Agreed, the glitch effects were a bit overdone on the second half. Looks like incredibly high-quality content, though. I'm seriously tempted even though I'm not a petrol-head and have trouble changing turn signal lamps without breaking anything.
A couple years ago a friend gave me 'It Starts With Food' and after reading it I bought it for at least a half-dozen of my friends. It was truly life changing for me and my approach to food and health. Within a couple weeks I went from having hypertension/pre-hypertension to normal blood pressure and over the course of 6 months or so I lost 40 lbs. Changing my diet to 'whole' foods redefined for me what hunger was. My daily diet had been one of going from one sugar high to the next. What I interpreted as hunger and a big appetite were in fact cravings for sugar.
Admittedly, it may be a bit below the reading level for the average user here but I can't recommend this book enough. Especially for those of us that sit in front of a computer all day. Take a look at the reviews at Amazon which are numerous and nearly unanimous. Do yourself a favour and give it read.
I was in the 'testing is too much overhead' crowd for years until one day I finally got it. I realized that as I code, I'm always testing. Who doesn't make a change and then test it? So, you consider writing a test too much overhead? How much overhead is it to manually test? How much overhead is it to fill out that registration form you're testing? Maybe there are two or three steps to it. How much time does that take each and every time you test? Being one that enjoys automating repetitive tasks, writing that test _once_ suddenly became a no-brainer.
This realization only made all the other arguments for testing that much stronger.
True story: I took over for a developer working on a large and complex multi-step form. I wasn't surprised that there were a few little bugs in it, but I noticed that the number and severity of the bugs increased as you went through the form. The first step was pretty much bug free, but the final step was completely broken.
Many people who claim that test automation is "too much overhead" either don't understand what test automation is or don't understand what overhead is. If you have to test everything in order to change anything you either have a huge manual testing overhead or have a huge quality liability.
There's a lot of truth to this. I work in a project with a lot of separate assemblies, because we have many applications that share similar functionality. Unit tests are critical to making sure I don't break something for one application while making a change for another. However at the same time, It can be a real pain to load the entire application to test it. Unit tests have actually increased my productivity in some areas where doing a test has about a 1-5 minute overhead (compiling than loading a file etc)
> The customer service was not just bad, but noticeably absent...
I couldn't agree more -- I also pay for a 50 gig plan. About a week ago, I had to rebuild one of my machines and somehow my new Dropbox folder (which of course was empty) synced out to the cloud and to the rest of my machines. Suddenly my backup consolidation was completely wiped out. I submitted a support ticket and even now, nearly a week later, it is still unassigned. So, I spent a day undeleting 3500+ files through their web interface. Although quite limited, I will say I was thankful that functionality was there.
After being so impressed with Dropbox, their lack of customer support has been a huge disappointment.
I had the same question about Marc Emery, Prince of Pot -- well known in Canada for selling marijuana seeds and a public advocate of legalizing marijuana.
Long story short, the US gov't got him extradited and he's now serving a five year sentence in a US prison.
No doubt there are countless situations like this but I just remember being incredibly shocked (no doubt naively) that the RCMP would go and arrest the guy just because the US asked them to.
On the other hand, if those numbers are the only thing that is keeping you in school, you might want to consider the quality of the education you are receiving.
Showing a correlation does not really tell us anything meaningful. Even with a degree, you still might be missing what it takes and end up being part of the four percent. At this point, we have no real idea of what it takes for an individual to be successful in business until after the fact. Two people can do identical things with completely different results.
