I think in some ways programmers have brought this low status upon ourselves. If you want to be taken seriously in a business setting, like it or not how you dress affects your credibility. When a coder complains that the executives at the company are not taking their ideas seriously, maybe they should switch out of the t-shirt that says "talk nerdy to me" on the front. Dressing professionally isn't just about corporate conformity, it also signals that you take your job seriously.
I was trying to move everything out of a folder to tmp (mv ./* /tmp), which was fine. Then I cd to /, and, wanting to rerun the command I'd run right before the mv, pressed up twice and enter quickly...
Well, it failed once it finished moving /bin/mv to tmp. Of course cp, and a lot of other helpful commands come before mv alphabetically.
It wasn't too bad, just needed a boot from a live disc to move everything back, but I still get nervous whenever / and * are in the same command.
Performance actually seems to be much better in the new version! My standard test is to open a split-screen tmux session and try scrolling man pages.. New version doesn't jump around the page.
I think you're correct. The title confused met with the content. It's all about transferring money from one place to another and a way to cash it out and use it. It's actually still "black" money because it's not laundered yet.
Laundering is when I can justify to the IRS that my fund are earned legitimated eg. no criminal activity AND I paid my taxes on it.
It's a barebones CRUD app that rails could probably scaffold for you, theres no engraving or anything going on, and they ask for 7$ and $50k through kickstarter?
Come on.
Local bike shops and cycling organizations here (Germany) offer what they call "Codierung", where they permanently engrave a number on the frame and register it with police along with your contact information for a few bucks.
The app itself isn't expensive - it's the time and resources to connect with local governments (so police search the database too) and the expense to reach more shops and integrate with various point-of-sale systems in bike shops.
The idea of the police engraving anything into my bike is horrifying. And impossible for carbon bikes.
And once again, it won't be difficult to get registration for free. The reason that there is a fee is to encourage people to register their bike when they are in a bike shop rather than putting it off because they can just do it at home - plus, by adding a fee we will make it easier to track thieves who register bikes they've stolen.
"it's the time and resources to connect with local governments (so police can search the database too)"
To me, "Law Enforcement: register here with bona fides to get separate access to our database to search." isn't as time or resource consuming as "send us on a tour of the US to tell police and bike shops in person", or the stretch goal of $65,00, which is "send us on an even bigger tour of the US..."
The reason they engrave (or use multiple stickers, for carbon and others) is that the frame number is not as unique as you might think it is, certainly not unique among different producers, and always requires some central database.
You simply haven't solved the major problem here, which is one of discoverability and easy, decentralized lookup.
"So, you're claiming that this bike, which has a frame number that matches the one reported stolen, is in fact a different bike with the same frame number, one on which both producers neglected to brand in any way shape or form, and that you have no record of purchasing..."
Okay, but if I report my Trek 9.9 with serial number XYZ as stolen, it doesn't really matter if Cannondale or Walmart Bikes or whomever also uses a serial number XYZ, does it?
And if uniqueness is somehow important, then the idea of local governments having some registry is just as bad. My road bike would have four of these silly municipal numbers on them from four different municipalities, about to be five. I can't imagine that this number is any more unique amongst municipalities as it is amongst vendors.
Very true. Your first job isn't going to make or break you, but you'd be surprised how many new grads stumble into an industry and are still working in it 5 years down the road. I was a programmer at a brokerage firm out of college, and after recently getting out of the industry a few jobs later, it'll take a while before my resume is really attractive to non-finance gigs.
1. Enter details with a short, simple email address. Submit the form;
2. Sign up fails. I provided an alternative email address but not a phone number; apparently both are required for password recovery (why?), despite there being no indication both fields are required. Grudgingly give up phone number and try again;
3. Sign up fails. Apparently my phone number isn't valid, and I have to delete the first digit (0 in the UK, to be replaced by +44) for the form to accept it. Try again;
4. Sign up fails. For some reason the form has kept all my other details but has decided to lose the month and year of my DOB. Re-enter those details and try again;
5. Sign up fails. I was presented with the same CAPTCHA for the first three attempts but apparently it's now changed; Enter new CAPTCHA and try again;
5. Sign up fails. Finally, the form tells me the short, simple email address I chose is taken. There was no indication when I entered the address;
I'm pretty sure that it's because the username is already taken and the error message isn't showing up correctly on the page. They had me excited when I thought I could get my first initial and last name (both common names) as an email address.
I came here to also complain about the CAPTCHA. I almost gave up after the 4th try but I really wanted to see what this was all about. I don't know what they are thinking with that monstrosity.
it is likely the email id you are trying to use is already taken up. If you scroll up a bit, there may a error mark near the email field (I had this issue and but was trying to change the captcha).
Well I'm not sure about you, but my hotmail id works with this. Unless, you don't have a hotmail id in the first place... in which case, ignore this comment.
One upside of this is that it looks like they're really pushing the one-click installs. It isn't apt or yum, but it's certainly better than what Windows has now..
How? Windows installation has been fine for a decade and a half. Actually, it's going BACKWARD, with vendors now not bothering to ask you WHERE you want application links stored and instead littering your machine's program menu with endless directories named after themselves. Who the hell organizes their applications by vendor? I want my graphics apps together, my audio apps in another group, general office-type apps in another.
With every release, Windows has made this basic function (organizing applications) a bigger pain in the ass. If Microsoft is going to start enforcing policies, then this should be one: No application can simply barf a bunch of crap into your Start menu without ASKING where you want it to go.
Windows installation has been not fine by any stretch of imagination. It still has the same problems:
1) It is third party service, not provided by system (yes, I know about Microsoft Installer); it is up to the application vendors what they will use,
2) Installers can litter in the system, wherever they want (see your complaint about Start menu),
3) No 100% working uninstallation and/or repair, you will end-up with installers damaging your system and having to reinstall (even Microsoft ones; how the heck do I get rid of CJK IMEs, that Proofing Tools for Office 2010 "helpfully" installed?),
4) No update service, you end up with many updaters slowing down your system,
5) and many more.
If you think, that Windows installation is fine - have you ever seen install systems on other OSes?
Yes, extensively Mac OS. Now you want to talk about a turd, that is it.
PackageMaker is abandonware and an absolute fiasco. I don't even know where to begin documenting how this "product" fails at its primary task so utterly. Have you ever tried building an installer with it? Even Apple products tried to avoid it; Final Cut Studio, for example.
When the Mac installer does anything, it's just as capable of littering your system with crap.
And the Mac uninstaller doesn't leave turds behind, because it doesn't exist. You just have unknown crap all over your system.
Then there was the total lack of any way to install a single printer driver from Apple's collection until (IIRC) SnowLeopard. You got to install half a gig of drivers for every Epson printer ever made, just to support your one printer.
It has been quite a while since I've had a Windows uninstaller break my system. Do a lot of them leave turds? Yep. But at least they remove the bulk of the payload.
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