I pin most of the reporting woes on reporters that really don't understand what they are reporting on
This. When they were reporting the finding of the Higgs, the reporter and the anchors were joking about how they not only not understood this, but they didn't understand physics at all. They were proud of their ignorance, laughing it up.
Then teach them how to calculate the odds of getting a winning hand. Make the poker chips tootsie rolls, or naked selfies of classmates, or something else kids like.
Actually, one would hope that him going to jail (for years hopefully), would tell investors to stay the hell away from him. Guy is a sociopath that should either rot in jail or in a cardboard box under a bridge.
Not so much that, but a law along the lines of 1 day review for every 10 pages of a bill. As in, a 200 page bill requires 20 days before it comes up for a vote. Change a line, even to fix a typo? Clock starts over. Gives plenty of time for these overloaded behemoths to have eyeballs scrutinizing them, and letting us common folk to flood the inboxes of anyone thinking of voting for the pig.
Add to that some sort of revision control system, so if some nebbish tries to slip something into the guts of a 2000 page behemoth we can look at earlier versions to see who that nebbish was.
This crap is typical. First, you have a 2,000 page document that nobody has read. Second, it's full of crap that would never pass on it's own and can barely stand to be in a room with itself because of the stink.
No wonder nobody thinks congress is doing a good job, they're all a bunch of crooks and flim flam artists.
Had you not been spying on all of us without warrants we wouldn't be encrypting our stuff. Act like the bad guy, don't be surprised when your treated like a bad guy.
I've used Perl since the first release, gotten pretty good at it 5-6 times over the years, and loved it for it's capabilities. But I've also become disgusted with the whole idea of There's More Than One Way to Do It. What TMTOWTDI means in the real world is that, if you have to maintain someone else's perl script, you're in for a world of hurt unless you're a guru at it.
I don't want to bash perl, it was a great solution back in the day. But nowadays I tend to solve perl problems in either Python or Java (don't get me started on Java, please...). They may be a bit more inconvenient and awkward for some tasks, but when push comes to shove and I have to modify a script I've never seen before I don't have to pull 3 books off the shelf and thumb through them wondering "WTF?"
if they said 'overclock this region of space' and weird things happened
Just think if the alien nerds hotswapped their graphics card. Compare our graphics cards now with those of 10 years ago. Now think of where they'll be in 13 billion years. I'm guessing at least 4k @ 120fps with everything turned on, minimum.
I think it was '91/'92. I'd forgotten about it until my earlier post, but I've been remembering the conversations I had with coworkers about it (almost all of the "hey, the money machine is busted. Can I borrow $20?" "Sorry, mines busted too. Can I borrow $10?". I was consulting back then and had jobs for 6-12 months at a time, that narrows it down quite a bit.
In the private sector your boss doesn't want to be bothered by all the screwups you fix. Dealing with screwups is part of your job, fix it and put it in your weekly status report.
Then again, I've never been in a position to reveal butt loads of SSNs either. Yet. bwa haa haaa.
Some 30 years ago the ATMs on the west coast went toes up. Seems a backhoe had dug up a line on the east coast, without that line ATMs didn't work. Doesn't the dumbass bank have redundancies, you ask? Turns out the dug up line was the backup. A week earlier a heavy snowstorm had collapsed the roof of a building that banks needed to run the network.
I've effectively got 2 banks: a credit union and a stock brokerage account I can pull money out of quickly.
I'll be honest, I don't write apps for profit, I just scratch itches. That said, I fire up Eclipse maybe 2-3 times a year. Just about every time it drives me nuts, it's counter-intuitive to my way of thinking. Doesn't really help that I only fire it up when I either need a debugger, or load my app to my phone.
When I say "2-3 times a year" I mean "2-3 groups of using it". I may fire it up 2-3 times a year, but each time I actually run it maybe 10-15 times. So I run it in clusters. Just when I start to get used to the interface I've solved my problem and won't use it again for another several months.
The first one was ok, much better than I thought it would be. The second one, I really enjoyed the party in the barrels, but don't remember anything else about the movie. The third one? Waaay too long. That whole battle of 5 armies crap just dragged on and on and on. Dead bad guy under the ice isn't really dead and is coming back for another 10 minutes? Saw that coming a mile away. The whole "w00t we did good" at the end of the movie? Delete.
Return of the King was boring as hell. The entire last hour, where everyone said "bye, catchya later on the downlow" should have been deleted.
Most of my work nowdays is done on a Win 8.1 box with Cygwin installed. I used to use rxvt until it broke a couple years back, now it's mintty.
On Linux, I don't know. Tried to upgrade my Linux box a couple weeks ago and got the message "your video chip is no longer supported". Sure nuff, it won't go into GUI mode. Haven't gotten around to fixing it yet.
It's got my name wrong (an alias I used years ago setting up a junk email account), I graduated from MIT, work at Skynet, and my location is earth. In other words, 1 in 4 things they know about me is actually correct, although saying I'm on earth isn't much of a stretch.
I worked at Qualcomm for some 9 years over 2 sessions. Taking a standard ARM core and improving it was their secret sauce for years. They even made money selling their improvements back to ARM. But talking to friends who still work there, Qualcomm is using more standard ARM and adding less secret sauce.
Qualcomm is the best place I've ever worked for (37 years in the industry). My insiders tell me the QC I knew and loved was taken behind the barn and shot by Paul Jacobs, and it's nothing like what I remember. I hope they're wrong, but a couple of these guys have been there for 20+ years.
This. I'd like to see Congress adopt some sort of revision control system. Wanna modify a bill? Check it out, make your change, check it in. Lotsa changes? Branch it. Every commit has somebody's name on it, no more "gee, I dunno how that got in there" BS.
Much like realistic campaign finance reform this will never happen because the system works the way the weasels in charge want it to work.
I graduated high school in 76, used my dad's hand me down slide rule. It was made out of metal, wish I'd kept it. When I started college in the early 80s I got a TI-58 for about $150, that lasted me 10 years before the battery gave out and it wouldn't hold a charge. By then I had a calculator on my computer.
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I pin most of the reporting woes on reporters that really don't understand what they are reporting on
This. When they were reporting the finding of the Higgs, the reporter and the anchors were joking about how they not only not understood this, but they didn't understand physics at all. They were proud of their ignorance, laughing it up.
Then teach them how to calculate the odds of getting a winning hand. Make the poker chips tootsie rolls, or naked selfies of classmates, or something else kids like.
Actually, one would hope that him going to jail (for years hopefully), would tell investors to stay the hell away from him. Guy is a sociopath that should either rot in jail or in a cardboard box under a bridge.
Not so much that, but a law along the lines of 1 day review for every 10 pages of a bill. As in, a 200 page bill requires 20 days before it comes up for a vote. Change a line, even to fix a typo? Clock starts over. Gives plenty of time for these overloaded behemoths to have eyeballs scrutinizing them, and letting us common folk to flood the inboxes of anyone thinking of voting for the pig.
Add to that some sort of revision control system, so if some nebbish tries to slip something into the guts of a 2000 page behemoth we can look at earlier versions to see who that nebbish was.
This crap is typical. First, you have a 2,000 page document that nobody has read. Second, it's full of crap that would never pass on it's own and can barely stand to be in a room with itself because of the stink. No wonder nobody thinks congress is doing a good job, they're all a bunch of crooks and flim flam artists.
Had you not been spying on all of us without warrants we wouldn't be encrypting our stuff. Act like the bad guy, don't be surprised when your treated like a bad guy.
I've used Perl since the first release, gotten pretty good at it 5-6 times over the years, and loved it for it's capabilities. But I've also become disgusted with the whole idea of There's More Than One Way to Do It. What TMTOWTDI means in the real world is that, if you have to maintain someone else's perl script, you're in for a world of hurt unless you're a guru at it.
I don't want to bash perl, it was a great solution back in the day. But nowadays I tend to solve perl problems in either Python or Java (don't get me started on Java, please...). They may be a bit more inconvenient and awkward for some tasks, but when push comes to shove and I have to modify a script I've never seen before I don't have to pull 3 books off the shelf and thumb through them wondering "WTF?"
if they said 'overclock this region of space' and weird things happened
Just think if the alien nerds hotswapped their graphics card. Compare our graphics cards now with those of 10 years ago. Now think of where they'll be in 13 billion years. I'm guessing at least 4k @ 120fps with everything turned on, minimum.
I think it was '91/'92. I'd forgotten about it until my earlier post, but I've been remembering the conversations I had with coworkers about it (almost all of the "hey, the money machine is busted. Can I borrow $20?" "Sorry, mines busted too. Can I borrow $10?". I was consulting back then and had jobs for 6-12 months at a time, that narrows it down quite a bit.
In the private sector your boss doesn't want to be bothered by all the screwups you fix. Dealing with screwups is part of your job, fix it and put it in your weekly status report.
Then again, I've never been in a position to reveal butt loads of SSNs either. Yet. bwa haa haaa.
Some 30 years ago the ATMs on the west coast went toes up. Seems a backhoe had dug up a line on the east coast, without that line ATMs didn't work. Doesn't the dumbass bank have redundancies, you ask? Turns out the dug up line was the backup. A week earlier a heavy snowstorm had collapsed the roof of a building that banks needed to run the network.
I've effectively got 2 banks: a credit union and a stock brokerage account I can pull money out of quickly.
I'm happy the cops here have guns
You sound white.
I'll be honest, I don't write apps for profit, I just scratch itches. That said, I fire up Eclipse maybe 2-3 times a year. Just about every time it drives me nuts, it's counter-intuitive to my way of thinking. Doesn't really help that I only fire it up when I either need a debugger, or load my app to my phone.
When I say "2-3 times a year" I mean "2-3 groups of using it". I may fire it up 2-3 times a year, but each time I actually run it maybe 10-15 times. So I run it in clusters. Just when I start to get used to the interface I've solved my problem and won't use it again for another several months.
The first one was ok, much better than I thought it would be. The second one, I really enjoyed the party in the barrels, but don't remember anything else about the movie. The third one? Waaay too long. That whole battle of 5 armies crap just dragged on and on and on. Dead bad guy under the ice isn't really dead and is coming back for another 10 minutes? Saw that coming a mile away. The whole "w00t we did good" at the end of the movie? Delete.
Return of the King was boring as hell. The entire last hour, where everyone said "bye, catchya later on the downlow" should have been deleted.
Thank god, I had some awesome BASIC skillz back then that I though were gone for good.
I run gvim, not the vi that comes with cygwin. Gives me path issues, but it's the best I can do (yeah, I know about cygpath).
Most of my work nowdays is done on a Win 8.1 box with Cygwin installed. I used to use rxvt until it broke a couple years back, now it's mintty.
On Linux, I don't know. Tried to upgrade my Linux box a couple weeks ago and got the message "your video chip is no longer supported". Sure nuff, it won't go into GUI mode. Haven't gotten around to fixing it yet.
It's got my name wrong (an alias I used years ago setting up a junk email account), I graduated from MIT, work at Skynet, and my location is earth. In other words, 1 in 4 things they know about me is actually correct, although saying I'm on earth isn't much of a stretch.
I worked at Qualcomm for some 9 years over 2 sessions. Taking a standard ARM core and improving it was their secret sauce for years. They even made money selling their improvements back to ARM. But talking to friends who still work there, Qualcomm is using more standard ARM and adding less secret sauce.
Qualcomm is the best place I've ever worked for (37 years in the industry). My insiders tell me the QC I knew and loved was taken behind the barn and shot by Paul Jacobs, and it's nothing like what I remember. I hope they're wrong, but a couple of these guys have been there for 20+ years.
One that keeps track of which sites set what cookies, then randomly swaps them with someone else using the plugin.
I dunno, is it better to use plugins to block tracking, or to use plugins to fuzz the data enough that the tracking is useless?
This. I'd like to see Congress adopt some sort of revision control system. Wanna modify a bill? Check it out, make your change, check it in. Lotsa changes? Branch it. Every commit has somebody's name on it, no more "gee, I dunno how that got in there" BS.
Much like realistic campaign finance reform this will never happen because the system works the way the weasels in charge want it to work.
I graduated high school in 76, used my dad's hand me down slide rule. It was made out of metal, wish I'd kept it. When I started college in the early 80s I got a TI-58 for about $150, that lasted me 10 years before the battery gave out and it wouldn't hold a charge. By then I had a calculator on my computer.
As opposed to "I'm going to dodge 1, maybe 2 more scandals then be coronated"?
It's not written in C, Linus won't even look at it.
As it's streaming will they use the 7 forbidden words and/or show some boobies? No, not Scott Bakula's. The good ones.