a good manager is the one who can hire *and* keep the best team possible for a job.
someone who managed me once told me that; he was a pretty cool kid back in his day too; having done a fair bit of coding himself.
probably the best guy i ever worked for:)
I was totally shocked today; my father uses google docs... this old man could barely type, and hardly used email about 7 years ago, but I actually saw a google doc, of a speech he's working on with someone, on his laptop today.
i was shocked initially, then I actually caught how he got to google docs... his friend sent him the speech as an attachment to his gmail a/c, and then he saw the link that allows him to import the doc right into google docs
maybe he will find out he can actually share and edit with another party at the same time; then he may find out he can actually use it on the road; then good luck, trying to pry his google docs out of his hands.
because biswas and his ilk are a bunch of cunts.
if you lack background on this, well here goes:
Meraki initially offered robustly featured indoor and outdoor nodes (which act as routers or repeaters) for $50 and $100. The plan was to allow people to become "micro" service providers in regions where cost is an issue or where broadband connections are scarce. The gear appealed to everyone from low-income housing to ISPs looking to add Wi-Fi as an added value service. Meraki quickly became a tech media and blog darling.
Then last October the company suddenly unveiled a new three-tier pricing system that jacked up the price of hardware as much as three times for some users. The move bumped some of the functionality users were getting on the cheap (user authentication, billing) into higher tiers. The move annoyed users with deployed networks in the Meraki forums -- who say they were blindsided by the changes.
as somebody already mentioned, speed in options parsing pretty useless
and I could use commons-cli (in Java) and the groovy CliBuilder for cmdline options that arguably look cleaner and more accessible to a lot more ppl
def cli = new CliBuilder(usage: "foo [args] baz")
cli.i(argName:"path", longOpt:"input", args:1, required:false, "src")
cli.o(argName:"path", longOpt:"output", args:1, required:false, "dest")
cli.h(longOpt:"help", "this message")
def options = cli.parse(args)
if (!options || !options.i || options.h) {
println "foobaz ver 0.0.1"
cli.usage()
return
}// rest of code
software freedom is law; so put eben moglen (and the rest of the staff, who work to tirelessly to maintain the freedoms we are able to build upon) up there somewhere
the sdk works on linux; watch james ward create a video player in about 5 mins: http://www.jamesward.org/wordpress/2006/10/19/flas h-flex-free-for-all-even-linux/
further, flex is built on eclipse, which is already free
so, theoretically, nothing prevents you from taking the sdk and eclipse and creating what they have in flex builder
it trivializes the hard problems, and then goes on to make the really soft ones look like they are hard. read shirky [http://www.shirky.com/writings/semantic_syllogism .html]
Wrong! when someone hires you, they _only_ own the work if there's a contract that explicitly says so; by default, the consultant (author) owns all works he/she creates... Refer: NOLO Patent, Copyright & Trademark, 7/e, Pg 75 & 76
so I'm betting naked DSL would cost me _more_ than the setup I currently have
Inaccurate! have you ever looked at what you are actually paying for with your voice service. it is taxed heavily. If you did not have a voice service, you won't have to pay for such crap as VA 911 (i live in va, ymmv) fee and all the other taxes that the voice service comes with.
i pay verizon a little over 20 bucks every month for a basic phone service I have no use for, just so I can use their dismal dsl service. if only there were more options in centreville, va
finding stuff in the wrong hands is "good enough"; at least you know where it has been and you can make informed (confined) judgments on what the implications are. not finding the stuff or knowing where they are at all is what we shd really be scared of. as tfa says, BoA says "and the tapes are now presumed lost."... presumed!
interesting, such a long thread and no mention of david berlinski... before i got to Hofstadter's GEB, I went through 3 berlinki books that were just as great... a tour of the calculus, the advent of the algorithm and newton's gift
Aseigo's main line of thought revolves around this:
[quote]if the applications they want are to be found only on Linux/BSD, they will eventually end up using Linux/BSD.[quote]
of course, this is plain wrong; you learn of this in econs 101... if people cannot find what they want on linux/bsd (and they don't have a linux/bsd box) they'll find something else that works... it's always been the situation. In the real world, people do not behave rationally. besides that, the statement assumes if X cannot be found on platform A, it will _never_ be found on platform A.
more importantly though, every freedom won, in terms of a free (as in speech) alternative to a proprietary app is a win for free software (and a step in the right direction--assuming, you are for free software). It will also be an "unsound fancy, and self contradictory" (sorry Bacon) to think that people will actually use (or get to know of) free (and open source) software if they never use it; in a perfect world, people will be able to make binary decisions along Aseigo's line of thought, and move en masse to platforms of choice, based on the reasons he gives; it isn't a perfect world, howeve, and adaptation has always been a gradual process; so too, fights for freedom.
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a good manager is the one who can hire *and* keep the best team possible for a job. someone who managed me once told me that; he was a pretty cool kid back in his day too; having done a fair bit of coding himself. probably the best guy i ever worked for :)
whoever moded this insightful is an idiot!
I was totally shocked today; my father uses google docs ... this old man could barely type, and hardly used email about 7 years ago, but I actually saw a google doc, of a speech he's working on with someone, on his laptop today.
i was shocked initially, then I actually caught how he got to google docs ... his friend sent him the speech as an attachment to his gmail a/c, and then he saw the link that allows him to import the doc right into google docs
maybe he will find out he can actually share and edit with another party at the same time; then he may find out he can actually use it on the road; then good luck, trying to pry his google docs out of his hands.
bullshit.
also, checkout wubi (http://wubi-installer.org/) for ubuntu
as somebody already mentioned, speed in options parsing pretty useless and I could use commons-cli (in Java) and the groovy CliBuilder for cmdline options that arguably look cleaner and more accessible to a lot more ppl def cli = new CliBuilder(usage: "foo [args] baz") cli.i(argName:"path", longOpt:"input", args:1, required:false, "src") cli.o(argName:"path", longOpt:"output", args:1, required:false, "dest") cli.h(longOpt:"help", "this message") def options = cli.parse(args) if (!options || !options.i || options.h) { println "foobaz ver 0.0.1" cli.usage() return } // rest of code
software freedom is law; so put eben moglen (and the rest of the staff, who work to tirelessly to maintain the freedoms we are able to build upon) up there somewhere
the sdk works on linux; watch james ward create a video player in about 5 mins: http://www.jamesward.org/wordpress/2006/10/19/flas h-flex-free-for-all-even-linux/
further, flex is built on eclipse, which is already free
so, theoretically, nothing prevents you from taking the sdk and eclipse and creating what they have in flex builder
why anybody wants to buy a mac and install windows on it still beats me
Community Technology Preview (CTP), ok WHS (Windows Home Server), not ok
it trivializes the hard problems, and then goes on to make the really soft ones look like they are hard. read shirky [http://www.shirky.com/writings/semantic_syllogism .html]
... maybe they could start peer reviewing /. titles too
what's the point of virtualizing if you can run the os on the hardware in the first place?
sorry, but mauchley and eckert got there first, not turing ;P
how could u give a shit? it's all you have for a brain
technology certain things... makes certain things 'easier', and in the process takes certain 'powers' away... anything new here?
yeah, may be after we finally create those damn nanobots :P
next time another school decides to be "stupid", they'll have to weigh being stupid against "$117,500"
Wrong! when someone hires you, they _only_ own the work if there's a contract that explicitly says so; by default, the consultant (author) owns all works he/she creates... Refer: NOLO Patent, Copyright & Trademark, 7/e, Pg 75 & 76
the big deal isn't the problem here... it's the small deal, which is how stupid you are for asking
finding stuff in the wrong hands is "good enough"; at least you know where it has been and you can make informed (confined) judgments on what the implications are. not finding the stuff or knowing where they are at all is what we shd really be scared of. as tfa says, BoA says "and the tapes are now presumed lost." ... presumed!
interesting, such a long thread and no mention of david berlinski... before i got to Hofstadter's GEB, I went through 3 berlinki books that were just as great... a tour of the calculus, the advent of the algorithm and newton's gift
Aseigo's main line of thought revolves around this: [quote]if the applications they want are to be found only on Linux/BSD, they will eventually end up using Linux/BSD.[quote] of course, this is plain wrong; you learn of this in econs 101... if people cannot find what they want on linux/bsd (and they don't have a linux/bsd box) they'll find something else that works... it's always been the situation. In the real world, people do not behave rationally. besides that, the statement assumes if X cannot be found on platform A, it will _never_ be found on platform A. more importantly though, every freedom won, in terms of a free (as in speech) alternative to a proprietary app is a win for free software (and a step in the right direction--assuming, you are for free software). It will also be an "unsound fancy, and self contradictory" (sorry Bacon) to think that people will actually use (or get to know of) free (and open source) software if they never use it; in a perfect world, people will be able to make binary decisions along Aseigo's line of thought, and move en masse to platforms of choice, based on the reasons he gives; it isn't a perfect world, howeve, and adaptation has always been a gradual process; so too, fights for freedom.