Problem is the diligence that is required. A C developer is a really good coder when they do their work in an other language. However for large projects, C doesn't make too much sense, because you need to expect your developers to be on their A Game in the course of the project. A developer is porting their proof of concept code into production, right near lunch time, and he is starving, and some of the other guys are waiting on him to finish up, because they are starving too, might mean some code got copied in, and put into the production set, without full though. Because the Proof of Concept code worked, it may pass many layers of Quality Check (and we all know most software development firms have very poor QA teams) Once it leaves and goes to the customer, it could be wide open to a security problem.
What you wrote has absolutely nothing to do with C and everything to do with human beings. If your code is not going through a review process where you have a team go through a module at a time, preferably over beer and pizza... you're already creating this problem. Diligence is required in any language, and I'd argue for any profession.
I have no idea what you're talking about. I too have been doing embedded systems design (hw, sw, the whole kit and kaboodle) for about the same amount of time as you and no, I do not think that C is too hard. Not at all.There are little things I'd like to change about it, but not because it's too hard.
No, we stick with C because it is a great middle ground between assembly and high level languages. I would not want to write Python or Java on little microcontrollers. C is a small enough language that lets you write complex code relatively easily while staying close to the hardware.
C's got its warts, it's true. It's a mature language that leaves the programmer in control of the system. It's not supposed to do the fancy things such as garbage collection, object management and so on. I'm glad it doesn't. There are other languages for that.
I think that your networking requirement is correct, but you don't get much out of networking in university or college. You get your jobs from networking with employers or those who can employ you much less than your peers who are already employed, and you gain access to that through many avenues in addition to the job fairs and co-op opportunities at school.
Three smartphones: $95 first phone $25 second phone $25 third phone
That's for 600 shared weekday minutes, unlimited between phones minutes, unlimited evening (9pm!) and weekend minutes, 1GB shared data and unlimited text. Add $8/phone for Caller*ID and and $7/phone for early evening (6pm) billing. Now I get the early evening add-on for free as part of a promotion when I signed up, but that's still ridiculous. After government bullshit and taxes, I end up paying $120 for the first phone and $40/mo for the second and third phones.
I did have the 6GB/$30 data plan on my phone and kept it for years but couldn't share the data, so I dropped it since it'd end up costing me more to keep 6GB on my phone and add another 1G plan on for the other two, but we haven't gone near our limit yet -- I think the closest we hit was 600MB one month. 1GB isn't actually terrible unless you're using it for streaming music or watching Netflix or youtube. I tether to my phone semi-regularly (ssh mostly). I was holding on to the 6GB because Rogers didn't really have a decent overbilling policy until this year. Now they just bump you up into the next data plan, which I'm happy with.
You have to lie to them if you want to add a tablet to the plan though; they don't accept data-only devices as part of the family plan, so you buy a SIM card, say you bought a kid a phone from a pawn shop and activate the SIM. You'll never get voice on the tablet or data stick but who cares; $25 for the device instead of a separate plan and bill to pay.
No. I live in Canada and pay $45 CAD for _truly and fully_ unlimited phone, text and data.
Sounds like WIND mobile. Great if you're in an urban area, useless everywhere else. You could get similarly good deals with PCS or some other regional carrier in the US. Not much of a comparison.
If the DNS servers they supply aren't overloaded or dicking with your queries then the pipe is too saturated to do much more than facebook or twitter. Many end up blocking anything other than port 80 or 443 anyway. It's easy enough to get around the shitty DNS servers and I usually fire up an ssh proxy anyway for my web browsing, but I find it much less of a hassle to just tether to my phone. I'm not a huge data consumer so the 1G plan that I share with my wife and teenage son works for me.
Women that work out need to watch how they do this. I am personally tired of seeing models/fitness geeks that have bodies of 12 year old boys, it is not my idea of a "perfect women". I want to see women that have the classy hour glass figure, (shoulders and waste in portion) and great smooth legs. What you get anymore is wide shoulders, flat hips, sticks that look like legs, and a flat ass. This is disappointing to see what men prefer when it comes to women, or what most men in society choose. Women in the 1950's and 1960's had for the most part great bodies, it really went downhill in the 80's with the media and has gotten, (somehow?) worse today. Fitness should be for overall health, I would agree with that, but women are taking it to far, you can improve upon your body but stop overdoing it.
I don't know what fashion trends you're following or seeing followed but I certainly don't see the "12 year old boy" look as the hot commodity. Everyone's getting toned and fit, having a nice ass and an hourglass figure where I am (Waterloo, Ontario, CA). Yes you do have the subgenre that is all about the flat boyish look but that certainly does not appear to be the majority around here.
The article says the make $60 to $170 for an 8 hour shift. You can get better than that working retail, cleaning houses, walking dogs or even working in a factory. I'm pretty sure that they can get other work, but they feel they are either above it or that somehow, pretending to enjoy 8 hours in heels and a short dress getting leered at by geeks is enjoyable.
I wouldn't mind finding out what some of the specific homeschooling resources you're afraid to list are... Please email me (my email address should be shown in my user info page).
I find most books to be very difficult to learn from. They are filled with bullshit that explain the simple parts and gloss over the stuff that's actually tricky. Most tech books (to learn a programming language) are also filled with idiotic banter designed to make you feel comfortable with the author. I have no idea why. I usually get the best learning from hacking my way through real examples on some simple project with an IRC channel full of people who are at various stages of learning or teaching themselves.
I too was a long-time KDE user (at least since the 2.0 days) -- the entire 4.x release has been one colossal fuck-up. It's at 4.9 and NOW they're focusing on usability and bugfixing? I got sick of it. I moved to xfce on my workstation and for the most part I'm very happy. My wife bought an i7 macbook air for me for Christmas and that's been my main machine. Before that was Kubuntu.
Sorry KDE, you've lost me. I was one of your biggest and longest fans. Your 3.x releases were the pinnacle of your design. 4.x was a long and tortured release for your followers, and I am willing to bet you lost almost all of them. From what I understand Gnome went and did the same thing to their faithful. Hopefully xfce stays true to its roots.
No, the AC is right; you are a cyber-stalker with a weird hobby. I've been watching these idiotic posts for quite a while now (years probably) and all you manage to do is embarass yourself with how... focused... you are to inform the rest of us about shills. I'd add you to the tiny list of people I actually let the site outright block from me but you're too much of a coward to step out from the AC cloak, presumably because you'd lose your "audience."
It's not much of a fileserver if it doesn't weigh more than 50 pounds. If a cat were to tangle with a real fileserver, I'd be more worried for the cat.:-)
b) Co-sleeping is dangerous, full stop, especially for neonates/infants. If you manage to avoid smothering your infant by accident, then that's awesome, because I'm sure it is better for bonding. But the risks are way too great. Maybe if the baby is 9 months+, but even then....no way. Maybe a bed extender or something so you can be close without risk of smothering, but the risk or suffocating the child is way too great if you can just roll over on them.
That is total and utter bullshit. The fact of the matter is that you have to be pretty much drunk off your ass or otherwise seriously inebriated to smother an infant in your bed. And no, parents who are sleep deprived aren't usually seriously inebriated. I know that the plural of anecdote isn't data, but at the same time the only smothering deaths I've ever read about were due to extenuating circumstances. I've raised five children and I can tell you, sleep deprived or not, if there's something making me uncomfortable in bed I'm gonna move, and I'm a very sound sleeper. We usually kept the infant in a crib next to the bed for easier breastfeeding, but all the infants slept in the bed with us on multiple occasions.
As far as data goes... the Canadian Paediatric Society states that "Bedsharing with an adult who is extremely fatigued or impaired by alcohol or drugs (legal or illegal) that impair arousal can be hazardous to the infant." which is pretty much what I said above. The Public Health Agency of Canada recommends room-sharing and states that there is an increased risk of SIDS due to the baby suffocating due to several factors (soft mattress/pillows, becoming trapped in the sheets, and also due to rollover of an adult). It does, however go on to say that the risk is higher if the adult is drunk/stoned. It specifically mentions not using co-sleeping products (not sure what those are). Wikipedia states that "Bed-sharing is known to be dangerous for any child when a parent smokes, or has a history of skin infections, but there are other risk factors as well." It goes on to list the same risks that the other two sources give.
So no, Co-sleeping is not dangerous, full stop, whatever. It's perhaps not the safest thing, but it's also not considerably more dangerous either.
Not at all. If you have kids you put their best interests ahead of your own pie-in-the-sky hacking and defacement, especially when it's "for the lulz." This guy had absolutely no business doing what he was doing if the was responsible for those kids. This isn't a guy who's out to change the world for the better. He's not righting any wrongs. He's doing it "for the lulz." Remember that.
I usually avoid starbucks because I think their coffee is awfully bitter, but tried a "triple tall americano" once. The barista convinced me that espresso wasn't at all bitter like "normally" brewed coffee. She was right, and americano is now probably my favourite coffee to drink, although I don't often get that extra shot.
I'm pretty sure a blown turbo can be linked to dirty oil caused by a poor oil change regimen. Those things require a thin film of oil to make the bearings work at all.
And only *YOU* mentioned resolutions as low as 320x480 or 640x960. I was talking minimum of around 1024x768 which, having used computer screens for as long as I have, seems to be about the lower end limit of what I can peer at for hour after hour. (Okay 800x600 on a text-only display like a Kindle.)
It's clear you didn't even try to understand what I wrote. Instead, you swing your e-peen around and try to prove I'm a fanboy. I'd call this response a classic nerd response to a social situation they're on the losing side of but it goes beyond that since you're so desperate to insult me by calling me a nontechnical fanboy. I'm happy to say your opinion of me doesn't impact me in any way and if you're willing to read what I wrote and respond intelligently, I'll be happy to continue the conversation.
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Problem is the diligence that is required. A C developer is a really good coder when they do their work in an other language. However for large projects, C doesn't make too much sense, because you need to expect your developers to be on their A Game in the course of the project. A developer is porting their proof of concept code into production, right near lunch time, and he is starving, and some of the other guys are waiting on him to finish up, because they are starving too, might mean some code got copied in, and put into the production set, without full though. Because the Proof of Concept code worked, it may pass many layers of Quality Check (and we all know most software development firms have very poor QA teams) Once it leaves and goes to the customer, it could be wide open to a security problem.
What you wrote has absolutely nothing to do with C and everything to do with human beings. If your code is not going through a review process where you have a team go through a module at a time, preferably over beer and pizza... you're already creating this problem. Diligence is required in any language, and I'd argue for any profession.
I have no idea what you're talking about. I too have been doing embedded systems design (hw, sw, the whole kit and kaboodle) for about the same amount of time as you and no, I do not think that C is too hard. Not at all.There are little things I'd like to change about it, but not because it's too hard.
No, we stick with C because it is a great middle ground between assembly and high level languages. I would not want to write Python or Java on little microcontrollers. C is a small enough language that lets you write complex code relatively easily while staying close to the hardware.
C's got its warts, it's true. It's a mature language that leaves the programmer in control of the system. It's not supposed to do the fancy things such as garbage collection, object management and so on. I'm glad it doesn't. There are other languages for that.
Illustrating C by Donald Alcock is pretty good.
I think that your networking requirement is correct, but you don't get much out of networking in university or college. You get your jobs from networking with employers or those who can employ you much less than your peers who are already employed, and you gain access to that through many avenues in addition to the job fairs and co-op opportunities at school.
This is very similar to Rogers up here in Canada.
Three smartphones:
$95 first phone
$25 second phone
$25 third phone
That's for 600 shared weekday minutes, unlimited between phones minutes, unlimited evening (9pm!) and weekend minutes, 1GB shared data and unlimited text. Add $8/phone for Caller*ID and and $7/phone for early evening (6pm) billing. Now I get the early evening add-on for free as part of a promotion when I signed up, but that's still ridiculous. After government bullshit and taxes, I end up paying $120 for the first phone and $40/mo for the second and third phones.
I did have the 6GB/$30 data plan on my phone and kept it for years but couldn't share the data, so I dropped it since it'd end up costing me more to keep 6GB on my phone and add another 1G plan on for the other two, but we haven't gone near our limit yet -- I think the closest we hit was 600MB one month. 1GB isn't actually terrible unless you're using it for streaming music or watching Netflix or youtube. I tether to my phone semi-regularly (ssh mostly). I was holding on to the 6GB because Rogers didn't really have a decent overbilling policy until this year. Now they just bump you up into the next data plan, which I'm happy with.
You have to lie to them if you want to add a tablet to the plan though; they don't accept data-only devices as part of the family plan, so you buy a SIM card, say you bought a kid a phone from a pawn shop and activate the SIM. You'll never get voice on the tablet or data stick but who cares; $25 for the device instead of a separate plan and bill to pay.
No. I live in Canada and pay $45 CAD for _truly and fully_ unlimited phone, text and data.
Sounds like WIND mobile. Great if you're in an urban area, useless everywhere else. You could get similarly good deals with PCS or some other regional carrier in the US. Not much of a comparison.
I find most free wifi to be worth every penny.
If the DNS servers they supply aren't overloaded or dicking with your queries then the pipe is too saturated to do much more than facebook or twitter. Many end up blocking anything other than port 80 or 443 anyway. It's easy enough to get around the shitty DNS servers and I usually fire up an ssh proxy anyway for my web browsing, but I find it much less of a hassle to just tether to my phone. I'm not a huge data consumer so the 1G plan that I share with my wife and teenage son works for me.
Women that work out need to watch how they do this. I am personally tired of seeing models/fitness geeks that have bodies of 12 year old boys, it is not my idea of a "perfect women". I want to see women that have the classy hour glass figure, (shoulders and waste in portion) and great smooth legs. What you get anymore is wide shoulders, flat hips, sticks that look like legs, and a flat ass. This is disappointing to see what men prefer when it comes to women, or what most men in society choose. Women in the 1950's and 1960's had for the most part great bodies, it really went downhill in the 80's with the media and has gotten, (somehow?) worse today. Fitness should be for overall health, I would agree with that, but women are taking it to far, you can improve upon your body but stop overdoing it.
I don't know what fashion trends you're following or seeing followed but I certainly don't see the "12 year old boy" look as the hot commodity. Everyone's getting toned and fit, having a nice ass and an hourglass figure where I am (Waterloo, Ontario, CA). Yes you do have the subgenre that is all about the flat boyish look but that certainly does not appear to be the majority around here.
The article says the make $60 to $170 for an 8 hour shift. You can get better than that working retail, cleaning houses, walking dogs or even working in a factory. I'm pretty sure that they can get other work, but they feel they are either above it or that somehow, pretending to enjoy 8 hours in heels and a short dress getting leered at by geeks is enjoyable.
I wouldn't mind finding out what some of the specific homeschooling resources you're afraid to list are... Please email me (my email address should be shown in my user info page).
I find most books to be very difficult to learn from. They are filled with bullshit that explain the simple parts and gloss over the stuff that's actually tricky. Most tech books (to learn a programming language) are also filled with idiotic banter designed to make you feel comfortable with the author. I have no idea why. I usually get the best learning from hacking my way through real examples on some simple project with an IRC channel full of people who are at various stages of learning or teaching themselves.
I too was a long-time KDE user (at least since the 2.0 days) -- the entire 4.x release has been one colossal fuck-up. It's at 4.9 and NOW they're focusing on usability and bugfixing? I got sick of it. I moved to xfce on my workstation and for the most part I'm very happy. My wife bought an i7 macbook air for me for Christmas and that's been my main machine. Before that was Kubuntu.
Sorry KDE, you've lost me. I was one of your biggest and longest fans. Your 3.x releases were the pinnacle of your design. 4.x was a long and tortured release for your followers, and I am willing to bet you lost almost all of them. From what I understand Gnome went and did the same thing to their faithful. Hopefully xfce stays true to its roots.
No, the AC is right; you are a cyber-stalker with a weird hobby. I've been watching these idiotic posts for quite a while now (years probably) and all you manage to do is embarass yourself with how ... focused ... you are to inform the rest of us about shills. I'd add you to the tiny list of people I actually let the site outright block from me but you're too much of a coward to step out from the AC cloak, presumably because you'd lose your "audience."
688 Attack Sub could be played over modems. I made it work in a room with a 50 foot null modem cable. :-)
It's not much of a fileserver if it doesn't weigh more than 50 pounds. If a cat were to tangle with a real fileserver, I'd be more worried for the cat. :-)
I too applied for the Thunderbolt development program over a month ago (actually in early January if I remember) -- haven't heard a peep out of them.
b) Co-sleeping is dangerous, full stop, especially for neonates/infants. If you manage to avoid smothering your infant by accident, then that's awesome, because I'm sure it is better for bonding. But the risks are way too great. Maybe if the baby is 9 months+, but even then....no way. Maybe a bed extender or something so you can be close without risk of smothering, but the risk or suffocating the child is way too great if you can just roll over on them.
That is total and utter bullshit. The fact of the matter is that you have to be pretty much drunk off your ass or otherwise seriously inebriated to smother an infant in your bed. And no, parents who are sleep deprived aren't usually seriously inebriated. I know that the plural of anecdote isn't data, but at the same time the only smothering deaths I've ever read about were due to extenuating circumstances. I've raised five children and I can tell you, sleep deprived or not, if there's something making me uncomfortable in bed I'm gonna move, and I'm a very sound sleeper. We usually kept the infant in a crib next to the bed for easier breastfeeding, but all the infants slept in the bed with us on multiple occasions.
As far as data goes... the Canadian Paediatric Society states that "Bedsharing with an adult who is extremely fatigued or impaired by alcohol or drugs (legal or illegal) that impair arousal can be hazardous to the infant." which is pretty much what I said above. The Public Health Agency of Canada recommends room-sharing and states that there is an increased risk of SIDS due to the baby suffocating due to several factors (soft mattress/pillows, becoming trapped in the sheets, and also due to rollover of an adult). It does, however go on to say that the risk is higher if the adult is drunk/stoned. It specifically mentions not using co-sleeping products (not sure what those are). Wikipedia states that "Bed-sharing is known to be dangerous for any child when a parent smokes, or has a history of skin infections, but there are other risk factors as well." It goes on to list the same risks that the other two sources give.
So no, Co-sleeping is not dangerous, full stop, whatever. It's perhaps not the safest thing, but it's also not considerably more dangerous either.
Not at all. If you have kids you put their best interests ahead of your own pie-in-the-sky hacking and defacement, especially when it's "for the lulz." This guy had absolutely no business doing what he was doing if the was responsible for those kids. This isn't a guy who's out to change the world for the better. He's not righting any wrongs. He's doing it "for the lulz." Remember that.
My brother has a PCH. It's really not all that great, even when it first came out and didn't have AppleTV to compete against.
Or a text-based Debian install. I saw that screen just this morning.
I usually avoid starbucks because I think their coffee is awfully bitter, but tried a "triple tall americano" once. The barista convinced me that espresso wasn't at all bitter like "normally" brewed coffee. She was right, and americano is now probably my favourite coffee to drink, although I don't often get that extra shot.
I'm pretty sure a blown turbo can be linked to dirty oil caused by a poor oil change regimen. Those things require a thin film of oil to make the bearings work at all.
What part got you the 0.2%?
And only *YOU* mentioned resolutions as low as 320x480 or 640x960. I was talking minimum of around 1024x768 which, having used computer screens for as long as I have, seems to be about the lower end limit of what I can peer at for hour after hour. (Okay 800x600 on a text-only display like a Kindle.)
It's clear you didn't even try to understand what I wrote. Instead, you swing your e-peen around and try to prove I'm a fanboy. I'd call this response a classic nerd response to a social situation they're on the losing side of but it goes beyond that since you're so desperate to insult me by calling me a nontechnical fanboy. I'm happy to say your opinion of me doesn't impact me in any way and if you're willing to read what I wrote and respond intelligently, I'll be happy to continue the conversation.