While a really cool story, I have hard timebeljeving my dreams of good body modification coming true. The human body has a wild adversion against being intruded. Almost anything I read about things being implanted, mentions lots of nasty drugs to counter the body breaking off the implant. And besides if you really hardhack the human body, you are taking risks which you cannot ignore. The smallest surgical action has a risk. Even procedures like circumcisiun have a tiny percentage going wrong, whether it is an infection or a half cut off penis. No i am not joking. IMHO the body is saying: do NOT screw around with me. I am wearig glasses or contacts while I could get a permanent eye correction. but having read the chance of failure, I'm like no thank you.
I always fill in Donkey or Crocodile in the Sex field. Ever since that Firefox extension came out that lets you edit dropdown lists, I regularly visit dating site homepages and change values. Default is often [Man] looking for [Woman]. Which then becomes [Donkey] looking for [Woman]. I always hope that the admins catch me and put up a dating profile with a donkey.
Just thought I'd notify people that the above message is from an imposter, NOT from the real Hurd team! Besides the giveaway of the high UID, look at the signature people. Looking at it? It should be signed off as the GNU/Hurd team. Double-duh!!!!1!!1
The application in question categories sounds and thus tries to label them. This is typically done using AI algorithms like a combo of a neural net and fuzzy logic. That is pretty impressive to have it running on a mobile phone of all things.
I think it's very cool that we have come to the point that we basically have a device in our pocket that resembles a combination of the stuff mentioned in books like the Hitchhiker's Guide and the Ender saga.
That dude had the ear of all management, everything he said went, they changed things that I've been recommending to them for months because he said so.
I am reading a lot of stuff here that is very recognizable for me as well. The post ends somewhat bitterly. Instead I'd advise you brush up on your social skills and ask your employer in a good man to man conversation why your advice did not hit the mark and what you can do the next time.
They might advise a couple of soft skills trainings and will probably be willing to pay for those. You'd probably also get something out of it.
The web has become more than informative documenta linked together. When I go to my favorite brand of whisky, I can play around on their website with games, recipies which an animated bartender mixes, et cetera. It's not just informative, it's entertainment. I think it's great that the web can deliver this.
'have you ever gone a week eating only 1 cup of noodles per day'
*yawn*
Actually, when I was in college, such weeks would knock on the door every now and then. However I was prepared for those with a little buffer in a savings account.
You won't get sympathy because you are someone who has difficulty planning ahead.
Aren't websites with good tag usage (label tags, alt attributes, li elements for tabs, etc) automatically more accessible? And these don't require more work.
It's not just alt attributes in image tags. Forms have to be adjusted as well. When the form layout is done with a table, screenreaders have a hard time which legend belongs to which form field. And the field names don't always make sense either, so that in itself isn't a solution. You'll need label tags and fieldsets.
LOL teaching an Liberal Arts student programming -- sure but that depends on the programming job. Closer to the hardware requires a mind setting that even most CS grads don't have.
Yeah I agree with you. Reading back, my comment sounded a little pompous. What I really wanted to say is that when I sometimes intimitely know a subject, I'm amazed that half of the +5 comments are vague speculations, half-thruths or even plain wrong...:-/
That goes to show you that there aren't a whole lot slashdot readers knowledgable enough to comment on this matter. And as much as this sounds like a troll, in other topics there might be more comments but that doesn't necessarily mean more knowledgable people, just more people thinking it's worth chiming in.
In my experience, developers are not lazy, and verynkeen to use a new technology. Management decides that there's no time for that, given the release schedule that the market demands.
That's right, finally someone else that acknowledges my pet peeve! It's either 'X' or 'the X Window System'. Strangely, whenever I pedantically mention this, I get modded down!
That's because some software has open source components that are not linked (as in linking as the last stage of compiling) with the closed source parts. Oracle for instance has distributed Apache for years. But the only thing they use it for is as a frontend for their Java application server.
Skip CVS and just start with Subversion. If only because of the jokes in the manual: 'with a little exercise, merging becomes as easy as falling of a bike.'
Turn off your negativity filter man. It's a perfectly good way to make the sf.net top 10 list more readable. I knew the list existed but didn't take the time to look up each separate project its purpose.
A lot of people will see EMBEDDED and think ooh scary! But nowadays there are very cheap $100 small boards with enough ram and flash to code in plain old C. This stuff has come so far that these boards are NOT a big step from desktop programming.
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While a really cool story, I have hard timebeljeving my dreams of good body modification coming true. The human body has a wild adversion against being intruded. Almost anything I read about things being implanted, mentions lots of nasty drugs to counter the body breaking off the implant. And besides if you really hardhack the human body, you are taking risks which you cannot ignore. The smallest surgical action has a risk. Even procedures like circumcisiun have a tiny percentage going wrong, whether it is an infection or a half cut off penis. No i am not joking. IMHO the body is saying: do NOT screw around with me. I am wearig glasses or contacts while I could get a permanent eye correction. but having read the chance of failure, I'm like no thank you.
I believe it's the Web Developer extension.
I always fill in Donkey or Crocodile in the Sex field. Ever since that Firefox extension came out that lets you edit dropdown lists, I regularly visit dating site homepages and change values. Default is often [Man] looking for [Woman]. Which then becomes [Donkey] looking for [Woman]. I always hope that the admins catch me and put up a dating profile with a donkey.
Just thought I'd notify people that the above message is from an imposter, NOT from the real Hurd team! Besides the giveaway of the high UID, look at the signature people. Looking at it? It should be signed off as the GNU/Hurd team. Double-duh!!!!1!!1
The application in question categories sounds and thus tries
to label them. This is typically done using AI algorithms like
a combo of a neural net and fuzzy logic. That is pretty impressive to have it running on a mobile
phone of all things.
I think it's very cool
that we have come to the point that we basically have a device
in our pocket that resembles a combination of the stuff mentioned
in books like the Hitchhiker's Guide and the Ender saga.
That dude had the ear of all management, everything he said went, they changed things that I've been recommending to them for months because he said so.
I am reading a lot of stuff here that is very recognizable for me as well. The post ends somewhat bitterly. Instead I'd advise you brush up on your social skills and ask your employer in a good man to man conversation why your advice did not hit the mark and what you can do the next time. They might advise a couple of soft skills trainings and will probably be willing to pay for those. You'd probably also get something out of it.
The web has become more than informative documenta linked together. When I go to my favorite brand of whisky, I can play around on their website with games, recipies which an animated bartender mixes, et cetera. It's not just informative, it's entertainment. I think it's great that the web can deliver this.
'have you ever gone a week eating only 1 cup of noodles per day'
*yawn*
Actually, when I was in college, such weeks would knock on the door every now and then. However I was prepared for those with a little buffer in a savings account.
You won't get sympathy because you are someone who has difficulty planning ahead.
I don't think it works that way. People still go bankrupt every day. That is because they need to make their own mistakes.
Nowadays, I try to use the phone more often. I get to choose whether to put it in writing or not.
Mine too. They were taken outside and shot. It's the only way to be sure.
That's a really weird haiku.
Aren't websites with good tag usage (label tags, alt attributes, li elements for tabs, etc) automatically more accessible? And these don't require more work.
It's not just alt attributes in image tags. Forms have to be adjusted as well. When the form layout is done with a table, screenreaders have a hard time which legend belongs to which form field. And the field names don't always make sense either, so that in itself isn't a solution. You'll need label tags and fieldsets.
LOL teaching an Liberal Arts student programming -- sure but that depends on the programming job. Closer to the hardware requires a mind setting that even most CS grads don't have.
Yeah I agree with you. Reading back, my comment sounded a little pompous. What I really wanted to say is that when I sometimes intimitely know a subject, I'm amazed that half of the +5 comments are vague speculations, half-thruths or even plain wrong... :-/
That goes to show you that there aren't a whole lot slashdot readers knowledgable enough to comment on this matter. And as much as this sounds like a troll, in other topics there might be more comments but that doesn't necessarily mean more knowledgable people, just more people thinking it's worth chiming in.
Sounds like you have a dedicated server. So if GoDaddy advises you something, why should they be responsible as well?
In my experience, developers are not lazy, and verynkeen to use a new technology. Management decides that there's no time for that, given the release schedule that the market demands.
That's right, finally someone else that acknowledges my pet peeve! It's either 'X' or 'the X Window System'. Strangely, whenever I pedantically mention this, I get modded down!
I did a fresh install of Windows XP last night (for a client)
;-) I also pretasted his whiskey, just to make sure it was alright ;-)
Suuuure... last night I lighted a smoke -- for a friend, of course!
That's because some software has open source components that are not linked (as in linking as the last stage of compiling) with the closed source parts. Oracle for instance has distributed Apache for years. But the only thing they use it for is as a frontend for their Java application server.
Skip CVS and just start with Subversion. If only because of the jokes in the manual: 'with a little exercise, merging becomes as easy as falling of a bike.'
Turn off your negativity filter man. It's a perfectly good way to make the sf.net top 10 list more readable. I knew the list existed but didn't take the time to look up each separate project its purpose.
A lot of people will see EMBEDDED and think ooh scary! But nowadays there are very cheap $100 small boards with enough ram and flash to code in plain old C. This stuff has come so far that these boards are NOT a big step from desktop programming.
Just a reminder.