Well, I know a lot of people who work for Epic, and I even spent a summer or two there myself. I have to say that this myth of burning people out is just that, a myth. It seems to be coming from a very vocal minority. Nobody I've spoken to seems to feel this myth is true and in fact most people genuinely enjoy working there.
Yes, sometimes people work 60+ hour weeks. But I think that's true just about anywhere you'd look when you're coming up to a release or a large bug. Nobody seems to mind. I know people who have been there for 10+ years and they have no plans to move on. I worked with veteran programmers and fresh college grads.
Epic's not as bad as public opinion of it seems. If you're ever in the Madison area, I recommend stopping in for a tour - the campus is incredible.
I seem to remember ~5 years ago seeing a program that could turn your run-of-the-mill webcam into a 3D scanner. It was even open source too!
Don't know if this this was it...
My carrier (U.S. Cellular) has several HTC phones, including the one I have (HTC Merge). So far, my experience with it has been great! Sturdy as a rhinoceros...
But at least in the Midwest, HTC phones seem to me to be wildly popular.
Am I the only one who uses KDE anymore? The latest in the KDE 4.x line is plenty stable, and imho it's the best, most usable, most stable, etc. desktop environment out there.
Sounds like a precursor to Minority Report-like technology. Like we haven't heard *that* song and dance umpteen times before. Still, it sounds neat. And expensive. Damn student salary.
Awesome, thanks a bunch!
I tried using wget and recursive download, but I got a 403 error. I tried using the talks download page as a referrer, but it still gave me the 403. (And yes, I remembered the different spelling of referrer in the HTML standards.) I saw nothing in the source of the page, and I'm pretty sure I've got all the options and URL's right. Any insights?
I've never read those books, but it reminded me of the shields from Star Trek...
You know...invisible until something hits it, appears when that thing hits it, blocks that thing, and then disappears.
I can definetly see something like that in the future.
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Leslie LAMPORT, creator of LaTeX, was the last winner. Glad to see there's editing here.
Well, I know a lot of people who work for Epic, and I even spent a summer or two there myself. I have to say that this myth of burning people out is just that, a myth. It seems to be coming from a very vocal minority. Nobody I've spoken to seems to feel this myth is true and in fact most people genuinely enjoy working there. Yes, sometimes people work 60+ hour weeks. But I think that's true just about anywhere you'd look when you're coming up to a release or a large bug. Nobody seems to mind. I know people who have been there for 10+ years and they have no plans to move on. I worked with veteran programmers and fresh college grads. Epic's not as bad as public opinion of it seems. If you're ever in the Madison area, I recommend stopping in for a tour - the campus is incredible.
It took me several tries to figure out what that title meant...
I seem to remember ~5 years ago seeing a program that could turn your run-of-the-mill webcam into a 3D scanner. It was even open source too! Don't know if this this was it...
Then why does Chrome for Android display a scare bar for PDF downloads even on a platform to which Adobe Reader isn't even ported?
It is ported, actually
Federal government wiretaps Google, no problem. Google "wiretaps", federal government throws a hissyfit.
Doesn't anybody check the articles for grammar anymore?
I've seen only 2 HTCs in the wild.
My carrier (U.S. Cellular) has several HTC phones, including the one I have (HTC Merge). So far, my experience with it has been great! Sturdy as a rhinoceros...
But at least in the Midwest, HTC phones seem to me to be wildly popular.
Am I the only one who uses KDE anymore? The latest in the KDE 4.x line is plenty stable, and imho it's the best, most usable, most stable, etc. desktop environment out there.
Sounds like a precursor to Minority Report-like technology. Like we haven't heard *that* song and dance umpteen times before. Still, it sounds neat. And expensive. Damn student salary.
Outlawing CO2 would solve ALL the problems! There'd be nobody left to cause them.
Maybe that's why mine jumped in front of a moving car...
Awesome, thanks a bunch! I tried using wget and recursive download, but I got a 403 error. I tried using the talks download page as a referrer, but it still gave me the 403. (And yes, I remembered the different spelling of referrer in the HTML standards.) I saw nothing in the source of the page, and I'm pretty sure I've got all the options and URL's right. Any insights?
I've never read those books, but it reminded me of the shields from Star Trek... You know...invisible until something hits it, appears when that thing hits it, blocks that thing, and then disappears. I can definetly see something like that in the future.