I also love how people use "Agile" as an excuse for horrible design. You don't let programmers design the system, you still have a proper architect who designs, but you have the programmers make modular code that is easy to re-factor.
Like what anonymous said further down, "Common Sense Development". Make your code modular, work one module at a time, preferably create tests for each module, when requirements change, re-factor. Welcome to Agile, the same crap that has been told for good programming practices for decades.
"Can I run a server from my home?
Our Terms of Service prohibit running a server. However, use of applications such as multi-player gaming, video-conferencing, home security and others which may include server capabilities but are being used for legal and non-commercial purposes are acceptable and encouraged."
At some point I found something about TWC stating no servers, but I can't find it. The closest thing I can find it that they have no data-cap, but if you're using lots of data and running a server, they can and have cut people off.
There are only two ISPs that I know of that allow servers, SpeakEasy has a "run any server" policy, and Google Fiber has a "non-commercial server" policy. Every other ISP that I can find all have "No Servers At All" policies.
Because it's not the normal "bad" mercury that everyone knows about. The type they used in vaccines was able to be naturally excreted. The bad kind cannot.
In my own view of my-self, spatial ability and creativeness are one and the same. I do not come up with creative ways to solve a problem, I visually see the problem in my head and the answer just stares me in the face. Some people say that I am creative, while I just feel like I am just putting together a puzzle and I just see all of the pieces and know where to place them.
It can take me a lot of blankly staring at a wall to get the image in my head, but once it's there, I typically can "see" what needs to be done. This image is not static, but made of smaller parts that connect together and interact. It's quite strange and hard to explain.
Another interesting thing is that part of an image in my head can look "fuzzy". Every time this happens, it means I don't understand part of the problem. If I spend enough time looking at the fuzzy part, I can think of what I am missing and ask the right questions to get the answers I need to make the image clear.
It's really interesting to me, because it really is like looking at a picture. I really am not making an analogy, I have some sort of sense of "sight" when thinking about how to design system or generally solve problems. I do not consciously think of how to solve a problem, I just "stare" at this image in my head. I typically have my eyes opened in the real world, but I become unaware of my surroundings.
I don't know how other people solve problems in their head, but I don't really think about anything, I really just blank my mind out and look at the "image" in my head, and once the image becomes clear, I have the answer.
A few interesting times in my life, I had been working on a system design for some time and was not able to get the image "clear". Then one day, while doing something to clear my mind, all of a sudden the part of the image that was fuzzy became clear. The instant this happened, the rest of the image started becoming clear really fast and made me literally see sparkles in my vision and I felt like I was about to pass out while the image was becoming clear, but after those few seconds the entire image was clear and I knew exactly what to do. This has happened only a few times and was always related to something that really really interested me.
Sentrion didn't argue that writing music does not ever take creativity, but that many successful music writers can create popular music with almost zero creativity.
Life is nothing like school in any way. General school does absolutely nothing to prepare you for life outside of following orders and having a few facts memorized.
Most programmers that I've ever met only know what they've been spoon-fed. They don't fully understand how something works, they only know that they've been told works. Many good programmers have a lot of knowledge, but anyone can acquire knowledge, what most programmers, and almost anyone in any other profession, don't have is the ability to apply their knowledge outside of the way they were told to apply it.
I am a firm believer that most people only seem smart because they have a lot of experience in their specific field. I've only met a few people that can take knowledge from one field or problem and apply it to another in a valid way.
I think that the "smartness" of a person is the product of their knowledge and their ability to apply their knowledge. Now, applying knowledge can be learned and is a form of knowledge also. A very knowledgeable person can be very smart from sheer knowledge alone, but add in creativity to the mix and you have someone that can create their own knowledge that may not be read or easily found by others.
A knowledgeable person who is creative in their way of applying knowledge, while being logical about application, will eventually out-perform someone who is only "book smart" or "experience smart".
Reading about something or experiencing something can allow one to acquire knowledge, but being creative allows one to create knowledge.
I found multi-threading easy as I just "visualize" the CPU loading registers and writing to memory, which makes it easy to "see" race conditions. Same thing with trying to design the data-flow of systems and identifying potential choke-points.
Right to privacy is no less important than right to life. So, if someone took away your life, what kind of harm would you have taken? Same difference.
Before you counter with "you just compared someone dying to snooping on your phone calls", well, show me the math to prove that one is less important. As far as I can see, they're both innate rights.
Again, prove that they're are not equal, using scientific method. Have fun. Until then, we can continue to assume that they're are both as damaging.
Hint: This is a philosophical issue, so the notion of "damage" is unknown and cannot be applied. Example: Someone kills me. How much harm have they caused me? None, I'm dead. I have no sense of harm. Someone infringes on my right to privacy, how much harm? Probably infinitely more than if they killed me.
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I also love how people use "Agile" as an excuse for horrible design. You don't let programmers design the system, you still have a proper architect who designs, but you have the programmers make modular code that is easy to re-factor.
Like what anonymous said further down, "Common Sense Development". Make your code modular, work one module at a time, preferably create tests for each module, when requirements change, re-factor. Welcome to Agile, the same crap that has been told for good programming practices for decades.
https://fiber.google.com/help/ Under Policies. It has been here since before they started laying the fiber.
"Can I run a server from my home?
Our Terms of Service prohibit running a server. However, use of applications such as multi-player gaming, video-conferencing, home security and others which may include server capabilities but are being used for legal and non-commercial purposes are acceptable and encouraged."
At some point I found something about TWC stating no servers, but I can't find it. The closest thing I can find it that they have no data-cap, but if you're using lots of data and running a server, they can and have cut people off.
It just means men are females that have been suppressed. We're the victims here!
What about fully functional XX men, except that one gene that allows sperm to swim, but otherwise normal?
Many Y genes have gotten trans-scripted onto the X over time and the Y may just disappear leaving us with everyone being XX.
There are only two ISPs that I know of that allow servers, SpeakEasy has a "run any server" policy, and Google Fiber has a "non-commercial server" policy. Every other ISP that I can find all have "No Servers At All" policies.
Not my ISP. My trace routes always to to Chicago. 1ms pings to Google would be kind of cool.
Google is 25% and Netflix is 33%, P2P is only about 18%.
The "if you contract it" part assumes herd immunity.
Because it's not the normal "bad" mercury that everyone knows about. The type they used in vaccines was able to be naturally excreted. The bad kind cannot.
They probably have the same rates, just that people who have a child who is autistic is probably more likely to not vaccinate subsequent children.
The problem isn't warrants, it's the lack of warrants.
How does one authenticate their authenticity?
In my own view of my-self, spatial ability and creativeness are one and the same. I do not come up with creative ways to solve a problem, I visually see the problem in my head and the answer just stares me in the face. Some people say that I am creative, while I just feel like I am just putting together a puzzle and I just see all of the pieces and know where to place them.
It can take me a lot of blankly staring at a wall to get the image in my head, but once it's there, I typically can "see" what needs to be done. This image is not static, but made of smaller parts that connect together and interact. It's quite strange and hard to explain.
Another interesting thing is that part of an image in my head can look "fuzzy". Every time this happens, it means I don't understand part of the problem. If I spend enough time looking at the fuzzy part, I can think of what I am missing and ask the right questions to get the answers I need to make the image clear.
It's really interesting to me, because it really is like looking at a picture. I really am not making an analogy, I have some sort of sense of "sight" when thinking about how to design system or generally solve problems. I do not consciously think of how to solve a problem, I just "stare" at this image in my head. I typically have my eyes opened in the real world, but I become unaware of my surroundings.
I don't know how other people solve problems in their head, but I don't really think about anything, I really just blank my mind out and look at the "image" in my head, and once the image becomes clear, I have the answer.
A few interesting times in my life, I had been working on a system design for some time and was not able to get the image "clear". Then one day, while doing something to clear my mind, all of a sudden the part of the image that was fuzzy became clear. The instant this happened, the rest of the image started becoming clear really fast and made me literally see sparkles in my vision and I felt like I was about to pass out while the image was becoming clear, but after those few seconds the entire image was clear and I knew exactly what to do. This has happened only a few times and was always related to something that really really interested me.
Sentrion didn't argue that writing music does not ever take creativity, but that many successful music writers can create popular music with almost zero creativity.
Too much D will weaken your bones.
Life is nothing like school in any way. General school does absolutely nothing to prepare you for life outside of following orders and having a few facts memorized.
Most programmers that I've ever met only know what they've been spoon-fed. They don't fully understand how something works, they only know that they've been told works. Many good programmers have a lot of knowledge, but anyone can acquire knowledge, what most programmers, and almost anyone in any other profession, don't have is the ability to apply their knowledge outside of the way they were told to apply it.
I am a firm believer that most people only seem smart because they have a lot of experience in their specific field. I've only met a few people that can take knowledge from one field or problem and apply it to another in a valid way.
I think that the "smartness" of a person is the product of their knowledge and their ability to apply their knowledge. Now, applying knowledge can be learned and is a form of knowledge also. A very knowledgeable person can be very smart from sheer knowledge alone, but add in creativity to the mix and you have someone that can create their own knowledge that may not be read or easily found by others.
A knowledgeable person who is creative in their way of applying knowledge, while being logical about application, will eventually out-perform someone who is only "book smart" or "experience smart".
Reading about something or experiencing something can allow one to acquire knowledge, but being creative allows one to create knowledge.
I found multi-threading easy as I just "visualize" the CPU loading registers and writing to memory, which makes it easy to "see" race conditions. Same thing with trying to design the data-flow of systems and identifying potential choke-points.
"Too Big to Fail" could be a good thing. If they all stonewalled, they couldn't all be punished without major harm to the economy.
From story: fibre optic cable (no repeaters)
What do you mean by this? Processing of the router and photonic equipment is nano to microseconds, the travel time of the photons is in milliseconds.
Right to privacy is no less important than right to life. So, if someone took away your life, what kind of harm would you have taken? Same difference.
Before you counter with "you just compared someone dying to snooping on your phone calls", well, show me the math to prove that one is less important. As far as I can see, they're both innate rights.
Again, prove that they're are not equal, using scientific method. Have fun. Until then, we can continue to assume that they're are both as damaging.
Hint: This is a philosophical issue, so the notion of "damage" is unknown and cannot be applied. Example: Someone kills me. How much harm have they caused me? None, I'm dead. I have no sense of harm. Someone infringes on my right to privacy, how much harm? Probably infinitely more than if they killed me.
I prefer to have neither rights infringed
The NSA's sniffing is legally comparable to a police dragnet checking door-to-door for a suspect
Forgot to add "and forcefully entering your house"
"a liquid mercury". I'm not sure if it can be considered a liquid if there's is only one.
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