Yeah that'll be him. The guy with the shit job with the shit rules to follow. The perfect scapegoat.
Not the moron who can't read and type at the same time.
Not the "experts" who dreamed up the procedures this agency follows.
Not the actual terrorist.
The guy watching the passenger queue. Blame him.
with my "dream self" doing the "virtual debugging"
Then there are the nights you do real debugging.
I modified an overnight cron job that downloaded sales from and uploaded prices to shops. Woke up at 2AM thinking "that program will not work". Logged in remotely and looked over a plethora of failing jobs. Stopped them, edited the program, set it running again, watched it run for a while and then went back to bed. What had I remembered? Not putting a double-semicolon on a new entry in a case-esac statement.
When a Lib/Nat government thinks it has a whiff of a terrorist, it goes crazy apeshit bonkers. The last "terrorist" they caught was Muhamed Haneef. A doctor, born in India. An ordinary, or better than average, guy. His crime? He "recklessly" provided a SIM card to a dimwit second cousin of his, who failed spectacularly at blowing up Glasgow Airport. Haneef was locked up for weeks until a magistrate said "hey police guys, this case is a crock of shit" and the DPP said "Oh my tittyfucking God you're right" and dropped the charges. The government then instantly cancelled his visa and deported him.
Note that, while Haneef was detained, he was cause celebre in Australia. He was the AFP's prize possession. He may as well have been, as you say, an exhibit in a zoo.
And that is the closest thing there is to an Australian terrorist.
Yes exactly. Here and here, Flight Director Wayne Hale describes the efforts of NASA's TopMgmt to halt further analysis, refuse any help from the DOD, insist that nothing could be done, and squelch any chance of rescue.
Oh yes they are. They weaken the client-server model.
When a client makes a request to a server, the server should try and fulfill exactly that request, to the best of its ability. When a client says INSERT or UPDATE, the server should INSERT or UPDATE if possible. Maybe fail due to constraint violation (or disk full), but that's it. When a client says EXECUTE, the server should execute the named procedure. That's remote execution right there and it's a Good Thing. (Multi-tier might be better, but stored procedures aren't fundamentally wrong.) When a client doesn't say EXECUTE, the server should NOT go off and do a bunch of unrequested stuff and maybe fail to do what it was asked to do.
Keep it simple: client makes requests, server fulfills requests.
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Try to use a damn touch screen without looking. There is a reason to why there are real buttons in a car: haptic feedback tells you what you are doing..
Yes, but one minor quibble: ordinary physical controls provide tactile feedback. Haptic feedback is artificial: vibration, etc.
This. The NIF is basically a weapons lab, but with an astoundingly good PR wing. They tout themselves as contenders in some "race" against ITER. Their machine was used as a set-prop in Star Trek. And they regularly generate "major milestone" headlines, for accomplishments that are relatively minor, and way overdue. All for a lab that, in essence, tests thermonuclear weapons.
You don't (annoy the CC company). Of course, they like reliable payers who carry some balance, but I wouldn't be surprised if you said "you must choose to keep only those card holders who always pay in full or only everyone else" (and normalize the numbers so the spend&pay amounts are the same), they'd choose you (and me).
I'm afraid you have that completely backwards. A person who pays off their credit card in full, on time, pays no interest, and generates low (or even negative) revenue for the CC company. That is very annoying to the CC company and the person is, in industry parlance, a deadbeat.
Sure, there's a little less potential for income...
I noticed you quoted Wikipedia for all of your references
Shooting the messenger a bit are we? In some circles a popular debating technique, though frowned upon by logicians. But thank you for providing just a few more data points as evidence for the GP's thesis that facts and opinion can be manipulated.
However, I'd prefer it if your first two references were not to the same hoax. Also: if you want to diss "green organizations" in general, you shouldn't just slam the one organization three times. And now I just have to add beforeitsnews.com to my list of deniosphere bookmarks (which already includes conservapedia (which BTW you should never cite.) )
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Why did a second instructional video have to be made?
Because the first one, "Fucking patents - how do they work?" was thought to be in contempt.
That law has a corollary: some OTHER moron will blame Obama.
Is Betteridge's Law Of Headlines finally due for retirement?
Yeah that'll be him. The guy with the shit job with the shit rules to follow. The perfect scapegoat.
Not the moron who can't read and type at the same time.
Not the "experts" who dreamed up the procedures this agency follows.
Not the actual terrorist.
The guy watching the passenger queue. Blame him.
Seriously? Surely those new ones just need a new logo
... everyone will start printing at home, things will be cheaper, more available, better, faster, stronger ...
When in reality everyone will just start using pretentious newbie phrases such as "steep learning curve".
with my "dream self" doing the "virtual debugging"
Then there are the nights you do real debugging.
I modified an overnight cron job that downloaded sales from and uploaded prices to shops. Woke up at 2AM thinking "that program will not work". Logged in remotely and looked over a plethora of failing jobs. Stopped them, edited the program, set it running again, watched it run for a while and then went back to bed. What had I remembered? Not putting a double-semicolon on a new entry in a case-esac statement.
You know what? We just about do.
When a Lib/Nat government thinks it has a whiff of a terrorist, it goes crazy apeshit bonkers. The last "terrorist" they caught was Muhamed Haneef. A doctor, born in India. An ordinary, or better than average, guy. His crime? He "recklessly" provided a SIM card to a dimwit second cousin of his, who failed spectacularly at blowing up Glasgow Airport. Haneef was locked up for weeks until a magistrate said "hey police guys, this case is a crock of shit" and the DPP said "Oh my tittyfucking God you're right" and dropped the charges. The government then instantly cancelled his visa and deported him.
Note that, while Haneef was detained, he was cause celebre in Australia. He was the AFP's prize possession. He may as well have been, as you say, an exhibit in a zoo.
And that is the closest thing there is to an Australian terrorist.
Yeah. There are about as many terrorists in Australia as there are snakes in Ireland. PS. Happy St Patrick's Day.
This will soon be the text of a new motivational poster: Mercury: Think. Or Shrink.
The Pope would ditch his Ford Focus for a recumbent bicycle.
But then, the Prez would trade in Air Force One for a Gossamer Albatross.
Checkmate, choirboy.
Give the mod a break. There is no option that says "-1 giggling idiot".
... don't look, because if you do see a problem you can't (or shouldn't) do anything about it anyway.
Also, don't ever read the Soldier's Creed. Because you might find this:
I will never accept defeat
I will never quit
I will never leave a fallen comrade
Yes exactly. Here and here, Flight Director Wayne Hale describes the efforts of NASA's TopMgmt to halt further analysis, refuse any help from the DOD, insist that nothing could be done, and squelch any chance of rescue.
"Triggers are kind of an anti-pattern."
No they aren't.
Oh yes they are. They weaken the client-server model.
When a client makes a request to a server, the server should try and fulfill exactly that request, to the best of its ability. When a client says INSERT or UPDATE, the server should INSERT or UPDATE if possible. Maybe fail due to constraint violation (or disk full), but that's it. When a client says EXECUTE, the server should execute the named procedure. That's remote execution right there and it's a Good Thing. (Multi-tier might be better, but stored procedures aren't fundamentally wrong.) When a client doesn't say EXECUTE, the server should NOT go off and do a bunch of unrequested stuff and maybe fail to do what it was asked to do.
Keep it simple: client makes requests, server fulfills requests.
Try to use a damn touch screen without looking. There is a reason to why there are real buttons in a car: haptic feedback tells you what you are doing..
Yes, but one minor quibble: ordinary physical controls provide tactile feedback. Haptic feedback is artificial: vibration, etc.
1. Tell the Pentagon it's for weapons research.
2. Tell everyone else it's for green energy.
3. Profit.
This. The NIF is basically a weapons lab, but with an astoundingly good PR wing. They tout themselves as contenders in some "race" against ITER. Their machine was used as a set-prop in Star Trek. And they regularly generate "major milestone" headlines, for accomplishments that are relatively minor, and way overdue. All for a lab that, in essence, tests thermonuclear weapons.
Probably originally noted by the Sumarians when they tried to get the Zuggernauts higher than two stories.
Too true. Supervillians rarely appeared more than twice in ancient middle-eastern comics.
You don't (annoy the CC company). Of course, they like reliable payers who carry some balance, but I wouldn't be surprised if you said "you must choose to keep only those card holders who always pay in full or only everyone else" (and normalize the numbers so the spend&pay amounts are the same), they'd choose you (and me).
I'm afraid you have that completely backwards. A person who pays off their credit card in full, on time, pays no interest, and generates low (or even negative) revenue for the CC company. That is very annoying to the CC company and the person is, in industry parlance, a deadbeat .
Sure, there's a little less potential for income ...
Nup. A hell of a lot less actual income.
Many stories contain one tiny, worthless sentence written by a Slashdot Editor.
Building spaceships to take tourists out of the atmosphere.
Err - that would be Branson. Musk is concentrating on real astronauts, real payloads and real destinations.
Took a while but we boiled it down to a minimal program which would reproduce the bug
I did that once to demonstrate a bug in a COBOL compiler. The vendor had trouble understanding what such a short COBOL program did.
Shotgun marriage in 266, 265, 264 ...
I noticed you quoted Wikipedia for all of your references
Shooting the messenger a bit are we? In some circles a popular debating technique, though frowned upon by logicians. But thank you for providing just a few more data points as evidence for the GP's thesis that facts and opinion can be manipulated.
However, I'd prefer it if your first two references were not to the same hoax. Also: if you want to diss "green organizations" in general, you shouldn't just slam the one organization three times. And now I just have to add beforeitsnews.com to my list of deniosphere bookmarks (which already includes conservapedia (which BTW you should never cite.) )