At some point you'll have to reveal how/who you really are - might as well start this way: honestly.
To what extend do you mean you have to "reveal" who you are?
Is this
Describing yourself as some successful (in your definition) person while you know if you get the date, you cannot live up to it. (you want the date, not the chit-chat online, right?)
Being upfront by all the complexes and negative features of yourself demonstrating your egocentrism and focus on yourself (instead of just "being in fun contact")
Explaining you are still a virgin or something like that
Being overly focussed on things you wished you had but cannot offer (personality, looks, money, status, banana's,..)
Being in a current relationship
Being open for certain interaction while you're not or are sensitive to certain things and will cause friction (but are a bit blinded by your wish to hook up)
...
It sortof surpasses me; OkCupid has some good matching algorithms. It's a bit the idea to get matched to someone that might add to yourself instead of dong a whole mating-dance show in order to "catch a prey". It ofcourse depends on what you want, but if you want to meet someone you want to hang out with and be yourself with, or evolve with, why should "honesty" be so explicitly mentioned as if it's a hard thing to do. It's strongly implied if you want quality time with someone.
Or is it a message to the catwoman with a boob-protheses you've encountered before ? Or the single mom that skewed the truth a bit about never being married and coming up with the "child subject" after you're getting hooked to eachother ?
So I can spend 50 -60$ on a 20 hour game? Yeah, that's EXACTLY what I'm after. Sounds like a good way to keep development costs low and reap in more profit. I call bullsh*t on this.
I don't have much time to game anymore. I don't feel I want to make such a commitment to a game as I used to while being a student or a bachelor.
I would pay 50$ for a good game, which grabs me and has great gameplay as well, where there is more attention to detail and gameplay as to stretching it to get a "story line", which is giving the game its 50-60$ price-tag...
VIM is a bit far back. I use notepad.
As a matter of fact, I use a Unix based system (Mac) and run an emulator on it (parallells) to run notepad. Because it makes me feel right at home.
I've coded industry strength software in C# in notepad. And now I'm doing the same in an emulator.
Fluent in C,C++, ObjectiveC, Java, C# and an array of scripting languages and scripting libraries (don't make me laugh the "library solutions" to attack a basic vanilla problem by "modern nerds"...)
The "nerd" is no more, if I see what comes in from IT colleges and how hard it is to find kids with the right mindset. My experience in the industry spans only 10 years, but it's becoming an aging crowd.
Go away you "modern nerd" with cheesy vampire soap and WoW nostalgia!
They used to have talent. Now they have well-fed pigs who try to be creative and funny "like it used to be"
They have piles of cash to sit on, and to maintain the hiearchy they've build over years to keep the revenu coming in. Inspiration has long been gone.
It's like your wife who was hot when you married her. But after 5 years, she yells at you when you suggest she's lay off the cheesecake or join you in sports...
Sortof like 3D-vision. Everybody is hyping it, but if you don't have depth-perception..
The same with social networks: once the late majority arrived and there were just posts of cats, baby pix, and has been through images of my long lost ex'es and laughed what has become with my high-school friends or acquantances, it got boring.
I don't care either about billions of people's their experiences and opinions which are creating a overly LOUD and NOISY saturated experience.
Yet, it's what the larger part of the internet-experience has become. It's a clickable tv where everybody is making their own reality-show. And in the end, there's a reason why they didn't show everybody on tv. Only few people are very interesting or give added value. And after a while, they sound like a broken record anyhow.
"mind work(ing) clearly as if it's unwrapped from a fog"
That sums it up pretty much for me..
I always associated it with people and the turbulence they create during the day (noise, movement, general activity,....) which falls away and takes less information to process (I'm someone sensitive who absorbs alot of information and details while constantly processing it until it becomes overwhelming and I "shurt off")
The night gives some tranquil rest and gives me a clear mind.
As an advantage I have two days done in one day (I start the day at 10, get somewhat alert by noon. Try to stimulate me in the afternoon to be average productive at work. Once 23h passes I get another 4 hours of energy and clearness of mind to learn, process or work.) as a disadvantage my yought was a hell to try to operate between the socially enforced 9-5 hours. (Any earlier as waking up before 9h makes me disoriented and clouded for the duration of the day.)
Exactly. Did you notice that Facebook feels now like MySpace after using the Android client and seeing "Google+" ?
Even Facebook's colourscheme is the old MySpace.
Wave might have flopped, but this is a Facebook killer. If only I had new friend to add who are interesting and aren't posting cats or baby pixtures...
I recently saw this and think it might work if you're looking for a more complex solution as all the obvious:
Have water run over a thin plate of some sort (glass is more aestethical pleasing) and have a stream of cold water run over it while your container or source of water is cooled. (your container before repumps the water fe.)
In these temperatures, place de device preferably in a enclosed improvised portable room (aka "tent").
The result should be a pleasing soothing sound of water, in cooled down high humidity where you can optionally get funky with a nice beer while you're protesting.
I'm not sure where to find the fragment, but there is a team of guys who crash conventions and try to get a speaking slot in front of industrials and present a "social commentary" speech or parody on these conventions in absolute. One of their speeches was about processing western poop into 3rd-world burger.
"gooey" in itself is a sticky (sugary) substance or appearance with a thick consistence. For me personally, it connects to someone's child-nostalgia (candy, goo, sugary,...) and would be a bit hesitant to take this person too seriously if his or her universe still exists out of "gooey" things.
GUI, is a clear and well understood acronym and services this purpose. Making it "gooey", is an attempt to be "cute" or "funny" in a universe where it doesn't necessarily belongs.
Ofcourse, this depends on which level and with what sort of clients you work and which sticks well. But I can imagine you'll lose your pitch if you're aiming for a contract where money, timing and experience are a large factor. You wont convey your client you have the weight and expertise to pull it if you are talking about "gooey" things in your meetings.
In short, comp sci is good, but you basically have to be good at it yourself to judge the quality of someone elses resume.
This is true: around 2000, alot of "people interested in computers" were quickly trained to fix millenium bugs. When 2000 passed, you had a pile of developers with very limited knowledge (2-week VB course etc)
So, Microsoft and other big vendors saw $$$ in it; creating certifications to verify a programmer is in effect decently trained and can do what he claims to be able. (2 years of experience in.NET can range from poking around with VB code, cleaning to enterprise systems.)
These certifications are losing in value as well though, as their engine needs to run: "Create methodology", "Hype it with sales", "make devs enthousiastic and sell books, do roadshows, make sexy demo's" "sales have reached HR, to get the sexy devs, new keywords are added to HR-lingo, companies want to draw people who can do this stuff", "people want to get certified, employers begged to invest a few K to get said dev certified". It's a circle at the moment but intrinsic value is getting lowered.
This is how you implement Euler integration...but nobody uses that so we used an adaptive fourth-order Runge-Kutta solver (which we won't tell you how to implement) and that is the key to everything else."
Translation: "I'm justifying all my time spent (and think I should've spent instead of partying) and show how I'm expert of my field. I assume everybody will have put the same (specific) effort into acquiring these obscurities that I pride myself with. Look at the size of my intellectual reproductional organ.
This gets worse, once people also have to justify their time and their costs (wages). Welcome to the intellectual industry, where once you understand the field-lingo, you understand it's often just the game of acquiring the lingo and it's (lack of) signifance.
ICQ was global, mostly students (I remember Chinese, Australians and Indians) used through "random chat"
MSN Chatrooms were before MSN-messenger (messenger was the extension of the chatrooms). You would pop in there, ownership of channels would account for your "ID". They closed them down around 2000 because of the general public entering (cheap broadband coming up) and using them for sex-chats and harrassing kids/teens.
IRC was global and used by everyone, would amount of 90% of my time online (scripting, servers, info, running help-rooms,..)
AIM usually Americans (I had it installed for a few American contacts)
But don't expect to write code that keeps a 777 safely in the air.
He writes about creativity. You write about engineering.
There are now a multi-tude of disciplines in software development, yet this isn't very well understood.
I agree that the "management squeezing the life out of their dev-teams to make deadlines" with their charts, while devs are filling out sheets like monkeys to justify the space they take up, then it is absolutely a process that is killing.
I remember a time filling out 3 timesheets for the same work, filling out a scrumlog, doing a scrum-board, sitting in meetings, linking my code-check-ins with my timesheet. Management could make pretty graphs, but I wrote 20% of the code I did before. And it didn't work. All this overhead work is also not "estimated into the planning", so pressure mounts, creativity and production lowers.
Maybe the ad-hoc wont keep the 777 in the air, your papertrail and logs wont even get the software to be installed into your 777 and it'll never lift off. But it justified the bill presented for all the hypothetical work done (spent on filling in "justification files")
At my prior client, I burned 2 USB-controllers while typing.
I discarted it as being just an issue with the age of the hardware.
Until now, where I've been given a top of the line workstation at my new job. 1 month in the job closing in on a deadline, another USB-controller burned out while typing.
Mind you, to make the deadline I typed slower in fear to burn my last USB-ports.
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That sounds like you're going to have a bunch of Ethiopians run in circles to power your IPhone in promises for food...
My girlfriend asked me a diamon ring, I hope this news never reaches her, this news will render my arguments invalid...
To what extend do you mean you have to "reveal" who you are?
Is this
It sortof surpasses me; OkCupid has some good matching algorithms. It's a bit the idea to get matched to someone that might add to yourself instead of dong a whole mating-dance show in order to "catch a prey". It ofcourse depends on what you want, but if you want to meet someone you want to hang out with and be yourself with, or evolve with, why should "honesty" be so explicitly mentioned as if it's a hard thing to do. It's strongly implied if you want quality time with someone.
Or is it a message to the catwoman with a boob-protheses you've encountered before ? Or the single mom that skewed the truth a bit about never being married and coming up with the "child subject" after you're getting hooked to eachother ?
"I have 500 men admiring me on my profile and trying to get my number or a date. I have no time for your tears."
I don't have much time to game anymore. I don't feel I want to make such a commitment to a game as I used to while being a student or a bachelor.
I would pay 50$ for a good game, which grabs me and has great gameplay as well, where there is more attention to detail and gameplay as to stretching it to get a "story line", which is giving the game its 50-60$ price-tag...
VIM is a bit far back. I use notepad.
As a matter of fact, I use a Unix based system (Mac) and run an emulator on it (parallells) to run notepad. Because it makes me feel right at home.
I've coded industry strength software in C# in notepad. And now I'm doing the same in an emulator.
Fluent in C,C++, ObjectiveC, Java, C# and an array of scripting languages and scripting libraries (don't make me laugh the "library solutions" to attack a basic vanilla problem by "modern nerds"...)
The "nerd" is no more, if I see what comes in from IT colleges and how hard it is to find kids with the right mindset. My experience in the industry spans only 10 years, but it's becoming an aging crowd.
Go away you "modern nerd" with cheesy vampire soap and WoW nostalgia!
Do decent writing skills still exist these days?
They used to have talent. Now they have well-fed pigs who try to be creative and funny "like it used to be"
They have piles of cash to sit on, and to maintain the hiearchy they've build over years to keep the revenu coming in. Inspiration has long been gone.
It's like your wife who was hot when you married her. But after 5 years, she yells at you when you suggest she's lay off the cheesecake or join you in sports...
The same with social networks: once the late majority arrived and there were just posts of cats, baby pix, and has been through images of my long lost ex'es and laughed what has become with my high-school friends or acquantances, it got boring.
I don't care either about billions of people's their experiences and opinions which are creating a overly LOUD and NOISY saturated experience.
Yet, it's what the larger part of the internet-experience has become. It's a clickable tv where everybody is making their own reality-show. And in the end, there's a reason why they didn't show everybody on tv. Only few people are very interesting or give added value. And after a while, they sound like a broken record anyhow.
Exactly. Did you notice that Facebook feels now like MySpace after using the Android client and seeing "Google+" ?
Even Facebook's colourscheme is the old MySpace.
Wave might have flopped, but this is a Facebook killer. If only I had new friend to add who are interesting and aren't posting cats or baby pixtures...
I doubt that, touchscreens are autocompletive and touch predictive. Hence the result would be more abstract and funnier. Less typos.
Have water run over a thin plate of some sort (glass is more aestethical pleasing) and have a stream of cold water run over it while your container or source of water is cooled. (your container before repumps the water fe.)
In these temperatures, place de device preferably in a enclosed improvised portable room (aka "tent").
The result should be a pleasing soothing sound of water, in cooled down high humidity where you can optionally get funky with a nice beer while you're protesting.
You kid, but I worked remote with acute pnuemonia to complete a project and later to help a developer find his way around it.
The same happened when I was home a month with mononucleosis; I remotely wrote a telephone service platform to cut time.
Or in the last 4 years I have dropped about 120 holidays.
Just until I couldn't take it much longer and was bordering burn-out. I've settled for a less demanding job now.
I laughed because I thought you were making this up, but...
http://www.chacha.com/question/is-there-poop-in-mcdonalds-meat
I'm not sure where to find the fragment, but there is a team of guys who crash conventions and try to get a speaking slot in front of industrials and present a "social commentary" speech or parody on these conventions in absolute. One of their speeches was about processing western poop into 3rd-world burger.
Isn't NASA a government-funded company and not a private organisation entitled to the profit it generates?
Think about it, who has paid to get these rocks ? Who has paid those engineers ?
"gooey" in itself is a sticky (sugary) substance or appearance with a thick consistence. For me personally, it connects to someone's child-nostalgia (candy, goo, sugary, ...) and would be a bit hesitant to take this person too seriously if his or her universe still exists out of "gooey" things.
GUI, is a clear and well understood acronym and services this purpose. Making it "gooey", is an attempt to be "cute" or "funny" in a universe where it doesn't necessarily belongs.
Ofcourse, this depends on which level and with what sort of clients you work and which sticks well. But I can imagine you'll lose your pitch if you're aiming for a contract where money, timing and experience are a large factor. You wont convey your client you have the weight and expertise to pull it if you are talking about "gooey" things in your meetings.
Or Design Patterns, Aspect Oriented Programming, decent polymorphism, process-methodology, Generics, ...
This is true: around 2000, alot of "people interested in computers" were quickly trained to fix millenium bugs.
When 2000 passed, you had a pile of developers with very limited knowledge (2-week VB course etc)
So, Microsoft and other big vendors saw $$$ in it; creating certifications to verify a programmer is in effect decently trained and can do what he claims to be able. (2 years of experience in .NET can range from poking around with VB code, cleaning to enterprise systems.)
These certifications are losing in value as well though, as their engine needs to run: "Create methodology", "Hype it with sales", "make devs enthousiastic and sell books, do roadshows, make sexy demo's" "sales have reached HR, to get the sexy devs, new keywords are added to HR-lingo, companies want to draw people who can do this stuff", "people want to get certified, employers begged to invest a few K to get said dev certified". It's a circle at the moment but intrinsic value is getting lowered.
Translation: "I'm justifying all my time spent (and think I should've spent instead of partying) and show how I'm expert of my field. I assume everybody will have put the same (specific) effort into acquiring these obscurities that I pride myself with. Look at the size of my intellectual reproductional organ.
This gets worse, once people also have to justify their time and their costs (wages). Welcome to the intellectual industry, where once you understand the field-lingo, you understand it's often just the game of acquiring the lingo and it's (lack of) signifance.
In my experience as a Belgian:
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ICQ was global, mostly students (I remember Chinese, Australians and Indians) used through "random chat"
MSN Chatrooms were before MSN-messenger (messenger was the extension of the chatrooms). You would pop in there, ownership of channels would account for your "ID". They closed them down around 2000 because of the general public entering (cheap broadband coming up) and using them for sex-chats and harrassing kids/teens.
IRC was global and used by everyone, would amount of 90% of my time online (scripting, servers, info, running help-rooms,
AIM usually Americans (I had it installed for a few American contacts)
He writes about creativity. You write about engineering.
There are now a multi-tude of disciplines in software development, yet this isn't very well understood.
I agree that the "management squeezing the life out of their dev-teams to make deadlines" with their charts, while devs are filling out sheets like monkeys to justify the space they take up, then it is absolutely a process that is killing.
I remember a time filling out 3 timesheets for the same work, filling out a scrumlog, doing a scrum-board, sitting in meetings, linking my code-check-ins with my timesheet. Management could make pretty graphs, but I wrote 20% of the code I did before. And it didn't work. All this overhead work is also not "estimated into the planning", so pressure mounts, creativity and production lowers.
Maybe the ad-hoc wont keep the 777 in the air, your papertrail and logs wont even get the software to be installed into your 777 and it'll never lift off. But it justified the bill presented for all the hypothetical work done (spent on filling in "justification files")
Propaganda: Scapegoating | Demonization | Oversimplification
We're not certain, they accidently dropped him into the ocean.
Like all evil masterminds, he'll be back in a sequel.
At my prior client, I burned 2 USB-controllers while typing. I discarted it as being just an issue with the age of the hardware.
Until now, where I've been given a top of the line workstation at my new job. 1 month in the job closing in on a deadline, another USB-controller burned out while typing.
Mind you, to make the deadline I typed slower in fear to burn my last USB-ports.