Oh what a dumb ass "prospect of a Conservative government in the near future". It was the left wing Labour governments of Blair and Brown that brought in the restrictive 'police state' measures you twit.
I have lived in SA, UK, Australia, NZ and Canada. And each of these countries has strengths and weaknesses. I'd say that Australians are the least tolerant of government interference and push back on government meddling. They have a commendable disrespect and suspicion of authority; UK is simply a crap place to live unless you are excited by the coming prospect of Sharia law; NZ is intrinsically socialist (only recently has a conservative been elected) and Canada has a pretty acquiescent population keen to follow orders and with no sense of humour. (All their funny guys moved to Hollywood.) Canadians are unusual too in that unlike other cultures they define themselves by what they are not: "Hello, I am not American." To be fair it has an advantage that it is close to the US (that you may be able to tolerate now that the Dark Doofus is running things there)
But why stop there (or bankrupt Ireland) - obviously from your comments you are a keen (though confused) lefty so why not try an English speaking country in Africa. South Africa is the quintessential 'new Wild West'. Few laws apply and the authorities sure aren't watching you. Everybody is too busy avoiding being killed by the lawless mob. Police are easily bribed (R100 - about $10 - get you off most traffic offences), law enforcement rarely bothers to come when you call them (can be a problem if you are in danger) and it is pretty easy to avoid tax. It is easy to fly under the authorities' radar and the populace - white and black - have a great sense of humour, are anarchic by nature and are most emphatically not politically correct. Can be a great place to live if you don't mind carrying a gun. See for example, a real non PC TV ad from SA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCL9tcxBOMs
My experience though is that despite protestations to the contrary most Brits really do miss the grubby streets of England; houses the size of American dog kennels; the unbelievable prices of everything - almost $10 a cup at Starbucks - and most of all the misguided and truly unfounded sense of superiority Brits have towards the rest of the world.
Best advice I can give: Stay Home and ignore the cameras.
A postscript: ignore the best city/country ratings - these are just anti-American politically motivated propaganda unless you truly think Ottawa (rated 16th) with -30C winters, dull suburbs and people, miles from the sea has more zing and livability than (say) San Francisco (rated 30th). For the record I live in Canada.
Code reviews work because when developers know their code is going to be scrutinized they improve their level of coding.
I've run developer shops for over 30 years and I've found that no matter what level the developer, if they are aware that their peers will review their code that take more care over it.
Will reviews make a poor developer a good developer? Of course not, but it will improve the quality, layout, documentation and general understanding that a developer has for the code he or she writes. And as a bonus poor developers can get insights from good developers when they sit in on reviews.
What's Ballmer's problem? He and Microsoft donated to the Obama and Dem campaign and now as they deliver on their pre-election promises Ballmer is unhappy. Perhaps he did not believe Obama
Don't confuse the issue with bluster: your posting was corny, adolescent and a bit 'show off'.
Surely you could have worked out that the drives could be useful to a school without having to get advice from/. I mean your donation is not the biggest charity event I've ever come across.
Gosh what a puzzle: GM is going bust, North Korea has become a nuclear power, Africa is hungry, Imadinnerjacket of Iran is threatening to destroy Israel, unemployment is at a 25 year high in the US, Ireland and Iceland are almost bankrupt, AIDS is still spreading in the world and some claim the planet is warming.....
And you are wondering what to do with 78 USB drives for Christmas. You should get out more: the air in your parents basement is obviously affecting your brain.
Sorry I must concur with another poster, you are a fucking ArfWit.
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Thats nothing: I picked up a computer science book and it tried to claim that a hundred and eleven (111) was actually 7 and worse that eleven was actually 3. At first I thought it was a typo, but no, that kind of nonsense was throughout the book.
A masters is useful if you want to eventually have a senior role - architect, development manager, CIO etc. Not because it helps much from a technical point of view, but because it helps to separate you from the crowd. But why not work for a year or two to find out whether CS is what you want to do? Then come back to do a masters or if you are that way inclined an MBA. (I am a VP of Product Development who encouraged his son to go into a different field. IT/SW/CS is now a vocation - you do it for the love of the profession - not the easy money it used to be)
Increasingly he is reminiscent of a proper African president who is simply oblivious to costs and behaves as if money grows on trees and so he spends, spends, spends.
I estimate because of the great distances in the US a proper high speed rail system would cost about a trillion. On the other hand.... what's a trillion to your president.
I guess it is true that a people get the government they deserve.
Excellent post - I mean Japan. Very very few software innovations have come out of Japan.
Similarly everyone praises Bangalore (and indeed Bangaloreans conder it the center of the SW world).
I travel there a lot, but have yet to see any innovation, say compared to Finland, coming out of Bangalore (or India).
Did the 'center of SW' writer just mean collections of SW developers rther than innovation.
Kundra was appointed CTO because he is not white and so was a shoe in for the Obama administration
There can be no other reason why creating a web site and email distribution for the Obama election campaign qualifies a person for being CTO of the nation.
You're right. Al Gore yammered in public and that got him the Nobel prize - not in the hard sciences mind you where there is objectivity, but in the Nobel feel good department.
The IPCC reports claims that GW started around the mid 1970s - not 50 years ago as you report. (RTF Report)
The report glosses over the fact that many glaciers started receding around 1870.
Models - even the best of them - are often an approximation of reality and the cone of predictive uncertainty increases exponentially as it moves away from its base data.
In the 1960s the Club of Rome used models by Jay Forester to predict outcomes of the next 30 years. Forester was the most eminent modeler of his generation. The models proved to be incorrect and inaccurate.
Exactly why are you so sure the current climate models are accurate?
Trees exploded! So let me get this right. It was so cold that the sap froze and the tree exploded. (Or is there some other unknown force at work).
In the northern areas of the US and Canada I suspect current winter temperatures drop to at least the levels of the big freeze in Europe - recently here in Canada we have endured cold of -24C.
I am happy to report, however, no exploding trees.
Here's a shocker: I use Carbonite and swear by it. RAID and USB drive backups don't cut it. If there is a local catastrophe all RAID drives are destroyed and so is any local HD.
I have no association with Carbonite, but would give them a five star rating anytime. Recently they saved a catastrophic situation for me. I was able to restore 42Gb of data. And all for $50 a year it backups up transparently in the background.
Who cares if an employee gave them a good rating. Who cares if they advertise on Limbaugh. Based on that principle I guess I won't touch products advertised on Air America.
Of course, if you just hack and there is nothing important on your disk then you probably don't need the service....
No flaming - I concur. Now when you ask students a question they don't think about, but rather reach for Google for an answer.
And the sadness is they usually dig up some half baked answer from one or other blog that they regurgitate - unable to assess the quality of the Google entry.
The law of unintended consequences is that the Internet is damaging critical thinking.
The fact this kid's access is limited may be intentional. Just so he can say hello mom and dad I'm fine. And force him or her to think about things under the stars.
In Canada going topless is legal. Woman have the right to walk around topless wherever and whenever they like.... and very, very occasionally on hot summer days one gets luck, but by and large due to cold weather and the natural shyness of most woman nipples are not exposed (which is a pity given the link between temperature and nipples)
Facebook is exceedingly popular in Canada and it occurs to me that their policy is counter to Canadian law. Presumably a Canadian nipple displayer or even a suckling infant's mother could demand the right of exposure under Canadian law.
I recall during the recent Lebanon - Israeli war there were a lot of altered images produced by Hezbollah - the famous guy who appeared in many different scenes holding the same apparently dead child that was distributed enthusiastically by AP.
Seems that is far more deceitful than making an aging army officer look younger and fresher.
Great posting - these posters should get real - the guy is being asked to write code and be paid for it. That's what thousands and thousands of developers do every day.
It is kind of flattering.
Of course, this all comes down to how much they are prepared to pay you.
Oh please what a corny uninformed post. Firstly, all companies are set up to be profitable. Secondly, many Americans own stock in companies like Exon through their 401K so in a sense many people are getting back their investment. Thirdly, if the MIT thing is genuine the 'hated' oil companies could simply buy the patent and move into the broader energy business. (Don't for one minute buy into the ' they buy the invention and suppress it silly view.) You may resent the oil companies, but at least they are keeping the money in the US. The oil states in the gulf and elsewhere are - in some cases - earning a billion dollars in a day!
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Oh what a dumb ass "prospect of a Conservative government in the near future". It was the left wing Labour governments of Blair and Brown that brought in the restrictive 'police state' measures you twit.
I have lived in SA, UK, Australia, NZ and Canada. And each of these countries has strengths and weaknesses. I'd say that Australians are the least tolerant of government interference and push back on government meddling. They have a commendable disrespect and suspicion of authority; UK is simply a crap place to live unless you are excited by the coming prospect of Sharia law; NZ is intrinsically socialist (only recently has a conservative been elected) and Canada has a pretty acquiescent population keen to follow orders and with no sense of humour. (All their funny guys moved to Hollywood.) Canadians are unusual too in that unlike other cultures they define themselves by what they are not: "Hello, I am not American." To be fair it has an advantage that it is close to the US (that you may be able to tolerate now that the Dark Doofus is running things there)
But why stop there (or bankrupt Ireland) - obviously from your comments you are a keen (though confused) lefty so why not try an English speaking country in Africa. South Africa is the quintessential 'new Wild West'. Few laws apply and the authorities sure aren't watching you. Everybody is too busy avoiding being killed by the lawless mob. Police are easily bribed (R100 - about $10 - get you off most traffic offences), law enforcement rarely bothers to come when you call them (can be a problem if you are in danger) and it is pretty easy to avoid tax. It is easy to fly under the authorities' radar and the populace - white and black - have a great sense of humour, are anarchic by nature and are most emphatically not politically correct. Can be a great place to live if you don't mind carrying a gun. See for example, a real non PC TV ad from SA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCL9tcxBOMs
My experience though is that despite protestations to the contrary most Brits really do miss the grubby streets of England; houses the size of American dog kennels; the unbelievable prices of everything - almost $10 a cup at Starbucks - and most of all the misguided and truly unfounded sense of superiority Brits have towards the rest of the world.
Best advice I can give: Stay Home and ignore the cameras.
A postscript: ignore the best city/country ratings - these are just anti-American politically motivated propaganda unless you truly think Ottawa (rated 16th) with -30C winters, dull suburbs and people, miles from the sea has more zing and livability than (say) San Francisco (rated 30th). For the record I live in Canada.
The Indians don't eat burgers. They stay at home in their little condos and cook chapatis
Code reviews work because when developers know their code is going to be scrutinized they improve their level of coding. I've run developer shops for over 30 years and I've found that no matter what level the developer, if they are aware that their peers will review their code that take more care over it. Will reviews make a poor developer a good developer? Of course not, but it will improve the quality, layout, documentation and general understanding that a developer has for the code he or she writes. And as a bonus poor developers can get insights from good developers when they sit in on reviews.
What's Ballmer's problem? He and Microsoft donated to the Obama and Dem campaign and now as they deliver on their pre-election promises Ballmer is unhappy. Perhaps he did not believe Obama
Don't confuse the issue with bluster: your posting was corny, adolescent and a bit 'show off'. Surely you could have worked out that the drives could be useful to a school without having to get advice from /. I mean your donation is not the biggest charity event I've ever come across.
Gosh what a puzzle: GM is going bust, North Korea has become a nuclear power, Africa is hungry, Imadinnerjacket of Iran is threatening to destroy Israel, unemployment is at a 25 year high in the US, Ireland and Iceland are almost bankrupt, AIDS is still spreading in the world and some claim the planet is warming..... And you are wondering what to do with 78 USB drives for Christmas. You should get out more: the air in your parents basement is obviously affecting your brain. Sorry I must concur with another poster, you are a fucking ArfWit. .
Thats nothing: I picked up a computer science book and it tried to claim that a hundred and eleven (111) was actually 7 and worse that eleven was actually 3. At first I thought it was a typo, but no, that kind of nonsense was throughout the book.
Your information must be incorrect. All things under Obama are better than under Bush.
A masters is useful if you want to eventually have a senior role - architect, development manager, CIO etc. Not because it helps much from a technical point of view, but because it helps to separate you from the crowd. But why not work for a year or two to find out whether CS is what you want to do? Then come back to do a masters or if you are that way inclined an MBA. (I am a VP of Product Development who encouraged his son to go into a different field. IT/SW/CS is now a vocation - you do it for the love of the profession - not the easy money it used to be)
Increasingly he is reminiscent of a proper African president who is simply oblivious to costs and behaves as if money grows on trees and so he spends, spends, spends. I estimate because of the great distances in the US a proper high speed rail system would cost about a trillion. On the other hand.... what's a trillion to your president. I guess it is true that a people get the government they deserve.
I've warned Kevin over and over to stop smoking dope. It is ruining his judgment.
What about the birds, people. Think of your feathery friends roasted as they fly through the beam. The horror, the horror.
Excellent post - I mean Japan. Very very few software innovations have come out of Japan. Similarly everyone praises Bangalore (and indeed Bangaloreans conder it the center of the SW world). I travel there a lot, but have yet to see any innovation, say compared to Finland, coming out of Bangalore (or India). Did the 'center of SW' writer just mean collections of SW developers rther than innovation.
Kundra was appointed CTO because he is not white and so was a shoe in for the Obama administration There can be no other reason why creating a web site and email distribution for the Obama election campaign qualifies a person for being CTO of the nation.
The Peoples Democratic Republic of China thanks you - glory to the revolution. Signed Jiang Zemin
You're right. Al Gore yammered in public and that got him the Nobel prize - not in the hard sciences mind you where there is objectivity, but in the Nobel feel good department.
The IPCC reports claims that GW started around the mid 1970s - not 50 years ago as you report. (RTF Report) The report glosses over the fact that many glaciers started receding around 1870. Models - even the best of them - are often an approximation of reality and the cone of predictive uncertainty increases exponentially as it moves away from its base data. In the 1960s the Club of Rome used models by Jay Forester to predict outcomes of the next 30 years. Forester was the most eminent modeler of his generation. The models proved to be incorrect and inaccurate. Exactly why are you so sure the current climate models are accurate?
Trees exploded! So let me get this right. It was so cold that the sap froze and the tree exploded. (Or is there some other unknown force at work). In the northern areas of the US and Canada I suspect current winter temperatures drop to at least the levels of the big freeze in Europe - recently here in Canada we have endured cold of -24C. I am happy to report, however, no exploding trees.
Here's a shocker: I use Carbonite and swear by it. RAID and USB drive backups don't cut it. If there is a local catastrophe all RAID drives are destroyed and so is any local HD. I have no association with Carbonite, but would give them a five star rating anytime. Recently they saved a catastrophic situation for me. I was able to restore 42Gb of data. And all for $50 a year it backups up transparently in the background. Who cares if an employee gave them a good rating. Who cares if they advertise on Limbaugh. Based on that principle I guess I won't touch products advertised on Air America. Of course, if you just hack and there is nothing important on your disk then you probably don't need the service....
No flaming - I concur. Now when you ask students a question they don't think about, but rather reach for Google for an answer. And the sadness is they usually dig up some half baked answer from one or other blog that they regurgitate - unable to assess the quality of the Google entry. The law of unintended consequences is that the Internet is damaging critical thinking. The fact this kid's access is limited may be intentional. Just so he can say hello mom and dad I'm fine. And force him or her to think about things under the stars.
In Canada going topless is legal. Woman have the right to walk around topless wherever and whenever they like .... and very, very occasionally on hot summer days one gets luck, but by and large due to cold weather and the natural shyness of most woman nipples are not exposed (which is a pity given the link between temperature and nipples)
Facebook is exceedingly popular in Canada and it occurs to me that their policy is counter to Canadian law. Presumably a Canadian nipple displayer or even a suckling infant's mother could demand the right of exposure under Canadian law.
I recall during the recent Lebanon - Israeli war there were a lot of altered images produced by Hezbollah - the famous guy who appeared in many different scenes holding the same apparently dead child that was distributed enthusiastically by AP. Seems that is far more deceitful than making an aging army officer look younger and fresher.
Great posting - these posters should get real - the guy is being asked to write code and be paid for it. That's what thousands and thousands of developers do every day. It is kind of flattering. Of course, this all comes down to how much they are prepared to pay you.
Oh please what a corny uninformed post. Firstly, all companies are set up to be profitable. Secondly, many Americans own stock in companies like Exon through their 401K so in a sense many people are getting back their investment. Thirdly, if the MIT thing is genuine the 'hated' oil companies could simply buy the patent and move into the broader energy business. (Don't for one minute buy into the ' they buy the invention and suppress it silly view.) You may resent the oil companies, but at least they are keeping the money in the US. The oil states in the gulf and elsewhere are - in some cases - earning a billion dollars in a day!
You think that is crazy. I just searched for the word Fnifter - a guy who smells women's bicycle saddles - and it comes up as a name.