Python isn't perfect (see: curly braces to define blocks) but it beats hell out of Javascript, or ECMAscript, or whatever name you call that abomination.
What I like about Python is, when you're learning it, after a day or two you can guess how to do foo and 90% of the time you're right. With Javascript, you can follow the book, do everything (you think) right, and the damned script will fail for stupid reasons on other machines.
Don't remember the URL, but it lists the major charities and what percentage of their intake actually goes to the charity. Big name losers? Susan Komen Walk for the Breast Cancer cure, well under 50%. I don't remember the others, that one jumped out at me as my MiL and a friends mother both had breast cancer, and the Walk for the Cure gets major media attention every year.
My 3 I give to annually?
EFF - I love what they do
Alzheimers Foundation - My father in law had alzheimer's, it scares the crap out of me.
Helen Woodward (http://www.animalcenter.org/) - Diagnosed a favorite cat of mine, then got a couple replacement cats from them. Local to San Diego, but if you're an animal lover you should send some $$$ their way.
I see this as an excuse for the cops to hand out a lot more tickets for various infractions that don't really mean diddly to safety, but deposit lots of $$$$ into the budget.
/ San Diego resident // On Allison street a couple times a week /// You can't regulate stupid //// But stupid is a great excuse to ticket everybody
I see much more potential for evil. Be nice if they had a 0 day retention policy, then it could be used to find stolen cars. But it's a very small step from scanning a plate, checking it against a database, then discarding the into; , to retaining the data for however long The Powers That Be want it. I flat out do not trust the government anymore, I don't want them tracking everyone's cars 24/7.
I've used a lot of languages in the last 30 years, the only one I actively learned to hate was Javascript. Biggest problem being "everything is a global", followed by "Scope? We don't need no stinkin mouthwash", and finally having the behaviour be different on different machines because reasons.
After 6 months of schedule slipping and very poor quality we finally convinced management to let us use perl. Perl ain't perfect, but it's predictable.
The "problem" is that even cheap phone processors have far more processing power than needed. Anything that requires real processing power already is offloaded to the net. There is no need to scavenge cycles from other processors.
The "problem" is that for your phone to work it needs a bare minimum of processing power. 99% of the time it doesn't need that processing power, which gives lots of spare CPU cycles.
I myself don't subscribe to the IoT model, mainly because I don't trust the security. Doing something like this on my thermostat? I trust the security even less.
Nope. The guy they caught wrote a ransom note demanding $$$ to stop poisoning the bottles. He got caught and sent away for extortion. AFAIK they never did charge anyone with the actual murder.
I was 22-23, there was a guy at work 10-15 years older that hated me. Why? I don't know. But I was the kind of guy that anything you threw at me I threw 2x back. When this Tylenol poisoning hit I bought a bottle of Tylenol and put it on his desk. No note, nothing, just the bottle.
I ran into him some 20 years later. He told me he didn't know why he didn't like me and apologized for being an ass. I told him I put the Tylenol bottle on his desk, he said "shit Jim, I knew that as soon as I saw it".
Came here to say this. I was in my early 20s when I first got a 401k. At the time I had no idea what the difference between stocks and bonds were, let alone mutual funds, loads, past performance != future performance, etc. 10 years later I had enough free cash to learn about this stuff, but that's 10 years of poor 401k planning.
Dunno what else he stands for, but he just made a huge "hell ya" in my book. I'm sure I'll find out in the next few days he's a misogynist endangered species farker.
Seriously, dunno what else he stands for but his efforts to let this abomination die wins him major points in my book.
Back in the 80s my company was designing a new building for us to move into. Management was excited about the idea of a round lab in the middle of the building, with glass walls so everyone could see the engineers at work. Us guys were pretty unhappy with the idea, but the idea wasn't fully torpedoed until a female engineer said "so you don't want us wearing skirts anymore, huh?"
I find it amazing that not only is cable TV a "right", deserved by all, now broadband is also a "right".
/ Yo dude, check out my guv'mint subsidised Facebook post! // Yo dude, you should look into some guv'mint subsidised belts /// Yo dude, check out the brusin' I layed on my baby mama for telling me I should buy a belt!!
90% of the cars on the road are single drivers, whom I really don't want to be "infotained". Especially when it's the drive they do every day while eating an egg mcmuffin and shaving.
The only time I can see this being A Good Thing (tm) is when you and your family fly into a vacation destination, rent a car, and need to drive for an hour or 3 (my typical vacation).
If you can't keep your SO/kids entertained for the typical 20 minute drive, then keep your distracted ass off the road I'm using to get somewhere safely.
when Powerpoint was new (and I was also new), I used PP to both hit the bullet points and prompt me on what to talk about next. I'd read the bullet point and my brain would go to "ok, why foo sucks and bar rocks". Somehow PP morphed into the end all be all of the presentation; see also: the posting of power point files on the internet with no supporting documentation.
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went to El Capitan high school. Now that I'm 57 checking out a google link to it seems a bit creepy.
Python isn't perfect (see: curly braces to define blocks) but it beats hell out of Javascript, or ECMAscript, or whatever name you call that abomination.
What I like about Python is, when you're learning it, after a day or two you can guess how to do foo and 90% of the time you're right. With Javascript, you can follow the book, do everything (you think) right, and the damned script will fail for stupid reasons on other machines.
Don't remember the URL, but it lists the major charities and what percentage of their intake actually goes to the charity. Big name losers? Susan Komen Walk for the Breast Cancer cure, well under 50%. I don't remember the others, that one jumped out at me as my MiL and a friends mother both had breast cancer, and the Walk for the Cure gets major media attention every year.
My 3 I give to annually?
EFF - I love what they do
Alzheimers Foundation - My father in law had alzheimer's, it scares the crap out of me.
Helen Woodward (http://www.animalcenter.org/) - Diagnosed a favorite cat of mine, then got a couple replacement cats from them. Local to San Diego, but if you're an animal lover you should send some $$$ their way.
I see this as an excuse for the cops to hand out a lot more tickets for various infractions that don't really mean diddly to safety, but deposit lots of $$$$ into the budget.
// On Allison street a couple times a week
/// You can't regulate stupid
//// But stupid is a great excuse to ticket everybody
/ San Diego resident
I see much more potential for evil. Be nice if they had a 0 day retention policy, then it could be used to find stolen cars. But it's a very small step from scanning a plate, checking it against a database, then discarding the into; , to retaining the data for however long The Powers That Be want it. I flat out do not trust the government anymore, I don't want them tracking everyone's cars 24/7.
Seems to me, if s/Sony/US Congress/g could happen the world would be a better place.
Put a share icon in the upper right, like everyone else does. Don't replace "read comments" with "share".
Jeez Dice, why are you trying so hard to drive your users away?
Of course we figured it out. The answer was "very poorly".
I've used a lot of languages in the last 30 years, the only one I actively learned to hate was Javascript. Biggest problem being "everything is a global", followed by "Scope? We don't need no stinkin mouthwash", and finally having the behaviour be different on different machines because reasons.
After 6 months of schedule slipping and very poor quality we finally convinced management to let us use perl. Perl ain't perfect, but it's predictable.
The "problem" is that even cheap phone processors have far more processing power than needed. Anything that requires real processing power already is offloaded to the net. There is no need to scavenge cycles from other processors.
The "problem" is that for your phone to work it needs a bare minimum of processing power. 99% of the time it doesn't need that processing power, which gives lots of spare CPU cycles.
I myself don't subscribe to the IoT model, mainly because I don't trust the security. Doing something like this on my thermostat? I trust the security even less.
It's the only good thing Jimmy Carter did while in office.
Dad thought he was hitting the backdoor when I was conceived.
/.
// Mom's dead
/// no way they'll hear I said that :)
/ Dad doesn't read
So the original (incorrect) post is modded at +3, while both mine and the guy saying I'm right are at +2. Thanks, moderators, for fact checking.
Wikipedia says I'm right and OP is wrong.
Nope. The guy they caught wrote a ransom note demanding $$$ to stop poisoning the bottles. He got caught and sent away for extortion. AFAIK they never did charge anyone with the actual murder.
I was 22-23, there was a guy at work 10-15 years older that hated me. Why? I don't know. But I was the kind of guy that anything you threw at me I threw 2x back. When this Tylenol poisoning hit I bought a bottle of Tylenol and put it on his desk. No note, nothing, just the bottle.
I ran into him some 20 years later. He told me he didn't know why he didn't like me and apologized for being an ass. I told him I put the Tylenol bottle on his desk, he said "shit Jim, I knew that as soon as I saw it".
Came here to say this. I was in my early 20s when I first got a 401k. At the time I had no idea what the difference between stocks and bonds were, let alone mutual funds, loads, past performance != future performance, etc. 10 years later I had enough free cash to learn about this stuff, but that's 10 years of poor 401k planning.
Dunno what else he stands for, but he just made a huge "hell ya" in my book. I'm sure I'll find out in the next few days he's a misogynist endangered species farker.
Seriously, dunno what else he stands for but his efforts to let this abomination die wins him major points in my book.
If I stuck a weiner in the beam (not mine, one of Oscar Myers'), how long would it take to cook it?
Any idiot knows to go in the back/side, and smaller items are easier to carry than larger items of equal value.
Back in the 80s my company was designing a new building for us to move into. Management was excited about the idea of a round lab in the middle of the building, with glass walls so everyone could see the engineers at work. Us guys were pretty unhappy with the idea, but the idea wasn't fully torpedoed until a female engineer said "so you don't want us wearing skirts anymore, huh?"
I find it amazing that not only is cable TV a "right", deserved by all, now broadband is also a "right".
// Yo dude, you should look into some guv'mint subsidised belts
/// Yo dude, check out the brusin' I layed on my baby mama for telling me I should buy a belt!!
/ Yo dude, check out my guv'mint subsidised Facebook post!
90% of the cars on the road are single drivers, whom I really don't want to be "infotained". Especially when it's the drive they do every day while eating an egg mcmuffin and shaving.
The only time I can see this being A Good Thing (tm) is when you and your family fly into a vacation destination, rent a car, and need to drive for an hour or 3 (my typical vacation).
If you can't keep your SO/kids entertained for the typical 20 minute drive, then keep your distracted ass off the road I'm using to get somewhere safely.
when Powerpoint was new (and I was also new), I used PP to both hit the bullet points and prompt me on what to talk about next. I'd read the bullet point and my brain would go to "ok, why foo sucks and bar rocks". Somehow PP morphed into the end all be all of the presentation; see also: the posting of power point files on the internet with no supporting documentation.
Just a minute ago I was reading about trannie mosquitos, now I read the EU wants to protect the average brit's right to fap to trannie mosquito porn.
// it's Fark!
/// Oh, wait
/ it's not news