I asked a colleague for a connection to a database. He gave me a login to a MS Windows remote desktop.
I asked again. And he gave me a port and an IP address. I followed this down to where I wanted to go.. I could see where I needed to be. Open this door, unlock this puzzle. In my mind's eye I knew the path because I'd drawn the map.
I didn't need the visual metaphors that someone else had made. They were mere fantasies, imagined by minds that saw things the same way. Distractions. Illusions.
Give me the command line and my metaphors are my own.
It's dark down here.. and my sword is glowing blue.
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1080p will never match the resolution of your imagination.
Seriously, if were considering setting up a new business model and didn't want to be dragged down by the hordes of patent-trolling parasites out there, NZ is starting to look good. Plus at 5 foot 10 inches I'm bound to be bigger than most of the Hobbits.
Yeah.. I don't know how I feel about this. I loved NeXT in the day, and GNUStep always seemed like a worthwhile continuation of the OpenStep spec was awesome.. but if I contribute to the Kickstarter campaign I don't know how much it will be out of wanting the project to succeed, or how much from nostalgia.
NEHTA's not the one I'm not going to name, but yeah.. NEHTA seem to do some crazy stuff. They've been accused of being overly secretive, of ignoring advise from experts in the field, of trying to overstep their original brief as a "transitional" authority. But at least someone is having fun with it all: http://aushealthit.blogspot.com.au/search?q=nehta
I don't think it's limited to QH Payroll.. or Queensland Health in general. Health IT in Australia has long been a gravy train for some of the most incompetent IT vendors on the planet. One Federally-backed party who I won't name has the amazing QA process for 3rd party vendors. You send them a packet of data via their API, then wait up to two days for a response. When nothing happens you call them and - if you're lucky to get through to the right person - will say something sensible like "ah, that's a version 6 packet. You're only registered for version 4" (even though you've already gone through the process of getting validated and have documents to prove your are registered for version 6). Another one - scarily involved with determining correct medications - will not work unless you send a malformed XML message (with unclosed tags) to their service, despite what the docs or common sense might say. I don't know if it's the same around the world, but here it is just scary.
It's the Peter Principle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle) in action. As someone who has gradually been promoted away from I love doing, because I was a decent coder with some leadership potential, I wonder how much better my life would have been if I'd just stuck with coding.
Maybe this is defamatory, but I can't see in any way that PETA actually serves to achieve its ostensible goals. Greenpeace, another vocal media-loving special interest group, at least managed to bring its concerns into the mainstream. PETA won't be happy until we all canvas-shoe wearing vegans.
Getting close the 30 years ago, my friends and I got sprung pocketing magnesium strips from the High School lab. Punishment? The chem teacher walked away, wordlessly, then came back with a coil of tungsten wire, dropped it on the bench muttering quietly something about "applying enough voltage to ingite".
Not one of us turned into terrorists. But three out of four became engineers (me the only abstainer).
Until only a couple of years ago, Workcover payments here in South Australia required IE5 on a Mac. When I had a bit of a crack at them over it the response was "for security and compatibility". Bah! Funnily enough, changing the user agent setting in Safari to fake IE5 got you through the whole system without any issues.
I actually wasn't trying to take a stab at the Paleo diet - it was just a feeble attempt at humour in the vein of responding to like with like.
The Paleo diet makes a lot of sense, and I'm glad you've had such an excellent experience with it. More power to you.
What I take umbrage at is the idea that "everything was better in the old days" kind of mentality, implied in the original article. Enough said, I'll go back to my cave now.:)
Paleo and primal diets work. Many practitioners’ improved health is simply self-evident. So why don’t you post a pic of you and your club? I highly doubt your likely flabby body can stand up to my rock-hard paleo-carved physique, club or no club!
I don't know what's more ironic.. my joke or yours..:) I guess we're all cavemen still.
I find the current obsession with Paleolithic Diet and all that it implies disturbing.. so much so I'm keen to smack some of its adherents in the head with a club.. or at least a large animal bone.
For goodness sake, what problem are people trying to solve using GPS?
I've driven around rural Australia for years (including Mildura and surrounds) and frankly nothing beats just having an old-fashioned foldout map. The roads between cities don't change THAT much and you can usually figure your way back on track if you get lost. Maps don't need a recharge (apart from buying a new one every so often or if you're going into a area you haven't been before.
Maybe there needs to be a short-cut built into these devices - label it "common sense" and have it direct it to your glovebox. Jeez.
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I second this. You sir, are deserving of many fine beverages.
I asked a colleague for a connection to a database. He gave me a login to a MS Windows remote desktop.
I asked again. And he gave me a port and an IP address. I followed this down to where I wanted to go.. I could see where I needed to be. Open this door, unlock this puzzle. In my mind's eye I knew the path because I'd drawn the map.
I didn't need the visual metaphors that someone else had made. They were mere fantasies, imagined by minds that saw things the same way. Distractions. Illusions.
Give me the command line and my metaphors are my own.
It's dark down here.. and my sword is glowing blue.
1080p will never match the resolution of your imagination.
Seriously, if were considering setting up a new business model and didn't want to be dragged down by the hordes of patent-trolling parasites out there, NZ is starting to look good. Plus at 5 foot 10 inches I'm bound to be bigger than most of the Hobbits.
Now mentions GPL in commit notes - no specific version though
Really? You seem to come across as an arse clown - I guess it's just a matter of perspective.
Bugger it.. I'm backing it. I actually hope this gets up.
But this is the cool bits.. before Apple became the promised land for developers of small and useless applications.
Man.. I never seem to be able to proofread my own comments before posting.
Yeah.. I don't know how I feel about this. I loved NeXT in the day, and GNUStep always seemed like a worthwhile continuation of the OpenStep spec was awesome.. but if I contribute to the Kickstarter campaign I don't know how much it will be out of wanting the project to succeed, or how much from nostalgia.
NEHTA's not the one I'm not going to name, but yeah.. NEHTA seem to do some crazy stuff. They've been accused of being overly secretive, of ignoring advise from experts in the field, of trying to overstep their original brief as a "transitional" authority. But at least someone is having fun with it all: http://aushealthit.blogspot.com.au/search?q=nehta
I don't think it's limited to QH Payroll.. or Queensland Health in general. Health IT in Australia has long been a gravy train for some of the most incompetent IT vendors on the planet. One Federally-backed party who I won't name has the amazing QA process for 3rd party vendors. You send them a packet of data via their API, then wait up to two days for a response. When nothing happens you call them and - if you're lucky to get through to the right person - will say something sensible like "ah, that's a version 6 packet. You're only registered for version 4" (even though you've already gone through the process of getting validated and have documents to prove your are registered for version 6). Another one - scarily involved with determining correct medications - will not work unless you send a malformed XML message (with unclosed tags) to their service, despite what the docs or common sense might say. I don't know if it's the same around the world, but here it is just scary.
It's the Peter Principle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle) in action. As someone who has gradually been promoted away from I love doing, because I was a decent coder with some leadership potential, I wonder how much better my life would have been if I'd just stuck with coding.
give up.. not give.. ah... I give up
Great.. so now I have to give smoking and 3D printing.
Maybe this is defamatory, but I can't see in any way that PETA actually serves to achieve its ostensible goals. Greenpeace, another vocal media-loving special interest group, at least managed to bring its concerns into the mainstream. PETA won't be happy until we all canvas-shoe wearing vegans.
Not going to happen.
PETA used to make me hate vegans - until I realised how many vegans hate PETA.
This is not defamatory. This is opinion. I could be wrong. Is that enough of a disclaimer for you?
But will this help me identify which bits of Africa to dig up so I can make TVs and mobile phones for the 1st world? Can't see the point really.
Getting close the 30 years ago, my friends and I got sprung pocketing magnesium strips from the High School lab. Punishment? The chem teacher walked away, wordlessly, then came back with a coil of tungsten wire, dropped it on the bench muttering quietly something about "applying enough voltage to ingite".
Not one of us turned into terrorists. But three out of four became engineers (me the only abstainer).
Until only a couple of years ago, Workcover payments here in South Australia required IE5 on a Mac. When I had a bit of a crack at them over it the response was "for security and compatibility". Bah! Funnily enough, changing the user agent setting in Safari to fake IE5 got you through the whole system without any issues.
I actually wasn't trying to take a stab at the Paleo diet - it was just a feeble attempt at humour in the vein of responding to like with like.
The Paleo diet makes a lot of sense, and I'm glad you've had such an excellent experience with it. More power to you.
What I take umbrage at is the idea that "everything was better in the old days" kind of mentality, implied in the original article. Enough said, I'll go back to my cave now. :)
Paleo and primal diets work. Many practitioners’ improved health is simply self-evident. So why don’t you post a pic of you and your club? I highly doubt your likely flabby body can stand up to my rock-hard paleo-carved physique, club or no club!
I don't know what's more ironic.. my joke or yours.. :) I guess we're all cavemen still.
I find the current obsession with Paleolithic Diet and all that it implies disturbing.. so much so I'm keen to smack some of its adherents in the head with a club.. or at least a large animal bone.
Hilarious - the google search page quoted in the article brings this slashdot page up in the first set of results. Lucky we didn't break the internet.
Waste line? Did you waistline? Or was that a rather clever pun on consumer culture?
For goodness sake, what problem are people trying to solve using GPS?
I've driven around rural Australia for years (including Mildura and surrounds) and frankly nothing beats just having an old-fashioned foldout map. The roads between cities don't change THAT much and you can usually figure your way back on track if you get lost. Maps don't need a recharge (apart from buying a new one every so often or if you're going into a area you haven't been before.
Maybe there needs to be a short-cut built into these devices - label it "common sense" and have it direct it to your glovebox. Jeez.