What's really needed is something which completely hides the mess of html+css like a compiler hides binary which you never actually look at.
Adobe Dreamweaver and Microsoft FrontPage I remembered quite well. As a software testing intern (circa 1997), I had to clean up the HTML/CSS whenever a graphic designer couldn't get her sliced image to line up neatly in the table rows.
Scraping Slashdot is both child's play and not worth it.
I found it quite useful. For example, someone said I wrote "dead wood" in a past comment. With my 8,000+ comment history in a CSV file,
I ran a search for "dead wood" in Excel and a few seconds later found nothing.
You're one of the only people here that actually posts under a name that is traceable to a real person.
One of the advantages of having a named account.
All the accounts here are just AC with Karma.
I've never been able to tell one asshat from another asshat.
They have weird pricing, like "media mail" where the postage varies, not just by weight and destination, but by the content of the package.
One time I ordered an electronic part that was quite thin,
the shipper sent it between two magazines because media rate was 50% cheaper than first class even though I paid for first class shipping. Needless to say, I didn't buy from that shipper again.
Centralization very very rarely beats a competitive market for efficiency.
USPS consolidated five zip codes into one distribution center, turning four 30,000-sqft facilities into storefront locations. It took five years to remove all the kinks at the existing facility as the combined workload got done with fewer workers.
I hope not. I'm still polishing my Python script for scraping Slashdot comment history. When I publish it on GitHub, I'll be submitting it to Slashdot. Anonymously, of course.
I use the Pelican static website generator for my static websites. I got Python to massage the data and Jinja2 for the template engine. I see no need to us OOP on the backend. If I did, Python can do OOP.
Packages are delivered to the Amazon Locker at the 7-11 down the street or to my post office box. Anything delivered to my apartment will walk off before I get home.
Shouldn't we be teaching children how to critically think instead?
The political parties don't want smarter voters.
They can use inexpensive raspberry pi's for fuck sake and probably learn more.
If any device falls into the "I can't do my job or that task without this one special unique tool" category, it's the Raspberry Pi. Kids are more likely to find Macs and Windows at their future jobs.
I always wanted the HP calculator that could play Missile Command. All the engineering students at the university had them, but they cost $500 each and too pricey for my modest means. I still have my HP calculator that can do Reverse Polish Notation even though I never used that feature.
It's a strategic error to be frightened of cannibalising your own sales. Your competitors aren't.
True.
You rather missed the point there...
I'm not yet convinced that print is on the way out as film.
Not everyone has a computer or access to digital devices.
I'm reading a book about Facebook advertising ("Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" by Antonio Garcia Martinez). There are 7.5B people in the world who could use Facebook, but the actual number of users who can use Facebook is 1.5B — and Facebook is running out of users to sustain its growth. I think print may stick around longer than film.
There were socioeconomic indicators long before the Apple ][, even if you didn't notice them.
True. But the situation with the Apple ][ was a bit perverse. From 1984 to 1996, people kept telling me to get into computers and I disagreed with them even though I was building PCs from scratch. I was in a dead end restaurant job when my roommate told me that his company wanted to hire a software testing intern in 1997. I got the job and the rest became history. Would my life have been different if I haven't hated the Apple ][ in 1984?
I had three Commodore 64's from middle school through college over a ten-year period. I had a NLQ dot matrix printer with a Commodore serial interface and Centronic parallel interface that lasted another ten years after I switched from Commodore to PCs. When laser printers became affordable (~$150), I ditched the dot matrix printer.
The girls in the seventh grade thought I came from a "poor" family because we didn't have cable to watch MTV and we didn't own an Apple ][ computer. I hated the Apple ][ with a passion. Before the Apple ][, were just kids. After the Apple ][, we were kids with socioeconomic markers. Being the proverbial fat kid in school, I had all the wrong kinds of socioeconomic markers.
So you have a choice: work harder at stripping it away, or remain a lazy, fat slob.
I'm going to continue what I've always done: stick to my diet, continue to exercise, make changes where necessary, and I don't listen to the asshats.
If they let you shovel food into yourself and don't make you get exercise, that's not genetics - that IS bad parenting.
I ate the exact same food that my parents' ate. My older brother is skinny and he ate the same food as I did. But he weighed five pounds at birth. I weighed ten pounds at birth.
All of the "genetics" and "just big boned" talk is bullshit your mom fed you to make you feel better about yourself.
My mother frequently told me that she would have aborted if she knew I was a mongoloid (I wasn't but I was the poster child for mongolism and took Special Ed classes because the schools got extra funding in the 1970's). She was too busy throwing beer bottles, plates and pots at my head when she got drunk. Like many asshats on Slashdot, she also thought I was piece of shit that came out of the wrong hole. My life improved substantially when I stopped listening to my mother.
Kid is shocked and amazed, and concludes that it must be some double-recessive mutant gene that makes him fat, not his lifestyle choices.
Everyone in my family is skinny except for me. Either I'm biggest fuck up in the family or I have a "double-recessive mutant gene" that makes me big (not fat).
It took me about 20 seconds to read that post that was too long for you.
I can read 100+ pages per hour, depending on the complexity of material. I'm not going to read 20 seconds of drivel meant to insult my intelligence because some asshat gets off insulting people on the Internet because they have nothing better to do with their life.
That's like neglecting digital photography to protect your film business.
The problem with film was that you needed to develop the film before you could have pictures. Digital photography took out that extra step. Print and ebooks are just different formats of the same content.
Worked sooooooo well for Kodak.
The verdict is still out on traditional publishers.
In a lot of cases they are more expensive than the print copies and they have way more restrictions.
That's because traditional print publishers are trying to protect their print business. Given a choice between an overpriced ebook and slightly less expensive print book at Amazon, most consumers will buy the print book.
If I buy a printed tech book these days, it's probably an older book that isn't available as an ebook or a previous edition of a current book that's too expensive. Why pay $100+ for a compiler book when you can buy an older compiler book for $5?
Slashdot Mirror
How or why do you put entire text comments into a *CSV* file?
I can import the CSV file into Excel for data analysis. I haven't written the functions to store the comments in HTML, JSON or Markdown files.
Are you a retard?
Don't work with big data?
Did you export the data into to CSV format and then import into Microsoft Excel?
Post to the wrong thread, friend?
What's really needed is something which completely hides the mess of html+css like a compiler hides binary which you never actually look at.
Adobe Dreamweaver and Microsoft FrontPage I remembered quite well. As a software testing intern (circa 1997), I had to clean up the HTML/CSS whenever a graphic designer couldn't get her sliced image to line up neatly in the table rows.
Scraping Slashdot is both child's play and not worth it.
I found it quite useful. For example, someone said I wrote "dead wood" in a past comment. With my 8,000+ comment history in a CSV file, I ran a search for "dead wood" in Excel and a few seconds later found nothing.
You're one of the only people here that actually posts under a name that is traceable to a real person.
One of the advantages of having a named account.
All the accounts here are just AC with Karma.
I've never been able to tell one asshat from another asshat.
They have weird pricing, like "media mail" where the postage varies, not just by weight and destination, but by the content of the package.
One time I ordered an electronic part that was quite thin, the shipper sent it between two magazines because media rate was 50% cheaper than first class even though I paid for first class shipping. Needless to say, I didn't buy from that shipper again.
Centralization very very rarely beats a competitive market for efficiency.
USPS consolidated five zip codes into one distribution center, turning four 30,000-sqft facilities into storefront locations. It took five years to remove all the kinks at the existing facility as the combined workload got done with fewer workers.
I hope not. I'm still polishing my Python script for scraping Slashdot comment history. When I publish it on GitHub, I'll be submitting it to Slashdot. Anonymously, of course.
I use the Pelican static website generator for my static websites. I got Python to massage the data and Jinja2 for the template engine. I see no need to us OOP on the backend. If I did, Python can do OOP.
Packages are delivered to the Amazon Locker at the 7-11 down the street or to my post office box. Anything delivered to my apartment will walk off before I get home.
Shouldn't we be teaching children how to critically think instead?
The political parties don't want smarter voters.
They can use inexpensive raspberry pi's for fuck sake and probably learn more.
If any device falls into the "I can't do my job or that task without this one special unique tool" category, it's the Raspberry Pi. Kids are more likely to find Macs and Windows at their future jobs.
I always wanted the HP calculator that could play Missile Command. All the engineering students at the university had them, but they cost $500 each and too pricey for my modest means. I still have my HP calculator that can do Reverse Polish Notation even though I never used that feature.
It was a truly digital system, 5 on the left palm and 5 on the right.
The middle digits were quite useful in many situations.
No one cares what you self publish.
Let me check my sales revenue data... KA-ching!
Your comments are boring enough on a free site, you wannabe.
Let me check my ad revenue data... KA-ching!
It's a strategic error to be frightened of cannibalising your own sales. Your competitors aren't.
True.
You rather missed the point there...
I'm not yet convinced that print is on the way out as film. Not everyone has a computer or access to digital devices. I'm reading a book about Facebook advertising ("Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" by Antonio Garcia Martinez). There are 7.5B people in the world who could use Facebook, but the actual number of users who can use Facebook is 1.5B — and Facebook is running out of users to sustain its growth. I think print may stick around longer than film.
But hey, you turned out OK.
The asshats on Slashdot would disagree. They're still pissing and moaning on this thread.
There were socioeconomic indicators long before the Apple ][, even if you didn't notice them.
True. But the situation with the Apple ][ was a bit perverse. From 1984 to 1996, people kept telling me to get into computers and I disagreed with them even though I was building PCs from scratch. I was in a dead end restaurant job when my roommate told me that his company wanted to hire a software testing intern in 1997. I got the job and the rest became history. Would my life have been different if I haven't hated the Apple ][ in 1984?
I had three Commodore 64's from middle school through college over a ten-year period. I had a NLQ dot matrix printer with a Commodore serial interface and Centronic parallel interface that lasted another ten years after I switched from Commodore to PCs. When laser printers became affordable (~$150), I ditched the dot matrix printer.
The girls in the seventh grade thought I came from a "poor" family because we didn't have cable to watch MTV and we didn't own an Apple ][ computer. I hated the Apple ][ with a passion. Before the Apple ][, were just kids. After the Apple ][, we were kids with socioeconomic markers. Being the proverbial fat kid in school, I had all the wrong kinds of socioeconomic markers.
So you have a choice: work harder at stripping it away, or remain a lazy, fat slob.
I'm going to continue what I've always done: stick to my diet, continue to exercise, make changes where necessary, and I don't listen to the asshats.
If they let you shovel food into yourself and don't make you get exercise, that's not genetics - that IS bad parenting.
I ate the exact same food that my parents' ate. My older brother is skinny and he ate the same food as I did. But he weighed five pounds at birth. I weighed ten pounds at birth.
All of the "genetics" and "just big boned" talk is bullshit your mom fed you to make you feel better about yourself.
My mother frequently told me that she would have aborted if she knew I was a mongoloid (I wasn't but I was the poster child for mongolism and took Special Ed classes because the schools got extra funding in the 1970's). She was too busy throwing beer bottles, plates and pots at my head when she got drunk. Like many asshats on Slashdot, she also thought I was piece of shit that came out of the wrong hole. My life improved substantially when I stopped listening to my mother.
Kid is shocked and amazed, and concludes that it must be some double-recessive mutant gene that makes him fat, not his lifestyle choices.
Everyone in my family is skinny except for me. Either I'm biggest fuck up in the family or I have a "double-recessive mutant gene" that makes me big (not fat).
I'm there with you bro, for sure.
Thank you!
It took me about 20 seconds to read that post that was too long for you.
I can read 100+ pages per hour, depending on the complexity of material. I'm not going to read 20 seconds of drivel meant to insult my intelligence because some asshat gets off insulting people on the Internet because they have nothing better to do with their life.
Because the banks were forced at the stroke of a pen to loan money to deadbeats who had no ability (or desire) to repay.
You would rather blame Bill Clinton than acknowledged that unrestrained greed drives Wall Street? Sad.
i'm the asshat with the 3k bottle of wine by the way.
Not only do you piss away your money, you also piss away your time. You don't know what to do with either.
That's like neglecting digital photography to protect your film business.
The problem with film was that you needed to develop the film before you could have pictures. Digital photography took out that extra step. Print and ebooks are just different formats of the same content.
Worked sooooooo well for Kodak.
The verdict is still out on traditional publishers.
In a lot of cases they are more expensive than the print copies and they have way more restrictions.
That's because traditional print publishers are trying to protect their print business. Given a choice between an overpriced ebook and slightly less expensive print book at Amazon, most consumers will buy the print book.
Do you take your cellphone to the beach? You can read your Kindle books on your cellphone.
If I buy a printed tech book these days, it's probably an older book that isn't available as an ebook or a previous edition of a current book that's too expensive. Why pay $100+ for a compiler book when you can buy an older compiler book for $5?