I just wish I was smart enough to instinctively see this when first presented with the problem, like Gauss, rather than only knowing it because I read about it somewhere else first.
If you're interested in reading the actual research paper involved (as opposed to a journalist's interpretation), it's readable here - pdf file, but lots of graphs, tables and pictures, so I'll forgive them.
For example NASA let SRB O-ring problems creep up on them over many years. Same thing with TPS damage by foam...obviously not paying enough attention to their TPS reports... (sorry, couldn't resist)
I moved to debian. Took a bit to adjust, but the gradual update (as opposed to massive upgrade per release) provided by apt-get makes me VERY happy. I've never looked back, and wouldn't go back if RH paid me..
I spent 12 straight hours on saturday trying to help my brother with his XP machine.
He wanted to use it to play games, had spent a bunch of cash on good hardware, etc... and had spent the last 3 months enlisting help from various skilled support-type geek friends to try and stop it crashing.
It crashed, on average, about every 3 minutes. And not in one game, but in any of a whole bunch. And we're talking yes, full wipe out to BSOD and/or reboot.
Ok, so bad vid drivers the most likely reason, sure (although any one of a dozen error code didn't help pinpoint it. And no, not memory, we full memtested it, stick by stick, removed hardware ad nauseum).
Eventually, we put Win2k on it. An hour or so later he was up and running for a good 24 hour session, no crashes at all... and don't get me started about my ex's XP laptop that regularly blue screens during movie playing.
me, I won't touch it with a bargepole, not until SP3 at least.
Decaffeinated products still have about 30% of the caffeine of full caffeine products. They're made by starting with regular tea/coffee, and then -removing- as much as they can.
So, don't make the mistake of thinking that decaf coffee is the same as drinking water.. you're still on the drug..
Once you understand WHY you get those lack-of-caffeine headaches, trust me, it'll help keep you motivated.
Here's the way it works: one of the many effects that caffeine has on the body is the shrink the blood carrying capacity of the capillaries going into the brain. When you stop drinking caffeine, these capillaries slowly start to expand again.
So why the headache? Your head hurts because you're getting the normal amount of blood into your brain - except, you're not used to it.
I dunno about you, but if I'm going to be coding all day, I think getting as much oxygen carrying blood into my brain as possible would be desirable:)
Yeah. It was my granddad who invented it. If memory serves Jaycar used to be his company (that or he sold rights to the kit to Jaycar).
He used to have terrible trouble with tinnitus, and being the genius/inventor type that he was whipped up a simple enough device in his workshop to deal with the problem.
The device worked excellently for him, although, unsurprisingly you need to fiddle with it a little to get it right (how would any piece of external equipment know what sounds you're hearing in your head?).
I think some of the old folks that tried it had problems getting it "tuned right"; I suspect they were expecting something akin to a remote control - click the button and it just works.. but I couldn't imagine that being a major problem for any/. reader.. I also suspect (since the last I discussed it with him 20 years ago) that it's been refined quite a bit since then..
The thing I've been looking for is a replacement for VBA.
For a quick dirty hack to speed through and do a bunch of stuff against a spreadsheet, you can't beat it. Combine that with the cross-app integration of Office, and you can get some serious work done, without having to resort to "the big guns." Spend enough time in Excel and you'll know exactly what I'm talking about.
Get me a spreadsheet with the functionality and simplicity (I don't want to have to write the equivalent of C based COM interop's just to change the formatting on some cells) of VBA behind it, and I'll come running.
It's the key thing that's keeping my Linux box as a "backup desktop" behind Win2k. Damn annoying.
Across my various accounts, I've dealt with over 2400 spams in the last TWO WEEKS. That's more than 170 a day. This is from accounts where I don't post to usenet & don't subscribe to anything. If you do, it'll be worse.
I highly recommend www.spamcop.net. Everything I get goes through there, so at least a -few- of the spammers are getting their butts smacked.
Oh, and your 10? Note in the article where they say that spam is increasing by a factor of SIX per year. That'll be 60 per day next year. I'll vouch for the increase, a couple of months back I was 'only' dealing with about a hundred spams a day.
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Does it matter that your answer is wrong?
I think you're looking for (n*(n+1))/2
I just wish I was smart enough to instinctively see this when first presented with the problem, like Gauss, rather than only knowing it because I read about it somewhere else first.
Wow. That was inspiring. Not often that happens on here. Thank you.
I couldn't help noticing the slip up with "We're pretty good about changing control panel wildly between releases"
We?
following the link to your webpage, and sure enough - MattEvans, MS employee.
hmm. Is that a sales pitch I hear?
If you're interested in reading the actual research paper involved (as opposed to a journalist's interpretation), it's readable here - pdf file, but lots of graphs, tables and pictures, so I'll forgive them.
For example NASA let SRB O-ring problems creep up on them over many years. Same thing with TPS damage by foam. ..obviously not paying enough attention to their TPS reports... (sorry, couldn't resist)
I moved to debian. Took a bit to adjust, but the gradual update (as opposed to massive upgrade per release) provided by apt-get makes me VERY happy. I've never looked back, and wouldn't go back if RH paid me..
nope! wrong again.
.. and don't get me started about my ex's XP laptop that regularly blue screens during movie playing.
I spent 12 straight hours on saturday trying to help my brother with his XP machine.
He wanted to use it to play games, had spent a bunch of cash on good hardware, etc... and had spent the last 3 months enlisting help from various skilled support-type geek friends to try and stop it crashing.
It crashed, on average, about every 3 minutes. And not in one game, but in any of a whole bunch. And we're talking yes, full wipe out to BSOD and/or reboot.
Ok, so bad vid drivers the most likely reason, sure (although any one of a dozen error code didn't help pinpoint it. And no, not memory, we full memtested it, stick by stick, removed hardware ad nauseum).
Eventually, we put Win2k on it. An hour or so later he was up and running for a good 24 hour session, no crashes at all.
me, I won't touch it with a bargepole, not until SP3 at least.
The catch there is: decaf <> "no caf"
Decaffeinated products still have about 30% of the caffeine of full caffeine products. They're made by starting with regular tea/coffee, and then -removing- as much as they can.
So, don't make the mistake of thinking that decaf coffee is the same as drinking water.. you're still on the drug..
Once you understand WHY you get those lack-of-caffeine headaches, trust me, it'll help keep you motivated.
:)
Here's the way it works: one of the many effects that caffeine has on the body is the shrink the blood carrying capacity of the capillaries going into the brain. When you stop drinking caffeine, these capillaries slowly start to expand again.
So why the headache? Your head hurts because you're getting the normal amount of blood into your brain - except, you're not used to it.
I dunno about you, but if I'm going to be coding all day, I think getting as much oxygen carrying blood into my brain as possible would be desirable
Damn bittorrent.
I mean, I'm sure there's some point here.. but:
download rate: 0 k/s
upload rate: 22 k/s
and this from a country where you pay for every byte transmitted. I'm sure there's a "tragedy of the commons" lesson in here somewhere..
kill -9 bittorrent.
they still think they're only the FIFTH best search engine.
amusingly, even yahoo thinks Google is the best in the world
Yeah. It was my granddad who invented it. If memory serves Jaycar used to be his company (that or he sold rights to the kit to Jaycar).
/. reader.. I also suspect (since the last I discussed it with him 20 years ago) that it's been refined quite a bit since then..
He used to have terrible trouble with tinnitus, and being the genius/inventor type that he was whipped up a simple enough device in his workshop to deal with the problem.
The device worked excellently for him, although, unsurprisingly you need to fiddle with it a little to get it right (how would any piece of external equipment know what sounds you're hearing in your head?).
I think some of the old folks that tried it had problems getting it "tuned right"; I suspect they were expecting something akin to a remote control - click the button and it just works.. but I couldn't imagine that being a major problem for any
The thing I've been looking for is a replacement for VBA.
For a quick dirty hack to speed through and do a bunch of stuff against a spreadsheet, you can't beat it. Combine that with the cross-app integration of Office, and you can get some serious work done, without having to resort to "the big guns." Spend enough time in Excel and you'll know exactly what I'm talking about.
Get me a spreadsheet with the functionality and simplicity (I don't want to have to write the equivalent of C based COM interop's just to change the formatting on some cells) of VBA behind it, and I'll come running.
It's the key thing that's keeping my Linux box as a "backup desktop" behind Win2k. Damn annoying.
You are.
Across my various accounts, I've dealt with over 2400 spams in the last TWO WEEKS. That's more than 170 a day. This is from accounts where I don't post to usenet & don't subscribe to anything. If you do, it'll be worse.
I highly recommend www.spamcop.net. Everything I get goes through there, so at least a -few- of the spammers are getting their butts smacked.
Oh, and your 10? Note in the article where they say that spam is increasing by a factor of SIX per year. That'll be 60 per day next year. I'll vouch for the increase, a couple of months back I was 'only' dealing with about a hundred spams a day.