At least hide the fact you need the data for your own personal use and are either job hunting and lazy or being inept at your job on reporting why no one wants the jobs to your higher ups. For crying out loud you even asked him to format it for you.
Try asking a legitimate question. For example : "Could you prove those cost of living allowance numbers? I live in the Denver metro area and that doesn't seem quite right? Also do you have a reference on those salary ranges or are you just making it up off the top of your head?"
Feel free to copy and paste into your own post or, seeing as how lazy you are, just reply with "ditto":) If your joke was to pretend you were one of the management, it's to dead on for me to catch the sarcasm. Good show, sir. Good show.
The truth is that a Mac is less likely to be targetted because it's a minority operating system.
I've never understood this assumption. It seems contradictory to say the minority is less likely to be targeted when IIS servers get popped a lot more than Apache when Apache is more widely distributed. Also, if I were to create a botnet, why wouldn't I target every OS I could? As a disclaimer I use NITdroid;P
a demand for them to be "humanely" killed prior to being cooked
Like cattle are? Lets just hit 'em in the head with a hammer. Just don't mess up the meat texture and flavour. I want a study done into different types of death for animals and how it effects the flavour. I want to see some poor scientist testing "laughing to death" on a cow.
I tried out Goozex per a suggestion from another user on Slashdot in a comment. Worked out a lot better than I had hoped. However, my hopes were low after dealing with GameStop for years. Goozex is a game trading site not a rental site but if you rotate games in and out of your queue you could easily use it as a rental site with no monthly fee.
"Your civil liberties don't always trump the good intentions of the well meaning"
As one of the well meaning with good intentions, yes they do. I want your civil liberties to trump my good intentions. My good intentions are based on my moral/ethical code, not yours. Just the same as I don't want other's moral/ethical good intentions infringing on my civil liberties.
Happy content people don't go blowing themselves up or shoot random (or not so random) people by the bucketful. Happy content people lead happy content and productive lives. Eavesdropping on everyone won't make everyone happy.
Some people are only happy or content when they are blowing themselves up or shooting random (or not so random) people by the bucketful.
You can't make everyone happy. You just can't. Ever. However, that doesn't mean you shouldn't try to make most of the people happy by ticking off the few. This time it ticked off more than a few. *shrug* Chalk it up to a bad social experiment or a learning experience of societal voting or some other nonsense that won't change anything and don't take me too serious.
Akimbo has History Channel and National Geographic. No Comedy Central though. I've been using it for over a year now I believe. Between that and a little downloading I get everything I need on the level and cheap.
The article stated that this was in response to what people were asking for. I know I'm one person so therefore my opinion alone can not be used as a statistic. Well it can be, but shouldn't. Is this really what people want though? I have plenty of TV's and capture cards and what not to watch TV through out my house. I want better on-demand. I've tried the Adelphia on-demand services and was not impressed. I'm currently trying akimbo and am enjoying it but it needs more backing from the larger networks. I want to watch what I want to watch whenever I want to watch it.
All it has ever made me do here in CO is purchase a crap load of alcohol on Friday or Saturday. I'm aware of the rule and plan accordingly. I still drink at the bars Monday through Friday but the weekends I like to stay home and get drunk in front of the family.
I worked with a developer once who had many many years in the field. His code was the worst ever. No comments. Single character variable names. No comprehesion of OOP principles.
I once saw a shell script he wrote. He aliased grep to gr. He only used grep once in the entire script. I have no idea what he was trying to accomplish with that.
You point out some very common problems my colleagues and myself have run into and discussed many times.
Just to add some more to what you are stating. I've come to the realization that I must determine the final size of a project before starting. If, for instance, a program starts out as a simple Perl script for parsing an input file and later ends with a request for a GUI to be added and additional functionality I'm better off starting over and rethinking the final design then just pasting on the necessary changes to meet the new requirements. Otherwise, the project, although still small and maintainable over a week or two is complete chaos when revisited in say a month or two.
Comments do matter, however; it does seem over commenting is just as much of a problem as no comments or under commenting. I have been handed projects from long gone developers that have had more comments than code. While it did give insight into what they were doing it became hard to find the code amongst all the comments, even with color coding turned on. It's an artistic poetry of having the right thing to say and saying it correctly. Which I am far from doing in this post.
The automatic checks on everything that you mention, exception handling and such, should be designed into the project from the start. Grafting it on after the fact is a nightmare and I have pity for anyone that is asked to do this and especially with code that is not theirs.
A good approach to design, I believe, trumps everything though. If you can hash out truly usable requiremets and implement a good personal software process and stick to it documenting as you go the end product always seems to turn out many notches above par even for small projects. However, none of this ever seems to occur where I work. Half baked requirements and a lack of time to properly design and implement seem to be the norm.
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You have got to be management.
At least hide the fact you need the data for your own personal use and are either job hunting and lazy or being inept at your job on reporting why no one wants the jobs to your higher ups. For crying out loud you even asked him to format it for you.
Try asking a legitimate question. For example : "Could you prove those cost of living allowance numbers? I live in the Denver metro area and that doesn't seem quite right? Also do you have a reference on those salary ranges or are you just making it up off the top of your head?"
Feel free to copy and paste into your own post or, seeing as how lazy you are, just reply with "ditto" :) If your joke was to pretend you were one of the management, it's to dead on for me to catch the sarcasm. Good show, sir. Good show.
What is the sound of one hand coding?
fap, fap, fap?
The truth is that a Mac is less likely to be targetted because it's a minority operating system.
I've never understood this assumption. It seems contradictory to say the minority is less likely to be targeted when IIS servers get popped a lot more than Apache when Apache is more widely distributed. Also, if I were to create a botnet, why wouldn't I target every OS I could? As a disclaimer I use NITdroid ;P
The good thing however is that 3d models have enough flexibility so that one could conquer many attacks
except for beer. Epic beer failure.
Badly written pages ... not only take up more bandwidth because they have a lot of crap code in them,
This has always been my argument against commenting code. No comments passed = less bandwidth.
a demand for them to be "humanely" killed prior to being cooked
Like cattle are? Lets just hit 'em in the head with a hammer. Just don't mess up the meat texture and flavour.
I want a study done into different types of death for animals and how it effects the flavour. I want to see some poor scientist testing "laughing to death" on a cow.
I tried out Goozex per a suggestion from another user on Slashdot in a comment. Worked out a lot better than I had hoped. However, my hopes were low after dealing with GameStop for years. Goozex is a game trading site not a rental site but if you rotate games in and out of your queue you could easily use it as a rental site with no monthly fee.
How about a space debris collector fabricated from a large percentage of aerogel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerogel perhaps in a giant sphere shape that we sweep through orbital debris fields like a big mug scrubber http://www.bsi123.com/pm-348-2-glassmug-spongescrubber-brush.aspx
It's light weight and aerogel has been used by NASA before.
IDK I'm just spit ballin' here.
"give it to someone who can't afford to purchase one "
good idea. I'll put it up for sale on Craigslist
All right I'll bite.
"Your civil liberties don't always trump the good intentions of the well meaning"
As one of the well meaning with good intentions, yes they do. I want your civil liberties to trump my good intentions. My good intentions are based on my moral/ethical code, not yours. Just the same as I don't want other's moral/ethical good intentions infringing on my civil liberties.
Kepler will be a small telescope (about 1 meter) in orbit
Only a 1 meter orbit?
*ducks*
Happy content people don't go blowing themselves up or shoot random (or not so random) people by the bucketful. Happy content people lead happy content and productive lives. Eavesdropping on everyone won't make everyone happy.
Some people are only happy or content when they are blowing themselves up or shooting random (or not so random) people by the bucketful.
You can't make everyone happy. You just can't. Ever. However, that doesn't mean you shouldn't try to make most of the people happy by ticking off the few. This time it ticked off more than a few. *shrug* Chalk it up to a bad social experiment or a learning experience of societal voting or some other nonsense that won't change anything and don't take me too serious.
Beyond silly? That's not beyond silly. A football helmet full of cottage cheese, now that's beyond silly.
Hey, American component, Russian component, it doesn't really matter as they are all made in China.
Why bother with it at all? Which is basically "why climb a mountain?"
Because he can. Because it is there. Because you have got to do something with the time between birth and death.
Not the animal the case. I use them for transporting everything, from electronics and firearms to clothing and food.
Akimbo has History Channel and National Geographic. No Comedy Central though. I've been using it for over a year now I believe. Between that and a little downloading I get everything I need on the level and cheap.
Yeah I'll stick with my Nokia 770
You're not fooling anyone y'know.
The article stated that this was in response to what people were asking for. I know I'm one person so therefore my opinion alone can not be used as a statistic. Well it can be, but shouldn't. Is this really what people want though? I have plenty of TV's and capture cards and what not to watch TV through out my house. I want better on-demand. I've tried the Adelphia on-demand services and was not impressed. I'm currently trying akimbo and am enjoying it but it needs more backing from the larger networks. I want to watch what I want to watch whenever I want to watch it.
All it has ever made me do here in CO is purchase a crap load of alcohol on Friday or Saturday. I'm aware of the rule and plan accordingly. I still drink at the bars Monday through Friday but the weekends I like to stay home and get drunk in front of the family.
I hope you mean they are going to sell them for slightly less, or not to many people are going to buy them together...
... um ... yeah. Apparently Sony hates the environment and is trying to promote the development of trash.
Even the article states "more" not "less" so
I worked with a developer once who had many many years in the field. His code was the worst ever. No comments. Single character variable names. No comprehesion of OOP principles.
I once saw a shell script he wrote. He aliased grep to gr. He only used grep once in the entire script. I have no idea what he was trying to accomplish with that.
You point out some very common problems my colleagues and myself have run into and discussed many times.
Just to add some more to what you are stating. I've come to the realization that I must determine the final size of a project before starting. If, for instance, a program starts out as a simple Perl script for parsing an input file and later ends with a request for a GUI to be added and additional functionality I'm better off starting over and rethinking the final design then just pasting on the necessary changes to meet the new requirements. Otherwise, the project, although still small and maintainable over a week or two is complete chaos when revisited in say a month or two.
Comments do matter, however; it does seem over commenting is just as much of a problem as no comments or under commenting. I have been handed projects from long gone developers that have had more comments than code. While it did give insight into what they were doing it became hard to find the code amongst all the comments, even with color coding turned on. It's an artistic poetry of having the right thing to say and saying it correctly. Which I am far from doing in this post.
The automatic checks on everything that you mention, exception handling and such, should be designed into the project from the start. Grafting it on after the fact is a nightmare and I have pity for anyone that is asked to do this and especially with code that is not theirs.
A good approach to design, I believe, trumps everything though. If you can hash out truly usable requiremets and implement a good personal software process and stick to it documenting as you go the end product always seems to turn out many notches above par even for small projects. However, none of this ever seems to occur where I work. Half baked requirements and a lack of time to properly design and implement seem to be the norm.
My intellectual needs are met by hookers and strippers. So, yes, they are random but not necessarily facts.