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I don't know how well this joke translates into English but it works very well in Danish. Here it goes:
> A Danish police officer gets called on the radio by a Greenlandic hunter who has been in an accident. The hunter tells that his partner have fallen into the water and have been pulled up again but might have died from the freezing water. The officer tells the hunter to "make sure he is dead". Over the radio the officer hears a riffle shot and the hunter replies: "There, he's dead now for sure".
The design of Inuktitut and Greenlandic is very in tune with nature but I agree that it doesn't mean you can absorb it's qualities into other languages. That said, doesn't mean you can't learn anything from them, as the author fo the article claims.
That said, its really not uncommon for other family members besides grandparents and even friends of the family to take care of your children in Denmark.
[1]: (In Danish) https://www.dsb.dk/find-produkter-og-services/dsb-borneguide...
Denmark however has a completely different structure socially. All private sector employees who can work from home are urged to work from home. All public sector employees who are not working in any matter-of-life-and-death function are forced to stay at home. The public sector employees will still get paid despite not working. Practically this means very, very few cases of health care workers with children needs to be home supervising the children.
In the history you're clinging to you completely ignore that there was no real alternative. Open standards weren't in a viable state. Furthermore the competition from closed standards have forced open standards to shape up.
And, not to mention no business owner want to get locked into a solution, they want their "data" transferable and standardized to at least some extend.
The code this produces is so horrible you've lost all the time spent with it. Muse dies out, and your time spent in it dies with it.
I definitely want and wish for tools that can allow me to design websites without having to know what IE developers were thinking the day they decided to have some fun.
The reason vim, emacs and the likes are still used a lot isn't because of nostalgia but because it works great for the user.
The issue with all the WYSIWYG editors is they take the "a web site can be anything and everyone can be a designer"-approach which is completely make believe. Till they make some form of WYSIWYM editor aimed at the web designer to use, all other approaches are worthless because they are basically just Word that's fancied up.
Most graphic designer classes have a field trip to see how typographers worked for newspapers 60 years go, and learn why their job was important - and such a day will come for designers some day too when it comes to writing code in hand.
But till then, design and code still matters.
This is so inspirationally horrible someone spent hours remaking it, like it should've been: http://studentweb.infotech.monash.edu/~wlay/FIT1012/muse-dem....
But the price was not the only thing in consideration when it came to costs. The concerns my client had with suscription model was if the provider would still exist and provide same service in a year, or in five years for that matter. The amount of time they had to invest for the PoS (which was with inventory management) needed to be secured. They were okay with phasing in the inventory over a long period (it was a specialty store with a huge inventory) given the system didn't rely on being functional if only it knew the inventory - as long as the time investment couldn't be lost. Should the PoS provider go bankrupt or otherwise stop the service they wanted to be sure their effort time-wise wasn't worthless and could be ported somewhere else. Contracts with a minimum binding periods was okay as long as it didn't mean the time they used the system couldn't benefit them elsewhere.
Someone pointed out that the robustness wasn't a deal-breaker because you could revert to handwriting receipts. It's true that you can just do that but the point about PoS isn't just that it's slightly more effective than a calculator that can print out receipts for customers. A PoS grants valuable data. Even older cash-registers have data capabilities such as who the salesperson was and time of purchase. If you can provide great analytic tools for the data it has gathered, that'll be a major improvement of many available PoS systems.
But store owners also care about stability very much. If the system doesn't work when there's internet shortage they won't be happy. No electricity is probably only acceptable factor when it comes to having a PoS on a computer. If the system is slow and customers are waiting because there's unstable internet they will also be dissatisfied. Debit card processing all goes over the internet and when it's slow customers have bad experiences but at least they know it's because the internet is messing up and some ISP probably is to blame. If the cash-register is screwing it up they will blame the store.
I've worked in a store for a couple of years as a sales person so if you have more questions I'd be happy to help. I'm available through email: pierre@snowboardforbundet.com.
It's not uncommon for me to have thoughts that very much makes sense and is meaningful to me while others simply can't make any sense of it what-so-ever.
This means I'll have to be cautious of my own thoughts and I often doubt them.
Thoughts as well as meanings change over time too. Sometimes I write down ideas I think is brilliant to save for later. Revisiting those writings can be troubling because I might not be able to make a similar sense of what I wrote earlier.
As rick888 is pointing out you will definitely need a solution that is forgiving towards system threats. The system needs to be functional in all sorts of conditions.
Reading that at first I thought the writer had completely mixed up schizophrenia and multiple personality disorders. Something that is not uncommon at all in the media and pop culture.
But for arguments sake, lets take a serious approach to it: How would it work, getting back those two minutes? Would it be adding two more minutes to your total life span? If so, how would that be justifiable because those two minutes you add, might be worse than the experience of reading this. If you wouldn't just add two more minutes to your total life span how would you do it? It's hard to convert time value... I can't pay you for your time because that doesn't mean it'll reimburse what "you spent". I could perhaps waste 2 minutes of my life but that doesn't give them to you...
This is inspired by some of the thought trains I can have, having schizophrenia. My mind sometimes get hectic and chaotic waves of thoughts where in I somehow manage to make sense and meaning of it even though there actually is no meaning in it. Explaining this to people who doesn't have schizophrenia is very hard.
On another note: There should be some filters you could be apply so you'd minimize risk of exposure to such movies as the highest recommended to that one titled "Sorry, Steve Jobs, But Business is Business".
It's so cliche that people who use the phrase "Business is Business" are just incomprehensibly [insert awful adjective] tools that aren't actually "in Business" themselves but really, really wish they were.
Nothing should be off topic but it doesn't take much to at least show a little respect. When public figures doesn't share their personal life aspects perhaps they have their reasons. This celebrity dehumanization is spiteful.
Even worse is his ignorance really comes to show when he goes judgmental on Jobs' belief, only to project his own idiotic misconception of buddhism. Buddhism has nothing to do with righteousness such as most other religions. Buddhism doesn't say you shouldn't be angry because of something as made up as being "wrong". Buddhism tells you that anger is poison but that it's a part of being human to be angry. One shouldn't suppress it but acknowledge it.
My comment is merely meant as an insignificant resistance towards the uprising of the misunderstood reflector and doubter. Far too often are people promoting division with it's constant "us"-and-"them"-rhetoric and "Either you're with us or against us"-policy. It's healthy to doubt and question.
It's exactly how hacktivists such as Anonymous are alienated and how projects such as WikiLeaks is attempted to be criminalized. Whistleblowers are not the enemy nor the ones threatening the safety of the people.
From Windows 95 I was hooked on GUI's. I didn't like Microsoft but I liked Windows. I'd almost never care enough about Microsoft to say anything but when it came to Windows I always had an opinion I'd want to air and it was always in the spirit of wanting an improved product. Mac OS 9 felt like a joke and the various Linux distributions felt unfinished.
But eventually I changed to OS X when one of it's later "kitties" came out. Among my friends who have a Mac I'm pretty much the first to ever criticize Apple products but if you look at how much money I spend on the platform and how much time I invest learning about it you wouldn't think I was a critic. I don't have opinions about Windows beside wishing IE wasn't such a pain to design for.
Being critical does not equal being against something. When your critics no longer want to share their opinion of your product or service, that's when you should be truly scared. That is when you're in a really, really bad place.
Today it's considered cool to try and be healthier. To some extend at least. People are well aware that smoking isn't healthy but it still has appeal because it's somewhat "rebellious" and "nonchalant". I'm very convinced you can "re-invent" smoking with a healthier alternative but I don't see this being it at all. Mainly because it reeks of desperation which is very much opposite of cool as well as rebellious and nonchalant. That product with it's smoking stick, the pods and the fuel is just way too mechanic. Going through the steps of that product "just" to smoke seems silly. It's not even like those who roll their own cigarettes. They at least have the image of being quality-concerned or someone who prefers handcrafted things.
I really appreciate you taking the time to help me on my way. I will work on some proof-of-concept apps that can help illustrate the approach I wish to take. Starting with the folder structure layout builder, image format conversion and layout/format validation. Then I'll see if it has something to it.
I'll post when I have some updates. Gotta go.
The framework would be modular. Sure, no two projects are actually exactly the same but there is a whole lot of overlapping, repetitive, unnecessary, tasks.
I'm not saying you lock into forever using whatever name convention you're using.
It's my first time ever proposing to work with strangers on the internet. I don't have a whole lot of experience with it so I can't really come out with every angle of the final product before anyone asks. (You might think you're asking but you're not, you're saying "You are an incompetent "idea man" who just came up with something you assume is unique and now you want a developer as your pet slave". Instead of saying things like "Nor have you outlined...", you could say "But how do you plan to deal with...").
I imagine folder structure being defined in Finder, the whole concept of the framework is based on the idea that all apps are great at their own thing, so Finder being the core of navigating through folders and finding files it would be logical. While the framework running in the background, Finder could get some extra toggle buttons or drop down menu in the toolbar to let you select what the folder should have of attributes "Like this should be where the XX of the project goes". Could use color labels to make it faster to distinguis between the different folders if one didn't find them hideous. Depending on what'd you were developing cache flushing would obviously be handled different, who ever developed the scheme for that workflow would decide how it should be done. Someone likes to do it with changing filenames of the files you've edited. The workflow application would handle this, make sure where ever those files where included in the rest of your project their reference would be updated, and the browser you were using would be redirected to the new url. This would mean that your source files would have to be copied into a the deployment folder.
People are creative and resourceful and if you let them taste something great you should expect some of them to crave for more. I'm not saying the framework should have schemes (one computer is not limited to having a single scheme either) that fit perfectly for everyone but if you'd provide a few and show how smooth it can be I don't doubt that some people will want to roll their own.