It's also possible the younger coder learned a trick developed since the older coder got his skills fairly solidified, and the older coder never saw, or came up with in his own experiences.
Just because the new guy is disagreeing and less experienced, doesn't make him wrong. Yes, 9 times out of 10, the new, less experienced guy will be wrong, but that 1 time out of 10, makes it worth giving the other 9 times a fair hearing as well.
I would be as blunt, harsh and straightforward back to him, as he is was me, were I in your shoes. I might add a few nails to the coffin of the argument.
Him: "Your code sucks." Me: "Back it up. What suck why." Him: *explanation* Me: "Well, I can understand you not realizing X, Y, and Z, being new and ignorant, but give it a few years."
Him: "Why'd do you do [pattern X, Y, Z]? Isn't it better to do [pattern A, B, C]?" Me: "In certain circumstances, sure, but in [insert current circumstances and logic for X, Y, Z], this methodology works better."
Put him in his place if he needs it, otherwise, just educate. Also, listen - just because he's less experienced than you doesn't mean he hasn't picked up something useful. I know a lot of people who think they don't have anything to learn from the new guy, when the new guy had a few tricks up his sleeve. I've been one of those people who's learned from the new guy he didn't suspect. I've also been the new guy with unsuspected tricks.
In the news, it's media sensationalization, ratings and drama.
One attempted murderer injured/killed with one or two victims. vs. the same but with dozens of victims.
The latter is NEWS, it gets RATINGS. The former is just news, trumped by something that is News because it is more local, or something that is News because it has more people involved.
Also, the gun free zones are a bit of a sketchy subject.
They do make it easier for a mass killing like this, but they can also reduce the number of smaller scale incidents. I don't think there's a right or a wrong answer to this one, only "which set of problems are you happier with?"
I was arguing against the person who said guns never prevented a mass murder, and was pointing out how silly his logic was, through a bit of sarcasm. Chill spaz master. Take your medicine if you've missed a dose and/or stop taking the other people's medicine that wasn't prescribed to you.
As far as I can tell, the only reason to have a carbine is that it's easier to hide/pack than a full length rifle barrel, but has almost as much accuracy. Why the fuck do you need to hide your "rifle"? Given the cost of ammo and guns, if you can afford such, you can afford a decent transport solution as well.
That's an idiotic statistic in and of itself, without knowing why.
You are significantly more likely to harm/kill someone you know, full stop.
That's simply because, there's usually a trigger event, and that will usually involve people, and you deal more regularly, and have more time to build up animosity (to the tipping point) with people you know.
The only thing that statistic is useful logic for, is preventing anyone from knowing anyone else.
I'll grant you, many people who promote gun control don't have a clue about guns, then again, many who are strongly against it, seem to be in the same line. I'd also argue that many who promote gun control overestimate what the authorities can do to protect them.
However, that doesn't really change that they aren't demonizing these people. They are making ownership of certain types of firearms harder.
At the same point, as the number of rounds your firing in a given timeframe goes up, the less likely you are being responsible/legitimate with your guns.
1) You are either firing at more people, or missing more often. - The former becomes less and less likely with a legitimate user unless you are seriously in the hood. - The latter means you shouldn't be using that gun in defense even, because now innocent bystanders are going to need to fire at you in self defense, so you don't hit them while missing your assailant. 2) If you are being targeted by a large number of people, they are going to take you out before you get too many unless you are (a) unarmed, (b) they are all a horrible shot, or (c) you prepared for the incident in advance - i.e. you most likely instigated it. The only exception I can see, is you didn't instigate (c), but rather a large mob decided to break into your house for whatever reason. How many non-instigated breakins of more than 2-3 people in number happen?
Oh, and maybe the government has become volently malevolent towards it's citizens, and wants to take you out. Good luck against heavily armed military units with that little gun of yours.
High round counts serve no legitimate purpose except for ease of target practice and competition (less time reloading).
No, legalizing them does not take them out of the hands of those that would abuse them, but the cases of those that would legitimately use them are pretty close to nonexistent. I can see a few for high-cap semi-automatics (wilderness, wild critters in numbers), but not for autofires.
numbering mine.
1.I would be fine with it if someone had to pass a test demonstrating an understanding of gun safety and local self defense laws before buying a firearm, with the option to apply for a license so that he does not have to retake the test every time he buys a gun.
2.I would be fine with it if background checks were required for personal firearms sales, provided a simple and affordable means of doing so were made publicly available.
3.I would also be fine with it if they made it a crime (negligence of some kind) if you claimed that a gun was stolen, but did not file a report, and your gun was used in a violent crime.
4.I would even be fine with a national digital firearms registry, if there was not such a push to ban guns of various types.
1. Seems nice/reasonable, problem is, what kind of test? It could be abused. 2., 3. Pretty sure that required in all states in the US. Outside of the US, YMMV. 4. Like 1., that seems problematic. I'd almost want it to be a ballistic test, where the ballistic profile of the bullet provides a decryption key to who owns the gun.
The zombies I don't mind, those are funny, and just generally people being silly. Black shilloutes (lines) are also fine. But there are actual targets of people too, or that look so much like a person, that you would be able to tell unless you looked at just the right spot, right up close.
Without splitting the world into two, and seeing how many people would have been killed on the timeline where the armed/out-of-control gunman were allowed to gun down every one he or she wanted, then we can't say for certain, no.
Our friends at tautology club can tell us that self defense shootings failed to prevent every massacre that actually happened...
if it were read, I'd agree with you, but there are a lot of things that don't get written/that/ often.
Primary OS, your application installs, main configuration files, possibly even some of your data.
Yeah, it'd suck for a swap/scratch disk, and for things like content files you may be working on (or the disk housing the current update/area info for your favorite MMO).
RAID-0 isn't redundancy, it's striping. It's kindof the opposite. Higher fatal-failure rate, on average, slightly increased latency (though with out-of-order-reads, this can be mitigated), much higher throughput.
Sadly I read that as "kitten dinosaurs". Now I want one. Could you imagine the death, terror and destruction that would bring?
There's a lot of gun control advocates out there who don't demonize responsible gun owners.
And from what I've seen, those that cry 'unfairly picking on/demonizing responsible gun owners.' often require removal of the italicized adjective, when referring it comes to themselves.
There's a local NRA backed gun club/firing range that I frequent for target practice. It has all kinds of targets depicting people... From what I gather, this is not uncommon.
Of course they point at other sources, they'd hate for people to see how much they really promote it, themselves. They glorify killing, thinly veiled under 'self defense' and 'anti-terrorism' motifs.
I'd prefer to have multiple UIs because... depending on what I'm doing, I may want a different UI.
I have XFCE set up in a VNC box for a lot of things, and KDE3 set up for normal at-console use. Why be stuck with one, when you yourself aren't using the system with just one use case?
Honestly, having the different options is nice, and I've not had much issue except for one thing...
Selecting fonts/colors/sizes. I wish there were one store location where I could set all of them, and QT, GTK, whatever... would read that.
And don't pull a Microsoft. If you read the font color from a source, read the background color from there as well. I'm sick of different MS applications and libs honoring your font color and completely discarding your background color.
Ahh, the joys of listening to repeated flushing three stalls down, while the guy trying to take a peaceful dump screams in discomfort, while you try to send your log on it's way...
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You should also try to avoid my typos and grammatical errors. Those will not help your case.
It's also possible the younger coder learned a trick developed since the older coder got his skills fairly solidified, and the older coder never saw, or came up with in his own experiences.
Just because the new guy is disagreeing and less experienced, doesn't make him wrong. Yes, 9 times out of 10, the new, less experienced guy will be wrong, but that 1 time out of 10, makes it worth giving the other 9 times a fair hearing as well.
I would be as blunt, harsh and straightforward back to him, as he is was me, were I in your shoes. I might add a few nails to the coffin of the argument.
Him: "Your code sucks."
Me: "Back it up. What suck why."
Him: *explanation*
Me: "Well, I can understand you not realizing X, Y, and Z, being new and ignorant, but give it a few years."
Him: "Why'd do you do [pattern X, Y, Z]? Isn't it better to do [pattern A, B, C]?"
Me: "In certain circumstances, sure, but in [insert current circumstances and logic for X, Y, Z], this methodology works better."
Put him in his place if he needs it, otherwise, just educate. Also, listen - just because he's less experienced than you doesn't mean he hasn't picked up something useful. I know a lot of people who think they don't have anything to learn from the new guy, when the new guy had a few tricks up his sleeve. I've been one of those people who's learned from the new guy he didn't suspect. I've also been the new guy with unsuspected tricks.
Yes, but what is the agenda?
In the news, it's media sensationalization, ratings and drama.
One attempted murderer injured/killed with one or two victims. vs. the same but with dozens of victims.
The latter is NEWS, it gets RATINGS. The former is just news, trumped by something that is News because it is more local, or something that is News because it has more people involved.
Also, the gun free zones are a bit of a sketchy subject.
They do make it easier for a mass killing like this, but they can also reduce the number of smaller scale incidents. I don't think there's a right or a wrong answer to this one, only "which set of problems are you happier with?"
I was arguing against the person who said guns never prevented a mass murder, and was pointing out how silly his logic was, through a bit of sarcasm. Chill spaz master. Take your medicine if you've missed a dose and/or stop taking the other people's medicine that wasn't prescribed to you.
actually, there's also stuff on carbines.
As far as I can tell, the only reason to have a carbine is that it's easier to hide/pack than a full length rifle barrel, but has almost as much accuracy. Why the fuck do you need to hide your "rifle"? Given the cost of ammo and guns, if you can afford such, you can afford a decent transport solution as well.
That's an idiotic statistic in and of itself, without knowing why.
You are significantly more likely to harm/kill someone you know, full stop.
That's simply because, there's usually a trigger event, and that will usually involve people, and you deal more regularly, and have more time to build up animosity (to the tipping point) with people you know.
The only thing that statistic is useful logic for, is preventing anyone from knowing anyone else.
Depending on where on the internet, I've seen that instead for the south, the entirety of the US, India, France, etc. etc.
I'll grant you, many people who promote gun control don't have a clue about guns, then again, many who are strongly against it, seem to be in the same line. I'd also argue that many who promote gun control overestimate what the authorities can do to protect them.
However, that doesn't really change that they aren't demonizing these people. They are making ownership of certain types of firearms harder.
At the same point, as the number of rounds your firing in a given timeframe goes up, the less likely you are being responsible/legitimate with your guns.
1) You are either firing at more people, or missing more often.
- The former becomes less and less likely with a legitimate user unless you are seriously in the hood.
- The latter means you shouldn't be using that gun in defense even, because now innocent bystanders are going to need to fire at you in self defense, so you don't hit them while missing your assailant.
2) If you are being targeted by a large number of people, they are going to take you out before you get too many unless you are (a) unarmed, (b) they are all a horrible shot, or (c) you prepared for the incident in advance - i.e. you most likely instigated it. The only exception I can see, is you didn't instigate (c), but rather a large mob decided to break into your house for whatever reason. How many non-instigated breakins of more than 2-3 people in number happen?
Oh, and maybe the government has become volently malevolent towards it's citizens, and wants to take you out. Good luck against heavily armed military units with that little gun of yours.
High round counts serve no legitimate purpose except for ease of target practice and competition (less time reloading).
No, legalizing them does not take them out of the hands of those that would abuse them, but the cases of those that would legitimately use them are pretty close to nonexistent. I can see a few for high-cap semi-automatics (wilderness, wild critters in numbers), but not for autofires.
numbering mine.
1. Seems nice/reasonable, problem is, what kind of test? It could be abused.
2., 3. Pretty sure that required in all states in the US. Outside of the US, YMMV.
4. Like 1., that seems problematic. I'd almost want it to be a ballistic test, where the ballistic profile of the bullet provides a decryption key to who owns the gun.
The zombies I don't mind, those are funny, and just generally people being silly. Black shilloutes (lines) are also fine. But there are actual targets of people too, or that look so much like a person, that you would be able to tell unless you looked at just the right spot, right up close.
Without splitting the world into two, and seeing how many people would have been killed on the timeline where the armed/out-of-control gunman were allowed to gun down every one he or she wanted, then we can't say for certain, no.
Our friends at tautology club can tell us that self defense shootings failed to prevent every massacre that actually happened...
I typically shoot at lined/bullseye targets.
I don't need to get off killing a pretend person, I just want to see how accurate I am.
No, it doesn't double it, but it does increase it by something like a standard deviation.
if it were read, I'd agree with you, but there are a lot of things that don't get written /that/ often.
Primary OS, your application installs, main configuration files, possibly even some of your data.
Yeah, it'd suck for a swap/scratch disk, and for things like content files you may be working on (or the disk housing the current update/area info for your favorite MMO).
RAID-0 isn't redundancy, it's striping. It's kindof the opposite. Higher fatal-failure rate, on average, slightly increased latency (though with out-of-order-reads, this can be mitigated), much higher throughput.
Sadly I read that as "kitten dinosaurs". Now I want one. Could you imagine the death, terror and destruction that would bring?
They are coming closer to outpacing the high-performance rotary drives, that's a start
(still regretting the purchasing of two velociraptors for RAID-0)
Does it say where the gift certificates are to? I wonder if they were smart enough to pick places that didn't sell violent video games.
If it was target, meijer or wall mart, I'd turn in my 'regret' purchases, for more fun (and probably just as violent) stuff.
There's a lot of gun control advocates out there who don't demonize responsible gun owners.
And from what I've seen, those that cry 'unfairly picking on/demonizing responsible gun owners.' often require removal of the italicized adjective, when referring it comes to themselves.
There's a local NRA backed gun club/firing range that I frequent for target practice. It has all kinds of targets depicting people... From what I gather, this is not uncommon.
Of course they point at other sources, they'd hate for people to see how much they really promote it, themselves. They glorify killing, thinly veiled under 'self defense' and 'anti-terrorism' motifs.
Similar, except north of the M-D line.
I do. I administrate/develop for/run a server that is built on java :-(
Also, anyone who plays mincraft would have it installed.
I'd prefer to have multiple UIs because... depending on what I'm doing, I may want a different UI.
I have XFCE set up in a VNC box for a lot of things, and KDE3 set up for normal at-console use. Why be stuck with one, when you yourself aren't using the system with just one use case?
Honestly, having the different options is nice, and I've not had much issue except for one thing...
Selecting fonts/colors/sizes. I wish there were one store location where I could set all of them, and QT, GTK, whatever... would read that.
And don't pull a Microsoft. If you read the font color from a source, read the background color from there as well. I'm sick of different MS applications and libs honoring your font color and completely discarding your background color.
Ahh, the joys of listening to repeated flushing three stalls down, while the guy trying to take a peaceful dump screams in discomfort, while you try to send your log on it's way...
What could be better?