Navigation is pretty handy, but the thing I really love about a smartphone is having a decent portable camera always with me. To quickly take a snap to share with family (mms, email or social media), when you otherwise would have missed that is pretty cool.
it's probably safer to just remember to use mv instead, because there's a very high chance that you'll do the wrong thing on a terminal that doesn't have that alias available.
Well, the classical engineering domains are all pretty different anyway (electrical, structural, civil, etc). I remember my grandfather saying he thought it was ludicrous that they were all covered by a single qualification.
Building software with an engineering approach is a real thing. Not everyone subscribes to it, but doesn't mean it isn't a real thing.
For the record, I do a lot of gardening too, and building software has fuck all to do with that.
I also don't get how everyone who argues against software-as-engineering talk like buildings and bridges never fall over. They do.
> When you're pissing your diapers in an old people's home, what good is your retirement money?
As I've understood, the point is to blow all your retirement money between the age of 65(standard retirement age), and as you so eloquently put it, the age when you are pissing yourself in an old folks home. With a little luck, you've got about 30 years there.
> Building something interesting requires a surplus of time and money. Salaried jobs provide neither.
Standard negatory bullshit. You should be able to achieve building something interesting, using someone elses time and money. If you can't, maybe you've got an attitude problem, not a job problem.
Original source FOR the "orders of magnitude" claim seem to usually point back to Fred Brooks Mythical Man Month (5-10x) or Robert Glass (Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering) 28x. I don't think either of these multipliers are accurately expressed as "orders of magnitude", regardless of them being supported by evidence.
There is some discussion of the topic in "Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It."
> who have every interest in making the higher cost phones more attractive by not updating the Android version on lower cost phones
You'd be better to attribute that to them being under-resourced to deliver software updates to all models of phones immediately. They focus on shipping to the high end phones first -- those customers have paid more for that support. Some low end devices just never get to the top of the priority list.
If you want upgrades, buy the best phone you can. If you are buying low end, you have to realise that it's essentially locked to the version that it ships with.
That's my take on it anyway. I don't have any inside information.
and then he jumped in his flying suit and flew around the city beating people up under his own sense of vigilante justice, all powered by the rubics cube sized nuclear reactor he has instead of a heart...
But you're worried about the influence of the talk of patent has on your kids?
I got the N9 here in New Zealand a couple of months ago. It is absolutely brilliant.
By absolutely brilliant, I mean $200 cheaper than the Lumia 800 (which I also got for my wife); A mile better than the crappy samsung gio I previously had; beautiful hardware design; very hand front facing camera and auto adjusts screen brightness to ambient light; very good account management/integration.
was going to comment that neither python nor ruby are that great if you are looking for jobs in NZ. There are more options with php, and if you are good at what you do it won't be that hard to destroy the other candidates. Java and .net will give you a lot more, better paying options.
I personally get a Macbook because it's a good balance -- I can run all the unix/dev tools I want, and my wife can plug in the digital camera or printer and I can plug in my iPod and have it do something sensible.
She's much happier on OSX than on FreeBSD. I'm much happier on OSX than windows.