The problem is that Occam's Razor does not allow for mamiing fewer assumptions than possible.
If what we think we know to be true does not explain something we observe, then either there must be something unknown as well or we must be wrong about what we think we know.
Your assumption is that what we think we know is wrong. The dark matter, dark energy, and the sparse bubble folks are all putting forward theories and trying to validate them through experiments.
That's true, but although it was the same land mass it wasn't the same group doing it.
The US and the British settlers before the US was founded aren't the only newcomers to do such things in the West, either, though. The Spanish were pretty brutal in South America, wiping out whole civilizations and enslaving people to work in silver mining. The French and Dutch weren't exactly on a mission to preserve aboriginal peoples, either.
As you said, many of those civilizations that were conquered or exterminated had a habit of massive wars on one another, though.
I love America and all, but if you think we haven't as a nation committed genocide then you've not read back far enough in our history.
From death marches to reservations thousands of miles away from their homelands to intentionally trading them blankets from smallpox and tuberculosis patients, the Indians have quite a moral claim against the US government. Most of them now have either mainstreamed themselves into our society or seem fairly content with schools, casinos, a distinct lack of sales taxes, and being largely left the hell alone. I'd say they handled it far more graciously than the rest of us in the U.S. have.
I'm far from a master programmer myself, but this much I know.
Don't get attached to your code. Your code sucks as a newbie. Your code will suck a little less with experience. Even the master coders sometimes write a section of code that sucks. Much of the difference between a newbie and a master coder is that the master coder recognizes his own mistakes when he comes back to them and rips his old code apart to be replaced by new code. The quality of the application as a whole is where to take pride if you're going to be proud of something. Being overly proud of a line, a function, a class, or a library will often get in the way of the quality of the application. Your users don't care about the code you write or how clever/inspired/tight/beautiful/special it is. If rewriting part of the code improves the application, then that's what matters.
Bugs happen. Fix them without blaming or arguing. Don't place blame on the people who wrote them. If blame must be placed, place it only on the code in which they were found. Your job is to make the code work, not to piss people off by pointing fingers. You'll write bugs into code, too, anyway, and you don't want every one of them thrown back in your face.
Make a habit of promising less and delivering more. It's much better than the other way around.
If you're doubting how to design or code a section of a program, ask two people whose programming styles differ. Take as much of the advice of both as will fit into one solution. Try to change which two people you ask from one task to another, even if some of them are not the absolute best programmers on the team. You'll learn more this way than attaching yourself to one mentor unless your mentor happens to be a world-class wizard. You'll also keep allegations of cronyism and team splitting down.
Use source control of some sort. Even if your team doesn't use it overall, use it for your portions. Even if it's something really basic like tarring up your project directory at the end of every work day and keeping the tar files, do it. Try to subtly hint at its benefits for the whole group if they're not already using it.
Learn a programming language completely different from what you use at work in your spare time. The perspective it gives you can be very helpful. Lisp, Scheme, Haskell, Erlang, and Forth are good candidates for most people to pick up. If you're not exposed to one of Python, Perl, or Ruby at work, pick one and study it at home, too. Any one of those will do, although my personal preference is Perl (after all, it's just a personal preference). JavaScript's object model is interesting, so that wouldn't be a bad choice either.
Don't read/. and other sites too much when you need to be coding. It's great to take a break and come back to a problem, but don't overdo the break part when a deadline looms. Cramming and hurrying when coding isn't as easy as hurrying up many other kinds of work.
Get plenty of sleep and drink plenty of fluids. I know it's old advice and it sounds corny. All those tales of lone hackers coding all week on coffee, Jolt cola, cold pizza, pot stickers, and hot and sour soup are romantic and inspiring. They're stories about great people getting stuff done against the odds, though. You need to think clearly to code well. If you can think clearly on 3 hours sleep and cold pizza night after night, then good for you. If not, take care of your body so you can concentrate.
Set reasonable short-term goals on projects and cross them off one after the other. You don't have to knock the whole project out as one commit two days into the schedule. If you can schedule kind of conservatively and get ahead of schedule, then use that time to improve your code or save it for troubleshooting later in the project. Don't get cocky when one module gets implemented smoothly and tell your boss to shorten the whole schedule. It'll just come back to bite you in the ass if you do.
The bailout at all is, in the long term, probably a bad idea at all. If they're going to do it, though, they shouldn't reward the mortgage resellers for encouraging bigger loans on shadier credentials.
I watched a good portion of Night Business Report on PBS tonight. Thankfully, how the deal makers on Capitol Hill are planning the "bailout" is not just throwing money at the big investment companies. They want the government to buy these mortgage-backed securities for some price between what they should actually be worth and what the skittish Wall Street firms are willing to pony up to buy them.
If the projections go at all close to what anyone's honest numbers for these loan packages are, then the government will make money on an investment other than the Post Office for once.
It's a much better solution than just giving AIG, Lehman Bros., WaMu, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac operating capital like much of the mainstream press has been hinting the deal would be.
They want to bail out banks and still let them collect on as many of the loans as they can, too. Don't you think if they're going to cover the loan losses that the loan should be fully forgiven and the people should keep the collateral? After all, the government is paying the loans with the taxpayers' money.
Our nation political environment isn't characterized by constant idiocy. The level of idiocy is constantly in flux, although it tends to rise over time when viewed on a grand scale.
First, tenure in primary or secondary schools is not a universal maxim. In some states it is illegal for a local public school district to offer tenure. In others, tenure only means the teacher gets a proper hearing and can still be fired for just cause.
Second, disbarment does not invalidate his law degree and certainly not any other degrees he has. He'll still have the degree, but he won't be able to practice. This is the same as having an MD and no medical license or an MS in civil engineering and no Engineer's license. He can still list the degrees he holds on any resume or c.v. and can advertise himself as having the knowledge. He just can't use it to serve clients for a fee or to argue cases in the courts.
Many other professions in fact have such provisions. In some states you can't be a CPA or can't be a licensed accountant if you're had a recent bankruptcy. Some police departments won't allow bankrupt officers for fear that broke cops are more easily tempted to accept bribes. Truck drivers can lose their licenses for speeding, driving too many hours without rest periods, faking their log books, or any number of other infractions. They can lose their insurance even if they are still licensed. Professional athletes and can be suspended or banned for gambling on their sport even if bets don't involve their team. Athletes can be suspended or banned for disrespectful behavior, for failing drug tests, or for refusing to take drug tests.
It's well within your rights to say such things, but it's well within your boss's rights to have you punished if they are untrue. Shitting on your boss's desk is probably not protected as speech at all, because it's more importantly a direct health hazard. HTH.;-)
The claims are that he repeatedly makes false and inflammatory claims about others in and out of court, disrespects the officers of the court, and refuses to follow the rules of the court or to act with decorum in the courtroom. I'd say those are sufficient grounds. The Florida Bar Association and the courts appear to think so, and they consider the complaints against him legitimate enough to act. IANAL, but I know they need to abide by some rules and that they should know those rules better than the rest of us.
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It's a big state with roads, universities, and... actual cities. Just because there are parts of the state that are isolated and backwoods with people who are isolationist and backwards doesn't mean nobody in the whole state has an Internet connection.
In related news, not everyone in the state of New York is a tough Italian mafia soldier or Jewish writer with an overbearing mother. Not everyone in California is a beautiful, sexy, wine-making goddes under 50 or a Silicon Valley millionaire.
The same applies to people descended from different places who have immigrated. Not all Germans are engineers, and not all Persians sell rugs or drive taxis. Not all Mexicans are illegal immigrants, and not all white men are rich or powerful.
That is your problem. Minds change from the inside. If yours is closed, it can't be reached by logic.
The replacement cost is, by any definition, the cost of replacing items. It is not the cost of buying them in the first place.
There is more than one number to consider, and the people saying it's a 17% or "about 20%" increase are considering the most relevant number.
Your math is correct, and from the POV of overall cost, you are correct. From the point of view that the other participants are considering, which is more relevant and which you refuse to consider, the other participants are correct (if not always precise).
Your signature I took as a joke before, but now I'm convinced it's really your attitude towards other people. That makes me wonder why you would involve yourself in a public forum at all, unless you're just trying to perfect the art of trolling. If that's the case, then I applaud you because you're much more sophisticated than the average/. troll and you've managed to best me in your twisted little contest this time.
Actually, the quote is "Never ask two questions in a business letter. The reply will discuss the one in which you are least interested and say nothing about the other." and it's known as "Weed's Axiom".
I still don't know anything about who Weed is, or if it's actually the name of the original speaker or writer of that quote. I just found that attribution in some quote files.
Never ask two questions in a business letter. The reply will discuss the one you are least interested, and say nothing about the other.
That's a quote from someone, but I don't recall who said it originally. Google was helpful in confirming the proper wording, but not with attribution. Once a quote makes it into the fortunes file, all bets are off.
The hard part of that is that my hypothetical high-end supercomputer application and your hypothetical high-end supercomputer application don't do the same thing, and so we must weight those values differently.
To get a single unbiased score, there must be one simple test or a group of unweighted ones. If you're giving an equal weight to different benchmarks, then the overall score might still mean something. The single value from equal weighing still won't be very predictive for applications that stress one part of the system more than others.
It'd be nice if there was a top 500 in each of the HPCC categories and a top 500 overall, but I'm not sure who's going to collect, organize, and present all that info.
So if I'm running and about to lie to my trainer or doctor about how far I ran today, my pulse rate, breathing rate, and body temperature are up. I'm thinking about deceiving someone. So I guess that means it's now a crime to lie to your trainer according to the DHS?
Centralizing the system that holds the actual messages would be a benefit. You'd have to do it by DNS name though, because one spammer can't be allowed to shut down a range of IPs as a spam source. That's part of our issue with fighting spam now, and any new solution needs to address it.
If you think the outrageous expense of $200 for a cheap desktop box running Linux, $10 a year for a domain, and $50 a month for internet access is going to break the spammers, you seriously underestimate the profitability.
If I'm a spammer, I can send you and a fifty million other people a small notice that there's mail waiting for you on the domain I actually have registered. You won't fetch that mail, and neither will anyone else with a clue. The other 47 million people will.
Your early replacement cost isn't your overall equipment cost. Your early replacement cost goes from $380 to $460 dollars, a difference of $80.
Your overall original equipment cost is of no interest in discussing server room conditions. You were going to buy the servers in the first place no matter what the ambient temperature. That's a sunk cost.
What matters when budgeting for replacing equipment early is how much of the equipment fails early. Take a pill and realize that more than one number makes up a budget.
The hardware and software folks want you to be able to do cool stuff. The content and media portion of the company wants to make extra sure you're not doing it with their stuff. Until Sony's supper-level management tells the content people to STFU, the hardware and software folks at Sony have no choice.
4.6 out of every hundred is 17% more units failing than 2.8 out of every hundred, per hundred. That means the expected replacement cost for hardware during its expect life of service goes up 17%.
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The problem is that Occam's Razor does not allow for mamiing fewer assumptions than possible.
If what we think we know to be true does not explain something we observe, then either there must be something unknown as well or we must be wrong about what we think we know.
Your assumption is that what we think we know is wrong. The dark matter, dark energy, and the sparse bubble folks are all putting forward theories and trying to validate them through experiments.
That's true, but although it was the same land mass it wasn't the same group doing it.
The US and the British settlers before the US was founded aren't the only newcomers to do such things in the West, either, though. The Spanish were pretty brutal in South America, wiping out whole civilizations and enslaving people to work in silver mining. The French and Dutch weren't exactly on a mission to preserve aboriginal peoples, either.
As you said, many of those civilizations that were conquered or exterminated had a habit of massive wars on one another, though.
I love America and all, but if you think we haven't as a nation committed genocide then you've not read back far enough in our history.
From death marches to reservations thousands of miles away from their homelands to intentionally trading them blankets from smallpox and tuberculosis patients, the Indians have quite a moral claim against the US government. Most of them now have either mainstreamed themselves into our society or seem fairly content with schools, casinos, a distinct lack of sales taxes, and being largely left the hell alone. I'd say they handled it far more graciously than the rest of us in the U.S. have.
Don't forget the lead paint!
I'm far from a master programmer myself, but this much I know.
The bailout at all is, in the long term, probably a bad idea at all. If they're going to do it, though, they shouldn't reward the mortgage resellers for encouraging bigger loans on shadier credentials.
I watched a good portion of Night Business Report on PBS tonight. Thankfully, how the deal makers on Capitol Hill are planning the "bailout" is not just throwing money at the big investment companies. They want the government to buy these mortgage-backed securities for some price between what they should actually be worth and what the skittish Wall Street firms are willing to pony up to buy them.
If the projections go at all close to what anyone's honest numbers for these loan packages are, then the government will make money on an investment other than the Post Office for once.
It's a much better solution than just giving AIG, Lehman Bros., WaMu, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac operating capital like much of the mainstream press has been hinting the deal would be.
They want to bail out banks and still let them collect on as many of the loans as they can, too. Don't you think if they're going to cover the loan losses that the loan should be fully forgiven and the people should keep the collateral? After all, the government is paying the loans with the taxpayers' money.
Our nation political environment isn't characterized by constant idiocy. The level of idiocy is constantly in flux, although it tends to rise over time when viewed on a grand scale.
First, tenure in primary or secondary schools is not a universal maxim. In some states it is illegal for a local public school district to offer tenure. In others, tenure only means the teacher gets a proper hearing and can still be fired for just cause.
Second, disbarment does not invalidate his law degree and certainly not any other degrees he has. He'll still have the degree, but he won't be able to practice. This is the same as having an MD and no medical license or an MS in civil engineering and no Engineer's license. He can still list the degrees he holds on any resume or c.v. and can advertise himself as having the knowledge. He just can't use it to serve clients for a fee or to argue cases in the courts.
Many other professions in fact have such provisions. In some states you can't be a CPA or can't be a licensed accountant if you're had a recent bankruptcy. Some police departments won't allow bankrupt officers for fear that broke cops are more easily tempted to accept bribes. Truck drivers can lose their licenses for speeding, driving too many hours without rest periods, faking their log books, or any number of other infractions. They can lose their insurance even if they are still licensed. Professional athletes and can be suspended or banned for gambling on their sport even if bets don't involve their team. Athletes can be suspended or banned for disrespectful behavior, for failing drug tests, or for refusing to take drug tests.
It's well within your rights to say such things, but it's well within your boss's rights to have you punished if they are untrue. Shitting on your boss's desk is probably not protected as speech at all, because it's more importantly a direct health hazard. HTH. ;-)
How about his filings disrespectful to the courts for starters? Perhaps submitting gay porn as court documents so they're part of the public record strikes you as a better reason? How about "making false and disparaging statements" about judges and other attorneys?
The claims are that he repeatedly makes false and inflammatory claims about others in and out of court, disrespects the officers of the court, and refuses to follow the rules of the court or to act with decorum in the courtroom. I'd say those are sufficient grounds. The Florida Bar Association and the courts appear to think so, and they consider the complaints against him legitimate enough to act. IANAL, but I know they need to abide by some rules and that they should know those rules better than the rest of us.
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It's a big state with roads, universities, and ... actual cities. Just because there are parts of the state that are isolated and backwoods with people who are isolationist and backwards doesn't mean nobody in the whole state has an Internet connection.
In related news, not everyone in the state of New York is a tough Italian mafia soldier or Jewish writer with an overbearing mother. Not everyone in California is a beautiful, sexy, wine-making goddes under 50 or a Silicon Valley millionaire.
The same applies to people descended from different places who have immigrated. Not all Germans are engineers, and not all Persians sell rugs or drive taxis. Not all Mexicans are illegal immigrants, and not all white men are rich or powerful.
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That is your problem. Minds change from the inside. If yours is closed, it can't be reached by logic.
The replacement cost is, by any definition, the cost of replacing items. It is not the cost of buying them in the first place.
There is more than one number to consider, and the people saying it's a 17% or "about 20%" increase are considering the most relevant number.
Your math is correct, and from the POV of overall cost, you are correct. From the point of view that the other participants are considering, which is more relevant and which you refuse to consider, the other participants are correct (if not always precise).
Your signature I took as a joke before, but now I'm convinced it's really your attitude towards other people. That makes me wonder why you would involve yourself in a public forum at all, unless you're just trying to perfect the art of trolling. If that's the case, then I applaud you because you're much more sophisticated than the average /. troll and you've managed to best me in your twisted little contest this time.
Actually, the quote is "Never ask two questions in a business letter. The reply will discuss the one in which you are least interested and say nothing about the other." and it's known as "Weed's Axiom".
I still don't know anything about who Weed is, or if it's actually the name of the original speaker or writer of that quote. I just found that attribution in some quote files.
Never ask two questions in a business letter. The reply will discuss the one you are least interested, and say nothing about the other.
That's a quote from someone, but I don't recall who said it originally. Google was helpful in confirming the proper wording, but not with attribution. Once a quote makes it into the fortunes file, all bets are off.
The hard part of that is that my hypothetical high-end supercomputer application and your hypothetical high-end supercomputer application don't do the same thing, and so we must weight those values differently.
To get a single unbiased score, there must be one simple test or a group of unweighted ones. If you're giving an equal weight to different benchmarks, then the overall score might still mean something. The single value from equal weighing still won't be very predictive for applications that stress one part of the system more than others.
It'd be nice if there was a top 500 in each of the HPCC categories and a top 500 overall, but I'm not sure who's going to collect, organize, and present all that info.
So if I'm running and about to lie to my trainer or doctor about how far I ran today, my pulse rate, breathing rate, and body temperature are up. I'm thinking about deceiving someone. So I guess that means it's now a crime to lie to your trainer according to the DHS?
Centralizing the system that holds the actual messages would be a benefit. You'd have to do it by DNS name though, because one spammer can't be allowed to shut down a range of IPs as a spam source. That's part of our issue with fighting spam now, and any new solution needs to address it.
Welcome back, core memory, it's been a long time!
If you think the outrageous expense of $200 for a cheap desktop box running Linux, $10 a year for a domain, and $50 a month for internet access is going to break the spammers, you seriously underestimate the profitability.
If I'm a spammer, I can send you and a fifty million other people a small notice that there's mail waiting for you on the domain I actually have registered. You won't fetch that mail, and neither will anyone else with a clue. The other 47 million people will.
Your early replacement cost isn't your overall equipment cost. Your early replacement cost goes from $380 to $460 dollars, a difference of $80.
Your overall original equipment cost is of no interest in discussing server room conditions. You were going to buy the servers in the first place no matter what the ambient temperature. That's a sunk cost.
What matters when budgeting for replacing equipment early is how much of the equipment fails early. Take a pill and realize that more than one number makes up a budget.
The hardware and software folks want you to be able to do cool stuff. The content and media portion of the company wants to make extra sure you're not doing it with their stuff. Until Sony's supper-level management tells the content people to STFU, the hardware and software folks at Sony have no choice.
Well, I was blind on that preview I guess. That should say 3.8 where it says 2.8 in the parent.
4.6 out of every hundred is 17% more units failing than 2.8 out of every hundred, per hundred. That means the expected replacement cost for hardware during its expect life of service goes up 17%.