Why not? I kind of get the "old guys can't be rock stars" thing, but I don't understand why you don't think old guys can't be funny.
Because they won't be doing anything new.
It will be like those later "Rocky Horror Picture Shows" where the entire audience will be chanting out in unison "It is an ex-parrot" at the appropriate moment.
We've seen it all a thousand times and now it's just not that funny anymore. Yes it was at first but there has been nothing new in decades.
Maybe we are adapting to skimming, filtering, and jumping from source to source of information.
Given that this is the way the (modern?) real world works, I don't see it as a problem.
The only drawback is the sentimental loss of no longer being able to sit down and be completely focused on a single thing for any length of time. Whilst this may be a shame, the fact is that such an activity these days is purely recreational and probably impractical for most people anyway. Time has moved on and so should we.
Yes, you can learn new tricks, but like everything else you have to work at it. I've been programming in some fashion for close to 30 years but I'm still learning new stuff all the time (getting employed on the basis of the new skills is a bit harder, but not giving up yet).
If you are struggling to come to grips with frameworks, might I suggest that you are probably not getting 'why' they are written, or what they are trying to achieve. Not getting that means you are trying to memorize a whole bunch of stuff that doesn't seem to make any sense, and that is basically impossible.
The easiest way to understand the 'why' of a framework is to start trying to write equivalent things yourself from scratch.
Once upon a time I installed Django and worked through the tutorial. Admittedly I was pretty impressed with the inbuilt admin interface that you got for very little code, but beyond that it all seemed too long-winded and abstract for what I wanted to do. So I decided to not use Django and just write my own application directly using wsgi.
I spent a day or two happily coding up a number of functional pages and a rudimentary menu system. Then I realized that some of my code was getting a bit unwieldy. Functions to parse the url and call the appropriate function were getting too long, and code that produced the output was starting to be duplicated in numerous places. I sat down and had a good think about how I could refactor stuff to be more maintainable when suddenly it hit me... "I'm re-writing Django (though much more poorly)".
Once I realized that, and I understood the problems that Django was trying to solve it all suddenly made a lot more sense and I found it easier to get my head around it all.
Maybe this is one of those "You commit at least 3 crimes every day without even realizing it" situations that James Duane proposes.
For most people, most of the time, they will not do anything. But if the authorities decide that you have become inconvenient, then there are numerous instances of you commiting crimes to justify locking you up.
This is a race that the guards aren't going to win. Of course, it's not like anyone's ever been able to stop contraband getting into a prison anyway.
Weld them into a cage, inside a huge warehouse. No visitors.
This is a trivially solvable problem, you just need to have the will to actually solve it (note: I'm opposed to the death penalty just in case new evidence comes to light).
The myth of that got out when a married woman claimed she was raped, and since there wasn't enough evidence to prove it, the prosecutor decided to charge her with adultery.
Which means that the myth is not really a myth and is in fact a fact, as you have just illustrated.
In other news: Space tech often makes it way down to doing practical things, including help feed the poor
You mean like frying up all that food they don't have in Teflon frying pans?
I kid, I kid.
But you gotta admit that usually the link between space exploration and feeding the poor is quite indirect and relies on one of those "trickle down" types of theories.
Please, anybody with mod points, mod the parent up.
Yes I know that he or she is posting as AC, but this so beautifully encapsulates where the 'beta' is headed that it really deserves to be seen.
The original slashdot users and discussion format simply don't fit into the 'passive content consumer' business model of dice, and no amount of posting 'fuck beta', or boycotting, or whining to Timothy or any of the other editors is going to change that.
Let it go...
I fully commiserate with you, but it's over. Read the excerpt below from the Dice 2013 full year financial report.
Slashdot Media was acquired to provide content and services that are important to technology professionals in their everyday work lives and to leverage that reach into the global technology community benefiting user engagement on the Dice.com site. The expected benefits have started to be realized at Dice.com. However, advertising revenue has declined over the past year and there is no improvement expected in the future financial performance of Slashdot Media's underlying advertising business. Therefore, $7.2 million of intangible assets and $6.3 million of goodwill related to Slashdot Media were reduced to zero.
Zero!!
They've basically written off slashdot as worthless and are now in desperation mode trying to minimize their losses, and if that means turning slashdot into a Justin Beiber Fan page on Facebook then that is what they will do. The original slashdot "audience" is worthless to them and they don't give a damn if we are unhappy and threaten to go elsewhere.
The slashdot that we used to know and love is gone, and the only thing left for us is to direct our energies towards either the altslashdot initiative or respectfully ask Mr. Perens to re-ressurect technocrat.net.
text based things like... Oh I don't know... Shopping lists.
If my girlfriend wants me to buy a loaf of bread on the way home from work, she can either text/email with a message "please buy bread" or she could send me a video of herself doing an interpretative dance of sewing seeds of wheat, reaping the seeds when they grow, grinding them up (or something), adding water and probably other stuff like yeast (how does one dance that?), kneading it into a lump of something, firing up an oven, putting the lump into the oven, taking it out and cutting it into slices,and then 'dance' it being delivered to the store I drive past on my way home so I know to drop in and buy it.
I seriously don't now how to finish this post. I'm just... stunned.
Let it go...
I fully commiserate with you, but it's over. Read the excerpt below from the Dice 2013 full year financial report.
Slashdot Media was acquired to provide content and services that are important to technology professionals in their everyday work lives and to leverage that reach into the global technology community benefiting user engagement on the Dice.com site. The expected benefits have started to be realized at Dice.com. However, advertising revenue has declined over the past year and there is no improvement expected in the future financial performance of Slashdot Media's underlying advertising business. Therefore, $7.2 million of intangible assets and $6.3 million of goodwill related to Slashdot Media were reduced to zero.
Zero!!
They've basically written off slashdot as worthless and are now in desperation mode trying to minimize their losses, and if that means turning slashdot into a Justin Beiber Fan page on Facebook then that is what they will do. The original slashdot "audience" is worthless to them and they don't give a damn if we are unhappy and threaten to go elsewhere.
The slashdot that we used to know and love is gone, and the only thing left for us is to direct our energies towards either the altslashdot initiative or respectfully ask Mr. Perens to re-ressurect technocrat.net.
It depends on how you count it.
The number of different 'versions' of distro? 1 or 2
The number of different 'installations' of that distro? Many, many more.
Slashdot Mirror
Why not? I kind of get the "old guys can't be rock stars" thing, but I don't understand why you don't think old guys can't be funny.
Because they won't be doing anything new.
It will be like those later "Rocky Horror Picture Shows" where the entire audience will be chanting out in unison "It is an ex-parrot" at the appropriate moment. We've seen it all a thousand times and now it's just not that funny anymore. Yes it was at first but there has been nothing new in decades.
I feel that you were supposed to write 'Yo Dawg' somewhere in there.
It makes me feel a little better that I'm not the only one.
Given that this is the way the (modern?) real world works, I don't see it as a problem.
The only drawback is the sentimental loss of no longer being able to sit down and be completely focused on a single thing for any length of time. Whilst this may be a shame, the fact is that such an activity these days is purely recreational and probably impractical for most people anyway. Time has moved on and so should we.
File this under "buggy whips".
I wonder if these sorts of figures will be mentioned in the next "Total Cost of Ownership" study done by Microsoft.
I'd just bought a gallon jug of cider at a local apple farm
Try adding the word 'another' at various places in that sentence and see how it reads.
as they obviously dropped the ball in clarifying the situation with the customer reps.
Or told them to deliberately lie knowing that there was likely no proof of what the customer rep said.
Also, kinda reminds me of that zooming mirror scene in Blade Runner.
Let's enhance
Yes, you can learn new tricks, but like everything else you have to work at it. I've been programming in some fashion for close to 30 years but I'm still learning new stuff all the time (getting employed on the basis of the new skills is a bit harder, but not giving up yet).
If you are struggling to come to grips with frameworks, might I suggest that you are probably not getting 'why' they are written, or what they are trying to achieve. Not getting that means you are trying to memorize a whole bunch of stuff that doesn't seem to make any sense, and that is basically impossible.
The easiest way to understand the 'why' of a framework is to start trying to write equivalent things yourself from scratch.
Once upon a time I installed Django and worked through the tutorial. Admittedly I was pretty impressed with the inbuilt admin interface that you got for very little code, but beyond that it all seemed too long-winded and abstract for what I wanted to do. So I decided to not use Django and just write my own application directly using wsgi.
I spent a day or two happily coding up a number of functional pages and a rudimentary menu system. Then I realized that some of my code was getting a bit unwieldy. Functions to parse the url and call the appropriate function were getting too long, and code that produced the output was starting to be duplicated in numerous places. I sat down and had a good think about how I could refactor stuff to be more maintainable when suddenly it hit me... "I'm re-writing Django (though much more poorly)".
Once I realized that, and I understood the problems that Django was trying to solve it all suddenly made a lot more sense and I found it easier to get my head around it all.
Maybe this is one of those "You commit at least 3 crimes every day without even realizing it" situations that James Duane proposes.
For most people, most of the time, they will not do anything. But if the authorities decide that you have become inconvenient, then there are numerous instances of you commiting crimes to justify locking you up.
This is a race that the guards aren't going to win. Of course, it's not like anyone's ever been able to stop contraband getting into a prison anyway.
Weld them into a cage, inside a huge warehouse. No visitors.
This is a trivially solvable problem, you just need to have the will to actually solve it (note: I'm opposed to the death penalty just in case new evidence comes to light).
Which would be a bad thing because ....
Sorry I'm missing the next part of this.
Agreed
The myth of that got out when a married woman claimed she was raped, and since there wasn't enough evidence to prove it, the prosecutor decided to charge her with adultery.
Which means that the myth is not really a myth and is in fact a fact, as you have just illustrated.
Well played sir.
In other news: Space tech often makes it way down to doing practical things, including help feed the poor
You mean like frying up all that food they don't have in Teflon frying pans? I kid, I kid.
But you gotta admit that usually the link between space exploration and feeding the poor is quite indirect and relies on one of those "trickle down" types of theories.
They're going into a sun spot... you know, a hole where the sun don't shine (as brightly).
No, that's Uran... Nah, too easy.
I often find its much easier to get work done face to face
You're not a programmer.
Yes I know that he or she is posting as AC, but this so beautifully encapsulates where the 'beta' is headed that it really deserves to be seen.
The original slashdot users and discussion format simply don't fit into the 'passive content consumer' business model of dice, and no amount of posting 'fuck beta', or boycotting, or whining to Timothy or any of the other editors is going to change that.
I fully commiserate with you, but it's over. Read the excerpt below from the Dice 2013 full year financial report.
Slashdot Media was acquired to provide content and services that are important to technology professionals in their everyday work lives and to leverage that reach into the global technology community benefiting user engagement on the Dice.com site. The expected benefits have started to be realized at Dice.com. However, advertising revenue has declined over the past year and there is no improvement expected in the future financial performance of Slashdot Media's underlying advertising business. Therefore, $7.2 million of intangible assets and $6.3 million of goodwill related to Slashdot Media were reduced to zero.
Zero!!
They've basically written off slashdot as worthless and are now in desperation mode trying to minimize their losses, and if that means turning slashdot into a Justin Beiber Fan page on Facebook then that is what they will do. The original slashdot "audience" is worthless to them and they don't give a damn if we are unhappy and threaten to go elsewhere.
The slashdot that we used to know and love is gone, and the only thing left for us is to direct our energies towards either the altslashdot initiative or respectfully ask Mr. Perens to re-ressurect technocrat.net.
If my girlfriend wants me to buy a loaf of bread on the way home from work, she can either text/email with a message "please buy bread" or she could send me a video of herself doing an interpretative dance of sewing seeds of wheat, reaping the seeds when they grow, grinding them up (or something), adding water and probably other stuff like yeast (how does one dance that?), kneading it into a lump of something, firing up an oven, putting the lump into the oven, taking it out and cutting it into slices,and then 'dance' it being delivered to the store I drive past on my way home so I know to drop in and buy it.
I seriously don't now how to finish this post. I'm just... stunned.
I fully commiserate with you, but it's over. Read the excerpt below from the Dice 2013 full year financial report.
Slashdot Media was acquired to provide content and services that are important to technology professionals in their everyday work lives and to leverage that reach into the global technology community benefiting user engagement on the Dice.com site. The expected benefits have started to be realized at Dice.com. However, advertising revenue has declined over the past year and there is no improvement expected in the future financial performance of Slashdot Media's underlying advertising business. Therefore, $7.2 million of intangible assets and $6.3 million of goodwill related to Slashdot Media were reduced to zero.
Zero!!
They've basically written off slashdot as worthless and are now in desperation mode trying to minimize their losses, and if that means turning slashdot into a Justin Beiber Fan page on Facebook then that is what they will do. The original slashdot "audience" is worthless to them and they don't give a damn if we are unhappy and threaten to go elsewhere.
The slashdot that we used to know and love is gone, and the only thing left for us is to direct our energies towards either the altslashdot initiative or respectfully ask Mr. Perens to re-ressurect technocrat.net.
The internet wants to know.
Sorry but... actually it doesn't.
Most of it has just seen the beta site for the first time, and feels a bit sick at the moment.
How many, actually?
It depends on how you count it. The number of different 'versions' of distro? 1 or 2
The number of different 'installations' of that distro? Many, many more.
I don't think polar bears or penguins can fly.