I don't need to scream out at the world I have an electric car, I want something that looks nice, drives well and I can smile smugly to myself when I pass the pumps.
How about a Volt? It's pretty understated, it works well, is emissions free for the first 38 miles each day and you don't ever have to worry about getting stranded by a depleted battery.
Hypothetical scenario: If an Internet troll guessed the password to Trump's Twitter account and started posting bizarre tweets from it, would anyone notice?
Extra credit: If Trump himself were to notice the hack and cry foul about it, would anyone believe him?
He's known primarily for managing to keep Chris Christie out of prison after the BridgeGate scandal in New Jersey. Sounds like just the sort of expertise Trump is going to need.
As a non-native english speaker, I ask: is this an actual, socially acceptable name in english-speaking countries? "Reality Winner", just like somebody who won a reality show?!
You know those subtle clues that let you know you're actually living in the Matrix? Like the same cat walking by twice in a row?
This is one of those -- except it's not a clue that we're living in The Matrix -- it's a clue that we're living in Idiocracy. Pass the Brawndo.
Which major PC and mobile operating systems' network connection settings provide a way to express this metering policy, such that your Ethernet connection to your router becomes metered at 8 AM and no longer metered at midnight?
None, because the metering would be done by the ISP's own hardware, not by the customer's computer (for reasons that should be obvious).
Yes, a Mac Mini Pro with the same specs as the iMac Pro would make a very nice desktop machine. But of course they would charge $3,000 for the base version!
I think a large part of the iMac Pro's price has got to be that 5K screen. A display-less Mac Mini could probably be produced and sold much more cheaply, and historically has been.
It works fine, it's easy to understand, it doesn't get in the way, and it more-or-less does what we want, so we can spend our time wrestling with the bugs themselves, rather than fighting the bug-tracking system. We've used it for about 10 years now, and we're happy with it.
We begin fixing any bug as soon as it is discovered.
An excellent practice, if you can do it without disrupting your workflow or destabilizing your codebase too much.
But even in the best-case scenario, where every discovered bug is correctly fixed within 5 minutes of you learning about its existence, have a bug-tracking database is still a big help. That way when another user reports the same bug a few days/weeks/months later, you can go back to the bug database and refresh your memory about what the bug was, when it was fixed, and what versions of your software contain the fix.
That allows you to reply to your user like this: "Ah, you've found bug #12345; we fixed that in release 1.2.7, so you can upgrade to that version or later if you want to, or alternatively here's a workaround that we discovered if you don't want to upgrade right now". Much better than "hmm, I think I remember that Steve fixed something like that back in January, but I'm not sure", or spending several hours trying and failing to reproduce the fault using a codebase that no longer contains the bug.
Buying and returning items has not a thing to do with ethics. Bigger stores offer returns as a competitive advantage because it's good for their bottom line. 'Working' that system is no more unethical than buying items on clearance.
Congratulations on admitting don't understand what ethics is; that's the first step towards learning. Here's an initial hint: ethics is not about finding loopholes in other peoples' business models and then exploiting them for financial advantage. What you're advocating is not only unethical but fraudulent.
right....but this was all in effect under obama.... so how are we blaming trump on it is the point???
While it's true that we Americans know better by now than to assign meaning to the noises that come out of Trump's mouth, people in other countries do sometimes listen to him and take him at his word. Considering that, and the fact that they are the "foreigners" he loves to demonize as rapists/drug-dealers/terrorists/job-stealers/America-abusers/etc, you can imagine how they might decide to spend their free time elsewhere, in some place where they feel welcome. It's silly, I know, but it happens.
I wasn't stating whether it was or was not theatre. It's probably a combination of both. I was just stating that "effective theatre" is a contradiction. Security theatre is by definition ineffective security only done for show.
If it fools the terrorists into believing they can't succeed, and therefore they don't bother to try, then it's effective theater. Lives are saved regardless of how the acts of terror were prevented.
The fact is, all these no car ownership ideas are asking for the kind of future world where people have to pay for the privilege of moving about and are restricted to certain zones if they can't afford it.
As opposed to the status quo, where anyone can go anywhere for free, because buying and owning a car costs nothing?
You seem awfully threatened by the idea of car-sharing; perhaps you've reached the age where you automatically perceive any change in society as a threat to your person. If so, don't worry; dramatic predictions aside, you'll be able to own and drive a private car for the rest of your life, if you want to. The chances of traditional private car ownership being made illegal (in the USA, anyway) is about the same as the chances of private gun ownership being made illegal, i.e. roughly zero, regardless of whether it would theoretically make sense or not.
You're lucky your zipcar club doesn't have anyone who shits on the seats yet.
First rule of Zipcar club is that anyone who shits on the seats gets kicked out of Zipcar club.
Really, it's not like public transit. The zipcar people know who had access to the car last, and the zipcar members know they know that, so antisocial behavior is pretty rare.
Binary translation has always been slow and unreliable, with the sole exception of arcade games in mame.
Hmm, I always thought Apple's Rosetta (PowerPC->x86) translator did a very good job. I'm not sure what their secret sauce was -- maybe it was just that Intel chips at the time were sufficiently faster than PowerPC chips that any program that ran well on PowerPC would also run well on a faster Intel chip, even with the translation overhead.
People are generally stupid. In groups, they become even more stupid
The rule of thumb I heard (I forget where) is that the effective IQ of a group can be calculated by taking the IQ of the smartest person in the group, and dividing it by the number of people in the group.
If picking fruit paid more and had more benefits than programming, I would have no problem picking fruit on the side.
If jobs picking fruit paid that much, the fruit would be so expensive that nearly nobody would buy it, and therefore nearly nobody would grow or sell fruit. I don't think destroying the agricultural industries of the US will be considered an acceptable solution by anyone.
Getting the actual people there (and back) is the costly part. "Stuff" doesn't require four or five levels of fail-safe. "Stuff" doesn't need to take a shit or get sick or argue about politics.
Then the solution seems pretty straightforward: send only "stuff" up there for the first few years.
Once the "stuff" has organized itself (because robots) and is looking pretty good, then send up some human beings, if you still want to. They can walk right into to their prefab moon-hotel.
Here's how to calculate a 100% accurate estimate 100% of the time, when your manager asks you to predict how long it will take to implement feature X:
1. Tell your manager you'll get the estimate for them as soon as you've done the necessary research 2. Go back to your desk 3. Write down the current time 4. Implement the feature 5. Subtract the time you wrote down in step (3) from the current time. This is your 100% accurate estimate of how long it took you to implement the feature 6. Email your manager, and let them know the estimate value. If you're feeling like it, you can also let them know that the feature is now implemented (although this may make them feel like the estimate you gave them is no longer particularly useful, so treat cautiously there)
For example, if the last time you did it, it took 3 weeks, a good prediction is that this time it's going to take 3 weeks.
Hopefully it will take less, because this time I will be able to take the code I wrote last time and just re-use it, possible with some minor modifications, rather than designing and implementing it all from scratch.
(Or if I can't do that, then either it's a new task and there wasn't actually any "last time I did it", or I did a lousy job last time of designing my code to be re-usable. Software development is mainly about automating previously manual processes so they can be repeated more quickly/easily in the future; that applies to the process of writing the software itself also)
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I don't need to scream out at the world I have an electric car, I want something that looks nice, drives well and I can smile smugly to myself when I pass the pumps.
How about a Volt? It's pretty understated, it works well, is emissions free for the first 38 miles each day and you don't ever have to worry about getting stranded by a depleted battery.
Hypothetical scenario: If an Internet troll guessed the password to Trump's Twitter account and started posting bizarre tweets from it, would anyone notice?
Extra credit: If Trump himself were to notice the hack and cry foul about it, would anyone believe him?
Final thought: Perhaps this has already happened?
He's known primarily for managing to keep Chris Christie out of prison after the BridgeGate scandal in New Jersey. Sounds like just the sort of expertise Trump is going to need.
As a non-native english speaker, I ask: is this an actual, socially acceptable name in english-speaking countries? "Reality Winner", just like somebody who won a reality show?!
You know those subtle clues that let you know you're actually living in the Matrix? Like the same cat walking by twice in a row?
This is one of those -- except it's not a clue that we're living in The Matrix -- it's a clue that we're living in Idiocracy. Pass the Brawndo.
Which major PC and mobile operating systems' network connection settings provide a way to express this metering policy, such that your Ethernet connection to your router becomes metered at 8 AM and no longer metered at midnight?
None, because the metering would be done by the ISP's own hardware, not by the customer's computer (for reasons that should be obvious).
It was either irritate you, or irritate the "old news, this was already reported at xyz.com over 8 hours ago" guy, and it's your turn this week.
Yes, a Mac Mini Pro with the same specs as the iMac Pro would make a very nice desktop machine. But of course they would charge $3,000 for the base version!
I think a large part of the iMac Pro's price has got to be that 5K screen. A display-less Mac Mini could probably be produced and sold much more cheaply, and historically has been.
It works fine, it's easy to understand, it doesn't get in the way, and it more-or-less does what we want, so we can spend our time wrestling with the bugs themselves, rather than fighting the bug-tracking system. We've used it for about 10 years now, and we're happy with it.
We begin fixing any bug as soon as it is discovered.
An excellent practice, if you can do it without disrupting your workflow or destabilizing your codebase too much.
But even in the best-case scenario, where every discovered bug is correctly fixed within 5 minutes of you learning about its existence, have a bug-tracking database is still a big help. That way when another user reports the same bug a few days/weeks/months later, you can go back to the bug database and refresh your memory about what the bug was, when it was fixed, and what versions of your software contain the fix.
That allows you to reply to your user like this: "Ah, you've found bug #12345; we fixed that in release 1.2.7, so you can upgrade to that version or later if you want to, or alternatively here's a workaround that we discovered if you don't want to upgrade right now". Much better than "hmm, I think I remember that Steve fixed something like that back in January, but I'm not sure", or spending several hours trying and failing to reproduce the fault using a codebase that no longer contains the bug.
Buying and returning items has not a thing to do with ethics. Bigger stores offer returns as a competitive advantage because it's good for their bottom line. 'Working' that system is no more unethical than buying items on clearance.
Congratulations on admitting don't understand what ethics is; that's the first step towards learning. Here's an initial hint: ethics is not about finding loopholes in other peoples' business models and then exploiting them for financial advantage. What you're advocating is not only unethical but fraudulent.
right....but this was all in effect under obama.... so how are we blaming trump on it is the point???
While it's true that we Americans know better by now than to assign meaning to the noises that come out of Trump's mouth, people in other countries do sometimes listen to him and take him at his word. Considering that, and the fact that they are the "foreigners" he loves to demonize as rapists/drug-dealers/terrorists/job-stealers/America-abusers/etc, you can imagine how they might decide to spend their free time elsewhere, in some place where they feel welcome. It's silly, I know, but it happens.
I wasn't stating whether it was or was not theatre. It's probably a combination of both. I was just stating that "effective theatre" is a contradiction. Security theatre is by definition ineffective security only done for show.
If it fools the terrorists into believing they can't succeed, and therefore they don't bother to try, then it's effective theater. Lives are saved regardless of how the acts of terror were prevented.
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe was first released in 1994, so by my estimate they stopped using it in 1994.
Nonsense, they continue to use it to this day. It plays a prominent role in their initiation/hazing of new interns.
Its value is hard to understate if you look past cryptocurrency.
I'm not sure that came out quite the way you intended :)
The fact is, all these no car ownership ideas are asking for the kind of future world where people have to pay for the privilege of moving about and are restricted to certain zones if they can't afford it.
As opposed to the status quo, where anyone can go anywhere for free, because buying and owning a car costs nothing?
You seem awfully threatened by the idea of car-sharing; perhaps you've reached the age where you automatically perceive any change in society as a threat to your person. If so, don't worry; dramatic predictions aside, you'll be able to own and drive a private car for the rest of your life, if you want to. The chances of traditional private car ownership being made illegal (in the USA, anyway) is about the same as the chances of private gun ownership being made illegal, i.e. roughly zero, regardless of whether it would theoretically make sense or not.
You're lucky your zipcar club doesn't have anyone who shits on the seats yet.
First rule of Zipcar club is that anyone who shits on the seats gets kicked out of Zipcar club.
Really, it's not like public transit. The zipcar people know who had access to the car last, and the zipcar members know they know that, so antisocial behavior is pretty rare.
Binary translation has always been slow and unreliable, with the sole exception of arcade games in mame.
Hmm, I always thought Apple's Rosetta (PowerPC->x86) translator did a very good job. I'm not sure what their secret sauce was -- maybe it was just that Intel chips at the time were sufficiently faster than PowerPC chips that any program that ran well on PowerPC would also run well on a faster Intel chip, even with the translation overhead.
It's just Elon doing what he does best. Creating novelty items for rich people.
Didn't almost every new technology start out as a novelty item for rich people?
People are generally stupid. In groups, they become even more stupid
The rule of thumb I heard (I forget where) is that the effective IQ of a group can be calculated by taking the IQ of the smartest person in the group, and dividing it by the number of people in the group.
If picking fruit paid more and had more benefits than programming, I would have no problem picking fruit on the side.
If jobs picking fruit paid that much, the fruit would be so expensive that nearly nobody would buy it, and therefore nearly nobody would grow or sell fruit. I don't think destroying the agricultural industries of the US will be considered an acceptable solution by anyone.
Getting the actual people there (and back) is the costly part. "Stuff" doesn't require four or five levels of fail-safe. "Stuff" doesn't need to take a shit or get sick or argue about politics.
Then the solution seems pretty straightforward: send only "stuff" up there for the first few years.
Once the "stuff" has organized itself (because robots) and is looking pretty good, then send up some human beings, if you still want to. They can walk right into to their prefab moon-hotel.
Here's how to calculate a 100% accurate estimate 100% of the time, when your manager asks you to predict how long it will take to implement feature X:
1. Tell your manager you'll get the estimate for them as soon as you've done the necessary research
2. Go back to your desk
3. Write down the current time
4. Implement the feature
5. Subtract the time you wrote down in step (3) from the current time. This is your 100% accurate estimate of how long it took you to implement the feature
6. Email your manager, and let them know the estimate value. If you're feeling like it, you can also let them know that the feature is now implemented (although this may make them feel like the estimate you gave them is no longer particularly useful, so treat cautiously there)
It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future. -- Yogi Berra
For example, if the last time you did it, it took 3 weeks, a good prediction is that this time it's going to take 3 weeks.
Hopefully it will take less, because this time I will be able to take the code I wrote last time and just re-use it, possible with some minor modifications, rather than designing and implementing it all from scratch.
(Or if I can't do that, then either it's a new task and there wasn't actually any "last time I did it", or I did a lousy job last time of designing my code to be re-usable. Software development is mainly about automating previously manual processes so they can be repeated more quickly/easily in the future; that applies to the process of writing the software itself also)
It's perfectly safe, as long as you don't fly it on windy days...