As I've told a few Harley-Davidson employees, including some pretty high up in the management chain, the reason I ride a BMW R1150RT is because Harley doesn't make a sport-touring bike. I've already warned my wife that the day they put a fully faired, Revolution powered sport tourer on sale, I'm buying it.
He's no longer with us thanks to his horrible attitude. It was all about coding in job security and being perceived as some sort of guru, complete with the dribbling out just enough information to keep you guessing.
Upon being presented with the coding style guidelines and team best practices, his response was "we do things differently, I'm not going to change how I code."
All valid points, but I still say that one scans better than the other, and at 3 AM that becomes an issue. Especially when I get woken up by one of our lower tier folks who is trying to figure out why it doesn't work, asking me to decipher it for him. Turns out the issue was that he failed to check whether the open had succeeded. It didn't. So I added the croak and did some more repairs, with a rewrite for legibility's sake coming up.
This guy never met an array or hash that he didn't turn into a reference just for gits and shiggles. Seriously. Every single damned one. I don't think I ever saw a native @ or % in his code (except for @_).
I have had to tell cow-orkers to knock that crap off. They've got the job, and from this point on the only thing that will impress us is code that can be maintained by anyone else on the team, even if they have not set eyes on it in years.
Programmer did:
my $something = []; open my $filehandle, '<', $filename or croak "Can't read file"; push @$something, <$filehandle>; close $filehandle;
How about:
open(my $filehandle, '<', $filename) or croak "Can't read file"; my @something = <$filehandle>; close($filehandle);
Much more succinct, gets rid of a pointless use of an array reference (seriously, it was used as an array in that function only, never passed around or returned), and at the end of the day, is far more readable.
Umm... How about because I have a younger son who lives full time with his other parent. 850 miles away from me. And I need to be able to help him out because his other parent is not tech savvy.
My problem with the straight razor was that my right thumb doesn't bend so I had a hard time working on half my face. I can deal with a DESR's handle a lot easier than the straigh razor.
I tried one but found that I couldn't operate one as well as I should so I moved on to a double edge safety razor and haven't looked back. I get a nice, close shave using it.
The secret is to shave after you've taken a shower so that the beard bristles have had a chance to soak up some moisture. After that use a good shave oil.
As for shaving creams? I don't know, I don't use them. Some good English shaving soap lathered up with a badger bristle brush works just fine for me.
dsgitl: How many of them do you imagine had financial consultants on payrool?
Edward Jones. Costs me $30/year for my IRA. The kid's college fund is covered by the fund loads (and yes, loads can be better for long term investing). The money market pays me.
They're like the Starbucks of investing, there's one on every bloody corner and my rep has stayed late to explain things like diversification to me.
And I've got friends who worked for Enron, they got suckered. They do have to take some of the blame. Not all of it, for sure, but if they listened to financial advice that was readily available if they'd looked for it (and cheap, too!), they might not have gotten taken so badly.
The Motley Fool is a good place to start if you just can't bring yourself to walk in to Ed Jones, Smith Barney, Fidelity, Chase, or any decent CPA's office.
I've been running in for a few weeks now (Beta 6, RC1, RC2, and the final production version) and haven't had a problem with the external drive, but I'm using a LaCie d2 connected via my FW800 port, so it's a little zippier.:)
It's a seriously cool product and right now with XP running Word 2003 with one document open, AVG, and the generic Windows XP crap top is showing anywhere from 11.7 to 13.0 percent cpu. That's on a 17" MBP with 2G RAM.
The problem with that is that HF signals can be heard quite a distance away. I've worked a station in Phoenix, AZ from Dallas, TX with less than 1 watt. So if power's out in Phoenix, they could still hear the BPL interference coming from a BPL site in Dallas.
Well then I'll just watch less TV, and I'm sure others will as well. Ad revenue falls, the 'do not record' flag will be replaced with another flag that says 'keep for x days' and all will be right in the world.
Good grief, people! It's a fscking TELEVISION show. You want entertainment? Go outside! Read a book! Get off your arse, unplug, and DO SOMETHING ELSE!
No, that would be too easy. It's better to just complain that your emperors are telling you how to view the breads and circuses.
Gah!
RAID-1 can be close to twice as fast as a single drive because you can have, in effect, the same read head on different pieces of data at the same time. If you've got identical copies of the data on two drives why would the heads on the two drives be reading the same data?
But it uses Symbian a better OS that i can upgrade, alter and get hundreds of progreammes for.
Hundrds of versions of Tetris, maybe.
I've got an n-gage (also Symbian, bluetooth, memory card, blah blah) and went back to my palm after about a month of TRYING to make it work. It just doesn't cut it as a PDA. Most of my software doesn't exist for Symbian (HAM radio, astronomy) and just try to find a King James bible with the Apocrypha.
Nope, I'm ordering one of these Zire 72's today because my battery's no longer holding a charge on the M505, which is my fourth Palm.
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Yep, I was replying to flyneye, not you. Sorry for the confusion...
As I've told a few Harley-Davidson employees, including some pretty high up in the management chain, the reason I ride a BMW R1150RT is because Harley doesn't make a sport-touring bike. I've already warned my wife that the day they put a fully faired, Revolution powered sport tourer on sale, I'm buying it.
Or the one one of my friends wears when she's riding: "If you can read this, the bitch got her own bike!"
Umm, no. You're the dumbass. Knuckleheads were made from 1936-1947, shovelheads were made from 1966-1984.
http://www.harley-davidson.com...
http://www.harley-davidson.com...
He's no longer with us thanks to his horrible attitude. It was all about coding in job security and being perceived as some sort of guru, complete with the dribbling out just enough information to keep you guessing.
Upon being presented with the coding style guidelines and team best practices, his response was "we do things differently, I'm not going to change how I code."
That should have been a red flag.
As for Java, I could be so lucky... :)
All valid points, but I still say that one scans better than the other, and at 3 AM that becomes an issue. Especially when I get woken up by one of our lower tier folks who is trying to figure out why it doesn't work, asking me to decipher it for him. Turns out the issue was that he failed to check whether the open had succeeded. It didn't. So I added the croak and did some more repairs, with a rewrite for legibility's sake coming up.
This guy never met an array or hash that he didn't turn into a reference just for gits and shiggles. Seriously. Every single damned one. I don't think I ever saw a native @ or % in his code (except for @_).
Oh so this!
I have had to tell cow-orkers to knock that crap off. They've got the job, and from this point on the only thing that will impress us is code that can be maintained by anyone else on the team, even if they have not set eyes on it in years.
Programmer did:
my $something = [];
open my $filehandle, '<', $filename or croak "Can't read file";
push @$something, <$filehandle>;
close $filehandle;
How about:
open(my $filehandle, '<', $filename) or croak "Can't read file";
my @something = <$filehandle>;
close($filehandle);
Much more succinct, gets rid of a pointless use of an array reference (seriously, it was used as an array in that function only, never passed around or returned), and at the end of the day, is far more readable.
Umm... How about because I have a younger son who lives full time with his other parent. 850 miles away from me. And I need to be able to help him out because his other parent is not tech savvy.
Take a look at http://www.zenoss.com/. They just didn't link it in on the Source Forge site.
Submitter might want to read the Apple article that was linked to. It specifically mentions MOAB and where to find the QT file.
Some of us fly enough that we don't like running from gate to gate so we schedule enough time between flights that we can actually sit down and surf.
My problem with the straight razor was that my right thumb doesn't bend so I had a hard time working on half my face. I can deal with a DESR's handle a lot easier than the straigh razor.
I tried one but found that I couldn't operate one as well as I should so I moved on to a double edge safety razor and haven't looked back. I get a nice, close shave using it.
The secret is to shave after you've taken a shower so that the beard bristles have had a chance to soak up some moisture. After that use a good shave oil.
As for shaving creams? I don't know, I don't use them. Some good English shaving soap lathered up with a badger bristle brush works just fine for me.
dsgitl: How many of them do you imagine had financial consultants on payrool?
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Edward Jones. Costs me $30/year for my IRA. The kid's college fund is covered by the fund loads (and yes, loads can be better for long term investing). The money market pays me.
They're like the Starbucks of investing, there's one on every bloody corner and my rep has stayed late to explain things like diversification to me.
And I've got friends who worked for Enron, they got suckered. They do have to take some of the blame. Not all of it, for sure, but if they listened to financial advice that was readily available if they'd looked for it (and cheap, too!), they might not have gotten taken so badly.
http://www.fool.com/seminars/partners/resources/b
The Motley Fool is a good place to start if you just can't bring yourself to walk in to Ed Jones, Smith Barney, Fidelity, Chase, or any decent CPA's office.
I've been running in for a few weeks now (Beta 6, RC1, RC2, and the final production version) and haven't had a problem with the external drive, but I'm using a LaCie d2 connected via my FW800 port, so it's a little zippier. :)
It's a seriously cool product and right now with XP running Word 2003 with one document open, AVG, and the generic Windows XP crap top is showing anywhere from 11.7 to 13.0 percent cpu. That's on a 17" MBP with 2G RAM.
Well, as of 9:30 AM central time 24.224.174.18 isn't accepting connections, so it's either been slashdotted or taken down.
You're so wrong it's not even funny. Want to look at my tax return for last year? Trust me, it'll disprove your "claims".
The problem with that is that HF signals can be heard quite a distance away. I've worked a station in Phoenix, AZ from Dallas, TX with less than 1 watt. So if power's out in Phoenix, they could still hear the BPL interference coming from a BPL site in Dallas.
I'm running a Venice 3000+ now. Really sweet. Fast as all getout.
Eh? Wot?
Everyting I Need To Know I've Learned From Iron Maiden
Bah.
Well then I'll just watch less TV, and I'm sure others will as well. Ad revenue falls, the 'do not record' flag will be replaced with another flag that says 'keep for x days' and all will be right in the world. Good grief, people! It's a fscking TELEVISION show. You want entertainment? Go outside! Read a book! Get off your arse, unplug, and DO SOMETHING ELSE ! No, that would be too easy. It's better to just complain that your emperors are telling you how to view the breads and circuses. Gah!
Excuse me?
RAID-1 can be close to twice as fast as a single drive because you can have, in effect, the same read head on different pieces of data at the same time. If you've got identical copies of the data on two drives why would the heads on the two drives be reading the same data?
Think before you reply, mi amigo.
But it uses Symbian a better OS that i can upgrade, alter and get hundreds of progreammes for.
Hundrds of versions of Tetris, maybe.
I've got an n-gage (also Symbian, bluetooth, memory card, blah blah) and went back to my palm after about a month of TRYING to make it work. It just doesn't cut it as a PDA. Most of my software doesn't exist for Symbian (HAM radio, astronomy) and just try to find a King James bible with the Apocrypha.
Nope, I'm ordering one of these Zire 72's today because my battery's no longer holding a charge on the M505, which is my fourth Palm.
That's nice. I'm paying $53.09 for DirecTV's Total Choice Plus (~130 channels IIRC + Local) on THREE receivers.
So, for ten bucks more I've got TONS more channels, including ones I actually watch like Sci-Fi, History, BBC America, etc.
Methinks you should shop around, you're being overcharged.