Is this an evolutionary restraint on nerds breeding?
Before people get too deep into this idea, please keep in mind that the "nerd" stereotype is purely an American thing (maybe Europe too, not sure).
In many Asian countries, there is no "nerd" stereotype, there isn't even a local term that properly translates the word! E.g. in Chinese cultures (e.g. China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, etc), the stereotype for the most loved-by-girls male is handsome and intelligent! Probably applies to Japan and Korea also, have your ever read a manga that has a dumb-but-strong character that is liked by girls?
The dumb-tall-strong-quarterback stereotype as an attractive male doesn't even exist in here. A guy like that will be viewed just like that, as a dumb guy, and even if good-looking, he probably only attracts equally dumb girls.
we have a fake DR strategy which adds an hour to every file restore and exposes us to data theft.
So why don't you just send blank tapes (to go through the motion) and keep the real ones on-site to speed up your recovery time and eliminate the theft possibility?
In case disaster strikes your primary site (flood, fire, etc), you downtime will be longer than 2 hours and the company is out of business anyway, so the off-site tapes won't do any good anyway.
Wow! I haven't seen such astroturfing PR POS for sometime (and by AC too), whoever modded parent insightful/informative must not know much about databases.
Let's see...
One of the challenges of MySQL 5 was precisely to get closer to the SQL:2003 standard.
Isn't that exactly the point of the grandparent? Yup, MySQL maybe getting "closer" (whatever that means) to a standard, but the point is they did not start out being actually compliant to any SQL standard at all! Which means precisely that a developer cannot "start working safe in the knowledge... you're working with a normal "SQL" database."
Consider the MySQL stored procedures for example : their syntax is probably one of the most respectful of the norm today.
Ugh... (too nauseated from the PR line to say anything more)
Let me address just one more point.
And don't come arguing that MySQL should implement "all of the standard or none of it" because you know pretty well it is not possible for a young RDBMS like this...
Which is just a confirmation of the grandparent's point: "MySQL, while posing as SQL, has little if anything in common".
unless I made a mistake or misunderstood the question.
My solution is based on the condition listed "eventually we may be certain that each prisoner will be called in ten times, or twenty times, or any number you choose."
I define the cup when right-side-up called "full", when it is upsidedown called "empty". Turning the cup from "empty" to "full" I call "filling the cup", the other way I call "drinking the cup". These naming is to make the solution easier to understand.
One of the prisoner will be the "producer", he is the only one who will fill the cup. All other prisoners are "consumers", they will only empty the cup.
Set number M = 10k (i.e. ten times k). Whenever the producer's turn, he will fill an empty cup, but ignores a full cup. For consumer's turn, he will empty a cup but ignores an empty cup, until he personally have emptied M cups, then he always ignore the cup.
Everytime the producer comes out and see the cup empty (after he filled it last time), he counts 1 cup consumed. When he counted (n-1)M + k + 1 cups consumed (or (n-1)M + 2k to be safe), he can be sure everyone has come out at least once.
I have just finished the book "Inside the Tornado" by Moore. In the book it gives a series of reason why your observation is actually the right and proper strategy for any market leaders!
The main reasons is simple, as the market leader, comparing yourself/your products to any other competitors simply give more status to them. Now if you can't compare yourself with anybody else, then the only good comparison left is with your past self!
Exactly! I live in Asia, I almost went to a sight-seeing trip to London in early August, but the trip was cancelled due to being sick.
When I chat with friends about it, we all agreed that if I were in London at that time, I would have more to fear from being killed by the London police than from any possible terrorist attacks.
"Taikonauts" is just a made up term created by American press. The official name for Chinese astronauts is, obviously, a term in Chinese. For English, "astronaut" is just as good a term as any other.
It seems most moderators haven't heard of it either, as nobody modded you up yet.
I am Eclipse/Java guy now working on a VS C# project. Anyone who thinks VS is great please tell me how to do these automatically in VS.Net 2003 (I am admittedly a novice with the VS interface, so I am hoping these things are actually doable):
Generate getter and setter so I don't have to type them all by myself!
Automatically rename the namespace of in the file when I move the file between folders/projects, AND update other classes that references the moved class.
Automatically rename the class name when I rename the file, AND update other classes that references the renamed class.
When I rename a member method/variable name, automatically other classes that references the method.
Fix the damn web reference caching so hell won't break loose after methods in a web service has been changed. We have to end up rebooting the machine to get other projects to compile after stuff in a referred web service project changes (Yes, we have tried "update web reference").
Ever heard of "Extract method"?
Let me "generate method" when it found a method called does not already exist.
Let me rename method parameters or local variables and auto-rename all uses in the rest of the method.
How true. A few years ago, I met some guy who asked me "What patterns have you used before?" and I thought "WTF?!", and after trying unsuccessfully to understand what he is asking, I answered "I use patterns as I need them." and then named a few I can recall in the moment.
Only later, after hearing more of these kind of moronic questions did I realize that patterns have became the latest buzzword among "software architects", just like OOP had before when people asked "What objects have you used before?"
Such questions have become a bright flashing signal for me to identify "architects" who can't do their job.
The idea that hours equates to productivity is ludicrous. As long as you get your stuff done, it shouldn't matter to your employer how long you work.
You got the priority wrong. Your boss doesn't care how much actual work you did each day, he just want you to be seen as doing a lot of work. More importantly, he wants you to be seen as having a lot of work to do, so he can justify keeping his headcount for his little empire.
If you were seen working "only" 40-45 hours per week, he will have a hard time explaining to his boss why the next cut shouldn't be in his department instead of other departments where people regularly "work" for 70-80 hours a week.
At least, that has been my experience in all companies with more than 20 people.
The last thing consumers need to hear is that there is a shortage of their favorite game system because Nerd University bought 10,000 systems for their new supercomputer project.
But I say "Go ahead!", I always buy new everything-computer-related months after they are released, when the obvious bugs are patched and the price maybe drops a bit.
Part of the price of the console is the R&D cost, if Nerd University is going to subsidize part of it with their projects by buying 10,000 of them, and thus making the price slash for the rest of us occur earlier, why not?
I just hope more people realize this kind of word trick, which is used in almost all kinds of polls everywhere in the world.
"Do you support reasonable regulation of...."
"Do you want laws to regulate harmful materials..."
"Do you support better allocation of funds to..."
All these are just trick questions to get a "yes" answer. Nowadays, I give no weight to any kind of poll results unless the exact questions used are also published with the results.
And I also hope I am not the only one who sees something wrong with a person who cannot comprehend that, what your fellow countrymen (including companies run by them) do to other people will affect those people's view of you as a member of your country.
Furthermore, different periods in your life is going to need a different 10%! Though it may not be obvious to people fresh out of school and have been working for only for 1 or 2 years.
While they sound like in conflict, the grandparent post and the article are actually talking about different things and may both be true.
TFA mentions "Their findings indicated a frequent lack of positive correlation between the average amount of homework assigned in a nation and corresponding level of academic achievement." and then quotes some examples. Note that the findings is "lack of positive correlation", not negative correlation, i.e. does not relate more homework given with worst acheivement, just the lack of more homework with higher acheivement.
Now since the study is comparing homeworks given vs acheivements in different countries, obviously different countries (or even just different schools) will be using different sets of homeworks. So the study has not been corrected for the quality homework used, nor does it measures the amount of homework actually done by the students.
What the grandparent post is saying, is that for a given set of homework, there is high correlation between academic achievement and amount homework done.
So both may be true, the study could possibly just shows that poorly designed homework is not useful, or that excessive homework assigned causes students to find ways to avoid doing them.
I'm 100% certain that whatever method the US Government puts in place will be full of holes large enough to drive a truck through.
Security-wise, you are right. But for its real purpose, to transfer a lot public money to selected private companies, whatever method selected will be likely be pretty good at it.
Can you tell me one logical reason why anyone might think that people with stiff, cold fingers would not make more typing errors than people with normal fingers?
How about because the muscles controlling your fingers are actually on your arm, so cold fingers may not have significant effect on typing? And maybe a cold environment helps to clear your head so you are more calm and thus makes fewer mistakes?
What happens when somebody does something more serious than steal music, are they just going to look the law enforcement trying to get information and shrug?
I guess they are just going to do what phone companies do when the police asked them "Can you tell us the source of this call made to this phone number at 9:35pm 15th of last month?", or when the subway companies do when the police ask them "Can you give us the identity of the passenger who went on a train at station X and left at station Y at 7:34pm 2nd of last month?" I.e. answer: "can't be done." (I know, I know, maybe they can be done soon, given all there "stop the terrorist!" battle cry and all the money to be made creating these systems. Let's just hope it won't be too soon...)
As another post stated quite clearly, monitoring people everywhere just in case they broke the law is not how things should be done.
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Netbeans shares the same principle in being a framework and the IDE is built out of plugins.
I have dug into this claim last year due to some need from my job. If you traced the history of Netbeans, it was just a Jave IDE from the start. The claims from being a "framework" only comes later, probably due to competition from Eclipse. (Compared that with Eclipse which has the idea of being a platform from the start)
If you further compare the "framework" infrastructure of Netbeans vs that of Eclipse, in the view of really developing an application based on it (e.g. something like Azureas) you will find a lot of things lacking in Netbeans. E.g. of the top of my head, I can recall program update over the http is missing, instructions for stripping out all IDE/Netbeans specific stuff and pack your own application for distribution is also quite lacking.
But take all these with a grain of salt, it is over a year ago afterall.
Why does Sun keep wasting resources on NetBeans? Don't they have anything better to do?
My take is Sun refuse to accept the SWT. If Sun accepts Eclipse, it means they endorses the use of SWT and that's a slap on the face to their own Swing developers.
So Safari is a fork of KHTML then? Fine. Again, I don't want to hear anyone talk about how great Apple is because they give back so much to the open source community.
Since when is doing a fork not "giving back"?
The whole point of open source is that anybody can do anything they pleases with the code. I.e., the license not aimed to protect the rights of the original developers, but to protect the freedom of the subsequent users/developers to do what they want with the code, including making a fork.
If the KHTML developers don't like the changes Apple made, they are free to not put them back into their project, and let Safari branch out on its own. What's the big deal? Oh, turns out they want the functions added, but didn't like the way it is done? Tough luck, I say, life is not always how you want it to be.
If the KHTML developers don't like that, then they better not use an OSS license in the first place and then complain when people actually use the rights granted by the license!
OTOH, if Apple refuses to release the source of Safari when they distribute the binary then we have a valid complain. As long as the binary isn't distributed, we don't even have grounds to tell Apple to give us the source code! Much less give it in a way we like.
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Is this an evolutionary restraint on nerds breeding?
Before people get too deep into this idea, please keep in mind that the "nerd" stereotype is purely an American thing (maybe Europe too, not sure).
In many Asian countries, there is no "nerd" stereotype, there isn't even a local term that properly translates the word! E.g. in Chinese cultures (e.g. China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, etc), the stereotype for the most loved-by-girls male is handsome and intelligent! Probably applies to Japan and Korea also, have your ever read a manga that has a dumb-but-strong character that is liked by girls?
The dumb-tall-strong-quarterback stereotype as an attractive male doesn't even exist in here. A guy like that will be viewed just like that, as a dumb guy, and even if good-looking, he probably only attracts equally dumb girls.
we have a fake DR strategy which adds an hour to every file restore and exposes us to data theft.
So why don't you just send blank tapes (to go through the motion) and keep the real ones on-site to speed up your recovery time and eliminate the theft possibility?
In case disaster strikes your primary site (flood, fire, etc), you downtime will be longer than 2 hours and the company is out of business anyway, so the off-site tapes won't do any good anyway.
Wow! I haven't seen such astroturfing PR POS for sometime (and by AC too), whoever modded parent insightful/informative must not know much about databases.
... you're working with a normal "SQL" database."
Let's see...
One of the challenges of MySQL 5 was precisely to get closer to the SQL:2003 standard.
Isn't that exactly the point of the grandparent? Yup, MySQL maybe getting "closer" (whatever that means) to a standard, but the point is they did not start out being actually compliant to any SQL standard at all! Which means precisely that a developer cannot "start working safe in the knowledge
Consider the MySQL stored procedures for example : their syntax is probably one of the most respectful of the norm today.
Ugh... (too nauseated from the PR line to say anything more)
Let me address just one more point.
And don't come arguing that MySQL should implement "all of the standard or none of it" because you know pretty well it is not possible for a young RDBMS like this...
Which is just a confirmation of the grandparent's point: "MySQL, while posing as SQL, has little if anything in common".
unless I made a mistake or misunderstood the question.
My solution is based on the condition listed "eventually we may be certain that each prisoner will be called in ten times, or twenty times, or any number you choose."
I define the cup when right-side-up called "full", when it is upsidedown called "empty". Turning the cup from "empty" to "full" I call "filling the cup", the other way I call "drinking the cup". These naming is to make the solution easier to understand.
One of the prisoner will be the "producer", he is the only one who will fill the cup. All other prisoners are "consumers", they will only empty the cup.
Set number M = 10k (i.e. ten times k). Whenever the producer's turn, he will fill an empty cup, but ignores a full cup. For consumer's turn, he will empty a cup but ignores an empty cup, until he personally have emptied M cups, then he always ignore the cup.
Everytime the producer comes out and see the cup empty (after he filled it last time), he counts 1 cup consumed. When he counted (n-1)M + k + 1 cups consumed (or (n-1)M + 2k to be safe), he can be sure everyone has come out at least once.
I have just finished the book "Inside the Tornado" by Moore. In the book it gives a series of reason why your observation is actually the right and proper strategy for any market leaders!
The main reasons is simple, as the market leader, comparing yourself/your products to any other competitors simply give more status to them. Now if you can't compare yourself with anybody else, then the only good comparison left is with your past self!
Exactly! I live in Asia, I almost went to a sight-seeing trip to London in early August, but the trip was cancelled due to being sick.
When I chat with friends about it, we all agreed that if I were in London at that time, I would have more to fear from being killed by the London police than from any possible terrorist attacks.
Who modded this "Informative"?!?!
"Taikonauts" is just a made up term created by American press. The official name for Chinese astronauts is, obviously, a term in Chinese. For English, "astronaut" is just as good a term as any other.
It seems most moderators haven't heard of it either, as nobody modded you up yet.
I am Eclipse/Java guy now working on a VS C# project. Anyone who thinks VS is great please tell me how to do these automatically in VS.Net 2003 (I am admittedly a novice with the VS interface, so I am hoping these things are actually doable):
How true. A few years ago, I met some guy who asked me "What patterns have you used before?" and I thought "WTF?!", and after trying unsuccessfully to understand what he is asking, I answered "I use patterns as I need them." and then named a few I can recall in the moment.
Only later, after hearing more of these kind of moronic questions did I realize that patterns have became the latest buzzword among "software architects", just like OOP had before when people asked "What objects have you used before?"
Such questions have become a bright flashing signal for me to identify "architects" who can't do their job.
The idea that hours equates to productivity is ludicrous. As long as you get your stuff done, it shouldn't matter to your employer how long you work.
You got the priority wrong. Your boss doesn't care how much actual work you did each day, he just want you to be seen as doing a lot of work. More importantly, he wants you to be seen as having a lot of work to do, so he can justify keeping his headcount for his little empire.
If you were seen working "only" 40-45 hours per week, he will have a hard time explaining to his boss why the next cut shouldn't be in his department instead of other departments where people regularly "work" for 70-80 hours a week.
At least, that has been my experience in all companies with more than 20 people.
The last thing consumers need to hear is that there is a shortage of their favorite game system because Nerd University bought 10,000 systems for their new supercomputer project.
But I say "Go ahead!", I always buy new everything-computer-related months after they are released, when the obvious bugs are patched and the price maybe drops a bit.
Part of the price of the console is the R&D cost, if Nerd University is going to subsidize part of it with their projects by buying 10,000 of them, and thus making the price slash for the rest of us occur earlier, why not?
I just hope more people realize this kind of word trick, which is used in almost all kinds of polls everywhere in the world.
...."
..."
..."
"Do you support reasonable regulation of
"Do you want laws to regulate harmful materials
"Do you support better allocation of funds to
All these are just trick questions to get a "yes" answer. Nowadays, I give no weight to any kind of poll results unless the exact questions used are also published with the results.
And I also hope I am not the only one who sees something wrong with a person who cannot comprehend that, what your fellow countrymen (including companies run by them) do to other people will affect those people's view of you as a member of your country.
And when you grow up, employers will follow this trend and hire somebody on the other side of the world to do the job, instead of hiring you.
Oh, guess what, it has already happened!
Furthermore, different periods in your life is going to need a different 10%! Though it may not be obvious to people fresh out of school and have been working for only for 1 or 2 years.
While they sound like in conflict, the grandparent post and the article are actually talking about different things and may both be true.
TFA mentions "Their findings indicated a frequent lack of positive correlation between the average amount of homework assigned in a nation and corresponding level of academic achievement." and then quotes some examples. Note that the findings is "lack of positive correlation", not negative correlation, i.e. does not relate more homework given with worst acheivement, just the lack of more homework with higher acheivement.
Now since the study is comparing homeworks given vs acheivements in different countries, obviously different countries (or even just different schools) will be using different sets of homeworks. So the study has not been corrected for the quality homework used, nor does it measures the amount of homework actually done by the students.
What the grandparent post is saying, is that for a given set of homework, there is high correlation between academic achievement and amount homework done.
So both may be true, the study could possibly just shows that poorly designed homework is not useful, or that excessive homework assigned causes students to find ways to avoid doing them.
I'm 100% certain that whatever method the US Government puts in place will be full of holes large enough to drive a truck through.
Security-wise, you are right. But for its real purpose, to transfer a lot public money to selected private companies, whatever method selected will be likely be pretty good at it.
Can you tell me one logical reason why anyone might think that people with stiff, cold fingers would not make more typing errors than people with normal fingers?
How about because the muscles controlling your fingers are actually on your arm, so cold fingers may not have significant effect on typing? And maybe a cold environment helps to clear your head so you are more calm and thus makes fewer mistakes?
What happens when somebody does something more serious than steal music, are they just going to look the law enforcement trying to get information and shrug?
I guess they are just going to do what phone companies do when the police asked them "Can you tell us the source of this call made to this phone number at 9:35pm 15th of last month?", or when the subway companies do when the police ask them "Can you give us the identity of the passenger who went on a train at station X and left at station Y at 7:34pm 2nd of last month?" I.e. answer: "can't be done." (I know, I know, maybe they can be done soon, given all there "stop the terrorist!" battle cry and all the money to be made creating these systems. Let's just hope it won't be too soon...)
As another post stated quite clearly, monitoring people everywhere just in case they broke the law is not how things should be done.
Netbeans shares the same principle in being a framework and the IDE is built out of plugins.
I have dug into this claim last year due to some need from my job. If you traced the history of Netbeans, it was just a Jave IDE from the start. The claims from being a "framework" only comes later, probably due to competition from Eclipse. (Compared that with Eclipse which has the idea of being a platform from the start)
If you further compare the "framework" infrastructure of Netbeans vs that of Eclipse, in the view of really developing an application based on it (e.g. something like Azureas) you will find a lot of things lacking in Netbeans. E.g. of the top of my head, I can recall program update over the http is missing, instructions for stripping out all IDE/Netbeans specific stuff and pack your own application for distribution is also quite lacking.
But take all these with a grain of salt, it is over a year ago afterall.
Why does Sun keep wasting resources on NetBeans? Don't they have anything better to do?
My take is Sun refuse to accept the SWT. If Sun accepts Eclipse, it means they endorses the use of SWT and that's a slap on the face to their own Swing developers.
So the Bush Administration may do something protectionist as retaliation
As if the US needs to wait for the "retaliatory" part to implement protectionist policy!
Just witness the recent re-implementation of textile quota and the steel tariffs a few years ago. Shoot first and talk later is the usual US practice.
You never know what some smart kid will do with it.
And that's why MS will never do it.
You would have to if any of those theory threatens the world view of any powerful/rich group of people, religious or otherwise.
So Safari is a fork of KHTML then? Fine. Again, I don't want to hear anyone talk about how great Apple is because they give back so much to the open source community.
Since when is doing a fork not "giving back"?
The whole point of open source is that anybody can do anything they pleases with the code. I.e., the license not aimed to protect the rights of the original developers, but to protect the freedom of the subsequent users/developers to do what they want with the code, including making a fork.
If the KHTML developers don't like the changes Apple made, they are free to not put them back into their project, and let Safari branch out on its own. What's the big deal? Oh, turns out they want the functions added, but didn't like the way it is done? Tough luck, I say, life is not always how you want it to be.
If the KHTML developers don't like that, then they better not use an OSS license in the first place and then complain when people actually use the rights granted by the license!
OTOH, if Apple refuses to release the source of Safari when they distribute the binary then we have a valid complain. As long as the binary isn't distributed, we don't even have grounds to tell Apple to give us the source code! Much less give it in a way we like.