Seriously, hardware is cheap and people are expensive. Minimizing person-time is worth a bit of hardware gluttony.
With all respect, the prod environment for just one of my apps cost around £8m.
To do a full prod equivalent end-to-end process, including all the systems, using as-live data, would require substantially more hardware than that.
So no, hardware is not cheap.
Luckily almost all issues can be replicated on substantially lower spec test environments and/or detected and resolved through appropriate logging mechanisms. Anything else needs dedicated time on the prod equivalent performance test environment (which tends to be booked pretty solidly for performance testing) or (and we're talking category one bugs jeopardising the company) run on the DR kit (leaving us with no DR).
But that's all theoretical, in my experience the admins will bugger up Prod with no dev help anyway.
Thanks for that excellent suggestion. Could you also advise on whether I should fit the Avenir Wicker Bicycle Basket with Black Velcro (Small) or does my Prius have sufficient open-top storage for friendly cats already?
I'm thinking a mounting bracket attached to the grab handle above the drivers' door so that I can lower the window, rotate it out, use it to inform the slow obnoxious pedestrian that they are in imminent danger of embarrassing injury, then swing it back inside to close the window.
You don't hear about the small claims court cases, you don't hear about the cases settled before they reach court, and you don't have to pay lawyers to take your claim to court on your behalf.
If Steam ever cuts off my games collection, it'll easily be worth the £100 or so it'll cost me to take them to court.
I'm not going to buy them. I am going to mock people that spend so much money to play in a walled garden. I think it's a negative influence on the computing market, I think it's overpriced for its capabilities and I love taunting people that complain that it doesn't do what they want, because Apple wont let them.
Apple can improve on it as much as they like; until they open the device it's inferior and undesirable. But hey, they're selling plenty so clearly other people disagree.
At least they are spurring better offerings from their competitors.
It is a device that knows screen orientation. It is a device that is instant-on. It is a device with a 10 hr active battery life and a standby life of 1 week.
Thing is, Apple could have created that device. And added a hardware keyboard. And removed the stupid Apple lockdown on installed applications.
It would still have cost twice as much as a netbook. It would have been worth the cost.
However, they didn't. They created a heavy slab that needs to be propped up to use, that needs sticky finger marks on the screen to use, that doesn't let you use it for things netbooks can be and are used for, and that still costs twice as much as a netbook.
I didn't have a need for a netbook. I don't have a need for an iPad. I still want devices in those form factors to succeed, but I also don't want them to create a closed marketplace and slow the rate of innovation and progress in consumer computing.
With all respect, what the fuck is with the 11 point multi-touch? Are there any practical uses for that? Can you help me understand the point at which using eight fingers, two thumbs and my nose to touch different parts of the screen will be the optimal user input mechanism?
I think you'll find that was addressed by the phrase
build native iOS apps that work only for iDevices
The third party native apps are exactly what Jobs wants. They are native to iOS and not to any other OS, and are constrained by the developer licence (or whatever it is) to minimise portability.
So content providers have to decide: - write a native app for iOS that nobody else can use - write a fully featured app that anybody not using iOS can read - use web technologies that don't allow them to present their content as they would like so that everybody can read it
Jobs is trying to steer people towards model #1. Android and HTML5 are his key opponents here, and he's going to lose.
Back on topic, fuck Winer and his stupidity for buying an iPad in the first place.
Could I suggest you go and do the research on this matter? Artificially low speed limits cause more accidents, not fewer.
People will drive at a speed they consider to be safe for the road, the car they're driving, the weather conditions, the other traffic on the road and how they feel. The speed limit is just one other consideration.
Speed limits are arbitrary. Correct speed limits are based on a large number of factors and those factors change over time.
The speed limit for the clear visibility, empty road and modern car I'm driving is identical to the speed limit for the foggy night in a 50s tin can. My speed would be very different under each condition and the speed limit just isn't a massive factor.
I refuse to live somewhere with speed bumps. They disrupt travelling too much, damage the car (even at low speeds), cause increased pollution, increased noise and damage nearby housing.
There are other traffic calming measures that are far superior for the road users and for the local population.
Worse, this could technically be legal. Populate it only with non-pornographic images, and a piece of software programmed to cut and paste specific zones from those images to create nasty new ones.
You don't possess any child pornography. Anybody booting the distro on their own PC would.
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erm. At 14 I was soooo smitten by a 35yo.
Never was going to get anywhere, she was married with a son the same age as me.
However, she knew I fancied her. She flirted (gently) with me. Had she been single and interested, I'm fairly confident it wouldn't have harmed me remotely to have had a relationship with her.
Trust me, 14yo often know what they're up to, and are generally physically more than sufficiently developed. Which is why I don't date girls that look under about 20, because it's just too hard to tell..
(Who am I kidding. My last two gf were both over 40)
Nah, my phone and my bluetooth headset and my boss' blackberry and my other colleague's Android phone all charge quicker from UK mains power than via the USB cable plugged into my laptop's docking station.
Which might say more about your main power adaptor and my laptop docking station than anything else..
A safety oriented inspection should not require over $30.
It'd cost me over $30 to do the paperwork for an inspection, let alone travel costs, the time spent travelling, the time spent onsite and any follow-up activities.
Thirty seconds looking over your fence may look cheap and easy but in the world in cost accounting, there's an awful lot going on.
Everything Apple does is driven by providing a superior user experience, at any cost, even at the cost of openness.
My user experience is heavily dependent on being able to use a hardware keyboard. This is why I buy mobile devices that have one built in. How exactly is Apple's offering superior in that regard?
My user experience is also heavily dependent on being able to make calls reliably. Again, Apple are struggling to convince me their product is superior here.
My user experience is also heavily influenced by the software I can install on my device, and the level of control I have over it. This is why I bought a device that lets me edit the configuration files that change almost every aspect of the device's operation (and lets me recompile the OS from scratch if the config files lack the flexibility I require). Final chance, remind me how Apple's user experience is superior here?
A fantastic user experience is truly important; everything Apple does is pretty clearly not driven by providing a superior one.
Actually, as an n900 user I'm more pissed that Nokia wont release hardware like the n900 with an OS as usable and supported as Android.
The n900 is a genuinely superb device, but Maemo does not compare well to Android. Give me the low level access to the OS on an Android phone that I have on my n900, give me the same hardware spec and I'll switch instantly.
It's true that the Android platform is becoming dominant. But it is interesting (admirable?) that the iPhones are still by far the most popular smartphone devices.
Popular by which measure? Just that there are more Blackberries out there than iPhones, and outside the US there are more Nokia smartphones out there than iPhones, and, well, the article suggests that Android phones are now selling quicker than iPhones.
Maybe your definition for 'popular' is the one published by the Apple marketing department, along with their other recent hits, "It's software and not the hardware design", "Buy our sexy looking phone then hide it in an ugly case or it wont work properly" and "Our tests show that our competitors also have crap reception but we've had to take down the video evidence because it was clearly contradicted by independent analysts that followed an open methodology and we don't want to get sued."
But your main point is an excellent one: It is genuinely fascinating that the iPhone is so popular (and also so hated by others).
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Seriously, hardware is cheap and people are expensive. Minimizing person-time is worth a bit of hardware gluttony.
With all respect, the prod environment for just one of my apps cost around £8m.
To do a full prod equivalent end-to-end process, including all the systems, using as-live data, would require substantially more hardware than that.
So no, hardware is not cheap.
Luckily almost all issues can be replicated on substantially lower spec test environments and/or detected and resolved through appropriate logging mechanisms. Anything else needs dedicated time on the prod equivalent performance test environment (which tends to be booked pretty solidly for performance testing) or (and we're talking category one bugs jeopardising the company) run on the DR kit (leaving us with no DR).
But that's all theoretical, in my experience the admins will bugger up Prod with no dev help anyway.
The answer is still 'No'.
The dev does not need access to Prod. The dev can ask the admin to turn on debug logging. The admin can turn it on, then provide logs to the dev.
At no point do developers need access to Prod.
Thanks for that excellent suggestion. Could you also advise on whether I should fit the Avenir Wicker Bicycle Basket with Black Velcro (Small) or does my Prius have sufficient open-top storage for friendly cats already?
Personally I'm thinking of buying a Prius in the next week (it's that or a 1 series BMW. Yes, that's an odd pair of alternatives) and for low speed pedestrian idiocy I am contemplating something along the lines of http://www.petracycles.co.uk/product_info.php?language=en¤cy=GBP&products_id=66378
I'm thinking a mounting bracket attached to the grab handle above the drivers' door so that I can lower the window, rotate it out, use it to inform the slow obnoxious pedestrian that they are in imminent danger of embarrassing injury, then swing it back inside to close the window.
You don't hear about the small claims court cases, you don't hear about the cases settled before they reach court, and you don't have to pay lawyers to take your claim to court on your behalf.
If Steam ever cuts off my games collection, it'll easily be worth the £100 or so it'll cost me to take them to court.
No legal fees. Just a few quid in court fees which you can add to your claim.
Check http://www.moneyclaim.gov.uk/ - it's rediculously easy these days.
Yeah, I realised that after posting. Apologies :(
I'm not going to buy them. I am going to mock people that spend so much money to play in a walled garden. I think it's a negative influence on the computing market, I think it's overpriced for its capabilities and I love taunting people that complain that it doesn't do what they want, because Apple wont let them.
Apple can improve on it as much as they like; until they open the device it's inferior and undesirable. But hey, they're selling plenty so clearly other people disagree.
At least they are spurring better offerings from their competitors.
It is a device that knows screen orientation.
It is a device that is instant-on.
It is a device with a 10 hr active battery life and a standby life of 1 week.
Thing is, Apple could have created that device. And added a hardware keyboard. And removed the stupid Apple lockdown on installed applications.
It would still have cost twice as much as a netbook. It would have been worth the cost.
However, they didn't. They created a heavy slab that needs to be propped up to use, that needs sticky finger marks on the screen to use, that doesn't let you use it for things netbooks can be and are used for, and that still costs twice as much as a netbook.
I didn't have a need for a netbook. I don't have a need for an iPad. I still want devices in those form factors to succeed, but I also don't want them to create a closed marketplace and slow the rate of innovation and progress in consumer computing.
With all respect, what the fuck is with the 11 point multi-touch? Are there any practical uses for that? Can you help me understand the point at which using eight fingers, two thumbs and my nose to touch different parts of the screen will be the optimal user input mechanism?
I think you'll find that was addressed by the phrase
build native iOS apps that work only for iDevices
The third party native apps are exactly what Jobs wants. They are native to iOS and not to any other OS, and are constrained by the developer licence (or whatever it is) to minimise portability.
So content providers have to decide:
- write a native app for iOS that nobody else can use
- write a fully featured app that anybody not using iOS can read
- use web technologies that don't allow them to present their content as they would like so that everybody can read it
Jobs is trying to steer people towards model #1. Android and HTML5 are his key opponents here, and he's going to lose.
Back on topic, fuck Winer and his stupidity for buying an iPad in the first place.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_calming#Types_of_traffic-calming_engineering_measures
Could I suggest you go and do the research on this matter? Artificially low speed limits cause more accidents, not fewer.
People will drive at a speed they consider to be safe for the road, the car they're driving, the weather conditions, the other traffic on the road and how they feel. The speed limit is just one other consideration.
Speed limits are arbitrary. Correct speed limits are based on a large number of factors and those factors change over time.
The speed limit for the clear visibility, empty road and modern car I'm driving is identical to the speed limit for the foggy night in a 50s tin can. My speed would be very different under each condition and the speed limit just isn't a massive factor.
I drive an automatic transmission because my left knee is fucked. So no, I'm not going to leave myself crippled by using my left foot to brake.
I'll continue to give myself adequate stopping distances and well maintained brakes.
I refuse to live somewhere with speed bumps. They disrupt travelling too much, damage the car (even at low speeds), cause increased pollution, increased noise and damage nearby housing.
There are other traffic calming measures that are far superior for the road users and for the local population.
Hmm. I'm thinking ears. Big furry supersized rabbit ears with strokeable furry furriness. They _must_ make things sound better!
Tell you what, I'll make them, you sell them to him for $3k each and we'll split the difference.
Worse, this could technically be legal. Populate it only with non-pornographic images, and a piece of software programmed to cut and paste specific zones from those images to create nasty new ones.
You don't possess any child pornography. Anybody booting the distro on their own PC would.
erm. At 14 I was soooo smitten by a 35yo.
Never was going to get anywhere, she was married with a son the same age as me.
However, she knew I fancied her. She flirted (gently) with me. Had she been single and interested, I'm fairly confident it wouldn't have harmed me remotely to have had a relationship with her.
Trust me, 14yo often know what they're up to, and are generally physically more than sufficiently developed. Which is why I don't date girls that look under about 20, because it's just too hard to tell..
(Who am I kidding. My last two gf were both over 40)
Ironically the easiest way to one of these out would be a UAV or a light aircraft.
Shit, we're back to biplanes attacking zeppelins. Joy!
noooo! naughty! That's not basic debugger friendly (and no bugger has a proper debugger these days).
Oh, and one space after a full stop. Two would be greedy.
Nah, my phone and my bluetooth headset and my boss' blackberry and my other colleague's Android phone all charge quicker from UK mains power than via the USB cable plugged into my laptop's docking station.
Which might say more about your main power adaptor and my laptop docking station than anything else..
A safety oriented inspection should not require over $30.
It'd cost me over $30 to do the paperwork for an inspection, let alone travel costs, the time spent travelling, the time spent onsite and any follow-up activities.
Thirty seconds looking over your fence may look cheap and easy but in the world in cost accounting, there's an awful lot going on.
Because a lot of road sweepers, refuse collectors, cleaners, call centre staff and computer programmers work in the public sector too.
Don't even get me started on the relative pension rights..
Everything Apple does is driven by providing a superior user experience, at any cost, even at the cost of openness.
My user experience is heavily dependent on being able to use a hardware keyboard. This is why I buy mobile devices that have one built in. How exactly is Apple's offering superior in that regard?
My user experience is also heavily dependent on being able to make calls reliably. Again, Apple are struggling to convince me their product is superior here.
My user experience is also heavily influenced by the software I can install on my device, and the level of control I have over it. This is why I bought a device that lets me edit the configuration files that change almost every aspect of the device's operation (and lets me recompile the OS from scratch if the config files lack the flexibility I require). Final chance, remind me how Apple's user experience is superior here?
A fantastic user experience is truly important; everything Apple does is pretty clearly not driven by providing a superior one.
Actually, as an n900 user I'm more pissed that Nokia wont release hardware like the n900 with an OS as usable and supported as Android.
The n900 is a genuinely superb device, but Maemo does not compare well to Android. Give me the low level access to the OS on an Android phone that I have on my n900, give me the same hardware spec and I'll switch instantly.
It's true that the Android platform is becoming dominant. But it is interesting (admirable?) that the iPhones are still by far the most popular smartphone devices.
Popular by which measure? Just that there are more Blackberries out there than iPhones, and outside the US there are more Nokia smartphones out there than iPhones, and, well, the article suggests that Android phones are now selling quicker than iPhones.
Maybe your definition for 'popular' is the one published by the Apple marketing department, along with their other recent hits, "It's software and not the hardware design", "Buy our sexy looking phone then hide it in an ugly case or it wont work properly" and "Our tests show that our competitors also have crap reception but we've had to take down the video evidence because it was clearly contradicted by independent analysts that followed an open methodology and we don't want to get sued."
But your main point is an excellent one: It is genuinely fascinating that the iPhone is so popular (and also so hated by others).