There's a quote from Theo de Raadt that is relevant here:
“When you know exactly what the APIs are, you’ll spot the bugs very easily. In my mind, it is the same as any other job that requires diligence. Be careful. Humans learn from examples, and yet, in this software programming environment, the tremendous complexity breeds non-obvious mistakes, which we carry along with us, and copy into new chunks of code.
We’ve even found in man pages where functions were mis-described, and when we found those, lots of programmers had followed the instructions incorrectly”
Yeah. There was a time, a few years ago, when Firefox was getting sloppy. Now it's quite nice again, but people who haven't used it in years keep complaining.
Everything in the book became an action scene and worse still, they were terrible action scenes.
Yeah, that's true. I still remember being depressed after watching a dwarf get bashed in the face with a spiked mace, and get up shortly after with hardly a scratch. Which was not in the book, of course.
I think you are right, that it takes a certain amount of effort, a level of knowledge to climb the hill of command-line user. You're probably not going to sit a noob down at the command-line and have him figure out what's going on without help.
Once you get past the initial understanding though, it is discoverable. (And as the saying goes, "There is no intuitive interface, not even the nipple. It's all learned.")
They won't have to work hard, considering "space" has been an issue for every election as long as I've been able to pay attention to elections.
Like four years ago......as soon as it was time for the Florida primaries, every candidate started talking about their space plan. After the Florida primary was over? Never mentioned again.
That's key, but they also failed because the tone was wrong (and inconsistent).
I agree with this completely. The Hobbit was grand old fun adventuring.....there and back again. Something to be sung or told around the campfire. Like in the Norse tales when Thor and Loki traveled to the land of the giants, then came back. The movies tried to take on the mood of LOTR, which were supposed to be an epic battle between good and evil: so serious. The Hobbit book wasn't that, it was all in good fun.
The only part of the movies where I thought they captured that was in the opening scenes of the first Hobbit, where the dwarves come in one at a time, and then start singing while they clean the kitchen. So lighthearted and fun.
The races are alien and fictional, but they are races, and the identification of good or bad is on racial boundaries.
Hmmm interesting, I never thought of it that way. But there are issues between races that are "good" or "bad," too. For example, the elves have a long-running dispute with the dwarves. I can think of cases where people (or wizards,etc) crossed the line from the "good" races into the bad races, but none where a "bad" race became good.
Lots of people love those books. And there's lots of good in them. To me, the race stuff stuck out.
That's interesting because I had never paid attention to it before.
The script was bad from the beginning. There was nothing a director could have done at the last minute to save it (other than get a new script). You could immediately tell when the characters stopped quoting the book, because the quality of writing plummeted. When poor Gandalf had to say, "So, this was their plan all along!" I cringed for the poor guy.
The solution is often "make the simple case easy, make the difficult case possible."
It's cool that iTunes synchronizes things, if that makes things easier for most people. But Apple could have also made it possible to access the filesystem, which would have made "the difficult case possible."
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“When you know exactly what the APIs are, you’ll spot the bugs very easily. In my mind, it is the same as any other job that requires diligence. Be careful. Humans learn from examples, and yet, in this software programming environment, the tremendous complexity breeds non-obvious mistakes, which we carry along with us, and copy into new chunks of code.
We’ve even found in man pages where functions were mis-described, and when we found those, lots of programmers had followed the instructions incorrectly”
var user={username:'bob',messages:[{username:'al',text:'hi bob!'}],contacts:[]}
When you realize how this can be translated exactly into SQL, you will be enlightened.
Because C3PO was so amazing?
Here's the actual quote.
Yeah. There was a time, a few years ago, when Firefox was getting sloppy. Now it's quite nice again, but people who haven't used it in years keep complaining.
You say that like not having to work is a bad thing.
The GP thinks not having to work is a great thing. It's paying for other people to not work that bothers him.
They're mine you STUPID FUCK
Yeah. I could tell that by the lighthearted tone you have in your writing.
They aren't published somewhere?
Yeah, there's a link to them in the article.
Yeah, I haven't figured out why the w3c is so opposed to them.
That's a good point.
I'm actually happy to hear that I'm not the only one who liked the dwarf dish scene :)
Everything in the book became an action scene and worse still, they were terrible action scenes.
Yeah, that's true. I still remember being depressed after watching a dwarf get bashed in the face with a spiked mace, and get up shortly after with hardly a scratch. Which was not in the book, of course.
Yeap. And they don't care as long as it gets them votes.
That's what a lot of people want. It doesn't happen because the content creators don't want it.
If you're an artist and you've done something good, move on and do something else good.
Well said.
having all the appearance of telepathy but all the boring reality of CDMA
CDMA is rather amazing, actually....
I think you are right, that it takes a certain amount of effort, a level of knowledge to climb the hill of command-line user. You're probably not going to sit a noob down at the command-line and have him figure out what's going on without help.
Once you get past the initial understanding though, it is discoverable. (And as the saying goes, "There is no intuitive interface, not even the nipple. It's all learned.")
They won't have to work hard, considering "space" has been an issue for every election as long as I've been able to pay attention to elections.
Like four years ago......as soon as it was time for the Florida primaries, every candidate started talking about their space plan. After the Florida primary was over? Never mentioned again.
To me this paradigm is better.
That's because you're used to it.
Yeah, actually the article mentioned that point several times (although it described it differently, saying you need to have "undo" functionality).
It may surprise you to read this, but phantomfive@slashdot.org isn't my real email address, either.
That's key, but they also failed because the tone was wrong (and inconsistent).
I agree with this completely. The Hobbit was grand old fun adventuring.....there and back again. Something to be sung or told around the campfire. Like in the Norse tales when Thor and Loki traveled to the land of the giants, then came back. The movies tried to take on the mood of LOTR, which were supposed to be an epic battle between good and evil: so serious. The Hobbit book wasn't that, it was all in good fun.
The only part of the movies where I thought they captured that was in the opening scenes of the first Hobbit, where the dwarves come in one at a time, and then start singing while they clean the kitchen. So lighthearted and fun.
The races are alien and fictional, but they are races, and the identification of good or bad is on racial boundaries.
Hmmm interesting, I never thought of it that way. But there are issues between races that are "good" or "bad," too. For example, the elves have a long-running dispute with the dwarves. I can think of cases where people (or wizards,etc) crossed the line from the "good" races into the bad races, but none where a "bad" race became good.
Lots of people love those books. And there's lots of good in them. To me, the race stuff stuck out.
That's interesting because I had never paid attention to it before.
The script was bad from the beginning. There was nothing a director could have done at the last minute to save it (other than get a new script). You could immediately tell when the characters stopped quoting the book, because the quality of writing plummeted. When poor Gandalf had to say, "So, this was their plan all along!" I cringed for the poor guy.
The solution is often "make the simple case easy, make the difficult case possible."
It's cool that iTunes synchronizes things, if that makes things easier for most people. But Apple could have also made it possible to access the filesystem, which would have made "the difficult case possible."