i'm not a huge punk fan myself but it's a lot better than country
What, you think country isn't punk? Try some Neko Case or Robbie Fulks, or most anything on Bloodshot records. For that matter, Johnny Cash is about as punk as they come.
Or were you referring to the Faith/Shania/Garth lite-pop country that's festering on the airwaves these days? Then by all means, bash away.
Remember, YOU are interviewing THEM too....
You must make sure that the company is a good fit before bending over to sign the offer letter.
Too true. There's nothing worse than getting hired at a company where you're desperately unhappy, unless it's listening to that person bitch about it.
For more on the idea of finding the right fit for your job, I can't recommend
Nick Corcodilos' excellent
Ask The Headhunter highly enough.
Even if you're not actively looking for a job, it will change the way you look at your current job.
He can refuse to put out the final chapters if he so desires, so he has created an 'experiment' in which HE can't lose.
Of course he can lose. He knows going into it that he's going to lose on it. Stephen King could shit on a piece of paper and it would sell a zillion copies. He must know full well that he won't get nearly as much revenue doing this on the net than if he just cranked it out and had his publisher print it.
Regardless of what happens he get's lot's of press and his happy little footnote in Internet history.
You think Stephen King is concerned about getting press?
True street performers have no guarantee whatsoever that they will cash in regardless of whether or not they succeed in entertaining passers-by. Why should SKing have such a guarantee?
Why shouldn't he? Who says that the Street Performer Paradigm is the One True Way?
I applaud King for being in a position to try this out, and being willing to do so. He can afford to lose a few grand (hundred grand?) by doing this, and does so.
How else would you have any industry try out new approaches? Throw it against the wall and see if it sticks.
If there is anything more boring than listening to fellow computer geeks blather about computer history and nostalgia, I've yet to hear it. Y'know that way that real DORKY geeks get? When they talk about things that are supposedly REALLY interesting, but are only inflated in their own minds? This computer nostalgia topic boils it down to its very essence.
"Oh yeah, I remember that! I once programmed SpaceWar by soldering traces right onto the motherboard! And we only had 73 bytes of core!"
Surfing on a wave of nostalgia for an age yet to come...
Articles like this under the "Censorship" banner on Slashdot really bug me. The issue here isn't censorship or free speech at all. An agreement was made between Adobe and Person X, and Person X violated the terms of the agreement.
The gov't isn't stepping in. There's no police action. No coercive steps are being taken. Adobe's saying "Don't publish ill-gotten material."
Save the geek-with-black-tape icon for stories that deserve it.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a van full of tape speeding down the highway.
I heard it as "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes", which I like better because of the image of a hulking Country Squire, complete with faux-wood body panels, stacked to the ceiling with spools of tape, and a Mom with hair curlers at the wheel, cigarette dangling from her lips.
I understand that "the calling code always passes a count of 1", but so what? What that really means is "the calling code always passes a count of 1 as it stands right now." The code is still crap.
That's like coding while saying "We don't have to handle that case; it'll never happen". Bad code is bad code, whether or not the effect is immediately seen.
for(i=0;i<=count;++i) { RandBuf=read(fd,&RandBuf,count); pgpRandomAddBytes( &pgpRandomPool,(byte*)&RandBuf,sizeof(RandBuf)); pgpRandPoolAddEntropy(256); } return(i); } If count is anything over 1, that call to read() is gonna stomp on the stack.
I learned my Perl OO from perltoot and the O'Reilly Advanced Perl Programming book. Does this book provide much more than that?
Yes, lots. I learned from those two sources as well, but Conway's book is far more clear and well-presented. I recommend this book unreservedly for anyone who is looking to do more than just string mangling in Perl.
It makes total sense to place the movie in Chicago. Chicago has tons of indie record stores. I'm certain that Cusack was thinking fondly of the Chicago record stores like Reckless Records, The Quaker Goes Deaf, Vintage Vinyl, Gramaphone, as well as dearly departed favorites like The Turntable, Wax Trax!, Pravda and Empire Records (no, not what the movie was named after).
Even without the good reviews it's been getting, I'd go see it because it's so obvious from the previews that Cusack loves the same record stores I have.
Playing the game with N other people, trying to keep everyone alive despite hoards of monsters and such. Sorta like Gauntlet. Remember that game? Blizzard just tapped into that play style and architecture, and made it prettier and multiplayer.
Monolith, the guys behind Blood, came out with Get Medieval, which is pretty damn close to the original Gauntlet, as well as being mighty funny.
Somewhere I have a Gauntlet that ran on my old 286 and played all sounds thru the crappy PC speaker. "Blue elf needs food, badly!" just came out like "oo eff neez foo, badly!"
Remember that the big reason that the establishment of the post office was so important as to warrant inclusion in the U.S. Constitution was that it was seen as critical to the growth of the country. The framers wanted to make sure that the citizens could rely on the mail, and I'm glad they did. Although it may seem trivial, the federal laws that make it illegal to, for example, use my mailbox for anything other than U.S. Mail are critical.
Read some of the history of the postal laws and you'll see that the gov't has handled the oost office pretty well. (See page 235 of this PDF from senate.gov)
I'm not sure how the U.S. gov't can carry forward this responsibility in the world of global email...
I don't think it's too unreasonable to decide to not let University resources be used for non-educational purposes. Sure, they're not stopping all non-educational uses, but only the most expensive ones, and the ones that have the most effect on actual educational use.
My old man's a webgeek for the main library at Boise State University, and their PCs only have web browsers on 'em. They blacklist about 2,000 sites at the proxy server because they're games and/or web mail. The library doesn't say "You can't do those things", only "You can't use the library's scant PCs to do it."
I think ultimately this gets back to the issue of rights vs. privileges, which historically geeks have a rotten history of looking at realistically.
If he decided that O'Reilly (the company) would no longer ship through Amazon, his company loses money. He is not the company, and other people have an interest in that money. Can you say shareholder lawsuit?
We like our independence at O'Reilly. Our customers like it as well, since it lets us serve them rather than the stockholders. Part of what has made O'Reilly so successful is that we don't chase quarterly earnings targets.
This seems like an example of when having that independence is crucial.
As much as I hate to avoid the South Park discussion, I just have to say that I sure as hell hope Aimee Mann wins for her work in "Magnolia". The soundtrack album is just brilliant.
I'm amused that CNet headlines the story as "Corel to buy programming toolmaker for $2.44 billion", as if we wouldn't know who Borland and/or Inprise was.
Or is it just the old farts who remember such things?
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Or were you referring to the Faith/Shania/Garth lite-pop country that's festering on the airwaves these days? Then by all means, bash away.
For more on the idea of finding the right fit for your job, I can't recommend Nick Corcodilos' excellent Ask The Headhunter highly enough. Even if you're not actively looking for a job, it will change the way you look at your current job.
I applaud King for being in a position to try this out, and being willing to do so. He can afford to lose a few grand (hundred grand?) by doing this, and does so.
How else would you have any industry try out new approaches? Throw it against the wall and see if it sticks.
Where do we stop? Heroin is bad, sure, but what about pot? We gonna shoot the potheads? How about booze? Caffeine? Sugar buzzes?
"At all costs" means a hell of a lot, and don't think that your local congressperson doesn't get a big ol' stiffy when you say things like that.
"Oh yeah, I remember that! I once programmed SpaceWar by soldering traces right onto the motherboard! And we only had 73 bytes of core!"
Surfing on a wave of nostalgia for an age yet to come...
The gov't isn't stepping in. There's no police action. No coercive steps are being taken. Adobe's saying "Don't publish ill-gotten material."
Save the geek-with-black-tape icon for stories that deserve it.
Plural of "attorney general" is "attorneys general". In this usage, "general" is an adjective, not a noun.
I heard it as "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes", which I like better because of the image of a hulking Country Squire, complete with faux-wood body panels, stacked to the ceiling with spools of tape, and a Mom with hair curlers at the wheel, cigarette dangling from her lips.
"Then, on an all-new, powerful 'Buffy'..."
That's like coding while saying "We don't have to handle that case; it'll never happen". Bad code is bad code, whether or not the effect is immediately seen.
staticunsigned
pgpRandPoolAddEntropy(256);
pgpDevRandomAccum(intfd,unsignedcount)
{
charRandBuf;
unsignedshorti=0;
pgpAssert(count);
pgpAssert(fd>=0);
for(i=0;i<=count;++i) {
RandBuf=read(fd,&RandBuf,count);
pgpRandomAddBytes( &pgpRandomPool,(byte*)&RandBuf,sizeof(RandBuf));
}
return(i);
}
If count is anything over 1, that call to read() is gonna stomp on the stack.
xoxo,
Andy
Yes, lots. I learned from those two sources as well, but Conway's book is far more clear and well-presented. I recommend this book unreservedly for anyone who is looking to do more than just string mangling in Perl.
Even without the good reviews it's been getting, I'd go see it because it's so obvious from the previews that Cusack loves the same record stores I have.
Somewhere I have a Gauntlet that ran on my old 286 and played all sounds thru the crappy PC speaker. "Blue elf needs food, badly!" just came out like "oo eff neez foo, badly!"
Read some of the history of the postal laws and you'll see that the gov't has handled the oost office pretty well. (See page 235 of this PDF from senate.gov)
I'm not sure how the U.S. gov't can carry forward this responsibility in the world of global email...
And then you can come hang out in southwestern Wisconsin at the Bong Recreation Area.
My old man's a webgeek for the main library at Boise State University, and their PCs only have web browsers on 'em. They blacklist about 2,000 sites at the proxy server because they're games and/or web mail. The library doesn't say "You can't do those things", only "You can't use the library's scant PCs to do it."
I think ultimately this gets back to the issue of rights vs. privileges, which historically geeks have a rotten history of looking at realistically.
Learning Perl used to be the canonical choice, but now you'll want to check out Elements Of Programming In Perl, published by Manning.
Even if the U.S. were to pass such a law, it would just get taken overseas.
I can envision the spam now: "Host your adult sites outside of the .XXX domain!"
As much as I hate to avoid the South Park discussion, I just have to say that I sure as hell hope Aimee Mann wins for her work in "Magnolia". The soundtrack album is just brilliant.
Problem is, they're years old. It seems from the story that they'll take the picture for you on demand.
Or is it just the old farts who remember such things?
No, I can't! Why do you think I need to go to the gym?