Inline replies are fucking annoying, especially when the mail grows with multiple people answering inside the text.
Putting it on top gives a very clear history of whats been going on and it makes it a heck of a lot easier to read through if you need to catch up on something (e.g. someone else has been making a mess and it has been escalated).
As far as I remember, proper validation of email isn't possible in regex. That being said, why do people insist on checking the address is valid? Just check there's exactly one (1) @ and fire the mail at that address with a validation link (as a sibling suggested).
Interesting, here in Denmark Apple has one of the lowest ratings when it comes to customer support - they have several times been beaten by the Danish consumer watchdog in cases where they refused to honor warranty.
So either their policy where you are from are different - or everyone else just truly sucks when it comes to customer service?
Try eating asparagus, your urine will reak, each some brussels sprouts and your farts will drive your neighbour insane.
Drink a lot of coke and your sweat will turn white clohtes yellow when you sweat.
Also another fun experiment is to cut up some garlic and just hold it in your hand, within a short while you will start tasting garlic. (My mom teaches chemistry and has shown all sorts of neat trick that helps her students understand the dangers of what they are doing)
I once discovered a flaw in a website and told the operators. A couple of days later I was called up by their security personal threatening with police etc.
If you discover a flaw within a system, use an anonymous mail system to tell them about it and if nothing happens go to wikileaks. Do not put yourself in the line of fire.
Except most operators don't support a positive list - and most won't even support a negative list. Also, even *IF* they had such an option, the thieves would just have to switch the cards to roaming (this however can be disabled, but aren't on most cards, and since they where so easily picked up, I doubt they where anything but run of the mill standard setup).
There is almost no business case for an operator to do anything for those SIM card enabled traffic lights. Yeah they might make a bit on a subscription, but there is no traffic to and from the card and thus making those customers absolutely worthless. Telecommunications is all about volume of traffic, not individual solutions.
Yes, but if we had time and money to do it the right way, we woulnd't be in this trouble.
And your hints are unfortunately useless - if you know how all objects interact you don't have the problem. Since we have the problem, we obviously don't know how they interact in all cases, thus the need for some outside program to help grind it.
Deadlock detection won't help, since race conditions are (usually) due to lack of locks.
Up until your claim about my internal system you where sounding like you knew what you where talking about.
Now your whole statement is pretty much useless, because I know that fact alone isn't right and you haven't done your research making your whole argument invalid.
Also 10 years? Come back when you have data collected over several generations - as a sibling said, we are omnivores, we have evolved to where we are, damned sure not gonna fight what I was meant to do.
We have very good knowledge of why most commits happened, strict enforcing of commit policy has helped that quite a bit.
I don't know what world you come from, but the one I program in, any application needing automated tests are never small. Our need for formal verification started at around 70.000 lines of SQL and somewhere north of 400.000 lines of unproven code. At this point it became impossible to verify functionality across all systems talking to each other; we looked into starting unit testing and gave up, problem was simply too big for a small company to take on. Instead we have solved it by not modifying existing code where multiple service can access (e.g. the database or external APIs), this way any modifications are limited to whatever sub project is being worked on making subjective tests feasible, but never perfect => if you need a function to do something slightly different, we implement a new function next to the old one. Even functions known to be broken are kept, because as it turns out, some programs expect wrong data to be returned.
Now this sounds like an obvious submission to the daily wtf, but when working with limited time and limited funds you just have to make due with what you got.
Right now I work for a telecom, small one - but we still have some pretty strict demands on availability. Testing in our system is an absolute nightmare; what we can do, is prove that our program works for well defined input, but once you add customers to the equation, all bets are off. We have at several points in our history looked into test driven development etc, but fact is, the type of errors we see aren't easily detected by a fixed test. Most problems we experience in production is race conditions, testing for them and spotting them on a system with hundreds of simultaneousness calls is downright hard.
Incidentally, if anyone out there has suggestions on how to reliably test for race conditions, please speak up.
Also, putting testing infrastructure into an existing system is a huge undertaking. And it requires a very strict handling for all future commits - if you just slip a little on the test suite you are basically invalidating the whole thing.
Many a times I've tried to implement test suites, both as request from employers and also for own sanity sake - and every time it has failed because the workload was simply too overwhelming to support both testing and development.
In the end, the basic economics of it has dictated that it is cheaper to hot fix than to make it right the first time around.
Most of us need proteins, also at least one amino acid is from eating meat afair. And for all you veggies out there, yes I'm very well aware that you can achieve the same protein through vegetables and you can take nutrition supplement to get the amino acid, but frankly I'd rather have some damned animal suffer for my pleasure than to hurt my self for their well being.
Have you any idea how hard it is to find a virgin american of legal age? And even when you do find one, they tend to be biblical nuts.. So no Virgin Amarica for me thankyouverymuch!
You are kidding right? No sane person would use the heating system to remove ice from the windshield.
You are killing your engine trying to heat up the windows when the engine is cold - if you are driving with an iced up windshield you are putting peoples life at risk.
Also, this will definitely pump the sales of the 6950 board. When precious little snowflake needs a new GFX to run the new game given for Christmas, there is definitely going to be some pushing for the "cheap" 6950 with upgrade in mind.
Java is quite stable and quite fast. It has extensive documentation, some really really nice libraries to work with. This can be said about a lot of languages, but Java also has a very low learning curve, it's very fast to get started with on big projects and it just works [tm].
I used to hate Java, it was a buggy pile of poo, but the last couple of years I've been working quite a lot with Java and must say I'm truly impressed with what you can do today. Yes, you can get significant speedups using C/C++, however, I can build a safe multithreaded application way faster in Java than C/C++, thus making it a favorite for my set of problems (which happens to consist mostly of embarrassingly parallel problems).
Universities is about learning to read and study, unfortunately for a lot of people there is a very high learning curve in the beginning.
As for the original question - does it pay to go for elite? Depends on what you want in life, when you graduate, the paper, no matter where you are from, will most likely land you some sort of a job - so if what you want in life is a job, a house, a dog and 2.4 children, then it's all good. However, if you have career in mind, you need elite colleges, not because they are better, because they most likely aren't - after all, you are just giving a book and assumed you can figure it out yourself - you need elite colleges for the network. Granted, you can network anywhere, but elite colleges will most likely have your network within forbes 500.
Networking is everything, it's the difference between standing in line at the unemployment office and being one E-mail away from your next job.
In the future, stop playing with aperture on your camera for build projects. Generally people want to take in the whole scene in these cases and it is to be honest quite annoying when only part of it is in focus.
For portraits etc. playing with depth of field is really good - not so much for documenting.
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That would be common pretty much anywhere in the world.
As an employee you have to prove that you didn't come up with an idea in work time; good luck with that.
Inline replies are fucking annoying, especially when the mail grows with multiple people answering inside the text.
Putting it on top gives a very clear history of whats been going on and it makes it a heck of a lot easier to read through if you need to catch up on something (e.g. someone else has been making a mess and it has been escalated).
I have the same opinion as GP, that movie sucked.
It made absolutely no sense, but then again, I don't know the universe it's supposed to depict.
I recommend Terry Pratchett.
As far as I remember, proper validation of email isn't possible in regex. That being said, why do people insist on checking the address is valid? Just check there's exactly one (1) @ and fire the mail at that address with a validation link (as a sibling suggested).
Because those making the marketing material isn't the same people building the network.
They are kinda like the Danish trains, they also only seem to be operating in the spring and early fall.
Interesting, here in Denmark Apple has one of the lowest ratings when it comes to customer support - they have several times been beaten by the Danish consumer watchdog in cases where they refused to honor warranty.
So either their policy where you are from are different - or everyone else just truly sucks when it comes to customer service?
You are what you eat.
Try eating asparagus, your urine will reak, each some brussels sprouts and your farts will drive your neighbour insane.
Drink a lot of coke and your sweat will turn white clohtes yellow when you sweat.
Also another fun experiment is to cut up some garlic and just hold it in your hand, within a short while you will start tasting garlic. (My mom teaches chemistry and has shown all sorts of neat trick that helps her students understand the dangers of what they are doing)
Yeah.. Except don't do that.
I once discovered a flaw in a website and told the operators. A couple of days later I was called up by their security personal threatening with police etc.
If you discover a flaw within a system, use an anonymous mail system to tell them about it and if nothing happens go to wikileaks. Do not put yourself in the line of fire.
Except most operators don't support a positive list - and most won't even support a negative list. Also, even *IF* they had such an option, the thieves would just have to switch the cards to roaming (this however can be disabled, but aren't on most cards, and since they where so easily picked up, I doubt they where anything but run of the mill standard setup).
There is almost no business case for an operator to do anything for those SIM card enabled traffic lights. Yeah they might make a bit on a subscription, but there is no traffic to and from the card and thus making those customers absolutely worthless. Telecommunications is all about volume of traffic, not individual solutions.
Yes, but if we had time and money to do it the right way, we woulnd't be in this trouble.
And your hints are unfortunately useless - if you know how all objects interact you don't have the problem. Since we have the problem, we obviously don't know how they interact in all cases, thus the need for some outside program to help grind it.
Deadlock detection won't help, since race conditions are (usually) due to lack of locks.
Up until your claim about my internal system you where sounding like you knew what you where talking about.
Now your whole statement is pretty much useless, because I know that fact alone isn't right and you haven't done your research making your whole argument invalid.
Also 10 years? Come back when you have data collected over several generations - as a sibling said, we are omnivores, we have evolved to where we are, damned sure not gonna fight what I was meant to do.
Think you are mixing people up.
We have very good knowledge of why most commits happened, strict enforcing of commit policy has helped that quite a bit.
I don't know what world you come from, but the one I program in, any application needing automated tests are never small. Our need for formal verification started at around 70.000 lines of SQL and somewhere north of 400.000 lines of unproven code. At this point it became impossible to verify functionality across all systems talking to each other; we looked into starting unit testing and gave up, problem was simply too big for a small company to take on. Instead we have solved it by not modifying existing code where multiple service can access (e.g. the database or external APIs), this way any modifications are limited to whatever sub project is being worked on making subjective tests feasible, but never perfect => if you need a function to do something slightly different, we implement a new function next to the old one. Even functions known to be broken are kept, because as it turns out, some programs expect wrong data to be returned.
Now this sounds like an obvious submission to the daily wtf, but when working with limited time and limited funds you just have to make due with what you got.
Absolutely agree.
Right now I work for a telecom, small one - but we still have some pretty strict demands on availability. Testing in our system is an absolute nightmare; what we can do, is prove that our program works for well defined input, but once you add customers to the equation, all bets are off. We have at several points in our history looked into test driven development etc, but fact is, the type of errors we see aren't easily detected by a fixed test. Most problems we experience in production is race conditions, testing for them and spotting them on a system with hundreds of simultaneousness calls is downright hard.
Incidentally, if anyone out there has suggestions on how to reliably test for race conditions, please speak up.
Also, putting testing infrastructure into an existing system is a huge undertaking. And it requires a very strict handling for all future commits - if you just slip a little on the test suite you are basically invalidating the whole thing.
Many a times I've tried to implement test suites, both as request from employers and also for own sanity sake - and every time it has failed because the workload was simply too overwhelming to support both testing and development.
In the end, the basic economics of it has dictated that it is cheaper to hot fix than to make it right the first time around.
Most of us need proteins, also at least one amino acid is from eating meat afair. And for all you veggies out there, yes I'm very well aware that you can achieve the same protein through vegetables and you can take nutrition supplement to get the amino acid, but frankly I'd rather have some damned animal suffer for my pleasure than to hurt my self for their well being.
At least I appreciate their sacrifice.
Have you any idea how hard it is to find a virgin american of legal age? And even when you do find one, they tend to be biblical nuts.. So no Virgin Amarica for me thankyouverymuch!
You are kidding right? No sane person would use the heating system to remove ice from the windshield.
You are killing your engine trying to heat up the windows when the engine is cold - if you are driving with an iced up windshield you are putting peoples life at risk.
Also, this will definitely pump the sales of the 6950 board. When precious little snowflake needs a new GFX to run the new game given for Christmas, there is definitely going to be some pushing for the "cheap" 6950 with upgrade in mind.
You guys don't have reverse lights?
Also, why not just do as the rest of us and require lights to be on at all times when driving?
Java is quite stable and quite fast. It has extensive documentation, some really really nice libraries to work with. This can be said about a lot of languages, but Java also has a very low learning curve, it's very fast to get started with on big projects and it just works [tm].
I used to hate Java, it was a buggy pile of poo, but the last couple of years I've been working quite a lot with Java and must say I'm truly impressed with what you can do today. Yes, you can get significant speedups using C/C++, however, I can build a safe multithreaded application way faster in Java than C/C++, thus making it a favorite for my set of problems (which happens to consist mostly of embarrassingly parallel problems).
Universities is about learning to read and study, unfortunately for a lot of people there is a very high learning curve in the beginning.
As for the original question - does it pay to go for elite? Depends on what you want in life, when you graduate, the paper, no matter where you are from, will most likely land you some sort of a job - so if what you want in life is a job, a house, a dog and 2.4 children, then it's all good. However, if you have career in mind, you need elite colleges, not because they are better, because they most likely aren't - after all, you are just giving a book and assumed you can figure it out yourself - you need elite colleges for the network. Granted, you can network anywhere, but elite colleges will most likely have your network within forbes 500.
Networking is everything, it's the difference between standing in line at the unemployment office and being one E-mail away from your next job.
Not only that, but 3G is running on top of GSM networks, this requires all sorts of annoying things, like a working subscription, a SIM card...
In the future, stop playing with aperture on your camera for build projects. Generally people want to take in the whole scene in these cases and it is to be honest quite annoying when only part of it is in focus.
For portraits etc. playing with depth of field is really good - not so much for documenting.
Great, now I'm going to hum that tune all day!