8. Normal in C (Hopefully no modification of the arguments is done, if modifications are done: Comment!)
Honestly, I'd slap your hand in a code review for that; if you're not modifying arguments of type int or type pointer, passing them as pointers is a) unclear and b) produces poor code on average.
> Here's a question, if the code is written well... doesn't it document itself? > I mean, as a developer/programmer, shouldn't I be able to read/speak that language fluently enough > that I don't need a full english translation?
No. Comments explain what and why. Code explains how.
Yes, we will have the top 1% of the top 1% of 1% of income earners so far above the middle class that they will appear to have overtaken Voyager 1 by several lightyears.
I wonder what would happen if professor-pay went up exponentially with class size? It wouldn't need to be a particularly steep curve, but it would incent the university to keep class sizes down, and make it possible for professors to hire additional TAs to ease the burden of 250-student sections.
One of my profs -- nearly 20 years ago, mind you -- went so far as to write a text book, have it bound at the local copy place, and sold it in class at materials cost.
He had originally planned to have them sold at the school's bookstore, but when he found out they were making a substantial profit on each copy, he decided that they could use a little competition.
I've got the patent to "push to open". Your doors need to be pushed from the other side, you owe me money. I have doors which are push from both sides, in restaurants and saloons.
Maybe they could.... oh.. Hm. Use boron control rods held up by electromagnets, so that they fall down and quench the reaction when the power goes out.
I checked with my high-school physics teach to see if this design would work, and he said, yep! Can-Do!
> Doing mischief on a rover that boasts a round-trip delay measured in minutes is another. > You stand to gain absolutely nothing that you won't find on the NASA's web site, scientific literature, > or by simply getting in touch with NASA
You could adjust the firmware to make NASA scientists "discover" an alien species which precisely matches your divine prediction.
NASA would report this to the US government, everybody would try to cover it up, but somehow it will leak out and the SHIT will hit the FAN.
Now you will have millions upon millions of fanatical, uber-devout followers, making scientology disciples look like casual agnostics... outnumbering Christians, Muslims, and Hindus put together.
You could probably order your followers to overthrow governments and they would do it in Your Name. The One True Prophet.
Seriously.
Hacking a NASA space probe is worth it. You have EVERYTHING to gain.
Seagates of that era, i.e. the ST-225, were infamous for stiction problems. I don't know WTH the OP is talking about, though. When *we* had those come in the shop, we were anything but gentle with them.;)
This is true, but you also need to remember that the onus is on the manufacturer to prove that the maintenance was not done, *and* that said lack of maintenance was the proximate cause for failure.
For example, if I buy a new car and neglect to change the oil for 100,000 miles, the manufacturer could not use this to deny a claim on the supplemental restraint system.
Your point that they could tie me up in court until I run out of money is completely valid, however.
> SUVs (or in my case, pickup trucks) don't burn gas when they aren't moving.
In a sense, they do. If you are really trying to justify your actions based on a green platform, you must consider the total cost of ownership.
This means you must consider the initial manufacture, the materials used to manufacture, all the way to the eventual disposal.
If you could avoid buying the extra vehicle in the first place, that would be one vehicle (or most of a vehicle) which would not ever be manufactured, a measureable net savings in terms of resources consumed by the individual.
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I'd hate to think of a pilot realizing his fuel tank is running low on fuel just when he needs to perform a critical maneuver (like not crash).
I wonder how the heck they solved that problem?!?!?!
...have you ever worked as a writer for Monty Python? Because that sure sounds like one of their skits!
Wow, you guys are FUCKED.
On the one hand, you can vote for a Mormon Terrorist... on the other hand, you can vote for a Muslim Terrorist.
I'm sure glad I don't live down there!
Honestly, I'd slap your hand in a code review for that; if you're not modifying arguments of type int or type pointer, passing them as pointers is a) unclear and b) produces poor code on average.
You missed the most important one:
8 - Why the hell are you passing in *pointers*? Is your broken-ass processCommandLineArguments() actually going to screw with them?
> Here's a question, if the code is written well... doesn't it document itself?
> I mean, as a developer/programmer, shouldn't I be able to read/speak that language fluently enough
> that I don't need a full english translation?
No. Comments explain what and why. Code explains how.
And if you're the CEO of a computer company, you should know something about selling sugar-water!
" I ended up making a guess for rules and kept tweeking as I watched for false positives and negatives."
Sounds like you implemented a recurrent neural net with a human perceptron!
I wish you guys would cut it out with the RISCque jokes.
Yes, we will have the top 1% of the top 1% of 1% of income earners so far above the middle class that they will appear to have overtaken Voyager 1 by several lightyears.
I wonder what would happen if professor-pay went up exponentially with class size? It wouldn't need to be a particularly steep curve, but it would incent the university to keep class sizes down, and make it possible for professors to hire additional TAs to ease the burden of 250-student sections.
One of my profs -- nearly 20 years ago, mind you -- went so far as to write a text book, have it bound at the local copy place, and sold it in class at materials cost.
He had originally planned to have them sold at the school's bookstore, but when he found out they were making a substantial profit on each copy, he decided that they could use a little competition.
Five wives without coffee is doable.
Five wives without beer, OTOH...
That only works with legitimate disabilities.
> * Pull handle to open: All doors.
I've got the patent to "push to open". Your doors need to be pushed from the other side, you owe me money. I have doors which are push from both sides, in restaurants and saloons.
I win. Muhahahawuuhwuhahha!
Got it, thanks.
Has anybody considered using the heat from the reactor to power emergency pumps? Maybe even old-school, like in a steam locomotive?
The CANDU reactors run just fine on natural Uranium, thank you very much.
Maybe they could.... oh.. Hm. Use boron control rods held up by electromagnets, so that they fall down and quench the reaction when the power goes out.
I checked with my high-school physics teach to see if this design would work, and he said, yep! Can-Do!
> Doing mischief on a rover that boasts a round-trip delay measured in minutes is another.
> You stand to gain absolutely nothing that you won't find on the NASA's web site, scientific literature,
> or by simply getting in touch with NASA
You could adjust the firmware to make NASA scientists "discover" an alien species which precisely matches your divine prediction.
NASA would report this to the US government, everybody would try to cover it up, but somehow it will leak out and the SHIT will hit the FAN.
Now you will have millions upon millions of fanatical, uber-devout followers, making scientology disciples look like casual agnostics... outnumbering Christians, Muslims, and Hindus put together.
You could probably order your followers to overthrow governments and they would do it in Your Name. The One True Prophet.
Seriously.
Hacking a NASA space probe is worth it. You have EVERYTHING to gain.
Seagates of that era, i.e. the ST-225, were infamous for stiction problems. I don't know WTH the OP is talking about, though. When *we* had those come in the shop, we were anything but gentle with them. ;)
This is true, but you also need to remember that the onus is on the manufacturer to prove that the maintenance was not done, *and* that said lack of maintenance was the proximate cause for failure.
For example, if I buy a new car and neglect to change the oil for 100,000 miles, the manufacturer could not use this to deny a claim on the supplemental restraint system.
Your point that they could tie me up in court until I run out of money is completely valid, however.
> But with car manufacturers having 10-year warranties that
> REQUIRE all maintenance and repairs be done by professionals,
That is not true, at least not in the US. Read the Magusson-Moss Warranty Act.
> Even Newspapers can be saved for 25 years by simply bagging them in plastic
A bar I frequent has newspapers in picture frames from D-Day and VJ-Day. They are yellowed, but are still perfectly legible.
> SUVs (or in my case, pickup trucks) don't burn gas when they aren't moving.
In a sense, they do. If you are really trying to justify your actions based on a green platform, you must consider the total cost of ownership.
This means you must consider the initial manufacture, the materials used to manufacture, all the way to the eventual disposal.
If you could avoid buying the extra vehicle in the first place, that would be one vehicle (or most of a vehicle) which would not ever be manufactured, a measureable net savings in terms of resources consumed by the individual.
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