Nearly all the people I'm hiring now have never touched the original BASIC, and those who have are usually valuable (and expensive) because of their long experience. So from the point of view of career evaluation the question is totally moot. And should people should be introduced to programming with BASIC? Is this even a question? Nobody's doing this. Nobody uses it any more. Why was this even posted?
Don't insult users with pictures of puppies. They may have fear problems using computers (yes, I find this is still the case) but generally speaking, no matter how dumb they may seem using software, people usually know their jobs extremely well; consider it your duty to defer to end-users as experts of their own domains, whether or not they can express themselves in the language you expect. Work with their strengths, not their weaknesses. Tag all task-specific methods (DAO and up) with attributes containing descriptions that will be meaningful to those likely to invoke them. This will allow you to supply plain-English stack traces when something goes wrong, ones that are both recognizable and memorable to those who will read them. In addition, all (unexpected) exceptions should be automatically logged. You should know about and be working on the problem before the user calls, and generally speaking they should never have to call.
I know of only one practical device that disabled a car in this manner, developed more than 10 years ago - it was a little sled with a wire that fired forward from underneath a cruiser to slide under a fleeing vehicle. The designers of the device specifically noted that this was the only way you could disable a car with EMP, because it is extremely difficult to get a pulse to punch through the car's metal to the bits that matter.
So who is this guy who's apparently made a major technological breakthrough? Some Joe Blow in a garage who apparently claims that in 5 years we will have hand-held EMP rifles. Reporters don't know crap about engineering - I call bullshit.
ECC would just be metadata in its own section that applications would be free to ignore, and it wouldn't be terribly difficult to implement. Allowing multiple implementations in one file for cases when one does not recognize another would be trivial. If you look at it from the point of security, it's a good idea: whatever the FS does to keep the data from corrupting may fail. Security through layers.
VB does ONE job and does it quite well-GUIs for databases...
Either you missed the whole.Net thing, or you should be careful to note in your comments that you know you're talking in the present tense about a version that's been out of date for about 7 years.
Last I heard the US military wildly inflated the Patriot Missile success rate to 95% from "possibly 0%", and tried to cover up scores of civilian deaths directly caused by them. And Raytheon couldn't get even one hit under controlled conditions. Presumably these missiles work now if they're being bought and sold, but I still haven't seen any proof. Has any non-US affiliated party released test results?
Epigenetic changes do not change the DNA of an organism directly, but can change the DNA of the offspring. But you are technically correct - I was referring to a subset of epigenetic change, paramutation. There is another study that showed fruit fly populations experiencing a sudden jump in random mutation rate after a prolonged period of lack of evolutionary pressure- that would be nice cross-reference if I could find it.
Not so. Organisms can change their mutation rate and type in response to their environment. There is even a word for it. That order arises from disorder is more than just a first-order effect, in particular for life systems sharing millions of generations of refinement.
Some people become developers because they naturally gravitate towards the profession, they find coding fun and interesting - i.e. "I would dabble in this even if I wasn't being paid". One of the best things you can do with your life is do something you enjoy, and that's the whole point of asking a programmer in an interview if they have their own side projects - is this person one of those individuals who loves what they do? People who love what they do are *necessarily* the best in their fields, period. The author only fights against the truth of this because he does not enjoy what he does. He chafes at being compared to others, knows only disadvantage and loss because he should be doing something else.
The alternative I suggest is not fanciful and you would know this if you bothered to do a little digging. The point of my comment was, biological alternatives are now finally possible. Mechanical replacements are progressing well but it will be quite some time before they come close to the quality (in terms of the life expectancy of the patient) as original tissue.
It's good that these devices can now last years, but why wouldn't they keep the heart they take out, remove all the cells from the heart's tissue scaffold, and then regrow it with her own stem cells? They've already done this successfully in animals. One would assume that putting the original back in would be a better, and in the long run, cheaper option.
In the public sector there are consequences for gross negligence, usually people get fired, there are lawsuits, sometimes there's jail time. I still can't get my head around why there is apparently so little accountability when tax money is wasted on projects that are poorly conceived or poorly executed, like this one.
Nuclear reactors have lead times of 10 years or more, and you are proposing this for an internet-based business. Reactors are also insanely expensive and carry enormous political problems.
Um, yeah... like, that's totally going to work.
All this talk about 'Ode to Coalinga' and I cannot find more than the first sentence anywhere... I would very much like to read the whole thing. Everyone reports that the content was inflammatory - well, show me, please, so I can decide that for myself.
I agree that some of the practical conclusions the book makes are pure fantasy, above all the part at the end about not regulating commerce. Rather I was referring to parts about the wrong-headedness of not rewarding excellence. You say "it's the rest of us who do the actual work who are the foundation of society", and this is true, but with one very important caveat - 20% of the people do 80% of the work. In all my years working with businesses, I see this over and over again, and the overwhelming truth is, people should not be treated or paid equal, even for identical jobs. In natural systems, rewards come in cash... in school, grades. Messing with that can make the best workers, the best students, demotivated and unproductive; as such Atlas Shrugged seemed to be quite on-topic. I think you're just bellyaching because you didn't like the book:P
I've nearly been killed on my bicycle by the elderly more than any other type of driver. They are so dangerous, this is the type of driver that rolls over toddlers without a clue. Wanting to keep them on the road longer is pure insanity... improving the quality of life (which is mostly over) for 1,000 of these people does not outweigh the life of one child. I am for mandatory road testing that increases in frequency with age after 65, and holding doctors responsible for negligent competency assessment, up to and including jail time. I don't care if Florence Fogerty gets put in a home three months sooner because she can't drive, get these people the hell off the road.
"Nano" means one billionth. Can't they use more appropriately-sized prefixes , such as "centi" or "milli"? Who names these things, scientists or marketing wanks?
An employee took the original, then marked up a fresh case and scrubbed it to make it look like the original was destroyed, so nobody would come looking for it.
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Nearly all the people I'm hiring now have never touched the original BASIC, and those who have are usually valuable (and expensive) because of their long experience. So from the point of view of career evaluation the question is totally moot. And should people should be introduced to programming with BASIC? Is this even a question? Nobody's doing this. Nobody uses it any more. Why was this even posted?
Don't insult users with pictures of puppies. They may have fear problems using computers (yes, I find this is still the case) but generally speaking, no matter how dumb they may seem using software, people usually know their jobs extremely well; consider it your duty to defer to end-users as experts of their own domains, whether or not they can express themselves in the language you expect. Work with their strengths, not their weaknesses. Tag all task-specific methods (DAO and up) with attributes containing descriptions that will be meaningful to those likely to invoke them. This will allow you to supply plain-English stack traces when something goes wrong, ones that are both recognizable and memorable to those who will read them. In addition, all (unexpected) exceptions should be automatically logged. You should know about and be working on the problem before the user calls, and generally speaking they should never have to call.
I know of only one practical device that disabled a car in this manner, developed more than 10 years ago - it was a little sled with a wire that fired forward from underneath a cruiser to slide under a fleeing vehicle. The designers of the device specifically noted that this was the only way you could disable a car with EMP, because it is extremely difficult to get a pulse to punch through the car's metal to the bits that matter.
So who is this guy who's apparently made a major technological breakthrough? Some Joe Blow in a garage who apparently claims that in 5 years we will have hand-held EMP rifles. Reporters don't know crap about engineering - I call bullshit.
Updating? We're having this discussion in the context of archiving. The files themselves would never be updated. I can't think of a simpler use case.
ECC would just be metadata in its own section that applications would be free to ignore, and it wouldn't be terribly difficult to implement. Allowing multiple implementations in one file for cases when one does not recognize another would be trivial. If you look at it from the point of security, it's a good idea: whatever the FS does to keep the data from corrupting may fail. Security through layers.
VB does ONE job and does it quite well-GUIs for databases...
Either you missed the whole .Net thing, or you should be careful to note in your comments that you know you're talking in the present tense about a version that's been out of date for about 7 years.
Let's translate the diagram into a logical statement:
if you're not a sociopath, you are either clueless or a loser
I don't think the author fully understands what a sociopath is.
The syntax is nothing special. Let's see if it delivers anything compelling in practice.
Last I heard the US military wildly inflated the Patriot Missile success rate to 95% from "possibly 0%", and tried to cover up scores of civilian deaths directly caused by them. And Raytheon couldn't get even one hit under controlled conditions. Presumably these missiles work now if they're being bought and sold, but I still haven't seen any proof. Has any non-US affiliated party released test results?
Epigenetic changes do not change the DNA of an organism directly, but can change the DNA of the offspring. But you are technically correct - I was referring to a subset of epigenetic change, paramutation. There is another study that showed fruit fly populations experiencing a sudden jump in random mutation rate after a prolonged period of lack of evolutionary pressure- that would be nice cross-reference if I could find it.
Not so. Organisms can change their mutation rate and type in response to their environment. There is even a word for it. That order arises from disorder is more than just a first-order effect, in particular for life systems sharing millions of generations of refinement.
Some people become developers because they naturally gravitate towards the profession, they find coding fun and interesting - i.e. "I would dabble in this even if I wasn't being paid". One of the best things you can do with your life is do something you enjoy, and that's the whole point of asking a programmer in an interview if they have their own side projects - is this person one of those individuals who loves what they do? People who love what they do are *necessarily* the best in their fields, period. The author only fights against the truth of this because he does not enjoy what he does. He chafes at being compared to others, knows only disadvantage and loss because he should be doing something else.
The alternative I suggest is not fanciful and you would know this if you bothered to do a little digging. The point of my comment was, biological alternatives are now finally possible. Mechanical replacements are progressing well but it will be quite some time before they come close to the quality (in terms of the life expectancy of the patient) as original tissue.
It's good that these devices can now last years, but why wouldn't they keep the heart they take out, remove all the cells from the heart's tissue scaffold, and then regrow it with her own stem cells? They've already done this successfully in animals. One would assume that putting the original back in would be a better, and in the long run, cheaper option.
In the public sector there are consequences for gross negligence, usually people get fired, there are lawsuits, sometimes there's jail time. I still can't get my head around why there is apparently so little accountability when tax money is wasted on projects that are poorly conceived or poorly executed, like this one.
Nuclear reactors have lead times of 10 years or more, and you are proposing this for an internet-based business. Reactors are also insanely expensive and carry enormous political problems. Um, yeah... like, that's totally going to work.
All this talk about 'Ode to Coalinga' and I cannot find more than the first sentence anywhere... I would very much like to read the whole thing. Everyone reports that the content was inflammatory - well, show me, please, so I can decide that for myself.
Why is this story in the science category? It has nothing to do with science.
"Microsoft's loss of IE market power, in turn, could have serious consequences for the company's efforts to compete with Google on the Web."
Is it just me, or does this comment seem totally off the wall?
I agree that some of the practical conclusions the book makes are pure fantasy, above all the part at the end about not regulating commerce. Rather I was referring to parts about the wrong-headedness of not rewarding excellence. You say "it's the rest of us who do the actual work who are the foundation of society", and this is true, but with one very important caveat - 20% of the people do 80% of the work. In all my years working with businesses, I see this over and over again, and the overwhelming truth is, people should not be treated or paid equal, even for identical jobs. In natural systems, rewards come in cash... in school, grades. Messing with that can make the best workers, the best students, demotivated and unproductive; as such Atlas Shrugged seemed to be quite on-topic. I think you're just bellyaching because you didn't like the book :P
Shit like this makes me feel embarrassed to admit I'm American when I'm traveling.
I've nearly been killed on my bicycle by the elderly more than any other type of driver. They are so dangerous, this is the type of driver that rolls over toddlers without a clue. Wanting to keep them on the road longer is pure insanity... improving the quality of life (which is mostly over) for 1,000 of these people does not outweigh the life of one child. I am for mandatory road testing that increases in frequency with age after 65, and holding doctors responsible for negligent competency assessment, up to and including jail time. I don't care if Florence Fogerty gets put in a home three months sooner because she can't drive, get these people the hell off the road.
"Nano" means one billionth. Can't they use more appropriately-sized prefixes , such as "centi" or "milli"? Who names these things, scientists or marketing wanks?
An employee took the original, then marked up a fresh case and scrubbed it to make it look like the original was destroyed, so nobody would come looking for it.