If you're more concerned with science vs. astrology than common belief systems about how to spend money and raise children, you probably shouldn't be in relationships.
"Beer goggles is a slang term for a phenomenon in which consumption of alcohol lowers sexual inhibitions to the point that very little or no discretion is used when approaching or choosing sexual partners.[citation needed] The term is often humorously applied when an individual is observed making advances towards, later regretting sexual contact with, a partner that is deemed unattractive, unacceptably scandalous, or repulsive when the prospect of sex is considered while sober. The "beer goggles" are considered to have distorted the "wearer's" vision, making unattractive people appear beautiful, or at least passably attractive. Beer goggles are also known as "Stellavision", "Beerglasses" and "The Cider Visor"
Modified slightly
"Patent Indemnification is a term for a phenomenon in which promise of immunity from lawsuit lowers corporate inhibitions to the point that very little or no discretion is used when approaching or choosing corporate partners.The term is often applied when a corporation is observed making advances towards, later regretting contact with, a partner that is deemed unattractive, unacceptably scandalous, or repulsive when the prospect of partnership is considered while sober. Patent indemnification is considered to have distorted the company's vision, making unattractive corporation appear beautiful, or at least passably attractive."
It really sounds like he's regretting a one-night stand.
Why don't they just write a letter to Santa for more plutonium? I'm sure they can avoid being naughty little scientists and technicians for another nine months.
Us Cocoa developers may well get the professional validation we've never had before. It would be nice for a change to have HR people and headhunters call us up and talk to us about our Cocoa development abilities, instead of saying "Cocoa, Objective-C, what's that?" and mentally cross us off the job candidate list.
1. Is there any age limit? Would someone who is in their mid-30's still qualify?
2. Would the Cyber Command overlook the policy on those with ADD who take a medication (Ritalin, etc) for this condition?
3. Can I get caffeine-laced MRE's?
4. What are Rules Of Engagement in Cyberwarfare?
5. What will Cyber Command's relationship be with regards to Homeland Security's Cyber Sercurity divison? What steps will you take to ensure sharing of information while not stomping on each other's toes?
In my experience, code being free is not enough to make it reusable.
The original author of the code has to *actively want* his code to be reused, design it modularly for reuse, and provide useful documentation to other programmers on how it can be reused. Anything else is a just an enormous hunk of code that substitutes cost in money with cost in time.
And even with the money I paid to get access to the Leopard pre-release API, I was still banned from asking fellow developers on mailing lists questions about any parts of the pre-release API in question. People on the cocoa-dev list who might have a question about some finer point of NSDictionaryController would routinely get a "Beware of Leopard" nastygram from the moderators. This is the archetypical example of "keeping developers in the dark" I'm talking about.
Contrast this will this Google, who actually provides placed for developers to ask each other questions about their pre-release phone API http://code.google.com/android/groups.html
I want Apple to be the dominant player in the smart phone market, as all the other players have shown through their miserable phone user experiences that they do not deserve marketshare. The problem is that Apple really is not acting in it's own best interest, and Google is.
One of the most frustrating parts of being a mac and Apple platform developer has always been being the veil of secrecy around API's, and for anyone who's used to the mac development lifestyle, the iPhone SDK isn't an exception. Personally, I can't understand it; keeping customers in the dark may be smart marketing, but keeping developers for your platform in the dark is suicide.
Thousands of developers are already writing code for Google's Android platform because Google released the API early, even before they released a device. By the time Apple releases their SDK, Google will already be ahead of them in the numbers of developers experienced with their API. I wish Apple could understand the enormous competitive disadvantage they are putting themselves in.
Because the only thing that's more scary and complex than the overly-complicated RDF we have today is the under-planned, overly-extended JSON and YAML that we'll have five years from now, whose original form is twisted and contorted beyond recognition in an attempt to make it do things in the future that XML was designed to do from the get-go.
Software that appeals to mainstream users is quintissential wholistic and designed top-down, and this clashes directly with the atomist, bottom-up engineering ideals of the unix culture upon which FLOSS is based.
Freedom and cost have nothing to do with it; it's just usually easier to blame capitalist boogeymen than question the teachings of Thompson and Ritchie and push for real cultural change in the FLOSS community.
If the TV shows I watch were several months behind due to the strike, does this mean that the season will be shifted several months ahead and this summer won't be a graveyard of reruns like it usually is?
Do you let employers destroy themselves?
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When an employer forces you to do something that's tantamount to them hanging themselves with their own rope, do you let them do it and reap the satisfaction of saying "I told you so" and increased credibility in future avoiding-stupid-stuff discussions, or do you go out of your way to go under the radar and try to save them from themselves when no one is looking?
Well, in my experience, the aluminum on my G4 got easily pushed in with the smallest hit. Try dropping the laptop vertically on it's front side a few times if you don't believe me.
For the last 5-6 years, Apple's been making their pro lineup of laptops out of soft metal that bends, dents, and warps on the slightest impact (at least in my experience). If there's the slightest dent or warp in that metal, there's a good chance that the Apple store will refuse to fix your laptop even if it's something completely unrelated to the casing (e.g. bad ram, fault DVD drive, etc).
For what those laptops cost, Apple should have made those suckers out of lexan and added a few curves here and there to dissipate some of the impact (kind of like the old iBooks). It's pretty sad when a $100 laptop made for developing nations can handle wear and tear better than a top-of-the-line $4000 macbook pro.
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The guys who make Swiss Army knives have nearly perfected fusion reactors. That can open wine bottles.
iPhone developers are not allowed ask each other for help on the SDK
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Cocoa-dev/2008/Mar/msg00567.html
Meanwhile, Android developers are free to give each other advice
http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers
The only thing that this NDA is protecting is Google's ability to get more functional apps to market sooner.
The key there is SKILLED.
It's hard to be skilled when the HR people ask for 10 years of experience in a technology that's only existed for 5.
If you're more concerned with science vs. astrology than common belief systems about how to spend money and raise children, you probably shouldn't be in relationships.
Taken from wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_goggles
"Beer goggles is a slang term for a phenomenon in which consumption of alcohol lowers sexual inhibitions to the point that very little or no discretion is used when approaching or choosing sexual partners.[citation needed] The term is often humorously applied when an individual is observed making advances towards, later regretting sexual contact with, a partner that is deemed unattractive, unacceptably scandalous, or repulsive when the prospect of sex is considered while sober. The "beer goggles" are considered to have distorted the "wearer's" vision, making unattractive people appear beautiful, or at least passably attractive. Beer goggles are also known as "Stellavision", "Beerglasses" and "The Cider Visor"
Modified slightly
"Patent Indemnification is a term for a phenomenon in which promise of immunity from lawsuit lowers corporate inhibitions to the point that very little or no discretion is used when approaching or choosing corporate partners.The term is often applied when a corporation is observed making advances towards, later regretting contact with, a partner that is deemed unattractive, unacceptably scandalous, or repulsive when the prospect of partnership is considered while sober. Patent indemnification is considered to have distorted the company's vision, making unattractive corporation appear beautiful, or at least passably attractive."
It really sounds like he's regretting a one-night stand.
Why don't they just write a letter to Santa for more plutonium? I'm sure they can avoid being naughty little scientists and technicians for another nine months.
Us Cocoa developers may well get the professional validation we've never had before. It would be nice for a change to have HR people and headhunters call us up and talk to us about our Cocoa development abilities, instead of saying "Cocoa, Objective-C, what's that?" and mentally cross us off the job candidate list.
1. Is there any age limit? Would someone who is in their mid-30's still qualify?
2. Would the Cyber Command overlook the policy on those with ADD who take a medication (Ritalin, etc) for this condition?
3. Can I get caffeine-laced MRE's?
4. What are Rules Of Engagement in Cyberwarfare?
5. What will Cyber Command's relationship be with regards to Homeland Security's Cyber Sercurity divison? What steps will you take to ensure sharing of information while not stomping on each other's toes?
If robotic innocent civilians can be manufactured to replace the humans blown up by military bots and suicide bomber bots, then no one has to die.
In my experience, code being free is not enough to make it reusable.
The original author of the code has to *actively want* his code to be reused, design it modularly for reuse, and provide useful documentation to other programmers on how it can be reused. Anything else is a just an enormous hunk of code that substitutes cost in money with cost in time.
If you ban porn, kids in Utah will just find a way to whack off to Veggie Tales.
Actually, I'm a select developer member.
And even with the money I paid to get access to the Leopard pre-release API, I was still banned from asking fellow developers on mailing lists questions about any parts of the pre-release API in question. People on the cocoa-dev list who might have a question about some finer point of NSDictionaryController would routinely get a "Beware of Leopard" nastygram from the moderators. This is the archetypical example of "keeping developers in the dark" I'm talking about.
Contrast this will this Google, who actually provides placed for developers to ask each other questions about their pre-release phone API http://code.google.com/android/groups.html
I want Apple to be the dominant player in the smart phone market, as all the other players have shown through their miserable phone user experiences that they do not deserve marketshare. The problem is that Apple really is not acting in it's own best interest, and Google is.
One of the most frustrating parts of being a mac and Apple platform developer has always been being the veil of secrecy around API's, and for anyone who's used to the mac development lifestyle, the iPhone SDK isn't an exception. Personally, I can't understand it; keeping customers in the dark may be smart marketing, but keeping developers for your platform in the dark is suicide.
Thousands of developers are already writing code for Google's Android platform because Google released the API early, even before they released a device. By the time Apple releases their SDK, Google will already be ahead of them in the numbers of developers experienced with their API. I wish Apple could understand the enormous competitive disadvantage they are putting themselves in.
I wonder how Google plans to deal with the rising cost of helium?
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/14/0219246&from=rss
If they were truly an advanced civilization, they'd probably send back pamphlets detailing the benefits of recycling plastic bottles.
Because the only thing that's more scary and complex than the overly-complicated RDF we have today is the under-planned, overly-extended JSON and YAML that we'll have five years from now, whose original form is twisted and contorted beyond recognition in an attempt to make it do things in the future that XML was designed to do from the get-go.
Software that appeals to mainstream users is quintissential wholistic and designed top-down, and this clashes directly with the atomist, bottom-up engineering ideals of the unix culture upon which FLOSS is based.
Freedom and cost have nothing to do with it; it's just usually easier to blame capitalist boogeymen than question the teachings of Thompson and Ritchie and push for real cultural change in the FLOSS community.
If the TV shows I watch were several months behind due to the strike, does this mean that the season will be shifted several months ahead and this summer won't be a graveyard of reruns like it usually is?
The smell of outer space is "Silent but Deadly".
When an employer forces you to do something that's tantamount to them hanging themselves with their own rope, do you let them do it and reap the satisfaction of saying "I told you so" and increased credibility in future avoiding-stupid-stuff discussions, or do you go out of your way to go under the radar and try to save them from themselves when no one is looking?
That's the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage.
Supervisor: 'Did you finish debugging your python scripts that update the database?'.
Me: 'Yeah. They're ready to go, and they're all Fawlty now'.
I think we better stick with "Python". Or "Smeghead".
A real sysadmin would simply pipe one chick into the other.
Well, in my experience, the aluminum on my G4 got easily pushed in with the smallest hit. Try dropping the laptop vertically on it's front side a few times if you don't believe me.
For the last 5-6 years, Apple's been making their pro lineup of laptops out of soft metal that bends, dents, and warps on the slightest impact (at least in my experience). If there's the slightest dent or warp in that metal, there's a good chance that the Apple store will refuse to fix your laptop even if it's something completely unrelated to the casing (e.g. bad ram, fault DVD drive, etc).
For what those laptops cost, Apple should have made those suckers out of lexan and added a few curves here and there to dissipate some of the impact (kind of like the old iBooks). It's pretty sad when a $100 laptop made for developing nations can handle wear and tear better than a top-of-the-line $4000 macbook pro.