Supposedly the problem is not that memory itself fails, but often we cannot remember things because we didn't "register" them properly. Which also explains after-party blackouts, of course.
.. is to criticise the code they inherit.
All this means is they have a fixed idea of how it should be done and cannot bear to see it done any other way.
I criticize the code I inherit, but with 20 years of solid programming experience would hardly call myself inexperienced. There are many ways of doing things right, but littering code with globals, GOTO statements, using undecipherable variable names, failing to comment code isn't one of them.
Unfortunately, this accurately describes the code base I am currently working on. Sometimes, criticisms are deserved.
I'm content with most of the code that I write for myself, whereas code that I write professionally (read: on a deadline) more frequently leaves something to be desired. My own code is documented (manual+comments), usually quite efficient, and if there are bugs in there usually they are not very serious (forgotten null pointer checks). Of course, when dealing with my own code, I can refactor it as needed and as I please. At work, that's not always possible.
Why not just sterilize all the dumb people? Why, that's a great idea. I think you should write a book about it. I got the perfect title for it too- "Mein Kampf".
How many of you have seen an ad for something on a web page and thought "Fantastic! I must click this."
Mostly when they were relevant ads showing up next to my search results. Showing up at the right place, at the right time, with my mind in the right context. I must say, Google got it right.
Standard practise was all live environments came up in a red terminal window and test environments in green.
One of our engineers was red/green colour blind. Classic.
In an effort to test a parachute, a camera (acting as the chute's cargo) was dropped from a plane. Unfortunately, the parachute failed its test and its fragile cargo shattered into several pieces. Ontrack's engineers had to reassemble the camera's memory stick and the video of the parachute's demise was recovered.
That just might be one extremely cool video- more so than if the parachute would have worked. And it was recovered, too. Is the video online yet?
As for javascript, it's like a whole different universe. Firefox has a great, if sluggish, javascript interpreter.
Sluggish as it is, by my measurements is around 5 times as fast as the one of IE7.
On a side note, I'm very surprised that setting the innerHTML of a table row doesn't work on IE- it will give an Unknown runtime error (very informative). I ended up writing a javascript setTRinnerHTML function that does what is really the job of the browser: interpret HTML, converting it to DOM and building up the table row like that. I guess MS couldn't have spent a day extra development time to let the browser behave as expected. A completely uninformative error message was easier to implement, I suppose.
You, sir, are a self-contradicting dick. "You also can't complain that a company has built a product that you don't like -- you don't have to use it, and you don't have to care." "there's only one plarey in the game that's been in teh game for more than five years: IE."
Many web developers support IE, not because it is the browser they like best, but because they have no choice.
I thought only Soviet Russia closed their borders. In any case the US is starting to look more and more like the former USSR.
I actually still wanted to visit the US at some point, but it is getting less and less attractive to do so. If I pass the US border legally, I'm a potential terrorist, and I'm treated like a criminal before I've done anything wrong- even if I didn't plan on misbehaving. But if I'm going to be treated as a criminal, I might as well start acting like one.
There, that little comment should have been enough to put me on the blacklist. I guess I won't be visiting the US for the next 40 years then.
I'm probably oversimplifying (those people seem to generally love their jobs) but the way I see it the best course of action would be:
Do not give up your right to privacy. Get fired. Then take the case to court- because you got fired without just cause. It will be a high profile case (it already has a bit of media attention) and set a precedent for all cases where bosses try to make you give up your privacy or get fired. You will most likely win the case. After winning the case, walk out from NASA and apply for a job at ESA.
It's depressing to think we'll be long dead before humanity finally understands the universe. Space travel, immortality,... Take some mianserin then. It might not make you immortal but it might increase your life span. Even if it doesn't, at least you won't be depressed over it anymore.
Giving your identity information to a bank is optional, you can choose not to do business with that bank. So which bank allows you to do business with them without providing them with your ID information? Or would you propose to work only with cash? How would you consider your chances of finding a job if you tell all prospective employers 'I only accept cash'?
Gene, if those same college kids wouldn't start bands, your dear music industry that leeches on those talented college kids wouldn't even exist. So stop whining.
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Of the two cats, I particularly like the red one. Now they should do it on a raindeer. We'll call him Rudolph.
Are they trying to impress shareholders later on with an astronomic number of legally installed copies?
Clearly the RIAA is scared shitless about new media. Sites such as thesixtyone give hope though.
Supposedly the problem is not that memory itself fails, but often we cannot remember things because we didn't "register" them properly. Which also explains after-party blackouts, of course.
Unfortunately, this accurately describes the code base I am currently working on. Sometimes, criticisms are deserved.
I'm content with most of the code that I write for myself, whereas code that I write professionally (read: on a deadline) more frequently leaves something to be desired. My own code is documented (manual+comments), usually quite efficient, and if there are bugs in there usually they are not very serious (forgotten null pointer checks). Of course, when dealing with my own code, I can refactor it as needed and as I please. At work, that's not always possible.
Brilliant! The only problem is having to wake up to 'I got you babe' every morning.
Why not just sterilize all the dumb people? Why, that's a great idea. I think you should write a book about it. I got the perfect title for it too- "Mein Kampf".
How many of you have seen an ad for something on a web page and thought "Fantastic! I must click this." Mostly when they were relevant ads showing up next to my search results. Showing up at the right place, at the right time, with my mind in the right context. I must say, Google got it right.
... because they ARE.
Okay then. "that's no moon... that's a BATTLESTATION!!!"
Standard practise was all live environments came up in a red terminal window and test environments in green.
One of our engineers was red/green colour blind.
Classic.
As for javascript, it's like a whole different universe. Firefox has a great, if sluggish, javascript interpreter.
Sluggish as it is, by my measurements is around 5 times as fast as the one of IE7.
On a side note, I'm very surprised that setting the innerHTML of a table row doesn't work on IE- it will give an Unknown runtime error (very informative). I ended up writing a javascript setTRinnerHTML function that does what is really the job of the browser: interpret HTML, converting it to DOM and building up the table row like that. I guess MS couldn't have spent a day extra development time to let the browser behave as expected. A completely uninformative error message was easier to implement, I suppose.
You, sir, are a self-contradicting dick.
"You also can't complain that a company has built a product that you don't like -- you don't have to use it, and you don't have to care." "there's only one plarey in the game that's been in teh game for more than five years: IE."
Many web developers support IE, not because it is the browser they like best, but because they have no choice.
Also, PLEASE learn to spell.
I thought only Soviet Russia closed their borders. In any case the US is starting to look more and more like the former USSR.
I actually still wanted to visit the US at some point, but it is getting less and less attractive to do so. If I pass the US border legally, I'm a potential terrorist, and I'm treated like a criminal before I've done anything wrong- even if I didn't plan on misbehaving. But if I'm going to be treated as a criminal, I might as well start acting like one.
There, that little comment should have been enough to put me on the blacklist. I guess I won't be visiting the US for the next 40 years then.
I'm probably oversimplifying (those people seem to generally love their jobs) but the way I see it the best course of action would be:
Do not give up your right to privacy.
Get fired.
Then take the case to court- because you got fired without just cause.
It will be a high profile case (it already has a bit of media attention) and set a precedent for all cases where bosses try to make you give up your privacy or get fired.
You will most likely win the case.
After winning the case, walk out from NASA and apply for a job at ESA.
...which just displayed a big fat cross on the screen one line of text stating "You are here".
It's depressing to think we'll be long dead before humanity finally understands the universe. Space travel, immortality, ... Take some mianserin then. It might not make you immortal but it might increase your life span. Even if it doesn't, at least you won't be depressed over it anymore.
Wow, I can't wait to get a defective-by-design DVD player that supports this.
Maybe this will do the trick then.
Giving your identity information to a bank is optional, you can choose not to do business with that bank. So which bank allows you to do business with them without providing them with your ID information? Or would you propose to work only with cash? How would you consider your chances of finding a job if you tell all prospective employers 'I only accept cash'?
the E8 "object" is a nasty-ass shape that exists in 248 dimensions Good. That's quite a simplification from the 11 dimensions used in string theory :S
Gene, if those same college kids wouldn't start bands, your dear music industry that leeches on those talented college kids wouldn't even exist. So stop whining.
Don't panic. Hey- where did the dolphins go?