Nice, but I did say low-flow toilet. I believe that pretty much rules out the philosophers.
This is true... it also rules out RMS. Great thinker, but no "mute" button, which, if you think about it, is probably a good thing - anyone less "colourful" wouldn't have been able to effect as much change.
Mind you, I'm in Canada - we simply don't do low-flow toilets up here. Supposedly, buildings built after 1996 are required to have them at construction, but you don't have to retrofit them in older buildings, or in newer ones when remodeling, so newer buildings will sometimes quickly get a "bathroom remodeling."
I don't know... the issues in the article were computer languages and jobs. A lot of people tossed in the "multi-threaded banking app" as an example, when it's totally bogus. An explanation about financial derivatives - there's no multi-threading required. You can (and people do) do it with a spreadsheet.
Just as I would be more likely to hire someone with a pottery degree than someone with a philosophy degree if I wanted to design a new low-flow toilet
I wouldn't be too sure... during the design phase, the philosophy degree might be more useful - after all, they talk about how to deal with all kinds of shit.
For example: "If the toilet backs up and nobody is there to hear it, does it still smell like shit?"
Or: "If we move the ventilation from the ceiling fan and integrate it into the bowl itself, will the shit still hit the fan?"
This is Slashdot. Regardless of what you think, and of how idiotic you might think another's beliefs to be, a news site claiming to be unbiased is NOT the place to post this filth.
Give it UP already. There's a big difference between unbiased (which slashdot never claimed to be, btw), and presenting both sides equally, when one side is totally discredited. What are you, a fucking scientologist or mormon or jehovah's witness or baptist or... (insert a looong list of the hopelessly clueless)?
The day that churches let evolution be taught in Sunday School is the day that the religious nutcases can then make some semi-credible claim to be even-handed. Until then, the world is not a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup - don't try to mix religion and science and claim any sort of legitimacy, they aren't like peanut butter and chocolate.
As for filth, the bible is hate literature that includes rape, genocide and murder, all done at "god's command" by "the chosen." Pure, unadulterated filth for the willfully ignorant, and now that atheism is the fastest-growing "belief system" in the US, expect to see more, not fewer, attacks against the ignorance and superstition promoted by religion.
The point I was making is that writing multi-threaded code isn't as big a deal as everyone seems to make out.
Also, "banking apps" are not millions of lines of c or java code. Your web-based banking app probably isn't. COBOL is also still very much a force on the back end for many of those apps, and java servlets are one of the more popular back-end connectors.
And your assumption that I was referring to derivatives trading? Why? Because it's "newsy"?
BTW it seems I disagree with at least one popular convention. The convention when daemonizing a program seems to be you direct stdin, stderr and stdout to "/dev/null/" (close then reopen them to/dev/null).
I on the other hand prefer to direct stderr and stdout to a log.
That would make sense, except that now, the right (wrong) error can now try to fill up your hard drive instead of just going to the bit bucket in the sky. If you really want, you could define a macro or command-line parameter to avoid redirecting, then redirect the output to a log file on the command line. Or have it respond to a SIGHUP to re-read a config file, so you can dynamically change its' behaviour.
I was under that impression as well, but it turns out that, at some places, assembly is making a comeback among grad students - those who know it are generally held in higher regard by their peers, which won't hurt in any hiring process.
I love how slashdot posts these creationism stories to stir up the flamewars and mock the religious.
I don't think this was meant to start a flamewar at all! Your opinion is both wrong and full of ignorance! It's people like you who are ruining Slashdot.
Come off it - the people demanding the ability to grant degrees in "Creation Science" are the ones trolling the rest of the country, and trying to ruin the educatio system.
Get ability to grant "advanced degree in creation science"
Get all those trailer trash who believe such shit to get one to go along with their GED or their "IT degree in MS-Word";
PROFIT!!!
I have a better idea - if they get this "right" - get the degree, then publish about how creationism is total bullshit, and point to your "credentials" as someone with an "advanced degree in creation science." Make $$$ selling books, appearances on the idiot box/faux news, etc.
I have an even better idea - let them move to Jebus-land. What the rising waters don't get, global warming-driven hurricanes and droughts will. Problem solved.
A game (or any significant code) that's 99% bug-free is an absolute disaster, totally unusable. It's not like a spelling or grammar mistake, where the end-user can still figure out what was meant...
Then there's the whole issue of code that's correct, but still doesn't work the way the end-user expects. While not a software bug, it's certainly not a "feature."
99.99% correct before shipping is more reasonable, and certainly achievable.
You were modded troll, but I think you are correct. I was unaware of the special underwear until someone told me about it. I looked it up and was amazed. They also tell their wives they can't get to heaven without the husband's special password.
It's a total crock and is only slightly less insane than the scientologist whack-jobs.
I am so sick and tired of these religious idiots - of any flavor - trying to legislate my life according to their hangups and fears.
Fortunately I have karma to burn, so they can mod me troll all they want - it doesn't stop it from being the truth, and they'll get theirs from the meta-mods. There's really no place for this sort of foolishness in the 21st century.
Whatever happened to "land of the free"?
It went north for the duration to convalesce... hopefully it'll make a full recovery.
It suggests, to me, that her (organization's) larger goal is to neutralize the pornography industry, not just to limit it to adults.
Fucking mormons, that's why. Screw through a hole in a sheet, have to wear "special underwear" - why not just chuck them all into a blender with the scientologists and jehovah's witnesses and see if they blend?
I bought a Wii last month - wifi is built in, and works fine. You can get local weather and news for free from the Wii shopping channel. I downloaded Opera from the Wii shopping channel for $5 and now I can surf the net by "point-n-click" via the internet channel. Youtube vids play. A lot of the games are wifi-enabled, with no charge to play with others. I can send pics for free using the photo channel. It costs less than $30 to get Wii Speak (or buy it with a game bundle for next to nothing) which basically lets you do conference calling with other similarly-equipped people, with voice recognition to identify who is speaking (you can have a half-dozen people on each end of the conversation - the current speaker's "Mii" enlarges),
or the ability to use your own hard drives for a lot cheaper?
2 gig sd cards are cheap enougn, run cooler, take less space, and super-quiet in comparison to a hard drive...
Not to mention it depends on the games you like...
The only way Sony can win is if they pretend they're not competing with Nintendo,
The reality is that they aren't competing with Nintendo - it's not even close.
People rationalized the purchase of a PS3 by saying to themselves "well, I get a blu-ray player "free" with it"... but now that blu-ray players are under $200, that rationalization is gone - you can buy either competitor + a stand-alone BD player for the same or less. and if you're not in the market for a BD player, then it's no contest, price-wise.
There's an old saying - "If you want something done quickly, give it to someone who is busy."
The busy person, when asked to write a letter, writes it, scans it, hits print, folds it into the envelope and that's it.
The little old lady with all day on her hands will literally take a day to decide the paper to use (plain white, colored, peersonalized), what sort of greeting is appropriate, whether a fine-point or medium-point pen is better, the tone of "voice" that they want to project, etc... 2 days later, the letter STILL isn't finished.
Ditto with resumes - give them to a programmer who needs a quick break from programming, and just ask him or her to quickly do triage - "the good, the bad, and the ugly."
hat's a beautiful story, but be careful. You could be arrested for theft of the key if they catch you
Not likely - it's illegal to leave the keys in the ignition. Trying to explain that he had left the keys in the ignition would have just gotten him a ticket. Also, he was in the middle of committing a crime with the tow-truck as his "weapon", so all I was doing was depriving a thief of his tools. Plus, the statute of limitations is over on that particular issue, so I can say what I want about it:-)
You still got ripped. There was a recall on Chrysers because of defective AC condensers. Just like anyone who bought a Neon - Chrysler finally had to admit that the head gaskets were defective and pay out way out-of-warranty.
And Ford with both the fuel pumps and front coil springs on the Focus.
The extended warranties protect the merchant from being sued over a product that doesn't last a reasonable time, not the buyer.
If someone goes to park illegally they should be encouraged to move on, but instead the traffic wardens will hide, wait for them to park and walk off, and then dive out to ticket or even clamp them
So do like I did - one time, the bozo left the keys in the tow-truck while arguing with someone about whether they would be towed or not. The tow-truck operator was trying to shake them down for the $65 towing fee even though he hadn't even hooked up. When they balked, he then "offered to settle" for $25.00 cash... which we all know would have just gone into his pocket. While they were arguing, I pocketed the tow-truck key, then walked into a restaurant and called the cops about a tow-truck driver blocking someone's car.
Went home, got changed (different clothes, a hat, jacket), went back and sure enough, 2 hours later, the tow-truck was still stuck there - but getting ready to be towed.
I simply don't like people trying to scam (or in this case, outright extortion) other people.
I don't buy it. I've gone through enough resumes when we're hiring, and it only takes a moment or two per to weed out the ones that we don't want to interview. Someone who knows the business they're in will be able to spot the puffery and padding a lot quicker than an HR drone, cutting down on everyone's wasted time.
The engineers all got to see the test mound as it was constructed, so they had zero excuse for being so far off in their estimates.
It wasn't a question of "give us the safest amount" but "at what point is the pile going to collapse".
One of my friends is a civil engineer, and the other an aeronautical engineer, and even he would agree that the only way to really tell is to actually run the experiment - everything else is an educated guess - that's why one got to smash rail cars together and the other fired birds into jet engines and then ran the engines to destruction.
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This is true ... it also rules out RMS. Great thinker, but no "mute" button, which, if you think about it, is probably a good thing - anyone less "colourful" wouldn't have been able to effect as much change.
Mind you, I'm in Canada - we simply don't do low-flow toilets up here. Supposedly, buildings built after 1996 are required to have them at construction, but you don't have to retrofit them in older buildings, or in newer ones when remodeling, so newer buildings will sometimes quickly get a "bathroom remodeling."
I don't know ... the issues in the article were computer languages and jobs. A lot of people tossed in the "multi-threaded banking app" as an example, when it's totally bogus. An explanation about financial derivatives - there's no multi-threading required. You can (and people do) do it with a spreadsheet.
I wouldn't be too sure ... during the design phase, the philosophy degree might be more useful - after all, they talk about how to deal with all kinds of shit.
For example: "If the toilet backs up and nobody is there to hear it, does it still smell like shit?"
Or: "If we move the ventilation from the ceiling fan and integrate it into the bowl itself, will the shit still hit the fan?"
Or: "Is it zen-like if we just go with the flow?"
Give it UP already. There's a big difference between unbiased (which slashdot never claimed to be, btw), and presenting both sides equally, when one side is totally discredited. What are you, a fucking scientologist or mormon or jehovah's witness or baptist or ... (insert a looong list of the hopelessly clueless)?
The day that churches let evolution be taught in Sunday School is the day that the religious nutcases can then make some semi-credible claim to be even-handed. Until then, the world is not a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup - don't try to mix religion and science and claim any sort of legitimacy, they aren't like peanut butter and chocolate.
As for filth, the bible is hate literature that includes rape, genocide and murder, all done at "god's command" by "the chosen." Pure, unadulterated filth for the willfully ignorant, and now that atheism is the fastest-growing "belief system" in the US, expect to see more, not fewer, attacks against the ignorance and superstition promoted by religion.
The point I was making is that writing multi-threaded code isn't as big a deal as everyone seems to make out.
Also, "banking apps" are not millions of lines of c or java code. Your web-based banking app probably isn't. COBOL is also still very much a force on the back end for many of those apps, and java servlets are one of the more popular back-end connectors.
And your assumption that I was referring to derivatives trading? Why? Because it's "newsy"?
That would make sense, except that now, the right (wrong) error can now try to fill up your hard drive instead of just going to the bit bucket in the sky. If you really want, you could define a macro or command-line parameter to avoid redirecting, then redirect the output to a log file on the command line. Or have it respond to a SIGHUP to re-read a config file, so you can dynamically change its' behaviour.
I tried that to learn Russian, and all I got was a lousy T-shirt that says "In Soviet Russia language learns YOU!"
Okay, I've seen this a few times in this discussion, and have to ask "why not?"
If you're doing it in java, the multi-threading is essentially free - it's built in.
If you're doing it in c or c++, there are enough examples on the net on how to use threads, and enough sample code, to get you started.
If you can't get your head around threads, your only other option is stateless code - might as well just learn php and write web apps.
I was under that impression as well, but it turns out that, at some places, assembly is making a comeback among grad students - those who know it are generally held in higher regard by their peers, which won't hurt in any hiring process.
Well, if you get enough parents together, it shouldn't be such a load.
Or just make sure you talk with them every day - they'll learn how to take things with a grain of salt.
Come off it - the people demanding the ability to grant degrees in "Creation Science" are the ones trolling the rest of the country, and trying to ruin the educatio system.
I have a better idea - if they get this "right" - get the degree, then publish about how creationism is total bullshit, and point to your "credentials" as someone with an "advanced degree in creation science." Make $$$ selling books, appearances on the idiot box/faux news, etc.
I have an even better idea - let them move to Jebus-land. What the rising waters don't get, global warming-driven hurricanes and droughts will. Problem solved.
A game (or any significant code) that's 99% bug-free is an absolute disaster, totally unusable. It's not like a spelling or grammar mistake, where the end-user can still figure out what was meant ...
Then there's the whole issue of code that's correct, but still doesn't work the way the end-user expects. While not a software bug, it's certainly not a "feature."
99.99% correct before shipping is more reasonable, and certainly achievable.
Fortunately I have karma to burn, so they can mod me troll all they want - it doesn't stop it from being the truth, and they'll get theirs from the meta-mods. There's really no place for this sort of foolishness in the 21st century.
It went north for the duration to convalesce ... hopefully it'll make a full recovery.
Why not 6969? It's the "KFC++ port" - "More than just finger-licking good!"
Fucking mormons, that's why. Screw through a hole in a sheet, have to wear "special underwear" - why not just chuck them all into a blender with the scientologists and jehovah's witnesses and see if they blend?
I bought a Wii last month - wifi is built in, and works fine. You can get local weather and news for free from the Wii shopping channel. I downloaded Opera from the Wii shopping channel for $5 and now I can surf the net by "point-n-click" via the internet channel. Youtube vids play. A lot of the games are wifi-enabled, with no charge to play with others. I can send pics for free using the photo channel. It costs less than $30 to get Wii Speak (or buy it with a game bundle for next to nothing) which basically lets you do conference calling with other similarly-equipped people, with voice recognition to identify who is speaking (you can have a half-dozen people on each end of the conversation - the current speaker's "Mii" enlarges),
2 gig sd cards are cheap enougn, run cooler, take less space, and super-quiet in comparison to a hard drive ...
Both the XBox and PS3 concentrate on FPS games ... a much smaller market than Nintendo..
The reality is that they aren't competing with Nintendo - it's not even close.
People rationalized the purchase of a PS3 by saying to themselves "well, I get a blu-ray player "free" with it" ... but now that blu-ray players are under $200, that rationalization is gone - you can buy either competitor + a stand-alone BD player for the same or less. and if you're not in the market for a BD player, then it's no contest, price-wise.
It's a reference to a storiy by Ellison:
"Repent' Harelquin" Said the TicdkTock Man
Same as my reference (same thread - to those who modded it troll) to I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream"
I'd personally give them shit but "I have no mouth and I must scream!"
There's an old saying - "If you want something done quickly, give it to someone who is busy."
The busy person, when asked to write a letter, writes it, scans it, hits print, folds it into the envelope and that's it.
The little old lady with all day on her hands will literally take a day to decide the paper to use (plain white, colored, peersonalized), what sort of greeting is appropriate, whether a fine-point or medium-point pen is better, the tone of "voice" that they want to project, etc ... 2 days later, the letter STILL isn't finished.
Ditto with resumes - give them to a programmer who needs a quick break from programming, and just ask him or her to quickly do triage - "the good, the bad, and the ugly."
Not likely - it's illegal to leave the keys in the ignition. Trying to explain that he had left the keys in the ignition would have just gotten him a ticket. Also, he was in the middle of committing a crime with the tow-truck as his "weapon", so all I was doing was depriving a thief of his tools. Plus, the statute of limitations is over on that particular issue, so I can say what I want about it :-)
Congrats on the Mr. Packard thing, btw.
You still got ripped. There was a recall on Chrysers because of defective AC condensers. Just like anyone who bought a Neon - Chrysler finally had to admit that the head gaskets were defective and pay out way out-of-warranty.
And Ford with both the fuel pumps and front coil springs on the Focus.
The extended warranties protect the merchant from being sued over a product that doesn't last a reasonable time, not the buyer.
So do like I did - one time, the bozo left the keys in the tow-truck while arguing with someone about whether they would be towed or not. The tow-truck operator was trying to shake them down for the $65 towing fee even though he hadn't even hooked up. When they balked, he then "offered to settle" for $25.00 cash ... which we all know would have just gone into his pocket. While they were arguing, I pocketed the tow-truck key, then walked into a restaurant and called the cops about a tow-truck driver blocking someone's car.
Went home, got changed (different clothes, a hat, jacket), went back and sure enough, 2 hours later, the tow-truck was still stuck there - but getting ready to be towed.
I simply don't like people trying to scam (or in this case, outright extortion) other people.
I don't buy it. I've gone through enough resumes when we're hiring, and it only takes a moment or two per to weed out the ones that we don't want to interview. Someone who knows the business they're in will be able to spot the puffery and padding a lot quicker than an HR drone, cutting down on everyone's wasted time.
The engineers all got to see the test mound as it was constructed, so they had zero excuse for being so far off in their estimates.
It wasn't a question of "give us the safest amount" but "at what point is the pile going to collapse".
One of my friends is a civil engineer, and the other an aeronautical engineer, and even he would agree that the only way to really tell is to actually run the experiment - everything else is an educated guess - that's why one got to smash rail cars together and the other fired birds into jet engines and then ran the engines to destruction.