Actually, I really think study of martial arts, even in just the few months that I have been back into it (I studied many years ago as a teenager for a year or so), has been very instructive at developing self discipline, which is another way of saying the same things, to my mind.
When I read that, I just automatically assumed "half of 9-19 year old boys". Not that it says that, but it just didn't occur to me that they might have meant anything else until I read your comment. Amazing the effects that pr0n has on your cognitive process...
Someone crunched the numbers (I hope they did that at least) and found out it was less expensive to create whole new area codes and exchanges than to fix the existing ones.
My guess is that it ran something like that, except, that the Telcos crunched the numbers and then lobbied for whole new area codes.
BTW (random trivia), most estimates I've seen for NYC as a metro area put the total in somewhere around 25M, or 2nd place to Tokyo only. It's basically entirely up to what the estimater decided to include in the area.
914 is Westchester, 516 is Nassau. Both are suburbs, but not technically part of NYC.
I can be reached at home, at work, or on my cell phone. That's 3 numbers, 1 person.
Wait a second. 9 area codes for NYC?
212 347 646 718 917... I'm up to five. What else you got?
But, just as confusing, all 5 boroughs of NYC contain about 8 million people. Unique work and phone gets us to 16 M, or about 2 area codes.
There are generally two definitions of a metro area. One is a strictly political boundary, and one is more of a "city and suburbs".
The site you reference includes a hell of a lot more than the 5 boroughs in its definition. The notes section says "includes Newark and Patterson" which are in New Jersey.
The idea in this case isn't so much the time involved as the number of lines of code.
The analogy to the furnace repairman was more of how much observable work went on and the end result. He may still have spent an hour or whatever sounds appropriate looking at the furnace before deciding where to whack it. But a single hammer whack fixed the problem, in much the same way that a change to a single line of code can sometimes fix a bug. What might be difficult, depending on how well your boss understands your work, is explaing why you worked on a bug fix for 3 days and only made changes to 10 lines of code. That's where I think the situations are analgous.
It *should* be rare to be able to find and fix a bug in 5 minutes or less. If it's that easy, it should have been caught during development or testing. Granted once in a while you'll have an encounter with real world data that will making you say something like "I didn't know that could happen" and the fix, by sheer luck, is still trivial.
It's kind of like the furnace repair guy story. He came to fix a furnace and gave it a whack with a hammer. The whack worked, and he submitted a bill for $100. When the incredulous homeowner complained at being charged so much for a simple hammer whack, the repair guy noted that the whack cost him only $5 - the additional $95 was for knowing where to hit the furnace.
FWIW, while I don't share your beliefs (I'm more or less non-theistic), I've always been irritated by people who feel the need to be dismissive of those who are religious.
I've only casually looked at the material you've provided, but I intend to read more about it.
Thank you for that list. It's basically my set of reasons (none of those in the article ever counted for me, even when they were true).
I've been meaning to give 8.1 a try, as I recall reading that it in particular makes better use of multiple processors. I did a database comparison about a year ago in efforts to replace our existing legacy database. Both MySQL and PostgreSQL far outshine our existing product in terms of features, so it was very difficult to sell anything other than the faster product to management. It's not a closed book yet.
On the flip side, MySQL 5.0 is much more tolerable than prior versions.
My boss said to me earlier today that he has some of his best ideas in the shower. I replied that I have my best ideas in a different spot in the same room.
I suspected as much, but I long ago gave up navigating their website. Every time I go there for information I come away empty handed.
BTW, my "stuck with" was more from the developer side than the end-user side. I actually think it's a pretty nice tool from the end-user perpsective, but it can be a royal bitch to set up right sometimes.
I don't know the exact details of the deal, but we have pretty much unlimited internal usage for Cognos products, since we're really a reseller channel for them (they play nice with us so that we'll generate more sales for them). So the per-user cost is a non-issue for us, though it does matter to our client base.
I currently use (aka am stuck with) Cognos. While there's pretty much no chance of us replacing Cognos with something else, we've recently also looked BIRT, Actuate (actuate is currently supporting the BIRT project), Oracle, Crystal Reports, and Jasper Reports among other things. They don't really occupy the same market space. There is some conceptual overlap, but Cognos (or at least, what I've used from Cognos) tends to be a snapshot image of data while the various other solutions are more along the lines of on-demand reporting against a potentially volatile database.
I understood that as they couldn't pinpoint exactly how it was done. They could reproduce the experiment, and they could give you instructions along the lines of "Do this and this and this and this etc", but they have no idea which (if any) of those steps you could actually omit, and what interaction is actually happening to cause the high temperature.
Slashdot Mirror
This one is the one you should have had in bold:
.jam for impromptu music and fruit preserves.
There should be an Internet top-level domain
Throw in traffic and we're all set.
Actually, I really think study of martial arts, even in just the few months that I have been back into it (I studied many years ago as a teenager for a year or so), has been very instructive at developing self discipline, which is another way of saying the same things, to my mind.
You dirty karate junkie...
When I read that, I just automatically assumed "half of 9-19 year old boys". Not that it says that, but it just didn't occur to me that they might have meant anything else until I read your comment. Amazing the effects that pr0n has on your cognitive process...
I got a little ways through your post, but then I stopped paying attention because I was bored.
Someone crunched the numbers (I hope they did that at least) and found out it was less expensive to create whole new area codes and exchanges than to fix the existing ones.
My guess is that it ran something like that, except, that the Telcos crunched the numbers and then lobbied for whole new area codes.
BTW (random trivia), most estimates I've seen for NYC as a metro area put the total in somewhere around 25M, or 2nd place to Tokyo only. It's basically entirely up to what the estimater decided to include in the area.
914 is Westchester, 516 is Nassau. Both are suburbs, but not technically part of NYC.
I can be reached at home, at work, or on my cell phone. That's 3 numbers, 1 person.
Wait a second. 9 area codes for NYC?
212 347 646 718 917... I'm up to five. What else you got?
But, just as confusing, all 5 boroughs of NYC contain about 8 million people. Unique work and phone gets us to 16 M, or about 2 area codes.
There are generally two definitions of a metro area. One is a strictly political boundary, and one is more of a "city and suburbs".
The site you reference includes a hell of a lot more than the 5 boroughs in its definition. The notes section says "includes Newark and Patterson" which are in New Jersey.
And the freaky part is that it would have sounded perfectly normal to us.
Gravity is not the same as magnets. If you travel to the southern hemisphere of earth do you get repelled?
Depends on which country I'm visiting. If you turn a joke upside down, is it still funny?
Which side of the balance should be tipping downwards?
Unless they turn it upside down...
5 minutes and one line of code
The idea in this case isn't so much the time involved as the number of lines of code.
The analogy to the furnace repairman was more of how much observable work went on and the end result. He may still have spent an hour or whatever sounds appropriate looking at the furnace before deciding where to whack it. But a single hammer whack fixed the problem, in much the same way that a change to a single line of code can sometimes fix a bug. What might be difficult, depending on how well your boss understands your work, is explaing why you worked on a bug fix for 3 days and only made changes to 10 lines of code. That's where I think the situations are analgous.
It *should* be rare to be able to find and fix a bug in 5 minutes or less. If it's that easy, it should have been caught during development or testing. Granted once in a while you'll have an encounter with real world data that will making you say something like "I didn't know that could happen" and the fix, by sheer luck, is still trivial.
It's kind of like the furnace repair guy story. He came to fix a furnace and gave it a whack with a hammer. The whack worked, and he submitted a bill for $100. When the incredulous homeowner complained at being charged so much for a simple hammer whack, the repair guy noted that the whack cost him only $5 - the additional $95 was for knowing where to hit the furnace.
Same concept applies to coding.
What about when 56k modems were fast enough for everyone.
That would have been when exactly?
FWIW, while I don't share your beliefs (I'm more or less non-theistic), I've always been irritated by people who feel the need to be dismissive of those who are religious.
I've only casually looked at the material you've provided, but I intend to read more about it.
Thank you. That is by far the most lucid response I've heard on the subject.
Now that I've read it, it meant exactly what I thought it would.
Not having followed the link, I had guessed the quote was something more along the lines of separation of church and state.
Towards what you said though, I've always been a bit confused as to how religious Christians pick which parts of the old testament are still valid.
I usually don't bother people much over typos and whatnot, but this one kinda caught my eye:
If your retirement savings and home were used as equilateral
Presumably collateral?
I'd work up something funny based off of what you said, but it just doesn't jive in any way I can think of.
As a nuclear physicist, I've stopped eating poop because...
eating poop makes my stomach turn.
(I'm not a nuclear physicist)
Thank you for that list. It's basically my set of reasons (none of those in the article ever counted for me, even when they were true).
I've been meaning to give 8.1 a try, as I recall reading that it in particular makes better use of multiple processors. I did a database comparison about a year ago in efforts to replace our existing legacy database. Both MySQL and PostgreSQL far outshine our existing product in terms of features, so it was very difficult to sell anything other than the faster product to management. It's not a closed book yet.
On the flip side, MySQL 5.0 is much more tolerable than prior versions.
If I move a little to the left in my bathroom, that would put me in the hallway.
My boss said to me earlier today that he has some of his best ideas in the shower. I replied that I have my best ideas in a different spot in the same room.
Cognos has a whole range of products.
I suspected as much, but I long ago gave up navigating their website. Every time I go there for information I come away empty handed.
BTW, my "stuck with" was more from the developer side than the end-user side. I actually think it's a pretty nice tool from the end-user perpsective, but it can be a royal bitch to set up right sometimes.
I don't know the exact details of the deal, but we have pretty much unlimited internal usage for Cognos products, since we're really a reseller channel for them (they play nice with us so that we'll generate more sales for them). So the per-user cost is a non-issue for us, though it does matter to our client base.
I currently use (aka am stuck with) Cognos. While there's pretty much no chance of us replacing Cognos with something else, we've recently also looked BIRT, Actuate (actuate is currently supporting the BIRT project), Oracle, Crystal Reports, and Jasper Reports among other things. They don't really occupy the same market space. There is some conceptual overlap, but Cognos (or at least, what I've used from Cognos) tends to be a snapshot image of data while the various other solutions are more along the lines of on-demand reporting against a potentially volatile database.
I understood that as they couldn't pinpoint exactly how it was done. They could reproduce the experiment, and they could give you instructions along the lines of "Do this and this and this and this etc", but they have no idea which (if any) of those steps you could actually omit, and what interaction is actually happening to cause the high temperature.