My 14-year-old son found an old Rubik's cube and tought himself to solve it using youtube videos in about a week.
Hate to say it,,, but isn't that cheating? Sort of like saying "I won at monopoly, and had access to the bank's money". Yeah, ok, I couldn't think of a videogame reference quick enough. Sue me.
Don't we call do one thing at a time, then flip back and forth between that top-of-stack task and the others in the list? Example: I'm tap-tap-tapping here but two feet to the left is a program I've been working on, still in my memory. But I can't program that and type this at the same time.
I have heard of no evidence for there being ANY good cops. If there were any, it would be in the news that instead of various projects uncovering criminal behavior, it would be the cops, themselves, and it never seems to happen. There are cops who are murderers, rapists, thieves, and just plain thugs, and the rest of them are guilty of covering for the criminals. What happened to the NYPD officers who gang sodomized that Jamaican? The POLICE OFFICERS UNION pressured the city not to throw the SOBs in jail.
Nonsense. Bad news sells papers. "Cops beat defenceless grandmother" will get a lot more people buying newspapers, than "Cops help little old lady cross busy street safely". There are good cops and there are bad cops. The good cops outnumber the bad ones - vastly, I trust, as the selection process will help in that respect.
TFA has headings such as "To bug-fix or not to bug-fix"... I get the impression someone wanted to write something about ethics and IT, and got some people in the pub to come up with some ideas.
We'll probably see the items used under a different heading ('Professionalism... to bug-fix or not to bug-fix') next week.
Anyone else remember a day when this function was split? Back in the early days, we had Systems Analysts, kept in a separate room to the programmers.
DevOps,,. we've seen this sort of thing before. End result is that we get less specialists, and things become harder to fix when they break. But, multi-skilled people are the way things are going. And have been since... well, Michaelangelo was a sculptor who was asked to paint. And I have some of his sonnets, somewhere.
Taken out of context, as it was in the summary, I fully agree that "West Coast" is ambiguous, given the international readership of Slashdot. That's why I made a point of very intentionally establishing context first, by mentioning that it was an LA Times article. I then used an "and" to pair it with the "West Coast" term, indicating that I think you need both to satisfactorily determine the time zone in question, rather than just one or the other.
FWIW, us NZers read 'West Coast' as the west coast of the South Island. Famous for
1: Rain
2: The Hokitika wildfood festival
3: Weird people, known as 'coasters'
But like most other people on the boards, I switch to west coast USA for this. I'm a visitor, best to be on good behaviour when in someone else's house:)
Whether it's Amazon or not is irrelevant. In any large company, there's going to be a percentage who like the dead tree copies of the book. Got to a restaurant when the staff are on a break, you'll find some folks eating Mackers/KFC/their own sandwiches.
.... The key is to create an environment that is as close to what they know as possible.....
Totally agree - we need to remember that the users don't care what's under the hood. Their job is to sell things, crunch numbers, make widgets, whatever... not to use a PC. For them the PC is a tool. If it works the same as their last tool, great - they can concentrate on their job, not on learning things unassociated with it.
And yeah, maybe this new spreadsheet in Shiny-10 is better than the one in Sparkly-v8 - but they don't care.
I suspect s/he'll get pilloried in the press and may end up with some lawsuits (?) but I, for one, recognize a person big enough to take responsibility.
I have a daughter who has insomnia. This insomnia is triggered by the thought that she has insomnia.
This is due to a friend she used to have that would come over and then talk about maybe they have insomnia.
So she psychs herself out and can't sleep.
So we have started giving her a sleeping aid. It's not anything effective, but we carefully keep it under the guise of a medical prescription.
We also have her going to a psychologist. So we are taking an actual medical approach. Yes, we will tell her eventually.
Are other two choice are:
Do nothing.
Give her a sleeping, and possible addictive, sleeping aid. Something we will do if all else fails.
Seriously, why didn't you do nothing? Every kid has sleeping problems. 'Doing nothing' is cheaper, doesn't expose your daughter to drugs she may not need, and additionally doesn't encourage her to seek professional aid (and a pill) when she has a problem in later life.
Watching sad movies makes you sad. Listening to happy music can cheer you up. Reading a sad book can make you unhappy.
Video games are just another entertainment form.
I appreciate that TFA is referring to a lack of mastery of the controls makes you aggressive (or frustrated)...but so does lack of mastery of anything you spend time on.
And my bugbear is XCOM classic ironman... damn those aliens.
Correlation != causation. The internet may not be causing the increase in atheism. Both are increasing at the same time, but we'd need to do more checks to make sure the two facts are related. Also increasing in the world's population, the average temperature, the number of exoplanets. We could also link the rise of atheism to the decrease in the number of pirates (but that's been done).
Meantime, I suspect it's to do with rise in information availability. People still read books away from the Internet, y'know.
Now, where did I put my copy of 'God is not Great'...
It's a pity, then, that we live in a society that values everyone's opinions.
OK, kill me, but I don't think that's a good thing. I'm uneducated on several major topics that appear in the newspapers on a daily basis. Example - Syrian Civil War (well, relatively under-informed). My opinion on that is worth less to society then someone who is much more familiar with the situation.
Conversely, I'm an amateur astronomer. Put me in a room with an astrologer and I'll rip him/her to shreds.
I think peoples' options matter, but not equally. An idiot (including myself) with no knowledge on a subject (sex life of the iguana?) has an opinion with a value that is near-zero. And that's just jim-dandy with me.
I was walking in the woods one day with a zoologist friend of mine, when we came upon a rotting coyote head in the middle of the trail. "Ooh!" she says, "I want to show that to my students!" Whereupon she picks up the head, maggot-ridden eyeholes and all, and pops it into the pocket of her windbreaker.
How big was the dry-cleaning bill?
Calls to mind the story of the young Darwin, who was faced with containing three beetles when he had only two hands. He put the third one in his mouth.
That is a "classic". They have a lot of those on there. I have recently watched a few of the old Clint Eastwood classics on there recently as well. (The Good, The Bad, The Ugly. Fist Full of Dollars)
Clint Eastwood's spaghetti westerns are now seen as classics? God help us all.
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My 14-year-old son found an old Rubik's cube and tought himself to solve it using youtube videos in about a week.
Hate to say it,,, but isn't that cheating? Sort of like saying "I won at monopoly, and had access to the bank's money". Yeah, ok, I couldn't think of a videogame reference quick enough. Sue me.
He wasn't Gene, but Shatner has pretty much always embraced his role in Trek.
Well, that and TJ Hooker really, really sucked.
Barbary Coast too.
Give the little fellows 'Google' glasses. See what they make of those.
Don't we call do one thing at a time, then flip back and forth between that top-of-stack task and the others in the list? Example: I'm tap-tap-tapping here but two feet to the left is a program I've been working on, still in my memory. But I can't program that and type this at the same time.
Or maybe I already have alzheimers....
Where is Victor Borge when we need him?
Phonetic punctuation... I'm here for you...
"There are plenty of good cops out there, ..."
I have heard of no evidence for there being ANY good cops. If there were any, it would be in the news that instead of various projects uncovering criminal behavior, it would be the cops, themselves, and it never seems to happen. There are cops who are murderers, rapists, thieves, and just plain thugs, and the rest of them are guilty of covering for the criminals. What happened to the NYPD officers who gang sodomized that Jamaican? The POLICE OFFICERS UNION pressured the city not to throw the SOBs in jail.
Nonsense. Bad news sells papers. "Cops beat defenceless grandmother" will get a lot more people buying newspapers, than "Cops help little old lady cross busy street safely". There are good cops and there are bad cops. The good cops outnumber the bad ones - vastly, I trust, as the selection process will help in that respect.
http://www.xkcd.com/1358/
TFA has headings such as "To bug-fix or not to bug-fix"... I get the impression someone wanted to write something about ethics and IT, and got some people in the pub to come up with some ideas.
... to bug-fix or not to bug-fix') next week.
We'll probably see the items used under a different heading ('Professionalism
Anyone else remember a day when this function was split? Back in the early days, we had Systems Analysts, kept in a separate room to the programmers.
... well, Michaelangelo was a sculptor who was asked to paint. And I have some of his sonnets, somewhere.
DevOps,,. we've seen this sort of thing before. End result is that we get less specialists, and things become harder to fix when they break. But, multi-skilled people are the way things are going. And have been since
Taken out of context, as it was in the summary, I fully agree that "West Coast" is ambiguous, given the international readership of Slashdot. That's why I made a point of very intentionally establishing context first, by mentioning that it was an LA Times article. I then used an "and" to pair it with the "West Coast" term, indicating that I think you need both to satisfactorily determine the time zone in question, rather than just one or the other.
FWIW, us NZers read 'West Coast' as the west coast of the South Island. Famous for
:)
1: Rain
2: The Hokitika wildfood festival
3: Weird people, known as 'coasters'
But like most other people on the boards, I switch to west coast USA for this. I'm a visitor, best to be on good behaviour when in someone else's house
Whether it's Amazon or not is irrelevant. In any large company, there's going to be a percentage who like the dead tree copies of the book. Got to a restaurant when the staff are on a break, you'll find some folks eating Mackers/KFC/their own sandwiches.
Where you work doesn't dictate where you shop.
Also in the news, "Kittenman wants to win the lottery".
..." and "had definite plans on how to ..." are worlds apart.
"Wants to
1) Be working for any non-US company where IP or security is an issue.
2) Install Linux.
Next?
3) Profit!
.... The key is to create an environment that is as close to what they know as possible. ....
Totally agree - we need to remember that the users don't care what's under the hood. Their job is to sell things, crunch numbers, make widgets, whatever ... not to use a PC. For them the PC is a tool. If it works the same as their last tool, great - they can concentrate on their job, not on learning things unassociated with it.
And yeah, maybe this new spreadsheet in Shiny-10 is better than the one in Sparkly-v8 - but they don't care.
hats off to the developer who admits a mistake.
I suspect s/he'll get pilloried in the press and may end up with some lawsuits (?) but I, for one, recognize a person big enough to take responsibility.
Who was it who said "bad news travels 'round the world while the truth is still putting on it's laces"?
...
Churchill, I suspect
I have a daughter who has insomnia. This insomnia is triggered by the thought that she has insomnia. This is due to a friend she used to have that would come over and then talk about maybe they have insomnia. So she psychs herself out and can't sleep. So we have started giving her a sleeping aid. It's not anything effective, but we carefully keep it under the guise of a medical prescription. We also have her going to a psychologist. So we are taking an actual medical approach. Yes, we will tell her eventually.
Are other two choice are: Do nothing. Give her a sleeping, and possible addictive, sleeping aid. Something we will do if all else fails.
Seriously, why didn't you do nothing? Every kid has sleeping problems. 'Doing nothing' is cheaper, doesn't expose your daughter to drugs she may not need, and additionally doesn't encourage her to seek professional aid (and a pill) when she has a problem in later life.
Watching sad movies makes you sad. Listening to happy music can cheer you up. Reading a sad book can make you unhappy.
Video games are just another entertainment form.
I appreciate that TFA is referring to a lack of mastery of the controls makes you aggressive (or frustrated)...but so does lack of mastery of anything you spend time on.
And my bugbear is XCOM classic ironman... damn those aliens.
Correlation != causation. The internet may not be causing the increase in atheism. Both are increasing at the same time, but we'd need to do more checks to make sure the two facts are related. Also increasing in the world's population, the average temperature, the number of exoplanets. We could also link the rise of atheism to the decrease in the number of pirates (but that's been done).
Meantime, I suspect it's to do with rise in information availability. People still read books away from the Internet, y'know.
Now, where did I put my copy of 'God is not Great'...
I'm a fundamentalist grammarian.
So you're a grammar zealot? (or as we used to say, grammar nazi?)
It's a pity, then, that we live in a society that values everyone's opinions.
OK, kill me, but I don't think that's a good thing. I'm uneducated on several major topics that appear in the newspapers on a daily basis. Example - Syrian Civil War (well, relatively under-informed). My opinion on that is worth less to society then someone who is much more familiar with the situation.
Conversely, I'm an amateur astronomer. Put me in a room with an astrologer and I'll rip him/her to shreds.
I think peoples' options matter, but not equally. An idiot (including myself) with no knowledge on a subject (sex life of the iguana?) has an opinion with a value that is near-zero. And that's just jim-dandy with me.
I was walking in the woods one day with a zoologist friend of mine, when we came upon a rotting coyote head in the middle of the trail. "Ooh!" she says, "I want to show that to my students!" Whereupon she picks up the head, maggot-ridden eyeholes and all, and pops it into the pocket of her windbreaker.
How big was the dry-cleaning bill?
Calls to mind the story of the young Darwin, who was faced with containing three beetles when he had only two hands. He put the third one in his mouth.
And I tip my hat to your zoologist companion.
"Or maybe they were just eating rat?"
People were keeping coins in the mouth, harder for pickpockets to get at, so at every transaction, you got the pest for free.
Wasn't that ancient Greece? I mean, really. Or did they keep coins in their mouths in the middle ages too?
That is a "classic". They have a lot of those on there. I have recently watched a few of the old Clint Eastwood classics on there recently as well. (The Good, The Bad, The Ugly. Fist Full of Dollars)
Clint Eastwood's spaghetti westerns are now seen as classics? God help us all.
Not only that, but there are only seven paragraphs which don't repeat things -- The last two and the first five.
This post is itself a repetition of an earlier post,from GuitarNeophyte. Very 'meta'.