Since I was already comfortable with recursion when I started this book, it is hard for me to gauge how a reader who has never encountered recursion would find this book's explanation of the concept.
Who is the target audience for this book? I would assume programmers, of at least moderate experience. It's not like there are thousands of script/VB kiddies jumping over themselves to learn functional languages. Makes me wonder, how many semi-experienced programmers are there out there who aren't comfortable with using/understanding recursive functions?
My point was not making fun of Guinness for searching out obscure facts, but that many of the things I mentioned change frequently. On top of that, try getting a large group of people to agree (think fastest processor: AMD vs. Intel).
Imagine what they are getting themselves into. Will companies now apply for largest screen? Fastest start-up time? Fastest processor? Quietest fan? Largest spam mailing?
Doesn't work... most shops (at least in the northeast where I am) will charge a minimum diagnostic fee that you have to pay, even for a quote. Some will apply this towards the cost of work if you go with them. At $50-$150, depending on garage and make/model, it's a perfect example of what the independent repair shops are complaining about.
The funny part of this site is when you scroll to the bottom, one of the right-hand boxes is fed by slashdot.org, the top article headline being "Stop! Website Thief!"
I currently have a lot of people emailing me, currently at the phone of [phone number]@tmomail.com for tmobile. That, however, requires that people know what my provider is. When I switch (number portability act) it will change. If I could register [number].mobile, it would be kind of neat.
Assuming was have an answer to the spam problem. I'd love to see governments make a useful pre-emptive strike, declare ANY form of communication (email, SMS, etc) with cell phones with a strict opt-in as illegal. Will never happen....
Slashcode is valuable for disseminating information to everyone and allowing comments, less useful for a factual information database which needs to be search for certain records.
For instance, what if I wanted to search on/. for all information about SCO lawsuits. Hell, half the sigs contain a reference, not exactly useful.
On top of that, how many people are going to review every post and mod appropriately? Most people couldn't care less. Modding works here because people have opinions and knowledge to contribute. What goes on in court between a doc and some else involves very few people.
Just because you have access to an open source copy of a hammer, doesn't make every problem a nail.
Actually, it's HIPPA: Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act. And if you read the article, you'd know this has nothing to do with medical information. The question of whether or not they can use your SSN involves the Privacy Act of 1974.
The doc can make many more comments in addition to the lawsuit, as long as they don't divulge any protected health information. Whether or not that would fall under libel or not, is another matter.
I wonder what they use to uniquely identify patients? I mean, going by name isn't very useful, unless you know that previous addresses of your new patients.
Most charts include your social security number, is it legal for them to use this, or do they have another way?
Create a free public online database of doctors who have been sued and the reasons why. I know there are dbs out there with info on docs, but it's generally very limited, I assume for fear of lawsuit:-)
Even with 50 sensors and a system to read and process the data, how do they come up with $18,000? If it could walk up stairs, right itself, etc, I might understand, but it doesn't look that way. I can cobble together a PC, appropriate sensor receivers (BTW, what do they need 50 sensors for? Every joint?), and some software for a heck of a lot less than that. It wouldn't look as cool, but it would do the same thing.
According to archive.org, 7/20/2001, the page read as below. Seems like a very straightforward and factual complaint, unlike many of the xxxxsucks.com domains I see now.
My Lucas Landscaping Experience
I hired Lucas in Canton, MI to landscape my new home last year. I was very displeased with the results. Here is my story.
Lucas didn't use slag sand for the base of any retaining walls. The results you can see above -- sinking walls.
After less than a month and lots of rain, the walls sank in three places. Brick circles built around two identical trees between the sidewalk and curb were made two different sizes.
Lucas refused to repair them.
The ground was not prepped before sod was laid. Unfiltered topsoil and sod were laid on top of existing weeds. The grade in the backyard was altered to prevent proper drainage. Inspectors from Canton Township confirmed this. Most of the sod was laid hastily during a rain storm which resulted in numerous holes throughout the lawn. Sprinkler heads were covered up by sod -- (they did fix that the next day).
Lucas does NOT warranty sod so they refused to repair the holes. What I didn't realize until it was too late was that Lucas would not take credit cards or a personal check, they wanted cash or money orders only. This provided me with no way to hold back payment until my concerns were addressed. I've learned a very expensive lesson about fine print in contracts. I wish I'd gotten those verbal promises in writing.
The Better Business Bureau was usless. Lucas never once came out to look at the finished product. Instead they replied to the BBB with an absurd letter. Apparently that is all they need to do to stay in good standing.
I paid $5400 to a second contractor to remove all of the sod and retaining walls, regrade, rebuild walls and lay all new sod.
My landscaping is now beautiful!
Many, many more photos are available if you are interested. Feel free to e-mail me today.
Acually, I think this would be very interesting. I wonder if any has ever tried to subsidize the cost of TVs, in exchange for restricting what you can do with it. I suppose there's no way to force you to watch TV, but commercials in the middle of a DVD which can't be skipped, in exchange for a free DVD player?
Even simpler, free DVDs which include commercials. Some will bitch and moan, let them pay full cost for a commercial-less version. I'm broke:-)
The is a concept car designed by a bunch of women. Volvo says outright that they won't be manufacturing it.
Even if they did, if you don't like the idea, don't buy it! Good god, do you people have nothing better to do than to whine about other people's ideas?
I want to know if there will be a way to turn this feature off on a per-application basis (presumably through a call to the OS), as there are rare instances when self-modifying code can be incredibly efficient.
I'm exactly what you're looking for. I'm a coder, work from home, and clients who have a detailed description of what they what are hard to come by.
I have a large number of contacts, local developers like myself whom I have worked with in the past and established a good rapport. You can be certain that it is faster and easier to take on a team that already works well together then to try and unite people you don't know very well. You'll find that there are a huge number of people like me, working from home part-time (20-30 hrs/wk) to make ends meet. I suggest looking around for locals who are involved in sourceforge projects, as being willing to put your code up for the world to see tends to say something. Look on Monster.com for local resumes which meet your needs, if these people don't have a full-time job, a 6-month or so project may be something they are interested in. I strongly suggest stayin g with locals unless you already know the team well.
Now if I was just local and was willing to breach my/. anonymity, this would make for a great plug! Oh well, happy hunting!
Over the past two weeks I've received over 200 spams from the same company. They jump domains names every couple of days, so can't get their domain revoked (even if it was legally possible). Their server is in China, can't get it shut down. Seems to be owned by a guy in Japan (not entirely sure on this) so can't go after the guy legally. What does that leave?
1) Shut down their payment method
2) Less than legal methods
Personally I like the idea of a geek-funded anti-spam SWAT team, who will fly to the country where the server is located and put an axe through it. Enough of this and maybe the ISPs will learn a lesson and the spammers will have nowhere to go.
I wonder if it's legal to put a bounty on the server hosting a known illegal spam site? I'd pay a few hundred for the satisfaction.
I thought that Visa/MC directly controlled the network that authorization requests come in on? They provide the path between the gateways and the banks? In this case, they could simply block the request.
Yes, someone could forge a new account, however the resulting downtime might have an effect on the companies.
Spammers spam because it is profitable. Companies hire spammers because it brings them in money. 95% of the spam I receive is illegal (forged headers, no opt-out,etc). I wonder if we could petition Visa/MasterCard to have a process for cutting off the merchant accounts when there is evidence of illegal spam. Then it would no longer be profitable to hire spammers.
I wonder if the PR coup would be enough to offset the money lost from spammers transactions.
Slashdot Mirror
Since I was already comfortable with recursion when I started this book, it is hard for me to gauge how a reader who has never encountered recursion would find this book's explanation of the concept.
Who is the target audience for this book? I would assume programmers, of at least moderate experience. It's not like there are thousands of script/VB kiddies jumping over themselves to learn functional languages. Makes me wonder, how many semi-experienced programmers are there out there who aren't comfortable with using/understanding recursive functions?
My point was not making fun of Guinness for searching out obscure facts, but that many of the things I mentioned change frequently. On top of that, try getting a large group of people to agree (think fastest processor: AMD vs. Intel).
Imagine what they are getting themselves into. Will companies now apply for largest screen? Fastest start-up time? Fastest processor? Quietest fan? Largest spam mailing?
Doesn't work... most shops (at least in the northeast where I am) will charge a minimum diagnostic fee that you have to pay, even for a quote. Some will apply this towards the cost of work if you go with them. At $50-$150, depending on garage and make/model, it's a perfect example of what the independent repair shops are complaining about.
The funny part of this site is when you scroll to the bottom, one of the right-hand boxes is fed by slashdot.org, the top article headline being "Stop! Website Thief!"
I currently have a lot of people emailing me, currently at the phone of [phone number]@tmomail.com for tmobile. That, however, requires that people know what my provider is. When I switch (number portability act) it will change. If I could register [number].mobile, it would be kind of neat.
Assuming was have an answer to the spam problem. I'd love to see governments make a useful pre-emptive strike, declare ANY form of communication (email, SMS, etc) with cell phones with a strict opt-in as illegal. Will never happen....
And in the rare case (at least on Windows) where you have to edit a configuration file prior to loading new software, what will you do?
Granted that would be an interesting and rare catch-22 for a text editing package, you get the point.
Next we'll see a game developer in the EU suing MSFT for the monopoly practices when it comes to solitare and freecell.
Why stop there? Notepad is holding back the free marketplace.
I won't even mention the oppressiveness of the Calculator.
Slashcode is valuable for disseminating information to everyone and allowing comments, less useful for a factual information database which needs to be search for certain records.
/. for all information about SCO lawsuits. Hell, half the sigs contain a reference, not exactly useful.
For instance, what if I wanted to search on
On top of that, how many people are going to review every post and mod appropriately? Most people couldn't care less. Modding works here because people have opinions and knowledge to contribute. What goes on in court between a doc and some else involves very few people.
Just because you have access to an open source copy of a hammer, doesn't make every problem a nail.
Actually, it's HIPPA: Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act. And if you read the article, you'd know this has nothing to do with medical information. The question of whether or not they can use your SSN involves the Privacy Act of 1974.
The doc can make many more comments in addition to the lawsuit, as long as they don't divulge any protected health information. Whether or not that would fall under libel or not, is another matter.
I wonder what they use to uniquely identify patients? I mean, going by name isn't very useful, unless you know that previous addresses of your new patients.
/me is too lazy to try to sign up for free trial.
Most charts include your social security number, is it legal for them to use this, or do they have another way?
Create a free public online database of doctors who have been sued and the reasons why. I know there are dbs out there with info on docs, but it's generally very limited, I assume for fear of lawsuit :-)
Even with 50 sensors and a system to read and process the data, how do they come up with $18,000? If it could walk up stairs, right itself, etc, I might understand, but it doesn't look that way. I can cobble together a PC, appropriate sensor receivers (BTW, what do they need 50 sensors for? Every joint?), and some software for a heck of a lot less than that. It wouldn't look as cool, but it would do the same thing.
According to archive.org, 7/20/2001, the page read as below. Seems like a very straightforward and factual complaint, unlike many of the xxxxsucks.com domains I see now. My Lucas Landscaping Experience I hired Lucas in Canton, MI to landscape my new home last year. I was very displeased with the results. Here is my story. Lucas didn't use slag sand for the base of any retaining walls. The results you can see above -- sinking walls. After less than a month and lots of rain, the walls sank in three places. Brick circles built around two identical trees between the sidewalk and curb were made two different sizes. Lucas refused to repair them. The ground was not prepped before sod was laid. Unfiltered topsoil and sod were laid on top of existing weeds. The grade in the backyard was altered to prevent proper drainage. Inspectors from Canton Township confirmed this. Most of the sod was laid hastily during a rain storm which resulted in numerous holes throughout the lawn. Sprinkler heads were covered up by sod -- (they did fix that the next day). Lucas does NOT warranty sod so they refused to repair the holes. What I didn't realize until it was too late was that Lucas would not take credit cards or a personal check, they wanted cash or money orders only. This provided me with no way to hold back payment until my concerns were addressed. I've learned a very expensive lesson about fine print in contracts. I wish I'd gotten those verbal promises in writing. The Better Business Bureau was usless. Lucas never once came out to look at the finished product. Instead they replied to the BBB with an absurd letter. Apparently that is all they need to do to stay in good standing. I paid $5400 to a second contractor to remove all of the sod and retaining walls, regrade, rebuild walls and lay all new sod. My landscaping is now beautiful! Many, many more photos are available if you are interested. Feel free to e-mail me today.
Err... note that a background image is missing, so text is white on white, highlight to read it or override.
A link courtesy of the archive.org.
Is there a Google for recipes. And why isn't there a larger open cookbook on the net?
Allrecipes.com, thousands of recipes, about 98% of them are free. Fantastic resource.
Thanks for googling first.
Acually, I think this would be very interesting. I wonder if any has ever tried to subsidize the cost of TVs, in exchange for restricting what you can do with it. I suppose there's no way to force you to watch TV, but commercials in the middle of a DVD which can't be skipped, in exchange for a free DVD player?
:-)
Even simpler, free DVDs which include commercials. Some will bitch and moan, let them pay full cost for a commercial-less version. I'm broke
Again, RTFA.
The is a concept car designed by a bunch of women. Volvo says outright that they won't be manufacturing it.
Even if they did, if you don't like the idea, don't buy it! Good god, do you people have nothing better to do than to whine about other people's ideas?
RTFA. The front exterior of the car is a single piece which can be removed by approved Volvo dealers and mechanics.
I want to know if there will be a way to turn this feature off on a per-application basis (presumably through a call to the OS), as there are rare instances when self-modifying code can be incredibly efficient.
I'm exactly what you're looking for. I'm a coder, work from home, and clients who have a detailed description of what they what are hard to come by.
/. anonymity, this would make for a great plug! Oh well, happy hunting!
I have a large number of contacts, local developers like myself whom I have worked with in the past and established a good rapport. You can be certain that it is faster and easier to take on a team that already works well together then to try and unite people you don't know very well. You'll find that there are a huge number of people like me, working from home part-time (20-30 hrs/wk) to make ends meet. I suggest looking around for locals who are involved in sourceforge projects, as being willing to put your code up for the world to see tends to say something. Look on Monster.com for local resumes which meet your needs, if these people don't have a full-time job, a 6-month or so project may be something they are interested in. I strongly suggest stayin g with locals unless you already know the team well.
Now if I was just local and was willing to breach my
Over the past two weeks I've received over 200 spams from the same company. They jump domains names every couple of days, so can't get their domain revoked (even if it was legally possible). Their server is in China, can't get it shut down. Seems to be owned by a guy in Japan (not entirely sure on this) so can't go after the guy legally. What does that leave?
1) Shut down their payment method
2) Less than legal methods
Personally I like the idea of a geek-funded anti-spam SWAT team, who will fly to the country where the server is located and put an axe through it. Enough of this and maybe the ISPs will learn a lesson and the spammers will have nowhere to go.
I wonder if it's legal to put a bounty on the server hosting a known illegal spam site? I'd pay a few hundred for the satisfaction.
I thought that Visa/MC directly controlled the network that authorization requests come in on? They provide the path between the gateways and the banks? In this case, they could simply block the request.
Yes, someone could forge a new account, however the resulting downtime might have an effect on the companies.
Spammers spam because it is profitable. Companies hire spammers because it brings them in money. 95% of the spam I receive is illegal (forged headers, no opt-out,etc). I wonder if we could petition Visa/MasterCard to have a process for cutting off the merchant accounts when there is evidence of illegal spam. Then it would no longer be profitable to hire spammers.
I wonder if the PR coup would be enough to offset the money lost from spammers transactions.