The problem is not the code, the problem is a human one, the young coder has an ego, has no clue how coding works in the real world (where you're usually pressed to pull off miracles on extremely short deadlines), and has already decided the older coders suck. You cannot change his mind, because there is no way to express on him the conditions under which the code was developed. It's something he has to learn through years of experience, and because of his ego, by the time he has learned it, he won't care to even reconsider his poor opinion of the older code, it will be something long-forgotten.
I've met coders like this and they are actually a problem because they tend to do their own thing, even when told to do X, they go and do Y because they "know better", and end up incurring extra costs and making a mess, and you'll be cleaning it up. Your best bet is that he decides he's too good for your team and leaves of his own will.
Listening and learning from one another is something that professional coders do. The fact that he is ripping into a coder 10 years his senior suggests an extreme lack of professionalism that you just can't fix, and probably can't work with in the manner you describe - he is behaving more like a primate guided by primitive instincts to dominate as some sort of alpha male, than as a professional coder ready to either learn or teach in an environment of mutual respect.
These do dads is what will bring you more bandwidth. The more a large percentage of consumers use it, the more ISPs will make available
Seriously? Let's do the math. If every single person in America had a lamp, and switched it 5 times a day, and each lamp switch command required (factoring in overheads) 500 bytes, that would generate:
311,000,000 * 5 * 500 = 777,500,000,000 bytes = less than 1 TB of traffic a day, or ~23 TB a month.
The amount of trafffic going over US backbones alone is (roughly) over 8 million TB/month right now. So this would increase demand by an absolute maximum of 0.0002875%, and that's an absurd over-estimate (by at least several orders of magnitude).
Genius, we now have to ban access to fertilizer and chlorine.
The reason citizens should not own H-bombs is because you can't use them without harming innocent people. COMPLETELY the fucking opposite is true for guns - the reason cops carry guns (and not H-bombs) is BECAUSE guns are such excellent tools for selectively targeting specific criminal individuals only.
If it was really just for attendance tracking, then there would clearly be no need to use the cattle tags - just do it the old-fashioned way. Why do you feel the need to lie to promote something?
Whatever method they use, I personally don't have a problem with a school keeping track of attendance in an automated way
The problem with this statement is you're stating that you don't mind them doing it to the kids of other parents. You're "consenting" on their behalf for something done to them. That's about as meaningful as saying "I consent to slavery because I'm not black". It's one thing to consent to your own kids being tracked, but I think the school should at least have to get permission from every parent, and not track those who do not give permission. Actually, I'm not even sure that goes far enough; kids do have some rights that are outside the domain of parental consent.
Well there we go, only a "crackpot" would object to being tagged and tracked like cattle. I tell you what, since you say there is nothing wrong with it, why don't you let me tag and track you, your wife and kids? Oh you don't like that, what's the matter, are you some sort of crackpot?
Which part of "record heat" don't you understand? It's called a "record" because it (an Australian heatwave of this intensity) has in fact never happened before.
Are you serious? Or trolling? Distributors purchase in bulk, but you don't get instant real-time-updating retail orders information from the distributors. Even the fucking article explains it:
"They're only one of two official distributors; we don't have completely up-to-date figures from RS Components yet, but Farnell's news suggests that we're well on the way to having sold our millionth Raspberry Pi" the foundation added further
Remember, when cops carry them guns are "good" but when non-cops carry them guns are "bad". Welcome to the twisted logic of the gun control advocate, that's only the tip of the iceberg.
So you know what your IQ would have been had you grown up in a lead-free environment that was otherwise exactly the same? Funny, I would have thought someone with a "very high IQ" would know about things like a scientific control, the value of an "anecdote" (single data point), and logical fallacies. On the contrary, I put your comment forth as a data point that appears to confirm the hypothesis.
Not only that, but if he'd read the article, he'd realize there isn't just one "actual article", there are multiple, e.g. different journal articles. And it's very comprehensive, and presents a fairly watertight case.
I actually read all the articles in depth before reading the slashdot coverage and it's shocking how mind-numbingly idiotic the commentary here is when you compare it to the science itself.
it's the kind of childishly simplistic worldview that i'd expect of a libertarian, not Mother Jones.
Hey moron, the Mother Jones article merely refers back to the actual scientific studies, which are published in actual scientific journals. If you have anything useful to add other than a lame attempt to poison the well, then please do criticize the actual original research and show us how you refute the actual science (there are multiple different studies showing similar results, and some of these studies are extremely detailed, having factored in far more factors than you could even dream up).
So I'd like to see an overlay with SES (socio-economic status) and the lead/crime maps
Well I have a great idea then, you should try read this new article that I hear has been published about lead and crime. It's very detailed and overlays and factors in socio-economic factors.
So you're saying it will be like we have now with SWAT raids on those selling raw milk, except anyone who owns a cow will be subject to SWAT raids, and nobody will be allowed to independently sustain themselves.
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The problem is not the code, the problem is a human one, the young coder has an ego, has no clue how coding works in the real world (where you're usually pressed to pull off miracles on extremely short deadlines), and has already decided the older coders suck. You cannot change his mind, because there is no way to express on him the conditions under which the code was developed. It's something he has to learn through years of experience, and because of his ego, by the time he has learned it, he won't care to even reconsider his poor opinion of the older code, it will be something long-forgotten.
I've met coders like this and they are actually a problem because they tend to do their own thing, even when told to do X, they go and do Y because they "know better", and end up incurring extra costs and making a mess, and you'll be cleaning it up. Your best bet is that he decides he's too good for your team and leaves of his own will.
Listening and learning from one another is something that professional coders do. The fact that he is ripping into a coder 10 years his senior suggests an extreme lack of professionalism that you just can't fix, and probably can't work with in the manner you describe - he is behaving more like a primate guided by primitive instincts to dominate as some sort of alpha male, than as a professional coder ready to either learn or teach in an environment of mutual respect.
These do dads is what will bring you more bandwidth. The more a large percentage of consumers use it, the more ISPs will make available
Seriously? Let's do the math. If every single person in America had a lamp, and switched it 5 times a day, and each lamp switch command required (factoring in overheads) 500 bytes, that would generate:
311,000,000 * 5 * 500 = 777,500,000,000 bytes = less than 1 TB of traffic a day, or ~23 TB a month.
The amount of trafffic going over US backbones alone is (roughly) over 8 million TB/month right now. So this would increase demand by an absolute maximum of 0.0002875%, and that's an absurd over-estimate (by at least several orders of magnitude).
Genius, we now have to ban access to fertilizer and chlorine.
The reason citizens should not own H-bombs is because you can't use them without harming innocent people. COMPLETELY the fucking opposite is true for guns - the reason cops carry guns (and not H-bombs) is BECAUSE guns are such excellent tools for selectively targeting specific criminal individuals only.
If it was really just for attendance tracking, then there would clearly be no need to use the cattle tags - just do it the old-fashioned way. Why do you feel the need to lie to promote something?
Whatever method they use, I personally don't have a problem with a school keeping track of attendance in an automated way
The problem with this statement is you're stating that you don't mind them doing it to the kids of other parents. You're "consenting" on their behalf for something done to them. That's about as meaningful as saying "I consent to slavery because I'm not black". It's one thing to consent to your own kids being tracked, but I think the school should at least have to get permission from every parent, and not track those who do not give permission. Actually, I'm not even sure that goes far enough; kids do have some rights that are outside the domain of parental consent.
Well there we go, only a "crackpot" would object to being tagged and tracked like cattle. I tell you what, since you say there is nothing wrong with it, why don't you let me tag and track you, your wife and kids? Oh you don't like that, what's the matter, are you some sort of crackpot?
Dark particulate matter decreases albedo.
That'd be about 129F.
Which part of "record heat" don't you understand? It's called a "record" because it (an Australian heatwave of this intensity) has in fact never happened before.
Yes, because carrion luggage flies.
Are you serious? Or trolling? Distributors purchase in bulk, but you don't get instant real-time-updating retail orders information from the distributors. Even the fucking article explains it:
"They're only one of two official distributors; we don't have completely up-to-date figures from RS Components yet, but Farnell's news suggests that we're well on the way to having sold our millionth Raspberry Pi" the foundation added further
Remember, when cops carry them guns are "good" but when non-cops carry them guns are "bad". Welcome to the twisted logic of the gun control advocate, that's only the tip of the iceberg.
The government must fear pissing off its citizens
They do, that's why they're trying so damn hard to work around the 2nd Amendment.
I presumed it was meant to be a joke, parodying the absurdity of the CNN article, but I think this is an example of Poe's Law.
The deadliest school mass killing in US history didn't involve guns at all.
So you know what your IQ would have been had you grown up in a lead-free environment that was otherwise exactly the same? Funny, I would have thought someone with a "very high IQ" would know about things like a scientific control, the value of an "anecdote" (single data point), and logical fallacies. On the contrary, I put your comment forth as a data point that appears to confirm the hypothesis.
Funny though, the other effect mentioned is lowered IQ.
Not only that, but if he'd read the article, he'd realize there isn't just one "actual article", there are multiple, e.g. different journal articles. And it's very comprehensive, and presents a fairly watertight case.
It's even more; some of the studies actually go as far as correlating blood lead levels, e.g.:
http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.0050101
I actually read all the articles in depth before reading the slashdot coverage and it's shocking how mind-numbingly idiotic the commentary here is when you compare it to the science itself.
it's the kind of childishly simplistic worldview that i'd expect of a libertarian, not Mother Jones.
Hey moron, the Mother Jones article merely refers back to the actual scientific studies, which are published in actual scientific journals. If you have anything useful to add other than a lame attempt to poison the well, then please do criticize the actual original research and show us how you refute the actual science (there are multiple different studies showing similar results, and some of these studies are extremely detailed, having factored in far more factors than you could even dream up).
I haven't read the article yet, but I'd imagine there is a delay in crime based on development time
You'd imagine right; the curve matching aligns well on approximately 20 years. The actual article is quite detailed and well done.
So I'd like to see an overlay with SES (socio-economic status) and the lead/crime maps
Well I have a great idea then, you should try read this new article that I hear has been published about lead and crime. It's very detailed and overlays and factors in socio-economic factors.
You should read the article. In short, yes.
Q: How do you know someone is a vegetarian or vegan? A: Don't worry, they'll tell you at every opportunity!
So you're saying it will be like we have now with SWAT raids on those selling raw milk, except anyone who owns a cow will be subject to SWAT raids, and nobody will be allowed to independently sustain themselves.