Can the police charge you with Failure to Assist in an Authorized Search and send you to jail for not telling them where your gun was?
In the US, you have no duty to assist the police, only a duty not to impede them. I think an analogous situation would be whether they could charge you for refusing to open the safe. Is remembering the combo the same as giving up the passcode? Is it possible self incrimination to do so? You aren't telling them things that implicate you, just how to get at things that might do that. What if you're a lawyer and there are client files in that safe/encrypted volume?
Placing arbitrary bars on what constitutes a "programmer worthy of the name" is just get-off-my-lawn elitism spawned by people who are watching their craft steadily devalue under attacks from all angles.
Damn skippy. In order for programmer to mean something, there must be a bar, and I've set this one pretty low. I suppose you think doctors are elitist pricks for requiring that you go to med school and get board certified before calling yourself a doctor.
it gets easier over time, and it will continue to do so until your arcane knowledge is as meaningless to society in general as pokemon trivia.
It isn't arcane, it's just the minimum (less than that) for you to be any good at any significant programming task.
Tell that to the manager who can't hire anyone because they refuse to work on COBOL code. Which, was the issue the original poster brought up.
I doubt that very much. I'd work on COBOL for the right price.
That is like saying "There's nothing wrong with leaving data on these 8-inch floppy disks! There are perfectly fine!" Until you find out one day that there's no hardware that can read them.
Then the code stores into an instruction in the neighborhood of execution. The retirement unit detects a memory modification at the same address as a pre-fetched instruction. This triggers an event which looks much like an interrupt and has comparable overhead. The CPU stops loading new instructions.
Seems obvious. My company is a largish online travel site and it doesn't have what you'd call a shopping cart. It's so weird...
It's mathematically impossible to code a hash there which doesn't cause the same collisions anyway,
If you know the set of values your string can take, you can compute a perfect hash (if you want). There's even a tool to do it. Sorry about the 'tards, though
I've seen C++ maps (ie, red-black trees) be used to implement something a trivial array could do (ie, they keys were an 8 value enumeration). They've got a hammer, and all problems look like nails.
Sure, it's excessive, but unless it's performance critical, I'd do the same thing - simpler and clearer usually trump faster these days.
but I disagree that programmers should learn to implement sorting algorithms.
Dead wrong. Every programmer worthy of the name must be able to implement the basic data structures and algorithms, understand Big-O notation, and be able to do fault isolation (this last one is tricky). This is the lowest bar.
Bandwidth is a limited resource. There are two ways of dealing with this.
Don't be a freeper. The reason they're pushing for these caps and fees is to protect their TV business. They aren't hurting for capacity.
Most ISPs have gone with b)[bandwidth cap] for now,
Get back to me when comcast has a traffic meter so you can see if you're close and charges something close to reasonable fees for overage. I couldn't give a rip if my limit was 150G/mo with $.25/GB over that.
It doesn't need to be that cloak and dagger - sure, it's about as fast as a F-whatever, but the main reason for shutting it down is as simple as it being horrifically expensive and also unprofitable. It's really cool, though.
You watch too much TV/movies (and believe too much of it too) if you think a F-anything needs to be close to its target.
Sure, a mile is fairly close, and yes, I know that 10 miles is still in range, but the point here is that a F15 isn't going to sit off the wing of something they may want to shoot at.
In other words: two fighter planes close to another one, over a city, ARE escorting it.
given the general relaxation of a number of social mores over time
compared to the 50s, sure, but it's really just cyclical. For a while, the fashion among nobility in europe was to let your junk hang loose while going about your business.
The program needs to justify its accusation - if 35% of the paper is plagiarized, it should be able to provide some lengthy passages from some other site that match the paper.
I've met some grown up women - they don't flinch at me, not nearly at the rate you'd expect with the cooked up rape stats. Mostly, they flirt, and act normally. Well, except for one - womens studies major, and very weird and jumpy.
I'm sorry I didn't draw a picture for you. The study talked about current funding, expected funding, and the expectation of outsourcing. If you would have just looked at the first few graphs, you would see the total public and private spending listed by country.
I'm sorry, you missed the part where I said that the US was spending 2.3%GDP already, and also the part where I complained that your article didn't say what sort of research was being funded (hint: basic R&D is important).
Taxing and deficit spending is my only issue.
See Keynesian economics. Deficit spending when done right will increase the GDP such that we can repay our investment later - it's a business loan writ large.
I'm glad you conceded that we need to rob peter to pay paul.
Most likely, yes. It's called 'post traumatic stress disorder'. Without the proper treatment, a person will probably experience extreme anxiety around men for the rest of their lives. Ask any victim of a brutal sexual assault. Or, you know, do some research.
So NYC got fucked by two planes 8 years ago (see, still got the hole to show for it). Do new yorkers go into screaming fits whenever they go to LaGuardia? Since the recent propaganda is that 40% of women have been raped (including several that say they haven't), shouldn't there be a lot of women freaking out whenever they leave the house?
You sent me a link mostly about what's likely to be outsourced. I'm not going to read 30 pages in detail just to be sure, but it doesn't appear to address what the R&D budget is being spent on, just that it's at 2.2% of GDP.
What Obama said is that we should go to 3% GDP in our spending. You can't steal from this pot to grow the pot, you have to increase it instead; now then, please tell me what you think is worthwhile. You have implied that basic research is not, but haven't said what is.
Your link doesn't really support the case for embezzlement - there is no phantom vendor, and paid services are performed. The only difference here is that the boss doesn't know that the vendor supplying cables is owned by an employee. Sure, it's unethical, but not illegal.
If what people call '9/11' took place over the course of a few months, instead on just one day, would you still feel it was a "once-in-a-lifetime event"?
You're kind of an idiot if you think 9/11 could've happened over a few months. After the first time, the hijackers would've been rushed and killed every time.
Brutal sexual assault is also often a once-in-a-lifetime event.
I don't recall anything game changing about rape. If you get jumped by some guy, are you going to jump every time you see another guy?
In the escort case, the military planes fly on either side of the escortee. In the pursuit case, well, no airliner in current service can outrun a fighter jet, so the jet will be a mile or so back, directly behind the plane, with radar lock.
It's either a net loss or a symbolic gesture with no benefit.
Or trading a short term loss for long term gains. There is no new money, just allocations and priorities, and frankly, we've been slacking on our basic research for a couple decades at least. If it can't be linked to a weapons program, it doesn't get funded.
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Can the police charge you with Failure to Assist in an Authorized Search and send you to jail for not telling them where your gun was?
In the US, you have no duty to assist the police, only a duty not to impede them. I think an analogous situation would be whether they could charge you for refusing to open the safe. Is remembering the combo the same as giving up the passcode? Is it possible self incrimination to do so? You aren't telling them things that implicate you, just how to get at things that might do that. What if you're a lawyer and there are client files in that safe/encrypted volume?
Placing arbitrary bars on what constitutes a "programmer worthy of the name" is just get-off-my-lawn elitism spawned by people who are watching their craft steadily devalue under attacks from all angles.
Damn skippy. In order for programmer to mean something, there must be a bar, and I've set this one pretty low. I suppose you think doctors are elitist pricks for requiring that you go to med school and get board certified before calling yourself a doctor.
it gets easier over time, and it will continue to do so until your arcane knowledge is as meaningless to society in general as pokemon trivia.
It isn't arcane, it's just the minimum (less than that) for you to be any good at any significant programming task.
Since there's only a limited number of unique hashes, there's only a limited number of strings they can map to
The point is that when you have a known set of values, it's hardly ever more than 4 billion.
Tell that to the manager who can't hire anyone because they refuse to work on COBOL code. Which, was the issue the original poster brought up.
I doubt that very much. I'd work on COBOL for the right price.
That is like saying "There's nothing wrong with leaving data on these 8-inch floppy disks! There are perfectly fine!" Until you find out one day that there's no hardware that can read them.
Easy enough to virtualize hardware.
It isn't faster to use the map, but a map (a,b) is clearer than an array of ints with no particular typing on the contents.
Then the code stores into an instruction in the neighborhood of execution. The retirement unit detects a memory modification at the same address as a pre-fetched instruction. This triggers an event which looks much like an interrupt and has comparable overhead. The CPU stops loading new instructions.
Seems obvious. My company is a largish online travel site and it doesn't have what you'd call a shopping cart. It's so weird...
"Sure, it'll take me about 120 hours to get to it with a debug build."
Whatever happened to loading up a crash dump + symbols and looking for something obvious?
It's mathematically impossible to code a hash there which doesn't cause the same collisions anyway,
If you know the set of values your string can take, you can compute a perfect hash (if you want). There's even a tool to do it. Sorry about the 'tards, though
I've seen C++ maps (ie, red-black trees) be used to implement something a trivial array could do (ie, they keys were an 8 value enumeration). They've got a hammer, and all problems look like nails.
Sure, it's excessive, but unless it's performance critical, I'd do the same thing - simpler and clearer usually trump faster these days.
but I disagree that programmers should learn to implement sorting algorithms.
Dead wrong. Every programmer worthy of the name must be able to implement the basic data structures and algorithms, understand Big-O notation, and be able to do fault isolation (this last one is tricky). This is the lowest bar.
Bandwidth is a limited resource. There are two ways of dealing with this.
Don't be a freeper. The reason they're pushing for these caps and fees is to protect their TV business. They aren't hurting for capacity.
Most ISPs have gone with b)[bandwidth cap] for now,
Get back to me when comcast has a traffic meter so you can see if you're close and charges something close to reasonable fees for overage. I couldn't give a rip if my limit was 150G/mo with $.25/GB over that.
Also, fix your quoting.
This is about their networks being saturated, and not wanting to invest the capital to increase capacity.
Didn't their costs go down, and can't they double their users' speed for $6/household?
It doesn't need to be that cloak and dagger - sure, it's about as fast as a F-whatever, but the main reason for shutting it down is as simple as it being horrifically expensive and also unprofitable. It's really cool, though.
You watch too much TV/movies (and believe too much of it too) if you think a F-anything needs to be close to its target.
Sure, a mile is fairly close, and yes, I know that 10 miles is still in range, but the point here is that a F15 isn't going to sit off the wing of something they may want to shoot at.
In other words: two fighter planes close to another one, over a city, ARE escorting it.
Isn't that what I said?
You do know that the statue of David was commissioned to stand in a Cathedral? Right? You know, a place of CHRISTIAN worship.
The US xtians are way nuttier than the vatican.
given the general relaxation of a number of social mores over time
compared to the 50s, sure, but it's really just cyclical. For a while, the fashion among nobility in europe was to let your junk hang loose while going about your business.
The program needs to justify its accusation - if 35% of the paper is plagiarized, it should be able to provide some lengthy passages from some other site that match the paper.
I've met some grown up women - they don't flinch at me, not nearly at the rate you'd expect with the cooked up rape stats. Mostly, they flirt, and act normally. Well, except for one - womens studies major, and very weird and jumpy.
I'm sorry I didn't draw a picture for you. The study talked about current funding, expected funding, and the expectation of outsourcing. If you would have just looked at the first few graphs, you would see the total public and private spending listed by country.
I'm sorry, you missed the part where I said that the US was spending 2.3%GDP already, and also the part where I complained that your article didn't say what sort of research was being funded (hint: basic R&D is important).
Taxing and deficit spending is my only issue.
See Keynesian economics. Deficit spending when done right will increase the GDP such that we can repay our investment later - it's a business loan writ large.
I'm glad you conceded that we need to rob peter to pay paul.
Most likely, yes. It's called 'post traumatic stress disorder'. Without the proper treatment, a person will probably experience extreme anxiety around men for the rest of their lives. Ask any victim of a brutal sexual assault. Or, you know, do some research.
So NYC got fucked by two planes 8 years ago (see, still got the hole to show for it). Do new yorkers go into screaming fits whenever they go to LaGuardia? Since the recent propaganda is that 40% of women have been raped (including several that say they haven't), shouldn't there be a lot of women freaking out whenever they leave the house?
You sent me a link mostly about what's likely to be outsourced. I'm not going to read 30 pages in detail just to be sure, but it doesn't appear to address what the R&D budget is being spent on, just that it's at 2.2% of GDP.
What Obama said is that we should go to 3% GDP in our spending. You can't steal from this pot to grow the pot, you have to increase it instead; now then, please tell me what you think is worthwhile. You have implied that basic research is not, but haven't said what is.
Your link doesn't really support the case for embezzlement - there is no phantom vendor, and paid services are performed. The only difference here is that the boss doesn't know that the vendor supplying cables is owned by an employee. Sure, it's unethical, but not illegal.
If what people call '9/11' took place over the course of a few months, instead on just one day, would you still feel it was a "once-in-a-lifetime event"?
You're kind of an idiot if you think 9/11 could've happened over a few months. After the first time, the hijackers would've been rushed and killed every time.
Brutal sexual assault is also often a once-in-a-lifetime event.
I don't recall anything game changing about rape. If you get jumped by some guy, are you going to jump every time you see another guy?
In the escort case, the military planes fly on either side of the escortee. In the pursuit case, well, no airliner in current service can outrun a fighter jet, so the jet will be a mile or so back, directly behind the plane, with radar lock.
It's either a net loss or a symbolic gesture with no benefit.
Or trading a short term loss for long term gains. There is no new money, just allocations and priorities, and frankly, we've been slacking on our basic research for a couple decades at least. If it can't be linked to a weapons program, it doesn't get funded.