The most important thing in coding was making it work.(Getting out fast was second.) As a 40 something year old coder I know the most important thing is making your god damn code readable since you will come back to it, you ALWAYS come back to it. (Amazing how many other coders don't get this even after years of experience.)
I reckon that need alone goes a long way to (mostly) maintain world peace, because when someone learns a foreign language, they're also exposed to a foreign culture.
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Oh that must be why the native americans have no beef with us. You know, because we took their kids from them and shoved english down their figurative throats.
No beef there at all.
The fact is that the vote of a person living in Wisconsin counts for 3.8 times as many Electoral Votes as my vote as a Californian.
Actually that Wisconsin vote counts way more than 3.8 times your (or mine, I'm from Massachusetts) vote. It's because the chances California will flip are basically 0 while there was some chance Wisconsin could have flipped which makes campaigning there worth doing. (I'm guessing if we did a popular vote then both parties would start targetting population dense regions like the north east.)
Actual coding is the smallest part of modern software development not just because of all the meetings agile techniques like Scrum require, but also because we're expected to support the code we write instead of just writing it in isolation, tossing it over the wall and expecting some other sucker to maintain it. The theory is that if the developers have to support the code themselves, then they'll pay more attention to quality, reliability, stability and other factors that improve maintainability.
I'm seeing at least 2 problems crop up with that idea though. The first one is that it doesn't take much to morph from us supporting the code after the user gives it the ol' college try to what I currently see which is "Ehh, if I have any trouble I'll immediately ask dev for support." (That thing about the usb device? That was literally true, somebody actually came to me and ask for help setting up a 3rd party usb device instead of trying to figure it out or googling it.) The other one is that some of our code wasn't originally done by the development team. (So basically the code is dumped on us and then we get the "fun" job of supporting it and fixing it.)
Let me ask, do you have that problem because both QA and managers think it's ok to just add new bugs to the board mid iteration? (Damn it, it's only 2-3 weeks. We can look at that shit at the next iteration.)
But with all the requests I get for tech support(including how do set up this 3rd party USB device) because we don't have a help desk, requests for installation support since we don't have any release engineers, and meetings on top of this I'm lucky to do 2 hours of coding a day.(Suffice it to say I never get into the zone, did I mention I'm a software engineer?)
As said by the guy who's been driving down a stretch of highway every day that's been marked as "Under construction" for several years now. Should I mention I have never once seen anybody actually working on the road? (I mean short of having the grass cut or convicts picking up trash but that isn't construction.)
I mean near where I am there's a rotary and I've seen people literally stop in it to avoid missing the exit they wanted.(It's a fucking circle, go around, it'll take literally 10 seconds to get another shot.) Did I mention they'll also pass people while getting on or off the rotary.(It's one lane but it's wide and around here people will pass any time they can.)
Actually doesn't Tyson miss the point entirely? It's the legislator's staff that does all the "heavy lifting" of going through the bills, getting info from knowledgable parties, etc. I mean I think I read somewhere that there's so many pages of proposed legislation every year that if a senator or rep didn't have his staff to sift the wheat from the chaff he'd never have enough time to vote on anything.
Yes, Yes, think of the children won't somebody think of the children? So here's the thing. This cite
http://www.motorists.org/speed-limits/faq points
out that 30% figure is misleading because it means that someone was assumed to be speeding.(Admittedly it's a study from over a decade ago) However it also points out that when Florida did a study on what percentage of accidents are actually caused by speeding they're getting rates of 2.2%.(Or almost 800 people) In other words even though people are speeding most of the time(and yes, traffic studies do confirm that the majority of people speed) very few accidents (and by extension deaths) are actually caused by speeding. Yes we hear and see so much effort put into "getting those dangerous speeders". (IE if it's about safety you'd put your resources into other things long before you'd crack down on speeders. You know like distracted drivers, people not yielding, tailgating, etc.) Hell there's often no consideration on the type of speeding is. So for example if you do 80mph in a 65 when the traffic flow is 75 oh no you're a dangerous speeder.
Why am I annoyed by this? Could be because a series of 4 deaths on the local highway(annecdote I admit it) caused the staties to go nuts patrolling that section of highway, trying to get drunks and speeders? Let me think, of those 4 how many had anything to do with speed? Oh that's right, none. (For those that care look up route 24 in Masschusetts. The deaths were caused by a tire blow out, a wrongway drunk driver, and a suicide.) Now what happens? When I go down that highway (admittedly and above the posted speed limit which by the way was not set by a proper traffic study that they're supposed to do but don't.) instead of the 80+mph just passing me on the left now I get tailgated like crazy.(Yes, (sarcasm on) such an improvement (sarcasm off) My guess is the people are afraid to pass because they worry, correctly, that the staties will give them a ticket. Hell, now they pass me in the right lane to not attract the attention of them.) Hey should I mention that the staties speed and tailgate all the time even when they don't have their lights on? (BTW it's against the law for them too but who's going to pull them over?)
I mean if I go by this page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in_U.S._by_year
I'd notice that the total number of traffic deaths is right about 35k. (Sorry, no stats for 2011 yet) So basically you're arguing every traffic death was because of speeding. Note - depending on who you read between 2 and 30% of accidents are caused by speeding.(Not the same thing but does imply that deaths due to speeding is no where near 35k)
Where they pointed out people were happiest at either 75K or 85K. I can't remember which. The reason was that above that salary level you pretty much have enough money to meet all your important needs and the extra money was pretty much worthless since you basically have to find excuses to spend it on. So I guess one question would be "Are you making enough to cover your needs, IE what can you do with the extra money?" If you're in the situations where you really can't find anything to spend it on then I wouldn't worry about the money.
Just imagine being in 20x20 room with 30+ people with no AC. At least when I was a kid(in the 70's and 80's) none of the classrooms were air conditioned and I can only imagine what they'd be like in the summer. Oh for reference the only place that had AC in the school was the front office. Yeah, because the office equipment needed it. Nah, it couldn't be because that's where the principal was.
I ask because I consider myself healthiest in mind and body at about 30. So the issue is are we talking about living a really long time but continue to age or do we get our "physical" age stopped at 30. If it's the former maybe not that long since your body breaks down, you get senile etc. However if I got to keep living and got to do so with a body that stayed in good condition I don't see any reason not to go on for as long as possible.(I could continue to work, learn, pick up new hobbies. I'd have a lot of time to have a lot more fun.)
To be blunt I only really liked Star Trek 2, 3, and 4. (Although to be totally honest my favorite Star Trek movie quote is from 5. I mean nothing beats Kirk asking, "What does god need with a star ship?") I mean come on, 3 has Reverend Jim the Klingon. It's worth it for just that.
Instead of multiplying how long you think something will take you by 2 when you give your estimate(since everybody underestimates how long it takes to do something) multiply it by 4. (Since if the code is that bad you'll need the extra time to A:Find it and B:Find out the first way you fixed a problem broke something else because the code is garbage.) Can you tell I'm working on spaghetti code now?
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The most important thing in coding was making it work.(Getting out fast was second.) As a 40 something year old coder I know the most important thing is making your god damn code readable since you will come back to it, you ALWAYS come back to it. (Amazing how many other coders don't get this even after years of experience.)
I reckon that need alone goes a long way to (mostly) maintain world peace, because when someone learns a foreign language, they're also exposed to a foreign culture.
sarcasm on
Oh that must be why the native americans have no beef with us. You know, because we took their kids from them and shoved english down their figurative throats. No beef there at all.
sarcasm off
The fact is that the vote of a person living in Wisconsin counts for 3.8 times as many Electoral Votes as my vote as a Californian.
Actually that Wisconsin vote counts way more than 3.8 times your (or mine, I'm from Massachusetts) vote. It's because the chances California will flip are basically 0 while there was some chance Wisconsin could have flipped which makes campaigning there worth doing. (I'm guessing if we did a popular vote then both parties would start targetting population dense regions like the north east.)
Actual coding is the smallest part of modern software development not just because of all the meetings agile techniques like Scrum require, but also because we're expected to support the code we write instead of just writing it in isolation, tossing it over the wall and expecting some other sucker to maintain it. The theory is that if the developers have to support the code themselves, then they'll pay more attention to quality, reliability, stability and other factors that improve maintainability.
I'm seeing at least 2 problems crop up with that idea though. The first one is that it doesn't take much to morph from us supporting the code after the user gives it the ol' college try to what I currently see which is "Ehh, if I have any trouble I'll immediately ask dev for support." (That thing about the usb device? That was literally true, somebody actually came to me and ask for help setting up a 3rd party usb device instead of trying to figure it out or googling it.) The other one is that some of our code wasn't originally done by the development team. (So basically the code is dumped on us and then we get the "fun" job of supporting it and fixing it.)
Let me ask, do you have that problem because both QA and managers think it's ok to just add new bugs to the board mid iteration? (Damn it, it's only 2-3 weeks. We can look at that shit at the next iteration.)
But with all the requests I get for tech support(including how do set up this 3rd party USB device) because we don't have a help desk, requests for installation support since we don't have any release engineers, and meetings on top of this I'm lucky to do 2 hours of coding a day.(Suffice it to say I never get into the zone, did I mention I'm a software engineer?)
when I took a chemistry course and had sig figs explained to me. (Weird that's where I learned it but it's true.)
As said by the guy who's been driving down a stretch of highway every day that's been marked as "Under construction" for several years now. Should I mention I have never once seen anybody actually working on the road? (I mean short of having the grass cut or convicts picking up trash but that isn't construction.)
I mean near where I am there's a rotary and I've seen people literally stop in it to avoid missing the exit they wanted.(It's a fucking circle, go around, it'll take literally 10 seconds to get another shot.) Did I mention they'll also pass people while getting on or off the rotary.(It's one lane but it's wide and around here people will pass any time they can.)
Actually doesn't Tyson miss the point entirely? It's the legislator's staff that does all the "heavy lifting" of going through the bills, getting info from knowledgable parties, etc. I mean I think I read somewhere that there's so many pages of proposed legislation every year that if a senator or rep didn't have his staff to sift the wheat from the chaff he'd never have enough time to vote on anything.
Yes, Yes, think of the children won't somebody think of the children? So here's the thing. This cite http://www.motorists.org/speed-limits/faq points out that 30% figure is misleading because it means that someone was assumed to be speeding.(Admittedly it's a study from over a decade ago) However it also points out that when Florida did a study on what percentage of accidents are actually caused by speeding they're getting rates of 2.2%.(Or almost 800 people) In other words even though people are speeding most of the time(and yes, traffic studies do confirm that the majority of people speed) very few accidents (and by extension deaths) are actually caused by speeding. Yes we hear and see so much effort put into "getting those dangerous speeders". (IE if it's about safety you'd put your resources into other things long before you'd crack down on speeders. You know like distracted drivers, people not yielding, tailgating, etc.) Hell there's often no consideration on the type of speeding is. So for example if you do 80mph in a 65 when the traffic flow is 75 oh no you're a dangerous speeder. Why am I annoyed by this? Could be because a series of 4 deaths on the local highway(annecdote I admit it) caused the staties to go nuts patrolling that section of highway, trying to get drunks and speeders? Let me think, of those 4 how many had anything to do with speed? Oh that's right, none. (For those that care look up route 24 in Masschusetts. The deaths were caused by a tire blow out, a wrongway drunk driver, and a suicide.) Now what happens? When I go down that highway (admittedly and above the posted speed limit which by the way was not set by a proper traffic study that they're supposed to do but don't.) instead of the 80+mph just passing me on the left now I get tailgated like crazy.(Yes, (sarcasm on) such an improvement (sarcasm off) My guess is the people are afraid to pass because they worry, correctly, that the staties will give them a ticket. Hell, now they pass me in the right lane to not attract the attention of them.) Hey should I mention that the staties speed and tailgate all the time even when they don't have their lights on? (BTW it's against the law for them too but who's going to pull them over?)
I mean if I go by this page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in_U.S._by_year I'd notice that the total number of traffic deaths is right about 35k. (Sorry, no stats for 2011 yet) So basically you're arguing every traffic death was because of speeding. Note - depending on who you read between 2 and 30% of accidents are caused by speeding.(Not the same thing but does imply that deaths due to speeding is no where near 35k)
Where they pointed out people were happiest at either 75K or 85K. I can't remember which. The reason was that above that salary level you pretty much have enough money to meet all your important needs and the extra money was pretty much worthless since you basically have to find excuses to spend it on. So I guess one question would be "Are you making enough to cover your needs, IE what can you do with the extra money?" If you're in the situations where you really can't find anything to spend it on then I wouldn't worry about the money.
Just imagine being in 20x20 room with 30+ people with no AC. At least when I was a kid(in the 70's and 80's) none of the classrooms were air conditioned and I can only imagine what they'd be like in the summer. Oh for reference the only place that had AC in the school was the front office. Yeah, because the office equipment needed it. Nah, it couldn't be because that's where the principal was.
Well the word is pronounced Pair-uh-Dime which sounds remarkably close to pair of dimes, IE 20 cents.
Then again I think I agree with John Carmack that many managers and business heads think it means 20 cents.
I ask because I consider myself healthiest in mind and body at about 30. So the issue is are we talking about living a really long time but continue to age or do we get our "physical" age stopped at 30. If it's the former maybe not that long since your body breaks down, you get senile etc. However if I got to keep living and got to do so with a body that stayed in good condition I don't see any reason not to go on for as long as possible.(I could continue to work, learn, pick up new hobbies. I'd have a lot of time to have a lot more fun.)
To be blunt I only really liked Star Trek 2, 3, and 4. (Although to be totally honest my favorite Star Trek movie quote is from 5. I mean nothing beats Kirk asking, "What does god need with a star ship?") I mean come on, 3 has Reverend Jim the Klingon. It's worth it for just that.
That'd be good, then he could make "Ultima 9 - Let's just forget about that other Ultima 9, it was EA fault"
investors led by Lord British. That would learn them for messing up Origin Systems.
Is the guy who invented Almond Joy
Land Lobsters.(They're both arthropods) Then you can charge a premium for them.
Instead of multiplying how long you think something will take you by 2 when you give your estimate(since everybody underestimates how long it takes to do something) multiply it by 4. (Since if the code is that bad you'll need the extra time to A:Find it and B:Find out the first way you fixed a problem broke something else because the code is garbage.) Can you tell I'm working on spaghetti code now?
shit, the only real question is it dog, bull, human, or horse?
Speeding tickets since "sarcasm on" speeding laws are about safety and not revenue enhancement "sarcasm off"