At work: Use a sit/stand height-adjustable desk. Some days I sit, some days I (mostly) stand, some days I grab a bar stool from the kitchen and do something in between. Having the flexibility to do whatever feels best at the time is a huge win.
To/from work: I'm fortunate enough to be within walking distance, so while I catch the train to work in the morning (to get in on time without having to get up too early), I typically walk home. It takes about 45 minutes at a semi-brisk pace, which for me strikes a good balance between getting some fresh air / light exercise, and time spent.
Outside work: Martial arts, Aikido to be precise. As someone already mentioned, the martial arts have many things of interest to the geek mindset - it all comes down to optimizing your body/movements. A lot of the traits that make geeks good developers are of value here, such as problem solving (a combat situation is really just a physics problem to be solved), perseverance to keep at it while feeling like you're getting nowhere (chasing obscure bugs, anyone?), and of course the basic desire to understand how things work and through that get in control.
Also, when I'm geeking out at home I have a sit/stand desk there too, though I'm trying to reduce the amount of time I spend at the computer. Currently I've taken to doing a bit of wood work to make my own weapons for my aiki training, and am enjoying that a lot.
Declaring something void is certainly possible, at least when that something is the return type of a function. However, declaring something NULL would imply it having the type NULL, and in C NULL is a value, not a type.
Of course, in SQL you could say that you're declaring a column NULL (capable), but there you don't have "void".
And while they're at it, they should declare software patents NULL and void too... though I'm not sure what compiler would accept such a mix of value and type.
I use a desk from ErgoMotion at work, and a similar (though larger, custom-designed) one at home. Wouldn't want to work without it.
It's quick to change from sitting coding height to standing coding height to sitting reading height. Few seem to realise what a huge difference it is to simply be able to raise your desk a couple of inches when you're reading lots and not using the keyboard.
Good desks aren't cheap, but they're not terribly expensive either - and they're worth every cent for my health!:)
Watching and listening to the lunar landing sends shivers down my spine. For all our cool tech these days, nothing compares to that moment, and I can't help but wonder if our generation will have such a defining moment. Right now the world seems too obsessed with "safe" and "profit", and appears to have lost the vision and drive to push our boundaries.
I wish we would have some leaders who would follow in the footsteps of "we do these things not because they're easy, but because they're hard."
They get installed inline with the main house circuit breaker panel. Expensive.
It all depends on what level of protection you're going for. Protecting against a direct strike on your house would be excessively expensive for most people, if at all feasible (lightning nerds feel free to explain the massive EM fields and their air-ground-wiring interactions etc).
When we renovated our place (including fresh wiring throughout) I opted for an "industrial strength" surge protector mounted on the DIN rail in the main switch board. Back when I was doing the calculations for it, it should allow for an air-to-ground strike as close as a block away, and an air-to-supply-line strike twice(?) as far away. A strike like that would blow/exhaust the SPD, but also absorb the spike enough that my UPS doesn't fry, and the UPS in turn smooth out the remaining parts of the spike.
Things not behind the UPS are largely left to fend for themselves, except a few things like the TV which is on a power-board with a built-in surge protector (heaven knows how much help that would be, I don't even know if the label can be trusted).
Anyway, as I was saying, depending on the desired level of protection, it doesn't have to cost an arm and a leg. I only spent ~$350 or so extra to have the SPD installed. The electrician thought I was mad for going to such length in a residential place though...
Either we'd grab the laptops, or the NAS (which the laptops back up onto) on the way out. And if we weren't home, then we'd still have a not-horribly-old backup over at the parental units' place.
only with more junk and requiring a plugin on the client side? Genius!
Note: This was totally dry-coded off the top of my head. Bugs and standards compliance failures likely. The whole idea didn't seem to warrant a proper implementation in the first place.
Unguessable insta-death is also extremely irksome. The original Alone in the Dark suffered from it in a bad way. Hey, I'm in a scary house. I have to go around opening doors... Woops, opening that door immediately drops me to a cutscene of my dying horribly, with no possible clues by which I could have inferred that it was different than any other door.
Oh come on! You've been having weird creatures attempt to break in through the attic window, and you then go and open the front door without even checking through a window on that side of the house?! That is not particularly smart.
(Alright, I made the same mistake too, and it took me a while to realize I could push the piano across to block the attic window... awesome game though!)
Simple as that. That's of course assuming you could get the people to agree to it in the first place.
You can do long hours for a short period in order to get a particular feature out the door (but will have to give everyone plenty of time to recover afterward). Doing long hours on an open-ended schedule is just a burn-out disaster in the making. Of course, if all the developers quit, the company expenditure is reduced...
I came across this job post at Valve just recently. To save you from having to follow the link, it includes the item "Port Windows-based games to the Linux platform".
I admit I stuffed up my first senate sheet too - it's too damn wide to fit into those cramped booths, and I missed an entire column due to it folding over onto itself. Had to get a fresh sheet and start over, which was a bit embarrassing.
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Dude, if you're refuelling on the go, surely the tanker could also sport a chute for dropping more pringles and coke through the side window*?
*) I'd suggest opening the window first though.
This is what I'm currently doing:
At work: Use a sit/stand height-adjustable desk. Some days I sit, some days I (mostly) stand, some days I grab a bar stool from the kitchen and do something in between. Having the flexibility to do whatever feels best at the time is a huge win.
To/from work: I'm fortunate enough to be within walking distance, so while I catch the train to work in the morning (to get in on time without having to get up too early), I typically walk home. It takes about 45 minutes at a semi-brisk pace, which for me strikes a good balance between getting some fresh air / light exercise, and time spent.
Outside work: Martial arts, Aikido to be precise. As someone already mentioned, the martial arts have many things of interest to the geek mindset - it all comes down to optimizing your body/movements. A lot of the traits that make geeks good developers are of value here, such as problem solving (a combat situation is really just a physics problem to be solved), perseverance to keep at it while feeling like you're getting nowhere (chasing obscure bugs, anyone?), and of course the basic desire to understand how things work and through that get in control.
Also, when I'm geeking out at home I have a sit/stand desk there too, though I'm trying to reduce the amount of time I spend at the computer. Currently I've taken to doing a bit of wood work to make my own weapons for my aiki training, and am enjoying that a lot.
Palmer just likes the lime light and will say anything to get it. Nothing to see here...
Because the laws did not seem to stop Breivik.
Quite possibly because that incident took place in Norway.
Bzzzt! That's not declaring software_patents NULL and void, that's declaring NULL to be a substitution macro for a void pointer of value zero. :)
Declaring something void is certainly possible, at least when that something is the return type of a function. However, declaring something NULL would imply it having the type NULL, and in C NULL is a value, not a type.
Of course, in SQL you could say that you're declaring a column NULL (capable), but there you don't have "void".
And while they're at it, they should declare software patents NULL and void too... though I'm not sure what compiler would accept such a mix of value and type.
I use a desk from ErgoMotion at work, and a similar (though larger, custom-designed) one at home. Wouldn't want to work without it. It's quick to change from sitting coding height to standing coding height to sitting reading height. Few seem to realise what a huge difference it is to simply be able to raise your desk a couple of inches when you're reading lots and not using the keyboard. Good desks aren't cheap, but they're not terribly expensive either - and they're worth every cent for my health! :)
Watching and listening to the lunar landing sends shivers down my spine. For all our cool tech these days, nothing compares to that moment, and I can't help but wonder if our generation will have such a defining moment. Right now the world seems too obsessed with "safe" and "profit", and appears to have lost the vision and drive to push our boundaries.
I wish we would have some leaders who would follow in the footsteps of "we do these things not because they're easy, but because they're hard."
They get installed inline with the main house circuit breaker panel. Expensive.
It all depends on what level of protection you're going for. Protecting against a direct strike on your house would be excessively expensive for most people, if at all feasible (lightning nerds feel free to explain the massive EM fields and their air-ground-wiring interactions etc).
When we renovated our place (including fresh wiring throughout) I opted for an "industrial strength" surge protector mounted on the DIN rail in the main switch board. Back when I was doing the calculations for it, it should allow for an air-to-ground strike as close as a block away, and an air-to-supply-line strike twice(?) as far away. A strike like that would blow/exhaust the SPD, but also absorb the spike enough that my UPS doesn't fry, and the UPS in turn smooth out the remaining parts of the spike.
Things not behind the UPS are largely left to fend for themselves, except a few things like the TV which is on a power-board with a built-in surge protector (heaven knows how much help that would be, I don't even know if the label can be trusted).
Anyway, as I was saying, depending on the desired level of protection, it doesn't have to cost an arm and a leg. I only spent ~$350 or so extra to have the SPD installed. The electrician thought I was mad for going to such length in a residential place though...
Either we'd grab the laptops, or the NAS (which the laptops back up onto) on the way out. And if we weren't home, then we'd still have a not-horribly-old backup over at the parental units' place.
one liner is more than enough for any OS....
>> shutdown
Win7: /l | /s | r | /g | /a | /p | /h | /e] [/f] ...50 odd lines cut
C:\> shutdown
Usage: shutdown [/i |
C:\>
MacOS X: ...]
# shutdown
shutdown: NOT super-user
# sudo shutdown
usage: shutdown [-] [-h [-u] [-n] | -r [-n] | -s | -k] time [warning-message
#
Linux: ...10+ lines cut
# shutdown
shutdown: you must be root to do that!
Usage: shutdown [-akrhPHfFnc] [-t sec] time [warning message]
#
Win98:
C:\> shutdown
'shutdown' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
C:\>
FreeBSD: /sbin/shutdown: Permission denied. ...]
# shutdown
# sudo shutdown
usage: shutdown [-] [-h | -p | -r | -k] [-o [-n]] time [warning-message
#
Given the above, I hereby declare the parent wrong. :)
Also, don't ask about Win98. Please.
Nah, it typically gets put onto ATM links for the back-haul. It only breaks out onto the PSTN if the destination is a land line.
So they just "invented" a CGI script that essentially does:
#!/bin/sh
FILE="/path/to/sample.jpg"
XPIRE="110130"
NOW="$(date +%y%m%d)"
[ "$NOW" -gte "$XPIRE" ] && { echo "HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found"; echo ""; exit 0 }
echo "HTTP/1.0 200 OK"
echo "Content-Type: image/jpeg"
echo ""
cat "$FILE"
exit 0
only with more junk and requiring a plugin on the client side? Genius!
Note: This was totally dry-coded off the top of my head. Bugs and standards compliance failures likely. The whole idea didn't seem to warrant a proper implementation in the first place.
Unguessable insta-death is also extremely irksome. The original Alone in the Dark suffered from it in a bad way. Hey, I'm in a scary house. I have to go around opening doors... Woops, opening that door immediately drops me to a cutscene of my dying horribly, with no possible clues by which I could have inferred that it was different than any other door.
Oh come on! You've been having weird creatures attempt to break in through the attic window, and you then go and open the front door without even checking through a window on that side of the house?! That is not particularly smart.
(Alright, I made the same mistake too, and it took me a while to realize I could push the piano across to block the attic window... awesome game though!)
Simple as that. That's of course assuming you could get the people to agree to it in the first place.
You can do long hours for a short period in order to get a particular feature out the door (but will have to give everyone plenty of time to recover afterward). Doing long hours on an open-ended schedule is just a burn-out disaster in the making. Of course, if all the developers quit, the company expenditure is reduced...
No you don't! You throw it to who!
I've found it to be really helpful - now I can type without pain and I can even do pushups again. YMMV.
(cue the oblig wrist action comments:).
"/wrist" for turning into a jock? ;)
"unterminated 's' command"
It's just a milestone.
Hang on, since when do you measure sorting performance using a distance indicator? And an imperial one at that!
No, this is not a serious comment.
I came across this job post at Valve just recently. To save you from having to follow the link, it includes the item
"Port Windows-based games to the Linux platform".
Just sayin'.
I admit I stuffed up my first senate sheet too - it's too damn wide to fit into those cramped booths, and I missed an entire column due to it folding over onto itself. Had to get a fresh sheet and start over, which was a bit embarrassing.
I voted [60] Stephen Conroy.
As did I. Here's hoping a few more did!
Incest is the dark side of the force...
"Give in to it. You know you want to." ?
Hello Godwin! How are you today? :)