Here are ten easy steps that you can take to implement Hype-Driven Development for your project.
1. First, choose a new tool. Find somewhere that the tool is being used by a company everyone has heard of. Don't be too concerned about what they're using it for, or whether it relates to your work in any way. 2. When you start using the tool, don't mention it to anyone until you've already decided to base your finished product on it. 3. Don't bother finding out if the tools you have can already do the job you're doing now. 4. Expensive tools are automatically better than cheap tools. This makes it easy to measure fitness-for-purpose. 5. Even if you only use the tool to simplify very mildly half a line of code that's only used once, incorporating a new tool is still worth it. 6. Compare the tool by re-implementing some of your existing tasks. Only test the simplest and most trivial scenarios: if it works in a simple case, it's bound to work just as easily in a complex case. 7. Any inconsistencies with existing standards can be readily overcome by creating a new standard that the new tool fits exactly. Try not to be disheartened by the idea that you've previously been doing everything wrong for years. 8. Have some like-minded suckers re-implement everything even vaguely related to the new tool from the ground up. The more suddenly you can implement this, the more of an impact it will have - and impact is always cool. 9. If the re-implemented product turns out to be awful, or if it doesn't do what users want or need it to do, you'll be committed to the new tool by then, so it won't matter. Tell anyone who is critical of the product that it's too late to change it and that they should have raised their concerns earlier - especially if they did. 10. Stride confidently into your next performance review, knowing that even though you wasted a lot of time and resources to build a product that does slightly less than it used to, you've certainly achieved a lot.
Replacing a MacBook Air battery depends entirely on having the right screwdrivers. I've done one in a 2012 MacBook Air, but the same procedure works for newer models as well.
5. I use it all the time to manage separate tasks simultaneously. Between that and All-In-One Gestures, I'm staying with Firefox for the foreseeable future.
I've also got a wheat bag that you can heat up to relieve headaches. As it turns out, you can fix a USB TV tuner with it as well:
- http://aarongnielsen.blogspot....
Apparently, if you took off the plastic casing and baked it properly in a medium oven, you could enact a more permanent fix. I haven't been game to try it, though.
If I ask a grocer for 2kg of potatoes, and he gives me 1kg of potatoes and charges me for 2kg, I think I have a right to complain. Why do we let computer people get away with that sort of nonsense?
In fact, if Microsoft made a table with 64GB of disk space, but it only made 23GB of that available to the user, you'd all complain about that: http://hardware.slashdot.org/s...
I love how media outlets - including Slashdot - are making no effort whatsoever to hide anti-Russian bias.
The Ukrainians edited Wikipedia to say that Russians shot down MH17. The Russians edited Wikipedia to say that Ukrainians shot down MH17.
Every headline complains about Russians editing Wikipedia pages about MH17. Where are the headlines about Ukrainians having already done the same thing? Where is the balance?
I had previously suggested that RIAA was just a disguise, a mask used by the Big4 companies behind RIAA, and suggested that we actually refer to them by name: Warner, EMI, Sony, and Universal. Together they form the acronym WESU, as in "We sue! Yes, we do!"
That's for the US, though. This is the Canadian affiliate, WESUC.
It would be cool to have Street View images of places that aren't already accessible on Google Maps, but I've got a more fundamental question.
Why aren't these places on Google Maps already?
The best way to see my suburb is on foot, via a network of footpaths for pedestrians and cyclists. Not one of these paths shows up in Get Directions on Google Maps. Your favourite park or hiking trail is already walkable, and who knows, it might even be useful - even if it's not as cool as riding a trike through Legoland and calling it work. Besides, I'd rather know it's there and walk through it myself.
Of course, I'm sure it's only a matter of time; they've probably been thinking about this ever since they added the Walking and Public Transport options to Get Directions. In the meantime, I'll just have to settle for cutting a third off my travel time - and the satisfaction of knowing something as a local that Google Maps didn't find out as a tourist.:P
Not really, because the nation in question - Britain, has signed up to have that as part of the deal.
If Britain hadn't signed up to this and Europe was still enforcing this you'd have a point, but as it's Britain's choice to only allow laws to be legitimate if reported to Europe then it's still a sovereign nation.
Is this the same sort of choice that Britain had to sign the Treaty of Lisbon? If it weren't for 109,965 Irish voters standing up for that choice, the meaning of your post would be a relic to history by now.
I knew I couldn't have been the only person here who thought that way.
From the original article about the installation itself, they use 17,400kWh per annum - about 47.7kWh per day. This is a staggering amount, even considering that they do work from home as well and have two teenage daughters living at home. By their own figures, their $38,000 solar installation only covers half that electricity (although about three quarters of the bill). As I'm sure NuShrike wondered, what the hell are they spending that electricity on? Do they run the air conditioner all the time? If so, wouldn't they be better off buying ceiling and wall insulation and some decent curtains?
My housemate has been considering a photovoltaic installation at home. (Since the Australian federal government suddenly pulled the rug out from underneath the $8000 rebate, I don't know whether he's still considering it.) By my measurements, he'll waste at least half of the electricity they generate on standby power for the computers and such, and nearly as much again on halogen downlights for the main living area. He's just not in the mindset that having PV power means being more responsible for electricity use. In other words, I suspect he believes that it will give him more electricity to spend as he pleases (invoking Jevons' Paradox, as NuShrike suggested), whereas the sibling post by hoojus shows how easy it is to develop the mindset of having less and using it more efficiently.
Of course, if you can save that amount of electricity, but without solar panels and for a fraction of the cost, it hardly seems worth bothering. You can still have both, though, even if it means a few new habits towards cleaning up after yourself.
Oh, and NuShrike, the idea of scaling renewable energy, rainwater catchment and the like for a community is a fantastic idea and one I have been hoping would see a bit more support. Let me know if you've got any ideas.
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Sure, they'll survive the weather, but won't they just get eaten by dinosaurs? :)
Here are ten easy steps that you can take to implement Hype-Driven Development for your project.
1. First, choose a new tool. Find somewhere that the tool is being used by a company everyone has heard of. Don't be too concerned about what they're using it for, or whether it relates to your work in any way.
2. When you start using the tool, don't mention it to anyone until you've already decided to base your finished product on it.
3. Don't bother finding out if the tools you have can already do the job you're doing now.
4. Expensive tools are automatically better than cheap tools. This makes it easy to measure fitness-for-purpose.
5. Even if you only use the tool to simplify very mildly half a line of code that's only used once, incorporating a new tool is still worth it.
6. Compare the tool by re-implementing some of your existing tasks. Only test the simplest and most trivial scenarios: if it works in a simple case, it's bound to work just as easily in a complex case.
7. Any inconsistencies with existing standards can be readily overcome by creating a new standard that the new tool fits exactly. Try not to be disheartened by the idea that you've previously been doing everything wrong for years.
8. Have some like-minded suckers re-implement everything even vaguely related to the new tool from the ground up. The more suddenly you can implement this, the more of an impact it will have - and impact is always cool.
9. If the re-implemented product turns out to be awful, or if it doesn't do what users want or need it to do, you'll be committed to the new tool by then, so it won't matter. Tell anyone who is critical of the product that it's too late to change it and that they should have raised their concerns earlier - especially if they did.
10. Stride confidently into your next performance review, knowing that even though you wasted a lot of time and resources to build a product that does slightly less than it used to, you've certainly achieved a lot.
... "I love systemd"? I bet that's what they are.
Replacing a MacBook Air battery depends entirely on having the right screwdrivers. I've done one in a 2012 MacBook Air, but the same procedure works for newer models as well.
5. I use it all the time to manage separate tasks simultaneously. Between that and All-In-One Gestures, I'm staying with Firefox for the foreseeable future.
...he told you that "you shouldn't change your behaviour" in response to government surveillance. Clearly, that message has gotten across. :)
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I picked up the VHS cassette of this about half-way through seeing it at the cinema. Thank you, Instant Cassettes!
It's ironic that you can't take high-tech spy gadgets into a James Bond film.
What if I'm turning up in costume? Then I *have* to have them.
Sexbots are going to be really, really popular.
Yeah, but they'll just date each other.
Did they grow rocket? (groan)
Someone on Skype just said to me, "I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle". Little punk. If I ever find him...
I've also got a wheat bag that you can heat up to relieve headaches. As it turns out, you can fix a USB TV tuner with it as well:
- http://aarongnielsen.blogspot....
Apparently, if you took off the plastic casing and baked it properly in a medium oven, you could enact a more permanent fix. I haven't been game to try it, though.
If I ask a grocer for 2kg of potatoes, and he gives me 1kg of potatoes and charges me for 2kg, I think I have a right to complain. Why do we let computer people get away with that sort of nonsense?
In fact, if Microsoft made a table with 64GB of disk space, but it only made 23GB of that available to the user, you'd all complain about that:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/s...
I love how media outlets - including Slashdot - are making no effort whatsoever to hide anti-Russian bias.
The Ukrainians edited Wikipedia to say that Russians shot down MH17.
The Russians edited Wikipedia to say that Ukrainians shot down MH17.
Every headline complains about Russians editing Wikipedia pages about MH17. Where are the headlines about Ukrainians having already done the same thing? Where is the balance?
Ununpentium:
It's just the latest one of which the news has come to Harvard.
There may be many others, but they haven't been discarvard.
(Can't believe nobody else has posted this.)
Did the internet make you stupid?
NVU and Kompozer are being replaced to some degree by BlueGriffon, which is based on the same code.
At last, the flat-electron rabble can finally give it a rest.
Are there whalers on the moon? Do they carry a harpoon?
I had previously suggested that RIAA was just a disguise, a mask used by the Big4 companies behind RIAA, and suggested that we actually refer to them by name: Warner, EMI, Sony, and Universal. Together they form the acronym WESU, as in "We sue! Yes, we do!"
That's for the US, though. This is the Canadian affiliate, WESUC.
It would be cool to have Street View images of places that aren't already accessible on Google Maps, but I've got a more fundamental question.
Why aren't these places on Google Maps already?
The best way to see my suburb is on foot, via a network of footpaths for pedestrians and cyclists. Not one of these paths shows up in Get Directions on Google Maps. Your favourite park or hiking trail is already walkable, and who knows, it might even be useful - even if it's not as cool as riding a trike through Legoland and calling it work. Besides, I'd rather know it's there and walk through it myself.
Of course, I'm sure it's only a matter of time; they've probably been thinking about this ever since they added the Walking and Public Transport options to Get Directions. In the meantime, I'll just have to settle for cutting a third off my travel time - and the satisfaction of knowing something as a local that Google Maps didn't find out as a tourist. :P
Not really, because the nation in question - Britain, has signed up to have that as part of the deal.
If Britain hadn't signed up to this and Europe was still enforcing this you'd have a point, but as it's Britain's choice to only allow laws to be legitimate if reported to Europe then it's still a sovereign nation.
Is this the same sort of choice that Britain had to sign the Treaty of Lisbon? If it weren't for 109,965 Irish voters standing up for that choice, the meaning of your post would be a relic to history by now.
if there's one thing the labels can be relied upon to do, it's to provide something that people don't want.
But enough about today's pop music - let's talk about a new digital album format.
Great article. Totally tweeting this.
I knew I couldn't have been the only person here who thought that way.
From the original article about the installation itself, they use 17,400kWh per annum - about 47.7kWh per day. This is a staggering amount, even considering that they do work from home as well and have two teenage daughters living at home. By their own figures, their $38,000 solar installation only covers half that electricity (although about three quarters of the bill). As I'm sure NuShrike wondered, what the hell are they spending that electricity on? Do they run the air conditioner all the time? If so, wouldn't they be better off buying ceiling and wall insulation and some decent curtains?
My housemate has been considering a photovoltaic installation at home. (Since the Australian federal government suddenly pulled the rug out from underneath the $8000 rebate, I don't know whether he's still considering it.) By my measurements, he'll waste at least half of the electricity they generate on standby power for the computers and such, and nearly as much again on halogen downlights for the main living area. He's just not in the mindset that having PV power means being more responsible for electricity use. In other words, I suspect he believes that it will give him more electricity to spend as he pleases (invoking Jevons' Paradox, as NuShrike suggested), whereas the sibling post by hoojus shows how easy it is to develop the mindset of having less and using it more efficiently.
Of course, if you can save that amount of electricity, but without solar panels and for a fraction of the cost, it hardly seems worth bothering. You can still have both, though, even if it means a few new habits towards cleaning up after yourself.
Oh, and NuShrike, the idea of scaling renewable energy, rainwater catchment and the like for a community is a fantastic idea and one I have been hoping would see a bit more support. Let me know if you've got any ideas.