Most people who rail against Ayn Rand have never read anything she wrote, they only know the standard denigration from the pseudo-intellectual left wing academics.
I wonder how long it's going to take for some low-level FB employee to figure out that they can make a hefty amount on the side by blackmailing people.
I went to high school in Fairfax county, and I got a major shock on my first day of 9th grade when I realized that there were kids around me who couldn't even read out loud at a normal speaking pace.
We sure as hell aren't getting what we pay for when it comes to public schooling.
I look forward to the end of the 4th Reich. Free trade is a great idea, but the notion that you have to employ an army of parasites to get it is ludicrous.
The worst code I've ever seen came from some clown I never met, no idea what his schooling was. There was some really strange shit in his code, like declaring a global array of a hundred ints called "constants", filling it with the values from 0 to 99, and then using "constants[whatever]" anytime he needed a constant value in the code.
I asked my customer what happened to the guy (he was long gone by the time I got there), and found out that he'd been shitcanned for getting drunk at the office christmas party and punching a girl out.
One of them has composition and conducting degrees from Juliard, and a BA in computer science from Rutgers. One of my early mentors was an organist, with a music degree from some very small college whose name I don't recall, and he leaned what he knew about writing code entirely on the job.
And when you give that info up to your bank, you give your consent to them sharing it with the equifaxes of the world. If you don't believe me, go look up the paperwork that you got when you last opened any kind of account.
One of my assignments at Apple was cleaning up a framework that had thirty or more coders over the previous ten years. The first time I ran it through the static analyzer, there were over six hundred issues identified. I tracked down and fixed all of them over the next couple of months in the process of cleaning up the code to build under LLVM and pass the App Store rules.
Most of the easier cases were things like parameters of the wrong type being passed to methods, which caused no problem at runtime and hadn't been spotted before for that reason. The more difficult ones were mistakes in memory handling, and in a lot of cases, I found myself saying "holy shit, GCC lets you do THAT?"
Comparing Obj-C to Swift, I would say that easily 90% or more of those bugs can't be written in Swift at all unless you resort to the UnsafeMutablePointer types, which put it right in your face that you're doing something dicey.
I was a huge fan of loose coupling for all the years I was an Obj-c developer, but today I spend almost no time in LLDB, since almost all of the mistakes I make writing Swift are caught at compile time.
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Most people who rail against Ayn Rand have never read anything she wrote, they only know the standard denigration from the pseudo-intellectual left wing academics.
-jcr
I'm no tree-hugger, but I'd mod you down for posting anything that's OFF TOPIC. This isn't a global warming story, it's a Tesla story.
-jcr
I LOVED it. It was the first time in my career that my office was perfectly silent, no fan noise.
-jcr
I wonder how long it's going to take for some low-level FB employee to figure out that they can make a hefty amount on the side by blackmailing people.
-jcr
poor basic education in some parts of America due to widely uneven funding
Nope. Funding is not the problem. The problem is incompetence protected from competition by politicians who want NEA money.
-jcr
I went to high school in Fairfax county, and I got a major shock on my first day of 9th grade when I realized that there were kids around me who couldn't even read out loud at a normal speaking pace.
We sure as hell aren't getting what we pay for when it comes to public schooling.
-jcr
Switzerland has a law requiring all men in a certain age range to be armed. Any mass shootings in Switzerland that you know of?
France bans guns. Didn't help the people who worked at Charlie Hebdo.
No-one on this planet needs access to an automatic rifle of any kind at home, only if you are in the forces so you require this kind of weapon.
Fuck you. The whole 20th century is a lesson in what governments do to unarmed populations.
-jcr
This is nothing even close to /. material.
-jcr
I look forward to the end of the 4th Reich. Free trade is a great idea, but the notion that you have to employ an army of parasites to get it is ludicrous.
-jcr
If you use the SSN as a primary key, you're incompetent and you should resign.
-jcr
We're not their customers. We're their PRODUCT.
-jcr
he was a radical leftist nutjob.
Got a source on that? I haven't seen any indication of his motives at all so far.
-jcr
a 68 year old native resident of Nevada, which more than likely also makes him a Republican..
Right, all those Nevada Republicans who kept voting Harry Reid in year after year.
-jcr
The worst code I've ever seen came from some clown I never met, no idea what his schooling was. There was some really strange shit in his code, like declaring a global array of a hundred ints called "constants", filling it with the values from 0 to 99, and then using "constants[whatever]" anytime he needed a constant value in the code.
I asked my customer what happened to the guy (he was long gone by the time I got there), and found out that he'd been shitcanned for getting drunk at the office christmas party and punching a girl out.
-jcr
One of them has composition and conducting degrees from Juliard, and a BA in computer science from Rutgers. One of my early mentors was an organist, with a music degree from some very small college whose name I don't recall, and he leaned what he knew about writing code entirely on the job.
-jcr
And when you give that info up to your bank, you give your consent to them sharing it with the equifaxes of the world. If you don't believe me, go look up the paperwork that you got when you last opened any kind of account.
-jcr
What's your fucking problem?
-jcr
Who the hell gave these freaks the right to have the personal info on millions of Americans???
The millions of Americans who told them their personal info.
-jcr
Some of the best engineers I've worked with have had music degrees.
-jcr
What kind of half-assed piece of shit are you using that can't even edit punctuation marks on a web form without mangling them?
-jcr
More like, the perfect forum for leftards to screech at each other over for not being crazy enough.
-jcr
...and I was on the fence about secession, this shit would make me 100% for it.
-jcr
One of my assignments at Apple was cleaning up a framework that had thirty or more coders over the previous ten years. The first time I ran it through the static analyzer, there were over six hundred issues identified. I tracked down and fixed all of them over the next couple of months in the process of cleaning up the code to build under LLVM and pass the App Store rules.
Most of the easier cases were things like parameters of the wrong type being passed to methods, which caused no problem at runtime and hadn't been spotted before for that reason. The more difficult ones were mistakes in memory handling, and in a lot of cases, I found myself saying "holy shit, GCC lets you do THAT?"
Comparing Obj-C to Swift, I would say that easily 90% or more of those bugs can't be written in Swift at all unless you resort to the UnsafeMutablePointer types, which put it right in your face that you're doing something dicey.
I was a huge fan of loose coupling for all the years I was an Obj-c developer, but today I spend almost no time in LLDB, since almost all of the mistakes I make writing Swift are caught at compile time.
-jcr
How tragic that you think the 4th Reich contributes anything to civlization.
-jcr
I want to be the one to tell someone pitching an idea like this that it's stupid, and they should fuck off and get a job.
-jcr