Little old lady knocked on the door, gave me all the gear I needed. You get the normal forms and then an envelope containing your online code to be entered in for your household. I'll give the online one a bash and then fashion the paper one into a nice evening jacket...
Maybe they could invest in making a device that un-clots blood using the same technique? If they could say stop a clot before a stroke kicks in somehow.
I've had two onsite roles where you could choose from different workstations within an open office layout. I actually started working from a regular desk, then moved to using one of those kneeling chairs for posture. Then upgraded to the partially tilted drafting tables with high stool and eventually found myself at the standing desks (which is fine as long as the screen is at eye level, using a laptop on these desks was difficult because you actually look down and makes your shoulders hurt after a while)
What happens is that you find that you focus a lot less on the screen all the time, you find yourself walking around a lot more, you make more cups of tea/coffee and it feels more productive. The only problem was that you can't really jump into the standing thing straight away, especially when you've been used to sitting at a desk for years. The other problem is if you get tired you tend to lean on your forearms like leaning on a bar.
The other thing I really liked about the standing desks is that they had bi-fold doors directly behind you which looked out onto an atrium with a large tree full of birds for most of the year. You could stop typing, phase out of the work at hand and listen to life for a bit. It was awesome during summer when you get the warm light rain, with the door open, coffee and maybe light music on in the background.
I can see this causing a bigger divide between children that have been educated phonetically and their parents who were taught the "old fashioned way". This will always be viewed as simple, "dumbed down" english. As it is now, incorrect spelling makes my parents skin crawl. They'd positively explode if this came into being.
And it's quite interesting, there's a few good looking ones which I've played a few times. But it's all come back to gameplay and I'm afraid that the gawky looking Block Attack has taken waaay too much of my time lately. Only after completing all of the stage levels could I stop playing it to any serious degree.
The graphics however, are obviously created by a programmer...
I have several methods of estimation which are used in accordance to the type of job, and timeframe required in order to get the estimation. Sometimes I have small jobs which can be almost estimated on the spot providing I'm confident with the level of technical risk involved. Sometimes I have long term jobs which require a decent breakdown of tasks. That's a fairly broad description of what happens, and of course these estimates can be affected by deadlines (which are always negotiable, never let anyone tell you otherwise)
What I look for when performing development work, is what constitutes an item of work, a small package which has *roughly* the same development period everytime. For example, you may find that when developing a web based application it takes an hour to code a page, including testing, that's your quick estimate tool, calculate how many pages and there's your *rough* hours. On top of that, add your contingency. Or use the manufacturing rule of "double it and add it again" (after all, you are, as a developer, a manufacturer. I just wish I could claim the same tax breaks). Of course, some pages may take less, some may take more and it is a rough science, I don't suggest you sit in front of your computer with a stopwatch and time a page write, but if you've done enough of any task you should know how long it takes you to perform it.
The other problem associated with estimates is your own confidence in what you've calculated. You mock up something on paper, work out the units, do the math and come up with what seems to be an arbitrary number. Is that enough? - Well, you can go over your figures multiple times, throw in what-ifs, work everything out backwards if you like. I can almost guarantee you that your first figure is the correct one (unless you've forgotten something major from the first calculation) So I tend to stick with that nearly all the time.
Then there's the choice between Time and Materials and Fixed Cost estimates. If your job requires the actual quoting based on either of these, choose T&M (if you *can* get away with it, if your client feel flexible that day then T&M can help with your contengency planning a great deal). If your technical risk is 0%, then go ahead and fix that cost. If your political risk is high, say you've done the same kind of work for three companies who are in competition with each other, T&M is a tool for at least getting *some* kind of payment in case the situation completely explodes, like they find out you do the same work for their arch rival, you haven't signed an NDA, debtors fall into 120 days, or they turn up with baseball bats and offers of one way fishing trips (here's some advice, try to avoid working with fisheries, sometimes you see more than you want to)
OK, to tie the above off, estimation was never meant to be fun and uh, don't undercut me. Thanks.
If you're familiar with SQL server and it's method of creating backup files you can actually find quite a number of backup files just using Google. The files are documented in the Microsoft Tape Format guide showing the block magic numbers which can be quite useful.
Last time I read something about the Switchblade, it was more like a swing-wing design with a wing configuration designed to match the X-29's abilities, now it's a UAV flying wing?
Slashdot Mirror
It's the one marked Buzz Aldrin: 1956 Wedding Tape.
He'll never forget taping over that one...
And he also said
"It's good to be alive in 1985!"
"It's good to alive, in 1985!"
Little old lady knocked on the door, gave me all the gear I needed. You get the normal forms and then an envelope containing your online code to be entered in for your household. I'll give the online one a bash and then fashion the paper one into a nice evening jacket...
Moon Unit Zappa.
Maybe they could invest in making a device that un-clots blood using the same technique? If they could say stop a clot before a stroke kicks in somehow.
I think some families wish they could rollback and fork.
Maybe these families use VSS.
With a picture of a chair.
Maybe we could organise a programmer mardi gras? Fat (and depressed) Monday?
On the topic of mind mapping software, I always take a copy of Freemind with me wherever I go. It's simple, quick and open source.
the_complete_jerry_lewis.torrent, 50,000 seeds... I can see it now.
7a. Be evil.
Word, Excel, IE, PowerPoint, OE, Windows itself.
I'm now preparing for the 0-day notepad exploit...
"There's someone prettier than you walking up the driveway, preparing poisoned apple now..."
I've had two onsite roles where you could choose from different workstations within an open office layout. I actually started working from a regular desk, then moved to using one of those kneeling chairs for posture. Then upgraded to the partially tilted drafting tables with high stool and eventually found myself at the standing desks (which is fine as long as the screen is at eye level, using a laptop on these desks was difficult because you actually look down and makes your shoulders hurt after a while)
What happens is that you find that you focus a lot less on the screen all the time, you find yourself walking around a lot more, you make more cups of tea/coffee and it feels more productive. The only problem was that you can't really jump into the standing thing straight away, especially when you've been used to sitting at a desk for years. The other problem is if you get tired you tend to lean on your forearms like leaning on a bar.
The other thing I really liked about the standing desks is that they had bi-fold doors directly behind you which looked out onto an atrium with a large tree full of birds for most of the year. You could stop typing, phase out of the work at hand and listen to life for a bit. It was awesome during summer when you get the warm light rain, with the door open, coffee and maybe light music on in the background.
Now there's something sharper than his infinitely sharp implement of Death...
Someone flapping about something worthwhile!
After all, we've survived the last 40,000 years without a plan, I'm sure 100 years isn't going to need any more.
The actual quote was:
"We're going to fucking KILL the iPod"
I can see this causing a bigger divide between children that have been educated phonetically and their parents who were taught the "old fashioned way". This will always be viewed as simple, "dumbed down" english. As it is now, incorrect spelling makes my parents skin crawl. They'd positively explode if this came into being.
And it's quite interesting, there's a few good looking ones which I've played a few times. But it's all come back to gameplay and I'm afraid that the gawky looking Block Attack has taken waaay too much of my time lately. Only after completing all of the stage levels could I stop playing it to any serious degree.
The graphics however, are obviously created by a programmer...
I have several methods of estimation which are used in accordance to the type of job, and timeframe required in order to get the estimation. Sometimes I have small jobs which can be almost estimated on the spot providing I'm confident with the level of technical risk involved. Sometimes I have long term jobs which require a decent breakdown of tasks. That's a fairly broad description of what happens, and of course these estimates can be affected by deadlines (which are always negotiable, never let anyone tell you otherwise)
What I look for when performing development work, is what constitutes an item of work, a small package which has *roughly* the same development period everytime. For example, you may find that when developing a web based application it takes an hour to code a page, including testing, that's your quick estimate tool, calculate how many pages and there's your *rough* hours. On top of that, add your contingency. Or use the manufacturing rule of "double it and add it again" (after all, you are, as a developer, a manufacturer. I just wish I could claim the same tax breaks). Of course, some pages may take less, some may take more and it is a rough science, I don't suggest you sit in front of your computer with a stopwatch and time a page write, but if you've done enough of any task you should know how long it takes you to perform it.
The other problem associated with estimates is your own confidence in what you've calculated. You mock up something on paper, work out the units, do the math and come up with what seems to be an arbitrary number. Is that enough? - Well, you can go over your figures multiple times, throw in what-ifs, work everything out backwards if you like. I can almost guarantee you that your first figure is the correct one (unless you've forgotten something major from the first calculation) So I tend to stick with that nearly all the time.
Then there's the choice between Time and Materials and Fixed Cost estimates. If your job requires the actual quoting based on either of these, choose T&M (if you *can* get away with it, if your client feel flexible that day then T&M can help with your contengency planning a great deal). If your technical risk is 0%, then go ahead and fix that cost. If your political risk is high, say you've done the same kind of work for three companies who are in competition with each other, T&M is a tool for at least getting *some* kind of payment in case the situation completely explodes, like they find out you do the same work for their arch rival, you haven't signed an NDA, debtors fall into 120 days, or they turn up with baseball bats and offers of one way fishing trips (here's some advice, try to avoid working with fisheries, sometimes you see more than you want to)
OK, to tie the above off, estimation was never meant to be fun and uh, don't undercut me. Thanks.
If you're familiar with SQL server and it's method of creating backup files you can actually find quite a number of backup files just using Google. The files are documented in the Microsoft Tape Format guide showing the block magic numbers which can be quite useful.
Like this
Download, restore, maybe find something useful...
Last time I read something about the Switchblade, it was more like a swing-wing design with a wing configuration designed to match the X-29's abilities, now it's a UAV flying wing?
And brush twice to be sure!