There was no reason to have a native YouTube app included in the OS, was there? I can count the number of times I opened that app on one hand in the 4 years I've owned an iPhone.
I downloaded the new YouTube app, opened it once and then deleted it. It's the same shit you get on the web and it's mainly for finding new videos rather than anything truly useful. It's not like you need the app to view the videos.
Here in Minnesota MetroTransit officers come on the train regularly to check everyone's ticket/card to make sure they have a valid fare.
Several times I observed people jump off the train once they saw the officers and they didn't even chase after them; instead, they continued to check and scan everyone else who actually had paid.
I love paying the whopping $1.25 + tax dollars to fund this lovely operation only to be hassled by cops only to watch the douchebags run away free.
Counters and accepting them may be more common these days due to the high cost of onboarding new employees but a company RARELY forgets you accepted that counter and you may pay for that raise in more ways than you expect.
I don't see it being any different than what Netflix did except that instead of one potential customer gaining a competitive advantage from crowdsourced data analysis, many companies will.
As someone who works in the data analysis field, I can assure you the people doing predictive modeling are not usually pocket protected geeks with tape between their lenses.
But I will admit I got a good chuckle from your post; +5 Funny for sure.
I hire developers and manage them. I hire people who I feel are a good fit for my team and my organization. I hire people who have a passion for coding and are willing to continue to learn and help others learn as they do. I hire people who can and do complete projects on time and with few issues.
These requirements are far more important to me than how someone got their resume to me and what it says. Sure, if I have two otherwise identical candidates and one has a graduate degree from an Ivy League school, I'm going to choose that person over the other. However, their resume only gets them in the door, I take the time to really look at the entire picture instead of simply giving the term lip service like you do.
The real problem with comments isn't their color, it's when they AREN'T THERE AT ALL.
THIS. I deal with sloppy coding convention all the time but at least when the code is commented I can get a mile-high view of what each section is doing w/o having to spend time carefully piecing the work apart to figure out what happened.
The lack of comments for others is annoying but I really want to know how people go back into their own code several weeks (or even days) later and know what the hell they did when there are no comments.
Many times I have run across a commented section of code that reads something like:
/* Attention future Bill: this section of code sucks and it looks horrendous and awful but I wrote it under a tight deadline. Just hit F3 and let the bitch run; it works, I promise. */
I went to a cabin in northern Minnesota this summer..it was on a lake, nice, peaceful and a perfect place for me to work..no cell coverage and certainly no internet access.
As a Minnesotan whose dream is to own a waterfront cabin (few Minnesotans don't) and work for three months every year from the cabin with the kiddos running around and playing, I have found plenty of areas in rural Minnesota with excellent wireless and wired connections. In fact, we stayed at a cabin in rural Western MN this summer for a week and I had no problems using the neighbors DSL connection (with permission) to VPN in and do my work when needed (yay for reduced PTO usage while the kids napped). In addition I had a VZW mifi with me for a backup and had 4G connectivity there and found it faster than the metro area.
We were scouting a VERY INEXPENSIVE cabin ($16,000) on Pelican Lake in Orr, MN (way far north) and found that because it was close enough to the main "highway" running North/South, there was adequate 3G service. There was also 4000/2000 DSL available as well. Believe me, I considered dropping the cash right then and there.
As an IT manager who has to deal with this, I find that books don't always help depending on how particular programmer learns. I spend a lot of time in "code reviews" (depending on your experience this could be handled in any number of methods) trying to teach my staff to think more like a programmer rather than the way they do.
What collective knowledge can the Slashdotter community share to help with this problem aside from books which I have found to be ineffective in my particular environment?
Windows is losing marketshare, not Linux. Go to a college campus or local coffee shop and look around at those using their computers to do work. Count how many PCs you see and how many Macs you see. I was honestly shocked to see Macs beating PCs every time at many different study locations I was using.
Those people using laptops are probably not going to be using Linux to do their work and are either going to choose Mac or Windows. While I continue to use Linux on the server and have solely for the last 10 years (I used it on the desktop prior to 2002), I chose Mac over Windows for my laptop and I know many others who went that direction as well.
In another thread someone said if Win7 wasn't as good as it is, Linux may have had a chance. I disagree. In fact, using Win7 on my work desktop and hating the quirks it has was what really helped push me to the Mac.
As is always the case, the winner is the one most successful in getting their supporters to actually vote. Mobilizing the base keeps states you should never lose out of play.
Analytics can play a pivotal role in finding areas where you should spending your marketing dollars through any variety of avenues. In this case, why wouldn't campaigns use a variety of methods and layers to find areas where your efforts will be best served by choosing strategy as well as a VP candidate who will mobilize your voters the most?
It seems the campaign is using data to help drive their campaign and thus one can assume their decisions as well. I would be willing to bet that data analysis played at least a small part in the Ryan choice just like any other business looking for an advantage in the marketplace.
Yup. I put mine in Airplane Mode and just put it to sleep. No sense in wasting battery on the 3G connection attempts or blowing through towers at the cost of other people's connections but I'm certainly not going to wait for my phone to boot up at landing to send a SMS to the person coming to pick me up.
It's bullshit and everyone has known it forever. We've already had a very large panel of experts prove this is a non-issue for over a decade. Let's not waste time now.
Even with the items labeled it's unlikely that the vast majority of Americans are going to give a shit either way. Hell, they already eat processed foods with tons of sodium and have diets heavy in meat and low in vegetable matter, so why would they even pay the smallest bit of attention to GMOs?
This is also the same American public who believe "evaporated cane juice" is somehow different than "sugar".
Because once they do this genetic modification they patent the organism and then when it pollinates other similar species through natural processes and they create a new plant, those are now protected by the patent as well.
In a sane world this would be a non-issue. Unfortunately we live in America land of Monsanto and they go onto farmer's fields to test plants adjacent to Monsanto-owned "IP" and then sue the fucking shit out of farmers because their plants infringe their patents.
You can say all you like about GMOs being harmful or not but the protecting of natural life processes by corporations is harmful and detrimental to hundreds of years of cross-breeding, seed saving, etc.
Oh and GMOs are not allowed to be labeled "organic" and thus if they cross-pollinate with organics they invalidate the organic products and destroy the crop.
I own a MBP13 that I upgraded myself soon after purchase to 8GB of RAM and I plan to upgrade it to 16GB and an SSD when they both become more financially reasonable to do so.
I also own a Lenovo G555. I tried to replace the keyboard and found that it was a real bitch to do so. Why? Because Lenovo doesn't even know what particular keyboard model a G555 may be using and you have to disassemble the entire laptop to find out what it is before you can buy another for $70 or $80 (from sketchy sites) and $100+ (from seemingly more reputable ones).
Is a new KB an "upgrade"? Depends on your definition I guess. But it still shows that laptops aren't exactly a drop-in and fix deal. I assume that if the keyboard sucks that much to replace it would be just as much of a pain in the ass to do anything else.
My admittedly older MBP (which I just bought in February) was a piece of cake to upgrade and even if I had one of these newer models, once out of warranty, I wouldn't feel the slightest bit uncomfortable following some sort of upgrade tutorial on the web to do whatever it is I wanted to do to it.
Perhaps temptation to plagiarize in online courses like Cursera is mainly driven by dislike of busy-work? If you adequately test, why do you also make people jump through the unnecessary steps? It makes very little sense to swamp people with pointless work in such setting.
That's what grad school is...busy work. Reading unending amounts of bullshit written by professors who have little else to do while on their tenure track. and writing more stuff only because that's what those same professors did themselves during their grad school experience.
However, as a graduate student myself who is three classes from completion of my degree, I really believe there are better things I could be doing than reading 200 pages a week and writing five 25 page papers.
But, at the end of the day, it's a piece of paper which supposedly helps you attain higher rates of pay and better positions--usually at the management level. What's management but a bunch of busy work anyway? PTO forms, reviews, 1:1 notes, meetings with other people who have meetings to create more meetings, etc.
I work as a manager of data analysts utilizing SAS for ETL. I spend a lot of time wading through resumes and interviewing people, many of whom claim they have experience with "Big Data".
My favorite question to ask is "How big is Big to you?" Most reply in the tens of thousands of records, some in the hundreds, and a handful in the 10s of millions. To me? Many hundreds of millions of records+.
So, what is Big Data? Everyone has a different answer but if you're using a Teradata installation with SAS and you weren't fucked by some smooth-talking sales guy, you're probably heading up towards the high end of the scale rather than the average response.
The difference here is that I am not allowed to opt-out of the government's system. I am able to choose whether I want to allow the private sector to know where I am by not buying a cell phone. Big difference there, chief.
Exactly. And the oft-misquoted saying that applies here doesn't need to be repeated but I would rather be one of a few thousand people to die due to criminal activity than have the Mayor of NYC tracking my every move because he can.
The comparison of phones/tablets available prior to the iPhone/iPad and those that came out after both were unveiled show that Samsung is definitely in the wrong as far as design styles go.
Whether this should be something someone can patent is another argument that I'm not going to get into here.
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Can we just post this link in the blurb on every Apple story so that we don't need to waste mod points on all the karmawhores?
There was no reason to have a native YouTube app included in the OS, was there? I can count the number of times I opened that app on one hand in the 4 years I've owned an iPhone.
I downloaded the new YouTube app, opened it once and then deleted it. It's the same shit you get on the web and it's mainly for finding new videos rather than anything truly useful. It's not like you need the app to view the videos.
This is really a non-issue.
Here in Minnesota MetroTransit officers come on the train regularly to check everyone's ticket/card to make sure they have a valid fare.
Several times I observed people jump off the train once they saw the officers and they didn't even chase after them; instead, they continued to check and scan everyone else who actually had paid.
I love paying the whopping $1.25 + tax dollars to fund this lovely operation only to be hassled by cops only to watch the douchebags run away free.
Counters and accepting them may be more common these days due to the high cost of onboarding new employees but a company RARELY forgets you accepted that counter and you may pay for that raise in more ways than you expect.
http://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/outside-voices-careers/2012/03/26/why-you-shouldnt-take-a-counteroffer
I don't see it being any different than what Netflix did except that instead of one potential customer gaining a competitive advantage from crowdsourced data analysis, many companies will.
As someone who works in the data analysis field, I can assure you the people doing predictive modeling are not usually pocket protected geeks with tape between their lenses.
But I will admit I got a good chuckle from your post; +5 Funny for sure.
I hire developers and manage them. I hire people who I feel are a good fit for my team and my organization. I hire people who have a passion for coding and are willing to continue to learn and help others learn as they do. I hire people who can and do complete projects on time and with few issues.
These requirements are far more important to me than how someone got their resume to me and what it says. Sure, if I have two otherwise identical candidates and one has a graduate degree from an Ivy League school, I'm going to choose that person over the other. However, their resume only gets them in the door, I take the time to really look at the entire picture instead of simply giving the term lip service like you do.
These aren't just online courses the article is talking about here, it's massive online courses, a completely different animal IMO.
THIS. I deal with sloppy coding convention all the time but at least when the code is commented I can get a mile-high view of what each section is doing w/o having to spend time carefully piecing the work apart to figure out what happened.
The lack of comments for others is annoying but I really want to know how people go back into their own code several weeks (or even days) later and know what the hell they did when there are no comments.
Many times I have run across a commented section of code that reads something like:
I can only shake my head at myself ;-)
My wife wants a cabin less than 3 hours from our permanent residence. Orr is about 5 hours away.
As a Minnesotan whose dream is to own a waterfront cabin (few Minnesotans don't) and work for three months every year from the cabin with the kiddos running around and playing, I have found plenty of areas in rural Minnesota with excellent wireless and wired connections. In fact, we stayed at a cabin in rural Western MN this summer for a week and I had no problems using the neighbors DSL connection (with permission) to VPN in and do my work when needed (yay for reduced PTO usage while the kids napped). In addition I had a VZW mifi with me for a backup and had 4G connectivity there and found it faster than the metro area.
We were scouting a VERY INEXPENSIVE cabin ($16,000) on Pelican Lake in Orr, MN (way far north) and found that because it was close enough to the main "highway" running North/South, there was adequate 3G service. There was also 4000/2000 DSL available as well. Believe me, I considered dropping the cash right then and there.
Obviously, YMMV.
As an IT manager who has to deal with this, I find that books don't always help depending on how particular programmer learns. I spend a lot of time in "code reviews" (depending on your experience this could be handled in any number of methods) trying to teach my staff to think more like a programmer rather than the way they do.
What collective knowledge can the Slashdotter community share to help with this problem aside from books which I have found to be ineffective in my particular environment?
Windows is losing marketshare, not Linux. Go to a college campus or local coffee shop and look around at those using their computers to do work. Count how many PCs you see and how many Macs you see. I was honestly shocked to see Macs beating PCs every time at many different study locations I was using.
Those people using laptops are probably not going to be using Linux to do their work and are either going to choose Mac or Windows. While I continue to use Linux on the server and have solely for the last 10 years (I used it on the desktop prior to 2002), I chose Mac over Windows for my laptop and I know many others who went that direction as well.
In another thread someone said if Win7 wasn't as good as it is, Linux may have had a chance. I disagree. In fact, using Win7 on my work desktop and hating the quirks it has was what really helped push me to the Mac.
Analytics can play a pivotal role in finding areas where you should spending your marketing dollars through any variety of avenues. In this case, why wouldn't campaigns use a variety of methods and layers to find areas where your efforts will be best served by choosing strategy as well as a VP candidate who will mobilize your voters the most?
It seems the campaign is using data to help drive their campaign and thus one can assume their decisions as well. I would be willing to bet that data analysis played at least a small part in the Ryan choice just like any other business looking for an advantage in the marketplace.
Mine takes much longer than one minute to become usable.
Twit.
Yup. I put mine in Airplane Mode and just put it to sleep. No sense in wasting battery on the 3G connection attempts or blowing through towers at the cost of other people's connections but I'm certainly not going to wait for my phone to boot up at landing to send a SMS to the person coming to pick me up.
It's bullshit and everyone has known it forever. We've already had a very large panel of experts prove this is a non-issue for over a decade. Let's not waste time now.
Even with the items labeled it's unlikely that the vast majority of Americans are going to give a shit either way. Hell, they already eat processed foods with tons of sodium and have diets heavy in meat and low in vegetable matter, so why would they even pay the smallest bit of attention to GMOs?
This is also the same American public who believe "evaporated cane juice" is somehow different than "sugar".
Because once they do this genetic modification they patent the organism and then when it pollinates other similar species through natural processes and they create a new plant, those are now protected by the patent as well.
In a sane world this would be a non-issue. Unfortunately we live in America land of Monsanto and they go onto farmer's fields to test plants adjacent to Monsanto-owned "IP" and then sue the fucking shit out of farmers because their plants infringe their patents.
You can say all you like about GMOs being harmful or not but the protecting of natural life processes by corporations is harmful and detrimental to hundreds of years of cross-breeding, seed saving, etc.
Oh and GMOs are not allowed to be labeled "organic" and thus if they cross-pollinate with organics they invalidate the organic products and destroy the crop.
Bacteria like E. coli actually.
I own a MBP13 that I upgraded myself soon after purchase to 8GB of RAM and I plan to upgrade it to 16GB and an SSD when they both become more financially reasonable to do so.
I also own a Lenovo G555. I tried to replace the keyboard and found that it was a real bitch to do so. Why? Because Lenovo doesn't even know what particular keyboard model a G555 may be using and you have to disassemble the entire laptop to find out what it is before you can buy another for $70 or $80 (from sketchy sites) and $100+ (from seemingly more reputable ones).
Is a new KB an "upgrade"? Depends on your definition I guess. But it still shows that laptops aren't exactly a drop-in and fix deal. I assume that if the keyboard sucks that much to replace it would be just as much of a pain in the ass to do anything else.
My admittedly older MBP (which I just bought in February) was a piece of cake to upgrade and even if I had one of these newer models, once out of warranty, I wouldn't feel the slightest bit uncomfortable following some sort of upgrade tutorial on the web to do whatever it is I wanted to do to it.
YMMV.
That's what grad school is...busy work. Reading unending amounts of bullshit written by professors who have little else to do while on their tenure track. and writing more stuff only because that's what those same professors did themselves during their grad school experience.
However, as a graduate student myself who is three classes from completion of my degree, I really believe there are better things I could be doing than reading 200 pages a week and writing five 25 page papers.
But, at the end of the day, it's a piece of paper which supposedly helps you attain higher rates of pay and better positions--usually at the management level. What's management but a bunch of busy work anyway? PTO forms, reviews, 1:1 notes, meetings with other people who have meetings to create more meetings, etc.
I work as a manager of data analysts utilizing SAS for ETL. I spend a lot of time wading through resumes and interviewing people, many of whom claim they have experience with "Big Data".
My favorite question to ask is "How big is Big to you?" Most reply in the tens of thousands of records, some in the hundreds, and a handful in the 10s of millions. To me? Many hundreds of millions of records+.
So, what is Big Data? Everyone has a different answer but if you're using a Teradata installation with SAS and you weren't fucked by some smooth-talking sales guy, you're probably heading up towards the high end of the scale rather than the average response.
Exactly. And the oft-misquoted saying that applies here doesn't need to be repeated but I would rather be one of a few thousand people to die due to criminal activity than have the Mayor of NYC tracking my every move because he can.
The comparison of phones/tablets available prior to the iPhone/iPad and those that came out after both were unveiled show that Samsung is definitely in the wrong as far as design styles go.
Whether this should be something someone can patent is another argument that I'm not going to get into here.