That's what I do. It seems like the burden of "low level visual processing" is lowest this way. When I look at the previous style, I find myself being just a bit annoyed and distracted by the if and else. Either way is vastly superior to K&R style. With that, I find I have to sit there and slow down, tediously parsing the code. Even worse is when people have a one-liner as an if statement, and don't use braces.
I learned to do this very quickly when I was a delivery driver in the late 80s. It caused me to put a lot more thought into driving since it was an all-day affair. At some point after that, my sister asked "do you actually use your mirrors?". In retrospect, I think she must have misunderstood why the side view mirrors were turned so far out.
What happens when $person meets with "the general" on his plane, and they get admitted to a shabby office? What kind of a psychological impact does that have on the person on the other side of the table? On the general?
What happens when top brass gets tired of schlepping around in a shabby office, and decides to go work for Halliburton instead? You might retort, "we don't want generals who can be persuaded with money and perks, we want loyal dedicated staff". Well, even the best get loyalty and dedication fatigue at some point. In some respects, the military is a corporation that needs to extend the proper perks to retain executives.
Like it or not, some of this shit is necessary, and everybody knows it.
If anything concerns me, it's that the brass was either: 1. Not aware that a project like this needs to be flown under the RADAR. or 2. Not smart enough to figure out how to do that. Given that the reports on this story indicate efforts were made to change the language in the specifications, case 2 seems more likely.
So. The Devil's advocate has to ask, "why can't we get smarter people in these positions?" and "why are we taking away the perks that help retain them?".
Take a look at this. Well now, it's come full circle, hasn't it? Of course, this time it's probably not illegal, and it doesn't require any hardware hacking... but the similarity seems striking to me. Arguably, it doesn't affect Apple directly either, although I'm sure it won't help their relationship with AT&T.
These are cheapo consumer routers, right? I've never messed with a Cisco, but I bet it doesn't get hung that often. I bet it costs more than $40 too.
Now, in theory that's not a real excuse. The firmware in these things can't be that complicated, and if you just ran some kind of Linux based router on them, they would rapidly improve to the point where they didn't do that. The community would find a fix. I know some of these things can run Linux; but then there's the old "time vs. money" hassle of having to install Linux on the thing. It seems to me, if the company that makes the thing knows it can run Linux, they might as well just support it. After all, they're not in the software business, so it's hard for them to argue that the GPL hurts their business model.
There are ways to play the volatility of oil prices without resorting to anything illegal. Also, spammers can't have much of an impact on something as heavily traded as oil. That's why most spam-based pump-n-dump scams operate on thinly traded "penny stocks" that are traded "over the counter". In that market, there might be only a handful of trades a day on a particular issue. If you can convince a few dozen people to buy such a stock, you can move the price.
However, it would not surprise me at all if Iranians, through straw purchasers, had loaded up just prior to the sabre rattling. The ability to fire missiles over the shipping lanes for 40% of the oil, and to control the timing thereof, is a signficantly more potent market mover than spam.
The last time it even appeared we had a viable alternative was Perot; but he failed to pick a proper running mate ("why am I here?" --Stockton). Ultimately, his campaign collapsed but he still got 20% of the vote. The People are that desperate for REAL change. Give me a viable 3rd party--a new Bull Moose, and I might just vote for it. I'm done voting for people simply out of protest. I don't just want an alternative. I want an alternative backed by an effective organization. It's not impossible. Our history shows that. It's just difficult.
Geeks play games. Housewives don't. OK, that stereotype has been busted by some of the "casual games", and the game demographic in general has become more evenly balanced. How about this: Geeks need XP for work, housewives don't. Follow this with: They're using it as their primary OS, but what are they running in a VM?
OK, in re-skimming your post, it sounds like you're using Java and are heavily committed (no pun intended) to Eclipse metadata. First, I wouldn't code in Java.:), However, assuming that I was stuck filling this guys shoes, I would probably do the same thing I do here: Maintain my VS environment, and maintain Linux in a VM. Before making the final commit, I'd do all the Eclipsy stuff that needed to be done. This is essentially what I do now. Yes, I'm maintaining project files in addition to Makefiles, but maintaining a project file is trivial and takes virtually no time. Yes, I do everything in C and it compiles on Linux and Windows, with platform dependancies isolated. Ask me again why I don't code in Java.:)
Haha! I use Visual Studio and play nice with guys using CentOS and Eclipse. The only problem at all is CRLF, and that's an easy fix. At my last job, I used Visual Studio and played nice with Mac users also. I committed every day. Sometimes several times a day. The guy you have who can't do that should just... step... away... from... the... computer.
Where developers must interface, such as coding style, source code repository or corporate blog? Yes, it makes sense. I may not *like* a coding style, but if management at a large company told us to use one, I'd at least understand why. IDE? OS? Compiler (except for the one that actually builds the product)? No, NO, NO!!! A thousand times, no! Why? Because you're just going to stifle creativity.
Management point: IT needs to work on the same thing. Counterpoint: IT is often clueless. Developers can almost always troubleshoot their own systems.
Management point: Ensures software licensing compliance. Counterpoint: None really, they kind of have you there; but since most companies have a policy against installing unlicensed software anyway, punishing developers by forcing them into a cookie-cutter workstation isn't going to solve that problem.
Management point: puts them all on the same page, builds team. Counterpoint: It makes development less a "collegial" environment, where diverse ideas are explored, and more of a "command" environment. Developers are notoriously intolerant of following orders simply for orders sake.
Newbie developers coming right out of school might not mind being told to use all the same tools; but experienced developers might feel otherwise. If you want to annoy experienced developers who know all the ins-and-outs of their particular toolset, then go right ahead. Then, wonder why nobody comes up with new ideas, makes comparative observations of one system against another, or develops an alternative approach that goes beyond the status quo. Wonder why people who don't drink the kool-aid on your particular toolchain leave for greener pastures. Wonder why you don't have any in-house expertise on any other system when your chosen flavor is no longer sweet.
At the now defunct start-up I last worked at, we had the usual LAMP stack driving our product. For amusement (and because I think there is an awful lot of bloat in LAMP), I did a simple front-end to our product based on an approximately 1000-line web server I wrote, and web pages with C embedded in comments. The makefile ran the web pages through a munger that transformed them into C, then built them and linked them into the server. If you didn't want the tiny web server, it could have just as easily built them as an apache module. The downside was that web developers using such a system would have had to "modify, compile, reload in browser" as opposed to their usual "modify, reload in browser" cycle. IMHO, this alone would have killed it since web devs like fast turnaround on changes. Nevermind that the web devs would have had to learn C, and that it wouldn't have been sandboxed or been able to run code client-side. I still like the idea though, and I'm glad to see others not only think in a similar way; but do so using a platform that would resolve some of the aforementioned issues.
My toy front-end was never put into production of course; but when I wanted to debug my code without pestering the web devs, and I needed something more than text, it was quite useful.
Quiet, secluded location. Clear skies. Perfect for the adventurous. Ideal for your country estate or getaway. Some restrictive covenents; but they aren't being enforced. Possibility of well water on site. Bring all reasonable offers.
Recent fires in California have turned the Sun that subtle orange color, and left the air with a noticeable stench of smoke. On a local Bay Area network TV station, they interviewed a woman who had just flown back from China. She said that these conditions were ALMOST as bad. Almost??? That blew my mind. Imagine living with smoke worse than this ALL YEAR LONG.
Why on earth did this guy fly back to a country that was likely to imprison him?
Before I read TFA I was reminded of US hostages in Iran; but they had an excuse. They were there and the revolution blew up on them. I can see that. Flying into Iran after the revolution and getting trapped? Your own stupid fault. This is not to suggest that NZ is like Iran; but flying into a country where you are likely to get stuck is just stupid. Did he have any discussion at all with US authorities before leaving? I bet anybody here would have advised that since he returned voluntarily, we weren't going to make an effort to get him back.
I don't track replies to the sig. FWIW, I periodicly change my sigs. I'm in the process of re-doing my web site, istartedi.org. Some of the older sigs are there in the place-holder now.
Before the Internet, how did they track it down? Huh? How did pervs get their porn? Most likely, they got it through the mail or stores, via porn distributors that put up a legal front, but did some percentage of their biz in illegal material. To bust guys like that, back then, must have taken some effort. You can't just open mail willy-nilly or search store inventory looking for the needle in a haystack.
Now, I'm as much against warrantless search as the next guy, but with kiddie porn on the 'net, you can quietly ask Verizon to monitor a suspect's traffic. They don't have to comply, but if they don't you just get a warrant and then they have to comply. Then, getting all the guy's traffic is as easy as adding him to a list in a file. You don't have to tamper with his mail, which might give him telltale clues he is being watched.
Remove kiddie porn from the Internet, and you remove an electronic audit-trail that might even bring us all the way back to the original source, all in the comfort of the agent's office. Remove it from the 'net and you drive it into a new underground. Most likely it would be retro to whatever was used before. Agents would have to go back "pounding the pavement" more, and with the cost of ga$ going through the roof that's not likely to happen.
In other words, it will just go further and further underground. Pervs are as lazy as anybody else. If it's easy to find on the 'net, they'll find it.
Taking it off the 'net only makes sense if you believe that having it there is likely to "convert" normal users into pedophiles. That's probably as bogus an argument as the idea that having gays in your neighborhood is going to convert people. I don't have a study to back it up though. Do they?
I wonder how well this holds up under heavy aerodynamic load. Really not a new concept if you think about it: biplanes used "doped" fabric, but I think the "doping" made the fabric stiff, and there were plenty of ribs in the wings. Obvioulsy, a well constructed biplane with a stiff fabric covering the wings didn't have fluttering problems, but the fabric here is plainly not stiff.
Then, there is the vandalism problem people mentioned. It can't be any more prone to vandalism than a ragtop; just a lot more expensive to replace.
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That's what I do. It seems like the burden of "low level visual processing" is lowest this way. When I look at the previous style, I find myself being just a bit annoyed and distracted by the if and else. Either way is vastly superior to K&R style. With that, I find I have to sit there and slow down, tediously parsing the code. Even worse is when people have a one-liner as an if statement, and don't use braces.
I learned to do this very quickly when I was a delivery driver in the late 80s. It caused me to put a lot more thought into driving since it was an all-day affair. At some point after that, my sister asked "do you actually use your mirrors?". In retrospect, I think she must have misunderstood why the side view mirrors were turned so far out.
What happens when $person meets with "the general" on his plane, and they get admitted to a shabby office? What kind of a psychological impact does that have on the person on the other side of the table? On the general?
What happens when top brass gets tired of schlepping around in a shabby office, and decides to go work for Halliburton instead? You might retort, "we don't want generals who can be persuaded with money and perks, we want loyal dedicated staff". Well, even the best get loyalty and dedication fatigue at some point. In some respects, the military is a corporation that needs to extend the proper perks to retain executives.
Like it or not, some of this shit is necessary, and everybody knows it.
If anything concerns me, it's that the brass was either: 1. Not aware that a project like this needs to be flown under the RADAR. or 2. Not smart enough to figure out how to do that. Given that the reports on this story indicate efforts were made to change the language in the specifications, case 2 seems more likely.
So. The Devil's advocate has to ask, "why can't we get smarter people in these positions?" and "why are we taking away the perks that help retain them?".
Am I ultra-unhip because I didn't know this was an acronym for "MainStream Media" without having to figure it out?
YYA. SUH. T.
Take a look at this. Well now, it's come full circle, hasn't it? Of course, this time it's probably not illegal, and it doesn't require any hardware hacking... but the similarity seems striking to me. Arguably, it doesn't affect Apple directly either, although I'm sure it won't help their relationship with AT&T.
These are cheapo consumer routers, right? I've never messed with a Cisco, but I bet it doesn't get hung that often. I bet it costs more than $40 too.
Now, in theory that's not a real excuse. The firmware in these things can't be that complicated, and if you just ran some kind of Linux based router on them, they would rapidly improve to the point where they didn't do that. The community would find a fix. I know some of these things can run Linux; but then there's the old "time vs. money" hassle of having to install Linux on the thing. It seems to me, if the company that makes the thing knows it can run Linux, they might as well just support it. After all, they're not in the software business, so it's hard for them to argue that the GPL hurts their business model.
Maybe the real answer is: because of the suits.
Evidently, their lab's automated buzzword generating script is being tested.
There are ways to play the volatility of oil prices without resorting to anything illegal. Also, spammers can't have much of an impact on something as heavily traded as oil. That's why most spam-based pump-n-dump scams operate on thinly traded "penny stocks" that are traded "over the counter". In that market, there might be only a handful of trades a day on a particular issue. If you can convince a few dozen people to buy such a stock, you can move the price.
However, it would not surprise me at all if Iranians, through straw purchasers, had loaded up just prior to the sabre rattling. The ability to fire missiles over the shipping lanes for 40% of the oil, and to control the timing thereof, is a signficantly more potent market mover than spam.
Seriously, I'd take half that storage if there was more assurance of my data integrity
You mean, like, with 750 GB drives and RAID-1?
The last time it even appeared we had a viable alternative was Perot; but he failed to pick a proper running mate ("why am I here?" --Stockton). Ultimately, his campaign collapsed but he still got 20% of the vote. The People are that desperate for REAL change. Give me a viable 3rd party--a new Bull Moose, and I might just vote for it. I'm done voting for people simply out of protest. I don't just want an alternative. I want an alternative backed by an effective organization. It's not impossible. Our history shows that. It's just difficult.
Geeks play games. Housewives don't. OK, that stereotype has been busted by some of the "casual games", and the game demographic in general has become more evenly balanced. How about this: Geeks need XP for work, housewives don't. Follow this with: They're using it as their primary OS, but what are they running in a VM?
OK, in re-skimming your post, it sounds like you're using Java and are heavily committed (no pun intended) to Eclipse metadata. First, I wouldn't code in Java. :), However, assuming that I was stuck filling this guys shoes, I would probably do the same thing I do here: Maintain my VS environment, and maintain Linux in a VM. Before making the final commit, I'd do all the Eclipsy stuff that needed to be done. This is essentially what I do now. Yes, I'm maintaining project files in addition to Makefiles, but maintaining a project file is trivial and takes virtually no time. Yes, I do everything in C and it compiles on Linux and Windows, with platform dependancies isolated. Ask me again why I don't code in Java. :)
Haha! I use Visual Studio and play nice with guys using CentOS and Eclipse. The only problem at all is CRLF, and that's an easy fix. At my last job, I used Visual Studio and played nice with Mac users also. I committed every day. Sometimes several times a day. The guy you have who can't do that should just... step... away... from... the... computer.
Where developers must interface, such as coding style, source code repository or corporate blog? Yes, it makes sense. I may not *like* a coding style, but if management at a large company told us to use one, I'd at least understand why. IDE? OS? Compiler (except for the one that actually builds the product)? No, NO, NO!!! A thousand times, no! Why? Because you're just going to stifle creativity.
Management point: IT needs to work on the same thing. Counterpoint: IT is often clueless. Developers can almost always troubleshoot their own systems.
Management point: Ensures software licensing compliance. Counterpoint: None really, they kind of have you there; but since most companies have a policy against installing unlicensed software anyway, punishing developers by forcing them into a cookie-cutter workstation isn't going to solve that problem.
Management point: puts them all on the same page, builds team. Counterpoint: It makes development less a "collegial" environment, where diverse ideas are explored, and more of a "command" environment. Developers are notoriously intolerant of following orders simply for orders sake.
Newbie developers coming right out of school might not mind being told to use all the same tools; but experienced developers might feel otherwise. If you want to annoy experienced developers who know all the ins-and-outs of their particular toolset, then go right ahead. Then, wonder why nobody comes up with new ideas, makes comparative observations of one system against another, or develops an alternative approach that goes beyond the status quo. Wonder why people who don't drink the kool-aid on your particular toolchain leave for greener pastures. Wonder why you don't have any in-house expertise on any other system when your chosen flavor is no longer sweet.
At the now defunct start-up I last worked at, we had the usual LAMP stack driving our product. For amusement (and because I think there is an awful lot of bloat in LAMP), I did a simple front-end to our product based on an approximately 1000-line web server I wrote, and web pages with C embedded in comments. The makefile ran the web pages through a munger that transformed them into C, then built them and linked them into the server. If you didn't want the tiny web server, it could have just as easily built them as an apache module. The downside was that web developers using such a system would have had to "modify, compile, reload in browser" as opposed to their usual "modify, reload in browser" cycle. IMHO, this alone would have killed it since web devs like fast turnaround on changes. Nevermind that the web devs would have had to learn C, and that it wouldn't have been sandboxed or been able to run code client-side. I still like the idea though, and I'm glad to see others not only think in a similar way; but do so using a platform that would resolve some of the aforementioned issues.
My toy front-end was never put into production of course; but when I wanted to debug my code without pestering the web devs, and I needed something more than text, it was quite useful.
Quiet, secluded location. Clear skies. Perfect for the adventurous. Ideal for your country estate or getaway. Some restrictive covenents; but they aren't being enforced. Possibility of well water on site. Bring all reasonable offers.
Recent fires in California have turned the Sun that subtle orange color, and left the air with a noticeable stench of smoke. On a local Bay Area network TV station, they interviewed a woman who had just flown back from China. She said that these conditions were ALMOST as bad. Almost??? That blew my mind. Imagine living with smoke worse than this ALL YEAR LONG.
You'd better fly over and check it out. Make sure his friends aren't all loud talkers with BO who like to "get nekkid" at parties.
Why on earth did this guy fly back to a country that was likely to imprison him?
Before I read TFA I was reminded of US hostages in Iran; but they had an excuse. They were there and the revolution blew up on them. I can see that. Flying into Iran after the revolution and getting trapped? Your own stupid fault. This is not to suggest that NZ is like Iran; but flying into a country where you are likely to get stuck is just stupid. Did he have any discussion at all with US authorities before leaving? I bet anybody here would have advised that since he returned voluntarily, we weren't going to make an effort to get him back.
I don't track replies to the sig. FWIW, I periodicly change my sigs. I'm in the process of re-doing my web site, istartedi.org. Some of the older sigs are there in the place-holder now.
The sig is indeed there to tease the grammar nazis. What's really fun is when somebody points out one "mistake", but not the other.
Before the Internet, how did they track it down? Huh? How did pervs get their porn? Most likely, they got it through the mail or stores, via porn distributors that put up a legal front, but did some percentage of their biz in illegal material. To bust guys like that, back then, must have taken some effort. You can't just open mail willy-nilly or search store inventory looking for the needle in a haystack.
Now, I'm as much against warrantless search as the next guy, but with kiddie porn on the 'net, you can quietly ask Verizon to monitor a suspect's traffic. They don't have to comply, but if they don't you just get a warrant and then they have to comply. Then, getting all the guy's traffic is as easy as adding him to a list in a file. You don't have to tamper with his mail, which might give him telltale clues he is being watched.
Remove kiddie porn from the Internet, and you remove an electronic audit-trail that might even bring us all the way back to the original source, all in the comfort of the agent's office. Remove it from the 'net and you drive it into a new underground. Most likely it would be retro to whatever was used before. Agents would have to go back "pounding the pavement" more, and with the cost of ga$ going through the roof that's not likely to happen.
In other words, it will just go further and further underground. Pervs are as lazy as anybody else. If it's easy to find on the 'net, they'll find it.
Taking it off the 'net only makes sense if you believe that having it there is likely to "convert" normal users into pedophiles. That's probably as bogus an argument as the idea that having gays in your neighborhood is going to convert people. I don't have a study to back it up though. Do they?
I have some solar powered clothes dryers I'd like to sell them for $100, and instant breast enlargers for $50.
Poor education
Drool from your lips runs the car
Reporters buy it
I wonder how well this holds up under heavy aerodynamic load. Really not a new concept if you think about it: biplanes used "doped" fabric, but I think the "doping" made the fabric stiff, and there were plenty of ribs in the wings. Obvioulsy, a well constructed biplane with a stiff fabric covering the wings didn't have fluttering problems, but the fabric here is plainly not stiff.
Then, there is the vandalism problem people mentioned. It can't be any more prone to vandalism than a ragtop; just a lot more expensive to replace.