... and you needed to quote my whole post to state that? Actually, you again have those with a clue against those without a clue who refuse to admit it. If it is common usage, but not part of defined meaning, we have an actual defined meaning for that ! It's called slang.
The set of hackers and Pen Testers is not disjoint. The summary writer is thinking of crackers. And yes, I know 1200 morons will pipe up to say that Hacker is in common usage, to which I say millions of teenagers say "minute" when they mean a long time, but a minute is still 60 seconds. The world can be divided many ways. One way is those who know what Hacker means, and those who mistakenly think it is a synonym for cracker. I don't care what percentage of society is cluless in this regard even if it is 99+%. I am just proud to not be one of them. A large percentage of the populace thinks they run the best, most secure OS in the world; indeed the only one. Did they become right by way of their mass delusion?
You know there's a whole school of philosophy dedicated to the common usage vs. defined meaning problem. As for which one is right.. Inconclusive.
...And then I had to start taking public transit. I'm all for legalizing weed and maybe hallucinogens (though users need to be kept in a controlled environment. Maybe tripping camps?), but I am absolutely opposed to people having any amount of meth. Meth users are the fucking scourge of the earth, and I wouldn't mind simply putting them all to death in order to reduce the damage they cause to society.
I did similar research on a previous health care thread (read through my posts if you want to see it), and basically found that, while Americans tend to have higher cancer survival rates than most countries with socialized medicine, we have 2-3 times the percentage of cancer related deaths. I'd say a lot of it would be our environment, since we have historically had such lax pollution laws, but a lot of it is due to our lifestyle. And I have a solution! Pay for the public plan with targeted taxes on cooking oil and corn syrup!
From my perspective, both republicans and democrats have a good side: the republicans want to empower the individual citizen and free him from the limitations of government, and the democrats want to help the poor and downtrodden. These are both noble goals.
No, if you look at what the Republicans do when they have power it's obvious that their goal is to ensure that the rich get richer faster than they would if there wasn't a Federal government.
Who knows WTF the Democrats actually want.
Somehow this reminds me of the Ren & Stimpy episode where Ren gets split into two halfs: his evil side and his indifferent side.
You're apparently a software company (or at least a company concerned enough about their source code to fear corporate espionage), and you outsource your system administration? If you were a dog I'd slap you on the nose.
As a person with a common name who has been forced to write apps that use people's names as the primary key (after about 2 hours of arguing about how stupid that is), I can tell you that ordinary people just don't *get* that names are not unique.
You know, if I were a damned good sculptor I could probably make a great statue with only a block of wood and a chainsaw... But I doubt the chainsaw would be my tool of choice. That's the problem with javascript -- we have no choice but to use it. Of course, the DOM is the real problem, but really, when have you ever used javascript for something that didn't also involve the DOM, or vice versa?
But those useful things are usually due to the common inheritance in Java (i.e. given a list of objects, do something different with the objects depending on what type it is). These are irrelevant in C++, since classes do not all derive from a base object type. Likewise, duck typing is irrelevant if you use a system of interfaces as in C#, or multiple inheritance with virtual functions, as in C++. I'm not saying its the best way to do it, but if you changed these things, it wouldn't be C++ anymore.
Because in C++ a class is basically a struct with some function pointers. If you make that struct a variable size, you break the memory allocation system.
Good point. Grandparent should have said:
For the same reason you should not be held liable for defects in items you leave at the end of your driveway with a "free stuff" sign next to it.
If you code it, they will come.. Of course, they'll tell you they can't include it in their phones because it cuts into their profit margin for long distance calls and SMS messaging.
Be prepared for her to not get the reference on your jokes, and vice versa. And don't write her love poems in perl.. She won't get it.
Try to read a book she likes and discuss it with her. If she wants to reciprocate this, recommend a book she might actually like (i.e. probably not Cryptonomicon, despite its awesomeness)
Figure the rest out for yourself! You're geeks, that's what you do!
I suppose you should be given a free (as in beer) computer as well? If you have the tools, you are allowed to build it. It's up to you to get the tools, or to port it to a system in which you can use the tools you want. GPL gives you a right to see the code, nothing more.
I've been doing that for years.. Basically the issue is they can't find another person who has no social life (a valuable quality in a sysadmin), so they keep him on, and even coddle him. Management doesn't understand what a regular expression is, or why its bad that the sysadmin doesn't know what it is.
Well with all the high-level languages we have to work with these days, that's not suprising. I can tell you EXACTLY what's going to happen when I'm writing in C, but I don't know (nor do I really give a damn) what's going on when I'm writing in C#. It centers so much around the principle of "don't worry about what's going on under the hood" that its practically impossible to determine what IS actually happening. So these days I just worry about the O notation, and let the system deal with the rest.
I keep having to do his job because he either doesn't know how to do it, or refuses to support any of the software I write because he doesn't want to read the documentation. Then he claims he has no documentation, which is a load of horse shit. Hmm, horse shit.. I think I found the perfect gift.
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That was most likely the decision of MS and Sony respectively. EA is evil, but you can't blame them for everything!
... and you needed to quote my whole post to state that? Actually, you again have those with a clue against those without a clue who refuse to admit it. If it is common usage, but not part of defined meaning, we have an actual defined meaning for that ! It's called slang.
Yah, Wittgenstein was a hack!
The set of hackers and Pen Testers is not disjoint. The summary writer is thinking of crackers. And yes, I know 1200 morons will pipe up to say that Hacker is in common usage, to which I say millions of teenagers say "minute" when they mean a long time, but a minute is still 60 seconds. The world can be divided many ways. One way is those who know what Hacker means, and those who mistakenly think it is a synonym for cracker. I don't care what percentage of society is cluless in this regard even if it is 99+%. I am just proud to not be one of them. A large percentage of the populace thinks they run the best, most secure OS in the world; indeed the only one. Did they become right by way of their mass delusion?
You know there's a whole school of philosophy dedicated to the common usage vs. defined meaning problem. As for which one is right.. Inconclusive.
...And then I had to start taking public transit. I'm all for legalizing weed and maybe hallucinogens (though users need to be kept in a controlled environment. Maybe tripping camps?), but I am absolutely opposed to people having any amount of meth. Meth users are the fucking scourge of the earth, and I wouldn't mind simply putting them all to death in order to reduce the damage they cause to society.
I did similar research on a previous health care thread (read through my posts if you want to see it), and basically found that, while Americans tend to have higher cancer survival rates than most countries with socialized medicine, we have 2-3 times the percentage of cancer related deaths. I'd say a lot of it would be our environment, since we have historically had such lax pollution laws, but a lot of it is due to our lifestyle. And I have a solution! Pay for the public plan with targeted taxes on cooking oil and corn syrup!
From my perspective, both republicans and democrats have a good side: the republicans want to empower the individual citizen and free him from the limitations of government, and the democrats want to help the poor and downtrodden. These are both noble goals.
No, if you look at what the Republicans do when they have power it's obvious that their goal is to ensure that the rich get richer faster than they would if there wasn't a Federal government.
Who knows WTF the Democrats actually want.
Somehow this reminds me of the Ren & Stimpy episode where Ren gets split into two halfs: his evil side and his indifferent side.
Now if only God provided source code! Instead we get these damn executables...
What about arguing about arguing about good vs evil?
if they don't distribute it then its perfectly fine.
You actually found a paying job that lets you code in C? You lucky bastard...
You're apparently a software company (or at least a company concerned enough about their source code to fear corporate espionage), and you outsource your system administration? If you were a dog I'd slap you on the nose.
As a person with a common name who has been forced to write apps that use people's names as the primary key (after about 2 hours of arguing about how stupid that is), I can tell you that ordinary people just don't *get* that names are not unique.
Well, cats can learn to use the toilet.. I've yet to see a dog do that. Personally I still prefer dogs though.. Cats are assholes.
You know, if I were a damned good sculptor I could probably make a great statue with only a block of wood and a chainsaw... But I doubt the chainsaw would be my tool of choice. That's the problem with javascript -- we have no choice but to use it. Of course, the DOM is the real problem, but really, when have you ever used javascript for something that didn't also involve the DOM, or vice versa?
But those useful things are usually due to the common inheritance in Java (i.e. given a list of objects, do something different with the objects depending on what type it is). These are irrelevant in C++, since classes do not all derive from a base object type. Likewise, duck typing is irrelevant if you use a system of interfaces as in C#, or multiple inheritance with virtual functions, as in C++. I'm not saying its the best way to do it, but if you changed these things, it wouldn't be C++ anymore.
They do if you want to add class members on the fly. If not, then duck typing is pointless, as is introspection
Because in C++ a class is basically a struct with some function pointers. If you make that struct a variable size, you break the memory allocation system.
Good point. Grandparent should have said:
For the same reason you should not be held liable for defects in items you leave at the end of your driveway with a "free stuff" sign next to it.
If you code it, they will come.. Of course, they'll tell you they can't include it in their phones because it cuts into their profit margin for long distance calls and SMS messaging.
...and here's my best advice:
Be prepared for her to not get the reference on your jokes, and vice versa. And don't write her love poems in perl.. She won't get it.
Try to read a book she likes and discuss it with her. If she wants to reciprocate this, recommend a book she might actually like (i.e. probably not Cryptonomicon, despite its awesomeness)
Figure the rest out for yourself! You're geeks, that's what you do!
I suppose you should be given a free (as in beer) computer as well? If you have the tools, you are allowed to build it. It's up to you to get the tools, or to port it to a system in which you can use the tools you want. GPL gives you a right to see the code, nothing more.
I've been doing that for years.. Basically the issue is they can't find another person who has no social life (a valuable quality in a sysadmin), so they keep him on, and even coddle him. Management doesn't understand what a regular expression is, or why its bad that the sysadmin doesn't know what it is.
Well with all the high-level languages we have to work with these days, that's not suprising. I can tell you EXACTLY what's going to happen when I'm writing in C, but I don't know (nor do I really give a damn) what's going on when I'm writing in C#. It centers so much around the principle of "don't worry about what's going on under the hood" that its practically impossible to determine what IS actually happening. So these days I just worry about the O notation, and let the system deal with the rest.
I keep having to do his job because he either doesn't know how to do it, or refuses to support any of the software I write because he doesn't want to read the documentation. Then he claims he has no documentation, which is a load of horse shit. Hmm, horse shit.. I think I found the perfect gift.