I mostly agree with you, it's always silly to automate a sequence of GUI actions.
However I can see where they're going here; the program examines your screen and finds the widget to click on or enter data into, much like a human looking at the screen and deciding what to do next. Extend that to the real world, a robot that looks around your room for the remote control and turns on the TV, then surfs through the channels until it recognizes something you like to watch. By then it will also be capable of understanding speech and making decisions autonomously. Computers will be thinking like humans within just a few years. Oh wait.
Both have a cost to produce, Both are available for sale. Complaining that the US doesn't give Costa Rica the IP for free is the same as complaining that Costa Rica charges the US for sugar. It really is that simple.
"Tort reform" is the rich scaring the poor and stupid into absolving them
of any real responsibility for when something goes wrong.
That doesn't seem to be the case in the UK; if you have a legitimate case you can sue, but you risk incurring big costs if you lose. In the US it's "free" to sue, the plaintiff might win but almost never loses; the defendant loses no matter what the verdict.
He said, ‘What’s more, I own a clown suit.’ You don’t have a student who unicycles in a clown suit every day, so you have to take advantage of these things.”
You misread it. The professor wants to take advantage of the student while he rides a unicycle in a clown suit. This probably involves a Yoda doll too.
The US Eastern Seaboard has major problems with beach erosion. The real problem is that sand beaches have never been static; they erode, move, and build up in different spots depending on vagaries of currents and storms.
Of course idiots still want beachfront property as close to the ocean as they can get, so the obvious solution is to have Congress subsidize rebuilding the beaches and paying for flood insurance. If the government would just get out and let the property owners bear the real cost the problem would solve itself.
New Orleans? I'm not convinced it's all that special. Move it inland about 50 miles and the problem goes away
Then I ask them to describe how a linked list works, and they tell me some shit...
Even better is to hand them a marker and have them explain Quick Sort. A programmer with any amount of curiosity should know that, but sadly, most are lost when autocomplete doesn't.
To the point of the OP however. Read the ad carefully and look for the keywords. The first gate to get through is the HR drone who's just doing a keyword search. But don't think you can bluff your way through the in person interview if the keywords in your resume are not a good fit for your experience/education. I've interviewed too many candidates like the parent post describes who seem like a perfect match based on their resume, but obviously don't have a clue when you talk to them. In other words, apply for a job when you have a good chance of being the most qualified candidate and you'll do fine.
The threat doesn't come from a government, even ones like North Korea, Pakistan, or Iran. The real threat is from a previously unknown group not associated with any government that somehow got it's hands on a couple of nukes. Nothing for them to lose by setting them off anywhere in the world. That was the real concern with Saddam, and is still a concern when any unstable government has them. It will probably happen eventually.
You criticize the White House for doing something we all do then you blame the wonderful effects of democracy on a web application?
I don't think very many of us are throwing around hundreds of billions in tax dollars trying to reduce unemployment in this country while at the same time outsourcing work that could be done here. But I suspect the problem has more to do with stupidity and lack of oversight than intent. DOL tried to contract with a US company, but that company is quietly trying to hire offshore programmers.
I doubt there's a problem with that many combinations. It's probably a sequence of three or four chimes, each of which has a small set of ringtones. E.g. Tissue/Operating Room/Immediate or Blood/Outpatient/Routine. It would be easy to remember the code.
While everything you say makes sense, it answers the wrong question.
Certainly universities want the very best students available in their graduate programs (except for students with a very rich or politically well connected daddy, but those don't count). What we don't know is how much better the foreign students are than the American students who didn't get in. Is an apparently better foreign student who might return home a better investment than the US student? Obviously you want the superstars going to the top universities no matter what, but below the elite level it's not so clear that there aren't enough qualified US citizens to go around. In light of the billions of dollars the current administration is allocating to affirmative action programs, the emphasis seems to be less on qualifications and more on politics anyway.
TFA misrepresents the real reason for the low MRSA rates in Norway. Antibiotic use plays a part, but old fashioned hygiene and quarantining infected patients is by far the most important factor. Hospitals all over the US are already on this, it has nothing to do with whether or not health care is "free".
Yea, I took symbolic logic too. In your example you've proven that the conditions you believe represent Z did not produce Y. So either you didn't really produce condition Z (even though you thought you did), or your assumptions are wrong. But none of that matters, nor does it matter that some people cling to a supernatural explanation of what they observe in the real world.
Who is modding these posts? +5 Insightful for repeating the ridiculous claim that invading Iraq could somehow make more oil available to the US? And 0 Flamebait for pointing out the absurdity of that claim? Have the Obama fanboys bought mod points on Slashdot?
A former employer (a very big multinational corporation) did a study that tried to correlate the number of comments in code to the number of problem reports against it. Not surprising to me, they found that in general the more comments in the code, the more problems were reported against it. That was my observation as well; bad programmers couldn't figure out a straightforward solution to a problem so they wrote messy code with lots of comments trying to explain what they were doing. The really good programmers wrote simple clean code that only needed a few comments.
Another characteristic of bad programmers that I noticed was their tendency to keep copying data from one data structure to another instead of using it in place. Obviously an indication of bad design, and it introduced lots of bugs. You knew as soon as you opened a source file and saw comments like "Copy blah-blah data from abc array to xyz array" that you were in trouble.
RTFA, the article starts out with these two sentences:
It seems to me getting good at writing comments is an under-appreciated part of a Programmer's development. However, I feel that this is a part of programming that's almost as important as writing code itself.
His point is that worthless comments are worse than no comments at all. Unfortunately a large percentage of the comments you see in code today were autogenerated by the IDE and are just noise.
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I mostly agree with you, it's always silly to automate a sequence of GUI actions.
However I can see where they're going here; the program examines your screen and finds the widget to click on or enter data into, much like a human looking at the screen and deciding what to do next. Extend that to the real world, a robot that looks around your room for the remote control and turns on the TV, then surfs through the channels until it recognizes something you like to watch. By then it will also be capable of understanding speech and making decisions autonomously. Computers will be thinking like humans within just a few years. Oh wait.
They don't bother with social engineering. China's industrial espionage program is extensive and very well organized.
Both have a cost to produce, Both are available for sale. Complaining that the US doesn't give Costa Rica the IP for free is the same as complaining that Costa Rica charges the US for sugar. It really is that simple.
"Tort reform" is the rich scaring the poor and stupid into absolving them of any real responsibility for when something goes wrong.
That doesn't seem to be the case in the UK; if you have a legitimate case you can sue, but you risk incurring big costs if you lose. In the US it's "free" to sue, the plaintiff might win but almost never loses; the defendant loses no matter what the verdict.
He said, ‘What’s more, I own a clown suit.’ You don’t have a student who unicycles in a clown suit every day, so you have to take advantage of these things.”
You misread it. The professor wants to take advantage of the student while he rides a unicycle in a clown suit. This probably involves a Yoda doll too.
A decent backhoe operator would be able to get it out
A few years from now all movies will be cartoons. Next will politicians, they're already puppets anyway.
That's called a "safety margin".
You must be a lot of fun at parties. It was a JOKE. Sheesh.
you can eject at over Mach 2 and survive!
What's the point of that? TFA says the plane's top speed is only Mach 1.8
The US Eastern Seaboard has major problems with beach erosion. The real problem is that sand beaches have never been static; they erode, move, and build up in different spots depending on vagaries of currents and storms.
Of course idiots still want beachfront property as close to the ocean as they can get, so the obvious solution is to have Congress subsidize rebuilding the beaches and paying for flood insurance. If the government would just get out and let the property owners bear the real cost the problem would solve itself.
New Orleans? I'm not convinced it's all that special. Move it inland about 50 miles and the problem goes away
Then I ask them to describe how a linked list works, and they tell me some shit...
Even better is to hand them a marker and have them explain Quick Sort. A programmer with any amount of curiosity should know that, but sadly, most are lost when autocomplete doesn't.
To the point of the OP however. Read the ad carefully and look for the keywords. The first gate to get through is the HR drone who's just doing a keyword search. But don't think you can bluff your way through the in person interview if the keywords in your resume are not a good fit for your experience/education. I've interviewed too many candidates like the parent post describes who seem like a perfect match based on their resume, but obviously don't have a clue when you talk to them. In other words, apply for a job when you have a good chance of being the most qualified candidate and you'll do fine.
The threat doesn't come from a government, even ones like North Korea, Pakistan, or Iran. The real threat is from a previously unknown group not associated with any government that somehow got it's hands on a couple of nukes. Nothing for them to lose by setting them off anywhere in the world. That was the real concern with Saddam, and is still a concern when any unstable government has them. It will probably happen eventually.
You criticize the White House for doing something we all do then you blame the wonderful effects of democracy on a web application?
I don't think very many of us are throwing around hundreds of billions in tax dollars trying to reduce unemployment in this country while at the same time outsourcing work that could be done here. But I suspect the problem has more to do with stupidity and lack of oversight than intent. DOL tried to contract with a US company, but that company is quietly trying to hire offshore programmers.
I really wish I had mod points for you. Fox biased? Sure. CNN biased? Of course. Huffington? BWAHAHAHA.
"What, besides shutting down leaky old nuclear plants, could be done to better control release of tritium into the environment?"
Maintain the plants and keep them in operation. Really, they won't hurt you; and the electricity they produce is cheap and clean.
I doubt there's a problem with that many combinations. It's probably a sequence of three or four chimes, each of which has a small set of ringtones. E.g. Tissue/Operating Room/Immediate or Blood/Outpatient/Routine. It would be easy to remember the code.
While everything you say makes sense, it answers the wrong question.
Certainly universities want the very best students available in their graduate programs (except for students with a very rich or politically well connected daddy, but those don't count). What we don't know is how much better the foreign students are than the American students who didn't get in. Is an apparently better foreign student who might return home a better investment than the US student? Obviously you want the superstars going to the top universities no matter what, but below the elite level it's not so clear that there aren't enough qualified US citizens to go around. In light of the billions of dollars the current administration is allocating to affirmative action programs, the emphasis seems to be less on qualifications and more on politics anyway.
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TFA misrepresents the real reason for the low MRSA rates in Norway. Antibiotic use plays a part, but old fashioned hygiene and quarantining infected patients is by far the most important factor. Hospitals all over the US are already on this, it has nothing to do with whether or not health care is "free".
Yea, I took symbolic logic too. In your example you've proven that the conditions you believe represent Z did not produce Y. So either you didn't really produce condition Z (even though you thought you did), or your assumptions are wrong. But none of that matters, nor does it matter that some people cling to a supernatural explanation of what they observe in the real world.
What's more important is whether transferring hundreds of billions of dollars from developed countries to less developed countries is a better idea than using that money to minimize further change or adjust to the change as it happens. The AWG alarmists need to distance themselves from the one world government crowd.
there are climate scientists trying to disprove global warming, but they fail,... what does THAT tell you?
It tells me that you can't prove a negative.
Who is modding these posts? +5 Insightful for repeating the ridiculous claim that invading Iraq could somehow make more oil available to the US? And 0 Flamebait for pointing out the absurdity of that claim? Have the Obama fanboys bought mod points on Slashdot?
They already keep unused time on parking meters. I'd like some way of reclaiming that.
A former employer (a very big multinational corporation) did a study that tried to correlate the number of comments in code to the number of problem reports against it. Not surprising to me, they found that in general the more comments in the code, the more problems were reported against it. That was my observation as well; bad programmers couldn't figure out a straightforward solution to a problem so they wrote messy code with lots of comments trying to explain what they were doing. The really good programmers wrote simple clean code that only needed a few comments.
Another characteristic of bad programmers that I noticed was their tendency to keep copying data from one data structure to another instead of using it in place. Obviously an indication of bad design, and it introduced lots of bugs. You knew as soon as you opened a source file and saw comments like "Copy blah-blah data from abc array to xyz array" that you were in trouble.
Wrong on all accounts
RTFA, the article starts out with these two sentences:
It seems to me getting good at writing comments is an under-appreciated part of a Programmer's development. However, I feel that this is a part of programming that's almost as important as writing code itself.
His point is that worthless comments are worse than no comments at all. Unfortunately a large percentage of the comments you see in code today were autogenerated by the IDE and are just noise.
Accessing the information doesn't concern me so much as if it was acted on in an illegitimate way.
You mean like passing it on to a member of the San Diego police department? Yea, he forgot to mention that the first time too.