Memo: Some coder on my team found a problem with every page of code he sampled
Manager: What makes this coder more qualified than the coder who wrote it?
Me: This indicates your manager doesn't know a good coder from a bad one. Problems in software code are black-and-white. Either the code does follows the program design, or it does something it shouldn't.
Memo: The code base is "very fragile"
Manager: What the fuck does that mean?
Me: It means your manager doesn't know shit about programming. "Fragile" means if you try to fix one thing, you're very likely to break something else.
Memo: My guys took 140,000 lines of old crappy code and replaced it with 4200 lines of Java
Manager: This guy is one of those "I can do it better using the new language i learned in college" kids
Me: This shows that "Manager" is a fucking clue dart. If you can compress 140,000 lines of code into 4,200, the original developers either didn't know what they were doing or got ambushed by months -- if not years -- of requirements creep.
I'm sorry you have to work under the guy, but please don't inflict him on the rest of/.
I don't go as far as wanting to key cars with Bush bumper stickers... though I remember a lieutenant colonel who wrote "fuck Bush" on cars parked at Denver International Airport a couple of years ago. But I understand the sentiment.
The American people have a lot of good reasons not to like George W. Bush. His eight years in office have not just been a miserable failure -- they've been an unmitigated disaster. The bottom has dropped out of the dollar because we've been spending money we don't have. The goodwill we saw from the rest of the world after Sept. 11, 2001, had evaporated just 13 months later because his administration was so dead-set on invading Iraq. Oil prices are at record levels -- in part because of the weak dollar and in part because "more oil" is the only energy policy the United States has at the moment.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency's response to Hurricane Katrina was a bureaucratic boondoggle. Now, granted, the response at every level was a bureaucratic boondoggle, but the Bush administration must accept at least some responsibility -- "the buck stops here" is the number one rule of leadership. Likewise, the Transportation Security Administration is a joke: bureaucries can only react, and true security is proactive.
And then we have Guantanamo and the CIA facilities overseas. We have a president who doesn't understand the separation of powers that is the foundation of our Constitution. We have a president who has taken us out of nuclear arms-control treaties and who has spat upon the Geneva Conventions -- actions that threaten the lives of our servicemembers and potentially our very national security.
Now, I don't listen to MoveOn.org. I don't agree with their message -- while I consider myself a liberal, their message is way too far out in left field. Anyone who actually believes them when they say they're controlling the Democratic Party's agenda is drinking the Kool-Aid, and frankly, I feel bad for them. Same goes for magazines like Mother Jones -- too partisan. I believe that we have to find a balance again; and I believe that in order to talk to people with opposing viewpoints and beliefs, the first thing we have to do is listen.
I've done a lot of listening. I've done a lot of watching. I will never condone blind hatred, and I think any president who's willing to chest bump an Air Force Academy graduate has to be a good guy. But if you really want to know why the Bush administration has engendered so much contempt from the American public, all you need to do is look at where this country was on Sept. 12, 2001, and look at where we stand today.
Your right to swing your fist ends where that little guy's nose begins.
I'll probably be modded off-topic for this, and I doubt we'll ever come to agreement on this... but I should point out that the little guy's nose is connected to his mom through the umbilical cord and the placenta. There's no distinction, in my opinion, between mother and child until the child can survive without the mother.
If women wanted to voluntarily cut out their own livers, that would be their business. Same goes for their unborn children.
Stop with the 'christians did it first' bullshit already. It's true, but also completely irrelevant.
You'd be correct if some extremist Christians weren't trying to drag us back there. Trying to suppress people's capacity to think critically and to understand the world around them, i.e. the whole "Intelligent Design" fiasco, is just one step down that slope.
You also have Christians who are against allowing women to control their own lives and their own bodies. And we've seen Christian terrorists attack people in this nation -- people like Eric Robert Rudolph, who bombed the Olympics to draw attention to his extremist Christian message; people like Fred Phelps, who will hate the United States until the day it becomes a theocracy like Iran; and organizations like the so-called Army of God, who encourage people to kill abortion doctors in God's name.
On a more subtle level, you have organizations that exert their influence on military recruits -- as evidenced in Campus Crusade for Christ's Military Ministry, which seeks to turn recruits into "government-paid missionaries." When you hear about people shooting Qu'rans or passing coins with John 3:16 written on them to Iraqi Muslims, do you think that makes the United States less hated in Middle Easterners' eyes?
The enemy we face in this war on terrorism isn't Muslims. It isn't Arabs. It's not al-Qaida -- al-Qaida is a symptom, not the disease. The disease is extremism, and we have a lot of it to cleanse from within our own borders before we have any license to eradicate it from elsewhere.
Rather than have the Air Force, Army, FBI, NSA, and gods-know who else each approaching cyberwarfare, why does the federal government not designate a single agency that jointly manages cyberwarfare and cybersecurity?
GPS accuracy is a serious problem for users who need high precision.
This is a misleading statement, because it depends on the model of receiver you're using. Some newer receivers, for example, use the two GPS signals -- military and civilian -- to resolve ionospheric interference. You don't actually need to decrypt the military signal, you just have to be able to receive it. Then the receiver can adjust for the ionosphere's activity and give you a highly accurate signal.
I suspect the rail industry uses GPS more for the timing signal than the navigation signal. If you hook a rail switch up to GPS and tell it you want it to switch at a given time of day, you know it's going to switch at that time -- not five minutes before or after.
Are you actually a lawyer, or are you making this shit up as you're going along?
When I request a page on the Web, I have a right to see it as it was originally presented. I also have a right -- because it's now on my computer -- to choose whether I want to see the advertising that's on the page. The ISP, as an "agent," has no more right to alter the data coming to my computer than my phone company has the right to interject itself into my conversations, and trying to argue otherwise is just horseshit.
Sometimes, due either to an attempt to communicate a complicated idea or the desire to expand on a simple idea ad nauseum for novelty purposes, a sentence will carry on for extended lines and, if properly authored by an individual using simple words and eschewing obfuscation, it will not necessarily be difficult for the general public to understand, even without the assistance of a lawyer, translator, or advanced Communications degree.
I imagine the speculation goes something like this: The dwarf galaxy that is now Omega Centauri collided with the Milky Way, which cannibalized most of the dwarf's stars and sent its star-forming nebulae into the intergalactic void. All that was left of the dwarf was a massive globular cluster.
2 - By that measure, I suppose it means the military can also muzzle our speech, shut down our newspapers, and deny our assemblies; seize our arms; quarter troops in our homes; try us indefinitely until found guilty; forgo meddlesome juries in the aforementioned; sue us without jury; flay us alive; deny all rights to the people; and likewise the States.
I daresay you'll find a few of us military folks on your side of the line if it ever comes to that.
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Me: This indicates your manager doesn't know a good coder from a bad one. Problems in software code are black-and-white. Either the code does follows the program design, or it does something it shouldn't.
Me: It means your manager doesn't know shit about programming. "Fragile" means if you try to fix one thing, you're very likely to break something else.
Me: This shows that "Manager" is a fucking clue dart. If you can compress 140,000 lines of code into 4,200, the original developers either didn't know what they were doing or got ambushed by months -- if not years -- of requirements creep.
I'm sorry you have to work under the guy, but please don't inflict him on the rest of /.
I don't go as far as wanting to key cars with Bush bumper stickers ... though I remember a lieutenant colonel who wrote "fuck Bush" on cars parked at Denver International Airport a couple of years ago. But I understand the sentiment.
The American people have a lot of good reasons not to like George W. Bush. His eight years in office have not just been a miserable failure -- they've been an unmitigated disaster. The bottom has dropped out of the dollar because we've been spending money we don't have. The goodwill we saw from the rest of the world after Sept. 11, 2001, had evaporated just 13 months later because his administration was so dead-set on invading Iraq. Oil prices are at record levels -- in part because of the weak dollar and in part because "more oil" is the only energy policy the United States has at the moment.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency's response to Hurricane Katrina was a bureaucratic boondoggle. Now, granted, the response at every level was a bureaucratic boondoggle, but the Bush administration must accept at least some responsibility -- "the buck stops here" is the number one rule of leadership. Likewise, the Transportation Security Administration is a joke: bureaucries can only react, and true security is proactive.
And then we have Guantanamo and the CIA facilities overseas. We have a president who doesn't understand the separation of powers that is the foundation of our Constitution. We have a president who has taken us out of nuclear arms-control treaties and who has spat upon the Geneva Conventions -- actions that threaten the lives of our servicemembers and potentially our very national security.
Now, I don't listen to MoveOn.org. I don't agree with their message -- while I consider myself a liberal, their message is way too far out in left field. Anyone who actually believes them when they say they're controlling the Democratic Party's agenda is drinking the Kool-Aid, and frankly, I feel bad for them. Same goes for magazines like Mother Jones -- too partisan. I believe that we have to find a balance again; and I believe that in order to talk to people with opposing viewpoints and beliefs, the first thing we have to do is listen.
I've done a lot of listening. I've done a lot of watching. I will never condone blind hatred, and I think any president who's willing to chest bump an Air Force Academy graduate has to be a good guy. But if you really want to know why the Bush administration has engendered so much contempt from the American public, all you need to do is look at where this country was on Sept. 12, 2001, and look at where we stand today.
Wow. Way to judge an entire political party on one guy's callous remark.
I'll probably be modded off-topic for this, and I doubt we'll ever come to agreement on this ... but I should point out that the little guy's nose is connected to his mom through the umbilical cord and the placenta. There's no distinction, in my opinion, between mother and child until the child can survive without the mother.
If women wanted to voluntarily cut out their own livers, that would be their business. Same goes for their unborn children.
You'd be correct if some extremist Christians weren't trying to drag us back there. Trying to suppress people's capacity to think critically and to understand the world around them, i.e. the whole "Intelligent Design" fiasco, is just one step down that slope.
You also have Christians who are against allowing women to control their own lives and their own bodies. And we've seen Christian terrorists attack people in this nation -- people like Eric Robert Rudolph, who bombed the Olympics to draw attention to his extremist Christian message; people like Fred Phelps, who will hate the United States until the day it becomes a theocracy like Iran; and organizations like the so-called Army of God, who encourage people to kill abortion doctors in God's name.
On a more subtle level, you have organizations that exert their influence on military recruits -- as evidenced in Campus Crusade for Christ's Military Ministry, which seeks to turn recruits into "government-paid missionaries." When you hear about people shooting Qu'rans or passing coins with John 3:16 written on them to Iraqi Muslims, do you think that makes the United States less hated in Middle Easterners' eyes?
The enemy we face in this war on terrorism isn't Muslims. It isn't Arabs. It's not al-Qaida -- al-Qaida is a symptom, not the disease. The disease is extremism, and we have a lot of it to cleanse from within our own borders before we have any license to eradicate it from elsewhere.
No. Fair use might be two or three paragraphs, not an entire news article.
Sour grapes much? If you don't like it, don't link to their stories or photos. Or, you know, go out and do your own journalism.
That was Reuters.
Rather than have the Air Force, Army, FBI, NSA, and gods-know who else each approaching cyberwarfare, why does the federal government not designate a single agency that jointly manages cyberwarfare and cybersecurity?
I suspect the rail industry uses GPS more for the timing signal than the navigation signal. If you hook a rail switch up to GPS and tell it you want it to switch at a given time of day, you know it's going to switch at that time -- not five minutes before or after.
So is Ron Paul. Sucks, but it's true.
Two reasons: first, because even a fool can speak wisdom; and second, because at least Kucinich won his elections.
Because no one's figured out how to drive a train into a building?
I have an airtight defense. I'm not doing stuff -- I'm reading Slashdot.
But where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom!
Are you actually a lawyer, or are you making this shit up as you're going along?
When I request a page on the Web, I have a right to see it as it was originally presented. I also have a right -- because it's now on my computer -- to choose whether I want to see the advertising that's on the page. The ISP, as an "agent," has no more right to alter the data coming to my computer than my phone company has the right to interject itself into my conversations, and trying to argue otherwise is just horseshit.
In short: Deal with it.
In a word: Yes.
What does a "Cyber" command do? It "cybers"? Yeah, count me out.
I imagine the speculation goes something like this: The dwarf galaxy that is now Omega Centauri collided with the Milky Way, which cannibalized most of the dwarf's stars and sent its star-forming nebulae into the intergalactic void. All that was left of the dwarf was a massive globular cluster.