...all you had to do was make sure your football players finish and magically you end up at the top of the heap:
Penn State, for example, was 48 according to the magazineâ(TM)s criteria, but it could also be as high as 1 or as low as 59. That variability evolves because Penn State is the best at making sure students graduate...
Good: Delivered a piece of code once that tested just fine for us, but blew up at the customer's site. We never realized that the new J2EE-like features were hitting a live URL during DTD parsing.
Better: Had a build system once that looked for a host and had to TCP timeout before the build could continue. Had to happen several hundred times a build cycle.
The Java libraries do this down in their innards unless you're very careful to avoid it.
...makes me less likely to click through to their real story. Most of them major outlets seem to give only 1 or 2 sentences per feed item. That's so little information that I find I'm not interested in the story. I end up just browsing headlines. They've got to give enough that people want to read the articles. The traditional newspaper editing goal of cut-the-article-off-at-any-sentence-and-its-still-complete is at odds with how and why I seek media coverage these days.
Since personal brands are important and will become increasingly more important as time progresses, this sounds like a great reason to pick distinctive names for your kids. Some guidelines:
If you have an uncommon last name, congratulations. Feel free to name the little guy after Uncle Mike, John, Ted, Robert, Bill, or whomever else you like. It won't matter.
If you have a common last name, give your kids uncommon first names. My older sister married a guy with the family name Miller; they picked out distinctive first names for each of their three sons.
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Good: Delivered a piece of code once that tested just fine for us, but blew up at the customer's site. We never realized that the new J2EE-like features were hitting a live URL during DTD parsing.
Better: Had a build system once that looked for a host and had to TCP timeout before the build could continue. Had to happen several hundred times a build cycle.
The Java libraries do this down in their innards unless you're very careful to avoid it.
...makes me less likely to click through to their real story. Most of them major outlets seem to give only 1 or 2 sentences per feed item. That's so little information that I find I'm not interested in the story. I end up just browsing headlines. They've got to give enough that people want to read the articles. The traditional newspaper editing goal of cut-the-article-off-at-any-sentence-and-its-still-complete is at odds with how and why I seek media coverage these days.
Since personal brands are important and will become increasingly more important as time progresses, this sounds like a great reason to pick distinctive names for your kids. Some guidelines:
If you have an uncommon last name, congratulations. Feel free to name the little guy after Uncle Mike, John, Ted, Robert, Bill, or whomever else you like. It won't matter.
If you have a common last name, give your kids uncommon first names. My older sister married a guy with the family name Miller; they picked out distinctive first names for each of their three sons.
. . . I knew there was a reason they keep hiking my tuition more than the cost of living increase each and every year.