If you look at the vibrations coming out of a building that is burning there is a huge jump in the amplitude of certain bands right before the building collapses.. there's basically a shift in the fundamental frequency of the building. A brick to detect this is gonna save alot of firefighters.
Basically, any structure like a bridge or a building can be characterized pretty well by its frequency response. You stimulate it with an impulse and transform the output to the frequency domain. A burning building is being constantly stimulated, so detecting the vibrations with a brick in the wall is going to let you easily determine the frequency response.
As you can imagine (this is a generalization) if there's a large spike in certain frequencies, the structure is unstable. When you engineer structures, you try and keep the frequency response flat.
I imagine the conversation with the guy assigned to work on a mac project a microsoft goes something like this:
"come in here jenkins"
"yes sir?"
"you know those blue green supercomputers, the ones that we guard with tanks?"
"yeah.."
"well it turns out the potheads that use those things would like to explore the internet.."
"hahah! sir, they have but a single button on their mouse! 'tis folly! wouldn't they be happier with some sort of egg or pod? We could even make some sort of cube! if you're high and time is blurred, it's almost like a hypercube."
"I don't know what you're going on about, jenkins.
I think mac users are mostly mammals."
"sir you miss my point.."
"silence! report to the macintosh bunker immediately!".
So now this poor sap is on a mac, trying to write software. Twitching either his pointer or middle finger clicks the same button. He cries, now a hapless programmer held to a dungeon wall by an ADB chain.
Engineering mac software is like trying to build a flying canoe: hopefully you can bludgeon someone with the oars and make your escape.
Hey this is my first post. I have angry half-baked opinions tho.
I find that commenting for a retarded 6 year old makes code unreadable. Have you ever tried to find anything in the apache tomcat sourcecode using only notepad? Why is there a comment on "getInfo()" that says "Returns the info."???
Some classes I was trying to understand I just went through and deleted every comment so I could read the damn thing. Turns out the class was only like 12 lines of code.
It was like shaving a cat.
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If you look at the vibrations coming out of a building that is burning there is a huge jump in the amplitude of certain bands right before the building collapses.. there's basically a shift in the fundamental frequency of the building. A brick to detect this is gonna save alot of firefighters.
Basically, any structure like a bridge or a building can be characterized pretty well by its frequency response. You stimulate it with an impulse and transform the output to the frequency domain. A burning building is being constantly stimulated, so detecting the vibrations with a brick in the wall is going to let you easily determine the frequency response.
As you can imagine (this is a generalization) if there's a large spike in certain frequencies, the structure is unstable. When you engineer structures, you try and keep the frequency response flat.
I imagine the conversation with the guy assigned to work on a mac project a microsoft goes something like this: "come in here jenkins" "yes sir?" "you know those blue green supercomputers, the ones that we guard with tanks?" "yeah.." "well it turns out the potheads that use those things would like to explore the internet.." "hahah! sir, they have but a single button on their mouse! 'tis folly! wouldn't they be happier with some sort of egg or pod? We could even make some sort of cube! if you're high and time is blurred, it's almost like a hypercube." "I don't know what you're going on about, jenkins. I think mac users are mostly mammals." "sir you miss my point.." "silence! report to the macintosh bunker immediately!". So now this poor sap is on a mac, trying to write software. Twitching either his pointer or middle finger clicks the same button. He cries, now a hapless programmer held to a dungeon wall by an ADB chain. Engineering mac software is like trying to build a flying canoe: hopefully you can bludgeon someone with the oars and make your escape.
Hey this is my first post. I have angry half-baked opinions tho. I find that commenting for a retarded 6 year old makes code unreadable. Have you ever tried to find anything in the apache tomcat sourcecode using only notepad? Why is there a comment on "getInfo()" that says "Returns the info."??? Some classes I was trying to understand I just went through and deleted every comment so I could read the damn thing. Turns out the class was only like 12 lines of code. It was like shaving a cat.