My work setup looks like who freaking cares. A desk and a chair and some computers and stuff. BFD. 36 years into it, even the highest zoot computers lose their new car smell on day three. GTF off my lawn.
It's been a fun ride, slashdot, but slamming into the wall at the end ruined it for me. Dice Holdings, Inc. can apply big wet smoochies to that part of my anatomy that is reserved for evacuating the stuff that Dice does best.
Thanks for being the one who caught my point: The rationale is bullshit because smart people confronted by unfolding emergencies are no more likely to be frozen by indecision than average people. The question is intended solely to gauge the speed of the response, not the right or wrong of it.
FWIW, way back when this story was news instead of history I asked my county's Sheriff about the rationale behind this kind of thing. He explained it thusly:
"Suppose you're an officer and you're called to a convenience store robbery. When you arrive, you find the clerk on the floor has been shot and will certainly die if you don't render aid immediately. Meanwhile, you see the robber escaping in your neighbor's car so you know it's stolen. This fits the MO of an armed robber who's been in the region for a few weeks, never strikes in the same town twice, and always kills the clerks he robs. There are no witnesses. If you render aid to the fallen clerk the criminal will escape and will almost certainly kill again, but if you pursue the criminal the clerk will certainly die and you may not succeed in apprehending the criminal anyway. What do you do?"
I immediately responded that I'd pursue the criminal. He went on to explain:
"It's not really important which option you choose because in the end some innocent is going to die. What's important is that you quickly choose a response and follow it through to the end. The rationale behind not hiring those of exceptional intelligence is that they'll waste time thinking through their options hoping to find the optimal solution when there really isn't one instead of just springing into action."
It's horribly flawed logic, but that's the general consensus among law enforcement so it's self-reinforcing. You can't promote thinking leaders from within a force that doesn't include thinking officers.
Magnesium acetate works much, much better (because it's more bioavailable) and doesn't loosen the bowels (because it's absorbed in the gut so doesn't get that far). You have to make your own to get it, though. Three parts apple cider vinegar to one part milk of magnesia, adding the MoM to the vinegar so it all dissolves. Mix a tablespoon or a tad more of this in a liter or so of water, and drink it throughout the day.
Like gambling you play the odds and take the vaccine because it's less dangerous than going without.
However, unlike gambling, you are forced to play. The state requires you to enroll your child in school and ensure attendance, and requires that your child be vaccinated in order to attend. So it's only fitting that the state step up when children are harmed by vaccines, just as the airline whose jet falls on my house is liable for the damage done even if the jet was carrying donor organs intended to save lives.
We have bigger things to worry about than the furious screaming of a pseudo-primate like Lieberman. He's marginalized himself so effectively that only other crazies will associate with him, so the best predictor of a bill's failure is his name in the sponsorship section.
I was involved with H-P in various capacities from 1994 through 1998, pre-Carly, and the high zoot engineers for whom the company was famous were nowhere in evidence. Absolutely nowhere. The company mission statement already said that H-P was a "shareholder driven" company, and the old-timers all lamented that The HP Way was long dead.
I'm not defending Fiorina, as she was in well over her head and everyone except the BOD knew it right from the start, I'm just saying that the company was broken before she got there.
I don't comment much. I figure that if you understand the problem domain, my grammar will suffice... and if you do not understand the problem domain you have no business futzing around with my code in the first place.
I will curse and mock your name after you've left a position because you've context switched ten times to do work that should have been done in one well designed method, and now I've got a server that is puking because you don't know programming nearly as well as you know how to acquire whore points on slashdot.
As my grandfather, a noble and stoic man of few words would say, shut the fuck up.
The same can be said for wives, siblings, politicians, nations, clergy, and probably the Buddha himself.
In my experience, precisely three-quarters of all of my wives have fit your assertion, as have half of all of my children. The other identifiable classes you mentioned I prefer to avoid.
If I had mod points I'd award a quadrillion of them for:
I'm guessing you've never started a company. When you do, you'll find out that a fair number of your friends turn into psychopaths when money is involved. This is why the best number of partners in any new venture is 1.
I've seen this too many times. For anyone who hans't: If you want to know what a partnership is like, here's what you do: Come up with a great idea, then work yourself nearly to death over 18 months to two years while ignoring your family, friends, and health. When the idea has been made tangible and needs just a few minor tweaks, hand over all of your work to someone you'll never want to see again.
Uh, with all due respect: To say that "the distinct line between what is a program and what is pure data is blurred beyond recognition" merely proves that you've never understood the difference.
That's kinda why I said, "if the 'cheap gas' doesn't cause pinging". Detonation is a real bitch and can crack pistons, thrash pins and rod bearings, and just generally be a real pain in the wallet come repair time. But a broken piston is a good excuse to increase the bore...:-) Still, if you're not getting detonation, all you get from high octane gasoline is expensive exhaust gas.
If you get pinging only on hot days or only at high altitude, try curing it the same way you'd cure vapor lock on a carbureted engine -- I don't mean clamping wooden clothespins on the fuel lines and leaving them there forever, but that's a good way to prove whether or not that's your problem. If it is, just reroute the fuel lines away from the heat sources and call it good. Sometimes the heat source is the automatic transmission or the exhaust pipes so you have to look all the way back to the tank to find the likely suspects, but if you're doing it yourself the one-time expense of rerouting is a lot less than the every fill-up expense of higher octane fuel.
Uh... if by "higher grade" you mean higher octane, you're mistaken. In fact, if the "cheap gas" doesn't cause pinging in your engine, the "higher grade" fuel gives you nothing but more expensive exhaust gases.
Those ARE American jobs. The corporations of which we are speaking could not exist in their current form anywhere except in the US. We formed the laws that enabled their creation and growth, and have fought illegal immoral wars to expand their wealth and power. They owe us for the blood we've spilled on their behalf.
We are belabored by the insistence on the part of our politicians, businessmen and military leaders, and the claque of scriveners who serve them, that "growth" and "power" are intrinsic goods, of which we can never have enough, or even too much. As if gigantism were an end in itself. As if a commendable rat were a rat twelve hands high at the shoulders -- and still growing. As if we could never have peace on this planet until one state dominates all others.
perl -e 'print "Hello, World!\n"' doesn't seem so difficult to me. Plug that into the command line of any system with a perl interpreter installed and it just works as advertised.
Your arguments against Perl are specious at best, and probably indicate nothing so much as your unfamiliarity with the language.
Perl is a fine first language, very accessible in the early going and very powerful as your skills increase. It's free, and has outstanding community support. The slashdot effect that crushes other sites and servers begins with this one, dynamically generated by a bunch of perl.
Who told you that lie? Once you've been in management for a few years you become unemployable in tech even if you've maintained your skills. For tech jobs I am overqualified/overcompensated and "will quickly grow bored" or "will keep sending resumes out even on your first day on the job". Forget talking the hiring managers out of that notion. I'm a very persuasive guy and have never talked one out of it.
Ain't it amazin' that all those UPS engineers whose workdays are nothing but thinking about the design of systems all arrive at the same conclusion and refuse to start their machines if the battery is failed? It's just incredible that these guys with EE degrees come out of college smart enough to do right things and somehow get it so wrong. Oh wait... I'm being sarcastic, which isn't very nice. I'd never suggest that the idiot isn't them, might instead be you, because that would be bad for my karma.
... saying that it's time to reconsider cost cutting measures. In 15 years in the field I never saw a well designed and well maintained critical power system drop its load. I saw many poorly designed and/or poorly maintained systems drop loads, even catching fire in the process. One such fire in a poorly designed and poorly maintained system took the entire building with it, data center and all. The fire suppression system in that one was never upgraded to meet the needs of the "repurposed space" which was originally a light industrial/office space.
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My work setup looks like who freaking cares. A desk and a chair and some computers and stuff. BFD. 36 years into it, even the highest zoot computers lose their new car smell on day three. GTF off my lawn.
Especially if you're an Eastern European cracker, huh?
It's been a fun ride, slashdot, but slamming into the wall at the end ruined it for me. Dice Holdings, Inc. can apply big wet smoochies to that part of my anatomy that is reserved for evacuating the stuff that Dice does best.
Thanks for being the one who caught my point: The rationale is bullshit because smart people confronted by unfolding emergencies are no more likely to be frozen by indecision than average people. The question is intended solely to gauge the speed of the response, not the right or wrong of it.
FWIW, way back when this story was news instead of history I asked my county's Sheriff about the rationale behind this kind of thing. He explained it thusly:
"Suppose you're an officer and you're called to a convenience store robbery. When you arrive, you find the clerk on the floor has been shot and will certainly die if you don't render aid immediately. Meanwhile, you see the robber escaping in your neighbor's car so you know it's stolen. This fits the MO of an armed robber who's been in the region for a few weeks, never strikes in the same town twice, and always kills the clerks he robs. There are no witnesses. If you render aid to the fallen clerk the criminal will escape and will almost certainly kill again, but if you pursue the criminal the clerk will certainly die and you may not succeed in apprehending the criminal anyway. What do you do?"
I immediately responded that I'd pursue the criminal. He went on to explain:
"It's not really important which option you choose because in the end some innocent is going to die. What's important is that you quickly choose a response and follow it through to the end. The rationale behind not hiring those of exceptional intelligence is that they'll waste time thinking through their options hoping to find the optimal solution when there really isn't one instead of just springing into action."
It's horribly flawed logic, but that's the general consensus among law enforcement so it's self-reinforcing. You can't promote thinking leaders from within a force that doesn't include thinking officers.
Magnesium acetate works much, much better (because it's more bioavailable) and doesn't loosen the bowels (because it's absorbed in the gut so doesn't get that far). You have to make your own to get it, though. Three parts apple cider vinegar to one part milk of magnesia, adding the MoM to the vinegar so it all dissolves. Mix a tablespoon or a tad more of this in a liter or so of water, and drink it throughout the day.
Like gambling you play the odds and take the vaccine because it's less dangerous than going without.
However, unlike gambling, you are forced to play. The state requires you to enroll your child in school and ensure attendance, and requires that your child be vaccinated in order to attend. So it's only fitting that the state step up when children are harmed by vaccines, just as the airline whose jet falls on my house is liable for the damage done even if the jet was carrying donor organs intended to save lives.
We have bigger things to worry about than the furious screaming of a pseudo-primate like Lieberman. He's marginalized himself so effectively that only other crazies will associate with him, so the best predictor of a bill's failure is his name in the sponsorship section.
You're a lawyer who reads slashdot. You're far from typical!
I was involved with H-P in various capacities from 1994 through 1998, pre-Carly, and the high zoot engineers for whom the company was famous were nowhere in evidence. Absolutely nowhere. The company mission statement already said that H-P was a "shareholder driven" company, and the old-timers all lamented that The HP Way was long dead.
I'm not defending Fiorina, as she was in well over her head and everyone except the BOD knew it right from the start, I'm just saying that the company was broken before she got there.
I don't comment much. I figure that if you understand the problem domain, my grammar will suffice... and if you do not understand the problem domain you have no business futzing around with my code in the first place.
I will curse and mock your name after you've left a position because you've context switched ten times to do work that should have been done in one well designed method, and now I've got a server that is puking because you don't know programming nearly as well as you know how to acquire whore points on slashdot.
As my grandfather, a noble and stoic man of few words would say, shut the fuck up.
Spray and pray in the direction from which an invisible enemy might approach. Where there's a blood spray, shoot some more.
Invisible this, bitch!
The same can be said for wives, siblings, politicians, nations, clergy, and probably the Buddha himself.
In my experience, precisely three-quarters of all of my wives have fit your assertion, as have half of all of my children. The other identifiable classes you mentioned I prefer to avoid.
If I had mod points I'd award a quadrillion of them for:
I'm guessing you've never started a company. When you do, you'll find out that a fair number of your friends turn into psychopaths when money is involved. This is why the best number of partners in any new venture is 1.
I've seen this too many times. For anyone who hans't: If you want to know what a partnership is like, here's what you do: Come up with a great idea, then work yourself nearly to death over 18 months to two years while ignoring your family, friends, and health. When the idea has been made tangible and needs just a few minor tweaks, hand over all of your work to someone you'll never want to see again.
How did I not know this? Oh, wait... it's because I mostly quit reading the comments years ago.
Thanks for setting me straight!
Uh, with all due respect: To say that "the distinct line between what is a program and what is pure data is blurred beyond recognition" merely proves that you've never understood the difference.
That's kinda why I said, "if the 'cheap gas' doesn't cause pinging". Detonation is a real bitch and can crack pistons, thrash pins and rod bearings, and just generally be a real pain in the wallet come repair time. But a broken piston is a good excuse to increase the bore... :-) Still, if you're not getting detonation, all you get from high octane gasoline is expensive exhaust gas.
If you get pinging only on hot days or only at high altitude, try curing it the same way you'd cure vapor lock on a carbureted engine -- I don't mean clamping wooden clothespins on the fuel lines and leaving them there forever, but that's a good way to prove whether or not that's your problem. If it is, just reroute the fuel lines away from the heat sources and call it good. Sometimes the heat source is the automatic transmission or the exhaust pipes so you have to look all the way back to the tank to find the likely suspects, but if you're doing it yourself the one-time expense of rerouting is a lot less than the every fill-up expense of higher octane fuel.
Uh... if by "higher grade" you mean higher octane, you're mistaken. In fact, if the "cheap gas" doesn't cause pinging in your engine, the "higher grade" fuel gives you nothing but more expensive exhaust gases.
Those ARE American jobs. The corporations of which we are speaking could not exist in their current form anywhere except in the US. We formed the laws that enabled their creation and growth, and have fought illegal immoral wars to expand their wealth and power. They owe us for the blood we've spilled on their behalf.
We are belabored by the insistence on the part of our politicians, businessmen and military leaders, and the claque of scriveners who serve them, that "growth" and "power" are intrinsic goods, of which we can never have enough, or even too much. As if gigantism were an end in itself. As if a commendable rat were a rat twelve hands high at the shoulders -- and still growing. As if we could never have peace on this planet until one state dominates all others.
perl -e 'print "Hello, World!\n"' doesn't seem so difficult to me. Plug that into the command line of any system with a perl interpreter installed and it just works as advertised.
Your arguments against Perl are specious at best, and probably indicate nothing so much as your unfamiliarity with the language.
Perl is a fine first language, very accessible in the early going and very powerful as your skills increase. It's free, and has outstanding community support. The slashdot effect that crushes other sites and servers begins with this one, dynamically generated by a bunch of perl.
Who told you that lie? Once you've been in management for a few years you become unemployable in tech even if you've maintained your skills. For tech jobs I am overqualified/overcompensated and "will quickly grow bored" or "will keep sending resumes out even on your first day on the job". Forget talking the hiring managers out of that notion. I'm a very persuasive guy and have never talked one out of it.
Ain't it amazin' that all those UPS engineers whose workdays are nothing but thinking about the design of systems all arrive at the same conclusion and refuse to start their machines if the battery is failed? It's just incredible that these guys with EE degrees come out of college smart enough to do right things and somehow get it so wrong. Oh wait... I'm being sarcastic, which isn't very nice. I'd never suggest that the idiot isn't them, might instead be you, because that would be bad for my karma.
... saying that it's time to reconsider cost cutting measures. In 15 years in the field I never saw a well designed and well maintained critical power system drop its load. I saw many poorly designed and/or poorly maintained systems drop loads, even catching fire in the process. One such fire in a poorly designed and poorly maintained system took the entire building with it, data center and all. The fire suppression system in that one was never upgraded to meet the needs of the "repurposed space" which was originally a light industrial/office space.