I have been wondering lately if there are any kids interested in programming for its own sake anymore
You say this as if there was a time when kids were interested in programming. Sure you and I were, but the number of kids who wanted to program for the sake of programming was close to 0. There weren't that many. Today? There still aren't that many. Of course today they have more outlets. but programming is difficult and it isn't for everyone. It wasn't then, and it isn't now.
Yeah, whatever... stop being so damn insensitive, and stop getting offended by every little thing.
Not only am I a red head I was voted the top nerd in high school.
Its one thing to not allow someone to vote, or to force them to drink from another water fountain... But you know, sticks and stones...
If I can take 2 hours and figure out something for myself, or ask someone and get an immediate answer, I'm asking. It's the right thing for me and the business.
Not necessarily. Will you learn something in those 2 hours? Will you need to figure it out again? If you do it now, and it takes you 2 hours, will you have an immediate answer next time? If I ran off to someone for the answer every time I had a question, I would never learn anything, and I'd piss off a lot of other people. Keep in mind, that asking that other person may save you 2 hours, but how much does it cost that other person?
One advantage of something like IM or email, instead of in person... If I have the answer you seek, but I am busy, I can answer you when I am not busy, and when it doesn't cost me as much time.
Because thats neither fraud nor any other crime - its not illegal to not base your prices on your costs. The cable companies can charge what they like for their product.
Actually the cable company can't charge whatever it wants. Most cable companies are a monopoly, you can't vote with your wallet and choose a different cable company.
Of course that doesn't mean you can jail a CEO because they are charging too much.
Because this whole "distraction" thing is complete and utter nonsense. If I want to read, I read. If I want to do something else, I do it. Nothing "distracts" me. The tablet is not a "temptress", lol.
So that little popup that pops up on top of your ebook you are reading doesn't distract you? You have xray vision that drills through the popup, so you don't even notice it is there?
I don't understand the question. YOU are going to be the developer, and YOU are going to be the publisher. Who is going to force you to put DRM into the code? If you want it to be DRM free then write it without DRM. Simple
Most EULAs have a clause that forces a litigant to binding arbitration.
So you are disputing the EULA... But in order to dispute the EULA you have to abide my the EULA? Yeah I don't think it works that way. Take them to court.
I fell a couple of times, nothing serious, but I did get a few scrapes and bruises, and I'll admit that I was a bit free in tossing my pack (which contained my passport) around.
Not only were you disrespecting the passport, you were disrespecting your backback... AND you were disrespecting your person. How dare you!
It is REAL simple, reprioritize. you claim the original plan was 10% priority one. STICK to that. When you get too many items in the 10% bucket, bump something out.
If someone comes up with something else that has to GET DONE RIGHT THIS VERY MINUTE. Then they need to lobby for it, and drop something else. Fairly simple.
Practice agile development and keep a prioritized backlog of work
"agile" doesn't solve every problem. Its like someone asking how to make breakfast, and your response is "practice agile."
The OPs company can't prioritize, so how are they supposed to select the work for the next sprint?
I don't mind a splash while it loads drivers, etc. for a few seconds,
That is the whole point of a splash screen.
When a program takes a long time to start (like photoshop when it is creating fonts and having a cup of coffee) nothing will appear on the screen, after you first start it. The user doesn't know if they misclicked or something. The idea was to put up a splash screen as SOON AS POSSIBLE. The first line of your program should be "SHOW SPLASH SCREEN"
Then as SOON as you are ready to start accepting user input, take the splash screen down. Anything that requires the user to interact with the splash screen is just wrong
A "lie" that the UI is starting to work earlier than it really does is better than a splash screen, and the article makes that point.
Actually it is worse, WAY worse.
Which is better? Show the user a screen that basically says "hang on we are loading, we'll let you know when we are ready and you can start working" Or "Here is your screen start working.... psych you actually can't do anything, and you won't know when you can do! hahahaha"
What Apple suggest is your splash screen has what is essentially a picture of an empty frame, and then you fill the content in as you download it. I personally think a splash screen is still better.
OK guys, raise your hands - how many have gotten 'feminine products' adverts?
Uhh... Dude... I don't know what kind of web sites YOU visit, but...
It is a statistical model. It isn't 100% accurate. But it is more accurate than it is wrong. And it is better than sending the 'feminine products' adverts to EVERYONE.
Once they've collected all this data and made all these cross-references there isn't anything preventing the data from being used for other reasons.
You make it sound like they haven't yet collected the data.
Can the data be used for other things? Sure. Google predicts Flu outbreaks. Hari Seldon figured out how to rule the world for the next millennial.
Hold the phone, Alexander Graham, what the fuck are "AT&T lobbyists" doing writing laws?.
You know.. YOU can write a law if you want to. You have to convince a law maker to back it, and introduce it. (err maybe you can lobby a law maker) The law still needs to be passed by the law makers before it is made into a law.
This is the fate of the US phone system. Once there are fewer than a basic minimum number of subscribers it will become extremely unprofitable to even maintain the wires that have connected the country for 80+ years.
If only something else existed that uses wires. Some sort of network.
Apparently the Malaysians are really amenable to the foreign governments about extraditing and returning people,
It probably has more to do with the fact that the state religion of Malaysia is Islam. I think the moral of the story is if you say something against Islam don't flee to another Islamic country.
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I have been wondering lately if there are any kids interested in programming for its own sake anymore
You say this as if there was a time when kids were interested in programming. Sure you and I were, but the number of kids who wanted to program for the sake of programming was close to 0. There weren't that many. Today? There still aren't that many. Of course today they have more outlets. but programming is difficult and it isn't for everyone. It wasn't then, and it isn't now.
All this talk about 44 and 48 and 192 is interesting.
But the question is, does it go to 11?
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Grow up already.
Yeah, whatever... stop being so damn insensitive, and stop getting offended by every little thing.
Not only am I a red head I was voted the top nerd in high school.
Its one thing to not allow someone to vote, or to force them to drink from another water fountain... But you know, sticks and stones...
If I can take 2 hours and figure out something for myself, or ask someone and get an immediate answer, I'm asking. It's the right thing for me and the business.
Not necessarily. Will you learn something in those 2 hours? Will you need to figure it out again? If you do it now, and it takes you 2 hours, will you have an immediate answer next time? If I ran off to someone for the answer every time I had a question, I would never learn anything, and I'd piss off a lot of other people. Keep in mind, that asking that other person may save you 2 hours, but how much does it cost that other person? One advantage of something like IM or email, instead of in person... If I have the answer you seek, but I am busy, I can answer you when I am not busy, and when it doesn't cost me as much time.
Because thats neither fraud nor any other crime - its not illegal to not base your prices on your costs. The cable companies can charge what they like for their product.
Actually the cable company can't charge whatever it wants. Most cable companies are a monopoly, you can't vote with your wallet and choose a different cable company.
Of course that doesn't mean you can jail a CEO because they are charging too much.
Because this whole "distraction" thing is complete and utter nonsense. If I want to read, I read. If I want to do something else, I do it. Nothing "distracts" me. The tablet is not a "temptress", lol.
So that little popup that pops up on top of your ebook you are reading doesn't distract you? You have xray vision that drills through the popup, so you don't even notice it is there?
I don't understand the question. YOU are going to be the developer, and YOU are going to be the publisher. Who is going to force you to put DRM into the code? If you want it to be DRM free then write it without DRM. Simple
Most EULAs have a clause that forces a litigant to binding arbitration.
So you are disputing the EULA... But in order to dispute the EULA you have to abide my the EULA? Yeah I don't think it works that way. Take them to court.
Your ONLY recourse is arbitration or small claims court." and the kicker "We INVITE litigation".
Then take them to small claims court. No lawyers, no lawyer fees, and more likely to side on your side.
How has MS muddied the waters?
How was 'Avatar' snubbed? The movie didn't deserve a nomination, let alone win. The movie wasn't very good. It looked good, but that was about it.
Things like personal like sexual preferences or a teenager quietly getting pregnant and performing an abortion,
Probably shouldn't shop at target then.
I fell a couple of times, nothing serious, but I did get a few scrapes and bruises, and I'll admit that I was a bit free in tossing my pack (which contained my passport) around.
Not only were you disrespecting the passport, you were disrespecting your backback... AND you were disrespecting your person. How dare you!
It is REAL simple, reprioritize. you claim the original plan was 10% priority one. STICK to that. When you get too many items in the 10% bucket, bump something out.
If someone comes up with something else that has to GET DONE RIGHT THIS VERY MINUTE. Then they need to lobby for it, and drop something else. Fairly simple.
Practice agile development and keep a prioritized backlog of work
"agile" doesn't solve every problem. Its like someone asking how to make breakfast, and your response is "practice agile."
The OPs company can't prioritize, so how are they supposed to select the work for the next sprint?
I don't mind a splash while it loads drivers, etc. for a few seconds,
That is the whole point of a splash screen.
When a program takes a long time to start (like photoshop when it is creating fonts and having a cup of coffee) nothing will appear on the screen, after you first start it. The user doesn't know if they misclicked or something. The idea was to put up a splash screen as SOON AS POSSIBLE. The first line of your program should be "SHOW SPLASH SCREEN"
Then as SOON as you are ready to start accepting user input, take the splash screen down. Anything that requires the user to interact with the splash screen is just wrong
A "lie" that the UI is starting to work earlier than it really does is better than a splash screen, and the article makes that point.
Actually it is worse, WAY worse.
Which is better? Show the user a screen that basically says "hang on we are loading, we'll let you know when we are ready and you can start working" Or "Here is your screen start working.... psych you actually can't do anything, and you won't know when you can do! hahahaha"
What Apple suggest is your splash screen has what is essentially a picture of an empty frame, and then you fill the content in as you download it. I personally think a splash screen is still better.
OK guys, raise your hands - how many have gotten 'feminine products' adverts?
Uhh... Dude... I don't know what kind of web sites YOU visit, but...
It is a statistical model. It isn't 100% accurate. But it is more accurate than it is wrong. And it is better than sending the 'feminine products' adverts to EVERYONE.
where it really gets creepy is their study of children in order to manipulate the spending of parents
How is that creepy?
Once they've collected all this data and made all these cross-references there isn't anything preventing the data from being used for other reasons.
You make it sound like they haven't yet collected the data. Can the data be used for other things? Sure. Google predicts Flu outbreaks. Hari Seldon figured out how to rule the world for the next millennial.
Hold the phone, Alexander Graham, what the fuck are "AT&T lobbyists" doing writing laws? .
You know.. YOU can write a law if you want to. You have to convince a law maker to back it, and introduce it. (err maybe you can lobby a law maker) The law still needs to be passed by the law makers before it is made into a law.
This is the fate of the US phone system. Once there are fewer than a basic minimum number of subscribers it will become extremely unprofitable to even maintain the wires that have connected the country for 80+ years.
If only something else existed that uses wires. Some sort of network.
oh and all the subsidies that the government paid for installing the lines need to be paid back as well.
I don't think AT&T plans on paying back any of the $100,000,000,000 they expect to make, by selling the real estate from those lines: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/02/12/0340214/all-ip-network-produces-100b-real-estate-windfall
Organic = Open Source
GM = Closed Source
Except that Closed Source can't contaminate your source code. It is more like GM = GPL and Organic = BSD
Apparently the Malaysians are really amenable to the foreign governments about extraditing and returning people,
It probably has more to do with the fact that the state religion of Malaysia is Islam. I think the moral of the story is if you say something against Islam don't flee to another Islamic country.