Slashdot is at the top of my RSS reader in the tech folder, BA is after it in the science folder- I saw this article and thought to myself, "Huh, I wonder what Phil is gonna say-" then BAM, first comment on slashdot.
"Dear Mr. Politician, If you think it's a waste of money, join me for one of the proposed workouts. If, after an hour of 'playing' you still feel it has no value, I will drop my claim."
I think a few rounds of yoga to limber him up, a quick 7 minute run to get the blood flowing, then some strength training... that should take care of the issue.
I switched jobs in December and had to get my own phone for the first time in 3 years. Started with Sprint, ended up on Verizon due to the shitacular coverage and service from Sprint. If you're interested in a comparison of the Samsung Moment vs. Motorola Droid, here's my writeup:
"Intelligence can find an answer. It takes Wisdom to determine if it's the *right* answer..."
So says the chaotic neutral, paranoid schizophrenic, dual-club wielding, donkey riding, zeppelin flying human fighter running around in my head speaking gnomish to his clubs who are telling him to chop the tree down to get the cat out of the branches.
Re:Nope. Never.
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Daemon
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Wow, I don't even know where to start dissecting the FAIL in your post.
Some people write books for fun. Case in Point: NaNoWriMo. How many books have you written and published? (Why don't you go get ya shine box right now.)
Some people write books that may be useful for some people, but have a very small niche market. For example I wrote a guitar book, though I really stretch the meaning of "wrote" with it since it's mostly a journal with some useful nuggets in the front. I know 3 people who've already thanked me for it because there wasn't much in the market for that already.
I have 2 novels in first draft form that I plan on self-publishing through Lulu. Do they suck? well, right now yes because they're a rough draft, however when I publish them, I'm hoping they won't. I know enough talented people to help quite a bit with this sorta thing because...
My wife runs Literaryescapism.com which is a book review site. She quite a few books per month, and my favorite out of all of them that I've read is Pulling Strings by P. Vera, and he's self published.
To say we have no dignity because we self-publish is... more pathetic than anything. I really can't respond to someone who'd think that, I can only give you this advice:
My college instituted internships for CS majors the year I started- I was friends with many cs majors that were a year ahead of me, and they weren't required to do them. One of them especially loved to mock me for it.
5 years later, I'm a sysadmin with a decent job, and the friend that mocked me has been working in retail (as of this month an office job at a new company).
The internship goes a long way to giving you a wakeup call.
2) - THIS.
when I was looking for people I paid attention to what side projects they were working on. I want to hire someone who's passionate about their work.
As a sysadmin, I look for people with some development experience- They need to be able to fix stuff themselves if needed. It drives me nuts when I find a sysadmin who "doesn't like to code" and refuses to learn simple scripting languages.
As a developer, I look for people who contribute to open source projects. The code you submit can tell a lot about the type of developer you are, and can show if you're passionate about development.
My suggestion for anonymous is to find a middle ground. I went to GVSU, and while it's not a great CS school, it gave me the exposure of a liberal arts school while still providing plenty of CS students and profs to bounce ideas off of.
But what do I know, I started off as a film and video major.
The Community didn't want help moving forward; that was part of the problem. There's a saying on freenode that #Debian is where all the assholes go. It's sort of amusing sitting in another [unnamed] distro channel and watching a trickle of debian people come in (the same way I did) and were shocked at how friendly the channel was despite having almost 1000 people in one of it's 20 or so channels.
I also know a developer (who is probably one of the more skilled developers I know) try to get in and help with the debian project and he was denied at pretty much every step. He finally said screw it and that there were better uses for his time than battling Debian beaucracy.
Debian got too big for their britches and got complacent. They need to be taken down a few pegs.
yes, because we know no oneelse gets security holes. Writing something off because the authors jump up and down and say "holy shit, patch this" is a bit short-sighted. at least people are being informed and shit is being done about it.
as a programmer working for a company, do you think *every* program you're put on is going to be fun? do you think you're going to be in charge of every facet?
I gotta tell you, I worked for a Gov't contractor for a while, and one of the developers before me considered himself a master JSP developer.
Shame he didn't actually know Java.
I know Perl, PHP, ruby, Java, even a bit of asp and C, along with a handful of other languages I learned in college. This project shouldn't have been difficult. it was a fucking nightmare.
cleaning up other people's shit is not always fun. Did I enjoy the *job*? yes. did I enjoy most projects? yes. Did I enjoy that one? No.
The world is not black and white, my friend.
Re:What I want to know: Can I paint circles in it?
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First Look at GIMP 2.4
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it's non-intuitive, but here, you go.
clickand hold where you want the circle to start press ctrl AND shift, then drag the circle to the radius you want, and let go of the mousebutton open the paths dialog, select the "selection to path" button.
for making larger/smaller rings, use select->grow and select->shrink from the menu.
so while I agree it's a pain the ass, it is possible.
not to mention, if you're gonna be without a network connection, grab a local copy, use openoffice, upload when your done. that's one of the problems with the web, when you're not online you can use stuff that's online. it's not like your limited to only using it online.
"Microsoft products can't read file formats they refuse to implement" is what you meant, I think.
it sounds like microsoft is the one screwing you, not OSS.
their reasons are obvious, they don't want to compete, and refuse to participate in anything that would make them do so. they're pulling the equiv. of covering their ears and closing their eyes and screaming "na na na na na I don't hear you you don't exist."
it pisses me off that people take the viewpoint that this is OSS's fault that MS refuses to support their customers.
[offtopic] I've heard people making this exact same comment for YEARS. I was lurking on slashdot long before i made an account. I'd place it around mid 2001.
If you don't like it, go away. there's kuro5hin and arstechnica, even fark or somethingawful. Whiny posts aren't improving the quality of discourse around here.
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to steer back on topic, I have a t42 for work and love it. I'd like to see what the differences really would be. lighter? heavier? more durable? what about the internals?
if it's just a fashion thing, no thanks, I prefer the black.
I picked up this book probably a month ago, and for a seasoned perl dev who plans on exposing his code to the world, it's definately worth picking up.
One nice feature I found was the chapter on formatting included vim and emacs config snippets to achieve the same effect, as well as the config file to use perltidy to do the same thing.
I agree it is dry, and it's very "bam bam bam" with the examples. Not something you can read start to finish. you'll want to try implementing things right away. I suggest taking the book a chapter at a time and implementing the changes in your code then.
There were some bits I agreed with, and some I didn't agree with; however the parts that I didn't agree with they explained in a reasoned and rational manner, and made me rethink my own thoughts on the subject.
I've recently fallen into the position where I'll be leading possibly two other developers- this book will become a standardization format for our company.
Slashdot Mirror
Slashdot is at the top of my RSS reader in the tech folder, BA is after it in the science folder- I saw this article and thought to myself, "Huh, I wonder what Phil is gonna say-" then BAM, first comment on slashdot.
Nice.
Clarence Thomas? He was a pretty heavy swing to the right if I recall correctly.
"Dear Mr. Politician,
If you think it's a waste of money, join me for one of the proposed workouts. If, after an hour of 'playing' you still feel it has no value, I will drop my claim."
I think a few rounds of yoga to limber him up, a quick 7 minute run to get the blood flowing, then some strength training... that should take care of the issue.
Oh, so we should use the same system that we use to select juries?
What could possibly go wrong?
I switched jobs in December and had to get my own phone for the first time in 3 years. Started with Sprint, ended up on Verizon due to the shitacular coverage and service from Sprint. If you're interested in a comparison of the Samsung Moment vs. Motorola Droid, here's my writeup:
http://morgajel.net/2010/01/16/642
Quick, someone knows what they're talking about- STONE HIM!
"Intelligence can find an answer. It takes Wisdom to determine if it's the *right* answer..."
So says the chaotic neutral, paranoid schizophrenic, dual-club wielding, donkey riding, zeppelin flying human fighter running around in my head speaking gnomish to his clubs who are telling him to chop the tree down to get the cat out of the branches.
Never go full retard (again).
1) - THIS
My college instituted internships for CS majors the year I started- I was friends with many cs majors that were a year ahead of me, and they weren't required to do them. One of them especially loved to mock me for it.
5 years later, I'm a sysadmin with a decent job, and the friend that mocked me has been working in retail (as of this month an office job at a new company).
The internship goes a long way to giving you a wakeup call.
2) - THIS.
when I was looking for people I paid attention to what side projects they were working on. I want to hire someone who's passionate about their work.
As a sysadmin, I look for people with some development experience- They need to be able to fix stuff themselves if needed. It drives me nuts when I find a sysadmin who "doesn't like to code" and refuses to learn simple scripting languages.
As a developer, I look for people who contribute to open source projects. The code you submit can tell a lot about the type of developer you are, and can show if you're passionate about development.
My suggestion for anonymous is to find a middle ground. I went to GVSU, and while it's not a great CS school, it gave me the exposure of a liberal arts school while still providing plenty of CS students and profs to bounce ideas off of.
But what do I know, I started off as a film and video major.
I've had pretty good luck with http://gopedro.net/
The guy runs a small shop so you don't have to deal with the big company BS.
there's only one thing any self respecting geek can do.
Hang a note on it that says "Pull me."
actually she reminds me of my wife.
The Community didn't want help moving forward; that was part of the problem. There's a saying on freenode that #Debian is where all the assholes go. It's sort of amusing sitting in another [unnamed] distro channel and watching a trickle of debian people come in (the same way I did) and were shocked at how friendly the channel was despite having almost 1000 people in one of it's 20 or so channels.
I also know a developer (who is probably one of the more skilled developers I know) try to get in and help with the debian project and he was denied at pretty much every step. He finally said screw it and that there were better uses for his time than battling Debian beaucracy.
Debian got too big for their britches and got complacent. They need to be taken down a few pegs.
yes, because we know no one else gets security holes. Writing something off because the authors jump up and down and say "holy shit, patch this" is a bit short-sighted. at least people are being informed and shit is being done about it.
I pulled the same thing in arlington- worked at virginia square metro, walked to clarendon metro- half a mile each way.
did that once a day every day over the course of the summer.
and the only shape I'm in is round.
The Problem with dig is the same problem with american media.
the most onesided and contraversial articles about the most bland things win over niche articles that are in-depth but have limited appeal.
so if you made an iso, would that make it a peta file?
I had the same problem when I was a bagger at a grocery store and I started playing tetris.
"DAMNIT, I NEED ANOTHER CEREAL BOX"
as a programmer working for a company, do you think *every* program you're put on is going to be fun? do you think you're going to be in charge of every facet?
I gotta tell you, I worked for a Gov't contractor for a while, and one of the developers before me considered himself a master JSP developer.
Shame he didn't actually know Java.
I know Perl, PHP, ruby, Java, even a bit of asp and C, along with a handful of other languages I learned in college. This project shouldn't have been difficult. it was a fucking nightmare.
cleaning up other people's shit is not always fun. Did I enjoy the *job*? yes. did I enjoy most projects? yes. Did I enjoy that one? No.
The world is not black and white, my friend.
it's non-intuitive, but here, you go.
clickand hold where you want the circle to start
press ctrl AND shift, then drag the circle to the radius you want, and let go of the mousebutton
open the paths dialog, select the "selection to path" button.
for making larger/smaller rings, use select->grow and select->shrink from the menu.
so while I agree it's a pain the ass, it is possible.
not to mention, if you're gonna be without a network connection, grab a local copy, use openoffice, upload when your done.
that's one of the problems with the web, when you're not online you can use stuff that's online. it's not like your limited to only using it online.
"Microsoft products can't read file formats they refuse to implement" is what you meant, I think.
it sounds like microsoft is the one screwing you, not OSS.
their reasons are obvious, they don't want to compete, and refuse to participate in anything that would make them do so. they're pulling the equiv. of covering their ears and closing their eyes and screaming "na na na na na I don't hear you you don't exist."
it pisses me off that people take the viewpoint that this is OSS's fault that MS refuses to support their customers.
Food for thought- if the RIAA does not allow fair use, through encryption and copy protection, does that mean it's no longer covered by copyright?
wouldn't that be a kick to the jimmy?
[offtopic]
I've heard people making this exact same comment for YEARS. I was lurking on slashdot long before i made an account. I'd place it around mid 2001.
If you don't like it, go away. there's kuro5hin and arstechnica, even fark or somethingawful. Whiny posts aren't improving the quality of discourse around here.
[/offtopic]
to steer back on topic, I have a t42 for work and love it. I'd like to see what the differences really would be. lighter? heavier? more durable? what about the internals?
if it's just a fashion thing, no thanks, I prefer the black.
I picked up this book probably a month ago, and for a seasoned perl dev who plans on exposing his code to the world, it's definately worth picking up.
One nice feature I found was the chapter on formatting included vim and emacs config snippets to achieve the same effect, as well as the config file to use perltidy to do the same thing.
I agree it is dry, and it's very "bam bam bam" with the examples. Not something you can read start to finish. you'll want to try implementing things right away. I suggest taking the book a chapter at a time and implementing the changes in your code then.
There were some bits I agreed with, and some I didn't agree with; however the parts that I didn't agree with they explained in a reasoned and rational manner, and made me rethink my own thoughts on the subject.
I've recently fallen into the position where I'll be leading possibly two other developers- this book will become a standardization format for our company.
again, I highly recommend this book.
-morgajel