Don't you have sales taxes some states? Besides that they might well pay income taxes (more below) and the many areas of tax.
B) They don't own land
They might (see below). Besides that is a pretty stupid classification, it exludes people who might own a unit (no land). It also excludes everyone who is leasing a place.
C) They don't have families
What crap. Let me tell you that there are three classifications of homelessness. primarly - literally living on the streets secondary - boarding houses teriary - staying with friends or relatives but no place of their own
Some of these states are temporary.
You are only addressing primary, I'll bet there are a lot of people in secondary or teriary with families. Even people in primary homelessness can have families. I've had a little to do with the Salvation Army here in Sydney, Australia (largest city in Australia for the geographically challenged Americans). They have classes for homeless mothers (including primary homeless mothers).
D) They don't have any interaction with most laws (from cars to copyright)...and so on...
Haha. Biggest laugh ever. That would explain why the salvation army runs a legal service. That would explain why in a course in introduction to community service, ~10% of the training was spent on legal issues.
Are you seriously saying that people who are homeless are not affected by the same laws as everyone else?
This has to be one of most stupid things I have ever read, and that includes comments on youtube videos. Take heed:
"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt." -- Mark Twain
1 or 3. But this is a significantly simplified example. Often the functions might need more parameters, which would tend to require more documentation.
The problem with 1 is that pretty verbose. The comment could be "minutes before launch".
I don't like 2 because you are embedded the units in the function name. This makes it harder to maintain, you can'y switch to units in hours at a later date without renaming all instances. Also it might imply that there is a setSecondsBeforeLaunch or setHoursBeforeLaunch.
I'm not completely sure I like 3, I'm not a fan of typedefs, but I think it is clearer. Probably the best of the three.
In this (simplified) example, I'd be inclined to go for: In LaunchActions.h:
That way seeing the header file would document the units.
A better example of the kind of issue I am talking about is more in calling code.
Suppose you have some code where threads run at scheduled intervals and sleep for a time period. Here is an example of what I would consider good practice:
sleep(1000 * 60 * 5);// 5 minutes
The problem is that even when you know all the functions/APIs etc, it is easy to forget something. Documenting it makes life a lot easier.
I largely agree however, comments can be really handy in a number cases: - Units (eg time in seconds, milliseconds or minutes) - explaining why this is done this way - highlighting debugging code that was left in (possibly commented out) - explaining something that might appear odd at first glance
Unfortunately, I grew past that stage and went onto bigger and better things and didn't need to be bothered by the latest sendmail, apache, webmail exploit
Were you building from source? Generally this can be handled with updates (which you could add as a cron job) from your package management system.
Running my own mail server was (at the time) a financial decision. The cost of hosting it myself was about the same as 1 year of paid hosting. Sounds like a good deal to me.
Plus I can run some really neat filtering against emails that come in.
I run my own mail server. Backup isn't that hard to manage. rsync to a local box, rsync to a remote box, email the results of the backup jobs to yourself. What is more of a problem (alluded to in your comment) is the time needed to get it back up and running when the HDD dies. Of course it helps if your backups actually work... as I discovered recently.
The expense of backup options is pretty minimal. I have fairly modest needs when it comes to storage 100GB ATM, so the cost for me was ~$70 per box (2nd hand box) + (at that time) $100 / HDD. At the time I bought more than one box to have one spare box if I needed spare hardware.
At some point in the future I'd rebuild the whole thing (mail server, file server, onsite backup, offsite backup) with some new boxes, RAID 1 etc.
This is pretty much the same problem as storing your own local files, just with emails.
Don't put words into my mouth. There is certainly that range of books, the question is where the bible fits.
I think that you need to eloborate on your point. For example, the bible contains a large number of different styles of writing, calling some fiction is akin to calling this fiction: it doesn't make sense. Are you using bible as a shorthand to refer to the gospels?
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Nice one, well spotted.
Are you stupid? I mean seriously.
A) They don't pay taxes
Don't you have sales taxes some states? Besides that they might well pay income taxes (more below) and the many areas of tax.
B) They don't own land
They might (see below). Besides that is a pretty stupid classification, it exludes people who might own a unit (no land). It also excludes everyone who is leasing a place.
C) They don't have families
What crap. Let me tell you that there are three classifications of homelessness.
primarly - literally living on the streets
secondary - boarding houses
teriary - staying with friends or relatives but no place of their own
Some of these states are temporary.
You are only addressing primary, I'll bet there are a lot of people in secondary or teriary with families. Even people in primary homelessness can have families. I've had a little to do with the Salvation Army here in Sydney, Australia (largest city in Australia for the geographically challenged Americans). They have classes for homeless mothers (including primary homeless mothers).
D) They don't have any interaction with most laws (from cars to copyright) ...and so on...
Haha. Biggest laugh ever. That would explain why the salvation army runs a legal service. That would explain why in a course in introduction to community service, ~10% of the training was spent on legal issues.
Are you seriously saying that people who are homeless are not affected by the same laws as everyone else?
This has to be one of most stupid things I have ever read, and that includes comments on youtube videos. Take heed:
And don't even get me started on their spelling (half-breed muslin? wtf?).
They are saying he is part muslin and part something else. Silk possibly?
It isn't entirely clear why they might say he is made of cloth, but the spelling is fine.
Regulate fuel prices to a reasonable level
How would increasing fuel prices help you? Unless it forced you to other forms of transport...
I believe trademarks are specific to domain.
Also I thought you couldn't trademark numbers?
1 or 3. But this is a significantly simplified example. Often the functions might need more parameters, which would tend to require more documentation.
The problem with 1 is that pretty verbose. The comment could be "minutes before launch".
I don't like 2 because you are embedded the units in the function name. This makes it harder to maintain, you can'y switch to units in hours at a later date without renaming all instances. Also it might imply that there is a setSecondsBeforeLaunch or setHoursBeforeLaunch.
I'm not completely sure I like 3, I'm not a fan of typedefs, but I think it is clearer. Probably the best of the three.
In this (simplified) example, I'd be inclined to go for:
In LaunchActions.h:
void setPreLaunchTime(LaunchEventStruct *event, double minutes);
That way seeing the header file would document the units.
A better example of the kind of issue I am talking about is more in calling code.
Suppose you have some code where threads run at scheduled intervals and sleep for a time period. Here is an example of what I would consider good practice:
sleep(1000 * 60 * 5); // 5 minutes
The problem is that even when you know all the functions/APIs etc, it is easy to forget something. Documenting it makes life a lot easier.
There is a variation on an old chinese proverb:
May you be condemned to maintain your own code.
I've been maintaining my own code for ~8 years, sigh.
I largely agree however, comments can be really handy in a number cases:
- Units (eg time in seconds, milliseconds or minutes)
- explaining why this is done this way
- highlighting debugging code that was left in (possibly commented out)
- explaining something that might appear odd at first glance
What the hell is so fundamentally wrong with gambling?
It is a tax on the stupid. Typically they are the people least able to defend themselves.
So kinda like the FBI and every terror suspect arrested post 9/11?
Maybe you need some decent consumer protection laws. In this country (Australia) you are always legally able to return to the place of sale.
In my house they will look like:
lightbulb1.uberconcept.com
mail.uberconcept.com
wife.uberconcept.com
Actually I'm thinking my wife might object to having a fully qualified domain name.
Haven't you found that the share certificates become sentient and try to kill you if you own them that long?
Broken in Exchange or broken more generally?
Unfortunately, I grew past that stage and went onto bigger and better things and didn't need to be bothered by the latest sendmail, apache, webmail exploit
Were you building from source? Generally this can be handled with updates (which you could add as a cron job) from your package management system.
Echoing that, I find the same.
Running my own mail server was (at the time) a financial decision. The cost of hosting it myself was about the same as 1 year of paid hosting. Sounds like a good deal to me.
Plus I can run some really neat filtering against emails that come in.
I run my own mail server. Backup isn't that hard to manage. rsync to a local box, rsync to a remote box, email the results of the backup jobs to yourself. What is more of a problem (alluded to in your comment) is the time needed to get it back up and running when the HDD dies. Of course it helps if your backups actually work... as I discovered recently.
The expense of backup options is pretty minimal. I have fairly modest needs when it comes to storage 100GB ATM, so the cost for me was ~$70 per box (2nd hand box) + (at that time) $100 / HDD. At the time I bought more than one box to have one spare box if I needed spare hardware.
At some point in the future I'd rebuild the whole thing (mail server, file server, onsite backup, offsite backup) with some new boxes, RAID 1 etc.
This is pretty much the same problem as storing your own local files, just with emails.
To be fair, I don't think that the R stands for republican either...
bash, which appears to be down for now, had the best explanation of web 2.0.
You generate the content, we make the money.
Don't put words into my mouth. There is certainly that range of books, the question is where the bible fits.
I think that you need to eloborate on your point. For example, the bible contains a large number of different styles of writing, calling some fiction is akin to calling this fiction: it doesn't make sense. Are you using bible as a shorthand to refer to the gospels?
You are just restating your point. That doesn't add anything to the discussion.
This cannot be stressed enough. Women want what they can't have. Chasing a woman will ensure that she will be completely uninterested in you.
Anyone who treats the Bible as anything other than a work of fiction is missing the point of Christ.
Anyone who treats the bible as a work of fiction needs to go talk to a historian.
The bush administration has one wild card that got them all that: Look out TERRORISTS!
Bruce disagrees