Yeah, I agree. It's the C++ syndrome of adding bunches of new language features in the hopes that one of them will fix the problems introduced by all of the previous additions.
I'll start off this pledge drive by donating 127.0.0.1 to the cause. Call in now, and I'll match you one-for-one with addresses pulled from the 10.0.0.0 network!
And then, when you go back to maintain the code, you need to totally disregard any comments in it, as they are usually out-of-date or just plain wrong. Now, if the compiler would validate all of the explanations in comments, that would be something.
In a surprising turn of events, BSD was found lying dead on the side of the road in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I'm sure that we all have enjoyed using BSD-derived code at some point. BSD will be missed. Truly an American icon.
...find out later on that the PTO filed a patent *before* you published your code...
It would also be bad if a patent was filed AFTER you published, because the burden of proving prior art is on YOU. You would need to hire a lawyer to defend yourself from whatever asshole patented the trivial algorithm that you're using.
I wonder if you could counter-sue someone for harassment based on their attempts to enforce an obviously invalid patent... That would be cool.
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She was hired to babysit for a young couple's infant daughter. They did not know of her three-doobie-a-day habit. When the couple returned home, she told them that everything went OK and that the pie was almost done. Alarmed, the couple ran into the kitchen, opened the oven door, and discovered that THE BABYSITTER HAD BAKED THEIR POWERBOOK!!!!
Damn, I've got to stop reading alt.folklore.urban.
Someday I'm going to sell my stock options and retire early on the proceeds. Of course, since the options are so far underwater there's little hope of them ever seeing air again, my retirement years will be spent in a cardboard box underneath a freeway overpass.
With cats, it doesn't take much to make a huge difference. We have two cats, one big, fat, black, nuzzly, and loud, and one small, mottled tan and white, thin, nervous, and quiet. They are from the same litter. We should have named them "DeVito" and "Schwartzenegger".
Damn, I have to add some of these to my web app. Let's see... buffer overflows should be easy to do, and I'm sure that I can manage to allow some unvalidated parameters. OK, all done. Now my web app can be popular!!!
(Translation of the above: "Top Ten" is an inappropriate name for a list of bad things.)
How lame. With 16 ingredients, it ought to be able to make AT LEAST 65535 different drinks (using 0 or 1 oz. of each ingredient, dispensed into a 16 oz. glass, of course). 65536 if you count the Zen Enlightener (0 oz. of each ingredient). I'm sure that it can generate a name for each by mapping each binary drink recipe (0 vodka, 1 bourbon, 0 tequila, 1 grape soda,...) to the corresponding integer, and assigning the drink the same name as the/. user with that ID. Sweet.
Like, dude, it's targeted at the 18-39 demographic! And it has, like, really short chapters! And all the sentences are short, too! None of the characters are around for longer than 6 pages! And, check this out, you don't have to look up any hard words in the dictionary! It's like MTV, only on paper! Not at all like books by inaccessibly cerebral authors like Dr. Seuss...
Perhaps the reviewer doesn't realize that some people in the 18-39 demographic are still able to enjoy books that aren't written to the same spec as the latest mindless blow-em-up action flick. Some of us even read books that don't have pictures in them, on occasion. There are even a few of us who read books that have no lines matching "[Cc]yber" or "[Tt]echno".
By the way, I get REALLY PISSED OFF when I'm reading a book and notice that the author is making an obvious overture to a particular demographic instead of following the internal logic of the book. So nyah.
I'm not the only under-40 person who loves to read intelligent, well-written books, am I?
Given the recent news about stealth planes being detectable through clever application of cellphone networks, I wonder if the DoD response is somehow related. Maybe Starbucks' wifi sites are really part of a sinister plot to take over the world, and hold us all for a ransom of ONE MILLION DOLLARS!
If YOU put in a little bit extra, your company might be able to pay you a little something extra.
+1 funny.
Yeah, that's really good. If YOU work a little harder on the ill-conceived project that marketing has convinced the CEO to ram down your throat, work so hard that the chaotic mess of conflicting requirements is somehow turned into a real functioning product, your company WOULD be able to pay you a big bonus. Unfortunately, since marketing was reorganized in the interim, the whole COMPLETED project was put in the can. Bye bye, last year's entire work output.
Gartner, as usual, has no clue. 95% of input via keyboard? No way! Even today, I would guess that most human-to-computer input is done via camera and microphone, when you look just at the number of bytes. How many gigabytes can the average programmer input per year? And how many gigabytes can a webcam generate in a year?
This is especially true now that Hollywood is starting to switch over to digital filmmaking.
Yes! If/. is going to dominate the universe, we need Editors! Preferably ones that will reject crap articles that have no actual information, and the only link is a google search. Then again, at least this story hasn't appeared four times in the past week.
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Yeah, I agree. It's the C++ syndrome of adding bunches of new language features in the hopes that one of them will fix the problems introduced by all of the previous additions.
I'll start off this pledge drive by donating 127.0.0.1 to the cause. Call in now, and I'll match you one-for-one with addresses pulled from the 10.0.0.0 network!
So, I take it that you didn't go to a girls' school in Saudi Arabia?
And then, when you go back to maintain the code, you need to totally disregard any comments in it, as they are usually out-of-date or just plain wrong. Now, if the compiler would validate all of the explanations in comments, that would be something.
At least until you start getting sonic booms from the imperfections in the media.
"Accountability", in this case, means, "someone's ass gets fired." Granted, this won't fix your problem, but it makes your CEO feel like a stud.
Yeah, it's really big, like a tiger-stripe-patterned iPod. Woo hoo. Either that, or Apple just bought THE INTERNET.
In a surprising turn of events, BSD was found lying dead on the side of the road in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I'm sure that we all have enjoyed using BSD-derived code at some point. BSD will be missed. Truly an American icon.
It's cruelty to processors, that's what it is! Murderer! You fried your CPU!!!
Yeah, I would really like to read about the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, too. Any book suggestions?
Or maybe they are 4 to 5 cup sizes too large and you're male...
If you're an "incoming warez server", then you're basically a data sink. Is a server that doesn't serve still a server?
Yes, hundred of years ago, the Earth was flat, but there's been quite a bit of inflation since then.
It would also be bad if a patent was filed AFTER you published, because the burden of proving prior art is on YOU. You would need to hire a lawyer to defend yourself from whatever asshole patented the trivial algorithm that you're using.
I wonder if you could counter-sue someone for harassment based on their attempts to enforce an obviously invalid patent... That would be cool.
She was hired to babysit for a young couple's infant daughter. They did not know of her three-doobie-a-day habit. When the couple returned home, she told them that everything went OK and that the pie was almost done. Alarmed, the couple ran into the kitchen, opened the oven door, and discovered that THE BABYSITTER HAD BAKED THEIR POWERBOOK!!!!
Damn, I've got to stop reading alt.folklore.urban.
Someday I'm going to sell my stock options and retire early on the proceeds. Of course, since the options are so far underwater there's little hope of them ever seeing air again, my retirement years will be spent in a cardboard box underneath a freeway overpass.
With cats, it doesn't take much to make a huge difference. We have two cats, one big, fat, black, nuzzly, and loud, and one small, mottled tan and white, thin, nervous, and quiet. They are from the same litter. We should have named them "DeVito" and "Schwartzenegger".
Damn, I have to add some of these to my web app. Let's see... buffer overflows should be easy to do, and I'm sure that I can manage to allow some unvalidated parameters. OK, all done. Now my web app can be popular!!!
(Translation of the above: "Top Ten" is an inappropriate name for a list of bad things.)
Those both look like drink recipes that I tried in college. I can't quite remember for sure, for some reason...
How lame. With 16 ingredients, it ought to be able to make AT LEAST 65535 different drinks (using 0 or 1 oz. of each ingredient, dispensed into a 16 oz. glass, of course). 65536 if you count the Zen Enlightener (0 oz. of each ingredient). I'm sure that it can generate a name for each by mapping each binary drink recipe (0 vodka, 1 bourbon, 0 tequila, 1 grape soda, ...) to the corresponding integer, and assigning the drink the same name as the /. user with that ID. Sweet.
To summarize the review:
Perhaps the reviewer doesn't realize that some people in the 18-39 demographic are still able to enjoy books that aren't written to the same spec as the latest mindless blow-em-up action flick. Some of us even read books that don't have pictures in them, on occasion. There are even a few of us who read books that have no lines matching "[Cc]yber" or "[Tt]echno".
By the way, I get REALLY PISSED OFF when I'm reading a book and notice that the author is making an obvious overture to a particular demographic instead of following the internal logic of the book. So nyah.
I'm not the only under-40 person who loves to read intelligent, well-written books, am I?
Given the recent news about stealth planes being detectable through clever application of cellphone networks, I wonder if the DoD response is somehow related. Maybe Starbucks' wifi sites are really part of a sinister plot to take over the world, and hold us all for a ransom of ONE MILLION DOLLARS!
+1 funny.
Yeah, that's really good. If YOU work a little harder on the ill-conceived project that marketing has convinced the CEO to ram down your throat, work so hard that the chaotic mess of conflicting requirements is somehow turned into a real functioning product, your company WOULD be able to pay you a big bonus. Unfortunately, since marketing was reorganized in the interim, the whole COMPLETED project was put in the can. Bye bye, last year's entire work output.
Gartner, as usual, has no clue. 95% of input via keyboard? No way! Even today, I would guess that most human-to-computer input is done via camera and microphone, when you look just at the number of bytes. How many gigabytes can the average programmer input per year? And how many gigabytes can a webcam generate in a year?
This is especially true now that Hollywood is starting to switch over to digital filmmaking.
Yes! If /. is going to dominate the universe, we need Editors! Preferably ones that will reject crap articles that have no actual information, and the only link is a google search. Then again, at least this story hasn't appeared four times in the past week.