I learned touch typing in school, but didn't really get to the numbers. I use the number pad as much as I can, but when I use the top row I will use left hand for 5 and below and usually but not always the right hand for higher numbers. The problem is that I never got the positions totally fixed in my muscle memory, so when typing anywhere from 5 to about 8 there's a good chance I'll do a little run up the keyboard till I find it (6, backspace, 7, backspace, 8, got it!).
I blogged about it here (with a bonus explanation for how religion works), but in essence the question as asked presents you with two incorrect answers (each possible answer has one colour correct, one incorrect), so you pick one of them and then argue with everyone else that you are right.
I am flying from Australia to South America for a holiday. Because of all this TSA nonsense, I paid extra to fly via Chile rather than USA. This also means I flew using LAN rather than a USA airline (which is money lost for the USA economy).
That's odd. I would think Australia to South America would require WAN, not LAN... I'm so confused now.
I think you are confusing LAN meaning "Local Area Network". WAN means "Wide Area NetworK", but it's not so much wide as it is long. Hence in this context LAN means "Long Area Network":P
I am flying from Australia to South America for a holiday. Because of all this TSA nonsense, I paid extra to fly via Chile rather than USA. This also means I flew using LAN rather than a USA airline (which is money lost for the USA economy).
Everybody seems to be confusing the term "customer" with "stakeholder". The fact that a person may not understand what they really need when asking for an info system should be no surprise to anyone in the IT industry by now. It's the whole reason for the existence of business analysts like me. Being a good programmer does not by any means guarantee that you are good at gathering and understanding requirements. Being a good BA certainly doesn't make me any sort of programmer (though I do understand the concepts).
And the customer is not always synonymous with user. The role of the BA is important, but it should be part of facilitating communication between the developer and the user, not a firewall keeping them apart.
That depends on both the developer and the user:P Just kidding, I agree. When someone asks me what a BA does, the simplistic answer I give them is that I act as a translator between users/the business and the programmers.
I deal with some users that have almost no clue about computers and technology, so they have a tendency to think that IT development can deliver more than it can in a lot less time than it really takes. Even worse, the organisation I work in is strongly hierarchical so my communication with some users is often via several layers of management (each of whom know very little about computers and technology). Suffice to say, it is quite the challenge to manage users' expectations!
Everybody seems to be confusing the term "customer" with "stakeholder". The fact that a person may not understand what they really need when asking for an info system should be no surprise to anyone in the IT industry by now. It's the whole reason for the existence of business analysts like me. Being a good programmer does not by any means guarantee that you are good at gathering and understanding requirements. Being a good BA certainly doesn't make me any sort of programmer (though I do understand the concepts).
I don't understand that argument. If there was an emergency that required evacuation, you would have to be pretty darn absorbed in your game not to notice the bumping and the oxygen masks coming down and the smoke and the people screaming and the loud "assume brace position" warnings. The time it takes to put your Game Boy down is probably significantly less than the time it would take to undo your seatbelt, stand up and get into the aisle of a plane full of other people all trying to get off as quickly as they can.
Cows are work animals, though they are selectively bred for meat now. Try ploughing a field in a developing country where you can't afford kerosene for a tractor and then you'll appreciate the value of a cow!
Also - copyright terminates when the author(s) die. None of this life-plus-eleventy-thousand-years crap. When you kick, your works revert into the public domain... we *all* benefit from that.
Except the author when something horrible happens to him/her because they are in possession of a multi-million dollar copyrighted work that others would like to exploit...
The business representative should be handed a business requirements document, written by a decent business analyst, that clearly explains to them in words they understand exactly what the system will do. It's wrong to expect someone to sign off on a document they don't understand, and whilst it may achieve the goal of deflecting accountability, it won't result in a good product.
Many many Muslims oppose terrorism committed in the name of their religion, however it is less well-known because the media prefer to only show extremist views (which get better ratings).
Why don't we send an astronaut into a black hole, but tie a rope onto him or her first? Once they cross the event horizon and make some observations, we just pull the rope and drag them back to the mothership. We could make the rope out of carbon nanotubes or something to give it infinite strength.
This is not dumbing down, this is finally applying basic usability theory. Designers should be aware of the fact that nobody reads dialog boxes for example, and take care with their design to not use them, and where they do, to keep it short and to the point. Using black and white instead of colour icons? Yay, finally colour-blind people will find things easier to use. Not everyone needs to access every function all the time. A good designer will anticipate what the common functions are and make it really easy to use them, and tuck the less commonly-used things out the way. Too many choices can be just as bad as not enough. The/. bias is towards technical people who will mostly see it from the other side, but in reality the vast majority of users only use a computer as a tool to achieve simple goals; a good designer should make this easy for them.
I can go one better than that. I don't even use the internet, except the occasional booking at the library, to ensure I don't use Facebook. One time at the library I did stumble upon Facebook by accident, so I crushed the computer with a steamroller, closed my library account, and moved to a different city.
you get to see and hear lots of interesting things you'd miss sitting in a car or on a bus
I cycle to work and I concur. I get to see all kinds of things like car doors springing open in front of me, cars cutting in front of me without warning (though I rarely see an indicator flashing), and drivers that think there is ample room for a pushbike and an SUV in the same lane.
I drove from Melbourne to Mildura and only had to look at the map once at the start. Just follow the one highway with the big green signs telling you that you are going in the right direction. The drive takes about 6 hours (8 if your engine catches fire on the way like mine did).
Well, I have a few objections to them violently slaughtering her. The point I was trying to make is how messed up those particular people's views are - they were enthusiastic about killing a girl for what amounted to a minor offense, yet they were against the essentially harmless display of some skin.
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I learned touch typing in school, but didn't really get to the numbers. I use the number pad as much as I can, but when I use the top row I will use left hand for 5 and below and usually but not always the right hand for higher numbers. The problem is that I never got the positions totally fixed in my muscle memory, so when typing anywhere from 5 to about 8 there's a good chance I'll do a little run up the keyboard till I find it (6, backspace, 7, backspace, 8, got it!).
What a silly question. Do trains need windows for the passengers? Or planes? People like to look outside, so of course there will be windows.
I blogged about it here (with a bonus explanation for how religion works), but in essence the question as asked presents you with two incorrect answers (each possible answer has one colour correct, one incorrect), so you pick one of them and then argue with everyone else that you are right.
"Nor" is a hangover from Old English, when the language had a dual number in addition to the singular and plural we have today.
When you break an incandescent bulb then turn it on, all that happens is you get a brief puff of smoke followed by darkness.
I am flying from Australia to South America for a holiday. Because of all this TSA nonsense, I paid extra to fly via Chile rather than USA. This also means I flew using LAN rather than a USA airline (which is money lost for the USA economy).
That's odd. I would think Australia to South America would require WAN, not LAN ... I'm so confused now.
I think you are confusing LAN meaning "Local Area Network". WAN means "Wide Area NetworK", but it's not so much wide as it is long. Hence in this context LAN means "Long Area Network" :P
I am flying from Australia to South America for a holiday. Because of all this TSA nonsense, I paid extra to fly via Chile rather than USA. This also means I flew using LAN rather than a USA airline (which is money lost for the USA economy).
Everybody seems to be confusing the term "customer" with "stakeholder". The fact that a person may not understand what they really need when asking for an info system should be no surprise to anyone in the IT industry by now. It's the whole reason for the existence of business analysts like me. Being a good programmer does not by any means guarantee that you are good at gathering and understanding requirements. Being a good BA certainly doesn't make me any sort of programmer (though I do understand the concepts).
And the customer is not always synonymous with user. The role of the BA is important, but it should be part of facilitating communication between the developer and the user, not a firewall keeping them apart.
That depends on both the developer and the user :P Just kidding, I agree. When someone asks me what a BA does, the simplistic answer I give them is that I act as a translator between users/the business and the programmers.
I deal with some users that have almost no clue about computers and technology, so they have a tendency to think that IT development can deliver more than it can in a lot less time than it really takes. Even worse, the organisation I work in is strongly hierarchical so my communication with some users is often via several layers of management (each of whom know very little about computers and technology). Suffice to say, it is quite the challenge to manage users' expectations!
Everybody seems to be confusing the term "customer" with "stakeholder". The fact that a person may not understand what they really need when asking for an info system should be no surprise to anyone in the IT industry by now. It's the whole reason for the existence of business analysts like me. Being a good programmer does not by any means guarantee that you are good at gathering and understanding requirements. Being a good BA certainly doesn't make me any sort of programmer (though I do understand the concepts).
I don't understand that argument. If there was an emergency that required evacuation, you would have to be pretty darn absorbed in your game not to notice the bumping and the oxygen masks coming down and the smoke and the people screaming and the loud "assume brace position" warnings. The time it takes to put your Game Boy down is probably significantly less than the time it would take to undo your seatbelt, stand up and get into the aisle of a plane full of other people all trying to get off as quickly as they can.
They assure me that the bullocks are superior. Bullocks are huge and powerful, and low maintenance.
Castration isn't required. The bullocks used by my wife's family in her native country weren't castrated.
Cows are work animals, though they are selectively bred for meat now. Try ploughing a field in a developing country where you can't afford kerosene for a tractor and then you'll appreciate the value of a cow!
Is it really a structure built out of liquid metal, or is it a structure containing liquid metal?
And there has never been an example of a word or phrase shifting in meaning as the cultural context in which it was originally used changes...
Also - copyright terminates when the author(s) die. None of this life-plus-eleventy-thousand-years crap. When you kick, your works revert into the public domain ... we *all* benefit from that.
Except the author when something horrible happens to him/her because they are in possession of a multi-million dollar copyrighted work that others would like to exploit...
The business representative should be handed a business requirements document, written by a decent business analyst, that clearly explains to them in words they understand exactly what the system will do.
It's wrong to expect someone to sign off on a document they don't understand, and whilst it may achieve the goal of deflecting accountability, it won't result in a good product.
Many many Muslims oppose terrorism committed in the name of their religion, however it is less well-known because the media prefer to only show extremist views (which get better ratings).
Why don't we send an astronaut into a black hole, but tie a rope onto him or her first? Once they cross the event horizon and make some observations, we just pull the rope and drag them back to the mothership. We could make the rope out of carbon nanotubes or something to give it infinite strength.
This is not dumbing down, this is finally applying basic usability theory. Designers should be aware of the fact that nobody reads dialog boxes for example, and take care with their design to not use them, and where they do, to keep it short and to the point. /. bias is towards technical people who will mostly see it from the other side, but in reality the vast majority of users only use a computer as a tool to achieve simple goals; a good designer should make this easy for them.
Using black and white instead of colour icons? Yay, finally colour-blind people will find things easier to use.
Not everyone needs to access every function all the time. A good designer will anticipate what the common functions are and make it really easy to use them, and tuck the less commonly-used things out the way. Too many choices can be just as bad as not enough.
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I can go one better than that. I don't even use the internet, except the occasional booking at the library, to ensure I don't use Facebook. One time at the library I did stumble upon Facebook by accident, so I crushed the computer with a steamroller, closed my library account, and moved to a different city.
you get to see and hear lots of interesting things you'd miss sitting in a car or on a bus
I cycle to work and I concur. I get to see all kinds of things like car doors springing open in front of me, cars cutting in front of me without warning (though I rarely see an indicator flashing), and drivers that think there is ample room for a pushbike and an SUV in the same lane.
I drove from Melbourne to Mildura and only had to look at the map once at the start. Just follow the one highway with the big green signs telling you that you are going in the right direction. The drive takes about 6 hours (8 if your engine catches fire on the way like mine did).
That's the one!
Well, I have a few objections to them violently slaughtering her. The point I was trying to make is how messed up those particular people's views are - they were enthusiastic about killing a girl for what amounted to a minor offense, yet they were against the essentially harmless display of some skin.