(or at least, frames which look ordinary) then you'll see wider adoption, especially among people who already have prescription lenses. You'd go to LensCrafters or whoever, choose one of the Google-Glass-compatible frames from whatever manufactures are partnered with Google (with bluetooth, speaker, and camera embedded in temple pieces), get your custom lenses ground and overlayed with a transparent embedded heads-up-display, and voila.
I'm guessing that the hardware isn't currently there, or at least not in such a small size, but soon probably.
If you entice a customer with low prices, and then rescind those prices after the sale, it feels basically the same as a bait-and-switch fraud. It's probably closer to resort fees and similar scams, where it turns out the low price being advertised doesn't cover certain mandatory charges. Either way, bad PR.
In contrast, if a business says that the low price was a mistake but then makes it known that they will eat the cost, it's good PR.
So unless it will bankrupt you, yeah, this seems like a no-brainer.
It's conceivable that those sites may someday require a driver's license number or similar for identity verification before they let you post comments or renew your social media account.
I suspect a lot of people would go along with it, because they care more about not losing their social media account then they do about anonymity.
Anyway, you'll still have a choice: post only in the sites that still let you use a fake ID, or post as yourself and self-censor as appropriate.
Good question. Most of the news regarding these deals is short on specifics. But the dollar amounts sound absolutely crazy unless the company making the purchase plans to do either/all of the following...
(1) Leverage the popularity of the app to get the user to sign up for one of the buyer's flagship apps (like getting more G+ users), which by increasing the flagship app's user base will then entice more advertisers to pay for ads in the flagship app. (2) Use the user metadata from the app to display targeted ads, either in the app itself or [again] in the buyer's flagship apps. (3) Push related, monetized services into the app itself. E.g.: "For only $9.99/month, we'll send you glossy photo prints plus a CD containing all Instagram photos you snapped that month, for the next year. Don't lose a precious moment!".
I agree with you in principle, but notice that I said if the OP isn't comfortable with revealing his/her schizophrenia.
There's no need to push people into revealing that they have an illness which is still treated with fear and misunderstanding by most individuals, even educated ones. Diabetes doesn't have anywhere near that kind of social stigma.
And I don't think it's a certainty that his/her coworkers are going to find out the specifics of their illness: there are a lot of chronic illnesses that affect mood, and ditto for a lot of medications. Me, I'd just assume depression or bipolar disorder, which are common enough.
That was pretty courageous of her... mental health issues still carry a stigma above and beyond other types of disorders, at least in the United States. If the OP isn't comfortable with revealing his/her schizophrenia, a possible middle ground would be to say: "I have a chronic illness that I have to be on medication for, and my moods can be unpredictable at times. Please don't take anything personally." Most people would attribute behavior fluctuations to side-effects of the meds, and that would be that.
And to the OP:
I really applaud the decision of getting out of the house and interacting with people. I was a full-time telecommuter once, and the isolation really does take its toll. I don't even like dead-quiet workspaces: I prefer going to work in an environment full of professional interaction and conversation. But if I were you, I would ease into it. Start with half-time: either 5 half-days or 2.5 full days a week (e.g., all Monday, all Wednesday, and Friday morning). Then adjust your schedule in a way that makes sense. If you work a full day, give yourself the lunch hour as alone-time to help you mentally regroup for the second half of the day.
...you will benefit both your employer and yourself in the long run. Especially if it help keeps your profession entertaining and fresh, because there are a lot of cool technologies to explore, and more are being devised every day.
Exposing yourself to new ideas and approaches will make you a better IT professional, especially if you're a developer. It will help clarify what sorts of things you enjoy, which can help you decide if/when it's right to jump ship, and make it easier for you to land the next job when you do.
And knowing when to jump ship also benefits the employer you're leaving. No one wants to work with a bored, bitter developer, and boredom often makes people less productive. Being a good professional also means knowing how to make a graceful exit... which can give you somewhere to return to if the new position goes south. I've seen it many times.
The Long Now Foundation has devised an interesting mechanism for storing important information which, although not optimal for machine readability, is dense and has an obvious format: a metal disk etched with microprinting, whose exterior shows text getting progressively smaller as an obvious way of saying "look at me under a microscope to see more":
On topic, the Winklevoss Bros are predicting up to $40,000 per coin
Doctor: You know the leech comes to us on the highest authority? Edmund: Yes. I know that. Dr. Hoffmann of Stuttgart, isn't it? Doctor: That's right, the great Hoffmann. Edmund: Owner of the largest leech farm of Europe.
Which is why, in an enterprise development environment with high project turnover, adherence to the names of the GoF patterns can be valuable as well. If you have an objects of class Foo and FooFactory, then everyone familiar with GoF will understand that the FooFactory's purpose is to create new Foo instances. Likewise, many developers will be able to guess what FooDecorator and FooVisitor do.
Ted's "Project Xanadu" was a very early vision of a large semantic hypertext network, very much like the modern web in some ways. But it never quite solidified into something that could take off on its own power. I'd wager that Ted sees more than a little of Doug in himself: an inventor of great things who -- in the end -- was largely ignored and forgotten.
If you're in your 40s or older, you really should have a yearly checkup with a blood/stool/urine test if you can afford it, especially if you have any history of nasty diseases in your family (heart disease, cancer, etc.) where early detection and treatment can be the difference between life or death.
If you wait until you feel sick, you may find out you waited too long. It does happen.
If your doctor is awful, fire them and get a personal/professional recommendation from someone you trust. I used to have a Primary Care physician who I referred to as my Primarily Don't Care physician. After she screwed up one diagnosis too many I was gone. It was worth it to me to go out of network to go to the GP I have now.
But then, I'm lucky: I have the spare cash to shop around. A lot of folks are not so fortunate.
In my opinion, the best way to make an informed choice about supplements is to have your doctor do blood work when you get a physical exam (which you should be doing yearly once you hit middle age). Labs can test for key things like iron, B vitamins, vitamin D, etc.
Your doctor can then ask you questions to help interpret the results. If your D is low, do you get a lot of sunlight or do you spend most of your time indoors? If your iron is low, do you feel tired or mostly energetic? What sorts of things do you eat?
Based on that personalized information, supplements or other dietary/lifestyle changes can improve your health, certainly far more than grabbing a random bottle of multivitamins at GNC.
A number of years back I used to dial-surf while driving, and often I'd come across the local Christian (mainstream Protestant really) radio station. One thing I remember noticing was the tremendous number of ads and special segments involving ADD and ADHD diagnoses and treatment for kids.
Now, in retrospect, it's possible that the station was sponsored in part by some pharma company. But my only guess at the time was that if you were a parent raising your child in as Biblical a way as possible, but your child was nevertheless inattentive and rebellious, then you might look for some medical reason to explain the disconnect.
We all want explanations for why our lives aren't going the way we want them to, despite our best efforts. Some people take solace in religion, some in science, and some in a combination of both.
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(or at least, frames which look ordinary) then you'll see wider adoption, especially among people who already have prescription lenses. You'd go to LensCrafters or whoever, choose one of the Google-Glass-compatible frames from whatever manufactures are partnered with Google (with bluetooth, speaker, and camera embedded in temple pieces), get your custom lenses ground and overlayed with a transparent embedded heads-up-display, and voila.
I'm guessing that the hardware isn't currently there, or at least not in such a small size, but soon probably.
If you entice a customer with low prices, and then rescind those prices after the sale, it feels basically the same as a bait-and-switch fraud. It's probably closer to resort fees and similar scams, where it turns out the low price being advertised doesn't cover certain mandatory charges. Either way, bad PR.
In contrast, if a business says that the low price was a mistake but then makes it known that they will eat the cost, it's good PR.
So unless it will bankrupt you, yeah, this seems like a no-brainer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp77AjBdlEc
(based on Blade Runner of course, which did it first)
It's conceivable that those sites may someday require a driver's license number or similar for identity verification before they let you post comments or renew your social media account.
I suspect a lot of people would go along with it, because they care more about not losing their social media account then they do about anonymity.
Anyway, you'll still have a choice: post only in the sites that still let you use a fake ID, or post as yourself and self-censor as appropriate.
Well, intellectual property is also intangible in a sense, and the courts dispute who has a right to a particular piece of IP all the time.
Hmm, I think we've hit upon their new business model:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrRZVCg31fE
Good question. Most of the news regarding these deals is short on specifics. But the dollar amounts sound absolutely crazy unless the company making the purchase plans to do either/all of the following...
(1) Leverage the popularity of the app to get the user to sign up for one of the buyer's flagship apps (like getting more G+ users), which by increasing the flagship app's user base will then entice more advertisers to pay for ads in the flagship app.
(2) Use the user metadata from the app to display targeted ads, either in the app itself or [again] in the buyer's flagship apps.
(3) Push related, monetized services into the app itself. E.g.: "For only $9.99/month, we'll send you glossy photo prints plus a CD containing all Instagram photos you snapped that month, for the next year. Don't lose a precious moment!".
There was. Google supposedly offered them 4 billion:
http://bgr.com/2013/11/15/snapchat-google-buyout-rumor/
Snapchat is gambling that they will keep growing to the point where they can get an even bigger offer.
Meanwhile, how did that Instagram purchase pan out? Anybody know if it's been worth the $1B that Facebook spent on it?
You don't need an above average IQ for CS, you just need to think you have one.
Then thanks to the Dunning/Kruger effect, everyone can learn CS! :-)
I agree with you in principle, but notice that I said if the OP isn't comfortable with revealing his/her schizophrenia.
There's no need to push people into revealing that they have an illness which is still treated with fear and misunderstanding by most individuals, even educated ones. Diabetes doesn't have anywhere near that kind of social stigma.
And I don't think it's a certainty that his/her coworkers are going to find out the specifics of their illness: there are a lot of chronic illnesses that affect mood, and ditto for a lot of medications. Me, I'd just assume depression or bipolar disorder, which are common enough.
That was pretty courageous of her... mental health issues still carry a stigma above and beyond other types of disorders, at least in the United States. If the OP isn't comfortable with revealing his/her schizophrenia, a possible middle ground would be to say: "I have a chronic illness that I have to be on medication for, and my moods can be unpredictable at times. Please don't take anything personally." Most people would attribute behavior fluctuations to side-effects of the meds, and that would be that.
And to the OP:
I really applaud the decision of getting out of the house and interacting with people. I was a full-time telecommuter once, and the isolation really does take its toll. I don't even like dead-quiet workspaces: I prefer going to work in an environment full of professional interaction and conversation. But if I were you, I would ease into it. Start with half-time: either 5 half-days or 2.5 full days a week (e.g., all Monday, all Wednesday, and Friday morning). Then adjust your schedule in a way that makes sense. If you work a full day, give yourself the lunch hour as alone-time to help you mentally regroup for the second half of the day.
Best of luck!
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your religion.
...you will benefit both your employer and yourself in the long run. Especially if it help keeps your profession entertaining and fresh, because there are a lot of cool technologies to explore, and more are being devised every day.
Exposing yourself to new ideas and approaches will make you a better IT professional, especially if you're a developer. It will help clarify what sorts of things you enjoy, which can help you decide if/when it's right to jump ship, and make it easier for you to land the next job when you do.
And knowing when to jump ship also benefits the employer you're leaving. No one wants to work with a bored, bitter developer, and boredom often makes people less productive. Being a good professional also means knowing how to make a graceful exit... which can give you somewhere to return to if the new position goes south. I've seen it many times.
The Long Now Foundation has devised an interesting mechanism for storing important information which, although not optimal for machine readability, is dense and has an obvious format: a metal disk etched with microprinting, whose exterior shows text getting progressively smaller as an obvious way of saying "look at me under a microscope to see more":
http://rosettaproject.org/
I highly recommend reading The Clock of the Long Now if you're interested in the theory and practice of making things last.
Doctor: You know the leech comes to us on the highest authority?
Edmund: Yes. I know that. Dr. Hoffmann of Stuttgart, isn't it?
Doctor: That's right, the great Hoffmann.
Edmund: Owner of the largest leech farm of Europe.
Not unlike Camden, New Jersey.
Which is why, in an enterprise development environment with high project turnover, adherence to the names of the GoF patterns can be valuable as well. If you have an objects of class Foo and FooFactory, then everyone familiar with GoF will understand that the FooFactory's purpose is to create new Foo instances. Likewise, many developers will be able to guess what FooDecorator and FooVisitor do.
Ted's "Project Xanadu" was a very early vision of a large semantic hypertext network, very much like the modern web in some ways. But it never quite solidified into something that could take off on its own power. I'd wager that Ted sees more than a little of Doug in himself: an inventor of great things who -- in the end -- was largely ignored and forgotten.
An unfortunate hazard of medical training. First year medical school: when you hear hoofbeats, you think horses, not zebras.
If you're in your 40s or older, you really should have a yearly checkup with a blood/stool/urine test if you can afford it, especially if you have any history of nasty diseases in your family (heart disease, cancer, etc.) where early detection and treatment can be the difference between life or death.
If you wait until you feel sick, you may find out you waited too long. It does happen.
If your doctor is awful, fire them and get a personal/professional recommendation from someone you trust. I used to have a Primary Care physician who I referred to as my Primarily Don't Care physician. After she screwed up one diagnosis too many I was gone. It was worth it to me to go out of network to go to the GP I have now.
But then, I'm lucky: I have the spare cash to shop around. A lot of folks are not so fortunate.
In my opinion, the best way to make an informed choice about supplements is to have your doctor do blood work when you get a physical exam (which you should be doing yearly once you hit middle age). Labs can test for key things like iron, B vitamins, vitamin D, etc.
Your doctor can then ask you questions to help interpret the results. If your D is low, do you get a lot of sunlight or do you spend most of your time indoors? If your iron is low, do you feel tired or mostly energetic? What sorts of things do you eat?
Based on that personalized information, supplements or other dietary/lifestyle changes can improve your health, certainly far more than grabbing a random bottle of multivitamins at GNC.
Wow. Well, I guess it makes sense: a slow, memory-hogging, bad-driver-bricked PC is certainly less useful for spreading worms or hosting botnets.
Sorry, I'm not buying it. Despite the NSA's best efforts, Microsoft did release Vista.
A number of years back I used to dial-surf while driving, and often I'd come across the local Christian (mainstream Protestant really) radio station. One thing I remember noticing was the tremendous number of ads and special segments involving ADD and ADHD diagnoses and treatment for kids.
Now, in retrospect, it's possible that the station was sponsored in part by some pharma company. But my only guess at the time was that if you were a parent raising your child in as Biblical a way as possible, but your child was nevertheless inattentive and rebellious, then you might look for some medical reason to explain the disconnect.
We all want explanations for why our lives aren't going the way we want them to, despite our best efforts. Some people take solace in religion, some in science, and some in a combination of both.
USD's days are numbered; in the future, coins glow blue.
And since no one will want to hang onto Cobalt-60 coins for too long, all that frantic spending will stimulate the economy!