You think Elon Musk went into Nokia with an understanding of what Nokia needed as a business? Or merely a view that whatever they were doing was wrong because it wasn't based on Microsoft stuff?
You mean Stephen Elop, not Elon Musk. Quite a difference, but I can see myself making the same Elop flip-flop.
I can't wait for this generation to saturate the industry. Fewer bugs, better features, from less nonsense to code programs with. They might even be better as people, with clearer heads. Python might even help you think more clearly.
Years of experience, to me, is at least as important in programming as in any other field. Experience makes you better at your job, not just 25% better, several times better.
Programming is designing. The hard things in programming are design choices, not learning some new syntax. Anyone can learn a language in a matter of weeks. But a designer can keep improving over the course of his whole life. As Steve Jobs said, the difference between an average taxi driver and the best taxi driver in the world is maybe 10-30%. But between average software and the best, ten or a hundred times.
I have an unpopular theory that things should be as simple as possible, and specifically as purely mechanical or purely electronic as possible. The mixture of both gets me worried.
In general a computer is most advanced when it has no moving parts: no fan, no spinning disk. Keys are okay, but not on a smartphone.
On the other hand, I would rather advances in cars be mechanical, not electronical. It amazes me how little cars of the same size and shape have improved in miles per gallon over the decades. A 2014 Volkswagen Golf gets 39 MPG, but a 1982 Volkwagen Golf got 37 (http://www.fuelly.com/car/volkswagen/golf).
A lot of this can be chalked up to my first car being a 10-year-old 1985 Oldsmobile, full of automatic but old features, which all failed. My second car was stick shift, crank windows, etc., on purpose. Simpler is fewer things to break, to go on the fritz, to flake out, and to be expensively repaired.
Although I understood in the end, a few more commas and the word "that" could have helped smoothe the summary:
[Mozilla says that] the FCC doesn't have to reclassify the Internet access [that] ISPs offer consumers as a telecommunications service, subject to common carrier regulations under Title II of the Communications Act. Instead, the FCC should target the service [that] ISPs offer to edge providers, like Netflix and Dropbox, who need to send their bits over ISP networks to reach their customers.
since this has been a one-man shop for seven years; namely my shop, I confess some reservations about handing over the keys and moving permanently up to the top floor.
There is a chance that you are ready and all there is to it is for you to find a capable replacement for yourself. But there is a ever-so-slightly greater chance that you aren't ready, that you'll be a micromanager, making yourself and subordinates totally miserable.
The new standard, MU-MIMO (Multiple User — Multiple Input and Multiple Output) has a clunky name — but could make a significant difference...
I thought clunky names were an engineering tradition, like CSMA/CD (Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection), which means, Listening Among Others for a Chance to Speak.
I'm curious, or maybe just ignorant, why the open source community does not already have a mature, widespread file storage application that is peer to peer, like BitTorrent Sync. Maybe because peer to peer is so much harder than client-server. But I would have thought it would be further along by now, given our:
- technical savvy - awareness of the importance of good back-ups - distrust of corporations and governments
If we had a free file back-up service that was standard for Linux (or if there were two or three, for the sake of competition, but that at least each distro had one that it picked as its standard), then I think it would help Linux catch on as well as improve the sense of community: I'm helping host some of your data, you're hosting some of mine --- even though I have no idea what or whose it is because I have just a bunch of encrypted shards.
I hate to say this, as much as I sympathize more with Netflix than a major studio, but shouldn't the studios eventually stream their movies themselves? Is the tech really that hard, why are they outsourcing it to Amazon and Netflix?
Like TV channels, we should just surf the studio websites until we find what we want (using Google, perhaps). That seems the inevitable future rather than one or two clearinghouses. That's what tech does: removes the middleman (except when there's a man in the middle;).
For an adult human, 400-600 is about the limit of what we can detect.
No.
For most average human adults, the limit is about 300 dpi.
Speaking as a graphic designer with over two decades of experience, there is a reason that graphic designers have always targeted a print resolution of 300 dpi for colour images.
How 400-600 entered the conversation is beyond me. The percentage of people who can visually tell the difference between a 300 dpi output and anything higher than that is very, very small. The number of people who can spot the difference at 400+ is not even a consideration for discussion.
When I was a graphic designer, I was told 300 dpi --- unless the image had type, in which case, 600. I've found some corroboration:
Multisyllabic and euphemistic, I'm sure it first came into being from the lips of an advertiser.
But if you want to think, write, and reason clearly about a subject, stick to the old, short words, the ones that your mind retranslates the words to anyway after hearing them.
1920 x 1280 is about the resolution I want. It has enough res to watch movies in high definition, gives text just enough crispness, and has an aspect ratio of 3:2, yet doesn't requires a new set of icons all over the place.
It's a shame, because even though LCD tech has shown a lot of improvement, plasma displays have inherent advantages, primarily because the tech doesn't require a backlight -- unlike LCDs, which twist crystals in individual pixels to affect the light passing through, plasma pixels illuminate themselves.
And once big-screen OLED becomes cheap enough (OLED pixels, not just OLED backlit) then that advantage will dwindle away too.
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You think Elon Musk went into Nokia with an understanding of what Nokia needed as a business? Or merely a view that whatever they were doing was wrong because it wasn't based on Microsoft stuff?
You mean Stephen Elop, not Elon Musk. Quite a difference, but I can see myself making the same Elop flip-flop.
I can't wait for this generation to saturate the industry. Fewer bugs, better features, from less nonsense to code programs with. They might even be better as people, with clearer heads. Python might even help you think more clearly.
Years of experience, to me, is at least as important in programming as in any other field. Experience makes you better at your job, not just 25% better, several times better.
Programming is designing. The hard things in programming are design choices, not learning some new syntax. Anyone can learn a language in a matter of weeks. But a designer can keep improving over the course of his whole life. As Steve Jobs said, the difference between an average taxi driver and the best taxi driver in the world is maybe 10-30%. But between average software and the best, ten or a hundred times.
AAPL's YAPL
Speed up PHP? It already runs in a fraction of a second. The database queries, meanwhile, can take many times longer.
Disney will have to get Fox's approval and probably cut Fox in for some of the profits, if they were to re-release the series.
First, why hasn't Fox put out DVDs or Blu-rays themselves?
Second, why would Disney scoff at such a deal? Even minus some to Fox, Disney would make a lot of money.
The originals in high resolution would be snatched up, both by fans who just like them that way and by collectors who deem first things higher.
I have an unpopular theory that things should be as simple as possible, and specifically as purely mechanical or purely electronic as possible. The mixture of both gets me worried.
In general a computer is most advanced when it has no moving parts: no fan, no spinning disk. Keys are okay, but not on a smartphone.
On the other hand, I would rather advances in cars be mechanical, not electronical. It amazes me how little cars of the same size and shape have improved in miles per gallon over the decades. A 2014 Volkswagen Golf gets 39 MPG, but a 1982 Volkwagen Golf got 37 (http://www.fuelly.com/car/volkswagen/golf).
A lot of this can be chalked up to my first car being a 10-year-old 1985 Oldsmobile, full of automatic but old features, which all failed. My second car was stick shift, crank windows, etc., on purpose. Simpler is fewer things to break, to go on the fritz, to flake out, and to be expensively repaired.
Although I understood in the end, a few more commas and the word "that" could have helped smoothe the summary:
[Mozilla says that] the FCC doesn't have to reclassify the Internet access [that] ISPs offer consumers as a telecommunications service, subject to common carrier regulations under Title II of the Communications Act. Instead, the FCC should target the service [that] ISPs offer to edge providers, like Netflix and Dropbox, who need to send their bits over ISP networks to reach their customers.
Intelligently Moving From IT Into Management?
Not possible.
Especially given:
since this has been a one-man shop for seven years; namely my shop, I confess some reservations about handing over the keys and moving permanently up to the top floor.
There is a chance that you are ready and all there is to it is for you to find a capable replacement for yourself. But there is a ever-so-slightly greater chance that you aren't ready, that you'll be a micromanager, making yourself and subordinates totally miserable.
"Think of SQLite not as a replacement for Oracle but as a replacement for fopen()" --- About
The brain was not designed for reading
It wasn't designed for anything.
It is preprogrammed for learning spoken language. You might read Stephen Pinker's The Language Instinct.
The new standard, MU-MIMO (Multiple User — Multiple Input and Multiple Output) has a clunky name — but could make a significant difference...
I thought clunky names were an engineering tradition, like CSMA/CD (Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection), which means, Listening Among Others for a Chance to Speak.
From the article:
The council was previously running 3,500 Windows XP desktops and 800 XP laptops
and is much happier now.
I'm curious, or maybe just ignorant, why the open source community does not already have a mature, widespread file storage application that is peer to peer, like BitTorrent Sync. Maybe because peer to peer is so much harder than client-server. But I would have thought it would be further along by now, given our:
- technical savvy
- awareness of the importance of good back-ups
- distrust of corporations and governments
If we had a free file back-up service that was standard for Linux (or if there were two or three, for the sake of competition, but that at least each distro had one that it picked as its standard), then I think it would help Linux catch on as well as improve the sense of community: I'm helping host some of your data, you're hosting some of mine --- even though I have no idea what or whose it is because I have just a bunch of encrypted shards.
I hate to say this, as much as I sympathize more with Netflix than a major studio, but shouldn't the studios eventually stream their movies themselves? Is the tech really that hard, why are they outsourcing it to Amazon and Netflix?
Like TV channels, we should just surf the studio websites until we find what we want (using Google, perhaps). That seems the inevitable future rather than one or two clearinghouses. That's what tech does: removes the middleman (except when there's a man in the middle ;).
For an adult human, 400-600 is about the limit of what we can detect.
No.
For most average human adults, the limit is about 300 dpi.
Speaking as a graphic designer with over two decades of experience, there is a reason that graphic designers have always targeted a print resolution of 300 dpi for colour images.
How 400-600 entered the conversation is beyond me. The percentage of people who can visually tell the difference between a 300 dpi output and anything higher than that is very, very small. The number of people who can spot the difference at 400+ is not even a consideration for discussion.
When I was a graphic designer, I was told 300 dpi --- unless the image had type, in which case, 600. I've found some corroboration:
1. Experiments with Pixels Per Inch (PPI) on Printed Image Sharpness by Roger N. Clark
2. Guidelines for Author Supplied Electronic Text and Graphics
3. Digital Art Guidelines
Apparently the eye is more forgiving when looking at photographs than at text.
"Legacy" is a buzzword for "old."
Multisyllabic and euphemistic, I'm sure it first came into being from the lips of an advertiser.
But if you want to think, write, and reason clearly about a subject, stick to the old, short words, the ones that your mind retranslates the words to anyway after hearing them.
From the summary:
it still might not have enough time to develop adult-equivalent intelligence by 2029
2029: Skynet is born. Nothing bad happens
2042: Skynet turns 13...
There's also DaVinci Resolve and and LightWorks. Both with free Linux versions.
DaVinci Resolve is mainly for color tweaking but since version 10 also can cut. LightWorks has been used in Hollywood a lot.
In light of these two offerings, I'm surprised that PiTiVi is called the most mature. I haven't used any of them, though.
1920 x 1280 is about the resolution I want. It has enough res to watch movies in high definition, gives text just enough crispness, and has an aspect ratio of 3:2, yet doesn't requires a new set of icons all over the place.
elimination of potentially-harmful constructs
When did English speakers fall in love with the word potentially?
We already have a single word for potentially harmful: it's called dangerous.
Even worse is the infestation of the phrase could potentially, which means the same thing as could.
From the article:
It's a shame, because even though LCD tech has shown a lot of improvement, plasma displays have inherent advantages, primarily because the tech doesn't require a backlight -- unlike LCDs, which twist crystals in individual pixels to affect the light passing through, plasma pixels illuminate themselves.
And once big-screen OLED becomes cheap enough (OLED pixels, not just OLED backlit) then that advantage will dwindle away too.
Duplodocus
Programmers argue whether the right way to say SQL is S Q L or sequel. A business analyst told me her way, and I thought it fit best: squirrel.
doesn't look all that different from an old-school $3.95 6250 BPI magnetic tape reel
Or a ring, bracelet, flying saucer, hoola hoop, donut, or a million other things that are round. What is your point?