Half Life was as non-stereotype a lead character as I've seen, and that's only because Gordon wears glasses.
Consider that Half-Life was made by Valve up in Bellevue, near Seattle, where THE stereotype is thick black glasses and a goatee: the "Teach yourself HTML in 21 days!" dotcommer clones. The only thing that could have been more stereotype than that would have been equipping Gordon with a crowbar AND a latte.
Hard workers can eventually solve a given problem. But what if the problem isn't given? That would describe most of Google's current projects, I'd imagine.
Or, perhaps it's a BETA test limited to a small number of people so that they can test and scale the system out intelligently and avoid the friendster mess?
Nah, that couldn't be it... then you'd have no reason to be all self righteous on slashdot.
... aesthetics matter even to hard-headed techies. Our software is skinnable, our email is filled with HTML, and our cases glow with colorful lights...
I do not think that "aesthetics" is the word you are looking for here. "Crap", maybe?
I'm Canadian, and I remember the time period when Canada converted from Imperial to Metric (I'm going to be 2^5 this year).
My parents took my sister and I on a road trip from Winnipeg to Vancouver in 1979 and all the road signs had both miles and kilometers for speed limits and distances. I think that the Canadian education system required all schooling to be done in metric starting in 1975.
Because I was partially educated in imperial, to this day, I have a mixed sense of measurements... I measure in:
feet and inches rather than meters
celcius rather than fahrenheit
kilometers rather than miles
pounds and kilograms are both ok
ounces rather than grams
liters rather than gallons
Most importantly, I know what a pint is, and how much it should cost when full of Guinness.
To make things even more confusing, I've been living in the US for that past 3 years, so now I'm getting used to fahrenheit and miles again.
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... and many Dothans were killed bringing us this information.
Consider that Half-Life was made by Valve up in Bellevue, near Seattle, where THE stereotype is thick black glasses and a goatee: the "Teach yourself HTML in 21 days!" dotcommer clones. The only thing that could have been more stereotype than that would have been equipping Gordon with a crowbar AND a latte.
Please read this.
Hard workers can eventually solve a given problem. But what if the problem isn't given? That would describe most of Google's current projects, I'd imagine.
... to Mos Eisley?
Or, perhaps it's a BETA test limited to a small number of people so that they can test and scale the system out intelligently and avoid the friendster mess? Nah, that couldn't be it... then you'd have no reason to be all self righteous on slashdot.
I do not think that "aesthetics" is the word you are looking for here. "Crap", maybe?
Does anyone have a decent comparison of the different source control systems (i.e. ClearCase vs. CVS vs. BitKeeper, etc, etc)?
My parents took my sister and I on a road trip from Winnipeg to Vancouver in 1979 and all the road signs had both miles and kilometers for speed limits and distances. I think that the Canadian education system required all schooling to be done in metric starting in 1975.
Because I was partially educated in imperial, to this day, I have a mixed sense of measurements... I measure in:
feet and inches rather than meters
celcius rather than fahrenheit
kilometers rather than miles
pounds and kilograms are both ok
ounces rather than grams
liters rather than gallons
Most importantly, I know what a pint is, and how much it should cost when full of Guinness.
To make things even more confusing, I've been living in the US for that past 3 years, so now I'm getting used to fahrenheit and miles again.
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