Most of the rural population are very "careful" with gadgets. And I know this because I am from India. They keep it covered and protected like a redneck taking care of his car (pun intented). Thus the device is not used as intented.
Okay, I read this four times, and you might have intended a pun, but you neglected to include one. A joke perhaps. A touch of sarcasm maybe. But no puns.
She is a paralegal working for some number of years in an area where 90% of the jobs are tied to IBM in some way.
Westchester exceeds 1 million people. Getting 90% of that work force would be pretty impressive.
New York in and around NYC is very densely populated (and nothing quite emphasizes that like trying to cross the Tappan Zee on a Sunday night). There is no single employer who can claim anything remotely close to 90% in that area.
I've had to bail to HiJack this exactly once. All other times the AA/S&D combo took care of things. Don't remember the name of the critter, but it might well have slipped under the radar except for the fact that it insisted on setting the IE homepage every time you opened IE. It was very unobtrusive otherwise (at least, in ways that I could notice).
I speed a fair amount, and I've been in three accidents. One was just bad luck, one was my fault, and one was the other guy's fault (I got rear-ended at a stop sign). Oddly, all of the accidents occurred at low speeds. My golden rule of driving has always been "Don't surprise the other drivers."
It's not just professors. It's experienced programmers too. Whenever we interview a candidate, they have to code a relatively simple 'C' program -- read a pipe-delimited file and produce pretty output. Once they've finished their code, it gets passed to me for review. We had a recent candidate who started off like this:
void main(ARGV, ARGC)
as his opening line. Despite the obvious problems already, I wasn't that concerned about it. I am usually much more interested in how they solve the problem than anything else, so syntactic goofs are no big deal. As I scanned along I found this line:
start:
and I said to myself, "That had better not be a label for a goto". I turned two pages and sure enough found:
goto start;
At which point I handed it back to our interviewer and just showed him what I had hit with the highlighter. He was not offered a position.
If you can't match braces, don't write code. It's not difficult, and adding gotos does NOT add readability.
I agreed with you at first, but better than deleting it is simply setting time limits. My 4 year old loves playing on the computer, but less than a week after she started (the trigger for us was that she got so engrossed in playing, she didn't want to stop to go to the bathroom and wet her pants in the computer chair), we imposed a no more than twice a day, no more than 1/2 an hour at a time limit on her computer usage. She screamed and yelled the first few times, but when you're consistant sooner or later they accept it.
While you don't necessarily need to reason with 4 and 5 year old kids (they have the most peculiar grasp on logic sometimes), you do need to give them a reason for the change. It helps them to know what it is that Mommy and Daddy don't approve of.
It helps that if you use distro A, and I use distro B, and I write some software on my distro, we already know that it'll work on yours if they're both certified.
I don't know what version of windows you're on, but I typically use cd doc* or prog* for 'documents and settings' or 'program files' I always hated typing the ~
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I go nuts whenever I have to use a keyboard where the | is not on the right, above enter and below backspace.
I've never seen ~ anywhere but upper left, above TAB, left of 1, and below ESC. Where else do they put it?
But what if it's off by 3 hours and 15 minutes?
Do I get points for spotting the paraphrased dogma reference?
Most of the rural population are very "careful" with gadgets. And I know this because I am from India. They keep it covered and protected like a redneck taking care of his car (pun intented). Thus the device is not used as intented.
Okay, I read this four times, and you might have intended a pun, but you neglected to include one. A joke perhaps. A touch of sarcasm maybe. But no puns.
She is a paralegal working for some number of years in an area where 90% of the jobs are tied to IBM in some way.
Westchester exceeds 1 million people. Getting 90% of that work force would be pretty impressive.
New York in and around NYC is very densely populated (and nothing quite emphasizes that like trying to cross the Tappan Zee on a Sunday night). There is no single employer who can claim anything remotely close to 90% in that area.
If he's just looking for the credit, it seems an odd tactic to can the book...
I've had to bail to HiJack this exactly once. All other times the AA/S&D combo took care of things. Don't remember the name of the critter, but it might well have slipped under the radar except for the fact that it insisted on setting the IE homepage every time you opened IE. It was very unobtrusive otherwise (at least, in ways that I could notice).
You mean you've never heard of the dreaded fearsome Tiger-Dog?
I speed a fair amount, and I've been in three accidents. One was just bad luck, one was my fault, and one was the other guy's fault (I got rear-ended at a stop sign). Oddly, all of the accidents occurred at low speeds. My golden rule of driving has always been "Don't surprise the other drivers."
I call that position "Apatheism", as in I don't care if there's a god.
knee-biter.
Can't say why anyone thought that was somehow more American than 'asshole'.
No one will ever read this except maybe a meta-mod, but I agree with the guy who modded me 'overrated'. There's no way that's a +5 comment.
Whatever happened to "every hole has a peice to fit it, some peices require different tasks to get them. Some require money, others require some code"
There's tons of people with that attitude, it's just that they're the ones who don't feel a need to scream about it.
You could get by with fewer if you use fertility meds.
Though perhaps 12 is the number with redundancy built into the system.
Damn I'm a sick bastard too.
It's not jealousy. I can and I have traced through code laced with gotos. I've written it when forced (DOS batch scripts).
I can and will give grief to those who use them in C or any other structured language where the legit uses are few and far between.
Incidentally, what is this:
Not everyone needs braces, in Real Life or in programming
supposed to mean? Reference to orthodontists?
It's not just professors. It's experienced programmers too. Whenever we interview a candidate, they have to code a relatively simple 'C' program -- read a pipe-delimited file and produce pretty output. Once they've finished their code, it gets passed to me for review. We had a recent candidate who started off like this:
void main(ARGV, ARGC)
as his opening line. Despite the obvious problems already, I wasn't that concerned about it. I am usually much more interested in how they solve the problem than anything else, so syntactic goofs are no big deal. As I scanned along I found this line:
start:
and I said to myself, "That had better not be a label for a goto". I turned two pages and sure enough found:
goto start;
At which point I handed it back to our interviewer and just showed him what I had hit with the highlighter. He was not offered a position.
If you can't match braces, don't write code. It's not difficult, and adding gotos does NOT add readability.
Oh. I hadn't realized you were volunteering :)
I agreed with you at first, but better than deleting it is simply setting time limits. My 4 year old loves playing on the computer, but less than a week after she started (the trigger for us was that she got so engrossed in playing, she didn't want to stop to go to the bathroom and wet her pants in the computer chair), we imposed a no more than twice a day, no more than 1/2 an hour at a time limit on her computer usage. She screamed and yelled the first few times, but when you're consistant sooner or later they accept it.
While you don't necessarily need to reason with 4 and 5 year old kids (they have the most peculiar grasp on logic sometimes), you do need to give them a reason for the change. It helps them to know what it is that Mommy and Daddy don't approve of.
Umm..... as opposed to you hibernating the bear????
I think you need to put a '*' next to the Oracle manual too.
It helps that if you use distro A, and I use distro B, and I write some software on my distro, we already know that it'll work on yours if they're both certified.
I was always more into Mortal Kombat than street fighter, and quake more than half life. The rest are dead on.
Add to that
Sports: Tecmo Bowl.
RPG: Dragon Warrior (The whole series)
I don't know what version of windows you're on, but I typically use cd doc* or prog* for 'documents and settings' or 'program files' I always hated typing the ~
But at least 'Repect' makes sense.
Quid festinatio swallonis est aetherfuga inonusti?
Africus aut Europaeus?
Is that Holy Grail translated to Latin?