George's response is taken out of context. Charlie Rose brought it up. George mainly said that he had to stay away, so he didn't "muck it up." Mucking it up is a self-deprecating description. He's trying to keep it light.
He did send one vague criticism, that he did say that he would have repeated less. Of course he feels that way. He has been there, done that. Directors get sick of a movie halfway through making it. Artists in general want to keep exploring new stuff.
In school I did a report on parenting. A child's IQ is set by 3, largely from stimulation: holding them, talking to them, reading to them, etc. --- even though they don't yet know exactly what you're saying.
Aren't many poor families in America a young, single mother, working one or two jobs, and her children? Probably not the best upbringing.
I read the article, and it turns out it isn't mainly about how easy it is to bypass JavaScript restrictions. That's a part of it, and maybe he needs to be reminded of the majority's computer competence. But that's not the gist.
It wasn't so much, "Ha ha, watch me bypass your flimsy JavaScript." It was more, "Oh the senseless inconvenience you put me and others through," and "This copy-blocking clashes with the Internet like a plaid shirt and checkered pants". A few of his points:
1. If you don't want your stuff copied, why put it on the Internet? 2. I found the article in the first place because it was excerpted by another publication. 3. Copying and pasting little tidbits is part of social media. 4. The person you're really worried about, who will copy the whole thing and try to pass it off as their own, probably knows how to bypass your measly JavaScript.
No, I haven't read the latest InfoWorld article submitted by snydeq. But I'm pretty sure that it fails to answer the question, what exactly is DevOps?
buzzword-laden definition: just google devops and you'll find enough best-guess definition: Development and Operations working together low-budget definition: Development and Operations being the same person
By picking the right companies (that is to say, low-budget ones) I'm happy to say I've been doing DevOps for over a decade!
One of the worst things that browsers did was virtually destroy the ability to use shortcut keys
You can put keyboard shortcuts into your web pages with the HTML attribute called accesskey. Like if you have a link for the Next page, you could write it like this:
To me, the Holographic Principle is just another way to understand dimensions.
As I understand it, it says that you could encode everything in a room on its walls, ceiling, and floor. The position of every particle could be etched by a pair of points --- say, one on the ceiling and one on a wall. Is there anything in a room that could not be fully covered on its walls?
From there you imagine unfolding the room into a sheet. Now the room is two dimensions, but as long as you keep track of the folds, you can reconstruct the three-dimensional space. And you imagine some point that was moving in the room is now a pair of points, some distance apart, on this 2-D sheet. The three-dimensionality arises from these two points somehow being synchronized, entangled.
Actually from there you can go to one dimension, as any good programmer should know. For if you have a screen, it can be unfolded again. A screen is just a stream of data, with line breaks.
I recommend either PostgreSQL or SQLite. PostgreSQL is so easy to install and set up, though, that I would recommend SQLite only if you don't control the server.
It's pronounced Postgres Q L, if you want to say it all the way. But it's okay if you just want to say Postgres. Even the database's default superuser is still called postgres.
Microsoft says that all versions older than the latest one will no longer be supported starting Jan. 12, 2016.
In January my company will upgrade to IE 11, because of this, and probably stay on a current version from then on. It feels so weird. I'm used to having to code for a version of IE that is several years old. It's a good time to be a web developer!
I would like global shutter to return to cameras again. CMOS image sensors usually have rolling shutter, a step backward from CCDs. With rolling shutter, each line of the image is taken at a different time, as the sensor's reader rolls down the frame. This leads to many artifacts: camera flash banding, leaning trees and buildings as you go by, bent golf clubs, scattered fan blades, and others.
More than any other language English is a hybrid, so it has more words for the same thing. This goes way back. English's roots are Germanic, but even then it was mixed from Anglo, Saxon, Norse, and Frisian. Then you have the influx of Latin, twice: first by Roman conquest in early A.D., then by academic fashion in the Middle Ages. Between those two, in 1066, you have the Norman Conquest. That's why the words for the animals in the field are chicken and cow, which are Old English, the language of common folk. But the words for the same animals as food are poultry and beef, which are Norman French, the language of the rich rulers. English's heavy borrowing, as we all know, goes on to this day.
While sometimes one synonym is more precise than another, more often it's like saying gato has a different shade of meaning than cat, when really it's just the same idea from two different lands. A writer trying to help his reader can exploit English's large vocabulary to be clear, precise, and quick to understand. A writer trying to hold onto his job with the least effort can abuse English to hide mediocre thoughts in a thicket of long, important-sounding, often Latinate words.
Thank you for trying to explain it to me. I guess I should say I don't understand how the theoretical meets the practical here. Then again, I'm just a web programmer.
The theoretical. Sure, I read the article about a circle and trying to find the better, smaller circle within it, and I can imagine slicing into the circle to find it. No problem there.
The practical. Also, I noticed how they started off with real-world problems like designing the thinnest, most durable smartphone with the longest battery life.
But I don't see how designing a smartphone has anything to do with a circle, or a circle within a circle, or slicing the larger circle to find the smaller one. If I want to design a smartphone that's thin, then I will seek the thinnest of each of: battery, processor, etc....
Oh, I get it. The thinner I make the phone, the smaller the battery. The larger the battery, the thicker the smartphone. Likewise, thickness and durability are related. I guess I forgot that they have very complex formulae figured out to tell them ahead of time exactly how durable a material will be at a given thickness and a given shape, exactly how much charge a battery of a given size holds, exactly how much charge a given component will consume, etc. So they have all these number floating around, and normally they try different combinations to arrive at the best compromise. Or they have some formulae for doing some of the recombinations for them, but they're slow. And these researchers say that they have found a way to speed that last part up.
I guess industrial designers are a lot further along than I normally imagine them. Normally I imagine them just trying different stuff, sketching it out until looks nice (first on paper napkins, then in 3-D computer programs); then trying different materials; then trying the materials at different thicknesses (or going by past experience, learning that, say, 3mm of magnesium is ideal at this particular point).
I would hire a gifted musician, painter, or journalist that shows the seed of understanding good design, over a humdrum programmer
False dichotomy. Sure a gifted musician may be better than a bad programmer. But why not hire a gifted programmer?
That's not a false dichotomy. A false dichotomy would be to say, "There are only gifted liberal arts majors and humdrum programmers." A gifted programmer would be wonderful, no doubt. Isn't that what I was saying a gifted artist might become?
What I was saying was, so important is a sense of design that it trumps college major, at least for entry-level programmer positions. Right now I'm looking for that PostgreSQL guy with 10 years of experience and a good sense of design, but . . . no dice.
As a tech employer, I would not hire a liberal arts major for a technical position
As a programmer for ten years, I would definitely hire a liberal arts major for a programming position. After working alongside several and interviewing others, I have to echo the professor who wonders if his students have any kind of taste.
They may know the syntax. In fact anyone can learn that in a couple of weeks. What I keep running into, though, are programmers who can't program their way out of a paper bag, who would stare at me blankly if I quoted Brian Kernighan when he said "Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming."
Actually lately it seems a liberal arts major is about as likely as a science major to know anything about design. But I will tell you that I would hire a gifted musician, painter, or journalist that shows the seed of understanding good design, over a humdrum programmer who's like, "If it runs it's good."
As a web developer, it's attractive to me because it would let me write my server-side and client-side code in the same language. It's a small nicety, not an earth-shattering advantage, which is why I haven't used Node yet.
In fact, I've grown so accustomed to Apache, with all its modules and short-and-sweet "programming" with just a few lines of declarative-language directives, that it's going to be hard to pull me to Node, or even Nginx for that matter. I guess maybe if I were writing a real-time chat or video streaming app for a large swath of users, or something like that.
That's quite a jump in version numbers: from 0.12.7 to 4.0.0! Windows has got nothin' on that. From another article:
Having a converged project means converged release numbers which is why Node.js is jumping to v4.0 and avoiding overlap with any existing io.js version numbers.
This explanation doesn't persuade me. The version number is namespaced by the product name. It would have been Node 0.13, not io.js 0.13. I wouldn't have gotten confused.
I never heard about much version-number skipping until recently: Windows 10, PHP 7, and now Node 4. Has this always happened every now and then? It seems like before, doing just a dubious major-number increment, like from 3.4 to 4.0 instead of just to 3.5, would cause controversy.
Video editing software, like Sony Vegas or DaVinci Resolve.
In my limited experience, the editors on Linux are either unstable or limited in advanced features like picture grading and audio clean-up (dynamic range compressors, frequency filters, etc.).
Put the ad at the end, not the beginning. It will be seen less but also hated less.
Do you really want to associate your brand with interruption and irritation?
When you click on a video, you're eager to see it, and here comes an add to kill the mood.
On the other hand, when you're done with a video, you're usually laughing or smiling or in a good mood, and there's maybe more of a lull as you try to decide what to do next.
Slashdot Mirror
Why did you sell it? Take your money and shut up
George's response is taken out of context. Charlie Rose brought it up. George mainly said that he had to stay away, so he didn't "muck it up." Mucking it up is a self-deprecating description. He's trying to keep it light.
He did send one vague criticism, that he did say that he would have repeated less. Of course he feels that way. He has been there, done that. Directors get sick of a movie halfway through making it. Artists in general want to keep exploring new stuff.
Even I was like, another Death Star, really?
Indian teams tend to practice cowboy coding
With our westward expansion we eradicated the unique culture of --- wait, what?
In school I did a report on parenting. A child's IQ is set by 3, largely from stimulation: holding them, talking to them, reading to them, etc. --- even though they don't yet know exactly what you're saying.
Aren't many poor families in America a young, single mother, working one or two jobs, and her children? Probably not the best upbringing.
I read the article, and it turns out it isn't mainly about how easy it is to bypass JavaScript restrictions. That's a part of it, and maybe he needs to be reminded of the majority's computer competence. But that's not the gist.
It wasn't so much, "Ha ha, watch me bypass your flimsy JavaScript." It was more, "Oh the senseless inconvenience you put me and others through," and "This copy-blocking clashes with the Internet like a plaid shirt and checkered pants". A few of his points:
1. If you don't want your stuff copied, why put it on the Internet?
2. I found the article in the first place because it was excerpted by another publication.
3. Copying and pasting little tidbits is part of social media.
4. The person you're really worried about, who will copy the whole thing and try to pass it off as their own, probably knows how to bypass your measly JavaScript.
No, I haven't read the latest InfoWorld article submitted by snydeq. But I'm pretty sure that it fails to answer the question, what exactly is DevOps?
buzzword-laden definition: just google devops and you'll find enough
best-guess definition: Development and Operations working together
low-budget definition: Development and Operations being the same person
By picking the right companies (that is to say, low-budget ones) I'm happy to say I've been doing DevOps for over a decade!
One of the worst things that browsers did was virtually destroy the ability to use shortcut keys
You can put keyboard shortcuts into your web pages with the HTML attribute called accesskey. Like if you have a link for the Next page, you could write it like this:
<a href="pages/2" accesskey=N><u>N</u>ext</a>
Pressing Alt N would click it.
To me, the Holographic Principle is just another way to understand dimensions.
As I understand it, it says that you could encode everything in a room on its walls, ceiling, and floor. The position of every particle could be etched by a pair of points --- say, one on the ceiling and one on a wall. Is there anything in a room that could not be fully covered on its walls?
From there you imagine unfolding the room into a sheet. Now the room is two dimensions, but as long as you keep track of the folds, you can reconstruct the three-dimensional space. And you imagine some point that was moving in the room is now a pair of points, some distance apart, on this 2-D sheet. The three-dimensionality arises from these two points somehow being synchronized, entangled.
Actually from there you can go to one dimension, as any good programmer should know. For if you have a screen, it can be unfolded again. A screen is just a stream of data, with line breaks.
I recommend either PostgreSQL or SQLite. PostgreSQL is so easy to install and set up, though, that I would recommend SQLite only if you don't control the server.
It's pronounced Postgres Q L, if you want to say it all the way. But it's okay if you just want to say Postgres. Even the database's default superuser is still called postgres.
Microsoft says that all versions older than the latest one will no longer be supported starting Jan. 12, 2016.
In January my company will upgrade to IE 11, because of this, and probably stay on a current version from then on. It feels so weird. I'm used to having to code for a version of IE that is several years old. It's a good time to be a web developer!
I would like global shutter to return to cameras again. CMOS image sensors usually have rolling shutter, a step backward from CCDs. With rolling shutter, each line of the image is taken at a different time, as the sensor's reader rolls down the frame. This leads to many artifacts: camera flash banding, leaning trees and buildings as you go by, bent golf clubs, scattered fan blades, and others.
this is Dice trying to churn their candidate pot, nothing more.
Yes, there isn't much of a story here. Over five years Python has risen five percent while PHP has slid five percent.
More than any other language English is a hybrid, so it has more words for the same thing. This goes way back. English's roots are Germanic, but even then it was mixed from Anglo, Saxon, Norse, and Frisian. Then you have the influx of Latin, twice: first by Roman conquest in early A.D., then by academic fashion in the Middle Ages. Between those two, in 1066, you have the Norman Conquest. That's why the words for the animals in the field are chicken and cow, which are Old English, the language of common folk. But the words for the same animals as food are poultry and beef, which are Norman French, the language of the rich rulers. English's heavy borrowing, as we all know, goes on to this day.
While sometimes one synonym is more precise than another, more often it's like saying gato has a different shade of meaning than cat, when really it's just the same idea from two different lands. A writer trying to help his reader can exploit English's large vocabulary to be clear, precise, and quick to understand. A writer trying to hold onto his job with the least effort can abuse English to hide mediocre thoughts in a thicket of long, important-sounding, often Latinate words.
Thank you for trying to explain it to me. I guess I should say I don't understand how the theoretical meets the practical here. Then again, I'm just a web programmer.
The theoretical. Sure, I read the article about a circle and trying to find the better, smaller circle within it, and I can imagine slicing into the circle to find it. No problem there.
The practical. Also, I noticed how they started off with real-world problems like designing the thinnest, most durable smartphone with the longest battery life.
But I don't see how designing a smartphone has anything to do with a circle, or a circle within a circle, or slicing the larger circle to find the smaller one. If I want to design a smartphone that's thin, then I will seek the thinnest of each of: battery, processor, etc....
Oh, I get it. The thinner I make the phone, the smaller the battery. The larger the battery, the thicker the smartphone. Likewise, thickness and durability are related. I guess I forgot that they have very complex formulae figured out to tell them ahead of time exactly how durable a material will be at a given thickness and a given shape, exactly how much charge a battery of a given size holds, exactly how much charge a given component will consume, etc. So they have all these number floating around, and normally they try different combinations to arrive at the best compromise. Or they have some formulae for doing some of the recombinations for them, but they're slow. And these researchers say that they have found a way to speed that last part up.
I guess industrial designers are a lot further along than I normally imagine them. Normally I imagine them just trying different stuff, sketching it out until looks nice (first on paper napkins, then in 3-D computer programs); then trying different materials; then trying the materials at different thicknesses (or going by past experience, learning that, say, 3mm of magnesium is ideal at this particular point).
I read the summary. I didn't understand it. Then I read the article. I didn't understand it either.
It's because you set your lasers to stun.
I'm Batware.
I just took it to be something object oriented:
($happy_story)->like() = function () { echo 'Yay!!!' };
($sad_story)->like() = function () { echo 'I am sorry' };
(No the syntax above is not any particular language, which is good.)
Or as a layman would simply state, "It depends on the context."
So Facebook needs an ennui button?
I would hire a gifted musician, painter, or journalist that shows the seed of understanding good design, over a humdrum programmer
False dichotomy. Sure a gifted musician may be better than a bad programmer. But why not hire a gifted programmer?
That's not a false dichotomy. A false dichotomy would be to say, "There are only gifted liberal arts majors and humdrum programmers." A gifted programmer would be wonderful, no doubt. Isn't that what I was saying a gifted artist might become?
What I was saying was, so important is a sense of design that it trumps college major, at least for entry-level programmer positions. Right now I'm looking for that PostgreSQL guy with 10 years of experience and a good sense of design, but . . . no dice.
As a tech employer, I would not hire a liberal arts major for a technical position
As a programmer for ten years, I would definitely hire a liberal arts major for a programming position. After working alongside several and interviewing others, I have to echo the professor who wonders if his students have any kind of taste.
They may know the syntax. In fact anyone can learn that in a couple of weeks. What I keep running into, though, are programmers who can't program their way out of a paper bag, who would stare at me blankly if I quoted Brian Kernighan when he said "Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming."
Actually lately it seems a liberal arts major is about as likely as a science major to know anything about design. But I will tell you that I would hire a gifted musician, painter, or journalist that shows the seed of understanding good design, over a humdrum programmer who's like, "If it runs it's good."
As a web developer, it's attractive to me because it would let me write my server-side and client-side code in the same language. It's a small nicety, not an earth-shattering advantage, which is why I haven't used Node yet.
In fact, I've grown so accustomed to Apache, with all its modules and short-and-sweet "programming" with just a few lines of declarative-language directives, that it's going to be hard to pull me to Node, or even Nginx for that matter. I guess maybe if I were writing a real-time chat or video streaming app for a large swath of users, or something like that.
That's quite a jump in version numbers: from 0.12.7 to 4.0.0! Windows has got nothin' on that. From another article:
Having a converged project means converged release numbers which is why Node.js is jumping to v4.0 and avoiding overlap with any existing io.js version numbers.
This explanation doesn't persuade me. The version number is namespaced by the product name. It would have been Node 0.13, not io.js 0.13. I wouldn't have gotten confused.
I never heard about much version-number skipping until recently: Windows 10, PHP 7, and now Node 4. Has this always happened every now and then? It seems like before, doing just a dubious major-number increment, like from 3.4 to 4.0 instead of just to 3.5, would cause controversy.
Video editing software, like Sony Vegas or DaVinci Resolve.
In my limited experience, the editors on Linux are either unstable or limited in advanced features like picture grading and audio clean-up (dynamic range compressors, frequency filters, etc.).
Put the ad at the end, not the beginning. It will be seen less but also hated less.
Do you really want to associate your brand with interruption and irritation?
When you click on a video, you're eager to see it, and here comes an add to kill the mood.
On the other hand, when you're done with a video, you're usually laughing or smiling or in a good mood, and there's maybe more of a lull as you try to decide what to do next.
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka' but 'That’s funny...'" --- Isaac Asimov