I have read quite a bit about science that interests me and one of the subjects was "the ultimate fate of the universe". One detail that stuck out was that all galaxies evaporate given enough time. Even with a small rate of evaporation (say, an average of 10 billion years for any given star), our galaxy has 300 billion stars, so you're bound to see a few flying away "naturally" at any point time.
If they really wanted to know how these particular stars got boosted without going through the galactic center, they'd take a look at one of the already-done-to-death simulations.
Hell, I betcha someone could scale down one of these simulations, post it as a crappy javascript app and say "hey look here's how it happens!", and not even need the chops to describe it analytically.
when temporal resolution is constantly ignored either outright or effectively from compression. I'm tired of streaming "full HD" and being able to see each frame like slideshow.
Any proper comparison between languages must leave out the UI, otherwise you're going to entangle the maturity and suitability of the presentation frameworks into the results.
Then there's the whole "stability under changing requirements" metric, which I'm sure wasn't even touched upon...
I'm not sure how useful it is to attempt a comparison like this. If you've ever done Project Euler and looked at all the different posted answers to the problems you solve, you realize that a lot of these hand-waving language metrics on 'productivity' and 'expressiveness' are pure bunk. C#/Python/Haskell/Clojure/etc... static typing, dynamic typing, it doesn't matter - all the good solutions look the same in this class of modern languages. Then there's the less expressive languages like C and assembly, and the reg-ex like languages R/J/K. These aren't really worth comparing with the first category because their proper use cases are so different. Then you have a the occasional Java retard posting eight pages of code where one paragraph was sufficient for everyone else.
I would say it's not the comparison between languages that is useful per se, but rather comparing the cruft and practices that surround them.
because it's is a direct function of the rates and plans offered by the carriers. If they back off the caps some more, we'll see another article like this in another year and be all, "Cellular data usage increased again ZOMFG!!!" Big whoop.
CANTO 6 - HERESY:...The countess explained that these chaotically traveling souls were strongly at variance with well-established beliefs
Yeah, you know, I would rather be a heretic than be consumed by groupthink and the cargo-cult engineering it encourages.
I consider the deadliest sin of engineering unnecessary complexity, which comes in its worst forms from inappropriate and poorly implemented generalization.
I've seen a lot of this in the form of "frameworks" - especially homegrown ones - but also from faithful and meticulous application of GoF design patterns. Decompile SqlMetal for a canonical example.
I installed the "always desktop" addin to FF long ago specifically because./'s mobile site sucked ass... now the only problem is, the normal version can't handle screen re-orientation. So I'll tick down through all the articles I haven't read yet and have maybe 10 tabs open ready for me to read... and if at any point while FF is open the screen goes from landscape to portrait, the layout gets all screwed up. Not just on the tab I'm on, but effing EVERY SINGLE TAB opened to a./ article.
I read./ every day, and it's a constant annoyance. And I don't expect it to change because they leave js problems on this site broken for YEARS.
Sorry, I just needed to get that off my chest. I don't see any official avenue to rant this at the./ developers directly, and this is the first article I've seen where I can rant about this and be on-topic.
By the way, I don't see why everyone assumes that all mobile phone users prefer to browse the shitty portrait way when the screens are so much smaller. I have a Galaxy Note 2, and I always browse landscape.
I know this isn't going to be answered since I waited too long to ask but I'll try anyway...
What if you just shook your head and refused to move or be pulled over if they wouldn't let you continue on your way? The study is "voluntary" and the police officers are off duty, so what authority do they really have?
I ask because obviously there would be "consequences" for saying no, but I'm wondering if the officers would have any legal standing to arrest and prosecute. Put it another way - can the issue be successfully forced into (favorable) litigation if I encounter one of these stops and (unlike the Texans) say NO I will NOT pull over?
Kids will be choosing to work at a McD's or writing JavaScript code. This is all tech industry's goal of making programming and development a skilled trade - much lower paying trade.
But a skilled trade is exactly what programming is. Nothing wrong with calling it that. Show me a developer that's more a scientist or theorist than a tradesman, and I'll show you someone who should be kept clear of production.
And hey, if they want to pay too little... they'll get burned because demand for competence far outstrips the supply. And as far as I can tell this is true for nearly all engineering disciplines - but especially programming.
I remember we used to discuss this in class in high school. And I think this was even a policy debate topic for a whole year - we researched it, talked about it, like it was some new and alien concept to consider for some future "advanced" or "more mature" civilization.
Long after, when some of my older relatives got, well, older, and I saw them in their dying days... morphine and dehydration. Or even cessation of care without any discussion or consent. The elderly are "allowed to die", or "helped along", or even "killed from deliberate and calculated neglect of necessary care" all the time. All. The. Time.
But for Scott's contrary experience, I wouldn't consider this topic worth discussion other than to point out that just sometimes, people don't want their elderly relatives euthanized.
The problem is, there are a lot of candidates out there now. A LOT. So we get real specific with what we want, because we still end up getting between five to ten applicants that have those things and thirty to forty who have almost all of them. If we were vague, we would receive probably between 100 and 200 applicants per job. And we're in an area that is NOT tech haveny. We're in the middle of the deep south.
I remember a friend from google telling me they receive , on the average year, around 195,000 candidates, 30% of which make it to an interview phase. That number doubles every year and a half. By being way more specific , they are slicing that number in half. Or more. Instead of ALL the google employees having to interview 50000 (which doesn't count second or third or onsites that also occur), they're trying to do far less.
Employers are facing a glut of software engineers/IT/etc. We're just knocking the numbers down to reasonable levels with these extra requirements. It'd probably be in your interest to go ahead and apply if you're close to all.. but rest assured, if you see an advert for a job that contains a lot of requirements, they will probably get 5 - 10 applicants that meet those around here.. and 300 - 400 in a more tech heavy area like the bay area.
I don't know where you're trying to hire but I'm pretty sure you're nowhere near New England.
Years ago practically all the grocery stores I went to changed their plastic bags over to a new material which most certainly does not last 100 years - after a year or so they break down so much they turn into confetti. I believe they're awfully cheap to make, too.
The GOP by and large isnt bothered if your costs get lower (though, in reality, it is not actually possible for the majority's costs to get lower when we are now covering higher risk people); the concern is that we are going down a path of surrendering every area of life to government control. The idea that the government has the right to tell you to buy X product in order to live in this country is problematic; and its problematic that the government is OK with saying "it doesnt matter what bad choices you make in life, we (that is America at large) has your back".
Theres a term called "enablement" when dealing with someone who has an addiction / other problem; it refers to feeding their bad choices by taking away all consequences. What do you suppose happens when everyone is paying into insurance to cover the terrible choices others make? Or, I suppose, we could fix that by legislating exactly how people can live everyday life, but Im not seeing that as much better.
Because everyone knows that if someone gets sick, it's always caused by their own bad choices (like being born) and should be either denied care, or financially punished into bankruptcy.
And I agree totally. High risk people shouldn't be covered at all if they're not rich. Don't "enable" them - they're all just evil, godless liberals sponging off the hard-working REAL Americans. Fuck 'em.
HTML is probably the worst engineering mistake in human history, in terms of total waste.
You do NOT make a machine-consumable standard "human-readable" or "human-writable". You do NOT combine machine-consumable and human-consumable standards. Human-consumable standards must compile to machine-consumable standards. Human-consumable standards must be associated with products, varied, and market-driven.
The web is easily 10 years behind where we could have been. Let's stop trying to keep shoving a square peg into a round hole. Let's stop trying to make everything HTML.
Any signal disruption from interference would cause blindness.
... which would be awesome because then you could have LaForge moments! And say shit like "My visor just cut out, I'm getting wide spectrum EM interference!" and 'blindly' grope your date.
I stopped getting the latest version after 2.73. They started adding unnecessary crap from 3.0 onward, stuff that slowed down the interface and mucked up the layout. At one point I think they even included a malware toolbar with the install.
They're going to shut down "web services"? Who cares?
I'll be using 2.73 for another decade. Listening to all the music I downloaded using Napster.
Slashdot Mirror
I have read quite a bit about science that interests me and one of the subjects was "the ultimate fate of the universe". One detail that stuck out was that all galaxies evaporate given enough time. Even with a small rate of evaporation (say, an average of 10 billion years for any given star), our galaxy has 300 billion stars, so you're bound to see a few flying away "naturally" at any point time.
If they really wanted to know how these particular stars got boosted without going through the galactic center, they'd take a look at one of the already-done-to-death simulations.
Hell, I betcha someone could scale down one of these simulations, post it as a crappy javascript app and say "hey look here's how it happens!", and not even need the chops to describe it analytically.
when temporal resolution is constantly ignored either outright or effectively from compression. I'm tired of streaming "full HD" and being able to see each frame like slideshow.
Any proper comparison between languages must leave out the UI, otherwise you're going to entangle the maturity and suitability of the presentation frameworks into the results.
Then there's the whole "stability under changing requirements" metric, which I'm sure wasn't even touched upon...
I'm not sure how useful it is to attempt a comparison like this. If you've ever done Project Euler and looked at all the different posted answers to the problems you solve, you realize that a lot of these hand-waving language metrics on 'productivity' and 'expressiveness' are pure bunk. C#/Python/Haskell/Clojure/etc... static typing, dynamic typing, it doesn't matter - all the good solutions look the same in this class of modern languages. Then there's the less expressive languages like C and assembly, and the reg-ex like languages R/J/K. These aren't really worth comparing with the first category because their proper use cases are so different. Then you have a the occasional Java retard posting eight pages of code where one paragraph was sufficient for everyone else.
I would say it's not the comparison between languages that is useful per se, but rather comparing the cruft and practices that surround them.
after reading Slashdot comments. I feel dumber for days.
because a lot of people give the mass media way too much credibility.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatigue_limit
Useful graph. The wording "no limit" can be a bit confusing to people who haven't done a materials course. In this case, having a limit is good.
This is exactly what I thought. And failure caused by cyclic loading isn't pretty, either - it tends to be sudden and catastrophic.
I'm wondering if they plan to regularly check the vehicles for microfractures like they do for aircraft.
because it's is a direct function of the rates and plans offered by the carriers. If they back off the caps some more, we'll see another article like this in another year and be all, "Cellular data usage increased again ZOMFG!!!" Big whoop.
LED light bulbs have low cost and no flicker.
Not true for everyone. They've improved a lot, but I still see flicker in most of them.
CANTO 6 - HERESY: ...The countess explained that these chaotically traveling souls were strongly at variance with well-established beliefs
Yeah, you know, I would rather be a heretic than be consumed by groupthink and the cargo-cult engineering it encourages.
I consider the deadliest sin of engineering unnecessary complexity, which comes in its worst forms from inappropriate and poorly implemented generalization.
I've seen a lot of this in the form of "frameworks" - especially homegrown ones - but also from faithful and meticulous application of GoF design patterns. Decompile SqlMetal for a canonical example.
I installed the "always desktop" addin to FF long ago specifically because ./'s mobile site sucked ass... now the only problem is, the normal version can't handle screen re-orientation. So I'll tick down through all the articles I haven't read yet and have maybe 10 tabs open ready for me to read... and if at any point while FF is open the screen goes from landscape to portrait, the layout gets all screwed up. Not just on the tab I'm on, but effing EVERY SINGLE TAB opened to a ./ article.
./ every day, and it's a constant annoyance. And I don't expect it to change because they leave js problems on this site broken for YEARS.
./ developers directly, and this is the first article I've seen where I can rant about this and be on-topic.
I read
Sorry, I just needed to get that off my chest. I don't see any official avenue to rant this at the
By the way, I don't see why everyone assumes that all mobile phone users prefer to browse the shitty portrait way when the screens are so much smaller. I have a Galaxy Note 2, and I always browse landscape.
I know this isn't going to be answered since I waited too long to ask but I'll try anyway...
What if you just shook your head and refused to move or be pulled over if they wouldn't let you continue on your way? The study is "voluntary" and the police officers are off duty, so what authority do they really have?
I ask because obviously there would be "consequences" for saying no, but I'm wondering if the officers would have any legal standing to arrest and prosecute. Put it another way - can the issue be successfully forced into (favorable) litigation if I encounter one of these stops and (unlike the Texans) say NO I will NOT pull over?
In particular, interfaces between two languages that are not C are often difficult to construct
I'm under the impression that this one of the primary use cases of service-oriented architecture.
Where I come from RMS means "root mean square".
case-sensitive scripting language.
Kids will be choosing to work at a McD's or writing JavaScript code. This is all tech industry's goal of making programming and development a skilled trade - much lower paying trade.
But a skilled trade is exactly what programming is. Nothing wrong with calling it that. Show me a developer that's more a scientist or theorist than a tradesman, and I'll show you someone who should be kept clear of production.
And hey, if they want to pay too little... they'll get burned because demand for competence far outstrips the supply. And as far as I can tell this is true for nearly all engineering disciplines - but especially programming.
A mandatory, random, 10-20 second delay for each trade would completely eliminate the incentive to do this.
I remember we used to discuss this in class in high school. And I think this was even a policy debate topic for a whole year - we researched it, talked about it, like it was some new and alien concept to consider for some future "advanced" or "more mature" civilization.
Long after, when some of my older relatives got, well, older, and I saw them in their dying days... morphine and dehydration. Or even cessation of care without any discussion or consent. The elderly are "allowed to die", or "helped along", or even "killed from deliberate and calculated neglect of necessary care" all the time. All. The. Time.
But for Scott's contrary experience, I wouldn't consider this topic worth discussion other than to point out that just sometimes, people don't want their elderly relatives euthanized.
The problem is, there are a lot of candidates out there now. A LOT. So we get real specific with what we want, because we still end up getting between five to ten applicants that have those things and thirty to forty who have almost all of them. If we were vague, we would receive probably between 100 and 200 applicants per job. And we're in an area that is NOT tech haveny. We're in the middle of the deep south.
I remember a friend from google telling me they receive , on the average year, around 195,000 candidates, 30% of which make it to an interview phase. That number doubles every year and a half. By being way more specific , they are slicing that number in half. Or more. Instead of ALL the google employees having to interview 50000 (which doesn't count second or third or onsites that also occur), they're trying to do far less.
Employers are facing a glut of software engineers/IT/etc. We're just knocking the numbers down to reasonable levels with these extra requirements. It'd probably be in your interest to go ahead and apply if you're close to all.. but rest assured, if you see an advert for a job that contains a lot of requirements, they will probably get 5 - 10 applicants that meet those around here.. and 300 - 400 in a more tech heavy area like the bay area.
I don't know where you're trying to hire but I'm pretty sure you're nowhere near New England.
Maybe California, huh. Fuck California.
Years ago practically all the grocery stores I went to changed their plastic bags over to a new material which most certainly does not last 100 years - after a year or so they break down so much they turn into confetti. I believe they're awfully cheap to make, too.
If they can do it, how hard can it be?
The GOP by and large isnt bothered if your costs get lower (though, in reality, it is not actually possible for the majority's costs to get lower when we are now covering higher risk people); the concern is that we are going down a path of surrendering every area of life to government control. The idea that the government has the right to tell you to buy X product in order to live in this country is problematic; and its problematic that the government is OK with saying "it doesnt matter what bad choices you make in life, we (that is America at large) has your back".
Theres a term called "enablement" when dealing with someone who has an addiction / other problem; it refers to feeding their bad choices by taking away all consequences. What do you suppose happens when everyone is paying into insurance to cover the terrible choices others make? Or, I suppose, we could fix that by legislating exactly how people can live everyday life, but Im not seeing that as much better.
Because everyone knows that if someone gets sick, it's always caused by their own bad choices (like being born) and should be either denied care, or financially punished into bankruptcy.
And I agree totally. High risk people shouldn't be covered at all if they're not rich. Don't "enable" them - they're all just evil, godless liberals sponging off the hard-working REAL Americans. Fuck 'em.
There will need to be a law that all gas stations must have at least one universal electric charging system by 201X.
Not only will that get the whole market going, that may be the only thing that will do it.
HTML is probably the worst engineering mistake in human history, in terms of total waste.
You do NOT make a machine-consumable standard "human-readable" or "human-writable". You do NOT combine machine-consumable and human-consumable standards. Human-consumable standards must compile to machine-consumable standards. Human-consumable standards must be associated with products, varied, and market-driven.
The web is easily 10 years behind where we could have been. Let's stop trying to keep shoving a square peg into a round hole. Let's stop trying to make everything HTML.
but only if it makes me look like Batou.
Any signal disruption from interference would cause blindness.
... which would be awesome because then you could have LaForge moments! And say shit like "My visor just cut out, I'm getting wide spectrum EM interference!" and 'blindly' grope your date.
I stopped getting the latest version after 2.73. They started adding unnecessary crap from 3.0 onward, stuff that slowed down the interface and mucked up the layout. At one point I think they even included a malware toolbar with the install.
They're going to shut down "web services"? Who cares?
I'll be using 2.73 for another decade. Listening to all the music I downloaded using Napster.
Now get off my lawn.