Man, there are a lot of crazy people out there. They just can't see the simplest explanation: the rich Egyptians in charge liked to have extravagant tombs and had lots and lots of slaves and lots and lots of whips with which to build these tombs.
Islam is not a threat. Extremist Islam is a threat, it's not the same thing. Extremist Christianity is a threat as well, like any extremist sect or ideology.
I have not seen Obama being a communist sympathizer, though that's a phrase seldom heard these days, invented by the anti-commie extremist of Joe McCarthy who I thought was still dead.
As for Trump, he's automatically dangerous because he's the president and is far more dangerous than any other single person in the US. He's also showing plenty of signs of being a lunatic; an out of control ego, and sees hallucinations of things that aren't there. Now putting his own personal foibles ahead of the good of the country isn't necessarily a sign of madness, it is more evidence of being dangerous. So, dangerous lunatic is not necessarily an incorrect description.
Except that Windows 10 is failing badly, can justifiably be labeled as malware, and does not allow its users control over their own machine. So what's the alternative? Macs are way too expensive.
I won't name specific cities, but it has happened a few times in the central valley of California. The one in my home town was built exactly outside of the town borders because no agreement was reached regarding incentives. I can see several links on the net about opposition to city council plans to provide tax breaks to Walmart and some other big box retailers, but I'm not linking them here.
I put Walmart very high up on the list of what's wrong here. They deliberately cut prices when the move into a small town, and the competition dries up fast. Meanwhile they're often not paying taxes or paying low taxes because they promised the town lots of "jobs" in exchange for a tax break.
As for Amazon, that's just for urbanites too busy to shop, what we used to call yuppies.
You're shifting around definitions. You definition would imply that there was no such thing as a conservative before the constitution was written, or that there are no conservatives in other countries who don't care about the particular constitution in the US. Or are you trying to create a No True Scotsman definition?
We were told to use a certain cloud backup service at work, to save on costs. It was a disaster, amazingly slow, and it would suck up all your bandwidth while you were at home on your own dime. Later a co-worker lost his files and needed to recover. He could only recover one file at a time, not do a full restore. I advised everyone to instead just get a hard drive at the store (4 terabytes for under $100) and encrypt it and use Time Machine. Not IT approved though. Later they went with Box instead, another disaster. This stupid obsession with the cloud is dangerous.
This is for companies, not individuals. Everywhere I've worked has used tape backups, up to the present moment. Any company relying on cloud backup is a dangerous company to invest in. RAID storage is useless unless you keep those other disks at a remote location. Even the tape backups have the tapes transported to remote and safe locations (there are professional services that do this),
Most definitely I think at least half the people voting for Trump were holding their noses, and at least half the people voting for Clinton were holding their noses, and most of those who voted for third party candidates did so so they could stop holding their nose and take a breath instead.
Depends upon what project management is, it's not the same thing everywhere. Ie, where I am now the project manager can do nothing whatsoever about getting more people to work on something. However they do keeping the monkeys focused in the same direction. They have to deal with factory shutdowns, supply chain issues, software delays, and so forth. They have to plan that when the parts arrive that someone will be ready to make use of them shortly, that the schedules get updated when there's a hiccup down the line, and that the price is kept within reason. Sometimes these are the only managers who get to see the entire scope of a project, from first schematic to the artwork put on the packaging to the training of the support personnel. The problem is that the scope is so big that it's easy to get someone who just is not very good at it.
I'm still using C today. I wish it was C++ though, but the self taught people push back too much on it. C is just too free form, and requires a large amount of self discipline to create organized software that is maintainable. C++ at least has the built in tools to help with this; classes, names spaces, stronger typing, etc.
It's a quandary though. Most younger people with CS background are clueless about hardware or low level programming. EE people understand that but are often clueless about software abstraction or how to write code that a second person is able to read.
Buddhism isn't pacifist, look at what's happening in Burma now. If you say those are people who misunderstand Buddhism or aren't practicing it correctly, then why not apply that apologism to Christianity?
No, what happened is that the segregationists left the Democratic party and joined the Republicans (with a stopover with the Dixiecrats). Being Democrat or Republican is not a genetic thing; you are allowed to switch parties. It happens quite a lot. Parties are always on the move and changing their core beliefs, and the defacto two party system that's evolved means that both parties are always juggling issues so that we end up with a roughly 50/50 split in the voting public.
You think because Al Gore's father had certain beliefs that he inherited them? It's almost a truism that children push away from their parents's beliefs in a way to assert their independence.
Robert Byrd strongly denounced the KKK and claimed that joining them was the biggest mistake in his life.
You forget that it was conservatives who upheld the Jim Crow laws in the deep south, they most certainly were not at all liberal and they strongly opposed equal rights. When they dumped the Democratic party because of civil rights legislation and joined the Republicans, they pushed the Republicans to be conservative.
Additionally, while the dialogue is occasionally ackward, it doesn't sound condescending/out of character, which all of the dialogue in ST:D sounded like.
Original Star Trek presented what seemed radical at the time in a matter of fact way. We don't even see the controversies if watching today. Although "radical" may be the wrong word; the issue was really about whether or not to annoy the deeply racist south and thus lose half of your profits (and the north was also racist but tried to hide it).
But Star Trek did have some condescending or preachy attitudes over time. Ie, the hippies in The Way To Eden, the IDIC concept, etc. Follow-on series went further down this path.
I'm reminded of the time that they had E.R. and Chicago Hope series premiering at the same time. One had unknown actors (at the time) with interesting story lines. The other had absolutely great actors but with extremely preachy story lines (though a few stories were very good). But the preachy one didn't last long, and the other had a long run and turned its actors into major stars.
And that's a perfect world. The world I'm in you get ridiculous deadlines you have to meet, are on multiple projects at once, and have to rush in before understanding everything. Or in other cases everyone's spread too thin to inspect everyone else's work.
This is true, there is no way to automatically catch bugs, other than shipping the product to paying customers. The best tools out there still have to be learned properly. There is always a dumb developer that will screw up in ways that a tool can't catch. Even the best developer on an off day will introduce bugs.
So you have to learn to catch bugs systematically. Always do the code reviews, never treat them as bureaucratic hoops to jump through, get more than one pair of eyes on them. Get mentors for all new developers, and even experienced people should never be left alone with no oversight. Always test your own code, don't rely on QA to catch everything, add unit tests, etc. An in QA, don't trust the developer, I've seen too many cases recently where the QA person says "but that's the way the developer said it was supposed to work..." QA should not just test the feature but be sure there is a full regression, even with minor releases.
The old wisdom is right: the later a bug is found the exponentially more expensive it is to fix. If you catch a bug when it's still in your editor then it costs almost nothing to fix it, if a big customer catches the bug you can lose customers and people get fired and laid off. Something that seems innocuous can end up bricking products or causing loss of data or worse, and sadly I have experienced this stuff first hand.
C++ is pretty strongly typed. It's only static type analysis though, but no weaker than Pascal or Ada.
A lot of the bugs I see aren't messing up static types, but when you do see static typing problems then that means the programmer needs better training (not just experience since a lot of "experienced" people are stuck with bad habits). In particular the static type errors often come from sloppy thinking, a rush to get code checked in quickly, a misunderstanding of types, and so forth. Especially programmers who don't often move between 8/16/32/64 bit environments. I know a lot of experienced C programmers who think strong typing is just a waste of their time, and any research like this is good ammunition against that way of thinking.
Dynamic or contextual type problems are a bigger source of problems I think. Ie, you were using a zero based counter but then later treat it like a one based counter; or it was a counter and now it is being used in arithmetic.
Beyond that I would love something that clearly marks a function as "this has side effects!" I've run across terribly buggy code that I passed through on a code review because I didn't realize that what seemed like innocuous calculation functions actually were updating global variables.
Sure, you can always solve this stuff with good coding style standards but those are so easily subverted or ignored.
I'm not entirely sure. The Code Complete book was written for Microsoft employees to help them write better code (too bad they didn't learn too much from it). Given the abysmal state of Microsoft quality I could believe that there's a group languishing and underfunded at Microsoft that is hoping to improve their own quality.
I worked for a boss who used the "Learn C in 21 Days" book. He was horrible at programming. He used to do mainframe programming and he copied that style. He literally would use strncmp(str1, str2, 1) to see if two characters were the same; he was not a believer of writing a function if cut-and-paste could to the job instead, and when he did his cut-and-paste he would never re-indent the code afterwards.
Today I've got a worker who is self taught. It's just horrible programming styles. Zero concept of software organization or engineering, it's all about whipping out code super fast and checking it in once it compiles. And manages to convince some people that he knows what he's doing so he retains his job.
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Man, there are a lot of crazy people out there. They just can't see the simplest explanation: the rich Egyptians in charge liked to have extravagant tombs and had lots and lots of slaves and lots and lots of whips with which to build these tombs.
Islam is not a threat. Extremist Islam is a threat, it's not the same thing. Extremist Christianity is a threat as well, like any extremist sect or ideology.
I have not seen Obama being a communist sympathizer, though that's a phrase seldom heard these days, invented by the anti-commie extremist of Joe McCarthy who I thought was still dead.
As for Trump, he's automatically dangerous because he's the president and is far more dangerous than any other single person in the US. He's also showing plenty of signs of being a lunatic; an out of control ego, and sees hallucinations of things that aren't there. Now putting his own personal foibles ahead of the good of the country isn't necessarily a sign of madness, it is more evidence of being dangerous. So, dangerous lunatic is not necessarily an incorrect description.
Except that Windows 10 is failing badly, can justifiably be labeled as malware, and does not allow its users control over their own machine. So what's the alternative? Macs are way too expensive.
I won't name specific cities, but it has happened a few times in the central valley of California. The one in my home town was built exactly outside of the town borders because no agreement was reached regarding incentives. I can see several links on the net about opposition to city council plans to provide tax breaks to Walmart and some other big box retailers, but I'm not linking them here.
Here are links which are somewhat political about this issue. There is a Walmart rebuttal to this, but it's on Forbes which is paywalled.
http://www.walmartsubsidywatch...
https://americansfortaxfairnes...
I put Walmart very high up on the list of what's wrong here. They deliberately cut prices when the move into a small town, and the competition dries up fast. Meanwhile they're often not paying taxes or paying low taxes because they promised the town lots of "jobs" in exchange for a tax break.
As for Amazon, that's just for urbanites too busy to shop, what we used to call yuppies.
You're shifting around definitions. You definition would imply that there was no such thing as a conservative before the constitution was written, or that there are no conservatives in other countries who don't care about the particular constitution in the US. Or are you trying to create a No True Scotsman definition?
(oops intended as response to a different comment)
We were told to use a certain cloud backup service at work, to save on costs. It was a disaster, amazingly slow, and it would suck up all your bandwidth while you were at home on your own dime. Later a co-worker lost his files and needed to recover. He could only recover one file at a time, not do a full restore. I advised everyone to instead just get a hard drive at the store (4 terabytes for under $100) and encrypt it and use Time Machine. Not IT approved though. Later they went with Box instead, another disaster. This stupid obsession with the cloud is dangerous.
This is for companies, not individuals. Everywhere I've worked has used tape backups, up to the present moment. Any company relying on cloud backup is a dangerous company to invest in. RAID storage is useless unless you keep those other disks at a remote location. Even the tape backups have the tapes transported to remote and safe locations (there are professional services that do this),
Do people even want cloud synchronization? It's the first thing I turn off.
Most definitely I think at least half the people voting for Trump were holding their noses, and at least half the people voting for Clinton were holding their noses, and most of those who voted for third party candidates did so so they could stop holding their nose and take a breath instead.
Richard Nixon was raised a Quaker. He did join the Navy though, and ordered bombings in Cambodia while president.
Depends upon what project management is, it's not the same thing everywhere. Ie, where I am now the project manager can do nothing whatsoever about getting more people to work on something. However they do keeping the monkeys focused in the same direction. They have to deal with factory shutdowns, supply chain issues, software delays, and so forth. They have to plan that when the parts arrive that someone will be ready to make use of them shortly, that the schedules get updated when there's a hiccup down the line, and that the price is kept within reason. Sometimes these are the only managers who get to see the entire scope of a project, from first schematic to the artwork put on the packaging to the training of the support personnel. The problem is that the scope is so big that it's easy to get someone who just is not very good at it.
I'm still using C today. I wish it was C++ though, but the self taught people push back too much on it. C is just too free form, and requires a large amount of self discipline to create organized software that is maintainable. C++ at least has the built in tools to help with this; classes, names spaces, stronger typing, etc.
It's a quandary though. Most younger people with CS background are clueless about hardware or low level programming. EE people understand that but are often clueless about software abstraction or how to write code that a second person is able to read.
Buddhism isn't pacifist, look at what's happening in Burma now. If you say those are people who misunderstand Buddhism or aren't practicing it correctly, then why not apply that apologism to Christianity?
No, what happened is that the segregationists left the Democratic party and joined the Republicans (with a stopover with the Dixiecrats). Being Democrat or Republican is not a genetic thing; you are allowed to switch parties. It happens quite a lot. Parties are always on the move and changing their core beliefs, and the defacto two party system that's evolved means that both parties are always juggling issues so that we end up with a roughly 50/50 split in the voting public.
You think because Al Gore's father had certain beliefs that he inherited them? It's almost a truism that children push away from their parents's beliefs in a way to assert their independence.
Robert Byrd strongly denounced the KKK and claimed that joining them was the biggest mistake in his life.
You forget that it was conservatives who upheld the Jim Crow laws in the deep south, they most certainly were not at all liberal and they strongly opposed equal rights. When they dumped the Democratic party because of civil rights legislation and joined the Republicans, they pushed the Republicans to be conservative.
Additionally, while the dialogue is occasionally ackward, it doesn't sound condescending/out of character, which all of the dialogue in ST:D sounded like.
Original Star Trek presented what seemed radical at the time in a matter of fact way. We don't even see the controversies if watching today. Although "radical" may be the wrong word; the issue was really about whether or not to annoy the deeply racist south and thus lose half of your profits (and the north was also racist but tried to hide it).
But Star Trek did have some condescending or preachy attitudes over time. Ie, the hippies in The Way To Eden, the IDIC concept, etc. Follow-on series went further down this path.
I'm reminded of the time that they had E.R. and Chicago Hope series premiering at the same time. One had unknown actors (at the time) with interesting story lines. The other had absolutely great actors but with extremely preachy story lines (though a few stories were very good). But the preachy one didn't last long, and the other had a long run and turned its actors into major stars.
If you want to convert people, don't preach.
And that's a perfect world. The world I'm in you get ridiculous deadlines you have to meet, are on multiple projects at once, and have to rush in before understanding everything. Or in other cases everyone's spread too thin to inspect everyone else's work.
The problem with rapid prototyping is that too often the prototype ends up being shipped as the actual product.
http://dilbert.com/strip/1996-...
This is true, there is no way to automatically catch bugs, other than shipping the product to paying customers. The best tools out there still have to be learned properly. There is always a dumb developer that will screw up in ways that a tool can't catch. Even the best developer on an off day will introduce bugs.
So you have to learn to catch bugs systematically. Always do the code reviews, never treat them as bureaucratic hoops to jump through, get more than one pair of eyes on them. Get mentors for all new developers, and even experienced people should never be left alone with no oversight. Always test your own code, don't rely on QA to catch everything, add unit tests, etc. An in QA, don't trust the developer, I've seen too many cases recently where the QA person says "but that's the way the developer said it was supposed to work..." QA should not just test the feature but be sure there is a full regression, even with minor releases.
The old wisdom is right: the later a bug is found the exponentially more expensive it is to fix. If you catch a bug when it's still in your editor then it costs almost nothing to fix it, if a big customer catches the bug you can lose customers and people get fired and laid off. Something that seems innocuous can end up bricking products or causing loss of data or worse, and sadly I have experienced this stuff first hand.
C++ is pretty strongly typed. It's only static type analysis though, but no weaker than Pascal or Ada.
A lot of the bugs I see aren't messing up static types, but when you do see static typing problems then that means the programmer needs better training (not just experience since a lot of "experienced" people are stuck with bad habits). In particular the static type errors often come from sloppy thinking, a rush to get code checked in quickly, a misunderstanding of types, and so forth. Especially programmers who don't often move between 8/16/32/64 bit environments. I know a lot of experienced C programmers who think strong typing is just a waste of their time, and any research like this is good ammunition against that way of thinking.
Dynamic or contextual type problems are a bigger source of problems I think. Ie, you were using a zero based counter but then later treat it like a one based counter; or it was a counter and now it is being used in arithmetic.
Beyond that I would love something that clearly marks a function as "this has side effects!" I've run across terribly buggy code that I passed through on a code review because I didn't realize that what seemed like innocuous calculation functions actually were updating global variables.
Sure, you can always solve this stuff with good coding style standards but those are so easily subverted or ignored.
I'm not entirely sure. The Code Complete book was written for Microsoft employees to help them write better code (too bad they didn't learn too much from it). Given the abysmal state of Microsoft quality I could believe that there's a group languishing and underfunded at Microsoft that is hoping to improve their own quality.
I worked for a boss who used the "Learn C in 21 Days" book. He was horrible at programming. He used to do mainframe programming and he copied that style. He literally would use strncmp(str1, str2, 1) to see if two characters were the same; he was not a believer of writing a function if cut-and-paste could to the job instead, and when he did his cut-and-paste he would never re-indent the code afterwards.
Today I've got a worker who is self taught. It's just horrible programming styles. Zero concept of software organization or engineering, it's all about whipping out code super fast and checking it in once it compiles. And manages to convince some people that he knows what he's doing so he retains his job.