There is also the usability issue, Windows apps are different from Android apps and this dissonance subconsciously annoys the user. Ever tried using Mac after been a Windows user for years? same thing. Think of the mouse movement you do subconsciously do when you try to resize a window, there is a big chance that what you do will not work on a Mac.
My chemistry taught me alchemy, my biology teacher taught me creationism. They both said that there is no evidence whatsoever that any of that stuff is true, while they also taught me that evolution has strong evidences and that many alchemy "magic" can now be scientifically demonstrated by chemistry.
The thing about Science is that it is not that much about finding the truth, it is about building models to do things (like predicting that harmful organisms will become immune to antibiotics because of natural selection) to help mankind. A big part of Science is to challenge the old models to see if they still hold up in new scenarios.
Newton model of physics breaks down at the subatomic level, so it is essentially not "truth". But the model is still used for a myriad of applications and taught in all high schools, because it is useful to mankind.
I have been using Giteye ( http://www.collab.net/giteyeap... ) to manage my git repositories, it is very powerful and full featured. I particularly like its merge tool. I don't type git commands anymore except when I am making some kind of script that needs to get stuff into or out of git. It also integrates painlessly with github and many other Issue tracking tools.
There are a few disadvantages in using it though: 1) You have to learn how to do stuff you already know how to do in the CLI (mildly annoying). 2) You need to create a free account on a service to continue using it after a month (a little annoying). 3) It is build on top of eclipse though, so it consumes a few hundred megabytes of memory (very annoying if you have an underpowered machine).
Error Handling is one of the most annoying things to do in programming. Some people hate the whole exception handling mechanisms some languages have (be it for code elegance or performance), but I dread to think how to architecture system without those. Even with them it is still very annoying. I hope the next revolution in software engineering will probably be some more automatic way to handle errors, just like garbage collection was to memory handling.
Yahoo mail was once the equivalent to gmail. It had very good UI, speed and storage for its day. All of this when many ISPs still charged for an email account. It is not surprising that many people still hold on to their yahoo mail accounts.
The newer versions of IE sure are a lot better, but their debugger sucks. Cross-platform inconsistencies are still common and it still is hard to develop for IE because of that.
I'm an Opera user but the debugger present in opera (12) is pretty bad too. My favorite debugger is Chrome/Safari, but Firefox debuggers are ok.
My tab bar is on the left, Opera has an awesome customization interface where you can put any UI element you want anywhere in the browser window. My status bar (the one that shows what you are hovering with the mouse) on the right of the address bar, I don't have back button on the bar because I just use mouse gestures. My favorites are in a panel on the left that I customized the shortcuts to allow inline search without needing to open a new tab or use the mouse. When I'm on my laptop without a mouse I don't use the touchpad, I just use my custom shortcuts and spatial navigation to get around.
Honestly I cringe at the thought of using other browsers.
Ron Gilbert (creator of monkey island) once met Steve Jobs personally: " I arrived at the meeting and went into the conference room. John Lasseter was there (who I casually knew from when Pixar was part of Lucasfilm) and we chit-chatted.
A few minutes later Steve Jobs came in. He sat right across the table from me and the first words out of his mouth where: "I don't believe you can tell stories in games." " Source: http://grumpygamer.com/5851503
I have been using Opera since Opera 7 (some 7 or 8 years I believe, it had ads back then!), I honestly didn't care one bit about presto and its predecessors. Presto rendered most webpages fine and was fast enough for me so I never switched. BUT Opera simply had the most customizable browser out there and it had some great features built-in without the need for addons/plugins. I customized pretty much all the user interface and the shortcuts of my browser years ago. I open new tabs with ctrl+n for example, because back then before other browsers had tabs opera already used ctrl+n for a new tab instead of new window. The new chrome-skin (because it can not be called its own browser yet) is just pathetic.
When they announced that they were switching rendering engines I was very happy. I had some problems with a few websites on opera before and I liked the chrome debbuger/developer screen a lot more than the equivalent opera screen. But throwing away all the little features that most of the other browsers users didn't even think they needed was just stupid. And the saddest part is that most of those features will probably never get reimplemented because too few people used them in the first place.
I wouldn't care if they changed the rendering engine, but they should have kept the user interface even if it required a massive rewrite (like they claimed it would).
"Seriously playing EVE is more like having a second job with lots of rules, caveats and social climbing."
Raiding in WoW used to be like that in the old days, today not so much. When people cry "everyone has epicz" they mean that the people who invest a lot more time than the average player can't get the exclusive shiny stuff anymore, they get only a recolored of the same gear the noobs get.
But since raiding was never competitive except for the few "first-kills" guilds it was never as bad as EVE.
I used to play a lot of TTD and OTTD, but it is way too easy to gain money. There is almost no challenge to be had and once you master signaling the profit margins are ridiculous that you will find hard to be actually out of money to build new stuff.
The reason talking to machines seems so awesome in sci-fi is that the machines can respond and argue back with human or almost human intelligence. When AI can do that there will be a surge in voice-controlled computers.
Well, file copying is hardly CPU bound. Although the operating system can implement it poorly, the most likely case is that your old mac hard drive is going bad. The thing about hard drives is that they usually degrade slowly.
"Those efficiency gains are _sometimes_ translated in reduced pollution"
"your country to embargo goods produced with _less regulation_ than your own country requires"
My overall point is that the more globalized the world is, the better. As long as the industries follow the regulations and the regulations themselves are correctly written.
You make a good point, but I said "e efficiency gains are _sometimes_ translated in reduced pollution". If those industries were in the US instead of China maybe the US would need to have more Coal power plants.
But I digress, the point I was trying to make is that globalization is not the devil. But it drastically changes the socioeconomic status quo of the countries so the government needs to adapt to it. I don't like to play the "free market is wrong" card but in this case I believe it is.
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To me it looks like your team just needed a Issue tracker rather than a manager.
There is also the usability issue, Windows apps are different from Android apps and this dissonance subconsciously annoys the user. Ever tried using Mac after been a Windows user for years? same thing. Think of the mouse movement you do subconsciously do when you try to resize a window, there is a big chance that what you do will not work on a Mac.
My chemistry taught me alchemy, my biology teacher taught me creationism. They both said that there is no evidence whatsoever that any of that stuff is true, while they also taught me that evolution has strong evidences and that many alchemy "magic" can now be scientifically demonstrated by chemistry.
The thing about Science is that it is not that much about finding the truth, it is about building models to do things (like predicting that harmful organisms will become immune to antibiotics because of natural selection) to help mankind. A big part of Science is to challenge the old models to see if they still hold up in new scenarios.
Newton model of physics breaks down at the subatomic level, so it is essentially not "truth". But the model is still used for a myriad of applications and taught in all high schools, because it is useful to mankind.
Looks pretty good, but I already learned Giteye. How does it hold up against Giteye? any killer features?
I have been using Giteye ( http://www.collab.net/giteyeap... ) to manage my git repositories, it is very powerful and full featured. I particularly like its merge tool. I don't type git commands anymore except when I am making some kind of script that needs to get stuff into or out of git. It also integrates painlessly with github and many other Issue tracking tools.
There are a few disadvantages in using it though:
1) You have to learn how to do stuff you already know how to do in the CLI (mildly annoying).
2) You need to create a free account on a service to continue using it after a month (a little annoying).
3) It is build on top of eclipse though, so it consumes a few hundred megabytes of memory (very annoying if you have an underpowered machine).
Error Handling is one of the most annoying things to do in programming. Some people hate the whole exception handling mechanisms some languages have (be it for code elegance or performance), but I dread to think how to architecture system without those. Even with them it is still very annoying. I hope the next revolution in software engineering will probably be some more automatic way to handle errors, just like garbage collection was to memory handling.
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Well there is nothing you can do in C++ that you can't do in a turing machine.
But don't they just type the hack really fast at a moments notice just like in the movies? Hollywood you lied to me!
Yahoo mail was once the equivalent to gmail. It had very good UI, speed and storage for its day. All of this when many ISPs still charged for an email account. It is not surprising that many people still hold on to their yahoo mail accounts.
The newer versions of IE sure are a lot better, but their debugger sucks. Cross-platform inconsistencies are still common and it still is hard to develop for IE because of that.
I'm an Opera user but the debugger present in opera (12) is pretty bad too. My favorite debugger is Chrome/Safari, but Firefox debuggers are ok.
My tab bar is on the left, Opera has an awesome customization interface where you can put any UI element you want anywhere in the browser window. My status bar (the one that shows what you are hovering with the mouse) on the right of the address bar, I don't have back button on the bar because I just use mouse gestures. My favorites are in a panel on the left that I customized the shortcuts to allow inline search without needing to open a new tab or use the mouse. When I'm on my laptop without a mouse I don't use the touchpad, I just use my custom shortcuts and spatial navigation to get around.
Honestly I cringe at the thought of using other browsers.
As far as I remember it was barely worth the massive bandwidth bills. But last time I heard about this subject was before the stupid video ads.
Ron Gilbert (creator of monkey island) once met Steve Jobs personally:
"
I arrived at the meeting and went into the conference room. John Lasseter was there (who I casually knew from when Pixar was part of Lucasfilm) and we chit-chatted.
A few minutes later Steve Jobs came in. He sat right across the table from me and the first words out of his mouth where: "I don't believe you can tell stories in games."
"
Source: http://grumpygamer.com/5851503
They still see games as toys.
I have been using Opera since Opera 7 (some 7 or 8 years I believe, it had ads back then!), I honestly didn't care one bit about presto and its predecessors. Presto rendered most webpages fine and was fast enough for me so I never switched. BUT Opera simply had the most customizable browser out there and it had some great features built-in without the need for addons/plugins. I customized pretty much all the user interface and the shortcuts of my browser years ago. I open new tabs with ctrl+n for example, because back then before other browsers had tabs opera already used ctrl+n for a new tab instead of new window. The new chrome-skin (because it can not be called its own browser yet) is just pathetic.
When they announced that they were switching rendering engines I was very happy. I had some problems with a few websites on opera before and I liked the chrome debbuger/developer screen a lot more than the equivalent opera screen. But throwing away all the little features that most of the other browsers users didn't even think they needed was just stupid. And the saddest part is that most of those features will probably never get reimplemented because too few people used them in the first place.
I wouldn't care if they changed the rendering engine, but they should have kept the user interface even if it required a massive rewrite (like they claimed it would).
That is like reading about an epic battle from the classical ages. This stuff should be recorded in history books.
"Seriously playing EVE is more like having a second job with lots of rules, caveats and social climbing."
Raiding in WoW used to be like that in the old days, today not so much. When people cry "everyone has epicz" they mean that the people who invest a lot more time than the average player can't get the exclusive shiny stuff anymore, they get only a recolored of the same gear the noobs get.
But since raiding was never competitive except for the few "first-kills" guilds it was never as bad as EVE.
I used to play a lot of TTD and OTTD, but it is way too easy to gain money. There is almost no challenge to be had and once you master signaling the profit margins are ridiculous that you will find hard to be actually out of money to build new stuff.
The reason talking to machines seems so awesome in sci-fi is that the machines can respond and argue back with human or almost human intelligence. When AI can do that there will be a surge in voice-controlled computers.
Hey he is free to have his own opinion of "freedom".
It also runs internet explorer saving you the bother of having a VM. But I rather have a better bash prompt.
Well, file copying is hardly CPU bound. Although the operating system can implement it poorly, the most likely case is that your old mac hard drive is going bad. The thing about hard drives is that they usually degrade slowly.
No Mac addicts, I don't own any apple product
I said:
"You _might_ hate globalization"
"Those efficiency gains are _sometimes_ translated in reduced pollution"
"your country to embargo goods produced with _less regulation_ than your own country requires"
My overall point is that the more globalized the world is, the better. As long as the industries follow the regulations and the regulations themselves are correctly written.
You make a good point, but I said "e efficiency gains are _sometimes_ translated in reduced pollution". If those industries were in the US instead of China maybe the US would need to have more Coal power plants.
But I digress, the point I was trying to make is that globalization is not the devil. But it drastically changes the socioeconomic status quo of the countries so the government needs to adapt to it. I don't like to play the "free market is wrong" card but in this case I believe it is.