Asian restaurants in the US cater to what they the think the US public wants to consume and not what is "authentic" to their cuisine. While which probably makes for good economic sense, doesn't make for the best food experience. (As an extreme, Imagine how the local asian family restaurant in the US having a plate of fried chicken heads on its menu would fare).
But these restaurants are so ingrained with this practice that even if you go into a Thai restaurant and ask for the dish to be "Thai-hot", they'll ask if "you are sure about that?" and still dial it back to something that is only middling spicy.
So while I can agree with the sentiment of the TFA, it win;t going to happen. If anything its really just the new heads of Thailand flexing their muscles to show that their coup d'etat is the best thing for the country.
All around me, I see my co-workers doing it _wrong_ for a long time. I just discovered that one guy who has been in the same job for over ten years was completely unaware of some of the most basic concepts anyone starting in the field should know.
Years ago I was taught the saying:
Practice doesn't make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect
Where in TFA is Swift actually used? All I see is a simple Interface Builder example which has nothing do with Swift.
Are we going to be continually with crappy iOS articles repeating the basics of UI development just because they have the word "Swift" in them or that they are Dice based??
And another crappy article.. with Swift
Crappy articles are crappy articles and articles like these are the reason that Netcraft confirms that/. is dying.
This is a business decision, not a technical decision.
However, that does not mean there are not valid business reasons for opening up your bug list.
And in fact I was trying to something similar last year. I was on a job site commissioning equipment. There was the company I was working for, the company that had sub contracted them and the client themselves. We reported bugs to an internal bugzilla system but didn't share that list with either the main contractor or the client. Both the client and the main contractor kept their own separate lists of bugs and would send us their lists when ever they felt like putting pressure on us. Of course all three lists had items that overlapped and items that were different, so it was a pain to try and match up all the issues and prioritize the work.
I suggested several times that if the client and main contractor had access to our bugzilla system (even for just this one project) then it would reduce extra work and confusion all around and make the start up procedure a smoother and reduce a lot of heated arguments. Of course the idea of other people seeing our dirty laundry was not acceptable.
Where the hell do I find a dinosaur in this day and age so that I can laser scan it?
More reasonably: one thing that leapt to mind when watching the video is that laser scanning inherently "can't see behind the curtain". So how do you generate data for all those hidden surfaces? Several of the examples in the video showed fields of rocks, and I can't imagine there would be enough time to scan the field from all possible view points that would ensure that all surfaces have been scanned. Or is this product mainly targeted at fly-throughs along well defined paths?
I also did see in one of the comments on the site that all of the video data that was shown was static IE no animation.
Maybe after the failed site redesign, the new owners are trying to increase page hits by turning/. into a drudge-like site with lots of misleading headlines.
I don't think that's a "maybe"
The choice of what crap makes it through the submission process is amazing at times.
True. But if you can get over the semantic issue in the title, it is still a marvelous achievement.
I agree that the fluid dynamics part looks interesting and is probably the most important part of the story. But I am not qualified to comment on fluid dynamics.
But calling this a robot means that you can call a bowling ball falling from a tall building "a gravity powered robot", and also study the same fluid dynamics that are being tested in TFA.
No, I would bet that the lawyers are advising them to silently let this go forever, hoping the bending problem doesn't catch on in the mainstream media, or picked up by the late night comedians. They'll wait for it to blow over like they did with the antenna problems on the iPhone 4, because ultimately that proved to be nothing to them.
After reading TFA all they effectively did was design a toy-sized torpedo that uses an expanding membrane to hold the liquid used to propel the device. Nada más.
While they probably did do interesting work in fluid dynamics (IANAFD), in no way, shape or form could this even be remotely considered a robot.
Plastic, unless subjected to extreme amounts of stress, tends to return to its original shape. Aluminum not so much.
That's why they should have gone with Aluminium instead.
I know, I know.. Apple was trying to be hip and trendy in its minimalist way by leaving out what it thought was a superfluous vowel [1], but in this case it crossed the line and ended up leaving out an important structural element. This would never have happened at Microsoft, where all products have to be engineered to survive being thrown at brick walls (for the well noted use case of not meeting users expectations).
[1] Perhaps Bono might have been better utilised for his English rather than musical skills?
People should identify Kickstarter projects out of interest, enjoyment, or just a sense of fun, and contribute no more money than they would be willing to use as kindling to start a campfire.
In such a case you have now given the people running the kickstarted campaign free money with no responsibility to deliver anything. That in i itself would be a guiding beacon to all and sundry scammers to use Kickstarter as a huge legal loophole.
If the project fails due to fraud, yes. Realistically some percentage of all speculative projects (40%-90%), whether funded through Kickstarter or not, are going to fail. That doesn't mean they or their principals were committing fraud.
sPh
No it doesn't, but there are standard practices in the business world for winding up failed businesses regardless of how that failure occurred.
Yes, if illegal. If it's simply down to a business failure...
from the outside looking in you can't tell the difference between illegalities and mismanagement, but legal action in both cases has a certain ability to compel people to perform actions.
Anyway, its normal business practice to liquidate to a failed company - regardless of how that failure occurred.
I have an investment that failed a few years ago due to probable corrupt practices (for example: an officer in one company was reporting to an officer in another company - but they happened to be the same person, so all sorts of dastardly things happened.).
At the moment the investment is being wound up and all sorts of legal activities are being pursued in order to realize as many assets as possible that actually exist. The people performing the liquidation keep telling me that I will get back between 10 and 50 cents in the dollar of my investment, depending on what legal actions come to fruition and what the value of the reclaimed assets turn out to be, minus of course all the legal costs.
To me this is the only possible way you can get money back from a failure like this, and I can't see how a failed kickstarted project should be any different - if the project fails, then call the owners of the project on it, and take legal means to reclaim as much as possible with the expectation that you will never get 100% back.
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Asian restaurants in the US cater to what they the think the US public wants to consume and not what is "authentic" to their cuisine. While which probably makes for good economic sense, doesn't make for the best food experience. (As an extreme, Imagine how the local asian family restaurant in the US having a plate of fried chicken heads on its menu would fare).
But these restaurants are so ingrained with this practice that even if you go into a Thai restaurant and ask for the dish to be "Thai-hot", they'll ask if "you are sure about that?" and still dial it back to something that is only middling spicy.
So while I can agree with the sentiment of the TFA, it win;t going to happen. If anything its really just the new heads of Thailand flexing their muscles to show that their coup d'etat is the best thing for the country.
All around me, I see my co-workers doing it _wrong_ for a long time. I just discovered that one guy who has been in the same job for over ten years was completely unaware of some of the most basic concepts anyone starting in the field should know.
Years ago I was taught the saying:
Practice doesn't make perfect.
Perfect practice makes perfect
This is the first Dice article I've seen linked and it did not disappoint when it came to disappointing.
There was another one last week that was an "introduction to programming in Swift" - which was neither.
Where in TFA is Swift actually used? All I see is a simple Interface Builder example which has nothing do with Swift.
Are we going to be continually with crappy iOS articles repeating the basics of UI development just because they have the word "Swift" in them or that they are Dice based??
And another crappy article .. with Swift
Crappy articles are crappy articles and articles like these are the reason that Netcraft confirms that /. is dying.
and adjust his narrative appropriately. Statistics and literature have different priorities.
I would have thought his imminent heart attack would figure more in his planning.
Do you mean like the inForm system from MIT?
While I'll agree with the "IAAFM" reply that simpler can be better, I'm sure these sorts of systems are the way of the future*
* for some value of future greater than today.
Why has hollywood butchered the reality periscopes in submarines? Answer that and you will have the answer to space battles depiction.
This is a business decision, not a technical decision.
However, that does not mean there are not valid business reasons for opening up your bug list.
And in fact I was trying to something similar last year. I was on a job site commissioning equipment. There was the company I was working for, the company that had sub contracted them and the client themselves. We reported bugs to an internal bugzilla system but didn't share that list with either the main contractor or the client. Both the client and the main contractor kept their own separate lists of bugs and would send us their lists when ever they felt like putting pressure on us. Of course all three lists had items that overlapped and items that were different, so it was a pain to try and match up all the issues and prioritize the work.
I suggested several times that if the client and main contractor had access to our bugzilla system (even for just this one project) then it would reduce extra work and confusion all around and make the start up procedure a smoother and reduce a lot of heated arguments. Of course the idea of other people seeing our dirty laundry was not acceptable.
to assist in accurately mapping the disaster and recovery.
To me that implies that you think that the relevant agencies aren't capable of or do not accurately map spill locations.
There are tons of coastal oil slicks, many of them naturally occuring from decaying organic matter.
Why would it be bad to help people figure out if they're looking at petroleum or not?
Then what? What do you expect to be done with the results?
Where the hell do I find a dinosaur in this day and age so that I can laser scan it?
More reasonably: one thing that leapt to mind when watching the video is that laser scanning inherently "can't see behind the curtain". So how do you generate data for all those hidden surfaces? Several of the examples in the video showed fields of rocks, and I can't imagine there would be enough time to scan the field from all possible view points that would ensure that all surfaces have been scanned. Or is this product mainly targeted at fly-throughs along well defined paths?
I also did see in one of the comments on the site that all of the video data that was shown was static IE no animation.
Maybe after the failed site redesign, the new owners are trying to increase page hits by turning /. into a drudge-like site with lots of misleading headlines.
I don't think that's a "maybe"
The choice of what crap makes it through the submission process is amazing at times.
I really thought that was *my* bin I was dumping all that waste food into.
I just tried it on 2 different version s of OSX: 10.9.4 and 10.7.5 and confirm that they print out the "vulnerable" message
True. But if you can get over the semantic issue in the title, it is still a marvelous achievement.
I agree that the fluid dynamics part looks interesting and is probably the most important part of the story. But I am not qualified to comment on fluid dynamics.
But calling this a robot means that you can call a bowling ball falling from a tall building "a gravity powered robot", and also study the same fluid dynamics that are being tested in TFA.
No, I would bet that the lawyers are advising them to silently let this go forever, hoping the bending problem doesn't catch on in the mainstream media, or picked up by the late night comedians. They'll wait for it to blow over like they did with the antenna problems on the iPhone 4, because ultimately that proved to be nothing to them.
The iPhone 6 - Apples version of a Ford Pinto
Sorry, but your spelling is just stupid and arbitrary unless you apply the "ium" suffix to ALL elements.
Do you mean things like: potassium, sodium, magnesium, calcium, and strontium?
Also the spelling of "aluminum" predates the spelling of "aluminium", so the former is proper.
The official chemical name IS Aluminium with Aluminum being an alternate spelling. But if you are being pedantic, then alumium predates both.
um... that's not a robot, its a condom stretched over a turkey baster.
FTFY
After reading TFA all they effectively did was design a toy-sized torpedo that uses an expanding membrane to hold the liquid used to propel the device. Nada más.
While they probably did do interesting work in fluid dynamics (IANAFD), in no way, shape or form could this even be remotely considered a robot.
Plastic, unless subjected to extreme amounts of stress, tends to return to its original shape. Aluminum not so much.
That's why they should have gone with Aluminium instead.
I know, I know .. Apple was trying to be hip and trendy in its minimalist way by leaving out what it thought was a superfluous vowel [1], but in this case it crossed the line and ended up leaving out an important structural element. This would never have happened at Microsoft, where all products have to be engineered to survive being thrown at brick walls (for the well noted use case of not meeting users expectations).
[1] Perhaps Bono might have been better utilised for his English rather than musical skills?
My employer won't pay for me to go to a conference
I can't afford to pay for it myself
Plus my personal life got in the way.
What should I do?
People should identify Kickstarter projects out of interest, enjoyment, or just a sense of fun, and contribute no more money than they would be willing to use as kindling to start a campfire.
In such a case you have now given the people running the kickstarted campaign free money with no responsibility to deliver anything. That in i itself would be a guiding beacon to all and sundry scammers to use Kickstarter as a huge legal loophole.
If the project fails due to fraud, yes. Realistically some percentage of all speculative projects (40%-90%), whether funded through Kickstarter or not, are going to fail. That doesn't mean they or their principals were committing fraud.
sPh
No it doesn't, but there are standard practices in the business world for winding up failed businesses regardless of how that failure occurred.
Yes, if illegal. If it's simply down to a business failure...
from the outside looking in you can't tell the difference between illegalities and mismanagement, but legal action in both cases has a certain ability to compel people to perform actions.
Anyway, its normal business practice to liquidate to a failed company - regardless of how that failure occurred.
I have an investment that failed a few years ago due to probable corrupt practices (for example: an officer in one company was reporting to an officer in another company - but they happened to be the same person, so all sorts of dastardly things happened.).
At the moment the investment is being wound up and all sorts of legal activities are being pursued in order to realize as many assets as possible that actually exist. The people performing the liquidation keep telling me that I will get back between 10 and 50 cents in the dollar of my investment, depending on what legal actions come to fruition and what the value of the reclaimed assets turn out to be, minus of course all the legal costs.
To me this is the only possible way you can get money back from a failure like this, and I can't see how a failed kickstarted project should be any different - if the project fails, then call the owners of the project on it, and take legal means to reclaim as much as possible with the expectation that you will never get 100% back.