If you load up a page that has too many comments, then not all the comments will be retrieved. As the default is to retrieve highly rated comments first, this prevents the trolls from showing. So, to get you old behavior, a workaround is to set your preferences to retrieve "few" comments, and to wait for there to be lots of comments in a story before viewing. Kind of sucky, but whatever.
I remember a movie advertised in the SF bay area being shown on a particular day. I watched it, loved it, and recommended it to my sister in another part of the state. She looked it up and was confused, since it was to be released two weeks later. I then noticed all the ads for the movie were giving the two-week-later release date here too. It turns out that they allowed the one day so that people could write reviews.
Remember that the digital revenue increase is matched with a non-digital revenue decrease. That is, increased downloads come in part from people who used to buy CDs. So, total revenues are not up 25%.
The reason it doesn't matter which is because none of them will win. However, a third-party vote is another vote against the two-party system, which IMHO makes up for voting for someone who shouldn't (and won't) win.
Computer science once was a branch of mathematics, and people get PhDs in CS because people got PhDs in math. Math once was a branch of philosophy, and so people get PhDs in math because that's what they got in philosophy. Similarly with every other field that gives PhDs. Things like MDs, DDs, DDivs, etc. grew up independently, and so have different names.
You misunderstood. Those mentioned by you were elected, just not as President. Ford was appointed to the Vice-Presidency, and so became President without an election. That is what was meant, though it was badly worded.
"Now, therefore, I, Gerald R. Ford, President of the United States, pursuant to the pardon power conferred upon me by Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution, have granted and by these presents do grant a full, free, and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from July (January) 20, 1969 through August 9, 1974."
http://www.ford.utexas.edu/library/speeches/740060.htm
I wrote in "None of the Above" on my Presidential ballot because I couldn't in good conscience vote for either Presidential candidate,
"Either" implies only two options. There were more than two running for president, even though the others had no chance of winning. It is responses like yours that prevents them from having a chance of winning. Vote for a third party, doesn't matter which! That will get more candidates of quality.
Boy, that's myopic. Code is not written in {Pascal, Delphi, Java, C++, Perl, FORTRAN, LISP, Shell, Assembly, Python, Objective C, JavaScript, C#, COBOL, Ruby, Tcl, Basic, Ada}? Maybe one day you will grow up a bit more and have your horizons broadened. Meanwhile, take a look at Wikipedia's List of programming languages.
Oh, BTW, Pascal was the favored programming language for a major OS at the time I was learning how to program. It's kind of hard to say you can't write code in Pascal when most of the initial OS was written in it. Another fun note on the page is that TEX was written in a language based on Pascal (new info to me).
Do remember that the cost of a false negative (not hiring a good future employee) is much, much smaller than the cost of a false positive (hiring a bad future employee), at least assuming that you can find good future employees. That is why it is okay to have more false negatives. The problem with many tests is that they have such a high false positive rate.
I am thinking more along the lines of how many different ways there are for solving a problem. The 5050 solution is an optimization. Missing a place where an expensive calculation can be replaced with a cheaper one is one that often happens. Normally the replacement is not nearly so obvious as this one, nor as simple, but replacing an O(n^2) op with an O(n log n) op is something that happens, which is really what the loop to the formula is, but it can be taken one step further. Seeing how far you can go in a direction before turning back is valuable. Often people err on the side of false generality, which can be harmful.
Oh, and for the record, I would answer it three times, giving the loop, the formula, and the constant, with the constant last. You never know what the person is looking for, and any of the three could be the answer.
The most common errors: SQL injection, command injection, cleartext transmission of Sensitive Information, etc.
Interesting, for me I read: 10 out of 25 most common errors are using tainted data. (items 20, 89, 79, 78, 642, 73, 426, 94, 494, 665) Perl taint mode anyone?
I will never work for you. Age bigots are no better than race bigots or gender bigot. Those who assume that they can know exactly the qualities that they will find based on an arbitrary trait are not people that I like to work for. Besides, I am 31.
an iterated waterfall (which is still a waterfall, duh)
Waterfall is Requirements, Design, Implementation, Testing, Maintenence. An iterated waterfall is not a waterfall, it's a series of (possibly overlapping) waterfalls. Waterfall is bad precisely because you plan A to Z before doing A. Basically every model other than waterfall is an attempt to do something other than that, like only plan A before doing A.
If it was any older than 12 (twelve), I'd reject them.
Never. I wrote Pascal early on, and only learned C because I transfered into a school where CS1 used C. I very quickly went C++. Anyone older than I am will probably not be able to have done it either: home computers with C compilers were not exactly common in the 80's. Further, someone who has not found his passion in computer science until after becoming a teenager should be penalized why? Do note, I am assuming that when you say "application" you do not mean "program" -- applications are measured in KLOC, but programs are not necessarily.
Second, you seem to be rather snobbish about school learning. While there are many people who learned their educated trade individually, most people went through school to do it. When skipping formal training in something, one risks forming bad habits that will haunt you through your life. Musical instrument teachers know this well. Often, those programmers that learn in a vacuum are those that cause so much grief later on when they do not understand best practices, or fail to bend to others' coding styles, or whatever.
Last, yes, there are many people with a BS in CS that are incompetent. Similarly, there are many without them that are incompetent too. Making a snap judgment based on a degree or any other binary attribute is just stupid (unless it is "Do you plan to rip off our company?")
"Write a function to return the sum of all the numbers from 0 to 100" is even more fun. Because many people, while getting the "return n(n+1)/2" solution, miss "return 5050".
What's worse is that those products are only worth maybe 5 million at book value, and worth much less than a million in in their current neglected state. You can't pay lawyers making $500 an hour very long on that kind of money. especially how Boise seems to charge SCO for every staple used.
Don't you mean better? Then SCO will finally die, since it will run out of money.
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If you load up a page that has too many comments, then not all the comments will be retrieved. As the default is to retrieve highly rated comments first, this prevents the trolls from showing. So, to get you old behavior, a workaround is to set your preferences to retrieve "few" comments, and to wait for there to be lots of comments in a story before viewing. Kind of sucky, but whatever.
Yes, it is. Highest order bits first.
I remember a movie advertised in the SF bay area being shown on a particular day. I watched it, loved it, and recommended it to my sister in another part of the state. She looked it up and was confused, since it was to be released two weeks later. I then noticed all the ads for the movie were giving the two-week-later release date here too. It turns out that they allowed the one day so that people could write reviews.
That's Boobies.
Remember that the digital revenue increase is matched with a non-digital revenue decrease. That is, increased downloads come in part from people who used to buy CDs. So, total revenues are not up 25%.
The reason it doesn't matter which is because none of them will win. However, a third-party vote is another vote against the two-party system, which IMHO makes up for voting for someone who shouldn't (and won't) win.
Sorry, I have never met a person who said what you said and was not serious. My apologies.
Here's the previous article:
http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/09/1843247
Obligitory XKCD
Computer science once was a branch of mathematics, and people get PhDs in CS because people got PhDs in math. Math once was a branch of philosophy, and so people get PhDs in math because that's what they got in philosophy. Similarly with every other field that gives PhDs. Things like MDs, DDs, DDivs, etc. grew up independently, and so have different names.
You misunderstood. Those mentioned by you were elected, just not as President. Ford was appointed to the Vice-Presidency, and so became President without an election. That is what was meant, though it was badly worded.
"Now, therefore, I, Gerald R. Ford, President of the United States, pursuant to the pardon power conferred upon me by Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution, have granted and by these presents do grant a full, free, and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from July (January) 20, 1969 through August 9, 1974."
http://www.ford.utexas.edu/library/speeches/740060.htm
Maybe someone accidentally typed `rm -rf /` and then didn't notice it until 18 1/2 minutes later.
I wrote in "None of the Above" on my Presidential ballot because I couldn't in good conscience vote for either Presidential candidate,
"Either" implies only two options. There were more than two running for president, even though the others had no chance of winning. It is responses like yours that prevents them from having a chance of winning. Vote for a third party, doesn't matter which! That will get more candidates of quality.
Boy, that's myopic. Code is not written in {Pascal, Delphi, Java, C++, Perl, FORTRAN, LISP, Shell, Assembly, Python, Objective C, JavaScript, C#, COBOL, Ruby, Tcl, Basic, Ada}? Maybe one day you will grow up a bit more and have your horizons broadened. Meanwhile, take a look at Wikipedia's List of programming languages.
Oh, BTW, Pascal was the favored programming language for a major OS at the time I was learning how to program. It's kind of hard to say you can't write code in Pascal when most of the initial OS was written in it. Another fun note on the page is that TEX was written in a language based on Pascal (new info to me).
step 9: resurrect self.
step 10: profit!!!
And here is the dupe:
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/30/2014222&from=rss
Do remember that the cost of a false negative (not hiring a good future employee) is much, much smaller than the cost of a false positive (hiring a bad future employee), at least assuming that you can find good future employees. That is why it is okay to have more false negatives. The problem with many tests is that they have such a high false positive rate.
I am thinking more along the lines of how many different ways there are for solving a problem. The 5050 solution is an optimization. Missing a place where an expensive calculation can be replaced with a cheaper one is one that often happens. Normally the replacement is not nearly so obvious as this one, nor as simple, but replacing an O(n^2) op with an O(n log n) op is something that happens, which is really what the loop to the formula is, but it can be taken one step further. Seeing how far you can go in a direction before turning back is valuable. Often people err on the side of false generality, which can be harmful.
Oh, and for the record, I would answer it three times, giving the loop, the formula, and the constant, with the constant last. You never know what the person is looking for, and any of the three could be the answer.
The most common errors: SQL injection, command injection, cleartext transmission of Sensitive Information, etc.
Interesting, for me I read: 10 out of 25 most common errors are using tainted data. (items 20, 89, 79, 78, 642, 73, 426, 94, 494, 665) Perl taint mode anyone?
I will never work for you. Age bigots are no better than race bigots or gender bigot. Those who assume that they can know exactly the qualities that they will find based on an arbitrary trait are not people that I like to work for. Besides, I am 31.
an iterated waterfall (which is still a waterfall, duh)
Waterfall is Requirements, Design, Implementation, Testing, Maintenence. An iterated waterfall is not a waterfall, it's a series of (possibly overlapping) waterfalls. Waterfall is bad precisely because you plan A to Z before doing A. Basically every model other than waterfall is an attempt to do something other than that, like only plan A before doing A.
"When did you code your first C application?"
If it was any older than 12 (twelve), I'd reject them.
Never. I wrote Pascal early on, and only learned C because I transfered into a school where CS1 used C. I very quickly went C++. Anyone older than I am will probably not be able to have done it either: home computers with C compilers were not exactly common in the 80's. Further, someone who has not found his passion in computer science until after becoming a teenager should be penalized why? Do note, I am assuming that when you say "application" you do not mean "program" -- applications are measured in KLOC, but programs are not necessarily.
Second, you seem to be rather snobbish about school learning. While there are many people who learned their educated trade individually, most people went through school to do it. When skipping formal training in something, one risks forming bad habits that will haunt you through your life. Musical instrument teachers know this well. Often, those programmers that learn in a vacuum are those that cause so much grief later on when they do not understand best practices, or fail to bend to others' coding styles, or whatever.
Last, yes, there are many people with a BS in CS that are incompetent. Similarly, there are many without them that are incompetent too. Making a snap judgment based on a degree or any other binary attribute is just stupid (unless it is "Do you plan to rip off our company?")
"Write a function to return the sum of all the numbers from 0 to 100" is even more fun. Because many people, while getting the "return n(n+1)/2" solution, miss "return 5050".
What's worse is that those products are only worth maybe 5 million at book value, and worth much less than a million in in their current neglected state. You can't pay lawyers making $500 an hour very long on that kind of money. especially how Boise seems to charge SCO for every staple used.
Don't you mean better? Then SCO will finally die, since it will run out of money.