I can recite family guy too as well as other "cult" or "geek" cannon, but since I am not autistic, I generally choose other ways to communicate than rattling off large amounts of quoted dialogue towards bewildered others.
Our great uncle can multiply two four digit numbers in his head, he never learned how to do it, he just can. But he is certainly not autistic either, he is a normal guy with many friends, a lovely wife and family and had a good career as the Chief Engineer of a large electronics company during the 80s, which would be a rare achievement for even a high functioning autistic.
My cousin's high functioning autistic. He communicates through quoting 10 minute chunks of dialogue of Family Guy, randomly refuses to leave the house for weeks with violent tantrums and thinks buying 5 gameboys at once and keeping 14 hampsters in his room is normal. Other than that, he's a normal young man. I've got to say though it hasn't destroyed him, it's hardly been beneficial.
All chromosomes are passed on as is, apart from mutation. Gene swapping occurs (a type of mutation), but it can involve the Y chromosone just as much as any other.
Well, no, I'm arguing your point as best I can, this stuff is too murky to "prove" anything concretely, but you're welcome.
A technical discussion is not at all biased by marketing. What's most efficient is most efficient, what is most stable is most stable, what can be implemented the fastest can be implemented the fastest nomatter what the marketing concerns regarding who wants to buy it. But still, the "best" solution involves many factors, the technical factors are extremely important, but you've still got to persuade someone to buy it before it has any baring on the product's suitibility.
What you need to understand is that these CTOs are way past their prime. 80% of their decisions are based on "judgement", which how we say "prejudice" while still implying respect. If you say "local filesystem" to a tried and tested DB man, he's going to think "half arsed" nomatter how well you've implemented it and whatever benchmarks you show him will just prove in his mind that they would be better if it was done using either his pet style in the case of a proud former developer or "best of breed data management solution" in the case of a guy out of touch with his roots. Show him something he knows and vaguely trusts, he will tend to just assume that the model fits and it works as well as other usecases.
Middleware is great, because you deal directly with your opposite number on the other side. You think to yourself "what makes me stupid?" and chances are, he's stupid in exactly the same way. Think "what vague halftruth have I read on Slashdot today?" and chances are, he's read the same article and believed it, hook, line and sinker because he's not a specialist in that exact niche. This is what makes marketing brilliant, being self aware beats being right every time. I'm a developer by the way, I just have an interest in marketing because of my smugness and contempt of human intelect.
Previously, I was developing MMO backend software that uses MySQL for a data storage. The fit to the model was completely inappropriate, there was just no applications of the relational model, since we were just checking in and out large blobs of data, not actually performing read/update transactions. Storing records (persistent game entities) as files in a directory would have worked far better than forcing that stuff into a relational DB. But customers know that Databases are what professionals use, so we did it anyway. Clients can buy it, realise they need the flat files and turn them on after benchmarking, we get the sale, they get a good product in the end, win win, but a bit of wasted effort.
Now NoSQL is what professionals use, relational DBs can be used for what they are good at and NoSQL gives us marketing hype for doing certain things in the right way that could have been done using filesystems all along. I couldn't be happier. Furthermore we get this nice application level distributed data store with map-reduce stuff built in if we can be bothered using it.
Here's what most geeks don't get about marketing: it's not just about being smarter than the other guy, you've got to be smarter than him and make him give you his money. Money is good, it buys freedom and power and if branding makes sure that you have more of this freedom and power than the fool who falls for it, then the world will be a better place.
Chinese programmers use English for variable names. Compiling any >8 bit per character language is painful because of more complex string processing. Hanyu pinyin (Chinese written in Latin alphabet) is mainly used as a way of typing, nobody can actually read it and even if they could, it would be ambiguous. Since the bulk of programming resources are in English anyway, a Chinese programmer who is not fluent in reading it cannot actually do any useful coding anyway. So generally, even in Chinese companies, coding style still mandates clear English variable names.
Experimental UIs are the same, Chinese programmers tend to slap them up in English because they don't have to support Chinese encoding.
Pads of paper are rare these days. In my office, we have A5 notebook or rheems for the printer. Even though I'm male, there's quite likely a few sanitary pads stashed in my apartment somewhere (by my girlfriend), though I doubt if I have any traditional notepads.
It could be a dialectic thing, in Australian English a "notepad" explicitly refers to a book of tear off foolscap sheets bound with glue at the top and there really isn't any other name for those woman's things but simply "pads". I can't remember what they're called in the UK, I was there a few weeks ago but it never came up.
They are both subsidiaries of the same company. Furthermore I dare you to walk into a Chinese court and base your case on the claim that Taiwan is not part of China. Losing the case would be the least of your worries, losing your head would be the bigger concern.
Weiguan are a bunch of desperate scheming pricks. However, iPad is also a stupid name, which sounds like a lady's sanitary product and is not worth what Apple paid for it to begin with, let alone the cost of this court battle.
He might not have had any right or business being there, but it was Facebook's responsibility to keep him the out. The cost to secure Facebook is just part of the cost of operating a commercial site full of other people's data and it sounds like they have been neglecting this aspect up until now.
The cost of a security audit being attributed to him is like saying "this guy broke in to our store, so now we have to pay to put a lock the window to deter future theives", which is bullshit, if you have valuable stuff you should lock it up properly. If you find the guy who robbed you, this is brilliant, find out what he did while you beat a confession out of him, then find out why your security team messed up badly enough to let him get away with a truck-full of merchandise, because the next guy who breaks in, you might not catch.
Aderall is amphetamine. Biochemical effects are the same between methylphenidate and amphetamine, they stimulate the same areas in the brain in the same way, I think it is just as relavent.
Well, I assume you're not narcoleptic, otherwise you would just say that. So I will share a personal anecdote about medical amphetamines.
One time I took two Ritalin tablets an hour before entering a maths competition, came somewhere in the top 1% of entrants, whereas I had never come in the top 5% before. Turns out amphetamines help you think quick and focus, same reason so many top level mathematicians use amphetamines. If it helps you do things better, by all means take it, to be smart and focused is a good thing and a reasonably large percentage of the population's intellectual performance can be very much enhanced by this chemical.
But you don't need it to function. If you think that, then you're an addict and you should lay off it for a while.
I also doubt if Rolls Royce, Pratt & Whitney or GE would outsource. For Boeing, it would make more sence, airframes are too big for automated production, still need someone to patiently weld most of the joints together. Chinese do that sort of thing well, as long as the workers are given time and motivation to do it right.
For jet engines, not so much, the compressors, fuel injectors and turbines are made out of small, identical parts, which can be made by automated jigs onsite, assembly is still done by hand, but the labour involved is low, per unit (jet engines can be fully dismantled for service) and mostly I imagine it serves as a quality control step, parts that don't fit right should be either discarded or carefully re-machined. Chinese workers tend to care a lot about quotas and less about precision, in my experience (I'm Chief Engineer at a Chinese tech company) mostly would rather blame the parts manufacturer when something goes wrong than inspect parts before installation./p.
20 years ago the world was eagerly awaiting the release of Windows 3.1 in March, which would finally bring us colour icons, 386 Enhanced (protected mode) windows apps and the ability to run MSDOS programs in a window. Oh, and Minesweeper, no more stupid MS Reversi for us!
Man, I can just feel CANYON.MID playing through my head as I think about the coming excitement.
Uncharted had very good gameplay too. Great controls, game mechanics and level design. Watching the "making of" materials, it seems the story was tailored around the set-pieces, rather than the other way around, exactly how you shouldn't make a compelling movie. It is hard to argue that Uncharted made sacrifices for the story, in fact, I think the opposite is quite clear. Uncharted managed to have a moderately interesting story while it was at it, but this is more because of Naughty Dog's philosophy about doing everything well more than anything.
Also, I wouldn't say Skyrim had a worse story than Uncharted either, in fact, I liked it much better than Metal Gear Solid's story, which seems to get more silly and less believable in every iteration but seems to demand you pay attention to it.
They claim they have never allowed an ambush to cover up codebreaking in WWII, just the difficulty in diffusing this information in a covert way meant it did not always get to who needed it in time. From this, it can slowly snowball in retelling to generals and spies sending men into ambushes to cover their efforts, which is stragegically retarded since it is not realistic for the enemy to notice something is amiss just because they don't get lucky in ambushes. However I think people just like the weight of the supposed situation: *movie trailer voice* "the ultimate sacrifice, to protect the ultimate secret".
What does Australia need with a dedicated air-superiority fighter? We have a doctrine based around multi-role fighters.
I'm not briefed on RAAF strategies, but from the little I know, that's never been the case. The RAAF has always kept the F/A-18s close to home, in an air-superiority role while employing the F-111s in a long range fighter/bomber strike capacity. Australia's first and only multi-role fighter has been the F/A-18E, which although has a laughable take-off weight compared to the pig, does not have a 45 year old design and could possibly survive engagement with a hostile fighter without being blown out of the sky. The F/A-18A may have been used as a multi-role strike aircraft by the USN, but not the RAAF (to my knowledge).
To my knowledge Australia is still going to buy the F-35, they just bought 24 F/A-18E as well. I think this is particularly dumb, Australia should have gone either with Eurofighter or Sukhoi, at least with the interim order to keep America on its toes. But the Australian government does not like to keep America on its toes, it believes in showing unwavering solidarity and declaring to the United States that Australia can and will accept any crap that it is sold. They did make a serious inquiry about the F-22, which would have been a useful plane, but when it was rebuffed on national security grounds, Australia did not make an indignant show about being only sold the US' second best fighter.
The American entries were never contenders, the F-35 is still in development, the F-15 and F-18 quite old and the F-22 is not offered for export, all have been out of consideration for over a year, this was always Dassault Rafale vs Eurofighter Typhoon. Personally, I have no idea why they didn't buy more Su-30s, as they already have 100 of them, meaning there is no shortage of parts and expertise and to my knowledge are just as capable as the Rafale.
In the end, the Indian government liked the Typhoon best, but Rafale gave a far lower bid. This is probably because it's Rafale's first export order and will mean that Dassault can stay in business.
Welcome to the farse of "Software Engineering", the sooner you realise that the way things happen in the real world is just (as you say) hacking stuff together and debugging it the better. The only added fun that you will have no idea what 70% of your codebase does and neither does anyone else.
While Software Engineering never provided any credible way of _building_ the systems, what it used to do is provide ways where you could find out exactly what you need before you start building it. These days we have Agile instead, so we don't do that, we just pick an idea at random and hope to god it's either right or we can change it.
My advice: Learn to read code. Learn to find out what the system actually does, not what the comments says it does. Learn to read it then work out how to slowly change it into what you need. It's the difference between the respected senior guy who fixes the problems and the detested junior guy who creates them. I work with a commercial 3D game engine and the fact I know every line of it is worth far more to anyone than how many lines I can myself write in a day.
If you read the classification guide, the guideline from G to MA15+ is: "Nudity should be justified by context. Nudity must not be related to incentives or rewards." i.e. it cannot be "collect 12 badger skins to see my labia". The proposed R18+ guidelines allow for incentive related and contextually unjustified nudity of course (up to and including actual footage of human genitalia), but there was never a general prohibition on nipples, or wang, scrot or vag for that matter. It was always either violence or drug use that got games banned in Australia, apart from BMXXX, which was considered "contextually unjustified nudity" to the censorship board and just about every game reviewer that played it.
Why doesn't the US have two state departments, each with slightly different livery and branding, one can be marketed "The Original State Department" and one can be "The Authentic State Department". That way, with countries like Australia (which pretty much does what it's told anyway), they can send the sort of diplomat who will immediately run to the closest bar and say "wow guys, so busy, we're planning a really big covert thing, but I can't tell you what it is", hoping the intrigue will get him some sex or at least a lot of people interested in talking to him. So the host government can relax, knowing that if the US was planning some espionage, they would know about it before the CIA resident does. With NK and Iran, the other State Department can be full of steely faced people who take secrets to their grave.
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Nope, that means you have a good memory.
I can recite family guy too as well as other "cult" or "geek" cannon, but since I am not autistic, I generally choose other ways to communicate than rattling off large amounts of quoted dialogue towards bewildered others.
Our great uncle can multiply two four digit numbers in his head, he never learned how to do it, he just can. But he is certainly not autistic either, he is a normal guy with many friends, a lovely wife and family and had a good career as the Chief Engineer of a large electronics company during the 80s, which would be a rare achievement for even a high functioning autistic.
My cousin's high functioning autistic. He communicates through quoting 10 minute chunks of dialogue of Family Guy, randomly refuses to leave the house for weeks with violent tantrums and thinks buying 5 gameboys at once and keeping 14 hampsters in his room is normal. Other than that, he's a normal young man. I've got to say though it hasn't destroyed him, it's hardly been beneficial.
All chromosomes are passed on as is, apart from mutation. Gene swapping occurs (a type of mutation), but it can involve the Y chromosone just as much as any other.
Well, no, I'm arguing your point as best I can, this stuff is too murky to "prove" anything concretely, but you're welcome.
A technical discussion is not at all biased by marketing. What's most efficient is most efficient, what is most stable is most stable, what can be implemented the fastest can be implemented the fastest nomatter what the marketing concerns regarding who wants to buy it. But still, the "best" solution involves many factors, the technical factors are extremely important, but you've still got to persuade someone to buy it before it has any baring on the product's suitibility.
What you need to understand is that these CTOs are way past their prime. 80% of their decisions are based on "judgement", which how we say "prejudice" while still implying respect. If you say "local filesystem" to a tried and tested DB man, he's going to think "half arsed" nomatter how well you've implemented it and whatever benchmarks you show him will just prove in his mind that they would be better if it was done using either his pet style in the case of a proud former developer or "best of breed data management solution" in the case of a guy out of touch with his roots. Show him something he knows and vaguely trusts, he will tend to just assume that the model fits and it works as well as other usecases.
Middleware is great, because you deal directly with your opposite number on the other side. You think to yourself "what makes me stupid?" and chances are, he's stupid in exactly the same way. Think "what vague halftruth have I read on Slashdot today?" and chances are, he's read the same article and believed it, hook, line and sinker because he's not a specialist in that exact niche. This is what makes marketing brilliant, being self aware beats being right every time. I'm a developer by the way, I just have an interest in marketing because of my smugness and contempt of human intelect.
It's great branding.
Previously, I was developing MMO backend software that uses MySQL for a data storage. The fit to the model was completely inappropriate, there was just no applications of the relational model, since we were just checking in and out large blobs of data, not actually performing read/update transactions. Storing records (persistent game entities) as files in a directory would have worked far better than forcing that stuff into a relational DB. But customers know that Databases are what professionals use, so we did it anyway. Clients can buy it, realise they need the flat files and turn them on after benchmarking, we get the sale, they get a good product in the end, win win, but a bit of wasted effort.
Now NoSQL is what professionals use, relational DBs can be used for what they are good at and NoSQL gives us marketing hype for doing certain things in the right way that could have been done using filesystems all along. I couldn't be happier. Furthermore we get this nice application level distributed data store with map-reduce stuff built in if we can be bothered using it.
Here's what most geeks don't get about marketing: it's not just about being smarter than the other guy, you've got to be smarter than him and make him give you his money. Money is good, it buys freedom and power and if branding makes sure that you have more of this freedom and power than the fool who falls for it, then the world will be a better place.
Chinese programmers use English for variable names. Compiling any >8 bit per character language is painful because of more complex string processing. Hanyu pinyin (Chinese written in Latin alphabet) is mainly used as a way of typing, nobody can actually read it and even if they could, it would be ambiguous. Since the bulk of programming resources are in English anyway, a Chinese programmer who is not fluent in reading it cannot actually do any useful coding anyway. So generally, even in Chinese companies, coding style still mandates clear English variable names.
Experimental UIs are the same, Chinese programmers tend to slap them up in English because they don't have to support Chinese encoding.
Pads of paper are rare these days. In my office, we have A5 notebook or rheems for the printer. Even though I'm male, there's quite likely a few sanitary pads stashed in my apartment somewhere (by my girlfriend), though I doubt if I have any traditional notepads.
It could be a dialectic thing, in Australian English a "notepad" explicitly refers to a book of tear off foolscap sheets bound with glue at the top and there really isn't any other name for those woman's things but simply "pads". I can't remember what they're called in the UK, I was there a few weeks ago but it never came up.
They are both subsidiaries of the same company. Furthermore I dare you to walk into a Chinese court and base your case on the claim that Taiwan is not part of China. Losing the case would be the least of your worries, losing your head would be the bigger concern.
Weiguan are a bunch of desperate scheming pricks. However, iPad is also a stupid name, which sounds like a lady's sanitary product and is not worth what Apple paid for it to begin with, let alone the cost of this court battle.
He might not have had any right or business being there, but it was Facebook's responsibility to keep him the out. The cost to secure Facebook is just part of the cost of operating a commercial site full of other people's data and it sounds like they have been neglecting this aspect up until now.
The cost of a security audit being attributed to him is like saying "this guy broke in to our store, so now we have to pay to put a lock the window to deter future theives", which is bullshit, if you have valuable stuff you should lock it up properly. If you find the guy who robbed you, this is brilliant, find out what he did while you beat a confession out of him, then find out why your security team messed up badly enough to let him get away with a truck-full of merchandise, because the next guy who breaks in, you might not catch.
I don't see why it's so popular on Slashdot to hate people who believe in some sort of God.
Same reason it has been popular in the past to hate gays, jews, blacks, etc. It's fun and it makes people feel better about themselves.
Aderall is amphetamine. Biochemical effects are the same between methylphenidate and amphetamine, they stimulate the same areas in the brain in the same way, I think it is just as relavent.
Well, I assume you're not narcoleptic, otherwise you would just say that. So I will share a personal anecdote about medical amphetamines.
One time I took two Ritalin tablets an hour before entering a maths competition, came somewhere in the top 1% of entrants, whereas I had never come in the top 5% before. Turns out amphetamines help you think quick and focus, same reason so many top level mathematicians use amphetamines. If it helps you do things better, by all means take it, to be smart and focused is a good thing and a reasonably large percentage of the population's intellectual performance can be very much enhanced by this chemical.
But you don't need it to function. If you think that, then you're an addict and you should lay off it for a while.
Boeing doesn't make jet engines.
I also doubt if Rolls Royce, Pratt & Whitney or GE would outsource. For Boeing, it would make more sence, airframes are too big for automated production, still need someone to patiently weld most of the joints together. Chinese do that sort of thing well, as long as the workers are given time and motivation to do it right.
For jet engines, not so much, the compressors, fuel injectors and turbines are made out of small, identical parts, which can be made by automated jigs onsite, assembly is still done by hand, but the labour involved is low, per unit (jet engines can be fully dismantled for service) and mostly I imagine it serves as a quality control step, parts that don't fit right should be either discarded or carefully re-machined. Chinese workers tend to care a lot about quotas and less about precision, in my experience (I'm Chief Engineer at a Chinese tech company) mostly would rather blame the parts manufacturer when something goes wrong than inspect parts before installation./p.
The game was so broken on release it required a "patch" of 60% of the game disc?
You're new to the Battlefield series then?
Don't worry, when that number passes 100% and they must be on to at least their third draft of everything, it will be a brilliant game.
20 years ago the world was eagerly awaiting the release of Windows 3.1 in March, which would finally bring us colour icons, 386 Enhanced (protected mode) windows apps and the ability to run MSDOS programs in a window. Oh, and Minesweeper, no more stupid MS Reversi for us!
Man, I can just feel CANYON.MID playing through my head as I think about the coming excitement.
Uncharted had very good gameplay too. Great controls, game mechanics and level design. Watching the "making of" materials, it seems the story was tailored around the set-pieces, rather than the other way around, exactly how you shouldn't make a compelling movie. It is hard to argue that Uncharted made sacrifices for the story, in fact, I think the opposite is quite clear. Uncharted managed to have a moderately interesting story while it was at it, but this is more because of Naughty Dog's philosophy about doing everything well more than anything.
Also, I wouldn't say Skyrim had a worse story than Uncharted either, in fact, I liked it much better than Metal Gear Solid's story, which seems to get more silly and less believable in every iteration but seems to demand you pay attention to it.
Use LGPL3, that way if it infects a proprietary executable it won't be a license violation.
They claim they have never allowed an ambush to cover up codebreaking in WWII, just the difficulty in diffusing this information in a covert way meant it did not always get to who needed it in time. From this, it can slowly snowball in retelling to generals and spies sending men into ambushes to cover their efforts, which is stragegically retarded since it is not realistic for the enemy to notice something is amiss just because they don't get lucky in ambushes. However I think people just like the weight of the supposed situation: *movie trailer voice* "the ultimate sacrifice, to protect the ultimate secret".
What does Australia need with a dedicated air-superiority fighter? We have a doctrine based around multi-role fighters.
I'm not briefed on RAAF strategies, but from the little I know, that's never been the case. The RAAF has always kept the F/A-18s close to home, in an air-superiority role while employing the F-111s in a long range fighter/bomber strike capacity. Australia's first and only multi-role fighter has been the F/A-18E, which although has a laughable take-off weight compared to the pig, does not have a 45 year old design and could possibly survive engagement with a hostile fighter without being blown out of the sky. The F/A-18A may have been used as a multi-role strike aircraft by the USN, but not the RAAF (to my knowledge).
To my knowledge Australia is still going to buy the F-35, they just bought 24 F/A-18E as well. I think this is particularly dumb, Australia should have gone either with Eurofighter or Sukhoi, at least with the interim order to keep America on its toes. But the Australian government does not like to keep America on its toes, it believes in showing unwavering solidarity and declaring to the United States that Australia can and will accept any crap that it is sold. They did make a serious inquiry about the F-22, which would have been a useful plane, but when it was rebuffed on national security grounds, Australia did not make an indignant show about being only sold the US' second best fighter.
The American entries were never contenders, the F-35 is still in development, the F-15 and F-18 quite old and the F-22 is not offered for export, all have been out of consideration for over a year, this was always Dassault Rafale vs Eurofighter Typhoon. Personally, I have no idea why they didn't buy more Su-30s, as they already have 100 of them, meaning there is no shortage of parts and expertise and to my knowledge are just as capable as the Rafale.
In the end, the Indian government liked the Typhoon best, but Rafale gave a far lower bid. This is probably because it's Rafale's first export order and will mean that Dassault can stay in business.
Welcome to the farse of "Software Engineering", the sooner you realise that the way things happen in the real world is just (as you say) hacking stuff together and debugging it the better. The only added fun that you will have no idea what 70% of your codebase does and neither does anyone else.
While Software Engineering never provided any credible way of _building_ the systems, what it used to do is provide ways where you could find out exactly what you need before you start building it. These days we have Agile instead, so we don't do that, we just pick an idea at random and hope to god it's either right or we can change it.
My advice: Learn to read code. Learn to find out what the system actually does, not what the comments says it does. Learn to read it then work out how to slowly change it into what you need. It's the difference between the respected senior guy who fixes the problems and the detested junior guy who creates them. I work with a commercial 3D game engine and the fact I know every line of it is worth far more to anyone than how many lines I can myself write in a day.
Everything looks shitty compared to having the same thing for free.
In Australia no.
If you read the classification guide, the guideline from G to MA15+ is: "Nudity should be justified by context. Nudity must not be related to incentives or rewards." i.e. it cannot be "collect 12 badger skins to see my labia". The proposed R18+ guidelines allow for incentive related and contextually unjustified nudity of course (up to and including actual footage of human genitalia), but there was never a general prohibition on nipples, or wang, scrot or vag for that matter. It was always either violence or drug use that got games banned in Australia, apart from BMXXX, which was considered "contextually unjustified nudity" to the censorship board and just about every game reviewer that played it.
Why doesn't the US have two state departments, each with slightly different livery and branding, one can be marketed "The Original State Department" and one can be "The Authentic State Department". That way, with countries like Australia (which pretty much does what it's told anyway), they can send the sort of diplomat who will immediately run to the closest bar and say "wow guys, so busy, we're planning a really big covert thing, but I can't tell you what it is", hoping the intrigue will get him some sex or at least a lot of people interested in talking to him. So the host government can relax, knowing that if the US was planning some espionage, they would know about it before the CIA resident does. With NK and Iran, the other State Department can be full of steely faced people who take secrets to their grave.