Just because you're fit doesn't mean you can tear up the parkour course.
If you've done agile right the code is the documentation, and it reads like documentation.
Agile is not developer centric, it's user centric. If what you are doing is developer centric, it's not agile.
The toughest thing in Agile is getting a good person in the user role. That's why it works great for consultancies where the user pays for the privilege of guiding their project every day, and not so much for the enterprise where nobody wants the responsibility. It is a better career move to wait and throw bombs at a failed project then to get involved and make decisions everyday.
The problem is not the bonus it's that there is no actual risk, the banks lost it all and then they were bailed out.
Private profit and socialized losses is wrong, but the fix is not to eliminate the private profit, The risk needs to be real, big banks should fail when they are wrong.
Ron Paul is not against student loans, he is against federally backed student loans. If there is money to be made sending kids to college then the market can do it more effectively than a federal government. I don't know the real numbers but for every student loan success story there are several tragedies, kids drop out, become history majors, get swindled by for profit colleges, and many more are chronically under-employed. A market oriented student loan program is not going to eliminate every problem but there would be good incentives to avoid producing kids with large debts and small prospects. The risk is undiscovered talent languishing without a good education, but talent usually finds a way, it might be a harder road, but no harder than life without talent and with debt.
The topic of debate is the proper role of the federal government, we all want to find a way to get an education to the kids that could use one, but what is subsidized by the government becomes overpriced and overproduced.
Gas tax already exists, as does the bureaucracy and the collection mechanism. If they need more revenue just change a number, issue a memo, the tax goes up, the revenue goes up, you still have incentives to buy efficient cars and drive less, all easy and efficient.
Creating a new tax authority, with new electronic boxes, a new collection mechanism that deals with each individual car owner is silly expensive. If the goal is collecting more money the answer is obvious. When the answer chosen by the government is not the obvious one you should wonder, what are they really trying to do?
Before the Internet local schools were all awesome, local politicians were honest and dutiful, and the zoning board members could never be bought off, because everyone was cowed into sincerity by the local newspaper.
Or am I delusional.
This not a loss of local control, we haven't had that since the 1860's, it is loss of central control by big media companies who are pulling desperately on the strings they still have.
A compromise is where you get some of what by giving up 100% of your principles.
Software is just not patentable. It can be part of a patentable invention, but by itself it is math, just one of the possible permutations of a computers bits.
It's not a mouse really it's a trackball, and it's not wireless, but it is the best pointing device I've used for programming.
I like to keep my eyes on the code, and I use vim so I don't reach for the mouse a lot, but when I do I want to find it in the same place on my workstation every time. That's the best thing about a trackball, they don't move, the wires don't move and don't get snagged or tangled so who needs to mess with batteries or recharging. Give that ball a flick and the pointer scoots across the screen, so much better than doing push, lift, pull, drop circles with my poor old wrists.
Long time ago when I worked on Windows I used all four big buttons programmed for click, double click, hold down, and left click. Now I work in KDE, use the mouse much less, and almost never double click.
If you can find one get the old Expert Mouse. The new Expert Mouse Pro has extra buttons and a wheel and has suffered much cost reduction, it's is cheap crap compared to the original.
An important thing to remember, mice are for poking and hoping, exploring programs you have not seen before, when you know what you are doing working with a mouse versus a keyboard is like pointing and grunting versus fluent conversation.
I used to go through a $150 discount chain office chair every year or two. Lost wheels, broken knobs, blown hydraulics, busted seats, you name it.
I've had an Aeron for 6 years, bought it used on ebay, so really it didn't cost any more than a cheap chair. And it is still the best desk chair I've ever used.
If they want their Sales and Use tax they need to take it from their citizens themselves. They've got no authority to tell a company in Washington to collect taxes for New York.
When C compilers finally came out for the PC in the last half of the 1980s I was very pleased. I knew C from college and knew it would be better than the assembler code we had been writing. I managed to get copies of each C compiler as they were released Lattice, Manx Aztec, Borland. We had reworked some of our programs in C and were happy with the results. The programs were always as fast as the assembler programs and much easier to maintain. And all of the compilers were ANSI C compatible or close enough that with a few conditional blocks we could compile the same source on any of the compilers available. With all the things that could have happened in the PC industry we believed portability would allow us to quickly adapt. Portability is good, and is an essential characteristic of the C programming language. Once you had a C compiler for your platform you could port Megabytes of code to it. We only had 10 Mb HDDs so that was a whole lot back then.
Microsoft bought Lattice and reworked their product into the first Microsoft C compiler. At that time I respected Microsoft they put together high quality products. So we bought our copy right away and I set to work to make sure our programs would compile. They would not. And the changes required to make them compile prevented them from compiling with the other C compilers. After getting down the the essential problems I determined that Microsoft C was not ANSI C compatible. I think there was a conditional that helped to port ANSI C to Microsoft C, but it still required source code changes that prevented the program from compiling with any other C compiler.
I can't tell you how stunned I was by this. I knew they started with an ANSI C compiler. I could see that none of the changes they made were genuine improvements over ANSI C. The only explanation was that they had intentionally created an incompatible proprietary C language. If you wrote a program in Microsoft C porting to another platform or even another compiler was a major effort. Maybe I was just young and idealistic. Achieving the portability of the C programming language was a great accomplishment a true advancement in computer science. The idea that a company would discard these advancements and try to lock customers into it's platform was appalling. The greed and evil disregard for the progress of science was too much for my compassionate and charitable soul. I shelved the Microsoft C compiler and believed no other self respecting computer scientist would use such an abomination. I knew it would only be a matter of time before Microsoft realized nobody wanted that product and returned to the true spirit of the scientific community. I guess I am still waiting.
If I hate Microsoft it is when I think of what might have been. If the hardware and software vendors had held to well designed, open standards, if we still had source code portability (outside of POSIX), if HTML had not been used as a battleground, if we cooperated and solved common simple problems once and for everyone the state of computer science could have advanced much further then where we are today. For every good idea that has come out of Microsoft they have stomped on five more that they did not own or control.
Also called IBM space saver with trackpoint. You can find them on ebay but they are stupid expensive. I've got one, works good, key action is not as nice as a Model M, but I don't like to take my hands off the keyboard to push the mouse cursor around.
You still have to use the thumb to click or space bar.
It's nice to be optimistic but don't fool yourself. These congressmen are not really looking to preserve the Internet they are looking to give the telcos a reason to grease them up.
It's your choice a speed boat that depends on an intact hull or a half-flooded barge limping around in circles. There are a lot of steps between a good boat and a sunk boat, but for my servers anything less than a good boat might as well be sunk.
Agruments for microkernels seem unsupported by reality. If it made an kernel easier to design and implement then I would be running hurd. And what production machine can tolerate partial failure? The complexites introduced with message passing microkernels have shown themselves to be less managable than the traditional monolithic kernel.
Typosquatting is just a parked domain with google ads. The real money is in click fraud. You don't need to wait for a fumble fingered surfer, just hire one or two, and take your google checks to the bank.
My new Z60m was built in North Carolina. It's solid, sturdy, and beautiful. I just can't see where anyone could say they are cutting corners. The keyboard is excellent, not as good as my 1993 model M, but better than other laptops. But the most important feature is the track point mouse controller. I have a 6 year old sony laptop with a track point, but I haven't seen anything new with a track point except from Lenovo.
Those scratch pads are just flaky. Maybe it's me but when I use a scratch pad the mouse cursor will blink and studder then flash over the other side of screen, it clicks when it should move, double clicks when it should just click, or just sits and stares at you while you scratch away, finally catching up by flying all over the screen. In fact my only complaint with the Think Pad is that it also has a scratch pad. The Windows drivers allow you to disable the scratch pad, but I have not found the equivelent since I upgraded to Ubuntu.
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Everyone knows BSD is equivalent to pagan devil worship, I mean just look at the logo.
It's not communication between plants via fungus, it's command and control of plants by fungus.
Just because you're fit doesn't mean you can tear up the parkour course.
If you've done agile right the code is the documentation, and it reads like documentation.
Agile is not developer centric, it's user centric. If what you are doing is developer centric, it's not agile.
The toughest thing in Agile is getting a good person in the user role. That's why it works great for consultancies where the user pays for the privilege of guiding their project every day, and not so much for the enterprise where nobody wants the responsibility. It is a better career move to wait and throw bombs at a failed project then to get involved and make decisions everyday.
The problem is not the bonus it's that there is no actual risk, the banks lost it all and then they were bailed out.
Private profit and socialized losses is wrong, but the fix is not to eliminate the private profit, The risk needs to be real, big banks should fail when they are wrong.
Spending billions just to provide Google with the competition it needs to stay aggressive is foolish.
Ron Paul is not against student loans, he is against federally backed student loans. If there is money to be made sending kids to college then the market can do it more effectively than a federal government. I don't know the real numbers but for every student loan success story there are several tragedies, kids drop out, become history majors, get swindled by for profit colleges, and many more are chronically under-employed. A market oriented student loan program is not going to eliminate every problem but there would be good incentives to avoid producing kids with large debts and small prospects. The risk is undiscovered talent languishing without a good education, but talent usually finds a way, it might be a harder road, but no harder than life without talent and with debt.
The topic of debate is the proper role of the federal government, we all want to find a way to get an education to the kids that could use one, but what is subsidized by the government becomes overpriced and overproduced.
To watch the 100 or so episodes of "Have Gun - Will Travel" that are left in my queue.
Gas tax already exists, as does the bureaucracy and the collection mechanism. If they need more revenue just change a number, issue a memo, the tax goes up, the revenue goes up, you still have incentives to buy efficient cars and drive less, all easy and efficient.
Creating a new tax authority, with new electronic boxes, a new collection mechanism that deals with each individual car owner is silly expensive. If the goal is collecting more money the answer is obvious. When the answer chosen by the government is not the obvious one you should wonder, what are they really trying to do?
I've had to see some of these videos and I might have muttered "there ought to be a law." But it's not high on my list either.
Before the Internet local schools were all awesome, local politicians were honest and dutiful, and the zoning board members could never be bought off, because everyone was cowed into sincerity by the local newspaper.
Or am I delusional.
This not a loss of local control, we haven't had that since the 1860's, it is loss of central control by big media companies who are pulling desperately on the strings they still have.
A compromise is where you get some of what by giving up 100% of your principles.
Software is just not patentable. It can be part of a patentable invention, but by itself it is math, just one of the possible permutations of a computers bits.
It's a Ruby on Rails application so you really want a Linux server to run it on, but it's got everything.
Project planning, file sharing, wiki, issue tracking, charts, calendars, email notifications, and plugins to do more.
Science will always have it's fame whores and agenda driven hacks, on both sides of any issue.
Climate Science looks an awful lot like Social Science, mounds of data with statistics offered as proof.
If there are not results that can be reproduced in a controlled experiment I can't call it science.
Even if the worst scenarios turn out to be true there is no excuse for totalitarian world government.
It's not a mouse really it's a trackball, and it's not wireless, but it is the best pointing device I've used for programming.
I like to keep my eyes on the code, and I use vim so I don't reach for the mouse a lot, but when I do I want to find it in the same place on my workstation every time. That's the best thing about a trackball, they don't move, the wires don't move and don't get snagged or tangled so who needs to mess with batteries or recharging. Give that ball a flick and the pointer scoots across the screen, so much better than doing push, lift, pull, drop circles with my poor old wrists.
Long time ago when I worked on Windows I used all four big buttons programmed for click, double click, hold down, and left click. Now I work in KDE, use the mouse much less, and almost never double click.
If you can find one get the old Expert Mouse. The new Expert Mouse Pro has extra buttons and a wheel and has suffered much cost reduction, it's is cheap crap compared to the original.
An important thing to remember, mice are for poking and hoping, exploring programs you have not seen before, when you know what you are doing working with a mouse versus a keyboard is like pointing and grunting versus fluent conversation.
I used to go through a $150 discount chain office chair every year or two. Lost wheels, broken knobs, blown hydraulics, busted seats, you name it.
I've had an Aeron for 6 years, bought it used on ebay, so really it didn't cost any more than a cheap chair. And it is still the best desk chair I've ever used.
Buy a deck of cards or a board game for smarties like scrabble or upwords.
It's nice to look at your wife while you play a game. Don't you spend enough time staring at computer displays already?
Constitution has nothing to do with it.
Jurisdiction is what New York does not have.
If they want their Sales and Use tax they need to take it from their citizens themselves. They've got no authority to tell a company in Washington to collect taxes for New York.
A power hungry, war mongering, global socialist, and a compulsive liar that get things done -- great. Heil Hillary!
When C compilers finally came out for the PC in the last half of the 1980s I was very pleased. I knew C from college and knew it would be better than the assembler code we had been writing. I managed to get copies of each C compiler as they were released Lattice, Manx Aztec, Borland. We had reworked some of our programs in C and were happy with the results. The programs were always as fast as the assembler programs and much easier to maintain. And all of the compilers were ANSI C compatible or close enough that with a few conditional blocks we could compile the same source on any of the compilers available. With all the things that could have happened in the PC industry we believed portability would allow us to quickly adapt. Portability is good, and is an essential characteristic of the C programming language. Once you had a C compiler for your platform you could port Megabytes of code to it. We only had 10 Mb HDDs so that was a whole lot back then.
Microsoft bought Lattice and reworked their product into the first Microsoft C compiler. At that time I respected Microsoft they put together high quality products. So we bought our copy right away and I set to work to make sure our programs would compile. They would not. And the changes required to make them compile prevented them from compiling with the other C compilers. After getting down the the essential problems I determined that Microsoft C was not ANSI C compatible. I think there was a conditional that helped to port ANSI C to Microsoft C, but it still required source code changes that prevented the program from compiling with any other C compiler.
I can't tell you how stunned I was by this. I knew they started with an ANSI C compiler. I could see that none of the changes they made were genuine improvements over ANSI C. The only explanation was that they had intentionally created an incompatible proprietary C language. If you wrote a program in Microsoft C porting to another platform or even another compiler was a major effort. Maybe I was just young and idealistic. Achieving the portability of the C programming language was a great accomplishment a true advancement in computer science. The idea that a company would discard these advancements and try to lock customers into it's platform was appalling. The greed and evil disregard for the progress of science was too much for my compassionate and charitable soul. I shelved the Microsoft C compiler and believed no other self respecting computer scientist would use such an abomination. I knew it would only be a matter of time before Microsoft realized nobody wanted that product and returned to the true spirit of the scientific community. I guess I am still waiting.
If I hate Microsoft it is when I think of what might have been. If the hardware and software vendors had held to well designed, open standards, if we still had source code portability (outside of POSIX), if HTML had not been used as a battleground, if we cooperated and solved common simple problems once and for everyone the state of computer science could have advanced much further then where we are today. For every good idea that has come out of Microsoft they have stomped on five more that they did not own or control.
Also called IBM space saver with trackpoint.
You can find them on ebay but they are stupid expensive.
I've got one, works good, key action is not as nice as a Model M, but I don't like to take my hands off the keyboard to push the mouse cursor around.
You still have to use the thumb to click or space bar.
It's nice to be optimistic but don't fool yourself. These congressmen are not really looking to preserve the Internet they are looking to give the telcos a reason to grease them up.
Maybe all the US programmers were busy working for a living.
It's your choice a speed boat that depends on an intact hull or a half-flooded barge limping around in circles. There are a lot of steps between a good boat and a sunk boat, but for my servers anything less than a good boat might as well be sunk.
Agruments for microkernels seem unsupported by reality. If it made an kernel easier to design and implement then I would be running hurd. And what production machine can tolerate partial failure? The complexites introduced with message passing microkernels have shown themselves to be less managable than the traditional monolithic kernel.
Typosquatting is just a parked domain with google ads. The real money is in click fraud. You don't need to wait for a fumble fingered surfer, just hire one or two, and take your google checks to the bank.
My new Z60m was built in North Carolina. It's solid, sturdy, and beautiful. I just can't see where anyone could say they are cutting corners. The keyboard is excellent, not as good as my 1993 model M, but better than other laptops. But the most important feature is the track point mouse controller. I have a 6 year old sony laptop with a track point, but I haven't seen anything new with a track point except from Lenovo.
Those scratch pads are just flaky. Maybe it's me but when I use a scratch pad the mouse cursor will blink and studder then flash over the other side of screen, it clicks when it should move, double clicks when it should just click, or just sits and stares at you while you scratch away, finally catching up by flying all over the screen. In fact my only complaint with the Think Pad is that it also has a scratch pad. The Windows drivers allow you to disable the scratch pad, but I have not found the equivelent since I upgraded to Ubuntu.