Oh, I'm in my 40's. I've wisened up enough to not do that shit:) (You'd be surprise how much better of a coder you can be when you're not exhausted. Wish more companies would figure that out.)
I mean I'm a software engineer and my company gave me a laptop. But what was the point of that instead of a desktop? The vast majority of the time I'm at my desk developing and a desktop of the same price would have been faster, had a bigger hard drive, and more memory.(So most of the time when it matters I have a slower machine because of the laptop.) I guess there's 2 situations where the laptop would be better, in meetings and when anybody goes to a customer. So let's see, I'm not one of the developers that visits customers so it's no difference to me and for most of my meetings I just bring a notebook and a pen since that's so much lighter than my laptop.(I mean it's not like I try to develop in a meeting since I swear, if I ever try somebody notices and decides they have to get me involved and stop my work.) Actually in the meeting scenario they could just have a bunch of computers already set up and have people just remote desktop over to their computer. Honestly it's as though they decided that something that's of benefit less than 1% of the time was a good way to go rather giving me what I'd rather have, a faster computer at a given price. (No, they don't go top of the line laptops either which would have been ok.)
Fucking Google it you idiot.(Sorry, pet peeve but I've seen people re-implement stuff that was built into C++ instead of spending 2 minutes to google for a feature.)
that his performance on this is closer to his political prognostication and not his NFL predicitions.(You know, where he said the Patriots would go on to win the superbowl.)
But I do have co-workers who are often as helpless as small children.(I can't get this USB device working, The server isn't working, what do you mean I have the wrong IP address? ETC)
Hey, that's what we do here in Massachusetts. Let me guess, you have people there that think that it's ok to take a left from the right most lane on a 3 lane road. (I swear, people here would rather ram you than drive rationally.)
cheat sheet. I mean when there were 60+ papers that said the speaker of the house was hooked up to the stereo system of the house you know something is up.
You didn't rip anything. MP3 actually had loads of CD's already ripped and on their servers. You put in a CD in your PC, it would get some data off of it(effectively a hash) and then used that info to figure out which CD it was and allow you to stream the rip from MP3.com. So for they'd have a rip of say Led Zeppelin IV on their servers. Everybody that put that CD in their PC could access MP3.com's rip of Led Zeppelin IV and stream it but nobody who used the service was actually ripping their own copy of Led Zeppelin IV and putting it up on the MP3.com's servers.
I mean in theory it's nice you can go over at any time and talk to a developer to get some info. Why it sucks is that as a developer people come over, often literally every 20 minutes and bother me about stuff they should be able to figure out themselves. I never get into the zone because of this co-location. If I had an office I would close the damn door to let people "No, I can't help you. I really am that busy."
First giving the patient a dose of antibotics and then once most of the bacteria are dead then give them a fecal transplant that contain a better mixture of gut flora?
So an infection killed your kidney? You need a transplant but we'll just create a new working clone of your kidney from almost any cell in your body and implant that.(Hopefully no rejection but MD's here can tell me if that's true or not.) Hey, got cancer? Cloning may help with that. Clone yourself a whole new body that doesn't have a brain and implant your brain in that. (As long as the cancer hasn't metastasize into your brain this would theoretically work. Yeah, I know reattaching all the nerves and blood vessels is going to be a bitch.) Hell you could even cure some genetic diseases with this. You have a genetic defect that makes your liver not work? Take your dna, fix the issue then clone a good liver from that. (Yes, I know a lot of this is going to be difficult but in theory a lot of this should work.)
The university I went to put something on this nonsense in one of their mailings to shill for donations. (Something about how one of their archeology professors looked into this and proved it wasn't going to happen.) My reaction? If you've got enough money to blow on this horseshit you obviously don't need a donation from me and would probably blow it on something just as rediculous if I did give it to you. (Yes, this is at a legit university that is normally well respected.)
At least according to wikipedia it's most likely liquid methane and ethane. (I think oil and gasoline are longer hydrocarbon chains like octane, nonane, etc.)
I mean given how often I see code from developers not use any of this anyway ("sarcasm on" I don't have time, I just have to write perfect code "sarcasm off") I wouldn't be too encouraged to implement something new an innovative. (Since even if it was awesome they'd probably not use it.) Gee can you tell I'm a developer that too familiar with people cutting every corner they can, even if it really doesn't save them any time anyway?
Trying to keep tabs on us at all times, even considering it was over 20 years ago, I've got to side with the kid this time.(Especially given how much data they could get now with this tech. They'll probably abuse it.)
Can't remember where I heard this but supposedly when the Normans took over England the language got changed. Basically if it was an animal protein that only the nobles got to eat then it got the French name.(IE Pork or Beef.) Animals the regular guy could eat, IE Chicken, got to keep the anglo name.
Which was unusual in that the person doing the bullying was the fucking teacher. (First grade believe it or not. Turns out she hated the smart kids. I'm fairly glad my mind won't let me remember what she did but I at least know she was cruel, nasty bitch.) Every grade after that I way under-performed.
I'm mostly talking about really slopping coding stuff. You know things like
instead of writing a function(or even a function in a base class) they "save time" by in line it by cutting and pasting. (And after months of development end up with functions that are thousands of lines long, or even having re-implement stuff in every single derived class.)
Never rename controls on a dialog/web page so they're all "Button1" "Button2" etc
use magic numbers like crazy, including this to representing ascii characters
Never give functions or variables good names that describes what they are, instead giving them names such as float, pointer, char
Just to expand on this on top of everything else if you write messy code even if you don't work on it directly expect to spend extra time when the guy who does needs to talk to you about your virtual chicken scratches.
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Since the 3 current ones are Eukaryotes, Bacteria, and Archea.
Oh, I'm in my 40's. I've wisened up enough to not do that shit:) (You'd be surprise how much better of a coder you can be when you're not exhausted. Wish more companies would figure that out.)
I mean I'm a software engineer and my company gave me a laptop. But what was the point of that instead of a desktop? The vast majority of the time I'm at my desk developing and a desktop of the same price would have been faster, had a bigger hard drive, and more memory.(So most of the time when it matters I have a slower machine because of the laptop.) I guess there's 2 situations where the laptop would be better, in meetings and when anybody goes to a customer. So let's see, I'm not one of the developers that visits customers so it's no difference to me and for most of my meetings I just bring a notebook and a pen since that's so much lighter than my laptop.(I mean it's not like I try to develop in a meeting since I swear, if I ever try somebody notices and decides they have to get me involved and stop my work.) Actually in the meeting scenario they could just have a bunch of computers already set up and have people just remote desktop over to their computer. Honestly it's as though they decided that something that's of benefit less than 1% of the time was a good way to go rather giving me what I'd rather have, a faster computer at a given price. (No, they don't go top of the line laptops either which would have been ok.)
Fucking Google it you idiot.(Sorry, pet peeve but I've seen people re-implement stuff that was built into C++ instead of spending 2 minutes to google for a feature.)
that his performance on this is closer to his political prognostication and not his NFL predicitions.(You know, where he said the Patriots would go on to win the superbowl.)
But I do have co-workers who are often as helpless as small children.(I can't get this USB device working, The server isn't working, what do you mean I have the wrong IP address? ETC)
Hey, that's what we do here in Massachusetts. Let me guess, you have people there that think that it's ok to take a left from the right most lane on a 3 lane road. (I swear, people here would rather ram you than drive rationally.)
that I wondered if they "Spoke english". (Ok, I'm from the US but some of us here, our english sucks.)
cheat sheet. I mean when there were 60+ papers that said the speaker of the house was hooked up to the stereo system of the house you know something is up.
You didn't rip anything. MP3 actually had loads of CD's already ripped and on their servers. You put in a CD in your PC, it would get some data off of it(effectively a hash) and then used that info to figure out which CD it was and allow you to stream the rip from MP3.com. So for they'd have a rip of say Led Zeppelin IV on their servers. Everybody that put that CD in their PC could access MP3.com's rip of Led Zeppelin IV and stream it but nobody who used the service was actually ripping their own copy of Led Zeppelin IV and putting it up on the MP3.com's servers.
I mean in theory it's nice you can go over at any time and talk to a developer to get some info. Why it sucks is that as a developer people come over, often literally every 20 minutes and bother me about stuff they should be able to figure out themselves. I never get into the zone because of this co-location. If I had an office I would close the damn door to let people "No, I can't help you. I really am that busy."
Vista 1.0 is more popular than Vista 3.0 but neither one is as popular as Vista 2.0
First giving the patient a dose of antibotics and then once most of the bacteria are dead then give them a fecal transplant that contain a better mixture of gut flora?
So an infection killed your kidney? You need a transplant but we'll just create a new working clone of your kidney from almost any cell in your body and implant that.(Hopefully no rejection but MD's here can tell me if that's true or not.) Hey, got cancer? Cloning may help with that. Clone yourself a whole new body that doesn't have a brain and implant your brain in that. (As long as the cancer hasn't metastasize into your brain this would theoretically work. Yeah, I know reattaching all the nerves and blood vessels is going to be a bitch.) Hell you could even cure some genetic diseases with this. You have a genetic defect that makes your liver not work? Take your dna, fix the issue then clone a good liver from that. (Yes, I know a lot of this is going to be difficult but in theory a lot of this should work.)
The university I went to put something on this nonsense in one of their mailings to shill for donations. (Something about how one of their archeology professors looked into this and proved it wasn't going to happen.) My reaction? If you've got enough money to blow on this horseshit you obviously don't need a donation from me and would probably blow it on something just as rediculous if I did give it to you. (Yes, this is at a legit university that is normally well respected.)
At least according to wikipedia it's most likely liquid methane and ethane. (I think oil and gasoline are longer hydrocarbon chains like octane, nonane, etc.)
It's just they're there to protect and serve the state, not the people.
I thought with that comoving distance thing that these galaxies are more like 35-40 billion light years away.
I mean given how often I see code from developers not use any of this anyway ("sarcasm on" I don't have time, I just have to write perfect code "sarcasm off") I wouldn't be too encouraged to implement something new an innovative. (Since even if it was awesome they'd probably not use it.) Gee can you tell I'm a developer that too familiar with people cutting every corner they can, even if it really doesn't save them any time anyway?
Trying to keep tabs on us at all times, even considering it was over 20 years ago, I've got to side with the kid this time.(Especially given how much data they could get now with this tech. They'll probably abuse it.)
Can't remember where I heard this but supposedly when the Normans took over England the language got changed. Basically if it was an animal protein that only the nobles got to eat then it got the French name.(IE Pork or Beef.) Animals the regular guy could eat, IE Chicken, got to keep the anglo name.
Which was unusual in that the person doing the bullying was the fucking teacher. (First grade believe it or not. Turns out she hated the smart kids. I'm fairly glad my mind won't let me remember what she did but I at least know she was cruel, nasty bitch.) Every grade after that I way under-performed.
instead of writing a function(or even a function in a base class) they "save time" by in line it by cutting and pasting. (And after months of development end up with functions that are thousands of lines long, or even having re-implement stuff in every single derived class.)
Never rename controls on a dialog/web page so they're all "Button1" "Button2" etc
use magic numbers like crazy, including this to representing ascii characters
Never give functions or variables good names that describes what they are, instead giving them names such as float, pointer, char
You know, stuff like that.
Just to expand on this on top of everything else if you write messy code even if you don't work on it directly expect to spend extra time when the guy who does needs to talk to you about your virtual chicken scratches.
Never cut corners, nothing good comes out of cutting corners.