It's all very well us bitching about things on Slashdot, but people need to be out there making a difference (I'm just as guilty as anyone at being too lazy sometimes so I'm not on my high horse here).
In that vein it is great to see someone like NYCL - someone so obviously in tune with rational thought and even posting on Slashdot no less! - grabbing this opportunity to address the right ears with both hands.
I'm pessimistic to some extent too but nonetheless this gives us more hope than there would be otherwise.
[0] That is, I agree - for the benefit of any hard-of-thinking, shoot-from-the-hip modsters out there;)
Yeh, we all thought you were fighting the good fight from your Mom's basement*.
On a serious note though, nice work, Mr NYCL. You are the first and only legal eagle I've come across who is well-grounded and rooted in reality. I hope others will follow your lead (if they aren't already).
Some men are pioneers and others are followers. You Sir, are a fine pioneer and for that we commend you. Man, you're like the legal profession's Columbo. Do you have a Mac?;)
Coincidentally I did some repartitioning on my other machine today, in preparation for installing Linux. This makes me think again, but I'll probably give it a go anyway, just to see if it dies a horrible death or not.
Regardless of whether it works or not, I won't be buying from Foxconn again. (Technically I didn't in the first place as the machine was donated (I seem to be another 'trash can' to some - 'computery stuff' as compared with paper, glass, garden waste...), but that's besides the point).
However: Relating somewhat tangentially to this, if Anonymous Hacker's kid is anything like me he'll want to work on something simple[0] (so not *nix drivers then) that is genuinely useful. Maybe a command line tool or a small GUI app (using a toolkit to begin with). I still use several of the tools I threw together and being able to throw things like this together to fill a gap is a useful skill that will last throughout his (potential) programming career.
Either that or a game; whichever way the kid swings.
As for your point, I agree insofar as he shouldn't push his son but should merely point him in the right direction.
His son is "starting to get curious about computers". Obviously this doesn't necessarily mean he is going to want to become some l33t hax0r (he may find he doesn't like it), but expressing an interest does open the door for a little encouragement by his father.
Anonymous Hacker should help his son explore what is available, find something that appeals to him and go from there. Guide him - but don't force his hand and don't make his decisions for him - and the rest will follow.
(And don't be disheartened if he later decides that a hacker he is not).
Seriously there are so many ads on TV these days[0] that by and large I just don't bother[1]. A gimmick like 3D TV is highly unlikely to change that. Television just isn't a viable use of my time anymore (if it ever was).
Using 3D for movies would work, but I don't buy any these days and these special discs would probably be priced up as double the regular discs or something anyway.
That's a shame because I could see the potential otherwise.
[0] Just yesterday we canceled our satellite subscription because there are just too many ads; so many that we didn't think it was acceptable to be paying to see them.
[1] If there is anything I'm specifically interested in, I tape it even if I would be free to watch it, just so I can skip the ads. I even avert my eyes so I don't have to look at them too much, because doing so reminds me too much of their patronizing me. Sadly even this can't always save you from the Cillit Bang!s of this world.
If a system was in place for mailing things in envelopes where possible would it not be cost effective overall, once the initial cost has been absorbed? I guess that would be down to the expense of materials (cardboard boxes) in comparison to the costs incurred in setting up and running the system.
I don't have an answer either way; I'm just pondering:)
From a personal perspective that happens to tie in with the coding practices at my last company:
The second example (GNU style) I have found to be quite cumbersome in writing, unless tabs are set to 2 with braces indented once and content twice (company mandated four with one indent for content in the block), in which case I would be frustrated with the extra keypresses involved.
The first example (Allman style) I used to use until I moved over to Kernighan-Ritchie style (opening brace on same line as control statement, with functions (and classes in OOP languages) braces the exception; these are written in Allman style). This allows me to scrunch more onto the screen vertically.
FWIW I never liked the '} else {' style of elses but at the same time, I never found it difficult to read so it was never a real issue. It makes sense to me to have the else begin at the same column as the if to which it belongs.
A (sic) always seemed to me like "Sigh, yes, I know it's spelled wrong. Don't blame me. It's their fault." It seems vaguely rude.
In my old job I had a colleague who sometimes used "[sic]" intentionally to get an underhanded blow in, in response to anyone being trollish.
In one instance early on in a project there was a menu system which contained only placeholder graphics. A bug was filed, which was fair enough even though it was a non-official, really early submission only to show how it was coming together (i.e. intended only for a few and not supposed to enter QA, which the recipient was aware of because they made the request).
However because the content was written "The front-end is appauling... [and the] developers should be ashamed" my producer responded with a heated email direct to his higher-ups, cc'ing him in, quoting this with "[sic]" in place and berating him for fostering resentment with the programmers.
Not a very interesting story, but it does show that a well-placed "[sic]" can have its place.;)
Anyway, I agree with the sibling (and gp), maglor. It is simply too illogical to me to put the punctuation inside. I do the same with brackets too, I'm afraid. (You know, like this). (Because it feels too strange to do this.)
A sentence like "My sig just says..." in the parent runs on too easily (regardless of the capitalized 'Try') because there can be ambiguity in some cases as to whether the '.' is part of the quote or not.
Also - looking at sibling post - I would personally try to avoid a sentence like "Harry asked 'What are you doing?'.", which despite seeming to be the most logical approach it still looks a bit wrong. (Even so I would still go with the logical when my hand is forced).
In practice I seldom get constructs like in the previous sentence (the comma following a quote of a quote) but it can still be parsed so I wouldn't hesitate to use it.
If I'm writing formally, I revert (mostly) back to whatever accepted rules I should be following. Horses for courses.
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They'll just call the 'Microsoft Patchy Server'.
(And yes, I am aware of the origins of the Apache name).
... this guy out soooo much.
(C'mon, laugh, it's funny! You were all thinking it. Don't lie...)
Using a laptop carrier like RMS
He'll really do that? Awfully nice of him. Is there a booking system in place or do I just call in or what?
grabbing this opportunity to address the right ears with both hands.
A well-placed comma would have been useful here. Of course I mean he is grabbing the opportunity, not the ears, with both hands.
Mind you - that is a thought...
I couldn't fail to disagree more[0] :)
It's all very well us bitching about things on Slashdot, but people need to be out there making a difference (I'm just as guilty as anyone at being too lazy sometimes so I'm not on my high horse here).
In that vein it is great to see someone like NYCL - someone so obviously in tune with rational thought and even posting on Slashdot no less! - grabbing this opportunity to address the right ears with both hands.
I'm pessimistic to some extent too but nonetheless this gives us more hope than there would be otherwise.
[0] That is, I agree - for the benefit of any hard-of-thinking, shoot-from-the-hip modsters out there ;)
Wouldn't happen. It would be too Dangerous.
Jet Li is not actually a jet either.
[citation needed]
Definitely my favourite Slashdot user.
Now you've gone and hurt my feelings :'(
I think you missed the bit about an 'overlord' or something.
Yeh, we all thought you were fighting the good fight from your Mom's basement*.
On a serious note though, nice work, Mr NYCL. You are the first and only legal eagle I've come across who is well-grounded and rooted in reality. I hope others will follow your lead (if they aren't already).
Some men are pioneers and others are followers. You Sir, are a fine pioneer and for that we commend you. Man, you're like the legal profession's Columbo. Do you have a Mac? ;)
and loving the Galactic Girl side-art, but here's hoping they can get these babies to actually run on time ;)
Could you post a direct link to that torrent pls-kthx!!seven!!
Obviously I was in too much of a rush here and completely forgot to say the machine has a Foxconn motherboard. D'oh!
Coincidentally I did some repartitioning on my other machine today, in preparation for installing Linux. This makes me think again, but I'll probably give it a go anyway, just to see if it dies a horrible death or not.
Regardless of whether it works or not, I won't be buying from Foxconn again. (Technically I didn't in the first place as the machine was donated (I seem to be another 'trash can' to some - 'computery stuff' as compared with paper, glass, garden waste...), but that's besides the point).
I can possibly beat that. This was probably not a wise thing to watch at 12 years old. Ah, but the memories though; you can't buy those.
A couple of classics:
"Hey there, great legs. What time do they open?"
"I'm going to have you tonight. So you may as well be there."
(I'll get my coat).
Yes, but that's a double-edged sword. What if the patent troll were to win?
Hah! Evil ;)
However: Relating somewhat tangentially to this, if Anonymous Hacker's kid is anything like me he'll want to work on something simple[0] (so not *nix drivers then) that is genuinely useful. Maybe a command line tool or a small GUI app (using a toolkit to begin with). I still use several of the tools I threw together and being able to throw things like this together to fill a gap is a useful skill that will last throughout his (potential) programming career.
Either that or a game; whichever way the kid swings.
[0] Make it fun and don't overwhelm the kid.
No, I didn't read TFA.
Realize the truth. There is no 'article' ;)
As for your point, I agree insofar as he shouldn't push his son but should merely point him in the right direction.
His son is "starting to get curious about computers". Obviously this doesn't necessarily mean he is going to want to become some l33t hax0r (he may find he doesn't like it), but expressing an interest does open the door for a little encouragement by his father.
Anonymous Hacker should help his son explore what is available, find something that appeals to him and go from there. Guide him - but don't force his hand and don't make his decisions for him - and the rest will follow.
(And don't be disheartened if he later decides that a hacker he is not).
3D ads!
Can you just imagine this in 3D? *cringe*
Seriously there are so many ads on TV these days[0] that by and large I just don't bother[1]. A gimmick like 3D TV is highly unlikely to change that. Television just isn't a viable use of my time anymore (if it ever was).
Using 3D for movies would work, but I don't buy any these days and these special discs would probably be priced up as double the regular discs or something anyway.
That's a shame because I could see the potential otherwise.
[0] Just yesterday we canceled our satellite subscription because there are just too many ads; so many that we didn't think it was acceptable to be paying to see them.
[1] If there is anything I'm specifically interested in, I tape it even if I would be free to watch it, just so I can skip the ads. I even avert my eyes so I don't have to look at them too much, because doing so reminds me too much of their patronizing me. Sadly even this can't always save you from the Cillit Bang!s of this world.
That's an interesting point.
If a system was in place for mailing things in envelopes where possible would it not be cost effective overall, once the initial cost has been absorbed? I guess that would be down to the expense of materials (cardboard boxes) in comparison to the costs incurred in setting up and running the system.
I don't have an answer either way; I'm just pondering :)
Pass the parcel. Ever.
From a personal perspective that happens to tie in with the coding practices at my last company:
The second example (GNU style) I have found to be quite cumbersome in writing, unless tabs are set to 2 with braces indented once and content twice (company mandated four with one indent for content in the block), in which case I would be frustrated with the extra keypresses involved.
The first example (Allman style) I used to use until I moved over to Kernighan-Ritchie style (opening brace on same line as control statement, with functions (and classes in OOP languages) braces the exception; these are written in Allman style). This allows me to scrunch more onto the screen vertically.
FWIW I never liked the '} else {' style of elses but at the same time, I never found it difficult to read so it was never a real issue. It makes sense to me to have the else begin at the same column as the if to which it belongs.
This may be of interest to you.
A (sic) always seemed to me like "Sigh, yes, I know it's spelled wrong. Don't blame me. It's their fault." It seems vaguely rude.
In my old job I had a colleague who sometimes used "[sic]" intentionally to get an underhanded blow in, in response to anyone being trollish.
In one instance early on in a project there was a menu system which contained only placeholder graphics. A bug was filed, which was fair enough even though it was a non-official, really early submission only to show how it was coming together (i.e. intended only for a few and not supposed to enter QA, which the recipient was aware of because they made the request).
However because the content was written "The front-end is appauling... [and the] developers should be ashamed" my producer responded with a heated email direct to his higher-ups, cc'ing him in, quoting this with "[sic]" in place and berating him for fostering resentment with the programmers.
Not a very interesting story, but it does show that a well-placed "[sic]" can have its place. ;)
Troll? Really? Wow.
Anyway, I agree with the sibling (and gp), maglor. It is simply too illogical to me to put the punctuation inside. I do the same with brackets too, I'm afraid. (You know, like this). (Because it feels too strange to do this.)
A sentence like "My sig just says..." in the parent runs on too easily (regardless of the capitalized 'Try') because there can be ambiguity in some cases as to whether the '.' is part of the quote or not.
Also - looking at sibling post - I would personally try to avoid a sentence like "Harry asked 'What are you doing?'.", which despite seeming to be the most logical approach it still looks a bit wrong. (Even so I would still go with the logical when my hand is forced).
In practice I seldom get constructs like in the previous sentence (the comma following a quote of a quote) but it can still be parsed so I wouldn't hesitate to use it.
If I'm writing formally, I revert (mostly) back to whatever accepted rules I should be following. Horses for courses.