This does not make it a great car, and does not mean FMC is the strongest car company in the world. In fact, it is losing money and is behind GM and TMC in marketshare.
Yes, Ford is introducing new hybrid models, but they are licensing the technology from Toyota. You tell me who's ahead.
Yeah, everybody goes off to Iraq to fight and nobody is left to follow the trail...
Yeah, sure...
I assume, and I have no real info on this of course, that one or more "special teams" have been left on the ground and gone, hum, native-like, to pop the rat the moment he sticks his head out of his hole...
Of course, he might also be dead. After said team "popped" the rat on a cold trail one night.
There's more to hunting a few men than moving regiments around.
When my friends/family/buddies buy a PC with windows on it, the VERY FIRST thing I do when they ask me to "Please fix it it's hopelessly broken" involves Ubuntu and a reformatting of the hard drive. Consequently, IE goes Poof.
10 million members, keep claims and forms data going back 3-5 years for trends analysis, and all the related data tables, such as appeals, grievances, audits, auths, pharmacy and then all the other related data such as all the doctors, hopitals, pharmacies, etc. Trust me, it goes up real fast. And no, no scanned data.
Now, I'm talking about a data-warehouse, not the core systems themselves, so the data is not well-normalized, but optimized for reporting.
Ah, I'll grant you that. The code may not be looked at by more people, but it has the potential to. So if the code is recognized as some very clever and very useful code, more people will look at understanding and improving it.
In the corporate world, the code will be looked at only by the next unlucky stiff who's been assigned to "enhance the product" and he'll most likely have no contact with the original coder, so he'll code the enhancements his way and the code will start to look like some of the French cathedrals that were built by different people in different times: ugly!
When they say: "The code is better because more eyeballs see it" is also crap, because not that many eyeballs see it, much less understand it.
What really happens is that the few who do delve into the code are more motivated to fix it and to "make it right" than those in the corporate world. Furthermore, the brilliant code will have turned out to have been written by more brilliant coders, and so will be, in that particular instance, better than corporate code.
But let's not delude ourselves. Overall, FOSS code is crap, with 95% of the projects out there being badly architected, badly written, often in an ill-suited language, with poor documentation, etc. These projects, however, die the little death of oblivion, since there aren't enough great coders to go around and do them right.
The key, in my opinion, is the coder. If you have a real wizard who can hunker down and eventually grok the problem, then hunker down some more and design a good solution, then hunker down some more and write some working code, and hunker down some more and publish, publicise, share and handle the spam and flames, then, maybe, you will have a great project in the making. A couple or three more coders, and then traction: the project advances 24/7. Thanks to the coders.
In the corporate world, management is especially reticent to trust the "great coders" and will sap their energy and grokking ability through meetings, unreasonable deadlines, tight budget, and more bureucratic paperwork than the french and british governments combined. Thus, the great coders, the hackers extraordinaires, are either pushed out of corps like a champagne cork popped out on top, or slowly sunk in the morass of mediocrity that ultimately drives them to seek fulfillment in non-work activities (like maybe working on FOSS, or gaming, or god forbid, going to see what those flapping dots are in the big blue room).
You wants your kids to tell you their problems? You tell them your problems. You level with them as adults and they'll see that you're real. If you shield them, they see you as a "perfect" person and say nothing "bad", and then later they are disillusioned (let's face it you're not perfect) and treat you like dirt.
My stepdad always treated me liek an intelligent human being, and I have the highest respect for him. And I had respect for him too.
But that was in France, where people aren't afraid to show their frailty.
America cares about your FICO score and the amount of your assets ONLY.
That's it.
Now. America and Japan are both very materialistic societies. (My wife is Japanese, from Japan, so I know).
American society, however, does make some allowance for "weird" and "geeky" people. In Japan, watch out if you don't toe the line. Otaku is a bad word over there (it's changing, ever so slowly).
In Japan, your criteria for "success" and "who you are" is "what high-school and college did you graduate from?"
In the US, you can change you FICO over time, and you can make more money over time. In Japan, you can never change your less-than-perfect educational achievements, so some people feel they would rather die than live a lifetime of ridicule and shame, forever to live in the shadows of those who have "excelled".
My wife was pushed to excel by her parents. She rebelled. She didn't kill herself. She left Japan. She said she could never "live" there. It's a good thing too.
I had 25 japanese at my house last night, from 1.3 year old to 40 year olds. They love Japan because it's their homeland. They love America because they feel accepted.
If the Japanese have their own children killing themselves, they should look in the mirror.
There's a kind of intensity in programming that will make you wish you were playing chess.
I know I put in about 1 to 2 hours of programming per day and 6-7 hours going to meetings, talking to people, writing silly things on slashdot, reading, etc.
Now, some people will say: You're slacking... Heck, I don't mind. But I tell you, in that 1-2 hours, they get their money's worth for the entire day of pay. And they know that, so they leave me be.
My favorite programmers are the ones that tell management to "fucking take a hike" when aforementioned management grandly announces that all must follow "Z".
To be fair, "fucking take a hike" means "Of course, of course, absolutely, 100%!" and then actually doing the exact opposite and saying "we don't know how to do it in Z, but we can do it in P in 2 days" and let management squirm and squirm as thick black deadlines full of business unit VPs come looming menacingly over their well-decorated offices.
You fail to realize that the chinese government will permanently block the IP blocks if this happens. The chinese government already effectively filters IM, IRC, email, ftp, http, and a few other protocols. They are able to do this because they are able to allocate billions of dollars to this project, and are able to get Sun and Cisco to sell them the hardware to do it with. Do not underestimate chinese system administrators. Chinese are generally scientifically savvy, hard-working, meticulous, and quite proud of their nation's accomplishments. I suspect the engineers that work for the chinese government are on par or nearly so with google's own engineers. I suspect that google had to strike the deal because the chinese government's sysadmins were quite effective at blocking google. Note that they have successfully blocked wikipedia for more than a month now, and there has been zero response from them as to why. They just do it because they can and it's their country. And they have guns. Lots of them. And more soldiers than the combined armies of Europe and America.
Slashdot Mirror
We're talking a database server.
Again, why do you need a gui?
The only people who should ever log into the system are admins maintaining the software.
If they can't use the cli, hire admins that can.
Everybody else interfaces with the server through ip:port.
The most sold car in the world is the Ford Focus.
This does not make it a great car, and does not mean FMC is the strongest car company in the world. In fact, it is losing money and is behind GM and TMC in marketshare.
Yes, Ford is introducing new hybrid models, but they are licensing the technology from Toyota. You tell me who's ahead.
At 6.4 tons, they don't need to be armed. They can just run people over. Scary.
Yeah, everybody goes off to Iraq to fight and nobody is left to follow the trail...
Yeah, sure...
I assume, and I have no real info on this of course, that one or more "special teams" have been left on the ground and gone, hum, native-like, to pop the rat the moment he sticks his head out of his hole...
Of course, he might also be dead. After said team "popped" the rat on a cold trail one night.
There's more to hunting a few men than moving regiments around.
Ooh, nice troll...
I'll drink to that.
Dude,
When my friends/family/buddies buy a PC with windows on it, the VERY FIRST thing I do when they ask me to "Please fix it it's hopelessly broken" involves Ubuntu and a reformatting of the hard drive. Consequently, IE goes Poof.
10 million members, keep claims and forms data going back 3-5 years for trends analysis, and all the related data tables, such as appeals, grievances, audits, auths, pharmacy and then all the other related data such as all the doctors, hopitals, pharmacies, etc. Trust me, it goes up real fast. And no, no scanned data.
Now, I'm talking about a data-warehouse, not the core systems themselves, so the data is not well-normalized, but optimized for reporting.
Try healthcare. Lots of terabytes there.
I write all my code by hand.
I don't use wizards.
I am very picky about my tools. I told my boss: jEdit or I walk. I got jEdit. (it's my tool of choice, don't complain)
I hardly ever copy/paste more than variable names.
I optimize code at the end, if necessary, and if it won't break anything (which means almost never).
I learned to program with BASIC, then moved to GWBasic, skipped QBasic, did VBA, then VB5, then VB6, then ASP (still a lot) some PHP, now in Python.
I cannot tell you how many times I've been tempted to use wizards to make things faster only to self.wristslap "don't go there, you'll be sorry".
It's like cars: If you've always used an automatic transmission, you can't drive all the cars. It's easier than stick shifts, but limits your choices.
I would rather have a programmer who codes well but slow than one who codes fast but sloppy.
I think what you're trying to say is that the app doesn't degrade gracefully.
Especially this one:
y stem
http://www.top500.org/lists/2005/11/l/Operating_S
Shows linux vs the rest. Note on perf that linux+CNK/linux have 72.9% of total performance.
Ah, I'll grant you that. The code may not be looked at by more people, but it has the potential to. So if the code is recognized as some very clever and very useful code, more people will look at understanding and improving it.
In the corporate world, the code will be looked at only by the next unlucky stiff who's been assigned to "enhance the product" and he'll most likely have no contact with the original coder, so he'll code the enhancements his way and the code will start to look like some of the French cathedrals that were built by different people in different times: ugly!
I'll agree with you, and add to this:
When they say: "The code is better because more eyeballs see it" is also crap, because not that many eyeballs see it, much less understand it.
What really happens is that the few who do delve into the code are more motivated to fix it and to "make it right" than those in the corporate world. Furthermore, the brilliant code will have turned out to have been written by more brilliant coders, and so will be, in that particular instance, better than corporate code.
But let's not delude ourselves. Overall, FOSS code is crap, with 95% of the projects out there being badly architected, badly written, often in an ill-suited language, with poor documentation, etc. These projects, however, die the little death of oblivion, since there aren't enough great coders to go around and do them right.
The key, in my opinion, is the coder. If you have a real wizard who can hunker down and eventually grok the problem, then hunker down some more and design a good solution, then hunker down some more and write some working code, and hunker down some more and publish, publicise, share and handle the spam and flames, then, maybe, you will have a great project in the making. A couple or three more coders, and then traction: the project advances 24/7. Thanks to the coders.
In the corporate world, management is especially reticent to trust the "great coders" and will sap their energy and grokking ability through meetings, unreasonable deadlines, tight budget, and more bureucratic paperwork than the french and british governments combined. Thus, the great coders, the hackers extraordinaires, are either pushed out of corps like a champagne cork popped out on top, or slowly sunk in the morass of mediocrity that ultimately drives them to seek fulfillment in non-work activities (like maybe working on FOSS, or gaming, or god forbid, going to see what those flapping dots are in the big blue room).
And I had respect for him too.
should read:
And I had respect for him when I was still living at home.
You wants your kids to tell you their problems? You tell them your problems. You level with them as adults and they'll see that you're real. If you shield them, they see you as a "perfect" person and say nothing "bad", and then later they are disillusioned (let's face it you're not perfect) and treat you like dirt.
My stepdad always treated me liek an intelligent human being, and I have the highest respect for him. And I had respect for him too.
But that was in France, where people aren't afraid to show their frailty.
Let's find out what eats those in Hawaii and introduce that in Australia.
As far as the long legs: they might be an advantage against predators in Australia (meaning the ones that can't jump as far get eaten first?)
You laugh, but in america, you are a number.
Let me translate that for you:
America cares about your FICO score and the amount of your assets ONLY.
That's it.
Now. America and Japan are both very materialistic societies. (My wife is Japanese, from Japan, so I know).
American society, however, does make some allowance for "weird" and "geeky" people. In Japan, watch out if you don't toe the line. Otaku is a bad word over there (it's changing, ever so slowly).
In Japan, your criteria for "success" and "who you are" is "what high-school and college did you graduate from?"
In the US, you can change you FICO over time, and you can make more money over time. In Japan, you can never change your less-than-perfect educational achievements, so some people feel they would rather die than live a lifetime of ridicule and shame, forever to live in the shadows of those who have "excelled".
My wife was pushed to excel by her parents. She rebelled. She didn't kill herself. She left Japan. She said she could never "live" there. It's a good thing too.
I had 25 japanese at my house last night, from 1.3 year old to 40 year olds. They love Japan because it's their homeland. They love America because they feel accepted.
If the Japanese have their own children killing themselves, they should look in the mirror.
Have you ever played chess for 8 hours straight?
There's a kind of intensity in programming that will make you wish you were playing chess.
I know I put in about 1 to 2 hours of programming per day and 6-7 hours going to meetings, talking to people, writing silly things on slashdot, reading, etc.
Now, some people will say: You're slacking... Heck, I don't mind. But I tell you, in that 1-2 hours, they get their money's worth for the entire day of pay. And they know that, so they leave me be.
you'd normally have to use
:)
import witlib # assuming a witlib.py in your path
thisPost = "some silly comment"
sarcasm_ified_post = witlib.sarcasm.apply(thisPost)
but because I imported sarcasm from witlib, I can just use sarcasm by itself.
You're assuming thisPost was an object that could be "applied". Alas, String object does not get sarcasm "applied"
You know what, when witlib appears on the standard modules, i'll read the docs and fix my code
My favorite programmers are the ones that tell management to "fucking take a hike" when aforementioned management grandly announces that all must follow "Z".
To be fair, "fucking take a hike" means "Of course, of course, absolutely, 100%!" and then actually doing the exact opposite and saying "we don't know how to do it in Z, but we can do it in P in 2 days" and let management squirm and squirm as thick black deadlines full of business unit VPs come looming menacingly over their well-decorated offices.
It's twisted, but oh so fun.
I use firebug, a firefox extension. It works great for in-browser message (send/reply and the js that made it).
You fail to realize that the chinese government will permanently block the IP blocks if this happens. The chinese government already effectively filters IM, IRC, email, ftp, http, and a few other protocols. They are able to do this because they are able to allocate billions of dollars to this project, and are able to get Sun and Cisco to sell them the hardware to do it with. Do not underestimate chinese system administrators. Chinese are generally scientifically savvy, hard-working, meticulous, and quite proud of their nation's accomplishments. I suspect the engineers that work for the chinese government are on par or nearly so with google's own engineers. I suspect that google had to strike the deal because the chinese government's sysadmins were quite effective at blocking google.
Note that they have successfully blocked wikipedia for more than a month now, and there has been zero response from them as to why. They just do it because they can and it's their country. And they have guns. Lots of them. And more soldiers than the combined armies of Europe and America.
You can't fight them and win easily.
And to boot, they'll stay late if they have unrestricted net access. You know, they have to keep up on pr0n^h^h^h^htechnology.
Wait... Wait a minute...
You say that Microsoft is smaller than Dell...
But in the news recently it came out that Apple is bigger than Dell...
So then that makes Apple bigger than Microsoft.
STOP THE PRESSES!!! We've got a live one!!!