The problem is that this expects the person who reads the code to inherently understand your mentality and logic. There are batches of code which look screwy, but eventually you can "figure out" what the person was thinking in what they were trying to do. But often this isn't the case. If solutions were as easy as describing them, then anyone could program. I don't believe in obsessively commenting every line, but having a simple commented explanation of what something is supposed to do can make it vastly easier to see why or why not their solution is right or wrong.
I've got a similar firewall doing a fair amount of work and running at about 17mb. However that's apples to oranges with a desktop environment which can consume orders of magnitude more ram. If you're going to maintain a modern system on old hardware, you're going to have to get your hands dirty with an involved setup. That's always been true for FreeBSD or Linux.
Also, why are people talking about using ZFS on a desktop? Do people have too much RAM?
R&D has little to do with an end product. Someone higher up has to decide that an idea is viable, and then come up with a good way to implement it. Look at the "revolutionary" products Apple has made: the iphone, ipod, and ipad. Some smaller things like the scroll wheel do add something new, but 95% of their functionality was done before in other products first. It takes more than some patentable idea to make a good viable product. Hell how does anyone explain how many years MS had to make a decent phone and the best they could do was Windows Mobile up to 6.5?
I think this is more to the credit of Microsoft actually. Despite having no clue how to make products out of anything, they still dump a lot of money into R&D.
If sales and marketing is about finding out what a person needs and a sales person finds out that what that person needs isn't something that they can supply, it is a rare sales and marketing person that will say so. They do exist. I speak to maybe one a year...
That has a lot to do with someone not being good at their job. Lets face it, the majority of people really aren't that good at their job. Sales and Marketing is about making a company money, not flushing money down the toilet with worthless mailers and radio ads. Efficiency in marketing requires knowledge of your product, and who would use it coupled with a well formed strategy to bring it to a potential customer's attention. Why try to sell stuff to people who do not want it? Seriously think about that. The EASY approach however is to keep flinging shit until something sticks, and inevitably something will.
The last movie was hilariously painful in hindsight. Not only because it was long, but because I remember thinking "oh, it's almost over", then experiencing probably the longest movie ending of all time. Since no one else has brought up this topic, going for a piss is this epic journey in movie theaters where you have to get out of your isle, down some ramp out the showing exit find the bathroom (which is probably down the hall), then reverse that process and come back to a dark theater and try to figure out where you were sitting. That's actually one of the things that bothers me most about movies, since I drink a lot (I purposely don't buy concessions because of this - not cost). If I go to a friends house and watch a movie with them, I'm done and back in 2 minutes tops. That's like 5-8 minutes in a theater.
That's about what I've experienced with dreamhost. Great the vast majority of the time, but with a few rare collosal screwups. Notably the company where I work has a website hosted with them, and had our dns records pointed to some porn site because they failed to update bind. (don't get me started on how they manage their dns over there). I also think the way they handle email is completely fubar and switched mail handling to google.
But they do offer an outstanding amount of freedom for a shared account. I certainly couldn't go back to a host that didn't offer full shell access. I've been with them over 12 years now and I haven't moved off, so I'm satisfied their service.
I agree that the reason things are getting bigger is because of extra "crap" getting served. Comercial pages are the biggest chunk of it, but even stuff like wordpress can toss out a lot of junk with templates. With bigger screen resolutions and assumed high speed internet, I'm seeing many sites being much more sloppy with large graphics too. The slashdot question at the end makes it sound like personal pages are relavent to this statistic. What percentage of the population actually has a personal homepage these days? 0.2% ? Facebook and blogging covers 99% of what most people need.
I've had a page since 1997 and the average page size hasn't changed a whole lot. With the transition from table layouts to css the file sizes went down for a while, then my css got more complicated and it's about the same. A big page adds up to maybe as much as 15-20k. Anyone actually try writing 20k worth of text, grammer check it, proof read and edit it multiple times? That's a LOT of work for a file that is that small. I've got over 765 pages, with about 28Mb of stuff all together. I have no idea how much css is involved but my javascript adds up to something like 2k total (not including the google spy stuff).
There's a difference between siphoning "most of the gas" and getting ALL of the bad gas out of the tank. I highly doubt you'd be able to get all of it out with a siphon. The alternative is to probably dilute the tank by running multiple tanks of gas through it then siphon the entire thing out repeatedly, but with the cost of a tank or two of gas that's not as cheap as it used to be either.
I know one guy with teenage daughter and got her a manual because he thought it would make her pay attention to driving. As someone who drives a stick I have to admit that it's harder to "space out" compared to driving an automatic, so maybe there's something to that.
If there is enough water like 50% that's enough to cause headaches when added to a car. With "stuff" in the gas, it's likely that will cause reoccurring problems with the fuel filter. And draining a tank isn't cheap.
If this is so common that it happens a lot and there is no reason people would write rules this way, then I'm not sure why you wouldn't patch it. Protecting the user base from pitfalls should be a goal of software. But yeah, non story.
most implementations of rm now refuse to remove / (root directory), so yes even rm has been patched for safety at some point.
For that matter, I'd paint the outside so that it looks like a real sci-fi super computer, tape reels and all. As long as someone says "man that looks complicated" it's mission accomplished. That's why you pay the big bucks right?
It's been this way for years. Slashdot isn't about the joy of tinkering, or science. It's an endless string of rants about people complaining about absolutely everything. As the saying goes, BSD is for people that love Unix, Linux is for people that hate windows. I think some of the negativity has seeped into the minds of people where they can no longer comprehend liking a system that is well organized and fun (in a nerd kind of way) to use.
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I'm not entirely sure I even understand what kind of war would require the F-35. The reality of modern warfare is that fighter jets are missile delivery systems. Avionics and missile/bomb capabilities are what really makes the jet, and the old tried and true F-15 can do that just fine. It's unclear how much of an advantage stealth really is for something like the F-35 against a high tech adversary anyway.
I'm not seeing conclusive proof that either android or the phones are at fault here. Android phones are widely available, and low cost, but in particular they're introducing (more sensitive) touch screens to a market which probably hasn't traditionally taken good care of their phones. I'd guess nearly any inexpensive touch screen phone would have similar problems.
This generally isn't the plugin, but has more to do with the way websites are set up. For some sites like wikipedia it's noticeable, but still usable. java.com loads the front page but then simply doesn't work at all. Either way if you're concerned about speed for some sites, you can selectively turn it off.
Did they actually come up with an in house billing system? I've never seen a game that was such a disaster when it came to taking your money. It's like they tried to introduce every hurdle possible to prevent people from actually subscribing. During release me and a few friends decided to all get in FFXIV to check it out. After the payment ordeal, each person of our group that arrived felt like they had made it up the beaches of Normandy on D-Day.
Just as well that we were all phoning each other trying to figure out how to pay for the thing, since once we did get online it was another calamity trying to figure out how to send each other tells.
Even if no one remembers this exists after today, for California to recognize a holiday invents more bureaucracy that they have to keep track of, so it is indeed wasting their money. Must be nice for a state to have so much money that they can invent more ways to waste it...
Ugh, does this bring up a sore topic where I work. We do a fair amount of printing, so I have to get a decent printer. Management (or purchasing) keeps deciding to get refilled cartridges to "save money". In the mean time these things have been notoriously poor quality and led to a lot of problems with printing, wasting time with install errors, and on top of that wrecking printers.
We're moving to Kyocera printers here and I've shuffled in a managed print solution from a local company that charges on a per page basis. Course pretty much anything including setting the printer on fire every 3 months would come out cheaper than the way we've been doing it, but most of this all goes back to how expensive HP cartridges are.
They still serve email. My boss (and much of his family) still use (and pay) for AOL even though they have broadband and AOL provides them with nothing but an email address as far as I can figure. It's apparently hilariously bad, as he's always talking about how the website doesn't work much of the time, and the connection simply times out. I think they also distribute some software that goes with "AOL" but I have no idea what it does. I hear it still crashes a lot though.
Exactly. I know a race car driver who is a rabid rotary diehard, who has a long history of driving Mazdas. He wouldn't touch an RX-8 and always referred to them as garbage. He just bought an RX-2 the other day actually.
Mazda can try to pin this on many factors, but in the end it's more their fault for the way they designed the RX-8 then people not wanting a sporty rotary car to drive. The Japanese are almost out of fun reasonably priced cars to drive now. The Civic Si is... uh, yeah. That basically leaves Subaru with the WRX STI.
That said, I can't help but feel that to leave now would be betraying my friends and colleagues.
Assuming they're not self absorbed, and they're truly friends I'm pretty sure they'd understand. If the company is in such a bad spot when one person leaves, they're not set up well for disasters anyway. What if you got hit by a bus? I agree with a post above that offering to do training / consulting would be a good way to transition out, even if it means a lot of work in the immediate future.
Everyone else here brings up the pay, but I think cutting commute time would be a much bigger deal to me and an opportunity that will likely never present itself again.
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The problem is that this expects the person who reads the code to inherently understand your mentality and logic. There are batches of code which look screwy, but eventually you can "figure out" what the person was thinking in what they were trying to do. But often this isn't the case. If solutions were as easy as describing them, then anyone could program. I don't believe in obsessively commenting every line, but having a simple commented explanation of what something is supposed to do can make it vastly easier to see why or why not their solution is right or wrong.
I've got a similar firewall doing a fair amount of work and running at about 17mb. However that's apples to oranges with a desktop environment which can consume orders of magnitude more ram. If you're going to maintain a modern system on old hardware, you're going to have to get your hands dirty with an involved setup. That's always been true for FreeBSD or Linux.
Also, why are people talking about using ZFS on a desktop? Do people have too much RAM?
R&D has little to do with an end product. Someone higher up has to decide that an idea is viable, and then come up with a good way to implement it. Look at the "revolutionary" products Apple has made: the iphone, ipod, and ipad. Some smaller things like the scroll wheel do add something new, but 95% of their functionality was done before in other products first. It takes more than some patentable idea to make a good viable product. Hell how does anyone explain how many years MS had to make a decent phone and the best they could do was Windows Mobile up to 6.5?
I think this is more to the credit of Microsoft actually. Despite having no clue how to make products out of anything, they still dump a lot of money into R&D.
If sales and marketing is about finding out what a person needs and a sales person finds out that what that person needs isn't something that they can supply, it is a rare sales and marketing person that will say so. They do exist. I speak to maybe one a year...
That has a lot to do with someone not being good at their job. Lets face it, the majority of people really aren't that good at their job. Sales and Marketing is about making a company money, not flushing money down the toilet with worthless mailers and radio ads. Efficiency in marketing requires knowledge of your product, and who would use it coupled with a well formed strategy to bring it to a potential customer's attention. Why try to sell stuff to people who do not want it? Seriously think about that. The EASY approach however is to keep flinging shit until something sticks, and inevitably something will.
"as early as 45" not the same as "at 45"
Marry someone from Canada and you can have Thanksgiving twice a year every year (or the other way if you are Canadian).
The last movie was hilariously painful in hindsight. Not only because it was long, but because I remember thinking "oh, it's almost over", then experiencing probably the longest movie ending of all time. Since no one else has brought up this topic, going for a piss is this epic journey in movie theaters where you have to get out of your isle, down some ramp out the showing exit find the bathroom (which is probably down the hall), then reverse that process and come back to a dark theater and try to figure out where you were sitting. That's actually one of the things that bothers me most about movies, since I drink a lot (I purposely don't buy concessions because of this - not cost). If I go to a friends house and watch a movie with them, I'm done and back in 2 minutes tops. That's like 5-8 minutes in a theater.
That's about what I've experienced with dreamhost. Great the vast majority of the time, but with a few rare collosal screwups. Notably the company where I work has a website hosted with them, and had our dns records pointed to some porn site because they failed to update bind. (don't get me started on how they manage their dns over there). I also think the way they handle email is completely fubar and switched mail handling to google.
But they do offer an outstanding amount of freedom for a shared account. I certainly couldn't go back to a host that didn't offer full shell access. I've been with them over 12 years now and I haven't moved off, so I'm satisfied their service.
I agree that the reason things are getting bigger is because of extra "crap" getting served. Comercial pages are the biggest chunk of it, but even stuff like wordpress can toss out a lot of junk with templates. With bigger screen resolutions and assumed high speed internet, I'm seeing many sites being much more sloppy with large graphics too. The slashdot question at the end makes it sound like personal pages are relavent to this statistic. What percentage of the population actually has a personal homepage these days? 0.2% ? Facebook and blogging covers 99% of what most people need.
I've had a page since 1997 and the average page size hasn't changed a whole lot. With the transition from table layouts to css the file sizes went down for a while, then my css got more complicated and it's about the same. A big page adds up to maybe as much as 15-20k. Anyone actually try writing 20k worth of text, grammer check it, proof read and edit it multiple times? That's a LOT of work for a file that is that small. I've got over 765 pages, with about 28Mb of stuff all together. I have no idea how much css is involved but my javascript adds up to something like 2k total (not including the google spy stuff).
If you're that worried about space, just use the fullscreen function. Firefox even has an option that allows tabs to stay in fullscreen.
There's a difference between siphoning "most of the gas" and getting ALL of the bad gas out of the tank. I highly doubt you'd be able to get all of it out with a siphon. The alternative is to probably dilute the tank by running multiple tanks of gas through it then siphon the entire thing out repeatedly, but with the cost of a tank or two of gas that's not as cheap as it used to be either.
I know one guy with teenage daughter and got her a manual because he thought it would make her pay attention to driving. As someone who drives a stick I have to admit that it's harder to "space out" compared to driving an automatic, so maybe there's something to that.
If there is enough water like 50% that's enough to cause headaches when added to a car. With "stuff" in the gas, it's likely that will cause reoccurring problems with the fuel filter. And draining a tank isn't cheap.
If this is so common that it happens a lot and there is no reason people would write rules this way, then I'm not sure why you wouldn't patch it. Protecting the user base from pitfalls should be a goal of software. But yeah, non story.
most implementations of rm now refuse to remove / (root directory), so yes even rm has been patched for safety at some point.
For that matter, I'd paint the outside so that it looks like a real sci-fi super computer, tape reels and all. As long as someone says "man that looks complicated" it's mission accomplished. That's why you pay the big bucks right?
It's been this way for years. Slashdot isn't about the joy of tinkering, or science. It's an endless string of rants about people complaining about absolutely everything. As the saying goes, BSD is for people that love Unix, Linux is for people that hate windows. I think some of the negativity has seeped into the minds of people where they can no longer comprehend liking a system that is well organized and fun (in a nerd kind of way) to use.
I'm not entirely sure I even understand what kind of war would require the F-35. The reality of modern warfare is that fighter jets are missile delivery systems. Avionics and missile/bomb capabilities are what really makes the jet, and the old tried and true F-15 can do that just fine. It's unclear how much of an advantage stealth really is for something like the F-35 against a high tech adversary anyway.
I'm not seeing conclusive proof that either android or the phones are at fault here. Android phones are widely available, and low cost, but in particular they're introducing (more sensitive) touch screens to a market which probably hasn't traditionally taken good care of their phones. I'd guess nearly any inexpensive touch screen phone would have similar problems.
This generally isn't the plugin, but has more to do with the way websites are set up. For some sites like wikipedia it's noticeable, but still usable. java.com loads the front page but then simply doesn't work at all. Either way if you're concerned about speed for some sites, you can selectively turn it off.
Did they actually come up with an in house billing system? I've never seen a game that was such a disaster when it came to taking your money. It's like they tried to introduce every hurdle possible to prevent people from actually subscribing. During release me and a few friends decided to all get in FFXIV to check it out. After the payment ordeal, each person of our group that arrived felt like they had made it up the beaches of Normandy on D-Day.
Just as well that we were all phoning each other trying to figure out how to pay for the thing, since once we did get online it was another calamity trying to figure out how to send each other tells.
Even if no one remembers this exists after today, for California to recognize a holiday invents more bureaucracy that they have to keep track of, so it is indeed wasting their money. Must be nice for a state to have so much money that they can invent more ways to waste it ...
Ugh, does this bring up a sore topic where I work. We do a fair amount of printing, so I have to get a decent printer. Management (or purchasing) keeps deciding to get refilled cartridges to "save money". In the mean time these things have been notoriously poor quality and led to a lot of problems with printing, wasting time with install errors, and on top of that wrecking printers.
We're moving to Kyocera printers here and I've shuffled in a managed print solution from a local company that charges on a per page basis. Course pretty much anything including setting the printer on fire every 3 months would come out cheaper than the way we've been doing it, but most of this all goes back to how expensive HP cartridges are.
They still serve email. My boss (and much of his family) still use (and pay) for AOL even though they have broadband and AOL provides them with nothing but an email address as far as I can figure. It's apparently hilariously bad, as he's always talking about how the website doesn't work much of the time, and the connection simply times out. I think they also distribute some software that goes with "AOL" but I have no idea what it does. I hear it still crashes a lot though.
Exactly. I know a race car driver who is a rabid rotary diehard, who has a long history of driving Mazdas. He wouldn't touch an RX-8 and always referred to them as garbage. He just bought an RX-2 the other day actually.
Mazda can try to pin this on many factors, but in the end it's more their fault for the way they designed the RX-8 then people not wanting a sporty rotary car to drive. The Japanese are almost out of fun reasonably priced cars to drive now. The Civic Si is... uh, yeah. That basically leaves Subaru with the WRX STI.
That said, I can't help but feel that to leave now would be betraying my friends and colleagues.
Assuming they're not self absorbed, and they're truly friends I'm pretty sure they'd understand. If the company is in such a bad spot when one person leaves, they're not set up well for disasters anyway. What if you got hit by a bus? I agree with a post above that offering to do training / consulting would be a good way to transition out, even if it means a lot of work in the immediate future.
Everyone else here brings up the pay, but I think cutting commute time would be a much bigger deal to me and an opportunity that will likely never present itself again.