I think you misunderstand.. I was not implying anything about the afterlife here. The OT was all about "so and so pleased the Lord, and was spared the ". I meant "burn your ass" more in the sense of an example of something He would do to you if you didn't properly please thine God.
So apart from plaguing Egypt for fun, there isn't much sense in all that. It just looks like a cruel and mean god. I really don't know why people would trust Him, much less follow his words.
Because if you don't do what He says, He'll burn your ass. Clearly you did not take take away the correct lessons from your reading.
I honestly don't give a fuck about VB, one way or the other. The fact that it doesn't default to short circuiting seems dumb to me, but whatever. What I'm seeing is you trying to defend the honor of VB when nobody has called it into question. My mistake was feeding the troll
Honest question: Which of those C# features does Visual Basic not have?
The latest VB should have most, if not all the features as the latest C#. That said, the syntax of VB, along with the lack of short circuit conditionals, makes my eye twitch.
C# 2.0 was basically a clone of Java and didn't really have anything that made it particularly special. With 4.0, it has almost everything that made Python great, without any of the huge drawbacks of Python. It's fast (in relative terms.. slower than C and C++, faster than most anything else), it has an extensive standard library, closures, lambda functions, Linq (similar in function to Python's list building and iterator expressions, but more robust), good multi-threading support, and some top notch metaprogramming support through generics and expression trees.
My boss is a woman, and she's the best boss I've ever had. Why? Because she had to prove herself, and she succeeded in doing so. The odds are stacked against women in management, and those who succeed are often better because they had to be significantly better than all the male candidates in order to stand out.
Disclaimer: This is a combination of anecdotal evidence and socio-demographic conjecture. Not all women make good bosses, and not all female bosses are good.
Been smoking the wacky tobaccy that god left out on the ground for you? The founding fathers were mostly deists. They believed in a god that didn't give a crap. They didn't pray.
Okay, I'll bite. What freedoms do we have that were championed by the pious and condemned by the non-believers? And this must apply to the bulk of each side, not simply a few outliers.
There's a ton of overhead that goes into communicating between processes. If you can, its much more efficien (and pleasant) to use threads. The point of using Python is that it's supposed to be simple. Setting up a complicated inter-process communication mechanism every time you need to run a background thread makes it not so simple.
The problem with Python isn't the speed -- he's right about optimizing with bits of C. The problem is the GIL. Without good multithreading support, I have to give up on Python for a large number of application domains.
How old is your son? My son is also highly allergic to eggs (we have to carry the epi pen everwhere we go), and he's had all his age-scheduled shots so far with no problem, and he's almost 2. Which ones does your son need that don't have a non-egg version?
If you plan on testing something more than once you're probably wasting your time if you're not automating it. It's wasteful, unreliable, and makes it very expensive in time and money to release new versions, or even patches for old ones.
We automate what we can, but there's quite a few things that aren't well suited to automation. A big problem for us is the various display issues with different browsers, or bugs in our stylesheets. That's not something you can automate easily.
I pity our poor testers.. I have to assume that they must develop some sort of mental detachment capabilities to be able to sit there and test the same thing over and over and over. Go back to your cube. Spending hours trying to get the damn login screen to work in every browser might seem painful, but it's nothing compared to the hell that is testing.
Ignore the assholes. Debates about the meaning of 'Engineer' aside, what you really need to learn is maintainability, testing, and patience. Writ code that you wouldn't mind maintaining if you weren't the original author. Don't repeat yourself. Follow coding standards. And most of all, learn to work with others and leave your ego at the door. That's what separates a 'hacker' from a professional.
You're slippery, I'll give you that. First off, I never called anyone a "crackpot" or "denier". I merely claimed that, if you are going to make a claim that counters scientific consensus, then you better be prepared to back it up. What you're essentially claiming is that, based on a few scientists' objections and no observable evidence, we should reopen the entire question of whether or not climate change is happening. Do you honestly think all think that nobody is looking into this? There is far more funding for scientists trying to disprove climate change than there is for those trying to prove it. But trying to convince you is like arguing with a table. You're not going to listen to what I have to say unless I get my own show on Fox News. In the mean time, the vast majority of the scientific community is listening to their peers.
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Or, maybe, move the corn subsidies to fruits and vegetables? Eating healthy is really expensive.
"spared the [really bad thing]" is what I meant to write.
I think you misunderstand.. I was not implying anything about the afterlife here. The OT was all about "so and so pleased the Lord, and was spared the ". I meant "burn your ass" more in the sense of an example of something He would do to you if you didn't properly please thine God.
So apart from plaguing Egypt for fun, there isn't much sense in all that. It just looks like a cruel and mean god. I really don't know why people would trust Him, much less follow his words.
Because if you don't do what He says, He'll burn your ass. Clearly you did not take take away the correct lessons from your reading.
I honestly don't give a fuck about VB, one way or the other. The fact that it doesn't default to short circuiting seems dumb to me, but whatever. What I'm seeing is you trying to defend the honor of VB when nobody has called it into question. My mistake was feeding the troll
First, you're wrong. second, you're arguing against a point that nobody was making. Your insecurities are very telling.
Honest question: Which of those C# features does Visual Basic not have?
The latest VB should have most, if not all the features as the latest C#. That said, the syntax of VB, along with the lack of short circuit conditionals, makes my eye twitch.
C# 2.0 was basically a clone of Java and didn't really have anything that made it particularly special. With 4.0, it has almost everything that made Python great, without any of the huge drawbacks of Python. It's fast (in relative terms.. slower than C and C++, faster than most anything else), it has an extensive standard library, closures, lambda functions, Linq (similar in function to Python's list building and iterator expressions, but more robust), good multi-threading support, and some top notch metaprogramming support through generics and expression trees.
My boss is a woman, and she's the best boss I've ever had. Why? Because she had to prove herself, and she succeeded in doing so. The odds are stacked against women in management, and those who succeed are often better because they had to be significantly better than all the male candidates in order to stand out.
Disclaimer: This is a combination of anecdotal evidence and socio-demographic conjecture. Not all women make good bosses, and not all female bosses are good.
Fail. See this for more details.. Religion was pretty well split on the issue.
Been smoking the wacky tobaccy that god left out on the ground for you? The founding fathers were mostly deists. They believed in a god that didn't give a crap. They didn't pray.
Okay, I'll bite. What freedoms do we have that were championed by the pious and condemned by the non-believers? And this must apply to the bulk of each side, not simply a few outliers.
There's a ton of overhead that goes into communicating between processes. If you can, its much more efficien (and pleasant) to use threads. The point of using Python is that it's supposed to be simple. Setting up a complicated inter-process communication mechanism every time you need to run a background thread makes it not so simple.
The problem with Python isn't the speed -- he's right about optimizing with bits of C. The problem is the GIL. Without good multithreading support, I have to give up on Python for a large number of application domains.
You mean as a country rich in oil and other natural resources. Not every country has that luxury, you smug son of a bitch.
Or as a country of people that mostly realize that having 12 kids is not a good idea.
Man, this placebo is a wonder drug! It doesn't work as well as most drugs at any one thing, but it works somewhat well on most everything!
In other bews, 88 Japanese people just got scammed for a lot of money.
Up not out. You can be the manager who excels at the technical side of things.. And try to learn not to suck too bad at the social side of it.
How old is your son? My son is also highly allergic to eggs (we have to carry the epi pen everwhere we go), and he's had all his age-scheduled shots so far with no problem, and he's almost 2. Which ones does your son need that don't have a non-egg version?
If you plan on testing something more than once you're probably wasting your time if you're not automating it. It's wasteful, unreliable, and makes it very expensive in time and money to release new versions, or even patches for old ones.
We automate what we can, but there's quite a few things that aren't well suited to automation. A big problem for us is the various display issues with different browsers, or bugs in our stylesheets. That's not something you can automate easily.
I pity our poor testers.. I have to assume that they must develop some sort of mental detachment capabilities to be able to sit there and test the same thing over and over and over. Go back to your cube. Spending hours trying to get the damn login screen to work in every browser might seem painful, but it's nothing compared to the hell that is testing.
Ignore the assholes. Debates about the meaning of 'Engineer' aside, what you really need to learn is maintainability, testing, and patience. Writ code that you wouldn't mind maintaining if you weren't the original author. Don't repeat yourself. Follow coding standards. And most of all, learn to work with others and leave your ego at the door. That's what separates a 'hacker' from a professional.
This was in France..
Evidence or GTFO. This conspiracy theory bullshit is getting really old.
You're slippery, I'll give you that. First off, I never called anyone a "crackpot" or "denier". I merely claimed that, if you are going to make a claim that counters scientific consensus, then you better be prepared to back it up. What you're essentially claiming is that, based on a few scientists' objections and no observable evidence, we should reopen the entire question of whether or not climate change is happening. Do you honestly think all think that nobody is looking into this? There is far more funding for scientists trying to disprove climate change than there is for those trying to prove it. But trying to convince you is like arguing with a table. You're not going to listen to what I have to say unless I get my own show on Fox News. In the mean time, the vast majority of the scientific community is listening to their peers.