I was making a right turn on a red a couple years ago, and my sister loudly gasps "Oh my God!" I nearly drove into a parked car looking around for what I missed and almost got rear ended by the car turning right behind me. Turns out she was reacting to something utterly unrelated to the road. I nearly banned her permanently from being a passenger when I'm driving.
*shrug* I'd hire the best coders. Period. If they crank out great code with their feet, who cares?
I don't want anyone who's going to be using a pencil to type or one or two fingers. They obviously don't think it is important enough to know efficient use of the tool so why would they be expected to put much effort into expanding their skills elsewhere.
I meant I hold a pencil in an odd way when I *write*.
They can get by without this but I will tell you this, those people who I try to work with who don't type well, do not want to learn or use the computer very much.
My experience is exactly the opposite, and hence the value (or lack thereof) of anecdotal evidence. Some of the best programmers I ever met were mediocre typists. I cousin of mine has sold three books being a two finger typer. You are reading way, way, *WAY* to much into it.
Your judgmental attitude and extrapolating little things into an amateur psychological profile is becoming common, though. I'm a hardware engineer, so no one cares how I type, but it makes me glad I might be able to retire early from this rat race in six or seven years.
Would you hire a mechanic who used a wrench for a hammer and screwdriver as a chisel?
My using two fingers to type does not break the code/document/email as the mechanic might break the car by misusing his tools. I also hold a pen in a non-standard way, yet I get awarded patents based on what I drew and wrote with that pen.
so it's unlikely to change
It just isn't a national emergency. It's not hurting anything in any way that can be quantified. If a business operation is so efficient and wonderful that they are fretting over the typing metrics of the employees, I'd say things are going quite well. It's just something down in the noise.
Right on, Sister! Fight the power! All these big daddies are just aging wannabe hepcats. They are so uncool! So square! They just don't groove to our crazy lingo, you dig? They're such drags, such freams! Our gen has it made in the shade with our omnitasking powers of metathink and nonlinear preceptrons in the temporal. I think it's time to text the droogs together for an indulgence in ultraviolence to pilot our savvy into the record, tight me? If the dudes come through with their yarbles in dobby condition, we can spend some hourage back at the crib with the old lubbilubbing.
Stories like this remind me of Fred and Barney looking at the Grand Canyon, and it's just a tiny stream. Fred comments, "They say it'll be a big ditch some day." Yes, it's Cynical Day here at the Desperation Compound.
My ancient (in cell phone terms) Motorola i510, built to Mil-Spec standards, and been run over by a Mini-Cooper and fallen down a flight of stairs. Still works fine. I fully expect it to protect me when the zombie apocalypse arrives.
This is all a symptom of the pampered Western lifestyle. There isn't enough to worry about, so people stop vaccinating their kids or believing in government death panels or fret/sue over 1 in 10,000,000 events. To quote a noted feline philosopher, "WE HAZ A DOOMED!"
There's been this tendency to depict humans are awful, uncaring monsters.
That's what disappointed me so much about John Scalzi's "Old Man's War" trilogy. The first two books had humanity scrabbling and fighting for a foothold in a hostile galaxy, and actually making some inroads and even hinting at deep counter-diplomacy to an alliance of hostile forces at the end of book 2. Humanity was clever, they could reverse engineer alien tech and accomplished amazing things. Earth was no saint, but that was OK. It's a tough galaxy. Then book 3 turned it all on its head and back to the old "Them there Earth-boys be teh stoopid" theme. Maybe that was his goal/point from the start, but it was disappointing.
The video game Mass Effect did it well. Humanity is the latecomer, the picked on and bullied new kid, but the first human agent admitted to their special club of superagents saves the day with the help of other humans and a collection of alien characters mostly from races that are literally outcasts in galactic culture. Even the two that are not outcasts are going against the grain of their respective cultures in one way or another.
Sue! Sue! Sue! Everyone is suing! I wanna sue! I'm tired of working for a living. Someone give me a reason to sue them! Oh, wait, we don't need reasons anymore! Woot!
People do realize those weren't actually working devices, correct?
I'm guessing he does from his use of the term Muggles. I'm sensing snark. I know. It's hard to tell around here. Snark and stupid can hit with equal frequency and with little warning.
I mean you like then 30th person to post this, it's kind of scary. I mean you potter fans are stating to become worse then Tolkien fans.
Seen the documentary We Are Wizards? Be afraid.
No one refers to LotR as the Frodo books.
Well, Potter's name is in the titles of all seven book and, except for a few scenes, they are all told from Potter's 3rd person POV. People also talk about Sherlock Holmes novels or Superman comics where the main character is iconic.
Hell, now I'm drawing a blank on the name of the Potter author.
Pretty soon they'll be the ONLY startup, if you know what I mean! Argh! Socialism! Death Panels! Dogs and cats sleeping together! I'm sorry. I'm working a lot of overtime and I'm really not sure where I even am at the moment. Just mod me into oblivion. Thank you and good night.
I enjoyed the film quite a lot. I think it has had one of the best ad campaigns in years. I've seen billboards with advisories against picking up alien hitchhikers (warning of a $10,000 fine). The best was the ad banner on a bus simply saying "This bus is for humans only!" and the prawn icon with the red slashed circle. Brilliant, and massively attention getting. I can't recall the last time I heard people at work discussing a billboard.
Her ex-husband is Kevin Strom, a prominent white nationalist and white supremacist* who was arrested [slashdot.org] for possession of child pornography
I heard she was having sex with aliens. Saw it on the news and everything.
users should not complain because the client software is 'free.'
Oh, I'd love to kick that guy in the nads and when he says "Dude! What up?" I'll say "Shut up! It was free!" and then he'd be all weepy like and I'd be all laughin' up in his face. Yeah, good times.
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I was making a right turn on a red a couple years ago, and my sister loudly gasps "Oh my God!" I nearly drove into a parked car looking around for what I missed and almost got rear ended by the car turning right behind me. Turns out she was reacting to something utterly unrelated to the road. I nearly banned her permanently from being a passenger when I'm driving.
It said the world would pay me $1000 to go away. :-(
*shrug* I'd hire the best coders. Period. If they crank out great code with their feet, who cares?
I don't want anyone who's going to be using a pencil to type or one or two fingers. They obviously don't think it is important enough to know efficient use of the tool so why would they be expected to put much effort into expanding their skills elsewhere.
I meant I hold a pencil in an odd way when I *write*.
They can get by without this but I will tell you this, those people who I try to work with who don't type well, do not want to learn or use the computer very much.
My experience is exactly the opposite, and hence the value (or lack thereof) of anecdotal evidence. Some of the best programmers I ever met were mediocre typists. I cousin of mine has sold three books being a two finger typer. You are reading way, way, *WAY* to much into it.
Your judgmental attitude and extrapolating little things into an amateur psychological profile is becoming common, though. I'm a hardware engineer, so no one cares how I type, but it makes me glad I might be able to retire early from this rat race in six or seven years.
I won't have you teaching my children DVORAK, you left wing hippie! If QWERTY was good enough for our founding fathers, its good enough for us!
So are we two finger typers the atheists here? Cool!
Would you hire a mechanic who used a wrench for a hammer and screwdriver as a chisel?
My using two fingers to type does not break the code/document/email as the mechanic might break the car by misusing his tools. I also hold a pen in a non-standard way, yet I get awarded patents based on what I drew and wrote with that pen.
so it's unlikely to change
It just isn't a national emergency. It's not hurting anything in any way that can be quantified. If a business operation is so efficient and wonderful that they are fretting over the typing metrics of the employees, I'd say things are going quite well. It's just something down in the noise.
I flirted with Mavis Beacon for a bit, but never took it to the next level.
A friend said to that, "Better to have touch typed and lost than to have never touch typed at all."
After I beat him into senselessness, I realized I did just fine with my two finger typing approach.
Besides, aren't the kids these days into the whole thumb based texting thing?
Did the Bungie staff use human or Covenant weapons to fight off the swarming cops?
I look forward to living in a future where the advertisements on the street are video screens
Or you could just sin enough to get into Hell, which is what that sounds like.
Right on, Sister! Fight the power! All these big daddies are just aging wannabe hepcats. They are so uncool! So square! They just don't groove to our crazy lingo, you dig? They're such drags, such freams! Our gen has it made in the shade with our omnitasking powers of metathink and nonlinear preceptrons in the temporal. I think it's time to text the droogs together for an indulgence in ultraviolence to pilot our savvy into the record, tight me? If the dudes come through with their yarbles in dobby condition, we can spend some hourage back at the crib with the old lubbilubbing.
Teens are talking less? Why is this news? Is there a downside or something?
"Parents are not interested in justice, they are interested in quiet." --- Bill Cosby
And, of course, there is a industry-wide, agreed upon standard for the 3D encoding and formats, right? Right??
What do the NBC chimes attract?
Stories like this remind me of Fred and Barney looking at the Grand Canyon, and it's just a tiny stream. Fred comments, "They say it'll be a big ditch some day." Yes, it's Cynical Day here at the Desperation Compound.
My ancient (in cell phone terms) Motorola i510, built to Mil-Spec standards, and been run over by a Mini-Cooper and fallen down a flight of stairs. Still works fine. I fully expect it to protect me when the zombie apocalypse arrives.
This is all a symptom of the pampered Western lifestyle. There isn't enough to worry about, so people stop vaccinating their kids or believing in government death panels or fret/sue over 1 in 10,000,000 events. To quote a noted feline philosopher, "WE HAZ A DOOMED!"
At one end of a line is Nick Farrel. At the the other end is the "Happy Fun Ball" parody of warning labels. You catch my drift here, guv?
Eventually iPhones will have giant warning labels that will contain the line "Do not insert into nose" and "Not to be used as a marital aid."
There's been this tendency to depict humans are awful, uncaring monsters.
That's what disappointed me so much about John Scalzi's "Old Man's War" trilogy. The first two books had humanity scrabbling and fighting for a foothold in a hostile galaxy, and actually making some inroads and even hinting at deep counter-diplomacy to an alliance of hostile forces at the end of book 2. Humanity was clever, they could reverse engineer alien tech and accomplished amazing things. Earth was no saint, but that was OK. It's a tough galaxy. Then book 3 turned it all on its head and back to the old "Them there Earth-boys be teh stoopid" theme. Maybe that was his goal/point from the start, but it was disappointing.
The video game Mass Effect did it well. Humanity is the latecomer, the picked on and bullied new kid, but the first human agent admitted to their special club of superagents saves the day with the help of other humans and a collection of alien characters mostly from races that are literally outcasts in galactic culture. Even the two that are not outcasts are going against the grain of their respective cultures in one way or another.
Sue! Sue! Sue! Everyone is suing! I wanna sue! I'm tired of working for a living. Someone give me a reason to sue them! Oh, wait, we don't need reasons anymore! Woot!
People do realize those weren't actually working devices, correct?
I'm guessing he does from his use of the term Muggles. I'm sensing snark. I know. It's hard to tell around here. Snark and stupid can hit with equal frequency and with little warning.
I mean you like then 30th person to post this, it's kind of scary. I mean you potter fans are stating to become worse then Tolkien fans.
Seen the documentary We Are Wizards? Be afraid.
No one refers to LotR as the Frodo books.
Well, Potter's name is in the titles of all seven book and, except for a few scenes, they are all told from Potter's 3rd person POV. People also talk about Sherlock Holmes novels or Superman comics where the main character is iconic.
Hell, now I'm drawing a blank on the name of the Potter author.
Hunter S. Thompson
Dark matter.
If you can get the DNA samples, isn't it easier just to place the samples at the crime scene?
I do believe that that would fall under the definition of change.
Or, more precisely, chump change.
Oh, I make funny! :)
Pretty soon they'll be the ONLY startup, if you know what I mean! Argh! Socialism! Death Panels! Dogs and cats sleeping together! I'm sorry. I'm working a lot of overtime and I'm really not sure where I even am at the moment. Just mod me into oblivion. Thank you and good night.
I enjoyed the film quite a lot. I think it has had one of the best ad campaigns in years. I've seen billboards with advisories against picking up alien hitchhikers (warning of a $10,000 fine). The best was the ad banner on a bus simply saying "This bus is for humans only!" and the prawn icon with the red slashed circle. Brilliant, and massively attention getting. I can't recall the last time I heard people at work discussing a billboard.
Her ex-husband is Kevin Strom, a prominent white nationalist and white supremacist* who was arrested [slashdot.org] for possession of child pornography
I heard she was having sex with aliens. Saw it on the news and everything.
users should not complain because the client software is 'free.'
Oh, I'd love to kick that guy in the nads and when he says "Dude! What up?" I'll say "Shut up! It was free!" and then he'd be all weepy like and I'd be all laughin' up in his face. Yeah, good times.