I don't really believe this.
I have only used the pattern
Allocation
check for NULL
error
continue
There are a few different things to do in the error, do you goto error handling at the end? Do you start unwinding previous work and exit out?
Yes, I have done all of those in different situations, with different coding standards around me, but the basic NULL check is the next thing that happens directly after the allocation.
Note that compilers don't care about formatting and whitespace, so if you do it on one line, 3 lines or with 100 page breaks in the middle - it doesn't care to the compilers parser that will feed into the binary.
This isn't a check for formatting, but for algorithm styles, and I bet they can't pull a programmer's code out of a teams code around them all using the same style guidelines (that would affect the expression of algorithms)
You are missing one assumption, that all states tax loads are the same. There are high tax states, and low tax states - so if you are contemplating moving to a high tax state, and a low tax state comes in to bid on the project - the high tax state has to offer a tax break to be competitive. There is no reason for the low tax state to even start with an offer.
Then you get into high regulatory compliance states vs. low regulatory compliance states, that is a huge deal as well.
Now what would be easier is if states that wanted to naturally attract business went into a low tax overhead, low regulatory compliance mode - took the burden off of their small/medium businesses that don't make the headlines and let them grow naturally... Probably much more impact than bringing in 1000 jobs with a data center
Actually, even the shall is not binding on the USA until it is agreed on. Kerry knows very well as a former senior senator how to count to 60, which is what would be needed to get a treaty that is binding on the USA to get approved by the Senate.
So please realize what the difference in an executive order and a formal treaty is.
You are right. It is easy to recall 90K vehicles. Try having to recall 16M vehicles (VW will end up in that range) and the cost, infrastructure requirements go sky high.
What I am saying is all of their reelection money is open to the public - the public doesn't care. No judge would be stupid enough to take a direct bribe - but I can see a 10,000 dollar donation to their reelection campaign fund being "no problem"
And that's pocket change, really. War on Drugs is costing us $15B/year. War on terror runs about $100B/year. [forbes.com]
You do realize there is a HUGE difference in money that we all spend through the government (See above) and money that private companies spend because they believe that they will make a profit on it (It is cheaper to produce nuke power than it is other power, otherwise please build the other power plants).
Your guess on solar/wind is way off base. The best you could do is get 10-15% from combined solar/wind, so that leaves 65% hydrocarbon/nuke. Yes there are large scale hydro plants, but they only add up to about 7%, you might be able to get this to 20, but I wouldn't like to see the natural disasters that follow. Interestingly solar doesn't even rate a mention (gets included with "Other" at 2.1 percent).
Yes it is that bad. Imagine having to replace 40% of your electric load generation for Virginia. This is done with 2 nuke plants, probably 5-10 coal plants, or covering the state in solar panels and going dark at night. Now I can't build a new plant - no permitting has been allowed out of the NRC since 3 mile island happened in the late 70s, you can't shut them down or the state goes dark (heck that is probably close to 1/2% of the power generated in the whole country). You have a small group of people that have made building new/retrofiting old reactors a non starter so we are left with 50 year old reactors powering our country for the foreseeable future. The smart thing to do would be to build modern reactors to decommission old reactors, leading to safer electricity and fewer pollutants in our environment.
Editorial Staff at the new publication Glossa have their salaries cut to 0 because there is no revenue to pay them. Staff moves to soup kitchen so they can maintain editorial control over a publication that they recognized has 0 value.
When I was in Texas 2 decades ago, there was a study:
So Texas Judges stand for election - they have to have a reelection fund. They only people willing to pay for a judge to be elected are lawyers who regularly appear before the judge. The study showed that the lawyer that donated the most money to the judges reelection campaign won cases a significant amount of the time.
I always assumed this was the "Polite" way of bribing the judge. Wonder how big the reelection accounts are for judges in east texas
Why is a decades old utility (originally 1980) an Ubuntu thing. Frankly if a normal arch linux thing is to login as root and just use root... I would never touch it
Note: This solution has been available for many years and will be available for many more years without any changes. Also - there are some benefits where pen and paper (With date) is considered reliable in court - computer notes may not be because of the lack of dating and change control.
I'm not even in a large office building. Imagine you call 911 and say please come to the door of "Company". Firetruck shows up goes to the front desk and they don't even begin to know where to send them. Calling security/front desk lets someone who isn't paniced fill in the details on where to go and how to get them to the site of the problem.
Complaining that Amazon says to contact security first is stupid and shows that the person writing the article has never worked in a corporate environment in their life or they wouldn't write it up this way...
Don't know what your definition of low paid is... Tech jobs tend to be significantly above average, what do you think pays better, a low level customer support job - or a fry cook at mcDonalds? (Low end of the wage scale there). I can tell you among things that require a 4 year degree, Computer Science pays better than Liberal Arts majors, many science majors, and quite a few engineering majors.
Yes, it is competitive, yes there are problems... otherwise everyone would do it.
Along the lines of "Everyone" in the USA drives a car so we should all be required to take an auto shop class in High School. The auto shop class at least helps everyone deal with the cars that they have - only a small percentage of people truly need to be able to code, the rest may need to be able to use a computer, and a few people need to be able to hire computer programmers to take the money that they raised from Angel Investors.
So when did science become a vote. I don't know of anybody that voted on gravity, evolution, or relativity. These are ideas that are put forth and when there is enough evidence people move from denier to believer. The problem with climate science is that there is a LOT of contradictory evidence. Could you imagine having to prove evolution with only about 20 years of good data records? I don't think you could do it, especially if the experiments you are proposing don't come out with the results that you expect. There may have been a pause in the rise of global warming (hence changing the name to climate change) or there might not... No one can seem to tell. Frankly there is a famous Time cover in the 70s talking about Iceball earth where the fear was we were going to enter into a new ice age. Guess that one didn't pan out... So yes, the scientists have voted and it isn't as clear as you think because many of them either vote in decent (and are called deniers) or don't vote out of fear for reactions like this
It is easier than this. Give everyone 20K dollars, then you tax them 30K for this 20K subsidy and the deficit will start going away immediately if the cost of managing this program is less than 10K per person enrolled (How much do you think setting up the obamacare servers cost the average enrollee. In Oregon, it is infinite because they couldn't enroll anyone with their 400M investment in a website.
So I just say - why not reduce everyone's tax burden by 10K or so and call it even instead of trying to redistribute wealth around the country.
The simple answer is yes. Think about what the second amendment is protecting you from... It is protecting you from a tyrannical government, it is not to protect you from starvation by taking away your ability to shoot at rats, gophers, and other small rodents - it isn't even about protecting yourself from burglars, and other assorted riff raff. The purpose of the second amendment is to protect you from a tyrannical government that is bent on taking your rights away. Do you think the NSA would be doing what it is doing if at some point a group of organized citizens would show up a couple miles from their large data centers and start dropping 105 shells onto the data centers?
So - my favorite Trumpism so far is that the 14th amendment to the constitution is unconstitutional.
Guess actually being in the constitution isn't enough for these people to make it so, this is the scariest thing since BO started presidential decrees to "Make it so" regardless of what the law/constitution actually says (And yes, saying that you are acting because Congress refuses to act in the way you want them to isn't an excuse here)
So worked at a large company, diversity plan in place... New employee comes in working for the biggest jerk of a manager. Couldn't get the problem solved through HR - decided to quit. Sent a So long and thanks for the fish e-mail to the CEO saying his diversity words were crap - and gave an example why. At just after 5PM, friend got a call from Uncle Paul to ask for 48 hours before they quit. Two morning later (36 hours) goes into work and there was a reorg - everyone was on the org chart but the one manager...
Word to the wise... Yes, CEOs can listen, and do listen.
As soon as they agree that every elected politician/bureaucrat/police man/etc. has one of these phones that the public can ask for a Non-denyable FOIA request to get all of the data off of it.
Now we simply FOIA the entire thing - wrap it up on a fully searchable wiki site and have access to what our politicians are really doing
I don't think too many of them would want their phones accessible this way, so why should I?
So you create a government, that by its mere whim can decide to grant/take away billions of dollars from individual companies (See Tesla vs. Coal) and then you expect companies not to want to have a say in the outcome. The easy solution to the outside influence problem is a less intrusive government that doesn't make it worth the money to spend on politicians. If the government had less influence on the economic outcomes of people and companies - people and companies would spend less money on getting the outcomes that they want.
Lets start with a mandate that ALL congress critters must go into a sealed room with a pencil, calculator and a land line that only dials the IRS help line (where they can wait in the queue). They get to do their annual taxes, turn them in and have a super audit with published results (ok, lets say %accurate). Hopefully this will lead very quickly to a new tax code that is significantly simpler without all of the carve outs, and fancy working that can be misinterpreted.
Next lets start with regulations - make congress responsible for following all of the laws that they pass, lets start with minimum wage - Yes interns should be paid at least the minimum wage.
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Allocation
check for NULL
error
continue
There are a few different things to do in the error, do you goto error handling at the end? Do you start unwinding previous work and exit out? Yes, I have done all of those in different situations, with different coding standards around me, but the basic NULL check is the next thing that happens directly after the allocation. Note that compilers don't care about formatting and whitespace, so if you do it on one line, 3 lines or with 100 page breaks in the middle - it doesn't care to the compilers parser that will feed into the binary. This isn't a check for formatting, but for algorithm styles, and I bet they can't pull a programmer's code out of a teams code around them all using the same style guidelines (that would affect the expression of algorithms)
Then you get into high regulatory compliance states vs. low regulatory compliance states, that is a huge deal as well.
Now what would be easier is if states that wanted to naturally attract business went into a low tax overhead, low regulatory compliance mode - took the burden off of their small/medium businesses that don't make the headlines and let them grow naturally... Probably much more impact than bringing in 1000 jobs with a data center
So please realize what the difference in an executive order and a formal treaty is.
You are right. It is easy to recall 90K vehicles. Try having to recall 16M vehicles (VW will end up in that range) and the cost, infrastructure requirements go sky high.
That would be 60 Senators, or the other 49 can filibuster it through a hole in the ground so deep not even Sadam Hussein could burrow down to it.
What I am saying is all of their reelection money is open to the public - the public doesn't care. No judge would be stupid enough to take a direct bribe - but I can see a 10,000 dollar donation to their reelection campaign fund being "no problem"
And that's pocket change, really. War on Drugs is costing us $15B/year. War on terror runs about $100B/year. [forbes.com]
You do realize there is a HUGE difference in money that we all spend through the government (See above) and money that private companies spend because they believe that they will make a profit on it (It is cheaper to produce nuke power than it is other power, otherwise please build the other power plants).
Your guess on solar/wind is way off base. The best you could do is get 10-15% from combined solar/wind, so that leaves 65% hydrocarbon/nuke. Yes there are large scale hydro plants, but they only add up to about 7%, you might be able to get this to 20, but I wouldn't like to see the natural disasters that follow. Interestingly solar doesn't even rate a mention (gets included with "Other" at 2.1 percent).
Yes it is that bad. Imagine having to replace 40% of your electric load generation for Virginia. This is done with 2 nuke plants, probably 5-10 coal plants, or covering the state in solar panels and going dark at night. Now I can't build a new plant - no permitting has been allowed out of the NRC since 3 mile island happened in the late 70s, you can't shut them down or the state goes dark (heck that is probably close to 1/2% of the power generated in the whole country). You have a small group of people that have made building new/retrofiting old reactors a non starter so we are left with 50 year old reactors powering our country for the foreseeable future. The smart thing to do would be to build modern reactors to decommission old reactors, leading to safer electricity and fewer pollutants in our environment.
Editorial Staff at the new publication Glossa have their salaries cut to 0 because there is no revenue to pay them. Staff moves to soup kitchen so they can maintain editorial control over a publication that they recognized has 0 value.
When I was in Texas 2 decades ago, there was a study:
So Texas Judges stand for election - they have to have a reelection fund. They only people willing to pay for a judge to be elected are lawyers who regularly appear before the judge. The study showed that the lawyer that donated the most money to the judges reelection campaign won cases a significant amount of the time.
I always assumed this was the "Polite" way of bribing the judge. Wonder how big the reelection accounts are for judges in east texas
Ubuntu thing
Why is a decades old utility (originally 1980) an Ubuntu thing. Frankly if a normal arch linux thing is to login as root and just use root... I would never touch it
Quit handing out advise... Someone will take it
Been around for a couple years now
Note: This solution has been available for many years and will be available for many more years without any changes. Also - there are some benefits where pen and paper (With date) is considered reliable in court - computer notes may not be because of the lack of dating and change control.
I'm not even in a large office building. Imagine you call 911 and say please come to the door of "Company". Firetruck shows up goes to the front desk and they don't even begin to know where to send them. Calling security/front desk lets someone who isn't paniced fill in the details on where to go and how to get them to the site of the problem. Complaining that Amazon says to contact security first is stupid and shows that the person writing the article has never worked in a corporate environment in their life or they wouldn't write it up this way...
(hyper competitive, low paid)
Don't know what your definition of low paid is... Tech jobs tend to be significantly above average, what do you think pays better, a low level customer support job - or a fry cook at mcDonalds? (Low end of the wage scale there). I can tell you among things that require a 4 year degree, Computer Science pays better than Liberal Arts majors, many science majors, and quite a few engineering majors. Yes, it is competitive, yes there are problems... otherwise everyone would do it.
Along the lines of "Everyone" in the USA drives a car so we should all be required to take an auto shop class in High School. The auto shop class at least helps everyone deal with the cars that they have - only a small percentage of people truly need to be able to code, the rest may need to be able to use a computer, and a few people need to be able to hire computer programmers to take the money that they raised from Angel Investors.
The scientists have voted
So when did science become a vote. I don't know of anybody that voted on gravity, evolution, or relativity. These are ideas that are put forth and when there is enough evidence people move from denier to believer. The problem with climate science is that there is a LOT of contradictory evidence. Could you imagine having to prove evolution with only about 20 years of good data records? I don't think you could do it, especially if the experiments you are proposing don't come out with the results that you expect. There may have been a pause in the rise of global warming (hence changing the name to climate change) or there might not... No one can seem to tell. Frankly there is a famous Time cover in the 70s talking about Iceball earth where the fear was we were going to enter into a new ice age. Guess that one didn't pan out... So yes, the scientists have voted and it isn't as clear as you think because many of them either vote in decent (and are called deniers) or don't vote out of fear for reactions like this
So I just say - why not reduce everyone's tax burden by 10K or so and call it even instead of trying to redistribute wealth around the country.
I don't think so
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Guess actually being in the constitution isn't enough for these people to make it so, this is the scariest thing since BO started presidential decrees to "Make it so" regardless of what the law/constitution actually says (And yes, saying that you are acting because Congress refuses to act in the way you want them to isn't an excuse here)
Word to the wise... Yes, CEOs can listen, and do listen.
As soon as they agree that every elected politician/bureaucrat/police man/etc. has one of these phones that the public can ask for a Non-denyable FOIA request to get all of the data off of it.
Now we simply FOIA the entire thing - wrap it up on a fully searchable wiki site and have access to what our politicians are really doing
I don't think too many of them would want their phones accessible this way, so why should I?
Lets start with a mandate that ALL congress critters must go into a sealed room with a pencil, calculator and a land line that only dials the IRS help line (where they can wait in the queue). They get to do their annual taxes, turn them in and have a super audit with published results (ok, lets say %accurate). Hopefully this will lead very quickly to a new tax code that is significantly simpler without all of the carve outs, and fancy working that can be misinterpreted.
Next lets start with regulations - make congress responsible for following all of the laws that they pass, lets start with minimum wage - Yes interns should be paid at least the minimum wage.