But I can certainly understand why a basically honest person might feel entitled to rip off a dishonest employer.
Honesty is a two way street.
My momma always used to say, "Two wrongs don't make a right." A feeling of entitlement does not justify dishonesty. If you want revenge, at least be open about it.
But they don't get sold on "up to 100 watts" and turn out to be a 50.
To a limited extend, they do. CF bulbs usually have ratings for output brightness. However, brightness degrades over time, meaning that a house full of year-old bulbs will be less bright than the "lumens" or "equivalent wattage" would indicate. It's definitely not the same thing as cable over-subscription, but it is a case where the rated numbers are expected to be higher than actual output.
Light bulbs tend to be rated by "up to X hours" lifetimes. Nobody seems to complain about that. But then, it's very tangible when a light bulb goes out.
Many of the young (under 30) people I know tell me that they will not go see a movie if it isn't 3D and/or they won't watch shows on TV or Movies at home that are not HD.
It's about suspension of disbelief. If you are used to a certain level of production quality in TV shows, then a dramatic reduction in that quality may make it more difficult to become immersed. Consider your old B/W TV shows: if the reception got really poor and half of the screen was snow, you'd probably shut the tube off and go read a book or something. Well, when the younger generation loses their HD, they put their LCD to sleep and go read their Kindle or something.
My situation is the same, but my employer doesn't have a Men-in-Black-style memory eraser. Even if you can't walk away with code, you still have your memory. Depending on the type of software you write, the knowledge may be more valuable than the software artifacts themselves.
Non-competes in knowledge-based industries like finance/trading are generally exercised at the discretion of the company and involve some sort of minimal (but reasonable) salary for the downtime. Only if the company decides they stand to lose more by allowing their ex-talent out in the wild will they exercise the agreement.
You don't want to see the big banks go belly up because that takes huge chunks of the economy down with them.
As much as it will hurt everyone financially, I think we do want to see one of them go down. It might cause all of the rest to take a closer look at their own risky behaviors and interdependencies.
3a) The manager finds out that it was a programing error: I)The manager tells upper management that "he already dealt with the problem and that person is gone".
II) Upper management asks uncomfortable questions about how they lost so much money due to a [single] programming error.
III) Upper management asks uncomfortable questions about middle manager's "one strike" policy.
III) Upper management replaces middle manager with one that understands that no software is bug-free, and therefore designs a trading system that will shut itself off instead of pounding the company into bankruptcy. Ideally also one that doesn't fire productive employees, but that may be wishful thinking.
IV)...
V) Profit!
Maybe he was playing street-fighting games with some of his chums, and he noticed that none of his combos were working because of the additional lag due to 720p-to-1080p video scaling?
People with money to buy an awesome TV and awesome sound system won't take advantage of the combined audio / video anyway.
Yes they will. Even those people have wives who want things to Just Work. All new awesome soundsystems take HDMI input now, which just means the audio branches off earlier in the chain. HDMI + CEC (the mechanism that tells your components to turn on and change volume when you use the TV remote) isn't perfect, but it's better than anything else I've seen out of the box.
It will require firmware updates to player newer movies. As you mention elsewhere that doesn't require a network connection, but it is still more work than picking up a book and reading it. And it's probably more expensive than finding a region-free DVD player nowadays, where everything will Just Work, no matter what it is.
GP/GGP aren't talking about philosophy, they're talking about Dungeons & Dragons. And they're both wrong - humans are drawn to Lawful Neutral. The notion of "relative good" tends to be an absolute Neutral or Evil; but as social creatures, we are are easily classified as Lawful.
The PS3 now breaks PS2 compatibility. I've heard that some games still work, but I don't have any PS2 games to try. So even Sony isn't supporting more than two generations at once. And actually, the GBA played GB, GBC, and GBA, all of which were slightly different, so there's at least one instance of three generations on one player. Admittedly, GBC was a pretty minor generation.
I'm actually also OK with paying $5 or whatever it is to get old Nintendo games on the Wii. That's cheaper than a beer where I live, and it lasts longer! I just wish they were more aggressive about porting some of the less popular games.
Don't forget backwards game companies, Nintendo the main culprit, who fail at letting legitimate owners of their stupid products migrate our games to the next device.
What? I have original Game Boy games that will still play on my GBA. GBA games that will still play on my DS. GC games that still play on my Wii. Even with cartridges, Nintendo has done far better than any other console company at preserving playability of the previous generation of games. About the only thing better to claim is that old PC games (Starcraft) will run on my linux desktop through wine, but we all know that's going away with modern DRM on PC games.
Maybe Nintendo doesn't "get" the digital distribution aspect, but don't forget their track record on physical media and the extra sales they get from that. They're not stupid.
They couldn't do this when trades were on pieces of paper because everyone could look at the paper and see what was traded and how much it traded for. Now it's just a flash of electrons in a black box machine and - well, did it trade fairly, or did it cheat? Only one or two people know and they're not talking about it.
What is the magical difference between paper and electrons that creates this mystery for you? Trades are still printed to a tape, even if it is digital. The prices on the tape must still fall within the SEC's regulations (yes, even scary "dark pools" must follow these regulations). If someone is cheating through that electronic tape, they could have just as easily been cheating back in the old-school pit days.
In many cases, use of STL results in near optimal code.
Whoa whoa whoa there! What STL author ever said that? It's probably hard/impossible to beat <algorithm>; but on the container side, all you can say that using the STL is better than writing your own generic containers. There are plenty of reasons why a specialized container can do better. Let's see...
The requirement that custom allocators all share from a global memory pool prevents certain optimizations, such as a node-based container owning its own memory directly to avoid reallocation. Even boost's fastest allocators come with comments to the effect that some of their behavior is hampered by the std::allocator API.
vector is nearly as good as an array - but it is forced to be dynamically allocated. A custom stack-based allocator would be nice for avoiding that allocation, but that breaks std::vector::swap() and possibly other parts of the interface.
anyone who doesn't need bidirectional iteration can cut their memory overhead in half by using a singly-linked list instead of std::list.
There is no middle-ground between std::map and std::unordered_map. Computer Scientists have been inventing specialized tree and hash data structure for decades, because one size does not fit all.
Many cache-aware data structures may want to size or align themselves to cache boundaries, but popular implementations of the STL do not do this. One trivial example is a stack that uses local memory if the contents fit within a single cache-line, but jumps out to a dynamically-sized array beyond that size.
Not all associative or otherwise-sorted structures are comparison-based. Radix/bucket sorting and tries come to mind.
Don't get me wrong—I love the STL. But I love it because it is generic, not because it is optimal.
All of those except combinatorics were *required* for my Bachelor's degree in CS.
That's interesting, because I always considered combinatorics to be fundamental in my college program. I do find it very relevant when talking about software, because even having the ability to compare control-flow paths makes a difference. Code littered with poorly-organized conditionals makes my eyes melt, and it all boils down to counting.
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My momma always used to say, "Two wrongs don't make a right." A feeling of entitlement does not justify dishonesty. If you want revenge, at least be open about it.
To a limited extend, they do. CF bulbs usually have ratings for output brightness. However, brightness degrades over time, meaning that a house full of year-old bulbs will be less bright than the "lumens" or "equivalent wattage" would indicate. It's definitely not the same thing as cable over-subscription, but it is a case where the rated numbers are expected to be higher than actual output.
Light bulbs tend to be rated by "up to X hours" lifetimes. Nobody seems to complain about that. But then, it's very tangible when a light bulb goes out.
It's about suspension of disbelief. If you are used to a certain level of production quality in TV shows, then a dramatic reduction in that quality may make it more difficult to become immersed. Consider your old B/W TV shows: if the reception got really poor and half of the screen was snow, you'd probably shut the tube off and go read a book or something. Well, when the younger generation loses their HD, they put their LCD to sleep and go read their Kindle or something.
My situation is the same, but my employer doesn't have a Men-in-Black-style memory eraser. Even if you can't walk away with code, you still have your memory. Depending on the type of software you write, the knowledge may be more valuable than the software artifacts themselves.
Non-competes in knowledge-based industries like finance/trading are generally exercised at the discretion of the company and involve some sort of minimal (but reasonable) salary for the downtime. Only if the company decides they stand to lose more by allowing their ex-talent out in the wild will they exercise the agreement.
As much as it will hurt everyone financially, I think we do want to see one of them go down. It might cause all of the rest to take a closer look at their own risky behaviors and interdependencies.
II) Upper management asks uncomfortable questions about how they lost so much money due to a [single] programming error. ...
III) Upper management asks uncomfortable questions about middle manager's "one strike" policy.
III) Upper management replaces middle manager with one that understands that no software is bug-free, and therefore designs a trading system that will shut itself off instead of pounding the company into bankruptcy. Ideally also one that doesn't fire productive employees, but that may be wishful thinking.
IV)
V) Profit!
Bring it over to my place.
Maybe he was playing street-fighting games with some of his chums, and he noticed that none of his combos were working because of the additional lag due to 720p-to-1080p video scaling?
Yes they will. Even those people have wives who want things to Just Work. All new awesome soundsystems take HDMI input now, which just means the audio branches off earlier in the chain. HDMI + CEC (the mechanism that tells your components to turn on and change volume when you use the TV remote) isn't perfect, but it's better than anything else I've seen out of the box.
Where I work, we're just starting on some Next Generation stuff. We're a season behind you!
It will require firmware updates to player newer movies. As you mention elsewhere that doesn't require a network connection, but it is still more work than picking up a book and reading it. And it's probably more expensive than finding a region-free DVD player nowadays, where everything will Just Work, no matter what it is.
I've heard of firmware upgrades breaking other features, such as DLNA capabilities. There's never just one thing in those things.
It pays to not look like an idiot.
GP/GGP aren't talking about philosophy, they're talking about Dungeons & Dragons. And they're both wrong - humans are drawn to Lawful Neutral. The notion of "relative good" tends to be an absolute Neutral or Evil; but as social creatures, we are are easily classified as Lawful.
The PS3 now breaks PS2 compatibility. I've heard that some games still work, but I don't have any PS2 games to try. So even Sony isn't supporting more than two generations at once. And actually, the GBA played GB, GBC, and GBA, all of which were slightly different, so there's at least one instance of three generations on one player. Admittedly, GBC was a pretty minor generation.
I'm actually also OK with paying $5 or whatever it is to get old Nintendo games on the Wii. That's cheaper than a beer where I live, and it lasts longer! I just wish they were more aggressive about porting some of the less popular games.
What? I have original Game Boy games that will still play on my GBA. GBA games that will still play on my DS. GC games that still play on my Wii. Even with cartridges, Nintendo has done far better than any other console company at preserving playability of the previous generation of games. About the only thing better to claim is that old PC games (Starcraft) will run on my linux desktop through wine, but we all know that's going away with modern DRM on PC games.
Maybe Nintendo doesn't "get" the digital distribution aspect, but don't forget their track record on physical media and the extra sales they get from that. They're not stupid.
What is the magical difference between paper and electrons that creates this mystery for you? Trades are still printed to a tape, even if it is digital. The prices on the tape must still fall within the SEC's regulations (yes, even scary "dark pools" must follow these regulations). If someone is cheating through that electronic tape, they could have just as easily been cheating back in the old-school pit days.
Yes it does. My computer is more than a web browser kiosk. It only takes two applications with your attitude to force the OS to start swapping.
Whoa whoa whoa there! What STL author ever said that? It's probably hard/impossible to beat <algorithm>; but on the container side, all you can say that using the STL is better than writing your own generic containers. There are plenty of reasons why a specialized container can do better. Let's see...
Don't get me wrong—I love the STL. But I love it because it is generic, not because it is optimal.
"Magic."
I've seen someone use an interview question to which the only correct answer was this. Oh, the horrors...
That's interesting, because I always considered combinatorics to be fundamental in my college program. I do find it very relevant when talking about software, because even having the ability to compare control-flow paths makes a difference. Code littered with poorly-organized conditionals makes my eyes melt, and it all boils down to counting.
Wow, it must really kill the evening when you find out your date has the bigger toolbox.