Oh, absolutely. I just meant that it shows engagement, so it could be construed as positive in that way. But overall it fits the negative theme.
There's a great blog entry on 40-hour work weeks for programmers from, amazingly enough all considered, someone at Microsoft: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jmeier/archive/2010/10/21/40-hour-work-week-at-microsoft.aspx
So it's not like they dont' get this.
The idea of gamification is to give little awards for postitive behavior — or at least active engagement with the site/product/tool/whatever. A few of these fit that (the badge for working on a Saturday or Friday night), but most of them are labels of shame for doing things like writing a single line of code that is several screens too wide.
+1! Sheesh, slashdot, why do I have mod points all the time when I don't need them and then they're gone when there's something actually worth voting up?!
Large mirror. Optionally, parabolic.
Finally time for the correction to my not knowing my 47 times table. I knocked off 3*3 to give me the easy 150, so just need to take the 9 off to give the 141.
On multiple choice tests, always read the answers first, and identify the key differences. Here, the options are:
141
1,175
3,525
4,700
And it should immediately jump out that one of these is an order of magnitude lower than the others. So, you know right away that either you can throw this one out or it's the right answer. As soon as you reduce he problem to 47 times 3, you know it has to be that one. Mark A and move on to a harder question. (You can check your work later if you have time.)
If the answer had a higher order of magnitude, the next thing to consider would be whether the answer is likely to be the nice, round 47 times 100 -- another easy-to-identify possibility.
Yes, on a Power7 system, you can get them on a system that costs a lot less than $200,000.
Or for much less than that on AMD/Intel x86_64 too. I'm just sayin' if you're looking at that kind of money, the network technology options actually seem right in line.
The VAX-11/780 was priced at something like $200,000.
If you buy a comparable computer today, getting 10Gbps interconnects would certainly be a reasonable option.
How about requiring them to write in Objective C?
Surely they will be stopped by the login banner which clearly says "If you are a federal agent, log out now!"
I wonder if UID is correlated with an understanding of humor.
I don't get it. That seems statistically unlikely.
Say something you'll be sorry for, I love receiving apologies.