Well, that's a very negative way of looking at it.. I admit there are many such projects around, but I really think that's a good thing.
In the world of "experimentation", there are bound to be many ideas that don't get off the ground. But many great projects are still hosted on sourceforge, and even for "half-baked" projects, it's fantastic to have a virtual playground for the open source community to come together and collaborate.
It's nice to see a seperate sourceforge installation for this. Sourceforge is so huge that perhaps it would be beneficial to split parts of it up into other seperate installations?
Does anybody know if there are other sourceforge installations that dedicate themselves to some specific "sub-genre"?
Yes, I was flatly contradicting one of the main theses of the article.
My reason for holding the opinion is probably quite flawed, in fact! I would like to believe that people dealing with online businesses are more likely to be swayed by their own research (via online communities or otherwise), rather than by the mainstream media.
I think you are right in citing google as an example -- it seemed to become popular more from being simple/ad-less/fast/accurate. Did word-of-mouth spread through online communities, online media or mainstream print (or other) media? I suppose this is outnumbered by the cases where reputation-building is done via the media.
It is true that the "mainstream media conveys a more coherent opinion, consistently, to more people". However, I was under the impression that most discerning consumers would form their own opinions based upon their online dealings, or online word-of-mouth.
PS: whoever modded my original comment as a troll really needs to get a clue.
This article says that it is less work to form an opinion via a newspaper headline than by reading slashdot, for example.
But I think part of the unique nature of the internet is that much of an online businesses reputation will be made online, and through various discussion communities (slashdot, newsgroups, etc), rather than the mainstream media.
It is interesting you should say that actually. I hadn't heard of them until about 6 months ago when one of the developers in our team started using them.
But we used them primarily for obtaining objects from APIs which we depend on, but which did not exist or work yet.
When you get down to it, the db-interaction has got to be thoroughly tested. It's great to have tools that get around this when possible, but nothing beats a full-fledged unit test going the full way through.
As for the "database is down t-shirt"...i've got worse..narky e-mails from clueless management saying "why are our tests failling?". Ughh. Continuous integration is a fantastic idea, but u really need managers who understand that sometimes the tests are just gonna fall over!
> (2) testing with databases, > > > Make sure there's static data that is used for > > regression testing changes
Testing against databases has been one of the largest headaches where I work. When you have many developers running tests at the same time, as well as continuous integration running the tests every hour, maintaining data consistency can be a real headache.
In the end we opted for a seperate test instance that only continuous integration uses. This contains static data as you mentioned, but where possible it is still best to use the setUp() and tearDown() capabilities. We built a framework that would allow test developers to simply supply SQL scripts for the set-up and tear-down process.
Developers are still left sharing a database for their tests, and to solve this we simply had to be careful to write tests that were independant of certain properties of the data (such as the number of records returned by a query), and to ensure that each test restores appropriate data in its tearDown sequence. Sometimes tests can still fail when two developers run at the same time, but it is more unlikely, and at least the database finishes in a consistent state.
I kinda assumed that the mathematical definition of volume is consistent, regardless of the dimensional propreties of the object in question. If not, I think our heads could start hurting even more;)
(In fact, I wonder if the whole reason that fractional dimensions are useful is that they allow us to maintain a consistent definition of volume across such geometric transformations??)
Many new technologies start as being too difficult to be practical, or to push out on a large scale -- and of course many technologies never get off the ground because the difficulties can't be overcome.
But that is no reason to stop researching stuff..! Even if it seems impractical at first, you really never do know..
I'm by no means qualified to answer this, but heck i'm a-gonna do it anyway!
Yes, the volume of the water would be 3D. The volume changes from 1/2D to 3D because you are changing the geometry of the object! Honestly, I think the answer *is* as simple as that..
Firstly, I said this "may" happen. I never said "..another place will FOR CERTAIN be hit harder.."
But you are right that I am certainly no expert (or even knowledgable) in the field. Does anyone else have something more concrete on this issue?
Is this the beginning of a time when countries can undertake weather-based warfare against others? Want to cripple the US economy? Just alter the weather patterns.
I assume that weather-tinkering (for benefit) in one part of the world could easily change weather patterns (possibly in a bad way..) in other parts of the world. Who is going to decide what manipulations go ahead -- the more powerful economies?
Slashdot Mirror
These days, many authors of textbooks alternate from chapter to chapter whether they use he or she.
Get over it.
I assume the poster has tried a number of methods if they went to the trouble of mentioning pull-parsers.
I doubt he/she is daft enough to be using a slow DOM implementation in situations where SAX would suffice.
Or their swollen ears, noses and eyelids.
I don't think this is entirely true -- as the article says, Munich took into account the higher LONG-TERM cost of the Micro$oft option.
They chose Linux as a good product AND a lower long-term cost, not just as a higher-costing "great product", as you say.
Stored procs aren't so good if you want at least some level of database independance.
...they can have my slashdot posts!
:p
Nothing intellectual there, really
Yeah, good point :)
Well, that's a very negative way of looking at it .. I admit there are many such projects around, but I really think that's a good thing.
In the world of "experimentation", there are bound to be many ideas that don't get off the ground. But many great projects are still hosted on sourceforge, and even for "half-baked" projects, it's fantastic to have a virtual playground for the open source community to come together and collaborate.
It's nice to see a seperate sourceforge installation for this. Sourceforge is so huge that perhaps it would be beneficial to split parts of it up into other seperate installations?
Does anybody know if there are other sourceforge installations that dedicate themselves to some specific "sub-genre"?
More appropriate near St Patrick's day..
There once was an element named Zinc
{child posts please continue}
But if google went out of business and the remaining competitors *didn't* provide as good a service, would you care then??
Things like this happen all the time.
Yes, I was flatly contradicting one of the main theses of the article.
My reason for holding the opinion is probably quite flawed, in fact! I would like to believe that people dealing with online businesses are more likely to be swayed by their own research (via online communities or otherwise), rather than by the mainstream media.
I think you are right in citing google as an example -- it seemed to become popular more from being simple/ad-less/fast/accurate. Did word-of-mouth spread through online communities, online media or mainstream print (or other) media? I suppose this is outnumbered by the cases where reputation-building is done via the media.
It is true that the "mainstream media conveys a more coherent opinion, consistently, to more people". However, I was under the impression that most discerning consumers would form their own opinions based upon their online dealings, or online word-of-mouth.
PS: whoever modded my original comment as a troll really needs to get a clue.
This article says that it is less work to form an opinion via a newspaper headline than by reading slashdot, for example.
But I think part of the unique nature of the internet is that much of an online businesses reputation will be made online, and through various discussion communities (slashdot, newsgroups, etc), rather than the mainstream media.
This *has* been done!
It is interesting you should say that actually. I hadn't heard of them until about 6 months ago when one of the developers in our team started using them.
But we used them primarily for obtaining objects from APIs which we depend on, but which did not exist or work yet.
When you get down to it, the db-interaction has got to be thoroughly tested. It's great to have tools that get around this when possible, but nothing beats a full-fledged unit test going the full way through.
As for the "database is down t-shirt"...i've got worse..narky e-mails from clueless management saying "why are our tests failling?". Ughh. Continuous integration is a fantastic idea, but u really need managers who understand that sometimes the tests are just gonna fall over!
> (2) testing with databases,
>
> > Make sure there's static data that is used for > > regression testing changes
Testing against databases has been one of the largest headaches where I work. When you have many developers running tests at the same time, as well as continuous integration running the tests every hour, maintaining data consistency can be a real headache.
In the end we opted for a seperate test instance that only continuous integration uses. This contains static data as you mentioned, but where possible it is still best to use the setUp() and tearDown() capabilities. We built a framework that would allow test developers to simply supply SQL scripts for the set-up and tear-down process.
Developers are still left sharing a database for their tests, and to solve this we simply had to be careful to write tests that were independant of certain properties of the data (such as the number of records returned by a query), and to ensure that each test restores appropriate data in its tearDown sequence. Sometimes tests can still fail when two developers run at the same time, but it is more unlikely, and at least the database finishes in a consistent state.
Phew!
Does anybody think that the Segway may one day be the basis of some new team-based sport(s)?
Imagine trying to play basketball on one of these!
Yeah I guess so. Anybody else?
;)
I kinda assumed that the mathematical definition of volume is consistent, regardless of the dimensional propreties of the object in question. If not, I think our heads could start hurting even more
(In fact, I wonder if the whole reason that fractional dimensions are useful is that they allow us to maintain a consistent definition of volume across such geometric transformations??)
Many new technologies start as being too difficult to be practical, or to push out on a large scale -- and of course many technologies never get off the ground because the difficulties can't be overcome.
But that is no reason to stop researching stuff..! Even if it seems impractical at first, you really never do know..
I'm by no means qualified to answer this, but heck i'm a-gonna do it anyway!
Yes, the volume of the water would be 3D. The volume changes from 1/2D to 3D because you are changing the geometry of the object! Honestly, I think the answer *is* as simple as that..
Firstly, I said this "may" happen. I never said "..another place will FOR CERTAIN be hit harder.." But you are right that I am certainly no expert (or even knowledgable) in the field. Does anyone else have something more concrete on this issue?
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Perhaps the overall equilibrium would be maintained - "fix" weather conditions in africa, and you may find parts of the US being turned to desert.
Is this the beginning of a time when countries can undertake weather-based warfare against others? Want to cripple the US economy? Just alter the weather patterns.
I assume that weather-tinkering (for benefit) in one part of the world could easily change weather patterns (possibly in a bad way..) in other parts of the world. Who is going to decide what manipulations go ahead -- the more powerful economies?
But there is much less choice in news sources if you compare radio to the internet. There certainly isn't a Slashdot FM!
Just imagine -- a team of moderators, waiting to take your phone calls.