I thinks he means implement the simplest thing, let the outcome be determined by physics and invest the effort into better crash avoidance, friendlier UIs or more detailed logging so that this question can be answered with data from real crashes.
What is your problem with this? Nobody said you should work for peanuts, and more important, nobody said you want to take advantage of the situation. It's just easier to get the client's attention about the idiot expert's failures when they cost money. Also, you shouldn't be paying for the expert's failures with your own time. If your client trusts you and you manage to structure contracts like this, the problem might even take care of itself.
A lot of times there is NO solution: - problem is badly described, - idiot expert promises quick, simple solution and explaining why it won't work takes an excessive amount of time or knowledge that the client doesn't have, - idiot expert knows client from college, - idiot expert lives next door and you work offshore from South America, - client company is populated by alpha males who like quick decisions and never back down, - a combination of the above (I have first hand knowledge about this situation).
Sometimes the best option is to watch the explosion from far away enough that you're not killed and near enough to be the first responder.
How about protesting (and not commenting) on even days and commenting normally on odd days? That way, Dice will be able to gauge how much of their so called "audience" that creates the actual deliverable of the site is leaving for good, while still preserving some value just in case they see the error of their ways soon.
"User base responds", "Commenters respond" would also have been good options. Audience is a passive crowd, which might be what Dice wants to monetize, but they better make sure the "product" (the active part of the user base) doesn't jump off the new shelves. So please, change the title to show that you understand. Otherwise, this spontaneous protest will not stop, because everybody will remain pissed off.
TL;DR: Apology not accepted because of your choice of words.
Ok - let's hope that changes are made quickly, before all the producers of the real content get bored of complaining and take their wit elsewhere. You could at least send a signal that feedback is being received and changes are at least being considered, perhaps that will help get things back to normal.
Boycott will never happen. This will be dead even before the boycott, it's already almost dead now. I have only seen one comment on the article. The spirit of Slashdot has already departed.
If you have access to the editors, let them know that nobody is discussing the stories today. In a day or two this will be a ghost town, they don't have much time to process the feedback.
They won't give it up because they still don't get it. They think of the site users as the audience, as if the value of Slashdot was the articles. Just in case Dice reads this: the value is in the comments from the community, some of which are less biased and more informative than the referenced articles. Some are written by experts in the matter, or contain perspectives that a journalist doesn't have. Sure, most of the comments are junk, but the mod system helps you with that. But nobody from Dice will read this, because if they read Slashdot they would have already seen it.
Secheep, a state-owned oil company raised prices higher than Shell, please see http://www.diarioprimeralinea..... The supposedly speculative monetary move was an offer to buy just 6 million dollars at a price about 10% above market a day after the dollar price in pesos raised 15% - most likely just trying to cut losses.
ISP agent: The blocked content includes child pornography, madam. Linda: Thanks for reminding me that, I will make sure I block CP on my end. I just don't want you or the Government to block pictures of my grandchildren in the swimming pool or something like that.
This reminds me of a project where my team worked from the client's office, and we had to ask the client to let view porn, because their f***ing content filter thought Java source files were porn because they had some comments marked with XXX (standard Java notation to indicate areas that are kluged up or need to be).
A market with two companies is still better than a market with only one. And a market with two products is not as efficient in the short term, but it is healthier in the long run.
In Argentina, if you can afford to start paying an additional monthly sum to switch to OSDE (the best medical insurance in the country) you are free to switch jobs without worrying about an illness becoming a preexisting condition, because you just take your OSDE plan with you wherever you go. You only need to make sure that they will allow you to have OSDE as the "obra social" (government-mandated medical insurance for employees). You can even become self-employed and keep your OSDE plan (but in that case you have to pay about 80% more, still a bargain compared to the US). At last I could find something that works better in Argentina than in the US! Of course it's not cheap, but my plan is one the most expensive and it's under USD 350 for my wife, three kids and myself, including dental, ER, cosmetic surgeries, fertility treatments, some of the best doctors in the country and 100% coverage in neighbouring countries (one of my daughters was hospitalized when she traveled to Chile and we didn't have to pay anything at all, same with daily visits to the ER with another daughter during a two-week trip to Uruguay).
The problem in Argentina isn't actually the price fixing or even the economic distortions. It's the lack of trust, because there is no economic plan, just a bunch of economic measures decided on a rush, without any longterm strategy. And particularly because Argentine governments have the nasty habit of grabbing the money directly from people's bank accounts when they run out of money.
I don't think the true nature and scale of the problem can be understood from the perspective of someone living in a more normal country. Just to give you an example of how different things are down here: four years ago, when global and local economy looked rosy, I sold an appartment and bought a house. My coworkers thought I was crazy because instead of moving more than one hundred thousand dollars in a suitcase like everybody else, I deposited the money in a bank account and transferred it to the seller's account. Why on earth do people move a life's savings in a suitcase risking theft and even their lives when there is a banking systrm for that? Because they fear that the government more, they fear that the government might decide to convert accounts in US dollars to pesos at an arbitrary exchange rate. Or convert the money you need tomorrow to pay for your house in bonds that are payable in 15 years. Or withhold part of your money just in case you owe taxes, without any burden of proof. All these things happened to me in the last 12 years, and even worse things happened in the 70s and 80s.
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Too bad TFA doesn't mention this.
Net neutrality doesn't help them sell their very expensive hardware.
I thinks he means implement the simplest thing, let the outcome be determined by physics and invest the effort into better crash avoidance, friendlier UIs or more detailed logging so that this question can be answered with data from real crashes.
What is your problem with this? Nobody said you should work for peanuts, and more important, nobody said you want to take advantage of the situation. It's just easier to get the client's attention about the idiot expert's failures when they cost money. Also, you shouldn't be paying for the expert's failures with your own time. If your client trusts you and you manage to structure contracts like this, the problem might even take care of itself.
A lot of times there is NO solution:
- problem is badly described,
- idiot expert promises quick, simple solution and explaining why it won't work takes an excessive amount of time or knowledge that the client doesn't have,
- idiot expert knows client from college,
- idiot expert lives next door and you work offshore from South America,
- client company is populated by alpha males who like quick decisions and never back down,
- a combination of the above (I have first hand knowledge about this situation).
Sometimes the best option is to watch the explosion from far away enough that you're not killed and near enough to be the first responder.
How about protesting (and not commenting) on even days and commenting normally on odd days? That way, Dice will be able to gauge how much of their so called "audience" that creates the actual deliverable of the site is leaving for good, while still preserving some value just in case they see the error of their ways soon.
"User base responds", "Commenters respond" would also have been good options. Audience is a passive crowd, which might be what Dice wants to monetize, but they better make sure the "product" (the active part of the user base) doesn't jump off the new shelves. So please, change the title to show that you understand. Otherwise, this spontaneous protest will not stop, because everybody will remain pissed off.
TL;DR: Apology not accepted because of your choice of words.
After shooting the code, please post a video like that man from NC did after shooting his daugther's laptop
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Ok - let's hope that changes are made quickly, before all the producers of the real content get bored of complaining and take their wit elsewhere. You could at least send a signal that feedback is being received and changes are at least being considered, perhaps that will help get things back to normal.
We are the product, jumping from the shelves. What's the name of the store across the street?
Mod parent up please!
What a coincidence, Dice thinks of Slashdot as another sausage coming from their factory, that needs to be standardized.
Boycott ... and EXODUS.
Boycott will never happen. This will be dead even before the boycott, it's already almost dead now. I have only seen one comment on the article. The spirit of Slashdot has already departed.
If you have access to the editors, let them know that nobody is discussing the stories today. In a day or two this will be a ghost town, they don't have much time to process the feedback.
They won't give it up because they still don't get it. They think of the site users as the audience, as if the value of Slashdot was the articles. Just in case Dice reads this: the value is in the comments from the community, some of which are less biased and more informative than the referenced articles. Some are written by experts in the matter, or contain perspectives that a journalist doesn't have. Sure, most of the comments are junk, but the mod system helps you with that. But nobody from Dice will read this, because if they read Slashdot they would have already seen it.
Secheep, a state-owned oil company raised prices higher than Shell, please see http://www.diarioprimeralinea..... The supposedly speculative monetary move was an offer to buy just 6 million dollars at a price about 10% above market a day after the dollar price in pesos raised 15% - most likely just trying to cut losses.
ISP agent: The blocked content includes child pornography, madam.
Linda: Thanks for reminding me that, I will make sure I block CP on my end. I just don't want you or the Government to block pictures of my grandchildren in the swimming pool or something like that.
This reminds me of a project where my team worked from the client's office, and we had to ask the client to let view porn, because their f***ing content filter thought Java source files were porn because they had some comments marked with XXX (standard Java notation to indicate areas that are kluged up or need to be).
A market with two companies is still better than a market with only one. And a market with two products is not as efficient in the short term, but it is healthier in the long run.
Still, it's USD 16K against the NSA budget. And Russia's FSB's. And Mossad's.
In Argentina, if you can afford to start paying an additional monthly sum to switch to OSDE (the best medical insurance in the country) you are free to switch jobs without worrying about an illness becoming a preexisting condition, because you just take your OSDE plan with you wherever you go. You only need to make sure that they will allow you to have OSDE as the "obra social" (government-mandated medical insurance for employees). You can even become self-employed and keep your OSDE plan (but in that case you have to pay about 80% more, still a bargain compared to the US). At last I could find something that works better in Argentina than in the US! Of course it's not cheap, but my plan is one the most expensive and it's under USD 350 for my wife, three kids and myself, including dental, ER, cosmetic surgeries, fertility treatments, some of the best doctors in the country and 100% coverage in neighbouring countries (one of my daughters was hospitalized when she traveled to Chile and we didn't have to pay anything at all, same with daily visits to the ER with another daughter during a two-week trip to Uruguay).
Most Java books should be pulped immediately after printing. Or perhaps the authors should be. K&R's book should never be thrown away.
The problem in Argentina isn't actually the price fixing or even the economic distortions. It's the lack of trust, because there is no economic plan, just a bunch of economic measures decided on a rush, without any longterm strategy. And particularly because Argentine governments have the nasty habit of grabbing the money directly from people's bank accounts when they run out of money. I don't think the true nature and scale of the problem can be understood from the perspective of someone living in a more normal country. Just to give you an example of how different things are down here: four years ago, when global and local economy looked rosy, I sold an appartment and bought a house. My coworkers thought I was crazy because instead of moving more than one hundred thousand dollars in a suitcase like everybody else, I deposited the money in a bank account and transferred it to the seller's account. Why on earth do people move a life's savings in a suitcase risking theft and even their lives when there is a banking systrm for that? Because they fear that the government more, they fear that the government might decide to convert accounts in US dollars to pesos at an arbitrary exchange rate. Or convert the money you need tomorrow to pay for your house in bonds that are payable in 15 years. Or withhold part of your money just in case you owe taxes, without any burden of proof. All these things happened to me in the last 12 years, and even worse things happened in the 70s and 80s.
Literally what? The suspense is killing me!