I recall having to pull out cards to manually manipulate to show someone who had a MS in CS how one in code in front of him worked, stepping through each comparison and moving the cards . . .
When I advertised for an assistant for my law office a few months ago, I put the instruction to call before sending resumes in the ad.
There were two reasons for this: 1) phone presence is critical; I'd generally know whether I was likely to offer the job during that call, and 2) to see if the person could follow instructions.
My father installed balancing valves sometime after I moved out. Not that it ever occurred to me to turn on the cold water at the kitchen sink while my brother set his water temperature, and then flip it to hot once he started . . .
Anyway, Carver Hall at Iowa State was, among other things, an engineering demonstration project. Had a super-advanced climate control system--one for each floor.
Once it was built, though, it turned out that changing the thermostat in one office affected the entire rest of the floor. They had to spike all the office thermostats.
Oh, and did I mention one system per floor, a wonderful advance?
In a building with east- and west-facing glass windows. Lots of them.
The poor secretaries have space-heaters in their desk in the Iowa summers, as both the east and west sides are treated the same . . .
At the moment, I can go to the CVS about 100 yards from my house, or the wallie-world half a mile away, and get prints from something like 12c/each.
Separate stores for this purpose? And somehow these stores will be more common and closer than the drugstores that pop up like mushrooms on street corners?
The processor cache was coming into play, too, iirc.
It was a recursive function in heavy Fortran number-bashing, the states were quasi-Markov (for lack of a better term), and could need types of pre-processing before the main body.
I forget the exact sequence, but there were two or three things that may or may not need to be done, and there were a couple of different things that *could* need to be done, after which the remaining processing was the same.
Not having used a GOTO in 25 years, it didn't occur to me until I engaged in contortions. I finally realized that jumping from one of those possibles to the code after the other would cleanly solve the issue.
> but I've also seen some hideous code written by >purists who refuse use them even when they really >are the right tool for the job.... >that doesn't mean they should *never* be used.
yes, yes, yes!
Years ago on my dissertation, I realized that I was writing a *lot* of code to avoid a GOTO. There were alternate sets of pre-processing, depending upon history reaching that point, and it came down to a GOTO or duplicate blocks of code (or a gratuitous function call and its overhead, iirc).
Then again, I think that's the only time I've used GOTO since the early 80s . . .
>They're all in Portland. Also, most of them deserve it >and would not contribute to society in any meaningful >way regardless of whether they're on the streets or in >their parents' homes.
More seriously, is there any reason to believe that he wouldn't do the same thing with the software he sells--the ultimate trojan on your machine . . .
Clinton opposed both of those, right until they (and the rest of the "Contract With America") swept the republican Congress into power.
On the balancing the budget, he called it "irresponsible" during the election, then countered with an offer of a year shorter, to which the Republican congress replied with a year shorter, and falling interest rates brought a year shorter than that.
Clinton's role in the balanced budget, though, was in working with those who had defeated him on the issue.
Not only that, but food was being exported from Ireland during that period.
For that matter, in the countries where people are starving today, there is enough food, but either government or rebels actively prevent distribution . . .
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> Given three minutes, he should revise the solution until it's elegant, easy to read,
Recode it in Fortran or COBOL??? :)
hawk
Not to defend the bubble sort, but . . .
I recall having to pull out cards to manually manipulate to show someone who had a MS in CS how one in code in front of him worked, stepping through each comparison and moving the cards . . .
hawk
p.s. No, he didn't last very long.
When I advertised for an assistant for my law office a few months ago, I put the instruction to call before sending resumes in the ad.
There were two reasons for this:
1) phone presence is critical; I'd generally know whether I was likely to offer the job during that call, and
2) to see if the person could follow instructions.
Only about 1 in 3 called first.
hawk
Also had more dumbs in another part than he had smarts upstairs . . .
hawk
It can be much worse than that.
My father installed balancing valves sometime after I moved out. Not that it ever occurred to me to turn on the cold water at the kitchen sink while my brother set his water temperature, and then flip it to hot once he started . . .
Anyway, Carver Hall at Iowa State was, among other things, an engineering demonstration project. Had a super-advanced climate control system--one for each floor.
Once it was built, though, it turned out that changing the thermostat in one office affected the entire rest of the floor. They had to spike all the office thermostats.
Oh, and did I mention one system per floor, a wonderful advance?
In a building with east- and west-facing glass windows. Lots of them.
The poor secretaries have space-heaters in their desk in the Iowa summers, as both the east and west sides are treated the same . . .
hawk
Oh, and did I mention
I usually react to ad integration by switching to a different program . . .
hawk
naah . . . I'll take a picture of that physical thingie with my phone, and send it to my friends . . .
hawk
At the moment, I can go to the CVS about 100 yards from my house, or the wallie-world half a mile away, and get prints from something like 12c/each.
Separate stores for this purpose? And somehow these stores will be more common and closer than the drugstores that pop up like mushrooms on street corners?
Already exists in a phone-sized unit for about $100.
hawk
Given the amount of destination drinking here, I expect Nevada to stay at the front of the pack here.
Our legislature will allow an autonomous car once the current generation show that the driver doesn't need to intervene . . . but not before.
hawk
Yeah, no reason to suspect he left back doors, given this other behavior . . .
hawk
Sure, but the second world was down to North Korea and Cuba.
Now we've got another in the Americas?
The processor cache was coming into play, too, iirc.
It was a recursive function in heavy Fortran number-bashing, the states were quasi-Markov (for lack of a better term), and could need types of pre-processing before the main body.
I forget the exact sequence, but there were two or three things that may or may not need to be done, and there were a couple of different things that *could* need to be done, after which the remaining processing was the same.
Not having used a GOTO in 25 years, it didn't occur to me until I engaged in contortions. I finally realized that jumping from one of those possibles to the code after the other would cleanly solve the issue.
hawk
Commercials.
I have it because a friend pays so she can watch on her computer.
I wouldn't do it myself, as beer at a sports bar is less expensive, anyway.
hawk
That the companies approach clearly doesn't work? :)
hawk
five characters of caseless ascii (6 bit) are what fits into 32 bits . . .
hawk
> but I've also seen some hideous code written by ...
>purists who refuse use them even when they really
>are the right tool for the job.
>that doesn't mean they should *never* be used.
yes, yes, yes!
Years ago on my dissertation, I realized that I was writing a *lot* of code to avoid a GOTO. There were alternate sets of pre-processing, depending upon history reaching that point, and it came down to a GOTO or duplicate blocks of code (or a gratuitous function call and its overhead, iirc).
Then again, I think that's the only time I've used GOTO since the early 80s . . .
It's been, uhm, decades since I took Thermal Physics, but roughly what it is is that temperature gets defined by the disorder in energy states.
It helps to think of each item as only having low or high energy.
Absolute zero is complete order, with everything in the ground state.
As some go to the higher energy state, energy increases.
When absolute disorder is reached, the denominator is zero, and infinite temperature is released.
Nudge one more bit of energy in, and temperature flips sign (I believe it is the denominator that goes negative, but it's been a while.
As complete order in the upper state is reached, the negative numbers again approach zero, or negative absolute zero.
My professor told us that there was a technical name for this state: "hotter than Hell."
hawk
>They're all in Portland. Also, most of them deserve it
>and would not contribute to society in any meaningful
>way regardless of whether they're on the streets or in
>their parents' homes.
Are we talking about mimes, or drummers?
hawk
> I think a man who has royally pissed of the powers
>that be in a 2nd world country is wise to stay as far
>away from "justice" as he possibly can.
Where is the CIA in all this? And the Navy?
How did Belize fall into the Soviet sphere of influence? I thought the Monroe Doctrine was quite clear on US use of force in such matters . . .
hawk
More seriously, is there any reason to believe that he wouldn't do the same thing with the software he sells--the ultimate trojan on your machine . . .
hawk
It's really nothing more (or less) than a conspiracy to not give us full sized beers . . .
hawk
Clinton kicked them off???
Clinton opposed both of those, right until they (and the rest of the "Contract With America") swept the republican Congress into power.
On the balancing the budget, he called it "irresponsible" during the election, then countered with an offer of a year shorter, to which the Republican congress replied with a year shorter, and falling interest rates brought a year shorter than that.
Clinton's role in the balanced budget, though, was in working with those who had defeated him on the issue.
hawk
Not only that, but food was being exported from Ireland during that period.
For that matter, in the countries where people are starving today, there is enough food, but either government or rebels actively prevent distribution . . .
hawk
Made extra funny by the notion that Portugese is a language, rather than a dialect of Spanish . . . :)
hawk