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November 11th 2009, 17:00 MSK by Penguinx Well. I'm in. When do I start sprouting chest hair like a minotaur? Is my unicorn in the mail? Maybe I need more Wavees in order to grok it. Post names to wave usernames here, I guess. So far, Google Wave Google sucks. |
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But seriously, most of the people who rave about Twitter say how it's "enabled discussion on web" and how they have "great conversations" on Twitter. Conversation is useless in my opinion, I'm there to gather links and read information. Not chat. |
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Me too. That's why I figure something called "Twitter" isn't really for me. "One part disembowels me while another slowly eats its way through the gas line. As I bleed out on the floor, it reminds me that I need to buy milk." - Jibble
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Treefrog: Again, it's not for conversation - it's not like Facebok statuses where someone says something and prompts a load of inane responses. That's why conversations on twitter can be hard to follow and why Milan's comment about threading is both stupid and wrong. |
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Can someone provide an example of a decent twitter person? |
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Twitter isn't meant for long conversations. Twitter is specifically designed for quick, one-off things, which is why it's best for news, the cool stuff that people find, that sort of thing. If Twitter had more than 140 characters and threading it wouldn't be Twitter, it would be a forum. And we already have those. |
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Yeah, what gags said. [url=http://twitter.com/shitmydadsays]This[/ur] is the only interesting twitter feed I've ever found. And it's probably a fake. "the concept that a happy worker is a productive worker is hardly an entry from Matt's Big Book Of Things The Fairies Said." - Dum
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Gaggle. Cracked humor theOnion humor ebertchicago politics, movies and pop-culture ericdsnider humor and movies pattonoswalt humor and politics nsuttner games ncroal games pkollar games |
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I agree that Twitter sucks for conversation. In Poland there's a Twitter-like website/service called Blip that's much better suited for that (and has other nice things like embedded pictures and Youtubes) and a lot of people use it basically for group chat. In fact I find people who use it just for Twitter-style updates annoying. |
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#603 by deadlock That's why conversations on twitter can be hard to follow and why Milan's comment about threading is both stupid and wrong. As I said, I don't have a problem with Twitter-as-brief-RSS. I'm saying I heard a lot of people who said "Twitter is great for conversation." A string of 140B messages intertwined by a light grey link is a bunch of steaming horseshit. Parhelic Triangle is coming. Eventually.
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Thanks jj. I tried a few at random, and wasn't getting much out of it until I hit ncroal. I can see how his links are amusing and informative. Whereas nsuttner was just full of replies and random spam. But I can see the appeal now, at least in theory. |
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Ebert and Patton Oswalt are probably the two who have links that I click on the most. |
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I thought thiswas interesting/fairly amusing/creepy. 52 Weeks and Something's On Movie Blog
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People freaked out because the Google van might have driven past a corpse a year ago? BUYBUYBUY
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I smiled. Oh Internets, you bring us an interesting future. |
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The internet brings good things to live and then people think they are dead. It's a strange thing. "the concept that a happy worker is a productive worker is hardly an entry from Matt's Big Book Of Things The Fairies Said." - Dum
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I love stories like this. "Oh goodness, something horrible has happened! Somebody should do something!" "Actually, nothing happened, it was a misunderstanding." "Well, we should still do something!" "I hope you one day decide to smarten the fuck up so I can stand to look at your posts." - gaggle
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Yeah instead of everyone just admitting they overreacted, they instead have to justify their overreactions with some kind of action. Idiots. "the concept that a happy worker is a productive worker is hardly an entry from Matt's Big Book Of Things The Fairies Said." - Dum
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If any of the adults in the neighbourhood give her shit for playing dead, I hope her parents rip them a new one. Hey smart guy, don't be so fucking gullible next time. "I hope you one day decide to smarten the fuck up so I can stand to look at your posts." - gaggle
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NONE OF YOU FUCKS ARE THINKING OF THE CHILDREN "One part disembowels me while another slowly eats its way through the gas line. As I bleed out on the floor, it reminds me that I need to buy milk." - Jibble
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I have to imagine Boston is a young, tech friendly environment, and I deal with several hundred college students every day. None of them has ever mentioned Foursquare. "Bioshock, sadly, is no Painkiller." - BobJustBob
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Why would they tell old busted you about it? They don't want to frighten you off. |
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God knows they tell/ask me about every other tech/computer/internet related thing. "Bioshock, sadly, is no Painkiller." - BobJustBob
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Foursquare isn't really something you talk about, it's just something you semi-passively do on Twitter. |
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The first rule of Foursquare is you don't talk about Foursquare! "the concept that a happy worker is a productive worker is hardly an entry from Matt's Big Book Of Things The Fairies Said." - Dum
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Speaking of fancy Internet applications, here's one that's actually useful - RescueTime. You download a small systray app, they track your time spent, you look at fancy graphs and beat yourself up for playing 7 hours of Mafia Wars a day. You poor slob. (I've actually gotten facebooking down to around 2hrs/week, not really thanks to RescueTime, but due to the amount of useless information there. And me having a new job and all.) Parhelic Triangle is coming. Eventually.
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I already keep track of my working hours in six minute increments. I really don't need to start doing that at home too. |
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Six minute increments? What kind of spyware do you have installed for that? (I assume you jot it on paper.) I've used BubbleTimer (15 minute blocks) before, but when I was playing games, I usually forgot to track the time, and it ended up being too generic anyway (or having too many categories). The reason for this is that I feel like I've wasting too much time - you know, the usual evening "Is it 10PM? What have the 3 hours gone into?" and also I'd like to work on my own web projects at home. Just for fun, my half-August stats: 18.5h Borderlands 6.5h Thief 3 6+h cooking, eating, watching movies/shows while eating 6h Torchlight (2h out of it was honeypower, though) 5h facebook 4.5h PlanetCrap 3h PvZ 1.5h facebook games 40m knuttz.net 9m New York Times 4m weebl's stuff 45s QT3 Parhelic Triangle is coming. Eventually.
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preemptive SO LONELY Parhelic Triangle is coming. Eventually.
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So how's the new job working out? "One part disembowels me while another slowly eats its way through the gas line. As I bleed out on the floor, it reminds me that I need to buy milk." - Jibble
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Well, it's only third week, so can't really tell. (Also because the trial period is three months, heh.) However, I can't complain. Well, the only thing I'd like to complain about is the lack of Humanscale Freedom chair (gotta hand it to Accenture, they knew what's good), but I don't want to look like a tool, given they've readily approved my purchase of a decent hardware. (Some of my previous employers *cough* used to provide really shitty hardware and lots of jokes when I dared to ask for 2 LCDs. Which I got after they fired 20 people, heh.) But the awesome thing is that I'm fucking developing again. Yes, it's PHP, and yes, there are bugs present and no unit tests, etc, but holy shit, it feels good to be not stuck with PHP4 and bughunting 70% of the time as I used to in *cough* one of my previous jobs. Parhelic Triangle is coming. Eventually.
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I don't think I've ever worked anywhere on what I would call a decent PC. Ever. "One part disembowels me while another slowly eats its way through the gas line. As I bleed out on the floor, it reminds me that I need to buy milk." - Jibble
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Yeah, the hardware I usually run on as a developer is the bare minimum. "the concept that a happy worker is a productive worker is hardly an entry from Matt's Big Book Of Things The Fairies Said." - Dum
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Heh, yeah at my last job I asked my boss if I could get a 2nd monitor. She looked at me like I was completely insane before saying "No, of course not." blog | Twitter | The Psychology of Gaming
"It was a little hard to tell how bad I was bleeding on account of the salsa" -- Jibble |
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I still don't get it. An average Full HD LCD costs $200, which is miniscule to what they have to pay on salaries - and it's not like I ate the LCD. It will belong to the company for next 3-5 years. In old company I've had a dual-core Xeon which ran desktop like shit, doing a full text search on a network drive took 5 minutes, at one point doing a simple SVN update took 15 minutes. We've had PCI graphics cards. A coworker of mine with the exact same hardware had computer freeze for 10 seconds every two minutes. The IT guy couldn't figure it out, so he's been working on getting Windows 7 to those PCs. He did one in 6 months, which went to a support person. Oh, fuck, I could bitch about my last work all day. Which is what I did while I worked there anyway. In the new job, I got a 19x12 24" HP with a pivot, Logitech VX nano and a HP Probook with i5 (only because I didn't ask for the more expensive Dell, because I hate them) which runs a virtual machine about 3x faster than my whole old PC was. I just asked for it, and they bought it. This is what I'm fucking talking about. And the boss doesn't even read Joel On Software. Parhelic Triangle is coming. Eventually.
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I've missed a memo. What new job did you land? |
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#634 by Milan Brezovský I still don't get it. An average Full HD LCD costs $200, which is miniscule to what they have to pay on salaries For me the real kicker was that I knew there elsewhere in the building there were closets FULL of monitors that were not currently being used. blog | Twitter | The Psychology of Gaming
"It was a little hard to tell how bad I was bleeding on account of the salsa" -- Jibble |
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I practically had to threaten people with a straight razor to get a 20". The old 17 was like looking at a monitor through tracing paper. And I think we only have 10Mbit to desktops. Which are locked down. "One part disembowels me while another slowly eats its way through the gas line. As I bleed out on the floor, it reminds me that I need to buy milk." - Jibble
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Damn..I thought all develoipers were treated like gods...They give me whatever I want where I am currently. Currently running a core 2 duo with 4 monitors, 2 23" wide screens and 2 19" on each end. Email far left, Visual Studio in the middle left, excell or access or test app middle right and web browsing far right. I feel lucky now and may not quit and move back to PA. after all. Now the IT guys try to lock me down harder than tits on a nun...but still, all in all I guess I am doing OK. Zep-- w0rd up!
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I've missed a memo. What new job did you land? There was no memo, it wasn't really a big deal. My boss has read my Skype history for the last two years, which he obviously didn't like, being the former drug dealer he is. I left "voluntarily", which was the best thing that has happened to me in last two years. I mean, it wasn't all bad, the job was okay, the people were awesome, the clients were super awesome, the pay was good, etc. But seriously, I was am so ashamed to say "I've been working with php4 for the past two years" on my resume and interviews. So I played games for two weeks and then went to this company, which is a photo-printing-related "startup" (a side project of existing, profitable printing/marketing business - seriously, they can print images on fucking carpets). I don't want to talk too much about it now, but I'll say more in a couple of weeks after we go officially live. Parhelic Triangle is coming. Eventually.
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Oh cool, sounds like exciting things are going on. Grats. Is this still in that country you come from? I have this vague notion of you mentioning New York recently but maybe I dreamt that up in a moment of random crazy. |
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Do I sound like G-Man that much? No, I only mentioned I read New York times, according to crapsifter. I'm living in Prague, Czech Republic, the richer and more skeptical part of the Czechoslovakia I was born in. Parhelic Triangle is coming. Eventually.
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Hah, remember Czechoslovakia? They were wild times. Whatever happened to Yugoslavia? |
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My memories were related to Facebook but clearly I just imagined the whole thing. |
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Grats, Milan. Protip: Don't chat on Skype at your new job. blog | Twitter | The Psychology of Gaming
"It was a little hard to tell how bad I was bleeding on account of the salsa" -- Jibble |
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Hah, remember Czechoslovakia? They were wild times. Whatever happened to Yugoslavia? He took off with Zaire. She's probably had sex with like 4 different guys by now and has no idea who he is anymore, his face lost in a memory sea of dicks.
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You assholes are making me feel old! ...which I enjoy. Jamie: Thanks! It's a great excuse for not replying to people. "My psychologist said I shouldn't chat on Skype! Now send me a email and I'll get back to you in 3 business days." Seriously though, I have admin rights on my laptop. There's nothing that would get past me and Autoruns utility. Well, except for Eset Smart Security Business edition, which can be used to remotely administer my PC, but at least there's nothing of the Spector Pro-type of keylogger installed without my written consent. Parhelic Triangle is coming. Eventually.
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HTC Wildfire = GODAWFUL PIECE OF SHIT. Seriously, and here I thought Nokia E51 was the pinnacle of shitty UX, second only to Lotus Notes (I even forgot the name, so I googled "worst email client ever"). Seriously, how can anyone use touch screen for anything other than scrolling and clicking HUGE buttons is... okay, yeah, I get it, it's a matter of practice and sweaty hands. My fingers are *constantly* sweaty, using touch interface feels absolutely terrible. Also, the responsiveness is crap. It's a low-end model, so it doesn't surprise me, but I'm thinking I like my 5-6 year old BlackBerry 7100t better. But at least it doesn't have that shitty annoying 200ms transitions like iPhone does. Ugh. That thing made me want to lick white phosphorus. Parhelic Triangle is coming. Eventually.
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Get over it. |
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No. Lotus notes = worst UX. I'll never get over it. Parhelic Triangle is coming. Eventually.
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He has a point. Lotus Notes is a crime against humanity. "One part disembowels me while another slowly eats its way through the gas line. As I bleed out on the floor, it reminds me that I need to buy milk." - Jibble
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