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Ain't that the truth! My Polish friend also introduced me to 'pierogi rooski'? Apparently, a Russian take on pierogi, with more meat. Do I have the spelling correct?
> In return, I promise to continue working to stop Polish people from pluralizing potato chips as "chipsy".
As a Jamaican, where banana chips are like a national snack, it was amusing to see "chipsy bananowe" for sale. Fun times; I plan to go back.
There's even a name for this: "Going from D to C - from disparagement to curiosity". I think I first heard it from @patio11.
The owners of lychee trees, however, had tons of issues. It's such a loved fruit that if you had such a tree, it was pretty much guaranteed that praedial thieves would strike. It got so bad that I remember one nurse in the community cutting down her tree when the sight of strange men roaming her yard became too much.
It was a great conference - Lots of camaraderie, talks available in English and Spanish, ranging from Python's type system to one guy's experience teaching Python in rural Argentina. Johnny Gill (a real character!) from Bermuda showed me a system using Raspberry Pis to collect weather data. Unfortunately, I missed Allen B Downey's talk, but caught Brandon Rhodes' (opening) and Jacob Kaplan-Moss' (closing) keynotes.
If you're anywhere near the region, come on out! It's tropical nerdery at its finest :)
@skfroi - It's Oswald, from Jamaica.
Pro Tip: You think Edge saves your battery? Sheeeeit....Try using the Movies & TV app vs VLC someday. M&TV is a certified power miser - I caught up on several TV shows plus The Martian on a flight from Montego Bay to Frankfurt a few months ago, using my Toshiba Encore 10" tablet that isn't exactly known for its battery life.
Instead of the 34", wouldn't make sense to just go 4K (3824x2160) and get it over with? You're getting more vertical AND horizontal pixels. Personally, I'm salivating at the Seiki SM40UNP (40"). Anything smaller at 4K resolution and you'll need display scaling, negating the size gain. I don't think my 2013 ultrabook can drive it at 60Hz, but there are apocryphal reports that I may be able to eke out 50Hz.
Not hijacking. Overloading. ;)
Now? "Ok Google...set timer for 30 mins." Much quicker than unlocking, finding the Clock app, and fat-fingering the time widgets. This also works for reminders and a host of other things.
Speech recognition is not a gimmick.
Which will then summarily be used by malware authors and we're back we started.
The best quote I've heard on the subject, probably from patio11, was something to the effect of "there's no conceivable universe in which having a degree will hurt you." But there are many doors closed to you without it.
Get the degree. The 3 or 4 years will pass before you know it. As a bonus, you'll also make friends in your field and expand your network, which is always worth something.
Spoke with a network engineer at the host carrier, who recommended we try out m0n0wall. Played with it for a little bit, but then was led to pfSense, which we ended up using.
That was 2006. Time does fly...
>....business-driven software engineering. It does not work.
My interpretation "business-driven software engineering" (and please correct me if I'm wrong) is one where business determines the requirements of the software. But if business doesn't drive those requirements, who will? You've repeatedly shown how terrible the typical dev is at business, and most devs would seemingly cozy up to their IDE rather than navigate the mess that is determining requirements. So who's gonna do it? Besides, which dev doesn't hate a fuzzy spec?
Additionally, or perhaps more fundamentally, a business hires devs to the ends of furthering their, well, business objectives. What, exactly, is so wrong with business setting the agenda of what gets built?
I ask because of a lesson I learned early (and painfully) in my career as a sysadmin. Technology exists for the business - Not the other way around. Unless, of course, you're a tech firm, where tech itself is your business. And even then, a business has to make economic sense, and as a programmer, I think I'm allowed to say we typically make poor economic choices. McLeod 'Clueless', if you will.
Why do you still accept work from him?
It may not be my place to say, but...Is anyone else here....irked that a singular genius like Colin, with as impressive a product as Tarsnap still has to worry about money? Especially considering that said worry could easily be ameliorated by yielding to even one of patio11's entreaties?
Jamaica, on Digicel's network, HSPA+, pay as you go, tethering allowed, 2GB.