True. true. This is what one gets by copy&pasting from the Google search results instead of the actual link. Also, brain fart because I got up too late this morning.
This is dumb and yet another obvious caving to the snowflake generation. The real world doesn't work this way. "You've never been out of college! You don't know what it's like out there! I've WORKED in the private sector. They expect results." - Dr. Peter Venkman
Here's the problem with this: Farmer buys fancy tractor. Farmer borks fancy tractor trying to "fix" it. Farmer complains to manufacturer and goes on a social media tirade while conveniently forgetting they they are a ham-fisted individual.
ACHTUNG! ALLES TURISTEN UND NONTEKNISCHEN LOOKENPEEPERS! DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN! ODERWISE IST EASY TO SCHNAPPEN DER SPRINGENWERK, BLOWENFUSEN UND POPPENCORKEN MIT SPITZENSPARKEN. IST NICHT FÜR GEWERKEN BEI DUMMKOPFEN. DER RUBBERNECKEN SIGHTSEEREN KEEPEN DAS COTTONPICKEN HÄNDER IN DAS POCKETS MUSS. ZO RELAXEN UND WATSCHEN DER BLINKENLICHTEN.
I'm old enough to remember a time when some teachers refused to accept term papers printed on a dot-matrix printer because, you know, appearances are more important than the quality of the prose. So, a buddy of mine and I found this nifty gadget called a Dynatyper which was a box filled with solenoid plungers. You mounted this thing on top of the keyboard of an electric typewriter. You typed your paper into the computer, edited to your hearts' content, checked your spelling (because no spell checkers in those days) and when you printed it, the Dynatyper magically typed it for you. Granted, you had to stop between pages to put a new piece of paper in the typewriter but it worked. Moral: never, ever tell a nerd that they can't use technology to solve a problem.
The self-driving car was not at fault because the human driver was too self-absorbed thinking that they are all that and a bag o' chips and the rules of the road do not apply to them because they have been lead to believe that they are more important than everyone else in the world.
Don't believe me? Start observing how many people pull a full car-length PAST the stop line painted on the pavement BEFORE they even consider stopping. Lots of them would likely blow right through if they decided that opposing traffic was far enough from them and there wasn't a cop around.
As a small business manufacturing a fairly niche product, in the past few months I've noticed that vendors are less willing to to small production runs of custom parts. Last week I had a CNC milling vendor tell me, and I quote, "Well, you haven't done any business with us in a while so we're unable to work with you." This week, I had a pallet company tell me that they could no longer make 25 custom pallets for me and are only taking minimum quantities of 200. Another vendor, who I always thought was quite busy, suddenly closed their doors. Other vendors are pushing out their schedules because they're getting more work.
As for making things in China, they have gotten to the point with quality and mass production that they are no longer willing to take on small jobs. One company that made custom cast & milled aluminum wheel hubs used to do short runs of 40 pieces but they have gotten contracts from major auto companies and are no longer doing the piddly stuff.
This sort of thing affects lots of different organizations not just the programming world. The arrogant newbie enters into an organization and immediately wants to change everything because in his/her eyes, until they came along the place was being run by a bunch of hick hayseeds. That's not to say that things can't be improved but one needs to spend some time observing, building relationships, and then making suggestions for improving things. One of the most appropriate lines from Beverly Hills Cop is when Axel Foley's boss tells him, "You're a hell of a good cop but you don't know every f*cking thing."
Always love seeing those labels "The product is known to the State of California to contain chemicals that may cause cancer." Nobody else knows, though, which should tell you everything you need to know about the State of California thinking they're smarter than its citizens who wouldn't be able to go about their lives without the State telling them to.
You go broke on the video cards for your desktop PC which I dare say that most people don't already own. It's a bit like owning a Ferrari and living in Singapore where the speed limit is 50 mph.
Way back in the 1980s, one of my physics professors told the following joke: The trustees of the university want to find out if the professors really knew their stuff so they came up with a question: What's 2+2? They go to the math department and the professors there said, "Oh, that's easy. It's 4." Then the go to the physics department and the professors there said, "Oh, it's 4.000000000 with an uncertainty of another decimal place." Then the go to the engineering department and the professors there said, "Just a minute while I get my handbook." Finally, they go to the accounting department and the professors there look around to see if anyone can hear them and then the whisper, "What do you want to be?"
This story makes me ponder the few times my "friends" tried to fix me up with someone without even considering my type. "She's single" is not a useful commonality. And in the 2010's, saying "She's into computers" doesn't mean the same thing it did during the 1980s. So, my "friends" clearly lacked intelligence in this matter so it remains to be seen if there is any "intelligence" in a piece of software.
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If you're flying solo, yes. If you're working for somebody else, it's their sandbox and therefore their rules.
True. true. This is what one gets by copy&pasting from the Google search results instead of the actual link. Also, brain fart because I got up too late this morning.
This is dumb and yet another obvious caving to the snowflake generation. The real world doesn't work this way.
"You've never been out of college! You don't know what it's like out there! I've WORKED in the private sector. They expect results." - Dr. Peter Venkman
The golden-age/wild-west days of computing when you could charge stupid amounts of money for relatively simple bits of code.
Here's the problem with this: Farmer buys fancy tractor. Farmer borks fancy tractor trying to "fix" it. Farmer complains to manufacturer and goes on a social media tirade while conveniently forgetting they they are a ham-fisted individual.
ACHTUNG!
ALLES TURISTEN UND NONTEKNISCHEN LOOKENPEEPERS!
DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN! ODERWISE IST EASY TO SCHNAPPEN DER SPRINGENWERK, BLOWENFUSEN UND POPPENCORKEN MIT SPITZENSPARKEN. IST NICHT FÜR GEWERKEN BEI DUMMKOPFEN. DER RUBBERNECKEN SIGHTSEEREN KEEPEN DAS COTTONPICKEN HÄNDER IN DAS POCKETS MUSS.
ZO RELAXEN UND WATSCHEN DER BLINKENLICHTEN.
NEE Nee nee nee Nee NEEEEEEEE!!!!
Try telling Apple that they can't open an Apple Store. Or Tiffany. Or Nike.
Do these people realize that they have made themselves a target for everybody (major power and terrorist) with a nuke?
I'm old enough to remember a time when some teachers refused to accept term papers printed on a dot-matrix printer because, you know, appearances are more important than the quality of the prose. So, a buddy of mine and I found this nifty gadget called a Dynatyper which was a box filled with solenoid plungers. You mounted this thing on top of the keyboard of an electric typewriter. You typed your paper into the computer, edited to your hearts' content, checked your spelling (because no spell checkers in those days) and when you printed it, the Dynatyper magically typed it for you. Granted, you had to stop between pages to put a new piece of paper in the typewriter but it worked. Moral: never, ever tell a nerd that they can't use technology to solve a problem.
Does anyone know what font SpaceX uses for its broadcasted telemetry displays? I've tried whatthefont, et al but to no avail.
Obligatory Addams Family reference: Make is taste like real girl scouts.
This is just ONE researcher, folks.
The self-driving car was not at fault because the human driver was too self-absorbed thinking that they are all that and a bag o' chips and the rules of the road do not apply to them because they have been lead to believe that they are more important than everyone else in the world.
Don't believe me? Start observing how many people pull a full car-length PAST the stop line painted on the pavement BEFORE they even consider stopping. Lots of them would likely blow right through if they decided that opposing traffic was far enough from them and there wasn't a cop around.
Filmmaker complains when social media borks film. But it's fine and dandy when it borks a right-winger.
As a small business manufacturing a fairly niche product, in the past few months I've noticed that vendors are less willing to to small production runs of custom parts. Last week I had a CNC milling vendor tell me, and I quote, "Well, you haven't done any business with us in a while so we're unable to work with you." This week, I had a pallet company tell me that they could no longer make 25 custom pallets for me and are only taking minimum quantities of 200. Another vendor, who I always thought was quite busy, suddenly closed their doors. Other vendors are pushing out their schedules because they're getting more work.
As for making things in China, they have gotten to the point with quality and mass production that they are no longer willing to take on small jobs. One company that made custom cast & milled aluminum wheel hubs used to do short runs of 40 pieces but they have gotten contracts from major auto companies and are no longer doing the piddly stuff.
And in other news, 99 other researchers' models failed to accurately predict climate.
XCode on the Mac (and for iOS) is free.
This sort of thing affects lots of different organizations not just the programming world. The arrogant newbie enters into an organization and immediately wants to change everything because in his/her eyes, until they came along the place was being run by a bunch of hick hayseeds. That's not to say that things can't be improved but one needs to spend some time observing, building relationships, and then making suggestions for improving things. One of the most appropriate lines from Beverly Hills Cop is when Axel Foley's boss tells him, "You're a hell of a good cop but you don't know every f*cking thing."
Always love seeing those labels "The product is known to the State of California to contain chemicals that may cause cancer." Nobody else knows, though, which should tell you everything you need to know about the State of California thinking they're smarter than its citizens who wouldn't be able to go about their lives without the State telling them to.
108 degrees. Really?
You go broke on the video cards for your desktop PC which I dare say that most people don't already own. It's a bit like owning a Ferrari and living in Singapore where the speed limit is 50 mph.
Way back in the 1980s, one of my physics professors told the following joke:
The trustees of the university want to find out if the professors really knew their stuff so they came up with a question: What's 2+2?
They go to the math department and the professors there said, "Oh, that's easy. It's 4."
Then the go to the physics department and the professors there said, "Oh, it's 4.000000000 with an uncertainty of another decimal place."
Then the go to the engineering department and the professors there said, "Just a minute while I get my handbook."
Finally, they go to the accounting department and the professors there look around to see if anyone can hear them and then the whisper, "What do you want to be?"
Why isn't this quiz being presented in multiple languages?
What things are worth is fairly consistent geographically but the value of the money varies from place to place.
This story makes me ponder the few times my "friends" tried to fix me up with someone without even considering my type. "She's single" is not a useful commonality. And in the 2010's, saying "She's into computers" doesn't mean the same thing it did during the 1980s. So, my "friends" clearly lacked intelligence in this matter so it remains to be seen if there is any "intelligence" in a piece of software.