Default for most window managers is: hold alt, left click to drag. Dunno if ubuntu or gnome break this convention somehow. This is convention with several decades on it at this point.
Yes, it's kind of pathetic that their resolution change thing doesn't work at all resolutions.
It's also kind of pathetic that you didn't just open the configfile and change it back instead of reinstalling the whole system.
Er, that is a monopoly in the legal sense, although to make it legally so it needs a court to decide. Owning enough of the market that you can push others around is more or less what it means.
Agreed on all points but the school time. Most of the superior school systems have fewer hours but more days. That seems like an appropriate change. After a certain number of hours in classrooms, focus droops.
There are (many) other problems with our school systems, but more days and fewer hours seems like a good idea.
I've done a lot of custom jobs of carefully selected and modified tools over the years, never as part of IT proper. The things are usually extremely well received by users and save lots of time and headache for the relevant staff. Sure they take a bit more work to build, but typically they're easy to extend by myself or others because they're simple.
Still, I've watched many home-grown tools built by myself and/or others edged out by external software that typically costs boatloads of money to set up and customize, and has a shitty experience when it's done. IT sucks now because we want blunt, unfixable tools with the latest buzzwords, instead of stuff that just works.
There's a few rare cases where I actually want a web application. Most of the web applications I view as totally useless or inferior to native applications.
Most web pages aren't even bad web applications, they're just WEB PAGES. Don't require javascript to do amazingly trivial things like.. load the content.
I agree that your decision is wise for your personal situation, but i disagree that you're being an ass for rejecting her '8 to 4' attitude. She was the ass. Programming isn't an 8 to 4 job. It's a getting-things-done job, while also being available to colleagues. If you were doing those things and she thoughtlessly questioned your commitment without INQUIRING first, then she's a shite manager.
That's true, but the converse is also true. And more so.
I don't even mean that in some sort of selfish fashion. I mean managers need their team to be succesful for them to be successful. An underling *can* be successful despite management. That's just how it works.
Me? I try to actively create, promote, and maintain a healthy atmosphere of assistance and improvement with my team and my manager. I encourage my manager to improve in areas that the team needs, and I actively solicit requests from managers. I prefer to look at our relationship as one of mutual assistance in different roles. So long as they are well adjusted and don't look at their staff as peons, we get along well.
I haven't dived into Pick for a while and forgot most of what I learned last time. Be tried this but found they couldn't get decent performance. Instead they went for a filesystem with some ancillary features: file change notification, metadata, and a service that indexed the metadata.
All these are essentially available now for eg, MacOS X, Linux. Be just made them default enough to be more useful. And didn't totally fail at performance like OSX does.
I've used a million programmer's editors. Most of them work on the notepad/wordstar/etc with more keystrokes. There's precious few that use another, much more powerful model. vim is one of those. It encourages you to be much more precise by declaring what you wish to edit right before you edit it. However, simultaneously all the actions are capturable in obvious sequences which you can store, express in text files, and easily repeat. The features all work together in much more obvious ways then the "million command strokes" model. It's not the *only* editor that makes that step up, but it's one of the few.
It's not flamebait if it's just a simple statement of fact, people. I mean, I could see you getting cranky if you like, *wrote* UltraEdit.
Sorry, most software is substandard. Facts of life.
- Does email wrong. HTML encoded always, but then that's encoded in wonky character encoding. Mangles asian characters by default due to terrible encoding defaults. Doesn't understand <address@domain.com>, doesn't understand commas, or quoted names. Fails to handle attachments frequently. Doesn't include the contact when constructing new emails. - The ajaxy form fillout dropdowns actively interfere with browser memory, which worked better. - Ajaxy form fillouts don't handle common sequences of keystrokes, leaveing the substring in the field, not the desired term. - Data model is horrible. Designed by programmers instead of people who understand databases. Items are not assembleable with straight queries, but a bunch of ad-hoc processing is required. This makes tools construction unnecessarily difficult. - The search. How they live with themselves, I have no idea. I would die of shame selling a product with this level of search. - No simple way to just go to the right record built in. You already know the customer number, or case number or whatever. You have to "search" for it. See previous item. - Views are just a pollution space. Views get exported by other people into your personal list. You can't filter out the ones you don't actually use. You can't modify them on the fly. - Pages are so heavy that even on a very high bandwidth link, I need to use a cacheing proxy to get acceptable performance. - Salesforce has cacheing bugs that cause it to misbehave when using a cacheing proxy. - Ugly. - No sane email gateway. It should proxy private addresses to a public address so that communications automatically come back through it. I implemented this kind of thing myself in the 90s. It's not hard. - In keeping with the above, no support for email threading fields to get things to the right place. - Inability to handle text fields over 32k. - Ridiculous password policy. - Obnoxious session timeouts while you're actively useing the tool. - Totally fails to handle simultaneous edits sanely. - Cannot show the transitions on an opportunity/case/customer/etc in a single view, see also terrible data model.
Now the Niagara (UltraSPARC-Tx) CPU isn't good for every work load out there, but if it's highly parallel then it's something that you should be looking.
Highly parallel with *low* cpu needs.
Niagara is good at dispatch and switching, but not computation.
My company dumped SugarCRM for Salesforce. I hate salesforce every day. It's a terrible program.
The problem with SugarCRM is we always did the simplest possible hack at any given stage to meet the immediate need without ever cleaning up. This meant that it got creakier and creakier over time, until we had to start over, and it was viewed as easier to start over with a commercial solution. In our situation it seems that the ability to modify acted as a tarpit, due to poor self-control.
I've played the c64 and apple 2 versions and.. well.. It doesn't require split second skills. There are some parts that are frustrating and/or annoying. The gate that drops on you is somewhat obnoxious. The bird that attacks you between fights in the second area can bother. But there's really only two secrets to know in the game: trigger the gate then run through, and shift out of combat stance when meeting the lady.
The lady knifed you because you approached her in combat stance. She thought you were going to attack. When meeting the damsel in distress it is customary to shift to a relaxed posture to indicate that you mean no harm.
It is preferable in some ways. It works on all your browsers and can be updated independently. It can offer caching for free. It can block things that your browser doesn't recognize as ads.
But as you point out, it's harder to make a good user interface for it. I used a proxy based ad blocker for many years, but have switched over to browser-based ones recently.
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Default for most window managers is: hold alt, left click to drag. Dunno if ubuntu or gnome break this convention somehow. This is convention with several decades on it at this point.
Yes, it's kind of pathetic that their resolution change thing doesn't work at all resolutions.
It's also kind of pathetic that you didn't just open the configfile and change it back instead of reinstalling the whole system.
Er, that is a monopoly in the legal sense, although to make it legally so it needs a court to decide. Owning enough of the market that you can push others around is more or less what it means.
It's not a monopoly in terms of the word origin.
That's what I said. The original implementation of UNIX. UNIX is a spec, not an implementation.
Did you miss the word "political" in the post you're replying to? Or do you not understand it?
Agreed on all points but the school time. Most of the superior school systems have fewer hours but more days.
That seems like an appropriate change. After a certain number of hours in classrooms, focus droops.
There are (many) other problems with our school systems, but more days and fewer hours seems like a good idea.
Linux is as Unix-y as BSD. They're both Unix.
Duh.
Perhaps you mean closer to the first implementation of UNIX? There've been like 8 at least by now.
They're clean.
They're just not sterile.
And they are probably inappropriate in your industry.
But that doesn't make them unsanitary.
Uh, the payoff from games is not units of hours.
THIS!
I've done a lot of custom jobs of carefully selected and modified tools over the years, never as part of IT proper. The things are usually extremely well received by users and save lots of time and headache for the relevant staff. Sure they take a bit more work to build, but typically they're easy to extend by myself or others because they're simple.
Still, I've watched many home-grown tools built by myself and/or others edged out by external software that typically costs boatloads of money to set up and customize, and has a shitty experience when it's done. IT sucks now because we want blunt, unfixable tools with the latest buzzwords, instead of stuff that just works.
Hooray for ultranova.
There's a few rare cases where I actually want a web application. Most of the web applications I view as totally useless or inferior to native applications.
Most web pages aren't even bad web applications, they're just WEB PAGES. Don't require javascript to do amazingly trivial things like.. load the content.
Reviewing my history: the violence started after the chemical weapons. Perhaps these things are related?
I agree that your decision is wise for your personal situation, but i disagree that you're being an ass for rejecting her '8 to 4' attitude. She was the ass. Programming isn't an 8 to 4 job. It's a getting-things-done job, while also being available to colleagues. If you were doing those things and she thoughtlessly questioned your commitment without INQUIRING first, then she's a shite manager.
But most of them are. Manage your boss.
That's true, but the converse is also true. And more so.
I don't even mean that in some sort of selfish fashion. I mean managers need their team to be succesful for them to be successful. An underling *can* be successful despite management. That's just how it works.
Me? I try to actively create, promote, and maintain a healthy atmosphere of assistance and improvement with my team and my manager. I encourage my manager to improve in areas that the team needs, and I actively solicit requests from managers. I prefer to look at our relationship as one of mutual assistance in different roles. So long as they are well adjusted and don't look at their staff as peons, we get along well.
Um, you know the mac hardware was designed about 3 years before the Amiga? And the architecture was pretty much entirely different?
I mean, I'm a huge Amiga fan, but Apple didn't copy it.
I haven't dived into Pick for a while and forgot most of what I learned last time. Be tried this but found they couldn't get decent performance. Instead they went for a filesystem with some ancillary features: file change notification, metadata, and a service that indexed the metadata.
All these are essentially available now for eg, MacOS X, Linux. Be just made them default enough to be more useful. And didn't totally fail at performance like OSX does.
well um, if we include "descendents" as the summary does, I would say it's in some sense.. alive.
It's not attitude, it's just accuracy.
I've used a million programmer's editors. Most of them work on the notepad/wordstar/etc with more keystrokes. There's precious few that use another, much more powerful model. vim is one of those. It encourages you to be much more precise by declaring what you wish to edit right before you edit it. However, simultaneously all the actions are capturable in obvious sequences which you can store, express in text files, and easily repeat. The features all work together in much more obvious ways then the "million command strokes" model. It's not the *only* editor that makes that step up, but it's one of the few.
It's not flamebait if it's just a simple statement of fact, people. I mean, I could see you getting cranky if you like, *wrote* UltraEdit.
Sorry, most software is substandard. Facts of life.
Here's a few to get started:
- Does email wrong. HTML encoded always, but then that's encoded in wonky character encoding. Mangles asian characters by default due to terrible encoding defaults. Doesn't understand <address@domain.com>, doesn't understand commas, or quoted names. Fails to handle attachments frequently. Doesn't include the contact when constructing new emails.
- The ajaxy form fillout dropdowns actively interfere with browser memory, which worked better.
- Ajaxy form fillouts don't handle common sequences of keystrokes, leaveing the substring in the field, not the desired term.
- Data model is horrible. Designed by programmers instead of people who understand databases. Items are not assembleable with straight queries, but a bunch of ad-hoc processing is required. This makes tools construction unnecessarily difficult.
- The search. How they live with themselves, I have no idea. I would die of shame selling a product with this level of search.
- No simple way to just go to the right record built in. You already know the customer number, or case number or whatever. You have to "search" for it. See previous item.
- Views are just a pollution space. Views get exported by other people into your personal list. You can't filter out the ones you don't actually use. You can't modify them on the fly.
- Pages are so heavy that even on a very high bandwidth link, I need to use a cacheing proxy to get acceptable performance.
- Salesforce has cacheing bugs that cause it to misbehave when using a cacheing proxy.
- Ugly.
- No sane email gateway. It should proxy private addresses to a public address so that communications automatically come back through it. I implemented this kind of thing myself in the 90s. It's not hard.
- In keeping with the above, no support for email threading fields to get things to the right place.
- Inability to handle text fields over 32k.
- Ridiculous password policy.
- Obnoxious session timeouts while you're actively useing the tool.
- Totally fails to handle simultaneous edits sanely.
- Cannot show the transitions on an opportunity/case/customer/etc in a single view, see also terrible data model.
I have a lot more where that comes from.
Now the Niagara (UltraSPARC-Tx) CPU isn't good for every work load out there, but if it's highly parallel then it's something that you should be looking.
Highly parallel with *low* cpu needs.
Niagara is good at dispatch and switching, but not computation.
The gnu make manual is a poor example of your point. It's quite good.
The supidity of GNU Info is worthy of a fair amount of bile, of course.
But if you took 10 random progarms availble in ubuntu, the average documentation would be a crying shame.
My company dumped SugarCRM for Salesforce. I hate salesforce every day. It's a terrible program.
The problem with SugarCRM is we always did the simplest possible hack at any given stage to meet the immediate need without ever cleaning up. This meant that it got creakier and creakier over time, until we had to start over, and it was viewed as easier to start over with a commercial solution. In our situation it seems that the ability to modify acted as a tarpit, due to poor self-control.
Oh right, monetize this with a completely different set orf highly developed skills that you don't have.
I've played the c64 and apple 2 versions and .. well.. It doesn't require split second skills. There are some parts that are frustrating and/or annoying. The gate that drops on you is somewhat obnoxious. The bird that attacks you between fights in the second area can bother. But there's really only two secrets to know in the game: trigger the gate then run through, and shift out of combat stance when meeting the lady.
The lady knifed you because you approached her in combat stance. She thought you were going to attack. When meeting the damsel in distress it is customary to shift to a relaxed posture to indicate that you mean no harm.
There is no drag.
Uh, why are your guns locked away .. loaded?
It is preferable in some ways. It works on all your browsers and can be updated independently. It can offer caching for free. It can block things that your browser doesn't recognize as ads.
But as you point out, it's harder to make a good user interface for it. I used a proxy based ad blocker for many years, but have switched over to browser-based ones recently.