Quoting Bjorn Lomborg automatically disqualifies you. The man is a whore to whoever pays him. He was a climate change denier until he stopped getting payed, then he suddenly changed his mind.
Play nice with them. Consider yourself lucky they didn't go ape-shit.
Give them a nice minimal account that doesn't have access to anything. That way you can show that your shit is tight. If they start demanding more then start playing hardball.
I spent the better part of a weekend rebuilding the inlaws old XP box while I drank all their beer.
Set them up with a regular user account and a secret admin password that only I knew. So life were good for a while.
,p>Then they start taking computer class and learn some stuff that requires admin. I try to explain that they should stay out of that mess. But no. They insisted.
So I gave them the admin password and now the box is a boat anchor. No way in hell I'm going to fix their shit again.
Why is that a problem? So what if it is overvalued according to traditional valuations. Maybe you are the one looking at the wrong way to value it.
It's deja vu all over. "This time it's different". When did I hear that last?
Investment is looking at price to earnings ratios (p/e). Almost everything above a p/e of 10 is stupid according to this school. Look for p/e's of 5 to 10.
Speculation is ignoring p/e ratios and hoping that some bigger fool will pay more than you for the stock. Same principle as with the housing bobble.
Wall Streets (and the market in general) function have always been to separate fools from their money. Now we have a bunch of fools who missed out on the first dot-com. They too need to be separated from their money.
First off, fire up the ECM in order to defeat or degrade the seeker/guidance system. Second, peg airspeed at corner velocity to have maximum maneuverability. Third, maneuver to create an intercept geometry that maximizes the missiles g-load. Turn into it. Don't take it up the ass. Timing is everything here. Finally, give it a doze of chaff and flares to mess up the terminal guidance.
They are called miss-iles not hit-iles for a reason.
Personally, I would prefer to be in a strike package that also includes some dedicated SEAD assets. Standard procedure since Vietnam.
That is why they call the current version petit napoleon and the current version DID insist on small bodyguards so that he didn't look small in comparison.
Excellent advice. Don't try to start a BIG, EXPENSIVE testing program.
Have a look at the book: Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael C. Feathers
If You use a propeller, to do the pushing, then Your airfoil is exactly at such an angle to the wind.
The google sponsored design is such a setup.
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I paged through the book yesterday and I'm looking forward to go through it in detail.
It's SO nice to find a book on lisp that doesn't make You want to carve out Your eyeballs due to sheer dryness.
Fantastic for those who live in sunny states. A lot less great for those of us who don't. Try repeating those studies in northern Europe. For extra credit, factor in the saving from MODERN nuke plants. Even better, factor in the savings from serial production of those plants.
The plants in the US are ancient one-off designs. Small wonder they don't compare well.
Now I'm on a serious guilt trip. I deprived You of sex with my comment on ChromeOS. I ruined what could have been a once-in-a-lifetime experience. How can I ever make up for that ?;-)
I've played around with ChromeOS on a virtual machine and it sucks.
It's an OS for accessing Google apps and the web. Nothing else.
Great if that's all You need, but I need a bit more.
Be sure so reflect on the employee the called the facilitator. That kind of person might me all talk but they are worth ten times their weight in developers. Everything in moderation though. Don't create a team of only facilitators.
And do get fired a few times. It helps on the loyalty thing...
The really awesome book on JavaScript is by Doug Crockford but it's hardly something You unleash upon a non-programmer. Heck. JavaScript (the real functional language) is not something You unleash upon anyone who hasn't understood functional programming( LISP, Scheme, Haskell etc).
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There is a really nice, free alternative available in "How to think like a computer scientist". Despite the title, it's aimed regular school kids and is being used to teach a class on python programming. It's just come out in a second edition.
http://openbookproject.net//thinkCSpy/
I bet GCC has more running applications in the world than any other compiler. It is used as a back-end compiler for a great many embedded systems.
I haven't seen an embedded system, short of dinky microcontrollers, that didn't use gcc in the toolchain. GCC is becoming the ultimate category killer.
For photographers, the main fetish was and remains The Lens. A good lens may cost an order of magnitude more than your camera body. In the times of analog film, people often referred to the camera body as "film box", disrespecting its features and extras, compared to the importance of selecting the right lens.
Without good (and fast) glass everything else is moth. BUT a D3 still sets You back more than say a 14-24 and a 24-70 combined. Throw in a 70-200 and we're talking more glass than body. All full frame 2.8 of course.
At the sharp end, You really need the new bodies to stay competitive. Noise is all the rage these days and hack's like noise-ninja isn't enough to cut it. You can't always carry around a super-nova when You shoot sports in a poor lit arena (more like a cave sometimes).
Hmm... a bunch of ok facts and then a giant leap to a big conspiracy theory ( It's WTO and IMF who are to blame). Come on. You can do better, even on slashdot.
The Canadian guy is a real comedian. To suggest running the printing press to cover a trade deficit. The Canadian dollar would become worthless over night. The only scandal he points out is fiscal irresponsibility. Nothing new there.
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Quoting Bjorn Lomborg automatically disqualifies you. The man is a whore to whoever pays him. He was a climate change denier until he stopped getting payed, then he suddenly changed his mind.
Play nice with them. Consider yourself lucky they didn't go ape-shit.
Give them a nice minimal account that doesn't have access to anything. That way you can show that your shit is tight. If they start demanding more then start playing hardball.
I spent the better part of a weekend rebuilding the inlaws old XP box while I drank all their beer.
Set them up with a regular user account and a secret admin password that only I knew. So life were good for a while.
So I gave them the admin password and now the box is a boat anchor. No way in hell I'm going to fix their shit again.
Why is that a problem? So what if it is overvalued according to traditional valuations. Maybe you are the one looking at the wrong way to value it.
It's deja vu all over. "This time it's different". When did I hear that last?
Investment is looking at price to earnings ratios (p/e). Almost everything above a p/e of 10 is stupid according to this school. Look for p/e's of 5 to 10.
Speculation is ignoring p/e ratios and hoping that some bigger fool will pay more than you for the stock. Same principle as with the housing bobble.
Wall Streets (and the market in general) function have always been to separate fools from their money. Now we have a bunch of fools who missed out on the first dot-com. They too need to be separated from their money.
Question: When was the last time the US was not at war?
Before the first Roosevelt administration. That is the guy who started the proud tradition of meddling in others countries affairs.
First off, fire up the ECM in order to defeat or degrade the seeker/guidance system. Second, peg airspeed at corner velocity to have maximum maneuverability. Third, maneuver to create an intercept geometry that maximizes the missiles g-load. Turn into it. Don't take it up the ass. Timing is everything here. Finally, give it a doze of chaff and flares to mess up the terminal guidance.
They are called miss-iles not hit-iles for a reason.
Personally, I would prefer to be in a strike package that also includes some dedicated SEAD assets. Standard procedure since Vietnam.
That is why they call the current version petit napoleon and the current version DID insist on small bodyguards so that he didn't look small in comparison.
Thank god, that leaders like him are in short supply. A man who requests SMALL bodyguards.
Sounds like the company is taking a really big gamble. Stay with it if You're cool with such a gamble. Personally, I'd run for the hills.
Excellent advice. Don't try to start a BIG, EXPENSIVE testing program. Have a look at the book: Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael C. Feathers
If You use a propeller, to do the pushing, then Your airfoil is exactly at such an angle to the wind. The google sponsored design is such a setup.
I paged through the book yesterday and I'm looking forward to go through it in detail. It's SO nice to find a book on lisp that doesn't make You want to carve out Your eyeballs due to sheer dryness.
The plants in the US are ancient one-off designs. Small wonder they don't compare well.
Now I'm on a serious guilt trip. I deprived You of sex with my comment on ChromeOS. I ruined what could have been a once-in-a-lifetime experience. How can I ever make up for that ? ;-)
I've played around with ChromeOS on a virtual machine and it sucks. It's an OS for accessing Google apps and the web. Nothing else. Great if that's all You need, but I need a bit more.
actually... they were selling a car with no brakes... claiming it is safe, then taking out a life insurance policy on the sucker they sold it to.
Do You work for Magnetar? That's confidential information you're handing out there. Bad dog, no bonus for you this year.
You forgot LISP. THEN the rant would make sense.
Be sure so reflect on the employee the called the facilitator. That kind of person might me all talk but they are worth ten times their weight in developers. Everything in moderation though. Don't create a team of only facilitators. And do get fired a few times. It helps on the loyalty thing ...
The really awesome book on JavaScript is by Doug Crockford but it's hardly something You unleash upon a non-programmer. Heck. JavaScript (the real functional language) is not something You unleash upon anyone who hasn't understood functional programming( LISP, Scheme, Haskell etc).
There is a really nice, free alternative available in "How to think like a computer scientist". Despite the title, it's aimed regular school kids and is being used to teach a class on python programming. It's just come out in a second edition. http://openbookproject.net//thinkCSpy/
I haven't seen an embedded system, short of dinky microcontrollers, that didn't use gcc in the toolchain. GCC is becoming the ultimate category killer.
Without good (and fast) glass everything else is moth. BUT a D3 still sets You back more than say a 14-24 and a 24-70 combined. Throw in a 70-200 and we're talking more glass than body. All full frame 2.8 of course.
At the sharp end, You really need the new bodies to stay competitive. Noise is all the rage these days and hack's like noise-ninja isn't enough to cut it. You can't always carry around a super-nova when You shoot sports in a poor lit arena (more like a cave sometimes).
The Canadian guy is a real comedian. To suggest running the printing press to cover a trade deficit. The Canadian dollar would become worthless over night. The only scandal he points out is fiscal irresponsibility. Nothing new there.
This, of course, only works if the rest of the database setup is more or less ok ;-)