You've got me beat on pixels, but my Slashdot user ID edges you out by a few. I propose a stage 3 match where we implement a chess engine in less than 1 KB of JavaScript.
"The fundamental problem with RPC is coupling. RPC clients become tightly coupled to service implementation in several ways and it becomes very hard to change service implementation without breaking clients"
http://stackoverflow.com/a/151...
Chess! You can play a casual 5-minute blitz game, or delve deep into theory for years, or anything in between. With the Internet chess has exploded. On the chess.com server I play on, you'll find 15,000 people or more available for a game at a given time.
I'd love to see the age breakdown for Slashdot. I'm 34. Definitely older than the mean age of the reddit crowd. But not quite as old as some.
The new design has a slightly less attractive font, flatter, maybe a little more whitespace, slightly larger social media sharing icons. I don't get the freak out. I've been using Slashdot since 1998 (see my fancy 4-digit user id) and have seen it go through a few redesigns since then. This is nothing new. It's just Slashdot catching up to the rest of the web for what's fashionable (flat design is in right now).
It's a shame the developer > QA mentality persists. I've been doing QA for some time and love it. Things I like about it:
* Well-compensated (I make 86K + great benefits like matching 401k/etc.)
* At every place I've worked, QA works fewer hours than dev -- not sure if this is due to personality or the natures of the work or what, but I like it
* Some of us actually *enjoy* testing. Weird, huh? It's a different mode of thinking than dev. Devs imagine how things will work, QA imagines how things *won't* work and systematically finds way to expose flaws. Believe it or not, it's FUN to find failures.
* There's plenty of opportunity for programming. QA is far different from what it used to be. There aren't giant labs of manual testers as much. I and most of my colleagues lean on automation quite a lot, and in day-to-day work look much like developers (spending most of our time in IDEs, CI servers, etc.)
But, hey, the lack of competition is nice. During my last job hunt earlier this year, I pretty much had to turn off my phone and sift through everyone vying for my attention.
It's just bloat that requires fonts to implement extra, useless symbols.
Citation needed. There's no requirement. In fact, most fonts have most of Unicode missing. It'd be insane to try to cover the entirety of Unicode with each new font released. The most complete font I've found is Arial Unicode MS, but even that has vast swaths of Unicode missing.
I think it's neat that there are so many obscure and interesting uses of Unicode. If you don't agree, well, just don't use it?
Look, I'm about as technologically inclined as it gets. I'm posting this from my current generation Android, I work in software, I read tech blogs daily. But I also hike and do Zen meditation and zone out at my desk at work. It's not an either / or proposition. You can have both.
All modern desktops are more or less equivalent. What matters more is software compatibility (can I run app Y and game X on my OS?), hardware compatibility, and support/user experience (bring your Mac into the Apple Store and get a replacement the same day). Even if you made the Holy Grail of desktop UI/UX perfection, no one would care, because your Linux OS won't run Call of Duty 5 (or whatever they're up to now) and doesn't have an associated store in the mall.
I'm left-handed and of course have always bought ambidextrous / neutral mice. What puzzles me is why anyone would *want* to use a mouse that was permanently shaped for one hand. I mean, I switch off my mouse hand sometimes when I start to feel tendinitis (such as after a marathon gaming session on the weekend). I can't imagine using the same mouse hand *always*.
You can't rest on your laurels and think you can keep making the same profits you used to in the "beige box" era of PCs. The only PC maker I can think of that's actually interesting is the one I bought my last system from: iBUYPOWER. But they're specialized, making gaming systems for a specific type of user.
Secret Santa this year. But the thought of donating to Wikipedia never entered my mind, despite that I use it daily. Why? Because I've never seen the deletionism issue seriously addressed by the organization. I have a fundamental disagreement with how the site is run.
As well, I don't believe Wikipedia is all that unique. While it may have been (one of?) the first wiki encyclopedia, and obviously now it has a huge amount of content, there's nothing inherent in Wikipedia that couldn't be recreated if necessary. I don't think the Internet would implode if Wikipedia vanished tomorrow. Would I be inconvenienced? Yes. Would it take years to build a new Wikipedia? Yes. But it's not so vital to the Internet. Whereas if Google had never existed, I think the Internet would be far different.
For awhile now, Google has been using location awareness (via IP?) to deliver search results that are tailored to your region. So, for example, I am in Portland and I type "beer", one of the search suggestions is "beer festivals portland". Pretty cool, if slightly creepy.
One of the coworker types that's most destructive to an office is the secret keeper / information hoarder. While it does increase their job security, since they are the only ones who know the deep complexities and innards of the software, there are several downsides:
It builds resentment
If they ever leave the company, take a long vacation, etc. things can grind to a halt because the knowledge locked up in their head is inaccessible
It slows down work, because the secretive person documents nothing and the other employees have to constantly pester the person for information to get the job done
While freely sharing information about the software/processes may seem like it makes you more vulnerable to losing your job, it pays dividends:
The coworkers who like and respect you for sharing and helping them
The boss and people in other departments who love having documentation to refer to
You even help yourself when you don't have to stop your work to explain something to a new employee because you wrote up a wiki page already answering the question.
For those reading the criticisms of this book and looking for an alternative...
I have been working my way through this book. It is excellent. It's the book I wished I'd had when I tried CS years ago:
Because of copyright, we'll need to wait, what, 70 years until a fan-based, open source game can be made? Yeah, I know someone linked to eDuke32 in this thread, but that's not the same thing. You still have to buy copyrighted assets and not have much control.
I can confirm this. I am with Qwest DSL. Recently I moved literally 20 blocks, from one part of town to another. At my old place, I'd get rock-steady 5.5 Mb/s down at any time of day. At the new place, I can still get that speed in "off peak" hours like early morning, but in the evenings, it drops down to as low as 0.75 Mb/s. I'm still paying the same $52/month, still have the same modem, same computer. All that's changed is my location (and that not by much).
I might switch to Comcast cable Internet at some point, but their past shenanigans with interfering with Bit Torrent, etc. make me wary.
I downloaded it, couldn't figure out the controls, stopped playing. There are thousands of shitty Flash games on the web. At least those ones don't make you download a.zip file.
That's why they call it "'fuck you' money". If you get rich enough, you can tell anyone to fuck off. Work on whatever project you'd like. Hell, the most absurd the better. What better way to live a happy life than to do something absurd just because you can?
Slashdot Mirror
I wonder if the commenters are just as aspie as Damore.
REEEEEEEEEEEE
You've got me beat on pixels, but my Slashdot user ID edges you out by a few. I propose a stage 3 match where we implement a chess engine in less than 1 KB of JavaScript.
"The fundamental problem with RPC is coupling. RPC clients become tightly coupled to service implementation in several ways and it becomes very hard to change service implementation without breaking clients" http://stackoverflow.com/a/151...
https://news.ycombinator.com/i...
Chess! You can play a casual 5-minute blitz game, or delve deep into theory for years, or anything in between. With the Internet chess has exploded. On the chess.com server I play on, you'll find 15,000 people or more available for a game at a given time.
I'd love to see the age breakdown for Slashdot. I'm 34. Definitely older than the mean age of the reddit crowd. But not quite as old as some.
The new design has a slightly less attractive font, flatter, maybe a little more whitespace, slightly larger social media sharing icons. I don't get the freak out. I've been using Slashdot since 1998 (see my fancy 4-digit user id) and have seen it go through a few redesigns since then. This is nothing new. It's just Slashdot catching up to the rest of the web for what's fashionable (flat design is in right now).
Calm down, everyone.
It's a shame the developer > QA mentality persists. I've been doing QA for some time and love it. Things I like about it:
* Well-compensated (I make 86K + great benefits like matching 401k/etc.)
* At every place I've worked, QA works fewer hours than dev -- not sure if this is due to personality or the natures of the work or what, but I like it
* Some of us actually *enjoy* testing. Weird, huh? It's a different mode of thinking than dev. Devs imagine how things will work, QA imagines how things *won't* work and systematically finds way to expose flaws. Believe it or not, it's FUN to find failures.
* There's plenty of opportunity for programming. QA is far different from what it used to be. There aren't giant labs of manual testers as much. I and most of my colleagues lean on automation quite a lot, and in day-to-day work look much like developers (spending most of our time in IDEs, CI servers, etc.)
But, hey, the lack of competition is nice. During my last job hunt earlier this year, I pretty much had to turn off my phone and sift through everyone vying for my attention.
It's just bloat that requires fonts to implement extra, useless symbols.
Citation needed. There's no requirement. In fact, most fonts have most of Unicode missing. It'd be insane to try to cover the entirety of Unicode with each new font released. The most complete font I've found is Arial Unicode MS, but even that has vast swaths of Unicode missing.
I think it's neat that there are so many obscure and interesting uses of Unicode. If you don't agree, well, just don't use it?
Look, I'm about as technologically inclined as it gets. I'm posting this from my current generation Android, I work in software, I read tech blogs daily. But I also hike and do Zen meditation and zone out at my desk at work. It's not an either / or proposition. You can have both.
All modern desktops are more or less equivalent. What matters more is software compatibility (can I run app Y and game X on my OS?), hardware compatibility, and support/user experience (bring your Mac into the Apple Store and get a replacement the same day). Even if you made the Holy Grail of desktop UI/UX perfection, no one would care, because your Linux OS won't run Call of Duty 5 (or whatever they're up to now) and doesn't have an associated store in the mall.
The best organizations use a blend of methods; they don't fall into the trap of forcing everyone to work the exact same way at all times.
I'm left-handed and of course have always bought ambidextrous / neutral mice. What puzzles me is why anyone would *want* to use a mouse that was permanently shaped for one hand. I mean, I switch off my mouse hand sometimes when I start to feel tendinitis (such as after a marathon gaming session on the weekend). I can't imagine using the same mouse hand *always*.
You can't rest on your laurels and think you can keep making the same profits you used to in the "beige box" era of PCs. The only PC maker I can think of that's actually interesting is the one I bought my last system from: iBUYPOWER. But they're specialized, making gaming systems for a specific type of user.
Secret Santa this year. But the thought of donating to Wikipedia never entered my mind, despite that I use it daily. Why? Because I've never seen the deletionism issue seriously addressed by the organization. I have a fundamental disagreement with how the site is run.
As well, I don't believe Wikipedia is all that unique. While it may have been (one of?) the first wiki encyclopedia, and obviously now it has a huge amount of content, there's nothing inherent in Wikipedia that couldn't be recreated if necessary. I don't think the Internet would implode if Wikipedia vanished tomorrow. Would I be inconvenienced? Yes. Would it take years to build a new Wikipedia? Yes. But it's not so vital to the Internet. Whereas if Google had never existed, I think the Internet would be far different.
20 hours!? So why didn't you charge them? Sounds like they have good reason to ignore the costs if they get free help.
Just like a user won't start backing up files until they feel the pain of file loss...
For awhile now, Google has been using location awareness (via IP?) to deliver search results that are tailored to your region. So, for example, I am in Portland and I type "beer", one of the search suggestions is "beer festivals portland". Pretty cool, if slightly creepy.
a story about Facebook is posted. Does that count?
While freely sharing information about the software/processes may seem like it makes you more vulnerable to losing your job, it pays dividends:
For those reading the criticisms of this book and looking for an alternative... I have been working my way through this book. It is excellent. It's the book I wished I'd had when I tried CS years ago:
http://www.amazon.com/Python-Programming-Introduction-Computer-Science/dp/1887902996
Because of copyright, we'll need to wait, what, 70 years until a fan-based, open source game can be made? Yeah, I know someone linked to eDuke32 in this thread, but that's not the same thing. You still have to buy copyrighted assets and not have much control.
I can confirm this. I am with Qwest DSL. Recently I moved literally 20 blocks, from one part of town to another. At my old place, I'd get rock-steady 5.5 Mb/s down at any time of day. At the new place, I can still get that speed in "off peak" hours like early morning, but in the evenings, it drops down to as low as 0.75 Mb/s. I'm still paying the same $52/month, still have the same modem, same computer. All that's changed is my location (and that not by much).
I might switch to Comcast cable Internet at some point, but their past shenanigans with interfering with Bit Torrent, etc. make me wary.
the dam has quite literally broke
Um, no. Just, no. You fail.
I downloaded it, couldn't figure out the controls, stopped playing. There are thousands of shitty Flash games on the web. At least those ones don't make you download a .zip file.
That's why they call it "'fuck you' money". If you get rich enough, you can tell anyone to fuck off. Work on whatever project you'd like. Hell, the most absurd the better. What better way to live a happy life than to do something absurd just because you can?