I'm a writer, so I was kind of waiting for the Writers Grant of unemployment when I signed up with a startup. It ended up lasting much longer than I thought it would, but when it collapsed I started in finishing my novel. Whoopee!
I built a webapp to help me do this, where I have to write a certain number of words per day or an email is sent out to all of my friends. The site is called SHAME. Writing through humiliation.
Why the dig at literature? I grew up with scientists for parents, and let me tell you, at their parties there was plenty of wine and cheese and self-congratulation and arrogance. Just because it is not your field, and you don't get to play along at their parties, doesn't mean yours are any more meaningful.
Any traditional (orthodox) Christian would say "You can't reinterpret Christianity, and still call it Christianity", "You can't pick and choose, and still call it Christianity", "You can't break up the whole, and still call it Christianity".
MS, Apple, and Linux compete. KDE copies the Windows interface, because it is so well known and successful. MS copies the Apple GUI. Apple copies (literally) BSD and Konq.
Round it goes. Its called competition.
If you fall for any of their propoganda, its your own fault. MS and Apple are hypocritical, but they are corporations people. They are trying to make money off of you.
Looks like you are looking for some kind of front end to the database. Fairly simple, but you will probably need to write it yourself if noon-techies will be doing the entry. Frankly, I don't see why you need to poll the Slashdot community on how to write a simple front-end to a database.
Bugs that crash a program are relatively easy to find. If, instead, the program continues in a non-determined fashion, the bug turns into a subtle one. Subtle bugs are nastier, hence the emphasis on autopsy. Users prefer crashing bugs too: I would rather my web-browser crash outright than submit something random to my bank.
Javac and Jikes will tell you where it can't compile. This is higher level stuff like "such-and-such should be final" and "you have implemented equals but not hashcode." Code will run, and probably run fine, with these, but they may lead to subtle bugs difficult to track down. Compile-time or formatting bugs are easy to find. Bugs that express themselves in non-obvious ways are what we need more tools for.
In answer to another post, of course good design and good coding are best. This tool does not seek to replace thought, but push us towards proper coding
Its not the technology that is innovative, but the business model. AFAIK, there is no one else selling music in this fashion. If they are the first, then they rightly get to claim innovation.
They have agreements for US distribution. I'm sure they would love to sell it worldwide, but have to get all their legal ducks in a row. I am not a lawyer, but I imagine the legal issues vary widly from country to country.
I'm not sure that "lumpen proletariat" is being used correctly in this discussion. It is (classically) a Marxist term of derision for the class not involved in production, and thus outside of class struggle, who is often bought out by the capitalists. They have no material affinity with the working class. Although they are downtrodden, they are by definition not workers. Negative examples are the brownshirts, strike-breaking goons, skinheads, and other "floaters" in the class struggle. Hippies are not an example, and MP3 sharers are hardly one either, but punks were in the '70s in England.
You cannot "join" the lumpen proletariat, by the way. Political opinion or musical interest does not give you membership in an economic class.
PS: This is not my political belief, but a clarification of terms.
Unfortunately. since OS X is still a growing system, I have found that the OS updates become required very very quickly. Many applications updates thereafter will make use of the improvements and break backwards compatability. This is even true with small updates. I would love this update if it were free, but I don't like being forced to cough up cash to keep getting bug fixes to my favorite applications.
True, its a huge task to multi-thread the Finder, but they should either do it or not pass commands from other applications (like FTP in Safari). Right now, it is a central repository for functionality of various applications, and yet is not multi-threaded, hence it hangs the whole OS. Which sucks.
Well, this guy is clearly not a "fucking idiot." He simply believes in practical solutions, and is not interested in abstract validation. I am a bit more to your side (I find, for instance, the opening of tags in javascript to be a nightmare maintanance idea), but I respect his approach. All of us know the difficulty of turning a Photoshop document from a designer used to print publishing, and turning it into a compliant web page.
Calm down. He's on your team. Don't be so absolute.
- I can't believe no one even tryed this before they actually published this article.
Well, they did. Thats what all the above gags are about, that these physicists are unaware of prior, basic "Fun with Primes!" work. Nature too, evidently.
In the past ten years, people having been flocking to get MFAs in creative writing. There are tons of writers out there. However, it always seem like game developers think that it would be better if they wrote their own stories and scripts. Writing is not a trivial business. I mean, everyone can write, but everyone can sing too. Why not get a writer to write? I understand it becomes a matter of control, and that the developers want to put in their own birlliant anime-influenced ideas, but its like letting the programmers draw the graphics. I suggest getting a writer to write the story, and let them run the story.
...so make sure it reflects her, and not just your, sentiments. The idea that "nothing that is useless can be truly beautiful" is quite specific and quirky. I am a novelist, and I shudder to think that my stories could be "useful" in any way. Some things are intended to be beautiful solely in themselves. Your lover's eyes, for instance, are presumably quite beautiful to you without being handy to any purpose. It is this kind of beauty that the ring is supposed to represent, and not the functional beauty of Java classes, and therefore uselessness is part of the point.
A diamond, on the other hand, is not necessary, or desirable (I personally draw the consumer line at armies of slaves).
Well, I think that actually people *do* write lots for Java, but Java is better at different things than C or C++. It doesn't show up in consumer listing like Version Tracker Basic is good for nothing, and the only reason you see it on VT so much is the same reason you see VB for windows: tons of bad developers using drag-and-drop solutions.
Java is good at non-GUI things. I mean *great* at it. C is much better at rendering graphics. So, Java lives with developers and server apps mostly. I have never found a lack of Java libraries to support in me any given task.
It could be argued, however, that this lack of change is in fact due to inherent design constraints in the combustion engine. Some believe that its end is near, as little more efficiency can be squeezed out of it. It is a 19th century technology (its main compitition was the steam engine), which electric cars might soon surpass in performance, efficiency, and environmental impact.
Even if you don't want to admit that the results match you, you will certainly remember other people describing you as that type in the past.
Yes, well, I think I could say the same about my horoscope. If you lay out a list of platitudes about human existence, any random selection will apply to everyone.
The thing is that some people/interviewers are good at assessing a person's personality and determining if they are a good fit or not, while other interviewers are no good at it.
I guess I believe that people are good at some things, and computers/automation/tests are good at others. Social interaction and intuition is obviously the domain of people, and thus people should do it. If they can't, than you don't want to work for them. If you are asked to take one of these things, run from the sociopath who handed it to you.
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No, of course not, but it is a great way to ensure I write!
I'm a writer, so I was kind of waiting for the Writers Grant of unemployment when I signed up with a startup. It ended up lasting much longer than I thought it would, but when it collapsed I started in finishing my novel. Whoopee!
I built a webapp to help me do this, where I have to write a certain number of words per day or an email is sent out to all of my friends. The site is called SHAME. Writing through humiliation.
Why the dig at literature? I grew up with scientists for parents, and let me tell you, at their parties there was plenty of wine and cheese and self-congratulation and arrogance. Just because it is not your field, and you don't get to play along at their parties, doesn't mean yours are any more meaningful.
Any traditional (orthodox) Christian would say "You can't reinterpret Christianity, and still call it Christianity", "You can't pick and choose, and still call it Christianity", "You can't break up the whole, and still call it Christianity".
Tell that to Martin Luther.
True, except
Note that PC users currently aren't switching to other OSes in big numbers. Remember how Sun was considering cancelling Solaris for Intel?
Apple is a consumer product, unlike Solaris, and I can think of one OS that technical PC users are switching to...
MS, Apple, and Linux compete. KDE copies the Windows interface, because it is so well known and successful. MS copies the Apple GUI. Apple copies (literally) BSD and Konq.
Round it goes. Its called competition.
If you fall for any of their propoganda, its your own fault. MS and Apple are hypocritical, but they are corporations people. They are trying to make money off of you.
Looks like you are looking for some kind of front end to the database. Fairly simple, but you will probably need to write it yourself if noon-techies will be doing the entry. Frankly, I don't see why you need to poll the Slashdot community on how to write a simple front-end to a database.
You will use the Windows version of iTunes
Bugs that crash a program are relatively easy to find. If, instead, the program continues in a non-determined fashion, the bug turns into a subtle one. Subtle bugs are nastier, hence the emphasis on autopsy. Users prefer crashing bugs too: I would rather my web-browser crash outright than submit something random to my bank.
Javac and Jikes will tell you where it can't compile. This is higher level stuff like "such-and-such should be final" and "you have implemented equals but not hashcode." Code will run, and probably run fine, with these, but they may lead to subtle bugs difficult to track down. Compile-time or formatting bugs are easy to find. Bugs that express themselves in non-obvious ways are what we need more tools for.
In answer to another post, of course good design and good coding are best. This tool does not seek to replace thought, but push us towards proper coding
Its not the technology that is innovative, but the business model. AFAIK, there is no one else selling music in this fashion. If they are the first, then they rightly get to claim innovation.
They have agreements for US distribution. I'm sure they would love to sell it worldwide, but have to get all their legal ducks in a row. I am not a lawyer, but I imagine the legal issues vary widly from country to country.
The GPL explicitly disavows any restriction on use. The GPL only has to do with distribution. Joe six-pack can run GPL software in any way he pleases.
The silly wordcount percentage is meaningless. Just because it takes longer to explain the rights of developers does not mean they have more rights.
I'm not sure that "lumpen proletariat" is being used correctly in this discussion. It is (classically) a Marxist term of derision for the class not involved in production, and thus outside of class struggle, who is often bought out by the capitalists. They have no material affinity with the working class. Although they are downtrodden, they are by definition not workers. Negative examples are the brownshirts, strike-breaking goons, skinheads, and other "floaters" in the class struggle. Hippies are not an example, and MP3 sharers are hardly one either, but punks were in the '70s in England.
You cannot "join" the lumpen proletariat, by the way. Political opinion or musical interest does not give you membership in an economic class.
PS: This is not my political belief, but a clarification of terms.
With piles, you don't have to go "inside" the folder, just pick out the doc you want frm the pile. Take a look here:
http://homepage.mac.com/rdas7/piles.html
Unfortunately. since OS X is still a growing system, I have found that the OS updates become required very very quickly. Many applications updates thereafter will make use of the improvements and break backwards compatability. This is even true with small updates. I would love this update if it were free, but I don't like being forced to cough up cash to keep getting bug fixes to my favorite applications.
True, its a huge task to multi-thread the Finder, but they should either do it or not pass commands from other applications (like FTP in Safari). Right now, it is a central repository for functionality of various applications, and yet is not multi-threaded, hence it hangs the whole OS. Which sucks.
Well, this guy is clearly not a "fucking idiot." He simply believes in practical solutions, and is not interested in abstract validation. I am a bit more to your side (I find, for instance, the opening of tags in javascript to be a nightmare maintanance idea), but I respect his approach. All of us know the difficulty of turning a Photoshop document from a designer used to print publishing, and turning it into a compliant web page.
Calm down. He's on your team. Don't be so absolute.
- I can't believe no one even tryed this before they actually published this article.
Well, they did. Thats what all the above gags are about, that these physicists are unaware of prior, basic "Fun with Primes!" work. Nature too, evidently.
In the past ten years, people having been flocking to get MFAs in creative writing. There are tons of writers out there. However, it always seem like game developers think that it would be better if they wrote their own stories and scripts. Writing is not a trivial business. I mean, everyone can write, but everyone can sing too. Why not get a writer to write? I understand it becomes a matter of control, and that the developers want to put in their own birlliant anime-influenced ideas, but its like letting the programmers draw the graphics. I suggest getting a writer to write the story, and let them run the story.
...so make sure it reflects her, and not just your, sentiments. The idea that "nothing that is useless can be truly beautiful" is quite specific and quirky. I am a novelist, and I shudder to think that my stories could be "useful" in any way. Some things are intended to be beautiful solely in themselves. Your lover's eyes, for instance, are presumably quite beautiful to you without being handy to any purpose. It is this kind of beauty that the ring is supposed to represent, and not the functional beauty of Java classes, and therefore uselessness is part of the point.
A diamond, on the other hand, is not necessary, or desirable (I personally draw the consumer line at armies of slaves).
Well, I think that actually people *do* write lots for Java, but Java is better at different things than C or C++. It doesn't show up in consumer listing like Version Tracker Basic is good for nothing, and the only reason you see it on VT so much is the same reason you see VB for windows: tons of bad developers using drag-and-drop solutions.
Java is good at non-GUI things. I mean *great* at it. C is much better at rendering graphics. So, Java lives with developers and server apps mostly. I have never found a lack of Java libraries to support in me any given task.
The Internet is not a technology, but a vast array of seperate technologies. However, any of these (HTML, HTTP, TCP-IP) is an excellent candidate.
It could be argued, however, that this lack of change is in fact due to inherent design constraints in the combustion engine. Some believe that its end is near, as little more efficiency can be squeezed out of it. It is a 19th century technology (its main compitition was the steam engine), which electric cars might soon surpass in performance, efficiency, and environmental impact.
Even if you don't want to admit that the results match you, you will certainly remember other people describing you as that type in the past.
Yes, well, I think I could say the same about my horoscope. If you lay out a list of platitudes about human existence, any random selection will apply to everyone.
The thing is that some people/interviewers are good at assessing a person's personality and determining if they are a good fit or not, while other interviewers are no good at it.
I guess I believe that people are good at some things, and computers/automation/tests are good at others. Social interaction and intuition is obviously the domain of people, and thus people should do it. If they can't, than you don't want to work for them. If you are asked to take one of these things, run from the sociopath who handed it to you.