I sure felt primitive erasing entire chunks of code after having realized I needed to insert something in the beginning.
JFC, dude, it's paper! Just write it off to the side and stick an arrow to where it needs to go. You're feeding it to a TA, not a compiler.
Just a simple thing as placing braces becomes a hurdle in writing unless you know the length of the code you need to put between them! Whoops, didn't realize I was feeding a troll...my bad.
My variable name length tends to have a direct correlation with their scope. If I need a local loop index, I call it "i", since it's obvious from the context what it does. If I have some sort of global configuration variable, it's going to be named "targetSystemType" or something like that.
Heavy sigh. I have two HP printers (DeskJet 500 and a RuggedWriter), and five HP calculators (A 34C and a 16C I bought in college, a 41CV I bought when I graduated, a 32S-II I bought ten or so years ago, and a 48G I bought when I found out it was the last calculator HP was going to make). All work fine. Even after the batteries leaked in the 41CV, I was able to fix it with some sheet copper and some careful soldering.
I had no idea their quality had gotten so bad. They and Tektronix were about the only companies I'd consider when looking at test equipment (can't forget Fluke!). Maybe that's what happens when you have to compete in a commodity market, but it's a shame they didn't get out before they had damaged their reputation.
If you purchase a T1, lets say, it will be billed and treated as a business account
Just so. That's why you pay hundreds of dollars a month for approximately the same bandwidth you could get for a couple hundred with a SDSL line. Everyone I know with their own T1 (both of them!;) have a four-hour guaranteed turnaround from line failure to restoration. If TPC can't fix it in that amount of time, they get a hefty refund (I want to say $50/hour, but I'm not sure).
I think this dude doesn't like the system that he is locked into and is expressing it as best he can
Should have thought of that before he got himself locked into it.
While we may not be as free to change the system as we'd like ("I don't care who does the electing, as long as I get to do the nominating." -- Boss Tweed), your options pretty much go away once you're locked up.
Yes, but then what do we do with the "samples" collected during cattle mutilations? I don't know about you, but I don't feel the weather service OR the phone company can provide the kind of plausible deniability required.
just swap the process out, then write the pages from the swapfile to a regular file. Like the shop manuals say, "assembly is the reverse of disassembly"...
My mother-in-law's had a history of heart trouble, and the reason we weren't allowed to use our cell phones when we visited her in the hospital was because they use lots of remote telemetry. She had a bunch of electrodes that plugged into a transmitter about the size of a bar of soap, and that sent information to the nurse's station. You could also stop at any one of several remote monitoring stations located throughout the hospital, type in her patient ID and watch the readings in real-time. The remote stations on her floor were wireless, but I believe the remote stations on other floors were connected using coax. The cardiology floor was the only floor (that we visited) that required cell phones to be turned off.
Just flipping through the book in the store before I buy it generally weeds out the bad books, so I would assume most of the 1- or 2-rated books never get purchased (at least not by savvy Slashdotters).
Now if they had magazine reviews, I'd drop a dime on the new XML Journal. That's definitely a 2.
My first reaction was exactly the opposite -- now that the software division is out on its own, maybe we'll see PalmOS for other (currently-WinCE) platforms.
I was able to realize over 100% improvement in our app by cacheing and re-using some objects instead of just allocating new ones. Use of a good profiling tool (JProbe, in my case) is essential for finding these things.
It probably could, but in this case they want the absolute top performance from the box. That means they're already using both processors to handle incoming requests. Temporarily repurposing one to handle GC would result in a performance hit.
Given a less time-critical application, though, running GC on a separate processor would be a good option. Java runs the GC in a separate thread, which could (depending on the OS) be run on a separate processor, but I don't know if that happens IRL.
Heh, I think I caught the last gasp -- I got a page, but it was full of MySQL errors (couldn't open socket, socket read failed). I saw the site was built using PHP-Nuke, though (about the only information to escape from the site!)
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avoid scheduling yourself into such tome constrants
Tome constraints? Hey, work is an open-book final...
I sure felt primitive erasing entire chunks of code after having realized I needed to insert something in the beginning.
JFC, dude, it's paper! Just write it off to the side and stick an arrow to where it needs to go. You're feeding it to a TA, not a compiler.
Just a simple thing as placing braces becomes a hurdle in writing unless you know the length of the code you need to put between them!
Whoops, didn't realize I was feeding a troll...my bad.
My variable name length tends to have a direct correlation with their scope. If I need a local loop index, I call it "i", since it's obvious from the context what it does. If I have some sort of global configuration variable, it's going to be named "targetSystemType" or something like that.
I always thought that Hungarian Notation was created by someone who wasn't smart enough to write a cross-referencer.
Every HP product I've owned was absolute junk.
Heavy sigh. I have two HP printers (DeskJet 500 and a RuggedWriter), and five HP calculators (A 34C and a 16C I bought in college, a 41CV I bought when I graduated, a 32S-II I bought ten or so years ago, and a 48G I bought when I found out it was the last calculator HP was going to make). All work fine. Even after the batteries leaked in the 41CV, I was able to fix it with some sheet copper and some careful soldering.
I had no idea their quality had gotten so bad. They and Tektronix were about the only companies I'd consider when looking at test equipment (can't forget Fluke!). Maybe that's what happens when you have to compete in a commodity market, but it's a shame they didn't get out before they had damaged their reputation.
I keep over-analizing everything...
Do you mean overanalyzing? I hate to think what "overanalizing" means...
If you purchase a T1, lets say, it will be billed and treated as a business account
;) have a four-hour guaranteed turnaround from line failure to restoration. If TPC can't fix it in that amount of time, they get a hefty refund (I want to say $50/hour, but I'm not sure).
Just so. That's why you pay hundreds of dollars a month for approximately the same bandwidth you could get for a couple hundred with a SDSL line. Everyone I know with their own T1 (both of them!
Huey, Dewey and Louie -- I think they were -- in Cool Running
:)
I think the movie was called "Silent Running". All the robots in Cool Running had Jamaican names.
A 386 is probably overkill
True. The old (but still in service) Nike Hercules guidance computers were just a bunch of op-amps and assorted sensors (see here).
I mean to say that the Hercules missile systems are still in service, their computers have been upgraded to solid-state units.
Here in Oregon, we've got those funky scatter/gather bar codes. Of course, the story was about bar code scanning...
...when they have self-heating frozen pizza.
There are a few people who ... think that your name in all caps is the name of a legal fiction
Yeah, and I'll bet they refuse to cash their paychecks if their name is in all caps on those, too...
I think this dude doesn't like the system that he is locked into and is expressing it as best he can
Should have thought of that before he got himself locked into it.
While we may not be as free to change the system as we'd like ("I don't care who does the electing, as long as I get to do the nominating." -- Boss Tweed), your options pretty much go away once you're locked up.
American Online, that could be an entirly different business than America Online
Yes, but that's a difference in spelling. The difference between upper and lower case is just a matter of punctuation.
Yes, but then what do we do with the "samples" collected during cattle mutilations? I don't know about you, but I don't feel the weather service OR the phone company can provide the kind of plausible deniability required.
does Stephen King come to your house to make sure you don't have pirated copies of his books?
Shhhh! Don't give Harlan Ellison any ideas!
just swap the process out, then write the pages from the swapfile to a regular file. Like the shop manuals say, "assembly is the reverse of disassembly"...
My mother-in-law's had a history of heart trouble, and the reason we weren't allowed to use our cell phones when we visited her in the hospital was because they use lots of remote telemetry. She had a bunch of electrodes that plugged into a transmitter about the size of a bar of soap, and that sent information to the nurse's station. You could also stop at any one of several remote monitoring stations located throughout the hospital, type in her patient ID and watch the readings in real-time. The remote stations on her floor were wireless, but I believe the remote stations on other floors were connected using coax. The cardiology floor was the only floor (that we visited) that required cell phones to be turned off.
Just flipping through the book in the store before I buy it generally weeds out the bad books, so I would assume most of the 1- or 2-rated books never get purchased (at least not by savvy Slashdotters).
Now if they had magazine reviews, I'd drop a dime on the new XML Journal. That's definitely a 2.
netscape should have responded by including an operating system with the browser.
Yeah, like Emacs!
My first reaction was exactly the opposite -- now that the software division is out on its own, maybe we'll see PalmOS for other (currently-WinCE) platforms.
I was able to realize over 100% improvement in our app by cacheing and re-using some objects instead of just allocating new ones. Use of a good profiling tool (JProbe, in my case) is essential for finding these things.
It probably could, but in this case they want the absolute top performance from the box. That means they're already using both processors to handle incoming requests. Temporarily repurposing one to handle GC would result in a performance hit.
Given a less time-critical application, though, running GC on a separate processor would be a good option. Java runs the GC in a separate thread, which could (depending on the OS) be run on a separate processor, but I don't know if that happens IRL.
I'd advocate UML Distilled by Fowler and Scott
Hear, hear! UML Distilled was what I used to learn UML in 24 hours!
Heh, I think I caught the last gasp -- I got a page, but it was full of MySQL errors (couldn't open socket, socket read failed). I saw the site was built using PHP-Nuke, though (about the only information to escape from the site!)