The opening scene of Super Troopers was available on the internet. Is that what you were thinking of?
Interestingly, I saw the first scene with my cousin and I didn't find it very funny. Several years later I saw the whole movie and I loved it. So this strategy can backfire, too.
How many hours per day will your brain allow you to be functional at a given task?
I agree with your sentiment, but in my experience there's often useful things to be done at work even when my brain isn't working terribly well. Things like a little variable renaming, to add prefixes to struct members so they can be grepped, or code refactoring aren't nearly as hard as solving problems, but they make the future work go more quickly.
For example, on AIX on POWER, page 0 in both real and virtual addressing modes is readable by all and writable by none. So a read from a NULL pointer produces junk data (actually interrupt machine code) and a write is fatal.
I want to know the total storage. These are data centers, and all they are reporting on is the physical size of the building and the power needed. How much data can they store with that space/power? Which is the most efficient in its use of space or electricity per terabyte?
In a programming contest memory leaks and such are meaningless. In fact, algorithmic complexity is also nearly meaningless. O(n^3) solutions that you can code in 5 minutes win over the O(n lg n) solution that takes an hour to code up.
It's not much of a leap to determine religion, politics, sexual orientation or various other things that people don't fully consider
I'm not sure I believe this (I haven't read TFA yet). While I think you could infer where I grew up and went to High School from my friends list, I think you'd have a very hard time with my political orientation, sexual orientation, or religion, since my Facebook friends (like my real-life friends) come from a diverse set of backgrounds.
It's not surprising people in college mostly know other people in college from about the same year as them and possibly the same major. Someone in their 30s presumably has a more diverse set of friends.
While RU-486 terminates a pregnancy, it only does so during the early weeks, before the embryo becomes implanted in the uterus. At that time of gestation, the spontaneous abortion rate (i.e. miscarriage) is 33% to 50% -- we don't really know the number exactly because that early in a pregnancy many women don't realize they are pregnant.
Welcome back to the world before antibiotics were discovered.
However, a few decades of not using antibiotics at all and the bacteria around the world will again mostly be susceptible to the more common, low-risk ones. The mutations that make for antibiotic resistance have negative effects on bacteria's ability to reproduce... except in an environment with significant antibiotic use.
The east half of Seattle (Redmond and neighboring) can get Verizon FiOS, but over here in Ballard and other parts on the West side there's nothing faster than Comcast. *Someone* building out infrastructure would be nice.
Or do like at my current workplace: put a keg of beer in the cafeteria. Friday starting at 4 is beer and chips time. But sometimes you just need a beer on Tuesday after a hard day...
I got $64k starting salary at IBM with an MS in CS, working on the AIX kernel, in March 2001. But I think a lot would depend on what you call a "programming" job; I've always had a title involving "Software Engineer".
I had one at IBM when I started in 2001, but by the time I left in 2008 they had phased them out for new employees in favor of an improved 401K plan. (Employees kept the pension plan that was in effect when they started... except for the change to a "cash balance" plan in the late 90s that they got sued over by employees a little too young to stay on the really old pension plan).
I suspect NASA still has a pension plan, but there you're working for the government.
This sounds like the "director's redo" of Highlander 2, where the aliens became a time-travel plot. Or vice-versa, I can't remember which. The movie was better but still crap.
Whereas I will switch from FF unless I find something wrong that hasn't shown yet. The only thing I see wrong at the moment is that the "change fonts" preference is greyed out on Mac, and I want a bigger default font size. command+'+' will work for now, though.
Hmm/. shows another annoyance: the "I'm waiting" cursor is kinda ugly.
In this respect, I think "clarity" is improved much more by using constructs from mathematics than from "english".
Yes, which is why properly written legal documents are so annoying to read. Note that it is possible to write simpler legalese than most examples you'll see, but in order to cover the many possibilities it always reads rather poorly in English.
When dealing with English you sometimes have to be careful about what the definition of "is" is.
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From TFS: "They also tended to show less interest in articles about older people, whether negative or positive."
So ... even old people don't like or care about old people?
My driver's license doesn't have my middle name printed on it, just the initial.
What OS is this for? My Chrome still shows http/https on Linux and Mac.
When I was a TA for a 200-series CS class at Ohio State
Offtopic: when was this? I was a student grader for several classes at OSU from 1996-1998.
Cheers,
matthew (BS CSE 1998)
The opening scene of Super Troopers was available on the internet. Is that what you were thinking of?
Interestingly, I saw the first scene with my cousin and I didn't find it very funny. Several years later I saw the whole movie and I loved it. So this strategy can backfire, too.
How many hours per day will your brain allow you to be functional at a given task?
I agree with your sentiment, but in my experience there's often useful things to be done at work even when my brain isn't working terribly well. Things like a little variable renaming, to add prefixes to struct members so they can be grepped, or code refactoring aren't nearly as hard as solving problems, but they make the future work go more quickly.
This is very OS dependent.
For example, on AIX on POWER, page 0 in both real and virtual addressing modes is readable by all and writable by none. So a read from a NULL pointer produces junk data (actually interrupt machine code) and a write is fatal.
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It's called singular they, and its usage is debated. Shakespeare and Jane Austin can't be that wrong.
I want to know the total storage. These are data centers, and all they are reporting on is the physical size of the building and the power needed. How much data can they store with that space/power? Which is the most efficient in its use of space or electricity per terabyte?
I click on the ads that have hot chicks in tight geek-themed t-shirts.
but this approach requires a rewrite to make it usable
A rewrite of part of libc, yes. Change the implementation of malloc(3) and link with -lpthread and you're pretty much done.
I don't see how spinning off malloc(3) calls would help anything, but if there's unused CPUs then clearly free(3) can be done by another thread.
In a programming contest memory leaks and such are meaningless. In fact, algorithmic complexity is also nearly meaningless. O(n^3) solutions that you can code in 5 minutes win over the O(n lg n) solution that takes an hour to code up.
It's not much of a leap to determine religion, politics, sexual orientation or various other things that people don't fully consider
I'm not sure I believe this (I haven't read TFA yet). While I think you could infer where I grew up and went to High School from my friends list, I think you'd have a very hard time with my political orientation, sexual orientation, or religion, since my Facebook friends (like my real-life friends) come from a diverse set of backgrounds.
It's not surprising people in college mostly know other people in college from about the same year as them and possibly the same major. Someone in their 30s presumably has a more diverse set of friends.
While RU-486 terminates a pregnancy, it only does so during the early weeks, before the embryo becomes implanted in the uterus. At that time of gestation, the spontaneous abortion rate (i.e. miscarriage) is 33% to 50% -- we don't really know the number exactly because that early in a pregnancy many women don't realize they are pregnant.
Welcome back to the world before antibiotics were discovered.
However, a few decades of not using antibiotics at all and the bacteria around the world will again mostly be susceptible to the more common, low-risk ones. The mutations that make for antibiotic resistance have negative effects on bacteria's ability to reproduce... except in an environment with significant antibiotic use.
The east half of Seattle (Redmond and neighboring) can get Verizon FiOS, but over here in Ballard and other parts on the West side there's nothing faster than Comcast. *Someone* building out infrastructure would be nice.
I never timed it around V-day, but my wife thinks getting pregnant is romantic. :-)
Or do like at my current workplace: put a keg of beer in the cafeteria. Friday starting at 4 is beer and chips time. But sometimes you just need a beer on Tuesday after a hard day...
I got $64k starting salary at IBM with an MS in CS, working on the AIX kernel, in March 2001. But I think a lot would depend on what you call a "programming" job; I've always had a title involving "Software Engineer".
and 8 spaces is just too wide for most programming.
Tell that to the FreeBSD foundation. Or the bulk of the kernel developers for AIX. Both places use 8 space tabs in style(9).
I had one at IBM when I started in 2001, but by the time I left in 2008 they had phased them out for new employees in favor of an improved 401K plan. (Employees kept the pension plan that was in effect when they started... except for the change to a "cash balance" plan in the late 90s that they got sued over by employees a little too young to stay on the really old pension plan).
I suspect NASA still has a pension plan, but there you're working for the government.
This sounds like the "director's redo" of Highlander 2, where the aliens became a time-travel plot. Or vice-versa, I can't remember which. The movie was better but still crap.
Whereas I will switch from FF unless I find something wrong that hasn't shown yet. The only thing I see wrong at the moment is that the "change fonts" preference is greyed out on Mac, and I want a bigger default font size. command+'+' will work for now, though.
Hmm /. shows another annoyance: the "I'm waiting" cursor is kinda ugly.
In this respect, I think "clarity" is improved much more by using constructs from mathematics than from "english".
Yes, which is why properly written legal documents are so annoying to read. Note that it is possible to write simpler legalese than most examples you'll see, but in order to cover the many possibilities it always reads rather poorly in English.
When dealing with English you sometimes have to be careful about what the definition of "is" is.