I realized a little while ago that only techies like us pay attention to the "completed X of Y items...", and get aggravated over the unfinished state of the web page.
As long as the page appears to be finished loading, then it *is* finished loading as far 95% of people are concerned. And this isn't so bad - it means the extra time to load analytics doesn't really matter.
...I haven't ever seen MS patent trolling, they've even gave their patents to organizations which purpose is to keep them open...
I'm not buying it. I know personally that Microsoft keeps patents as an arsenal for negotiations with small companies. I.e., if you continue such-and-such development, we'll challenge every patent you've got; we'll get some of them thrown out, and bankrupt you in the process.
(I'm a 3rd year law student; one of my best friends is a patent agent in a firm that represents MS and tells me these stories about "business as usual".)
(I had to fix the URL to get the whole video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cX4t5-YpHQ )
A very amateurish voiceover in the middle of the 'host' saying to first install Windows 7:
"Call Customer Service if you have any questions."
(!!!) Something tells me installing Windows 7 wasn't quite so easy.
No... "Fraunhofer" is synonymous with research - it's a huge network of government-funded and university-partnered research labs like "Max Planck", "NASA JPL", etc.
I worked there as a researcher in the publishing & artificial intelligence division.
"Microsoft Tax?" What do you expect? In order to use OSX you have to own apple hardware. Parents buying computers for their kids for college/hs are going to care about one thing: Price.
You can pay $1300 for a mac...or you can spend $700 for a PC. Which do you THINK parents are going to buy? Parents aside, what do you think MOST people are going to go with.
No, I think this is way over-simplified. You can't just reduce everything down to the price of computer A and the price of computer B. There are a lot of different kinds of people out there, shopping in different markets:
IMO, the Apples are priced VERY competitively - they're clearly high-quality machines, and they compete in the Sony Vaio and Lenovo Thinkpad market. THAT'S how the computers need to be evaluated.
The people who are out shopping for the $450 laptops on sale at Fry's aren't going to even consider the Vaio's either.
Because,
1) Perl programmers intentionally avoid best practices, and
2) Perl programmers are the ones most likely to be offended by the ommission - having as they do, an extreme culture of personality and of being the Great Hacker.
I wonder if there's really a solution for this kind of thing.
It seems to me there won't be until most programming libraries in use abstract out the facilities for building user interfaces.
For example, Java/Swing does (or used to) have an Action class; when given to a menu, it would build itself.
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The best, most insightful and succinct post I've read in a while.
I realized a little while ago that only techies like us pay attention to the "completed X of Y items...", and get aggravated over the unfinished state of the web page. As long as the page appears to be finished loading, then it *is* finished loading as far 95% of people are concerned. And this isn't so bad - it means the extra time to load analytics doesn't really matter.
...I haven't ever seen MS patent trolling, they've even gave their patents to organizations which purpose is to keep them open...
I'm not buying it. I know personally that Microsoft keeps patents as an arsenal for negotiations with small companies. I.e., if you continue such-and-such development, we'll challenge every patent you've got; we'll get some of them thrown out, and bankrupt you in the process. (I'm a 3rd year law student; one of my best friends is a patent agent in a firm that represents MS and tells me these stories about "business as usual".)
(I had to fix the URL to get the whole video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cX4t5-YpHQ ) A very amateurish voiceover in the middle of the 'host' saying to first install Windows 7: "Call Customer Service if you have any questions." (!!!) Something tells me installing Windows 7 wasn't quite so easy.
No... "Fraunhofer" is synonymous with research - it's a huge network of government-funded and university-partnered research labs like "Max Planck", "NASA JPL", etc. I worked there as a researcher in the publishing & artificial intelligence division.
You can pay $1300 for a mac...or you can spend $700 for a PC. Which do you THINK parents are going to buy? Parents aside, what do you think MOST people are going to go with.
No, I think this is way over-simplified. You can't just reduce everything down to the price of computer A and the price of computer B. There are a lot of different kinds of people out there, shopping in different markets:
IMO, the Apples are priced VERY competitively - they're clearly high-quality machines, and they compete in the Sony Vaio and Lenovo Thinkpad market. THAT'S how the computers need to be evaluated.
The people who are out shopping for the $450 laptops on sale at Fry's aren't going to even consider the Vaio's either.
"His COMPANY was doing dev directly on the server, he has implemented SVN and a Test environment, and is wondering what the Best Practices might be."
Exactly!
Because, 1) Perl programmers intentionally avoid best practices, and 2) Perl programmers are the ones most likely to be offended by the ommission - having as they do, an extreme culture of personality and of being the Great Hacker.
That was a freaking awesome explanation. Thanks.
I wonder if there's really a solution for this kind of thing. It seems to me there won't be until most programming libraries in use abstract out the facilities for building user interfaces. For example, Java/Swing does (or used to) have an Action class; when given to a menu, it would build itself.