I can just see it now...a Slashdot marriage proposal and dating service pairing Geeks together. After that it will be the Slashdot Newlywed Game and a Slashdot book entitle "Men are from Mars, Women are from Mars". Lord forbid, maybe even the Slashdot Divorce Court with CowboyNeal as the presiding judge.
In all seriousness, congrats to the wedded couple to be.
Excuse me if a million other people have said this already but I couldn't read all the comments to this post before the post leaves the site;-)
I'd say join an open source project. You'd be amazed at how fulfilling it can be to write good software that people learn to love and use. In addition to the validation, it is a great way to learn the basics of software development from analysis and design through the actual implementation nuts and bolts. If you can learn to develop good software in the hodge-poge that is the net with other developers from around the world it makes development of in-house stuff (say, for a company) a walk in the park.
The projects I work on and continue to contribute to have come to a point where I can now develop them as part of my 9-5 which is exciting.
Also, beware of the "grass-is-greener" scenario. One thing that I've learned in my short 5yr career is that all jobs will eventually suck. That's the natural progression of the work place anymore. All that ends up happening is people get tired of the things that are a pain in their a$$ and eventually decide to trade in those pains for new ones. That isn't necessarily bad...sometime I'd rather deal with new problems than the nagging old ones.
Much of this is true but like anything you have to take the good with the bad. My younger brother, 16, and my dad are on the net now with the PC I recently gave them. I get more questions from my dad on 'how do I do X'. My brother asks questions more like 'I learned X but where can I learn more'. While my brother is obviously learning a not from the net, he still spends some of his surfing time in teen chat rooms trying to romance some young hotty or talk sports which tells me things really aren't all that different. Despite his tech. savy, I don't see him ever using/. regularly...so he's really not that much of a geek.
I'm sure they'll eventually give the OK to monitor net usage...it's just a matter of time.
Maybe they'll give us something like the tax-refund checks they're giving out. Something like a coupon for a free day or downloading MP3's and porn. If you are married you get two days....
Kind of related to this I've often wondered why we can't do a better job of preventing spam by making our client software interact with the various MTA's out on the market.
For example, if I get email from a domain that is not in my addressbook I'd like the message to have a footer added that says something like "click here if this is spam" that would would pop-up a small window that allows me to either a) ban all email from that domain or b) ban all email for that specific email address. Such a filtering method could happen at the administrative level as well.
This information can then be communicated to the MTA so that the message is never received from an offending domain. Seems to me that would aid in preventing spam. This allows less technical email users a way with interacting with the MTA.
Also, I think any mail servers with open relays should pay some sort of penalty if they are found to be used for spam.
Is there a fundamental difference between recording to a standard VCR and using TIVO?
All his points make no sense...people have been recording shows for years. It's just that now we can record to disk instead of VHS.
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I can just see it now...a Slashdot marriage proposal and dating service pairing Geeks together. After that it will be the Slashdot Newlywed Game and a Slashdot book entitle "Men are from Mars, Women are from Mars". Lord forbid, maybe even the Slashdot Divorce Court with CowboyNeal as the presiding judge.
In all seriousness, congrats to the wedded couple to be.
Excuse me if a million other people have said this already but I couldn't read all the comments to this post before the post leaves the site ;-)
I'd say join an open source project. You'd be amazed at how fulfilling it can be to write good software that people learn to love and use. In addition to the validation, it is a great way to learn the basics of software development from analysis and design through the actual implementation nuts and bolts. If you can learn to develop good software in the hodge-poge that is the net with other developers from around the world it makes development of in-house stuff (say, for a company) a walk in the park.
The projects I work on and continue to contribute to have come to a point where I can now develop them as part of my 9-5 which is exciting.
Also, beware of the "grass-is-greener" scenario. One thing that I've learned in my short 5yr career is that all jobs will eventually suck. That's the natural progression of the work place anymore. All that ends up happening is people get tired of the things that are a pain in their a$$ and eventually decide to trade in those pains for new ones. That isn't necessarily bad...sometime I'd rather deal with new problems than the nagging old ones.
Much of this is true but like anything you have to take the good with the bad. My younger brother, 16, and my dad are on the net now with the PC I recently gave them. I get more questions from my dad on 'how do I do X'. My brother asks questions more like 'I learned X but where can I learn more'. While my brother is obviously learning a not from the net, he still spends some of his surfing time in teen chat rooms trying to romance some young hotty or talk sports which tells me things really aren't all that different. Despite his tech. savy, I don't see him ever using /. regularly...so he's really not that much of a geek.
how doo dey spect me too read dat dang book in only ten ours?
I'm sure they'll eventually give the OK to monitor net usage...it's just a matter of time. Maybe they'll give us something like the tax-refund checks they're giving out. Something like a coupon for a free day or downloading MP3's and porn. If you are married you get two days....
Kind of related to this I've often wondered why we can't do a better job of preventing spam by making our client software interact with the various MTA's out on the market. For example, if I get email from a domain that is not in my addressbook I'd like the message to have a footer added that says something like "click here if this is spam" that would would pop-up a small window that allows me to either a) ban all email from that domain or b) ban all email for that specific email address. Such a filtering method could happen at the administrative level as well. This information can then be communicated to the MTA so that the message is never received from an offending domain. Seems to me that would aid in preventing spam. This allows less technical email users a way with interacting with the MTA. Also, I think any mail servers with open relays should pay some sort of penalty if they are found to be used for spam.
Is there a fundamental difference between recording to a standard VCR and using TIVO? All his points make no sense...people have been recording shows for years. It's just that now we can record to disk instead of VHS.