My dog poops mostly facing east, but I believe that's because I always take him on walks at night along the same route, and there's a long straight easterly stretch close to the end of the route. Come to think of it, I don't remember ever seeing him poop facing north or south. Maybe he's broken.
Where the mangers is answering questions when those questions need technical people to answer them.
Agreed. Absolutely true. On the other paw, having development attend non-technical meetings are often a waste of the developers' time. One strategy that seems to work is to have the on-call developer attend all the management meetings, as his life is ruined for that week anyway.
Oh, please spare the developers from having any contact with the outside world. It's not like the clients or individuals in other departments ever discover any bugs or have anything relevant to say about design features or the future of the product.
That's a good point, but it can get ridiculous. One manager I worked for required a kaizan (with A3, presentation, followup, the whole works) from every individual employee once a month, on a new topic each time, on the theory that if he made continuous improvement a job requirement, he'd be able to show a huge amount of improvement in the department, and catch the eye of the higher ups. Problem was, after all the low hanging fruit were gone (which, admittedly, some really needed to be fixed) the requirement was kept in place, and now development has all but halted while developers scramble to find ever smaller and less relevant process improvements to implement.
I think it comes from higher ups telling the manager "I want you to do this" while the manager hears "I want your department to do this while you update linkedin and attend management seminars".
A really good non-technical manager serves to shield you from company management drama. Developers are allowed maximum practical development time because the manager is handling all the non-development stuff. A really bad non-technical manager acts as a conduit of bureaucracy. After awhile, all the developers are doing the manager's work, while the manager fulfills the function of finding more mindless procedures to heap on his direct reports.
I've worked for both kinds. Recently.
I should say, a technical manager can fall into the second category above, if they really want to develop instead of manage.
Wouldn't it be better to just build the solar cell into the carport so it can charge a battery all day while the car is driving around, then plug the car into the carport to be charged by the battery at night?
Because then it wouldn't be a solar powered car. I mean, it technically would, but it wouldn't *look like* a solar powered car.
It would be even cooler if they smoked the household cat in the process. I might see that as a feature. (My wife puts out food for strays, and the house is regularly mobbed by cats and raccoons, who sometimes fight with each other. It's one of those things where you go "yes, dear" and try not to listen to the noise.)
Many years ago, when I realized I could pipe the output of one program into the input of another program, the Unix-nature was revealed to me, and I was enlightened.
Am I the only Slashdotter thinking of trying this? The clothes washer on spin would be too big. Maybe put a faster motor on my ice cream maker and pour in some hot oil...
Be sure to film it. This has the makings of a youtube favorite.
How exactly would a video camera prevent a masked marauder from drilling?
I dunno, another panel opens and a white gloved hand on one of those scissors-like extensions comes out and slaps the thief silly? I'm pretty sure I saw that on a Bugs Bunny cartoon. Or maybe it was one of the Star Wars prequels, I forget.
Regarding flash, an astounding number of sites still use it, especially to play video, and there doesn't seem to be much sign of that changing. But I wasn't talking about flash.
I've been using Gimp since point-something, and it's gone a long way, but I still need Photoshop and Lightroom for my work. Yes, I'm really not looking forward to the web version, (I don't necessarily have internet access in the field) and that may make me look at alternatives. But at least for now, Adobe CS is the killer tablet app for me. And don't say Windows 8. Just don't.
From the first link in the summary: Last July, during an interview with Charlie Rose, Bill Gates explained that Jobs "did some things better than I did. His timing in terms of when it came out, the engineering work, just the package that was put together. The tablets we had done before, weren't as thin, they weren't as attractive."
Well yeah, plus, anyone who has used Windows XP Tablet Edition will tell you, it really didn't have tablet support. The "tablet features" were repurposed Accessibility features and they really didn't work very well. What Apple brought to the table was that a touch-only interface, to be intuitive and easy to use, couldn't be merely a bunch of cabalistic gestures that mimicked the actions of a three button mouse. Had Microsoft started *then* on a touch-only gui, instead of trying to shoehorn in the KVM-centric GUI of XP, maybe things would have been different.
Only a few weeks ago I was in a meeting. There were 2 laptops and 6 iPads in the room. I think that was the first time I saw 3x more tablets in a meeting of that size (or at least that I remember noticing)
I've started to see this at work also, but were they creating content, or just consuming it?
You know the more I think about this -- Windows is better because it'll let you show two screens in certain circumstances vs only one on android -- the more annoyed I get, because it absolutely, positively, misses the point. Let's please go over this once more, for the slow kids:
a) Full screen only apps are not appropriate on PCs.
b) Full screen only apps are appropriate on tablets and phones.
With Windows 8 Microsoft was at first trying to sell us the idea of full screen only apps on PCs because it allowed them to use the same code base on all platforms. When that didn't work out, they patched Win8 so it would show two full screen apps side by side, and are now apparently marketing the ability to have multiple apps up at once, on tablets, as superior to Android/iOS. This completely misses the point in a way that just boggles the imagination. It should go in the Urban Dictionary as example one of "missing the point".
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My dog poops mostly facing east, but I believe that's because I always take him on walks at night along the same route, and there's a long straight easterly stretch close to the end of the route. Come to think of it, I don't remember ever seeing him poop facing north or south. Maybe he's broken.
Where the mangers is answering questions when those questions need technical people to answer them.
Agreed. Absolutely true. On the other paw, having development attend non-technical meetings are often a waste of the developers' time. One strategy that seems to work is to have the on-call developer attend all the management meetings, as his life is ruined for that week anyway.
Oh, please spare the developers from having any contact with the outside world. It's not like the clients or individuals in other departments ever discover any bugs or have anything relevant to say about design features or the future of the product.
That's a good point, but it can get ridiculous. One manager I worked for required a kaizan (with A3, presentation, followup, the whole works) from every individual employee once a month, on a new topic each time, on the theory that if he made continuous improvement a job requirement, he'd be able to show a huge amount of improvement in the department, and catch the eye of the higher ups. Problem was, after all the low hanging fruit were gone (which, admittedly, some really needed to be fixed) the requirement was kept in place, and now development has all but halted while developers scramble to find ever smaller and less relevant process improvements to implement.
I think it comes from higher ups telling the manager "I want you to do this" while the manager hears "I want your department to do this while you update linkedin and attend management seminars".
A really good non-technical manager serves to shield you from company management drama. Developers are allowed maximum practical development time because the manager is handling all the non-development stuff. A really bad non-technical manager acts as a conduit of bureaucracy. After awhile, all the developers are doing the manager's work, while the manager fulfills the function of finding more mindless procedures to heap on his direct reports.
I've worked for both kinds. Recently.
I should say, a technical manager can fall into the second category above, if they really want to develop instead of manage.
Wouldn't it be better to just build the solar cell into the carport so it can charge a battery all day while the car is driving around, then plug the car into the carport to be charged by the battery at night?
Because then it wouldn't be a solar powered car. I mean, it technically would, but it wouldn't *look like* a solar powered car.
Because this is a PR stunt.
It would be even cooler if they smoked the household cat in the process. I might see that as a feature. (My wife puts out food for strays, and the house is regularly mobbed by cats and raccoons, who sometimes fight with each other. It's one of those things where you go "yes, dear" and try not to listen to the noise.)
Plus, the cars fly, airplanes are nuclear powered and we have a colony on the moon.
> and it won't fry the cat when he or she plops down by the car for an afternoon nap and the sunbeam shifts,
Although, that would be really funny.
Not exactly but there is an app for that.
Many years ago, when I realized I could pipe the output of one program into the input of another program, the Unix-nature was revealed to me, and I was enlightened.
Thus spake the heretic: I could not do my job without Windows. It allows me to open many sessions into the Unix machines on which I do my work.
That was you?
I'm just curious where DOS/Windows fits into this - Scientology?
That's perfect.
My copy of the 4.3 Unix System Manager's Manual from 1986, which I guess should be considered the New Testament, still sits in my bookcase at work.
Though technically, if you wanted to do this, you could just download the Android cross-platform SDK and use the emulator that comes with that.
In FACT, I wonder if this isn't just a repurposing of exactly that.
Whirling hot oil around at high speed, in a kitchen.
What could go wrong?
But you know, the same people who deep fry turkeys would try this.
Am I the only Slashdotter thinking of trying this? The clothes washer on spin would be too big. Maybe put a faster motor on my ice cream maker and pour in some hot oil...
Be sure to film it. This has the makings of a youtube favorite.
Until the Adobe Creative Suite runs reasonably well on a tablet, then no.
... and Vegas/Premier/Avid and AutoCad/Blender/Maya and CGminer/Folding@home/SETI and ...
In other words, more than a browser and Angry Birds.
How exactly would a video camera prevent a masked marauder from drilling?
I dunno, another panel opens and a white gloved hand on one of those scissors-like extensions comes out and slaps the thief silly? I'm pretty sure I saw that on a Bugs Bunny cartoon. Or maybe it was one of the Star Wars prequels, I forget.
Regarding flash, an astounding number of sites still use it, especially to play video, and there doesn't seem to be much sign of that changing. But I wasn't talking about flash.
I've been using Gimp since point-something, and it's gone a long way, but I still need Photoshop and Lightroom for my work. Yes, I'm really not looking forward to the web version, (I don't necessarily have internet access in the field) and that may make me look at alternatives. But at least for now, Adobe CS is the killer tablet app for me. And don't say Windows 8. Just don't.
From the first link in the summary: Last July, during an interview with Charlie Rose, Bill Gates explained that Jobs "did some things better than I did. His timing in terms of when it came out, the engineering work, just the package that was put together. The tablets we had done before, weren't as thin, they weren't as attractive."
Well yeah, plus, anyone who has used Windows XP Tablet Edition will tell you, it really didn't have tablet support. The "tablet features" were repurposed Accessibility features and they really didn't work very well. What Apple brought to the table was that a touch-only interface, to be intuitive and easy to use, couldn't be merely a bunch of cabalistic gestures that mimicked the actions of a three button mouse. Had Microsoft started *then* on a touch-only gui, instead of trying to shoehorn in the KVM-centric GUI of XP, maybe things would have been different.
Only a few weeks ago I was in a meeting. There were 2 laptops and 6 iPads in the room. I think that was the first time I saw 3x more tablets in a meeting of that size (or at least that I remember noticing)
I've started to see this at work also, but were they creating content, or just consuming it?
Until the Adobe Creative Suite runs reasonably well on a tablet, then no.
You know the more I think about this -- Windows is better because it'll let you show two screens in certain circumstances vs only one on android -- the more annoyed I get, because it absolutely, positively, misses the point. Let's please go over this once more, for the slow kids:
a) Full screen only apps are not appropriate on PCs.
b) Full screen only apps are appropriate on tablets and phones.
With Windows 8 Microsoft was at first trying to sell us the idea of full screen only apps on PCs because it allowed them to use the same code base on all platforms. When that didn't work out, they patched Win8 so it would show two full screen apps side by side, and are now apparently marketing the ability to have multiple apps up at once, on tablets, as superior to Android/iOS. This completely misses the point in a way that just boggles the imagination. It should go in the Urban Dictionary as example one of "missing the point".