Maybe you can be the first and contribute a review for a (technical?) book that is not good enough for an 8 or 9 out of 10. Sorry if this gets classified as flamebait, but why whine, when you can contribute. This reminds me of people who whine about some open source projects I work on, but are too lazy to even submit a bug report, let along a patch.
About as hard as sitting in a bookstore and flipping through the book and reading it, without buying it. If you can do this in a bookstore, what is wrong with doing an equivalent on the Web?
Furthermore, Amazon is a big, public company, with sufficient funds to do a proper research on this topic, to consult lawyers whose domain this is. The question of copyright, authors' rights, and such, must have been one of the first few questions people inside Amazon must have asked when they heard about this idea. I would be very surprised if Amazon made such a basic mistake...
They are just testing the 'recent discovery' that people have no problems reading even misspelled words, as long as the first and last letters are the correct ones.
Trillian people didn't make this patch available in their free version, but they did give it to GAIM developers. Weird, no? Sounds like they are just using GAIM and its community, which probablly includes more sw developers than Trillian has behind it, to do some QAing and bug fixing for Trillian.
Yes, I agree. Not only would your friends know what you are talking about, but so would mine and everyone elses. When you say Internet Explorer, everyone knows what you are talking about, right? I think people behind Mozilla should learn and adopt this simple 'trick' from Microsoft if they want Mozilla/Phoenix/Firebird to become more popular.
I would love to see the percentage of visitors using Mozilla go up in my access_log, and the percentage of IE go down. Both Mozilla and Pheonix deserve it.
Damn, this guy Kent Beck surely (and Martin Fowler, and Jeffries, etc.) surely can write a ton of books on the same topic. It is all really the same philosophy - XP and refactoring and TDD (Test Driven Development), and so on. There is a lot of overlap there, and all is (obviously arguably) just good advice for approach to software development.
How many times can they repeat the same thing? It is all just refactoring of the same material, same philosophies. What's the big deal?
At over $30 USD per book, plus all the invitations to give speaches, presenations, and so on, it's quite obvious to me why they are doing it. Isn't that a bit lame, though, at least for them? Doesn't it get boring?
Damn, this guy Kent Beck surely (and Martin Fowler, and Jeffries, etc.) surely can write a ton of books on the same topic. It is all really the same philosophy - XP and refactoring and TDD (Test Driven Development), and so on. There is a lot of overlap there, and all is (obviously arguably) just good advice for approach to software development.
How many times can they repeat the same thing? It is all just refactoring of the same material, same philosophies. What's the big deal?
At over $30 USD per book, plus all the invitations to give speaches, presenations, and so on, it's quite obvious to me why they are doing it. Isn't that a bit lame, though, at least for them? Doesn't it get boring?
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Why use Textpad on Winblows and Emacs on Linux? You can use Emacs under Winblows, too. I use XEmacs on both Linux and Winblows.
Finally somebody looking a bit deeper. I agree. It makes me mad and sad:( But it's not cheap electricity. It's expensive to make it. Not only financially expensive. Think nature, think future generations, etc.
For those living in the New York City, there is a nice exhibit about Einstein showing in the American Museum of Natural History until August 2003, see http://www.amnh.org/
Lovely, I love free OS options, but such limited hardware support won't make all that many people happy.
I guess I'll stick to my Winblows XP....just kidding.
That's an interesting about Intel hardware. Google, which is a top 5 web site by traffic, uses Intel hardware. It's got a few thousand Linux boxes running on Intel hardware, so they had to go for something affordable (Linux for the OS, Intel for hw).
I guess people made the mistake at the very beginning by taking those low salaries in the first place. Why? Couldn't you find anything better? A year ago the job market was still good. Imagine if you had additional baggage, like being a foreigner, worrying about visa issues, and the very limited time you can legally be without a job! Lovely.
Anyhow, but you are saying you had bad programmers. Bad programmers mean bad code, bad progress, bad product, etc. which leads to no $ from VCs.
So ideally you should have recognized all those bads and left, no?
What kept you at the job?
I'm just curious...
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Of course. If your job is not loving you back then you have a serious problem, and you should sit down and figure out for yourself about what's important for you, what you enjoy doing, etc.
If your job is not loving you back it it not necessarily your manager's fault. The easiest thing to do is to accuse others like that...
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Maybe you can be the first and contribute a review for a (technical?) book that is not good enough for an 8 or 9 out of 10.
Sorry if this gets classified as flamebait, but why whine, when you can contribute. This reminds me of people who whine about some open source projects I work on, but are too lazy to even submit a bug report, let along a patch.
About as hard as sitting in a bookstore and flipping through the book and reading it, without buying it.
If you can do this in a bookstore, what is wrong with doing an equivalent on the Web?
Furthermore, Amazon is a big, public company, with sufficient funds to do a proper research on this topic, to consult lawyers whose domain this is. The question of copyright, authors' rights, and such, must have been one of the first few questions people inside Amazon must have asked when they heard about this idea.
I would be very surprised if Amazon made such a basic mistake...
They are just testing the 'recent discovery' that people have no problems reading even misspelled words, as long as the first and last letters are the correct ones.
Trillian people didn't make this patch available in their free version, but they did give it to GAIM developers. Weird, no?
Sounds like they are just using GAIM and its community, which probablly includes more sw developers than Trillian has behind it, to do some QAing and bug fixing for Trillian.
Ha ha ha, this goes well with the other thread:/ 16/003421 0&mode=thread&tid=126&tid=95&tid=98&tid=99
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09
That's a real 'Keep-Alive'.
Yes, I agree.
Not only would your friends know what you are talking about, but so would mine and everyone elses. When you say Internet Explorer, everyone knows what you are talking about, right?
I think people behind Mozilla should learn and adopt this simple 'trick' from Microsoft if they want Mozilla/Phoenix/Firebird to become more popular.
I would love to see the percentage of visitors using Mozilla go up in my access_log, and the percentage of IE go down. Both Mozilla and Pheonix deserve it.
Is that what the film/series was all about?
Smashed potatoes?
Now if this was only a reply in the right thread, that would be cool.2 6
Cf. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/27/16312
Damn, this guy Kent Beck surely (and Martin Fowler, and Jeffries, etc.) surely can write a ton of books on the same topic.
It is all really the same philosophy - XP and refactoring and TDD (Test Driven Development), and so on. There is a lot of overlap there, and all is (obviously arguably) just good advice for approach to software development.
How many times can they repeat the same thing?
It is all just refactoring of the same material, same philosophies.
What's the big deal?
At over $30 USD per book, plus all the invitations to give speaches, presenations, and so on, it's quite obvious to me why they are doing it.
Isn't that a bit lame, though, at least for them?
Doesn't it get boring?
Damn, this guy Kent Beck surely (and Martin Fowler, and Jeffries, etc.) surely can write a ton of books on the same topic.
It is all really the same philosophy - XP and refactoring and TDD (Test Driven Development), and so on. There is a lot of overlap there, and all is (obviously arguably) just good advice for approach to software development.
How many times can they repeat the same thing?
It is all just refactoring of the same material, same philosophies.
What's the big deal?
At over $30 USD per book, plus all the invitations to give speaches, presenations, and so on, it's quite obvious to me why they are doing it.
Isn't that a bit lame, though, at least for them?
Doesn't it get boring?
Why use Textpad on Winblows and Emacs on Linux?
You can use Emacs under Winblows, too.
I use XEmacs on both Linux and Winblows.
Finally somebody looking a bit deeper. :(
I agree.
It makes me mad and sad
But it's not cheap electricity. It's expensive to make it. Not only financially expensive. Think nature, think future generations, etc.
I bet they've got more data as well.
I am not asking this with sarcasm, I just didn't see much about this on their web site.
Thanks.
I think Oompa Loompas would kick both Batman's and Spidernman's butts.
Lovely, I love free OS options, but such limited hardware support won't make all that many people happy. I guess I'll stick to my Winblows XP....just kidding.
That's an interesting about Intel hardware.
Google, which is a top 5 web site by traffic, uses Intel hardware. It's got a few thousand Linux boxes running on Intel hardware, so they had to go for something affordable (Linux for the OS, Intel for hw).
I guess people made the mistake at the very beginning by taking those low salaries in the first place. Why? Couldn't you find anything better? A year ago the job market was still good. Imagine if you had additional baggage, like being a foreigner, worrying about visa issues, and the very limited time you can legally be without a job! Lovely. Anyhow, but you are saying you had bad programmers. Bad programmers mean bad code, bad progress, bad product, etc. which leads to no $ from VCs. So ideally you should have recognized all those bads and left, no? What kept you at the job? I'm just curious... Thanks
So it sounds like this was not the first time that you made the same mistake? Uh , uh:(
Of course. If your job is not loving you back then you have a serious problem, and you should sit down and figure out for yourself about what's important for you, what you enjoy doing, etc.
If your job is not loving you back it it not necessarily your manager's fault. The easiest thing to do is to accuse others like that...
No, see the bottom of that letter from Mr. Van Python. They'll be late.
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Interesting.
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A couple of pretty big sites use Python big time.
Here are some:
www.google.com
www.egroups.com
Ultraseek (Infoseek's search engine for sale) is also written in Python.
Sounds big to me