Am I missing something, or is this roughly the equivalent of people saying "I want to be a fireman when I grow up!"?
Still, I suppose it's encouraging that software dev is seen as reasonably classy. Even just a few years ago it was all "but I'm not a sweaty nerd!"
Sort of, they see the potential fun in a career and say "I want to be a fireman because I just want to play with the siren and drive a big red truck."
They have no idea of what it fully involves (pun intended).
Okay, I give up, what pun was intended? (Or are you obliquely referencing the xkcd about using the phrase "no pun intended" after a sentence with no pun in it?)
While I agree with the majority of your post, this statement is completely false. A Calorie as used on a food label is a kilo-calorie, a unit of energy equal to 4184 joules. It is the energy that would be released by burning the food item in an internal combustion engine under ideal conditions (your body hardly does so under ideal conditions). That energy is then used to overcome friction and move things around (stuff you can figure out using what you learned in physics 1).
What GP is suggesting is that by guessing straight every time, you will be correct with at least 90% certainty, based on the fact that out of 100 randomly chosen people, according to the statistics he cited, between three and ten of them are likely to be gay.
This would only capture a minute fraction of actual religion and then mostly the Judaeo-Christian-Islamic part. Most religions in human history have had gods as fallible and definitely not all-knowing.
To the GP's credit, the the Judaeo-Christian-Islamic religions do account for a pretty significant chunk of people on the planet (about 3.5 billion people).
The most interesting fact from this article is that 18-to-29 year-olds are much more likely to use cell phones as an excuse to not talk to someone. This jives with my experience in real life. Finally, now it is possible to agree with our grandparents that young people are more inconsiderate than old people.
How can there not be a Pirates v. Ninjas yet? They wouldn't do it right though. It should be non-stop violence and action with next to no story and absolutely no romantic subplot or motivations. 90 minute film, 85 minutes of action.
Back in college, I used to watch TV over at a friend's place. The TV had the green emitter burned out or something of the sort. Usually, you wouldn't notice it, but it made food look really nasty, especially burgers, which looked like they were served on nasty, brown lettuce.
Anyways, I wonder if not changing the scent packets or w/e often enough would result in something similarly un-appetizing.
This is a ten-second lesson on how banks increase the money supply:
Alice deposits 100 bitcoins in the Bank. Alice has a 100-bc deposit receipt. The Bank has a 100 bc and a 100-bc liability to Alice.
Charlie loans 100 bitcoins from the Bank. Charlie has 100 bc and Alice has a 100-bc deposit receipt. The Bank has 0 bc, a 100-bc liability, and 100 bc owed to it.
While someone who is trying to track where the "real" currency is will say that only 100 bc exists between the three entities, by typical accounting methods, the three people combined now have 200 bc: Charlie's cash and Alice's promissory note.
You forgot the fact that Charlie, like the bank, has a 100 bc liability (to the bank). Thus there are in fact, only 100bc in the system as described. In other words:
Alice 100b bc deposit receipt (+100bc)
Bank 100 bc "depoist receipt" (loan to Charlie) (+100bc), 100bc liability to Alice (-100bc)
Charlie 100bc cash (+100bc), 100bc liability to bank (-100bc)
Common knowledge once held that meat spontaneously generated maggots. Then, in 1668, Italian physician Francesco Redi devised a set of investigative steps-what we now call an experiment-to prove wrong what everybody thought they knew.
Due to tight government regulations on health care information, there is virtually no way that insurance companies, claims clearing houses, hospitals or anyone else that handles medical records could ever move their data to the cloud.
"Although I have no particular fondness for Blackbeard, it's fair to say that his money is his own, and he is entitled to do whatever he pleases with it."
If you said otherwise, you'd be walkin' tha plank. Arrrrgh!
The company I work for has a coding test as part of our technical interview process. Basically, we give the person a pretty easy task (process a file of insurance eligibility information, changing the format to one specified and removing duplicate entries w/ access to the web). It's not terribly hard, but it does a good job of weeding out people who aren't technically competent. I'd say about 50% of the people that take this test just sit there staring at the screen for the hour they have to complete it.
If and only if they can manage to write something that at least makes sense do they get called in for an actual interview (beyond the initial phone interview which from what I can tell is to see if you are cripplingly unlikable).
You, however, don't have the same expenses as the federal government. For example, we promised Social Security, Medicare, Medicade and interest on the national debt. That's money we HAVE to spend. The problem is that the Federal government is taking in LESS that that, so no matter how much you cut discretionary spending, it won't be enough to balance the budget.
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Am I missing something, or is this roughly the equivalent of people saying "I want to be a fireman when I grow up!"?
Still, I suppose it's encouraging that software dev is seen as reasonably classy. Even just a few years ago it was all "but I'm not a sweaty nerd!"
Sort of, they see the potential fun in a career and say "I want to be a fireman because I just want to play with the siren and drive a big red truck." They have no idea of what it fully involves (pun intended).
Okay, I give up, what pun was intended? (Or are you obliquely referencing the xkcd about using the phrase "no pun intended" after a sentence with no pun in it?)
Calories are just a concept.
While I agree with the majority of your post, this statement is completely false. A Calorie as used on a food label is a kilo-calorie, a unit of energy equal to 4184 joules. It is the energy that would be released by burning the food item in an internal combustion engine under ideal conditions (your body hardly does so under ideal conditions). That energy is then used to overcome friction and move things around (stuff you can figure out using what you learned in physics 1).
Also, obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/435/
What GP is suggesting is that by guessing straight every time, you will be correct with at least 90% certainty, based on the fact that out of 100 randomly chosen people, according to the statistics he cited, between three and ten of them are likely to be gay.
It was also pretty common for the car to backfire and break your arm while cranking the engine this way.
Even when I go out... honestly, as a computing professional, the last thing I need in a bar while playing pool is another computer.
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The truest thing I've ever read on Slashdot. Couldn't agree more.
This would only capture a minute fraction of actual religion and then mostly the Judaeo-Christian-Islamic part. Most religions in human history have had gods as fallible and definitely not all-knowing.
To the GP's credit, the the Judaeo-Christian-Islamic religions do account for a pretty significant chunk of people on the planet (about 3.5 billion people).
.. more importantly, how many libraries of congress is this?
The most interesting fact from this article is that 18-to-29 year-olds are much more likely to use cell phones as an excuse to not talk to someone. This jives with my experience in real life. Finally, now it is possible to agree with our grandparents that young people are more inconsiderate than old people.
I couldn't agree more! Now get off my lawn!
How can there not be a Pirates v. Ninjas yet? They wouldn't do it right though. It should be non-stop violence and action with next to no story and absolutely no romantic subplot or motivations. 90 minute film, 85 minutes of action.
I think you're looking for this this .
Mt Dew and Warcraft are not a mind-altering substances.
FTFY
Anyways, I wonder if not changing the scent packets or w/e often enough would result in something similarly un-appetizing.
This is a ten-second lesson on how banks increase the money supply: Alice deposits 100 bitcoins in the Bank. Alice has a 100-bc deposit receipt. The Bank has a 100 bc and a 100-bc liability to Alice. Charlie loans 100 bitcoins from the Bank. Charlie has 100 bc and Alice has a 100-bc deposit receipt. The Bank has 0 bc, a 100-bc liability, and 100 bc owed to it.
While someone who is trying to track where the "real" currency is will say that only 100 bc exists between the three entities, by typical accounting methods, the three people combined now have 200 bc: Charlie's cash and Alice's promissory note.
You forgot the fact that Charlie, like the bank, has a 100 bc liability (to the bank). Thus there are in fact, only 100bc in the system as described. In other words:
Alice 100b bc deposit receipt (+100bc)
Bank 100 bc "depoist receipt" (loan to Charlie) (+100bc), 100bc liability to Alice (-100bc)
Charlie 100bc cash (+100bc), 100bc liability to bank (-100bc)
Common knowledge once held that meat spontaneously generated maggots. Then, in 1668, Italian physician Francesco Redi devised a set of investigative steps-what we now call an experiment-to prove wrong what everybody thought they knew.
Wow.
Due to tight government regulations on health care information, there is virtually no way that insurance companies, claims clearing houses, hospitals or anyone else that handles medical records could ever move their data to the cloud.
Also never mind the fact that $8.3 billion is more money than a single human could ever possibly spend on material goods in his or her lifetime.
You've obviously never met my wife.
"Although I have no particular fondness for Blackbeard, it's fair to say that his money is his own, and he is entitled to do whatever he pleases with it."
If you said otherwise, you'd be walkin' tha plank. Arrrrgh!
You, good sir, win the internet.
But it's hard to type when I "rotate the display" on my laptop.
This whole screen real estate issue is really the worst on laptops, at least in my experience.
Sorry, but "gooey" is trendy
This term was being used 11 years ago when I was a freshman majoring in Computer Science. I'm pretty sure would disqualify it as being trendy.
That depends on major. Computer Science majors live on Mt Dew and Pizza.
Thousand island dressing IS mayo + ketchup, more or less.
An Internet Fact Agency ALREADY exists.
It's called Wikipedia.
You need to inhale MORE.
Yours In Novosibirsk, K. Trout
I love that this is signed Kilgore Trout more than I can express with mere words.
The company I work for has a coding test as part of our technical interview process. Basically, we give the person a pretty easy task (process a file of insurance eligibility information, changing the format to one specified and removing duplicate entries w/ access to the web). It's not terribly hard, but it does a good job of weeding out people who aren't technically competent. I'd say about 50% of the people that take this test just sit there staring at the screen for the hour they have to complete it.
If and only if they can manage to write something that at least makes sense do they get called in for an actual interview (beyond the initial phone interview which from what I can tell is to see if you are cripplingly unlikable).
Ten words you need to stop misspelling
You, however, don't have the same expenses as the federal government. For example, we promised Social Security, Medicare, Medicade and interest on the national debt. That's money we HAVE to spend. The problem is that the Federal government is taking in LESS that that, so no matter how much you cut discretionary spending, it won't be enough to balance the budget.