Consumer-oriented sick TV ads are really only a small part of the picture, although that's what we mostly see.
It's the same with software development. Most people only interact with a few standard consumer software systems daily (like the OS, email program), but the reality is that most programmers aren't writing that kind of systems, they're writing custom software for businesses.
Agreed. I've seen my share of beautiful but horrible usability-wise interfaces.
Furthermore, it's a well known fact that even usability experts only have limited success in predicting the failures of real users with a given interface. And I think most real usability experts are in the analytical camp, knowing what to look for and how to setup a user test to deconstruct an interface, not actually designing new interfaces.
Could you expand on why you think this is better than just going with the GPL? Just asking out of curiosity. The obvious downside is of course license proliferation.
MPLv2 does seem pretty short, but on the other hand, IIRC last time I read the GPL, much of it was actually preoccupied with spelling out what you can and can't do (to avoid loopholes) as opposed to the standard legal nonsense some lawyers seem to love.
but I'm making an ideological argument: the entire concept of royalty is disgusting and wrong, equally disgusting and wrong as slavery, because it is a violation of the notion of individual liberty.
I'm sorry, but that just comes across as braindead gibberish. I don't support monarchy either (living in Denmark), but equating it with slavery is theoretical nonsense.
Another way to think about it is as a part of the cultural heritage, like old castles and even older left overs from ancient civilizations. Silly today, but people enjoy looking at them and paying for their maintenance nevertheless.
Because it aids collaboration, avoids duplication of effort, leaves more room for innovation from more people, more eyes make the bugs shallower, etc. The things that make open source a success to begin with.
If you think open source is all there is to open source, you don't understand it properly.
While there may be some truth in this, look at it from the other side of the table. It's a bad idea to take a badly fitting half-baked component thrown over the wall and merge it in, just to shut up a contributor. That's not how you survive in the long term as an open source project.
My sister studied biology at university ten years ago, and I recently borrowed a couple of her books. I've so far read one on zoology, one on evolution and I'm now reading about plant physiology.
Basically these kinds of books tell you how animals and plant actually work in detail; e.g. so what does a muscle consist of, and how do the various cells in it work, how does energy get to it, in what form, or what kinds of animal are there (mammals are only a tiny part of the animal kingdom) and why do they look the way they do; how do plants grow and take up nutrients, how did they evolve.
It's a whole new world to discover! I don't think I've learned so much about the world around me in such a short time span before. Highly recommended.
I'm glad I didn't actually study biology, though, there's lots of complicated mundane chemistry in there, which I believe would be a lot of work to go through if I didn't just do it for fun.
If you programmers can't estimate how long it takes, that's because they aren't breaking the task down properly. Either that, or you don't have a time tracker so people actually know how much time they're spending. It can very well happen that you spend two days and get 6 hours of programming done.
Estimation is a really annoying thing to do, so if people aren't forced to do it and held accountable to what they say, it's obvious that people will just botch it.
If you haven't already, read Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams which will teach you that, as a manager, the most important thing to you is your people and your respect of said people. The book is a must-read. Seriously.
History has proven time and time again that allowing faith to interfere or dominate government does not bode well for a nation's (or her citizens) future.
In Denmark, a couple of prostitutes started blogging some time ago. There are actually some people who like having sex and don't mind other people paying for it, who like the fact that they can make people happy and earn a living at the same time.
You know what their biggest problem is? Social stigma from people who think prostitution is a disgrace. And of course the few cases of abused prostitutes that color people's opinion of the whole trade. And the fact that even if prostitution is legal in Denmark, they still don't enjoy the same rights as everyone else in the work force, for various reasons (most having to do with the stigma).
Statically compiling a subset would yield much better results, but would be significantly harder to do.
Why do you say that? Just curious. It seems to me that JIT compilers have the promise of being able to optimize things based on what's actually going on rather than what might theoretically be going on.
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Consumer-oriented sick TV ads are really only a small part of the picture, although that's what we mostly see.
It's the same with software development. Most people only interact with a few standard consumer software systems daily (like the OS, email program), but the reality is that most programmers aren't writing that kind of systems, they're writing custom software for businesses.
Maybe what happened was that the rest of the world caught up technology-wise to make it feasible.
Agreed. I've seen my share of beautiful but horrible usability-wise interfaces.
Furthermore, it's a well known fact that even usability experts only have limited success in predicting the failures of real users with a given interface. And I think most real usability experts are in the analytical camp, knowing what to look for and how to setup a user test to deconstruct an interface, not actually designing new interfaces.
Could you expand on why you think this is better than just going with the GPL? Just asking out of curiosity. The obvious downside is of course license proliferation.
MPLv2 does seem pretty short, but on the other hand, IIRC last time I read the GPL, much of it was actually preoccupied with spelling out what you can and can't do (to avoid loopholes) as opposed to the standard legal nonsense some lawyers seem to love.
It's twice as fast as Nginx is for load balancing
Do you some numbers somewhere to back that up? Sounds suspicious to me.
Also nginx doesn't have the weird bug that made lighttpd crash from time to time.
but I stand by my opinion that it is embarrassing to have a king or queen in the year 2012
Your opinion would probably carry more weight if you actually had one, or had lived in a country that had one. Sorry. :)
but I'm making an ideological argument: the entire concept of royalty is disgusting and wrong, equally disgusting and wrong as slavery, because it is a violation of the notion of individual liberty.
I'm sorry, but that just comes across as braindead gibberish. I don't support monarchy either (living in Denmark), but equating it with slavery is theoretical nonsense.
Another way to think about it is as a part of the cultural heritage, like old castles and even older left overs from ancient civilizations. Silly today, but people enjoy looking at them and paying for their maintenance nevertheless.
Try the HTML inspection tool in Firebug.
That sounds like a bug in Unity to me.
People with cars kill people
There's the slight difference that cars aren't designed to harm people, guns are.
Because it aids collaboration, avoids duplication of effort, leaves more room for innovation from more people, more eyes make the bugs shallower, etc. The things that make open source a success to begin with.
If you think open source is all there is to open source, you don't understand it properly.
While there may be some truth in this, look at it from the other side of the table. It's a bad idea to take a badly fitting half-baked component thrown over the wall and merge it in, just to shut up a contributor. That's not how you survive in the long term as an open source project.
I'm not convinced any companies, even patent trolls, are truly acting irresponsibly.
Just because something is legal doesn't make it right. Especially not if the law is obviously stupid.
My sister studied biology at university ten years ago, and I recently borrowed a couple of her books. I've so far read one on zoology, one on evolution and I'm now reading about plant physiology.
Basically these kinds of books tell you how animals and plant actually work in detail; e.g. so what does a muscle consist of, and how do the various cells in it work, how does energy get to it, in what form, or what kinds of animal are there (mammals are only a tiny part of the animal kingdom) and why do they look the way they do; how do plants grow and take up nutrients, how did they evolve.
It's a whole new world to discover! I don't think I've learned so much about the world around me in such a short time span before. Highly recommended.
I'm glad I didn't actually study biology, though, there's lots of complicated mundane chemistry in there, which I believe would be a lot of work to go through if I didn't just do it for fun.
If you programmers can't estimate how long it takes, that's because they aren't breaking the task down properly. Either that, or you don't have a time tracker so people actually know how much time they're spending. It can very well happen that you spend two days and get 6 hours of programming done.
Estimation is a really annoying thing to do, so if people aren't forced to do it and held accountable to what they say, it's obvious that people will just botch it.
Somebody's got a patent on tatooing people with invisible ink. :D
... and get an army of volunteers to help them.
If you haven't already, read Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams which will teach you that, as a manager, the most important thing to you is your people and your respect of said people. The book is a must-read. Seriously.
You can also install the IE collection to get back an IE 6.
History has proven time and time again that allowing faith to interfere or dominate government does not bode well for a nation's (or her citizens) future.
True! God bless America!
In Denmark, a couple of prostitutes started blogging some time ago. There are actually some people who like having sex and don't mind other people paying for it, who like the fact that they can make people happy and earn a living at the same time.
You know what their biggest problem is? Social stigma from people who think prostitution is a disgrace. And of course the few cases of abused prostitutes that color people's opinion of the whole trade. And the fact that even if prostitution is legal in Denmark, they still don't enjoy the same rights as everyone else in the work force, for various reasons (most having to do with the stigma).
Statically compiling a subset would yield much better results, but would be significantly harder to do.
Why do you say that? Just curious. It seems to me that JIT compilers have the promise of being able to optimize things based on what's actually going on rather than what might theoretically be going on.
Patriotism is a laudable trait
Why? I've never quite understood that. Sure, it's a good thing you help people around you, but that's not really patriotism.
holding 52 hostages captive for 444 days after invading the U.S. embassy in Tehran and having those actions sanctioned by their Supreme Leader
Actually, when you think about it, this quote sounds a bit like Guantanamo.