You do not have a 'right' to work anywhere, regardless of what you think. Working is a privilege, once you wrap your thick skull around that you'll be a lot better off in life.
You're half-right, the same way "skateboarding is not a crime" is half-right.
You don't have an absolute right to work wherever you like, but you do have the right to be free from certain kinds of interference by third parties, regardless of which job you're seeking.
It seems to me like there's another angle on this, from the perspective of the affected employees, not the customers/competitors.
By forming a pact that keeps an employee at company A from getting a job at any other company in the cartel, doesn't that run afoul of federal fair labor laws?
The US has disproportionately crowded jails, filled disproportionately with African-Americans, and a very large fraction of which are there on drug charges. The US "War on Drugs" has led to many many convictions over marijuana and we are paying the social and monetary cost of imprisoning lots of people.
But maybe we should distinguish between pot and more mind-bending, addictive drugs.
I really have no idea what decriminalizing pot would do to traffic accident rates, the spot market cost of brownie mix, etc. But from its general reputation, legalizing pot doesn't worry me much.
I'm much more worried about legalizing heroine, crack, and PCP. From what I can tell, not only do some people act much more dangerous when high on them than not, but more worrying is what addicts will do to get them. I'm really concerned that if we legalize things like crack, without also giving people as much as they want, we'll continue to see problems like prostitution and robbery stemming from addicts' desperation for cash. So I'm not sure legalizing these kinds of drugs would be a net gain (or loss) for society.
There are common trivial definitions of significant differences vs insignificant ones based on random chance.
If you're referring to randomness due to sampling, note that I talked about a statistic over the whole population of men/women, rather than from a sampling of them.
To say that there's no gap means that whatever statistic is being used for comparison, it has the exact same value for the population of men as it does for the population of women.
The likelihood of that being true is essentially zilch.
The real questions should be: (a) how big is the gap, and (b) is it big enough for us to care.
How does it handle display of STL containers in the debugger view?
I don't know, but isn't GDB supposed to be adding a pretty-print plugin system so that people can write pretty-printers for various STL containers, etc.?
Maybe once GDB supports that, KDevelop will inherit that functionality for free?
He's an artist. A fairly techy one but an artist nonetheless. Therefore, acting like a rabid dog every time anyone glances at his computer is probably not a valid option for him, because in his quality matrix, interacting with other people has a decidedly positive weight.
Are you kidding? Have you hear how much money goes for paintings by batshit-crazy artists???
... enterprise IT still gives almost nothing back to the community...
Even by just using OSS, enterprises increase the presumption of legitimacy and value of OSS in our culture.
Perhaps just as importantly, corporations and government agencies are getting a stake in having OSS software not hurt by the exercise of software patents. This gives those companies and agencies an incentive to work against patent abuse. Like what happened to members of Congress when the Blackberry patent issue came to a head.
So all things considered, I'd say they're contributing something at least as valuable as code.
Mmm. Or people who are doing their best to protect the interests of their clients? A lawyer must make the best arguments available for their client, but the ruling is not something they can be held responsible for. The system of justice works best when both sides present the strongest form of their argument, allowing the issues to be debated by those in the judicial role (who you can hold responsible for their judgments).
Perhaps, but when the RIAA counts on little people being forced to settle because they can't afford to mount a defense, justice is clearly not a goal.
With the impure languages optimization becomes much much easier.
Funny you should say that. I'm just starting my dissertation work on parallelizing purely functional languages. (Yes, I know that topic was nearly beaten to death in the 1990's and earlier.)
But anyway, optimizing the *parallelization* of a functional language can be a lot easier (in some ways) when the language *is* pure. At least, according to my background reading so far.
Functional languages in practice often implement nlog n algorithms in quadratic time or memory
We should probably distinguish between pure and impure functional languages.
Impure languages like SML and (I think) MLTON can modify arrays in-place, eliminating one of the major causes of slowness when implementing certain algorithms in a pure functional language.
Pardon the rant, but can anyone tell me why we're still having people write code that is subject to SQL injection attacks?
I mean, sometimes potential buffer overflows in C/C++ programs can be tricky to notice. Writing threading code that's not subject to deadlock or starvation can often be a challenge.
But isn't code that's subject to SQL injection attacks just blindingly, amazingly obvious at first glance?
This website is such a hack-job. I can't believe MS or Asus was involved. The video player is FlowPlayer, the tracking uses Google Analytics, the fonts are all wrong for a MS job.
They didn't. But we are meant to think they did. These trackers are by Google Analytics. The MS advertisement execs always use a single tracker to hide their numbers.
And these talking points, too trollish for MS advertisement execs. Only Apple Fanbois are so precise.
I generally like Kdevelop3, but I find that it has problems debugging some fortran code I have. It can't make sense of an array that's been redimensioned and/or it can't step through some functions. (Even when I built with "-g -O0"). It's probably gdb's fault, but KDevelop3 is where I see it.
I really hope that KDevelop4 smooths out some of these issues, because it otherwise seems like a great replacement for VisualStudio.
suggests that just as the interstate system needs guardrails, so too does the information superhighway.
I think he's actually right. One time, when my Cat6 cable had too tight of a bend, I had packets breaking through and slamming against the wiring closet wall. It was... terrible.
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They are pretending to be an Apple device. I don't think that's legal.
This computer is claiming to be an IBM PC. IBM sued. IBM lost.
The DMCA didn't exist then, and syncing a Pre with iTunes can be seen as breaking a functional copyright enforcement device.
You're half-right, the same way "skateboarding is not a crime" is half-right.
You don't have an absolute right to work wherever you like, but you do have the right to be free from certain kinds of interference by third parties, regardless of which job you're seeking.
It seems to me like there's another angle on this, from the perspective of the affected employees, not the customers/competitors.
By forming a pact that keeps an employee at company A from getting a job at any other company in the cartel, doesn't that run afoul of federal fair labor laws?
But maybe we should distinguish between pot and more mind-bending, addictive drugs.
I really have no idea what decriminalizing pot would do to traffic accident rates, the spot market cost of brownie mix, etc. But from its general reputation, legalizing pot doesn't worry me much.
I'm much more worried about legalizing heroine, crack, and PCP. From what I can tell, not only do some people act much more dangerous when high on them than not, but more worrying is what addicts will do to get them. I'm really concerned that if we legalize things like crack, without also giving people as much as they want, we'll continue to see problems like prostitution and robbery stemming from addicts' desperation for cash. So I'm not sure legalizing these kinds of drugs would be a net gain (or loss) for society.
You're studied math, but not statistics.
Not true. I've studied both.
There are common trivial definitions of significant differences vs insignificant ones based on random chance.
If you're referring to randomness due to sampling, note that I talked about a statistic over the whole population of men/women, rather than from a sampling of them.
To say that there's no gap means that whatever statistic is being used for comparison, it has the exact same value for the population of men as it does for the population of women.
The likelihood of that being true is essentially zilch.
The real questions should be: (a) how big is the gap, and (b) is it big enough for us to care.
How does it handle display of STL containers in the debugger view?
I don't know, but isn't GDB supposed to be adding a pretty-print plugin system so that people can write pretty-printers for various STL containers, etc.?
Maybe once GDB supports that, KDevelop will inherit that functionality for free?
Get a friend to pass around a rumor that he caught you watching a porn clip and masturbating onto the keyboard. Nobody will ask for it anymore.
That's not the impression I get from watching "Art School Confidential".
Sharing laptops is like sharing toothbrushes.
It means you're living with a skanky girlfriend?
He's an artist. A fairly techy one but an artist nonetheless. Therefore, acting like a rabid dog every time anyone glances at his computer is probably not a valid option for him, because in his quality matrix, interacting with other people has a decidedly positive weight.
Are you kidding? Have you hear how much money goes for paintings by batshit-crazy artists???
This would be a brilliant move!
... enterprise IT still gives almost nothing back to the community ...
Even by just using OSS, enterprises increase the presumption of legitimacy and value of OSS in our culture.
Perhaps just as importantly, corporations and government agencies are getting a stake in having OSS software not hurt by the exercise of software patents. This gives those companies and agencies an incentive to work against patent abuse. Like what happened to members of Congress when the Blackberry patent issue came to a head.
So all things considered, I'd say they're contributing something at least as valuable as code.
I can confirm this. All my friends: Ichigo Kurasaki, Sailor Moon, Akira, etc. pretty much get to do whatever they want when school lets out.
Perhaps, but when the RIAA counts on little people being forced to settle because they can't afford to mount a defense, justice is clearly not a goal.
With the impure languages optimization becomes much much easier.
Funny you should say that. I'm just starting my dissertation work on parallelizing purely functional languages. (Yes, I know that topic was nearly beaten to death in the 1990's and earlier.)
But anyway, optimizing the *parallelization* of a functional language can be a lot easier (in some ways) when the language *is* pure. At least, according to my background reading so far.
Functional languages in practice often implement nlog n algorithms in quadratic time or memory
We should probably distinguish between pure and impure functional languages.
Impure languages like SML and (I think) MLTON can modify arrays in-place, eliminating one of the major causes of slowness when implementing certain algorithms in a pure functional language.
Where Cobol and RPG, the languages that run business?
They were so far off the top and right axes, the algorithm discarded them as outliers.
Yeah, will if human language isn't smart, just what language DO you suggest we use???
Goddam Vorons... troll ever fucking thread they read.
Yes and No. If I want to have a program that I pass SQL queries to and it returns either safe or unsafe that is not a computable problem.
Are you sure? Your statement would only be obviously true if a single SQL statement can be a Turing-complete language.
Pardon the rant, but can anyone tell me why we're still having people write code that is subject to SQL injection attacks?
I mean, sometimes potential buffer overflows in C/C++ programs can be tricky to notice. Writing threading code that's not subject to deadlock or starvation can often be a challenge.
But isn't code that's subject to SQL injection attacks just blindingly, amazingly obvious at first glance?
Er... excuse me, I need to go install eeebuntu for that hot chick next door.
This website is such a hack-job. I can't believe MS or Asus was involved. The video player is FlowPlayer, the tracking uses Google Analytics, the fonts are all wrong for a MS job.
They didn't. But we are meant to think they did. These trackers are by Google Analytics. The MS advertisement execs always use a single tracker to hide their numbers.
And these talking points, too trollish for MS advertisement execs. Only Apple Fanbois are so precise.
I generally like Kdevelop3, but I find that it has problems debugging some fortran code I have. It can't make sense of an array that's been redimensioned and/or it can't step through some functions. (Even when I built with "-g -O0"). It's probably gdb's fault, but KDevelop3 is where I see it.
I really hope that KDevelop4 smooths out some of these issues, because it otherwise seems like a great replacement for VisualStudio.
Think of the child processes, oh won't somebody please think ...
It's too late - they're zombie processes now. Come on, we have to keep moving.
I think he's actually right. One time, when my Cat6 cable had too tight of a bend, I had packets breaking through and slamming against the wiring closet wall. It was... terrible.
Did he remember to model the fact that if you make your password requirements sufficiently rigorous....
(A) People will increase risk by having to write them down, or
(B) People will try to stop using your system, which is a different but related kind of failure?