I used to be a member but stopped my subscription a few years ago after a series of particularly poor articles. I remember two:
The first was Elliot Wave Theory being reported as some sort of be-all for financial markets.
The second was some grad with a report on his really low-quality applet that would download pictures in the background so that they would be ready in your browsers cache for when you visited linked pages on the site.
Slashdot Mirror
The reviewers ... look for ... three types of inaccuracy: factual errors, critical omissions and misleading statements.
Having a longer document with more omissions is nothing to be proud of.
My favorite OK/Cancel dialog box in a trading-system reads:
"Are you sure you want to cancel the order?"
So it's hit OK to cancel, and Cancel to cancel cancelling.
So, can anyone provide details of a location we can get the video from?
I used to be a member but stopped my subscription a few years ago after a series of particularly poor articles. I remember two:
The first was Elliot Wave Theory being reported as some sort of be-all for financial markets.
The second was some grad with a report on his really low-quality applet that would download pictures in the background so that they would be ready in your browsers cache for when you visited linked pages on the site.
people still share music in groves.
Arrgh, it's exceeding my capacity
People still find unexploded cannonballs....
Unexploded cannonballs?
'Sega managed to rebuff its most enthusiastic suitors [including Namco, possibly EA, Microsoft]'
Not what I heard - which is that Namco and Sega are planning office layouts for a merged company.
2. Redesign I/O.
Again? java.nio.* vs. java.io.*
8. Eliminate primitive data types.
7. Extend chars to four bytes.
A char is a primitive data type.
The trick was that e.g. 11 returns "th", but 21 returns "st". A handful of them were able to get that right.
This event was very geeky, I felt very out of place.
I bought one of the "Help Me" google tea-towels though.