@garak0410 said:
@tonyshowoff said:
Bread and Milk, is that a tradition or something? Sounds more like a Lenin poster
In the south, the store shelves empty of bread and milk at the mention of any accumulating ice/snow...
That's interesting, why is that? Is that a staple of many southern meals or something? The only southern food I really know of is what can be bought in a restaurant chain.
We also home school and our youngest daughter, who is 7 and should be in 1st grade, all of the material she works with is 2nd and 3rd grade. Regular school wastes so much time on just idiotic stuff. As far as socialising goes (the irony here is that if the only place your kid is socialising is school, maybe that's what's wrong, and also schools are full of weirdo, anti-social kids, so going to school won't make someone a social butterfly) our daughters' in Girl Scouts, gymnastics, and tons of other stuff. In my experience the "weird home school kids" are only weird because their parents are also weird, it's not because they're home schooled.
We tried associating with home school organisations, but they're so full of religious weirdos who do things like reject the concept of gravity (so not just evolution), yes I'm serious, gravity. and also promote bizarre political beliefs, general anti-science and anti-intellectualism, etc and have absolutely no business teaching children anything. It's no wonder some people look down on home schooling, if your only experience are people like that.
It's like the old days of social engineering people to setup an .rhosts file with a wild card entry so you didn't need a login to get into the machine. You'd think people would learn host-based authentication (especially alone) isn't really good, but of course why would they learn? They never do.
@MrWright4hire said:
After Effects.
Here are some: http://lifehacker.com/5976725/build-your-own-adobe-creative-suite-with-free-and-cheap-software a few suggestions aren't open source, but still cheaper and still not Adobe.
For After Effects specifically, people seem to recommend http://www.blender.org/ a lot, which is apparently primarily for 3D but can be done for correcting, compositions, and other stuff. Since After Effects is "pretty niche" it may not be as easy to replace, but also apparently a lot of "big shots" use:
http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/products/nuke/
http://www.autodesk.com/products/maya/overview
for most of the things that After Effects does, from what I can find anyway, but I avoid design like the Black Death, I'm strictly a developer.
@nadnerB said:
Two things Adobe are known for:
- Selling Photoshop
- Owning Flash
(multi-level pun there)
Is it cool if I hire some male model to take my photographs so I don't scare off the customers? In all seriousness, I do wonder if anyone has ever done that. I bet they have.
Bread and Milk, is that a tradition or something? Sounds more like a Lenin poster 
@Dashrender Agreed, not only that, Adobe is a crappy company that makes even crappier, bloated, overpriced garbage software. They should've went bankrupt decades ago, but are spurred on by companies willing to pay $9 trillion for software that's got FOSS alternatives which create just as good art/html/video/whatever.
Hell, a year ago at a Best Buy I saw an Adobe Photoshop box for sale in their software section, it was from around 1997, and it was still selling for $999.99. Luckily though, it was Windows 3.11 compatible.
@thanksaj said:
So I would love to know how it is so...
I have defied doctors for decades on the whole "you need 7-9 hours of sleep per night" thing. Ever since I can remember, I can get 3-5 hours of sleep and function perfectly fine. Now many have argued in the past that it was my age, whether that meant pre-teen, or teenager, or now early 20s. I know this isn't the case though...
The way it really works is: the older you get, the less you sleep, so this fits the typical know-it-all adults in the world who will defy logic to tell you that you're wrong. Consider how much babies sleep and how much people sleep until they get older, especially if you don't include the stereotypical teenager who sleeps all day (most parents who judge this tend to also not realise that s/he has been awake all night and didn't sleep 16 hours; also depression can make you sleep way more). A baby can sleep 16 hours but the elderly tend to sleep 4 - 5, my grandfather prior to his death tended to only sleep about 3 hours each night; now I guess he sleeps 24/7.
Me personally, when I was a child I always woke about 6am, 7 days a week, no matter what, and I never slept-in until I was about 15 and I had stayed up all night until 7am, so I went to bed and woke up at 11am. Despite this, I was never a morning person though, I always was a night person, and I had more energy at night, got more work done, but then I still had to wake up for whatever reason.
Today, I am the boss and I can do whatever I want, unless there's a reason to get up a certain time, I just stay awake as long as I want and sleep as long as I want, and I've fallen into a thing where I am awake for 18 - 20 hours and I sleep for about 5 hours. I do most of my work at night, and I get vastly much more done than when I try to do it in the day. For comparison, most people are awake 16 - 17 hours, I wanted to point this out because after years of conversations with people, most know the "ideal" 8 hours, but don't seem to ever do the math to realise they're only awake 16 hours, if you ask them, they'll tend to say it's much longer... at least in my experience.
There's a sort of stigma that exists as well against people who would rather work at night, since farming once could only be done in the light of day, we've inherited a cultural idea that if you are asleep during the day, no matter how much you worked the night before, it's because you're lazy. Anyone who isn't a complete idiot, knows this is not how reality works.
I'm sort of sensitive to light as well, so I really hate being out in the sun, I can barely see, even with sunglasses. So it was a major encouragement for starting my own company, being financially independent, mostly so I can tell people to FOAD that want me to be up in the day time. I really hate it. It's harder to live that way since I don't live in NYC anymore, but not impossible, just a lot less to do/eat at night.
I also suffer from AD(H)D, definitely no hyperactivity at all, but I've always had focusing problems (I sort of just drift off into day dreaming or thinking about nothing), I did notice years ago, as a teenager, when I drank a lot of tea, I got more programming done and could focus better. Years later I found out that while caffeine makes regular people jumpy and keeps them awake, with AD(H)D it actually doesn't work that way, it helps with focus, and rarely affects sleep directly, though too much can still be bad for your cardiovascular system.
I started taking Modafinil years ago, primarily because of focusing problems and caffeine wasn't enough. Modafinil, combined with caffeine, I crank out about 1,200 lines of code per day (compared to the 100 average they say people do, maybe if you're playing tetris at your desk all day) and some days I go beyond that. I've never been able to get my hands on Adderall, even though I've asked tons of teenagers and drug users where to get some illegally, apparently nobody knows anything, of course they don't. I have taking Ritalin, but since it was for school, and I hated school and had no interest in doing anything there, even if I was on something, it didn't seem to work... I bet today it would.
I just buy Modafinil from Sun Pharmaceuticals in India with bitcoin, not only because it's about 40 cents per pill, but because in the US it's about $45 per pill, a month of Modafinil from a pharmacy, with insurance, tends it run about $1,800.
How I got on Modafinil in the first place was: I was working at a national ISP which will remain nameless and my boss would give it to anyone who wanted it. He never forced anyone to take it, but when people fell behind, the option was there. What I like about it compared to actual AD(H)D medication is, you tend to not know you're on anything until it's gone. You feel just normal and can finally focus, but when you stop taking it, you realise how terrible at focusing you were all along. At least that's how it was with me.
And that's me and sleep and AD(H)D, I brought up AD(H)D because AJ did so if this was tl;dr, blame him.
@thanksaj said:
Only to people who have never worked with him... and I have. He's also my mentor, so I can say that...
Haha, damn that's cold blooded
@MrWright4hire No, sorry, I don't. I got mostly acquainted with MySQL prior to YouTube and so forth. I still watch some stuff related to highly scalable stuff every now and again, though the kind of stuff I've done sometimes goes beyond even the hypothetical environments in the videos, unless the video is about Facebook or something that big. My suggestion though if you just want some basic information about it, MySQL's web site actually does have a lot of information, and in addition to that, the stackoverflow.com tag for MySQL is good, and there are tons of other tutorials out there.
Getting the base information is fairly straight forward, getting good information on storage engines, indices, proper queries, etc (something you should worry about once you're familiar with SQL itself) is in the manual, but usually there is sort of vague and hard to understand, so it'll take some searching. There may be videos about this stuff, but again I don't know, maybe go to Google Video and search MySQL and change your search options for videos 20+ minutes, that way you know they're detailed.
On my blog I also write articles about MySQL and MySQL-related projects from time to time, and I suggest you check out the ones involving case sensitivity and also unicode storage.
@MrWright4hire Pretty strong. Assuming we're talking about MySQL centered and not something like T-SQL, which I know fairly well, but MySQL's my wheelhouse.
@MrWright4hire said:
Hello tony aka Mr. Pretentious. Welcome! I hope you're able to connect with like minded people and some how grown beyond your comfort zone.
Thanks, me too, Mr Wright
Short: Hey everybody.
Long:
Hello, I'm new here, and while there was a thread to introduce yourself, it was already nearly 400 posts long and I am far, far too irritating to be buried that deep.
I'm also a loudmouth, super pretentious, wanna-be expert on Spiceworks (even though I've never used the software, btw that link is my profile there), Twitter, and on my blog.
My hobbies are: programming and eating, and posting on tech forums, that's it.
I also like PHP, node.js, chocolate milk, thunderstorms, constant rain (I could live on Kamino; speaking of, I think the Empire is good and the Republic is a religious tyranny and the Jedi are basically terrorists and religious police), night time, MySQL, cookies, FreeBSD, pizza, Hungary (the country, I never get the feeling). My political beliefs can be summed up as "absolute freedom of speech and religion", "capitalism", and "Stratocracy" (not important unless you bring it up, not sure why I did), I'm also interested in human languages, soda (as in making and drinking it), I despise paper, filing cabinets, paper for any use, fax machines, and Luddites.
I'm fat, but thanks to genetics I'm fairly strong, but I never use it for anything useful, let alone to exercise, as a result I'm really unhealthy. I also don't play video games very often and I've never really liked them, though I do like various older Mario games. For the most part if I play a video game I feel like I'm wasting my time and need to create something instead. I'm incapable of relaxing, ever.
A lot of people don't like me, and part of the reason I created this thread is so either people can discuss why they don't or they can use this thread's creation of an example of why they don't like me. It's not that I strive for people to dislike me, I'm not a troll, it's that I'm honest about my thoughts, especially when it comes to IT, programming, etc and I'm not afraid to tell people they're wrong and then trying to go on to prove it. Like I said, I'm super pretentious, but I do have a sense of humour about myself and about everything else.
And I also created this thread so we can talk about all these things, be it chocolate milk or why you hate PHP and MySQL and only like PostgreSQL because you still think it's 2004 and nothing ever improves.
@JaredBusch said:
I prefer a 12 month or non-expiring password but at least 16 characters long. Complexity can go fly a kite. Those only cause users to write things down.
Finally! For a long time I thought I was the only person who enforced this policy. Even as a part of GPO on our domains I set it as minimum of 12 (due to the entropy at the time), but basically turned down the complexity. Even some of the more non-technical users have extremely complex passwords now that they don't need to write down, because I encourage four random words with maybe a number or two between them.
And hey, if you wanna get inventive with the spelling, go ahead, if it's easier for you to remember, helps against broad dictionary attack as well. More experienced people will try cracking passwords with multiple words and even numbers, especially these days, but obviously even some crap like (3fOe38!45b is not only easy to crack, but also hard to remember, and I'm still baffled as to why this is encouraged. I'm sure you're aware of this, but I'm just saying it for people who may not realise that complex to remember does not mean complex to guess.
@Carnival-Boy said:
Why? Not disagreeing, I'm just interested in the logic behind anyone's reason on expiration days. Any number seems quite arbitrary to me. What's the difference between 60. 90, 180, 245.4 etc etc
They're roughly equivalent to months in terms of number of days. something people can also associate with quarters of the year or some other thing.
Complement: @scottalanmiller has the sexist brain alive
So this Judge, not Microsoft, has the final word?
A topic title like "So I did it!" made me think perhaps there was going to be an admission of bank robbery or perhaps grand theft auto.
The difference between email and essentially almost any other "platform" (such as Zoho Connect, Yammer, Facebook, SMS, etc) is that email is completely independent. You can run your own email servers, you can configure it in the way you want, you don't have to worry about others at all. Not only that, since the protocols are open, unless someone has a malconfigured email server, or doesn't have one at all, you can email them even if there's never been communication between your networks before. You cannot do this with anything else and also be independent.
That's why email will not die. It may change in small ways over time, but it will still be here. It's the universal fail over for everything else (even some providers allow text messages and voice mails to fail over/forward to email), and I can send text, images, and all types of files through it. What else meets all of these qualifications? Nothing.
The only way to really get rid of it would be to make something just as simple, just as open, just as independent, and make it reverse compatible with email -- and then we're back to the beginning, Google's tried it, doesn't work out that great.
I also cannot predict what business communication will be like in 10 - 20 years, but I guarantee email will be there, just as a technologist in the 19th century wrote "I don't know what London will look like in the 21st century, but I know it won't be that much different than now." And he was right, because the fundamentals really don't change.
The same goes for email, and unified messaging won't replace it, considering that unified messaging almost always, without exception, centers around or fails over to email.
Saying otherwise is literally no different to me than people who have said over the last 5 years that "[mobile] apps will make the web obsolete within 5 - 10 years." and in fact are still saying that. I guess it's "disruptive" to say something will be obsolete, but with many, many, many offices still using software made 15 - 20, sometimes 30 years ago, it's more than a stretch to suggest everyone will suddenly shift to one direction over the next decade.