We can tell, because W/s is not a unit of energy. It's not a commonly used unit at all, really. You want to MULTIPLY watts by seconds to get joules.
I'm pretty certain some number has been quoted incorrectly. 300 megawatts * 8e11 seconds is the equivalent of about 3000 kg of mass energy. The answer is nonsense.
It's not about taking or not taking the courses. It's about phrases like "my precious time" and "I feel no need or desire." A person who decided to take another path could still be a great hire. A person who is clearly a prick is not going to be a great hire, I don't care how smart he is or what he studied or did not study.
And you're reading quite a lot into this person's personality just based on a personal statement
Congratulations, you've grasped how the interview process works. We're not going to take a month to get to know the "real you." Maybe 15 minutes on a phone screen. Making an initial impression of "egotistical dick" gives us a good way of weeding out people who are clearly not gonna work out.
If I wanted to be just as prejudicial as you, I could say that your attitude is reflective of someone who wants to make everyone boring and homogenous.
Despite your impression, there is a huge variety of people in the world even if you exclude assholes.
Intelligent managers (managers that understand the position they are hiring for, as opposed to PHBs that are looking to fill an empty seat) will understand that experience can be more valuable than education.
And good managers will know (from experience) that hiring someone like this guy can be incredibly detrimental to a software team. Here you've got an idiot (seriously) who thinks he doesn't need to know something -- he already gets it. Dude, after learning about it in high school? Chances are, this person is difficult to communicate with, egotistical, combative instead of merely argumentative, and unwilling to think outside of defined corridors. He'll probable be hostile when asked to do something out of the ordinary. Quite likely, he's an asshole who will drown your entire team in bad feelings. He's a bad idea.
Both sides have fear, and it is justified. I wish I knew a way around this, other than perhaps to have more internships for LEO type of work so people know what police have to deal with on a daily basis.
A way around it? Back when you ran Windows 95 and the system was clearly going into the crapper did you keep trying things hoping some silly tweak was going to just "fix it" or did you reach for the reset button?
Wow, I never thought of it. Trying the reverse! Amazing. All dogs are mammals. True, I think... Let's try the reverse. All mammals are dogs. No, that's not right. Guess the first one was wrong as well. My God you've opened my eyes, thank you so much.
Is there an iPhone app that will send recorded video directly to the network? This will be an important feature when recording the police.
Isn't Apple working on some technology to allow movie theaters to remotely disable recording on any iPhone that happens to be in the theater? Yeah. "Movie theaters," that's who they're developing it for. Sure...
That is not permitted in Python. It is a syntax error. You must either list a statement on the same line, or begin an indented block. If you want an empty block, you use the 'pass' statement. See, it's almost as if there are features designed into the syntax to help prevent mistakes. How odd.
sentences are delimited by punctuation, not white space.
Sentences are delimited by small pauses. It's almost as if there was some blank... space... between them.
Oh, you mean those sequences of symbols we write on paper to encode information that we'd otherwise communicate using speech. Yeah, the convention seems to be to put a dot or something between the written representation of sentences. But that's arbitrary -- the reality is, all languages of all humans have the feature that individual statements are separated from each other by silence (the lack of something), not the presence of something.
But I don't know FULL STOP Maybe people in your neck of the woods say "full stop" between each sentence they speak FULL STOP
And the execution of your C program shouldn't be changed by the lack of curly braces... See, I can make dumbshit statements also.
Python is a pretty good language overall, but forcing beginners to understand that whitespace makes a difference in how something executes is asking for trouble.
Even a computer-illiterate person can usually understand the concept of bullet points which have sub-bullets and possible sub-sub-bullets, and they "get" that the sublevels are encompassed by and related to the higher levels. They're non-programmers, it doesn't mean they're idiots.
Tolerating that sort of abuse in the US hardly does anything for anybody living elsewhere. The jobs ultimately need to be filled, and rationalizing it based upon people using the jobs to move themselves from complete destitution to near complete destitution does nothing for the well being of workers.
I don't dispute that. What I'm doing is calling bullshit on the "we're doing it for their own sake" argument.
No, what explains that is that wages and work conditions are even worse where they come from. If you want them to stop coming...
So you want to reconfigure the situation so that these people remain in Circumstance A rather than a somewhat better Circumstance B. You want to do this for... humanitarian concerns?
Nobody seems to ever bring this up, but by supporting illegal immigration you are supporting modern day slavery. Illegal immigrants don't make a proper wage and dont receive any of the protections that their legal immigrant friends enjoy.
This is a great remainder for all users not use the same password for two different services.
Not really. I divide my logins into two categories: stuff that, if it were all compromised simultaneously, would be inconvenient but otherwise no big deal; and everything else. In the "everything else" category, every password is unique. For the stuff that isn't life or lifestyle critical, I save myself some mental effort and just use the same password.
Oh noes, they got my Slashdot account, my account on some news website where I logged in once to respond to an idiotic comment, and my account on the website where everybody talks about frogs. I'm sooo scared. Seriously, the risk of it happening is pretty low (not the initial compromise, but the risk that they will go on to compromise ALL of my other accounts before I have a chance to react), and it certainly isn't worth the inconvenience of zillions of passwords on sites that aren't that important in the grand scheme of things.
Bank account logins, stock brokerage logins, passwords to my hosting provider and DNS registrar logins, etc., that stuff is all unique, and memorized, so it's not even written down anywhere even in encrypted form.
Quit diluting the meaning of the word "terror." Terror is fearing you might be blown into bloody pieces while standing in line at a sandwich shop. Terror is fearing your elementary school kid will die a fiery death in an exploding school bus. Terror is wondering whether the building you work in is going to be on the receiving end of a trans-continental jet liner moving 500 MPH. These things are terrifying.
We already have words for the sort of thing the article is talking about: extortion, blackmail, etc.
Don't fine the hackers for finding the exploits, fine the developers for not finding them. The software developers are the ones making money off the software
In what bizarro world are you living? Most developers make money by collecting salaries, not selling software. Do you think our income is tied to revenue? I WISH! If you want to hold companies responsible as a whole, great. You want to impose penalties on companies for security problems that affect people, great. You want to impose fines on me, personally, as a developer working for a company? I'd be okay with that only if A) companies were forced to give me the time and resources necessary to do the sort of testing you are talking about, and B) my income is actually tied to revenues from the software (which they are not, presently), or if you simply increased my base pay by, say, 5x. I'm not going to take risks like that for free.
You want me to take big personal, legal risks? Then you're going to pay me in big stacks of greenbacks. Look at other professions where people can be sanctioned: medicine, law, finance. Notice anything in common among those? Any of them making $50k a year?
"do not mess with complex systems you don't fully understand."
Yeah, that's gonna make for some scientific progress right there.
No sane scientist performs potentially destructive experiments one the only available sample. In this case, the sample is "Earth," and if you destroy it you don't just go out and get another one. Furthermore, it's hard to conduct science, period, when you only have one sample, because there is no control for comparison. "I did X, and a hurricane happened. Let's compare that with the other Earth where I did not do X. Wait a second."
Pumping gigatons of CO2 into the atmosphere is basically the biggest "scientific experiment" humans have ever performed. Except that it's not really scientific because we have no "control Earth," and if the outcome is unfavorable we all could die. Real scientists simply don't behave that way. "Here's a sample of an unknown gas, what happens if I deeply inhale it?" We're not experimenting with Drosophila flies here.
You're either a black hat for two reasons: a) financial gain or b) publicity.
False dichotomy. They could be trying to push the various swinging pendula of modern society in certain directions. I am not equating this with terrorism, but to use terrorism as an example, it would be a mistake to say they do it for "publicity." That's grossly oversimplifying it.
I'm not saying there's some deeper meaning behind any of this, just that it's possible and you shouldn't discount it out of hand.
The solution is discardable memory, a feature that actually existed in Windows 3 (and perhaps before -- don't know for sure). You make a call to allocate memory. Instead of getting a pointer back, you get a handle. You'd lock the handle to get a real pointer, read/write the data as you please, then unlock the chunk. Discardable memory could be thrown away to the bit bucket at any time by the OS. If that occurred, the next time you tried to lock the handle you'd get an error indicating the block had been discarded. Sounds useless for data that has to stick around, but incredibly useful for caching things where if you lose the cached data you can just regenerate it or retrieve it again.
These days, we call such things "weak pointers." Simple, effective.
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I am not a physicist
We can tell, because W/s is not a unit of energy. It's not a commonly used unit at all, really. You want to MULTIPLY watts by seconds to get joules.
I'm pretty certain some number has been quoted incorrectly. 300 megawatts * 8e11 seconds is the equivalent of about 3000 kg of mass energy. The answer is nonsense.
It's not about taking or not taking the courses. It's about phrases like "my precious time" and "I feel no need or desire." A person who decided to take another path could still be a great hire. A person who is clearly a prick is not going to be a great hire, I don't care how smart he is or what he studied or did not study.
Yeah, what a stupid lawyer. Putting his client's interests over the interests of everyone who isn't his client. Dude needs to go back to law school.
And you're reading quite a lot into this person's personality just based on a personal statement
Congratulations, you've grasped how the interview process works. We're not going to take a month to get to know the "real you." Maybe 15 minutes on a phone screen. Making an initial impression of "egotistical dick" gives us a good way of weeding out people who are clearly not gonna work out.
If I wanted to be just as prejudicial as you, I could say that your attitude is reflective of someone who wants to make everyone boring and homogenous.
Despite your impression, there is a huge variety of people in the world even if you exclude assholes.
Intelligent managers (managers that understand the position they are hiring for, as opposed to PHBs that are looking to fill an empty seat) will understand that experience can be more valuable than education.
And good managers will know (from experience) that hiring someone like this guy can be incredibly detrimental to a software team. Here you've got an idiot (seriously) who thinks he doesn't need to know something -- he already gets it. Dude, after learning about it in high school? Chances are, this person is difficult to communicate with, egotistical, combative instead of merely argumentative, and unwilling to think outside of defined corridors. He'll probable be hostile when asked to do something out of the ordinary. Quite likely, he's an asshole who will drown your entire team in bad feelings. He's a bad idea.
Both sides have fear, and it is justified. I wish I knew a way around this, other than perhaps to have more internships for LEO type of work so people know what police have to deal with on a daily basis.
A way around it? Back when you ran Windows 95 and the system was clearly going into the crapper did you keep trying things hoping some silly tweak was going to just "fix it" or did you reach for the reset button?
Wow, I never thought of it. Trying the reverse! Amazing. All dogs are mammals. True, I think... Let's try the reverse. All mammals are dogs. No, that's not right. Guess the first one was wrong as well. My God you've opened my eyes, thank you so much.
Is there an iPhone app that will send recorded video directly to the network? This will be an important feature when recording the police.
Isn't Apple working on some technology to allow movie theaters to remotely disable recording on any iPhone that happens to be in the theater? Yeah. "Movie theaters," that's who they're developing it for. Sure...
or more specifically, not identical to this:
# Python
if a==b:
do_something()
That is not permitted in Python. It is a syntax error. You must either list a statement on the same line, or begin an indented block. If you want an empty block, you use the 'pass' statement. See, it's almost as if there are features designed into the syntax to help prevent mistakes. How odd.
sentences are delimited by punctuation, not white space.
Sentences are delimited by small pauses. It's almost as if there was some blank... space... between them.
Oh, you mean those sequences of symbols we write on paper to encode information that we'd otherwise communicate using speech. Yeah, the convention seems to be to put a dot or something between the written representation of sentences. But that's arbitrary -- the reality is, all languages of all humans have the feature that individual statements are separated from each other by silence (the lack of something), not the presence of something.
But I don't know FULL STOP Maybe people in your neck of the woods say "full stop" between each sentence they speak FULL STOP
And the execution of your C program shouldn't be changed by the lack of curly braces... See, I can make dumbshit statements also.
Python is a pretty good language overall, but forcing beginners to understand that whitespace makes a difference in how something executes is asking for trouble.
Even a computer-illiterate person can usually understand the concept of bullet points which have sub-bullets and possible sub-sub-bullets, and they "get" that the sublevels are encompassed by and related to the higher levels. They're non-programmers, it doesn't mean they're idiots.
Tolerating that sort of abuse in the US hardly does anything for anybody living elsewhere. The jobs ultimately need to be filled, and rationalizing it based upon people using the jobs to move themselves from complete destitution to near complete destitution does nothing for the well being of workers.
I don't dispute that. What I'm doing is calling bullshit on the "we're doing it for their own sake" argument.
No, what explains that is that wages and work conditions are even worse where they come from. If you want them to stop coming...
So you want to reconfigure the situation so that these people remain in Circumstance A rather than a somewhat better Circumstance B. You want to do this for... humanitarian concerns?
Nobody seems to ever bring this up, but by supporting illegal immigration you are supporting modern day slavery. Illegal immigrants don't make a proper wage and dont receive any of the protections that their legal immigrant friends enjoy.
Ah, that explains why they keep on comin'.
This is a great remainder for all users not use the same password for two different services.
Not really. I divide my logins into two categories: stuff that, if it were all compromised simultaneously, would be inconvenient but otherwise no big deal; and everything else. In the "everything else" category, every password is unique. For the stuff that isn't life or lifestyle critical, I save myself some mental effort and just use the same password.
Oh noes, they got my Slashdot account, my account on some news website where I logged in once to respond to an idiotic comment, and my account on the website where everybody talks about frogs. I'm sooo scared. Seriously, the risk of it happening is pretty low (not the initial compromise, but the risk that they will go on to compromise ALL of my other accounts before I have a chance to react), and it certainly isn't worth the inconvenience of zillions of passwords on sites that aren't that important in the grand scheme of things.
Bank account logins, stock brokerage logins, passwords to my hosting provider and DNS registrar logins, etc., that stuff is all unique, and memorized, so it's not even written down anywhere even in encrypted form.
Idiotic. If I'm robbed at gunpoint am I funding robbery? The thought process makes no sense. Victims aren't criminals for being victims.
Quit diluting the meaning of the word "terror." Terror is fearing you might be blown into bloody pieces while standing in line at a sandwich shop. Terror is fearing your elementary school kid will die a fiery death in an exploding school bus. Terror is wondering whether the building you work in is going to be on the receiving end of a trans-continental jet liner moving 500 MPH. These things are terrifying.
We already have words for the sort of thing the article is talking about: extortion, blackmail, etc.
I could start quoting Bush, Bush, Clinton, Reagan, Ford, Nixon, ...
Did you just forget about Carter, or did you ruin your own point without realizing it?
Don't fine the hackers for finding the exploits, fine the developers for not finding them. The software developers are the ones making money off the software
In what bizarro world are you living? Most developers make money by collecting salaries, not selling software. Do you think our income is tied to revenue? I WISH! If you want to hold companies responsible as a whole, great. You want to impose penalties on companies for security problems that affect people, great. You want to impose fines on me, personally, as a developer working for a company? I'd be okay with that only if A) companies were forced to give me the time and resources necessary to do the sort of testing you are talking about, and B) my income is actually tied to revenues from the software (which they are not, presently), or if you simply increased my base pay by, say, 5x. I'm not going to take risks like that for free.
You want me to take big personal, legal risks? Then you're going to pay me in big stacks of greenbacks. Look at other professions where people can be sanctioned: medicine, law, finance. Notice anything in common among those? Any of them making $50k a year?
If the application used a "swipe to unlock" type of mechanism to emulate the iPhone's unlocking mechanism, then this violates an Apple patent.
Then there is the LHC, which has the potential to rip a gaping hole in the fabric of space and obliterate the Earth in the process.
No, it does not.
"do not mess with complex systems you don't fully understand." Yeah, that's gonna make for some scientific progress right there.
No sane scientist performs potentially destructive experiments one the only available sample. In this case, the sample is "Earth," and if you destroy it you don't just go out and get another one. Furthermore, it's hard to conduct science, period, when you only have one sample, because there is no control for comparison. "I did X, and a hurricane happened. Let's compare that with the other Earth where I did not do X. Wait a second."
Pumping gigatons of CO2 into the atmosphere is basically the biggest "scientific experiment" humans have ever performed. Except that it's not really scientific because we have no "control Earth," and if the outcome is unfavorable we all could die. Real scientists simply don't behave that way. "Here's a sample of an unknown gas, what happens if I deeply inhale it?" We're not experimenting with Drosophila flies here.
You're either a black hat for two reasons: a) financial gain or b) publicity.
False dichotomy. They could be trying to push the various swinging pendula of modern society in certain directions. I am not equating this with terrorism, but to use terrorism as an example, it would be a mistake to say they do it for "publicity." That's grossly oversimplifying it.
I'm not saying there's some deeper meaning behind any of this, just that it's possible and you shouldn't discount it out of hand.
The solution is discardable memory, a feature that actually existed in Windows 3 (and perhaps before -- don't know for sure). You make a call to allocate memory. Instead of getting a pointer back, you get a handle. You'd lock the handle to get a real pointer, read/write the data as you please, then unlock the chunk. Discardable memory could be thrown away to the bit bucket at any time by the OS. If that occurred, the next time you tried to lock the handle you'd get an error indicating the block had been discarded. Sounds useless for data that has to stick around, but incredibly useful for caching things where if you lose the cached data you can just regenerate it or retrieve it again.
These days, we call such things "weak pointers." Simple, effective.
The above poster is a retard who doesn't remember what childhood is like.