My only real complaint? When the console dies, it takes the entire system with it. Mine died, oh about a 2 months after I had the car. And it spent 15 days in the shop waiting for a replacement to come in.
Friend of mine's Ford died this same way too. Lucky the car was still under warrantee but he was without it for a weekend. It kind of makes me think about the used car market since that is all I buy. Someday I won't be able to buy a 10-year-old car on the cheap because while it may be mechanically sound, none of the controls will work.
haha funny image. really though I got a kick out of picturing it.
See, not all of us own guns for revenge. I keep mine because I have read enough about the sick criminals that invade homes to know I don't want to feel the chill of knowing there is a stranger in my home who has entered with undoubtedly hostile intentions. I don't ever want to hurt a human or animal with my guns. But I will not hesitate to if I feel my or my loved one's safety is in danger. My house has been broken into before. If you have never gone thru that then you really do not understand how it makes you feel. Maybe there is a tinge of vengeance in my motives due to that experience but that is a reason I keep a loud shotgun. Any intruder that hears me rack that thing will likely run away and attempt to steal a clean pair of underwear elsewhere.
and be at constant risk of being replaced by someone who has a degree and doesn't make mistakes you don't even know you're making.
This. a thousand times this. I work with guys who can program and are hard workers but never went to school. It kills me how poor the quality of their code can be. They write it just enough to get the job done but in a year when someone has to maintain it, I promise it will take at least ten times longer then necessary. That isn't to say I'm not glad they are here helping out but if they just practiced some proven design patterns I wouldn't be looking for another job as franticly.
that article just rehashes the same warnings I have been hearing since my first yoga class. Be mindful. Do not try to impress anyone. Listen to your body. Most of the injuries mentioned in that article seem to be related to failing to heed this advice. Personally, I had a hip injury that after months was not getting any better. After one week of yoga the pain was gone entirely.
this is why I swap loyalty cards with my friends regularly. Hell, once I even found huge stash of them on a keychain an used that for a few years. Garbage in, garbage out.
hang in there! It is a skill that must be maintained. One thing I practice on particularly difficult jobs is careful breathing. Of course you dont want to breath in the fumes, but try to exhale slowly as you apply the heat.
haha this is fun! No doubt my loose fan belt gives my position away most of the time. There is only one lane in either direction, and they are in the same lane I plan on occupying, and traveling in the same direction I will be after the turn. They might be able to bunny-hop the curb but I jog in the area and there is enough gravel to def make me think twice about letting my tires leave the road if I only had two on the ground -- esp at that speed. They could be cycle-ninjas... they do have a reputation in this area of Nashville -- one has even managed to fashion a "double decker" bike by attaching the seat post stems of two bikes and linking the drive chain vertically from one crank to the other one. I cannot imagine how he gets on the thing but it is pretty awesome to see.
thanks for the reply and I always appreciate an original Sci-Fi reference. The intersection is one of those T's where the road I am coming off of is ending. They are coming down hill at a very good clip. The only possible turn is from my road or onto my road. I am trying to turn left but there are houses on my right as this is one of those side-street short cuts that avoids a great deal of lights on my route home. The embankment with the houses makes it very difficult for them to see me, combined with the low level of traffic coming off that road means that most of the time they are probably safe. However it is a very short green light and when I catch it, I tend to take the turn as quickly as I can while remaining safe. Currently I just try to get my nose into the intersection so that I am visible, then slow down and hope i don't hear a *thunk*
I agree there are different considerations when it comes to bikers and motorists. But where I live I can regularly observe bicyclists plow thru a red light without even looking... at night... at a blind intersection. I have lost several cycling friends to careless motorists and I try very hard to be careful, but one day these little dare devils are going to get it.
XXL Tyvek suit -- all white. Cut open one of the feet and duct tape a powerful fan so it will fill with air. Hide the apparatus in the bushes until unsuspecting visitors approach. Engage fan and watch as massive white bodies rise from the shadows. For extra fun cover "bodies" in glowy green goo found in glowsticks.
thanks for the pointers, I will have to look again at my company's specifics. One big hook for me is that ALL our bonuses are paid in the form of 401k contributions. If I empty my 401k, I am essentially abdicating all my year-end bonuses. Just wondering if this was common.
I have family that work in a prison. Let me just say that while they appear to be getting a "free ride" in so far as they get healthcare without paying money, I vastly prefer staying out of jail. You have a toothache in prison? It gets pulled. You don't get to decide on a plan of care, the state decides that. Remember you have no rights in prison. You cannot decide to wait, save up, and get a dentist to do what you want done to your teeth. The state decides it is cheapest to pull the tooth so that is what happens.
At first I thought your comment was simplistic, but after some consideration, you seem to have pegged it. We write in C++ but it is mostly due to the real-time nature of our work. If a garbage collector decides to fire off and cost a few milliseconds that results in a missed divert things can get really ugly. That said, our code is mostly simple to read and easy to understand with threads only being used when necessary.
We recently got to take over one of our competitor's clients after our systems were shown to do circles around theirs. The problem is the client does not wish to convert everything at once so we are stuck supporting some of the competitor's code while replacing their systems one at a time. Anytime I am forced to support their stuff I literally start to get panic attacks. EVERYTHING is done in threads, in very complex, untraceable ways. Nothing is done where it should be -- it is all marked and flagged and sent off to some other process that makes the actual change. Database calls are packaged up and sent to a central server where the results are bottle-necked and sent back via completely different mechanism. I could go on about this nightmare but I think you get the idea. No wonder our software is superior. Just by replacing a few systems we have broken many production records and our numbers continue to climb. I feel that 'showing off' seems to be the approach the competitor takes and the results are pretty stark.
My family are bricklayers and have similar problems. I heard once about someone who got a DUI but could not get printed. The officer simply told him to take two weeks off work to allow the fingers to heal and report back for printing. Ya, that will fly.
appreciate the figures. I cannot help but wonder how exactly does one alter the resonance frequency of a structure? I take it is an expensive undertaking.
I work for a company where half of the employees work on source code--for other companies. Much of the code was written in house but our contracts specify that the code belongs to the customer and we are paid to maintain it. We all make very good money for this, and there is always way too much work to be done that we are hiring left and right. My point is that there is always a good market for knowledgeable expertise of a code-base and that is where the money is.
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The percent sign comes after the number. 100%. It's little clues like that that make one alert to the fact the writer is a crank.
citation needed. I place it before the number because a percent is a decimal.
For the last time, those are SALMON!
You know, it's true -- children are the future.
My only real complaint? When the console dies, it takes the entire system with it. Mine died, oh about a 2 months after I had the car. And it spent 15 days in the shop waiting for a replacement to come in.
Friend of mine's Ford died this same way too. Lucky the car was still under warrantee but he was without it for a weekend. It kind of makes me think about the used car market since that is all I buy. Someday I won't be able to buy a 10-year-old car on the cheap because while it may be mechanically sound, none of the controls will work.
haha funny image. really though I got a kick out of picturing it.
See, not all of us own guns for revenge. I keep mine because I have read enough about the sick criminals that invade homes to know I don't want to feel the chill of knowing there is a stranger in my home who has entered with undoubtedly hostile intentions. I don't ever want to hurt a human or animal with my guns. But I will not hesitate to if I feel my or my loved one's safety is in danger. My house has been broken into before. If you have never gone thru that then you really do not understand how it makes you feel. Maybe there is a tinge of vengeance in my motives due to that experience but that is a reason I keep a loud shotgun. Any intruder that hears me rack that thing will likely run away and attempt to steal a clean pair of underwear elsewhere.
haha my mother had the exact same experience. We call it the McBarf in our family. Even better was their slogan, "McBag it!"
and be at constant risk of being replaced by someone who has a degree and doesn't make mistakes you don't even know you're making.
This. a thousand times this. I work with guys who can program and are hard workers but never went to school. It kills me how poor the quality of their code can be. They write it just enough to get the job done but in a year when someone has to maintain it, I promise it will take at least ten times longer then necessary. That isn't to say I'm not glad they are here helping out but if they just practiced some proven design patterns I wouldn't be looking for another job as franticly.
formic acid? that is amazing. Another technology the ants have figured out long before us goo bags
that article just rehashes the same warnings I have been hearing since my first yoga class. Be mindful. Do not try to impress anyone. Listen to your body. Most of the injuries mentioned in that article seem to be related to failing to heed this advice. Personally, I had a hip injury that after months was not getting any better. After one week of yoga the pain was gone entirely.
this is why I swap loyalty cards with my friends regularly. Hell, once I even found huge stash of them on a keychain an used that for a few years. Garbage in, garbage out.
hang in there! It is a skill that must be maintained. One thing I practice on particularly difficult jobs is careful breathing. Of course you dont want to breath in the fumes, but try to exhale slowly as you apply the heat.
haha this is fun! No doubt my loose fan belt gives my position away most of the time. There is only one lane in either direction, and they are in the same lane I plan on occupying, and traveling in the same direction I will be after the turn. They might be able to bunny-hop the curb but I jog in the area and there is enough gravel to def make me think twice about letting my tires leave the road if I only had two on the ground -- esp at that speed. They could be cycle-ninjas... they do have a reputation in this area of Nashville -- one has even managed to fashion a "double decker" bike by attaching the seat post stems of two bikes and linking the drive chain vertically from one crank to the other one. I cannot imagine how he gets on the thing but it is pretty awesome to see.
thanks for the reply and I always appreciate an original Sci-Fi reference. The intersection is one of those T's where the road I am coming off of is ending. They are coming down hill at a very good clip. The only possible turn is from my road or onto my road. I am trying to turn left but there are houses on my right as this is one of those side-street short cuts that avoids a great deal of lights on my route home. The embankment with the houses makes it very difficult for them to see me, combined with the low level of traffic coming off that road means that most of the time they are probably safe. However it is a very short green light and when I catch it, I tend to take the turn as quickly as I can while remaining safe. Currently I just try to get my nose into the intersection so that I am visible, then slow down and hope i don't hear a *thunk*
I agree there are different considerations when it comes to bikers and motorists. But where I live I can regularly observe bicyclists plow thru a red light without even looking... at night... at a blind intersection. I have lost several cycling friends to careless motorists and I try very hard to be careful, but one day these little dare devils are going to get it.
XXL Tyvek suit -- all white. Cut open one of the feet and duct tape a powerful fan so it will fill with air. Hide the apparatus in the bushes until unsuspecting visitors approach. Engage fan and watch as massive white bodies rise from the shadows. For extra fun cover "bodies" in glowy green goo found in glowsticks.
thanks for the pointers, I will have to look again at my company's specifics. One big hook for me is that ALL our bonuses are paid in the form of 401k contributions. If I empty my 401k, I am essentially abdicating all my year-end bonuses. Just wondering if this was common.
I have family that work in a prison. Let me just say that while they appear to be getting a "free ride" in so far as they get healthcare without paying money, I vastly prefer staying out of jail. You have a toothache in prison? It gets pulled. You don't get to decide on a plan of care, the state decides that. Remember you have no rights in prison. You cannot decide to wait, save up, and get a dentist to do what you want done to your teeth. The state decides it is cheapest to pull the tooth so that is what happens.
At first I thought your comment was simplistic, but after some consideration, you seem to have pegged it. We write in C++ but it is mostly due to the real-time nature of our work. If a garbage collector decides to fire off and cost a few milliseconds that results in a missed divert things can get really ugly. That said, our code is mostly simple to read and easy to understand with threads only being used when necessary.
We recently got to take over one of our competitor's clients after our systems were shown to do circles around theirs. The problem is the client does not wish to convert everything at once so we are stuck supporting some of the competitor's code while replacing their systems one at a time. Anytime I am forced to support their stuff I literally start to get panic attacks. EVERYTHING is done in threads, in very complex, untraceable ways. Nothing is done where it should be -- it is all marked and flagged and sent off to some other process that makes the actual change. Database calls are packaged up and sent to a central server where the results are bottle-necked and sent back via completely different mechanism. I could go on about this nightmare but I think you get the idea. No wonder our software is superior. Just by replacing a few systems we have broken many production records and our numbers continue to climb. I feel that 'showing off' seems to be the approach the competitor takes and the results are pretty stark.
thanks for letting me get that off my chest.
or one could superglue the DIMMS in place
My family are bricklayers and have similar problems. I heard once about someone who got a DUI but could not get printed. The officer simply told him to take two weeks off work to allow the fingers to heal and report back for printing. Ya, that will fly.
freaking LOVE this game! I regularly post Datalinks quotes to my facebook page. If only I had friends to read them...
appreciate the figures. I cannot help but wonder how exactly does one alter the resonance frequency of a structure? I take it is an expensive undertaking.
try not to GET SUED OTW to the parking lot! HEY YOU GET BACK HERE!
I work for a company where half of the employees work on source code--for other companies. Much of the code was written in house but our contracts specify that the code belongs to the customer and we are paid to maintain it. We all make very good money for this, and there is always way too much work to be done that we are hiring left and right. My point is that there is always a good market for knowledgeable expertise of a code-base and that is where the money is.
Looks like you don't understand the article. According to Posting=!Working's post, the site WAS white listed.