This only makes sense. The sheer flexibility of low-level access is very powerful, especially with limited resources. Same reason older hardware is also C friendly.
Yeah, this is why I don't like it. I don't have much say in group projects though, so I just bear with it until the job's over. In solo work, deleted = deleted.
Don't necessarily agree with this, but we comment out all older code when diffs aren't used. Commented code blocks with the date and editor's name works for small projects on a very tight deadline and this makes things easier if we want to rollback. Bigger projects do use diffs.
As always, this is going to be a case of "works best for my situation", rather than just "best" method to do xyz.
From the article:
3.Is the manager/tech lead aware of the problem, and if not, why not?
Since I work on contract, I don't renew if management has a chronic unawareness problem and more often than not, the problem is people. Clueless hierarchies are a symptom of a bigger disease, the brunt of which, I'd rather not take onto my shoulders.
Tools don't grow on trees. People in the the trades are penny-pinching now more than ever and having to get another set of tools will bankrupt most people.
I've got a friend who's a carpenter; good guy, been working his whole life. We were talking about this metric push the other day and he just laughed and said:
Well, it'd be like my first day. Except I'll be showing up with two left hands.
We take so much of our internalized and intuitive understanding of weights and measures for granted, this will be quite painful and expensive in many more ways than just money. For most adults it will just be impossible since they rely on a lifetime of "knowing" a foot, a yard, a mile, which is why if it were to work, it has to start with the kids.
As the AC from U.S. now living in Canada mentioned below, even people exposed to metric later in life will have trouble at first so there has to be constant exposure as children and actual daily usage for this to work. Usage and not rhetoric will drive adoption.
For this to even remotely succeed, at least two generations of kids need to grow up with the metric system (or at least have it along side imperial). Then, when they enter the workforce, metric will seep into common usage.
Meanwhile, what of the generations of existing trades that rely on imperial? I.E. Carpentry, plumbing etc... It isn't just a simple matter of teaching metric either. All these industries and their supporting industries must switch or provide parallel measures (of course, the old timers will stick to imperial in that case, since it's there too). That's very, very, very expensive both in material and time.
A program/software/instructions for a computer, whatever you call them, should be covered under copyright, not a patent. Algorithms should be treated as works for art. Functional (or imperative or whatever) art, but creative works nonetheless.
They know this is quirky so I guess they're milking it as much as they can. Good for them, I say. If your state is weird and you're weird the opposite direction; emphasize that.
I may get in trouble for saying this, but I've never thought of Austin as being really "part" of Texas. This things just prove it.
Check in station? EZ-Pass style detectors tied to the odometer? Some other secret black box? Taxes are the least of the worries for anyone who drives more efficient cars. Suddenly milage (among other things about your driving habits, I'm sure) gets added to the list of things recorded by the state.
They fought (clean and dirty) to become top dog on the OS and browser front. Now what?
Botnets aren't composed of mostly Windows computers just because it's the most prolific (bought and pirated). It's also because of more than a decade of complacency.
I hope we'll see more real competition on all sides for the company for all our sake. Please, MS, dip into that vast wealth of bought out resources and your own research to make genuinely better products going forward at least. Side note: it's fashionable to bash Windows 8 for both real and trumped up charges, but it's just a symptom of a bigger problem. Less on the lines of Win 8, more of IE10.
It's an Optimus One (Verizon specific mod "Vortex"). CM7 is supposed to work, but it didn't. I'm not sure if I want to try again since I'm afraid I might just brick it.
I have an LG Optimus and is rooted. But can I replace the OS altogether?
Non-Android: Motorola: Razr, Krzr, Nokia: E71, E5, E6 and finally a Blackberry 9930.
The possibility of locked or unlocked bootloaders wasn't something that I even considered because phones are for calls (or so I've been told) and maybe email and a bit of browsing. But I'm thinking here's basically a small computer with a screen and a radio that also happens to have a phone application that connects to a carrier via the radio. Why is it that it can't do anything else with all that jazz? Because the OS is tied to the ROM at the hip? People are up in arms over UEFI, but it's been around in another guise for years it seems
I'm still waiting for a simple, pain-free, way to turn my old phones (not just Android ones) into simple general purpose computers by wiping the existing ROM. Cyanogenmod isn't available for my clunker.
Isn't that sad? A state-of-the-art piece of technology is only a clunker because its handicapped.
They've been saying this since the beginning. How long can this last, don't they have jobs, skills fade, they'll get bored etc... etc...
What they still really don't seem to get is that this is just a bunch of people who commit an act and claim to be Anonymous. Anyone can do anything and say they're Anonymous, therefore, Anonymous did it. The few people who may have access to the public outlets like Twitter and such will likely be contacted by someone who's interested in doing something or is in the process of doing something and they'll get yea or nay on whether the mouthpieces will broadcast the activities, thereby being an "officially sanctioned" (if there is such a thing) activity. Or visa versa, the mouthpieces contact the actors.
If some activity is popular, then more people will participate and some level of coordination will take place, likely over IRC.
The lack of coherence existed well before the hactivism phase and will still be there well into the future. That's the nature of a collective which has no leader and many different personalities, personas, skills and backgrounds and will only flock to whatever has the greater interest to those with charisma currently in the group (or feel like participating). In fact, even calling it a "group" is a bit of a mis-label since their constituents and motivations change. It's all very fluid to begin with.
What herds them is a cause; not a person... like McAfee saying they're in decline maybe. Don't they know it's bad to poke a beehive with a stick?
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Demonstrated last year as a matter of fact, so I guess this wasn't too far off.
This only makes sense. The sheer flexibility of low-level access is very powerful, especially with limited resources. Same reason older hardware is also C friendly.
Yeah, this is why I don't like it. I don't have much say in group projects though, so I just bear with it until the job's over. In solo work, deleted = deleted.
Don't necessarily agree with this, but we comment out all older code when diffs aren't used. Commented code blocks with the date and editor's name works for small projects on a very tight deadline and this makes things easier if we want to rollback. Bigger projects do use diffs.
As always, this is going to be a case of "works best for my situation", rather than just "best" method to do xyz.
From the article:
Since I work on contract, I don't renew if management has a chronic unawareness problem and more often than not, the problem is people. Clueless hierarchies are a symptom of a bigger disease, the brunt of which, I'd rather not take onto my shoulders.
Tools don't grow on trees. People in the the trades are penny-pinching now more than ever and having to get another set of tools will bankrupt most people.
I've got a friend who's a carpenter; good guy, been working his whole life. We were talking about this metric push the other day and he just laughed and said:
We take so much of our internalized and intuitive understanding of weights and measures for granted, this will be quite painful and expensive in many more ways than just money. For most adults it will just be impossible since they rely on a lifetime of "knowing" a foot, a yard, a mile, which is why if it were to work, it has to start with the kids.
As the AC from U.S. now living in Canada mentioned below, even people exposed to metric later in life will have trouble at first so there has to be constant exposure as children and actual daily usage for this to work. Usage and not rhetoric will drive adoption.
For this to even remotely succeed, at least two generations of kids need to grow up with the metric system (or at least have it along side imperial). Then, when they enter the workforce, metric will seep into common usage.
Meanwhile, what of the generations of existing trades that rely on imperial? I.E. Carpentry, plumbing etc... It isn't just a simple matter of teaching metric either. All these industries and their supporting industries must switch or provide parallel measures (of course, the old timers will stick to imperial in that case, since it's there too). That's very, very, very expensive both in material and time.
Time to get the Black Hole Machine ready for 1.21 Jigawatts
A program/software/instructions for a computer, whatever you call them, should be covered under copyright, not a patent. Algorithms should be treated as works for art. Functional (or imperative or whatever) art, but creative works nonetheless.
The end.
They know this is quirky so I guess they're milking it as much as they can. Good for them, I say. If your state is weird and you're weird the opposite direction; emphasize that.
I may get in trouble for saying this, but I've never thought of Austin as being really "part" of Texas. This things just prove it.
So I can at least get live pictures of things like this happening close-up at least before I die
That's very true. I was just trying to point out AC shouldn't be putting all owners of cars with less-than-excellent gas milage under the bus.
BTW... Dart's coming back this year. Not quite a Dart though. Or really a Dodge for that matter.
Check in station? EZ-Pass style detectors tied to the odometer? Some other secret black box? Taxes are the least of the worries for anyone who drives more efficient cars. Suddenly milage (among other things about your driving habits, I'm sure) gets added to the list of things recorded by the state.
Or older cars. Not everyone who drives a gas guzzler is necessarily behind the wheel of a bulldozer.
They fought (clean and dirty) to become top dog on the OS and browser front. Now what?
Botnets aren't composed of mostly Windows computers just because it's the most prolific (bought and pirated). It's also because of more than a decade of complacency.
I hope we'll see more real competition on all sides for the company for all our sake. Please, MS, dip into that vast wealth of bought out resources and your own research to make genuinely better products going forward at least. Side note: it's fashionable to bash Windows 8 for both real and trumped up charges, but it's just a symptom of a bigger problem. Less on the lines of Win 8, more of IE10.
It's an Optimus One (Verizon specific mod "Vortex"). CM7 is supposed to work, but it didn't. I'm not sure if I want to try again since I'm afraid I might just brick it.
I have an LG Optimus and is rooted. But can I replace the OS altogether?
Non-Android:
Motorola: Razr, Krzr, Nokia: E71, E5, E6 and finally a Blackberry 9930.
The possibility of locked or unlocked bootloaders wasn't something that I even considered because phones are for calls (or so I've been told) and maybe email and a bit of browsing. But I'm thinking here's basically a small computer with a screen and a radio that also happens to have a phone application that connects to a carrier via the radio. Why is it that it can't do anything else with all that jazz? Because the OS is tied to the ROM at the hip? People are up in arms over UEFI, but it's been around in another guise for years it seems
I'm still waiting for a simple, pain-free, way to turn my old phones (not just Android ones) into simple general purpose computers by wiping the existing ROM. Cyanogenmod isn't available for my clunker.
Isn't that sad? A state-of-the-art piece of technology is only a clunker because its handicapped.
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What is this? YouTube?
They've been saying this since the beginning. How long can this last, don't they have jobs, skills fade, they'll get bored etc... etc...
What they still really don't seem to get is that this is just a bunch of people who commit an act and claim to be Anonymous. Anyone can do anything and say they're Anonymous, therefore, Anonymous did it. The few people who may have access to the public outlets like Twitter and such will likely be contacted by someone who's interested in doing something or is in the process of doing something and they'll get yea or nay on whether the mouthpieces will broadcast the activities, thereby being an "officially sanctioned" (if there is such a thing) activity. Or visa versa, the mouthpieces contact the actors.
If some activity is popular, then more people will participate and some level of coordination will take place, likely over IRC.
The lack of coherence existed well before the hactivism phase and will still be there well into the future. That's the nature of a collective which has no leader and many different personalities, personas, skills and backgrounds and will only flock to whatever has the greater interest to those with charisma currently in the group (or feel like participating). In fact, even calling it a "group" is a bit of a mis-label since their constituents and motivations change. It's all very fluid to begin with.
What herds them is a cause; not a person... like McAfee saying they're in decline maybe. Don't they know it's bad to poke a beehive with a stick?