English is vague, even when accounting for that fact. It's much more difficult to detect or correct misunderstandings over text.
My biggest issue with this concept is time. You write your wall of text, I see that you've failed to account for some factor, so I write my wall of text. You don't completely understand my wall of text and ask for clarification. Back and forth, asynchronously. In a call this can be resolved in minutes. Over text this could take days
Here in Calgary we use cloud seeding to reduce the impact of hail storms. If meteorologists predict a hail storm, they will seed the clouds outside of urban territory to reduce the property damage caused by the hail
I recently moved jobs so I could be in-person again after 2+ years remote. Whiteboarding and micro-interactions (bouncing ideas, quick clarifications, brainstorming) are very difficult to duplicate remotely and I felt the lack of these were having a significant negative impact on my work. This is a way bigger deal to me than any of the negatives that come with coming in
I've always thought that Excel is the greatest piece of software ever written. The ease of entry, the extensibility, the impressive collection of built-in tools/formulas/charts. It gave regular people the ability to do data analysis and in so doing became perhaps the most ubiquitous business tool in the world aside from email. Happy birthday, Excel.
Our high school's local admin password on every machine was the name of the school district. Used it to install P2P software and emulators on lots of the machines throughout my time there. On grad day I was setting up a slideshow with my CS teacher and the domain login wasn't working. I said "just log in with local admin". He said "I don't know the password". I did it in front of him. His words: "I don't want to know what you've done with this"
I think one of the main issues with 3D is that you are forced to focus on what the director intended you to focus on. This is not true in 2D, you can focus your eyes on a blurry area over the characters shoulder without a problem. It will be blurry but your eyes can focus on it. In 3D, your eyes try to bring that unfocused bit into focus like they can in regular 3D space and that's what causes the headaches/vertigo/eye strain.
This article was trash. If the author thinks that Twitter's main function is finding out what your friends ate for dinner then he's an idiot and doesn't use Twitter. Twitter's problem is exactly this. The general Internet population thinks it's like Facebook but less useful and with a character limit. They have a branding problem
I've used Twitter to meet like minded people, however, I think the main distinction is that I don't use Twitter (in general) for interactions with people I met outside of the Twitterverse
^ this. Agile is only a set of principles set out to help write flexible software. It in no way made the actual writing of software, the gathering of requirements, the effort of design, easier; it simply gave us a process to follow that could potentially help avoid tedious re-writes. At the end of the day it's up to the people to put in the effort to make good software
This. The amount of new Thread(new Runnable(){...}).start() I have in my Android code is awful. And then inside the Thread you have to use runOnUiThread() to change UI stuff. Given how common it is for an app to hit the network, this should be much much easier. Looking at your example it might be slightly easier but it also isn't inlineable. C# solves both of these problems
The mouse redirection doesn't work very well (I'm on FF). But other than that it's a cool idea. I'm curious how it works. A different Win95 VM for each visitor? I realize it doesn't take much resources to run but that's still crazy.
This is my favorite part of software engineering. The fact that there are so few instructions you can actually give the machine and that you have to map your abstract ideas onto those instructions
I've made something to track spending on a weekly basis. I've found that most budget apps are too heavy, and most run on a monthly cycle. I can easily calculate rough figures for fixed income and expenses, I just need something to track spending money. Doing a budget by week is much easier to track and plan, and makes it easier to answer the question "Can I afford this?". Anyway, here is the Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andrewoven...
So you require a cert for personal projects. That doesn't mean a cert that chains to a public trust. You could easily cut your own cert and trust it on whatever device you wish to access the site on
You're absolutely right that it's totally up to him and he can act the way he likes, but I think the point of the article is that if you're claiming that open-source is a "community" endeavour, then perhaps being a giant asshole isn't the best means of accomplishing that end. He is discouraging potential developers from wanting to work with him for exactly the reasons you mentioned: it's not a job, there is no pay, he's not your boss. The last thing I want when volunteering my free time is some guy belittling me. As has been mentioned in this thread, there are ways of accomplishing the same task while being a reasonable human being. His ego and entitlement are justifying his behaviour and it's bullshit.
In win98 kernel32 blue screens were pretty common. But I agree that Windows is usually a pretty stable OS with things like 3rd party drivers and software causing most of the issues