Spoken as a COMPLETE fool independent of version control.
In other words, an out-of-control fool.
Out of all the code you're working on, HOW WOULD YOU KNOW THERE'S DELETED INFORMATION IN A PREVIOUS VERSION OF ONE OF THE MANY FILES?
You can't know that unless there's something there to tell you. And you're NEVER going to spend much time looking into a comment like/* deleted old processing and rewrote. 2009/11/4, A. Programmer */
Yeah, you're going to dig through old versions of the source just to see what happened?
No the fuck you're not.
Wait, what?
Debug and find area of code causing issues.
Hit history/annotations/whatever on the file in question and find out when was the last time the problem area was worked on.
Figure out if that change is related to the bug.
Either fix or reassign bug
If you are skipping step 2 you are causing a lot of extra work for yourself. If the bug was caused by Joe's last check-in, not only should Joe fix it because it's his fault, Joe's already familiar with that section of code and can probably fix it orders-of-magnitude times faster than you can. If not, Joe can help you fix it. If you caused the issue, you now have a diff of what was there before and what's there now. Step 2 is integral to team development when you can never be sure when/how files are changed. Maybe that's the difference? Commenters don't work on teams, so they only learn to use change control as backup?
Well, not quite knowing what density to use, I plugged in the 7m from TFA and chose porous object as a WAG at carbonaceous and left everything else at default and got this:
The average interval between impacts of this size somewhere on Earth is 1.9 years
I need to get out more if we have "quite a bang" every 1.9 years.
Here's the headline (emphasis mine): Auto-threading Compiler Could Restore Moore's Law Gains
In the past, adding more transistors to a core meant the core worked faster (simplification), so Moore's law indirectly lead to better performance. Now a core is close to as fast/efficient as its going to get, so we throw the extra transistors at new cores (still Moore's law). The problem is, there's only so many single-threaded processes a person can run before there will literally be one core per process. In order to see benefits from the extra transistors again, "gains" in the summary's terminology, then we need a way to take advantage of it (this new compiler technique, functional programming, programmers who can actually grok threads). In the end, if we're not seeing some kind of gain from Moore's law, then the chip manufacturers will stop adding new transistors because no one will pay money for a chip that's just as good as their current chip, and Moore's law will fail.
You use the energy to synthesize liquid hydrocarbons with high energy density, then you pour them into the airplane...and you have a solar-powered airplane! Come to think of it, all airplanes are solar-powered these days, only the sunlight is of a vintage brand.
Let's see:
Solar (including hydrocarbons, wind, and hydroelectric, etc)
Geothermal (latent heat from the planet's formation plus some radioactive decay)
Elemental (chemical and radioactive reactions of materials left over from the formation of the planet)
I'm going to repeat my post from above. If they like Scratch, consider Stencyl. It's a game engine that uses something like Scratch as the programming language. Caveat: my nephew couldn't work through the tutorial on his own and, unfortunately, too much distance has prevented me from working through it with him (there are minor omissions in the tutorial). Caveat 2: their downloadable code modules are a bit buggy. The ones I tried weren't completely broken though, so it's good for someone who's eager to learn to code and debug.
Or you could use MIT's Scratch programming environment and not get yourself icky with MS.
Also, if they like Scratch, they can try Stencyl. It's a game engine that uses Scratch as the programming language. Caveat: my nephew couldn't work through the tutorial on his own and, unfortunately, too much distance has prevented me from working through it with him. Caveat 2: their downloadable code modules are a bit buggy. The ones I tried weren't completely broken though, so it's good for someone who's eager to learn to code and debug.
I'm disappointed that I had to scroll through so much "learn this hot language, learn that hot stack" before I found this post. A quick check of dice shows thousands of jobs for perl. If you really want to get out of your current technologies, go find a shop that needs a perl developer buy also uses other tech stacks. Instant paycheck for a hard to find skill and on-the-job training to broaden your horizons. Win-win for all involved.
All this does is discourage the lower-level bots, and decent passwords thwart those. A directed attacker will still find it, and is more of a threat anyways.
It's not a bad idea - just don't rely on it.
Actually it does more than discourage lower-level bots - it keeps your logs clear enough so that when you do get something in your logs you can be pretty sure it's not a bot.
The game shown here would probably be easier if somebody hacked an origninal NES controller to the 9-pin connector and modified the program a little to read the new voltage values available with the extra couple of buttons.
No need to hack a controller, just use an SMS controller. They already use a DB9, are pin compatible with Atari, and they have two buttons instead of one. Or try a Genesis controller, they're mostly pin compatible, the extra buttons just have to be read differently.
If you click through to TFA's TFA, you'll see they properly used the term "raft" unlike MSN. They also mentioned that their vessel plowed right through it, even though "The rock appeared to be sitting above the surface of the waves and when lit up looked like the edge of an ice shelf."
For further terminology bending, the Daily Mail calls it a rock ice-shelf. They also have a pic of it that looks more frothy than island or ice-shelf like.
In the Reddit AMAA the designers explicitly state that they did not design the game around auction house use. During their internal testing they did not have a big enough group to even test a design that revolved around auction house usage. Of course they may be lying, but I doubt it.
This post from a Blizard employee seems to state that they did tweak the general loot drop rate in response to the auction house. It's nowhere near "revolving around the auction house" (and hence nowhere near the conspiracy you replied to), but it does seem like the auction house was accounted for in the expected gear progression.
And cue an entire slashdot discussion about base(60)less conspiracy theories.
Thinking that the Mayans predicted the end of the world on 12/21/2012 is like thinking that Cobol programmers predicted the end of the world on 12/31/1999.
Actually, I think COBOL programmers may have made exactly the same prediction that the Mayans did: none of this will still be in use when we overrun our bounds.
140 meters diameter doesn't sound like much. Depends on the composition and speed, it will be reduced even further before making it to the ground. I immagine it shouldn't be much worse than a Tunguska event and seeing how majority of the planet is uninhabited, chances are good that no major number of lifes will be lost.
And if it occurs at a location where we can monitor/record, it will bring awareness that rocks in space do indeed end up on our planet in our lifetimes, thus worthwile to think about. Therefore having this pebble hit us might not be such a bad thing after all.
Speed issues are moot outside of benchmarks these days (unless you are running IE7 on a netbook). IMO it is pure placebo effect to say one browser is faster than another in regular browsing on a modern computer.
For regular browsing I believe you're right. However, there are a couple of Google spreadsheets I use (I didn't create them) that are painfully slow under Firefox but just awfully slow under Chrome. So speed does matter for more than just benchmarks, but not necessarily for regular browsing. Note that this is on a self-built desktop gaming system that's less than a year old, so it's not like I'm comparing this on my dual-core netbook.
Same could be said for email. It adds nothing but bloat. I am an intelligent person, I can read. I don't need some fancy formatting. Forums are the same. Give me access to newsgroups and my client can format it the way I want to. No one else needs to define the look for me.
looks puzzlingly at the HTML used in the previous comment
Do mod points actually exist anymore? I used to get some just about every week until around 2007, and I've had one set of points in the years since then.
I rarely post. I seem to always have mod points. One set expires or gets used up and two days later I get another set..... I haven't even had an account that long.
Just want to point out that the image on that page rotates through several different images. If you don't see the Hong Kong sky-line, reload. Though quite a few images in the set make the point just as well.
Slashdot Mirror
Spoken as a COMPLETE fool independent of version control.
In other words, an out-of-control fool.
Out of all the code you're working on, HOW WOULD YOU KNOW THERE'S DELETED INFORMATION IN A PREVIOUS VERSION OF ONE OF THE MANY FILES?
You can't know that unless there's something there to tell you. And you're NEVER going to spend much time looking into a comment like /* deleted old processing and rewrote. 2009/11/4, A. Programmer */
Yeah, you're going to dig through old versions of the source just to see what happened?
No the fuck you're not.
Wait, what?
If you are skipping step 2 you are causing a lot of extra work for yourself. If the bug was caused by Joe's last check-in, not only should Joe fix it because it's his fault, Joe's already familiar with that section of code and can probably fix it orders-of-magnitude times faster than you can. If not, Joe can help you fix it. If you caused the issue, you now have a diff of what was there before and what's there now. Step 2 is integral to team development when you can never be sure when/how files are changed. Maybe that's the difference? Commenters don't work on teams, so they only learn to use change control as backup?
For those musing, here's a Asteroid Impact Effect Calculator. Should be quite a bang :-)
Well, not quite knowing what density to use, I plugged in the 7m from TFA and chose porous object as a WAG at carbonaceous and left everything else at default and got this:
The average interval between impacts of this size somewhere on Earth is 1.9 years
I need to get out more if we have "quite a bang" every 1.9 years.
Maybe you need to read?
Here's the headline (emphasis mine): Auto-threading Compiler Could Restore Moore's Law Gains
In the past, adding more transistors to a core meant the core worked faster (simplification), so Moore's law indirectly lead to better performance. Now a core is close to as fast/efficient as its going to get, so we throw the extra transistors at new cores (still Moore's law). The problem is, there's only so many single-threaded processes a person can run before there will literally be one core per process. In order to see benefits from the extra transistors again, "gains" in the summary's terminology, then we need a way to take advantage of it (this new compiler technique, functional programming, programmers who can actually grok threads). In the end, if we're not seeing some kind of gain from Moore's law, then the chip manufacturers will stop adding new transistors because no one will pay money for a chip that's just as good as their current chip, and Moore's law will fail.
Way to get every /. member on the no fly list.
You use the energy to synthesize liquid hydrocarbons with high energy density, then you pour them into the airplane...and you have a solar-powered airplane! Come to think of it, all airplanes are solar-powered these days, only the sunlight is of a vintage brand.
Let's see:
Am I missing anything?
Scratch, visual multimedia programming system from MIT. http://scratch.mit.edu/
I'm going to repeat my post from above. If they like Scratch, consider Stencyl. It's a game engine that uses something like Scratch as the programming language. Caveat: my nephew couldn't work through the tutorial on his own and, unfortunately, too much distance has prevented me from working through it with him (there are minor omissions in the tutorial). Caveat 2: their downloadable code modules are a bit buggy. The ones I tried weren't completely broken though, so it's good for someone who's eager to learn to code and debug.
Or you could use MIT's Scratch programming environment and not get yourself icky with MS.
Also, if they like Scratch, they can try Stencyl. It's a game engine that uses Scratch as the programming language. Caveat: my nephew couldn't work through the tutorial on his own and, unfortunately, too much distance has prevented me from working through it with him. Caveat 2: their downloadable code modules are a bit buggy. The ones I tried weren't completely broken though, so it's good for someone who's eager to learn to code and debug.
...and perl seems so "yesterday".
Ya. It's not.
I'm disappointed that I had to scroll through so much "learn this hot language, learn that hot stack" before I found this post. A quick check of dice shows thousands of jobs for perl. If you really want to get out of your current technologies, go find a shop that needs a perl developer buy also uses other tech stacks. Instant paycheck for a hard to find skill and on-the-job training to broaden your horizons. Win-win for all involved.
That's next year. This year it's its Eth birthday. Or its 1111th birthday if you like binary.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=15+in+hex
Don't know who modded you as flamebait, but clearly didn't read the summary either
Calling someone an idiot is flamebait. Even if is dumb as a post.
Something seems to be the words in this thread.
All this does is discourage the lower-level bots, and decent passwords thwart those. A directed attacker will still find it, and is more of a threat anyways.
It's not a bad idea - just don't rely on it.
Actually it does more than discourage lower-level bots - it keeps your logs clear enough so that when you do get something in your logs you can be pretty sure it's not a bot.
The game shown here would probably be easier if somebody hacked an origninal NES controller to the 9-pin connector and modified the program a little to read the new voltage values available with the extra couple of buttons.
No need to hack a controller, just use an SMS controller. They already use a DB9, are pin compatible with Atari, and they have two buttons instead of one. Or try a Genesis controller, they're mostly pin compatible, the extra buttons just have to be read differently.
If you click through to TFA's TFA, you'll see they properly used the term "raft" unlike MSN. They also mentioned that their vessel plowed right through it, even though "The rock appeared to be sitting above the surface of the waves and when lit up looked like the edge of an ice shelf."
For further terminology bending, the Daily Mail calls it a rock ice-shelf. They also have a pic of it that looks more frothy than island or ice-shelf like.
In the Reddit AMAA the designers explicitly state that they did not design the game around auction house use. During their internal testing they did not have a big enough group to even test a design that revolved around auction house usage. Of course they may be lying, but I doubt it.
This post from a Blizard employee seems to state that they did tweak the general loot drop rate in response to the auction house. It's nowhere near "revolving around the auction house" (and hence nowhere near the conspiracy you replied to), but it does seem like the auction house was accounted for in the expected gear progression.
And cue an entire slashdot discussion about base(60)less conspiracy theories. Thinking that the Mayans predicted the end of the world on 12/21/2012 is like thinking that Cobol programmers predicted the end of the world on 12/31/1999.
Actually, I think COBOL programmers may have made exactly the same prediction that the Mayans did: none of this will still be in use when we overrun our bounds.
Pak chooie meow?
The Terrible Secret Of... Cats?
140 meters diameter doesn't sound like much. Depends on the composition and speed, it will be reduced even further before making it to the ground. I immagine it shouldn't be much worse than a Tunguska event and seeing how majority of the planet is uninhabited, chances are good that no major number of lifes will be lost.
And if it occurs at a location where we can monitor/record, it will bring awareness that rocks in space do indeed end up on our planet in our lifetimes, thus worthwile to think about. Therefore having this pebble hit us might not be such a bad thing after all.
Just some numbers for reference:
This one is 140 meters across.
I'll just Buzz about it.
I'd imagine CLI-only GIMP would really live up to its name.
Bruce Schneier linked to this post on iPads just a few days ago....
Speed issues are moot outside of benchmarks these days (unless you are running IE7 on a netbook). IMO it is pure placebo effect to say one browser is faster than another in regular browsing on a modern computer.
For regular browsing I believe you're right. However, there are a couple of Google spreadsheets I use (I didn't create them) that are painfully slow under Firefox but just awfully slow under Chrome. So speed does matter for more than just benchmarks, but not necessarily for regular browsing. Note that this is on a self-built desktop gaming system that's less than a year old, so it's not like I'm comparing this on my dual-core netbook.
Same could be said for email. It adds nothing but bloat. I am an intelligent person, I can read. I don't need some fancy formatting. Forums are the same. Give me access to newsgroups and my client can format it the way I want to. No one else needs to define the look for me.
looks puzzlingly at the HTML used in the previous comment
Do mod points actually exist anymore? I used to get some just about every week until around 2007, and I've had one set of points in the years since then.
I rarely post. I seem to always have mod points. One set expires or gets used up and two days later I get another set..... I haven't even had an account that long.
http://www.fourseasons.com/accommodations/
See that room? See the Hong Kong sky-line?
Just want to point out that the image on that page rotates through several different images. If you don't see the Hong Kong sky-line, reload. Though quite a few images in the set make the point just as well.
The biggest ball of twine in Minnesota?