>but what are you supposed to do for the 12-16+ years of school before you're allowed to really get into what interests you.
Get into stuff that interests you?
Seriously, you can't pick up a book and read? You can't do things on your own? Does the only thing that interests you at age 12 involve pressing buttons on multi-million dollar toys and then reading the a series of numbers on a print out?
Who exactly are you waiting for to give you permission to do what you want to do?
>If you're talented, smart and actually enjoy hardwork, the world is your oyster.
Um.. the same could be said if you are good-looking, born with rich parents and get along with everyone.
The point I think is that most people are not talented enough, smart enough, enjoy hardword enough, good-looking enough, have parents who are rich enough or get along with enough people and so need all the help they can get, including that university degree.
>Are we really still that wrapped up in gender identity that even a gold stud on a guy is a threat?
Ummm, yes?
In a business environment you want to distract other people as little as possible, so they can do their work, focus on the problem at hand, to help make the customer feel as confortable with you as possible.
This includes not doing anything potentially upsetting.
Suppose you owned a business and you were going to do a presentation to what could be the biggest client ever, would you want one of your members to look and talk exactly like Tupac, with a glock sticking in my pants just below my visible underwear? (Assume the businesses have nothing to do with hip-hop.)
>All I'm saying is that there's no reason smart people like all of us should help it persist.
I think the smart people here are just saying the obvious, as a response to the question. The question is not "How can I get away with it?"
Will that be 5 or 10 years experience?
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"Would you date a girl that would likely require you to move into her 12x10 bedroom with cinderella sheets, n'sync posters, barbies on the shelves and her nutty parents across the hallway?"
>I wish would happen is that Maglite would make an LED Flashlight that took AAAA size to be even smaller
If you can afford it, get an Arc AAA flashlight. Batteries are easier to find and way better quality than an maglight. Downside is that its not made anymore but you can still find it on eBay.
>You don't need to declare or predefine your variables.
Isn't this a bad thing? You would never catch typos when using variables. I start using a variable named "myBigNumber" then the next day I mistakenly start using a "myBigNum" variable even though I mean the same thing.
> The people who were gonna buy will buy anyways and the people who weren't, won't..
And now they've gotten rid of the people who won't buy, made more room for people who will buy (as can be seen by the higher revenue) and it makes for a better atmosphere ("The staff "loves it," she said, and regular customers are "coming up to us and thanking us.")
>we measure phase transitions in milliseconds and conformational changes of protein domains in varying temperatures and conditions.
Look up star schema data models, that might give you some ideas.
Think of events with values that occur over time. So its either sales of blue jeans of size 14 in New York state during the period of Dec 1 to 15th, or the changes of protiens at a certain temp/conditions during the 121 second and 300 second marks.
You shouldn't have to think of new ways of doing tables, it should have already been done before. There really should be "patterns" for data modelling.
It does weigh towards Oracle, but trust me you can apply the ideas anywhere.
Also, look into design tools such as ERWin or Oracle Designer and their cheaper OpenSource equivlents. It will help show potential problems and keep you consistant.
1) Create a versioning table that includes a timestamp field.
So if you want to insert one row (into table T1) for today's date you need to create an new entry in the versioning table and copy all data (from T1) from the previous version into T1 using the new version along with the new row of data?
2) Create the timestamp field in the actual table and query based on that timestamp
So if you want to insert one row for today's date, you just insert it adding today's date into one column. You then would query "as of a certain date"?
>No more "let's add an index and I'm sure it will go faster",
No serious SQL programmer/DBA will say this. Doing this is like saying "just add one to the loop varaiable and hopefully we will get the correct answer.
> but, "instruct the query to first make and then use the index".
As other mentioned before - huh? Can you show me what serious DB does this? I think that you would be better off doing a table scan than creating, using and then destroying an index.
>is absolute control over the order in which records are stored.
Um.. maybe you should talk to a DBA. This can be done in alot of modern DBs. I've been doing this since mid-90s.
> The fact that I belong to a nation implies that I and my co-nationals work to improve the entire nation's lot within the world, at the expense of other nations.
IBM Europe is owned and run by Europeans. Your co-nationals are improving themselves at the expense of your nation.
Isn't this exactly what OpenSource/Linux/FSF wants? A bunch of dedicated people with too much time on their hands who will obsess over things important to them?
I really fail to see what having a job makes you more qualified or not. Would you listen to him more if he had a job at McDonalds?
Let the arguments/logic sort themselves out, and not the person/politics.
It reminds me of an engineer who said "I knew I was sucessful when I knew I could turn down clients."
I think the point is that he wants to make something that he is happy with and screw everyone else, at thats a pretty good goal to have. You don't wear your comfy pjs and sweats on the streets because of social pressure, not because you don't like the clothing.
Alot of art is peer reviewed. Your sucess or failure depends on what others say; teachers, critics, art dealers, customers. The social pressure is huge especially in a highly visible position he has.
By "large" I meant "heavily used". It just has to be worth it to see the performance improvement that not parsing the statement for the 1000th time in an hour.
Not everyone uses parameterized queries because not everyone has to worry/encountered this optimization. One of the biggest negatives I get from programmers is that using bind variables makes it hard to figure out exactly what is happening.
I think the orginal poster is talking about tearing the heart from a 9 foot tall bear with your bare hands then holding it over your head on top of a hill shouting in sheer barbaric primal release.
In keeping with my roots, I do a similar thing when I buy a plastic and styrofoam refridgerated package of boneless, skinless chicken breast for $1.99/lb.
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I believe its the lack of trust.
Bush: "We are going into Iraq becuase of the WMD!"
There were alot of doubts if this was true or not. It wasn't. So now people don't trust him and this is why people question his motives.
>but what are you supposed to do for the 12-16+ years of school before you're allowed to really get into what interests you.
Get into stuff that interests you?
Seriously, you can't pick up a book and read? You can't do things on your own? Does the only thing that interests you at age 12 involve pressing buttons on multi-million dollar toys and then reading the a series of numbers on a print out?
Who exactly are you waiting for to give you permission to do what you want to do?
Stop waiting to be spoon-fed.
>If you're talented, smart and actually enjoy hardwork, the world is your oyster.
Um.. the same could be said if you are good-looking, born with rich parents and get along with everyone.
The point I think is that most people are not talented enough, smart enough, enjoy hardword enough, good-looking enough, have parents who are rich enough or get along with enough people and so need all the help they can get, including that university degree.
>Maybe if he was a 'normal' person he would have never tried acid in the first place, but would he create Apple?
Steve Wozniak created Apple too. Did he drop acid?
>Are we really still that wrapped up in gender identity that even a gold stud on a guy is a threat?
Ummm, yes?
In a business environment you want to distract other people as little as possible, so they can do their work, focus on the problem at hand, to help make the customer feel as confortable with you as possible.
This includes not doing anything potentially upsetting.
Suppose you owned a business and you were going to do a presentation to what could be the biggest client ever, would you want one of your members to look and talk exactly like Tupac, with a glock sticking in my pants just below my visible underwear? (Assume the businesses have nothing to do with hip-hop.)
>All I'm saying is that there's no reason smart people like all of us should help it persist.
I think the smart people here are just saying the obvious, as a response to the question. The question is not "How can I get away with it?"
Time to add Ajax and Rails on my resume!
(To all potential employeers: I kid!)
"Would you date a girl that would likely require you to move into her 12x10 bedroom with cinderella sheets, n'sync posters, barbies on the shelves and her nutty parents across the hallway?"
Don't judge my fetishes and I won't judge yours.
>I wish would happen is that Maglite would make an LED Flashlight that took AAAA size to be even smaller
If you can afford it, get an Arc AAA flashlight. Batteries are easier to find and way better quality than an maglight. Downside is that its not made anymore but you can still find it on eBay.
>You don't need to declare or predefine your variables.
Isn't this a bad thing? You would never catch typos when using variables. I start using a variable named "myBigNumber" then the next day I mistakenly start using a "myBigNum" variable even though I mean the same thing.
Thanks, I just wanted make sure I understood you just in case I come across this problem.
> The people who were gonna buy will buy anyways and the people who weren't, won't..
And now they've gotten rid of the people who won't buy, made more room for people who will buy (as can be seen by the higher revenue) and it makes for a better atmosphere ("The staff "loves it," she said, and regular customers are "coming up to us and thanking us.")
Exactly, how is it their loss?
>we measure phase transitions in milliseconds and conformational changes of protein domains in varying temperatures and conditions.
Look up star schema data models, that might give you some ideas.
Think of events with values that occur over time. So its either sales of blue jeans of size 14 in New York state during the period of Dec 1 to 15th, or the changes of protiens at a certain temp/conditions during the 121 second and 300 second marks.
You shouldn't have to think of new ways of doing tables, it should have already been done before. There really should be "patterns" for data modelling.
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One of the best design books I have is;
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/oracledes/index.ht
It does weigh towards Oracle, but trust me you can apply the ideas anywhere.
Also, look into design tools such as ERWin or Oracle Designer and their cheaper OpenSource equivlents. It will help show potential problems and keep you consistant.
Just so I understand;
1) Create a versioning table that includes a timestamp field.
So if you want to insert one row (into table T1) for today's date you need to create an new entry in the versioning table and copy all data (from T1) from the previous version into T1 using the new version along with the new row of data?
2) Create the timestamp field in the actual table and query based on that timestamp
So if you want to insert one row for today's date, you just insert it adding today's date into one column. You then would query "as of a certain date"?
>No more "let's add an index and I'm sure it will go faster",
No serious SQL programmer/DBA will say this. Doing this is like saying "just add one to the loop varaiable and hopefully we will get the correct answer.
> but, "instruct the query to first make and then use the index".
As other mentioned before - huh? Can you show me what serious DB does this? I think that you would be better off doing a table scan than creating, using and then destroying an index.
>is absolute control over the order in which records are stored.
Um.. maybe you should talk to a DBA. This can be done in alot of modern DBs. I've been doing this since mid-90s.
>Entertainment should be made with the goal of seeing your dreams realized.
Every time Moe hits Curly with that banana cream pie, my dreams are realized.
> The fact that I belong to a nation implies that I and my co-nationals work to improve the entire nation's lot within the world, at the expense of other nations.
IBM Europe is owned and run by Europeans. Your co-nationals are improving themselves at the expense of your nation.
Maybe you need to rethink your "rule".
Isn't this exactly what OpenSource/Linux/FSF wants? A bunch of dedicated people with too much time on their hands who will obsess over things important to them?
I really fail to see what having a job makes you more qualified or not. Would you listen to him more if he had a job at McDonalds?
Let the arguments/logic sort themselves out, and not the person/politics.
"I've earned the right to fail"
It reminds me of an engineer who said "I knew I was sucessful when I knew I could turn down clients."
I think the point is that he wants to make something that he is happy with and screw everyone else, at thats a pretty good goal to have. You don't wear your comfy pjs and sweats on the streets because of social pressure, not because you don't like the clothing.
Alot of art is peer reviewed. Your sucess or failure depends on what others say; teachers, critics, art dealers, customers. The social pressure is huge especially in a highly visible position he has.
You should how thick the irony is when an article about sex gets posted!
>but I've dealt with *A LOT* of chinese programmers, and they are very single minded and narrowly educated.
>but when you need an *ENGINEER* stay the hell away.
Have you've seen a graduating enginerring class recently? East Asians (Chinese, Korean etc) are the majority graduating.
(Unless you are talking about Chinese programmers, then thats silly because you can say the same thing about white programmers too.)
Excellent point. I usually assume that the application level is going to prevent something like that.
I did mean exactly what was explained.
By "large" I meant "heavily used". It just has to be worth it to see the performance improvement that not parsing the statement for the 1000th time in an hour.
Not everyone uses parameterized queries because not everyone has to worry/encountered this optimization. One of the biggest negatives I get from programmers is that using bind variables makes it hard to figure out exactly what is happening.
>I also log every sql query with that info
:)
For "big" applications you really can't do this because of bind variables. (You can, but it would add another level of complexity to your logging)
If you don't know I mean, then lucky you.
I think the orginal poster is talking about tearing the heart from a 9 foot tall bear with your bare hands then holding it over your head on top of a hill shouting in sheer barbaric primal release.
In keeping with my roots, I do a similar thing when I buy a plastic and styrofoam refridgerated package of boneless, skinless chicken breast for $1.99/lb.