One criticism I have of Marathon is that as you get better with the shotgun it becomes more powerful than everything else.
My favourite was a game we played where everyone would start at the same time with computers next to each other , put the game in kindergarten mode and race to the finish with the rule that you are not allowed to save the game at all. The no-save adds an interesting dynamic that you have to be careful with the rocket launcher or you'll have to go back to the start, but generally the best approach was to weave past everything without bothering to shoot.
I was writing a database and we already had a remote log monitoring tool. From the DB I could log anything I wanted and have the log monitoring tool pick it up. I got the ability to set severity, provide reference codes for easy filtering and provide free-text descriptions.
Every company will push you as far as they can. If you can't stand up to your boss and say 'no, this is not ok' then I can almost bet your next company will do the same thing to you. Of course if you're going to do that then you had better be prepared to leave straight away, because some bosses will be unwilling to work with anyone that is willing to stand up to them.
Get your resume polished up, start looking and then try it. You never know, you might find you get to keep your current job and pick up a couple expectation management skills.
There is very little in life which can be proven. Apart from logical proofs such as 1 + 1 = 2 or it is possible to colour a map using only four colours without any two nodes having identical colours, nothing can be proven.
So everyone has faith. Some people may choose to believe in Jesus, others in Allah and a good number of people believe that if you can generalize from your observations to find truth.
AOL was already famous for being a good source of free floppies in the early 90s, and a search on wikipedia confirms they were renamed to AOL and expanded in '89.
They were doing graphical forums in '86, almost 10 years before Netscape.
I don't know if LastPass is the same but I use 1Password and the data in that is encrypted with a password which is not stored in the database. By the sounds of the product name I'm guessing yours is similar.
So even if someone does manage to get your password file they'd still have to crack your master password which I'd hope is exceedingly secure.
One of the main reasons for that is how labels promote music.
Rather than just putting it out there, labels put a huge amount of time and money into promoting music. Therefore anything which is not a guaranteed success is quite unattractive for the labels - high promotion costs mixed with an uncertain future.
I suspect the reason they do it this way is that they wish to differentiate their service from the indie labels. There's no way an indie label can run a multi-million advertising campaign because they don't have the spare cash.
Personally I think the big labels will specialise in teenage music while adults go indie. Teenagers are homogeneous enough that if you blow a lot of money convincing them to like something then you get a lot of them.
Yep, I'll give you that (with the caveat about a DBA which you noted).
The thing which has burned me in the past is I've been able to afford to run a basic Oracle DB, but not to add on things like RAC - so I'm left without features which I would've been able to afford had I gone SQL Server.
For instance using standard Oracle is pretty cheap... and it's not until you start to say 'gee, if only we had partitioning these performance problems would go away' that you really get stung.
Then you start doing spatial analysis and find the Spatial features easier to use than the crippled Locator. Or you try a new database for a new project and because it's still a POC everything is free, until you go live... Or you upgrade from dual core to quad as part of a regular hardware upgrade - only to find you need to buy twice the licences. Or you discover that sometimes hardware does fail and you need RAC.
By the time those sort of things happen it's too late to say 'well, it would've been free if only we'd used MS SQL, Postgres or any other vendor'. Oracle's sting isn't the initial purchase price.
Also, have you ever tried running a system outside support & maintenance? I know a number of companies that keep extra Oracle licences around because they don't dare repurchase them if they ever do end up needing them.
Name one nationalised healthcare system in which the doctors get paid insanely high.
I guess it depends what you consider insane. Where I live the average doctor is paid approximately four times the average wage. is that insanely high? Doctors are smarter than the average punter and harder working. I would've said that most people with enough intelligence and diligence to go into med that decide to go elsewhere end up getting only slightly lower salaries - perhaps 20%.
I don't know, I never felt any real desire to go into med at school. Twenty years later it looks more attractive, with doctors having much more flexibility on where and when they work but that's probably just be a standard 'grass is greener' reaction.
As for restricting their supply... yeah, that's a tricky one. One counter argument is that many universities have shown the higher you place your entry bar, the higher standard of graduate you get. i.e. it doesn't work long term to put a high bar on graduation and rely on failing most people. So those tight funnels are a good way of ensuring every doctor is pretty good.
The next letter in the target manuscript is 'F'... count the number of keystrokes until a monkey randomly types F. The next letter is 'l', type the number of keystrokes until an l is hit... and at the end multiply the numbers together...
As someone who has helped to bring those card's you're annoyed at...
Firstly, the security in those cards is exceedingly high. The banks are quite paranoid about extremely sophisticated dodgy merchants and/or consumers. But that aside, you're not taking much risk with the cards - if you report the card stolen then you'll get the money back. Yes you have to monitor it and there is a slight delay in getting it resolved. I don't know, perhaps I've drunk the kool-aid too much, it doesn't feel like a big cost for the benefit to me.
In terms of why you have one - it's been both consumers and merchants asking for it. From a merchant's perspective being able to process sales faster means fewer staff required, more sales, etc. From a customer's perspective, it saves almost 30 seconds over say the chip+pin.
Yes, the easiest is to register a domain and then have *@domain.com redirect to your gmail account or similar. That way you don't even have to go to the effort of setting new ones up.
There's an awful lot of.net tools available. Whether they are better is subjective.
> Free IDEs
VS is effectively free. You only pay for the professional version which isn't needed by most people. There's also MonoDevelop though it's not at the same level.
> More Open Source Libraries and community
Well yes, but I could say "More libraries" and a larger community. Obviously.net is less popular with Open Source proponents.
> simpler language that doesn't change with each version,
I'm not sure if we're comparing C# to Java or the CLR, though to be honest I haven't had any trouble with previously working C# code breaking under a newer version either. Yes they're adding new features but they're not particularly known for taking them away.
I don't think the CLR handles dynamic languages very well, but then I don't think the JVM does either, so I don't see that as a win for either.
> Install a DVD
I guess so. I don't see why I should care much how big the download is - I care more whether the IDE is slow due to trying to do unnecessary things. Technically you can work around this but yeah, it's easiest just to install the kitchen sink.
So what we're left with:
* Licence * IDE is not entirely free * Cross platform * Install footprint
I mentally clumped that under licencing because I think Miguel can't attract developers due to fear of MS's control, but you're right - that is a reason to develop in Java.
You can get plenty of specialised apps for the iPhone. The gated community refers to Apple (and Google's) ability to exclude whole classes of apps (e.g. porn), not the lack of super-obscure ones.
The key difference between the Apple model and the Google/Debian models is that Apple limits you to one app store while Google and Debian default to one but support as many as you care to add.
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One criticism I have of Marathon is that as you get better with the shotgun it becomes more powerful than everything else.
My favourite was a game we played where everyone would start at the same time with computers next to each other , put the game in kindergarten mode and race to the finish with the rule that you are not allowed to save the game at all. The no-save adds an interesting dynamic that you have to be careful with the rocket launcher or you'll have to go back to the start, but generally the best approach was to weave past everything without bothering to shoot.
Oh, I thought it was pretty good.
I was writing a database and we already had a remote log monitoring tool. From the DB I could log anything I wanted and have the log monitoring tool pick it up. I got the ability to set severity, provide reference codes for easy filtering and provide free-text descriptions.
Yes - this is very true.
Every company will push you as far as they can. If you can't stand up to your boss and say 'no, this is not ok' then I can almost bet your next company will do the same thing to you. Of course if you're going to do that then you had better be prepared to leave straight away, because some bosses will be unwilling to work with anyone that is willing to stand up to them.
Get your resume polished up, start looking and then try it. You never know, you might find you get to keep your current job and pick up a couple expectation management skills.
No, not really.
There is very little in life which can be proven. Apart from logical proofs such as 1 + 1 = 2 or it is possible to colour a map using only four colours without any two nodes having identical colours, nothing can be proven.
So everyone has faith. Some people may choose to believe in Jesus, others in Allah and a good number of people believe that if you can generalize from your observations to find truth.
AOL was already famous for being a good source of free floppies in the early 90s, and a search on wikipedia confirms they were renamed to AOL and expanded in '89.
They were doing graphical forums in '86, almost 10 years before Netscape.
I don't know if LastPass is the same but I use 1Password and the data in that is encrypted with a password which is not stored in the database. By the sounds of the product name I'm guessing yours is similar.
So even if someone does manage to get your password file they'd still have to crack your master password which I'd hope is exceedingly secure.
I use 1password with this setup.
It works really well though it was a bit expensive to set up - I had to buy 1password for mac, windows and phone, so I think it cost about $60.
Still, it got me onto dropbox which I now use for quite a few things :)
This isn't a binary blob driver. It is an Oracle-maintained open-source driver.
The way I handle this is having 'inbox' = things I haven't dealt with yet and 'archive' = backup of all email received.
That way at the end of the day my inbox is ideally empty, or at least at the end of the week.
And I never open the archive folder, it just gets accessed using search.
One of the main reasons for that is how labels promote music.
Rather than just putting it out there, labels put a huge amount of time and money into promoting music. Therefore anything which is not a guaranteed success is quite unattractive for the labels - high promotion costs mixed with an uncertain future.
I suspect the reason they do it this way is that they wish to differentiate their service from the indie labels. There's no way an indie label can run a multi-million advertising campaign because they don't have the spare cash.
Personally I think the big labels will specialise in teenage music while adults go indie. Teenagers are homogeneous enough that if you blow a lot of money convincing them to like something then you get a lot of them.
Yep, I'll give you that (with the caveat about a DBA which you noted).
The thing which has burned me in the past is I've been able to afford to run a basic Oracle DB, but not to add on things like RAC - so I'm left without features which I would've been able to afford had I gone SQL Server.
It's more subtle than that.
For instance using standard Oracle is pretty cheap... and it's not until you start to say 'gee, if only we had partitioning these performance problems would go away' that you really get stung.
Then you start doing spatial analysis and find the Spatial features easier to use than the crippled Locator.
Or you try a new database for a new project and because it's still a POC everything is free, until you go live...
Or you upgrade from dual core to quad as part of a regular hardware upgrade - only to find you need to buy twice the licences.
Or you discover that sometimes hardware does fail and you need RAC.
By the time those sort of things happen it's too late to say 'well, it would've been free if only we'd used MS SQL, Postgres or any other vendor'. Oracle's sting isn't the initial purchase price.
Also, have you ever tried running a system outside support & maintenance? I know a number of companies that keep extra Oracle licences around because they don't dare repurchase them if they ever do end up needing them.
As you say, the saving comes from fewer meter maids.
Even at a low hourly rate, being able to make redundant a couple dozen people would pay for the system soon enough.
Er, not really
Name one nationalised healthcare system in which the doctors get paid insanely high.
I guess it depends what you consider insane. Where I live the average doctor is paid approximately four times the average wage. is that insanely high? Doctors are smarter than the average punter and harder working. I would've said that most people with enough intelligence and diligence to go into med that decide to go elsewhere end up getting only slightly lower salaries - perhaps 20%.
I don't know, I never felt any real desire to go into med at school. Twenty years later it looks more attractive, with doctors having much more flexibility on where and when they work but that's probably just be a standard 'grass is greener' reaction.
As for restricting their supply... yeah, that's a tricky one. One counter argument is that many universities have shown the higher you place your entry bar, the higher standard of graduate you get. i.e. it doesn't work long term to put a high bar on graduation and rely on failing most people. So those tight funnels are a good way of ensuring every doctor is pretty good.
Ok, but how about this...
The next letter in the target manuscript is 'F'... count the number of keystrokes until a monkey randomly types F. The next letter is 'l', type the number of keystrokes until an l is hit... and at the end multiply the numbers together...
That sounds fairly reasonable to me.
As someone who has helped to bring those card's you're annoyed at...
Firstly, the security in those cards is exceedingly high. The banks are quite paranoid about extremely sophisticated dodgy merchants and/or consumers.
But that aside, you're not taking much risk with the cards - if you report the card stolen then you'll get the money back. Yes you have to monitor it and there is a slight delay in getting it resolved. I don't know, perhaps I've drunk the kool-aid too much, it doesn't feel like a big cost for the benefit to me.
In terms of why you have one - it's been both consumers and merchants asking for it. From a merchant's perspective being able to process sales faster means fewer staff required, more sales, etc. From a customer's perspective, it saves almost 30 seconds over say the chip+pin.
Speaking only for myself, etc.
Yes, the easiest is to register a domain and then have *@domain.com redirect to your gmail account or similar. That way you don't even have to go to the effort of setting new ones up.
That's much the same as the + trick - there are too many people that know it for it to really hide your email address.
> Tool support
There's an awful lot of .net tools available. Whether they are better is subjective.
> Free IDEs
VS is effectively free. You only pay for the professional version which isn't needed by most people. There's also MonoDevelop though it's not at the same level.
> More Open Source Libraries and community
Well yes, but I could say "More libraries" and a larger community. Obviously .net is less popular with Open Source proponents.
> simpler language that doesn't change with each version,
I'm not sure if we're comparing C# to Java or the CLR, though to be honest I haven't had any trouble with previously working C# code breaking under a newer version either. Yes they're adding new features but they're not particularly known for taking them away.
> Exceptions / Struct/Class / Operator Overloading
Hmm? C# has these.
> Cross Platform
Yes. Mono is well short of the JVM.
> Groovy/Scala/Jruby/Jython/JS
Boo/Scala/IronRuby/IronPython/Javascript.net
I don't think the CLR handles dynamic languages very well, but then I don't think the JVM does either, so I don't see that as a win for either.
> Install a DVD
I guess so. I don't see why I should care much how big the download is - I care more whether the IDE is slow due to trying to do unnecessary things. Technically you can work around this but yeah, it's easiest just to install the kitchen sink.
So what we're left with:
* Licence
* IDE is not entirely free
* Cross platform
* Install footprint
Yes it does.
I mentally clumped that under licencing because I think Miguel can't attract developers due to fear of MS's control, but you're right - that is a reason to develop in Java.
Well yeah, but it is. In what way except licencing do you prefer Java?
You might want to add a ++ in somewhere or else people will get sick of hearing the same message...
If it makes you feel better, you can call them frenched fries.
You can get plenty of specialised apps for the iPhone. The gated community refers to Apple (and Google's) ability to exclude whole classes of apps (e.g. porn), not the lack of super-obscure ones.
The key difference between the Apple model and the Google/Debian models is that Apple limits you to one app store while Google and Debian default to one but support as many as you care to add.
To be fair, it won't cost you a stamp