Udigs - Slashdot User

Comment Re:some records are best kept offline too (Score 1) 153

by Udigs on Monday August 30, 2010 @09:19PM (#33422196) Attached to: Oxford Dictionary Considers Going Online Only

Books are totally awesome but have one fatal design flaw: they tend to burn. Burning of the library of alexandria anyone?

Let's face it. If the shit goes down we're f*cked either way. As someone else pointed out -- something like a book is useless when you're freezing your ass off. And it will most likely end up being used to start fires. Why not enjoy the life we have?

Comment Re:There is something familiar with analog (Score 1) 153

by Udigs on Monday August 30, 2010 @09:10PM (#33422132) Attached to: Oxford Dictionary Considers Going Online Only

What do you think they store the source of the dictionary on? I doubt they retype the while dictionary when they do a new edition.

Comment Re:28.4.2010 (Score 1) 375

by Udigs on Monday July 19, 2010 @01:15PM (#32952998) Attached to: The Oldest Timestamp On a File I Created and Still Have Is...

You have a file that's 10 years old but copy it from hard drive to hard drive? No backups? Way to walk on the razor's edge ;)

Comment Re:Every downloader is an app store police (Score 1) 195

by Udigs on Tuesday June 01, 2010 @10:54PM (#32427220) Attached to: Mobile Game Trojan Calls the South Pole

The FDA approves drugs. The FCC approves electronics. Point is that widespread utilities like this should go through some sort of validation process. I'm not saying it should be apple, but it should be SOMEONE.

Comment Still Think Apple Moderates Too Harshly? ;) (Score 3, Funny) 195

by Udigs on Tuesday June 01, 2010 @04:13AM (#32415758) Attached to: Mobile Game Trojan Calls the South Pole

Running any application on your phone from untrusted sources produces unexpected results. Clip at 11.

Comment Maybe this explains (Score 1) 388

by Udigs on Wednesday March 31, 2010 @09:26PM (#31696208) Attached to: "Supertaskers" Can Safely Use Mobile Phones While Driving

Why I drive drunk so well? I'm an ultra-mega-super tasker!

Comment Re:End of Proprietary Formats? (Score 1) 272

by Udigs on Monday March 08, 2010 @03:52PM (#31404288) Attached to: What To Expect From HTML5

Basically, for applications, Flash becomes redundant since you need to use HTM for other devices anyway and HTML 5 supports everything important Flash does. For video, Flash becomes useless overhead, since you can just specify a codec already used in Flash which will save the user's processor and using Flash limits your audience to a subset of what just specifying a standard codec or two does.

Yes, except we are glossing over the part where you use a tool to "create" the application. Flash is a format AND an authoring tool. Unless Flash starts somehow exporting HTML 5, I don't really see this happening.

Comment Flash isn't going anywhere... (Score 1) 272

by Udigs on Monday March 08, 2010 @03:44PM (#31404172) Attached to: What To Expect From HTML5

Come on. It's bad enough that we can't get simple block elements to render consistently in all browsers, and how we're going to try to build RIAs in "pure HTML?" Sure, it'll work for video content. Anything more complicated? Let me know how that turns out.

Flash's biggest strength is that the Flash player is responsible for running it and therefore is consistent across all platforms. If you ask me, this is a huge clusterfuck waiting to happen.

Comment Who Cares? Get A Mac... (Score 1) 436

by Udigs on Sunday February 28, 2010 @10:33PM (#31311310) Attached to: Schooling Microsoft On Random Browser Selection

Or at least download a copy of Linux. There. Problem solved. Time for lunch.

Comment Re:Both Self-Taught and School-Taught Have Gaps (Score 1) 396

by Udigs on Friday February 19, 2010 @04:02PM (#31203094) Attached to: What Knowledge Gaps Do Self-Taught Programmers Generally Have?

Couldn't agree more. The most valuable skill in a programmer is really the ability to quickly master new things---and to think creatively about them. Technology changes so far, fundamentals are very important, but not at the cost of not being able to adapt.

Comment Ever Heard of DTrace? (Score 3, Insightful) 965

by Udigs on Sunday January 31, 2010 @07:07PM (#30974928) Attached to: Apple's Trend Away From Tinkering

Dtrace? Terminal? The reality is that you can do SO MUCH MORE tinkering in OSX than you ever could. Ever used OS9? Black box magic. OSX, by comparison, is like a playground....

Comment Easily over a million... (Score 1) 395

by Udigs on Monday January 18, 2010 @10:00PM (#30815332) Attached to: Lines of computer code written in my life:

Jesus, my LAST project was ~150k. Over a million is nothing assuming you've been working for a while. Over a decade (which is about how long I've been professionally coding) you can rack up a million in no time...

Comment Re:BZZZZT WRONG (Score 2, Insightful) 494

by Udigs on Saturday January 02, 2010 @01:05PM (#30623524) Attached to: Novelist Blames Piracy On Open Source Culture

But seriously... how did "artists" survive before copyright? How did the renaissance get going? Who said that shitty writers had a human right to earn a fortune from derivative novels at the expense of draconian laws and computers that are locked down to prevent even the most basic control by their owner? Huh? Huh?

The MARKET determines what is shitty or not, not you. And guess what, "shitty" doesn't mean "not good." It means people don't want/like it. It could be the most brilliant thing in the world. You didn't like Harry Potter? So what? Millions of other people did. So yes, if millions of people are reading/enjoying my work, you'd better believe I have a right to make a living off of that.

Comment Real Artists Ship! (Score 1) 597

by Udigs on Thursday December 24, 2009 @01:38AM (#30541994) Attached to: Why Coder Pay Isn't Proportional To Productivity

'nuff said.

Meaning, I could give a hoot how long a piece of code is or how long it took to write. What I *do* care about is shipping deliverables on time and within the quality standards. Nothing else matters.

Comment Re:Convert everything you have quick (Score 1) 203

by Udigs on Wednesday December 23, 2009 @02:29PM (#30537350) Attached to: Amazon Kindle Proprietary Format Broken

Fully agree. I'm totally fine with the way things are right now. If DRM is the pill I must swallow to get more books on the Kindle than so be it. If you can believe it, publishing is even less (technologically) progressive than music. DRM is their pacifier.

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