That it had the key word defun. I guess I've got to complement them on their honesty that one of the goals of the creators of lisp was to remove the fun from programming.(Because it certainly did for me.)
To make your code readable. I mean so that if you came back to your code in 6 months you wouldn't have to completely reverse engineer it to figure out what it does.(Since I'm guessing you effectively threw away any coding efforts you did for your projects about 30 seconds after it got graded.) If you write your code with that in mind after a while you'll be fine.(Because believe me, either you'll be coming back to your old code or you'll be coming back to somebody else's old code and it sucks when it looks like the app was put together with figurative chewing gum and duck tape.)
Wow, I didn't scroll down enough to notice that. Then again everything bullet related I've ever seen gives the size as caliber but this is the first time I've ever heard a bullet rated by length. (Hmm, rated by length. There's a dick joke that practically writes itself right there.)
Just curious since I remember reading, admittedly on a blog, somebody take that "It takes X dollars to do 1 MRI" statement on. Basically the idea was that MRI's have a huge fixed cost. (IE you have to pay for the machine and tech before you do even the first MRI) However the additional cost from each MRI was basically nothing.(Since the machine has to be already there, it's going to use the same amount of power no matter what and the tech has to be there.) So from an economic point of view it didn't make sense to put a huge cost on each individual MRI since that would encourage docs to not use the machine. (When they really should try to schedule as many as possible since each one was additonal money and didn't really cost anything.) Is the deal the same with this sequencer? (IE once you have the machine and the guy to run it a single sequence basically costs nothing.)
(Sarcasm on)
Oh great, yet more people coding that will probably do crazy shit. Like writing functions that are thousands of lines long, giving crappy name to variables and functions. Oh and refusing to use templates when they should in C++, not understanding pointers. Hell, they'll probably even do some playing around code trying to figure something out and put all that mess in the final app. Yeah, should be great.
(Sarcasm off)
I don't know, given that you end up paralized except for your eyes I don't know if I'd want to live 20 years like that. (Ok, here's a horror for all of you on Slashdot. That means no video games.)
anything else. I mean ALS is pretty much untreatable. He's gotten the tracheostomy and a feeding tube but that's pretty standard for ALS. (Although in the US it's hard to get a nursing home if you have a tracheostomy.) I read the article and couldn't find anything unusually that would explain why he's lived this long. (A long guess is maybe his 24 hr nurse can pick up on pneumonia far quicker to make sure he doesn't get really bad but then again does the NHS give all ALS patients their own 24 hr nurse?)
Because I've seen at 2 different places where someone wrote the same 8-10 lines of code 60-70 times. (I mean the wrong way, IE the way they did it, must have actually taken significantly longer to do. I mean for FSM sakes, damn. Admittedly in each place the set of 8-10 lines of code was exclusive to that company but the guy that did it literally repeated the same code over and over.)
Flying Spaghetti Monster I should have expected this. You know, you mention Bush and left side of the spectrum lose their minds and miss the point. Ok, so I'll make this VERY VERY clear. The US didn't go to war with Iran when Bush was president. You know, the warmonger who was simultaneously the stupid person possible and the most clever and cunning possible. If it didn't happen then given that why would anybody think it'd happen now given that Obama is now president. I would think that most of us would expect that a war with Iran would actually be less likely given that. (Since last I checked Barry did kind of campaign against sending new ground troops anywhere.)
I mean when Bush was president didn't we hear the scare story from Seymour Hersh for like 4 years how we're going to war with Iran and we never actually did.(I mean hell, even Jon Stewart mentioned that to his face.) So now when anybody claims we're going to war with them I just roll my eyes.(Since I've heard that one before and it didn't happen.)
Really? I wouldn't have even thought of that part. Didn't realize air could absorb that much heat. I guess that would make a fire easier to start in a 100% o2 environment. (Since you know, the fire triangle.)
Imagine a sealed box that has air in it, ok? Now suppose I can wave a magic wand and instantly remove all the nitrogen from the box. The amount of oxygen(concentration) hasn't changed since there's exactly the same number of oxygen particles in the box so from a chemistry view of the box when it comes to oxygen both boxes are the same. However the new box has nearly 100% oxygen in it. but it makes no difference, there's the same number of oxygen particles as before. However there is a notable difference, the pressure is much lower.(It would be between 3-5 lbs per square inch vs 14.7 for air.) So the new box has lower pressure and the air is just as breathable as before, the advantage if you're doing space flight is you don't have to make the box anywhere near as strong if you were using plain old air.(Oh and fires arn't any worse in the pure but low pressure environment.) Admittedly for awhile a person in that enviroment would be dumping nitrogen and could get the bends but if you had him in a pure oxygen environment before hand you could purge him and then put him in a lighter capsule.)
It's like trying to read a novel. If the paper and printing work are good enough that you can make out the words no improvement in paper or ink makes any difference. (IE Camus' the Stranger is a plotless, pointless mess of a book. Having a printing of super high quality ink, the finest paper, and gold leaf won't make it suddenly have a plot.)
Personally I prefered high school, mostly because I wasn't having a massive bout of admittedly undiagnosed clinical depression then. (It's amazing how much stuff sucks when you're going through that. Did I mention I blame my university for causing it in the first place?)
Since I've seen QA people do stuff like that. (And not put down the steps they did to produce the bug in the first place. Hell, I've seen QA not get the difference between a bug and a feature request.)
(Sarcasm on)
Next thing you'll tell me is that the majority of things people associate with Easter, like eggs and bunnies, has nothing to do with Christianity too
(Sarcasm off)
Is that last week I realized that simple calculus allows you to generate the function for the surface area of a sphere from the volume of sphere and why that is the case. I don't think many 10th graders would figure that one out. (Let alone realize that calc also lets you generate area of a circle from the circumference formula.)
Somebody writes the code, doesn't bother to comment it at all and then you come in years after the fact. You look at the code and wonder, "why did he do it that way instead of this way?" Then the big gotcha, you think I could ask him but he left the company 5 years ago(At this point slap your forehead and hope you don't break anything working on the code.)
I mean I thought the whole idea is you send in unmanned drones to do a dangerous mission because losing a drone is preferable to losing a pilot.(Then again you'd hope the technology on the drone wouldn't be too advanced so the enemy doesn't get much out of shooting one down.)
Don't know why people think we spend the most on defense, it's less than 20% of the budget.
Oh, I might lose a little karma here. Anyway it's one of those "talking points" that you hear every so often. Basically some person (like Ben Cohen of Ben and Jerry's) will point out a graph showing how we spend 50% on the military while not pointing out the budget they're talking about is the discretionary budget and not of all spending. (Since SS and medicare are part of manditory spending.) You know, it'd ruin the talking point if they mentioned the rest of the story. (But don't worry, both sides love to tell you stuff that's true but leave out half the story so you come to the wrong conclusion.)
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That it had the key word defun. I guess I've got to complement them on their honesty that one of the goals of the creators of lisp was to remove the fun from programming.(Because it certainly did for me.)
To make your code readable. I mean so that if you came back to your code in 6 months you wouldn't have to completely reverse engineer it to figure out what it does.(Since I'm guessing you effectively threw away any coding efforts you did for your projects about 30 seconds after it got graded.) If you write your code with that in mind after a while you'll be fine.(Because believe me, either you'll be coming back to your old code or you'll be coming back to somebody else's old code and it sucks when it looks like the app was put together with figurative chewing gum and duck tape.)
Wow, I didn't scroll down enough to notice that. Then again everything bullet related I've ever seen gives the size as caliber but this is the first time I've ever heard a bullet rated by length. (Hmm, rated by length. There's a dick joke that practically writes itself right there.)
At least the article says that the dart is 4 inches or 10 centimeters, not 10 inches. (IE it's a little smaller than the 120mm canon the M1 uses.)
Thanks for the info, ignorance fought
Just curious since I remember reading, admittedly on a blog, somebody take that "It takes X dollars to do 1 MRI" statement on. Basically the idea was that MRI's have a huge fixed cost. (IE you have to pay for the machine and tech before you do even the first MRI) However the additional cost from each MRI was basically nothing.(Since the machine has to be already there, it's going to use the same amount of power no matter what and the tech has to be there.) So from an economic point of view it didn't make sense to put a huge cost on each individual MRI since that would encourage docs to not use the machine. (When they really should try to schedule as many as possible since each one was additonal money and didn't really cost anything.) Is the deal the same with this sequencer? (IE once you have the machine and the guy to run it a single sequence basically costs nothing.)
(Sarcasm on) Oh great, yet more people coding that will probably do crazy shit. Like writing functions that are thousands of lines long, giving crappy name to variables and functions. Oh and refusing to use templates when they should in C++, not understanding pointers. Hell, they'll probably even do some playing around code trying to figure something out and put all that mess in the final app. Yeah, should be great. (Sarcasm off)
I don't know, given that you end up paralized except for your eyes I don't know if I'd want to live 20 years like that. (Ok, here's a horror for all of you on Slashdot. That means no video games.)
anything else. I mean ALS is pretty much untreatable. He's gotten the tracheostomy and a feeding tube but that's pretty standard for ALS. (Although in the US it's hard to get a nursing home if you have a tracheostomy.) I read the article and couldn't find anything unusually that would explain why he's lived this long. (A long guess is maybe his 24 hr nurse can pick up on pneumonia far quicker to make sure he doesn't get really bad but then again does the NHS give all ALS patients their own 24 hr nurse?)
Because I've seen at 2 different places where someone wrote the same 8-10 lines of code 60-70 times. (I mean the wrong way, IE the way they did it, must have actually taken significantly longer to do. I mean for FSM sakes, damn. Admittedly in each place the set of 8-10 lines of code was exclusive to that company but the guy that did it literally repeated the same code over and over.)
Flying Spaghetti Monster I should have expected this. You know, you mention Bush and left side of the spectrum lose their minds and miss the point. Ok, so I'll make this VERY VERY clear. The US didn't go to war with Iran when Bush was president. You know, the warmonger who was simultaneously the stupid person possible and the most clever and cunning possible. If it didn't happen then given that why would anybody think it'd happen now given that Obama is now president. I would think that most of us would expect that a war with Iran would actually be less likely given that. (Since last I checked Barry did kind of campaign against sending new ground troops anywhere.)
I mean when Bush was president didn't we hear the scare story from Seymour Hersh for like 4 years how we're going to war with Iran and we never actually did.(I mean hell, even Jon Stewart mentioned that to his face.) So now when anybody claims we're going to war with them I just roll my eyes.(Since I've heard that one before and it didn't happen.)
Really? I wouldn't have even thought of that part. Didn't realize air could absorb that much heat. I guess that would make a fire easier to start in a 100% o2 environment. (Since you know, the fire triangle.)
Imagine a sealed box that has air in it, ok? Now suppose I can wave a magic wand and instantly remove all the nitrogen from the box. The amount of oxygen(concentration) hasn't changed since there's exactly the same number of oxygen particles in the box so from a chemistry view of the box when it comes to oxygen both boxes are the same. However the new box has nearly 100% oxygen in it. but it makes no difference, there's the same number of oxygen particles as before. However there is a notable difference, the pressure is much lower.(It would be between 3-5 lbs per square inch vs 14.7 for air.) So the new box has lower pressure and the air is just as breathable as before, the advantage if you're doing space flight is you don't have to make the box anywhere near as strong if you were using plain old air.(Oh and fires arn't any worse in the pure but low pressure environment.) Admittedly for awhile a person in that enviroment would be dumping nitrogen and could get the bends but if you had him in a pure oxygen environment before hand you could purge him and then put him in a lighter capsule.)
It's like trying to read a novel. If the paper and printing work are good enough that you can make out the words no improvement in paper or ink makes any difference. (IE Camus' the Stranger is a plotless, pointless mess of a book. Having a printing of super high quality ink, the finest paper, and gold leaf won't make it suddenly have a plot.)
Personally I prefered high school, mostly because I wasn't having a massive bout of admittedly undiagnosed clinical depression then. (It's amazing how much stuff sucks when you're going through that. Did I mention I blame my university for causing it in the first place?)
Well to make things worse we give them the document on what it's supposed to support. (And then they ignore that and ask for features.)
Since I've seen QA people do stuff like that. (And not put down the steps they did to produce the bug in the first place. Hell, I've seen QA not get the difference between a bug and a feature request.)
(Sarcasm on) Next thing you'll tell me is that the majority of things people associate with Easter, like eggs and bunnies, has nothing to do with Christianity too (Sarcasm off)
That's ok, I've already had physics.
Is that last week I realized that simple calculus allows you to generate the function for the surface area of a sphere from the volume of sphere and why that is the case. I don't think many 10th graders would figure that one out. (Let alone realize that calc also lets you generate area of a circle from the circumference formula.)
Somebody writes the code, doesn't bother to comment it at all and then you come in years after the fact. You look at the code and wonder, "why did he do it that way instead of this way?" Then the big gotcha, you think I could ask him but he left the company 5 years ago(At this point slap your forehead and hope you don't break anything working on the code.)
I mean I thought the whole idea is you send in unmanned drones to do a dangerous mission because losing a drone is preferable to losing a pilot.(Then again you'd hope the technology on the drone wouldn't be too advanced so the enemy doesn't get much out of shooting one down.)
Don't know why people think we spend the most on defense, it's less than 20% of the budget.
Oh, I might lose a little karma here. Anyway it's one of those "talking points" that you hear every so often. Basically some person (like Ben Cohen of Ben and Jerry's) will point out a graph showing how we spend 50% on the military while not pointing out the budget they're talking about is the discretionary budget and not of all spending. (Since SS and medicare are part of manditory spending.) You know, it'd ruin the talking point if they mentioned the rest of the story. (But don't worry, both sides love to tell you stuff that's true but leave out half the story so you come to the wrong conclusion.)
For my 3ds. I mean those color glasses are ok but the 3ds is better for viewing stereoscopic images than a pair of 3d glasses.