I don't know what code you're reading, but the legacy code I get is anything BUT "self-documenting." Hell, I don't think Ken Burns could document most of the garbage I seem to always get stuck with.
/* Attention future Bill: this section of code sucks and it looks horrendous and awful but I wrote it under a tight deadline. Just hit F3 and let the bitch run; it works, I promise. */
Changing the color of the comments, or making them collapsible/non-collapsible isn't going to have any meaningful impact. A rushed or sloppy coder is going to ignore them either way. And a conscientious coder is going to read them regardless.
The real problem with comments isn't their color, it's when they AREN'T THERE AT ALL. You could have the damn things flashing in rainbow colors and it still wouldn't change the fact that the legacy code I'm going over was done by a sloppy piece of shit who never wrote any comments in the first place, or who wrote cryptic/indecipherable comments that would take a linguist 10 years to translate into meaningful English.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got to go play Sherlock Holmes with some strange method written by an Indian contractor whose only comment on it was "This move thing around."
Just thought I should add that the $49/yr plan has the same 250MB/month data cap that they've already put into place for existing Kindle 3G's. So don't go thinking that $49 is going to get you much.
The fact that the LCD market is saturated right now. LCD's were hot for several years as everyone threw out their old tube TV's for shiny new HDTV's. But now those same people stubbornly insist on keeping those shiny HDTV's for years instead of upgrading every time some shiny new feature (like 3D) comes out.
This guy has bought every Madden game ever: No discount on Madden 13 for him. This guy has never bought a Madden game: Give him a $10 discount to incentivize him.
Sounds great in theory. Sounds ever better in a Google ad pitching the idea. But the reality is that you're about to screw over your biggest fans and supporters. And if they get wind of it, you consequently risk LOSING some of your biggest fans and supporters. Penalizing your fans for being your fans could result in an epic backlash.
Now there are some fan groups (not mentioning any names here), whose members would probably respond to this kind of abuse with a smile an a "Thank you sir, may I have another?!?" But I imagine most people would be none-to-happy to learn that their loyalty to a product line has been rewarded with a backhanded insult.
Not to mention the fact that you can bet that some of the more unscrupulous and technically-minded people out there will quickly learn how to game the system.
BTW, I've never bought a Madden game. Can I get a coupon, EA?
Voyager I. Thirty-five years and you know how far it is from earth? Seventeen light *hours*. And it's about to run out of juice at even that paltry distance.
Now go build something to travel at least 4.2 light *years*.
The scales you're talking about with interstellar travel are almost humanly unimaginable. The fastest probe we've ever launched would take over 100,000 years to reach even the closest solar system (and that's a *MERE* 4.2 light years away). We'll be lucky to get a man on Mars in the next 100 years, much less a vehicle that could travel at a significant percentage of the speed of light (an absolute "must have" for an interstellar probe).
And even if you could reach Einstein's speed limit (and you would probably have to consume most of Earth's energy resources to do it), all you've got in the end is a ship that would still be laughably slow in the big scheme of things. Puttering along at near-light-speed in a universe 14 billion light years across would only remind you of how isolated we really are.
Shit, I don't even think we have the MATH to travel those kind of distances. The accuracy and tolerances for a trajectory that could get anywhere close to another body over light-year scale distances are all-but-impossible. It would be harder than throwing a dart in the U.S. and hitting a bullseye on a dartboard in China.
Anyone selling interstellar travel is selling snake oil...period. For all intents and purposes, and barring someone radically overturning Einstein, we're all alone.
The landings on Galactica were a bit weird though. They came in fast and had to decelerate quickly, like fighters on an aircraft carrier deck, instead of just slowing down and drifting in slowly and safely. But arguably you don't want to waste time in combat.
They only came in "hot" during emergency landings (before jumps, dodging cylons, etc.). In the pilot, Apollo comes in for a normal non-emergency landing and he just slowed down until he stopped and planted down vertically right on the deck.
From their perspective, this is no doubt a beneficial side-effect of the massive expansion of the private national security industry since 9-11. I guess at least it's providing jobs.
Not without a warrant. Care to guess whether or not they had one when they were putting recording devices in Martin Luther King's motel rooms and home?
Maybe from a soon to be blown case were the FBI is investigating an anonymous hacker group?
Or evidence that they're building a giant fishing net (with ALL of us in it) for future fishing trips. When there are 12 million entries in a database on a single laptop, all just from iPhones and iPads alone, I tend to think this is much larger than just some individual investigation. Shit, that's over 10% of Apple's *ENTIRE* active U.S. iPad and iPhone userbase, on that one laptop alone. That's not from any one investigation, or even several.
Yeah, anytime you're dealing with a government press release or statement you have to CAREFULLY parse the language. These things are carefully crafted to imply things they don't actually say. "I personally have no knowledge of such an event happening" is NOT the same as saying "This event didn't happen." There are a million ways to imply things without saying them, and a dumb and gullible press will usually swallow them hook-line-and-sinker 99% of the time.
In the absence of any further evidence, I must assume that everybody's lying.
Except that Anon has real evidence in this case, and specifics. The FBI is just issuing a blanket denial. And, for that matter, if this agent is real and doesn't do this, why aren't they hiding him and not making him available for interviews? Seems like he would be the most credible source to deny it.
Wouldn't it be nice to think the FBI would ever release a press release with the header "Yes, We Screwed-Up and Yes, We're Illegally Spying on You." But inevitably, that's the kind of admission that only comes out decades after the fact. It's not like if you had asked J. Edgar Hoover "Hey are you spying on Martin Luther King with illegal wiretaps and recording devices?" back in the 60's he would have replied "Oh yeah, we're doing that."
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Oh yeah, I've ran into THAT guy too. I guess I can say at least he's trying. But yeah, I probably don't need this:
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I just learned a new favorite word today.
I don't know what code you're reading, but the legacy code I get is anything BUT "self-documenting." Hell, I don't think Ken Burns could document most of the garbage I seem to always get stuck with.
/* Attention future Bill: this section of code sucks and it looks horrendous and awful but I wrote it under a tight deadline. Just hit F3 and let the bitch run; it works, I promise. */
Makes you want to kill Bill, doesn't it?
Could be worse. They could use white on white.
I know! You could run a BBS on that!
Changing the color of the comments, or making them collapsible/non-collapsible isn't going to have any meaningful impact. A rushed or sloppy coder is going to ignore them either way. And a conscientious coder is going to read them regardless.
The real problem with comments isn't their color, it's when they AREN'T THERE AT ALL. You could have the damn things flashing in rainbow colors and it still wouldn't change the fact that the legacy code I'm going over was done by a sloppy piece of shit who never wrote any comments in the first place, or who wrote cryptic/indecipherable comments that would take a linguist 10 years to translate into meaningful English.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got to go play Sherlock Holmes with some strange method written by an Indian contractor whose only comment on it was "This move thing around."
Hey, that's over 8MB a day. That's right, 8 *Mega*bytes, bitches! And it's "Mega" so you KNOW it's gots to be big! Let's see someone else top THAT!
Just thought I should add that the $49/yr plan has the same 250MB/month data cap that they've already put into place for existing Kindle 3G's. So don't go thinking that $49 is going to get you much.
What did I miss?
The fact that the LCD market is saturated right now. LCD's were hot for several years as everyone threw out their old tube TV's for shiny new HDTV's. But now those same people stubbornly insist on keeping those shiny HDTV's for years instead of upgrading every time some shiny new feature (like 3D) comes out.
Bah, a little Febreze will get the smell of OD'ed meth addict right out.
This guy has bought every Madden game ever: No discount on Madden 13 for him.
This guy has never bought a Madden game: Give him a $10 discount to incentivize him.
Sounds great in theory. Sounds ever better in a Google ad pitching the idea. But the reality is that you're about to screw over your biggest fans and supporters. And if they get wind of it, you consequently risk LOSING some of your biggest fans and supporters. Penalizing your fans for being your fans could result in an epic backlash.
Now there are some fan groups (not mentioning any names here), whose members would probably respond to this kind of abuse with a smile an a "Thank you sir, may I have another?!?" But I imagine most people would be none-to-happy to learn that their loyalty to a product line has been rewarded with a backhanded insult.
Not to mention the fact that you can bet that some of the more unscrupulous and technically-minded people out there will quickly learn how to game the system.
BTW, I've never bought a Madden game. Can I get a coupon, EA?
Voyager I. Thirty-five years and you know how far it is from earth? Seventeen light *hours*. And it's about to run out of juice at even that paltry distance.
Now go build something to travel at least 4.2 light *years*.
unless they had some kind of mysterious mechanism to continually alter their course during their travels.
And with enough fuel to last 100,000 years.
Bill Clinton supports it
I stand corrected.
The scales you're talking about with interstellar travel are almost humanly unimaginable. The fastest probe we've ever launched would take over 100,000 years to reach even the closest solar system (and that's a *MERE* 4.2 light years away). We'll be lucky to get a man on Mars in the next 100 years, much less a vehicle that could travel at a significant percentage of the speed of light (an absolute "must have" for an interstellar probe).
And even if you could reach Einstein's speed limit (and you would probably have to consume most of Earth's energy resources to do it), all you've got in the end is a ship that would still be laughably slow in the big scheme of things. Puttering along at near-light-speed in a universe 14 billion light years across would only remind you of how isolated we really are.
Shit, I don't even think we have the MATH to travel those kind of distances. The accuracy and tolerances for a trajectory that could get anywhere close to another body over light-year scale distances are all-but-impossible. It would be harder than throwing a dart in the U.S. and hitting a bullseye on a dartboard in China.
Anyone selling interstellar travel is selling snake oil...period. For all intents and purposes, and barring someone radically overturning Einstein, we're all alone.
The landings on Galactica were a bit weird though. They came in fast and had to decelerate quickly, like fighters on an aircraft carrier deck, instead of just slowing down and drifting in slowly and safely. But arguably you don't want to waste time in combat.
They only came in "hot" during emergency landings (before jumps, dodging cylons, etc.). In the pilot, Apollo comes in for a normal non-emergency landing and he just slowed down until he stopped and planted down vertically right on the deck.
I'm sorry, where in my post did I say I was a fan of Obama?
From their perspective, this is no doubt a beneficial side-effect of the massive expansion of the private national security industry since 9-11. I guess at least it's providing jobs.
FBI can legally spy on you.
Not without a warrant. Care to guess whether or not they had one when they were putting recording devices in Martin Luther King's motel rooms and home?
If you answered "No," congratulations.
Maybe from a soon to be blown case were the FBI is investigating an anonymous hacker group?
Or evidence that they're building a giant fishing net (with ALL of us in it) for future fishing trips. When there are 12 million entries in a database on a single laptop, all just from iPhones and iPads alone, I tend to think this is much larger than just some individual investigation. Shit, that's over 10% of Apple's *ENTIRE* active U.S. iPad and iPhone userbase, on that one laptop alone. That's not from any one investigation, or even several.
Yeah, anytime you're dealing with a government press release or statement you have to CAREFULLY parse the language. These things are carefully crafted to imply things they don't actually say. "I personally have no knowledge of such an event happening" is NOT the same as saying "This event didn't happen." There are a million ways to imply things without saying them, and a dumb and gullible press will usually swallow them hook-line-and-sinker 99% of the time.
In the absence of any further evidence, I must assume that everybody's lying.
Except that Anon has real evidence in this case, and specifics. The FBI is just issuing a blanket denial. And, for that matter, if this agent is real and doesn't do this, why aren't they hiding him and not making him available for interviews? Seems like he would be the most credible source to deny it.
Wouldn't it be nice to think the FBI would ever release a press release with the header "Yes, We Screwed-Up and Yes, We're Illegally Spying on You." But inevitably, that's the kind of admission that only comes out decades after the fact. It's not like if you had asked J. Edgar Hoover "Hey are you spying on Martin Luther King with illegal wiretaps and recording devices?" back in the 60's he would have replied "Oh yeah, we're doing that."
Kinda doubt that Romney wants a theocracy.
I would be more accurate to say Romney wants a "Corporatocracy" or "Oligarchy of the Wealthy." All the Jesus shit is just a means to that real end.