... if you can do you job entirely on a 'puter, you're either totally unnecessary to the real success of the business, or you're a prime candidate for downsizing/outsourcing.
I know several marketing and sales (snigger) people who think they're the business because they can do all their *work* from home. Sure they're laughing all the way to the bank when times are good, but they'll be snivelling the loudest when their job is cut first.
... a large amount of badly written and hard-to-maintain Perl code. But I maintain that this isn't directly due to the code being written in Perl
And I maintain that it is precisely because it was written in Perl, which by its very nature encourages the writing of unreadable (and therefore hard to maintain) code, that you find your code badly written and hard to maintain.
Serious developers only use Perl as a last resort (like when BASH, sed, and AWK aren't available).
Twiddle fingers who masterbate over their Perl code are really only interested in ensuring they're unreplaceable.
P.S. I also agree with the sentiments of another poster who comments upon the failure of Larry Wall to control his evangelical urges. I don't go around peppering my code with satanic verse, or Zionistic clap-trap, and I don't really want to be asaulted by it in other peoples code either.
the scale would detect that it's some kind of orange, round fruit and show you a selection of possible matches
I think you missed the OP's point. How many varieties of 'orange, round fruit' do you suppose there are. I've seen lemons that were almost indestinguishable from an orange. I've seen oranges, the size of a large grapefruit. There are varieties and hybrids that only an expert could identify. Now, make me choose amongst say, a half dozen, photos of 'orange round fruit', and what are you gonna get ??
Ummm.... You can go to dixons and buy a freeview digital TV tuner, and receive about 20 channels free from terrestrial sources - no satellite dish required. (assuming you live anywhere but Dartmoor)
but they're not cheap, and charging $7 a month to rent one means they don't recoup the cost of one for over a year.
Wow, I don't believe i. They have to wait a whole year to recoup a capital expenditure.
My god, how do they stay in business ?!?!?
I guess I shouldn't be surprised, it used to be than Long term was 20+ years, medium term was 5-20 years, and short term was anything under 5 years.
Nowadays it seems that long term is a whopping 12 months, medium term is 2-6 months, and short term is anything up to a week. No wonder the U.S. economy is in such a mess.
.. Hey, RIAA, you guys must be pretty stupid if you don't realize that a MAC address can be changed with trivial ease. Therefore, even if we could dredge up the DHCP logs, the IP address to MAC address mapping you are so interested in wouldn't tell you anything anyway.
Please stop feeding the idiots, they foul the footpaths of life.
1.) What gives DHS the right to decalre they have such power. Does simply proclaiming they have that power give them that power ?
2.) Are these guys so naive that they don't realise that I can store Gigabytes of data on a micro-SD card which is all but indectable if I really wish to hide it (Hell, it will fit under a fingernail !) Why would I risk having them find it in my laptop ?
OP certainly has a point here, although I'm not convinced that this would improve the overall quality of the education system very much.
I see three (or four) fundamental issues with child-rearing in America today.
1. [age 0-6]) Too many working mothers - a child needs their mother (ok, a father will do) present for at least the first 5 years of their life. Presence means almost constant presence, within earshot. Short (an hour, perhaps) periods at a playschool (after the age of about 3) is fine, but the majority (3/4 or more) should be in this presence. 2.[age 5-8]) Not enough self discipline - children need to be made to concentrate, and made to do things they don't like to do, or made to sit quietly occupying themselves while others are doing things. This doesn't mean for extended periods, but certainly for a minimum of 30 minutes at a time, two or three times a day. During this age range they should be encouraged to run, jump, crawl, etc. and made to understand that a scratch on the knee or a banged elbow is normal, and learn not to cry about such minor injuries, also learning how to avoid such injuries is a good idea. 3. [age 8-13]) Poor diet, lack of excercise, and disrespect of learning - Children today are simply not being fed correctly, not getting enough excercise, and not being taught the joy, and reverence, of knowledge. The first two issues are easily corrected through mandatory health checks and physical testing (with real consequences for poor porformance). It's too easy (in todays society) to be a bad parent, when it becomes clear a parent is neglecting a childs physical health through either bad diet or lack of excercise, that child needs to be removed from that environment, and taken care of correctly. As for installing the love of knowledge, this relies upon a healthy body. When a body is healthy, the brain is healthy. A healthy brain will naturally seek to learn, and be excited by learning.
....than being the sole developer of a mission critical piece of software - I have intimate knowledge of this scenario, trust me.
The responsible, professional, and correct thing to do in this case (obviously the primary functional requirements come first, which in this case would entail a high degree of security) to is make the system as easy to understand as possible. No amount of documentation is ever going to eliminate the need for someone else to come along and figure out the system. The next step is to ensure that management understand how precarious the house of cards is, when one person is responsible for something so critical. Unless you do this, you are simply not professional.
Personally - I'm trying to get everyone to convert to decimal time.
under decimal time:
1 day = 10 hours
1 hour = 100 minutes
1 minute = 100 seconds
That means a day would have 100,000 seconds, making each second equal to about 0.86 of the currently defined second.
This would make my life much easier, although my wife might be dissapointed that I'd only be good for a little over 1 minute.
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My tomatos aren't doing particualrly well (they're taking forever to ripen), and I live in "The Garden of England" - Kent, UK.
GP referred to a day==24 hours
Really, where does it say that ?
Or perhaps Teleworking ?
... they would work all day just to get 8 hours of pay
Yeah, I hate it when I have to work a whole day to get a whole days pay !
... if you can do you job entirely on a 'puter, you're either totally unnecessary to the real success of the business, or you're a prime candidate for downsizing/outsourcing.
I know several marketing and sales (snigger) people who think they're the business because they can do all their *work* from home. Sure they're laughing all the way to the bank when times are good, but they'll be snivelling the loudest when their job is cut first.
... a large amount of badly written and hard-to-maintain Perl code. But I maintain that this isn't directly due to the code being written in Perl
And I maintain that it is precisely because it was written in Perl, which by its very nature encourages the writing of unreadable (and therefore hard to maintain) code, that you find your code badly written and hard to maintain.
Serious developers only use Perl as a last resort (like when BASH, sed, and AWK aren't available).
Twiddle fingers who masterbate over their Perl code are really only interested in ensuring they're unreplaceable.
P.S. I also agree with the sentiments of another poster who comments upon the failure of Larry Wall to control his evangelical urges. I don't go around peppering my code with satanic verse, or Zionistic clap-trap, and I don't really want to be asaulted by it in other peoples code either.
Except that you have to interrupt your current activity, and answer the phone in order to be able to hang up.
I'm pretty sure that's what most people are complaining about.
the scale would detect that it's some kind of orange, round fruit and show you a selection of possible matches
I think you missed the OP's point. How many varieties of 'orange, round fruit' do you suppose there are. I've seen lemons that were almost indestinguishable from an orange. I've seen oranges, the size of a large grapefruit. There are varieties and hybrids that only an expert could identify. Now, make me choose amongst say, a half dozen, photos of 'orange round fruit', and what are you gonna get ??
Maybe, just maybe, the pool is slightly too short ?
Our e-mail British Telecom was unavailable for about 18 hours until about 0600 this morning.
Ummm.... You can go to dixons and buy a freeview digital TV tuner, and receive about 20 channels free from terrestrial sources - no satellite dish required. (assuming you live anywhere but Dartmoor)
but they're not cheap, and charging $7 a month to rent one means they don't recoup the cost of one for over a year.
Wow, I don't believe i. They have to wait a whole year to recoup a capital expenditure.
My god, how do they stay in business ?!?!?
I guess I shouldn't be surprised, it used to be than Long term was 20+ years, medium term was 5-20 years, and short term was anything under 5 years.
Nowadays it seems that long term is a whopping 12 months, medium term is 2-6 months, and short term is anything up to a week. No wonder the U.S. economy is in such a mess.
... Apple stock price bears no relationship what-so-ever to the present or future value of the company.
News at eleven.
the athletes admit to doping, and another where they don't.
.. Hey, RIAA, you guys must be pretty stupid if you don't realize that a MAC address can be changed with trivial ease. Therefore, even if we could dredge up the DHCP logs, the IP address to MAC address mapping you are so interested in wouldn't tell you anything anyway.
Please stop feeding the idiots, they foul the footpaths of life.
Two points here really
1.) What gives DHS the right to decalre they have such power. Does simply proclaiming they have that power give them that power ?
2.) Are these guys so naive that they don't realise that I can store Gigabytes of data on a micro-SD card which is all but indectable if I really wish to hide it (Hell, it will fit under a fingernail !) Why would I risk having them find it in my laptop ?
I've never been to Beijing; and don't plan to go until they clean up their air !
It's just as fun being onymous
I'm sure Dr. Hawking would disagree.
I'm not too sure of the point of that comment, but, I doubt he would disagree.
The fact is, there is a proven link between physical health, and mental ability.
OP certainly has a point here, although I'm not convinced that this would improve the overall quality of the education system very much.
I see three (or four) fundamental issues with child-rearing in America today.
1. [age 0-6]) Too many working mothers - a child needs their mother (ok, a father will do) present for at least the first 5 years of their life. Presence means almost constant presence, within earshot. Short (an hour, perhaps) periods at a playschool (after the age of about 3) is fine, but the majority (3/4 or more) should be in this presence.
2.[age 5-8]) Not enough self discipline - children need to be made to concentrate, and made to do things they don't like to do, or made to sit quietly occupying themselves while others are doing things. This doesn't mean for extended periods, but certainly for a minimum of 30 minutes at a time, two or three times a day. During this age range they should be encouraged to run, jump, crawl, etc. and made to understand that a scratch on the knee or a banged elbow is normal, and learn not to cry about such minor injuries, also learning how to avoid such injuries is a good idea.
3. [age 8-13]) Poor diet, lack of excercise, and disrespect of learning - Children today are simply not being fed correctly, not getting enough excercise, and not being taught the joy, and reverence, of knowledge. The first two issues are easily corrected through mandatory health checks and physical testing (with real consequences for poor porformance). It's too easy (in todays society) to be a bad parent, when it becomes clear a parent is neglecting a childs physical health through either bad diet or lack of excercise, that child needs to be removed from that environment, and taken care of correctly. As for installing the love of knowledge, this relies upon a healthy body. When a body is healthy, the brain is healthy. A healthy brain will naturally seek to learn, and be excited by learning.
... Not a good thing!
....than being the sole developer of a mission critical piece of software - I have intimate knowledge of this scenario, trust me.
The responsible, professional, and correct thing to do in this case (obviously the primary functional requirements come first, which in this case would entail a high degree of security) to is make the system as easy to understand as possible. No amount of documentation is ever going to eliminate the need for someone else to come along and figure out the system.
The next step is to ensure that management understand how precarious the house of cards is, when one person is responsible for something so critical.
Unless you do this, you are simply not professional.
...will it blend ?
http://www.willitblend.com/
Most of the support forum questions state exactly the same issue, can't log in to any room..
Great way to impress people
Balthorium, Thiotimoline, I hear those are in short supply too !
Personally - I'm trying to get everyone to convert to decimal time. under decimal time: 1 day = 10 hours 1 hour = 100 minutes 1 minute = 100 seconds That means a day would have 100,000 seconds, making each second equal to about 0.86 of the currently defined second. This would make my life much easier, although my wife might be dissapointed that I'd only be good for a little over 1 minute.