and maybe after it is ported to linux/*bsd and ten years have gone by, admins will actually start using it to its full potential. Now, if someone were to code a nice gui frontend to dtrace, that'd be innovation, because it would take an absolute master of UI design to turn using dtrace into something that was easy-to-do for the uninitiated.
Yeah, he has a curious contract with Fox. People tried to independantly fund him to create a second series of Firefly and he told everyone that he couldn't even accept gifts. Buying him a pint would be fine, buying him a porsche would not.
I'm gunna take a wild guess here and suggest that some of that money will go to Joss Whedon, royalties and such, and seeing as he is prohibited from accepting money directly, that's about the only way you can pay him for making such an interesting series.
Code navigation. You basically need to be able to right click on a function name and say "go to the declaration of this function". Similarly, it's good if you can hover your mouse over a variable and see where it is declared. Intellisense frees up some more of the limited memory slots in the human brain. Finally, there's the hot-key-for-grep that every IDE should have.. the faster I can search all files in my project for a keyword the better.
It seems the alternative is to call a meeting on ever little thing, ignore processes and best practices, and generally fail to manage your staff because that would mean taking responsibility for their performance.
Think yourself lucky that you communicate with anyone at all, in most companies people don't.
You can't create demand for something that can be infinitely and freely copied.
Wow. How can you say all that and still miss the point. There's no problem "creating demand", there's only the problem of "limiting supply" and you can actually do that, but to do so requires you to be so fuckin' evil that you're willing to get in everyone's face and prevent them from helping others.
I love the way ignorant people read patents. There's more than one claim you know. You can't just take one claim from the patent and say something infringes the patent because of that one claim. If that were the case every patent which starts with:
1. a stored sequence of commands for instructing a computing device, 2. such that...
would cover every program ever written. Which, btw, is how every software patent used to start.
Please. If you havn't got the money to make it, you sure as hell aint got the money to patent it or defend said patent. Now if you would please join us in the real world.
Unless you put them into practice. People who keep their ideas secret even though they have neither the means nor the opportunity to implement them are just hoarding for the sake of hoarding.
If I ever work for someone who thinks they can fire me on a whim, I'll more than likely quit before they get the opportunity to.. and it'll be to their detriment, not mine.
I typically admit to things I've done that would otherwise go undetected to satisfy my need to not be under anyone's boot. "Yeah I took the day off and didn't call in sick, what are you gunna do about it, fire me?"
Maybe your mixer tap is different to mine, but I've never had one that remembers the last setting. On the other hand, I'm not a retard and can easily configure the desired tempurature of water from a faucet.
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and maybe after it is ported to linux/*bsd and ten years have gone by, admins will actually start using it to its full potential. Now, if someone were to code a nice gui frontend to dtrace, that'd be innovation, because it would take an absolute master of UI design to turn using dtrace into something that was easy-to-do for the uninitiated.
Sounds like the perfect reason for making the architecture open so people can add what they need themselves.
Yeah, he has a curious contract with Fox. People tried to independantly fund him to create a second series of Firefly and he told everyone that he couldn't even accept gifts. Buying him a pint would be fine, buying him a porsche would not.
I'm gunna take a wild guess here and suggest that some of that money will go to Joss Whedon, royalties and such, and seeing as he is prohibited from accepting money directly, that's about the only way you can pay him for making such an interesting series.
Or, ya know, that fact that you got to kill nazis with a chaingun. That might have had something to do with it.
Very nice quote. In fact, I'd say it was hard, fast and intense.
(no-one will get joke this but me and you.. ok, just me.)
Hey! Middle management serve a critical function in today's multinational corpora... ahh, hell, I can't keep that up.
Code navigation. You basically need to be able to right click on a function name and say "go to the declaration of this function". Similarly, it's good if you can hover your mouse over a variable and see where it is declared. Intellisense frees up some more of the limited memory slots in the human brain. Finally, there's the hot-key-for-grep that every IDE should have.. the faster I can search all files in my project for a keyword the better.
It seems the alternative is to call a meeting on ever little thing, ignore processes and best practices, and generally fail to manage your staff because that would mean taking responsibility for their performance.
Think yourself lucky that you communicate with anyone at all, in most companies people don't.
Or, ya know, release the source code so the community can fix it.
You can't create demand for something that can be infinitely and freely copied.
Wow. How can you say all that and still miss the point. There's no problem "creating demand", there's only the problem of "limiting supply" and you can actually do that, but to do so requires you to be so fuckin' evil that you're willing to get in everyone's face and prevent them from helping others.
Meh, curved surfaces are still shit.
Doesn't look like it. This is remotely relevant: http://www.refractory.unimelb.edu.au/journalissues /vol6/DBaker.html
I love the way ignorant people read patents. There's more than one claim you know. You can't just take one claim from the patent and say something infringes the patent because of that one claim. If that were the case every patent which starts with:
1. a stored sequence of commands for instructing a computing device,
2. such that...
would cover every program ever written. Which, btw, is how every software patent used to start.
Please. If you havn't got the money to make it, you sure as hell aint got the money to patent it or defend said patent. Now if you would please join us in the real world.
Unless you put them into practice. People who keep their ideas secret even though they have neither the means nor the opportunity to implement them are just hoarding for the sake of hoarding.
What's funny is when the mainstream media picks up comments like that and presents 'em as fact.
definitely. I couldn't agree more.
If I ever work for someone who thinks they can fire me on a whim, I'll more than likely quit before they get the opportunity to.. and it'll be to their detriment, not mine.
I typically admit to things I've done that would otherwise go undetected to satisfy my need to not be under anyone's boot. "Yeah I took the day off and didn't call in sick, what are you gunna do about it, fire me?"
Maybe your mixer tap is different to mine, but I've never had one that remembers the last setting. On the other hand, I'm not a retard and can easily configure the desired tempurature of water from a faucet.
also known as the single knob faucet. What was wrong with double knob faucets? Nothing, but these mixer tap things are everywhere.
congratulations, you faced em.
Thanks, and for the record, there's someone with mod points following me.
Commercialize your research or shut the hell up.