This, in my opinion, has less to do with a Trump Presidency and more to do with both houses of Congress being held by the same majority. Where there previously was gridlock, there now is a hope for legislation actually passing at a decent volume. Why spend money on a locked congress getting next to nothing done, wait until there is some ability for action.
That being said, I do also think the content of legislation comes into play as well (tax code, H1-B).
From what I've seen, the issue in finding developers for these codebases isn't in the language knowledge (i.e. COBOL), it's in the knowledge of the poorly-documented legacy software. Sure, you can get a developer to learn COBOL fairly easily, but when the software is full of dead ends, spaghetti code, and unknown business logic and workflow logic, their knowledge of COBOL won't help. Instead you need to hire someone who knows the system, and was probably complicit in creating this mess, to do anything. Either that or bite the bullet and start a huge replacement project that costs several magnitudes more than exorbitant hourly rates.
I don't understand how this isn't currently the law. By seizing and searching my cellphone and social media accounts, law enforcement officers are basically searching my property on a server somewhere in the world, and using that to determine whether I have or will commit a crime. Can law enforcement agents go through my home without a warrant if I am trying to pass the borders? What is the difference between my digital and physical property?
Regardless, it is doubtful that this bill will pass any time soon given the current state of congress.
Polls and research do show that people think GMO food is unsafe. Take for example http://www.pewinternet.org/201... I'm not sure people care about conditions of the animals so much, but they do care about the concept of "real, natural food." Whatever that means.
I think lab meat would have a hard time being marketed except to a select amount of people for a very long time. A large portion of people are against GMO food, regardless of it's benefit to the environment or society, regardless of the lack of scientific proof to negative claims.
People will gladly, ignorantly, eat things that are "natural" even though they've been bred and scientifically modified over hundreds of years to be something that shouldn't exist naturally on earth. That's pretty much everything in the produce department. Put a labcoat on and make something though, and then you've become some mad scientist bent on ruining the world with your hubris. insert mad scientist laugh here.
I agree. This is something of a glass-half-full study. So 30-50% of arctic ice cap melt is natural. What of the other 50-70%? It is already misunderstood. It's interesting how different media sources are covering this study:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...
I have some future oceanfront property in Kansas if anyone is looking.
One question I have is: At what point does global warming become so evident that there is no more argument as to whether it is occurring, and the argument becomes what do we do about it? I'm pretty sure we should already be there, but we aren't.
It is a violation of federal immigration law to remain in the country without legal authorization, but this violation is punishable by civil penalties, not criminal. Therefore they are violating the law, but not to the level of a criminal offense.
As long as Trump's statements build a platform to justify his future actions, whether true or not, he is happy. It doesn't matter if illegal immigrants are actually criminals or not, it only matters that saying it provides Trump with the justification of building a gigantic wall. It doesn't matter whether Obama wiretapped Trump Tower, it only matters that saying it provides Trump with the ability to deflect conversation about Russian ties.
This is how an authoritarian government works. They care less about the truth, and more about justifying their actions with a painted visage of half-truths and lies.
So has there been any research done outside of this JH Jenkins guy and his crew at Purdue? Has this hypothesis been tested and proven elsewhere in this world? I can't find any other publishers:
http://tinyurl.com/d4bjfbx (A link to a search of published papers using "Solar Radioactive Decay" as the search criteria. All on-topic papers come from JH Jenkins and crew)
American football where I grew up was a right of passage, and pretty much mandatory. It helped teach me self confidence, teamwork, and the ability to bash my head into things. Mostly the head bashing, though.
I use that skill almost every day as a computer programmer, and it is an invaluable part of my toolkit. Poorly written business requirements, bash head. Last minute changes, bash head.
I have a degree in EE, and write code daily. You are right about me not writing large programs though. Generally I write small, simple programs, and then reuse components to make larger more complex apps. The people I work with do the same, and it's great to have a well documented, simple libraries to pick and choose from. The skills I see that provide this type of codebase are good organization and communication skills.
As time goes on, and proper development libraries become larger, hopefully there will be less and less unsupportable monolithic slabs of code.
I would think the future, at least the future of computer programming, relies much more on communication skills than rigorous attention to detail. As languages become higher level and more extensible, it is much more important to write code and doc that others can read and understand.
So I understand that more energy means faster moving protons and anti-protons. How does this equivocate to finding, say, the Higgs-Boson more easily?
I understand that particles moving at 99.91% c are going to be observable for a longer period of time due to the Lorentz factor, but is that the sole benefit of this massive energy upgrade? Anyone have recommended reading for me?
What exactly are the police going to do? It's not like the kid is in imminent danger, the perpetrator is not physically there.
If the police don't need to respond instantly, wouldn't it be better for the kid to tell his parents what happened, as opposed to wasting police resources on a non-emergency situation.
If you disable data services, and accidentally click on a data service button, you will be charged $1.99 for the bandwith it took to send you the 'You do not have this service' message.
The problem is that they round up to a minimum of a $1.99, regardless of usage. That's a steep minimum. A comparison would be rounding up 1 second of calltime to 17 minutes (1 sec to 1024 sec).
Also, even if you disable data services on your phone, they charge you $1.99 because it took bandwidth to send you the "You do not have this service" message.
I'm very skeptical about this. Currently, lab developed polymer solar cells have about a 5% energy conversion efficiency. Let's assume that this kid made a solar cell that is twice that efficient, so 10%.
Let's say sun irradiance is 1000 Watts/meter^2, which is also pretty high. And lets say the solar cell is a.1 meter^2. This would make the optimal wattage for his solar cell:
Well, it's harmful because it's divisive and not constructive. Also it tends to rely on ignorance as opposed to logic.
However, I totally believe that any legislation that tries to protect us from "hate" sort of neuters us from a valid human emotion. I am pretty much against any legislation that limits speech to protect people, because in the end it does just the opposite.
I agree. Where the problem comes in though, is defining the boundary between hate speech and ignorant rhetoric. For instance, if I were to say that women should not serve in the military as infantry because they don't have the musculature, is that hate speech?
What if I said women shouldn't be infantry because they are weak and can't handle it?
As a sidenote, I don't believe either of the above statements, I am just trying to prove a point.
It's gay that they got rid of this legislation. The canadian govt. is retarded for getting rid of a law like this...
It is a very slippery slope when defining what is hate-speech, and what is just parlance/slang. Even though my above statements could be construed as ignorant or hurtful, they can only be classified as hate-speech if they are delivered with the intent to hurt.
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This, in my opinion, has less to do with a Trump Presidency and more to do with both houses of Congress being held by the same majority. Where there previously was gridlock, there now is a hope for legislation actually passing at a decent volume. Why spend money on a locked congress getting next to nothing done, wait until there is some ability for action.
That being said, I do also think the content of legislation comes into play as well (tax code, H1-B).
From what I've seen, the issue in finding developers for these codebases isn't in the language knowledge (i.e. COBOL), it's in the knowledge of the poorly-documented legacy software. Sure, you can get a developer to learn COBOL fairly easily, but when the software is full of dead ends, spaghetti code, and unknown business logic and workflow logic, their knowledge of COBOL won't help. Instead you need to hire someone who knows the system, and was probably complicit in creating this mess, to do anything. Either that or bite the bullet and start a huge replacement project that costs several magnitudes more than exorbitant hourly rates.
I don't understand how this isn't currently the law. By seizing and searching my cellphone and social media accounts, law enforcement officers are basically searching my property on a server somewhere in the world, and using that to determine whether I have or will commit a crime. Can law enforcement agents go through my home without a warrant if I am trying to pass the borders? What is the difference between my digital and physical property? Regardless, it is doubtful that this bill will pass any time soon given the current state of congress.
Polls and research do show that people think GMO food is unsafe. Take for example http://www.pewinternet.org/201... I'm not sure people care about conditions of the animals so much, but they do care about the concept of "real, natural food." Whatever that means.
I think lab meat would have a hard time being marketed except to a select amount of people for a very long time. A large portion of people are against GMO food, regardless of it's benefit to the environment or society, regardless of the lack of scientific proof to negative claims. People will gladly, ignorantly, eat things that are "natural" even though they've been bred and scientifically modified over hundreds of years to be something that shouldn't exist naturally on earth. That's pretty much everything in the produce department. Put a labcoat on and make something though, and then you've become some mad scientist bent on ruining the world with your hubris. insert mad scientist laugh here.
I agree. This is something of a glass-half-full study. So 30-50% of arctic ice cap melt is natural. What of the other 50-70%? It is already misunderstood. It's interesting how different media sources are covering this study: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...
I have some future oceanfront property in Kansas if anyone is looking. One question I have is: At what point does global warming become so evident that there is no more argument as to whether it is occurring, and the argument becomes what do we do about it? I'm pretty sure we should already be there, but we aren't.
Apache has Kafka, among others. But honestly Kafka is all we need now.
It is a violation of federal immigration law to remain in the country without legal authorization, but this violation is punishable by civil penalties, not criminal. Therefore they are violating the law, but not to the level of a criminal offense.
As long as Trump's statements build a platform to justify his future actions, whether true or not, he is happy. It doesn't matter if illegal immigrants are actually criminals or not, it only matters that saying it provides Trump with the justification of building a gigantic wall. It doesn't matter whether Obama wiretapped Trump Tower, it only matters that saying it provides Trump with the ability to deflect conversation about Russian ties. This is how an authoritarian government works. They care less about the truth, and more about justifying their actions with a painted visage of half-truths and lies.
So has there been any research done outside of this JH Jenkins guy and his crew at Purdue? Has this hypothesis been tested and proven elsewhere in this world? I can't find any other publishers: http://tinyurl.com/d4bjfbx (A link to a search of published papers using "Solar Radioactive Decay" as the search criteria. All on-topic papers come from JH Jenkins and crew)
"After a brief tutorial, users get access to the actual 3-D images taken by the STEREO spacecraft"
Sweet! Do they send me complimentary solarstormwatch 3D viewing glasses, or do I need to use the ones I stole from Avatar?
American football where I grew up was a right of passage, and pretty much mandatory. It helped teach me self confidence, teamwork, and the ability to bash my head into things. Mostly the head bashing, though.
I use that skill almost every day as a computer programmer, and it is an invaluable part of my toolkit. Poorly written business requirements, bash head. Last minute changes, bash head.
I have a degree in EE, and write code daily. You are right about me not writing large programs though. Generally I write small, simple programs, and then reuse components to make larger more complex apps. The people I work with do the same, and it's great to have a well documented, simple libraries to pick and choose from. The skills I see that provide this type of codebase are good organization and communication skills.
As time goes on, and proper development libraries become larger, hopefully there will be less and less unsupportable monolithic slabs of code.
I would think the future, at least the future of computer programming, relies much more on communication skills than rigorous attention to detail. As languages become higher level and more extensible, it is much more important to write code and doc that others can read and understand.
Thanks for the response! Not to sound like a 3 year old, but why? Wouldn't length contraction cancel out the effects of time dilation.
So I understand that more energy means faster moving protons and anti-protons. How does this equivocate to finding, say, the Higgs-Boson more easily?
I understand that particles moving at 99.91% c are going to be observable for a longer period of time due to the Lorentz factor, but is that the sole benefit of this massive energy upgrade? Anyone have recommended reading for me?
What exactly are the police going to do? It's not like the kid is in imminent danger, the perpetrator is not physically there.
If the police don't need to respond instantly, wouldn't it be better for the kid to tell his parents what happened, as opposed to wasting police resources on a non-emergency situation.
If you disable data services, and accidentally click on a data service button, you will be charged $1.99 for the bandwith it took to send you the 'You do not have this service' message.
The problem is that they round up to a minimum of a $1.99, regardless of usage. That's a steep minimum. A comparison would be rounding up 1 second of calltime to 17 minutes (1 sec to 1024 sec).
Also, even if you disable data services on your phone, they charge you $1.99 because it took bandwidth to send you the "You do not have this service" message.
The higher the gamerscore, the more valuable the gamer account.
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I'm very skeptical about this. Currently, lab developed polymer solar cells have about a 5% energy conversion efficiency. Let's assume that this kid made a solar cell that is twice that efficient, so 10%.
.1 meter^2. This would make the optimal wattage for his solar cell:
Let's say sun irradiance is 1000 Watts/meter^2, which is also pretty high. And lets say the solar cell is a
Irradiance * Size of Cell * Efficiency = Wattage
1000 W/m2*.1 m2 *.1 = 10 Watts
Even in superoptimal situations, there is no way his cell can be producing the 18 watts described in the article.
Well, it's harmful because it's divisive and not constructive. Also it tends to rely on ignorance as opposed to logic.
However, I totally believe that any legislation that tries to protect us from "hate" sort of neuters us from a valid human emotion. I am pretty much against any legislation that limits speech to protect people, because in the end it does just the opposite.
I agree. Where the problem comes in though, is defining the boundary between hate speech and ignorant rhetoric. For instance, if I were to say that women should not serve in the military as infantry because they don't have the musculature, is that hate speech?
What if I said women shouldn't be infantry because they are weak and can't handle it?
As a sidenote, I don't believe either of the above statements, I am just trying to prove a point.
It's gay that they got rid of this legislation. The canadian govt. is retarded for getting rid of a law like this...
It is a very slippery slope when defining what is hate-speech, and what is just parlance/slang. Even though my above statements could be construed as ignorant or hurtful, they can only be classified as hate-speech if they are delivered with the intent to hurt.