And yet who gets called in to rescue the site six months later after everything has collapsed into a steaming pile. If I had a dollar for every time somebody from marketing tried to modify the CMS and had it blow up in their face, I'd already be retired.
So, what, you're fixing it for free? Or just laughing and saying "Yea, that sucks for you!" and walking away?
Not even slightly. It has assignment, it has things with defined execution order that have side effects. There are declarative query languages, but SQL is not one of them.
That can't be - I use @Declare statements in my T-SQL code all the time!!!
You can't run a serious website on Wordpress AND use a cheap host. Cheap hosts do not install the necessary opcode caches that are required to make the site not run slow and load-spike the server (Dreamhost will just nuke your site if it overloads... because they don't install any php opcode cache.)
That's not necessarily true (depending on how you define "cheap" hosting services). You may have to shop around a bit, but I've found that most commodity hosting services support at least Zend opcache, or they can support php 5.5, which includes opcache out of the box.
TARP actually made a profit because in exchange for cash it got shares of the companies it was bailing out. It then sold those shares back for more than the cash it gave out. That plus the companies not going out of business most folks would call a success, not a fuckup.
It's a "success" if you love the businesses that got TARP money, but a massive failure if you don't. Most businesses that fuckup on such a massive scale end up bankrupt, with assets going up for fire sale prices to people that did NOT fuckup. The fact that most of those businesses also fucked over a lot of OTHER people before getting their massive capital infusion (which they parleyed into even greater profits).
I agree that high-skill coding is out of reach for someone who only took a few programming courses in community college. However, there is plenty of low-skill coding to be done out in the world as well. Nearly any web page you visit could be written by a community college student with a few HTML, CSS, and Javascript courses.
I'd recommend staying away from those web pages if I were you. It'll be used as a malware distribution center as soon as it shows up on the results of some script kiddie's vulnerability scanner.
You're making the mistake of believing this is an actual plan, not just a bunch of feel good speechmaking and propaganda.
Yes, it's a plan to fix education. It hasn't worked in the public schools, which just keep getting worse, so they're basically going to add 2 more years of grade school to your "free" education, and hope that's enough.
I think all of them are true, but not everyone will agree.
True. (Not everyone will agree).
"Medical expenses are the number 1 cause of bankruptcy in America"
This is actually false, and if you pay close attention to the details of the study, you'll see it's not even at the top of the #1 reason for filing bankruptcy. FactCheck has some discussion of the issue, citing other studies and how the Hardvard one lumped "medical bills" along with other issues, including job loss.
"The US constitution prohibits establishment of religion by congress"
This certainly true on its face, but could be construed as false by omission, and implies less restrictions on Federal laws than the Constitution actually provides. The relevant text is "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;" - so not only can they not establish a religion, they cannot make law "respecting" any religious establishment, that is, any organized church cannot be given any special dispensation at all, and, further, any religious practice cannot be interfered with. Of course, Congress has violated that one many times, probably most famously by such things as banning peyote from Native American's traditional religious practices. Ironically, the First Amendment's admonition was intended to protect people that designed their own religious practices outside of the established religions - a highly valued right with origins Colonial America's protestant value system. Yet the Native American Church was established in order to petition for protection of the use of peyote by its members. So in practice, recognizing the use of peyote by members of established religion, but not by individuals, is the opposite of the original purpose.
Sorry, fucker, if I didn't give you the whole history of this. He was a Democrat, resigned while he was under indictment and facing felony charges, then he got this miracle-out-of-the-blue plea deal that let him plead to a misdemeanor instead. At that point, they had already called for a special election to fill his vacated seat, and it was too late to file as a Democrat because they had already put a candidate on the ballot. So he got on as an "Independent" instead. He's a far-left Democrat, but worse, he's a piece of shit out for only himself. This is just the latest story of someone he fucked - literally this time, figuratively most of the time.
they decided they didn't want her involved in a protracted legal battle, so they allowed the plea bargain.
This is not how prosecution works. For a criminal charge, it's not up to the parents or the victim. The prosecutor makes the decision whether or not to go ahead with the trial, based on what they believe they can prove in court.
Also, he's 57.
Bullshit. If your case is based primarily on the testimony of one witness - you can try to talk them into cooperating, but if they are against it you do what you want. Any prosecutor that doesn't is an idiot.
Stumbo and the poster are both republicans.... it's twisted, stupid as fuck thinking.
Shows how head-stuck-up-his-ass partisan fucktard you are - because I am not a Republican. But in your twisted end-justifies-the-means worldview any shitty fucked-in-the-head piece of shit that will sell his own mother is fine and dandy with you - as long as he talks the talk - rah rah my team.
Useful idiot if I've even seen one. All that hate ain't gonna get you a better world, asshole.
Did you read your own link? He has not been convicted of "being a pedophile" (being a pedophile is not a crime), his conviction was a plea bargain for a misdemeanor: "contributing to the sexual delinquency of a minor." It's unfortunate that something like that is illegal at all, but a misdemeanor seems about right given that she was seventeen, she insists that nothing happened, and if it did it was clearly consensual.
The fucker is 47 years old. 47!!! What version of "consensual" was it? The original charges were much worse, but after the parents realized their daughter was PREGNANT (like, how did THAT happen?), they decided they didn't want her involved in a protracted legal battle, so they allowed the plea bargain.
Or, like I said, you're okay with it because he was a Democrat.
But that was the only time. I have a very low opinion of the electorate.
Yea, no shit. Last week in Virginia, the voters re-elected a convicted pedophile, running from jail. But don't worry - he's on work-release so he can head down to the General Assembly to cast his votes...:/
I'd rather have a mini tower with room for at least two, preferably three, drives (an SSD for the OS + apps and a big data drive or two), built in card reader and maybe built in optical drive. Oh, and a decent number of USB ports.
Just wait until you see the next version of the Macbook Air. The only ports will be 1 headphone jack and 1 USB Type-C connector. No Thunderbolt, and no USB ports that fill all the cables and devices you have right now. And supposedly it will be using that jack for power.
But don't worry! Just get an AirPort extreme and a few $35 cables from the Apple store and you'll be fine!
So I can experience the joys of systemd and everything that comes with it, of course! You can't run all that software perfection from God's own coders on BSD.
I suspect there are some mission critical projects which have decided to not use Linux when they found out how unprofessionally the leader acts. "Cool kernel, but can we really put our trust on this kind of guy?"
Then how do you explain all those mission critical projects using Oracle?
Nobody's asking him to be PC. Not many people are asking him to be friendly or polite. People are asking him to not be publicly abusive, to not be a bully, and to recognize the impact his words have on others. It is perfectly possible to be an effective manager and leader without being abusive and bullying. Stick to the facts, among other things.
Forget it, Lennert. You're not going to get an apology - you deserved everything that was said to you, and you know it.
I'm quite surprised to see people in the US asking for it!
I'm not. The USA is drifting farther away from being a meritocracy. More emphasis is placed upon achievement in social circles than professionally with STEM skills. "Nice" is a codeword for displaying the proper deference for people who may not have the technical skills to do a job but have been placed in charge (or see themselves as social leaders) of a group.
Exactly. And it works, because success in the US today is so closely tied to the political and social connections you have, not having valuable skill, that is a distant second. If you're really good at what you do, the best you can hope for is being a wage slave to someone who has the political connections that you don't.
I've always thought the theory of language evolving in order to make "promises" was the most insightful and reasonable one I've ever heard. The ability to ask for favors with the promise of a favor later is extremely important in the development of human intelligence. Of course, there were drawbacks. The ability to make promises soon gave rise to the ability to lie. And the politician was born.
By recent estimates at least 85% of people believe in God, in some form or another. That is a lot of people that you will never have as friends, never closely associate with, and will never learn from because of one thing that you disagree with them about.
I should be so lucky.
How many of those 85% actually act like they believe God is watching? Even most of the religious officials apparently can't manage it.
True enough. And that - a person's behavior - should be the basis for whether they earn your respect or lose it, not the beliefs that they hold. I do not think that moral behavior requires a belief that some deity is watching over your shoulder all the time. As someone once famously said, "Integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is watching." (or something along those lines).
As long as my religious friends don't push their religion in my face, we'll be fine, thank you.
Well I think that's part of what "respect" means - you don't push your own religious / atheist beliefs in someone else's face when you know they have a different viewpoint.
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And yet who gets called in to rescue the site six months later after everything has collapsed into a steaming pile. If I had a dollar for every time somebody from marketing tried to modify the CMS and had it blow up in their face, I'd already be retired.
So, what, you're fixing it for free? Or just laughing and saying "Yea, that sucks for you!" and walking away?
Not even slightly. It has assignment, it has things with defined execution order that have side effects. There are declarative query languages, but SQL is not one of them.
That can't be - I use @Declare statements in my T-SQL code all the time!!!
You can't run a serious website on Wordpress AND use a cheap host. Cheap hosts do not install the necessary opcode caches that are required to make the site not run slow and load-spike the server (Dreamhost will just nuke your site if it overloads... because they don't install any php opcode cache.)
That's not necessarily true (depending on how you define "cheap" hosting services). You may have to shop around a bit, but I've found that most commodity hosting services support at least Zend opcache, or they can support php 5.5, which includes opcache out of the box.
::blink:: wait, what? Something inside me wants to know how you interpret Art1, Sect8, Clause12...just for giggles.
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
WTF does that have to do with Obamacare?
TARP actually made a profit because in exchange for cash it got shares of the companies it was bailing out. It then sold those shares back for more than the cash it gave out. That plus the companies not going out of business most folks would call a success, not a fuckup.
It's a "success" if you love the businesses that got TARP money, but a massive failure if you don't. Most businesses that fuckup on such a massive scale end up bankrupt, with assets going up for fire sale prices to people that did NOT fuckup. The fact that most of those businesses also fucked over a lot of OTHER people before getting their massive capital infusion (which they parleyed into even greater profits).
There is really no place here for the sophomoric name calling.
You must be new here...
I agree that high-skill coding is out of reach for someone who only took a few programming courses in community college. However, there is plenty of low-skill coding to be done out in the world as well. Nearly any web page you visit could be written by a community college student with a few HTML, CSS, and Javascript courses.
I'd recommend staying away from those web pages if I were you. It'll be used as a malware distribution center as soon as it shows up on the results of some script kiddie's vulnerability scanner.
You're making the mistake of believing this is an actual plan, not just a bunch of feel good speechmaking and propaganda.
Yes, it's a plan to fix education. It hasn't worked in the public schools, which just keep getting worse, so they're basically going to add 2 more years of grade school to your "free" education, and hope that's enough.
I think all of them are true, but not everyone will agree.
True. (Not everyone will agree).
"Medical expenses are the number 1 cause of bankruptcy in America"
This is actually false, and if you pay close attention to the details of the study, you'll see it's not even at the top of the #1 reason for filing bankruptcy. FactCheck has some discussion of the issue, citing other studies and how the Hardvard one lumped "medical bills" along with other issues, including job loss.
"The US constitution prohibits establishment of religion by congress"
This certainly true on its face, but could be construed as false by omission, and implies less restrictions on Federal laws than the Constitution actually provides. The relevant text is "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;" - so not only can they not establish a religion, they cannot make law "respecting" any religious establishment, that is, any organized church cannot be given any special dispensation at all, and, further, any religious practice cannot be interfered with. Of course, Congress has violated that one many times, probably most famously by such things as banning peyote from Native American's traditional religious practices. Ironically, the First Amendment's admonition was intended to protect people that designed their own religious practices outside of the established religions - a highly valued right with origins Colonial America's protestant value system. Yet the Native American Church was established in order to petition for protection of the use of peyote by its members. So in practice, recognizing the use of peyote by members of established religion, but not by individuals, is the opposite of the original purpose.
Sorry, fucker, if I didn't give you the whole history of this. He was a Democrat, resigned while he was under indictment and facing felony charges, then he got this miracle-out-of-the-blue plea deal that let him plead to a misdemeanor instead. At that point, they had already called for a special election to fill his vacated seat, and it was too late to file as a Democrat because they had already put a candidate on the ballot. So he got on as an "Independent" instead. He's a far-left Democrat, but worse, he's a piece of shit out for only himself. This is just the latest story of someone he fucked - literally this time, figuratively most of the time.
"you do what THEY want"
they decided they didn't want her involved in a protracted legal battle, so they allowed the plea bargain.
This is not how prosecution works. For a criminal charge, it's not up to the parents or the victim. The prosecutor makes the decision whether or not to go ahead with the trial, based on what they believe they can prove in court.
Also, he's 57.
Bullshit. If your case is based primarily on the testimony of one witness - you can try to talk them into cooperating, but if they are against it you do what you want. Any prosecutor that doesn't is an idiot.
Stumbo and the poster are both republicans.... it's twisted, stupid as fuck thinking.
Shows how head-stuck-up-his-ass partisan fucktard you are - because I am not a Republican. But in your twisted end-justifies-the-means worldview any shitty fucked-in-the-head piece of shit that will sell his own mother is fine and dandy with you - as long as he talks the talk - rah rah my team.
Useful idiot if I've even seen one. All that hate ain't gonna get you a better world, asshole.
Did you read your own link? He has not been convicted of "being a pedophile" (being a pedophile is not a crime), his conviction was a plea bargain for a misdemeanor: "contributing to the sexual delinquency of a minor." It's unfortunate that something like that is illegal at all, but a misdemeanor seems about right given that she was seventeen, she insists that nothing happened, and if it did it was clearly consensual.
The fucker is 47 years old. 47!!! What version of "consensual" was it? The original charges were much worse, but after the parents realized their daughter was PREGNANT (like, how did THAT happen?), they decided they didn't want her involved in a protracted legal battle, so they allowed the plea bargain.
Or, like I said, you're okay with it because he was a Democrat.
But that was the only time. I have a very low opinion of the electorate.
Yea, no shit. Last week in Virginia, the voters re-elected a convicted pedophile, running from jail. But don't worry - he's on work-release so he can head down to the General Assembly to cast his votes... :/
I guess it's okay since he's a Democrat.
I'd rather have a mini tower with room for at least two, preferably three, drives (an SSD for the OS + apps and a big data drive or two), built in card reader and maybe built in optical drive. Oh, and a decent number of USB ports.
Just wait until you see the next version of the Macbook Air. The only ports will be 1 headphone jack and 1 USB Type-C connector. No Thunderbolt, and no USB ports that fill all the cables and devices you have right now. And supposedly it will be using that jack for power.
But don't worry! Just get an AirPort extreme and a few $35 cables from the Apple store and you'll be fine!
So I can experience the joys of systemd and everything that comes with it, of course! You can't run all that software perfection from God's own coders on BSD.
I suspect there are some mission critical projects which have decided to not use Linux when they found out how unprofessionally the leader acts. "Cool kernel, but can we really put our trust on this kind of guy?"
Then how do you explain all those mission critical projects using Oracle?
Nobody's asking him to be PC. Not many people are asking him to be friendly or polite. People are asking him to not be publicly abusive, to not be a bully, and to recognize the impact his words have on others. It is perfectly possible to be an effective manager and leader without being abusive and bullying. Stick to the facts, among other things.
Forget it, Lennert. You're not going to get an apology - you deserved everything that was said to you, and you know it.
I'm quite surprised to see people in the US asking for it!
I'm not. The USA is drifting farther away from being a meritocracy. More emphasis is placed upon achievement in social circles than professionally with STEM skills. "Nice" is a codeword for displaying the proper deference for people who may not have the technical skills to do a job but have been placed in charge (or see themselves as social leaders) of a group.
Exactly. And it works, because success in the US today is so closely tied to the political and social connections you have, not having valuable skill, that is a distant second. If you're really good at what you do, the best you can hope for is being a wage slave to someone who has the political connections that you don't.
Thanks, Mr. Nadella!
I've always thought the theory of language evolving in order to make "promises" was the most insightful and reasonable one I've ever heard. The ability to ask for favors with the promise of a favor later is extremely important in the development of human intelligence. Of course, there were drawbacks. The ability to make promises soon gave rise to the ability to lie. And the politician was born.
please tell me how any religion differs from large scale http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M....
Right after you tell me how your ass differs from a hole in the ground. You can't? Yea, that's what I thought.
By recent estimates at least 85% of people believe in God, in some form or another. That is a lot of people that you will never have as friends, never closely associate with, and will never learn from because of one thing that you disagree with them about.
I should be so lucky.
How many of those 85% actually act like they believe God is watching? Even most of the religious officials apparently can't manage it.
True enough. And that - a person's behavior - should be the basis for whether they earn your respect or lose it, not the beliefs that they hold. I do not think that moral behavior requires a belief that some deity is watching over your shoulder all the time. As someone once famously said, "Integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is watching." (or something along those lines).
As long as my religious friends don't push their religion in my face, we'll be fine, thank you.
Well I think that's part of what "respect" means - you don't push your own religious / atheist beliefs in someone else's face when you know they have a different viewpoint.