This is what happens when you let marketing play with technical tools. Bandwidth is base 10 because it's derived from Hz, which is also base 10. Everything else is base 2. HDs are reported in base 10 because the numbers are bigger, so you have to correct for that, but everything inside a computer is base 2.
You don't really need a partition to do that sort of thing - dd a properly sized file and you have your backup. Unless it's/, you can even mount it on loopback.
The good lawmakers of Virginia passed a law that prevents _anybody_ from using forged headers etc. etc. , including good folks who need anonymity for good reasons protected by the US constitution. Therefore, the law as it stands is illegal.
Exactly how is a content neutral law going to run afoul of the 1st amendment? It's illegal for someone to post bills on my house, regardless of whether they're good people or not.
I'd like to see legislation that requires copyright holders to offer their works for sale or lose the ability to collect damages for infringement (non-commercial only). It'd solve your problem and it makes sense from a bargaining perspective - if it isn't worth selling, then why do you care if someone takes it?
They copyright owner has certain rights to control the content
They have the right to control distribution, and that's about it. Copying for personal use is a gray area - there is some support for format shifting, but I haven't seen any bright line type of precedent. If you buy a DVD and give a copy to someone, that's definitely illegal (in the US). Note that I haven't touched on any of the parody/commentary exceptions.
Nope, just pointing out the reality of the task. May here (some Americans and some not) believe laying fiber to improve service in the US is a simple matter when they don't get just how big and spread out this nation is (most Europeans cant wrap their mind around it either).
Well we paid for it 10 years ago - shouldn't we expect to have it by now?
But more than a fifth live in rural areas and of the 80ish percent that live in 'metro areas' 20% live in area with a population of less than 200,000! Much of America does *not* look like the suburbs of LA..
So why can't the other 4/5ths get faster broadband without these caps in place?
Because that's just telling people to stop talking about something that makes them uncomfortable. It's polite, but it won't change anything.
what would you think then, if the entire culture you are surrounded by affirmed you are worse than your colleagues because of X reason, being X you hair color, eye color, gender, food preference or whatever?
Ignore them. Seriously, do you actually believe that crap? It's fresh from the 1950s ward and june hallucination. Anyway, I had quite a bit of people convinced I wasn't going anywhere and I got past that. I wager that most women who actually make it through high school (which is a pit if you actually can think) will have an easy time of it.
Oh, and women shouldn't complain about taking verbal abuse from men unless it's more than they give each other. Trying to break into the field and at the same time make it safe and cozy smacks of the sort of people who move to the country and complain that farms smell bad.
If women gathered food and tended to the young, wouldn't that make them better at sedentary activities involving the brain?
Dunno, how smart are sheep? Think about your examples.
After all, the males were sweating in the jungle running after prey with bows and arrows, no time for thought exercises.
Why sweat when a bit of strategy removes the need? Really, now, warfare is one of the prime drivers for thought and technology.
I'm willing to step up, I want to know if I'm a worse programmer because of being a female, I really do, if that ever is proven to me I will quit my career and start any other business, why stay in CS and forever be cursed to be mediocre?
Statistically, the answer is maybe, but it doesn't take much to rise above the average. If you're worried that you'll never be Carmack, join the crowd.
Well, there's your problem right there - Japanese companies see round eyes and JET program on the resume and you're an english teacher, period. Say what you will about US hiring, it's worse in JP.
That means that you're essentially the same as one of this-year's graduates, except that you'll have had 2 years to forget stuff and won't have been taught the current stuff that this year's grads.
What current stuff? Have data structures changed much in the decade since I graduated? (no) Have databases changed at all? (not appreciably). The only difference is that some stuff is now java and not c++. Whoopty frigging do.
Hey, a piss poor company that pays OK while you're in college isn't that bad a deal; if he got it for the cash and kept it for the stability while he finished school, I'd count that as a positive.
I have some legacy code that straight-up doesn't work; it makes references to non-existent proprietary libraries, uses classes that aren't defined anywhere, and just to make things more interesting, a lot of methods with a lot of code, and variables carefully instantiated, that are never used.
This is what is checked into source control; there is a binary that does, in fact, work, based on this code (or some better flavor of).
Looks like you need to get some code that works to start with - the decompiler might be a good approach.
There is some pretty involved financial algorithms in there that were designed by a mathematician and both the original developer and the mathematician have long since left the building. Yet, here I am, with a bug report that one of the models is wrong, and have absolutely no way to fix it.
Tell your boss about the problem - it's going to take longer than it should for a bugfix and you want him on board to set expectations.
In production engineering, tests were once performed to filter the good builds from the bad. This was far too expensive, and largely explains the success of Japanese industry over British and American in the 70s and 80s.
No, what explains the success of the Japanese was process improvement - the Deming management method made their stuff into works of art and reliable to the point where testing was redundant.
Reworking production because of errors costs a huge amount of effort by skilled personnel
Which is rather different from software development; reworking prod can mean recoding some stuff and compiling, depending on when it's found.
We like to think that a good software engineer designs and implements correctly and gets it 'right first time' and then the software can be duplicated indefinitely. In exceptional cases, this is true. In many cases, especially where a team is involved or the unit has to work in the context of other software, it isn't : the situation is much more like that of an assembly line.
A good software does get it right the first time, provided that specs are clear (they usually aren't). Software isn't really an assembly line, it's more of a conversation, and getting feedback quickly is a better driver of quality than most things.
In fact, from your "psychological development from prehistoric social roles heavily influences aptitude in industries that have only been around for a few generations" theory
Who cares how long the industry has existed? The artifacts of our entire ancestry do influence our present behavior.
the argument could be made that women are inherently better programmers because of the 100,000 years they spent developing algorithms to test which plants were safe (note the element of risk here as well) to eat. But that probably sounds just as silly to you, eh?
It does - I would expect that most people who gather plants learned how from their parents and seniors, and they generally didn't have to deal with new plants after the first generation.
let me ask you this: Do you think that the programming industry would benefit from having a greater percentage of female programmers?
I don't see it as "grade school" to cite the reasons that I used to reach my conclusions.
It's grade school because it's tired and dull (that's why Skinner does it so much on The Simpsons) and also because it isn't by any means authoritative. The bar for getting a definition in the dictionary is pretty low.
My guess is you have a rather inflated sense of self-worth but that's just a guess.
I add the idea of context to frame the scope of someone's fame and I'm the one with an ego? Whatever.
I believe you that your post was not intended to be flamebait, but I must say it was very frustrating for me (a female programmer) to read.
Someone relates their experience and you talk about your feeling? You're doing it wrong!
But the implication of your post, or perhaps just your title, sends a message that I shouldn't bother trying, because "I'm just not good at it." I don't think this was your intention, but I'd like to point it out as an issue that most, if not all, female programmers are forced to address at least once in our careers.
Can you meet the test he set? I could (maybe), but I haven't had to.
One of the most commonly cited reasons for the lack of women pursuing computer-related professions or hobbies (e.g. video games) is that they aren't encouraged--indeed, some say they are actively discouraged--to do so.
If you're so weak willed that you can't deal with people discouraging you from your chosen path, then you won't last too long in it. I was the problem child - my family thought I'd be dead or in jail by 18, so I didn't get much encouragement or support, but look where I ended up - slaving away over hot code.
Another example would be a different post in this thread speculating that men were better programmers because they were "wired" to be bigger risk takers (huh?). These arguments, while silly (and probably not ill-intended), still send a message to women that we'll have a harder-than-normal time succeeding in the industry. It's not surprising that many of us choose to try something else instead!
Why is the argument silly? Men used to hunt, while women gathered food and tended to the young. Over 100,000 years or so, this can lead to differences in psychology (which have been confirmed, btw). Who knows, maybe you will have a harder time at it - what you're doing here won't help; you're basically yelling at the guys in charge (such as that exists) to stop being mean instead of stepping up.
Mirriam-Webster defines fame as widely known. The second definition is honored for achievement but being on Wikipedia isn't really an honor I don't think. Gates and Hoare were knighted, I suppose they might be considered famous but, then again, who other than us knows who Hoare is?
You have to consider context (and stop quoting dictionaries - that's strictly grade school). If someone is widely know in the programming community, then they're famous. They aren't a celebrity, but they're famous within a subculture.
Overtime legislation is akin to forcing employers to pay for health care. I believe that employers of full-time workers should be handled by the companies, but it's not a government issue.
Hardly; it's akin to forcing employers to pay for hours worked, since salary is based on a 40 hour workweek.
Do you really believe a DBA is "entitled" to $150,000+ a year for a 40 hour week because they know Oracle, more so than say, a licensed massage therapist with 1,000 hours of training in anatomy, physiology, kinesiology, etc, who "only" makes $20-30 an hour?
Sure, so long as they can create that sort of value. I don't want to be paid for my effort, just results - if I can get something done in half the time as my coworkers, on average, I should get paid about twice as much.
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This is what happens when you let marketing play with technical tools. Bandwidth is base 10 because it's derived from Hz, which is also base 10. Everything else is base 2. HDs are reported in base 10 because the numbers are bigger, so you have to correct for that, but everything inside a computer is base 2.
You don't really need a partition to do that sort of thing - dd a properly sized file and you have your backup. Unless it's /, you can even mount it on loopback.
The good lawmakers of Virginia passed a law that prevents _anybody_ from using forged headers etc. etc. , including good folks who need anonymity for good reasons protected by the US constitution. Therefore, the law as it stands is illegal.
Exactly how is a content neutral law going to run afoul of the 1st amendment? It's illegal for someone to post bills on my house, regardless of whether they're good people or not.
I'd like to see legislation that requires copyright holders to offer their works for sale or lose the ability to collect damages for infringement (non-commercial only). It'd solve your problem and it makes sense from a bargaining perspective - if it isn't worth selling, then why do you care if someone takes it?
They copyright owner has certain rights to control the content
They have the right to control distribution, and that's about it. Copying for personal use is a gray area - there is some support for format shifting, but I haven't seen any bright line type of precedent. If you buy a DVD and give a copy to someone, that's definitely illegal (in the US). Note that I haven't touched on any of the parody/commentary exceptions.
Nope, just pointing out the reality of the task. May here (some Americans and some not) believe laying fiber to improve service in the US is a simple matter when they don't get just how big and spread out this nation is (most Europeans cant wrap their mind around it either).
Well we paid for it 10 years ago - shouldn't we expect to have it by now?
But more than a fifth live in rural areas and of the 80ish percent that live in 'metro areas' 20% live in area with a population of less than 200,000! Much of America does *not* look like the suburbs of LA..
So why can't the other 4/5ths get faster broadband without these caps in place?
You can get unmetered electricity - it's usually a juice heavy industrial installation like a refinery that does it, though, and it costs quite a bit.
I figure the JET program just compounds it. Glad to hear you're doing ok - I hear the JP technical scene is sort of dreary anyway.
why?
Because that's just telling people to stop talking about something that makes them uncomfortable. It's polite, but it won't change anything.
what would you think then, if the entire culture you are surrounded by affirmed you are worse than your colleagues because of X reason, being X you hair color, eye color, gender, food preference or whatever?
Ignore them. Seriously, do you actually believe that crap? It's fresh from the 1950s ward and june hallucination. Anyway, I had quite a bit of people convinced I wasn't going anywhere and I got past that. I wager that most women who actually make it through high school (which is a pit if you actually can think) will have an easy time of it.
Oh, and women shouldn't complain about taking verbal abuse from men unless it's more than they give each other. Trying to break into the field and at the same time make it safe and cozy smacks of the sort of people who move to the country and complain that farms smell bad.
If women gathered food and tended to the young, wouldn't that make them better at sedentary activities involving the brain?
Dunno, how smart are sheep? Think about your examples.
After all, the males were sweating in the jungle running after prey with bows and arrows, no time for thought exercises.
Why sweat when a bit of strategy removes the need? Really, now, warfare is one of the prime drivers for thought and technology.
I'm willing to step up, I want to know if I'm a worse programmer because of being a female, I really do, if that ever is proven to me I will quit my career and start any other business, why stay in CS and forever be cursed to be mediocre?
Statistically, the answer is maybe, but it doesn't take much to rise above the average. If you're worried that you'll never be Carmack, join the crowd.
I want to be good and recognized at what I do!
So do good things and be recognized.
Well, there's your problem right there - Japanese companies see round eyes and JET program on the resume and you're an english teacher, period. Say what you will about US hiring, it's worse in JP.
Where are you that 'pot smoker' is a serious problem? I have to assume government, because most people on the left coast don't care.
That means that you're essentially the same as one of this-year's graduates, except that you'll have had 2 years to forget stuff and won't have been taught the current stuff that this year's grads.
What current stuff? Have data structures changed much in the decade since I graduated? (no) Have databases changed at all? (not appreciably). The only difference is that some stuff is now java and not c++. Whoopty frigging do.
Hey, a piss poor company that pays OK while you're in college isn't that bad a deal; if he got it for the cash and kept it for the stability while he finished school, I'd count that as a positive.
I have some legacy code that straight-up doesn't work; it makes references to non-existent proprietary libraries, uses classes that aren't defined anywhere, and just to make things more interesting, a lot of methods with a lot of code, and variables carefully instantiated, that are never used.
This is what is checked into source control; there is a binary that does, in fact, work, based on this code (or some better flavor of).
Looks like you need to get some code that works to start with - the decompiler might be a good approach.
There is some pretty involved financial algorithms in there that were designed by a mathematician and both the original developer and the mathematician have long since left the building. Yet, here I am, with a bug report that one of the models is wrong, and have absolutely no way to fix it.
Tell your boss about the problem - it's going to take longer than it should for a bugfix and you want him on board to set expectations.
In production engineering, tests were once performed to filter the good builds from the bad. This was far too expensive, and largely explains the success of Japanese industry over British and American in the 70s and 80s.
No, what explains the success of the Japanese was process improvement - the Deming management method made their stuff into works of art and reliable to the point where testing was redundant.
Reworking production because of errors costs a huge amount of effort by skilled personnel
Which is rather different from software development; reworking prod can mean recoding some stuff and compiling, depending on when it's found.
We like to think that a good software engineer designs and implements correctly and gets it 'right first time' and then the software can be duplicated indefinitely. In exceptional cases, this is true. In many cases, especially where a team is involved or the unit has to work in the context of other software, it isn't : the situation is much more like that of an assembly line.
A good software does get it right the first time, provided that specs are clear (they usually aren't). Software isn't really an assembly line, it's more of a conversation, and getting feedback quickly is a better driver of quality than most things.
In fact, from your "psychological development from prehistoric social roles heavily influences aptitude in industries that have only been around for a few generations" theory
Who cares how long the industry has existed? The artifacts of our entire ancestry do influence our present behavior.
the argument could be made that women are inherently better programmers because of the 100,000 years they spent developing algorithms to test which plants were safe (note the element of risk here as well) to eat. But that probably sounds just as silly to you, eh?
It does - I would expect that most people who gather plants learned how from their parents and seniors, and they generally didn't have to deal with new plants after the first generation.
let me ask you this: Do you think that the programming industry would benefit from having a greater percentage of female programmers?
No. But it wouldn't be hurt either.
I don't see it as "grade school" to cite the reasons that I used to reach my conclusions.
It's grade school because it's tired and dull (that's why Skinner does it so much on The Simpsons) and also because it isn't by any means authoritative. The bar for getting a definition in the dictionary is pretty low.
My guess is you have a rather inflated sense of self-worth but that's just a guess.
I add the idea of context to frame the scope of someone's fame and I'm the one with an ego? Whatever.
I believe you that your post was not intended to be flamebait, but I must say it was very frustrating for me (a female programmer) to read.
Someone relates their experience and you talk about your feeling? You're doing it wrong!
But the implication of your post, or perhaps just your title, sends a message that I shouldn't bother trying, because "I'm just not good at it." I don't think this was your intention, but I'd like to point it out as an issue that most, if not all, female programmers are forced to address at least once in our careers.
Can you meet the test he set? I could (maybe), but I haven't had to.
One of the most commonly cited reasons for the lack of women pursuing computer-related professions or hobbies (e.g. video games) is that they aren't encouraged--indeed, some say they are actively discouraged--to do so.
If you're so weak willed that you can't deal with people discouraging you from your chosen path, then you won't last too long in it. I was the problem child - my family thought I'd be dead or in jail by 18, so I didn't get much encouragement or support, but look where I ended up - slaving away over hot code.
Another example would be a different post in this thread speculating that men were better programmers because they were "wired" to be bigger risk takers (huh?). These arguments, while silly (and probably not ill-intended), still send a message to women that we'll have a harder-than-normal time succeeding in the industry. It's not surprising that many of us choose to try something else instead!
Why is the argument silly? Men used to hunt, while women gathered food and tended to the young. Over 100,000 years or so, this can lead to differences in psychology (which have been confirmed, btw). Who knows, maybe you will have a harder time at it - what you're doing here won't help; you're basically yelling at the guys in charge (such as that exists) to stop being mean instead of stepping up.
No, she's the first one to find a literal bug (insect) in the computer. Bug as an error in a problem was in use as far back as newton.
Mirriam-Webster defines fame as widely known. The second definition is honored for achievement but being on Wikipedia isn't really an honor I don't think. Gates and Hoare were knighted, I suppose they might be considered famous but, then again, who other than us knows who Hoare is?
You have to consider context (and stop quoting dictionaries - that's strictly grade school). If someone is widely know in the programming community, then they're famous. They aren't a celebrity, but they're famous within a subculture.
Overtime legislation is akin to forcing employers to pay for health care. I believe that employers of full-time workers should be handled by the companies, but it's not a government issue.
Hardly; it's akin to forcing employers to pay for hours worked, since salary is based on a 40 hour workweek.
Do you really believe a DBA is "entitled" to $150,000+ a year for a 40 hour week because they know Oracle, more so than say, a licensed massage therapist with 1,000 hours of training in anatomy, physiology, kinesiology, etc, who "only" makes $20-30 an hour?
Sure, so long as they can create that sort of value. I don't want to be paid for my effort, just results - if I can get something done in half the time as my coworkers, on average, I should get paid about twice as much.
Government is not preventing you from negotiating for overtime pay with your employer.
If you can't collect damages for unpaid overtime, then who cares if you get overtime on paper?
Right, because socialism never had any unintended effects like the complete implosion of the second largest country in the world or anything.
Denmark? Belgium? Sorry, not quite following you there - there was the USSR, but it keeled over because of command economies and crazy bosses.