Immigration isn't driving up housing prices. Increase demand for houses is driving up housing prices. That demand doesn't come from an influx of immigrants, it comes from an increasing trend for people to buy multiple homes (e.g. vacation homes, summer homes) and from people buying homes as investments (i.e. speculation). If you weren't an AC, you would know all that.
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Use a non-rpm distro and you will upgrade it easily.
FUD. Something is probably screwed up with his machine. RPMs work just fine when used with tools like yum or apt-get and with reliable/well-maintained package repositories. Gaim updates fine on my Fedora Core 4 machine, for example. Other package formats aren't some magic bullet that will prevent bugs, misconfigured repositories, dependencies errors, buggy repositories, package errors, etc, from causing you problems.
I fail to see how I was rude or boastful. Perhaps you are too sensitive? As an interviewer, I am receptive to criticism that will help me conduct more productive interviews.
Though we have common ground in our opinion of the XOR trick, I guess we can agree that you'll never hire me and I'll never work for you. I can live with that arrangement if you can. Just to make sure you don't accidently hire me, whenever you interview, ask the question: "Are you willing to have sex for promotions?". I will repsond: "No, but I'll put out for a better office". That way, you'll know it's me, and I'll know it's you.
I find your interview question telling of the kind of programmer you are, maybe even the kind of software shop you work in, and I might be inclined to reject your company as an employer given that question, all things being equal. Basically, your question has three salient parts:
Can the applicant write code at all?
Does the applicant know the xor trick for swapping variables?
Does the applicant consider existing solutions?
The first part is legitimate. Even though the question is so routine that when I googled for "C++ interview questions" some time ago, it can up near the top in several links, there is utility in seeing if the applicant can acually write code. You'd be better off thinking of a question that everyone and their grandma doesn't use to make sure the applicant hasn't memorized the solution.
The second part is what would score you negative points in my book. Just about everyone knows the xor swap trick. No one uses it in real code though because it is in general a bad idea. Testing whether someone would remember this bit of trivia and produce inferior code is a poor reflection upon you. At the C and C++ level, you trust the compiler for this and use the temporary. If you're writing a compiler or working with some strange embedded device, you'll likely be using assembler or C extensions anyway, so I don't think the question applies to that field.
In C++ code, I would accept the temporary but would give extra credit to someone who used swap(), and correcly introduced std::swap into the scope and made a generic solution to the problem.
Regarding the third part, I would also subtract points for anyone who didn't at least mention that they would use a library function to do this in the real world. If you leave the question unspecified for use of libs/tools, you can get a sense to whether the applicant is a reinvent-the-wheel kind of person.
My bad. I actually disagree with the guy you were replying to - frequently you can't discount the system() overhead that you get with the -exec option to find. xargs is very useful. Apologies and nice rebuttal to said guy.
He lost me at his praise for "Friends" and his dig at "Seinfeld". "Full House" cemented it. That last bit may have been tongue in cheek, though. I've read most of Card's work, but I think he lost some of his early talent in his later work.
Committing a sex crime or a violent crime, especially against a child or mentally/physically challenged individual is proof enough that one has no soul... and with that, I have no problem in watching them burn.
Also, the review spent considerable effort bitching about how deleted messages show up in evolution under the normal mail folders. View - "Hide Deleted Messages" is pretty hard to find I guess.
PS: It really sucks that slashdot's comment posting delay effecively prevents ACs from having conversations. Free speech is alive and well, I guess.
You know what really effectively prevents ACs from having conversations? The fact that they are ACs. You can't know who you're talking to. You have no reaonable expectation that the particular coward you reply to will see your response. Any other coward can interject his or her cowardly remarks at any time; there's no way for anyone to tell the difference. Face it, by not logging in, you're telling the world that your comments are a drive-by remark and that you don't want anything more. Why bitch about your willful handicapping of your own conversation?
That's where you're wrong - it doesn't have a precendent. The plural form of "ox" has no bearing on the plural from of "box". There are no hard and fast rules in English. Pretending like there are is moronic.
Here's the rub, Hawke. Everyone here knows the stupid line of reasoning by which one might think it clever or cute to make "boxen" out of "box". Guess what? It's not clever or cute. If you or the OP or any other genius wants to push for consitency in the English language, clearly arguing for "oxes" would make much more sense. Maybe you can do that on your barnyard animal sex discussion forum. On slashdot, the appearance of one ox is rare; the appearance of several even moreso. Why bend the form of the common term (box) and common plurality form (-s or -es) to some archaic plurality of a word that isn't even in common usage?
Oh, sure, since that rule makes sense to you maybe you should start saying:
foxen
taxen
sexen
axen
sixen
mixen
hexen
etc.
I agree with the other poster. Stop trying to push your selective-yet-hard-and-fast rules on the English language, retard. Anyone who uses the word "boxen" in a post deserves an immediate (-1: pretentious wanker) moderation. Same goes for "M$".
We didn't fight the sovjets in space (nor did they fight us there) even when the Cold War reached its hottest phase.
We didn't fight the soviets on earth (directly, anyhow) even when the Cold War reached its hottest phase.
Physical confrontation is space will be practical once the scales increase a little. Since we're all hanging around the earth, where reaction time is miniscule, space warfare would be short lived. Manned assets would not last long. Of course, there are uses for space warfare even in earth orbit - knocking out satellites would be (or have been anyway) an import part of all out terrestrial war with another superpower.
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FUD. Something is probably screwed up with his machine. RPMs work just fine when used with tools like yum or apt-get and with reliable/well-maintained package repositories. Gaim updates fine on my Fedora Core 4 machine, for example. Other package formats aren't some magic bullet that will prevent bugs, misconfigured repositories, dependencies errors, buggy repositories, package errors, etc, from causing you problems.
Though we have common ground in our opinion of the XOR trick, I guess we can agree that you'll never hire me and I'll never work for you. I can live with that arrangement if you can. Just to make sure you don't accidently hire me, whenever you interview, ask the question: "Are you willing to have sex for promotions?". I will repsond: "No, but I'll put out for a better office". That way, you'll know it's me, and I'll know it's you.
The first part is legitimate. Even though the question is so routine that when I googled for "C++ interview questions" some time ago, it can up near the top in several links, there is utility in seeing if the applicant can acually write code. You'd be better off thinking of a question that everyone and their grandma doesn't use to make sure the applicant hasn't memorized the solution.
The second part is what would score you negative points in my book. Just about everyone knows the xor swap trick. No one uses it in real code though because it is in general a bad idea. Testing whether someone would remember this bit of trivia and produce inferior code is a poor reflection upon you. At the C and C++ level, you trust the compiler for this and use the temporary. If you're writing a compiler or working with some strange embedded device, you'll likely be using assembler or C extensions anyway, so I don't think the question applies to that field.
In C++ code, I would accept the temporary but would give extra credit to someone who used swap(), and correcly introduced std::swap into the scope and made a generic solution to the problem.
Regarding the third part, I would also subtract points for anyone who didn't at least mention that they would use a library function to do this in the real world. If you leave the question unspecified for use of libs/tools, you can get a sense to whether the applicant is a reinvent-the-wheel kind of person.
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onomatopoeia much? Or maybe that's the joke, and I'm the dumbass.
My bad. I actually disagree with the guy you were replying to - frequently you can't discount the system() overhead that you get with the -exec option to find. xargs is very useful. Apologies and nice rebuttal to said guy.
Your test likely shows caching effects for the second run.
I guess labor is free at Dell?
He lost me at his praise for "Friends" and his dig at "Seinfeld". "Full House" cemented it. That last bit may have been tongue in cheek, though. I've read most of Card's work, but I think he lost some of his early talent in his later work.
Yes. By running Gnome instead of KDE, the Gnome team has achieved the amazing result of reducing KDE memory consumption to 0. Quite amazing.
What are you up to, two times?
Which is proof enough that you have no soul.
Ahh, yes, I too pine for the days when music and movies grew on trees.
How did you get so old so fast?
Also, the review spent considerable effort bitching about how deleted messages show up in evolution under the normal mail folders. View - "Hide Deleted Messages" is pretty hard to find I guess.
Drivel.
You know what really effectively prevents ACs from having conversations? The fact that they are ACs. You can't know who you're talking to. You have no reaonable expectation that the particular coward you reply to will see your response. Any other coward can interject his or her cowardly remarks at any time; there's no way for anyone to tell the difference. Face it, by not logging in, you're telling the world that your comments are a drive-by remark and that you don't want anything more. Why bitch about your willful handicapping of your own conversation?
PS: what does free speech have to do with it?
You should buy a wider printer.
Looks like sfgate.com batted an eye, at least.
Nice try, coward. It didn't take.
Well, retard?
foxen
taxen
sexen
axen
sixen
mixen
hexen
etc.
I agree with the other poster. Stop trying to push your selective-yet-hard-and-fast rules on the English language, retard. Anyone who uses the word "boxen" in a post deserves an immediate (-1: pretentious wanker) moderation. Same goes for "M$".
We didn't fight the soviets on earth (directly, anyhow) even when the Cold War reached its hottest phase.
Physical confrontation is space will be practical once the scales increase a little. Since we're all hanging around the earth, where reaction time is miniscule, space warfare would be short lived. Manned assets would not last long. Of course, there are uses for space warfare even in earth orbit - knocking out satellites would be (or have been anyway) an import part of all out terrestrial war with another superpower.
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According to your definition, almost all activities of man are art. By diluting a word to apply to everything, you make the word worthless.