No matter how hard they work for 6 hours won't let them answer a phone between 3 and 5 when they're not working.
So employ more people? No one does anything useful with a call after 3 anyway, unless it's in a 24/7 service industry.
Indeed. For a site that is full of apparently thoughtful articulate people, there is a really strong band of "wilfully stupid" here. So many of these posts seem to fail to grasp the concept of 'shifts'.
Huh? The project recently adopted the Contributor's Covenant which was the brainchild of Coraline Ada, queen SJW. Of course bringing up SJW is appropriate in this context. The trend is unmistakable and the slippery slope has begun toward the fall of the high kernel standards.
Look - you either trust his judgement or you don't. If you do then all this shouting was justified and he's infallible and whatever. But you also have to accept that when he considers himself in the wrong, accept that he genuinely thinks that, and not blame some bogeyman that you currently have a grudge against.
Counter argument: Was he a dick to competent people who screwed up and fixed their error? Or just to the ones who screwed up then tried to justify breaking the rules and he slammed the point home?
I suspect you'll find that the latter is much more common in LKML.
In any case the core point is that if you want a truly quality product, regardless of the industry, goals and results take precedence over "feelings" in any form or fashion.
Or... (and I know subtley isn't a thing on slashdot)... the reality was a bit of both? Some people deserve it but some don't and you don't get reasoned discussion when someone is shouting at you. We've all worked with people like that.
Why change things all the time (and waste the users' time) when things don't get better? I.e., why not leave the URL alone?
simplifying the UI
How is removing information like www. a simplification of the user interface?
Same reason we don't show the port number - it's usually pointless information that is irrelevant. And no I'm not saying it's always useless, and that there's no case where this won't be annoying or harmful, but obviously it does simplify the address. Those people posting on this story with unwavering views that this is a non-changable thing, are forgetting that we already remove information from the URL.
If you really care the only option is an Android phone with a custom OS that doesn't include Google services. OnePlus handsets are well supported, cheap and well made.
Very true. For a swathe of the unthinking/. responders saying "google spy" is the end of the discussion for them. Google is collecting data that you don't want, but there is a way of stopping that through non-Google Android. You have *no* idea what Apple is doing, you just have to trust them blindly.
2. Give up games and a whole host of creativity / specialist software that isn't available for Linux. I love Linux, but no, problem not fucking solved.
You have a choice of only 2 operating systems for generic PCs, and that is hardly a healthy place to exercise your power as a consumer.
... and close the window. No reason for a freakout here.
It's just one more fucking straw on the anitconsumer camel's back. This is bad behaviour - admit it as such. They've made the OS more of a pain to use specifically to promote their own product, and who's to say it will stop here? How many popups do you want? Because if we *don't* make a fuss then you can be damn sure they will try other shit too and make everyone's lives just that bit worse.
There are a whole bunch of ways of causing problems in codebases that you won't know about immediately, that can't just be reverted. Choices that gets buried and then it turns out to be badly thought through weeks later when other things are build ontop. TDD won't always save you because TDD doesn't help if the understanding of the problem is incorrect in the first place, or things that just aren't testable. Negative work isn't a new concept.
the additional hours make the overall result worse
I can believe a productivity drop, but you are claiming NEGATIVE productivity after X hours. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and you provide... nothing.
He doesn't provide evidence... but it's not so surprising, you must have felt this? When you start making mistakes that you wouldn't have made earlier in the day? And in computing those mistakes tend to take longer to undo than if nothing had been done... ie negative work.
So here's a little reality check for you... the rest of the world is losing patience with your President, and losing any feelings of friendship towards the US. We can no longer separate your asshole president from your idiot citizens who parrot the dumb shit he says.
I hear what you're saying - you would like your country to pay for your defense from Russia.
Oh fucking please. Right now the president's attitude to Russia makes it very questionable whether the US is a reliable defensive partner. He's publicly defending Putin to the world, denying his own governments findings about what Russia has been up to. The US is no longer a reliable member of NATO.
The US military doesn't exist to protect anyone, it's ludicrously over-powered to do so and can role over any other country in the world. It exists because the US has a hardon for military power and it's politically impossible to do anything else but keep funding a large military.
You must admit though that's not exactly a common use, especially in countries that don't span continents and that do have train systems. After a certain distance it's much nicer to ride at 150MPH than manually drive at 70. This one use-case that EVs are not good for... I don't get why that's *such* a massive focus.
That's why I will be staying with ICE for quite some time. When I buy an ICE car, I don't have to worry about who has the 'lead' in filling it.
This is one of those problems that goes away completely once the range passes a certain threshold. For me that's about 250 miles - I am not going to drive further than that without a reasonable break because my human brain can't do it. Maybe for you it's 350, or 500, but at some point you're going to be the range limiter, not the car. And we're not far from that figure, ranges are going up yearly.
Then it's going to be hard to ignore the complete dominance in advantages in pretty much every other sphere of driving. (fuel cost, responsiveness, maintenance cost, engineering simplicity...)
Seriously, who cares? Who trusts Google, a company that makes all of its money by spying on the users of its platform, with anything that has to do with security? Their whole business model is based around taking your data. I would trust it more if it was a product of the NSA or CIA.
There is a difference between personal security, web security, which is something that is both in your and Google's interest to secure, and the mining of personal information, which is in their interest, but not yours. This is obviously a product for the first.
Not everything Google does fits into the hysterical OH MAH GAWD THEYRE TAHKIN ALL MAH DATA narrative.
Sorry but everyone time I hear that my energy bill will go down due to increases in efficiency just means they increase the rate. I'm all for newer, more efficient technologies but don't try and sell it like I'll spend less money on electricity.
I think the problem is that human behaviour tends to take advantage of changes in efficiency to improve quality of life rather than continue the same and safe money. I know that when I was a child every room had multiple 100W bulbs, we switched the lights off religiously when leaving the space and got chastised when we didn't. Now my house has a collection of 6W bulbs and I don't worry about switching the lights off particularly... I'm getting a nicer evening environment with the new efficient technology by burning up the saving.
Like I said before, you're a fucking idiot. Rather than parroting some boring rehearsed anti-youth propaganda, maybe you'd spend your time better actually finding out what the problem might be. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared...
Or does that gap not mean anything to you? Yes it's just the stupid millenials! That's much more likely!
A lot of the new Millennial hipster types don't even own their house or car. Hell, they don't even own their PHONE. Even that is rented from some company. It's clear that Millennials don't understand how finance works, since they can't understand the concept that renting everything is far more expensive than buying outright.
You're a fucking idiot. Nobody *wants* to rent a car, phone, house.
You do it when you have to, when the alternative is either too expensive to do outright, and the loan / mortgage is unattainable or too expensive. Go look up the ever increasing gap between house prices and average wages.
Now I don't know much about hearing aids -- but then this is/. I can have a strong opinion anyway -- but why aren't hearing aids already standard bluetooth audio devices? I imagine it's not *quite* that simple, but it seems bizarre to me that this is even needed, we've had a protocol for transmitting sound data between devices for ages. It's pretty disappointing that this is even necessary. Can someone with more experience expand on this?
Good grief what an insanely stupid question. PC or Mac? Try going further back a little like Atari/Commodores. Phones (with neighbors) 1 TV in the house (shocking, I know!!!) hell, even just 1 radio!!! (You know, the thing you have to listen to?) There's a whole host of other things that were shared in the past that aren't as often now (bathrooms, bedrooms, even beds)
You had a house? Luxury! We used to live in hole int' ground!
So all those people who claim that air travel is not a necessity and that you should forgo long-distance travel for pleasure or work or family to stick it to the TSA, (and therefore implicitly blaming people who do fly for 'supporting' this regime), what now? What when it is your local only-viable transport system that's installed it? When does the myth of the effective boycot get exposed, and we have to admit that there is a problem that can't be fixed by the 'market', and actually have to fix with legislation?
For doing the right thing here. And I mean not locking down the Play Store, allowing 3rd party sources. Google could easily (ab)use its dominant position in the smartphone OS market to force Epic to go through its Play Store and forfeit 30% of their revenues. But they didn't. Thank you for not being Apple.
...ish. The advertising of the rival in the warning is getting into dodgy territory though. If you have a control over the search mechanism, and you push someone to download something that can provide you revenue over what they wanted that won't provide you with revenue, that's very convenient for you. If you have a monopoly position then it would be an illegal abuse. That "monopoly-status" step is debatable.
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No matter how hard they work for 6 hours won't let them answer a phone between 3 and 5 when they're not working.
So employ more people? No one does anything useful with a call after 3 anyway, unless it's in a 24/7 service industry.
Indeed. For a site that is full of apparently thoughtful articulate people, there is a really strong band of "wilfully stupid" here. So many of these posts seem to fail to grasp the concept of 'shifts'.
Huh? The project recently adopted the Contributor's Covenant which was the brainchild of Coraline Ada, queen SJW. Of course bringing up SJW is appropriate in this context. The trend is unmistakable and the slippery slope has begun toward the fall of the high kernel standards.
Look - you either trust his judgement or you don't. If you do then all this shouting was justified and he's infallible and whatever. But you also have to accept that when he considers himself in the wrong, accept that he genuinely thinks that, and not blame some bogeyman that you currently have a grudge against.
Counter argument: Was he a dick to competent people who screwed up and fixed their error? Or just to the ones who screwed up then tried to justify breaking the rules and he slammed the point home?
I suspect you'll find that the latter is much more common in LKML.
In any case the core point is that if you want a truly quality product, regardless of the industry, goals and results take precedence over "feelings" in any form or fashion.
Or... (and I know subtley isn't a thing on slashdot)... the reality was a bit of both? Some people deserve it but some don't and you don't get reasoned discussion when someone is shouting at you. We've all worked with people like that.
Why change things all the time (and waste the users' time) when things don't get better? I.e., why not leave the URL alone?
simplifying the UI
How is removing information like www. a simplification of the user interface?
Same reason we don't show the port number - it's usually pointless information that is irrelevant. And no I'm not saying it's always useless, and that there's no case where this won't be annoying or harmful, but obviously it does simplify the address. Those people posting on this story with unwavering views that this is a non-changable thing, are forgetting that we already remove information from the URL.
But you are okay with Apple spying on?
If you really care the only option is an Android phone with a custom OS that doesn't include Google services. OnePlus handsets are well supported, cheap and well made.
Very true. For a swathe of the unthinking /. responders saying "google spy" is the end of the discussion for them. Google is collecting data that you don't want, but there is a way of stopping that through non-Google Android. You have *no* idea what Apple is doing, you just have to trust them blindly.
Problem solved.
2. Give up games and a whole host of creativity / specialist software that isn't available for Linux. I love Linux, but no, problem not fucking solved.
You have a choice of only 2 operating systems for generic PCs, and that is hardly a healthy place to exercise your power as a consumer.
... and close the window. No reason for a freakout here.
It's just one more fucking straw on the anitconsumer camel's back. This is bad behaviour - admit it as such. They've made the OS more of a pain to use specifically to promote their own product, and who's to say it will stop here? How many popups do you want? Because if we *don't* make a fuss then you can be damn sure they will try other shit too and make everyone's lives just that bit worse.
He doesn't provide evidence
Indeed, and that is all that matters.
Yeah, well, neither do you.
There are a whole bunch of ways of causing problems in codebases that you won't know about immediately, that can't just be reverted. Choices that gets buried and then it turns out to be badly thought through weeks later when other things are build ontop. TDD won't always save you because TDD doesn't help if the understanding of the problem is incorrect in the first place, or things that just aren't testable. Negative work isn't a new concept.
the additional hours make the overall result worse
I can believe a productivity drop, but you are claiming NEGATIVE productivity after X hours. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and you provide ... nothing.
He doesn't provide evidence... but it's not so surprising, you must have felt this? When you start making mistakes that you wouldn't have made earlier in the day? And in computing those mistakes tend to take longer to undo than if nothing had been done... ie negative work.
So here's a little reality check for you ... the rest of the world is losing patience with your President, and losing any feelings of friendship towards the US. We can no longer separate your asshole president from your idiot citizens who parrot the dumb shit he says.
I hear what you're saying - you would like your country to pay for your defense from Russia.
Oh fucking please. Right now the president's attitude to Russia makes it very questionable whether the US is a reliable defensive partner. He's publicly defending Putin to the world, denying his own governments findings about what Russia has been up to. The US is no longer a reliable member of NATO.
The US military doesn't exist to protect anyone, it's ludicrously over-powered to do so and can role over any other country in the world. It exists because the US has a hardon for military power and it's politically impossible to do anything else but keep funding a large military.
You must admit though that's not exactly a common use, especially in countries that don't span continents and that do have train systems. After a certain distance it's much nicer to ride at 150MPH than manually drive at 70. This one use-case that EVs are not good for... I don't get why that's *such* a massive focus.
Tesla has a HUGE lead in rapid charging stations
That's why I will be staying with ICE for quite some time. When I buy an ICE car, I don't have to worry about who has the 'lead' in filling it.
This is one of those problems that goes away completely once the range passes a certain threshold. For me that's about 250 miles - I am not going to drive further than that without a reasonable break because my human brain can't do it. Maybe for you it's 350, or 500, but at some point you're going to be the range limiter, not the car. And we're not far from that figure, ranges are going up yearly.
Then it's going to be hard to ignore the complete dominance in advantages in pretty much every other sphere of driving. (fuel cost, responsiveness, maintenance cost, engineering simplicity...)
Well that I would agree with...
Seriously, who cares? Who trusts Google, a company that makes all of its money by spying on the users of its platform, with anything that has to do with security? Their whole business model is based around taking your data. I would trust it more if it was a product of the NSA or CIA.
There is a difference between personal security, web security, which is something that is both in your and Google's interest to secure, and the mining of personal information, which is in their interest, but not yours. This is obviously a product for the first.
Not everything Google does fits into the hysterical OH MAH GAWD THEYRE TAHKIN ALL MAH DATA narrative.
Yep. Donâ(TM)t think for a second that this isnâ(TM)t another way to track you online.
[citation needed]
Oh no, wait, it's 2018. Spouting unfounded bullshit without having to back it up with anything is just how things are now.
The pain I speak of is the sort of pain you experience when a loved one dies.
Luckily, with the continued attack on healthcare, this will be happening lots more in the near future too.
Sorry but everyone time I hear that my energy bill will go down due to increases in efficiency just means they increase the rate. I'm all for newer, more efficient technologies but don't try and sell it like I'll spend less money on electricity.
I think the problem is that human behaviour tends to take advantage of changes in efficiency to improve quality of life rather than continue the same and safe money. I know that when I was a child every room had multiple 100W bulbs, we switched the lights off religiously when leaving the space and got chastised when we didn't. Now my house has a collection of 6W bulbs and I don't worry about switching the lights off particularly... I'm getting a nicer evening environment with the new efficient technology by burning up the saving.
Like I said before, you're a fucking idiot. Rather than parroting some boring rehearsed anti-youth propaganda, maybe you'd spend your time better actually finding out what the problem might be.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared...
Or does that gap not mean anything to you? Yes it's just the stupid millenials! That's much more likely!
A lot of the new Millennial hipster types don't even own their house or car. Hell, they don't even own their PHONE. Even that is rented from some company. It's clear that Millennials don't understand how finance works, since they can't understand the concept that renting everything is far more expensive than buying outright.
You're a fucking idiot. Nobody *wants* to rent a car, phone, house.
You do it when you have to, when the alternative is either too expensive to do outright, and the loan / mortgage is unattainable or too expensive. Go look up the ever increasing gap between house prices and average wages.
Now I don't know much about hearing aids -- but then this is /. I can have a strong opinion anyway -- but why aren't hearing aids already standard bluetooth audio devices? I imagine it's not *quite* that simple, but it seems bizarre to me that this is even needed, we've had a protocol for transmitting sound data between devices for ages. It's pretty disappointing that this is even necessary. Can someone with more experience expand on this?
Good grief what an insanely stupid question. PC or Mac? Try going further back a little like Atari/Commodores. Phones (with neighbors) 1 TV in the house (shocking, I know!!!) hell, even just 1 radio!!! (You know, the thing you have to listen to?) There's a whole host of other things that were shared in the past that aren't as often now (bathrooms, bedrooms, even beds)
You had a house? Luxury! We used to live in hole int' ground!
So all those people who claim that air travel is not a necessity and that you should forgo long-distance travel for pleasure or work or family to stick it to the TSA, (and therefore implicitly blaming people who do fly for 'supporting' this regime), what now? What when it is your local only-viable transport system that's installed it? When does the myth of the effective boycot get exposed, and we have to admit that there is a problem that can't be fixed by the 'market', and actually have to fix with legislation?
And apparently we didn't teach them history, like how many in the past died due to socialism,
Wow. Maybe it is you that needs to go read a fucking book. https://www.amazon.com/Radium-...
Much of the rest of the world seems to have implemented various levels of socialism without widespread murder. Will you teach that too?
For doing the right thing here. And I mean not locking down the Play Store, allowing 3rd party sources. Google could easily (ab)use its dominant position in the smartphone OS market to force Epic to go through its Play Store and forfeit 30% of their revenues. But they didn't. Thank you for not being Apple.
...ish. The advertising of the rival in the warning is getting into dodgy territory though. If you have a control over the search mechanism, and you push someone to download something that can provide you revenue over what they wanted that won't provide you with revenue, that's very convenient for you. If you have a monopoly position then it would be an illegal abuse. That "monopoly-status" step is debatable.
why has he screwed up? If he actually got the funding, likely from Saudi Arabia, then everything that he said was accurate.
As such, the SEC can not touch him.
And I suspect that the board knew EVERYTHING about this.
*If*.
That's the bit we don't know yet. Even if he has the funding and doesn't go through with it, it will still have been a deliberate manipulation.