But seriously, I [heart] enums, they make for some very readable code (especially when representing 'states' of a state machine), and the only way you could do them before was to use static global int definitions.
Shoot, my list of "things I would change about Java if I actually got off my ass and did something instead of complaining all the time" just got 1 entry shorter!
I've finished it (kinda, there are parts you only leaf through) and I think this is a great book.
Get it with colored text- its pretty freaky! Its starts off like an academic paper (complete with footnotes) and devolves (in a lovecraft kind-of-way) into madness and unkown evil. I can't recommend this book enough!
I have finished it. I've also read "Neverwhere" by Gaiman (which i thought kinda sucked...) and by far this book is the JAM.
Its really good. And by really good, I mean its great.
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Thirded. OKay, riddle me this: WTF are "points" on a bike? Aside from having to adjust the carberator (sp?) when travelling up in altitude, most of the cycle stuff was above me- yet in a wierd way it kind of made the book some-what sci-fi like (what with all the tech talk) and appealed to me as an engineer.
I read it nightly for about 6-8 months, and its a cracking good read. TAKE NOTES. Even better, underline good passages and use tape flags or post-its to mark the pages.
I read the foreword first, and I don't think it ruined my appreciation of the book one iota, but YMMV ('mileage' pun intended).
P.S.- have any of your buds read the second book? Thumbs up or down? (I'd prolly re-read the first before I hit the second head-on).
honestly, in the interest of the greater good, its better that s/he shares what s/he has to a limited number of people- like 1-5 at a time, who have more bandwidth than s/he. Especially if its slightly rare.
Sharing a dialup without limits yeilds insane wait times. 56 kbps/ 1024 users = 56 bits per second- 7 BYTES per second, per person. ASsuming 3 meg mp3 (3 * 1024 * 1000) = 3072000 bytes.
(NOTE: 1024 bytes == 1 kbyte, 1000 kbytes = 1 Mbyte. If you use 1024 kbyte to equal 1 Mbyte, adjust accordingly)
divded by 7 bytes/sec, yeilds 438857 seconds, or 7314 minutes or 121 hours or 5+ fucking days!
What if s/he turns off their machine at night? If their machine is only available for 5 hours a night, thats 24 days.
If its free- then fine. DEAL WITH IT! But if I can pay $10 monthly to download that hard-to-find track (and others) in under a minute(like off of emusic)? That just might be WORTH IT!
However- if you happen to find someone with a FAT-ASS pipe serving up marvelous mp3s to make your mouth water, its like heaven.
*COUGH* Octal *COUGH* English weights and measures system *COUGH* OSI 7 layer network stack[1] *COUGH* CMIS/CMIP *COUGH* Esperanto....
There are de facto and de juris standards. Look at the history books- TCP/IP and SNMP were not ready for prime time- everyone was waiting for OSI 7 layer and CMIS to come in and sweep the world. These were some light-weight tools you could play with now.
But the ISO stuff never came; well, it came but few could agree and it was expensive and few could claim true compliance.
TCP/IP finally became an accepted standard after it had proven itself in the battle field (and gone through some iterations of improvement, e.g. TCP congestion avoidance and detection).
Maybe he's complaining about De Juris standards, as opposed to De Facto standards.
[1] Once and for all, it ISN'T JUST a model- its an actual protocol stack! How do I know? I support one! (talk about job security!)
My wife (just graduated law school, yet to pass the bar) was leafing through an old non-compete of mine and was rolling on the floor due to the laughable language. Due to its ludicrous nature (and liberal use of the word "forever") she informed me that its 'bullshit' (I believe that is a technical law term).
So non-comps are nice but their ability to prevent you from gainful employment is seriously questionable. I'm unaware of any case law regarding this; any lawyers out there care to school us?
Just bill the time to the "slashdot overhead" account!;)
The Clevercat and the tilt-clean box sounds super-fabulous.
The major issue is what gets stuck in their paws. I suppose a sissal scratch mat for when they get out of the box may work better than what they currently have (just some rubbery-plastic).
Perhapse its more of an issue with technical questions.
totally. If I'm researching some odd compiler error message- the last one was about a struct not being completely defined, or something cryptic like that. (It had to do with typedef'ing the struct, afterwhich you don't have to say "struct" anymore) All that lead me to was AIX mailing list, where their fix was to comment the struct out. Morons;)
But more often than not I just get other people who HAVE the problem, yet no solution.
Gotcha... I had only heard of the Express Pass second hand (thus, I couldn't remember its name!) but it doesn't sound as nice as skipping to the head of the class with an on-site hotel key.
Why? Why is it great that there is a 30second ride that people wait on line for over an hour for?
Its great because while those schmucks are online for the new "uber coaster" the line for the slightly-less ubercoaster has 4 people on it, and you can ride it over and over and over again!
Bigger,faster,better coasters are great because that lets me ride all the other ones without the crazy lines.
For the longest time she lamented how the masters for the TRON soundtrack were stored on junk. All of a sudden, the soundtrack was re-mastered and re-released on CD! She baked 'em. She had some experienced people give her the info, BUT if your media is already "destroyed" and unplayable- What do you have to lose?!
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You obviously have never tried to wade through IBM documentation.
You can be wrong six ways from sunday!
wow, that was totally deep. Like the ocean, man.
P.S.- Art says he wants back the stuff he left at your place. You can just give it to me and I'll see that he gets it.
Learn to tell them apart.
I'm no expert, but I don't think this is Art, its his brother.
Hey! I can do that!
But seriously, I [heart] enums, they make for some very readable code (especially when representing 'states' of a state machine), and the only way you could do them before was to use static global int definitions.
Shoot, my list of "things I would change about Java if I actually got off my ass and did something instead of complaining all the time" just got 1 entry shorter!
What am I going to bitch about now?!
GOOD summary!
For those who don't know...
A bit of relevant history! Social justice, if you will.
DISCUSS!
-Professor B.
Snap into a slim-jim!
(I'm totally going to hell for that one!)
I seconded it elsewhere, and I'll second it here-
[blue]House[/blue] of leaves is a masterful work that descends into madness. Read it.
I've finished it (kinda, there are parts you only leaf through) and I think this is a great book.
Get it with colored text- its pretty freaky!
Its starts off like an academic paper (complete with footnotes) and devolves (in a lovecraft kind-of-way) into madness and unkown evil. I can't recommend this book enough!
I have finished it. I've also read "Neverwhere" by Gaiman (which i thought kinda sucked...) and by far this book is the JAM.
Its really good. And by really good, I mean its great.
Thirded.
OKay, riddle me this: WTF are "points" on a bike?
Aside from having to adjust the carberator (sp?) when travelling up in altitude, most of the cycle stuff was above me- yet in a wierd way it kind of made the book some-what sci-fi like (what with all the tech talk) and appealed to me as an engineer.
I read it nightly for about 6-8 months, and its a cracking good read. TAKE NOTES. Even better, underline good passages and use tape flags or post-its to mark the pages.
I read the foreword first, and I don't think it ruined my appreciation of the book one iota, but YMMV ('mileage' pun intended).
P.S.- have any of your buds read the second book? Thumbs up or down? (I'd prolly re-read the first before I hit the second head-on).
honestly, in the interest of the greater good, its better that s/he shares what s/he has to a limited number of people- like 1-5 at a time, who have more bandwidth than s/he. Especially if its slightly rare.
Sharing a dialup without limits yeilds insane wait times.
56 kbps/ 1024 users = 56 bits per second- 7 BYTES per second, per person.
ASsuming 3 meg mp3 (3 * 1024 * 1000) = 3072000 bytes.
(NOTE: 1024 bytes == 1 kbyte, 1000 kbytes = 1 Mbyte. If you use 1024 kbyte to equal 1 Mbyte, adjust accordingly)
divded by 7 bytes/sec, yeilds 438857 seconds, or 7314 minutes or 121 hours or 5+ fucking days!
What if s/he turns off their machine at night? If their machine is only available for 5 hours a night, thats 24 days.
If its free- then fine. DEAL WITH IT! But if I can pay $10 monthly to download that hard-to-find track (and others) in under a minute(like off of emusic)? That just might be WORTH IT!
However- if you happen to find someone with a FAT-ASS pipe serving up marvelous mp3s to make your mouth water, its like heaven.
except for the crappy rips.
Oh, oh! And un-even selection! And crappy download speeds (you know, that one guy serving over 22kbps line to 500 people? yeah, HE SUCKS)
*COUGH* Octal *COUGH* English weights and measures system *COUGH* OSI 7 layer network stack[1] *COUGH* CMIS/CMIP *COUGH* Esperanto....
There are de facto and de juris standards.
Look at the history books- TCP/IP and SNMP were not ready for prime time- everyone was waiting for OSI 7 layer and CMIS to come in and sweep the world. These were some light-weight tools you could play with now.
But the ISO stuff never came; well, it came but few could agree and it was expensive and few could claim true compliance.
TCP/IP finally became an accepted standard after it had proven itself in the battle field (and gone through some iterations of improvement, e.g. TCP congestion avoidance and detection).
Maybe he's complaining about De Juris standards, as opposed to De Facto standards.
[1] Once and for all, it ISN'T JUST a model- its an actual protocol stack! How do I know? I support one! (talk about job security!)
My wife (just graduated law school, yet to pass the bar) was leafing through an old non-compete of mine and was rolling on the floor due to the laughable language. Due to its ludicrous nature (and liberal use of the word "forever") she informed me that its 'bullshit' (I believe that is a technical law term).
;)
So non-comps are nice but their ability to prevent you from gainful employment is seriously questionable. I'm unaware of any case law regarding this; any lawyers out there care to school us?
Just bill the time to the "slashdot overhead" account!
damn you and your circle of fifths!!
I guess you've never been in an AOL chat room!
ROWR! "LonelySeattle", "M4M_NYC", "BI-CURIOUS-HOUSTON" "SWINGERS-DC"
WOW. Good show, my brother!
The Clevercat and the tilt-clean box sounds super-fabulous.
The major issue is what gets stuck in their paws. I suppose a sissal scratch mat for when they get out of the box may work better than what they currently have (just some rubbery-plastic).
I'm gonna run to the pet shop right now!
I was thinking of getting the roomba specifically because of the cats.
They get kitty litter FRICKIN' Everywhere outside their box.
If I could put something down and let it run 3 times a week, that seems like it would be worth the maintainence.
Perhapse its more of an issue with technical questions.
;)
totally. If I'm researching some odd compiler error message- the last one was about a struct not being completely defined, or something cryptic like that. (It had to do with typedef'ing the struct, afterwhich you don't have to say "struct" anymore) All that lead me to was AIX mailing list, where their fix was to comment the struct out. Morons
But more often than not I just get other people who HAVE the problem, yet no solution.
Gotcha... I had only heard of the Express Pass second hand (thus, I couldn't remember its name!) but it doesn't sound as nice as skipping to the head of the class with an on-site hotel key.
yeah, there's also some other deal where you get some pass and once every hour you get to go to the head of the line...
Still, if I ever go to Uni Orlando I'll stay on site. No Lines is worth $100 (to me).
Why? Why is it great that there is a 30second ride that people wait on line for over an hour for?
Its great because while those schmucks are online for the new "uber coaster" the line for the slightly-less ubercoaster has 4 people on it, and you can ride it over and over and over again!
Bigger,faster,better coasters are great because that lets me ride all the other ones without the crazy lines.
For the longest time she lamented how the masters for the TRON soundtrack were stored on junk. All of a sudden, the soundtrack was re-mastered and re-released on CD! She baked 'em. She had some experienced people give her the info, BUT if your media is already "destroyed" and unplayable- What do you have to lose?!
here is a link to her tape restoration page