Buy her a beautiful book and ask her to fill it with her life. Her story of her life told in her own way. There is nothing that matches the written word to connect with someone, and years down the line you and you daughters will want to experience that feeling of connection. It will hurt, but the stories and the details it contain will stir all sorts memories and emotions, but in some way, you'll feel together again for a while.
Hold them accountable. Track everything they do, and audit that it was in fact necessary and honest.
I'm an IT Manager, and it scares me to think anyone would set up an arrangement like this and not have auditing in place, with reporting going to the customer (i.e. this guy.) I would assume as part of the initial contract, there were requirements in place that specified audits and reporting and transparency. You don't want to know everything they are doing in detail but you need to have enough information about what work is getting done, and the status, so that you can report to the CEO. That means auditing, that means project tracking. And you need to review those audit reports. Or at least, I would do that.
Or you could just talk to folk.
But perhaps you work in an environment with a blame culture.
Except that my accountant has her CPA - a real life honest to god certification. (Not the take-a-class-and-take-a-test mickey mouse 'certifications' of the IT industry.)
She also has a code of ethics, belongs to a serious professional organization, and has a body of law that restricts what she may or may not do and an oversight organization over the top of all of that.
Pretty much none of which IT 'professionals' have.
Some of us do.
Here in the UK the professional organization is called the British Computer Society. Full membership requires that you pass exams, have the required amount of validated experience, and attend a panel interview to be evaluated. All the usual requirements of a professional organization.
Gain entry and you acquire the moniker, MBCS. If you meet the additional requirements of their associated engineering body, then you may also become a CEng, a Chartered Engineer.
And, of course, you sign up to their charter and code of ethics.
For me, membership not only opens a lot of doors, but it makes the trust element void. I step into a business and folk open up straight away. That's what being a professional, in the literal sense, brings with it.
It also means that when folk say, "Ah, but you're not a 'real' engineer". You can smile and say, "Well yes, yes I am".
I once dropped an EDS60 http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/gallery/ral/prev/r12600eb.jpg on my foot. It was EDS11, which was the boot disk. The boss spent an afternoon checking the alignment of the platters to ensure it wouldn't crash when loaded. We used to clean those things too, btw, with alcohol and cotton swabs.
It's not democratic. It's another way for people who want something for nothing to remove ads.
I was onboard for trying to make information free. Well, now a large part of the information is and I'm not about to hurt the companies who embraced the "alternative business models" I supported.
I like their services, and would like them to be able to pay for the server.
Keep in mind if people can't pay via their advertising, they'll likely start charging again. Major step backwards.
Big, big assumption.
What is actually means is that a new model will emerge. If we're going to stretch the meaning of democracy in this thread, then I'm going to stretch evolution,
But that's what we have here: variation; struggle for existence; natural selection; origin of species.
Of course, the dogmatic, conservative business droids remain wedded to their belief in "intelligent design".
What I find really annoying is the summaries assertion that this is somehow 'web democracy'. Removing adverts and altering how other peoples work is used without their permission is about as similar to democracy as the concept of being able to punch someone in the face for saying something you don't like.
The hand-wringing over blocking adds, on the basis that you are altering
folks' work, in hypocrisy.
Advertisers routinely licence snippets of audio from songs. They licence
from the publishers, who have the "rights", but the complete track was
the artist's intention. Thus, the work is being altered.
To say nothing of an entire album. Hands up who has never played an album track
without listening to the whole album?
Of course, advertisers do the same with other artwork. Just because it's
"out of copyright" doesn't mean using sections of it isn't altering the
artist's work.
And you can go on.
We're still at Web 0.1 (beta) and its associated business practices are
far behind that.
Marketing droids need to innovate as much, if not more, than the techs.
But do the marketing droids know how?
Why not have a key pair (or something of that ilk) that you exchange with the crawlers? If you authenticate, then you can crawl my site.
At the moment it's a free for all. Why not use the weight of Google to change the rules.
Just my starter for ten after a few beers.
Developers develop, submit to staging, the work is tested and then deployed to live.
As you say, the problem is the database. You do indeed need "partial replication".
And that's the issue, how do you do this?
Just seems to me that the Drupal developers didn't take this into account, and it's a showstopper for multi-developer environments, especially where - with continuous integration tools - we are used to this kind of things being automated and thus requiring almost zero effort (once set up).
Why Drupal? I know that it's everyone's love child, and I'd like to use it, but the deployment issue is a showstopper.
How do I develop with it local, across multiple development machines within the team, say, via svn, promote to staging, then deploy?
What have I missed?
all along = from the beginning all and sundry = everyone all for = strongly in favour of all in = exhausted all in all = on the whole all-or-nothing = having no middle position all out = using all one's strength or resources. all over the place = everywhere or in a state of disorde all there = in full possession of one's mental faculties
Remember this is in Communist China. The press loves to tell us that China is now post-communism since it allows citizens to own businesses.
Since you raised the issue, when do you believe that it's not been
possible to own your own business in HK? Because it's no more difficult
than anywhere else.
There is still only one political party there
Well, no, they don't have democracy as most of us understand it, and the
fight for universal suffrage continues, but there are healthy debates
there about such things. For those of us viewing the US from afar
since... ooh, I dunno, since the Bush cabal seized power, debate in HK
puts the US to shame.
they have very strict policies against just about everything.
Such as?
I'm just back from a month in HK. My sister and family live there, and has done for fifteen years - since before the handover in 1997. I go most years around this time - it coincides with the fabulous Arts' Festival and the superb HK Rugby Sevens.
HK is not only one of the world's great cities, but, once you know it,
an excellent place to work - 20% tax - and to raise a family.
And very strict punishments for all the offenses.
The law in HK is equivalent to elsewhere. You win some, you lose some.
And anything can be considered a crime if you cross the local CCP
representatives.
You're in real bullshit territory now.
There is very little of what most of the rest of the world consider
to be basic personal rights allowed there.
I've spent a lot of time in the US, but won't travel there these days
because of the Draconian immigration policies. Beyond that, the vastly
inflated sense of panic and the, frankly, scary reaction to events
leaves me worried that I could lose my liberty in the US by a simple
expression of a view - what the US used to regard as freedom of speech;
what the rest of the world still regards as freedom of speech; I truly
hope the US regains its senses soon.
In contrast, I am never fearful of such things in HK.
Sure they can earn and make more money than before but the economy
is still centrally controlled and the government has it's hand in the till to build up it's military and maintain it.
You've always been able to make money in HK. And, move that money
wherever you like on the planet. The taxes are very low.
Get this: this year, tax payers received a rebate from the government
for overpayment of taxes last year. That's right, the government felt
that it had taken too much tax last year and so is repaying the surplus.
As to your other comments: governments always own the economy; it's a
core responsibility of any government.
The Chinese do not have freedom of press, speech, religion, freedom
to gather in groups unless it is approved, due process of law, and
ownership of anything can be revoked by the Communist at any time for
any reason.
This is really not a true reflection of what happens in everyday life.
The press is probably as free as elsewhere, but perhaps in a different
way. If you read, say, the South China Morning Post, it's as critical as
any other newspaper, and just as cynical about politics and power.
Remember this when you buy all that cheap Chinese stuff at the stores that it is helping to maintain what is in fact a slave nation.
This is bigotry underpinned by ignorance. You need to educate yourself, both about the world outside your borders, but more so about the world within them.
My solution is via the Tab Mix Plus extension. Go to Options/Mouse/Mouse clicking and set one of middle-click, double click, etc. to Duplicates the tab in a new window
I use Double click on a tab duplicates the tab in a new window.
In topology, a sphere with a two-dimensional surface is essentially characterized by the fact that it is simply connected. The Poincaré conjecture is that this is also true for spheres with three-dimensional surfaces. The question has been solved for all dimensions above three. Solving it for three is central to the problem of classifying 3-manifolds.
Lots of good stuff has already been recommended, so I'll add what I haven't seen here, apart from joining the voices that recommend writing for your audience; never let that though leave your mind.
Precision is key, whether practicing technical or creative writing. It is a truism that every word counts. Whether you are expounding about 'a thing', 'the thing', 'each thing', or 'every thing', you must be precise about which thingy you are on about.
To be sure, precision is not an easy writing skill to learn; you need to be able to ruthlessly excise fluff from your scribblings, and reread your own words from the perspective of others.
While I agree with the OP that grammar is not critical at the first stage, basic punctuation is essential - the well known 'eats shoots and leaves' example proves that point.
Metaphor might be left aside in the early stages, but English is an idiomatic language and much of its colour comes from those idioms.
From what you have written, you are teaching folk who will be writing from positions of professional authority. That being so, metaphor is unlikely to be an issue, but common faults such as tautology and cliches will be - their use diminishes the authority of writer in the reader's mind.
Now to a specific point of personal pedantry: The clearest divide that I see between authoritative and also ran writing is in the use of prepositions.
In your own case you said, "First, let's head a couple wagons off at the pass". In this case, the missing preposition after 'couple' is commonly seen on the internet - it's kinda slang brung over from speech - but would be edited immediately (both in the US and elsewhere). No-one would say, 'a pride lions' or 'a swarm bees'.
That wasn't meant as an ad hominem attack, but it served to make my point. The list of abuse of/in/with propositions is long, but, used correctly, they add precision to a text.
If I were in your shoes, I would want to make clear to my students that there is a broad range of topics to keep in mind when writing, but that mastery isn't necessary to communicate authoritatively. However, to ignore them will result in writing that never gains the air of authority and will thus be treated as such.
One final suggestion: midmaps. For folk who find difficulty in moving their ideas from mind to paper, mindmaps are often a boon.
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Buy her a beautiful book and ask her to fill it with her life. Her story of her life told in her own way. There is nothing that matches the written word to connect with someone, and years down the line you and you daughters will want to experience that feeling of connection. It will hurt, but the stories and the details it contain will stir all sorts memories and emotions, but in some way, you'll feel together again for a while.
Hold them accountable. Track everything they do, and audit that it was in fact necessary and honest.
I'm an IT Manager, and it scares me to think anyone would set up an arrangement like this and not have auditing in place, with reporting going to the customer (i.e. this guy.) I would assume as part of the initial contract, there were requirements in place that specified audits and reporting and transparency. You don't want to know everything they are doing in detail but you need to have enough information about what work is getting done, and the status, so that you can report to the CEO. That means auditing, that means project tracking. And you need to review those audit reports. Or at least, I would do that.
Or you could just talk to folk.
But perhaps you work in an environment with a blame culture.
I am.
Except that my accountant has her CPA - a real life honest to god certification. (Not the take-a-class-and-take-a-test mickey mouse 'certifications' of the IT industry.)
She also has a code of ethics, belongs to a serious professional organization, and has a body of law that restricts what she may or may not do and an oversight organization over the top of all of that.
Pretty much none of which IT 'professionals' have.
Some of us do.
Here in the UK the professional organization is called the British Computer Society. Full membership requires that you pass exams, have the required amount of validated experience, and attend a panel interview to be evaluated. All the usual requirements of a professional organization.
Gain entry and you acquire the moniker, MBCS. If you meet the additional requirements of their associated engineering body, then you may also become a CEng, a Chartered Engineer.
And, of course, you sign up to their charter and code of ethics.
For me, membership not only opens a lot of doors, but it makes the trust element void. I step into a business and folk open up straight away. That's what being a professional, in the literal sense, brings with it.
It also means that when folk say, "Ah, but you're not a 'real' engineer". You can smile and say, "Well yes, yes I am".
I once dropped an EDS60 http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/gallery/ral/prev/r12600eb.jpg on my foot. It was EDS11, which was the boot disk. The boss spent an afternoon checking the alignment of the platters to ensure it wouldn't crash when loaded. We used to clean those things too, btw, with alcohol and cotton swabs.
It's not democratic. It's another way for people who want something for nothing to remove ads. I was onboard for trying to make information free. Well, now a large part of the information is and I'm not about to hurt the companies who embraced the "alternative business models" I supported. I like their services, and would like them to be able to pay for the server. Keep in mind if people can't pay via their advertising, they'll likely start charging again. Major step backwards.
Big, big assumption.
What is actually means is that a new model will emerge. If we're going to stretch the meaning of democracy in this thread, then I'm going to stretch evolution,
But that's what we have here: variation; struggle for existence; natural selection; origin of species.
Of course, the dogmatic, conservative business droids remain wedded to their belief in "intelligent design".
What I find really annoying is the summaries assertion that this is somehow 'web democracy'. Removing adverts and altering how other peoples work is used without their permission is about as similar to democracy as the concept of being able to punch someone in the face for saying something you don't like.
The hand-wringing over blocking adds, on the basis that you are altering folks' work, in hypocrisy.
Advertisers routinely licence snippets of audio from songs. They licence from the publishers, who have the "rights", but the complete track was the artist's intention. Thus, the work is being altered.
To say nothing of an entire album. Hands up who has never played an album track without listening to the whole album?
Of course, advertisers do the same with other artwork. Just because it's "out of copyright" doesn't mean using sections of it isn't altering the artist's work.
And you can go on.
We're still at Web 0.1 (beta) and its associated business practices are far behind that.
Marketing droids need to innovate as much, if not more, than the techs. But do the marketing droids know how?
Hmmm New reg. One post. Please mod parent shill.
Actually, you can go back well over a decade.
The ease of installing software on many Linux distributions shouldn't be overrated.
The ease of installing software on many Linux distributions shouldn't be underrated.
There, fixed it for you.
Why not have a key pair (or something of that ilk) that you exchange with the crawlers? If you authenticate, then you can crawl my site. At the moment it's a free for all. Why not use the weight of Google to change the rules. Just my starter for ten after a few beers.
Module or code -centric, doesn't matter.
Developers develop, submit to staging, the work is tested and then deployed to live.
As you say, the problem is the database. You do indeed need "partial replication".
And that's the issue, how do you do this?
Just seems to me that the Drupal developers didn't take this into account, and it's a showstopper for multi-developer environments, especially where - with continuous integration tools - we are used to this kind of things being automated and thus requiring almost zero effort (once set up).
Why Drupal? I know that it's everyone's love child, and I'd like to use it, but the deployment issue is a showstopper. How do I develop with it local, across multiple development machines within the team, say, via svn, promote to staging, then deploy? What have I missed?
In this context
all but = very nearly
Here's a few more:
all along = from the beginning
all and sundry = everyone
all for = strongly in favour of
all in = exhausted
all in all = on the whole
all-or-nothing = having no middle position
all out = using all one's strength or resources.
all over the place = everywhere or in a state of disorde
all there = in full possession of one's mental faculties
And there's quite a few more, all told.
Since you raised the issue, when do you believe that it's not been possible to own your own business in HK? Because it's no more difficult than anywhere else.
Well, no, they don't have democracy as most of us understand it, and the fight for universal suffrage continues, but there are healthy debates there about such things. For those of us viewing the US from afar since... ooh, I dunno, since the Bush cabal seized power, debate in HK puts the US to shame.
Such as?
I'm just back from a month in HK. My sister and family live there, and has done for fifteen years - since before the handover in 1997. I go most years around this time - it coincides with the fabulous Arts' Festival and the superb HK Rugby Sevens.
HK is not only one of the world's great cities, but, once you know it, an excellent place to work - 20% tax - and to raise a family.
The law in HK is equivalent to elsewhere. You win some, you lose some.
You're in real bullshit territory now.
I've spent a lot of time in the US, but won't travel there these days because of the Draconian immigration policies. Beyond that, the vastly inflated sense of panic and the, frankly, scary reaction to events leaves me worried that I could lose my liberty in the US by a simple expression of a view - what the US used to regard as freedom of speech; what the rest of the world still regards as freedom of speech; I truly hope the US regains its senses soon.
In contrast, I am never fearful of such things in HK.
You've always been able to make money in HK. And, move that money wherever you like on the planet. The taxes are very low.
Get this: this year, tax payers received a rebate from the government for overpayment of taxes last year. That's right, the government felt that it had taken too much tax last year and so is repaying the surplus.
As to your other comments: governments always own the economy; it's a core responsibility of any government.
This is really not a true reflection of what happens in everyday life. The press is probably as free as elsewhere, but perhaps in a different way. If you read, say, the South China Morning Post, it's as critical as any other newspaper, and just as cynical about politics and power.
This is bigotry underpinned by ignorance. You need to educate yourself, both about the world outside your borders, but more so about the world within them.
I work this way too.
My solution is via the Tab Mix Plus extension. Go to Options/Mouse/Mouse clicking and set one of middle-click, double click, etc. to Duplicates the tab in a new window
I use Double click on a tab duplicates the tab in a new window.
Lots of good stuff has already been recommended, so I'll add what I haven't seen here, apart from joining the voices that recommend writing for your audience; never let that though leave your mind.
Precision is key, whether practicing technical or creative writing. It is a truism that every word counts. Whether you are expounding about 'a thing', 'the thing', 'each thing', or 'every thing', you must be precise about which thingy you are on about.
To be sure, precision is not an easy writing skill to learn; you need to be able to ruthlessly excise fluff from your scribblings, and reread your own words from the perspective of others.
While I agree with the OP that grammar is not critical at the first stage, basic punctuation is essential - the well known 'eats shoots and leaves' example proves that point.
Metaphor might be left aside in the early stages, but English is an idiomatic language and much of its colour comes from those idioms.
From what you have written, you are teaching folk who will be writing from positions of professional authority. That being so, metaphor is unlikely to be an issue, but common faults such as tautology and cliches will be - their use diminishes the authority of writer in the reader's mind.
Now to a specific point of personal pedantry: The clearest divide that I see between authoritative and also ran writing is in the use of prepositions.
In your own case you said, "First, let's head a couple wagons off at the pass". In this case, the missing preposition after 'couple' is commonly seen on the internet - it's kinda slang brung over from speech - but would be edited immediately (both in the US and elsewhere). No-one would say, 'a pride lions' or 'a swarm bees'.
That wasn't meant as an ad hominem attack, but it served to make my point. The list of abuse of/in/with propositions is long, but, used correctly, they add precision to a text.
If I were in your shoes, I would want to make clear to my students that there is a broad range of topics to keep in mind when writing, but that mastery isn't necessary to communicate authoritatively. However, to ignore them will result in writing that never gains the air of authority and will thus be treated as such.
One final suggestion: midmaps. For folk who find difficulty in moving their ideas from mind to paper, mindmaps are often a boon.