I remember, way back in the day, putting together a mac for a broke friend of mine. Another friend knew one of the owners of Bare Bones, made a phone call, and they donated a color monitor to the project. Class act all around. (And yeah, to this day I'm still a customer!)
A scorpion and a frog meet on the bank of a stream and the
scorpion asks the frog to carry him across on its back. The
frog asks, "How do I know you won't sting me?" The scorpion
says, "Because if I do, I will die too."
The frog is satisfied, and they set out, but in midstream,
the scorpion stings the frog. The frog feels the onset of
paralysis and starts to sink, knowing they both will drown,
but has just enough time to gasp "Why?"
If you're just starting out you're going to be learning a lot, reading blogs, reading stackoverflow, and there is far more Obj-C out there than Swift now. So you since you want fast, not best, Obj-C is the correct choice for you. Not necessarily for everybody, but for you.
I write software for a living. And yes, we all test our code, unit tests, regression test, automated testing, QA departments.
And we still have bugs in our code.
And you want to shine a computer controlled laser into my eye?
PS: a friend of mine had it done about a decade ago. We've lost touch so I can't say how it worked out for him, but I do recall him sketching out on a bar napkin the areas that needed improvement. He was going in for a touch up since the doctor's office called and said the new software was in. No thanks...
My ex-brother-in-law is a wildlife biologist. He's done a lot of field work. He told a story at Christmas a few decades back. He took his 7 year old son out hiking is some deep woods. Being concerned if something went wrong he put a radio tracking collar on him, just part of the stuff in his lab. I asked him how it worked. He deadpanned, "I hated shooting him with the tranquilizer dart from the helicopter." I almost lost my egg-nog.
I was out on the road and couldn't respond. Glad you did for me.
Yes, I did OS X before then. And before then it was MacOS 9 and then 8. And before that was System 7. And before that was System Software 6. Before that was SunOS (not Solaris, and MassComp, remember them?). Before that was VMS and before that was RXS-11M. Before that I was at MIT, best one I remembered was called Q on Perkin-Elmer hardware. You had to call out "Ok to to compile" before compiling. Of course some ITS and a smidge of Lisp machines. Then it was PDP-8 assembly language. Oh wait, one more. A Frieden Flexo-writer. Yes, that means I have cut and pasted with scissors and glue.
Exactly. I've done both, currently working for myself. All my friends say, "Oh man, that's great, you can take the day off if you want." Sigh... when you work for yourself you don't get a day off.
I'm an iOS developer (and used to do OS X) who has worked at home for over 2 decades now. I did have one year where the new boss wanted me in the office. (I upgraded bosses via the resume route eventually.) And I once was laid off because I refused to move halfway across the country (new boss wanted me sitting there.)
You need discipline to not blur the line between home and work. For me that means regular hours and an office with a door that shuts. Once place I lived even had the office in a studio that was attached but I needed to go outside to get to it. I loved it. Family also knows what working means and treats it as such.
I wouldn't change it for anything.
Not an excuse. They are a "premium luxury" brand. If they couldn't do right by the customer with the parts they had on hand then they should have given the customer a better replacement.
I'm typing this on a MacBook that Apple gave me. You see, my previous had failed and been repaired twice. On the third failure, they gave me a brand new machine. Not identical to the old one, but a brand new one. This is Apple's "three strikes" policy. If a machine needs a third repair, in warrenty or under Apple Care, just pick out a new one with the same size, hard drive, and memory as the defective one.
I've spent about 14 of the last 15 years working from home. Mostly full time but some of that was half in the office, half at home. First off, be prepared for a better life. The one thing you can't get more of in life is more time, now you have more time since you're not driving.
Office with a door - Mandatory. You'll find that you'll always be "on" and that is bad. Telecommuters either slack off (and get fired) or work too much. I love my current setup, my current office cannot be accessed from my home, it has a separate entrance. So my commute is about 10 seconds of walking.
Hours - You'll want regular hours and stick to them. Again, this is to prevent overwork. It is also good in the begining to prevent goofing off.
Water Cooler - you don't have one. You will be out of the loop on everything that goes on in the home office. Oh well. 90% of that was crap anyhow. Missing the 10% can hurt you, but don't worry. You'll get by.
Perception - All of your co-workers will think you are goofing off. So you will be held to higher standards then they are. That's ok, they get to fight traffic on I-whatever twice a day. If you work 9-5 you are home at 5:00:01.
Headset - get a nice one. And I don't mean a $100 Bluetooth one. A $10 wired one that is comfortable is far better.
Pets - get a cat or fish. I have 4 fish tanks in my office. I'd love to let the cat in but with the walk outside that's just asking for trouble with her.
My name is shared with a very famous (dead) person so I'm hard to google. But of course he had my email address. From that he found my geocaching account, liked that I made puzzles (he was looking for a game developer) from that found my/. postings, liked what he saw.
Yeah, I got the job and it was fun, but it creeped me out. I hardly ever post anywhere anymore.
You are clearly willing to pay a little bit for this, since you don't mention any extra fees. So this sounds like a service opportunity to me.
For only $3.99/month I'll deliver your csv records to you. Just send me you account and password information. Might as well give me your social, mother's maiden name, and favorite color.
Both options are just back-ends, you'll have to write a front-end. However, it shouldn't be too hard to do that
Actually, it can be rather hard to do that. I was one of the founders of MacSpeech and there is a surprisingly large set of details you have to deal with, punctuation, capitalization, etc... Of course since you wouldn't be making a commercial product much of the gloss need not be coded but once you have the engine, the part that takes the audio source and converts it to text, you still have a large amount of work left over.
I just use password strength answer and I keep a file of them. I had a great conversation with an online bank. Security had detected a pattern that was unusual and called me. They asked me what high school I went to. I told them UMc9vdX0QLOH (not really, but you get the idea.)
The guy was flabbergasted.
I told him that although I appreciated their security, I didn't trust them, say, to not sell a used laptop on ebay.
He thought it was a great idea.
Of course if I loose my file, I'm screwed, but that's what backups are for.
Opps, my bad. I just RTFA. I had thought the bad vote was on the seasonal use of the cottages. It was on the condo conversion laws. The selection have put up the ballot question on seasonal use. I don't know if the condo conversion is going to be discussed at Town Meeting. I no longer live in Truro.
You need to understand how the election works. This is not hidden paper ballot election. Rather, like in many small New England towns, you simply raise your hand.
The issue was a contentious one, an issue that has divided the town for a long time. Heated arguments were made for awhile and then the vote occurred. After the winning side was announced many people left the meeting. A voting irregularity was pointed out (and procedurally, it was done incorrectly, and a second ballot was (incorrectly) called for.) Now mind, many people on both sides of the issue had left. The moderator ran the vote again and the answer was unchanged. Note how error prone the entire process is.
Curiously, based on the verbal arguments, the issue could have passed with some fairly minor wording changes. (I was opposed to its passing so obviously I didn't point this out.) The same issue is not on a town warrant for this year. Rather, the selectman will be asking the townspeople if they want a paper ballot election to look into the issue. I'm a little surprised that the proponents didn't resubmit the question and just make sure they had their supports show up.
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I remember, way back in the day, putting together a mac for a broke friend of mine. Another friend knew one of the owners of Bare Bones, made a phone call, and they donated a color monitor to the project. Class act all around. (And yeah, to this day I'm still a customer!)
The frog is satisfied, and they set out, but in midstream, the scorpion stings the frog. The frog feels the onset of paralysis and starts to sink, knowing they both will drown, but has just enough time to gasp "Why?"
Replies the scorpion: "Its my nature..."
Nov 23, 1987 - 1st documented use of the word "spam" to describe unwanted electronic correspondence.
C++ - B (Asian professor, accent was a distraction - "mammary leaks" discussed in-depth)
Please, lets ignore the accent issue. It doesn't prove bad teaching, just that the teacher learned English in a different place than you did.
I attended and graduated from MIT. One of my professors had a thick accent and it was distracting. He also had a Nobel prize.
Ours cost about $80 a year and is open on Saturdays. We rotate our backup drives into it monthly. Yeah, weekly would be better...
If you're just starting out you're going to be learning a lot, reading blogs, reading stackoverflow, and there is far more Obj-C out there than Swift now. So you since you want fast, not best, Obj-C is the correct choice for you. Not necessarily for everybody, but for you.
I have a box in the attic. I occasionally use them as postcards.
I write software for a living. And yes, we all test our code, unit tests, regression test, automated testing, QA departments. And we still have bugs in our code. And you want to shine a computer controlled laser into my eye? PS: a friend of mine had it done about a decade ago. We've lost touch so I can't say how it worked out for him, but I do recall him sketching out on a bar napkin the areas that needed improvement. He was going in for a touch up since the doctor's office called and said the new software was in. No thanks...
My ex-brother-in-law is a wildlife biologist. He's done a lot of field work. He told a story at Christmas a few decades back. He took his 7 year old son out hiking is some deep woods. Being concerned if something went wrong he put a radio tracking collar on him, just part of the stuff in his lab. I asked him how it worked. He deadpanned, "I hated shooting him with the tranquilizer dart from the helicopter." I almost lost my egg-nog.
ooooo, 16 bits, how fancy! :- ) But seriously, fire up the old beast now and then....,
I was out on the road and couldn't respond. Glad you did for me.
Yes, I did OS X before then. And before then it was MacOS 9 and then 8. And before that was System 7. And before that was System Software 6. Before that was SunOS (not Solaris, and MassComp, remember them?). Before that was VMS and before that was RXS-11M. Before that I was at MIT, best one I remembered was called Q on Perkin-Elmer hardware. You had to call out "Ok to to compile" before compiling. Of course some ITS and a smidge of Lisp machines. Then it was PDP-8 assembly language. Oh wait, one more. A Frieden Flexo-writer. Yes, that means I have cut and pasted with scissors and glue.
Now get offa my lawn.
you missed the "used to do OS X" part... but I was coding iOS before the app store was open, briefly, but I was!
Exactly. I've done both, currently working for myself. All my friends say, "Oh man, that's great, you can take the day off if you want." Sigh... when you work for yourself you don't get a day off.
I'm an iOS developer (and used to do OS X) who has worked at home for over 2 decades now. I did have one year where the new boss wanted me in the office. (I upgraded bosses via the resume route eventually.) And I once was laid off because I refused to move halfway across the country (new boss wanted me sitting there.) You need discipline to not blur the line between home and work. For me that means regular hours and an office with a door that shuts. Once place I lived even had the office in a studio that was attached but I needed to go outside to get to it. I loved it. Family also knows what working means and treats it as such. I wouldn't change it for anything.
I'm typing this on a MacBook that Apple gave me. You see, my previous had failed and been repaired twice. On the third failure, they gave me a brand new machine. Not identical to the old one, but a brand new one. This is Apple's "three strikes" policy. If a machine needs a third repair, in warrenty or under Apple Care, just pick out a new one with the same size, hard drive, and memory as the defective one.
That's doing right.
Office with a door - Mandatory. You'll find that you'll always be "on" and that is bad. Telecommuters either slack off (and get fired) or work too much. I love my current setup, my current office cannot be accessed from my home, it has a separate entrance. So my commute is about 10 seconds of walking.
Hours - You'll want regular hours and stick to them. Again, this is to prevent overwork. It is also good in the begining to prevent goofing off.
Water Cooler - you don't have one. You will be out of the loop on everything that goes on in the home office. Oh well. 90% of that was crap anyhow. Missing the 10% can hurt you, but don't worry. You'll get by.
Perception - All of your co-workers will think you are goofing off. So you will be held to higher standards then they are. That's ok, they get to fight traffic on I-whatever twice a day. If you work 9-5 you are home at 5:00:01.
Headset - get a nice one. And I don't mean a $100 Bluetooth one. A $10 wired one that is comfortable is far better.
Pets - get a cat or fish. I have 4 fish tanks in my office. I'd love to let the cat in but with the walk outside that's just asking for trouble with her.
Enjoy your new life, congrats!
My name is shared with a very famous (dead) person so I'm hard to google. But of course he had my email address. From that he found my geocaching account, liked that I made puzzles (he was looking for a game developer) from that found my /. postings, liked what he saw.
Yeah, I got the job and it was fun, but it creeped me out. I hardly ever post anywhere anymore.
Except, of course, for this...
You are clearly willing to pay a little bit for this, since you don't mention any extra fees. So this sounds like a service opportunity to me.
For only $3.99/month I'll deliver your csv records to you. Just send me you account and password information. Might as well give me your social, mother's maiden name, and favorite color.
No problemo...
Actually, it can be rather hard to do that. I was one of the founders of MacSpeech and there is a surprisingly large set of details you have to deal with, punctuation, capitalization, etc... Of course since you wouldn't be making a commercial product much of the gloss need not be coded but once you have the engine, the part that takes the audio source and converts it to text, you still have a large amount of work left over.
Not best, but first will win. That's my guess based on how most industries work.
Bo3b Johnson
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/bo3b-johnson/13/846/a52
The 3 is silent. And no, I don't know him but I know someone who does.
But my password is 12345
I just use password strength answer and I keep a file of them. I had a great conversation with an online bank. Security had detected a pattern that was unusual and called me. They asked me what high school I went to. I told them UMc9vdX0QLOH (not really, but you get the idea.)
The guy was flabbergasted.
I told him that although I appreciated their security, I didn't trust them, say, to not sell a used laptop on ebay.
He thought it was a great idea.
Of course if I loose my file, I'm screwed, but that's what backups are for.
Opps, my bad. I just RTFA. I had thought the bad vote was on the seasonal use of the cottages. It was on the condo conversion laws. The selection have put up the ballot question on seasonal use. I don't know if the condo conversion is going to be discussed at Town Meeting. I no longer live in Truro.
You need to understand how the election works. This is not hidden paper ballot election. Rather, like in many small New England towns, you simply raise your hand.
The issue was a contentious one, an issue that has divided the town for a long time. Heated arguments were made for awhile and then the vote occurred. After the winning side was announced many people left the meeting. A voting irregularity was pointed out (and procedurally, it was done incorrectly, and a second ballot was (incorrectly) called for.) Now mind, many people on both sides of the issue had left. The moderator ran the vote again and the answer was unchanged. Note how error prone the entire process is.
Curiously, based on the verbal arguments, the issue could have passed with some fairly minor wording changes. (I was opposed to its passing so obviously I didn't point this out.) The same issue is not on a town warrant for this year. Rather, the selectman will be asking the townspeople if they want a paper ballot election to look into the issue. I'm a little surprised that the proponents didn't resubmit the question and just make sure they had their supports show up.
I'll post this now and get into the issue next.
Paul