Google (or some up-stream data provider) marked a forest track across our property as a "road" - it's literally a track only fit for walking for very experienced 4WD drivers. Yet a couple of times a week people are parked outside our house wondering where the road has gone. Occasionally they're quite upset, as if somehow it's my fault that google sent them 10km out of their way.
We've "told" google it's not a road, encourage everyone who ends up here to do so as well, yet nothing ever changes.
Is it even possible to get through to google without a lawsuit?
So I'd really like to see OSM maps used more for navigation, at least I feel like I can contribute to this.
It wasn't just the moving of the buttons.
It was the moving of the buttons (after 20 years of collectively keeping them right), without asking, and without a simple way of moving them back.
And then it was the inclusion of Pulseaudio, which for quite a number of people was a complete PITA.
The next bad thing will be the (Dis) "Unity" non-desktop with it's ridiculous side-panel, yet constant menus.
They want to 'develop' into a fascist state off the bad and skip that whole messy democracy stuff
It's true.
The AFP also wanted a few other Facecook buttons: "Are my Papers OK?" and "Turn in My Parents".
The real problems started in Australian politics when the christian fundys managed to get a guy into parliament. I guess they think they have the moral high-ground; when really they're just a bunch of arse-clowns, pushing their beliefs. So much for separation of church and state. *sigh*
In Switzerland the people don't give way to the car, and it's a good thing.
A typical village speed limit is 50km/h, or 30km/h in the single-lane back streets, so this guy was doing 2x or 3x the speed limit. Your typical Swiss village was laid-out 500 years before cars existed, and has narrow roads, no curb on the gutter, and twisty turns around houses etc. The children are encouraged to walk to school un-escorted from age 5 onwards (not be driven a few blocks in an 5 litre V8 "SUV" as in Australia), so there's a very real chance of someone distracted by a butterfly not crossing the road as well as they could.
The speed limit on the highway is 120km/h. And FWIW, the curve to the speeding fines is very steep. My wife got a few ~5km/h over speeding fines and they were usually less than 50 franks (USD$50). But once you start getting > 30km/h over the posted limit, the fines get huge.
Any time some procedure, e.g.: how to package a release of , test if server is responding, etc. it goes in the wiki. Lots of more mundane things are in there too - phone number lists, reference-images for icons, business card templates, photos from the xmas party, etc. etc. It forms a bit of a repository for things that otherwise someone needs to be responsible for.
It *does* take more time to document a process rather than just doing it, but you only have to document it once, and any corrections are easy to implement.
We use DokuWiki (http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:dokuwiki) it's bloody fantastic.
Most people do so many things a day (all that "meta-work") it's seems impossible to document! I'd suggest, at least initially, just getting some of the significant processes written down, after-all, everyone takes a vacation sometime.
C is a sleek and powerful tool.
To get the best out of it, you have to be willing to sit and learn. It's not for quick-hack programming, but for low-level code where size and speed are everything. It's the tool of the master-craftsmen.
C 'strings' are a two-edged sword, the conscious descision to not bound check is that of an uber programmer. It's efficient and simple - the hallmark of good coding. However you must be exacting in your code, that's the price. If you put in the effort to get it right, you are justly rewarded.
String bound-checking is a collar leading to imprecise programming.
Don't be so patronising, you obviously don't have any children.
It's _not_ easy raising kids. For starters the little buggers know exactly how to manipulate you into getting what they want. If you stick to your guns and don't give in you're the Worst Dad In The World [TM].
You seem to be advocating a "let them do as they wish approach". It doesn't work. My 4yo would watch DVDs all day, eat yoghurt (or ice cream) for dinner at 10pm every night, not go outside, and spend the rest of his time playing MAME games and crusing the ABC Kids web-site. He also refuses to go swimming, 'cause the swimming teacher (who also knew best) kept dunking him to get him 'used' to being underwater. He saw straight throught those 'accidents'.
Every kid is different, there's no book or person who can tell you what or how to manage you kids. Some of them really need it (my 4yo does), yet the 6yo (girl) is self motivating and self regulating, always has been.
No-one has the answers, because there aren't any. That said, having kids is still the most fun and rewarding thing you can ever do.
But language is in a constant state of flux. Many words exist this year that were neither spoken nor heard last year.
Variations in language are a hallmark of a rich culture. Your method of grammar policing would lead to a monochromatic society with no linguistc colour.
(Hmmm... note the EN_AU spelling of coloUr, you banned that).
I used a Palm M515 and a keyboard to record a diary every night of a 12 week bicycle tour. Each night in the tent I would type in a new entry. The palm notepad app was a bit low-tech for this (limited ot 4k entries), so I'd download a better editor like SiEd.
In addition to this I used GPilotS to extract the track-logs from a Garmin (ETrex Vista) GPS. So for each day of riding, I have a ~100m spacing bread-crumb trail of where we rode.
I have used this setup on subsequent tours since, and will use it again next year for a similiar 2-month ride. I backed-up every night (onto a SD card), and charged every three or four days. The palm survived the camping and constant vibration flawlessly.
I wouldn't consider doing it without a full-size keyboard. I did grafitti small changes (like my beer tasting list), but for the most part a keyboard is essential.
When you get home, you can simply extract the journal back to plain-ascii files ready for markup to HTML, or however you want to present the stuff.
My first travel diary (for 5 month trip) took me about a year of elapsed time to type back out.
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Google (or some up-stream data provider) marked a forest track across our property as a "road" - it's literally a track only fit for walking for very experienced 4WD drivers. Yet a couple of times a week people are parked outside our house wondering where the road has gone. Occasionally they're quite upset, as if somehow it's my fault that google sent them 10km out of their way.
We've "told" google it's not a road, encourage everyone who ends up here to do so as well, yet nothing ever changes.
Is it even possible to get through to google without a lawsuit?
So I'd really like to see OSM maps used more for navigation, at least I feel like I can contribute to this.
It wasn't just the moving of the buttons. It was the moving of the buttons (after 20 years of collectively keeping them right), without asking, and without a simple way of moving them back. And then it was the inclusion of Pulseaudio, which for quite a number of people was a complete PITA. The next bad thing will be the (Dis) "Unity" non-desktop with it's ridiculous side-panel, yet constant menus.
They want to 'develop' into a fascist state off the bad and skip that whole messy democracy stuff
It's true. The AFP also wanted a few other Facecook buttons: "Are my Papers OK?" and "Turn in My Parents". The real problems started in Australian politics when the christian fundys managed to get a guy into parliament. I guess they think they have the moral high-ground; when really they're just a bunch of arse-clowns, pushing their beliefs. So much for separation of church and state. *sigh*
In Switzerland the people don't give way to the car, and it's a good thing. A typical village speed limit is 50km/h, or 30km/h in the single-lane back streets, so this guy was doing 2x or 3x the speed limit. Your typical Swiss village was laid-out 500 years before cars existed, and has narrow roads, no curb on the gutter, and twisty turns around houses etc. The children are encouraged to walk to school un-escorted from age 5 onwards (not be driven a few blocks in an 5 litre V8 "SUV" as in Australia), so there's a very real chance of someone distracted by a butterfly not crossing the road as well as they could. The speed limit on the highway is 120km/h. And FWIW, the curve to the speeding fines is very steep. My wife got a few ~5km/h over speeding fines and they were usually less than 50 franks (USD$50). But once you start getting > 30km/h over the posted limit, the fines get huge.
This is basically what we do at our company.
Any time some procedure, e.g.: how to package a release of , test if server is responding, etc.
it goes in the wiki. Lots of more mundane things are in there too - phone number lists, reference-images
for icons, business card templates, photos from the xmas party, etc. etc. It forms a bit of a repository
for things that otherwise someone needs to be responsible for.
It *does* take more time to document a process rather than just doing it, but you only have to document
it once, and any corrections are easy to implement.
We use DokuWiki (http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:dokuwiki) it's bloody fantastic.
Most people do so many things a day (all that "meta-work") it's seems impossible to document!
I'd suggest, at least initially, just getting some of the significant processes written down,
after-all, everyone takes a vacation sometime.
C is a sleek and powerful tool. To get the best out of it, you have to be willing to sit and learn. It's not for quick-hack programming, but for low-level code where size and speed are everything. It's the tool of the master-craftsmen. C 'strings' are a two-edged sword, the conscious descision to not bound check is that of an uber programmer. It's efficient and simple - the hallmark of good coding. However you must be exacting in your code, that's the price. If you put in the effort to get it right, you are justly rewarded. String bound-checking is a collar leading to imprecise programming.
Don't be so patronising, you obviously don't have any children.
It's _not_ easy raising kids. For starters the little buggers know exactly how to manipulate you into getting what they want. If you stick to your guns and don't give in you're the Worst Dad In The World [TM].
You seem to be advocating a "let them do as they wish approach". It doesn't work. My 4yo would watch DVDs all day, eat yoghurt (or ice cream) for dinner at 10pm every night, not go outside, and spend the rest of his time playing MAME games and crusing the ABC Kids web-site. He also refuses to go swimming, 'cause the swimming teacher (who also knew best) kept dunking him to get him 'used' to being underwater. He saw straight throught those 'accidents'.
Every kid is different, there's no book or person who can tell you what or how to manage you kids. Some of them really need it (my 4yo does), yet the
6yo (girl) is self motivating and self regulating, always has been.
No-one has the answers, because there aren't any. That said, having kids is still the most fun and rewarding thing you can ever do.
But language is in a constant state of flux. Many words exist this year that were neither spoken nor heard last year.
Variations in language are a hallmark of a rich culture. Your method of grammar policing would lead to a monochromatic society with no linguistc colour.
(Hmmm... note the EN_AU spelling of coloUr, you banned that).
I used a Palm M515 and a keyboard to record a diary every night of a 12 week bicycle tour. Each night in the tent I would type in a new entry. The palm notepad app was a bit low-tech for this (limited ot 4k entries), so I'd download a better editor like SiEd. In addition to this I used GPilotS to extract the track-logs from a Garmin (ETrex Vista) GPS. So for each day of riding, I have a ~100m spacing bread-crumb trail of where we rode. I have used this setup on subsequent tours since, and will use it again next year for a similiar 2-month ride. I backed-up every night (onto a SD card), and charged every three or four days. The palm survived the camping and constant vibration flawlessly. I wouldn't consider doing it without a full-size keyboard. I did grafitti small changes (like my beer tasting list), but for the most part a keyboard is essential. When you get home, you can simply extract the journal back to plain-ascii files ready for markup to HTML, or however you want to present the stuff. My first travel diary (for 5 month trip) took me about a year of elapsed time to type back out.