There is plenty of education forced down your throat at every turn about HIV/AIDS, if you don't know about it, it is your fault.
There's a lot of misinformation out there too. For example, consider all of the conspiracy theories about AIDS. In places where the populace is not well-educated, it's no surprise that these beliefs take hold, particularly in light of past abuses like the Tuskegee syphilis experiment.
I was thinking the same. Does Apple even have the equivilent of Technet or MSDN? Microsoft has a ton of stuff for IT professionals to pull resources. I have only gone to Apples website for iTunes....
Note that TeX is an exemple of good coding ok, but not of 'good design' IMHO: the language is quite awful..
What would you change? TeX is certainly not easy to use, but it's extremely powerful.
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That guy is a relic of another age, and certainly not a coder; he's purely an academic in theoretical computer science. He's good at making algorithms, but certainly not at coding.
You're ignorant. Have you ever used TeX or METAFONT? Knuth wrote them. The CWEB compiler? Knuth again. How about the MMIX simulator and assembler for MMIX architecture that Knuth designed to go along with TAOCP? Yep, Knuth. Want some more? See:
Seriously, you code for a living and have never heard of scrum? Do you not keep up with the latest fashion in development?
I can't speak for the OP, but I'm far too busy getting real work done.
What will you do when you if you have to go for another job and the interviewer asks you about the latest development methodology that is doing the rounds?
I'll try to keep a straight face while I tack on $20k to my minimum salary requirement.
As a programmer it scares me genuinely to see your post get rated +5 Informative. GOTOs have no place in man made code. There are so many reasons why not to use GOTOs, and only very few situations that GOTOs make for cleaner code (specifically, the usually implemented break, last and next GOTO surrogates). If one of the people in my team uses GOTOs I tell them off.
A while back, I considered going into federal law enforcement, based on their need for computer scientists and my fascination with criminal investigations. The ~50% pay cut ultimately dissuaded me, but I spent some time thinking about issues like this.
For example, I'm generally in favor of drug legalization, but I would have had to enforce the current drug laws in this job. I'm okay with busting drug traffickers (and people selling alcohol without a license, for that matter), but would I have a problem arresting someone for personal drug use? After some contemplation, I decided that I wouldn't have a problem doing so. Law enforcement officers don't make the law or even interpret ambiguities in the law. This is the job for the legislatures and the courts, respectively.
Simply put, I don't want a cop to refuse to enforce a law for personal reasons. I have to qualify this, though. First, although selective enforcement of the law can be dangerous, there should still be some room for common sense (i.e., it's not necessary to ticket someone for jaywalking on an empty street.) At the other end of the spectrum, if a cop considers a law truly immoral, then they should resign rather than fail to do their job. However, there's a huge difference between laws one might disagree with and laws which are truly reprehensible and immoral. We shouldn't conflate a law like the DMCA with a genocidal regime like Nazi Germany; the Nuremberg references are way overblown here.
I've been programming professionally for 17 years, most of it in C++, and even I haven't heard of a god class. I can make a guess, but it would just be a guess.
Thanks, I was afraid I was the only professional programmer who is too dumb to know what a "god-class" is! (By the way, according to wikipedia, a god-class is exactly what you probably guessed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_object)
They do NOT issue sequential last four digits any more. They used to, e.g. my mother is a fraternal twin and she and her brother have consecutive SSN's, I too am a franternal twin however, the only thing that my twin sister and I share in our SSN's is the first five digits. The last four are unrelated.
My twin sons (born last year) have sequential Social Security numbers.
Playing music is a great way to meet people. Find people at your work that like to play, or post an ad at the local music store or on craigslist. I've met some of my best friends playing in various bands over the last 15 years.
When the Dead Kennedys released "In God We Trust, Inc." on cassette tape (remember those?), they left the B side blank, with the following note: "Home taping is killing big time entertainment industry profits. Therefore side two of this tape has been left blank for your convenience."
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Link?
No direct link for the tarball. Filling out their form will get you an email with a URL containing a dynamically generated key:
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Yup, that's all the GPL says they have to do.
In fact, providing a web form is being generous.. they could accept requests only by dead tree.
Considering that the files are already on their site to download (but you have to jump through hoops to get to them), it seems like they are just trying to make it more difficult to get to the source code. That's lame.
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So, after searching around for the GPL'd components, I finally found a link in the FAQ to this page:
You can also buy a bound copy from Cambridge University Press for a reasonable price (<$40 for a 500 page book). I bought a copy -- as did most of my peers in grad school -- since a bound copy was much more convenient and well worth the price.
1. "Am I under arrest?" 2. "Am I free to go?" 3. "I require a lawyer before I have anything else to say"
In my completely non-expert, yet relevant experience with police, there really isnt much to say beyond this.
What if you have information that will help them? I live in a relatively high-crime neighborhood, and I've had quite a few interactions with the local police regarding crimes committed in my neighborhood or by my neighbors, everything from simple assaults, hit and runs, and drug dealing all the way up to homicides. Granted, I was never treated as a suspect, but I was happy to relay all the information I had to the cops, since I have a vested interest in decreasing crime in this neighborhood.
I agree that if you are a suspect or could possibly become a suspect, it is usually best to remain silent. Otherwise, though, help the cops if you can. In my experience, most cops are decent people who are trying to make the community better.
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There is plenty of education forced down your throat at every turn about HIV/AIDS, if you don't know about it, it is your fault.
There's a lot of misinformation out there too. For example, consider all of the conspiracy theories about AIDS. In places where the populace is not well-educated, it's no surprise that these beliefs take hold, particularly in light of past abuses like the Tuskegee syphilis experiment.
I was thinking the same. Does Apple even have the equivilent of Technet or MSDN? Microsoft has a ton of stuff for IT professionals to pull resources. I have only gone to Apples website for iTunes....
Look here: http://developer.apple.com/
>Have you ever used TeX
Note that TeX is an exemple of good coding ok, but not of 'good design' IMHO: the language is quite awful..
What would you change? TeX is certainly not easy to use, but it's extremely powerful.
That guy is a relic of another age, and certainly not a coder; he's purely an academic in theoretical computer science.
He's good at making algorithms, but certainly not at coding.
You're ignorant. Have you ever used TeX or METAFONT? Knuth wrote them. The CWEB compiler? Knuth again. How about the MMIX simulator and assembler for MMIX architecture that Knuth designed to go along with TAOCP? Yep, Knuth. Want some more? See:
http://www-cs-staff.stanford.edu/~uno/programs.html
Seriously, you code for a living and have never heard of scrum? Do you not keep up with the latest fashion in development?
I can't speak for the OP, but I'm far too busy getting real work done.
What will you do when you if you have to go for another job and the interviewer asks you about the latest development methodology that is doing the rounds?
I'll try to keep a straight face while I tack on $20k to my minimum salary requirement.
Since when is Israel our enemy? They are likely our only real ally and friend in the Middle East.
Just because they're an ally, don't assume that they aren't trying to spy on us:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/05/AR2005100501608.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Pollard
Have you counted the number of GOTOs in the linux kernel?
% cd linux-2.6.30.5
% grep -r goto . | wc -l
66983
As a programmer it scares me genuinely to see your post get rated +5 Informative. GOTOs have no place in man made code. There are so many reasons why not to use GOTOs, and only very few situations that GOTOs make for cleaner code (specifically, the usually implemented break, last and next GOTO surrogates). If one of the people in my team uses GOTOs I tell them off.
It's good that Knuth isn't on your team:
"By the way, if you don't like goto statements, don't read this. (And don't read any other programs that simulate multistate systems.)"
Are there people out there who have more than 4GB of memory but still run old 32b operating systems?
Yes.
(In all fairness, though, we don't have more than 4GB of memory per processor.)
A while back, I considered going into federal law enforcement, based on their need for computer scientists and my fascination with criminal investigations. The ~50% pay cut ultimately dissuaded me, but I spent some time thinking about issues like this.
For example, I'm generally in favor of drug legalization, but I would have had to enforce the current drug laws in this job. I'm okay with busting drug traffickers (and people selling alcohol without a license, for that matter), but would I have a problem arresting someone for personal drug use? After some contemplation, I decided that I wouldn't have a problem doing so. Law enforcement officers don't make the law or even interpret ambiguities in the law. This is the job for the legislatures and the courts, respectively.
Simply put, I don't want a cop to refuse to enforce a law for personal reasons. I have to qualify this, though. First, although selective enforcement of the law can be dangerous, there should still be some room for common sense (i.e., it's not necessary to ticket someone for jaywalking on an empty street.) At the other end of the spectrum, if a cop considers a law truly immoral, then they should resign rather than fail to do their job. However, there's a huge difference between laws one might disagree with and laws which are truly reprehensible and immoral. We shouldn't conflate a law like the DMCA with a genocidal regime like Nazi Germany; the Nuremberg references are way overblown here.
and to convince Asus and other manufacturers to sell machines with Linux
You mean, like this:
http://www.amazon.com/7-Inch-Display-Mobile-Processor-Preloaded/dp/B000YG646Y/
or this:
http://www.amazon.com/Intel-Processor-Drive-Linux-White/dp/B001HPPAQQ/
U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan
That explains it. Buchanan was the zealot who (selectively) prosecuted Tommy Chong:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Beth_Buchanan#United_States_vs._Tommy_Chong_.282003.29
Things like:
I've been programming professionally for 17 years, most of it in C++, and even I haven't heard of a god class. I can make a guess, but it would just be a guess.
Thanks, I was afraid I was the only professional programmer who is too dumb to know what a "god-class" is! (By the way, according to wikipedia, a god-class is exactly what you probably guessed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_object)
They do NOT issue sequential last four digits any more. They used to, e.g. my mother is a fraternal twin and she and her brother have consecutive SSN's, I too am a franternal twin however, the only thing that my twin sister and I share in our SSN's is the first five digits. The last four are unrelated.
My twin sons (born last year) have sequential Social Security numbers.
but I'm also a fairly good pianist/keyboardist
Playing music is a great way to meet people. Find people at your work that like to play, or post an ad at the local music store or on craigslist. I've met some of my best friends playing in various bands over the last 15 years.
You won't find used books in Borders or Barnes and Noble.
My local Barnes and Noble has a large used book section.
You could also dispense with having to maintain two nearly-identical languages (Java and Javascript)
Huh? How are Java and Javascript nearly identical?
When the Dead Kennedys released "In God We Trust, Inc." on cassette tape (remember those?), they left the B side blank, with the following note: "Home taping is killing big time entertainment industry profits. Therefore side two of this tape has been left blank for your convenience."
Link?
No direct link for the tarball. Filling out their form will get you an email with a URL containing a dynamically generated key:
http://www.hyperspace.com/Knowledgebase/OpenSource/OpenSourceDownload.aspx?id=acf8c253-9afc-4c2a-9088-7cde68ed7315
Yup, that's all the GPL says they have to do.
In fact, providing a web form is being generous.. they could accept requests only by dead tree.
Considering that the files are already on their site to download (but you have to jump through hoops to get to them), it seems like they are just trying to make it more difficult to get to the source code. That's lame.
So, after searching around for the GPL'd components, I finally found a link in the FAQ to this page:
http://www.hyperspace.com/HyperSpace/OpenSourceRequest.aspx
Allen Hatcher has a popular book on Algebraic Topology that he offers as a free PDF on his website:
http://www.math.cornell.edu/~hatcher/AT/ATpage.html
You can also buy a bound copy from Cambridge University Press for a reasonable price (<$40 for a 500 page book). I bought a copy -- as did most of my peers in grad school -- since a bound copy was much more convenient and well worth the price.
Agreed.
Here is how you interact with police:
1. "Am I under arrest?"
2. "Am I free to go?"
3. "I require a lawyer before I have anything else to say"
In my completely non-expert, yet relevant experience with police, there really isnt much to say beyond this.
What if you have information that will help them? I live in a relatively high-crime neighborhood, and I've had quite a few interactions with the local police regarding crimes committed in my neighborhood or by my neighbors, everything from simple assaults, hit and runs, and drug dealing all the way up to homicides. Granted, I was never treated as a suspect, but I was happy to relay all the information I had to the cops, since I have a vested interest in decreasing crime in this neighborhood.
I agree that if you are a suspect or could possibly become a suspect, it is usually best to remain silent. Otherwise, though, help the cops if you can. In my experience, most cops are decent people who are trying to make the community better.
hence why a warrant is now required before they can "tail" you
But the police don't need a warrant to tail a subject!
I think a good measure of what a the police can do without a warrant, is what a normal person can do without a warrant.
Can you (legally) pull over cars on a public road? Can you detain someone for questioning? Cops can do a lot of things that the rest of us can't.