Do -not- say something like "I would have declined the offer as the position would have been maintenance oriented since the bulk of the work was satisfactorily completed."
The vast majority of software work is in maintenance work, having to deal with other people's code and bugs. It's just a fact of life, and any manager is going to nix someone who tries to avoid that reality.
You can say something like "I prefer building new apps over maintenance" and that'd be fine; everyone would just nod and agree. But you certainly cannot appear as one of those obnoxious types who refused to deal with other folk's work and habits.
Jesus Christ, do you have any other tired, worn out, bullshit stereotypes to throw out?
Seriously. I'm a liberal. I know a lot of liberals. But I can't think of anyone I know who wants to ban guns. Hell, I'm a supporter of strong 2nd Amendment rights, and a lot of my friends are, also.
Newsflash: different people are different. You'll find anti-gun conservatives and you'll find pro-gun liberals, and vice-versa. If you insist on attempting to group together everyone left-of-center and claim we're all this-and-that-and-the-other, I reserve the right to call everyone right-of-center a violent hate-fulled homophobic racist backwards inbred uneducated dipshit redneck. I know that's not true, but hey, what's good for the goose, right?
I don't think it's necessarily _illegal_ corruption (flat-out bribery) that people are complaining about; a company can still stay within the law while doing nasty, immoral stuff. Think about the sea of lobbyists and the resultant corporate influence in the US: legal, but still reprehensible.
Add that to the fact that the vast majority of people haven't heard of, or simply don't give a rats ass about, the ISO process. Tada, they can pull these kinds of shenanigans without much risk of a public opinion backlash.
I have a new THEORY that I'm an alien on a bad acid trip and you're all imaginary.
Since I used the word THEORY, that means you all have to give it the same weight as the THEORY of gravity or the THEORY of evolution.
I mean, because I'm using the word THEORY, it means there's no difference between pulling something out of my ass, and something backed up with decades of experimentation, prediction, and critique.
THEORY THEORY THEORY. This is fucking awesome. THEORY THEORY THEORY. You must take me seriously!
In their defense, according to the theory of relativity, you can just as easily say that the Earth is just sitting here while the rest of the universe spins around it.
No, you cannot.
Velocity is relative, but acceleration is NOT relative. An orbiting body is in constant acceleration, so A orbiting B is not the same as B orbiting A.
(nitpickers will point out that they actually orbit their shared center-of-mass, but you know what I mean.)
Very much agreed.:) Many kudos. I still check the rover website everyday; I just wish it was updated more often.
Anyway, one quick question for the GP; is the dust just less 'sticky' than you expected? If the Martian wind can clean off the panels (and, IIRC, it was a huge difference in the level of dust on the panels, literally overnight), do you think it would have been possible for, say, a small fan to have had the same effect ? I'm not saying you should have thought of that to begin with, just asking if it could work.
It's Configuration by Convention; it makes certain assumptions.
And ActiveRecord does not mandate your primary key. If you don't like the default, you can easily change it.
The point of configuration by convention is that you don't have to manage a boatload of config files if you don't want to; all you need to do is follow the standard conventions. Again, however, you're not forced to do it that way if you don't want to.
I've used Hibernate in the past, and am using ActiveRecord now, so I've got a pretty good basis for comparison. ActiveRecord also requires some annoying configuration if you have to use an existing schema, but I've got the luxury of working on a Brand New Project right now. Wee!
(FWIW, the thing I don't like about AR is the lack of built-in support for foreign keys, but at least some clever folks have made plugins to support'em.)
I count myself as among 'the left', and I'm happy to see any gains made in Iraq. If the overall fucked-up-edness rate goes down and less people die, good!!
However, bragging about Baghdad violence being at a 21 month low is, well, setting the bar PRETTY GODDAMNED LOW, isn't it? I mean, it certainly wasn't all kittens and roses 21 months ago, was it?
I hope, for once, that Bush and his advisors get something right and things start getting Good over there (as opposed to "Not as bad as it could be"), but so far, they haven't done much to give me faith.
I'm not religious, but am not bothered by people who are.
But creationists annoy the living shit out of me because of the tortured "logic" they try to use while attempting to justify their belief that the earth is only 6000 years old.
I work at Getty, and while I'm a code monkey and not in the biz side of it, I'm pretty sure we don't sell images w/the watermark still visible. (I've had to write code dealing with our rights-management crap, and I've never seen anything about "keeping the watermark")
Hell, if they just wanted a legit cheap picture, they'd have gone to iStockPhoto.:)
However, I'd like to point out that your wife, and probably also you, are not getting coverage for free. The money that the company is paying for the health coverage, to either cover the cost completely or at least subsidizing it, is money they could actually be putting into your paycheck instead. Were nationalized health care to come about and be paid for via taxes, that'd free up that big chunk of change that your employers could then actually pay you. Whether they actually WOULD give it to you, or pocket it themselves is a different matter...
Myself, I'd like to see a national health care plan that took the best of both worlds; guaranteed coverage for everyone for at least the basic stuff, but if people wanted to spend more for better coverage they'd be free to do so. Think of the whole 'voucher' thing for private schools that the Republicans were pushing; it could work like that.
Cool. I'm a CB native. Living in Seattle now; I don't mind visiting the hometown, although I'd go nuts if I moved back.:)
Iowa's not a bad state to grow up in, but they're kind of screwing themselves: They have a pretty good education system, so a lot of the kids that grow up there wind up moving out of state to find jobs.
At the rate it's going, in 30 years I expect there'll be nothing left but Perkins restaurants, horizon to horizon, filled with old people for the 5pm dinner special.
The second amendment does not apply to normal citizens. It applies to organized militias.
A recent federal court decision disagrees with you about that. I'm too lazy to find and post a link, but a quick google search about a Wash, DC gun law being overturned will tell you what I'm talking about.
Also isn't one of the major foundations of evolution that life cannot de-evolve? It always goes from lower to higher?
No, not at all. If a mutation of some sort helps a life form reproduce better, it'll reproduce better. If that mutation 'simplifies' the creature, but increases its chances of passing on its genes, creatures with that mutation will do well. That's it; that's all there is to it. The terms 'lower' and 'higher' are meaningless with respects to evolutionary success.
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Do -not- say something like "I would have declined the offer as the position would have been maintenance oriented since the bulk of the work was satisfactorily completed."
The vast majority of software work is in maintenance work, having to deal with other people's code and bugs. It's just a fact of life, and any manager is going to nix someone who tries to avoid that reality.
You can say something like "I prefer building new apps over maintenance" and that'd be fine; everyone would just nod and agree. But you certainly cannot appear as one of those obnoxious types who refused to deal with other folk's work and habits.
Jesus Christ, do you have any other tired, worn out, bullshit stereotypes to throw out?
Seriously. I'm a liberal. I know a lot of liberals. But I can't think of anyone I know who wants to ban guns. Hell, I'm a supporter of strong 2nd Amendment rights, and a lot of my friends are, also.
Newsflash: different people are different. You'll find anti-gun conservatives and you'll find pro-gun liberals, and vice-versa. If you insist on attempting to group together everyone left-of-center and claim we're all this-and-that-and-the-other, I reserve the right to call everyone right-of-center a violent hate-fulled homophobic racist backwards inbred uneducated dipshit redneck. I know that's not true, but hey, what's good for the goose, right?
Shit. So much for my performance review.
I don't think it's necessarily _illegal_ corruption (flat-out bribery) that people are complaining about; a company can still stay within the law while doing nasty, immoral stuff. Think about the sea of lobbyists and the resultant corporate influence in the US: legal, but still reprehensible.
Add that to the fact that the vast majority of people haven't heard of, or simply don't give a rats ass about, the ISO process. Tada, they can pull these kinds of shenanigans without much risk of a public opinion backlash.
I have a new THEORY that I'm an alien on a bad acid trip and you're all imaginary.
Since I used the word THEORY, that means you all have to give it the same weight as the THEORY of gravity or the THEORY of evolution.
I mean, because I'm using the word THEORY, it means there's no difference between pulling something out of my ass, and something backed up with decades of experimentation, prediction, and critique.
THEORY THEORY THEORY. This is fucking awesome. THEORY THEORY THEORY. You must take me seriously!
In their defense, according to the theory of relativity, you can just as easily say that the Earth is just sitting here while the rest of the universe spins around it.
No, you cannot.
Velocity is relative, but acceleration is NOT relative. An orbiting body is in constant acceleration, so A orbiting B is not the same as B orbiting A.
(nitpickers will point out that they actually orbit their shared center-of-mass, but you know what I mean.)
For proper Slashdot credit, transform your analogy so it involves a car.
You have 10 minutes.
Very much agreed. :) Many kudos. I still check the rover website everyday; I just wish it was updated more often.
Anyway, one quick question for the GP; is the dust just less 'sticky' than you expected? If the Martian wind can clean off the panels (and, IIRC, it was a huge difference in the level of dust on the panels, literally overnight), do you think it would have been possible for, say, a small fan to have had the same effect ? I'm not saying you should have thought of that to begin with, just asking if it could work.
If only they had some way to post articles about the changes...
You are, indeed, correct.
/. where a link to the goatse guy would be ONtopic.
I think this is the first, and probably last, time on
It's Configuration by Convention; it makes certain assumptions.
And ActiveRecord does not mandate your primary key. If you don't like the default, you can easily change it.
The point of configuration by convention is that you don't have to manage a boatload of config files if you don't want to; all you need to do is follow the standard conventions. Again, however, you're not forced to do it that way if you don't want to.
I've used Hibernate in the past, and am using ActiveRecord now, so I've got a pretty good basis for comparison. ActiveRecord also requires some annoying configuration if you have to use an existing schema, but I've got the luxury of working on a Brand New Project right now. Wee!
(FWIW, the thing I don't like about AR is the lack of built-in support for foreign keys, but at least some clever folks have made plugins to support'em.)
I count myself as among 'the left', and I'm happy to see any gains made in Iraq. If the overall fucked-up-edness rate goes down and less people die, good!!
However, bragging about Baghdad violence being at a 21 month low is, well, setting the bar PRETTY GODDAMNED LOW, isn't it? I mean, it certainly wasn't all kittens and roses 21 months ago, was it?
I hope, for once, that Bush and his advisors get something right and things start getting Good over there (as opposed to "Not as bad as it could be"), but so far, they haven't done much to give me faith.
Anti-creationist != anti-religion
I'm not religious, but am not bothered by people who are.
But creationists annoy the living shit out of me because of the tortured "logic" they try to use while attempting to justify their belief that the earth is only 6000 years old.
Replying to myself to clarify:
The Getty Images brand is more for high-usage stuff, like ad campaigns or whatever.
Stock photography stuff like iStock would be more appropriate for smaller-scale usage, like on that group's website. It's less expensive.
Given that Getty bought iStockPhoto a while ago, I'm not really worried.
I work at Getty, and while I'm a code monkey and not in the biz side of it, I'm pretty sure we don't sell images w/the watermark still visible. (I've had to write code dealing with our rights-management crap, and I've never seen anything about "keeping the watermark")
:)
Hell, if they just wanted a legit cheap picture, they'd have gone to iStockPhoto.
I travel the old-fashioned way.
Continental drift!
(stolen from The Onion)
Good post.
However, I'd like to point out that your wife, and probably also you, are not getting coverage for free. The money that the company is paying for the health coverage, to either cover the cost completely or at least subsidizing it, is money they could actually be putting into your paycheck instead. Were nationalized health care to come about and be paid for via taxes, that'd free up that big chunk of change that your employers could then actually pay you. Whether they actually WOULD give it to you, or pocket it themselves is a different matter...
Myself, I'd like to see a national health care plan that took the best of both worlds; guaranteed coverage for everyone for at least the basic stuff, but if people wanted to spend more for better coverage they'd be free to do so. Think of the whole 'voucher' thing for private schools that the Republicans were pushing; it could work like that.
It's a little known fact that James Madison had a severe case of Tourette's syndrome.
Had the first draft of the US Constitution had been adopted, CSPAN would be a lot more fun to watch.
Gotta get rep with The Redmond Brotherhood... time to turn in 10x[Head of Torvalds] !!
Cool. I'm a CB native. Living in Seattle now; I don't mind visiting the hometown, although I'd go nuts if I moved back. :)
Iowa's not a bad state to grow up in, but they're kind of screwing themselves: They have a pretty good education system, so a lot of the kids that grow up there wind up moving out of state to find jobs.
At the rate it's going, in 30 years I expect there'll be nothing left but Perkins restaurants, horizon to horizon, filled with old people for the 5pm dinner special.
(that and factory farms, of course)
A recent federal court decision disagrees with you about that. I'm too lazy to find and post a link, but a quick google search about a Wash, DC gun law being overturned will tell you what I'm talking about.
Also isn't one of the major foundations of evolution that life cannot de-evolve? It always goes from lower to higher?
No, not at all. If a mutation of some sort helps a life form reproduce better, it'll reproduce better. If that mutation 'simplifies' the creature, but increases its chances of passing on its genes, creatures with that mutation will do well. That's it; that's all there is to it. The terms 'lower' and 'higher' are meaningless with respects to evolutionary success.
How dare you challenge "Argument by Incredulity" with reasoned, logical, and sane mathematical models?
You're going to hell, mister!
Holy crap, he's posting ... FROM THE FUTURE!