Here's a list of people doing well in unions...
Cops
Teachers
Truck Drivers
Carpenters
Plumbers
Actors
Screenwriters
With the exception of screenwriters, all of these professions involve work that cannot be done remotely, and that is why they aren't susceptible to offshoring.
When measuring browser usage statistics, the number of hits isn't as important as the number of unique connections made. Even if IE met the RFC correctly, hits wouldn't be very telling. A person who opens every page on the site 1000 times each should count the same as a user who opens one page - they shouldn't count as 100,000 users.
Measuring connections can have drawbacks, too. Did the user close and open their browser, or did a different user from inside the same proxy make a connection? Even so, it's a lot more telling then watching hits.
In my experience, Dreamweaver integrated well with sourcesafe.
At my last job I had to setup versioning for a group of 3-4 graphic/web designers. We already had sourcesafe, and I was dreading having to teach these guys how to check in their designs. Most of them didn't know where they saved their files locally, so it would be a struggle unless thhey could do it from within the development tools.
I was discussing this with the one computer literate designer, and he remembered seeing the sourcesafe buttons. So, we tried it out. I figured we might have to tweak it a bit, but it went smoothly.
Sourcesafe even has a good understanding of web projects and you can set up deployment/publishing (Check the source in where it will live in a test directory. Hit the publish button and the documents are moved to a live server.).
I love having my yahoo mail as the task item on the far left.
So, what I'd much rather see is a way to re-order the taskbar buttons to keep them lined up the way I like them.
As it is, everytime I close a window or open two out of order, I end up closing and re-opening to get them lined up again. It would be much easier to just open yahoo mail, and drag it over to the left side of the taskbar.
[rant]
As a driver in NYC, I can tell you that the there are enough maniac cab drivers stopping short to pick up/drop off riders, changing lanes without ever signaling, and honking at other cars stopped at an intersection who cannot proceed because of pedestrians, emergency vehicles, or red lights. Every time I've ever ridden in a cab, I think I'll lose my lunch.
[/rant]
Maybe the cabs aren't the craziest (bicycle delivery guys, the wackos wandering in the street on 125th, out of state drivers, cops who don't turn on lights and sirens when breaking traffic laws) but they certainly aren't all careful.
You look at the screen to see that the right letter was hit, but you feel the click of the keyboard to know that you can pick your finger up and hit another key.
At my last job, this computer would have been perfect - not for workstations, but for a project we worked on.
We wrote content management/distrobution software for advertising companies, and got pulled into doing work with the hardware as well. A 1U rack mount computer was hooked to the back of a plasma screen, and plugged into a modem or a network, then we could update on the fly and run any kind of media that the computer could display. We added touch screen overlays to make them interactive. It was a cool project to work on.
The project failed because of the poor quality computer we used -- we were locked into using the 1 brand of computer that was custom designed to mount on the back of a plasma screen.
Hard coding strings is a big problem when it comes to localizing. If I write an app with a strings file containing every word to be displayed: First, it make maintenance easier. The client sees the demo, and says "we don't call it a username, we call it a login!" or something like that. You just change any strings with username in them to have login in them instead. Second, you can easily update the language for an International version of the app. Or you can have a directory with several language files and choose which one to use based on preference settings (I think this is pretty common).
I think problems with date/currency type things stem from programmers not using standard packages and methods to deal with these types. For example, I don't want to use a date format object, so I just print day+'/'+month+'/'+year.
I say better localization is always good.
Maybe we could use this to replace 's' with 'z' in localisation, while reading Slashdot in the US.
"If we had been given eight months to a year, it would have been amazing."
Poor guy seems to be suffering from development delusions. I think at any given time a project is always 8-12 months from amazing, but those last 8-12 months never seem to go away.
I don't think pride has that much to do with it, although I do take pride in a well crafted segment of a program. I think the biggest reason is faith in the code. If I write it myself, I know that it does what I need it to do, and I could quickly add to it if I needed to.
I don't mean to say that writing it myself is always the best choice - I've used plenty of components that worked better than I would have ever written and had intuitive interfaces.
But, there are also a lot of components that I've wasted a coupled days fooling with only to find that they don't fit my needs, don't work reliably, or have confusing interfaces.
I believe the author refers to this as impatience (no rush though, researching is just boring).
2) GPL'd code can't be used in commercial apps (blah blah, technicalities, yeah yeah, just try to get it past your boss)
I don't think most people are worrying about GPL'd code if they're writing linked lists or bubble sorts.
Back in the long ago, people used to do this. Spanish coins could be broken into eight pieces: "Pieces of Eight". The whole coin was the equivalent of a dollar, so a quarter would literally be a quarter of the coin, or two bits.
Two bits, Four bits, Six bits, a Peso. All for Zorro, stand up and say so!
They are currently filming down near the financial district in Manhattan. From everything I've heard Mr. McGuire is there, so I'm guessing he is in the movie.
A couple months ago, I saw McGuire and Raimi while they were filming at Columbia University.
I guess he was re-instated pretty soon after he was fired (or almost fired).
While surfing around at work during some downtime and all the sudden you land on a questionable site and BAM a big vagina pops on your screen for 15 seconds...
Almost happened, I just looked at the demo gallery for unicast.com, and a Volvo popped up on the screen.
Whoolie Bull's been launching hot dogs at Durham Bulls games for a while. He turns the speed down for them though - so, no free hot dogs in the cheap seats.:(
And just like ESPNs website this site has a fixed font size. Grrr. I can understand this on espn.com, where they have to fit stats in columns, but why on the text of an article.
Slashdot Mirror
Playing ZeldaC had so many new puzzles and variations on the standard engine, it felt like playing Zelda for the first time.
It's a good demonstration of how versatile a solidly built game-engine can be.
As for single-player Quake mods, Beyond Belief surpassed many of the original level designs.
Here's a list of people doing well in unions... Cops Teachers Truck Drivers Carpenters Plumbers Actors Screenwriters
With the exception of screenwriters, all of these professions involve work that cannot be done remotely, and that is why they aren't susceptible to offshoring.
When measuring browser usage statistics, the number of hits isn't as important as the number of unique connections made. Even if IE met the RFC correctly, hits wouldn't be very telling. A person who opens every page on the site 1000 times each should count the same as a user who opens one page - they shouldn't count as 100,000 users.
Measuring connections can have drawbacks, too. Did the user close and open their browser, or did a different user from inside the same proxy make a connection? Even so, it's a lot more telling then watching hits.
Your slashdot ID is "Willie", your email is "Fred Garvin", and you signed the post "Todd".
Who are you? Really?
In my experience, Dreamweaver integrated well with sourcesafe.
At my last job I had to setup versioning for a group of 3-4 graphic/web designers. We already had sourcesafe, and I was dreading having to teach these guys how to check in their designs. Most of them didn't know where they saved their files locally, so it would be a struggle unless thhey could do it from within the development tools.
I was discussing this with the one computer literate designer, and he remembered seeing the sourcesafe buttons. So, we tried it out. I figured we might have to tweak it a bit, but it went smoothly.
Sourcesafe even has a good understanding of web projects and you can set up deployment/publishing (Check the source in where it will live in a test directory. Hit the publish button and the documents are moved to a live server.).
Phil
This is true. I just tested on a machine that doesn't have SP2.
I love having my yahoo mail as the task item on the far left.
So, what I'd much rather see is a way to re-order the taskbar buttons to keep them lined up the way I like them.
As it is, everytime I close a window or open two out of order, I end up closing and re-opening to get them lined up again. It would be much easier to just open yahoo mail, and drag it over to the left side of the taskbar.
Strongbad is not playable because "You can't control me!"
[rant] As a driver in NYC, I can tell you that the there are enough maniac cab drivers stopping short to pick up/drop off riders, changing lanes without ever signaling, and honking at other cars stopped at an intersection who cannot proceed because of pedestrians, emergency vehicles, or red lights. Every time I've ever ridden in a cab, I think I'll lose my lunch. [/rant]
Maybe the cabs aren't the craziest (bicycle delivery guys, the wackos wandering in the street on 125th, out of state drivers, cops who don't turn on lights and sirens when breaking traffic laws) but they certainly aren't all careful.
You look at the screen to see that the right letter was hit, but you feel the click of the keyboard to know that you can pick your finger up and hit another key.
Supercomputer is #2 & Football team is #3
-Go Hokies!
Thanks for saying this, I feel the same way.
At my last job, this computer would have been perfect - not for workstations, but for a project we worked on.
:(
We wrote content management/distrobution software for advertising companies, and got pulled into doing work with the hardware as well. A 1U rack mount computer was hooked to the back of a plasma screen, and plugged into a modem or a network, then we could update on the fly and run any kind of media that the computer could display. We added touch screen overlays to make them interactive. It was a cool project to work on.
The project failed because of the poor quality computer we used -- we were locked into using the 1 brand of computer that was custom designed to mount on the back of a plasma screen.
This would have been an ideal computer for us.
Hard coding strings is a big problem when it comes to localizing. If I write an app with a strings file containing every word to be displayed:
First, it make maintenance easier. The client sees the demo, and says "we don't call it a username, we call it a login!" or something like that. You just change any strings with username in them to have login in them instead.
Second, you can easily update the language for an International version of the app. Or you can have a directory with several language files and choose which one to use based on preference settings (I think this is pretty common).
I think problems with date/currency type things stem from programmers not using standard packages and methods to deal with these types. For example, I don't want to use a date format object, so I just print day+'/'+month+'/'+year.
I say better localization is always good.
Maybe we could use this to replace 's' with 'z' in localisation, while reading Slashdot in the US.
the rules don't say what the max number of people we can have on a team is
Team Slashdot?
One of the developers is quoted saying:
"If we had been given eight months to a year, it would have been amazing."
Poor guy seems to be suffering from development delusions. I think at any given time a project is always 8-12 months from amazing, but those last 8-12 months never seem to go away.
I don't think pride has that much to do with it, although I do take pride in a well crafted segment of a program. I think the biggest reason is faith in the code. If I write it myself, I know that it does what I need it to do, and I could quickly add to it if I needed to.
I don't mean to say that writing it myself is always the best choice - I've used plenty of components that worked better than I would have ever written and had intuitive interfaces.
But, there are also a lot of components that I've wasted a coupled days fooling with only to find that they don't fit my needs, don't work reliably, or have confusing interfaces.
I believe the author refers to this as impatience (no rush though, researching is just boring).
2) GPL'd code can't be used in commercial apps (blah blah, technicalities, yeah yeah, just try to get it past your boss)
I don't think most people are worrying about GPL'd code if they're writing linked lists or bubble sorts.
They use a banana rating system... hehehe.
This kind of reminds me of 321 Contact or Square 1 Television, where a kid went around measuring furniture with a banana.
Back in the long ago, people used to do this. Spanish coins could be broken into eight pieces: "Pieces of Eight". The whole coin was the equivalent of a dollar, so a quarter would literally be a quarter of the coin, or two bits.
Two bits, Four bits, Six bits, a Peso.
All for Zorro, stand up and say so!
They are currently filming down near the financial district in Manhattan. From everything I've heard Mr. McGuire is there, so I'm guessing he is in the movie.
A couple months ago, I saw McGuire and Raimi while they were filming at Columbia University.
I guess he was re-instated pretty soon after he was fired (or almost fired).
While surfing around at work during some downtime and all the sudden you land on a questionable site and BAM a big vagina pops on your screen for 15 seconds...
Almost happened, I just looked at the demo gallery for unicast.com, and a Volvo popped up on the screen.
Whoolie Bull's been launching hot dogs at Durham Bulls games for a while. :(
He turns the speed down for them though - so, no free hot dogs in the cheap seats.
And just like ESPNs website this site has a fixed font size. Grrr.
I can understand this on espn.com, where they have to fit stats in columns, but why on the text of an article.