> Funny, but it's not like it makes sense to express an integer as an IEEE float to begin with...
There are unfathomably many cases where it makes sense to express an integer as a IEEE float. Certainly if you want to perform floating point math between a float and an int, you have to get the int into IEEE float format. And heck, the scripting language for the (wildly successful) original Quake used floats to represent everything from integers to booleans.:-)
1. Most people face an income gap at the end of their lifetimes. 2. Record label execs, who don't face such a gap, are the ones who will actually benefit from this.
All you need to do is provide a hap to every employee on their first day of work. Then, later just have an annual hap screening to make sure everyone still has one. Haps can be expensive, but the cost of employees being hapless is much higher.
The next movie bubble will be based on breakfast cereal brands. There is precedent, of course: Super Mario Brothers the Movie was based on the tasty breakfast cereal of the same name. I hear they've just started filming Frosted Lucky Charms.
"What they seemed to have missed is that the very foundation of privacy is identity."
They didn't miss it at all. The value of their social network comes from their ability to sell its information to advertisers. The more closely the social network resembles reality, the higher the value. Simply look at myspace for an example of low-quality social network from a general advertising perspective. Nobody uses their real names, a large percentage of "friends" are internet-only "friends" (not representing in-person relationships, which have much higher value to advertisers), and the overall culture of the site is ugly and spammy. Google already has orkut, and they are doing everything in their power not to create another one.
"the moment you give random assholes the ability to ruin my career and get me locked up for trying to do my job to the best of my ability is the moment I find something less dangerous to do"
Humanity does not make decisions. People make decisions. Just as overpopulation in other species leads to resource starvation (typically food and/or water), so it has been happening and will continue with humans. 18 million humans starve to death each year. The parents of those 18 million quite clearly did not adjust breeding patterns to match available resources.
A geek is an outcast. Having interests does not make you a geek. Everyone has interests.
Here's a quick acid test: If you've never been shoved into a [trashcan, school locker, schoolbus floor], or given a [wedgie, bag of human feces, punch in the face], or otherwise been routinely mistreated by "cool kids" (3 years or more of this sort of daily harassment might suffice), you're not a geek. You are a normal person who has interests.
Many of the best programmers I have worked with over the years started with old-school BASIC at a young age. The simplicity of having every variable being global and having control flow explicit with line numbers makes it easy to become quickly confident and competent at some of the basic tools every good programmer needs. After that, it's a bit of a leap to get to procedural programming, but I've known many who have done it without much fuss. On the other hand, I've seen many college students utterly fail to make the much larger leap from knowing nothing about programming to being taught a language like C, where you can't write reasonable code without understanding the call stack, memory allocation, etc.
The one I am most familiar with is Prograph, now apparently "Marten" (see www.andescotia.com). It's neat in concept, but somehow you end up with code that's harder to "read" than C.
The irony is that under the covers, it's all done with jump instructions anyway.
How do you think "if", "else", "switch", "for", and "while" are implemented? Jump instructions are used in each of these constructs. Exception handling is an additional construct that allows code to be written so that the flow of control within a function is inherent in the structure of the code rather than through explicit jumping.
Why.... would the U.S. Government release results of an attack simulation is beyond me....
The U.S. government was not involved. The "simulated attack" was essentially a play put on by a non-profit organization, the "Bipartisan Policy Center".
Saying that Steve Jobs needs to be kicked in the dick is "insightful", but pointing out that he probably had nothing to do with this decision is "flamebait"? Welcome to the new Slashdot.
> Steve Jobs deserves to be kicked in the DICK for this, hard.
Right, because obviously Steve Jobs personally reviewed this app, as he does all submitted apps. Indeed, everything Apple does, good or bad, is because Steve personally did it. He personally tests every iPod that gets sold, codes up bugs in Safari, and runs the cnc machine that bores out unibody Aluminum MacBook Pros.
In the wrong direction. We should have spent the 60's on healthcare reform, increasing national spending, polarizing our government between the political parties, and copyright enforcement.
Guess what? All these things did happen in the 60's. Including healthcare reform (Medicare and Medicaid were created in 1965 under LBJ).
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> Funny, but it's not like it makes sense to express an integer as an IEEE float to begin with...
There are unfathomably many cases where it makes sense to express an integer as a IEEE float. Certainly if you want to perform floating point math between a float and an int, you have to get the int into IEEE float format. And heck, the scripting language for the (wildly successful) original Quake used floats to represent everything from integers to booleans. :-)
More to the point:
1. Most people face an income gap at the end of their lifetimes.
2. Record label execs, who don't face such a gap, are the ones who will actually benefit from this.
All you need to do is provide a hap to every employee on their first day of work. Then, later just have an annual hap screening to make sure everyone still has one. Haps can be expensive, but the cost of employees being hapless is much higher.
> Most of what I see posted on Facebook doesn't scream "literacy".
If you want to see smarter things posted on Facebook, the solution is simple: get smarter friends.
Is this where I complain about the government, and in particular, the political party that I hate?
Would social networking sights break if people used a handle instead of a real name? To date, none have.
Myspace and friendster are quite broken, in part, for this very reason.
The next movie bubble will be based on breakfast cereal brands. There is precedent, of course: Super Mario Brothers the Movie was based on the tasty breakfast cereal of the same name. I hear they've just started filming Frosted Lucky Charms.
Is anyone else tired of hearing the term 'bubble' being used so ubiquitously and loosely now?
Yes, it's quite annoying.
Also... bubble.
[Uma Thurman] was definitely 'IT' when Pulp Fiction came out, but her attractiveness isn't timeless.
Also, she has sharp knees.
"What they seemed to have missed is that the very foundation of privacy is identity."
They didn't miss it at all. The value of their social network comes from their ability to sell its information to advertisers. The more closely the social network resembles reality, the higher the value. Simply look at myspace for an example of low-quality social network from a general advertising perspective. Nobody uses their real names, a large percentage of "friends" are internet-only "friends" (not representing in-person relationships, which have much higher value to advertisers), and the overall culture of the site is ugly and spammy. Google already has orkut, and they are doing everything in their power not to create another one.
"the moment you give random assholes the ability to ruin my career and get me locked up for trying to do my job to the best of my ability is the moment I find something less dangerous to do"
Being accountable is a bitch, ain't it?
Humanity does not make decisions. People make decisions. Just as overpopulation in other species leads to resource starvation (typically food and/or water), so it has been happening and will continue with humans. 18 million humans starve to death each year. The parents of those 18 million quite clearly did not adjust breeding patterns to match available resources.
"Clearly some sort of Eastern/Byzantine Orthodox Pastafarian."
I believe you are mistaken. The article specifically mentions that his religious headgear was "unorthodox".
A geek is an outcast. Having interests does not make you a geek. Everyone has interests.
Here's a quick acid test: If you've never been shoved into a [trashcan, school locker, schoolbus floor], or given a [wedgie, bag of human feces, punch in the face], or otherwise been routinely mistreated by "cool kids" (3 years or more of this sort of daily harassment might suffice), you're not a geek. You are a normal person who has interests.
Also, we lose the "just reboot it" fix for all the crappy software we write.
Seriously, the parent post is 4 sentences long and you apparently read just the first one.
Many of the best programmers I have worked with over the years started with old-school BASIC at a young age. The simplicity of having every variable being global and having control flow explicit with line numbers makes it easy to become quickly confident and competent at some of the basic tools every good programmer needs. After that, it's a bit of a leap to get to procedural programming, but I've known many who have done it without much fuss. On the other hand, I've seen many college students utterly fail to make the much larger leap from knowing nothing about programming to being taught a language like C, where you can't write reasonable code without understanding the call stack, memory allocation, etc.
> No, but I think the idea of being able to draw flowcharts on the screen and attach code to each of the boxes could be an idea that has mileage.
There are quite a few such things:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_programming_language
The one I am most familiar with is Prograph, now apparently "Marten" (see www.andescotia.com). It's neat in concept, but somehow you end up with code that's harder to "read" than C.
If I had mod points, you'd have a "Funny". I hope that was the intent.
I didn't ATFS*, but my guess is that the 5 people who showed no deterioration were just bad drivers to begin with.
* Analyze The Fantastic Study
The irony is that under the covers, it's all done with jump instructions anyway.
How do you think "if", "else", "switch", "for", and "while" are implemented? Jump instructions are used in each of these constructs. Exception handling is an additional construct that allows code to be written so that the flow of control within a function is inherent in the structure of the code rather than through explicit jumping.
Why.... would the U.S. Government release results of an attack simulation is beyond me....
The U.S. government was not involved. The "simulated attack" was essentially a play put on by a non-profit organization, the "Bipartisan Policy Center".
Saying that Steve Jobs needs to be kicked in the dick is "insightful", but pointing out that he probably had nothing to do with this decision is "flamebait"? Welcome to the new Slashdot.
> Steve Jobs deserves to be kicked in the DICK for this, hard.
Right, because obviously Steve Jobs personally reviewed this app, as he does all submitted apps. Indeed, everything Apple does, good or bad, is because Steve personally did it. He personally tests every iPod that gets sold, codes up bugs in Safari, and runs the cnc machine that bores out unibody Aluminum MacBook Pros.
In the wrong direction. We should have spent the 60's on healthcare reform, increasing national spending, polarizing our government between the political parties, and copyright enforcement.
Guess what? All these things did happen in the 60's. Including healthcare reform (Medicare and Medicaid were created in 1965 under LBJ).