What good did FCC ever do to you? I remember buying a telephone line for $20 and having to pay almost extra $20 in FCC surcharges. FCC aint cheap. Let's ditch it while we can.
So I got a new desktop that I might return, so instead of the usual OS reinstall I played around with Windows 10. At some point I wanted to see how Emacs would look on the screen, which was a bit exotic (27" 1080p), so I downloaded a 64 bit binary...
Cannot open zip file. Would you like to find app in the app store?
This app cannot be installed. No reason given. Clicking on them at random until...
You need to create login...
You need a parental consent... Are you an adult?
Enter date of birth... 1/1/1925 (just to stay on the safe side)
Please enter a credit card number to prove your adulthood
Unplugged, boxed, 3 layers of scotch tape and back it goes!
Apparently most photographers think that if they are hired to take and edit photographs of YOU, the copyright and even the originals belong to them, unless stated otherwise in the contract. I find it strange, really.
I have a more interesting question: We use a lot of open source (mostly GPL- compatible) at work, mostly because I convinced the owner that these are production-worthy software that comes for free and does not get discontinued by some management decision, which was the fate of most of his Microsoft environment. Some libraries I created are pretty generic and can find many new uses if published on GitHub. I can try to convince the owner that he will get free bugfixes and updates for those packages if some other shop/developer finds them useful. There is no direct benefit for him, though. How should I go about it?
When you work in an environment when you maintain code written by others in editors of their choosing the code indents always come out screwey. Whenever I open the next garbled mess of a source code, there is a two stroke command to reformat to the style of my choosing. The next person to open the file will see it exactly as I saved, regardless of editor. The only issue is that version control tools will think that I changed EVERYTHING.
If everyone in your group uses the same editor, say MS Visual Studio, this is probably less of a problem.
In case of a real emergency EVERYONE is going to need help. They can either call their parents/sposes/relatives or your heavenly 911 will have to dispatch a unit to EVERYONE. And we already know how well that works.
Ha ha, they already do that at UPS, which is also rated one of the worst companies to work for. I still think there should be a video log in a crashed plane's black box. Maybe encrypt the video in the camera and send it to black box, so that employer cannot accidentally tap in?
...because it "integrates with a pretty scary existing system". Something written from scratch would have much much fewer. I guess it does speak of quality of the code but also depends on the quality of data it has to work with, external interfaces, changing user requirements, etc.
Well, the article is shit, so I will have to go with the sparce details I have so far:
The jury deliberated for 2 days, so there were some serious arguments to deliberate about, and thus this was not a frivolous lawsuit.
Lawsuites like this impose a cost of litigation but in the long run they give us something more important, something other places like Korea or China lack. This advantage is the prime reason the Silicone Valley exists in the Valley as opposed to some shithole where laws are questionable and judges go to the highest bidder.
In this example, the lawsuit tries to establish equal treatment of men and women in the workforce. Women comprise over 50% of population and any country that can tap that talent (and most countries cannot) suddenly has access to 2x the number of capable candidates, a tremendous advantage. Most of these lawsuites are impossible for lack of proof, but if something is so obvious that it is provable in court it would be a waste not to persue.
Now imagine a society where all the respectable and compensated positions are given to communist party member's cousin's son-in-laws. All their talent rots in slums. This is the current situation at some 75% of the world. Good luck starting any successful ventures there.
I understand the CPU and other resource hogs are undesirable, but for simple things there is a trade off between keeping them simple or squeezing every drop of performance out, and for most practical tasks keeping things simple is more important.
Imagine something that takes 0.001 ms on a cheap CPU and is used once a day. Is it worth making it faster for a day of work and a man-week of maintenance increase due to complexity?
Pardon me, but your targets are off target:
Fast
Depends program objectives. Most of my code does not need to be fast, and some even works better if it is slow so it does not pig some resource
efficient
Usually the case, then again, see "Fast"
not bloated
maintenability
not buggy
BS. I just completed a complex project that integrates with pretty scary existing system. It is 95% bugs at this point, yet does not make it bad code. Most bugs will get weeded out over a few weeks, as long as code is easy to read and maintain.
respectful of the user's privacy
N/A
hardened with regard to hacking
yes
not encumbered by dependencies
maintenability
adequately featured
?
well supported
It is if someone pays for it?
well documented for the end user
Users of a very complex iPhone never read a single page of documentation. I prefer things that just work as expected
So IMHO it boils down to maintenability and security.
This is not a pissing contest of "which religion is the best". We (as a society) need to look into what caused the massacre and how to prevent similar events in the future. Here's a short list for you:
Norway in 2011:
Try to detect certain mental disorders early and restrict their access to firearms. Tighten control over who has access to firearms.
Paris last Wednesday, Sydney last month, etc.:
Figure out why perfectly sane and capable muslims have frequent urges to execute random civilians. Find and fix the root of the problem.
While #1 is difficult to accomplish, many jurisdictions try their best to restrict access to firearms.
#2 is easy to fix but political pressures tie our hands under "freedom of religion" umbrella. My personal opinion is that we should be keeping zealot followers of Sharia Law in countries where Sharia is the official law of the land, rendering them harmless. I would also like to see the the enablers of the assassins called to justice. I am sure they had lots of help -- moral, financial and operational to carry out this massacre.
Oh, what, there's no politically correct way to say things that are sexist
Challenge accepted:
You probably noticed that there is a difference in physical appearance between men and women. This is probably because men and women carry out different roles in society. Isn't it right to assume that the differences are not limited to physical appearance but also physiological, mental state, goals and interests? Believe it or not, men and women are different.
Russian TV is a giant propaganda machine. They make Fox News look good. Russia takes 3rd place in the world in journalist murder rate, while the first two places are taken by countries torn by ongoing war. Calling Russian TV "free speech" is a good joke. They will like you in Kremlin.
There was a time interval during which White House was hesitant to label it as terrorism, and that in itself is pretty astonishing. Where they contemplating to go with "Freedom Fighters"? "Firearms Incident"?
- They don't have handguns so they butchered 1000s of people with a knife, how about you include that in your comparison, not just "deaths from handguns"?
- Ethnic composition of the two countries is not the same. UK is in Europe while US has peoples from all over the world, and trust me it is not the former Europeans who drive murder statistics here. In fact, looking at charts that consider more than ffffffffffwhole two points of data you can observe that US is clearly an outlier:
I remember news that France was in flames multiple times, specifically when mislim youth was burning cars on the streets. Hell, WTC was in flames, had nothing to do with insult of beleifs though.
They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.
I am sorry, this reads like a fairy tale, not a call to arms. Compare to these:
Quran 2:193
Fight them until there is no [more] fitnah and [until] worship is [acknowledged to be] for Allah . But if they cease, then there is to be no aggression except against the oppressors.
and
Quran 8:39
And fight them until there is no fitnah and [until] the religion, all of it, is for Allah . And if they cease - then indeed, Allah is Seeing of what they do.
They were unwilling to pick you up until surge pricing kicked in. Don't see nothing wrong with that. Waiting for 10 minutes for an Uber car that is 2 minutes away is unfortunately normal too. Until they have taken away ability to track driver you can cancel as soon as you see driver doing something funny. I recently got a warning from Uber that for cancelling after 5 mins I will get charged, despite driver going in circles around my location. Cancel before 5 mins is up:)
Seriously, taxis is a public transport? Why not stretch limos? Private yachts? Please get back to us when you have a private yacht serving every citizen of your imaginary country.
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What good did FCC ever do to you? I remember buying a telephone line for $20 and having to pay almost extra $20 in FCC surcharges. FCC aint cheap. Let's ditch it while we can.
Unplugged, boxed, 3 layers of scotch tape and back it goes!
...being told to call around to different departments until you end up with the person you spoke to originally
Apparently most photographers think that if they are hired to take and edit photographs of YOU, the copyright and even the originals belong to them, unless stated otherwise in the contract. I find it strange, really.
I have a more interesting question: We use a lot of open source (mostly GPL- compatible) at work, mostly because I convinced the owner that these are production-worthy software that comes for free and does not get discontinued by some management decision, which was the fate of most of his Microsoft environment. Some libraries I created are pretty generic and can find many new uses if published on GitHub. I can try to convince the owner that he will get free bugfixes and updates for those packages if some other shop/developer finds them useful. There is no direct benefit for him, though. How should I go about it?
If everyone in your group uses the same editor, say MS Visual Studio, this is probably less of a problem.
Ever heard of walkie-takie?
In case of a real emergency EVERYONE is going to need help. They can either call their parents/sposes/relatives or your heavenly 911 will have to dispatch a unit to EVERYONE. And we already know how well that works.
People think they are smarter than they are always and independently of any other variables.
Ha ha, they already do that at UPS, which is also rated one of the worst companies to work for. I still think there should be a video log in a crashed plane's black box. Maybe encrypt the video in the camera and send it to black box, so that employer cannot accidentally tap in?
why are you making those errors?
...because it "integrates with a pretty scary existing system". Something written from scratch would have much much fewer. I guess it does speak of quality of the code but also depends on the quality of data it has to work with, external interfaces, changing user requirements, etc.
Well, the article is shit, so I will have to go with the sparce details I have so far:
The jury deliberated for 2 days, so there were some serious arguments to deliberate about, and thus this was not a frivolous lawsuit.
Lawsuites like this impose a cost of litigation but in the long run they give us something more important, something other places like Korea or China lack. This advantage is the prime reason the Silicone Valley exists in the Valley as opposed to some shithole where laws are questionable and judges go to the highest bidder.
In this example, the lawsuit tries to establish equal treatment of men and women in the workforce. Women comprise over 50% of population and any country that can tap that talent (and most countries cannot) suddenly has access to 2x the number of capable candidates, a tremendous advantage. Most of these lawsuites are impossible for lack of proof, but if something is so obvious that it is provable in court it would be a waste not to persue.
Now imagine a society where all the respectable and compensated positions are given to communist party member's cousin's son-in-laws. All their talent rots in slums. This is the current situation at some 75% of the world. Good luck starting any successful ventures there.
I understand the CPU and other resource hogs are undesirable, but for simple things there is a trade off between keeping them simple or squeezing every drop of performance out, and for most practical tasks keeping things simple is more important.
Imagine something that takes 0.001 ms on a cheap CPU and is used once a day. Is it worth making it faster for a day of work and a man-week of maintenance increase due to complexity?
So IMHO it boils down to maintenability and security.
Let's auction senators directly to the highest bidder instead. Why bother with the elections?
Norway in 2011:
Try to detect certain mental disorders early and restrict their access to firearms. Tighten control over who has access to firearms.
Paris last Wednesday, Sydney last month, etc.:
Figure out why perfectly sane and capable muslims have frequent urges to execute random civilians. Find and fix the root of the problem.
While #1 is difficult to accomplish, many jurisdictions try their best to restrict access to firearms.
#2 is easy to fix but political pressures tie our hands under "freedom of religion" umbrella. My personal opinion is that we should be keeping zealot followers of Sharia Law in countries where Sharia is the official law of the land, rendering them harmless. I would also like to see the the enablers of the assassins called to justice. I am sure they had lots of help -- moral, financial and operational to carry out this massacre.
Oh, what, there's no politically correct way to say things that are sexist
Challenge accepted:
You probably noticed that there is a difference in physical appearance between men and women. This is probably because men and women carry out different roles in society. Isn't it right to assume that the differences are not limited to physical appearance but also physiological, mental state, goals and interests? Believe it or not, men and women are different.
Russian TV is a giant propaganda machine. They make Fox News look good. Russia takes 3rd place in the world in journalist murder rate, while the first two places are taken by countries torn by ongoing war. Calling Russian TV "free speech" is a good joke. They will like you in Kremlin.
There was a time interval during which White House was hesitant to label it as terrorism, and that in itself is pretty astonishing. Where they contemplating to go with "Freedom Fighters"? "Firearms Incident"?
- They don't have handguns so they butchered 1000s of people with a knife, how about you include that in your comparison, not just "deaths from handguns"?
- Ethnic composition of the two countries is not the same. UK is in Europe while US has peoples from all over the world, and trust me it is not the former Europeans who drive murder statistics here. In fact, looking at charts that consider more than ffffffffffwhole two points of data you can observe that US is clearly an outlier:
oh look there is a negative correlation between guns and murders
and US is OUT THERE
I remember news that France was in flames multiple times, specifically when mislim youth was burning cars on the streets. Hell, WTC was in flames, had nothing to do with insult of beleifs though.
They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.
I am sorry, this reads like a fairy tale, not a call to arms. Compare to these:
Quran 2:193
Fight them until there is no [more] fitnah and [until] worship is [acknowledged to be] for Allah . But if they cease, then there is to be no aggression except against the oppressors.
and
Quran 8:39
And fight them until there is no fitnah and [until] the religion, all of it, is for Allah . And if they cease - then indeed, Allah is Seeing of what they do.
They were unwilling to pick you up until surge pricing kicked in. Don't see nothing wrong with that. Waiting for 10 minutes for an Uber car that is 2 minutes away is unfortunately normal too. Until they have taken away ability to track driver you can cancel as soon as you see driver doing something funny. I recently got a warning from Uber that for cancelling after 5 mins I will get charged, despite driver going in circles around my location. Cancel before 5 mins is up :)
Seriously, taxis is a public transport? Why not stretch limos? Private yachts? Please get back to us when you have a private yacht serving every citizen of your imaginary country.