Valid point. Yet on the other hand, implementing those stereotypes -- oops, demographics -- as rules has increased their accuracy as measured by click-throughs. There's a reason for most stereotypes; and when you can build those stereotypes based on objective and measurable past data, there's more value to them.
Modded insightful twice too... I guess some people can't be bothered to think for themselves and just moderate to increase whatever the current moderation is.
I've seen that trend from time to time -- it becomes most obvious when two people make essentially the same comment; one gets modded up, the other modded down.
They are merely pointing at various faces of a larger system flaw: that people who don't understand computers will not understand what any type of software can do to their computers.
That's an excellent point, and one that most people miss. No matter how much security you lather onto a system (infrastructure and AV) or how difficult you make it to do mundane tasks (I'm looking at YOU uac and gksudo), it's fatally flawed if it has to be used by a person.
Are you really so tied up in what laws are on the books that you need them or the courts to tell you the difference between right and wrong? Here's a hint - don't look there, it's not their job to legislate morality.
All the projects that couldn't get funding because piracy would reduce their profitability below the required threshold. Piracy can be chilling effect.
Of course, that number is also unprovable -- the OP posted a question which is designed to be unanswerable. Let me pose a few more in a similar vein:
How much does piracy really cost the RIAA in terms of lost sales?
How much does the game industry really lose to piracy?
How many people who pirate a game or album would have bought it if they couldn't have pirated it?
The answer: we have no way of knowing or getting accurate numbers. In a similar vein -- there there are thousands of proejcts that lost money (assuming this is the intended definition of failure), which leads us to the same point: we have no way of knowing how much of a factor piracy was in those losses..
I suppose it's too much to hope that obvious troll articles like this one will stay on Digg...
In the right direction, but not what's needed. Something more simple would work - esp. in the context of twitter. The primary API should be simple: "give me updates for my profile". This would include anything you subscribed to - and even allow you to control (via twitter) how often you wanted to receive updates from any given person. This would include friends, lists, search subscriptions, etc. The data returned should be provided in a way that the client can filter/sort appropriately.
Of course other APIs would still be necessary -- "get timeline for person X", "add friend", etc; but those don't make up the majority of usage.
This problem isn't just one with RESTful interfaces though. It seems to be common in many enterprise sytems as well: let's make many small function points that give clients more control, instead of using our brains to figure out *how* the data will be getting used. This way, the publisher doesn't have to do anything like thinking - they can put the onus of that on the client. In some situations that works well - but when (as you said) you're just acting as a simple CRUD front end, you're adding little value and may even be making things more difficult for your clients.
Who cares? It's his product! I wanted an espresso machine mounted in my dashboard, but nooooo, Honda had to have it their way, and only give me options they wanted me to have.
Yep. Me, I just buy a Ford and install my own damn espresso machine.
You can -- but there has to come a point where you rely on checked exceptions (as that is their purpose) and handle unchecked exceptions at a higher level; for if an unchecked exception occurs, it will generally be far more serious and won't be something you can handle with a simple error message.
Same here. I guess the search bar makes sense if you only ever do one type of search (the default), or rarely use the others. I just find it easier to have one address bar to go to, no matter what I'm looking for (including direct URL entry)
You make two groundless assumptions here (and in your earlier post which says basically the same thing): First that these people never have the deeper understanding (many don't but a subset do); and second that they can't obtain this through real-world experience.
They might think they know what they're doing, but having been at that point myself once, they really don't.
And having been there yourself, you still don't think that real-world experience is capable of teaching an able student?
Students rub shoulders with people who believe different things, often have different faiths, are of different races, and have different backgrounds. It
And which of these things does not happen when you start working professionally?
Even at my place of work, some talented high school students could probably be taught how to do the job about as fast and well as college graduates. The difference comes 2 or 3 years down the road. The people most able to keep up with emerging trends and extending their abilities tend to be the ones with degrees. And it tends to be the ones with PhDs or Masters that do better at it. The ones whose skill sets don't seem to expand as quickly or as much do tend to be the ones with less schooling.
Backed by what evidence? I've worked for years with both, and frankly have seen that those without the PhDs and Masters tend to do better. Perhaps it has much to do with fewer preconceived/programmed notions...
There are definite gaps when you work with someone without a college degree -- but the intelligent people will be aware of those and get them covered quickly. (And you typically don't want those that aren't aware of it.)
Please better define the term "facebook generation". I barely use it myself; yet I have family and (real life) friends ranging from ages 12 to 80 that use it. While there might be a predominant age, there's no single generation.
More like, "I have a need and would like to know if it is met by some foss program. Otherwise we have to default back to proprietary software because we have not time or manpower to reinvent the wheel in case the foss program already exists or not". Some specialiced foss software like this might be hard to find even if it exists. Do you suggest that everyone reinvent everything everytime?
Sure, didn't you know -- it's a new fad in programming, "Idea Reuse"
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Valid point. Yet on the other hand, implementing those stereotypes -- oops, demographics -- as rules has increased their accuracy as measured by click-throughs. There's a reason for most stereotypes; and when you can build those stereotypes based on objective and measurable past data, there's more value to them.
Modded insightful twice too... I guess some people can't be bothered to think for themselves and just moderate to increase whatever the current moderation is.
I've seen that trend from time to time -- it becomes most obvious when two people make essentially the same comment; one gets modded up, the other modded down.
They are merely pointing at various faces of a larger system flaw: that people who don't understand computers will not understand what any type of software can do to their computers.
That's an excellent point, and one that most people miss. No matter how much security you lather onto a system (infrastructure and AV) or how difficult you make it to do mundane tasks (I'm looking at YOU uac and gksudo), it's fatally flawed if it has to be used by a person.
Are you really so tied up in what laws are on the books that you need them or the courts to tell you the difference between right and wrong? Here's a hint - don't look there, it's not their job to legislate morality.
All the projects that couldn't get funding because piracy would reduce their profitability below the required threshold. Piracy can be chilling effect.
Of course, that number is also unprovable -- the OP posted a question which is designed to be unanswerable. Let me pose a few more in a similar vein:
The answer: we have no way of knowing or getting accurate numbers. In a similar vein -- there there are thousands of proejcts that lost money (assuming this is the intended definition of failure), which leads us to the same point: we have no way of knowing how much of a factor piracy was in those losses..
I suppose it's too much to hope that obvious troll articles like this one will stay on Digg...
Why is it that nobody who makes this argument understands that "theft of service" is still theft?
So, he created a plugin that let him do what the plugin architecture is designed to allow him to do? I'm not sure how this is newsworthy...
augmented reality at its best.
Makes me think what other "natural augmented reality senses" are possible, or even already exist in other species.
Makes me wonder what possible need drove evolution of this as a survival trait...
The odd thing here is that they wnated teh blog post taken down. If the process is patented, it's already public information...
That's a weird way to spell "woosh"...
So whas that...
Of course other APIs would still be necessary -- "get timeline for person X", "add friend", etc; but those don't make up the majority of usage.
This problem isn't just one with RESTful interfaces though. It seems to be common in many enterprise sytems as well: let's make many small function points that give clients more control, instead of using our brains to figure out *how* the data will be getting used. This way, the publisher doesn't have to do anything like thinking - they can put the onus of that on the client. In some situations that works well - but when (as you said) you're just acting as a simple CRUD front end, you're adding little value and may even be making things more difficult for your clients.
Now let's wait for the Apple fanboys who will see no wrong on Apple's part.
Ah, see, that's where you went wrong. Never tell your targets that you're trolling them.
Who cares? It's his product! I wanted an espresso machine mounted in my dashboard, but nooooo, Honda had to have it their way, and only give me options they wanted me to have.
Yep. Me, I just buy a Ford and install my own damn espresso machine.
Unfortunate, but all too true.
The same way that slashdotters read the summary.
13,256,278,887,989,457,651,018,865,901,401,704,639 and 13,256,278,887,989,457,651,018,865,901,401,704,641
Too easy. 13,256,278,887,989,457,651,018,865,901,401,704,640.123,552,754,203,344,346,122,675
You can -- but there has to come a point where you rely on checked exceptions (as that is their purpose) and handle unchecked exceptions at a higher level; for if an unchecked exception occurs, it will generally be far more serious and won't be something you can handle with a simple error message.
Same here. I guess the search bar makes sense if you only ever do one type of search (the default), or rarely use the others. I just find it easier to have one address bar to go to, no matter what I'm looking for (including direct URL entry)
They might think they know what they're doing, but having been at that point myself once, they really don't.
And having been there yourself, you still don't think that real-world experience is capable of teaching an able student?
Students rub shoulders with people who believe different things, often have different faiths, are of different races, and have different backgrounds. It
And which of these things does not happen when you start working professionally?
Even at my place of work, some talented high school students could probably be taught how to do the job about as fast and well as college graduates. The difference comes 2 or 3 years down the road. The people most able to keep up with emerging trends and extending their abilities tend to be the ones with degrees. And it tends to be the ones with PhDs or Masters that do better at it. The ones whose skill sets don't seem to expand as quickly or as much do tend to be the ones with less schooling.
Backed by what evidence? I've worked for years with both, and frankly have seen that those without the PhDs and Masters tend to do better. Perhaps it has much to do with fewer preconceived/programmed notions...
There are definite gaps when you work with someone without a college degree -- but the intelligent people will be aware of those and get them covered quickly. (And you typically don't want those that aren't aware of it.)
BTW, what happened to MS Surface? That seemed pretty cool.
Probably they realized a computing device the size of a piece of furniture isn't practical for most people.
It was microsofts attempt to woo the facebook generation. The fact you have never heard of it probably means the targeted marketing was done competently.
Please better define the term "facebook generation". I barely use it myself; yet I have family and (real life) friends ranging from ages 12 to 80 that use it. While there might be a predominant age, there's no single generation.
More like, "I have a need and would like to know if it is met by some foss program. Otherwise we have to default back to proprietary software because we have not time or manpower to reinvent the wheel in case the foss program already exists or not". Some specialiced foss software like this might be hard to find even if it exists. Do you suggest that everyone reinvent everything everytime?
Sure, didn't you know -- it's a new fad in programming, "Idea Reuse"
quality of life cannot be compared
Oops. I meant "can be compared"