Allow a simple parody. Is this the scenario you're trying to avoid:
I'm working an Foo.java and have a question about a line of code. I use cvs annotate to determine that Bob last modified it. I turn my head to the left and say "Bob, I need help with Foo.java," which sends him a message that instantly conveys that I would like to collaborate on Foo.java. Bob accepts the collaboration and walks 4 feet over to my cube. He can see my version of the code right on my screen. At this point we can both edit the file, ask questions about the code, and even share the mouse. (Bob not only reads what I type, but SEES what I am referring to).
It's a pipe dream, but man it would be cool if programmers had social skills.
Every day I see engineers go to great lengths to avoid a simple 'hello' to each other in the hallway. They send email to people who are close enough to hear it being typed. I used to be that way but am slowly pulling out of it.
Any client can lie in the next upgrade, so a good option is usually to block based on behavior. In other words, no matter what client you claim to be, if you send me more than x requests/second for longer than y minutes, you're disconnected.
The other benefit of rules like this is that you don't discriminate one bad client; you discriminate against actions that hurt the network. As long as it plays nice any client is fine.
I feel bad for that one actual Nigerian ex-royal who actually is trying to smuggle out his/her money and make a new life. Who's gonna believe them now?
The technicians have to match up all the computers with a license number for each piece of software that is installed. This becomes even more difficult when computers are donated with unregistered software already installed.
I like that wording. Not 'impossible' to produce licenses for pirated software. Just 'more difficult' than if you are legal. This is exactly the kind of "can-do" attitude that the youth of America needs as an example. Don't let that 5GB of pr0n your girlfriend found drag you down! It's simply 'harder' to explain than if it weren't there.
Tony Blair will warn that extreme weather will wreak £150 billion worth of damage
I don't know, with the right promotions, pay-per-view tie-ins, etc. Xtreme Weather could be the next big thing. Get Tony Hawk(TM) to claim boarding in Xtreme Weather is amazing and you're halfway there. They could recoup their losses and then some.
Hit the wrong string in a chord? no problem, just replace that wrong string with the right one, mesh them all together.
Was it so hard to just re-record the whole chord, or even the phrase|section|song for that matter? What you're describing sounds harder than that, if you want it to sound as if you didn't make the mistake in the first place.
Unless they got rid of the vibrating string, it's still analog at the source.
What exactly is the difference between digitizing the output from a normal guitar, and digitizing the output right at the pickups? A couple feet of cable. How much difference can that make?
You could just make an effects box that converts to digital MaGIC, which would instantly make any guitar digital-compatible (plus you could take this step after the signal's already gone through your existing expensive effects chain.)
I'd look for an answer at their website, but it's dead.
It's not the keyboard's fault that you haven't thought of a use for the scroll lock key (and its LED). That LED can be activated via software, so I use it to indicate that I have new mail (without wasting screen real estate like xbiff or equiv would do). My windows key launches an xterm, which is really useful. I don't really need to put a little xterm-icon on the key. It's fine as-is.
In fact, several of my keys don't do what their label says (like xmodmapping my control key to the One True Non-Fattening location).
Good window managers and text editors let you use keys to invoke code. The more keys the better!
(for a while I had the windows key drop me to the console, to make it the ever-ironic anti-windows key, but that was more of a joke than a useful feature)
I can lift 175 pounds, but I only weigh 150 pounds. If NASA will just build me a ten pound 'space chair,' and I pull up on it as hard as I can, I should still be able to maintain a steady speed of 15 lbs.
Right?
I have ideas about how to steer also (thank god no one can smell space).
Man, can't Itanium get a break? First, the overpriced, lackluster performance. Now, VMS.
I guess some people must like it, but I never saw the appeal. My roomate in college once used a boot disk to rename all the files in my home directory from xxx yyy to XXX;2 YYY;5. I had an immediate, horrible reaction.
Great, another form of matrix decomposition to hate.
Well, in two years it'll be just in time for the extended, expanded, special three-movie collector's edition of the director's cut. Brewed with a premium blend of bonus material and loaded with never-before cared-about footage, enhanced with gaffer commentary in both the gaffer's native language and three others, not to mention the several TV specials that you've seen before, but haven't yet been given the opportunity to pay a premium for.
A warning to the faithful: Due to the parent request for prayers, it appears that God has been slashdotted. At least, that's the only explanation I can think of for the total lack of reply I got.
And yea, for though the dispair of the holy 404: deity not found error was great, this time there was no Google Cache to restore comfort unto them.
I think he just wanted to look like he was busy. We weren't judged by LOC/day, but we did take regular metrics. I guess he thought if the manager saw 400 new lines that week, the assumption would be that he was doing more work than he was.
If you want a serious answer, one reason programs get filled with so much useless crap is because 80% of programmers program so they can collect a paycheck. They don't give a flying fuck if their code is good or not. That was a big eye-opener for me when I first got out of school. I couldn't believe how many people just didn't care.
If you are interested at all in not muddying the interface, you are most of the way there. Give it some thought, consult with your peers, and try to learn from mistakes.
Don't be afraid to refactor code every so often, because, schedule or no schedule, new requirements move the 'ideal' design away from what you drew up last month. That's (to my mind) the second largest contributor. Even good coders crumble to cost and schedule, and band-aid code that just plain needs to be rethought. In some environments, that's a fact of life. In others you will have to fight for it, but you can get code rewritten.
Slashdot Mirror
Allow a simple parody. Is this the scenario you're trying to avoid:
I'm working an Foo.java and have a question about a line of code. I use cvs annotate to determine that Bob last modified it. I turn my head to the left and say "Bob, I need help with Foo.java," which sends him a message that instantly conveys that I would like to collaborate on Foo.java. Bob accepts the collaboration and walks 4 feet over to my cube. He can see my version of the code right on my screen. At this point we can both edit the file, ask questions about the code, and even share the mouse. (Bob not only reads what I type, but SEES what I am referring to).
It's a pipe dream, but man it would be cool if programmers had social skills.
Every day I see engineers go to great lengths to avoid a simple 'hello' to each other in the hallway. They send email to people who are close enough to hear it being typed. I used to be that way but am slowly pulling out of it.
When did we lose focus on creating the greatest Porn2Pr0n system possible?
These guys should stop bickering and ask themselves every day:
- How can gnutella deliver more pr0n, faster, with more accurate search results?
I know I do, and I don't even develop P2P systems.
Any client can lie in the next upgrade, so a good option is usually to block based on behavior. In other words, no matter what client you claim to be, if you send me more than x requests/second for longer than y minutes, you're disconnected.
The other benefit of rules like this is that you don't discriminate one bad client; you discriminate against actions that hurt the network. As long as it plays nice any client is fine.
I feel bad for that one actual Nigerian ex-royal who actually is trying to smuggle out his/her money and make a new life. Who's gonna believe them now?
Oh, wait...the British, I guess. Nevermind.
I can see the adds now:
pr0n: have you fed your computer today?
Really honey, my kernel compiles were getting slower. I had to do something.
Code size matters. Price matters. Real world matters
If only on-chip instruction set morphing mattered...
(sorry, but it's true...he's living in a glass house on this one.)
The technicians have to match up all the computers with a license number for each piece of software that is installed. This becomes even more difficult when computers are donated with unregistered software already installed.
I like that wording. Not 'impossible' to produce licenses for pirated software. Just 'more difficult' than if you are legal. This is exactly the kind of "can-do" attitude that the youth of America needs as an example. Don't let that 5GB of pr0n your girlfriend found drag you down! It's simply 'harder' to explain than if it weren't there.
Tony Blair will warn that extreme weather will wreak £150 billion worth of damage
I don't know, with the right promotions, pay-per-view tie-ins, etc. Xtreme Weather could be the next big thing. Get Tony Hawk(TM) to claim boarding in Xtreme Weather is amazing and you're halfway there. They could recoup their losses and then some.
Or save the environment. Either way.
Watch for this, watch for how often things are expressed in monetary terms, as though that was all that mattered.
I would watch for it, for say, $20/month. I estimate this vigilence is worth at least $23/month, so the earth will make a tidy profit.
Deal?
Hit the wrong string in a chord? no problem, just replace that wrong string with the right one, mesh them all together.
Was it so hard to just re-record the whole chord, or even the phrase|section|song for that matter? What you're describing sounds harder than that, if you want it to sound as if you didn't make the mistake in the first place.
This use is not the 'killer app' I hope...
Unless they got rid of the vibrating string, it's still analog at the source.
What exactly is the difference between digitizing the output from a normal guitar, and digitizing the output right at the pickups? A couple feet of cable. How much difference can that make?
You could just make an effects box that converts to digital MaGIC, which would instantly make any guitar digital-compatible (plus you could take this step after the signal's already gone through your existing expensive effects chain.)
I'd look for an answer at their website, but it's dead.
Here's hoping it fares better than their website!
Why do we punish the ones we love??
Be careful, 4.21, being an odd-numbered release, is primarily for developers and advanced users.
Ballsy move by Mandrake, since they're known as a beginner's distro.
I'm waiting for 4.22 before I use it in production.
It's not the keyboard's fault that you haven't thought of a use for the scroll lock key (and its LED). That LED can be activated via software, so I use it to indicate that I have new mail (without wasting screen real estate like xbiff or equiv would do). My windows key launches an xterm, which is really useful. I don't really need to put a little xterm-icon on the key. It's fine as-is.
In fact, several of my keys don't do what their label says (like xmodmapping my control key to the One True Non-Fattening location).
Good window managers and text editors let you use keys to invoke code. The more keys the better!
(for a while I had the windows key drop me to the console, to make it the ever-ironic anti-windows key, but that was more of a joke than a useful feature)
I can lift 175 pounds, but I only weigh 150 pounds. If NASA will just build me a ten pound 'space chair,' and I pull up on it as hard as I can, I should still be able to maintain a steady speed of 15 lbs.
Right?
I have ideas about how to steer also (thank god no one can smell space).
Putting the entire story in the slashdot posting is an interesting solution to the slashdot effect. Of course the content is a little more bland....
I'd prefer if the article we picked had some actual information about the protocol... off to google....
Man, can't Itanium get a break? First, the overpriced, lackluster performance. Now, VMS.
I guess some people must like it, but I never saw the appeal. My roomate in college once used a boot disk to rename all the files in my home directory from xxx yyy to XXX;2 YYY;5. I had an immediate, horrible reaction.
I installed Win98SE on his machine the next day.
Great, another form of matrix decomposition to hate.
Well, in two years it'll be just in time for the extended, expanded, special three-movie collector's edition of the director's cut. Brewed with a premium blend of bonus material and loaded with never-before cared-about footage, enhanced with gaffer commentary in both the gaffer's native language and three others, not to mention the several TV specials that you've seen before, but haven't yet been given the opportunity to pay a premium for.
They should call it "The Matrix: Repackaged"
A warning to the faithful:
Due to the parent request for prayers, it appears that God has been slashdotted. At least, that's the only explanation I can think of for the total lack of reply I got.
And yea, for though the dispair of the holy 404: deity not found error was great, this time there was no Google Cache to restore comfort unto them.
Say a small prayer.
Why is it always a small prayer? What is the proper ratio of prayer time to disaster magnitude?
If prayer works, and only a small prayer is required, then why didn't you pray before this happened, you insensitive clod?
What exactly will you pray for? Is the ship supposed to reintegrate now?
Do me a favor and say a long prayer. Quietly. That should keep you busy for a while. The rest of us have work to do.
I think he just wanted to look like he was busy. We weren't judged by LOC/day, but we did take regular metrics. I guess he thought if the manager saw 400 new lines that week, the assumption would be that he was doing more work than he was.
I'd like to see more about how programmers stuff interfaces with more and more useless crap, and how to avoid it.
Well, identifying it as useless crap is a good first step.
And for managers:
while(economy.isDown())
if(newInterface.isUselessCrap())
{
fireEmployee();
hireNextTelecomRefugee();
}
If you want a serious answer, one reason programs get filled with so much useless crap is because 80% of programmers program so they can collect a paycheck. They don't give a flying fuck if their code is good or not. That was a big eye-opener for me when I first got out of school. I couldn't believe how many people just didn't care.
If you are interested at all in not muddying the interface, you are most of the way there. Give it some thought, consult with your peers, and try to learn from mistakes.
Don't be afraid to refactor code every so often, because, schedule or no schedule, new requirements move the 'ideal' design away from what you drew up last month. That's (to my mind) the second largest contributor. Even good coders crumble to cost and schedule, and band-aid code that just plain needs to be rethought. In some environments, that's a fact of life. In others you will have to fight for it, but you can get code rewritten.
x += 0;
x += 0;
x += 0;
x += 0;
x += 0;
x += 0;
It actually caused a bug 'cuz they accidentally left the '+' off one of the lines. What an idiot.
Three letters: NIH.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got to get back to my text editor project.