Just be happy you're not a chick in need of a professional gynecologist, not an obstetrician but a gynecologist. Also be happy that it was something that could be identified immediately and did not require you to wait months and months for testing, waiting that could lead to a non-treatable cancer, like in case of a bunch of people who I USED to know.
They want to be lied to about how they can have cheap gas, low taxes, universal (but not zomg socialized!)
- I live in Canada, I have the zomg socialized! health care. How come for the past 5 months I've been more times to Buffalo and Rochester (NY) then to the doctors here with my wife? Why does it take months and months and months to get appointments, to get any testing done and to see a specialist? Why can I get all those things within 2-3 days if I set up an appointment in NY? I am paying the high Canadian taxes and yet I end up paying Buffalo Medical Group and Rochester Memorial Hospital bills because if I don't, my and/or my wife asses are toast.
For a measly 10,000,000.00 I guarantee to fix the system so that the 200,000 people's salaries are lowered to the minimum wage within only 15 days. I will restore the original code from a backup tape once it needs to be done in a day or so.
They said they found water and they said they found something else. I'm guessing the something else is a material that's associated with life on Earth: whether it be building block that life needs or the byproduct of biological processes.
That km/liter gauge was in my 2001 BMW 330CI. The car had to be fueled with highest octane gas, I personally was having fun trying to get the least distance per liter. As long as the gauge was showing 24 litters/km I knew I was doing OK.
Around 1989 back in Yakutia (Russian North, near the arctic circle) I was coming back from school in the winter, probably around 4PM, it was dark (polar night). I and 2 more friends saw a ball like that. It was impossible to say how high above the buildings it was hanging. It was gliding slowly as we walked. There was no moon that night and the Sun was below the horizon. There were few stars, visibility was low, but I remember very well that we observed the ball of light for half an hour before it disappeared. I don't have an explanation for it, maybe it was a ball of lightning, but there was no thunderstorm or any storm at all.
I would be extremely surprised if we ever, I mean ever were able to contact any other intelligent civilization out there. I fully expect that humans will never come into contact with anything more intelligent than a cat out there.
Read Solaris by Lem (don't watch the terrible Hollywood adaptation, even the USSR version is better.)
Lem is imagining a contact between humans and something intelligent but so inhumane, that its motivations are completely beyond our reach (the intelligent 'alive' ocean, which can even control the motion of its planet.) The story is about humans trying to understand the 'ocean' and the 'ocean' trying to understand the humans and what comes out of it (and it is NOT about George Clooney's buttocks.)
Cops are armed with weapons and they are dangerous because they are insiders within the system that defines itself as the law. I don't trust cops, don't want to interact with them and treat them with as much contempt as I would treat criminals. Only cops are more dangerous than criminals because of the entire political structure that uses the cops as attack dogs and shows them so much leniency no matter what their actions are.
Christianity only became more or less mainstream about 1700 years ago, when it was selected among dozens of other religions by a Roman emperor to be a useful tool. At that point it didn't matter whether any of it was true at all, it became a political tool, just the way it is today. I don't know if this particular Jesus existed, but I wouldn't be surprised if 'he' was a completely fictional character created by combining information about many different events and people and assigning them to one person.
I would like my transistors in cherry wood. I know some prefer oak and some go with cedar and, o humanity, some less discriminating folks will be going for the cheaper soft woods, like pine. In any case, I'll take mine well polished, stained and with a good satin finish.
* similarly: set a file length limit (e.g. 1000 lines should be enough for everybody)
- it is a stupid practice to set artificial standards on thing like file length. It didn't make sense during vi time, nor does it make sense today, when any decent IDE can hide/display file outlines, sections of code, comment blocks etc.
same applies to any formatting basically, any IDE can reformat a source file to your liking. ( I only use tabs and always reformat code from spaces with an IDE, I hate spaces, you see. But if you want your spaces format it back with your IDE, or is that too hard?)
same with import organization.
same with the mandatory number of parameters - by specifying this you just provide justification for moron programmers to pass around lists/hashtables of parameters where not needed, thus hiding real method interfaces.
* you can also constraint the number of returns from methods (we found it to be very useful to set this to 1, using a result variable everywhere else - it's far easier to get hold of the code flow then)
- another silly constraint. Sometimes it makes sense to stop processing and exit without having anything else to do within a method, if this is not allowed the method will become more cumbersome by adding unnecessary control flow structures. You are complicating the code where it needs not be complicated.
Automatically forcing 'final' on items may lead to bugs if a declaration is really not final, for example if the object is populated by reflection at some point.
* we also constraint the if depth and boolean expression complexity to manage the cyclomatic complexity - also for easier reading
- then you are doing this wrong as well. Forcing a particular depth of cycles/conditions is all great, except it does not provide a context for the reason of this action. I prefer to ask the developers to think in terms of business functionality. If loops and conditions are nested too deeply I ask to think for a reason why this may really be hiding a separate business function that even may be reused by another piece of code. Maybe it can be reused, maybe it can't, but the point is that in most cases deep enclosures are hiding some atomic piece of functionality that needs to be factored out and named and parametrized appropriately.
What is the question in this 'story'? Is this about coding for money or free source or what?
If the question is about coding for money then it is the responsibility of the team lead/designer/architect to make sure that the business problem is divided into pieces in a way that allows different people to work in parallel (if there are multiple people on the project.)
If the question is just about some abstract idea of 'code reuse', then the answer is simple: libraries. Create libraries and document them (otherwise they are useless really, without anyone knowing what the hell is inside.)
In any case, please document the purpose of the code, and then break the higher level requirements into more granular ones with clear specifications.
In all cases divide, concur and document well seems to work best...
Because they are, generally speaking, not very family friendly
- why should they be?
However, call me a cynic, I doubt Congress really cares about that.
- nor do I or many other people.
There is no good reason to make science 'family friendly'. Science should be about passion, family is about responsibility. Responsibility to family kills passion. AFAIAC family and passion to science are most often mutually exclusive.
1 Feature that would sell Windows 7 to me is a hot blonde chick with great T&A that would give me a blowjob during the power-up and would do a special treat of any kind that I would wish for in case if any OS related error happens.
Every service pack should include a newer blonde yet.
I should be covered for crazy amounts of sex until I die.
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Just be happy you're not a chick in need of a professional gynecologist, not an obstetrician but a gynecologist. Also be happy that it was something that could be identified immediately and did not require you to wait months and months for testing, waiting that could lead to a non-treatable cancer, like in case of a bunch of people who I USED to know.
They want to be lied to about how they can have cheap gas, low taxes, universal (but not zomg socialized!)
- I live in Canada, I have the zomg socialized! health care. How come for the past 5 months I've been more times to Buffalo and Rochester (NY) then to the doctors here with my wife? Why does it take months and months and months to get appointments, to get any testing done and to see a specialist? Why can I get all those things within 2-3 days if I set up an appointment in NY? I am paying the high Canadian taxes and yet I end up paying Buffalo Medical Group and Rochester Memorial Hospital bills because if I don't, my and/or my wife asses are toast.
Be careful what you wish for.
For a measly 10,000,000.00 I guarantee to fix the system so that the 200,000 people's salaries are lowered to the minimum wage within only 15 days. I will restore the original code from a backup tape once it needs to be done in a day or so.
So, Terminator, how about a contract? ;)
George Carlin died too early.
They said they found water and they said they found something else. I'm guessing the something else is a material that's associated with life on Earth: whether it be building block that life needs or the byproduct of biological processes.
- A Chinese convenience store?
There goes karma, in Soviet Russia naked OOG with lasers on his head petrifies Goats {#`%${%&`+'${`%&NO CARRIER
So how much money is in the porn business?
Check your thyroid (t3, t4, tsh and thyroid antibodies)
All those 'if MS was making car' jokes will actually become relevant reality!! I am getting off the road... imagine BSODs that the cars will get!
That km/liter gauge was in my 2001 BMW 330CI. The car had to be fueled with highest octane gas, I personally was having fun trying to get the least distance per liter. As long as the gauge was showing 24 litters/km I knew I was doing OK.
Around 1989 back in Yakutia (Russian North, near the arctic circle) I was coming back from school in the winter, probably around 4PM, it was dark (polar night). I and 2 more friends saw a ball like that. It was impossible to say how high above the buildings it was hanging. It was gliding slowly as we walked. There was no moon that night and the Sun was below the horizon. There were few stars, visibility was low, but I remember very well that we observed the ball of light for half an hour before it disappeared. I don't have an explanation for it, maybe it was a ball of lightning, but there was no thunderstorm or any storm at all.
I would be extremely surprised if we ever, I mean ever were able to contact any other intelligent civilization out there. I fully expect that humans will never come into contact with anything more intelligent than a cat out there.
Read Solaris by Lem (don't watch the terrible Hollywood adaptation, even the USSR version is better.)
Lem is imagining a contact between humans and something intelligent but so inhumane, that its motivations are completely beyond our reach (the intelligent 'alive' ocean, which can even control the motion of its planet.) The story is about humans trying to understand the 'ocean' and the 'ocean' trying to understand the humans and what comes out of it (and it is NOT about George Clooney's buttocks.)
You are 5 Interesting, and I want you to stay that way. Just so that the rest of the /.ters here can see for themselves what cops are like.
Man dies after four cops use their taser's on him without even trying anything else. CBC story from Vancouver 10 minute video of the incident. - this made big news. But this happens once in a while and it mostly stays as local news here in Ontario.
Cops are armed with weapons and they are dangerous because they are insiders within the system that defines itself as the law. I don't trust cops, don't want to interact with them and treat them with as much contempt as I would treat criminals. Only cops are more dangerous than criminals because of the entire political structure that uses the cops as attack dogs and shows them so much leniency no matter what their actions are.
Christianity only became more or less mainstream about 1700 years ago, when it was selected among dozens of other religions by a Roman emperor to be a useful tool. At that point it didn't matter whether any of it was true at all, it became a political tool, just the way it is today. I don't know if this particular Jesus existed, but I wouldn't be surprised if 'he' was a completely fictional character created by combining information about many different events and people and assigning them to one person.
I would like my transistors in cherry wood. I know some prefer oak and some go with cedar and, o humanity, some less discriminating folks will be going for the cheaper soft woods, like pine. In any case, I'll take mine well polished, stained and with a good satin finish.
silly you, terminators built terminators but the original debug logging was still on, nooby noob noobs.
* similarly: set a file length limit (e.g. 1000 lines should be enough for everybody)
- it is a stupid practice to set artificial standards on thing like file length. It didn't make sense during vi time, nor does it make sense today, when any decent IDE can hide/display file outlines, sections of code, comment blocks etc.
same applies to any formatting basically, any IDE can reformat a source file to your liking. ( I only use tabs and always reformat code from spaces with an IDE, I hate spaces, you see. But if you want your spaces format it back with your IDE, or is that too hard?)
same with import organization.
same with the mandatory number of parameters - by specifying this you just provide justification for moron programmers to pass around lists/hashtables of parameters where not needed, thus hiding real method interfaces.
* you can also constraint the number of returns from methods (we found it to be very useful to set this to 1, using a result variable everywhere else - it's far easier to get hold of the code flow then)
- another silly constraint. Sometimes it makes sense to stop processing and exit without having anything else to do within a method, if this is not allowed the method will become more cumbersome by adding unnecessary control flow structures. You are complicating the code where it needs not be complicated.
Automatically forcing 'final' on items may lead to bugs if a declaration is really not final, for example if the object is populated by reflection at some point.
* we also constraint the if depth and boolean expression complexity to manage the cyclomatic complexity - also for easier reading
- then you are doing this wrong as well. Forcing a particular depth of cycles/conditions is all great, except it does not provide a context for the reason of this action. I prefer to ask the developers to think in terms of business functionality. If loops and conditions are nested too deeply I ask to think for a reason why this may really be hiding a separate business function that even may be reused by another piece of code. Maybe it can be reused, maybe it can't, but the point is that in most cases deep enclosures are hiding some atomic piece of functionality that needs to be factored out and named and parametrized appropriately.
Cheers
Simple, they never switched it from debug to production logging settings, noob.
What is the question in this 'story'? Is this about coding for money or free source or what?
If the question is about coding for money then it is the responsibility of the team lead/designer/architect to make sure that the business problem is divided into pieces in a way that allows different people to work in parallel (if there are multiple people on the project.)
If the question is just about some abstract idea of 'code reuse', then the answer is simple: libraries. Create libraries and document them (otherwise they are useless really, without anyone knowing what the hell is inside.)
In any case, please document the purpose of the code, and then break the higher level requirements into more granular ones with clear specifications.
In all cases divide, concur and document well seems to work best...
welcome to the Barracuda club, Kemerovo, Russia
Because they are, generally speaking, not very family friendly
- why should they be?
However, call me a cynic, I doubt Congress really cares about that.
- nor do I or many other people.
There is no good reason to make science 'family friendly'. Science should be about passion, family is about responsibility. Responsibility to family kills passion. AFAIAC family and passion to science are most often mutually exclusive.
imagine that in the future the enemy (whoever thinks they are the enemy and the others, who are not even aware that they maybe the enemy) will never know when they will get their shit kicked out of them due to a possible Pentium FDIV error or a buffer overflow of some sort. Let's just hope that any security bugs will be dealt with promptly, cause if they can hack into a computer because of some CPU errors by using java or javascript through a browser, the will certainly be looking for a way to control some more exciting equipment.
1 Feature that would sell Windows 7 to me is a hot blonde chick with great T&A that would give me a blowjob during the power-up and would do a special treat of any kind that I would wish for in case if any OS related error happens.
Every service pack should include a newer blonde yet.
I should be covered for crazy amounts of sex until I die.
That's just crazy sad. Use a pen and paper to write a message, take a picture of the page with the phone camera and send the picture.
Of-course I couldn't do it, don't have a camera on my phone.