Like "meter" is the same as "length"?
If you chime in do it properly:
Ampere is a unit of current (Coulomb/second)
Watt is a unit of power (Joule/second)
If aliens were sending strong signals in our direction I would hope very much that they would stay at a safe distance. Being near colliding neutron stars is not very healthy...
You wouldn't let someone run the 100 meters with shoes with wheels and a gasoline engine, would you? They actually didn't disqualify him when he tried that.. From the result I reckon that it wasn't a big success.
Teleportation is not the same as making a copy and destroying the original. That proton that was teleported was actually the same proton... or at least that is my basic understanding of it. As remarked already teleporting the quantum state of a human would be a little more involved, but it should adhere to the same (non-copying) principal.
If you would be able to make a copy, then why would you want to destroy the original at all times, why not wait until he has done the dishes?
And why would the robot "believe.. to be false". This robot is just programmed to think "food" is good, "poison" is bad. It's behavior leads to more food, and therefore it is repeated. There is no proven concept of deception before it is proven the robot considers other robots as peers or competitors.
It's very cool that this behavior is emerging, but to consider it the equivalent of lying is a huge leap. The article uses other characteristics of robots that are far fetched to say the least, like "honor", "hero" and "wicked". As far as I know those characteristics require a little more than 30 genes and 50 generations of evolution...
Yup, been there. It can be quite annoying if there is some time pressure on the results though. The only thing you can do to speed up then is to write as many conversions in parallel as the long test runs allow. That thoroughly teaches you the limits of "concurrent programming".
My advise is to have as many test runs as possible scheduled during the weekends and holidays so you can keep life interesting for your colleagues while you're not there. Fire off a few from cron, a few from your friendly database job scheduler and of course keep your dev station busy too. When you're back you can sort through tons of angry email and wade through the results of your tests, all the time explaining how highly efficient you've used every bodies time >:).
And added to that, if you're running systems at home that are that critical you should really check out some of the new services of this millennium, like ec2/s3 for example... UPS at home is soooo ninetees.
I'd have to bullshit that one too. You're right that being an asshole doesn't make you a great programmer, but usually the best programmers tend to be a bit shy in my experience.
What truly makes a great team is if you can get a few naturally shy, great programmers to find out that they actually share interests with some and can accomplish great things then. And you're right, intelligent, like minded people working on a common goal are very capable of interacting with each other. Throw in the beautiful office assistant though and you'll see what we're truly made of.
I have time to reply to this because I'm running an 8 minute build for the 5th time since lunch (which is not as bad as it can be actually). I can tell you that I'm not particularly amused at the moment.
there is plenty of companies out there that are lining up to do that for you. Try to get skills in modeling, TDD, DDD, some people skills etc (or whatever you think is great). You'll thank yourself after two or three years doing boring courses, getting certified (for crying out loud) etc.
Really, the last thing you should worry about is basic skills in a specific language or you'll end up like a derailed COBOL programmer in 20 years.
To be fair to the telco's and isp's this is called overbooking and it is actually right there in your contract. That is the main reason that internet is cheap. I think overbooking is a great idea. If you don't go and pay 10 times more for guaranteed bandwidth.
Of course it doesn't say in your contract (usually) that you can't be smart about this and try to squeeze as much out of your connection as possible. In the end you'll just be using the bandwidth your neighbors paid for, as you all share the same (capped) uplink anyway. The telco / isp could not care less, trust me, I worked for one.
Solving the underlying cause of terrorism is not going to stop the terrorist that is boarding the plane today. I'd say that there is enough factual evidence that there are people who are more than willing to commit acts of terrorism NOW. Making sure there will not be any in say 50 years won't protect you in a plane NOW.
Aside from the question if this new strategy is going to help, or who did what, you're not offering an alternative to airport security.
... just to counter those 3 people who respond immediately with "But I did!"
Hah, so you get to say something is great and we can't say you're wrong? You must be new here.
I've never used it, but exactly everybody who I heard talking about it hated the Vista look and feel. The teletubby design of XP never got high marks either, so maybe I just know only people who are generally negative about UI's.
Good points. However, what they (Adobe, Microsoft and other RIA pushers) have been saying though is that the web is changing. What is happening with the replacement of desktop apps with webapps is causing change in the expectations of users. Now already some users expect drag&drop to work, they expect shortkeys to work and I've even seen users pissed off at the browsers context menu popping up when they rightclick in the site.
Silverlight, Flash etc give developers a tool to give the user what he expects. Google proofing is a problem, breaking browser behavior is a problem. These problems beg a solution, but they don't make the enabling technologies "Not Great" they just make them "maybe not so great yet".
I think there is a big difference there. Making the web a bit more interesting than just some linked slabs of text might be causing all kinds of problems, but I think it is short sited to dismiss it this easily.
Of course if you realize that they tossed 250 times for each coin (from each country) it is not surprising at all that 1 or two of these had an abnormal result.
They use Perl syntax to describe the url, but they don't use regular expressions... Jeezz!
The guy who made the test clearly hasn't got what it takes himself: "You're always looking for ways to eliminate waste, at all levels of development." It's a puzzle, for once it's legal to favor conciseness over readability. He's shitting on a chance most of us can only dream about.
And in addition I am of the opinion that ISO 8601:2004 describes the only correct ways to format dates.
It doesn't even seem to me that the author of the notes is correcting errors; he is merely showing that the functions are not minimal. This does nothing to discredit the original work as long as it doesn't claim they are in fact minimal (i haven't read the original work).
We could discuss if it is bad if you take more than the minimal amount of data needed to communicate a point, but that would be a bit hypocritical I guess.
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Like "meter" is the same as "length"? If you chime in do it properly: Ampere is a unit of current (Coulomb/second) Watt is a unit of power (Joule/second)
... can be seen if you try to drag this tab to another position in the tabbar (assuming you're using firefox).
If aliens were sending strong signals in our direction I would hope very much that they would stay at a safe distance. Being near colliding neutron stars is not very healthy...
Teleportation is not the same as making a copy and destroying the original. That proton that was teleported was actually the same proton... or at least that is my basic understanding of it. As remarked already teleporting the quantum state of a human would be a little more involved, but it should adhere to the same (non-copying) principal.
If you would be able to make a copy, then why would you want to destroy the original at all times, why not wait until he has done the dishes?
And why would the robot "believe .. to be false". This robot is just programmed to think "food" is good, "poison" is bad. It's behavior leads to more food, and therefore it is repeated. There is no proven concept of deception before it is proven the robot considers other robots as peers or competitors.
It's very cool that this behavior is emerging, but to consider it the equivalent of lying is a huge leap. The article uses other characteristics of robots that are far fetched to say the least, like "honor", "hero" and "wicked". As far as I know those characteristics require a little more than 30 genes and 50 generations of evolution...
Yup, been there. It can be quite annoying if there is some time pressure on the results though. The only thing you can do to speed up then is to write as many conversions in parallel as the long test runs allow. That thoroughly teaches you the limits of "concurrent programming".
My advise is to have as many test runs as possible scheduled during the weekends and holidays so you can keep life interesting for your colleagues while you're not there. Fire off a few from cron, a few from your friendly database job scheduler and of course keep your dev station busy too. When you're back you can sort through tons of angry email and wade through the results of your tests, all the time explaining how highly efficient you've used every bodies time >:).
And added to that, if you're running systems at home that are that critical you should really check out some of the new services of this millennium, like ec2/s3 for example... UPS at home is soooo ninetees.
http://www.fallacyfiles.org/
I'd have to bullshit that one too. You're right that being an asshole doesn't make you a great programmer, but usually the best programmers tend to be a bit shy in my experience.
What truly makes a great team is if you can get a few naturally shy, great programmers to find out that they actually share interests with some and can accomplish great things then. And you're right, intelligent, like minded people working on a common goal are very capable of interacting with each other. Throw in the beautiful office assistant though and you'll see what we're truly made of.
I have time to reply to this because I'm running an 8 minute build for the 5th time since lunch (which is not as bad as it can be actually). I can tell you that I'm not particularly amused at the moment.
What was the fuel consumption of his Ford again?
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_GT for the answer... A true friend of the environment indeed...
Students also found it extremely challenging to understand the implications of a simple goto statement....
and (most damaging) did not understand the semantics of pointers at all, which made the use of C in systems programming very challenging
I thought pointer arithmetic was frowned upon these days...
there is plenty of companies out there that are lining up to do that for you. Try to get skills in modeling, TDD, DDD, some people skills etc (or whatever you think is great). You'll thank yourself after two or three years doing boring courses, getting certified (for crying out loud) etc.
Really, the last thing you should worry about is basic skills in a specific language or you'll end up like a derailed COBOL programmer in 20 years.
To be fair to the telco's and isp's this is called overbooking and it is actually right there in your contract. That is the main reason that internet is cheap. I think overbooking is a great idea. If you don't go and pay 10 times more for guaranteed bandwidth.
Of course it doesn't say in your contract (usually) that you can't be smart about this and try to squeeze as much out of your connection as possible. In the end you'll just be using the bandwidth your neighbors paid for, as you all share the same (capped) uplink anyway. The telco / isp could not care less, trust me, I worked for one.
What is this guy on?
This stuff is so strong that I played one song on the drums using two crescent wrenches and didn't even leave a scratch on them.
I bet I could break them easily.
Solving the underlying cause of terrorism is not going to stop the terrorist that is boarding the plane today. I'd say that there is enough factual evidence that there are people who are more than willing to commit acts of terrorism NOW. Making sure there will not be any in say 50 years won't protect you in a plane NOW.
Aside from the question if this new strategy is going to help, or who did what, you're not offering an alternative to airport security.
... just to counter those 3 people who respond immediately with "But I did!"Hah, so you get to say something is great and we can't say you're wrong? You must be new here.
I've never used it, but exactly everybody who I heard talking about it hated the Vista look and feel. The teletubby design of XP never got high marks either, so maybe I just know only people who are generally negative about UI's.
Good points. However, what they (Adobe, Microsoft and other RIA pushers) have been saying though is that the web is changing. What is happening with the replacement of desktop apps with webapps is causing change in the expectations of users. Now already some users expect drag&drop to work, they expect shortkeys to work and I've even seen users pissed off at the browsers context menu popping up when they rightclick in the site.
Silverlight, Flash etc give developers a tool to give the user what he expects. Google proofing is a problem, breaking browser behavior is a problem. These problems beg a solution, but they don't make the enabling technologies "Not Great" they just make them "maybe not so great yet".
I think there is a big difference there. Making the web a bit more interesting than just some linked slabs of text might be causing all kinds of problems, but I think it is short sited to dismiss it this easily.
Some anecdotal evidence to go with this: When the Euro coins got released there was a study that tested all the coins heads/tails distribution. They found that for certain coins the outcome was unfair.
Of course if you realize that they tossed 250 times for each coin (from each country) it is not surprising at all that 1 or two of these had an abnormal result.
Sure, that's a bit paranoid, but it isn't paranoia if someone is actually out to get you.
Note that if you think that somebody is out to get you, you're more likely paranoid than right.
They use Perl syntax to describe the url, but they don't use regular expressions... Jeezz!
The guy who made the test clearly hasn't got what it takes himself: "You're always looking for ways to eliminate waste, at all levels of development." It's a puzzle, for once it's legal to favor conciseness over readability. He's shitting on a chance most of us can only dream about.
And in addition I am of the opinion that ISO 8601:2004 describes the only correct ways to format dates.
It doesn't even seem to me that the author of the notes is correcting errors; he is merely showing that the functions are not minimal. This does nothing to discredit the original work as long as it doesn't claim they are in fact minimal (i haven't read the original work).
We could discuss if it is bad if you take more than the minimal amount of data needed to communicate a point, but that would be a bit hypocritical I guess.
It has been staring us in the face the whole time: "50 micrograms is roughly equivalent to the weight of a fingerprint."
The reference hasn't changed, the copies have. There must be some guy putting fingerprints on them...
found this in the original blogpost:
:D
http://members.calbar.ca.gov/search/member_detail.aspx?x=197074
man, this guy must love me now