You don't write them every time, you type a letter or two, smash enter to pick the autocomplete suggestion (the method you want is almost always the first or second option) and then use tab to jump to the next parameter value to enter.
In this case, increased verbosity means less rote memorisation and more grokking of the general gist of API patterns so you really can focus more on solving the problem at hand rather than bashing out code.
I usually just hover my mouse over a function name when I want to see the parameters, and just click into the tooltip to see any additional docs. Writing all those parameter names every time I call a function would drive me bonkers! I get paid to solve problems, not write code.
Don't let them get to you. The only people I see complaining about H1Bs "taking all the jobs," are a bunch of out of touch old fogies who refuse to keep their skills up to date and relevant. (Note: there are still a lot of good peeps in that age group, and this comment was not directed at them). You are better than them, so just forget all that noise and come join us, in a new age, a new reality of instantaneous sharing of knowledge and ideas from across the globe, my brother in code. Come rejoice with us, and share your gift, whatever that gift may be. Share it far and share it wide and share it for the betterment of all mankind.
It's the latter and seems to be confined to the United States at the moment. European and Asian forces seem to get the cooperation they need and African forces, those countries who have them, are way too busy with actual crime to bother with making crimes up.
I was in Manila awhile back, and something I found interesting is the huge difference in the attitude of law enforcement and security forces. I always feel very nervous around armed security forces in the US and Mexico, but in Manila it was as if you were the customer, and they were there to serve you. They would say yes sir and no sir, hold doors open for you, and were simply pleasant and helpful.
That's the kind of police force we need here at home. One that sees us as their customer, rather than there enemy.
Nope. I'm going to have to agree with nurb on this one. I use to always accept the fact that "I just suck at sports," until I got into martial arts. Turns out I just didn't have any _interest_ in sports, and so never bothered becoming any good at them. One can't be the best at everything of course, but you really can choose what you want to be good at, and your determination will have a much greater factor in your success than raw talent (as I read here in a/. article awhile back).
So would that include something like a Terramax UGV (http://oshkoshdefense.com/technology-1/unmanned-ground-vehicle/) coupled with a Boomerang anti sniper system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomerang_%28countermeasure%29)?
This would give a military the ability to send an unmanned vehicle into almost any terrain (rural or urban), which could respond instantly to shots fired at it with its own deadly return fire. And, considering the hell that Marines faced in Helmand with IEDs and snipers while slogging through muddy fields, wouldn't this present a far better option (particularly for the Marines and their families)?
I guess you don't count the fact that the US Federal government is spending billions of dollars to try to repair some of the damage from Snowden's theft and leaks as detrimental. You'll be helping to pay for that since you live in the US. No doubt GCHQ will be paying some bills as well.
There has certainly been other fallout from that, but apparently we can count on you to never go looking for it.
Wait, that argument isn't logical. What is the government spending billions of dollars trying to repair some of the damage if there are no detrimental affects from the leaks (which you confirmed in your rebuttal)? Sounds to me like they are spending billions of dollars covering up the mess they themselves created. Maybe they should just stop doing that. Problem solved.
Instead of directly managing and funding research, the government could provide tax breaks for companies who hire programmers that contribute to open source (presumably on projects beneficial to said company). They could also provide funding in the form of grants to orgs that create new and useful software, of which society as a whole benefits from.
Wow, someone that can say "Raspberry Pi" but can't google "file permissions on linux" or umask.
Nice snark there rtard. If a user has permission to "edit" a directory, this includes both editing and deleting files owned by the same user. File permissions or umask will not help you there. I suppose you could rig the system to create a new user for every mac address that connects, but that could be easily circumvented. Im sure it's possible someone, just not as easy as googling how filer permissions work.
Java as an idea was great....write a program that compiles once and the binary can run on anything.
<rant>
Java as an implementation has failed miserably for just the reason mentioned by the parent. I have encountered too many apps that won't run unless a specific version of the VM is available.
Then there is Tomcat, evil software container...I have lost too many hours of my life trying to keep that beast happy....just today I got an email from a colleague who wants to restart tomcat weekly because something is causing it to leak file descriptors. More than 1024 files open at the same time...I could probably figure it out, but that would again be more hours lost to java.
</rant>
You just have crappy Java developers, it has nothing to do with Tomcat. The same thing would happen to any "always on" Java program that loads leaky external code. Don't feel bad, most of the Java code I've seen is total crap. You usually just don't notice it because of the short life-cycle of the process, unlike Tomcat.
Measures could have been taken... but then again, what better way for the NSA and other government spies to infiltrate a computer independent of an operating system than this? Seriously.
NSA already have a hidden 3G enabled backdoor straight in to your CPU and can even power up computers remotely and provide power to HDDs and access them remotely.
It even has it's own OS within the chip so your OS of choice doesn't matter
You say it as if fact, but you must have missed this line in the article: "No evidence is offered for the assertions detailed above."
You get access to the configuration which can then relay any incoming data to some outside target.
IANASA (systems administrator)... but why would this matter? Presumably the host OS would restrict the ports this thing can use. A compromised app on Linux with access to the world on some port could relay any incoming data to an outside target as well... right?
True, but it seems like Linux would have a better separation between the running process and a usable system environment, making that kind of attack more difficult. I'm sure these guys would have thought of that though. It really all just depends what is accessible from the root process. Sounds like fun.
I can tell you have never used an SSD. At a certain point, more RAM becomes hardly noticeable. That SSD drive I got was the single most noticeable improvement in productivity I've gotten out of a computer part.
Actually, no. Laziness and/or lack of discipline is the reason for being over weight.
So which are you then? lazy or undisciplined (martial arts fail?)
I am both of those things. I agree my choice of words were poor. When i say over weight, I was really meaning obese, such as I was not so long ago. It definitely detracted from my point, which was to say that A) It wasn't until I had a reason to really want it that I was able to start living a healthy life style, and B) There are some advantages to being a big guy who eats well and exercises.
Having a night to sleep on it, I suppose I should consider myself lucky that my only excuse was my own lack of will. It was inconsiderate of me to think that everyone is so lucky.
I think you missed my point. I'm still quite round myself (and I like it that way). I realize I will never be as skinny as some people who never have to lift a finger. Although I think you will find quite a few women who prefer a man with some meat on their bones.;)
That doesn't mean I can't still be healthy. Being healthy and fit has nothing to do with your size, and everything to do with how you choose to live.
I didn't mean to sound insensitive. I agree there are many reasons why it can it can be harder for some people to lose weight. I know I have to work very hard at it, and I will never be as thin as some people. At the end of the day, I have never met an obese person who ate healthy and exercised. You can always try harder. That's the one reason we have control over, and the only one that matters.
Maybe there really are reasons that make it impossible to lose weight. Probably more often than not it's simply a matter of will, and how badly you want it.
Actually, no. Laziness and/or lack of discipline is the reason for being over weight. While it may be more difficult for people who are "naturally fat" (such as myself) to get fit and toned, putting in the required effort does in fact work. Not only that, you will have a better body than people who are "naturally skinny." I used to weigh 300 lbs @ 6'6" before I started doing martial arts. It's only been a year and I'm down to 235. I pound the crap out of the skinny guys (all in good fun of course).
The key to getting fit is finding a physical activity you enjoy, and try to be the best at it. I don't eat well because I want to lose weight. I do it because I want to be good at martial arts.
That is my question too...
What did they detect? Who was watching the network so closely as to notice this? Why? Is there an ongoing privacy violation going on by schools to keep their networks clean? It just kinda leads to more questions... Who's watching the watchers?
Don't be so dense. Some people probably complained when they went to vote but the computer said they already voted. A few more of those complaints and it would not be difficult to figure out what's going on. At this point they only needed to see which IP address is casting all the votes generating the complaints.
That wouldn't work at all, at least in Washington state. The EBT cards have a pin like a debit card. For someone to use your card after it was lost, they would also need your pin. The card would be deactivated if reported lost, but your account balance would be the same regardless. I know this because I was on food stamps myself once. It was not the life of luxury, as some people seem to think it is.
Novell huh? If they had used USERLST and CHKNULL and they never would have gotten caught. Just find all the accounts that never had a password set and sign in to "set your password for the first time." I had a whole list of throw away accounts to use during my angsty teenage years. I got these instructions from the help menu. LOL, I thought I was so 1337 back then.... such a script kiddie, haha.
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You don't write them every time, you type a letter or two, smash enter to pick the autocomplete suggestion (the method you want is almost always the first or second option) and then use tab to jump to the next parameter value to enter.
In this case, increased verbosity means less rote memorisation and more grokking of the general gist of API patterns so you really can focus more on solving the problem at hand rather than bashing out code.
Using my own argument against me... touché AC.
I usually just hover my mouse over a function name when I want to see the parameters, and just click into the tooltip to see any additional docs. Writing all those parameter names every time I call a function would drive me bonkers! I get paid to solve problems, not write code.
Don't let them get to you. The only people I see complaining about H1Bs "taking all the jobs," are a bunch of out of touch old fogies who refuse to keep their skills up to date and relevant. (Note: there are still a lot of good peeps in that age group, and this comment was not directed at them). You are better than them, so just forget all that noise and come join us, in a new age, a new reality of instantaneous sharing of knowledge and ideas from across the globe, my brother in code. Come rejoice with us, and share your gift, whatever that gift may be. Share it far and share it wide and share it for the betterment of all mankind.
It's the latter and seems to be confined to the United States at the moment. European and Asian forces seem to get the cooperation they need and African forces, those countries who have them, are way too busy with actual crime to bother with making crimes up.
I was in Manila awhile back, and something I found interesting is the huge difference in the attitude of law enforcement and security forces. I always feel very nervous around armed security forces in the US and Mexico, but in Manila it was as if you were the customer, and they were there to serve you. They would say yes sir and no sir, hold doors open for you, and were simply pleasant and helpful. That's the kind of police force we need here at home. One that sees us as their customer, rather than there enemy.
Nope. I'm going to have to agree with nurb on this one. I use to always accept the fact that "I just suck at sports," until I got into martial arts. Turns out I just didn't have any _interest_ in sports, and so never bothered becoming any good at them. One can't be the best at everything of course, but you really can choose what you want to be good at, and your determination will have a much greater factor in your success than raw talent (as I read here in a /. article awhile back).
So would that include something like a Terramax UGV (http://oshkoshdefense.com/technology-1/unmanned-ground-vehicle/) coupled with a Boomerang anti sniper system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomerang_%28countermeasure%29)?
This would give a military the ability to send an unmanned vehicle into almost any terrain (rural or urban), which could respond instantly to shots fired at it with its own deadly return fire. And, considering the hell that Marines faced in Helmand with IEDs and snipers while slogging through muddy fields, wouldn't this present a far better option (particularly for the Marines and their families)?
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Or is Seattle saying McDonald's cashiers are worth the same as coders?
Hello from Seattle AC! I couldn't have said it better myself.
I guess you don't count the fact that the US Federal government is spending billions of dollars to try to repair some of the damage from Snowden's theft and leaks as detrimental. You'll be helping to pay for that since you live in the US. No doubt GCHQ will be paying some bills as well.
There has certainly been other fallout from that, but apparently we can count on you to never go looking for it.
Wait, that argument isn't logical. What is the government spending billions of dollars trying to repair some of the damage if there are no detrimental affects from the leaks (which you confirmed in your rebuttal)? Sounds to me like they are spending billions of dollars covering up the mess they themselves created. Maybe they should just stop doing that. Problem solved.
Story of my life friend, story of my life.
Instead of directly managing and funding research, the government could provide tax breaks for companies who hire programmers that contribute to open source (presumably on projects beneficial to said company). They could also provide funding in the form of grants to orgs that create new and useful software, of which society as a whole benefits from.
Hello fellow Seattleite. I will keep an eye out for your work. :)
Meant to say creating and deleting files. Editing would actually be protected by umask, but is not the issue here.
Wow, someone that can say "Raspberry Pi" but can't google "file permissions on linux" or umask.
Nice snark there rtard. If a user has permission to "edit" a directory, this includes both editing and deleting files owned by the same user. File permissions or umask will not help you there. I suppose you could rig the system to create a new user for every mac address that connects, but that could be easily circumvented. Im sure it's possible someone, just not as easy as googling how filer permissions work.
Java as an idea was great....write a program that compiles once and the binary can run on anything.
<rant> Java as an implementation has failed miserably for just the reason mentioned by the parent. I have encountered too many apps that won't run unless a specific version of the VM is available.
Then there is Tomcat, evil software container...I have lost too many hours of my life trying to keep that beast happy....just today I got an email from a colleague who wants to restart tomcat weekly because something is causing it to leak file descriptors. More than 1024 files open at the same time...I could probably figure it out, but that would again be more hours lost to java. </rant>
You just have crappy Java developers, it has nothing to do with Tomcat. The same thing would happen to any "always on" Java program that loads leaky external code. Don't feel bad, most of the Java code I've seen is total crap. You usually just don't notice it because of the short life-cycle of the process, unlike Tomcat.
Measures could have been taken... but then again, what better way for the NSA and other government spies to infiltrate a computer independent of an operating system than this? Seriously.
Perhaps this?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/23/intel_stuns_world_with_wakeon3g/
NSA already have a hidden 3G enabled backdoor straight in to your CPU and can even power up computers remotely and provide power to HDDs and access them remotely.
It even has it's own OS within the chip so your OS of choice doesn't matter
You say it as if fact, but you must have missed this line in the article: "No evidence is offered for the assertions detailed above."
You get access to the configuration which can then relay any incoming data to some outside target.
IANASA (systems administrator)... but why would this matter? Presumably the host OS would restrict the ports this thing can use. A compromised app on Linux with access to the world on some port could relay any incoming data to an outside target as well... right?
True, but it seems like Linux would have a better separation between the running process and a usable system environment, making that kind of attack more difficult. I'm sure these guys would have thought of that though. It really all just depends what is accessible from the root process. Sounds like fun.
I can tell you have never used an SSD. At a certain point, more RAM becomes hardly noticeable. That SSD drive I got was the single most noticeable improvement in productivity I've gotten out of a computer part.
Actually, no. Laziness and/or lack of discipline is the reason for being over weight.
So which are you then? lazy or undisciplined (martial arts fail?)
I am both of those things. I agree my choice of words were poor. When i say over weight, I was really meaning obese, such as I was not so long ago. It definitely detracted from my point, which was to say that A) It wasn't until I had a reason to really want it that I was able to start living a healthy life style, and B) There are some advantages to being a big guy who eats well and exercises.
Having a night to sleep on it, I suppose I should consider myself lucky that my only excuse was my own lack of will. It was inconsiderate of me to think that everyone is so lucky.
I think you missed my point. I'm still quite round myself (and I like it that way). I realize I will never be as skinny as some people who never have to lift a finger. Although I think you will find quite a few women who prefer a man with some meat on their bones. ;)
That doesn't mean I can't still be healthy. Being healthy and fit has nothing to do with your size, and everything to do with how you choose to live.
I didn't mean to sound insensitive. I agree there are many reasons why it can it can be harder for some people to lose weight. I know I have to work very hard at it, and I will never be as thin as some people. At the end of the day, I have never met an obese person who ate healthy and exercised. You can always try harder. That's the one reason we have control over, and the only one that matters. Maybe there really are reasons that make it impossible to lose weight. Probably more often than not it's simply a matter of will, and how badly you want it.
Actually, no. Laziness and/or lack of discipline is the reason for being over weight. While it may be more difficult for people who are "naturally fat" (such as myself) to get fit and toned, putting in the required effort does in fact work. Not only that, you will have a better body than people who are "naturally skinny." I used to weigh 300 lbs @ 6'6" before I started doing martial arts. It's only been a year and I'm down to 235. I pound the crap out of the skinny guys (all in good fun of course). The key to getting fit is finding a physical activity you enjoy, and try to be the best at it. I don't eat well because I want to lose weight. I do it because I want to be good at martial arts.
Who says you have to use MS development tools to write for Windows? I don't.
That is my question too... What did they detect? Who was watching the network so closely as to notice this? Why? Is there an ongoing privacy violation going on by schools to keep their networks clean? It just kinda leads to more questions... Who's watching the watchers?
Don't be so dense. Some people probably complained when they went to vote but the computer said they already voted. A few more of those complaints and it would not be difficult to figure out what's going on. At this point they only needed to see which IP address is casting all the votes generating the complaints.
That wouldn't work at all, at least in Washington state. The EBT cards have a pin like a debit card. For someone to use your card after it was lost, they would also need your pin. The card would be deactivated if reported lost, but your account balance would be the same regardless. I know this because I was on food stamps myself once. It was not the life of luxury, as some people seem to think it is.
Novell huh? If they had used USERLST and CHKNULL and they never would have gotten caught. Just find all the accounts that never had a password set and sign in to "set your password for the first time." I had a whole list of throw away accounts to use during my angsty teenage years. I got these instructions from the help menu. LOL, I thought I was so 1337 back then.... such a script kiddie, haha.