Umm, no... the banks said something more akin to...
Want some money, we got lots of money, want more money that you can afford, no problem, we'll give you 10 times your salary, even though the recognised multiplier is just 3.
And with low low interest rates, what could possibly go wrong ? Also, while you're here, would you like to borrow more money for a car, and a holiday, and that 80" flatscreen TV ? How about a new kitchen ? We can also give you credit cards with more spending power than God.
And what the heck if the sum total of all your credit comes to 5 times more than you can conceivably earn in your lifetime, this is the American Way (TM).
First, the parent post implied that bad things happen in the world so you might as well let them happen in your house. He started off implying picking your nose was bad.
Second, picking your nose has the same to do with addiction that alcohol does. Many people don't get addicted while many people do. Marriages get wrecked because a husband loses interest in his wife since she doesn't look like a nose picking star. That's not just about "pictures of noses."
If you were married (and you may be) and your wife asked you to stop picking your nose, would you do it even if you thought her request was unreasonable? There are a lot of men out there who would keep picking therr noses at the cost of their marriage. That's a textbook example of addiction.
This all relates to kids because many such addictions are developed during teenage years when kids are still learning self-control skills. Is it really unreasonable of me to try and help my kids develop these skills before they get exposed to this stuff?
Seriously though, with that kind of bias, you must be a Mormon, or at least one of the "born again" lot.
I could start throwing out (semi-plausible) arguments about how porn might prevent an awful lot of rapes from happening, by alleviating the sexual frustrations of lonely, single, desparate people. Or how many marriages might be SAVED due to porn spicing up an otherwise dull and lifeless relationship. Twelve years of Missionary sure is boring...
Really, you have a world view about as complex as that of a concussed duckling, and it's probably better that you poke your own eyes out now, lest you see a naked ankle and have a coronary.
I pity your kids, because the only thing they need protecting from are your 17th century views of "this stuff".
Are you one of those people who just HAS to give advice, despite being completely ignorant of what you are saying ?
Moderate SafeSearch is on At least on my version of images.google.com, the 4th picture is a farm animal's dong, and the 9th picture is of a "Spiral Cock Vibrator / Massager" !!
Strict SafeSearch is on The word "cock" has been filtered from the search because Google SafeSearch is active.
SO here, when your child innocently searches for a picture of a rooster, the Strict SafeSearch simply educates her that "cock" is a bad word.
Look, it's a simple demonstrable fact that whatever the opposition "say" they don't agree with and would never have implemented, ONCE they get in to power, they will change absolutely nothing that is already in place.
They'll just add yet another layer of shit on top of the existing layer of shit, perhaps with a slightly different colour of perfume, but in the end it just makes the shit pile even deeper.
You'd expect economic departments to understand economics
Tell that to Alan Greenspan, who is still guest speaking at sponsored luncheons.
"Oops, turns out the advice I've been giving for the past 30 years was wrong... I can't understand it... how could I have been so wrong... system reboot in 5,4,3,2,1... cheque please".
Allowing people access to the documentation simply filters by people who are "good at using documentation".
I think the OP's point was somewhat missed. It doesn't matter what the useful one-liner is in PHP, Perl, Java or whatever. Any fool can memorize a function name / syntax, likewise any fool can look up the function in the documentation. Unfortunately most of those fools ALSO have the ability to use the function in completely the WRONG context.
The point of the exercise is to say to the candidate, IF you had to code this function manually, what steps would be necessary to achieve the SAME as "print reverse $string". And that is where the men are separated from the boys so to speak, as I'd like to bet half of them have never thought about it.
The skill is NOT how many different languages you know. Once you can apply the core fundamentals of programming, any new language you need is just a matter of learning syntax and symantics. But if you can't even manage the code to reverse a string, you are NOT a programmer, you are a cut and paste script kiddy.
Ah but you NEVER buy "6mbps"... you always buy "up to 6mbps" or "maximum 6mbps", and then try to conveniently ignore the bits you don't like in the deal.
Please, cite me just one ISP who offers a "guaranteed 6mbps available 24/7", and I'll gladly admit I am wrong (right after I sign up with them).
I was looking for some info on a town I lived in 20 years ago. Although the webmaster has allowed Google to index all his site, thus spamming up the results for about 20 pages with his pages, if I visit from my current location, I receive this horrible "Sorry, content not available in your area" message.
Bear in mind that people interested in your town might NOT have lived there for a long time, but are very likely to be interested in catching up on old friends.
1) Yes, I KNOW it has nothing to do with normalization, but too many people equate normalization with "the most efficient use of a suitable datatype for the data it will contain", without thinking that maybe next week, the data might change.
2) Yes, and with a bit of forethought, the column probably would have been varchar in the first place. See point 1) for clarification. Oh, and try doing that on InnoDB on a live system, and come back to me in 5 hours when he's finished rebuilding the indexes, and your boss is screaming bloody murder that the system is slow.
So we should TAX knife crimes ? A lot of people seem to enjoy that at the moment.
How would that work ?
You get a fine from the magistrate of 50 quid, and there's 10 pound tax added on the bottom ?
Or should we just tax the knives at source when you buy them ? No, that would never work, we'd just see an increase in spoon and fork crime then, as it would be more cost-effective.
Just because you have the ability to procreate doesn't mean you HAVE to.
Seems like if you resent being a *slave*, the simplest way is just to NOT have kids ?
Having a baby is not like having a pet rock, of course it comes with responsibilities, and while the child is not grown up, who else is going to provide for it, if not the parents ?
Before I tell you to get off my lawn, here's my take on the problem.
In our day (I was born in 1968, and my formative years were the 70's and early 80's), we were taught certain things about right and wrong. If we fucked up too many times at home, a clip round the ear was usually enough to straighten us out. Likewise, we still had corporal punishment at school, and damn did that cane ever sting across the backside. One taste of that, and you usually didn't go back for another.
However, kids of the 90's grew up in a different atmosphere. They abolished corporal punishment, basically telling kids they could do what they wanted at school without fear of punishment, so no more "lessons" on good or bad at school.
Then they told kids they could SUE their parents if they hit them (WTF ???), so no more "lessions" on good or bad in the home. Parents became fearful of discipling their children, for risk of being accused of molestation or child abuse, and the kids (as they do), learnt all too quickly THIS "lesson".
That they could get away with bloody murder anywhere, anytime they wanted, and no one would say anything !
The government, in response to rising levels of juvenile delinquency, introduced ASBO (anti social behaviour orders), which became trophy items for kids to compare who had the most. Pseudo-psycologists told us that everything was due to "Asberger Tourette Humdrum Lemondrop Syndrome", and everyone lost sight of the simple truth that some kids are just bad little bastards who will push and buck the system as much as they can get away with it, and simply need a bit of discipline to get them back on track.
And now of course, those kid's of the 90's are PARENTS themselves, passing on absolutely no moral or social values to THEIR kids, because they are completely screwed up themselves.
Now who's to blame ? The Governent telling us how to be a "modern" parent properly 20 years ago, or us ourselves for not telling them to mind their own goddamn business ?
Either way, it's pretty much out of our hands now, so only the Government have any power left to do anything to fix things. They'll screw this up exactly as they screwed up 20 years ago of course, completely missing the point and getting things ass about face as always.
Normalize... how I hate that word, as so many people who are obsessed with normalization tend to lack basic common sense, and can't see beyond next week in terms of flexibility and expandability of the system.
I remember one fix I had to do was on a simple address table. The original guy had implemented ZIP codes as an integer, because "everyone knows that US ZIP codes are numeric, and 5 digits maximum, right ?". Hey, that's such an efficient use of space, it must be good ?
Then we had to expand our list of countries to include UK also... imagine the shock when he realised that UK ZIP code (Postal Codes), can look like "EC13 1XY".
When you are sorting 10 items or less, it's kind of academic what you use. The choice between 10ms and 11ms is an easy one to make.
But thinking that "you'll probably be on you next job by the time it has a million elements", isn't a terribly good work ethic. What if the requirements explode while you are still on that job... you're gonna look like a twat then, after your 10ms becomes 10 minutes and the boss is leanign on you for a fix.
Anyway, swap sort FTW... also easy to code, and way more efficient for > 10 items.
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It's funny because the usual choices for "describe yourself" are :-
Single
Married
Looking for Friends
It's Complicated
etc.
I don't recall seeing any along the lines of :-
Looking for buildings to blow up
Looking to convert the world to Islam
Looking for friends who also hide in caves a lot
Umm, no ... the banks said something more akin to ...
Want some money, we got lots of money, want more money that you can afford, no problem, we'll give you 10 times your salary, even though the recognised multiplier is just 3.
And with low low interest rates, what could possibly go wrong ? Also, while you're here, would you like to borrow more money for a car, and a holiday, and that 80" flatscreen TV ? How about a new kitchen ? We can also give you credit cards with more spending power than God.
And what the heck if the sum total of all your credit comes to 5 times more than you can conceivably earn in your lifetime, this is the American Way (TM).
First, the parent post implied that bad things happen in the world so you might as well let them happen in your house. He started off implying picking your nose was bad.
Second, picking your nose has the same to do with addiction that alcohol does. Many people don't get addicted while many people do. Marriages get wrecked because a husband loses interest in his wife since she doesn't look like a nose picking star. That's not just about "pictures of noses."
If you were married (and you may be) and your wife asked you to stop picking your nose, would you do it even if you thought her request was unreasonable? There are a lot of men out there who would keep picking therr noses at the cost of their marriage. That's a textbook example of addiction.
This all relates to kids because many such addictions are developed during teenage years when kids are still learning self-control skills. Is it really unreasonable of me to try and help my kids develop these skills before they get exposed to this stuff?
Seriously though, with that kind of bias, you must be a Mormon, or at least one of the "born again" lot.
I could start throwing out (semi-plausible) arguments about how porn might prevent an awful lot of rapes from happening, by alleviating the sexual frustrations of lonely, single, desparate people. Or how many marriages might be SAVED due to porn spicing up an otherwise dull and lifeless relationship. Twelve years of Missionary sure is boring ...
Really, you have a world view about as complex as that of a concussed duckling, and it's probably better that you poke your own eyes out now, lest you see a naked ankle and have a coronary.
I pity your kids, because the only thing they need protecting from are your 17th century views of "this stuff".
So you DIDN'T grow an extra 6 legs and start eating people, even after exposure to such a horriffic childhood experience ?
Guess that makes the whole "porn creates rapists" argument settled then ?
Are you one of those people who just HAS to give advice, despite being completely ignorant of what you are saying ?
Moderate SafeSearch is on
At least on my version of images.google.com, the 4th picture is a farm animal's dong, and the 9th picture is of a "Spiral Cock Vibrator / Massager" !!
Strict SafeSearch is on
The word "cock" has been filtered from the search because Google SafeSearch is active.
SO here, when your child innocently searches for a picture of a rooster, the Strict SafeSearch simply educates her that "cock" is a bad word.
In Soviet Russia, Brazil Sao Paulo's you !
Yup, in the same context that Eve didn't FORCE Adam to eat the fucking apple !
Credit + US Citizen == Carrot + Donkey
Yes, because the Tories will be SO much better.
Look, it's a simple demonstrable fact that whatever the opposition "say" they don't agree with and would never have implemented, ONCE they get in to power, they will change absolutely nothing that is already in place.
They'll just add yet another layer of shit on top of the existing layer of shit, perhaps with a slightly different colour of perfume, but in the end it just makes the shit pile even deeper.
You'd expect economic departments to understand economics
Tell that to Alan Greenspan, who is still guest speaking at sponsored luncheons.
"Oops, turns out the advice I've been giving for the past 30 years was wrong ... I can't understand it ... how could I have been so wrong ... system reboot in 5,4,3,2,1 ... cheque please".
They tyrannize their parents, contradict their food, and gobble their teachers.
There, fixed that for you.
Allowing people access to the documentation simply filters by people who are "good at using documentation".
I think the OP's point was somewhat missed. It doesn't matter what the useful one-liner is in PHP, Perl, Java or whatever. Any fool can memorize a function name / syntax, likewise any fool can look up the function in the documentation. Unfortunately most of those fools ALSO have the ability to use the function in completely the WRONG context.
The point of the exercise is to say to the candidate, IF you had to code this function manually, what steps would be necessary to achieve the SAME as "print reverse $string". And that is where the men are separated from the boys so to speak, as I'd like to bet half of them have never thought about it.
The skill is NOT how many different languages you know. Once you can apply the core fundamentals of programming, any new language you need is just a matter of learning syntax and symantics. But if you can't even manage the code to reverse a string, you are NOT a programmer, you are a cut and paste script kiddy.
For the same reason you have to pay a television licence fee in the UK, even if you NEVER watch the stations financed by that licence.
Because corporations, not individuals, determine what the law is and isn't.
Ah but you NEVER buy "6mbps" ... you always buy "up to 6mbps" or "maximum 6mbps", and then try to conveniently ignore the bits you don't like in the deal.
Please, cite me just one ISP who offers a "guaranteed 6mbps available 24/7", and I'll gladly admit I am wrong (right after I sign up with them).
Please, please, follow the parent's advice.
I was looking for some info on a town I lived in 20 years ago. Although the webmaster has allowed Google to index all his site, thus spamming up the results for about 20 pages with his pages, if I visit from my current location, I receive this horrible "Sorry, content not available in your area" message.
Bear in mind that people interested in your town might NOT have lived there for a long time, but are very likely to be interested in catching up on old friends.
Gah, show me an American who ISN'T surprised that I don't know Mrs Smith from the boarding house in Blackpool where they stayed in 1997.
1) Yes, I KNOW it has nothing to do with normalization, but too many people equate normalization with "the most efficient use of a suitable datatype for the data it will contain", without thinking that maybe next week, the data might change.
2) Yes, and with a bit of forethought, the column probably would have been varchar in the first place. See point 1) for clarification. Oh, and try doing that on InnoDB on a live system, and come back to me in 5 hours when he's finished rebuilding the indexes, and your boss is screaming bloody murder that the system is slow.
And ironically, the solution to someone "coming at you armed with a bunch of grapes" was to shoot him.
Pointed stick ? Ohhhh, listen to Mr High and Mighty there ... well, when someone comes at you armed with a banana, don't come crying to me, mate !
It usually takes a few iterations of "offense/punishment"
It is a demonstrable fact that everyone who was ever hanged for murder did not reoffend.
So one iteration will be enough, thanks.
And in a society where unemployment is so rife, don't you feel that giving a criminal a job might just possibly INCREASE the crime statistics ?
So we give the kids guns instead and that will fix things ?
So we should TAX knife crimes ? A lot of people seem to enjoy that at the moment.
How would that work ?
You get a fine from the magistrate of 50 quid, and there's 10 pound tax added on the bottom ?
Or should we just tax the knives at source when you buy them ? No, that would never work, we'd just see an increase in spoon and fork crime then, as it would be more cost-effective.
In our day, we had apprenticeships i.e. the company taught you how to do the work, and then you did it.
Nowadays, every employer wants a newly graduated college student (so they can pay the the absolute minimum wage), AND with 5 years experience.
Until someone invents the time machine, that's not really a viable option, but the dumb recruiters keep on asking for it !
Just because you have the ability to procreate doesn't mean you HAVE to.
Seems like if you resent being a *slave*, the simplest way is just to NOT have kids ?
Having a baby is not like having a pet rock, of course it comes with responsibilities, and while the child is not grown up, who else is going to provide for it, if not the parents ?
Before I tell you to get off my lawn, here's my take on the problem.
In our day (I was born in 1968, and my formative years were the 70's and early 80's), we were taught certain things about right and wrong. If we fucked up too many times at home, a clip round the ear was usually enough to straighten us out. Likewise, we still had corporal punishment at school, and damn did that cane ever sting across the backside. One taste of that, and you usually didn't go back for another.
However, kids of the 90's grew up in a different atmosphere. They abolished corporal punishment, basically telling kids they could do what they wanted at school without fear of punishment, so no more "lessons" on good or bad at school.
Then they told kids they could SUE their parents if they hit them (WTF ???), so no more "lessions" on good or bad in the home. Parents became fearful of discipling their children, for risk of being accused of molestation or child abuse, and the kids (as they do), learnt all too quickly THIS "lesson".
That they could get away with bloody murder anywhere, anytime they wanted, and no one would say anything !
The government, in response to rising levels of juvenile delinquency, introduced ASBO (anti social behaviour orders), which became trophy items for kids to compare who had the most. Pseudo-psycologists told us that everything was due to "Asberger Tourette Humdrum Lemondrop Syndrome", and everyone lost sight of the simple truth that some kids are just bad little bastards who will push and buck the system as much as they can get away with it, and simply need a bit of discipline to get them back on track.
And now of course, those kid's of the 90's are PARENTS themselves, passing on absolutely no moral or social values to THEIR kids, because they are completely screwed up themselves.
Now who's to blame ? The Governent telling us how to be a "modern" parent properly 20 years ago, or us ourselves for not telling them to mind their own goddamn business ?
Either way, it's pretty much out of our hands now, so only the Government have any power left to do anything to fix things. They'll screw this up exactly as they screwed up 20 years ago of course, completely missing the point and getting things ass about face as always.
NOW, get off my lawn !
Normalize ... how I hate that word, as so many people who are obsessed with normalization tend to lack basic common sense, and can't see beyond next week in terms of flexibility and expandability of the system.
I remember one fix I had to do was on a simple address table. The original guy had implemented ZIP codes as an integer, because "everyone knows that US ZIP codes are numeric, and 5 digits maximum, right ?". Hey, that's such an efficient use of space, it must be good ?
Then we had to expand our list of countries to include UK also ... imagine the shock when he realised that UK ZIP code (Postal Codes), can look like "EC13 1XY".
When you are sorting 10 items or less, it's kind of academic what you use. The choice between 10ms and 11ms is an easy one to make.
But thinking that "you'll probably be on you next job by the time it has a million elements", isn't a terribly good work ethic. What if the requirements explode while you are still on that job ... you're gonna look like a twat then, after your 10ms becomes 10 minutes and the boss is leanign on you for a fix.
Anyway, swap sort FTW ... also easy to code, and way more efficient for > 10 items.