I have a large collection of mostly translated SF books. Harry Harrison is one of those writers that regularly got translated into Dutch, so I had to run into him sooner or later in the beginning of the seventies, I think it was Wheelworld.
Most of his work is nice to read. I was impressed by 'One Step from Earth'.
He also had a feel for the nonsensical and burlesque, and this combined with SF made him at least original. However, his way of writing doesn't seem to be consistent across his books, and while he had many nice ideas, the way some of his books are written does sometimes give an impression of amateurism. It could be that this comes from the translation of course.
A couple of years ago I found a translated version of 'Planet Story'. I knew that this book existed, but I did not remember the title any more , having it seen only once in 1978 or 1979. I did not even know at the time it was from HH. I think that concerning the writing (and probably also the translation) this is one of his finer works.
HH had always good stories, but I do think that regarding writing he might have learned a bit of some of his colleagues.
I have a large collection of mostly translated SF books.
Harry Harrison is one of those writers that regularly got translated into Dutch, so I had to run into him sooner or later in the beginning of the seventies, I think it was Wheelworld.
Most of his work is nice to read. I was impressed by 'One Step from Earth'. He also had a feel for the nonsensical and burlesque, and this combined with SF made him at least original. However, his way of writing doesn't seem to be consistent across his books, and while he had many nice ideas, the way some of his books are written does sometimes give an impression of amateurism. It could be that this comes from the translation of course.
A couple of years ago I found a translated version of 'Planet Story'. I knew that this book existed, but I did not remember the title any more , having it seen only once in 1978 or 1979. I did not even know at the time it was from HH. I think that concerning the writing (and probably also the translation) this is one of his finer works.
HH had always good stories, but I do think that regarding writing he might have learned a bit of some of his colleagues.
I got introduced in this system twelve years ago. In the nineties I had never worked for a company which did such evaluation.
I have no qualms about evaluations per se, but when I heard how this worked, my immediate reaction was a real WTF moment.
I have in the course of school and my career been introduced into statistics several times, and I know the Gauss curve. So my first reaction really was, wtf. you do not go measuring and plotting your data, and then expand your bell curve. No, if you want to know if there are outliers then you do this match against your mean and your standard deviation. That way you can see the underperformers, but also the people who are really, really good (or one should investigate the matter).
However, the biggest wtf is really that I am working in a company with many engineers (master level engineers). I expect these people to understand these issues in probability/statistics and made a statement against this misuse of mathematics a long time ago, which is absolutely not the case.
I am from Belgium, and I think that the move to burying lines underground started here in the 70's for new developments.
When we moved in '78, we were connected to a grid underground, but the other end of the street, which was much older wasn't.
There is still cleaning up being done. In 2006 we moved to a new house in an old street, and for the new development, one quarter of the street electricity was buried underground, but only this year the last remains of utility poles have been replaced by underground connections. This is, however, in a small village. In our previous house, in a more populated area, the electricity was already long underground.
Such works are mostly done when the sidewalks need to be replaced e.g., or when the sewage system needs an overhaul.
I think that Alan Turing should be considered the father of computer science, because he showed a general model for implementing algorithms, the Turing Machine, and he showed the direction about analysing algorithms.
But I think it should be fair to say that, like in the case of Newton, he also stood on the shoulders of the people before him: Kurt GÃdel, Alonzo Church, SchÃnfinkel/Curry, and probably some others.
Gawker may be sensationalist, but a couple of weeks ago on the news here in Belgium the same was said. I think that maybe some agencies are trying to spread a worldwide outcry against TOR.
I do not like child porn either, but it is the same as with drugs: you do not solve the problem by going after the users.
Sexual abuse of children is something that leaves traces. Like in other things, education is the key, in this case the education of people to recognise the traces and learn them how to properly make checks.
Please read "Foundations of Software Testing" to understand that what you are saying is wrong on so many levels.
You should indeed do your best to write the best software you can, but there are enough factors influencing you that you never can be sure your software is bug free.
No, no, the Continuus/CM/Synergy people. If there ever was over-expensive crap software that needs to die right away, it is certainly this. It is written against all good rules of CS, it is extremely slow and costs possibly as much in lost time as the licence costs. Please, please, please kill it of now.
Let say someone downloads a copy of a popular movie, burns a 1000 copies with official looking prints and seals them in original looking wrappers, and takes them and gives them out for free in front of a store where the movie has just been released for initial sale. Does that still not cause harm to the author, distributor, performers, etc.? After all the copies don't cost them anything, they haven't lost anything.
This is called counterfeiting and for that you have precise laws and the customs.
If there are people in front of the store to buy the initial sale, I doubt very much that they are looking for copies from the internet.
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I have a large collection of mostly translated SF books. Harry Harrison is one of those writers that regularly got translated into Dutch, so I had to run into him sooner or later in the beginning of the seventies, I think it was Wheelworld.
Most of his work is nice to read. I was impressed by 'One Step from Earth'.
He also had a feel for the nonsensical and burlesque, and this combined with SF made him at least original. However, his way of writing doesn't seem to be consistent across his books, and while he had many nice ideas, the way some of his books are written does sometimes give an impression of amateurism. It could be that this comes from the translation of course.
A couple of years ago I found a translated version of 'Planet Story'. I knew that this book existed, but I did not remember the title any more , having it seen only once in 1978 or 1979. I did not even know at the time it was from HH. I think that concerning the writing (and probably also the translation) this is one of his finer works.
HH had always good stories, but I do think that regarding writing he might have learned a bit of some of his colleagues.
I have a large collection of mostly translated SF books. Harry Harrison is one of those writers that regularly got translated into Dutch, so I had to run into him sooner or later in the beginning of the seventies, I think it was Wheelworld. Most of his work is nice to read. I was impressed by 'One Step from Earth'. He also had a feel for the nonsensical and burlesque, and this combined with SF made him at least original. However, his way of writing doesn't seem to be consistent across his books, and while he had many nice ideas, the way some of his books are written does sometimes give an impression of amateurism. It could be that this comes from the translation of course. A couple of years ago I found a translated version of 'Planet Story'. I knew that this book existed, but I did not remember the title any more , having it seen only once in 1978 or 1979. I did not even know at the time it was from HH. I think that concerning the writing (and probably also the translation) this is one of his finer works. HH had always good stories, but I do think that regarding writing he might have learned a bit of some of his colleagues.
There are also people using AZERTY!
yes, it sometime takes a long time, but the Catholic Church is the only religious institution doing that kind of retraction.
Is that you, Wally?
I got introduced in this system twelve years ago. In the nineties I had never worked for a company which did such evaluation.
I have no qualms about evaluations per se, but when I heard how this worked, my immediate reaction was a real WTF moment.
I have in the course of school and my career been introduced into statistics several times, and I know the Gauss curve. So my first reaction really was, wtf. you do not go measuring and plotting your data, and then expand your bell curve. No, if you want to know if there are outliers then you do this match against your mean and your standard deviation. That way you can see the underperformers, but also the people who are really, really good (or one should investigate the matter).
However, the biggest wtf is really that I am working in a company with many engineers (master level engineers). I expect these people to understand these issues in probability/statistics and made a statement against this misuse of mathematics a long time ago, which is absolutely not the case.
So the US is in fact a larger Greece?
I am from Belgium, and I think that the move to burying lines underground started here in the 70's for new developments.
When we moved in '78, we were connected to a grid underground, but the other end of the street, which was much older wasn't.
There is still cleaning up being done. In 2006 we moved to a new house in an old street, and for the new development, one quarter of the street electricity was buried underground, but only this year the last remains of utility poles have been replaced by underground connections. This is, however, in a small village. In our previous house, in a more populated area, the electricity was already long underground.
Such works are mostly done when the sidewalks need to be replaced e.g., or when the sewage system needs an overhaul.
Just stop watching TV, and do other things instead, like organising a war against CEO's and the 1%.
I think that Alan Turing should be considered the father of computer science, because he showed a general model for implementing algorithms, the Turing Machine, and he showed the direction about analysing algorithms.
But I think it should be fair to say that, like in the case of Newton, he also stood on the shoulders of the people before him: Kurt GÃdel, Alonzo Church, SchÃnfinkel/Curry, and probably some others.
Gawker may be sensationalist, but a couple of weeks ago on the news here in Belgium the same was said. I think that maybe some agencies are trying to spread a worldwide outcry against TOR.
I do not like child porn either, but it is the same as with drugs: you do not solve the problem by going after the users.
Sexual abuse of children is something that leaves traces. Like in other things, education is the key, in this case the education of people to recognise the traces and learn them how to properly make checks.
Not only that. Except for the way macros are implemented in Lisp, you can do almost anything in Perl that you can do in (Common)Lisp/Scheme.
And macros are a compile time feature. In Perl you can also process code at compile time. Not as comprehensive as Lisp, but the feature is there!
Yes, but are you sure that the things you do are not subconsciously influenced by the knowledge you have from all the math you learned?
Please read "Foundations of Software Testing" to understand that what you are saying is wrong on so many levels.
You should indeed do your best to write the best software you can, but there are enough factors influencing you that you never can be sure your software is bug free.
+1 Cynical
+5 Insightful
The barrier to entry in programming is very low, but that does not mean that programming is simple and/or easy.
The susceptibility to the addiction is different from person to person, and that is a genetic trait.
Yes, the Walloon community of Belgium, the Dutch people in 1944, the 'Hunger Winter'.
No, no, the Continuus/CM/Synergy people. If there ever was over-expensive crap software that needs to die right away, it is certainly this. It is written against all good rules of CS, it is extremely slow and costs possibly as much in lost time as the licence costs. Please, please, please kill it of now.
No, only a faceless auditing committee
Let say someone downloads a copy of a popular movie, burns a 1000 copies with official looking prints and seals them in original looking wrappers, and takes them and gives them out for free in front of a store where the movie has just been released for initial sale. Does that still not cause harm to the author, distributor, performers, etc.? After all the copies don't cost them anything, they haven't lost anything.
This is called counterfeiting and for that you have precise laws and the customs.
If there are people in front of the store to buy the initial sale, I doubt very much that they are looking for copies from the internet.
Yes, it is used as a monopropellant
Still 10 to account for, then?
I put everything that I use or create for school in a version control system, bzr in this case. Saving a file is just a commit away.