The problem is that managers get misled into thinking that this works because it does, for a month or two. For the first couple months, you can bang out eighty hours weeks producing top quality code. Then your productivity falls until you have to stay there eighty hours just to do what you normally could do in forty. And then it keeps falling.
The average person can only work 40-60 hours a week without burning out. It is very bad to plan otherwise. And I suspect that in a lot of cases distributing lots of cool toys means that the coders are there for eighty hours but perhaps working for only sixty. That's not a bad thing...
Hell weeks with long hours should be saved for important deadlines. You want people relatively rested so that when emergencies hit, you can throw things into overdrive and become a hero. Otherwise, you'll find that when crunch time comes, you've got nothing left. Never sprint in the first mile of a marathon!
Quakers can play Quake as long as they don't fire any weapons and instead just use "chat" to try to reason all the other players out of their mindlessly violent ways...
Were I a parent, I would congradulate myself on good parenting skills were my child to pull such a stunt.
I'd tell my kid how proud I was that he understood the troubles of mindless conformity.
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Define "for real"... I edited the Javascript and ran it off of my hard drive, pasting the original URL into the address bar to make it look like I was hitting the original site.
MSPaint would have been too damn much work!
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Uh....if I hadn't looked at the Javascript (and more), I wouldn't have been able to get that result....
Jesus, I said I fucking cheated, what'd you expect?
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Or you hit "View Source", then "Save", and then add "responseTime=0;" to the appropriate place.
If it is a Windows 98 box, the clock granularity is 50 milliseconds. If it is a Windows NT box, the clock granularity is 10 milliseconds. Regardless of the programming language, you can't do better than that without using really spiffy tricks.
Doesn't really matter, though, because anyone who gets better than about 150 milliseconds is either lucky or cheating. The nervous system doesn't get faster than that.
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I think the point is that there were periods where MIR was empty.
Though that, in itself, should be a cautionary tale as I'm sure the Soviets thought exactly the same thing when they launched it.
But really, these guys aren't "living" in space any more than Scott, Amudson and co. were "living" in Antarctica. Living somewhere implies that the place is your home, not just someplace you are visiting for a while. Lots of people will visit space in the ISS but no one will live there. In other words, until someone brings the spouse and kids, it ain't news.
The first poster is right. There are two questions here. One, should the FBI check all leads. Hell yes! If someone shows up at a crime scene acting suspicious, the FBI should check him out.
But the FBI should not be confiscating equipment. The proper handling of this would be for the FBI to question the guy, ask for access to his machine long enough to copy relevant data, and then leave, without taking anything.
If someone finds you lurking around a bombed building six hours after it happened, you should be questioned. You should not get your car confiscated.
How about modifying slashcode so that when these repeat articles come up, it automatically loads the previous discussion so nobody has to waste time rehashing the same old comments.
You need three people to have a successful startup:
1) A "Visionary"
2) Someone with technical know-how
3) Someone with business sense.
This isn't unique to dot-coms. It is true for any sort of startup.
Apple, for example, had Woz (2) and Jobs (1 and 3).
Most of the dot-coms that go under have a (1), some have a (2), and few, if any, have a (3). That's why they fail. And the truth is, the earlier they fail, the better, because the bigger they get, the more investor money will vaporize and the more people they'll throw out of work.
For some reason, dot-coms got a free pass over the last few years, which is unfortunate. It is fortunate that this now seems to be ending because the dot-coms that do survive will be the worthwhile ones.
This is not very helpful to someone out of a job, I know. I've been thrown out of work when working for a (non-dot-com) startup as well. So take it as a learning experience, and when you look for your next job, look for Mr. (1), Ms. (2) and Mrs. (3). Because there are some dot-coms out there that will succeed.
In the '80s, there were a lot of young, hi-tech startups, too. I had the misfortune of picking two that failed. One had only a (1) and the other had only a (3). Other people picking startups in the same era ended up getting in early on Dell or Oracle.
There Dells and Oracles right now. But there are 10,000 dot-coms and there can only be a couple huge sucesses.
My company has had the Japanese version for a while, too (unless you are one of the Mike's I work with, in which case, hi!) and our experience is about the same. Ridge Racer was popular with a few people for a while, but the Dreamcast always gets a lot more use. I turned the Playstation 2 on yesterday to try Tekken again. I think that's the first time anyone had touched the thing in months.
The graphics on Ridge Racer are nice, but comparing to Dreamcast games, I don't see any real compelling difference. Tekken looks weak compared to Soul Calibur. Both the graphics and gameplay are significantly worse.
Maybe the Playstation 2 has better theoretical capability, but I sure as hell haven't seen it in practice... Soul Calibur is still the best looking game I've ever seen.
I just don't get the demand here. Where I work, we've had a Japanese Playstation 2 and a Dreamcast sitting next to each other for a while now and frankly, were I to buy one, I'd go for the much cheaper Dreamcast. Comparing "Soul Caliber" on the Dreamcast to "Tekken" on the Playstation side-by-side, I certainly don't really see any compelling difference, graphically. Hell, "Soul Caliber" looks better.
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The problem is that managers get misled into thinking that this works because it does, for a month or two. For the first couple months, you can bang out eighty hours weeks producing top quality code. Then your productivity falls until you have to stay there eighty hours just to do what you normally could do in forty. And then it keeps falling.
The average person can only work 40-60 hours a week without burning out. It is very bad to plan otherwise. And I suspect that in a lot of cases distributing lots of cool toys means that the coders are there for eighty hours but perhaps working for only sixty. That's not a bad thing...
Hell weeks with long hours should be saved for important deadlines. You want people relatively rested so that when emergencies hit, you can throw things into overdrive and become a hero. Otherwise, you'll find that when crunch time comes, you've got nothing left. Never sprint in the first mile of a marathon!
Quakers can play Quake as long as they don't fire any weapons and instead just use "chat" to try to reason all the other players out of their mindlessly violent ways...
I agree!
Maybe it depends on your high school. I was a pretty much a geek in high school. Most of the "jocks" were pretty nice guys, and a couple were friends.
That is not to say there weren't cliques around. But don't assume the cliques are the same at every school.
Were I a parent, I would congradulate myself on good parenting skills were my child to pull such a stunt.
I'd tell my kid how proud I was that he understood the troubles of mindless conformity.
Define "for real"... I edited the Javascript and ran it off of my hard drive, pasting the original URL into the address bar to make it look like I was hitting the original site.
MSPaint would have been too damn much work!
Uh....if I hadn't looked at the Javascript (and more), I wouldn't have been able to get that result....
Jesus, I said I fucking cheated, what'd you expect?
Or you hit "View Source", then "Save", and then add "responseTime=0;" to the appropriate place.
If it is a Windows 98 box, the clock granularity is 50 milliseconds. If it is a Windows NT box, the clock granularity is 10 milliseconds. Regardless of the programming language, you can't do better than that without using really spiffy tricks.
Doesn't really matter, though, because anyone who gets better than about 150 milliseconds is either lucky or cheating. The nervous system doesn't get faster than that.
Or do even better!
0.01 is for wusses... Real cheaters get 0.00.
(Only took me one try, too!)
Hey, that site's so old it has already been parodied.
You wanna have fun? Don't just hook up a camera, hook up a hose, too!
(And that will probably solve the problem.)
"equipment won't have enough processor power and memory to handle them."
Are they forgetting Moore's law?
I think the point is that there were periods where MIR was empty.
Though that, in itself, should be a cautionary tale as I'm sure the Soviets thought exactly the same thing when they launched it.
But really, these guys aren't "living" in space any more than Scott, Amudson and co. were "living" in Antarctica. Living somewhere implies that the place is your home, not just someplace you are visiting for a while. Lots of people will visit space in the ISS but no one will live there. In other words, until someone brings the spouse and kids, it ain't news.
That's why they question you. To find out if you are legit or not.
You are prefectly free to say "I wanna lawyer", or "Fuck you, fed bastard!" of course.
The first poster is right. There are two questions here. One, should the FBI check all leads. Hell yes! If someone shows up at a crime scene acting suspicious, the FBI should check him out.
But the FBI should not be confiscating equipment. The proper handling of this would be for the FBI to question the guy, ask for access to his machine long enough to copy relevant data, and then leave, without taking anything.
If someone finds you lurking around a bombed building six hours after it happened, you should be questioned. You should not get your car confiscated.
Same goes here.
Yeah, you'll never make President if you don't learn to spell.
(This'll make no sense once I get around to change my sig.)
Sorry you took offense at the tag. It was my first post using the Opera beta, I didn't notice that it reset the form controls.
Nope, Andrew Jackson. Twain could spell.
How about modifying slashcode so that when these repeat articles come up, it automatically loads the previous discussion so nobody has to waste time rehashing the same old comments.
You need three people to have a successful startup:
1) A "Visionary"
2) Someone with technical know-how
3) Someone with business sense.
This isn't unique to dot-coms. It is true for any sort of startup.
Apple, for example, had Woz (2) and Jobs (1 and 3).
Most of the dot-coms that go under have a (1), some have a (2), and few, if any, have a (3). That's why they fail. And the truth is, the earlier they fail, the better, because the bigger they get, the more investor money will vaporize and the more people they'll throw out of work.
For some reason, dot-coms got a free pass over the last few years, which is unfortunate. It is fortunate that this now seems to be ending because the dot-coms that do survive will be the worthwhile ones.
This is not very helpful to someone out of a job, I know. I've been thrown out of work when working for a (non-dot-com) startup as well. So take it as a learning experience, and when you look for your next job, look for Mr. (1), Ms. (2) and Mrs. (3). Because there are some dot-coms out there that will succeed.
In the '80s, there were a lot of young, hi-tech startups, too. I had the misfortune of picking two that failed. One had only a (1) and the other had only a (3). Other people picking startups in the same era ended up getting in early on Dell or Oracle.
There Dells and Oracles right now. But there are 10,000 dot-coms and there can only be a couple huge sucesses.
My company has had the Japanese version for a while, too (unless you are one of the Mike's I work with, in which case, hi!) and our experience is about the same. Ridge Racer was popular with a few people for a while, but the Dreamcast always gets a lot more use. I turned the Playstation 2 on yesterday to try Tekken again. I think that's the first time anyone had touched the thing in months.
The graphics on Ridge Racer are nice, but comparing to Dreamcast games, I don't see any real compelling difference. Tekken looks weak compared to Soul Calibur. Both the graphics and gameplay are significantly worse.
Maybe the Playstation 2 has better theoretical capability, but I sure as hell haven't seen it in practice... Soul Calibur is still the best looking game I've ever seen.
I just don't get the demand here. Where I work, we've had a Japanese Playstation 2 and a Dreamcast sitting next to each other for a while now and frankly, were I to buy one, I'd go for the much cheaper Dreamcast. Comparing "Soul Caliber" on the Dreamcast to "Tekken" on the Playstation side-by-side, I certainly don't really see any compelling difference, graphically. Hell, "Soul Caliber" looks better.
You're sitting out in your back yard, tossing back a Rolling Rock, when all of a sudden a grotesque looking alien object crashes into your pool.
I'd be thinking "Hot damn! I bet I can get at least 10 grand for that on eBay!"
By Jove, I think he's got it!