Back when I was in support I used to open up Notepad and put.LOG on the first line. When you do that, every time you open Notepad it puts the time and date on a line for you. It was quick and easy to do that while on the phone. I'd use this to make notes regarding things that didn't really belong in the customer log, or for semi-personal work related research kinds of things. I always figured that if it mattered to me or anybody, I could hack up a quick script to parse it into some other format. It never mattered.
I always thought "software engineer" was too pretentious. I think "coder" is beneath me as it only speaks to the issue of translating algorithms into code, which is trivial. I've always preferred "programmer". There's a computer. I program it. I'm a programmer. That's simple. There's no bullshit about it. Good software strips away the bullshit. This is just my opinion; but I think a good programming mindset is one that loathes bullshit, which is why programmers don't do well in politics. Politics is mostly bullshit.
Steel drums, sugar, rum, sun and sand, classic cars. These are the things you think of when you think of Cuba. Software? Only one type of customer would ask this question: People with plans to outsource to Cuba.
If you vote me for governor, I promise to defund the rail, subject to any necessary propositions and/or legislative action. Furthermore, I will use the funds currently set aside for high speed rail to do two things:
1. Eliminate grade crossings at existing rail lines, starting with Caltrain from San Francisco to San Jose, or alternatively starting with those crossings that have killed the most people if the aforementioned route isn't actually the most deadly.
2. If there's sufficient money left over after that, I will establish the SF-LA Autobahn program which will entail building a limited access highway that parallels portions of US 101 and Interstate 5. The program will be partially funded with a special licensing and inspection program, which will permit drives who are willing to pay increased fees to travel at a minimum speed of 80 mph in the right lane, and maximum speed of 200 mph in the passing lane. Autobahn-like lane discipline rules will be strictly enforced.
In the late 1980s as a student I spent several hours feverishly debugging an inscrutable syntax error on a green monochrome monitor at a school lab. I just managed to make the deadline, because on that crappy monitor with its crappy font, ( and { looked too much alike. This took enough time away so that I lost points for not properly formatting my output; but at that point I was happy just to *have* output.
Maybe it's time for me to change my Slashdot sig back to "Your ad here for the price of a beer". Yep, I actually did it back in the 90s and got one payment via PayPal. Unfortunately, I never got around to turning the payment into real money and AFAIK it went "poof!" into somebody else's pocket. Anyway, if I were to do that now it would also change the sigs on archived posts past a certain date. This is why I don't change my sig--it would create too many archived threads where people are talking about something that's no longer there.
If you had asked me the question without prompting, it would have been a tough choice between electricity and automobiles. The fridge isn't there without reliable electricity in the home. Another guy cited the washing machine, since it saved so much labor for women. Same thing. It doesn't happen if you can't plug it in. In a world with cars but no home electric, I think life would still be pretty rough. OTOH, we build "streetcar suburbs" that ran with overhead electric, which solved transit for a lot of people. Car companies killed the street-cars, but nobody could kill electric so I'm going to go with "reliable electricity to the home" as the most disruptive technology even though electrification started well over 100 years ago. For rural people in the USA, 1930-1950 were the swing decades which puts us well in that time-frame.
I already did it, and it's a PiTA because you can't entirely trust the link that tells you what the update does. Some are obvious, like anything related to "customer experience". I hid one of those just yesterday. There are about a dozen that I need to check before I install them. My only hard tie to Windows is Visual Studio. If I set aside the time to explore a cross-platform IDE and find that I like it, this nonsense will come to an end. Sorry MS. I was with you for a long time. I don't hate you. It's just that we've gone in different directions and it's probably time we went our separate ways.
This. C can be fixed. It takes time, and compilers are usually ahead of the standard. How long did it take for C to get the restrict keyword? That allows us to control pointer aliasing in a portable way. The impetus for that was that FORTRAN could outperform C because, AFAIK, it assumes no aliasing.
There are already a lot of static checkers for C. I'm willing to wager they can catch just as many bugs at compile-time as Rust. Having such tools is almost as good as having checks integrated into a standard implementation. If you go ahead in C, the standard may catch up to you without you having to worry about the risk of a new language.
Bingo! Advertisers aren't expected to trust the publisher; but we're expected to trust a 3rd party sitting between the advertiser and the publisher? No. If publishers are lying about circulation you can sue them. That system wasn't broken.
First it would be the uber degree from the uber university
I know this isn't what you meant, but I couldn't help but imagine an app that tells you there's a guy who knows something about sorting algorithms around the corner. You use it to meet him in a coffee shop, where he explains that stuff to you, and you code some exercises in your language of choice. Next thing you know, you've got an Uber degree in CS from Uber University.
Said before and will probably say again, these laws are designed to eliminate interfaces of resistance. What? Well, take segregation for example. There was an obvious point of resistance: sit at a lunch counter, take a bus, get arrested.
Now take most of these trade agreements. There's no obvious point of resistance for ordinary citizens. Stuff just gets more expensive and/or inferior. Stuff that used to exist disappears. Products come with "features" that spy on you, and there's no alternative. There's no point of resistance, and it's too difficult to build any consensus for boycott like there was with segregated buses.
It's as if TPTB studied civil disobedience and figured out how to eliminate the traction surfaces where resistance is applied.
IMHO, it has to get worse before it gets better. At some point, they run out of smooth surfaces. The temptation to oppress in places where resistance is more obvious becomes too great for them, and then we have a flash-point.
I attended a screening of Birth of a Nation at school, which had a panel discussion after the film. One of the questions fielded from the audience was, "Were those actual Civil War battle scenes?". I had to bite my lip to keep from laughing for the rest of the panel.
That girl is looking just a bit smarter now. At least they had still photography during the Civil War, so the possibility of some early, expensive, motion picture system is at least plausible. Not knowing that we've never been anywhere near Mars with humans? I think that's a whole new level.
Features like that wouldn't be so bad if there were a way to isolate their use. For example, ordinary Perl files could be.pl and not allowed to change the language. Perl files that mucked with the language in various ways would be required to have a.pld (Perl Language Definition) suffix. That way you could make rules like, "No PLD files in this project" or "only Joe has permission to change the PLD and you'd better have a damned good reason for asking him to change it".
There are legit reasons to modify the language, create DSLs and code in them, etc. It's just like how there are legit reasons to have Howitzers in the army, but you don't just turn them over to PFCs straight out of boot and say, "here, figure this out".
AFAIK, in the US you can use "the best" but not "better than" unless you have a way to back it up. Thus, "the best beer" is OK, but "better than Bud" is not OK unless you cite some specific like, "beat Bud in a blind taste test".
Having different rules for different countries is probably going to give international ad campaigners some fits. That's the beauty of sovereignty though. Different systems, and we get to see what's workable in practice and what isn't.
It could be a fantastic writing prompt for some would-be author. The next Great American Novel collaboratively written by a tight cadre, or perhaps written by a single hacker with multiple accounts. I'd like to see what Stephen King could do with a dozen accounts on this thing.
BTW, my first review of King will be, "great stories, but he keeps dying at 54".
Update--actually didn't suck. Cleared the ridge in totality. Not the best LE I've ever seen; but enjoyed watching it slowly emerge and then was able to check on the fat crescent once in a while. The bright light when it was restored was also fantastic. Oh and yes, superMOON.
High clouds likely, west coast so low on the horizon (good for superman effect if not clarity) but twilight (bad). Also a ridge to the east and I don't feel like driving because my car needs work. I might not see anything at all. If money were no object I'd drive a rental camper out into the Nevada desert.
Any other children of the 70s remember the big brown box? It came from some company; but I forget the name. Our school would get these every other month or so. They were full of basic science experiments for elementary aged children. There was one with seeds to sprout and instructions, for example. Another might have had some relatively safe chemicals in it. Then you'd do stuff with the chemicals like put water or vinegar on them. Perhaps based on some earlier lesson you'd then answer questions like, "is that an acid or a base?".
The opening of the box was always eagerly anticipated, and they usually brought in a teacher's aid or a parent volunteer to help with "experiment day" if it was something they thought might require that.
NoScript says there is a potential XSS attack there. That's really unusual. Usually all it does it block JS, so I'm not dropping anything to look at that. I don't think yimg is sketchy; but maybe they need to fix their shit, or maybe *you* are trying to pull something. I don't have this problem with any other major image hosting site. Your URL looks weird, with some junk and another URL in it. Figuring those thigns out is not my specific area of expertise, so I don't care to analyze it any further.
Slashdot Mirror
Back when I was in support I used to open up Notepad and put .LOG on the first line. When you do that, every time you open Notepad it puts the time and date on a line for you. It was quick and easy to do that while on the phone. I'd use this to make notes regarding things that didn't really belong in the customer log, or for semi-personal work related research kinds of things. I always figured that if it mattered to me or anybody, I could hack up a quick script to parse it into some other format. It never mattered.
I always thought "software engineer" was too pretentious. I think "coder" is beneath me as it only speaks to the issue of translating algorithms into code, which is trivial. I've always preferred "programmer". There's a computer. I program it. I'm a programmer. That's simple. There's no bullshit about it. Good software strips away the bullshit. This is just my opinion; but I think a good programming mindset is one that loathes bullshit, which is why programmers don't do well in politics. Politics is mostly bullshit.
Steel drums, sugar, rum, sun and sand, classic cars. These are the things you think of when you think of Cuba. Software? Only one type of customer would ask this question: People with plans to outsource to Cuba.
According to wiki the entire Interstate system (in 2006 dollars).
If you vote me for governor, I promise to defund the rail, subject to any necessary propositions and/or legislative action. Furthermore, I will use the funds currently set aside for high speed rail to do two things:
1. Eliminate grade crossings at existing rail lines, starting with Caltrain from San Francisco to San Jose, or alternatively starting with those crossings that have killed the most people if the aforementioned route isn't actually the most deadly.
2. If there's sufficient money left over after that, I will establish the SF-LA Autobahn program which will entail building a limited access highway that parallels portions of US 101 and Interstate 5. The program will be partially funded with a special licensing and inspection program, which will permit drives who are willing to pay increased fees to travel at a minimum speed of 80 mph in the right lane, and maximum speed of 200 mph in the passing lane. Autobahn-like lane discipline rules will be strictly enforced.
In the late 1980s as a student I spent several hours feverishly debugging an inscrutable syntax error on a green monochrome monitor at a school lab. I just managed to make the deadline, because on that crappy monitor with its crappy font, ( and { looked too much alike. This took enough time away so that I lost points for not properly formatting my output; but at that point I was happy just to *have* output.
Maybe it's time for me to change my Slashdot sig back to "Your ad here for the price of a beer". Yep, I actually did it back in the 90s and got one payment via PayPal. Unfortunately, I never got around to turning the payment into real money and AFAIK it went "poof!" into somebody else's pocket. Anyway, if I were to do that now it would also change the sigs on archived posts past a certain date. This is why I don't change my sig--it would create too many archived threads where people are talking about something that's no longer there.
Introduce yourself to customers as you would like them to introduce themselves to you.
If you had asked me the question without prompting, it would have been a tough choice between electricity and automobiles. The fridge isn't there without reliable electricity in the home. Another guy cited the washing machine, since it saved so much labor for women. Same thing. It doesn't happen if you can't plug it in. In a world with cars but no home electric, I think life would still be pretty rough. OTOH, we build "streetcar suburbs" that ran with overhead electric, which solved transit for a lot of people. Car companies killed the street-cars, but nobody could kill electric so I'm going to go with "reliable electricity to the home" as the most disruptive technology even though electrification started well over 100 years ago. For rural people in the USA, 1930-1950 were the swing decades which puts us well in that time-frame.
I already did it, and it's a PiTA because you can't entirely trust the link that tells you what the update does. Some are obvious, like anything related to "customer experience". I hid one of those just yesterday. There are about a dozen that I need to check before I install them. My only hard tie to Windows is Visual Studio. If I set aside the time to explore a cross-platform IDE and find that I like it, this nonsense will come to an end. Sorry MS. I was with you for a long time. I don't hate you. It's just that we've gone in different directions and it's probably time we went our separate ways.
This. C can be fixed. It takes time, and compilers are usually ahead of the standard. How long did it take for C to get the restrict keyword? That allows us to control pointer aliasing in a portable way. The impetus for that was that FORTRAN could outperform C because, AFAIK, it assumes no aliasing.
There are already a lot of static checkers for C. I'm willing to wager they can catch just as many bugs at compile-time as Rust. Having such tools is almost as good as having checks integrated into a standard implementation. If you go ahead in C, the standard may catch up to you without you having to worry about the risk of a new language.
Bingo! Advertisers aren't expected to trust the publisher; but we're expected to trust a 3rd party sitting between the advertiser and the publisher? No. If publishers are lying about circulation you can sue them. That system wasn't broken.
First it would be the uber degree from the uber university
I know this isn't what you meant, but I couldn't help but imagine an app that tells you there's a guy who knows something about sorting algorithms around the corner. You use it to meet him in a coffee shop, where he explains that stuff to you, and you code some exercises in your language of choice. Next thing you know, you've got an Uber degree in CS from Uber University.
Said before and will probably say again, these laws are designed to eliminate interfaces of resistance. What? Well, take segregation for example. There was an obvious point of resistance: sit at a lunch counter, take a bus, get arrested.
Now take most of these trade agreements. There's no obvious point of resistance for ordinary citizens. Stuff just gets more expensive and/or inferior. Stuff that used to exist disappears. Products come with "features" that spy on you, and there's no alternative. There's no point of resistance, and it's too difficult to build any consensus for boycott like there was with segregated buses.
It's as if TPTB studied civil disobedience and figured out how to eliminate the traction surfaces where resistance is applied.
IMHO, it has to get worse before it gets better. At some point, they run out of smooth surfaces. The temptation to oppress in places where resistance is more obvious becomes too great for them, and then we have a flash-point.
The productization of the customer will continue until morale improves. Nadella is doing everything I feared he would.
I attended a screening of Birth of a Nation at school, which had a panel discussion after the film. One of the questions fielded from the audience was, "Were those actual Civil War battle scenes?". I had to bite my lip to keep from laughing for the rest of the panel.
That girl is looking just a bit smarter now. At least they had still photography during the Civil War, so the possibility of some early, expensive, motion picture system is at least plausible. Not knowing that we've never been anywhere near Mars with humans? I think that's a whole new level.
Features like that wouldn't be so bad if there were a way to isolate their use. For example, ordinary Perl files could be .pl and not allowed to change the language. Perl files that mucked with the language in various ways would be required to have a .pld (Perl Language Definition) suffix. That way you could make rules like, "No PLD files in this project" or "only Joe has permission to change the PLD and you'd better have a damned good reason for asking him to change it".
There are legit reasons to modify the language, create DSLs and code in them, etc. It's just like how there are legit reasons to have Howitzers in the army, but you don't just turn them over to PFCs straight out of boot and say, "here, figure this out".
Most likely not "from Russia" or "from Syria", where they're probably killing at least 10 people per hour today.
AFAIK, in the US you can use "the best" but not "better than" unless you have a way to back it up. Thus, "the best beer" is OK, but "better than Bud" is not OK unless you cite some specific like, "beat Bud in a blind taste test".
Having different rules for different countries is probably going to give international ad campaigners some fits. That's the beauty of sovereignty though. Different systems, and we get to see what's workable in practice and what isn't.
Let's face it, what could possibly go right?
It could be a fantastic writing prompt for some would-be author. The next Great American Novel collaboratively written by a tight cadre, or perhaps written by a single hacker with multiple accounts. I'd like to see what Stephen King could do with a dozen accounts on this thing.
BTW, my first review of King will be, "great stories, but he keeps dying at 54".
Update--actually didn't suck. Cleared the ridge in totality. Not the best LE I've ever seen; but enjoyed watching it slowly emerge and then was able to check on the fat crescent once in a while. The bright light when it was restored was also fantastic. Oh and yes, superMOON.
High clouds likely, west coast so low on the horizon (good for superman effect if not clarity) but twilight (bad). Also a ridge to the east and I don't feel like driving because my car needs work. I might not see anything at all. If money were no object I'd drive a rental camper out into the Nevada desert.
Any other children of the 70s remember the big brown box? It came from some company; but I forget the name. Our school would get these every other month or so. They were full of basic science experiments for elementary aged children. There was one with seeds to sprout and instructions, for example. Another might have had some relatively safe chemicals in it. Then you'd do stuff with the chemicals like put water or vinegar on them. Perhaps based on some earlier lesson you'd then answer questions like, "is that an acid or a base?".
The opening of the box was always eagerly anticipated, and they usually brought in a teacher's aid or a parent volunteer to help with "experiment day" if it was something they thought might require that.
NoScript says there is a potential XSS attack there. That's really unusual. Usually all it does it block JS, so I'm not dropping anything to look at that. I don't think yimg is sketchy; but maybe they need to fix their shit, or maybe *you* are trying to pull something. I don't have this problem with any other major image hosting site. Your URL looks weird, with some junk and another URL in it. Figuring those thigns out is not my specific area of expertise, so I don't care to analyze it any further.
Peace in our time. Sponsored by Huawei. Hey, I didn't type that last part. WTF?
Relevant and I've commented on that story, so no need to regurgitate here.