From my understanding they used 100% O2 because that's what the used when the thing actually went into space. They used 100% O2 in space because that meant they could use less pressure which means they could make the capsule lighter. (Since the heavier it is the more fuel you need which makes the whole thing more difficult.)
Or beef tallow like they used to fry McDonald's French fries when I was a kid. No artificial trans-fat there. (Yes, I know one of the reasons they don't use that any more is that if they used either of those then they couldn't sell their stuff to Muslims or Hindus.)
I actually did well in orgo. Anyway from my point of view the book we used tended to ramble on and on before getting to the point. At one point there was page after page and they never got around to simply writing out a sodar equation. (Which the prof just told us, it was only a few terms.) I swear the guy writing our book hated algebra. I found myself writing in the margins "I bet he's rambling when it's just concept X" and so many times I'd be right. Of course since the book was so disorganized even the order things were introduced were really screwed up. (They introduced resonance structures right at the beginning of the book. Unfortunately the first time they actually applied those concepts were right in the middle of the book. So effectively they wanted you to learn this week one of semester one and then ignore it until the first couple of weeks of semester 2.)
Oh and before anybody reads any stupid orgo books, yes orgo 1 and 2 requires memorization of chemical equation. Anybody that tells you differently is just wrong and you will pay if you listen to them.
I look at this like I look at Warren Buffett talking about incoming tax. When a rich company or person starts saying "Hey, hey I'm not being taxed enough. Why aren't you taxing me? I really need to be taxed more!" they have some scheme planned. They didn't get that way by paying more tax than they had to. (But hey, I'm completely cynical.)
On those ones have you ever tried hitting the button that's supposed to say the captcha out loud just in case you can't read it?(Which is most of the time) I swear it sounds like some sort of inhuman moaning straight from the Necronomicon that would be more appropriate to summon some sort of demon.
(sarcasm on)
Because of course they're big on that whole not being evil thing. How horrible would it be if a company that was ok with evil went full bore on bribery. Of course we can take their word for it.
(sarcasm off)
Because if it's worth more a fuel I'm pretty sure what the people running these things will do and it isn't use it fertilizer for the good of the planet.
(sarcasm on)
The Liz Warren's suggestion to lower student loan interest rates was really just a way to give kick backs to her buddies in academia without making it too obvious
(sarcasm off)
Yeah, I'm pretty jaded about everything every politician does.
Where he called people who didn't accept his hypothesis of the source of tides simpletons. Too bad it predicts 1 tide a day, it's the same height, and it's always at the same time. (Which people at the time pointed, none of that is true.)
except like a lot of us developers I've seen most of this.(Just not the cutting edge language. The other stuff, I've seen that at my current job.) If he wanted to sum it up in one sentence it'd pretty much be "STOP FIGHTING YOUR TOOLS. THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO HELP YOU!"
That the guy that is bitching about a movie called Gravity got much of his popularity by whoring up black holes and giving a rather misleading view of the gravity of that object. (I mean how many realize the gravitation influence of a stellar mass black hole is actually less significant than the star that created it? If you listen to Tyson you problem wouldn't know that.)
You know rules of thumb like "NO, YOUR FUNCTION SHOULDN"T BE 5000 FUCKING LINES LONG. IT SHOULD FIT ON THE GOD DAMN SCREEN." or "KNOCK IT OFF STUPID. YOU SHOULD HAVE WROTE ONE FUNCTION TO DO THAT. NOT CUT AND PASTE THOSE 10 LINES OF CODE 70 TO 80 TIMES." (Before anyone asks, yes I've literally seen programmers, software engineers, or whatever we're calling them with years of experience make amateurish blunders such as the above. And yes, they really did do those 2.)
when they tell me "yes we're ok with nuke power." (I know I know, we can't do nuke because Fukushima) BTW Kyoto was stupid because all you had to do to comply was move your plants to China and India.(Which come to think of it happened anyway, I guess we should have signed on with Kyoto to shut up Al.)
Eddie Guerrero to be specific. Other sayings they have about cheating include "Win if you can, lose if you must but always cheat.", "If at first you don't succeed, cheat.", "Anything worth fighting for is worth cheating for.", and "I cheat because I care"
Difficulty, IE companies claim they want a guy who can do his work without needing to consult any references because "Hey that might slow him down" (But I like your other option.)
Pretty much this. It's amazing my current employer has me doing C#/.net but since I can't rattle the classes off the top of my head it's "Oh my god you suck." (Funny how I can pretty much Google/Bing what I need to know and within 1/2 an hour or have know enough to be able to do what I need to know. It's as though they think they guy that does a little research before he jumps in is worse than the guy that goes nuts and starts reinventing the wheel again right off the bat.)
When companies stop blowing me off because they think "Well he's an expert in C++ really well but has only done C# for a year or two so obviously he's useless in that." (From what I'm seeing most of what they do isn't that hard and what I do know about C++ does transfer over rapidly to C#. Hey, have I ever mentioned the grammar of C# (and Java for that matter) was done that way so us C++ guys could rapidly switch over to it?)
You know, at time the vibe I get from companies is that they want what I call a desert island developer. That's a developer that's so good you could literally put him on a desert island. You'd air drop coding specs, food, beer, and women to him every day. Then he'd code it up by writing it up in the sand on the beach(Which the next airdrop plane would photograph) and that code in the sand would work perfectly once it was scanned in.
Slashdot Mirror
Step 1 Display something and let the user/ai enter a response
Step 2 Always reject every response
See, works as well as those 2 schemes and is much easier to implement.(I'm only being somewhat sarcastic btw.)
From my understanding they used 100% O2 because that's what the used when the thing actually went into space. They used 100% O2 in space because that meant they could use less pressure which means they could make the capsule lighter. (Since the heavier it is the more fuel you need which makes the whole thing more difficult.)
Or beef tallow like they used to fry McDonald's French fries when I was a kid. No artificial trans-fat there. (Yes, I know one of the reasons they don't use that any more is that if they used either of those then they couldn't sell their stuff to Muslims or Hindus.)
I actually did well in orgo. Anyway from my point of view the book we used tended to ramble on and on before getting to the point. At one point there was page after page and they never got around to simply writing out a sodar equation. (Which the prof just told us, it was only a few terms.) I swear the guy writing our book hated algebra. I found myself writing in the margins "I bet he's rambling when it's just concept X" and so many times I'd be right. Of course since the book was so disorganized even the order things were introduced were really screwed up. (They introduced resonance structures right at the beginning of the book. Unfortunately the first time they actually applied those concepts were right in the middle of the book. So effectively they wanted you to learn this week one of semester one and then ignore it until the first couple of weeks of semester 2.) Oh and before anybody reads any stupid orgo books, yes orgo 1 and 2 requires memorization of chemical equation. Anybody that tells you differently is just wrong and you will pay if you listen to them.
Because I may be a bit paranoid but I still don't trust that they've "seen the light".
I look at this like I look at Warren Buffett talking about incoming tax. When a rich company or person starts saying "Hey, hey I'm not being taxed enough. Why aren't you taxing me? I really need to be taxed more!" they have some scheme planned. They didn't get that way by paying more tax than they had to. (But hey, I'm completely cynical.)
On those ones have you ever tried hitting the button that's supposed to say the captcha out loud just in case you can't read it?(Which is most of the time) I swear it sounds like some sort of inhuman moaning straight from the Necronomicon that would be more appropriate to summon some sort of demon.
(sarcasm on) Because of course they're big on that whole not being evil thing. How horrible would it be if a company that was ok with evil went full bore on bribery. Of course we can take their word for it. (sarcasm off)
Because if it's worth more a fuel I'm pretty sure what the people running these things will do and it isn't use it fertilizer for the good of the planet.
(sarcasm on) The Liz Warren's suggestion to lower student loan interest rates was really just a way to give kick backs to her buddies in academia without making it too obvious (sarcasm off) Yeah, I'm pretty jaded about everything every politician does.
Where he called people who didn't accept his hypothesis of the source of tides simpletons. Too bad it predicts 1 tide a day, it's the same height, and it's always at the same time. (Which people at the time pointed, none of that is true.)
except like a lot of us developers I've seen most of this.(Just not the cutting edge language. The other stuff, I've seen that at my current job.) If he wanted to sum it up in one sentence it'd pretty much be "STOP FIGHTING YOUR TOOLS. THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO HELP YOU!"
That the guy that is bitching about a movie called Gravity got much of his popularity by whoring up black holes and giving a rather misleading view of the gravity of that object. (I mean how many realize the gravitation influence of a stellar mass black hole is actually less significant than the star that created it? If you listen to Tyson you problem wouldn't know that.)
You know rules of thumb like "NO, YOUR FUNCTION SHOULDN"T BE 5000 FUCKING LINES LONG. IT SHOULD FIT ON THE GOD DAMN SCREEN." or "KNOCK IT OFF STUPID. YOU SHOULD HAVE WROTE ONE FUNCTION TO DO THAT. NOT CUT AND PASTE THOSE 10 LINES OF CODE 70 TO 80 TIMES." (Before anyone asks, yes I've literally seen programmers, software engineers, or whatever we're calling them with years of experience make amateurish blunders such as the above. And yes, they really did do those 2.)
Naïve to think there aren't load of scumbag professors like that one.
(Dr McCoy voice = on) I think he was being sarcastic Jim. (Dr McCoy voice = off)
to something else. I mean it worked when they released Vista 2.0, oh I'm sorry Windows 7.
I guess the formula would be 180*(2)^(N-1). Yeah, you're right. That's kind of pushing it.
The ones doing the bullying will be company/school doing the snooping. Then again I am cynical.
when they tell me "yes we're ok with nuke power." (I know I know, we can't do nuke because Fukushima) BTW Kyoto was stupid because all you had to do to comply was move your plants to China and India.(Which come to think of it happened anyway, I guess we should have signed on with Kyoto to shut up Al.)
Eddie Guerrero to be specific. Other sayings they have about cheating include "Win if you can, lose if you must but always cheat.", "If at first you don't succeed, cheat.", "Anything worth fighting for is worth cheating for.", and "I cheat because I care"
Difficulty, IE companies claim they want a guy who can do his work without needing to consult any references because "Hey that might slow him down" (But I like your other option.)
Pretty much this. It's amazing my current employer has me doing C#/.net but since I can't rattle the classes off the top of my head it's "Oh my god you suck." (Funny how I can pretty much Google/Bing what I need to know and within 1/2 an hour or have know enough to be able to do what I need to know. It's as though they think they guy that does a little research before he jumps in is worse than the guy that goes nuts and starts reinventing the wheel again right off the bat.)
When companies stop blowing me off because they think "Well he's an expert in C++ really well but has only done C# for a year or two so obviously he's useless in that." (From what I'm seeing most of what they do isn't that hard and what I do know about C++ does transfer over rapidly to C#. Hey, have I ever mentioned the grammar of C# (and Java for that matter) was done that way so us C++ guys could rapidly switch over to it?) You know, at time the vibe I get from companies is that they want what I call a desert island developer. That's a developer that's so good you could literally put him on a desert island. You'd air drop coding specs, food, beer, and women to him every day. Then he'd code it up by writing it up in the sand on the beach(Which the next airdrop plane would photograph) and that code in the sand would work perfectly once it was scanned in.
of our times when he's on the short list for a Nobel prize in physics.