Okay, first of all, this is clearly not news... it's from the freaking Daily Mail, as much a newspaper as the National Enquirer. Yeah, of course people *without* self driving cars who've never seen one before would be nervous. Also, people who've never seen a movie say they would have trouble sitting in a dark room for 2 hours.
What is going on with Slashdot the last couple weeks? I used to come here for no-bullshit-tech-news, and now we have weird Hillary health posts, the pervious article about "Touch Disease" is total rubbish too. They seem to be going 50% total bullshit posts.
I try and avoid HN, because of the comments section, but the editors here should just read over the entries there and copy the good ones. Here, let me do a quick look.
13 hours ago news that Tesla signed a massive contract with the California power grid. TECHNOLOGY NEWS!
3 hours ago Bash 4.4 released. TECHNOLOGY NEWS!
2 hours ago EU Court: Open WiFi Operator Not Liable for Pirate Users. TECHNOLOGY NEWS!
Look, I like this place because there used to be good editorial insight into tech news and all the highlights were covered with little BS or outright bias or weirdness. It was never perfect, but damn it was better than other choices.
But who the hell is the new editor? Did all the good ones leave? Is no one submitting decent news?
DEFINITELY.
It's an L1. Disney's plans (while possibly evil) are to move the jobs overseas. They aren't "replacing them" in the US... they are having Infosys workers in India do the job. The workers are here very temporarily to learn the job, then go do it over in India.
This article is insanely misleading. You absolutely, positively can't get an H1B for "cheap", let alone displace an American worker for it. I've hired two H1B workers in the past, and it was difficult as hell and they were my highest paid employees, by a big margin.
Another misleading thing is that they say Infosys has "some of the most H1B's of any company"... and it mentions that it's about 1,000. That's because they have 176,000 employees! Some of the employees are so awesome that they can get transferred to the US under H1B... but those 176,000 workers in India are absolutely not all getting H1B's to do business consulting in the US.
This is about offshoring.... which we can dislike! I mean, Disney was being real jerks here. I don't think anyone can directly say Disney is a lovable company, but to weirdly conflate H1B's with what happened with these layoffs is SUPER weird to me, and clearly pretty misleading.
Umm... you don't seem to understand what an H1B is. It's actually a very expensive employee. You can't pay less than $80k to an H1B, and usually I've had to pay $120k+. Like, it's not cheaper labor. It's usually smarter labor and all the talented, flexible, non-sociopathic programmers are currently employed.
Alright, so there is no "unlimited" data plan. You are right. What I meant to say is that we are assuming a reasonable data plan for users of high end devices.
Personally, I'd say your comments have much more in common with the '640k' arguement, because mobile technology and bandwidth are moving fast... and we are attempting to build something to last more than a few years.
At least with our personal mobile use, we don't worry too much about bandwidth, just load speed.
And yes, we have no support for IE and because Microsoft has yet to respond to our requests for aid, the ball is in their court.
We are targeting users who most likely have unlimited bandwidth. That's who mostly would be using a site like this anyway.
if you want a really small and efficient version, try the old WAP gateway at mobile.wikipedia.org
They briefly mentioned Haml... which has made a big
impact in the Rails and Cake PHP development
communities.
Yes.... I made it and I'm pimping it here.
Actually, I've been developing web applications for many years now and in the past month have created two Rails applications, one of them being fairly heavy-weight.
I came into the development assuming exactly what you did. That Rails would help get the easy stuff done, but as soon as I needed my code to do something that wasn't specifically thought out in the code, I would have to fight the framework for control of my application.
However, I found that to not be the case at all. The power of rails is that its *really* well thought out. It seemed to know when to step aside to let me code what I wanted to code. The overall philosophy seems to be buttressing your code when you need it, then just letting you code in Ruby all the other times.
Also, I have found that forcing me to use the MVC system in web apps is truely something we should all of been doing all of the time for the past 10 years. However, when you start from the base when coding a web app, usually you want the least amount of work to get something on the screen. And that's not a bad impulse, but it makes you forget to seperate out your code. Rails is about getting to the screen faster and forcing you to keep your MVC code seperate.
I'm not saying that Rails is here to cure aids and cancer, but its a solidly designed framework which has some great ideas that corrects behavioral mistakes in the way we've been coding our web apps for years.
Not only that, it has a pretty logo.
-hampton.
I had this happen to me. The thing is, I didn't even remember signing up for the magazine, but I did enjoy receiving it again. Until, one day I keep getting these really strongly worded letters.
And the thing is, I haven't recieved a next copy yet. And this was 2 months ago!
It really makes me have a bad taste in my mouth about it.
Someone is making some customers very unhappy for a few extra bucks. Of course, we all know that Conde Nast is completely bankrupt.... they really need that extra 12 bucks.
Ipod killers? Yeah right!
We all know that the iPod is going to stay dominant for quite a while now. Perhaps "Small Percentage of Apple-Haters Killer"... For those who just don't want to have to put up with a well tested, mature product like the iPod.
-hampton.
From Donald Trump's response, I think that he should personally donate $5 billion dollars into circuit/brain interface development... you know, since that will be feasable in the near future... right?
A comment on Moby's harmless drug idea... That's impossible. Several drugs are not physically harmful. They do not horribly scar your brain chemistry or anything (LSD, for example... save for flashbacks). Though, the problem with them is that they may not be phsyically addictive, they are psychologically addictive. If there are pills to make you feel good, then people are going to become reliant on them regardless of their not being phsyically addictive.
But, how about self washing clothes! Now that's something my fellow collegiates would like to see!
The government may be highly inefficient in many areas, but government coding is known to be very secure.
Heck, when you have a carte-blanche budget to develop a secure voting protocol, you are going to be much more careful than OSS-dev (sorry guys!), because you have your job on the line, and you are going to be better than corperations, because you aren't just trying to "push" that product out.
Its about taking your time to be thorough... And by God, the DMV is thorough!
-hampton.
If these systems were really secure, then finding out the code shouldn't be important. Just because I know the RSA 128-bit algorithem, doesn't mean that I can break it in a second!
Also, why isn't the federal government coming out with a standard software framework for voting?
This seems obvious to me, at least.
Not that I trust my government to be the best coders, but heck... get the DOD on it. They are pretty good at these problem domains.
As a part time web designer, in my experience HTML can be hand coded. But you know what can't be done by hand? Laying out the design of a site.
Sure GIMP is good for image manipulation... but I'm pretty certain that there isn't a free version of something Fireworksesque out there.
HTML is easy without a killer app.
Design is hard without a killer app.
If the linux community wants to have full out webdesigners (coders and graphics) join their ranks, then this is a MUST.
Hell, IMHO... vi is a perfect HTML and PHP killer app.
-------
Why does my head hurt?
hampton2600.com
I would like to make it officially known that some code that I wrote in 1985, as a small child, contained some intellectual property known as "0" and "1".
The code I own contains this code and therefore, I am calling for a halt of all things digital.
Thank you.
-The Hampton2600.com Legal Team
I think that phoenix has a wonderful tab interface. Being able to open tabs by clicking on a link with the scroll wheel and closing a tab by clicking on it with the scroll wheel also.
I have noticed that mozilla, chimera, safari, and some others seem to be harder to close tabs and that their tabs jump to the front.
Pheonix's tabs open in the background. This is useful for news sites especially. When I look at slashdot, i just go down all the stories wheel clicking on all the ones that interest me, then i can just go through my tabs and do my reading.
Anyone one else use tabs that way?
-hampton "switcher" catlin.
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Okay, first of all, this is clearly not news... it's from the freaking Daily Mail, as much a newspaper as the National Enquirer. Yeah, of course people *without* self driving cars who've never seen one before would be nervous. Also, people who've never seen a movie say they would have trouble sitting in a dark room for 2 hours. What is going on with Slashdot the last couple weeks? I used to come here for no-bullshit-tech-news, and now we have weird Hillary health posts, the pervious article about "Touch Disease" is total rubbish too. They seem to be going 50% total bullshit posts. I try and avoid HN, because of the comments section, but the editors here should just read over the entries there and copy the good ones. Here, let me do a quick look. 13 hours ago news that Tesla signed a massive contract with the California power grid. TECHNOLOGY NEWS! 3 hours ago Bash 4.4 released. TECHNOLOGY NEWS! 2 hours ago EU Court: Open WiFi Operator Not Liable for Pirate Users. TECHNOLOGY NEWS! Look, I like this place because there used to be good editorial insight into tech news and all the highlights were covered with little BS or outright bias or weirdness. It was never perfect, but damn it was better than other choices. But who the hell is the new editor? Did all the good ones leave? Is no one submitting decent news?
Like, delete this! This isn't news, it isn't true, it's clearly totally balls-out insane made up. What.
DEFINITELY. It's an L1. Disney's plans (while possibly evil) are to move the jobs overseas. They aren't "replacing them" in the US... they are having Infosys workers in India do the job. The workers are here very temporarily to learn the job, then go do it over in India. This article is insanely misleading. You absolutely, positively can't get an H1B for "cheap", let alone displace an American worker for it. I've hired two H1B workers in the past, and it was difficult as hell and they were my highest paid employees, by a big margin. Another misleading thing is that they say Infosys has "some of the most H1B's of any company"... and it mentions that it's about 1,000. That's because they have 176,000 employees! Some of the employees are so awesome that they can get transferred to the US under H1B... but those 176,000 workers in India are absolutely not all getting H1B's to do business consulting in the US. This is about offshoring.... which we can dislike! I mean, Disney was being real jerks here. I don't think anyone can directly say Disney is a lovable company, but to weirdly conflate H1B's with what happened with these layoffs is SUPER weird to me, and clearly pretty misleading.
whoops. wasn't logged in. this was mine.
Umm... you don't seem to understand what an H1B is. It's actually a very expensive employee. You can't pay less than $80k to an H1B, and usually I've had to pay $120k+. Like, it's not cheaper labor. It's usually smarter labor and all the talented, flexible, non-sociopathic programmers are currently employed.
Alright, so there is no "unlimited" data plan. You are right. What I meant to say is that we are assuming a reasonable data plan for users of high end devices. Personally, I'd say your comments have much more in common with the '640k' arguement, because mobile technology and bandwidth are moving fast... and we are attempting to build something to last more than a few years. At least with our personal mobile use, we don't worry too much about bandwidth, just load speed. And yes, we have no support for IE and because Microsoft has yet to respond to our requests for aid, the ball is in their court.
We are targeting users who most likely have unlimited bandwidth. That's who mostly would be using a site like this anyway. if you want a really small and efficient version, try the old WAP gateway at mobile.wikipedia.org
They briefly mentioned Haml... which has made a big impact in the Rails and Cake PHP development communities. Yes.... I made it and I'm pimping it here.
Enjoy, bitchez!
(plug, plug, plug)
Actually, I've been developing web applications for many years now and in the past month have created two Rails applications, one of them being fairly heavy-weight. I came into the development assuming exactly what you did. That Rails would help get the easy stuff done, but as soon as I needed my code to do something that wasn't specifically thought out in the code, I would have to fight the framework for control of my application. However, I found that to not be the case at all. The power of rails is that its *really* well thought out. It seemed to know when to step aside to let me code what I wanted to code. The overall philosophy seems to be buttressing your code when you need it, then just letting you code in Ruby all the other times. Also, I have found that forcing me to use the MVC system in web apps is truely something we should all of been doing all of the time for the past 10 years. However, when you start from the base when coding a web app, usually you want the least amount of work to get something on the screen. And that's not a bad impulse, but it makes you forget to seperate out your code. Rails is about getting to the screen faster and forcing you to keep your MVC code seperate. I'm not saying that Rails is here to cure aids and cancer, but its a solidly designed framework which has some great ideas that corrects behavioral mistakes in the way we've been coding our web apps for years. Not only that, it has a pretty logo. -hampton.
I had this happen to me. The thing is, I didn't even remember signing up for the magazine, but I did enjoy receiving it again. Until, one day I keep getting these really strongly worded letters. And the thing is, I haven't recieved a next copy yet. And this was 2 months ago! It really makes me have a bad taste in my mouth about it. Someone is making some customers very unhappy for a few extra bucks. Of course, we all know that Conde Nast is completely bankrupt.... they really need that extra 12 bucks.
Ipod killers? Yeah right! We all know that the iPod is going to stay dominant for quite a while now. Perhaps "Small Percentage of Apple-Haters Killer"... For those who just don't want to have to put up with a well tested, mature product like the iPod. -hampton.
When will these things be able to do my math homework for me.
That's what I really want.
Intelligent, high powered math book reading.
Just a college kid's view though.
-hampton.
From Donald Trump's response, I think that he should personally donate $5 billion dollars into circuit/brain interface development... you know, since that will be feasable in the near future... right?
A comment on Moby's harmless drug idea... That's impossible. Several drugs are not physically harmful. They do not horribly scar your brain chemistry or anything (LSD, for example... save for flashbacks). Though, the problem with them is that they may not be phsyically addictive, they are psychologically addictive. If there are pills to make you feel good, then people are going to become reliant on them regardless of their not being phsyically addictive.
But, how about self washing clothes! Now that's something my fellow collegiates would like to see!
You know this is a standard re-posted troll comment, right?
The government may be highly inefficient in many areas, but government coding is known to be very secure. Heck, when you have a carte-blanche budget to develop a secure voting protocol, you are going to be much more careful than OSS-dev (sorry guys!), because you have your job on the line, and you are going to be better than corperations, because you aren't just trying to "push" that product out. Its about taking your time to be thorough... And by God, the DMV is thorough! -hampton.
If these systems were really secure, then finding out the code shouldn't be important. Just because I know the RSA 128-bit algorithem, doesn't mean that I can break it in a second!
Also, why isn't the federal government coming out with a standard software framework for voting?
This seems obvious to me, at least.
Not that I trust my government to be the best coders, but heck... get the DOD on it. They are pretty good at these problem domains.
Maybe they'd run it off of source forge....
-hampton2600.
As a part time web designer, in my experience HTML can be hand coded. But you know what can't be done by hand? Laying out the design of a site. Sure GIMP is good for image manipulation... but I'm pretty certain that there isn't a free version of something Fireworksesque out there. HTML is easy without a killer app. Design is hard without a killer app. If the linux community wants to have full out webdesigners (coders and graphics) join their ranks, then this is a MUST. Hell, IMHO... vi is a perfect HTML and PHP killer app. ------- Why does my head hurt? hampton2600.com
I would like to make it officially known that some code that I wrote in 1985, as a small child, contained some intellectual property known as "0" and "1". The code I own contains this code and therefore, I am calling for a halt of all things digital. Thank you. -The Hampton2600.com Legal Team
I think that phoenix has a wonderful tab interface. Being able to open tabs by clicking on a link with the scroll wheel and closing a tab by clicking on it with the scroll wheel also. I have noticed that mozilla, chimera, safari, and some others seem to be harder to close tabs and that their tabs jump to the front. Pheonix's tabs open in the background. This is useful for news sites especially. When I look at slashdot, i just go down all the stories wheel clicking on all the ones that interest me, then i can just go through my tabs and do my reading. Anyone one else use tabs that way? -hampton "switcher" catlin.