Yeah, apparently you are in the same class I am. Smart enough to actually work:)
A lot of people hate their jobs, and I think that CEO/VP/whatevers do to. But, I know that they all are thinking "Woo, am I glad I went to college for 4,6,8 years so I'm not a waiter or something"
I know that feeling. A year plus some months ago I was working at a corrupt-as-hell startup staying at work till 3-4am, and required to be in the office by no later than 10am.
Now, I'm making more money and have little stock. And, I do the typical six hours of work a day. I show up between 9 and 10. Go to lunch for an hour or two and leave at 6 or 7. I gotta say, Corporate America can be nice. When I can play Age of Empires in the office at 4pm with a bunch of our other workers and just relaxing it makes me glad to be out of the dot-commie days. I still work for an internet company, but it's still corporate.
And, I learned one thing through the dot com fad:
If they ever say, "We can't pay you well, but we offer great options!" it means, "We have no money, and our stock is worthless but we may be able to make it", which means "We're screwed, and just dont know it yet". Not only from my experience, but from all my friends who were at dot-coms too.
P.S. Love your sig:)
there is another quote, I forget what it was in latin but it translated to "If you can read this you must be a scholar"
Tell that to an old friend of mine who was born without molars because her mouth was deformed as hell from her moms crack addiction that caused physical deformities.
I think that the best thing to look at is if these kids had jobs. I dont know if they did or not. But, it would make it ultimately sweet if they didnt have jobs because that would mean their parents gave them all their money.
So, if the kids are getting these violent video games with their parents buying them than it doesnt matter, right? If it's anyones "fault" it's the parents.
In the sentiment of Chris Rock, What the fuck happened to just plain crazy? That's what these kids are. They are copy cat crazy assholes. Period. Some kid decided to shoot up his school, and all these other crazy ass kids thought that was a good idea. If you are going to shrug the problem off on someone else blame the kids before hand - school shootings aren't a new thing. Same reason why they stopped announcing people jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge - if people hear about someone else doing it, it can't be all that bad right?
It'll just turn around, and if they take away violent video games someone will go on a shooting spree and claim that it was because they didnt have video games to take their agression away.
It is a crime for some meth head to get aggressive and assault me. And I'm a victim because you obviously have never had a physical altercation with someone on meth have you?
Give you a hint: you can hit some guys while coked out of their head with a bat in the face and it wont phase them.
I'm all for recreational use of pot, I'm not a smoker myself but at least with pot you just sit there and stare at a wall instead of try to kill some guy because you think his dog is staring at you the wrong way.
First off, as a disclaimer I have never actually written anything in Python. But, I have read up on virtually all the introduction articles and tutorials so I have a grasp on syntax and structure.
I have been doing C development for 9 years now, and I know a plethora of other languages including shell scripting, perl, PHP (for scripts). Now, each language uses 'normal' grouping for control structures (if, for, etc).
What was the logic behind creating a whitespace-based syntax rule? And why do you feel it is good, please refrain from the readability answer because that is all I get from those people I know who know Python.
I find, because of my background, it is much easier to read code that uses braces ({}) than whitespace because my mind automatically looks for them. After maintaining legacy code that extends a life span of 20 years from it's first line of code, I have some concerns about the longevity of any Python code. So, my second question is, how well do you see Python holding up for 20 years and why do you think it will hold up that long?
I actually really have to agree with you, and it seems the other guy is just bitching to boost his ego/karma.
I was driving into work the other morning, and decided to flip through the radio stations and came across a decent band. I stopped, the song finished (rather abruptly) and it was Howard Stern playing an unsigned band because he liked the way they sounded. I changed it after I found that out.;)
Also, here in San Jose we have a few "independant" stations which play local music as well as some affiliate stations, which also have local music promotions and such.
Yes, it relies upon (usually) IIS and a Windows server which has it's own issues. There are several other languages that are inferior to ASP as far as performance and development time goes.
PHP would have been my choice, but ASP still runs at 43pps while PHP was only hitting 47pps. I'll ignore perl, as it's strong suit is definitely not in speed and efficiency. Even with CGI::Fast or mod_perl.
$ ls -l 5k5.gif
-rw-rw-r-- 1 xerithan xerithan 613 Apr 12 10:25 5k5.gif
Mhm.. not sure what other images you are talking about.
$ lynx -dump http://www.the5k.org|wc
101 552 4086
And I get the page in a nice 16 seconds (granted, isn't best but typically faster than the load time for slashdot)
You are also forgetting that at a ceiling of 100,000 feet the speed of sound is greatly reduced. As well as friction, and other aspects of it.
For example, on the surface of Mars the speed of sound is really slow (180mph, if I recall correctly.. it's been years) and it has the rough equivalency of 180,000 feet (1/3 earth atmospheric density). So for a plane to reach 100,000 feet is quite amazing. Not busting out 5x the speed of sound when the speed of sound is only 900mph.
And, I'm not sure if you realize this but flying a supersonic aircraft requires different aerodynamics than one that flies subsonic. Look at the concord for a good example of this. While flying at supersonic speeds, it is a much more painstaking process to alter your course. Hence, the broad turning radius.
As for the folklore stuff, a lot of that stuff is just rumors and myths. A lot of it is based in fact, but gets the broken telephone effect unfortunately.
And, the reason why 'All this bullshit' is because a plane flying that high is untouchable. Period. Assuming you do pick it up on radar, what are you going to shoot it down with? This plane could be creeping at 200mph at ceiling and it still is relatively safe. It's a surveillance aircraft, they aren't looking to blast over their target so fast they only get a few seconds of images. There was a myth about mounted satellite guns/missiles (heard both) but I have no idea about the validity.
It's actually a movie quote... and there are reasons why it's my sig. Most assuredly, not a joke anyone outside of those who are close to me would get.
The hair thing is bullshit. Yeah, you get girls that come up and talk and rub your head but the fact is most of them are either nasty, taken, or just plain ass stupid.
I cut off my hair (Had rather long hair) and almost immediately had new classes of girls talking to me.
Here's my advice to getting the time of day:
Dress nice but not fancy, casual so you look like you fell out of a macy's catalogue or something.
Keep trimmed, and neat.
Be confident, but not cocky. Show it's nerving to go talk to them, but maintain an attitude like it's ok to be shot down because you cant succeed if you dont try.
Talk to the girl when there isn't competition or a low amount, but when it's ok to talk to them. Don't try to chat them up at a supermarket, or while they are studying.
But, the hair thing is absolute crap. Most my friends have long hair, and after I cut mine and they saw what happened they are all considering cutting it.
This is just absolute crap. Granted, slashdot has usually sucked on April Fools jokes but this one is going down in the history jokes.
I can picture the events that lead to this:
Jamie: Here Rob, let me get you another drink.
Rob: Uhh.. *erp* ok *burp*
Jamie: So, Rob, can I be in charge of April Fools for slashdot?
Rob: Uhh.. *erp* ok *burp*
Jamie, repeat after me:
You are not funny.
You are not funny.
You are not funny.
Some people are, some people aren't. You aren't, please for the love of all that is good in the universe stop attempting to be.
The bankers and lawyers working to get NorthPoint to stay online. So they can transfer service, seems legit enough but is this going to cost AT&T money?
This doesnt quite seem right, all of their assetts have been auctioned to AT&T for $135M. They have filed bankruptcy and are going through that process. Where is the money going to come from to stay alive for the next month?
More reasons to go with Pac Bell.. After my first DSL bankruptcy fiasco I'm just sticking with the company that made a pact with the devil to stay in business. It's no coincidence their address is 666 Howard St, San Francisco..
A bit more pricey, but Ashland, OR has a fiber network allowing 100Mbit to almost the entire city for a starting price of a bit over $650 for the base package.
Slashdot Mirror
It's Indigo. He pronounces it Indigo (Spanish) through the whole movie. You apparently just have to understand a castillian accent to get it.
When it was called Quantum Leap.
A lot of people hate their jobs, and I think that CEO/VP/whatevers do to. But, I know that they all are thinking "Woo, am I glad I went to college for 4,6,8 years so I'm not a waiter or something"
Now, I'm making more money and have little stock. And, I do the typical six hours of work a day. I show up between 9 and 10. Go to lunch for an hour or two and leave at 6 or 7. I gotta say, Corporate America can be nice. When I can play Age of Empires in the office at 4pm with a bunch of our other workers and just relaxing it makes me glad to be out of the dot-commie days. I still work for an internet company, but it's still corporate.
And, I learned one thing through the dot com fad:
If they ever say, "We can't pay you well, but we offer great options!" it means, "We have no money, and our stock is worthless but we may be able to make it", which means "We're screwed, and just dont know it yet". Not only from my experience, but from all my friends who were at dot-coms too.
P.S. Love your sig :)
there is another quote, I forget what it was in latin but it translated to "If you can read this you must be a scholar"
Tell that to an old friend of mine who was born without molars because her mouth was deformed as hell from her moms crack addiction that caused physical deformities.
So, if the kids are getting these violent video games with their parents buying them than it doesnt matter, right? If it's anyones "fault" it's the parents.
In the sentiment of Chris Rock, What the fuck happened to just plain crazy? That's what these kids are. They are copy cat crazy assholes. Period. Some kid decided to shoot up his school, and all these other crazy ass kids thought that was a good idea. If you are going to shrug the problem off on someone else blame the kids before hand - school shootings aren't a new thing. Same reason why they stopped announcing people jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge - if people hear about someone else doing it, it can't be all that bad right?
It'll just turn around, and if they take away violent video games someone will go on a shooting spree and claim that it was because they didnt have video games to take their agression away.
That's a victim right there.
It is a crime for some meth head to get aggressive and assault me. And I'm a victim because you obviously have never had a physical altercation with someone on meth have you?
Give you a hint: you can hit some guys while coked out of their head with a bat in the face and it wont phase them.
I'm all for recreational use of pot, I'm not a smoker myself but at least with pot you just sit there and stare at a wall instead of try to kill some guy because you think his dog is staring at you the wrong way.
If you design something that *should* work 100% of the time but in reality only works 99% of the time it's not a hack, but poor implementation.
You have not read the article, or the entire thread.. or the previous thread on the question board have you?
If you have, then wow am I missing the point.. or you are. I'm voting more that you are.
I have been doing C development for 9 years now, and I know a plethora of other languages including shell scripting, perl, PHP (for scripts). Now, each language uses 'normal' grouping for control structures (if, for, etc).
What was the logic behind creating a whitespace-based syntax rule? And why do you feel it is good, please refrain from the readability answer because that is all I get from those people I know who know Python.
I find, because of my background, it is much easier to read code that uses braces ({}) than whitespace because my mind automatically looks for them. After maintaining legacy code that extends a life span of 20 years from it's first line of code, I have some concerns about the longevity of any Python code. So, my second question is, how well do you see Python holding up for 20 years and why do you think it will hold up that long?
Thanks.
Overclocking is just fun, for the sake of doing it. Not overclocking is like buying a sports car and leaving it stock.
I was driving into work the other morning, and decided to flip through the radio stations and came across a decent band. I stopped, the song finished (rather abruptly) and it was Howard Stern playing an unsigned band because he liked the way they sounded. I changed it after I found that out. ;)
Also, here in San Jose we have a few "independant" stations which play local music as well as some affiliate stations, which also have local music promotions and such.
Beautiful job, really.
*shrug*
Yes, it relies upon (usually) IIS and a Windows server which has it's own issues. There are several other languages that are inferior to ASP as far as performance and development time goes.
PHP would have been my choice, but ASP still runs at 43pps while PHP was only hitting 47pps. I'll ignore perl, as it's strong suit is definitely not in speed and efficiency. Even with CGI::Fast or mod_perl.
$ ls -l 5k5.gif
-rw-rw-r-- 1 xerithan xerithan 613 Apr 12 10:25 5k5.gif
Mhm.. not sure what other images you are talking about.
$ lynx -dump http://www.the5k.org|wc
101 552 4086
And I get the page in a nice 16 seconds (granted, isn't best but typically faster than the load time for slashdot)
I'm not sure where any irony is at really...
For example, on the surface of Mars the speed of sound is really slow (180mph, if I recall correctly.. it's been years) and it has the rough equivalency of 180,000 feet (1/3 earth atmospheric density). So for a plane to reach 100,000 feet is quite amazing. Not busting out 5x the speed of sound when the speed of sound is only 900mph.
And, I'm not sure if you realize this but flying a supersonic aircraft requires different aerodynamics than one that flies subsonic. Look at the concord for a good example of this. While flying at supersonic speeds, it is a much more painstaking process to alter your course. Hence, the broad turning radius.
As for the folklore stuff, a lot of that stuff is just rumors and myths. A lot of it is based in fact, but gets the broken telephone effect unfortunately.
And, the reason why 'All this bullshit' is because a plane flying that high is untouchable. Period. Assuming you do pick it up on radar, what are you going to shoot it down with? This plane could be creeping at 200mph at ceiling and it still is relatively safe. It's a surveillance aircraft, they aren't looking to blast over their target so fast they only get a few seconds of images. There was a myth about mounted satellite guns/missiles (heard both) but I have no idea about the validity.
It's not nasty, I promise.
It's actually a movie quote... and there are reasons why it's my sig. Most assuredly, not a joke anyone outside of those who are close to me would get.
I know I am not funny online, when I write or anything that involves a keyboard or pen. Jamie has other ideas it seems.
I cut off my hair (Had rather long hair) and almost immediately had new classes of girls talking to me.
Here's my advice to getting the time of day:
Dress nice but not fancy, casual so you look like you fell out of a macy's catalogue or something.
Keep trimmed, and neat.
Be confident, but not cocky. Show it's nerving to go talk to them, but maintain an attitude like it's ok to be shot down because you cant succeed if you dont try.
Talk to the girl when there isn't competition or a low amount, but when it's ok to talk to them. Don't try to chat them up at a supermarket, or while they are studying.
But, the hair thing is absolute crap. Most my friends have long hair, and after I cut mine and they saw what happened they are all considering cutting it.
This is just absolute crap. Granted, slashdot has usually sucked on April Fools jokes but this one is going down in the history jokes.
I can picture the events that lead to this:
Jamie: Here Rob, let me get you another drink. Rob: Uhh.. *erp* ok *burp*
Jamie: So, Rob, can I be in charge of April Fools for slashdot?
Rob: Uhh.. *erp* ok *burp*
Jamie, repeat after me:
You are not funny.
You are not funny.
You are not funny.
Some people are, some people aren't. You aren't, please for the love of all that is good in the universe stop attempting to be.
That's sad.. I've walked up and down that street many times and I always thought I was on Howard.
Thanks =)
This doesnt quite seem right, all of their assetts have been auctioned to AT&T for $135M. They have filed bankruptcy and are going through that process. Where is the money going to come from to stay alive for the next month?
More reasons to go with Pac Bell.. After my first DSL bankruptcy fiasco I'm just sticking with the company that made a pact with the devil to stay in business. It's no coincidence their address is 666 Howard St, San Francisco..