I don't have the deafness, but I suffer from Tinnitus too and would also give anything to repair the damaged cells in my ears. Stuff like this gives me hope I might actually get cured of this some day.
Do you want to read or have a media device?
My wife has a kindle that she just wants to read on. If you want to read, watch movies, listen to mp3s, and browse the web get a tablet. If you just want books for the airplane or car ride get an eReader.
IANATP but I enjoy reading about this stuff. Wikipedia has a semi decent article about it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson
Somehow these higgs bosons form a field that as other particles travel through it causes them slow down and have mass. Very layman answer and probably wrong but is how I see it from the wiki article.
Totally agree, and I'm sure someone will nerd rage and create the next adblock plus plus that will block all ads again until they decide to take the money and run. Kind of a vicious cycle but as long as someone picks up the torch I am happy. Hell I might even be motivated enough to get off my fat American ass and do it myself.
No kidding, I run a software site for my wife that I maintain all by myself. I run subversion and it has saved my bacon several times when without thinking I changed something I shouldn't have. It's free and easy to use. I don't even use the backups, etc. It saves developers from themselves. And all this for an asp.net website.
I have worked in places with and without code reviews. Yes code reviews can be painful especially if you work with some douchebags. But overall getting new eyeballs looking at your code often brings up things you hadn't thought about, etc. It doesn't make you or the other people bad, it's just how it is. Drop the ego and take some constructive feedback.
I had to post something about tripadvisor as well. It's so bad sometimes you can tell reviews about hotels are obvious plants by the management/owner/staff. I have almost completely stopped reading the good reviews and just look at the bad/mediocre ones. If I don't see anything horrible or scathing I take that as a good sign. The top 10 hotels in a given area can be pretty suspect sometimes.
I work 15 minutes away from my office and this is why I always drive into work. Distractions will often keep me from being as productive at home compared to being at work. Family, games, porn, you name it, it's easier to get shit done at work than at home. Not to mention humans are built to interact with other humans on some level and eventually you will turn into the troll living under the bridge.
Sadly it's not the first time they've done this. Utah legislators get all uppity with any kind of citizen voted initiatives. Like we the people don't know how to govern ourselves. All of this because they don't want their text messages and emails to be public. If you don't want it to be public don't sext your wife during the legislative session.
This is so true. In Utah we used to have a wide variety of local theaters. They slowly closed as the megapexes came in. But you know what, I like a nice clean megaplex with nice seats. I refuse to go to some run down shit hole. Brewvies is the only exception here and that's because they serve beer. So yeah tickets cost 7.75 but it's worth it for some quality and cleanliness.
Let's see 3 paragraphs with no real info. What seismic level are they talking about? A 2, 3, 4, 5, or what? In Utah we got lots of 2 and 3s all the time. California is even worse. Who decides when it's time to hit the panic button? And if it's a person that means they have to have staff available 24x7. Still it seems pretty cool they're trying to solve this problem.
The problem is so was java and as I recall there was a recent attack vector against that fairly recently in windows. I love plugins but they introduce so many new security issues it's hard to overcome them all.
I agree, I worked as a USAF, DOD, and FEMA contractor. Open source was strictly VERBOTTEN. They didn't like the unknown linking clause (that has been resolved?, I don't follow open source that much) and they really didn't like anyone being able to see the code that was being used on their secure networks. I can see unclassified systems being able to use open source but nothing above classified.
Hmmmm 6 MB my ass, more like 2.2. Is that what 60 bucks a month gets me? God I wish I had a choice but Qwest is my only other option. Goddamn Farmington (UT) wouldn't pick up Utopia.
I routinely sell my used games on eBay. And I always get FAR more than any gamestop or whatever other shops are in town are offering. Is it as fast and convenient as just dropping it off at the store, no. But I get a lot more money than I would otherwise.
I soooo agree with this. At first I was miffed my CS degree didn't teach me things I used at work like version control, bug tracking, database development, etc. All I learned were those pesky CS concepts. Those things are taught to the CIS (computer information systems) kids. And as I've gone on to work at real programing gigs the people with plain CS degrees write better more maintainable code over and over again. You can pick up those skills on the job and not worry about them too much. Core CS concepts are harder to master and are worth emphasizing in college.
Verbal contracts are all well and good but unless they have a DUNS and register with the CCR, and use those to get on the schedule the DoD can pretty much give them the finger and they have no recourse. Sounds like someone at Google didn't do their homework on getting DoD jobs.
I actually had a few geocities sites I used back in college. It would be interesting to see if they're in the list. Sadly it will take me 4 months to download this with Comcasts 250Gb monthly cap. There needs to be an index of the sites so people can search through it w/o downloading the entire thing.
So they really expect to take over the market share that RIM/Apple/Android have over the cellphone industry? From what I've read it's a step forward for the windows mobile OS but it's not going to tear anything up. And this from a.net developer who loves his Droid X.
I don't see why they don't scan them into digital format using pdfs, or text files. Keeping a physical copy of all the books they want to is going to become a very overwhelming task. Not to mention if it was digital, the content could be indexed and searched much faster by more people.
I would agree, but that code was some junior level bullshit. Granted I haven't been doing this for 20 years, but damn that was some horrible coding going on there. Especially when they tout it as some super great OSS alternative to facebook. It almost made me question how good of a choice Ruby on Rails was for the entire project.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't have the deafness, but I suffer from Tinnitus too and would also give anything to repair the damaged cells in my ears. Stuff like this gives me hope I might actually get cured of this some day.
Do you want to read or have a media device?
My wife has a kindle that she just wants to read on. If you want to read, watch movies, listen to mp3s, and browse the web get a tablet. If you just want books for the airplane or car ride get an eReader.
IANATP but I enjoy reading about this stuff. Wikipedia has a semi decent article about it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson Somehow these higgs bosons form a field that as other particles travel through it causes them slow down and have mass. Very layman answer and probably wrong but is how I see it from the wiki article.
Totally agree, and I'm sure someone will nerd rage and create the next adblock plus plus that will block all ads again until they decide to take the money and run. Kind of a vicious cycle but as long as someone picks up the torch I am happy. Hell I might even be motivated enough to get off my fat American ass and do it myself.
No kidding, I run a software site for my wife that I maintain all by myself. I run subversion and it has saved my bacon several times when without thinking I changed something I shouldn't have. It's free and easy to use. I don't even use the backups, etc. It saves developers from themselves. And all this for an asp.net website.
Duke Nukem Forever actually gets released and now Hurd? Pinch me I must be dreaming!
Exactly the code review itself isn't bad, it's the personal interaction between coworkers that has always been the issue from what I've seen.
I have worked in places with and without code reviews. Yes code reviews can be painful especially if you work with some douchebags. But overall getting new eyeballs looking at your code often brings up things you hadn't thought about, etc. It doesn't make you or the other people bad, it's just how it is. Drop the ego and take some constructive feedback.
I had to post something about tripadvisor as well. It's so bad sometimes you can tell reviews about hotels are obvious plants by the management/owner/staff. I have almost completely stopped reading the good reviews and just look at the bad/mediocre ones. If I don't see anything horrible or scathing I take that as a good sign. The top 10 hotels in a given area can be pretty suspect sometimes.
Mod parent up!!
I work 15 minutes away from my office and this is why I always drive into work. Distractions will often keep me from being as productive at home compared to being at work. Family, games, porn, you name it, it's easier to get shit done at work than at home. Not to mention humans are built to interact with other humans on some level and eventually you will turn into the troll living under the bridge.
Sadly it's not the first time they've done this. Utah legislators get all uppity with any kind of citizen voted initiatives. Like we the people don't know how to govern ourselves. All of this because they don't want their text messages and emails to be public. If you don't want it to be public don't sext your wife during the legislative session.
Can kiss his shiny metal ass?
This is so true. In Utah we used to have a wide variety of local theaters. They slowly closed as the megapexes came in. But you know what, I like a nice clean megaplex with nice seats. I refuse to go to some run down shit hole. Brewvies is the only exception here and that's because they serve beer. So yeah tickets cost 7.75 but it's worth it for some quality and cleanliness.
Let's see 3 paragraphs with no real info. What seismic level are they talking about? A 2, 3, 4, 5, or what? In Utah we got lots of 2 and 3s all the time. California is even worse. Who decides when it's time to hit the panic button? And if it's a person that means they have to have staff available 24x7. Still it seems pretty cool they're trying to solve this problem.
The problem is so was java and as I recall there was a recent attack vector against that fairly recently in windows. I love plugins but they introduce so many new security issues it's hard to overcome them all.
I agree, I worked as a USAF, DOD, and FEMA contractor. Open source was strictly VERBOTTEN. They didn't like the unknown linking clause (that has been resolved?, I don't follow open source that much) and they really didn't like anyone being able to see the code that was being used on their secure networks. I can see unclassified systems being able to use open source but nothing above classified.
Hmmmm 6 MB my ass, more like 2.2. Is that what 60 bucks a month gets me? God I wish I had a choice but Qwest is my only other option. Goddamn Farmington (UT) wouldn't pick up Utopia.
"The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers. "
Seriously treat the problem, don't go shooting the messenger.
I routinely sell my used games on eBay. And I always get FAR more than any gamestop or whatever other shops are in town are offering. Is it as fast and convenient as just dropping it off at the store, no. But I get a lot more money than I would otherwise.
I soooo agree with this. At first I was miffed my CS degree didn't teach me things I used at work like version control, bug tracking, database development, etc. All I learned were those pesky CS concepts. Those things are taught to the CIS (computer information systems) kids. And as I've gone on to work at real programing gigs the people with plain CS degrees write better more maintainable code over and over again. You can pick up those skills on the job and not worry about them too much. Core CS concepts are harder to master and are worth emphasizing in college.
Verbal contracts are all well and good but unless they have a DUNS and register with the CCR, and use those to get on the schedule the DoD can pretty much give them the finger and they have no recourse. Sounds like someone at Google didn't do their homework on getting DoD jobs.
I actually had a few geocities sites I used back in college. It would be interesting to see if they're in the list. Sadly it will take me 4 months to download this with Comcasts 250Gb monthly cap. There needs to be an index of the sites so people can search through it w/o downloading the entire thing.
So they really expect to take over the market share that RIM/Apple/Android have over the cellphone industry? From what I've read it's a step forward for the windows mobile OS but it's not going to tear anything up. And this from a .net developer who loves his Droid X.
I don't see why they don't scan them into digital format using pdfs, or text files. Keeping a physical copy of all the books they want to is going to become a very overwhelming task. Not to mention if it was digital, the content could be indexed and searched much faster by more people.
I would agree, but that code was some junior level bullshit. Granted I haven't been doing this for 20 years, but damn that was some horrible coding going on there. Especially when they tout it as some super great OSS alternative to facebook. It almost made me question how good of a choice Ruby on Rails was for the entire project.