Obviously a scare-term that imbeciles have made up on the spot to 'justify' cracking down on protests & activists who don't cheer about rampant corruption between the government and the financial sector.
The term is often used in reference to the exact opposite groups, as well. For instance, the Tea Party (who don't necessarily support a crackdown like this) were called an astroturf movement. Generally any case in which a conspiracy theory can be put forward in order to discredit the group is an astroturf movement.
I think exceptions should be used at a reasonable point where the application cannot utilize the given parameters to continue.
For instance, Null argument exceptions. Your code should be written to assume that the arguments presented to it fit within the functional parameters of the code. An Exception should be thrown if it's determined they are not.
Another: SQL connection exceptions and other Network Exceptions. Your code should be written to assume that these resources are available. If they are not, that is a valid exception case.
Note I'm not saying the exception should crash the program. You catch it, report it, log it, move on.
Source: Years as a development consultant. If you've ever been to a hospital or even a walk-in clinic, chances are your MR and even your payment are a record in more than one of my client's databases.
"The guy should be fired"
Further proof you cannot please everyone 100% of the time. Boneheaded, yes, dangerous, too. But it worked, didn't it? And now Peak10 gets all kinds of free publicity. The guy deserves recognition.
Those padawans better learn quick how to build their own light sabers when the hillbilly fundamentalists mass at the gates with pitchforks in hand.
Yup. Having been born and raised in Nashville, I clicked on this link and immediately started scanning for the "urhyyuck, It's in Tennessee" comment. Didn't have to look too far. I suppose you call every state in the central and mountain time zones "flyover country" too.
I love this. Especially the constants for left_wall_representation and right_wall_representation.
If this were dot net and the kind of stuff I have to work in often, it would have to pull the random values from a WCF service.
There's a book about this? It looks like it just randomly prints either a forward slash or a backslash. The fact it appears to be a maze is just an artifact of the monospaced type. Am I missing something here?
That's a true statement. Let me clarify, when I say "led by God" what I intended to convey was "facilitated by God" meaning I believe that He created the universe and rules which allowed evolution to occur.
Most educated christians and muslims and Jews have no problem with evolution, despite the stereotypes thrown about on slashdot by people obsessed with a certain minority. While establishing his theory of evolution, and for many years after Charles Darwni himself continued to be a practicing Christian
As an "educated" Christian myself who believes in Evolution led by God, I used to think exactly what the parent says here.
Unfortunately, that statement is just not true. 46% of adult Americans believe that humans were created by God in their present form, less than 10,000 years ago. I was very troubled when I saw that. As for those who hold my belief, 32%.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/155003/hold-creationist-view-human-origins.aspx
I'll take your word on the accuracy of barometer readings as I don't know much about the science there. But I can add that I believe this to be a fact with pretty much any crowd-sourced data. Your algorithms will have to allow for these sorts of things, and you are sacrificing an exact single reading for an approximation based upon multiple slightly inaccurate readings.
Sad, I didn't even know they had sold. I used OnLive's service for a few months and enjoyed it. Only quit due to changes in my personal budget. I wonder if the "spectate" mode is what took them down, where people could watch others play for free? Looks like Twitch has filled that spot.
I dont get it. In the "cards" section, a lot of them have had their text "hacked" to read something that benefits the machine. Since the cards have changed, this should be titled "Game with rules like MTG but using cards specific to my needs is Turing complete"
Unless "hacked" is some new term in this game that's been dramatically altered since I played in HS.
I'll come from the other angle. I'm a consultant developer full-time.
In order to be successful, don't keep the guys at arm's-length. Yes, they will need access to core libraries, and anything else that will make their project successful. You will need to put in place adequate agreements to protect your IP, however.
Set milestones for them to reach, and have regular (but not overwhelming, once a week should do) contact with the developer to discuss their progress.
Verify they will be using technologies that you are comfortable with.
The consultant knows better their own work-pace than you do. Allow them some leeway to set their own development schedule, making sure that it fits in with your ultimate deadline.
Often, you will not be their only client. It's tough as a consultant to make everyone feel special. I often have 3-5 projects I'm juggling at a time. Of course, you will need to get the warm and fuzzies that they are devoting adequate time to your project, but try to get a feel for their existing workload as well before moving forward with them.
Just my two cents.
My experience has been very different. I've emailed one of senator's (in this case Bob Corker) office twice in the past. I did receive back the auto-response as you say.
In the first case, I was asking him not to support an internet tax of some kind that was cropping up. In the second case, I was asking him why he did not support the DREAM Act which I felt was a good idea.
However, in both instances, I received back an email a week or two later answering what I was asking for. I have no idea if it came from him directly or a staff member, and in at least one case I didn't like the response, but at least I got an answer.
Do-nothing's? I'd agree it would be nice to receive a higher payout instead of the lawyers taking it all, but did all of the respondants appear, formulate their cases, argue the points of their cases, and defend their positions in front of the court? Sometimes the lawyers are the "do-alls."
IANAL
I think some people are missing the mark on the taxes issue. Some people (myself being one of them) are simply not interested in raising government revenue. We want less government, less taxes, less handouts. For that belief, we are derided as bigoted, racist, and downright stupid, when it has nothing to do with race.
That's my 2 cents.
Thank you. I came here to say just that. It's more than a "slight problem" also, as to me it represents the complete misunderstanding of the issue at hand. It's not that those "evil GOP want to take over your internetz" as is usually framed. It's that "those evil GOP want lawmakers to make the laws and not more FCC decrees."
That's not to say they're for or against it, IMO. They want to stop un-elected bodies from making judgements such as this. While I am for net neutrality, Obama should call this for what it is instead of using a populist tactic to fool people into thinking he's looking out for their good. I do not support beurocrats making up laws we all have to abide by.
I'm a conservative and I think net neutrality is a FANTASTIC idea. I called into a conservative radio talk show that I listen to a lot (Phil Valentine) and tried to explain to him that it is something we need to protect freedom on the internet. He kept saying that "the market will decide" and while I typically agree with him on that, in this case it can't be left to the market since the big telecoms have so much control. They can easily collude on this matter and block content they don't want on their pipes, and I feel that is wrong.
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Obviously a scare-term that imbeciles have made up on the spot to 'justify' cracking down on protests & activists who don't cheer about rampant corruption between the government and the financial sector.
The term is often used in reference to the exact opposite groups, as well. For instance, the Tea Party (who don't necessarily support a crackdown like this) were called an astroturf movement. Generally any case in which a conspiracy theory can be put forward in order to discredit the group is an astroturf movement.
I think exceptions should be used at a reasonable point where the application cannot utilize the given parameters to continue.
For instance, Null argument exceptions. Your code should be written to assume that the arguments presented to it fit within the functional parameters of the code. An Exception should be thrown if it's determined they are not.
Another: SQL connection exceptions and other Network Exceptions. Your code should be written to assume that these resources are available. If they are not, that is a valid exception case.
Note I'm not saying the exception should crash the program. You catch it, report it, log it, move on.
Source: Years as a development consultant. If you've ever been to a hospital or even a walk-in clinic, chances are your MR and even your payment are a record in more than one of my client's databases.
My mistake, Peer1. Peak10 is a company here in my town :)
"The guy should be fired" Further proof you cannot please everyone 100% of the time. Boneheaded, yes, dangerous, too. But it worked, didn't it? And now Peak10 gets all kinds of free publicity. The guy deserves recognition.
Those padawans better learn quick how to build their own light sabers when the hillbilly fundamentalists mass at the gates with pitchforks in hand.
Yup. Having been born and raised in Nashville, I clicked on this link and immediately started scanning for the "urhyyuck, It's in Tennessee" comment. Didn't have to look too far. I suppose you call every state in the central and mountain time zones "flyover country" too.
I love this. Especially the constants for left_wall_representation and right_wall_representation. If this were dot net and the kind of stuff I have to work in often, it would have to pull the random values from a WCF service.
There's a book about this? It looks like it just randomly prints either a forward slash or a backslash. The fact it appears to be a maze is just an artifact of the monospaced type. Am I missing something here?
That's a true statement. Let me clarify, when I say "led by God" what I intended to convey was "facilitated by God" meaning I believe that He created the universe and rules which allowed evolution to occur.
Why would you think that would surprise me? Does it surprise you that this thread is titled "U.S. Christians and muslims and jews -not issue" ?
Most educated christians and muslims and Jews have no problem with evolution, despite the stereotypes thrown about on slashdot by people obsessed with a certain minority. While establishing his theory of evolution, and for many years after Charles Darwni himself continued to be a practicing Christian
As an "educated" Christian myself who believes in Evolution led by God, I used to think exactly what the parent says here. Unfortunately, that statement is just not true. 46% of adult Americans believe that humans were created by God in their present form, less than 10,000 years ago. I was very troubled when I saw that. As for those who hold my belief, 32%. http://www.gallup.com/poll/155003/hold-creationist-view-human-origins.aspx
I'll take your word on the accuracy of barometer readings as I don't know much about the science there. But I can add that I believe this to be a fact with pretty much any crowd-sourced data. Your algorithms will have to allow for these sorts of things, and you are sacrificing an exact single reading for an approximation based upon multiple slightly inaccurate readings.
Bitter much? Get fired or something?
A worth cause, but it's getting to be that whenever Bill Nye passes gas it's a story.
I remember reading it when I was a kid
Sad, I didn't even know they had sold. I used OnLive's service for a few months and enjoyed it. Only quit due to changes in my personal budget. I wonder if the "spectate" mode is what took them down, where people could watch others play for free? Looks like Twitch has filled that spot.
m$ m$ m$ ... apple ($?) CRAP no good place to put it.
I dont get it. In the "cards" section, a lot of them have had their text "hacked" to read something that benefits the machine. Since the cards have changed, this should be titled "Game with rules like MTG but using cards specific to my needs is Turing complete" Unless "hacked" is some new term in this game that's been dramatically altered since I played in HS.
I'll come from the other angle. I'm a consultant developer full-time. In order to be successful, don't keep the guys at arm's-length. Yes, they will need access to core libraries, and anything else that will make their project successful. You will need to put in place adequate agreements to protect your IP, however. Set milestones for them to reach, and have regular (but not overwhelming, once a week should do) contact with the developer to discuss their progress. Verify they will be using technologies that you are comfortable with. The consultant knows better their own work-pace than you do. Allow them some leeway to set their own development schedule, making sure that it fits in with your ultimate deadline. Often, you will not be their only client. It's tough as a consultant to make everyone feel special. I often have 3-5 projects I'm juggling at a time. Of course, you will need to get the warm and fuzzies that they are devoting adequate time to your project, but try to get a feel for their existing workload as well before moving forward with them. Just my two cents.
My experience has been very different. I've emailed one of senator's (in this case Bob Corker) office twice in the past. I did receive back the auto-response as you say. In the first case, I was asking him not to support an internet tax of some kind that was cropping up. In the second case, I was asking him why he did not support the DREAM Act which I felt was a good idea. However, in both instances, I received back an email a week or two later answering what I was asking for. I have no idea if it came from him directly or a staff member, and in at least one case I didn't like the response, but at least I got an answer.
Do-nothing's? I'd agree it would be nice to receive a higher payout instead of the lawyers taking it all, but did all of the respondants appear, formulate their cases, argue the points of their cases, and defend their positions in front of the court? Sometimes the lawyers are the "do-alls." IANAL
I'd mod up if I knew how.
I think some people are missing the mark on the taxes issue. Some people (myself being one of them) are simply not interested in raising government revenue. We want less government, less taxes, less handouts. For that belief, we are derided as bigoted, racist, and downright stupid, when it has nothing to do with race. That's my 2 cents.
Thank you. I came here to say just that. It's more than a "slight problem" also, as to me it represents the complete misunderstanding of the issue at hand. It's not that those "evil GOP want to take over your internetz" as is usually framed. It's that "those evil GOP want lawmakers to make the laws and not more FCC decrees." That's not to say they're for or against it, IMO. They want to stop un-elected bodies from making judgements such as this. While I am for net neutrality, Obama should call this for what it is instead of using a populist tactic to fool people into thinking he's looking out for their good. I do not support beurocrats making up laws we all have to abide by.
I signed in (something I do rarely these days) to say MOD THIS POST UP. If I knew how to, as I very rarely use slashdot comments, I would :)
I'm a conservative and I think net neutrality is a FANTASTIC idea. I called into a conservative radio talk show that I listen to a lot (Phil Valentine) and tried to explain to him that it is something we need to protect freedom on the internet. He kept saying that "the market will decide" and while I typically agree with him on that, in this case it can't be left to the market since the big telecoms have so much control. They can easily collude on this matter and block content they don't want on their pipes, and I feel that is wrong.