"Referential integrity is important, strong typing is important, enforcement of declared constraints is important. MySQL can't be trusted with any of these things."
I think what you mean to say is that you can't be trusted with these things.
The precision of the number $220,000 is far beyond 6 significant digits. It is exact.
Just as if you had a physics equation s = 1/2 * a * t you don't have a single digit of precision from the 1 or the two, those are exact and don't degrade precision at all.
There are all sorts of things that would go wrong if you started applying precision techniques to integers of all things. After you learn the formulas, you people need to learn what they mean.
Now, maybe if someone counted the money and you had a measurement of $220k, that might have 2 significant digits. But if you define an amount of money as $220k at that number, it is that number, not a millionth of a penny more or less.
Simply put, try paying the IRS a $10,000 tax bill with less than $10k and see exactly how precise $10,000 is.
Of course what the poster really did mean was "orders of magnitude".
Lotus 1-2-3 used to have the capability to display a graph of a function. This seems to have disappeared from all spreadsheets. I used to graph functions as reference lines vs. data that I was gathering.
I'm loving google docs. I write something up and send a link ad someone can see it if they have a browser. Sharing is greatly simplified over the, "who has the latest version of the document" chaos that is all too frequent. I'm not one to make a presentation, but I could see doing that for how to install or use something, or maybe a quick overview.
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I agree about the go-to functions. The low end versions of them seem to be more trouble than they're worth.
For $100 here is how I'd do it:
Meade ETX-80. 3.5" refraction. Under $300. Go buy a couple nice eyepieces with good eye relief and wide viewing angle. For $140 I got a nice 5mm eyepiece that brings out the bands in Jupiter. The eye relief makes it possible for me to view with glasses (which is necessary if I'm sharing the telescope with someone else and don't want to make them refocus). The eyepieces will be reusable on whatever other telescope you might get.
Star charts and a comfy chair or stool that is easy to lean over and use the telescope with.
The ETX-80 has a couple good things going for it. It is great for the planets and excellent for the moon (get a filter for the moon ~$15-20). Even though I don't use the go-to functions, I still use the motor to move the telescope around...great for more minor adjustments. If you decide to upgrade to something else, it has only cost you $300 or so and you're left with a pretty good spotting scope for daytime use.
Just don't go out and buy something big and fancy if you don't know for sure you'll use it.
Being fired for something other than cause often carries benefits. Unemployment benefits for one. Severance. If they change the job requirements on you drastically, tell them you'll take your severance and leave.
How do you know they don't work? The creation of the FDA stopped any private solution from happening. The book was published, the public became informed and the government stopped put a halt on the free market.
You can't say it doesn't work because it had a problem and then wasn't allowed a chance to correct that problem through market forces.
Apparently the market was working though. People were perfectly willing to pay for meat of unknown quality. They got what they paid for. The public just wasn't concerned with the origin or quality of the meat they were paying for. To retroactively apply our current values in meat-picking to a previous market is wrong. There just wasn't a value placed on the origin of the meat until after the book.
I was looking at Saturn last night with a 3" refractor. At only 80x magnification I could clearly see the rings (as one solid ring). There was clear separation of the rings from the planet. I was also able to see what I think were a few moons, I'm not too sure until I check the next few nights to see if they're moving with Saturn.
Lots of things are more popular because of interoperability with windows. Java for instance gets some of its popularity from being able to run many places. Windows is not extending their monopoly until they do something that would prevent the other consoles from doing the same thing microsoft is doing.
As far as selling dev kits go, that's not a market at all. Sony and Nintendo deliberately keep people out of that market. They wouldn't sell you a dev kit if you wanted to buy one. You have to have $20k *and* be able to show that you're a real game company capable of producing a real game. The antitrust suit would be rather humorous, "we demand the government keep all these people out of the game development business because we don't want anyone to service them."
His economic argument is only valid if he's paying you to take out the trash. He would then have to spend the time saved making money at a higher rate than what he's paying you.
Alternately, you can point out the lost income during his convalescence.
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"Referential integrity is important, strong typing is important, enforcement of declared constraints is important. MySQL can't be trusted with any of these things."
I think what you mean to say is that you can't be trusted with these things.
The precision of the number $220,000 is far beyond 6 significant digits. It is exact.
Just as if you had a physics equation s = 1/2 * a * t
you don't have a single digit of precision from the 1 or the two, those are exact and don't degrade precision at all.
There are all sorts of things that would go wrong if you started applying precision techniques to integers of all things. After you learn the formulas, you people need to learn what they mean.
Now, maybe if someone counted the money and you had a measurement of $220k, that might have 2 significant digits. But if you define an amount of money as $220k at that number, it is that number, not a millionth of a penny more or less.
Simply put, try paying the IRS a $10,000 tax bill with less than $10k and see exactly how precise $10,000 is.
Of course what the poster really did mean was "orders of magnitude".
Guys sell to women also. Some do very well as you can provide instant confirmation about how great the product works.
Or buy a gift certificate with the credit card, then use that to buy the music using any shipping address at all.
He's not working on it as he's set up for Europe.
Except that his prediction is about engineering. The "Law" basically states that we will compact transistors into half the space every 18 months.
"Moore's (current) Rate" would be more appropriate than law, theory, hypothesis. We have the speed of light, not "light's law" after all.
Can we stop calling a prediction a law?
Lotus 1-2-3 used to have the capability to display a graph of a function. This seems to have disappeared from all spreadsheets. I used to graph functions as reference lines vs. data that I was gathering.
I'm loving google docs. I write something up and send a link ad someone can see it if they have a browser. Sharing is greatly simplified over the, "who has the latest version of the document" chaos that is all too frequent. I'm not one to make a presentation, but I could see doing that for how to install or use something, or maybe a quick overview.
You do realize that cuffing a guy against his will is a lot more dangerous to everyone than a taser, right?
No heavy lifting for the developer...Java. (+1 Funny)
Java has no sense of dynamic code, in particular when compared to Lisp as mentioned in this thread.
The AE-35 unit needs servicing.
I agree about the go-to functions. The low end versions of them seem to be more trouble than they're worth.
For $100 here is how I'd do it:
Meade ETX-80. 3.5" refraction. Under $300.
Go buy a couple nice eyepieces with good eye relief and wide viewing angle. For $140 I got a nice 5mm eyepiece that brings out the bands in Jupiter. The eye relief makes it possible for me to view with glasses (which is necessary if I'm sharing the telescope with someone else and don't want to make them refocus). The eyepieces will be reusable on whatever other telescope you might get.
Star charts and a comfy chair or stool that is easy to lean over and use the telescope with.
The ETX-80 has a couple good things going for it. It is great for the planets and excellent for the moon (get a filter for the moon ~$15-20). Even though I don't use the go-to functions, I still use the motor to move the telescope around...great for more minor adjustments. If you decide to upgrade to something else, it has only cost you $300 or so and you're left with a pretty good spotting scope for daytime use.
Just don't go out and buy something big and fancy if you don't know for sure you'll use it.
An unlimited open credit line is the other major problem here. I refuse to open an unlimited credit line just for a phone.
I'll raise your cynical view of the world: Funding is easier to secure if the research is assured to support specific answers.
Tell your local paper nobody uses the internet for local things.
My bits only had one state. I wish I could have used binary patterns.
Sad to say, but I'm afraid to click on any link on /. that says "These are the best photos available".
Being fired for something other than cause often carries benefits. Unemployment benefits for one. Severance. If they change the job requirements on you drastically, tell them you'll take your severance and leave.
How do you know they don't work? The creation of the FDA stopped any private solution from happening. The book was published, the public became informed and the government stopped put a halt on the free market.
You can't say it doesn't work because it had a problem and then wasn't allowed a chance to correct that problem through market forces.
Apparently the market was working though. People were perfectly willing to pay for meat of unknown quality. They got what they paid for. The public just wasn't concerned with the origin or quality of the meat they were paying for. To retroactively apply our current values in meat-picking to a previous market is wrong. There just wasn't a value placed on the origin of the meat until after the book.
You'll have a tough time taking it back since it can only be attacked from the north.
I was looking at Saturn last night with a 3" refractor. At only 80x magnification I could clearly see the rings (as one solid ring). There was clear separation of the rings from the planet. I was also able to see what I think were a few moons, I'm not too sure until I check the next few nights to see if they're moving with Saturn.
Heh, yea. I'm gonna charge you $300 an hour when you can't install it on your own.
Lots of things are more popular because of interoperability with windows. Java for instance gets some of its popularity from being able to run many places. Windows is not extending their monopoly until they do something that would prevent the other consoles from doing the same thing microsoft is doing.
As far as selling dev kits go, that's not a market at all. Sony and Nintendo deliberately keep people out of that market. They wouldn't sell you a dev kit if you wanted to buy one. You have to have $20k *and* be able to show that you're a real game company capable of producing a real game. The antitrust suit would be rather humorous, "we demand the government keep all these people out of the game development business because we don't want anyone to service them."
His economic argument is only valid if he's paying you to take out the trash. He would then have to spend the time saved making money at a higher rate than what he's paying you.
Alternately, you can point out the lost income during his convalescence.