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> "I sometimes wish there were two words for "respect", one that expresses the idea that you ... should be decent to them just because they happen to be human. The other to express the kind of respect that one earns."

Thank you for putting this into words. This summarizes part of what bothered me about this article.

My wife and I are both gamers. Neither of us have ever been treated without human-respect at LAN parties. Competence-respect is usually given to me due to prior reputation (I'm active in the community whose LANs I attend.) She is often assumed to be just tagging along, until she starts destroying people. Competence-respect comes pretty quickly if you demonstrate competence.

There were times in this article when it seemed the author wasn't given human-respect, and that's a circumstance where someone needs to be either told off or walked away from. But at other times, the issue may have been competence-respect, and that's a circumstance where the first attempt at respect-earning should be to say "I can take it from here", pick up the controller, and play.
I'm curious why you would choose Node.js instead today. I've done a little Node.js work, and I would unequivocally use it again for anything that needs a fair amount of concurrency, or high volume, lightweight requests. Other than that though, the only advantage I see over other server side stacks is a slight mental bonus in using the same language on both the client and server? Are there any other major advantages you see over PHP/Python/Ruby,etc. stacks?
Yeah, this list is woefully incomplete. Here's another good read: http://naggum.no/lugm-time.html
WebModular (HTML5+Javascript Modular Synthesizer)
Or 30th February 1712.
You can't. Time is a completely relative concept. If you expect order, use a sequence.
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I like how you say "not everything is black and white" and then proceed to give black-and-white prescriptions.

From an armchair, it's terribly easy for you to say, "Well, instead of backing down, you should have told him off." Not everyone is, or should be, the strong and assertive, constantly vigilant culture warrior shrugging off the whips and scorns of ignorant simpletons. Most especially, as the Derailing for Dummies link explains, most people have finite energy and even if they are strong and assertive some of the time, they cannot be that way all of the time.

A direct quote out of the article:

Every time I protested [over "the next few days of E3"], the offender would say —
as if it were a proven fact — “Well, girls aren’t usually into this stuff, you know.”

Somehow, you and everyone else saying that she should have ripped him a new one missed this sentence. It's a very important sentence, and I'm disappointed she didn't highlight it more clearly.

By the time she starts educating, she is no longer doing her job as a member of the press reviewing games. She is doing an entirely different job, which she did not arrive prepared to do, and for which she receives no compensation except the desperate hope that one person might possibly listen.

How would you feel, if you were constantly distracted from your job in order to fill in for something for which you have no training, no interest, and no pay?
There needs to be an Internet Standard Time/Date -- at least in terms of formatting.
Measurement error, and the fact that the timestamps may not be taken on the same machine.
One could also say that she allowed the PR reps to make her feel that way by not speaking up. "I better play it for you" wasn't the first thing the guy said when he saw her. Clearly he had made some assumptions based on her gender, and possibly some previous experiences. But there was a lead up to that statement, where apparently she sat there silently ignoring his questions, looking puzzled. This confirmed his expectations that she had no idea what she was doing.

People are going to make judgements based on what they think they know. They do it all the time and sometimes it is a completely subconscious process. Sometimes it is deliberate. Sometimes it is a result of a lifetime of conditioning. It happens with gender, height, skin colour, attire, and pretty much anything else that you can quickly identify by looking at a person. If someone is judging you incorrectly, help them out and say so. It might be nothing more than an honest mistake.
On one of the forum posts on forum.unity3d.com they said the editor will not run in Linux. So you can only build for it.
Just skimming, and e.g.

in: controllers/invoice.php

$data['invoices'] = $this->invoice_model->select_multiple($this->session->userdata('company_id'), $page, $this->pref_user['per_page'], TRUE, $sort_col);

$sort_col appears to be just uri_segment 2 of list_items.

select_multiple() then calls:

$sql = "SELECT id, name, DATEDIFF(NOW(), duedate) AS past_due FROM invoice WHERE company_id = " . $this->db->escape($company_id) . " ORDER BY $sort_col";

$sort_col is left as-is. It is certainly more difficult, since '()' aren't permitted in the uri, and we're already in the ORDER BY clause, but I think it may still be doable to get some blindsql into there.
I want it as well, at the moment you can hook up to Github and publish your commits and repos on Geeklist. Soon you will be able to directly log in with it as well.

We have been pushing new features almost daily for the last few weeks so it is coming up very soon.
One certificate per IP.

Whether the from SNI or the cert itself, there could be a lot of info to be learned about what the user was trying to access.
#FirstWorldProblems. If you want to fight for something, fight for the rights of women who are really suffering throughout the world, through sex slavery or misogynistic cultures/religions. It really bothers me that there is still a "struggle" for women's "rights" in the US - equal liberties were won long ago. Are there inequalities and assumptions made about each sex? Certainly...but nothing worth fighting for. Use your voice where it matters...i.e. not here, not concerning gaming.
Another way to look at time is this: The only correct clock is a broken one which is right twice a day.
Maybe it's just me - but isn't firing so many people in such a short time period a clear sign of extremely bad management?

Whether or not it's the "fault" of the current or previous management, I don't know, but it nevertheless looks like extremely poor planning.

If you hired so many people, and then fired them all again so quickly - doesn't that show a lack of foresight?

I always feel sorry for the employees in situations like this, and I wonder how is it that such poor managers (as is shown by falling profits/market share/firing everyone) end up running the place.

Then I remember that the world is extremely random and move on my merry way.
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How about using an IPV6 binary code? You know, the internet of things ;-)

levis.com/model-550/stone-washed

2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334

| ..:. .... .... ...:
| .... ::.: :.:: :...
| :... .:.: :.:. ..::
| .... .... .... ....
| .... .... .... ....
| :... :.:. ..:. :::.
| .... ..:: .::: ....
| .::: ..:: ..:: .:..
You've said it yourself - with a shortener I've got no idea where it's going, and now I also have to type a weird, meaning-free string of upper, lower and digits.

And I don't have a reliable OCR app, and OCR doesn't have redundancy.

So it doesn't work, it's hard to type, and I don't know where it takes me. How is that better?

And at least scanning the QR code shows me the URL before opening it.
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There is a strategy to the rational approach, but it's rarely stated: if your organization can't recognize value without undue effort, then it's going to lose to one who can.

To put it differently, if your job is the ship's lookout, you don't try and convince the captain that he needs a lookout. You try to find a new captain who won't sink the ship.
Cool video of "Moose" doing a big reverse graffiti mural in San Francisco's Broadway tunnel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lX-2sP0JFw
"The smallest unit of time is a milli/second" seems a bit silly, as it really depends on your application. Is he expecting programmers to implement time in Planck units?
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Its dated today meaning that even if it was written previously, that could have been edited in. Just saying...
The about link is giving me a 404.
This is why I really like logical clocks: by abandoning the primitive and outdated concept of "time" altogether, they allow you to deal reliably with causality, which is often all you're really interested in.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamport_timestamps

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_clocks

That said, UTC timestamps since the epoch are one of the more straightforward ways of dealing with time, if you must sully your hands with the foul concept of time at all.
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Say the firm bills in 0.25 hour increments. Spend 10 minutes reading emails from 4 different clients, and you've billed an hour.
Agreed -- there's also the survival bias at play here. We only hear and read the blogs of those that already made it - dabbling in hot springs of financial freedom - in hindsight.

More interesting are the reads of those about to take off, in real-time - e.g. Chris Granger
Really? You're really saying that people should not care about rampant sexism in the gaming industry just because some people have it worse? I suppose we should stop working to help poor families in the first world because people starving in third world countries have it much worse.
I couldn't follow your comment, so I tried to google what those acronyms meant. I couldn't find a reasonable answer, so in case you had a similar difficulty with my post, here are the expanded forms of SME and GM:

* Subject Matter Experts
* General Managers.
It works for the art community, what about the start-up potential?
Lua has had a long time to slowly and deliberately evolve, informed by feedback from a gradually growing group of users.

It's kind of the opposite of Javascript, which went from 0 to release in a few weeks and had a bunch of design errors become permanent as a result. Lua and Javascript have a lot in common, and studying Lua may be a good way to see where Javascript is going in the long term.

Lua is significantly smaller than ECL, and a bit smaller than PicoLisp. According to sloccount, they weigh in at 432,818 (ECL), 15,018 (PicoLisp), and 14,309 (Lua).
Or maybe his marriage is not a happy one and he's avoiding being at home.
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It's on my phone in an obvious place, and I use it a lot. I couldn't type URLs in sub 30 seconds, so it's saving me much more tham a few seconds every time.

And it's error free.

So no, that's not my problem, and I'd take it kindly if people would stopp telling me I'm wrong for finding useful something they don't agree with. Do you bother to listen to your users? Or do you just tell them they're wrong?
you can't bill unless you are actively working on the case. So that's 60 BILLABLE hours, which often translates to 80+ hours total including breaks.
Wouldn't it have bee just as effective to have

http://bestbuy.com/12345 on the label.
Is that true? Isn't that the responsibility of the whatever component that translates the number of seconds since Jan 1 1970 into a calendar?
Running Linux?

Avoid any ASUS routers unless you're flashing a new firmware. Awful experience. My last one was the N15. It wouldn't even give out a DHCP lease to two different computers and four different NICs.

And, as for:

"Ever sat in an internet shop, a hotel room or lobby, a local hotspot, and wondered why you can't access your email? Unknown to you, the guy in the next room or at the next table is hogging the internet bandwidth to download the Lord Of The Rings Special Extended Edition in 1080p HDTV format."

Nmap is your friend. Find the offending port and flood it. Since the local connection is always quicker than the Internet connection, it's easy to do. I've done this countless times, and only to those torrenting. At one cafe I use to frequent I would just start scanning whenever this one guy came in. I wonder if he ever developed a negative Pavlovian response to seeing me at the cafe and his torrenting success.

Do I feel guilty about basically DoS? Really, no. If someone tries to take control of a limited resource... shit is going to happen.
Order isn't scalable.
You forgot about daylight savings.

If the day is one on which we either spring forward or fall back and the time the clock reads somewhere in the shift hour, then the clock will be right either 1 or 3 times that day. And it's different in different countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time#Procedure
Many advertising agencies simply get caught up in trends and fads and don't take a hard look at the actual effects these trends have on their audience. Periodically I do work for these agencies on their print materials, and often clients ask for these QR codes without even understanding what they DO. All they know is that "it's happening" and they want in on it.

Now, sometimes it makes sense, and other times not so much. But the pattern is clear, at least with these clients: play the part, and the client is happy. Try to educate the client, and you might just find yourself looking for another one.

Too often clients don't look at the results of their decisions, at least in the larger organizations. Just my experience, and maybe I get shitty jobs which skews my view.
> That said, UTC timestamps since the epoch are one of the more straightforward ways of dealing with time, if you must sully your hands with the foul concept of time at all.

Definitely. Leave their rendering to the experts, but to store times and dates in any other way is indefensible.
@reiz,
Thanks for the feedback. Yes this is what we're hearing from a number of people. We're currently reducing the category options and also looking at the design to better reflect the marketplace nature of the system and get away from this 'gallery' concept.

Would love more feedback in the future if that's possible.

Cheers!
Design for your client. Not for your portfolio.
Speaking of timestamps being in recognizable formats, here's a list of interesting timestamps I've seen on (mostly) iOS devices: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11023086/how-do-i-interpr...

If anyone has any idea about what they could possibly mean, I'd much appreciate it.
Yeah, I think working long hours is fine as long as you enjoy it, and are not neglecting other responsibilities (family/kids being the main one, if you have any).

It's important to not build up a sleep deficit though, as that can lead to health problems, burnout, eventually depression, etc. But as long as you are enjoying work and getting enough sleep at night, I say go for it.
They should do both. If you've got QR capabilities, it's quicker to scan a bunch of codes rather than enter each URL.
Thanks James - will certainly take a look. I'm not sure if this is related or if it's simply the number of assets being loading are struggling on different browsers.

Cheers.
Thanks Loeveborg - good to know it works on that setup as we're currently testing on a limited range of platforms.
Cheers.
Pessimists are people that default to expecting the worst outcome. I know happy pessimists and unhappy pessimists. People who have left a trail of many happy people feeling sad behind them are called assholes.
That last bit makes perfect sense to me. Look at science or math. What's more comprehensible to the modern layman: something that we learned decades to centuries ago? Or work that's being published this month?

If you go to a general-interest science museum, they mainly cover science's greatest hist of yesteryear.
QR codes had great potential. All sorts of cool information you could stuff in them

Then marketers discovered them. And now they lead you to the product's website. I could just google that if I cared.
If you only see them occasionally, they were probably just cleaning up their list. Stop being so sensitive.
Personal sympathetic anecdote: I played role playing games in my teens. After I began dating one of my gamer guy friends, I was, unfortunately, prone to being treated like I was just tagging along, in spite of it being a regular group who all knew me to be a gamer. I would have been more offended except I could understand why certain things I did promoted such responses: I used gaming as a means to avoid an unhappy family situation, so I sometimes did sleep on the couch while others played rather than go home.

I didn't have a driver's license or car, so was dependent on others for a ride. If the group chose to play a game that didn't interest me, I went to sleep on the couch until we all left together. So it somewhat annoyed me that my actions got interpretted that way when there were other explanations but I also could kind of understand why.
Isn't this the wrong time for a press conference? It's good for the west coast, USA, but who else is really paying attention? Most of the east coast & are at home eating dinner or getting ready for bed & it's very early morning in Asia, right? Am I missing something here?
I liked the concept or quickly getting feedback about your idea. How are you planning on getting enough users to provide the Yes or No votes?
Hmm... so?
It's a pain in the ass to use. The plugins are often not backwards compatible. It's amateur quality. The database is mySQL which is not ACID compliant, among other problems. Joomla also is terrible for SEO as the URL handling is badly implemented.. (the whole thing runs off of Index.php? for example.)

Joomla is for people that don't know anything about web development and want something they can throw together. If your client "must" use something like Joomla, you'd be better off with WordPress -- there are far more plugins, the documentation is better and it's not a pain in the ass to deploy. Or better yet, just build a Rails CMS. It isn't that hard.

Joomla also has a bad reputation for security. While it can be secure, it often isn't because of the way 'developers' build the sites.

Joomla is based on Mambo (from the PHP 4 days) and is badly engineered. It isn't even object oriented. It's also not MVC, so you can't separate business logic from presentation, among other things. It's just a mess.

The documentation is terrible compared to WordPress -- a pretty big deal if you want to create custom extensions.

I'll go out on a limb here and add that the types of clients that love Joomla are the types of clients I can do without. I did some Joomla work for a client and it was the worst experience I've ever had working with anyone, because the types of people that value Joomla, rarely value craftsmanship, good design (both front-end and back-end) and are generally ignorant (or hardheaded) about good software practices. Never again.

Oh, and it's in PHP.
It's been a long time since I last met an unsupported printer. Multifunction devices are a sore spot, but they are the epitome of amateur equipment in any case. Any half-decent printer has very good support from CUPS. And what smartphone are you talking about? I don't have much experience with iPhones, but my iPod works just fine (as much as the lack of iTunes allows) and my Android phones work perfectly. I wouldn't be surprised if Windows Phone has problems, but I woulnd't call Blackberries and Symbian devices smartphones by current standards.
You care too much about what other people think... I defriended tons of people, some I even see everyday. The awkwardness is created by you feeling awkward about it. Just don't give a damn, and it's no longer awkward
Not that it matters, the only "live" coverage of this thing seems to be live blogs. MS is really terrible at PR I think.
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> If I had a reporter, male or female, who told me they couldn't get a story because the first person they talked to was uncooperative, I would ream them.

That's fair, but she's not a reporter. She's reviewing games. A game reviewer's job is much different from a journalist's: their stories come to them, pre-packaged with ample spin that inevitably carries over into their write-ups. They aren't really supposed to be asking hard questions and digging up obscure but glaring facts to shine the light of the public eye upon.

> I think the answer is yes — she could have asked.

A friend of mine was recently charged an unexpected 400 by his dentist who asked him a question while he was under the influence of chemicals. He ended up successfully disputing it and extracting an apology from the man. This isn't exactly analogous–I don't keep many anecdotes handy, unfortunately–but the point is that you're not always at your best 100% of the time.

This wasn't a one-time deal. As noted in my other comment on this thread, it kept happening and she did, in fact, push back several of those times. She probably even got to play and properly review some of those games. But not this one; I chalk it up to sheer shock and context-shifting, personally. Sometimes you're just more prepared to stand up for yourself. Sometimes you just came out of a screaming fight with your S.O. and dealing with a misogynist on top of that hurt just makes you want to crawl into a hole and die.
Really helpful mnicole, thank you!
Sorry to ask more questions but you're offering a truly valuable and different perspective to other feedback.
I'm curious to hear more on your view that you wouldn't use it for assets and you don't think most designers would.

Interestingly some other designers have said that they're looking for 'building blocks' or components to save time in the design process. Do you feel that's an exception rather than the rule and therefore you design absolutely everything from scratch without borrowing inspiration or gathering assets to speed things up? This is really what I'm interested in knowing more about as it's really this insight that to speed up design downloaded assets that are still in layered art format (i.e. a PSD) can help to speed things up?
Would love to hear more and incidentally if you could drop me a mail would love to ask you some more questions?

cillian (at) fol (dot) io
Cheers.
I found this to be very true for me, in a different context. Last spring I quit my job to take a six month road trip visiting as many national parks as I could. It had been a dream of mine for several years, and I loved it.

What I found, though, was that I no longer had any goals I was working towards. I was living my dream, and loving it, but without something to plan for and strive towards, my imagination and planning abilities became detached from my surroundings, and my daydreams and long-term goals became more and more baroque, until I had an entire dream-universe in my head. It made me realize that humananity, or at least I, need to have something they're working towards, a goal of some sort.
Noice, I'll go fix that now. Thanks!

You get a free beta invite if you like for finding the bug.
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Holy Shit! STEVE BALLMER SAID THIS:

"We believe that any intersection between human and machine can be made better when every aspect of the experience, hardware and software, are considered together."

I need to lay down... I wouldn't be half as surprised if Steve Jobs would announce in 2010 that they'll abandon making hardware and license iOS and OS X.
Have you though that maybe she is a video-game journalist and not a non-video-game journalist partly because she doesn't want to deal with what you describe?

Its ridiculous to demand the same amount of experience in dealing with adverse situations to people who choose to review commercial products for a living and to political or war journalists. Specially when you are demanding expertise in approaching a hostile subject in order to get your facts prior to forming your opinion.
Microsoft is very much a west-coast-of-the-US company. I'm sure they had to wait for markets to close, as well.