I don't care about beta anymore. Deleting posts and modding down stuff that they don't care is MUCH WORSE - THAT'S whats really killing slashdot.
So farewell. See ya at reddit.
Once I was in Toronto, ON, and watched a local band perform rock covers. When I asked for the name of the band for a girl in the audience, she just waved and said "it's just an irish band".
What is an irish band, other than and band from Ireland?
An anedocte: I had a website which the only page which is accessible for a non logged user is the user request page.
I got a lot of user requests with bizarre usernames. Denied them all. But I started getting 10-20 per day, and increasing. That only stopped when I put a captcha on that page.
7 years ago, when the project started, we were focusing on Latin America community (spanish speakers can read portuguese and vice versa), so I decided to code in portuguese. Only a few people from Brasil decided to contribute to the project since then, so I guess the language choice actually helped those contributors.
Not that this choice doesn't look strange; we code in CakePHP, which is based on RoR, that specify that model names are plural, table names are singular, or whatever. We turn the pluralization off, as the english rules applied to portuguese words makes a mess. And writing a Inflector for portuguese really seems a huge work.
Also, we are required to append suffixes in english to some classes names; we end up with classes named like "AmostraController", "ProjetoComponent". Which in fact is Ok, as here in Brasil we use english jargon. People from Portugal would think it's bizarre, I guess.
My team code (variables, class and method names) and comment in portuguese. I found that not many programmers down here really know english, so our first attempts with english commentary yielded crappy, useless, unreadable comments. Even comments in our native language sometimes can be confusing, so I think that adding a extra layer of noise wouldn't do it.
Netflix has several great old films, but as a counterexample, it contains only the newer version of "Sleuth", with Michael Caine playing Laurence Olivier, and Jude Law playing Michael Caine, which I found a puny attempt at improving the original classic.
there were in the 80's. or if you like procedural programming. I'd rather embed code on data structures, not schemas, and have a much more flexible, maintainable software design.
not to mention, if you have a web application, the what's the point of having business rules in two places? Ok, you implemented ALL business rules in the DB? great, so go get version control for that, or reuse code.
Mind if I list some useful stuff that made me use mendeley instead of bibtex:
1) it can export the whole library as bibtex
2) right click over your paper -> "copy citation as tex" -> paste it into your latex file.
3) keep the PDF together with the metadata
4) anotate the PDF
5) search those annotations
6) put DOI, PMID, ARXIVID -> get all metadata from the interwebs
7) organize it with keywords, collections
I can't believe it's better to keep a text file edited by hand than to use an user interface that automates several things. "Better", at least, in the saving-time-and-not-getting-mad sense.
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I don't care about beta anymore. Deleting posts and modding down stuff that they don't care is MUCH WORSE - THAT'S whats really killing slashdot.
So farewell. See ya at reddit.
^ THIS
I wish I still had my mod points.
Once I was in Toronto, ON, and watched a local band perform rock covers. When I asked for the name of the band for a girl in the audience, she just waved and said "it's just an irish band".
What is an irish band, other than and band from Ireland?
Although one can always wear a tinfoil hat.
The question is, how they managed to do this despite of Microsoft Economical Power. How they avoided bribery of the involved politicians?
Yes. I attended meetings of the board of directors and it's normal behaviour to text. Detail, the average age of this board is above 40.
If you answer a call, it better be important but people will understand
AKA zaphod beeblebrox
When you read TFA, you might notice that 14 journals were suspendend - four of them are from Brasil. So keep your crap to yourself.
When did loud became a synonym for worse? I mean, the amplitude level in which an album is mixed is the only factor affecting the quality of music?
So I guess that's the best music in the whole history of the world.
There's the conflict solving forums, I'm no Wikipedia expert but seems the right place for that. But juries are not random, AFAIK.
You never think you know why.
An anedocte: I had a website which the only page which is accessible for a non logged user is the user request page.
I got a lot of user requests with bizarre usernames. Denied them all. But I started getting 10-20 per day, and increasing. That only stopped when I put a captcha on that page.
The "merge proposal" is quite interesting actually.
Would you mind pointing a few articles where we can see that happening?
pew pew! institute
Things like this, in face of Snowden revelations, looks like the US Gov was trying to divert attention from itself.
nor "exciting".
7 years ago, when the project started, we were focusing on Latin America community (spanish speakers can read portuguese and vice versa), so I decided to code in portuguese. Only a few people from Brasil decided to contribute to the project since then, so I guess the language choice actually helped those contributors.
Not that this choice doesn't look strange; we code in CakePHP, which is based on RoR, that specify that model names are plural, table names are singular, or whatever. We turn the pluralization off, as the english rules applied to portuguese words makes a mess. And writing a Inflector for portuguese really seems a huge work.
Also, we are required to append suffixes in english to some classes names; we end up with classes named like "AmostraController", "ProjetoComponent". Which in fact is Ok, as here in Brasil we use english jargon. People from Portugal would think it's bizarre, I guess.
What if you had a widescreen monitor? They aren't compatible with horizontal bars.
My team code (variables, class and method names) and comment in portuguese. I found that not many programmers down here really know english, so our first attempts with english commentary yielded crappy, useless, unreadable comments. Even comments in our native language sometimes can be confusing, so I think that adding a extra layer of noise wouldn't do it.
Netflix has several great old films, but as a counterexample, it contains only the newer version of "Sleuth", with Michael Caine playing Laurence Olivier, and Jude Law playing Michael Caine, which I found a puny attempt at improving the original classic.
Slashdot is unusable without noscript.
is a really old signature, isn't it?
there were in the 80's. or if you like procedural programming. I'd rather embed code on data structures, not schemas, and have a much more flexible, maintainable software design.
not to mention, if you have a web application, the what's the point of having business rules in two places? Ok, you implemented ALL business rules in the DB? great, so go get version control for that, or reuse code.
Or the rules wasn't implemented correctly, and the clients lacked the proper tests so it managed to get through till production*.
* assuming there were testing routines in their process**
** assuming there was a process
Mind if I list some useful stuff that made me use mendeley instead of bibtex:
1) it can export the whole library as bibtex
2) right click over your paper -> "copy citation as tex" -> paste it into your latex file.
3) keep the PDF together with the metadata
4) anotate the PDF
5) search those annotations
6) put DOI, PMID, ARXIVID -> get all metadata from the interwebs
7) organize it with keywords, collections
I can't believe it's better to keep a text file edited by hand than to use an user interface that automates several things. "Better", at least, in the saving-time-and-not-getting-mad sense.