Comment Re:#7 Be Appriopriately Lazy (Score 1) 136
Just watch out for this:
Just watch out for this:
It would be awfully nice to have accelerometers and GPS tracking on important packages.
They sort of exist in a low-tech form. My company uses these on every shipment.
http://www.shockwatch.com/monitoring-devices/impact-sensor/impact-indicators/
It'd suck having to put up with trash talk from Stephen Hawking after he won a bet with you.
Yeah, he's pretty good at the trash talk, especially in rhyme.
...you go into a market one day and eggs are 68 cents a dozen and you go in the next day and they're $5.92 a dozen
Sounds a bit like gas prices.
Nobody's posted this yet?
Just to reinforce what others have said - code reviews (even starting small) and independent QA is essential as a starting point. Make the quality of the code a source of pride.
I have my Commodore 64 hooked up to my 6 Terabyte Network Attached Storage. For real.
I'm cheating a little, using an IDE64 and Ubuntu box as an intermediate, but it works quite well.
I did it as a "because you can" type of project. But it actually makes sharing files between my various machines (including the C64) really easy.
This type of tech is a central part of Robert J. Sawyer's sci-fi novel "The Terminal Experiment". Very good read, if a bit dated now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terminal_Experiment
http://www.sfwriter.com/exte.htm
What about you 5-10 years from now? I occasionally have to revisit code I wrote on past projects, and I write my comments and documentation with that mindset - that the target audience is myself, some years in the future. It's extra work but has paid off for me.
This is where services like Mailinator are invaluable. Just create a throwaway email address for each of all these stupid logins.
I take it a step, further, though: I own my own domain and have made it a practice of using a custom email address for each site I need to log in to, i.e. sitename@mydomain.com . This way, each login is unique *and* I can track who is giving out my email address as spam.
Yet the emails all go to one central inbox, so it's not inconvenient to get/search the confirmation messages.
This capability has been around for a while with Upverter. Good to see some competition, though.
> What liquid agent is a terrorist going to use to blow up a plane? Napalm? Or just set the plane on fire?
Liquid nitroglycerin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Airlines_Flight_434#The_bomb
It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster. - Voltaire