You don't remember what it's like to be 25? ALL young people are that arrogant, and think that their elders are stupid.
No, only those who are or will become politically Leftist think they know everything better. I.e. people with chronic poor judgment. Others of us had the frame of mind at 25 to revere the older devs and their seemingly bottomless depths of knowledge.
There's the problem right there -- the power button is placed near the center console stack. The driver could be reaching, whilst keeping eyes fully on the road, for a vent control to adjust the air blowing on them and accidently hit the button, so they had to add a delay. But this is not a button you're going to be operating a lot while driving, like you do the radio or climate controls. Seems like instead they could've just put it over the steering column and below the gauge cluster. Heck, have it recessed in there so anything placed atop the steering column that slides forward say under sudden braking wouldn't be able to push it in. IIRC even my ancient Atari 800 had plastic tabs the height of the reset button on both sides of it, so you had to aim and push just the button to depress it. Either of these "hi-tech engineering" ideas would've allowed Toyota to eschew the time delay.
The sad thing is that Slashdot is mostly just a place where batshit crazy nuts come to validate the batshit crazy nuttiness of other batshit crazy nuts. Like quizmaster AC above did.
So being batshit crazy nuts becomes a range rather than a point, for connoisseurs of batshit crazy nuttiness to identify and celebrate the nuances of!
Do you get paid to write these? If you haven't already, you could make a template that you could sell to anyone who wanted to try to scare hippies away from moving in to their town. They could just fill in some company names and some landmarks and voila. Just keep constant the greed and religion and militia themes, the pot-head victimization angle, and the xenophobic finale.
zmollusc speakum de truth, at least in programming you're "senior" by the time you have 3-5 years of experience, and after 10 years few will look at you, with the assumption that you're too high-priced. It's basically like being a pop star -- you're struggling now to get noticed, and when you finally do, for a short period of time you'll be in high demand and your income will rise dramatically, but then soon you'll be yesterday's news, assumed no longer hip to the latest trends. So take some comfort that your brief flash of employability and good times will eventually come, because they sure haven't been hiring people like me with 10-15 years this past year. In perceived value, cheap > experienced, in this industry, and that's what you have going for you right now.
Too true -- like the Clash for Clunkers program, this is a redistribution of wealth, only this time it's from the poor (who couldn't afford to buy a new car during a recession, and can't afford a $40K car) to the well-off (who could, and can).
The thought of vaginas popping out at me made me think, like when advertisers discovered that they could selectively colorize parts of an otherwise black&white commercial, to highlight their product, I wouldn't be surprised if commercials will be in 2-D with the box of oatey-o's or whatever suddenly lunging at us.
Very astute. So far the model of entertainment publishers has been to get us to repurchase content we already own but on the next better kind of medium, but pay each time per consumption is the holy grail.
Just an off-topic but slightly amusing observation: I noticed that you are shown as a "Friend of a Friend" w.r.t. me, so being just curious I went to see which user(s) are serving as that link. Wouldn'tcha know, it's someone with the username "Doesn't_Comment_Code"!
The other aspect is, I think it is excellent practice to write comments before you code. This way, you often find flaws in your logic before you write any code, thus saving time.
Or you could just declare your classes and stub out your functions before you code. Then the names of those classes and functions become the comments, and you can find flaws in your logic from those. And it's stuff that you're going to have to write anyways, saving time (over writing it in a different way first, such as in the form of comments).
For example, if you're planning to write a function that does three things, containing three non-trivial blocks of code for doing them, don't write the function signature and then place three comments in the body, to help you go over your plan. Instead place three function calls in the body, with names that convey what you would have commented about.
I'll put my name in as a "comment" and what I need to do next, like:
BILL: STILL HAVE FUNCTION FOO TO FINISH UP BEFORE BAR
But not actually as a language comment, so that I'll get a compile error in case I forget that I left myself a reminder. I've found that my biggest source of bugs is being switched off to something else and returning back to a task and not only forgetting where I left off by file and line number but also in my train of thought.
This is error-prone, tho. Comments do help you to not forget your clever assumptions about a function, but what will help you to not forget to always check the code for every function you call, for such comments?
...from management trying to help out, by providing more management
When all you can do is manage, then providing more management is always helping out!:) Afterall, if coders providing more code makes a bad situation better, then managers providing more management must also!
if their evening is ruined by having to stay and work late, then knowing that your evening is also suffering the same fate, even if you don't achieve much as a result, can help them as a team
It sounds like it might then depend primarily on the political persuasion of the majority of your team. A good litmus test might be to hand out a survey with the single question: "If your taxes were raised, would it make you feel better if someone else's taxes got raised too?" If most of them answer yes, then you should be there, even if you have nothing to do. Otherwise, don't bother.
My last manager would sit in his office with his feet up on the desk and his door open and talk loudly and laugh even louder on the phone for 45 min. to an hour at a time, when we were all working late. Not suggesting that you would do that, but if you have nothing to do, just go home. Leave a dev lead your corporate card or something. It's just an unnecessary irritant when someone, anyone, is there hanging around who has no work to do, when you have too much to do.
And that's one of the big moral and/or political, depending on how you look at it, battles of our time -- should our social institutions be protected at the expense of people, or vice-versa.
Or at the very least that Google subscribes to the same nannyism that the Left does with their govt. I don't require protection from "dangerous thoughts" -- thanks but I'm a big boy and can effortlessly recognize and dismiss on my own something that is stupid such as the irrationality of racism.
Java was the last gasp of a dying hardware company struggling for relevance. That's why it was oversold. It concomitantly underperformed due to being relatively the pioneer in VM-based C++-like languages, but having aimed too low.
Heh, your "competence" dial is basically a "get them to do what we want" dial. But if we could turn up this dial on govt., we could turn it up on business too. Your religion may permit only believing in this fantasy as a possibility for the former, but businesses, governments, etc. are all organizations of people, and the problem boils down to people not doing what we want, not what organization they occur in. Heck, this time around it wasn't just governmental and business organizations that screwed us, but our individual citizen neighbors did, by their behavior and greed in the housing debacle.
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You don't remember what it's like to be 25? ALL young people are that arrogant, and think that their elders are stupid.
No, only those who are or will become politically Leftist think they know everything better. I.e. people with chronic poor judgment. Others of us had the frame of mind at 25 to revere the older devs and their seemingly bottomless depths of knowledge.
There's the problem right there -- the power button is placed near the center console stack. The driver could be reaching, whilst keeping eyes fully on the road, for a vent control to adjust the air blowing on them and accidently hit the button, so they had to add a delay. But this is not a button you're going to be operating a lot while driving, like you do the radio or climate controls. Seems like instead they could've just put it over the steering column and below the gauge cluster. Heck, have it recessed in there so anything placed atop the steering column that slides forward say under sudden braking wouldn't be able to push it in. IIRC even my ancient Atari 800 had plastic tabs the height of the reset button on both sides of it, so you had to aim and push just the button to depress it. Either of these "hi-tech engineering" ideas would've allowed Toyota to eschew the time delay.
You mean you can't see the brilliance of a preview mode that doesn't match what the real thing will look like? ;)
The sad thing is that Slashdot is mostly just a place where batshit crazy nuts come to validate the batshit crazy nuttiness of other batshit crazy nuts. Like quizmaster AC above did.
So being batshit crazy nuts becomes a range rather than a point, for connoisseurs of batshit crazy nuttiness to identify and celebrate the nuances of!
Do you get paid to write these? If you haven't already, you could make a template that you could sell to anyone who wanted to try to scare hippies away from moving in to their town. They could just fill in some company names and some landmarks and voila. Just keep constant the greed and religion and militia themes, the pot-head victimization angle, and the xenophobic finale.
zmollusc speakum de truth, at least in programming you're "senior" by the time you have 3-5 years of experience, and after 10 years few will look at you, with the assumption that you're too high-priced. It's basically like being a pop star -- you're struggling now to get noticed, and when you finally do, for a short period of time you'll be in high demand and your income will rise dramatically, but then soon you'll be yesterday's news, assumed no longer hip to the latest trends. So take some comfort that your brief flash of employability and good times will eventually come, because they sure haven't been hiring people like me with 10-15 years this past year. In perceived value, cheap > experienced, in this industry, and that's what you have going for you right now.
("s/this time/these times" in my post)
Too true -- like the Clash for Clunkers program, this is a redistribution of wealth, only this time it's from the poor (who couldn't afford to buy a new car during a recession, and can't afford a $40K car) to the well-off (who could, and can).
The thought of vaginas popping out at me made me think, like when advertisers discovered that they could selectively colorize parts of an otherwise black&white commercial, to highlight their product, I wouldn't be surprised if commercials will be in 2-D with the box of oatey-o's or whatever suddenly lunging at us.
The first lineup has been announced, it will feature "Comin' Atcha!" "Think Fast!" and "Look Out, I'm Throwing Things At Your Head!"
Then in the following season we'll all be ready for some high-brow entertainment!
Some even talk: "Oh nooooo... your tire's all flat and junk!" :)
Very astute. So far the model of entertainment publishers has been to get us to repurchase content we already own but on the next better kind of medium, but pay each time per consumption is the holy grail.
Just an off-topic but slightly amusing observation: I noticed that you are shown as a "Friend of a Friend" w.r.t. me, so being just curious I went to see which user(s) are serving as that link. Wouldn'tcha know, it's someone with the username "Doesn't_Comment_Code"!
The other aspect is, I think it is excellent practice to write comments before you code. This way, you often find flaws in your logic before you write any code, thus saving time.
Or you could just declare your classes and stub out your functions before you code. Then the names of those classes and functions become the comments, and you can find flaws in your logic from those. And it's stuff that you're going to have to write anyways, saving time (over writing it in a different way first, such as in the form of comments).
For example, if you're planning to write a function that does three things, containing three non-trivial blocks of code for doing them, don't write the function signature and then place three comments in the body, to help you go over your plan. Instead place three function calls in the body, with names that convey what you would have commented about.
I'll put my name in as a "comment" and what I need to do next, like:
BILL: STILL HAVE FUNCTION FOO TO FINISH UP BEFORE BAR
But not actually as a language comment, so that I'll get a compile error in case I forget that I left myself a reminder. I've found that my biggest source of bugs is being switched off to something else and returning back to a task and not only forgetting where I left off by file and line number but also in my train of thought.
This is error-prone, tho. Comments do help you to not forget your clever assumptions about a function, but what will help you to not forget to always check the code for every function you call, for such comments?
...from management trying to help out, by providing more management
When all you can do is manage, then providing more management is always helping out! :) Afterall, if coders providing more code makes a bad situation better, then managers providing more management must also!
if their evening is ruined by having to stay and work late, then knowing that your evening is also suffering the same fate, even if you don't achieve much as a result, can help them as a team
It sounds like it might then depend primarily on the political persuasion of the majority of your team. A good litmus test might be to hand out a survey with the single question: "If your taxes were raised, would it make you feel better if someone else's taxes got raised too?" If most of them answer yes, then you should be there, even if you have nothing to do. Otherwise, don't bother.
My last manager would sit in his office with his feet up on the desk and his door open and talk loudly and laugh even louder on the phone for 45 min. to an hour at a time, when we were all working late. Not suggesting that you would do that, but if you have nothing to do, just go home. Leave a dev lead your corporate card or something. It's just an unnecessary irritant when someone, anyone, is there hanging around who has no work to do, when you have too much to do.
And that's one of the big moral and/or political, depending on how you look at it, battles of our time -- should our social institutions be protected at the expense of people, or vice-versa.
Evidently the "TOTALLY FUCKING INSANE" perception is a function of distance and not direction.
I agree with you on all your points except your implicit overall one, that nannyism on the Right makes nannyism on the Left less bad.
Or at the very least that Google subscribes to the same nannyism that the Left does with their govt. I don't require protection from "dangerous thoughts" -- thanks but I'm a big boy and can effortlessly recognize and dismiss on my own something that is stupid such as the irrationality of racism.
Java was the last gasp of a dying hardware company struggling for relevance. That's why it was oversold. It concomitantly underperformed due to being relatively the pioneer in VM-based C++-like languages, but having aimed too low.
Heh, your "competence" dial is basically a "get them to do what we want" dial. But if we could turn up this dial on govt., we could turn it up on business too. Your religion may permit only believing in this fantasy as a possibility for the former, but businesses, governments, etc. are all organizations of people, and the problem boils down to people not doing what we want, not what organization they occur in. Heck, this time around it wasn't just governmental and business organizations that screwed us, but our individual citizen neighbors did, by their behavior and greed in the housing debacle.