Editors don't do spell-checking. They typically do a round of reviewing of the story and work with the author on improving it and making it more readable to others. That's creative work too.
You know, that word (pubescent) is usually used as a derogatory term by older people (who presumably have completed that troubled time that is puberty), to look down upon those pesky, inconsistent youngsters who don't know what they want but keep bitching about it.
Consider the apalling use of "the shrinkage" in the article (what's wrong with "the shrinking"?), I'm not too surprised that the rest of the article is equally badly worded.
You mention that opinions are rooted in the world of 5 years ago. What do you think has changed in the linux world since then, and how does it affect Fedora development?
To make up for your lack of a finance degree, you might want to look into going on one of the trading courses offered by the Derivatives Institute. That way potential employers won't take a glance at your CV, sneer, and say "so beyond the fact that you've spent some time working in banks, what are your qualifications to work for us?"
Sounds like your CEO wasn't very business-minded. Open source is simply a good way to reduce costs while increasing reliability. It hits his bottom line and his dividends directly and if he doesn't understand that, then he probably shouldn't be in business. The fact is, he does not and should not care about any other shenanigans to do with "moral right and wrong" and all that crap. As head of a business, it's all about the bottom line! And bottom line = revenues - costs.
After you've prepared the subject, you need to prepare yourself.
I believe some studies have shown that listening to certain types of music (e.g. Mozart) before exams actually results in a boost in results. You need to relax and prime your brain into its high-performance mode where it can regurgitate all the knowledge you've been cramming into it for the last few weeks.
That has to be somewhere in the manual of permanent employment as one of the tricks of the trade... "introduce technology that no one else understands so that you're the only person who can maintain it". If the original poster's boss has any brain cells, he'll refuse to have any C# lying about unless he has more than 1 programmer capable of working with it.
There are already drivers for solid state devices which already do this quite effectively (i.e. minimize the amount of rewriting of bits). I'm sure this laptop would come with a similar driver included.
I think you're over-concerned. We've had ID cards for many years in Switzerland, and if they're anything, that's extremely convenient. Whenever you need to provide ID for age verification (e.g. to buy alcohol or go into a club), instead of lugging a passport with you or some other less adequate item (e.g. driver's licence - if you have one. I don't), you just show your ID card, which is like a credit-card sized passport, essentially. It also allows me to go to most european countries without having my passport with me. Basically it's very handy as a passport substitute, and just because it exists doesn't mean the police are constantly asking for it.
Please note that Swiss ID cards do not have biometric nonsense attached to them. They are just ID cards. ID cards are useful.
Yes, to respond to the/. article... actually I'm seriously looking at a Mac for my next computer. All I really need M$ for is games anyway, and I don't play those that incredibly often. If I can have XP on dual boot for the games, no need for even a PC!
Daniel
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The great advantage of this is precisely the fact that you can share your calendar. I don't put any "private" events on my calendar... but it's, in a work environment, handy to be able to allow other ppl to book time slots with you. I think this could be handy in a social environment too. Also easier to get a reminder of what you've planned this way.
Daniel
Agreed. The article is a bit soft in the head. And he calls himself a designer? "Functionality is more important than design". Well dumbass, I have some news for you: "Design" is about making the functionality stand out, not about putting pretty bells and whistles everywhere. That's not design, that's prettyfying. A site that's well designed can only be so if it has a purpose. That's why you don't say that the Mona Lisa is well designed. It's not a fricken utility.
Sheez. I learnt this back in 1998 when I was dabbling in web design... Sure took this guy a while to catch up. Thanks for sharing your epiphany with us though.
Let me introduce you to this miracle device called.... THE PDA!
You don't have to sit in front of a computer to read eBooks... I do most of my fiction-reading on my trusty Palm Tungsten E2. And I read a LOT. I still buy hard copies of some books, based on availability, or impulse (I rarely walk out of book shops empty-handed... I'm an addict!).
And PDAs have a lot of advantages when it comes to reading books on the move. They are easy to carry, they are smaller than books, you can pick up your pda and read a couple of pages while queuing for the till in the supermarket - which you probably wouldn't bother to do with a paperback because of the hassle of pulling it out of your backpack and putting it back in - you can read it one-handed while holding on to some metal bar while in the bus or the tube (underground) - no need to flip pages!
I'm just waiting for them to come out with an eInk version of this and then I can die happy...:-)
FYI, for the "precarious balancing between thumb and forefinger" problem, I've found that eReader (eReader.com) allows you to have the PDA display the text upside down, which means you can resume the pistol grip and use the thumb on the buttons which are now at the subjective top of the PDA.
Tip for breaking the vicious cycle: I've stopped drinking coffee twice... once cold turkey, once progressively after getting back into it through the devious paths of coca-cola and green tea (I didn't realise green tea had caffeine).
I found that breaking off progressively was *much* easier than all-of-a-sudden. You don't get all the psychological trip where your brain tries to convince you that you *must* have a cup otherwise something bad will happen (eg. you won't be sharp enough to do your job, etc). Breaking off cold turkey was a nightmare for a whole week, then progressively got better. Breaking off progressively (cutting my consumption by half every week, until I was having half a cup of espresso every other day, and then nothing at all) worked a LOT better, very smoothly. I don't even recall having any coffee cravings when I did that.
That can also be a good way to test whether the boss is a good one. A good boss knows that he/she should invite his/her team out for drinks, buy a couple of rounds, and then excuse him/herself - so that the team can vent whatever they feel like venting.
I'd like to add that every rpg (computer-based or not) that I've ever heard off has had this concept, through experience points. The author of this article is a bit soft in the head, methinks. Maybe he's spent too much time on SF2...
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Editors don't do spell-checking. They typically do a round of reviewing of the story and work with the author on improving it and making it more readable to others. That's creative work too.
Daniel
You know, that word (pubescent) is usually used as a derogatory term by older people (who presumably have completed that troubled time that is puberty), to look down upon those pesky, inconsistent youngsters who don't know what they want but keep bitching about it.
Seriously.. wtf?
Daniel
Consider the apalling use of "the shrinkage" in the article (what's wrong with "the shrinking"?), I'm not too surprised that the rest of the article is equally badly worded.
Daniel
Perhaps the other 101 participants were testing the South African version of the AIDS remedy: Lemon, Garlic and Beetroots ...
Daniel
You mention that opinions are rooted in the world of 5 years ago. What do you think has changed in the linux world since then, and how does it affect Fedora development?
Daniel
To make up for your lack of a finance degree, you might want to look into going on one of the trading courses offered by the Derivatives Institute. That way potential employers won't take a glance at your CV, sneer, and say "so beyond the fact that you've spent some time working in banks, what are your qualifications to work for us?"
Daniel
Sounds like your CEO wasn't very business-minded. Open source is simply a good way to reduce costs while increasing reliability. It hits his bottom line and his dividends directly and if he doesn't understand that, then he probably shouldn't be in business. The fact is, he does not and should not care about any other shenanigans to do with "moral right and wrong" and all that crap. As head of a business, it's all about the bottom line! And bottom line = revenues - costs.
Daniel
One way that I've seen this phrased is:
After you've prepared the subject, you need to prepare yourself.
I believe some studies have shown that listening to certain types of music (e.g. Mozart) before exams actually results in a boost in results. You need to relax and prime your brain into its high-performance mode where it can regurgitate all the knowledge you've been cramming into it for the last few weeks.
Daniel
You'll be able to mix-n-match C# code.
That has to be somewhere in the manual of permanent employment as one of the tricks of the trade... "introduce technology that no one else understands so that you're the only person who can maintain it". If the original poster's boss has any brain cells, he'll refuse to have any C# lying about unless he has more than 1 programmer capable of working with it.
Daniel
There are already drivers for solid state devices which already do this quite effectively (i.e. minimize the amount of rewriting of bits). I'm sure this laptop would come with a similar driver included.
Daniel
More importantly, how stupid is that headline? "Biggest problem" my ass. This is just one maintenance problem... hardly the "biggest problem".
Daniel
The fact that Macs can now run windows is one of the main reasons that I'm considering buying a Mac. Oh no! I've been had...?
Dear me, I better get back onto my Mac-lemming-hating high-horse before it's too late!...
Daniel
Surelii you mean you're sorrii!
Daniel
Next you'll be saying that a tie is a useless piece of cloth tied around someone's neck! Out with you and your sensible views :-)
Daniel
I think you're over-concerned. We've had ID cards for many years in Switzerland, and if they're anything, that's extremely convenient. Whenever you need to provide ID for age verification (e.g. to buy alcohol or go into a club), instead of lugging a passport with you or some other less adequate item (e.g. driver's licence - if you have one. I don't), you just show your ID card, which is like a credit-card sized passport, essentially. It also allows me to go to most european countries without having my passport with me. Basically it's very handy as a passport substitute, and just because it exists doesn't mean the police are constantly asking for it.
Please note that Swiss ID cards do not have biometric nonsense attached to them. They are just ID cards. ID cards are useful.
Daniel
Yes, to respond to the /. article... actually I'm seriously looking at a Mac for my next computer. All I really need M$ for is games anyway, and I don't play those that incredibly often. If I can have XP on dual boot for the games, no need for even a PC!
Daniel
The great advantage of this is precisely the fact that you can share your calendar. I don't put any "private" events on my calendar... but it's, in a work environment, handy to be able to allow other ppl to book time slots with you. I think this could be handy in a social environment too. Also easier to get a reminder of what you've planned this way. Daniel
Agreed. The article is a bit soft in the head. And he calls himself a designer? "Functionality is more important than design". Well dumbass, I have some news for you: "Design" is about making the functionality stand out, not about putting pretty bells and whistles everywhere. That's not design, that's prettyfying. A site that's well designed can only be so if it has a purpose. That's why you don't say that the Mona Lisa is well designed. It's not a fricken utility.
Sheez. I learnt this back in 1998 when I was dabbling in web design... Sure took this guy a while to catch up. Thanks for sharing your epiphany with us though.
Daniel
You puny geekling. It's been years since I migrated my enormous collection of pr0n to my petabyte array...
Running out of space too... maybe I should build a beowulf cluster of them.
Daniel
Umm...
:-)
Let me introduce you to this miracle device called.... THE PDA!
You don't have to sit in front of a computer to read eBooks... I do most of my fiction-reading on my trusty Palm Tungsten E2. And I read a LOT. I still buy hard copies of some books, based on availability, or impulse (I rarely walk out of book shops empty-handed... I'm an addict!).
And PDAs have a lot of advantages when it comes to reading books on the move. They are easy to carry, they are smaller than books, you can pick up your pda and read a couple of pages while queuing for the till in the supermarket - which you probably wouldn't bother to do with a paperback because of the hassle of pulling it out of your backpack and putting it back in - you can read it one-handed while holding on to some metal bar while in the bus or the tube (underground) - no need to flip pages!
I'm just waiting for them to come out with an eInk version of this and then I can die happy...
DAniel
FYI, for the "precarious balancing between thumb and forefinger" problem, I've found that eReader (eReader.com) allows you to have the PDA display the text upside down, which means you can resume the pistol grip and use the thumb on the buttons which are now at the subjective top of the PDA.
Daniel
No, but given the omnipresence of dust, it's as good as permanent even if it keeps shifting from one part of the disk to another...
Daniel
Tip for breaking the vicious cycle: I've stopped drinking coffee twice... once cold turkey, once progressively after getting back into it through the devious paths of coca-cola and green tea (I didn't realise green tea had caffeine).
I found that breaking off progressively was *much* easier than all-of-a-sudden. You don't get all the psychological trip where your brain tries to convince you that you *must* have a cup otherwise something bad will happen (eg. you won't be sharp enough to do your job, etc). Breaking off cold turkey was a nightmare for a whole week, then progressively got better. Breaking off progressively (cutting my consumption by half every week, until I was having half a cup of espresso every other day, and then nothing at all) worked a LOT better, very smoothly. I don't even recall having any coffee cravings when I did that.
Daniel
That can also be a good way to test whether the boss is a good one. A good boss knows that he/she should invite his/her team out for drinks, buy a couple of rounds, and then excuse him/herself - so that the team can vent whatever they feel like venting.
Daniel
I'd like to add that every rpg (computer-based or not) that I've ever heard off has had this concept, through experience points. The author of this article is a bit soft in the head, methinks. Maybe he's spent too much time on SF2...
Daniel