Yes and no. It isn't just storage. What we have comes off the the sequencers as TIFFs first, and after the first analysis we toss the TIFFs to free up some big space. But that's just the first analysis, and we go to machines with kilo-cores and TBs of memory in multiple modes, and many of our tools are not yet written to be threaded.
The only OS/2 machine I ever saw was in a bio-engineering lab as an undergrad. I was interviewing for a dev job in there, and the only drivers for the electron microscope were OS/2, so they ran OS/2 on it. Otherwise, I'd have no more reason to believe OS/2 existed than I do the Loch Ness Monster or Bigfoot.
I'm not sure that is true. Not if the initial learning curve is too high, and not if the investment into a programmer's existing way of working is too high. Hardware-wise, a programmer's tools are vastly different then what they were 20 years ago -- MB vs TB, MHz vs GHz, etc. -- but we're still talking about slight variations of the same tools when it comes to the software. Seriously, the big editor war is vi vs. emacs. I'm just now beginning to look at ctags and enabling highlighting in my vi, and I've payed the bills with my Perl-writing skills for ten years now.
And even with the hardware. I own a Dvorak keyboard. I don't use it, even though, if I did learn it, studies say I could type much faster.
GMail puts different levels of replies as different colors. Why couldn't your IDE let you use Arial (I'd prefer Gill Sans, myself) and allow you to see the nest levels by color difference instead? There's a bunch of stuff from graphic design that we could use to make programming more pleasant and maybe even easier.
Droid Sans Mono is my favorite programming font, followed by Consolas.
Nothing provides help for criminals like a poorly designed streetlight that provides strong cover shadows while blinding would-be crime watchers. Most super bright nighttime lighting does exactly this. People like you who think any light is a good light are part of the problem, both for crime and seeing the stars.
C'mon. If nobody's watching, then all a streetlight does is let the criminal see what he's doing.
I've been trying to do about the same in my car, a Toyota Yaris with an automatic, which has 40 mpg estimated highway.
In my 60-mile-each way commute, I can do about half on a 4-lane divided non-interstate, top legal speed 60mph , but the rest I have to do via interstate, which is top legal speed of 70mph. I tend to do the interstate leg about 75mph, speeding up if necessary. (I've found that going less than 75mph is dangerous to my health. I've been bumped at speed by someone who wanted me to drive into the back of an 18-wheeler.)
I've been going as little as 45mph on the return trip non-interstate leg. (Going down, I generally want to make it "on time" to work. On the way back, I don't have quite the impatience.)
Going all-interstate, I've been getting 34-38 mpg. By going half the return leg at 45mph, I've been able to push up to 40. As much as 40.8.
I've used Excel to munge a few numbers. If I get 34 miles per gallon (measured by recording the miles and gallons topping off to where the handle clicks), I use about 7 gallons between fillups. If I push it and get 40 mpg, I use 6 gallons. So, a delta of 1 gallon. I fill up about 3 times a week.
Of course, looking big, that's 50 weeks, three times a week, 150 gallons. $450 in a year. I'm still on the bubble as to whether it's worth it.
Which is something that a person new to the language, when faced with "Try this, it's an app in Python you can learn from", would immediately go for. Clearly.
That works if you know that's the problem. I don't set that by default because sometimes I deal with tab-delimited stuff.
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A new programmer -- or a bad programmer -- can write terrible Python code just as easily as they can write terrible Perl code. But at least it will have proper indentation.
And we all know that proper indentation will never break anything.
TAB Code TAB Code SPACETAB Code TAB Code TAB Code
How long would it take you to debug that problem? It took me two hours the first time I tried to learn Python (reading someone else's code) and that's why there hasn't been a second time.
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But with Space Exploration, your dollars go farther!
I'm not an expert on the ECM chips, but I did mention them. Or things like them. Read it again if you think I didn't.
When I started here, I saw a training DVD on how the solenoids control the transmission, and I glazed over, too. It's the guys in the next cubicle who write all that stuff. It's for mechanical engineers, not bog-standard CS guys. I'm with you on that point.
I have no doubt that you could even run wires to an in-dash computer that would allow you to control your fuel/air mix or ignition timing or whatever you want. I'm mostly saying that GM and Ford will not put those wires in stock production vehicles.
There's two points of computation in a car. There's the part that interfaces with the locomotion, like the engine chips that are commonly modded for performance by people who are like that, and then there's the part that doesn't, like GPS and your MP3 stash and your wardriving kit.
This is where I'm employed now, more or less. I don't expect to see any car company making it easy to be more than an observer of your engine and transmission any time soon. And you can brick your GPS, MP3, etc, and as long as you can trip the starter, you can drive your car.
The problem is that Obama isn't really a black man in that sense. He didn't grow up in that social structure. He's not really part of the minority that was enslaved and then disenfranchised. If that's the reasoning, it's faulty.
Not that people didn't get called names or get beaten up because of their skin color in Hawaii during the 1970s. I can testify to that.
1. Lieberman ran for VP in 2004 and Senate in 2006. The one time I can remember where a candidate was forced to run for one office or the other was John Edwards.
2. Assume Hillary Clinton ran for President in 2012 and failed to get the nomination. If the failure was early enough, she could get on the ballot. If not, it seems likely that whoever was running could be convinced by the party to bow out and allow Clinton on. There's things that a senator with 12 years of seniority can do for a state.
Even if it was allowable, the electorate wouldn't like it. It doesn't make sense, really. To be working on your senatorial backup plan while running for your #1 plan to be president? The probable outcome is you lose both.
The good thing is that it's unlikely that a sitting senator receives a challenge from his/her own party in the primary, so you can get far along, probably up to the convention, in the process of running for president before you reach the point of no return.
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Depends on where you are. Where I am, I could basically get one.
I have a number of RSS feeds in Feedly, but I rarely if ever check it, using the "Twitter will tell me if I need to know" method instead.
Yes and no. It isn't just storage. What we have comes off the the sequencers as TIFFs first, and after the first analysis we toss the TIFFs to free up some big space. But that's just the first analysis, and we go to machines with kilo-cores and TBs of memory in multiple modes, and many of our tools are not yet written to be threaded.
The only OS/2 machine I ever saw was in a bio-engineering lab as an undergrad. I was interviewing for a dev job in there, and the only drivers for the electron microscope were OS/2, so they ran OS/2 on it. Otherwise, I'd have no more reason to believe OS/2 existed than I do the Loch Ness Monster or Bigfoot.
Of course, that group has a higher percentage than average of home-schoolers.
And those home-schoolers tend to get much more out of their education than average.
But go ahead with your beliefs.
If you expect a different view from Obama or Pelosi, expect to be disappointed.
I'm not sure that is true. Not if the initial learning curve is too high, and not if the investment into a programmer's existing way of working is too high. Hardware-wise, a programmer's tools are vastly different then what they were 20 years ago -- MB vs TB, MHz vs GHz, etc. -- but we're still talking about slight variations of the same tools when it comes to the software. Seriously, the big editor war is vi vs. emacs. I'm just now beginning to look at ctags and enabling highlighting in my vi, and I've payed the bills with my Perl-writing skills for ten years now.
And even with the hardware. I own a Dvorak keyboard. I don't use it, even though, if I did learn it, studies say I could type much faster.
GMail puts different levels of replies as different colors. Why couldn't your IDE let you use Arial (I'd prefer Gill Sans, myself) and allow you to see the nest levels by color difference instead? There's a bunch of stuff from graphic design that we could use to make programming more pleasant and maybe even easier.
Droid Sans Mono is my favorite programming font, followed by Consolas.
Nothing provides help for criminals like a poorly designed streetlight that provides strong cover shadows while blinding would-be crime watchers. Most super bright nighttime lighting does exactly this. People like you who think any light is a good light are part of the problem, both for crime and seeing the stars.
C'mon. If nobody's watching, then all a streetlight does is let the criminal see what he's doing.
Programming? Yeah right. Probably last thing ever to go voice-activated.
Programmers won't even go for proportionally-spaced fonts.
Go to a few rock shows and you'll burn off that part of your hearing. Worked for me!
I've been trying to do about the same in my car, a Toyota Yaris with an automatic, which has 40 mpg estimated highway.
In my 60-mile-each way commute, I can do about half on a 4-lane divided non-interstate, top legal speed 60mph , but the rest I have to do via interstate, which is top legal speed of 70mph. I tend to do the interstate leg about 75mph, speeding up if necessary. (I've found that going less than 75mph is dangerous to my health. I've been bumped at speed by someone who wanted me to drive into the back of an 18-wheeler.)
I've been going as little as 45mph on the return trip non-interstate leg. (Going down, I generally want to make it "on time" to work. On the way back, I don't have quite the impatience.)
Going all-interstate, I've been getting 34-38 mpg. By going half the return leg at 45mph, I've been able to push up to 40. As much as 40.8.
I've used Excel to munge a few numbers. If I get 34 miles per gallon (measured by recording the miles and gallons topping off to where the handle clicks), I use about 7 gallons between fillups. If I push it and get 40 mpg, I use 6 gallons. So, a delta of 1 gallon. I fill up about 3 times a week.
Of course, looking big, that's 50 weeks, three times a week, 150 gallons. $450 in a year. I'm still on the bubble as to whether it's worth it.
You rang?
Which is something that a person new to the language, when faced with "Try this, it's an app in Python you can learn from", would immediately go for. Clearly.
I suspect it was my programming editor that added that space, but I've since left that job so I'm not 100% on it.
And if you didn't use spaces, you wouldn't have problems.
YeahIcanseewhyspacescanbeaproblem.
That works if you know that's the problem. I don't set that by default because sometimes I deal with tab-delimited stuff.
A new programmer -- or a bad programmer -- can write terrible Python code just as easily as they can write terrible Perl code. But at least it will have proper indentation.
And we all know that proper indentation will never break anything.
TAB Code
TAB Code
SPACETAB Code
TAB Code
TAB Code
How long would it take you to debug that problem? It took me two hours the first time I tried to learn Python (reading someone else's code) and that's why there hasn't been a second time.
But with Space Exploration, your dollars go farther!
I'm not an expert on the ECM chips, but I did mention them. Or things like them. Read it again if you think I didn't.
When I started here, I saw a training DVD on how the solenoids control the transmission, and I glazed over, too. It's the guys in the next cubicle who write all that stuff. It's for mechanical engineers, not bog-standard CS guys. I'm with you on that point.
I have no doubt that you could even run wires to an in-dash computer that would allow you to control your fuel/air mix or ignition timing or whatever you want. I'm mostly saying that GM and Ford will not put those wires in stock production vehicles.
There's two points of computation in a car. There's the part that interfaces with the locomotion, like the engine chips that are commonly modded for performance by people who are like that, and then there's the part that doesn't, like GPS and your MP3 stash and your wardriving kit.
This is where I'm employed now, more or less. I don't expect to see any car company making it easy to be more than an observer of your engine and transmission any time soon. And you can brick your GPS, MP3, etc, and as long as you can trip the starter, you can drive your car.
And that is wrong how?
The problem is that Obama isn't really a black man in that sense. He didn't grow up in that social structure. He's not really part of the minority that was enslaved and then disenfranchised. If that's the reasoning, it's faulty.
Not that people didn't get called names or get beaten up because of their skin color in Hawaii during the 1970s. I can testify to that.
1. Lieberman ran for VP in 2004 and Senate in 2006. The one time I can remember where a candidate was forced to run for one office or the other was John Edwards.
2. Assume Hillary Clinton ran for President in 2012 and failed to get the nomination. If the failure was early enough, she could get on the ballot. If not, it seems likely that whoever was running could be convinced by the party to bow out and allow Clinton on. There's things that a senator with 12 years of seniority can do for a state.
Even if it was allowable, the electorate wouldn't like it. It doesn't make sense, really. To be working on your senatorial backup plan while running for your #1 plan to be president? The probable outcome is you lose both.
The good thing is that it's unlikely that a sitting senator receives a challenge from his/her own party in the primary, so you can get far along, probably up to the convention, in the process of running for president before you reach the point of no return.
How is voting for a person entirely because of his race any less racist than voting against a person entirely because of his race?