I don't have a car, but I don't need to walk to work. There are other options you know... Maybe not where you're from, but that's hardly normative. The point is that you're not *entitled* to a car, but you have a choice to spend your money on one. Something you can chose to pay for is more like a privilege than a right.
The problem imo is not that developers are incapable or unwilling to help out reporters. I wrote the better part of an article on InfoQ about a project I'm committer on once, and I can't imagine that most developers would not want to take some credit for their work if the timing is right.
The problem is that the timing is usually not right. I work one day a week on OSS. If I'm into something, I usually just ignore the phone, and read my email only when I'm done. If you're lucky enough to get a hold of me on a Friday afternoon when I'm stuck on something you'll get two hours of my time and probably something with less spelling errors and more to the point than if you'd had written it yourself.
The reason that I'm ignoring my mail and phone is not because I don't want to be helpful, I simply can't without wreaking havoc to my productivity. There are a few interesting articles to explain why that is. An example: http://www.byte-vision.com/ProductivityArticle.aspx
The only thing I can think to do to help out reporters is to publish my personal schedule so they can see when it might be useful to bug me. If you're constantly on a 3 hour deadline with no heads up, you're shit out of luck, sorry.
In the end having a project but no story is better than having a story and no project
Your music sorting and selecting abilities are staggering. You manage to assemble a small but large enough collection of music that contains everything you want to hear that week and sounds remotely new and interesting every weekend eh? I can see why people just prefer the larger disk.
If I get this right the new firmware will erase unused blocks. Current SSD's will contain more interesting data than the ones with new firmware. I don't know if the firmware would erase all unused blocks if idle long enough, but it will at least erase a bit more than the current SSD's do.
You know, there are a lot of people who don't have a problem combining religion and science... so I don't see how that part of your comment has anything to do with anything...
Grandparent is talking about a possibly irrelevant personal experience, but sort of stays on topic (mentioning the name of a science hero). You are responding to the personal experience only and are thereby completely off topic (by your own definition).
To me it's actually quite interesting to provide my kids with a way to evolve their thinking beyond needing religion, but as you suggest, they can look up to science hero's before doing that.
Yeah, my wife has pressured me into taking dance lessons with her. I'm expecting a divorce soon. Girls love guys who can dance, but they don't love guys that prove they can't learn to dance.
I'm just saying you might be better off learning to cook, or some other less dangerous hobby. In seriousness, just get away from the computer. It's not just that girls don't like nerdy behavior, like any other anti social behavior, it blocks other people from interacting with you, hence you won't make any friends while absorbed in it.
Yes, rail travel requires resources of iron and such to lay down infrastructure, but that infrastructure is used and maintained for many years and pays off over the long haul. Once down, a diesel locomotive can move immense amounts of cargo for a lot less per mile than other modes of transportation, so it should balance out.
Yeah, it should shouldn't it... so why are you avoiding any kind of quantitative arguments about it? The point is to figure out if it *does* balance out.
Unfortunately, teachers are not well-payed, so it's hard to get people into the field, period, let alone men.
... Since men are better at math (and generally smarter), they're less likely thwarted by the job interviewers at schools to take the crappy teaching job for ideological reasons. There, fixed that for you.
I don't back up (well I do, because I can, but I'm convinced I don't need to). More importantly, I don't recover. Everything of value I produce goes into a repository or to a client. If my disk doesn't crash I usually wipe it after a year anyway. Worst that ever happened to me was the loss of one day of work and the loss of another day to get the new system like I wanted it (meaning without all the crap I installed on it over the months).
There are plenty good solutions in this thread, but I'd say don't bother recovering, just learn the lesson and move on. I'm pretty sure you'll waste less time that way. Especially since the time wasted will not be yours it looks pretty good to me.
i.e. Hackers whose goal in life is to disrupt access to the system rather than to break in.
Those type of hackers are rare and have less resources. There isn't any point in pure vandalism you see. In any case research has shown that it's not a primary motive.
FWIW I spent a few months reproducing research for a suspect article that was published in Nature. Finally my findings were confirmed: the original author was full of shit. Beware of appeal to authority. Don't believe everything you read, even in Nature.
SpringSource is _THE_ standard IoC container for the Java Language
It's flattering, but incorrect. First of all SpringSource is the company employing the vast majority of Spring committers, but there is a difference between the framework and the company.
Second, Spring is in fact not a standard. It is the de facto standard, which sounds cool to people who give a damn about standards.
I think both of these things are good, you don't want any company to own your framework of choice and you don't want your framework of choice to be polluted by the designed by committee stuff that we've got way too much of already.
If you haven't figured this out and like to be informed: SpringSource pays my salary each month, but I'm speaking on my own terms here.
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I don't have a car, but I don't need to walk to work. There are other options you know... Maybe not where you're from, but that's hardly normative. The point is that you're not *entitled* to a car, but you have a choice to spend your money on one. Something you can chose to pay for is more like a privilege than a right.
http://www.articlesandsuch.com/articles/Stupidity%20Is%20a%20Virus.htm
... the hard way ...
I might be daft, but I don't think there is an easier way to run python in a browser. Please enlighten me.
The problem imo is not that developers are incapable or unwilling to help out reporters. I wrote the better part of an article on InfoQ about a project I'm committer on once, and I can't imagine that most developers would not want to take some credit for their work if the timing is right.
The problem is that the timing is usually not right. I work one day a week on OSS. If I'm into something, I usually just ignore the phone, and read my email only when I'm done. If you're lucky enough to get a hold of me on a Friday afternoon when I'm stuck on something you'll get two hours of my time and probably something with less spelling errors and more to the point than if you'd had written it yourself.
The reason that I'm ignoring my mail and phone is not because I don't want to be helpful, I simply can't without wreaking havoc to my productivity. There are a few interesting articles to explain why that is. An example: http://www.byte-vision.com/ProductivityArticle.aspx
The only thing I can think to do to help out reporters is to publish my personal schedule so they can see when it might be useful to bug me. If you're constantly on a 3 hour deadline with no heads up, you're shit out of luck, sorry.
In the end having a project but no story is better than having a story and no project
How many programs have you ever seen in business that require more than the most basic mathematics? 3?
How many programs have you ever encountered that were hard to read?
I like this definition better: http://www.agilemodeling.com/essays/barelyGoodEnough.html
Your music sorting and selecting abilities are staggering. You manage to assemble a small but large enough collection of music that contains everything you want to hear that week and sounds remotely new and interesting every weekend eh? I can see why people just prefer the larger disk.
Well, if it isn't the leader of the weiner patrol, boning up on his nerd lessons
If I get this right the new firmware will erase unused blocks. Current SSD's will contain more interesting data than the ones with new firmware. I don't know if the firmware would erase all unused blocks if idle long enough, but it will at least erase a bit more than the current SSD's do.
Good idea, but make sure you check the license first.
Old news indeed: http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/07/16/facebook-sez-dont-mind-us-were-just-whoring-out-your-photos/
You know, there are a lot of people who don't have a problem combining religion and science... so I don't see how that part of your comment has anything to do with anything...
Grandparent is talking about a possibly irrelevant personal experience, but sort of stays on topic (mentioning the name of a science hero). You are responding to the personal experience only and are thereby completely off topic (by your own definition).
To me it's actually quite interesting to provide my kids with a way to evolve their thinking beyond needing religion, but as you suggest, they can look up to science hero's before doing that.
Yeah, my wife has pressured me into taking dance lessons with her. I'm expecting a divorce soon. Girls love guys who can dance, but they don't love guys that prove they can't learn to dance.
I'm just saying you might be better off learning to cook, or some other less dangerous hobby. In seriousness, just get away from the computer. It's not just that girls don't like nerdy behavior, like any other anti social behavior, it blocks other people from interacting with you, hence you won't make any friends while absorbed in it.
TFA is not about freight, it is about travel. By comparing travel with freight you have ended the discussion I'm affraid. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
Yes, rail travel requires resources of iron and such to lay down infrastructure, but that infrastructure is used and maintained for many years and pays off over the long haul. Once down, a diesel locomotive can move immense amounts of cargo for a lot less per mile than other modes of transportation, so it should balance out.
Yeah, it should shouldn't it... so why are you avoiding any kind of quantitative arguments about it? The point is to figure out if it *does* balance out.
Unfortunately, teachers are not well-payed, so it's hard to get people into the field, period, let alone men.
There are plenty good solutions in this thread, but I'd say don't bother recovering, just learn the lesson and move on. I'm pretty sure you'll waste less time that way. Especially since the time wasted will not be yours it looks pretty good to me.
You're right, we're the 95% that only reads this in their free time [citation needed].
i.e. Hackers whose goal in life is to disrupt access to the system rather than to break in.
Those type of hackers are rare and have less resources. There isn't any point in pure vandalism you see. In any case research has shown that it's not a primary motive.
http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/htcb/htcb006.html
It can run any command as the user running the browser. I usually run the browser as myself, so it could clean out my home for example.
If you're on Mac: http://is.gd/BpBp
try the 'say' invoking applet by Landon Fuller: http://is.gd/BpBp. That scared the crap out of me... what if it had invoked 'rm -rf ~'?
FWIW I spent a few months reproducing research for a suspect article that was published in Nature. Finally my findings were confirmed: the original author was full of shit. Beware of appeal to authority. Don't believe everything you read, even in Nature.
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/9951
Disappointing really. Especially in a military organization you'd think they could think of some cool ways to increase the entropy of a hard disk.
It's flattering, but incorrect. First of all SpringSource is the company employing the vast majority of Spring committers, but there is a difference between the framework and the company.
Second, Spring is in fact not a standard. It is the de facto standard, which sounds cool to people who give a damn about standards.
I think both of these things are good, you don't want any company to own your framework of choice and you don't want your framework of choice to be polluted by the designed by committee stuff that we've got way too much of already.
If you haven't figured this out and like to be informed: SpringSource pays my salary each month, but I'm speaking on my own terms here.
Well that's the problem isn't it. Joe doesn't install this OS, it's baked into the box he buys.