Bought a Roku 3 Sunday, set it up last night, woke up to this on sale, never knew it was coming. What's the point of a surprise announcement? Why not build up some hype in advance? I probably would have waited for this instead (for the voice search and extra ram).
Oh well, probably best not to get stuck in Amazon's ecosystem anyway.
In the early days of the web, the Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5 was among a handful of sites I visited regularly (along with this one). Probably my first "wiki"-experience.
I'm not sure the show would have done as well as it did, if internet growth hadn't started exploding right along the same time. Net activists pulled that show back from the brink of cancellation several times.
Was so excited for this, only to have it all ruined right before the finish line. Hopefully someone will risk the patent minefield and release something similar in the future.
The biggest lie developers tell themselves is, "why reinvent the wheel when we just save time by using some off-the-shelf framework"? I've never seen any time saved, in these circumstances. Everything works great until you inevitably encounter the one thing you can't do with it and you end up spending even more time adapting it, than you would have just writing your own framework in the first place.
And then there's the insanity that comes with trying to upgrade a mix of off-the-shelf frameworks at the same time. While I'm not a big fan of most developers' homebrew approaches, at least I'm not working with a black box, and I at least have the option of improving it over time.
Not having flash in chromium was one of the many straws. This doesn't help.
I used to use a Chrome/Firefox combo to segregate my browsing/cookies. Just switched to multiple firefox profiles and added a "Close Tabs to the Right" plugin (to restore the one thing I missed about chrome). Much happier and I doubt I'll ever go back.
Most women I've encountered in IT usually go into middle management. At pretty much every job I've ever had, most of the managers are women, they all claim to have come from a programming background, but there are hardly any female programmers (maybe one of two among the testers) who stick with it.
So which is it? Is our police state so incomptent that it can't stop disturbed teens from shooting up schools, or are the terrorists so incompetent that they can't manage similar (or worse) carnage? And other than 9/11, it's not like we were swimming in attacks before they went all Stasi on us.
The Constitution is the law here, and the only criminals we need to be focused on are the ones in our own government. They gave away the freedoms that Al Qaeda could never take from us and that makes them worse in my book.
...where Schwarzenegger kills that guy sitting next to him on the plane. That would be me. And I don't want to go to prison. I would only fly on airlines that prohibit it. But based on the disdain they show for they customers, I'm sure they all would allow it.
Pretty much everything Google has done over the last couple of years has been for the worse. Every interface has been dumbed down. Many useful features have been removed, even from their basic search engine. The android navigation app, is now an accident waiting to happen, with each basic function require a half a dozen tiny button clicks all over the screen. They've made it impossible to comment on anything or leave a review, without a dummy account (and then why bother), and don't even get my started on the Google+ kool-aid. I liked it in sips until they decided to waterboard me with it.
I use Google products less these days and will continue that trend. I was fine with them raping my data, back when they were providing ever increasing utility, but whoever is running the show over there now has replaced the goose that laid the golden eggs, with your ordinary shit dropping variety.
Before I go to a movie, I read the reviews (user reviews, not the junket critics), and if they describe the movie as having "big stars, bigger explosions, and top-notch special effects", then I don't bother. That basically means they didn't put any time into the story.
Special effects haven't meant anything to me since CGI came into widespread use. Give me a halfway decent story, and I'll start going to the movies again.
Considering the ACA was written by a former VP from Wellpoint, and it gives the insurance companies a guaranteed income stream, mandated by law, I'd say we did precisely that.
When last I contracted (2008-09), and had to pay for my own insurance, I paid $180/month. Pretty sure that price has at least doubled, since the ironically named ACA passed, but even then it's just over $4000 a year. If what you're saying is true, and companies are wasting that much, then it's no wonder the (real) economy hasn't been able to recover.
Forget socialism. Would you trust our congress to be in charge of your health care? Or anything else for that matter? And how crooked would they have to be, for that trust to evaporate?
I've found it shocking how well younger folk fit into corporate life and have always felt like this is the least rebellious generation ever.
Typically, whenever management makes some absurd proposal (like some kind of odd way to track metrics), people sigh, roll their eyes, and figure out some way to comply with the letter of the mandate, while saving as much time as possible to focus on actually getting the product out the door.
My younger co-workers not only show no signs of resistance (even behind closed doors), they embrace the absurdity and offer up more of it. They end up complicating the process, even more than the middle manager wanted (since they were also just going for the checkmark). Hell, I've never even seen anyone under the age of 30 (these days) drink a beer at a social outing (even when their managers and everyone else is). Youngin's seem so domesticated these days.
Judging by all these articles, I guess my experience isn't quite the norm.
I've done agile for the past few years and always waterfall before that. Was looking forward to agile because it sounded more flexible, but that's not what I've observed in practice. Everybody is so touchy about finishing up all of the sprint tasks by the end of the two week period, that there is a strong disincentive to bring anything new in, when you're finished up. No one wants to skew the metrics.
Between the aribtrary development cycle and the constant meetings, I find it far less productive than waterfall. Especially since so much waterfall is implemented in an interative fashion anyway.
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Bought a Roku 3 Sunday, set it up last night, woke up to this on sale, never knew it was coming. What's the point of a surprise announcement? Why not build up some hype in advance? I probably would have waited for this instead (for the voice search and extra ram).
Oh well, probably best not to get stuck in Amazon's ecosystem anyway.
In the early days of the web, the Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5 was among a handful of sites I visited regularly (along with this one). Probably my first "wiki"-experience.
I'm not sure the show would have done as well as it did, if internet growth hadn't started exploding right along the same time. Net activists pulled that show back from the brink of cancellation several times.
Even if I still wanted it, I'd now have no need. Makes things simple.
Was so excited for this, only to have it all ruined right before the finish line. Hopefully someone will risk the patent minefield and release something similar in the future.
The biggest lie developers tell themselves is, "why reinvent the wheel when we just save time by using some off-the-shelf framework"? I've never seen any time saved, in these circumstances. Everything works great until you inevitably encounter the one thing you can't do with it and you end up spending even more time adapting it, than you would have just writing your own framework in the first place.
And then there's the insanity that comes with trying to upgrade a mix of off-the-shelf frameworks at the same time. While I'm not a big fan of most developers' homebrew approaches, at least I'm not working with a black box, and I at least have the option of improving it over time.
Not having flash in chromium was one of the many straws. This doesn't help.
I used to use a Chrome/Firefox combo to segregate my browsing/cookies. Just switched to multiple firefox profiles and added a "Close Tabs to the Right" plugin (to restore the one thing I missed about chrome). Much happier and I doubt I'll ever go back.
Most women I've encountered in IT usually go into middle management. At pretty much every job I've ever had, most of the managers are women, they all claim to have come from a programming background, but there are hardly any female programmers (maybe one of two among the testers) who stick with it.
Yep. Best manger I ever had (by far) got demoted for some mysterious reason. Worst manager got promoted for her obvious lies.
Now if only they could make Yul Brynner look a little more Korean.
So which is it? Is our police state so incomptent that it can't stop disturbed teens from shooting up schools, or are the terrorists so incompetent that they can't manage similar (or worse) carnage? And other than 9/11, it's not like we were swimming in attacks before they went all Stasi on us.
The Constitution is the law here, and the only criminals we need to be focused on are the ones in our own government. They gave away the freedoms that Al Qaeda could never take from us and that makes them worse in my book.
...where Schwarzenegger kills that guy sitting next to him on the plane. That would be me. And I don't want to go to prison. I would only fly on airlines that prohibit it. But based on the disdain they show for they customers, I'm sure they all would allow it.
Pretty much everything Google has done over the last couple of years has been for the worse. Every interface has been dumbed down. Many useful features have been removed, even from their basic search engine. The android navigation app, is now an accident waiting to happen, with each basic function require a half a dozen tiny button clicks all over the screen. They've made it impossible to comment on anything or leave a review, without a dummy account (and then why bother), and don't even get my started on the Google+ kool-aid. I liked it in sips until they decided to waterboard me with it.
I use Google products less these days and will continue that trend. I was fine with them raping my data, back when they were providing ever increasing utility, but whoever is running the show over there now has replaced the goose that laid the golden eggs, with your ordinary shit dropping variety.
...that's where all the good stuff is.
...there is only cyanogenmod. What is this crapware you speak of?
Before I go to a movie, I read the reviews (user reviews, not the junket critics), and if they describe the movie as having "big stars, bigger explosions, and top-notch special effects", then I don't bother. That basically means they didn't put any time into the story.
Special effects haven't meant anything to me since CGI came into widespread use. Give me a halfway decent story, and I'll start going to the movies again.
And this is precisely why I tune out amber alerts. I have no interest in getting involved in domestic disputes.
Considering the ACA was written by a former VP from Wellpoint, and it gives the insurance companies a guaranteed income stream, mandated by law, I'd say we did precisely that.
When last I contracted (2008-09), and had to pay for my own insurance, I paid $180/month. Pretty sure that price has at least doubled, since the ironically named ACA passed, but even then it's just over $4000 a year. If what you're saying is true, and companies are wasting that much, then it's no wonder the (real) economy hasn't been able to recover.
Forget socialism. Would you trust our congress to be in charge of your health care? Or anything else for that matter? And how crooked would they have to be, for that trust to evaporate?
Nothing changed his mind. Politicians lie to get elected. Been that way since the dawn of time.
I've found it shocking how well younger folk fit into corporate life and have always felt like this is the least rebellious generation ever.
Typically, whenever management makes some absurd proposal (like some kind of odd way to track metrics), people sigh, roll their eyes, and figure out some way to comply with the letter of the mandate, while saving as much time as possible to focus on actually getting the product out the door.
My younger co-workers not only show no signs of resistance (even behind closed doors), they embrace the absurdity and offer up more of it. They end up complicating the process, even more than the middle manager wanted (since they were also just going for the checkmark). Hell, I've never even seen anyone under the age of 30 (these days) drink a beer at a social outing (even when their managers and everyone else is). Youngin's seem so domesticated these days.
Judging by all these articles, I guess my experience isn't quite the norm.
I've done agile for the past few years and always waterfall before that. Was looking forward to agile because it sounded more flexible, but that's not what I've observed in practice. Everybody is so touchy about finishing up all of the sprint tasks by the end of the two week period, that there is a strong disincentive to bring anything new in, when you're finished up. No one wants to skew the metrics.
Between the aribtrary development cycle and the constant meetings, I find it far less productive than waterfall. Especially since so much waterfall is implemented in an interative fashion anyway.
Wooly Mammoths, running amok, skewering people with their tusks. Can we really handle another POS low budget Syfy movie?
There are other options to vote for, besides the ones people keep going back to.
Only the people who vote for this government get what they deserve. Don't blame the victims, caught up in their wake.