I don't understand this thing where people can't get over the existence if null. If you ask your ORM for something that doesn't exist in the database, what exactly are you expecting back? Sometimes things just aren't there.
I dunno, perhaps I am thinking too simplistically about it, but as a concept it seems sound to me. The problem is when our logic is broken with respect to the thing's existence. Not null itself.
I recommend getting rid of App.net. Nice idea, but just way too much of a nerd fishbowl, I say. I have noticed that my day-to-day happiness is in part inversely correlated with how many social media I'm using. I still really like twitter and tumblr, though. They can be quite delightful when you follow the right folks and don't follow the wrong ones.
I think it would be great if app.net succeeds, but personally I had to stop using it. Just too many of "Nick Burns, your company's computer guy" for me.
Exactly right, very well said. Once you're in the travel system just stop acting like you have freedom & autonomy.
This is never what bothers me the most about travel, though. To me the worst thing is ALWAYS fellow travelers. We have all gone insane with entitlement.
What if I see someone using the word and include their tweet in mine, to tell them what a racist idiot they are? Then my tweet would be counted racist simply because it contains the word. This is not a thought exercise, I watched it happen (the tweeting, not the counting).
Right, after a while you end up rehashing the same topics with slightly varying syntax. That's only interesting to amnesiacs.
I think what you describe is another case of obsessing over the tools themselves rather than building things with the tools. Building is hard, and it's hard in multiple dimensions, where tinkering is fun and interesting. (Yes, puttering around with new programming languages is tinkering)
Here's the thing: I develop websites for other people, people who most likely aren't also using Chrome Canary. I'd prefer to develop on a browser that will show me something closer to what they will actually see. Whatever sweet-ass bleeding edge features it has don't really apply to my dev work.
When I was 29, I knew someone who was really freaking out about being close to turning 30. To be honest, I wasn't thrilled about it either, but I was a lot more accepting of it.
I thought about why, and my theory is that it's probably a lot scarier if you haven't really accomplished anything yet, however you define accomplishment. Having your youth go away when it's a part of how you identify yourself by is a scary thing. If it's not, it stings less.
It's amazing how flabbergasted people are acting at the statement Apple wrote. Jeez, is your mother the judge or something?! They got clever and got rapped on the knuckles for it. Let's move on.
Admittedly I am not exactly humanity's greatest advocate, but I wouldn't talk to strangers anyway -- I would read. Changing the medium from paper to a screen doesn't really affect that.
I saw the same thing once and it was quite a revelation for me. I experienced it positively, in the sense that I now see people's "crazy" party pictures in a different way. It made me focus on what those nights were actually like when I lived them.
There are always sporadic moments of fun, but also quite a bit of boredom and being in places I didn't want to be, later than I wanted to be out.
It made me realize that thinking that stuff isn't anywhere near as fun as it looks isn't about sour grapes or being a square -- it's true. I had always felt this way in the back of my head but something about the experience put it all together.
Then don't work there? I can understand this person's complaints about Google, but it seems they did the right thing in leaving, so... yeah. Not much to see here.
Curiously, the author never gets around to the "why" in the title. Just another restating of the events that unfolded to get things to the state they're in today.
Indeed, it would be crazy to sell a mobile device that can't play video. But what you quoted doesn't say that -- it says that Windows Media Player does not run in the "desktop mode" of this device.
I was OK with the maps thing on my iPad, because I don't take it with me much. A little inaccuracy is fine in that case, but not with my phone. So I haven't upgraded my phone, and don't know when I will.
I dunno, perhaps I am thinking too simplistically about it, but as a concept it seems sound to me. The problem is when our logic is broken with respect to the thing's existence. Not null itself.