Posts by Rafael 1 141 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Jun 2009
"...the word's been adopted as a prefix in the term ““brogrammer” that denotes macho programmers who bring sexist attitudes into the workplace and make life difficult for women in technology-heavy workplaces"
To be honest it is the first time I ever read about this. Before reading this quite tendentious definition I would believe a brogrammer would cover other brogrammer's mistakes or collaborate with other brogrammers projects' and drink cheap beer while coding. What a world.
> However, given the total cost of a typical research project, open access publishing costs are insignificant
Not really -- some funding agencies and/or employers (at least here, in a big, soccer-loving-but-lately-not-quite-as-good-as-it-was South America country that shall remain anonymous) doesn't cover publishing costs, and some OA publishing fees are well in the hundreds of dollars, sometimes more than what a PhD is paid in a month.
Then there are the predatory OA publishers, which are another problem...
Does that means that granma will have to ignore hundreds of options instead of just a dozen when installing a new app? Or will "user control" mean that the user controls what the app can do?
Isn't there a simple (for the users) way to ensure that no app would have undesirable side effects?
-- Granpa
Sorry, I beg to differ. I have a Samsung 12-inch tablet which I use to read comics and technical PDFs (neeeerd!) and the experience is quite different from the one I had with the iPad. Depending on the price and weight I'd go for a 14- or 15-inch one, either Android or iOS.
Just out of curiosity, what defines a "walled garden"? Is the ability of sideloading apps? Choosing other "official" app stores?
Honestly, just asking. If I am not planning on developing for the tablet (i.e. no need to sideload), nor want to jailbreak it, and just want to get content from the official app/media stores what is the difference?
We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; but then again there were some nice looking, almost naked ladies on the beach, the sun was great and there were those carts selling coconut water and sugar cane juice all over the place and someone brought a volleyball and we sort of forgot what we're supposed to do.
We all love bashing {Google, Apple, Microsoft, aManFromMars}, but if 0.007% of X is "millions" (let's just say 2 millions) then X is 28 billion? Just asking.
Where is the icon for pedantic math nazi alert, or in my case, pedant math drunkard alert?
"I'm not sure I can imagine a Reg that isn't rude about a large corporation."
I think you're not really paying attention to the comments.
One thing is to be rude to companies, which is sort of expected in El Reg, even when the "rudeness" is no more than silly nicknames for the companies ("chocolate factory", "foxconn rebrander", etc) repeated ad nauseam. Some were funny the first two or three times but now are just plain annoying. I have the feeling that some "news" were just excuses to use those nicknames.
Another very different thing is being rude to the readers, regardless of their preferences (or degree of preference) for a brand. Not only it is not funny but immature.
I hate {Java, C, Cobol, Apple, Linux, Windows, math, Starbucks, those little colored things you put in cupcakes} because I was forced to learn it while I wanted to learn {anything but Java, C, etc.}. Later I had to work with people that used {Java, C, etc.} and that didn't help with my personal hatred, so I got some links to websites of people that agree with me and the conclusion is that it must die an horrible death. Here's the article. When can I expect my check?
Next: 30 bazillion of posts in Facebook proves that teaching grammar is useless.
Nothing personal, your take on appletards was very close to what we read from antiappletards. Your imitation was flawless :-)
I am often amazed on how they describe Apple consumers as blind fanatic zealots while saying "I rather join the communist party than buy from Apple" (real quote, search the forum).
No, I am not a Merkin, unless you count South Americans, in this case, please don't.
Have a pint. We South Americans don't care which day of the week it is or even hour of the day.
"When are all those Appletard fanbois out there"...
I often wonder whether {radical political|religious|utterly paranoid} nuts write something like that to further incite their clueless followers.
"When are all those [insert offensive but catchy collective name for non-followers] out there going to face up to this and admit that [their belief] is nothing but a huge failure, cobbled together from [whatever unprovable and/or utterly irrelevant factoids] and marketed at [another collective insult], baffled by anything [feature of their belief that may be actually desirable]."
Hey, this is fun. Have one on the house:
"When are all those science-believing muppets out there going to face up to this and admit that evolution is nothing but a huge failure, cobbled together from writings from a man who believed his grandpa was a monkey, baffled by anything that makes sense and can be proved."
Oops - you've used the troll icon. Never mind, keep calling us fanbois. That'll change our minds and ensure we appreciate your points of view.
"The Register" "blood on its hands": 4980
"El Reg" "blood on its hands": 20
"The Pope" "blood on its hands": 24800
"You" "blood on its hands": 523000
"Snooki" "blood on its hands": 3920
"andre the giant" "blood on its hands": 17
"the moderatrix" "blood on its hands": zero hits (so far!)
Or at least do things in a way that does not borks your code every time a new version is released. I liked the idea of having deprecation warnings in Java -- you code would still compile but you've been warned. I am not sure any class was ever deprecated, though.
Anyway, partially agree, but for a more lively discussion ask people who had VB6.0 code then had to migrate to .Net.
I'm seeing a lot of non-informative news that are just generic enough to scare people and increase readership (by morons) -- in an on-line newspaper site there was a photo of some people waiting in line in an airport with the caption "Japanese population flee the region" or something like that, FFS.
We need a "I Believe in Lewis Page" badge.
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