Pair programming worse than halved the productivity of a project I worked on. I suspect it works best in environments with a lot of incompetent people, as long as you pair off the incompetents with the more competent. My environment was full of more competent individuals, so the code-review benefits were not only not positive they were net negative as people were forced to do things by compromise which could better be done by just having one individual do it 'their way'.
Bottom line: since pair programming is about teaching and code review, if your process doesn't derive significant benefit from these then you may well just be halving (or worse) your programmer efficiency.
Ask yourself: how much of my staff is skilled and experienced? how often do code reviews turn up major/minor errors.
But things are getting more polluted not less polluted. We are managing to divert some of that pollution into deeper sinks, but unfortunately probably not deep enough.
And if you can buy 1 week worth of food, but there isn't any food to sell you next week because it all got used up, are you sure the price was set right?
Did someone actually claim that we were doing it to achieve justice for the iraqi people or to free them from tyranny? I was wishing for months that one of our leaders would express that as a goal before we went in.
Umm... you can clearly copyright an engine design. Design it, print out the instructions and blueprints for making it. Stick the (c) on it and send it to the copyright office. It's a written work, it gets copyright.
Unless engines are some sort of special case, I've done this for other mechanical devices.
Heck, even my barely adequate home system (31" non-HD screen and fairly ordinary speakers + DVD) costing $600 makes for generally a better moviegoing experience than the theatre, and the individual movies are cheaper than a pair of tickets in less than a year for virtually every movie. Heck, if you buy pre-viewed dvd's they can be had for less than the matinee price of a movie.
My sound is better because I can adjust the volume to my preference, and I don't have to put up with poorly maintained theatre speakers that hiss and pop.
My video is better because unless I hit one of the first two or three showings of a film, there are inevitably noticeable dust/scratches/burns at the theatre.
I have a much more comfy couch, and my preferred selection of candies sans smuggling.
There are a lot of people who would love more CPU speed.
My dad is getting into editing my and my sister's childhood videos. His user experience would probably gain substantially in quality up to a 20 to 50 ghz cpu speed.
I plan to play Doom III, and have every reason to believe that there will be significant improvements to that experience up to 10 ghz at least.
I have written a number of test applications in the scientific computing arena for which insufficient CPU time is available to even consider doing an actual run yet. There are a _lot_ of pretty interesting things that will come down to the end user desktop from the scientific computing arena once home users have access to systems roughly 10,000 times as fast as todays.
Bottom line: there are a lot of people and a lot of applications that want much faster CPUs.
You don't want to go UDP because a lot of nodes you might have to traverse across the internet will drop UDP packets while queueing TCP packets. The TCP overhead winds up being smaller than the necessary redundancy you need to add to UDP. You really only want to use UDP in situations where you can actually afford lost information to stay lost, at least until better routers come along and are widely installed.
Out of every 100 people who want to buy an ocean front home, only 1 actually bought an ocean front home, therefore the other 99% must have pirated their ocean front homes.
What he is pointing out is that sometimes people want things but don't (or aren't able to) obtain them at all.
In the software arena, if 100 people want a word processor, and 60 buy a word processor, that does not necessarily imply that 40 people stole a word processor. They might not have obtained a word processor at all.
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Turn on the warning for assignment in conditional. Or if using c# that's going to be illegal either way you meant it.
I think he clearly fits all the categories except insightful. So probably the combo category would be the best fit.
Pair programming worse than halved the productivity of a project I worked on. I suspect it works best in environments with a lot of incompetent people, as long as you pair off the incompetents with the more competent. My environment was full of more competent individuals, so the code-review benefits were not only not positive they were net negative as people were forced to do things by compromise which could better be done by just having one individual do it 'their way'.
Bottom line: since pair programming is about teaching and code review, if your process doesn't derive significant benefit from these then you may well just be halving (or worse) your programmer efficiency.
Ask yourself: how much of my staff is skilled and experienced? how often do code reviews turn up major/minor errors.
There are certain rights you can't sign away when you are renting a residence.
For example, go out and try to exchange yourself via slavery for a place to live.
There are privacy rights that you retain no matter what you sign to move into your place of residence.
Except ... I regularly use P2P network programs for academic purposes. Almost daily.
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Booting with a low conductance is neither fast nor slow but safer from viruses, of course.
But things are getting more polluted not less polluted. We are managing to divert some of that pollution into deeper sinks, but unfortunately probably not deep enough.
And if you can buy 1 week worth of food, but there isn't any food to sell you next week because it all got used up, are you sure the price was set right?
Actually, probably 100% of file sharing networks are being used legitimately (by some users).
Examples: kazaa's network, my office network.
Probably 1-2% of file sharing networks are being used for copyright violation (by some users).
Examples: kazaa's network
Did someone actually claim that we were doing it to achieve justice for the iraqi people or to free them from tyranny? I was wishing for months that one of our leaders would express that as a goal before we went in.
Umm ... you can clearly copyright an engine design. Design it, print out the instructions and blueprints for making it. Stick the (c) on it and send it to the copyright office. It's a written work, it gets copyright.
Unless engines are some sort of special case, I've done this for other mechanical devices.
What makes you think it doesn't automatically post those comments? They're all there, on every such story ....
Heck, even my barely adequate home system (31" non-HD screen and fairly ordinary speakers + DVD) costing $600 makes for generally a better moviegoing experience than the theatre, and the individual movies are cheaper than a pair of tickets in less than a year for virtually every movie. Heck, if you buy pre-viewed dvd's they can be had for less than the matinee price of a movie.
My sound is better because I can adjust the volume to my preference, and I don't have to put up with poorly maintained theatre speakers that hiss and pop.
My video is better because unless I hit one of the first two or three showings of a film, there are inevitably noticeable dust/scratches/burns at the theatre.
I have a much more comfy couch, and my preferred selection of candies sans smuggling.
but c) aren't they lesbian partners?
You don't need to be an expert on copyright law to feel the effects the abuse of the copyright system has had on our society.
People may not understand precisely how, yet often they can be quite aware that they are being hosed.
My last pair of jeans cost a lot more than they did before free trade. Nearly twice, for the same brand and style actually. Way outpacing inflation.
bink is kind of a standard in the video game industry, its cheap and easy to integrate into your products.
Yet another 4. Alien civilizations use ER in a way or in a frequency range on which we are not listening.
That's 'Differently Abled'
YOU INSENSITIVE CLOD!
I think that's I can hear it now.
This wins my nomination for post of the day.
(no mod points)
There are a lot of people who would love more CPU speed.
My dad is getting into editing my and my sister's childhood videos. His user experience would probably gain substantially in quality up to a 20 to 50 ghz cpu speed.
I plan to play Doom III, and have every reason to believe that there will be significant improvements to that experience up to 10 ghz at least.
I have written a number of test applications in the scientific computing arena for which insufficient CPU time is available to even consider doing an actual run yet. There are a _lot_ of pretty interesting things that will come down to the end user desktop from the scientific computing arena once home users have access to systems roughly 10,000 times as fast as todays.
Bottom line: there are a lot of people and a lot of applications that want much faster CPUs.
You don't want to go UDP because a lot of nodes you might have to traverse across the internet will drop UDP packets while queueing TCP packets. The TCP overhead winds up being smaller than the necessary redundancy you need to add to UDP. You really only want to use UDP in situations where you can actually afford lost information to stay lost, at least until better routers come along and are widely installed.
Out of every 100 people who want to buy an ocean front home, only 1 actually bought an ocean front home, therefore the other 99% must have pirated their ocean front homes.
What he is pointing out is that sometimes people want things but don't (or aren't able to) obtain them at all.
In the software arena, if 100 people want a word processor, and 60 buy a word processor, that does not necessarily imply that 40 people stole a word processor. They might not have obtained a word processor at all.
I wish I could mod and post in the same article, that is the funniest reply I've ever had. :-)