Agreed... especially out west. I live in the Phoenix metro area. 4 million plus people. Hot and cold running blazing fast 4G just about everywhere. I can think of a half dozen places offhand that lots of people go to around here that are less than a two hour (i.e. easy day trip) drive and you're lucky to get basic cell service when you get there. Forget about network! My 2 meter amateur radio is more reliable than my phone in these places.
I've always been leery of certifications provided by a vendor for their products. While I recognize that they might want to have their certs viewed as something more than worthless and be sure the people getting them really knew their stuff, they also have a vested interest in having as many people as possible can get those certifications so that when they roll into a new customer's offices they can say "and finding people to work with this is easy because there are umpteen thousand people who are Certified Widget Engineers!" This conflict of interest just makes me nervous.
FWIW, I don't rule out someone based on certifications, or education for that matter. I really hire people on the basis of are they motivated, self-starting people with an interest in the work? Even if the tech skills aren't an exact match, I tend to have less problems with those sorts of people as their work ethic and enthusiasm usually quickly compensates for knowledge deficiencies.
Interesting idea... take it a step further: could it be that Apple is secretly wearing a white hat here, "banning" the app for a few specious reasons in an attempt to publicize it through outrage, only to recant a few days later? How many of us would never have heard of this app if it were not for this? A way of advertising it without advertising it, perhaps?
I was 19 months. I don't remember it, but my parents sat me in front of the TV and I apparently watched it pretty intently. My dad took pictures of it right off our black and white TV. My parents encouraged my intellectual development, and I was in love with space ever since I was a kid. Due to their influence, the inspiration of Apollo program, some hard work and a fair bit of luck I'm lucky enough to have contributed in my own small way to several Mars missions. Neil Armstrong was and is one of my heroes and the influence his example has had on my life cannot be overstated.
Improv acting with dice. We're heavy on the characters and story, and will cheerfully ignore the rules when it makes for more fun. Some people hate those kinds of games, though.
Did you just seriously refer to the Catholic/Canadian Musician/Anteater shadow cabal on a public forum? Dude, you need to get to your safe house, lock the doors, and if you even THINK you see an aardvark, run.
It's not true, but I can tell you from firsthand experience that learning new things requires a little more effort when you get older. The unfortunate result of that is because people are lazy (myself included), they tend to not put in the effort. I still learn new things pretty quickly, but it's not the effortless sponge that it was as a kid and in my 20s and 30s. I'm a little more choosy now about the things I spend that effort on; it's usually reserved for work things (My job is to support scientists by writing code, so I'm fortunate that there's always something around to learn) or things that are personally important to me.
I will in general take a lower resolution p over a higher resolution i. Am I the only one that really gets bugged by interlace jitter on screens much above 40" in size? It makes my eyes water and eventually I get headaches... not crushing migraines, but just annoying little pains behind my eyes that are just strong enough to remind me they're there every 2-3 minutes or so.
In that era, IIRC, $20 was one ounce of gold. Heck, if they indexed it to the price of an ounce of gold, that would be an improvement from 75k. As I am not a lawyer (merely learned enough law in sheer self-defense), can you explain what "...one of the few portions of the Bill of Rights never to have been incorporated by the Supreme Court..." means? Does it mean that the Supreme Court has never referred to the 7th amendment in any case ever?
Or just a high quality sample of a pump-action shotgun getting cycled, which is the international signal for "you're in a whole heap 'o trouble, son!":-)
Well, if you define abstraction as myth, then all computing tasks are built on layers upon layers of myth. As a pro-Romanticist, I rather like your definition, frankly. There are even more layers of myth above your editor, as either the GUI or the character renderer turns those characters into a raster format to be fed across a signal line to the monitor, which will cause photons in a narrow but well-defined band of frequencies to be emitted, whereupon those photons are focused on your retina, activating rod and cone cells in your retina, that in turn activate feature detection neurons in your retina and visual cortex, which then get passed off to higher order brain centers that take this information and turn it back into the information that was stored.
And to bring it back down to less philosophical matters, yes, modern editors are all python aware and do a fine job of indenting for you if you are willing to accept the convention that the python no-op 'pass' will terminate a nested level. You bring up an interesting point about editors handling indentation, however. I think the reason why we don't is I think we as programmers like the idea of keeping our code in a form that can be read and understood by even the simplest tools. We could conceivably create a file format that has the indentation stored as an integer, followed by the line of code, and then just have our editors render it visually for us in the manner we prefer, then save it back out in the integer|line format. But I think a lot of programmers would chafe at that idea, and I don't think I could disagree with them. We already have holy wars over vi vs. emacs, Eclipse vs. NetBeans, Windows vs Mac vs Linux and whether a tab stop should be 2, 4, 8 or some other number of columns.:-)
The good news is that our documentation and editors are much better these days, so those pains are much lessened in today's working environment.
I hear you with respect to the rabid fandom. I try to avoid evangelization, but also approach such discussions with my preferences and biases stated up front. I dig python, you may not, and I'm totally cool with that!:-)
I felt that same way about "semantic whitespace" 12 years ago when I first learned python. The idea just reminded me of too many crawling horrors like RPG and FORTRAN on punch-cards (#include <std_you_kids_get_off_my_lawn.h>) but seriously, an hour into it and you don't even notice it any more. It's really just enforcing what you should be and probably already are doing in C/Perl/C++/Java etc.
If you haven't really given python a go, I'd really encourage you to do so and don't let the "whitespace thing" stop you from trying it. I find it a fun language to work in. It works well on small projects and scales up fairly well. YMMV, of course.
Um... I'm a huge fan of space exploration (I work in that field in my own small way, as a matter of fact.) and I appreciate the sentiment, truly. But I think your first sentence might be a bit of hyperbole.
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I decided instead to go to a Middle Eastern restaurant and the waitress asked me what I want and I was like... Baba ghanoush?
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I wished I'd kept my COBOL skills current... those cats get paid a lot now since there's so few of 'em still alive!
Agreed... especially out west. I live in the Phoenix metro area. 4 million plus people. Hot and cold running blazing fast 4G just about everywhere. I can think of a half dozen places offhand that lots of people go to around here that are less than a two hour (i.e. easy day trip) drive and you're lucky to get basic cell service when you get there. Forget about network! My 2 meter amateur radio is more reliable than my phone in these places.
I've always been leery of certifications provided by a vendor for their products. While I recognize that they might want to have their certs viewed as something more than worthless and be sure the people getting them really knew their stuff, they also have a vested interest in having as many people as possible can get those certifications so that when they roll into a new customer's offices they can say "and finding people to work with this is easy because there are umpteen thousand people who are Certified Widget Engineers!" This conflict of interest just makes me nervous.
FWIW, I don't rule out someone based on certifications, or education for that matter. I really hire people on the basis of are they motivated, self-starting people with an interest in the work? Even if the tech skills aren't an exact match, I tend to have less problems with those sorts of people as their work ethic and enthusiasm usually quickly compensates for knowledge deficiencies.
Interesting idea... take it a step further: could it be that Apple is secretly wearing a white hat here, "banning" the app for a few specious reasons in an attempt to publicize it through outrage, only to recant a few days later? How many of us would never have heard of this app if it were not for this? A way of advertising it without advertising it, perhaps?
I was 19 months. I don't remember it, but my parents sat me in front of the TV and I apparently watched it pretty intently. My dad took pictures of it right off our black and white TV. My parents encouraged my intellectual development, and I was in love with space ever since I was a kid. Due to their influence, the inspiration of Apollo program, some hard work and a fair bit of luck I'm lucky enough to have contributed in my own small way to several Mars missions. Neil Armstrong was and is one of my heroes and the influence his example has had on my life cannot be overstated.
Improv acting with dice. We're heavy on the characters and story, and will cheerfully ignore the rules when it makes for more fun. Some people hate those kinds of games, though.
No, just their friends and family do. I can tell you from firsthand experience that's no joyride either.
Did you just seriously refer to the Catholic/Canadian Musician/Anteater shadow cabal on a public forum? Dude, you need to get to your safe house, lock the doors, and if you even THINK you see an aardvark, run.
It's not true, but I can tell you from firsthand experience that learning new things requires a little more effort when you get older. The unfortunate result of that is because people are lazy (myself included), they tend to not put in the effort. I still learn new things pretty quickly, but it's not the effortless sponge that it was as a kid and in my 20s and 30s. I'm a little more choosy now about the things I spend that effort on; it's usually reserved for work things (My job is to support scientists by writing code, so I'm fortunate that there's always something around to learn) or things that are personally important to me.
I will in general take a lower resolution p over a higher resolution i. Am I the only one that really gets bugged by interlace jitter on screens much above 40" in size? It makes my eyes water and eventually I get headaches... not crushing migraines, but just annoying little pains behind my eyes that are just strong enough to remind me they're there every 2-3 minutes or so.
operagost gets the MS developer job. Congratulations! :-)
Agreed. I would rather crawl to my destination over crushed glass and concertina wire than ever get on a Delta aircraft again.
In that era, IIRC, $20 was one ounce of gold. Heck, if they indexed it to the price of an ounce of gold, that would be an improvement from 75k. As I am not a lawyer (merely learned enough law in sheer self-defense), can you explain what "...one of the few portions of the Bill of Rights never to have been incorporated by the Supreme Court..." means? Does it mean that the Supreme Court has never referred to the 7th amendment in any case ever?
Or just a high quality sample of a pump-action shotgun getting cycled, which is the international signal for "you're in a whole heap 'o trouble, son!" :-)
An agreement only one side can change whenever they desire is no agreement at all.
A virtual +1 for the Sagan reference!
Naming your projects things like Dremel and Drill, even without trademark problems, I think is really stupid from a web search perspective.
Well, if you define abstraction as myth, then all computing tasks are built on layers upon layers of myth. As a pro-Romanticist, I rather like your definition, frankly. There are even more layers of myth above your editor, as either the GUI or the character renderer turns those characters into a raster format to be fed across a signal line to the monitor, which will cause photons in a narrow but well-defined band of frequencies to be emitted, whereupon those photons are focused on your retina, activating rod and cone cells in your retina, that in turn activate feature detection neurons in your retina and visual cortex, which then get passed off to higher order brain centers that take this information and turn it back into the information that was stored.
And to bring it back down to less philosophical matters, yes, modern editors are all python aware and do a fine job of indenting for you if you are willing to accept the convention that the python no-op 'pass' will terminate a nested level. You bring up an interesting point about editors handling indentation, however. I think the reason why we don't is I think we as programmers like the idea of keeping our code in a form that can be read and understood by even the simplest tools. We could conceivably create a file format that has the indentation stored as an integer, followed by the line of code, and then just have our editors render it visually for us in the manner we prefer, then save it back out in the integer|line format. But I think a lot of programmers would chafe at that idea, and I don't think I could disagree with them. We already have holy wars over vi vs. emacs, Eclipse vs. NetBeans, Windows vs Mac vs Linux and whether a tab stop should be 2, 4, 8 or some other number of columns. :-)
The good news is that our documentation and editors are much better these days, so those pains are much lessened in today's working environment.
I hear you with respect to the rabid fandom. I try to avoid evangelization, but also approach such discussions with my preferences and biases stated up front. I dig python, you may not, and I'm totally cool with that! :-)
I have to agree that this is a legitimate complaint. For example, posting python code here on slashdot is a virtual impossibility it seems.
Hence the YMMV at the end. No worries. :-)
I felt that same way about "semantic whitespace" 12 years ago when I first learned python. The idea just reminded me of too many crawling horrors like RPG and FORTRAN on punch-cards (#include <std_you_kids_get_off_my_lawn.h>) but seriously, an hour into it and you don't even notice it any more. It's really just enforcing what you should be and probably already are doing in C/Perl/C++/Java etc.
If you haven't really given python a go, I'd really encourage you to do so and don't let the "whitespace thing" stop you from trying it. I find it a fun language to work in. It works well on small projects and scales up fairly well. YMMV, of course.
My hovercraft is full of eels!
Words cannot describe how awesome this comment is. Turn off the routers; the internet has a winner!
Um... I'm a huge fan of space exploration (I work in that field in my own small way, as a matter of fact.) and I appreciate the sentiment, truly. But I think your first sentence might be a bit of hyperbole.
I decided instead to go to a Middle Eastern restaurant and the waitress asked me what I want and I was like... Baba ghanoush?