rely way too much on this kind of crap. Just take some reponsibility for yourself, and don't expect that you can be safe 100% of the time or rescued if something goes wrong. If we used more common sense and self-reliance we wouldn't need to be resuced half the time anyway.
I don't know, and I'll agree with you that when i did more file sharing stuff I found about a lot of music I never would have heard. It's good in that sense, but there is a point of abuse. If you download the entire pink floyd wall album knowing full well you like it, isn't that stealing?
I'll say it again, invest time in you local music scene. There is tons of talent right under your nose.
I think they are. Most of the mp3s you download are 128K while CD quality is closer to 192K. The sound quality is really better if you buy a CD in most cases.
As for me I hardly ever use KaZa or Limewire. I really do believe that taking something you haven't paid for is stealing.
Ripping CDs, if you don't share them is much more ethical in my mind. I've been dubbing tapes or the equivalent from my friends for over 15 years. Usually this would result in me buying something from that artist. Guess what? It still does. I rip one Iron Maiden CD then I go buy another. They loose a little, but they could also see it as free publicity.
Sharing your rips with people on the internet is not too cool. It is piracy of a different magnitude. Allowing one or two friends to come over and create a compilation from your 3000+ song mp3 library is totally different. That's where my collection is now, but most of it is from transferring my own CDs, which are still in my closet onto my computer.
Most of the stuff I tend to RIP is rare or out of print punk rock anyway. I think my entire CD collection is probably made up by like 10% major label crap. New "radio" music these days is a joke, and like I've said before your local music scene probably kicks the shit out of it.
As far as punishing people who steal copyrighted works online, well we should be careful, but these people need to realize that they are breaking the law. Making examples out of a few of them would be justified in my mind.
My band releases its music under terms of the GPL. Use it trade it, and give it away, but you can't sell it with other music which is not licensed under those terms.
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Yeah, more fucking taxes. Just what I need.
-Craig.
Buy a Mac.
-Craig.
Mr. Gandhi has his cause and effect a little mixed up, and I think he's implying that new development shouldn't ever introduce new bugs, which is a little silly.
He does have a valid point about testing before putting code into production and being able to roll back changes. That's all pretty obvious stuff.
The mention of managers pressuring for changes, but not allowing for adequate testing time is also typical.
-Craig.
If you're being slandered go after the person slandering you not the forum the culprit is using to do it.
Oh yeah, the forum is the one with the money... doh!
This is a victory for putting responsibility where it is due.
-Craig.
I think society benefits when a criminal gets killed breking into someone's home or robbing a store. That's what I was agreeing with. Self-defense is a good thing.
I don't think killing people randomly is a good idea! So no, killing abortion doctors is bad, and sabatoge is bad.
As far as suicide bombing. The Palestinians were backed into a corner and retaliated the only way possible. At least they have some pride. Never the less more could be gained by living peacably with the Israelis, if the Israelis held up their end of the deal. That situation is rotten on both sides if you look at the almost 100 year history of it.
[the government is] not going to care any more about yours or mine.
No, but on the other hand it would literally have to destroy whole cities if 50% of the inhabitants were actively resisting. That would tend to make the prize of victory worth very little. Besides, for one's own dignity it is better to go down fighting.
-Craig.
Which I believe would be illegal... you didn't read the EULA did you?
I've concluded a similar thing. Reading Adam Smith you realize that the wealth of a country is based upon what it produces. Having thought about what we produce here, it seems there are a lot more leeches on the process (non-producers) than actual producers.
The up side is that there is TONS of arable land here, so it is unlikely that there would be starvation on a mass scale. Maybe I'm wrong. This is all a bit depressing.
I think our lifestyles have outgrown our means and really the only way to curb that is to stop consuming so much and relying more upon ourselves.
Since I was young I've had an apocolyptic outlook and to some extent I prepare for that to this day. I think everyone should learn how to survive in their own backyard, shoot a gun, and in general be as self-sufficient as possible. I know it's not possible to be 100% self-sufficient though.
We've become fat and happy. Either its time to head for the butcher or trim it down a little.
-Craig.
The "drug war" has eroded the Fourth Amendment to hell. This "war on terrorism" will do it further.
I have a pocket copy of the Constitution and Amendments and it is a very valuable posession.
Vote Libertarian... if enough of us did it then we might get out of this mess we've found ourselves in.
-Craig.
I do if he's only shooting at someone who is encroaching upon his Life, Liberty or Property.
I would do the same thing, except use a pistol.
-Craig.
No, I really think that most of us don't care.
Well it's not that we don't want our freedom we're just too lazy to do anything about it.
What did Thomas Jefferson say, "The price of Liberty is eternal vigalence."?
-Craig.
Can you say drug war?
The Mac Team at Microsoft seem to be a lot better at putting things together than the PC Team. Internet Explorer is actually quite nice to use on a Mac, as are things like Office.
Compared to Safari? I don't think so, although I'll admit Office is about the best application in its class for Mac or any other platform. I've never tried Keynote though.
Safari has never crashed on me, is scriptable via Apple Script, has Tabs, blocks popups, and generally looks much nicer. On the other hand IE crashes, does not block popups, does not have tabs, is ugly, and may be scripable (I don't know).
The only thing I'll give IE, is that once in a while for certain sites I'll have to use it. For example my girlfriend must use it when registering for classes online. Safari doesn't cut it, although I believe Mozilla may for this task.
-Craig.
It's YOUR job to assure that you are using the correct tools for the job, NOT the guy who makes the tools!
:)
They have a name for it "due diligence".
I havn't had OS X flake out (it's never crashed per se), but like twice in a year and a hafl, and both incidents were after a considerable amount of "up time". This is good enough for me and my mp3s, recreational programming, writing, and games.
You're 100% right!
-Craig.
How, exactly, is this a bad thing?
In and of itself it is not, but companies and people only have so many resources they can throw at things, and it so happens that maybe some companies would rather innovate than fix bugs, and too some extent that is good.
Doesn't matter, as soon as you click through that EULA you've already accepted that the software is not necessarily reliable. ...could reliability standards stifle innovation? How hard is it to design something that works well and is extremely robust, yet, be creative and innovative in its design?
Have you ever designed/written software? It's not as easy as it may sound! We try. I try. I do my best at all the design and coding work I do, but sometimes still fall short. I find many of my bugs, I'm entirely sure that there are some I don't find.
Software is *MUCH MORE* complex than a bridge or many "real" devices. It is likely that it will never be perfect.
On the practical side though, if people demand "perfect" software the price for software will sky rocket. No one can afford 100% bug free software. Therefore there will always be that chance of unreliability.
I have to agree with Microsoft here as much as I hate to admit it.
-Craig.
classic bait and switch:
Just like the drug dealer commercial...
"Yeah Johnny, give it to em at first, then when they come back for more start charging."
Classic....
-Craig.
doh! It'll never happen. I should have thought of that.
That said... maybe if you put it in as a feature request that could be activated as a system preference... well then you might just get somewhere. If you're not snide about these things, you just might find that they'll take you a bit more seriously.
Yes, yes. I did it exactly like that, and no I wasn't snide.... Of course it should be an option just like under X.
The post was supposed to be funny. And in my opinion a feature request is just a low-priority bug anyway. I think most developers look at feature requests in this light.
Moreover, I'm also a very experienced computer user.... been using and programming them for well-over 15 years and I'm only 25 (good ol' TSR-80...). As a developer my life would be more difficlut if I had to develop on a platform that didn't support focus follows mouse! Of course I'd get used to it, but there's nothing like typing into a window that is below another.
You just have to learn to keep your mouse in the window you want to be active.... actually focus upon entry-only is my mode of operation.
-Craig.
A focus follows mouse option. I hate click to focus. I also like to be able to work in windows that are underneath others... Typical X stuff.
I've reported it as a bug to Apple, but they are ignoring me... .
-Craig.
The Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) world has much the same problem you do.
They model their products with several different analysis codes, each with its own input and output format. This generates a gob of data, and is currently managed in ad hoc ways, is not easy to integrate with other results and wastes the time of lots of engineers.
The product we've come up with to manage both the models, the process for executing the models, and the data generated by running the models is a software framework called CoMeT (Computational Modeling Toolkit).
We are also capable of managing different versions of the model, parameter studies, and some basic data mining. The whole thing is scriptable with Scheme.
Unfortunately, we are a commercial software company, and the software is still under development, although everything I mentioned above can currently be done. We are mostly working on a front end now, although we still need to make a few improvements to the framework and add support for many analysis codes.
The reason I'm replying to this is that your list of requirements is a perfect subset of ours. We are aiming our product at CAE in the mechanical and electrical domains (Mechatronics).
I know, it's not free, but we feel we've done some very innovative things and it has taken several people many years of low pay to get this far. We really want to make some money off it eventually....
If you want more information check out the web-site or email me here. We're in need of proving this technology in a production environment so maybe we can work something out.
-Craig.
one eye on CNN
Man.... watch Fox.
1. The education the college gives you goes way beyond doing a job. You'll gain a perspective of the world that would be hard to get any other way. I'd reccomend college just for that. Make sure to take lots of liberal arts classes so as to make yourself a more "round" person.
3. Yeah high school sucks. In fact I'd call it the biggest waste of four years of my life.
4. Can't hurt.
5. I would definitely go to college, but I'm not entirely sure I would still study CS. I would have gone for one of those riskier liberal arts degrees, perhaps history, and tried like hell to be a foreign policy analyst of the Far East. As it is I got a minor in history, and the word is not up on me going back to school. On the other hand, I do like programming about 75% of the time. I just feel I could be doing better things with my time.
-Craig.
I hate to break it to you, but part of life is risk. It seems that technology has dulled our capacity to accept risk, but with that comes a lessened capacity to experience life. See what I mean?
Totally. We rely way too much on this kind of crap. Just take some reponsibility for yourself, and don't expect that you can be safe 100% of the time or rescued if something goes wrong. If we used more common sense and self-reliance we wouldn't need to be resuced half the time anyway.
Risk is good. It makes you feel alive.
It's quite sad if you ask me.
Amen.
-Craig.
So where do I fit in the grand scheme of things?
I don't know, and I'll agree with you that when i did more file sharing stuff I found about a lot of music I never would have heard. It's good in that sense, but there is a point of abuse. If you download the entire pink floyd wall album knowing full well you like it, isn't that stealing?
I'll say it again, invest time in you local music scene. There is tons of talent right under your nose.
-Craig.
they should try making the product 'value-added'
I think they are. Most of the mp3s you download are 128K
while CD quality is closer to 192K. The sound quality is really better if you buy a CD in most cases.
As for me I hardly ever use KaZa or Limewire. I really do believe that taking something you haven't paid for is stealing.
Ripping CDs, if you don't share them is much more ethical in my mind. I've been dubbing tapes or the equivalent from my friends for over 15 years. Usually this would result in me buying something from that artist. Guess what? It still does. I rip one Iron Maiden CD then I go buy another. They loose a little, but they could also see it as free publicity.
Sharing your rips with people on the internet is not too cool. It is piracy of a different magnitude. Allowing one or two friends to come over and create a compilation from your 3000+ song mp3 library is totally different. That's where my collection is now, but most of it is from transferring my own CDs, which are still in my closet onto my computer.
Most of the stuff I tend to RIP is rare or out of print punk rock anyway. I think my entire CD collection is probably made up by like 10% major label crap. New "radio" music these days is a joke, and like I've said before your local music scene probably kicks the shit out of it.
As far as punishing people who steal copyrighted works online, well we should be careful, but these people need to realize that they are breaking the law. Making examples out of a few of them would be justified in my mind.
My band releases its music under terms of the GPL. Use it trade it, and give it away, but you can't sell it with other music which is not licensed under those terms.
-Craig.