While I haven't gone quite 27 hours, I have gone 18+ hours in Perl and PHP. These are the only pieces of advice I can offer:
-Windows open: Fresh Air + Sunlight = GOOD! -Music up: Radio or playlist, either way try to get a variety of songs/music you know. -Multitask: Well, this might make it not an exclusive coding session, but having AOL IM/ICQ open to talk to people makes it more bareable than it would be otherwise. Also, having an internet window open just at a random site makes it easy to take short 30 second 'breaks'. -Swivel Chair/Titlty Chair: So you can move around some and 'stretch' out. -Coffee/Mountain Dew/Jolt/Bawls/Etc: 'nough said -Food: Good snacks that don't really drain you. For me, these include things like Cashews, Chex Party Mix, and Kettle Chips (if you haven't had these potato chips, SHAME ON YOU!). Avoid anything that is really sugar-rich though, as it'll give you that little boost, then kill ya and make you want to sleep. Wanting to sleep=bad code.
Daughter: "Mommy, did you have your 15 minutes of fame?" Valerie: "Yes, honey." Daughter: "Did you like it, mommy?" Valerie: "No, honey." Daughter: "Why?" Valerie: "It was for Microsoft."
I actually did this on Friday night for the first time. If you coat it in saliva and roll it around your mouth, the nitrogen will never actually touch the inside of your mouth.
Ask Cowboy Neil how to get this working! With/. he's got some experience to give out...that is, if you can find him. Where was the mob last seen? San Francisco or by the lifeless people?
"Is anyone doing math by hand any longer, I wonder? Do they miss the cerebral nourishment of solving equations?"
I have to take three semesters of Calculus, two semesters of Statistics, four semesters of physics (all without a calculator, I.E.: Show all work) to become an engineering major at Nevada...I know that I won't miss the nourishment I'm going to need after doing hours of homework every night.
1) Why did you do it? Was it for a thrill, for fun, because you knew the software companies were overcharging, or for another reason?
2) I've heard rumours that some large software companies actually leak software out on purpose because they realize the importance of getting their product out to be used and tested in order to spark intrest in it. Do you believe this is true?
Baby Carp: "Daddy, where do babies come from?"
Father Carp: "Well son, when a mommy carp and a daddy carp fall in love, they make little baby carp."
Baby Carp: "Will I have babies someday, daddy?"
Father Carp: "Not until humans descide to play god again, son."
Accept that while we pick at M$, this was the VP in charge of windows stating that they don't make products engineered toward security. It's quite a bit different when one of the top officionados says it instead of a/. reader.
It's a sad fact that in the long run, an automated service is cheaper and more cost effective to run and maintain than having live employees. Machines don't interact with office politics, don't want raises and shorter hours, and don't want vacations.
Same goes with e-mail over 'live' help: if you have people sitting around all day waiting for a support question to come in, the company is spending 'unneeded money' because the person is seemingly useless unless something happens. With e-mail support, a company can have a person sit down for an hour or two to answer them all and then be off the pay clock for the rest of the time they aren't answering questions.
This is, quite unfortunately, the way things are headed.
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...or not. Anyone who hasn't seen the Simpson's Episode with the Monorail has yet to live life the the fullest!
AOL Contacts: 126
ICQ Contacts: 283
Y! Contacts: 38
MSN Contacts: 27
The day they all become one: Priceless.
There's some things Trillian sucks at, for everything else there's...erm, well what was there again?
While I haven't gone quite 27 hours, I have gone 18+ hours in Perl and PHP. These are the only pieces of advice I can offer:
-Windows open: Fresh Air + Sunlight = GOOD!
-Music up: Radio or playlist, either way try to get a variety of songs/music you know.
-Multitask: Well, this might make it not an exclusive coding session, but having AOL IM/ICQ open to talk to people makes it more bareable than it would be otherwise. Also, having an internet window open just at a random site makes it easy to take short 30 second 'breaks'.
-Swivel Chair/Titlty Chair: So you can move around some and 'stretch' out.
-Coffee/Mountain Dew/Jolt/Bawls/Etc: 'nough said
-Food: Good snacks that don't really drain you. For me, these include things like Cashews, Chex Party Mix, and Kettle Chips (if you haven't had these potato chips, SHAME ON YOU!). Avoid anything that is really sugar-rich though, as it'll give you that little boost, then kill ya and make you want to sleep. Wanting to sleep=bad code.
Slashdotting a Slashdot Server in just over 3 hours? Wow...
This might be slightly offtopic, but did anyone else notice the lack of quotes around this story's italicized parts?
Lets just hope when Windows crashes, the car doesn't crash too.
Now the X-Box is going to suck again!
Maybe M$ should become B$?
Daughter: "Mommy, did you have your 15 minutes of fame?"
Valerie: "Yes, honey."
Daughter: "Did you like it, mommy?"
Valerie: "No, honey."
Daughter: "Why?"
Valerie: "It was for Microsoft."
Who in their right frame of mind would willingly say that they switched TO Microsoft?!?
I actually did this on Friday night for the first time. If you coat it in saliva and roll it around your mouth, the nitrogen will never actually touch the inside of your mouth.
Maybe if there is a Kinko's next door to the library. ^^
"Dole, the other white meat!"
Ask Cowboy Neil how to get this working! With /. he's got some experience to give out...that is, if you can find him. Where was the mob last seen? San Francisco or by the lifeless people?
"Is anyone doing math by hand any longer, I wonder? Do they miss the cerebral nourishment of solving equations?"
I have to take three semesters of Calculus, two semesters of Statistics, four semesters of physics (all without a calculator, I.E.: Show all work) to become an engineering major at Nevada...I know that I won't miss the nourishment I'm going to need after doing hours of homework every night.
The folks at google are slacking horribly! They only have 498 /. articles on Google News starting on September 1, 2002. I'm very dissapointed.
'All your base are belong to us.'
...these teachers could use a translator to help them. ^^
1) Why did you do it? Was it for a thrill, for fun, because you knew the software companies were overcharging, or for another reason?
2) I've heard rumours that some large software companies actually leak software out on purpose because they realize the importance of getting their product out to be used and tested in order to spark intrest in it. Do you believe this is true?
Baby Carp: "Daddy, where do babies come from?" Father Carp: "Well son, when a mommy carp and a daddy carp fall in love, they make little baby carp." Baby Carp: "Will I have babies someday, daddy?" Father Carp: "Not until humans descide to play god again, son."
Lego my Eggo! Erm, wait, wrong product. LEGO my Halfling's Weed!
It's misnamed in the ID3 tag. Someone told me a while ago that it's Travis Tritt though.
I hate stupid people.
Accept that while we pick at M$, this was the VP in charge of windows stating that they don't make products engineered toward security. It's quite a bit different when one of the top officionados says it instead of a /. reader.
It's a sad fact that in the long run, an automated service is cheaper and more cost effective to run and maintain than having live employees. Machines don't interact with office politics, don't want raises and shorter hours, and don't want vacations.
Same goes with e-mail over 'live' help: if you have people sitting around all day waiting for a support question to come in, the company is spending 'unneeded money' because the person is seemingly useless unless something happens. With e-mail support, a company can have a person sit down for an hour or two to answer them all and then be off the pay clock for the rest of the time they aren't answering questions.
This is, quite unfortunately, the way things are headed.