20% of time, that's one day per week. It would make more sense than a few days at the end of each month, since you would forget what you were doing three weeks before!
My (UK) employer gives me Friday afternoon to work on personal stuff. It's only 10 percent but it's a start.
How do you keep your real project from impacting it?
If there is a tight deadline, I ignore my personal work and do work work.
At what point are the projects reviewed?
My personal work doesn't get reviewed (it's personal - duh) but I can give a "show and tell" on it any time.
This guy seems to be finding it so hard to imagine how this can work.. It's quite simple really, once you realise that cracking the whip only breeds resentment.
Exactly, no-one in their right mind would write code like this, but some exams would expect you to know the answer. A more enlightened exam perhaps would not ask questions like this since there are undoubtedly better ways to to test a programmer's knowledge and aptitude.
Incidentally, the answer in the case of Java, Perl and Javascript is 0. Gnu C and MS VC++ give 1.
Sorry to reply to my own post, but it turns out Java behaves like most other languages and C and C++ behave differently (in C and C++ the answer would be 1).
Filesharing, song lyrics, ringtones and such. Sites of these types tend to offer spyware and from what I've seen of teenagers using computers, they tend to click "yes" rather than read what is being offered in a skeptical manner.
The problem is getting there to be MORE columns when the user has a very wide window, and FEWER columns when the user has a very narrow window.
I wouldn't agree that it is necessary to change the number of columns in your layout, and I have never seen this kind of layout used. I'm not sure how you arrived at this assumption, but I guess that you don't like the idea of columns changing their width. To get around this, you could use a fixed width layout (e.g. a list apart), using a fixed number of columns (say, 3). Fixing just the width is definitely more acceptable than fixing the width and the height, which IMHO falls a long way short of ideal.
In graphic design (including web) clear white space is a powerful tool... Space and silence is good. Don't just fill it up just because it's there.
When you're ready to come back down to earth, I once read something about web designers are always trying to shoehorn print design into web design.. it stuck in my mind for some reason and seems relevant now.
Designing a web page to fit in a fixed area is like designing for a piece of paper. What's the point of having different monitor resoltions, scrollbars and "fluid" layouts if you're just going to shove it in a fixed-sized box that sits in the middle of my 1600x1200 monitor, making me squint to see it? Ludicrous.
Again-- please grow up and realize that there are hostiles in the world, and it is a constant struggle to stay ahead.
Look mate, your country may be a beacon of hope and glory from where you're standing, but for those on the outside that ain't exactly the case. Realise that.
What if a user has an open file, and yanks the drive? How does Windows "gracefully" deal with that? Answer: it can't.
Get off the "Mac is better" thing already. I unplugged an IDE hard drive from windows while it was trying to write a large file and I got a dialog with a red X and a message along the lines of "IO error". Could I expect anything more? Absolutely not. From the user's point of view, this is the absolute best way for the OS to deal with this problem.
What makes you think a user should know or care about the significance of mounting a disk? The high-level user should not be burdened with this low-level OS-level concept. Short of changing the error message to "you unplugged an IDE hard drive while the computer is on - you're not supposed to do that", I can't think of an improvement on the way windows handled this.
That's not really the most important part of an IDE for most people. Things like code refactoring, auto-completion and hints, integration with documentation and source control and general text editing capabilities are probably higher on people's IDE wish list. Besides, the compiler is a part that can be changed if required.
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Not an exaggeration: companies dumped toxic stuff into rivers right until the law forced them to stop.
Past tense? Maybe in the USA. I was in Mexico over christmas and you should smell what Bayer put into the river in Toluca. Assholes.
We have fluoride in our water now, so the yellow teeth thing doesn't hold anymore. Besides, I've seen plenty of hicks with brown fangs.
heh, I thought they used euros in the uk...
Last time I checked, we were still using our own currency. I guess you haven't been over here recently!
heh, I thought they used euros in the uk...
Last time I checked, we were still using our own currency. I guess you haven't been over here recently.
..it probably is.
.. nobody has ever produced such a leap in performance in one go and certainly not at a low price.
Indeed. From The Article:
We have never seen a leap in performance like this before and I don't expect we'll ever see one again..
Cell is going to turn the industry upside down
With this encouragement, I'll bet the fanboys are foaming at the mouth already, just like when Apple announced the fastest PC in the world.
Newsflash: ALL patents are algorithms
Newsflash: no they're not. Amazon patented "one click ordering" - does that sound like an algorithm to you? Does it? Huh?
20% of time, that's one day per week. It would make more sense than a few days at the end of each month, since you would forget what you were doing three weeks before! My (UK) employer gives me Friday afternoon to work on personal stuff. It's only 10 percent but it's a start. How do you keep your real project from impacting it? If there is a tight deadline, I ignore my personal work and do work work. At what point are the projects reviewed? My personal work doesn't get reviewed (it's personal - duh) but I can give a "show and tell" on it any time. This guy seems to be finding it so hard to imagine how this can work.. It's quite simple really, once you realise that cracking the whip only breeds resentment.
Undefined behaviour is undefined behaviour.
You have already established that point in your previous post - there is really no need to keep making the same point.
Exactly, no-one in their right mind would write code like this, but some exams would expect you to know the answer. A more enlightened exam perhaps would not ask questions like this since there are undoubtedly better ways to to test a programmer's knowledge and aptitude.
Incidentally, the answer in the case of Java, Perl and Javascript is 0. Gnu C and MS VC++ give 1.
Sorry to reply to my own post, but it turns out Java behaves like most other languages and C and C++ behave differently (in C and C++ the answer would be 1).
What is the value of i now? (Hint: it's not 1)
It seems Java behaves differently from other languages in this respect.
You people should start building proper houses of steel reinforced concrete...
They do in Mexico.
I don't know what my neices are doing
Filesharing, song lyrics, ringtones and such. Sites of these types tend to offer spyware and from what I've seen of teenagers using computers, they tend to click "yes" rather than read what is being offered in a skeptical manner.
The problem is getting there to be MORE columns when the user has a very wide window, and FEWER columns when the user has a very narrow window.
I wouldn't agree that it is necessary to change the number of columns in your layout, and I have never seen this kind of layout used. I'm not sure how you arrived at this assumption, but I guess that you don't like the idea of columns changing their width. To get around this, you could use a fixed width layout (e.g. a list apart), using a fixed number of columns (say, 3). Fixing just the width is definitely more acceptable than fixing the width and the height, which IMHO falls a long way short of ideal.
How do you suggest I make the columns in pure XHTML/CSS?
You can create columns in a CSS based layout using a combination of float and margin:
http://glish.com/css/9.asp
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fauxcolumns/
Have a look at CSS Zen Garden for more design ideas. I think you'll find CSS and XHTML are quite flexible enough to do what you need to do.
In graphic design (including web) clear white space is a powerful tool... Space and silence is good. Don't just fill it up just because it's there.
.. it stuck in my mind for some reason and seems relevant now.
When you're ready to come back down to earth, I once read something about web designers are always trying to shoehorn print design into web design
Designing a web page to fit in a fixed area is like designing for a piece of paper. What's the point of having different monitor resoltions, scrollbars and "fluid" layouts if you're just going to shove it in a fixed-sized box that sits in the middle of my 1600x1200 monitor, making me squint to see it? Ludicrous.
Again-- please grow up and realize that there are hostiles in the world, and it is a constant struggle to stay ahead.
Look mate, your country may be a beacon of hope and glory from where you're standing, but for those on the outside that ain't exactly the case. Realise that.
Here's a solution - keep your living standards at the same level as a college graduate for your whole life. That way, you'll never be disappointed.
We have American english, Brittish english, Australian english and slashdot english.
Damn those Brittish with their bowler hats and umbrellas.
What if a user has an open file, and yanks the drive? How does Windows "gracefully" deal with that? Answer: it can't.
Get off the "Mac is better" thing already. I unplugged an IDE hard drive from windows while it was trying to write a large file and I got a dialog with a red X and a message along the lines of "IO error". Could I expect anything more? Absolutely not. From the user's point of view, this is the absolute best way for the OS to deal with this problem.
What makes you think a user should know or care about the significance of mounting a disk? The high-level user should not be burdened with this low-level OS-level concept. Short of changing the error message to "you unplugged an IDE hard drive while the computer is on - you're not supposed to do that", I can't think of an improvement on the way windows handled this.
the code generation sucks
That's not really the most important part of an IDE for most people. Things like code refactoring, auto-completion and hints, integration with documentation and source control and general text editing capabilities are probably higher on people's IDE wish list. Besides, the compiler is a part that can be changed if required.
Nonetheless, when the pipes freeze or a toilet clogs, he, without fail, always calls someone else to do it.
Your point being that highly skilled and sucessful people get paid well and can afford to pay other people to do crap jobs, right?
it's either a windows user, or one of the guys from Disney
Or maybe a Gimp user that knows how to use a hex editor.
he point was to explain to the moderators that it was a joke
One would think that people would know the difference between a joke and a bona-fide troll.
Most people can when something is meant to be funny, but it apparently some people have no sense of humour and need to be told.