What sort of signals have you gotten from those observations in the past? I ask because I've never judged an interview candidate on best practices, style, etc. since I'd be unfairly biased in favor of a point of view in which the interviewee hasn't been trained yet. I've seen a few cases where folks try to do things professionally, and it leaves them with less time to finish the algorithm. If the code is working, it could use implicit K&R types for all I care.
Instead of a movie they need to watch cable. Force them to watch the Discovery Channel and Animal Planet nature shows.
Naturally speaking, killing an animal is no different than killing a fellow human. Human beings are by nature, cruel and selfish creatures. The thing that makes us different from animals, is that we have the mental capacity to choose to be civilized. If human beings are capable of choosing to not murder each other, why are we not capable of choosing to sustain ourselves without torturing and killing animals?
Okay, seriously, what's the point of invite-only registration?
It's pure marketing. If you have to wait 15 days for your friend to give to an invite to this "exclusive" tracker, chances are you're going to think it's this great thing and you'll talk about it and use it more than you otherwise would.
Telling someone who is suffering from mental illness that the pain they feel is not their fault, but a disease which can be cured, can oftentimes be comforting. Such treatment externalizes the source of the patient's problems and motivates them to fight against the "disease" instead of blaming him/herself. Think about it, if you had severe depression and each day was a struggle to do the most basic of things, would you rather have a doctor say, "oh, wow, I guess you're pretty messed up. take these pills and it might make you more like a normal person" or "what's happening isn't your fault, it's a disease that can be treated and possibly cured"
That's a good point because if Clinton is elected and serves two terms, we'll have had two families consecutively controlling the White House for 28 years. That's an entire generation! The whole point of democracy is to evenly distribute governing power to the masses. When power consolidates into the hands of the few, democracy dies.
Businesses can do as they please, but consumers can always vote with their browsers.
Yes, consumers can "vote with their browsers" by choosing to use the ones that support all the awesome capabilities described in W3 standards! You know, those features that no website utilizes because IE doesn't support them.
New standards don't mean anything if no one uses them. A non-developer switching to a browser like Firefox simply because it "supports standards" would be like buying a high definition television fifteen years ago; you're still getting the same quality broadcasts.
W3 standards don't catch on because they're not intended for the end-user, they're intended for developers. End-users don't care that the columns on your website were coded in CSS rather than a table. If you want people to switch to a more developer friendly browser, you have to give 'em the old razzle dazzle. For example, let's say Macromedia Flash was introduced later in the game, relied on a W3C standard instead of a browser plugin, and that standard was only supported by non-IE browsers. Developers would be so anxious to use Flash that they would leave IE users in the dust, encouraging them to switch if they wanted to see the fancy dynamic content. IE users would then feel left out and switch to Firefox, which would end up with a 70% market share before Microsoft could even blink.
I'm also trying to run it on Ubuntu. I get the main welcome screen but I can't click on anything or type anything. The only thing that happens is when I hover over the text box at the top, the cursor inside it starts blinking. It makes me sad that I can't kill my productivity tonight with a happy game from my childhood.
The bulk of GHC is written in Haskell and requires GCC to compile a large portion of C code required to bootstrap the compile process. Also if memory serves me correctly GHC compiles binaries by translating your Haskell code to C, and then compiling the C code.
I'm kidding, but only partially. I was a COBOL developer for lots of years, and I thought that COBOL would never die either. I would say "Too many companies are too invested..." blah blah blah. I think that I actually even used the 'big iron' quote too when telling my friend how secure COBOL was. Um...I was wrong. I found that out with plenty of time to learn other stuff like Java and so forth but of course it's going to die.
But you're forgetting the reason COBOL is dying is because the tech industry is moving away from the machines and operating systems that make use of COBOL. C will not die in the next half century because the tech industry is moving closer towards technologies that are built on C like GNU/Linux. If anything, C will become more prevalent.
In the next fifty years I imagine C's role more or less becoming that of the "mother language". 90% of the time everyone will be using higher level languages like Perl, Ruby, and Haskell on their Linux computers, all of which are programmed in C. Programmers will only need C when they need to change their lower level system tools, or to write new ones that perform very efficiently.
The only way I can see C dying is if a kernel comes along with a Linux compatible system interface that's written in a language suited better to the massively parallelized CPUs of the future. And once the kernel moves away from C, applications are bound to follow.
[...] the only solution is to kill all the people with IQs below 120, maybe even 130.
Considering median IQ scores and the size of bell curves amongst different genders and ethnic groups, you'd end up in a world full of Jewish/Asian men. Enjoy!
I had the same problem a few years back. After getting evicted from my apartment I was homeless and emeciated for nearly a year. I applied for scores of low paying jobs, but was turned away by them all. My crime you ask? Making 20 dollars an hour with my previous employer.
Gender is determined by whether you have a Y chromosome or not
Actually gender is more correctly defined as how you perceive yourself psychologically, while "sex" is what's between your legs. The terms were defined as such to resolve ambiguity back in the 19th century to better describe intersexed, homosexual, and transsexual people.
Separating content from presentation on the client side is just a bad idea
I consider style a subset of presentation. The REAL crazies are the ones who write their sites in an arbitrary XML format and have XSLT trasform the XML on the client side. I was just referring to innocent stuff the style switches on sites like www.montalk.net and www.csszengarden.com that don't change any XHTML. It's neat:)
But that same facet makes it very tough to write by hand. What I mean is that with HTML you've got all your tags [...]
Funny, I always thought the hard part of writing XHTML wasn't actually closing my tags, but figuring out how to separate content and style enough to keep Berners-Lee happy, have it be easy to drop in new and totally different styles down the road, have it actually look good, but still keep my sanity.
I too, decided to get trendy and buy a mac notebook. The catch is I really like the VS.NET IDE and don't want to use Mono. Therefore, I must run XP on my Mac on top of OS X
No Virtual PC for Intel macs
Now we have Parallels desktop instead. I am using it.
I could have used Bootcamp, but I don't like to reboot...
I have a smaller macbook, with lesser graphics power. I upgraded the ram to 2gb
I like Paralells and use it everday. I essentially run all my programs in my virtual XP environment, like MS SQL server and even my Firefox web browser! But hey, I'm doing it on a mac!
VB crashes sometimes, the rest of the apps just consumes memory.
Caching could be improved
Grapics rending speed is really slow. Notepad needs to refresh the whole screen when you type a character
I would like to explain memory allocation
I am a power user, therefore I dedicate half my ram to parallels. Oh! did I mention I actually use the following list of mac software???? Entourage (an MS product), Camino, iTunes, etc.
My computer gets sluggish
512 megs of ram for parallel wasn't enough
Why can't the virtual XP use OS X swapping instead of virtual virtual memory?
IANAW, but this is the worst article I've seen posted on/. in a while.
Let's not forget that projection is a troll's psychological defense mechanism of choice. And in my informed and educated opinion, you need a lot of this one to continue to support the course of action our president has taken with the "war on terror"
Right... and who's going to educate users about such schemes, which will undoubtedly vary from one site to the next? Outside of involved "web apps", there's probably a trade-off in development time in building out something along these lines given how few users to whom this will appeal, who are willing to take the time to learn an ad hoc navigation scheme in the first place.
When you pay someone to spend 40 hours a week using a web application, is it unreasonable to assume that someone could take the time to tell them that they can press 'f' to go forward instead of clicking forward? Perhaps hand out cheat sheets? Also, if they don't learn it, they just do things the slow way. When you design applications, you need to assume that people are stupid and worthless, but seriously, people aren't THAT DUMB.
One thing I'd like to see more of in web development are keyboard shortcuts. (This really only applies to websites built for the backend, not so much the front end.) The problem is that websites tend to be a very cumbersome tool as far as human computer interaction is concerned; after all, web pages were originally intended to view documents! Web developers need to program more javascript shortcuts in to their code. Even just simple stuff, like instead of searching for the next button with your mouse, just being able to press 'n'. Want to view a support ticket? Just press 's' and the ticket number. Worker productivity would skyrocket.
Most people perceive "new web technology" as an end in itself, and will rewrite all their software to be web-based without realizing the strengths and weaknesses of the new platform. When this happens, you get is really really bad software. For example, I know some people who work in customer service who were moved off of a telnet based support system to a web gui and lost their minds when a single command line entry became 5 mouse clicks and lots of scrolling with 1 second page loads.
Improving open source speech rec and tts will be a HUGE improvement in the grand scheme of progress as far as human-computer interaction is concerned. The main reason is because Nuance has a near monopoly in this market and they charge INSANE licensing fees to do anything with their technology. Whenever closed-source competition comes along, they just buy them out. Heck, their sales people even talk down to you on the phone because they know they're the only game in town.
Having a viable open source alternative will ensure that everyone has access to this technology and there will be many new innovations that will just continue to make technology cooler.
Please people, take the time out of your schedule to record prompts. It will do everyone a lot of good.
Well, carbon levels in the atmosphere are actually the highest they've been in the past 160 thousand years. See the graph on this page. We have really been screwing the planet the past 200 years. There is NO debate here.
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What sort of signals have you gotten from those observations in the past? I ask because I've never judged an interview candidate on best practices, style, etc. since I'd be unfairly biased in favor of a point of view in which the interviewee hasn't been trained yet. I've seen a few cases where folks try to do things professionally, and it leaves them with less time to finish the algorithm. If the code is working, it could use implicit K&R types for all I care.
The Mad Gadget vulnerability strikes again. https://opensource.googleblog....
Telling someone who is suffering from mental illness that the pain they feel is not their fault, but a disease which can be cured, can oftentimes be comforting. Such treatment externalizes the source of the patient's problems and motivates them to fight against the "disease" instead of blaming him/herself. Think about it, if you had severe depression and each day was a struggle to do the most basic of things, would you rather have a doctor say, "oh, wow, I guess you're pretty messed up. take these pills and it might make you more like a normal person" or "what's happening isn't your fault, it's a disease that can be treated and possibly cured"
That's a good point because if Clinton is elected and serves two terms, we'll have had two families consecutively controlling the White House for 28 years. That's an entire generation! The whole point of democracy is to evenly distribute governing power to the masses. When power consolidates into the hands of the few, democracy dies.
New standards don't mean anything if no one uses them. A non-developer switching to a browser like Firefox simply because it "supports standards" would be like buying a high definition television fifteen years ago; you're still getting the same quality broadcasts.
W3 standards don't catch on because they're not intended for the end-user, they're intended for developers. End-users don't care that the columns on your website were coded in CSS rather than a table. If you want people to switch to a more developer friendly browser, you have to give 'em the old razzle dazzle. For example, let's say Macromedia Flash was introduced later in the game, relied on a W3C standard instead of a browser plugin, and that standard was only supported by non-IE browsers. Developers would be so anxious to use Flash that they would leave IE users in the dust, encouraging them to switch if they wanted to see the fancy dynamic content. IE users would then feel left out and switch to Firefox, which would end up with a 70% market share before Microsoft could even blink.
I'm also trying to run it on Ubuntu. I get the main welcome screen but I can't click on anything or type anything. The only thing that happens is when I hover over the text box at the top, the cursor inside it starts blinking. It makes me sad that I can't kill my productivity tonight with a happy game from my childhood.
The bulk of GHC is written in Haskell and requires GCC to compile a large portion of C code required to bootstrap the compile process. Also if memory serves me correctly GHC compiles binaries by translating your Haskell code to C, and then compiling the C code.
In the next fifty years I imagine C's role more or less becoming that of the "mother language". 90% of the time everyone will be using higher level languages like Perl, Ruby, and Haskell on their Linux computers, all of which are programmed in C. Programmers will only need C when they need to change their lower level system tools, or to write new ones that perform very efficiently.
The only way I can see C dying is if a kernel comes along with a Linux compatible system interface that's written in a language suited better to the massively parallelized CPUs of the future. And once the kernel moves away from C, applications are bound to follow.
Sounds a lot like the promises of becoming rich in real life that few actually obtain due to those pesky land barons^W^Wcorporations.
Ever hear of SSHFS? Or the infinitely slow Tramp?
I had the same problem a few years back. After getting evicted from my apartment I was homeless and emeciated for nearly a year. I applied for scores of low paying jobs, but was turned away by them all. My crime you ask? Making 20 dollars an hour with my previous employer.
- I too, decided to get trendy and buy a mac notebook. The catch is I really like the VS.NET IDE and don't want to use Mono. Therefore, I must run XP on my Mac on top of OS X
- No Virtual PC for Intel macs
- Now we have Parallels desktop instead. I am using it.
- I could have used Bootcamp, but I don't like to reboot...
- I have a smaller macbook, with lesser graphics power. I upgraded the ram to 2gb
- I like Paralells and use it everday. I essentially run all my programs in my virtual XP environment, like MS SQL server and even my Firefox web browser! But hey, I'm doing it on a mac!
- VB crashes sometimes, the rest of the apps just consumes memory.
- Caching could be improved
- Grapics rending speed is really slow. Notepad needs to refresh the whole screen when you type a character
- I would like to explain memory allocation
- I am a power user, therefore I dedicate half my ram to parallels. Oh! did I mention I actually use the following list of mac software???? Entourage (an MS product), Camino, iTunes, etc.
- My computer gets sluggish
- 512 megs of ram for parallel wasn't enough
- Why can't the virtual XP use OS X swapping instead of virtual virtual memory?
IANAW, but this is the worst article I've seen posted onOne thing I'd like to see more of in web development are keyboard shortcuts. (This really only applies to websites built for the backend, not so much the front end.) The problem is that websites tend to be a very cumbersome tool as far as human computer interaction is concerned; after all, web pages were originally intended to view documents! Web developers need to program more javascript shortcuts in to their code. Even just simple stuff, like instead of searching for the next button with your mouse, just being able to press 'n'. Want to view a support ticket? Just press 's' and the ticket number. Worker productivity would skyrocket.
Most people perceive "new web technology" as an end in itself, and will rewrite all their software to be web-based without realizing the strengths and weaknesses of the new platform. When this happens, you get is really really bad software. For example, I know some people who work in customer service who were moved off of a telnet based support system to a web gui and lost their minds when a single command line entry became 5 mouse clicks and lots of scrolling with 1 second page loads.
Improving open source speech rec and tts will be a HUGE improvement in the grand scheme of progress as far as human-computer interaction is concerned. The main reason is because Nuance has a near monopoly in this market and they charge INSANE licensing fees to do anything with their technology. Whenever closed-source competition comes along, they just buy them out. Heck, their sales people even talk down to you on the phone because they know they're the only game in town.
Having a viable open source alternative will ensure that everyone has access to this technology and there will be many new innovations that will just continue to make technology cooler.
Please people, take the time out of your schedule to record prompts. It will do everyone a lot of good.
Well, carbon levels in the atmosphere are actually the highest they've been in the past 160 thousand years. See the graph on this page. We have really been screwing the planet the past 200 years. There is NO debate here.