So without any disclosure of work environment, staffing situations, company needs, or pretty much anything else you arrive at the conclusion that this has to be motivated by some Gartner-powered dimwit. You some kind of fucking psychic? There could be any number of valid reasons for moving to AD. I know it feels good to talk to someone like they are an idiot, but at least try to establish that as being true first.
You had teeth? Dear me, that would have been the easy life. The only reason we had broken spoons was because we had to break the spoon handles and jam them in our gums to make fake teeth. We didn't have any tools to break the spoons with neither, we just screamed obscenities at them until they fell apart. And you say you had it hard when they let you eat the dirt? We had to imagine everything we ate, and even then we were only allowed to eat imaginary rotting mud. We would have killed someone to be able to eat scratched out dirt, but we still loved it!
You young 'uns and your fancy-schmancy "Desktop Publishing" and "print on demand". In my day, we didn't have this ninny-winny "DTP software" with "cookbook templates".
When we wanted to write something, we had to do it all by hand. All we had to write on was a good old-fashioned hillside and our trusty hammer to write it with.
No sirree, none of these childish "publishing packages" for us. We used to trudge up in the hills all day long to find a good spot to scribble on, and we loved it!
You had a hammer? Hah, were you ever lucky. In my day we had to carve our writings into hillsides with a bent spoon that had a broken handle. It did give us two print colors though: red and brown, depending on which end of the broken spoon you held.
We didn't have any hills either. Had to build those ourselves out of belly button lint and earwax, which we stomped down into the flat ground until it was the size of a proper writing hill, and we loved it!
That makes sense for a single player game. In multiplayer you would need something to prevent one asshat or a team of asshats from setting something like this up.
I'm curious how they plan to let you get yourself out of an infinite portal loop like a portal in the floor the drops from the ceiling back into the portal in the floor. etc. unless of course said portals are only good for X number of uses.
If it were up to me the solution would be single-player: You can still access the menus, load from your last save. multi-player: Have a timeout period on multiple uses where you are blocked by the portal's surface instead of going through it.
So your problem with Scheme is that it uses prefix notation for mathematical operations? If someone did not immediately answer the question of why the hell this is done by citing the "(function argument1.. argumentN)" style of Scheme code then they did a shit job of teaching it. Prefix notation is useful in Scheme for two things: 1) It makes figuring out order of operations dead simple, and 2) It matches the style in which every other bit of code is written. No wonder software sucks today, the people that actually bother to go to school and learn it can't get competent treatment of the subject.
So, video games aren't allowed to have a crisis until [insert-unrelated-but-more-important-subjects] finish theirs? Read the tag line for this website again, we aren't here to talk about world events or, except in very specific senses, the US government. Yes, the video game industry is having a crisis; if you feel it is not important enough to discuss in the face of other topics then why the fuck are you here wasting your time complaining about it?
Having just come back from Europe (Rome, Nice, Paris & London), as an American (from Texas no less), I had nothing but good experiences with everyone I met.
It has been my experience that the rest of the world seems to have more respect for Texans than any other state in the US. I don't exactly know why this is, although I would assume it is an image of being crazy, cowboys, or both. Either way, it works for me.
Nice title "EA Confirms Major Wii Support". I, for one, did not know EA was getting into the underwear business. Not at all suprised they are the kind of tightasses that would only make briefs.
"Toolbox is geared toward developers, not end-users, and is best used for aiding in data modelling and bootstrapping your application with data."
In other words, if you have any other way to work with data in a database, you don't need "Toolbox".
Actually the in other words statement is: "It was not made to be an interface for your users, don't try to make it work as one." The toolbox is a good intermediate option between building initial configuration into your app and doing it directly via raw database access. For instance it is useful when setting up initial administrator accounts within the system.
"A side benefit of the TurboGears framework is that it is a megaproject with a megacommunity. TG has become a powerful, central force, driving interest and involvement into the core components that make up TurboGears. It is the tide that raises all ships."
Sounds like the author has a hard** for TurboGears. Comparison shoppers beware...
Although the megaframework statements get out of hand, the sentiment is still pretty much correct. It does increase interest in the projects for the core components and has led to patches, improvements, and new developers for those projects. Yeah, the guy did go over the top on that one, but being a nut does not inherently make you wrong.
As a counterpoint from someone who uses TurboGears, I would say that their community is in about the same state. Generally at least one the TG devs is able to handle issues with a given component, and if not there is an entire community dedicated to just that platform. Ultimately I see the TurboGears design philosophy as an extension of the unix "do one thing well" mentality. The usefulness and applicability of this in web development is a matter of personal opinion, but I think it still holds well.
Ultimately though there is enough room in the Python world for a few different web dev stacks. Django and TurboGears both focus on slightly different problem spaces. Django seems more CMS-oriented while TG is better at web apps; obviously this is speaking in generalities, they are both useful for either.
I mostly agree, but would like to point out that the "two human beings" requirement is unnecessary as well. Civil unions should be allowed between any number of any kind of beings, as long as they're competant to make legal decisions
I see someone is hoping to be able to hook up his own harem of green-skinned alien chicks....(hmm)... I concur, this definitley should be legal.
Other than advertising the changes and having someone come to you asking for an edited version you are spot on. It is the involuntary participation that usually makes censorship bad.
Generally techniques like that are not used because false positives are much more disasterous than false negatives. Accidentally allowing a couple of spam messages to creep into the regular mail is not so big of a deal; deleting a reply asking for a job interview because it was miscategorized is. Most spam detection systems have to walk a fine line between doing their job and not hosing somebody's mail. That said the systems could be set up so that misspellings add weight towards the decision to categorize as spam.
That could be said about any of the 100's of shity half-finished Python wrappers that clog my Gentoo system. What a scourge. To anyone who thinks it would be nice to wrapper C/C++ library , don't do it! I would advise anyone who wants to use wXWidgets to do so in C++. The event abstraction is a lot nicer that Qt and the library is just as portable.
I guess I am really not following here, but how else are you supposed to handle widgets in python without some kind of wrapper over C/C++? Wouldn't doing all of it yourself be a lot more work for much less benefit than wrapping up an existing library?
So what exactly is marriage? Can you define it without specifically stating it is between a man and a woman?
Why should anyone have to? As far as I can tell marriage has always been a religious process that acknowledges the monogomous relationship of a man and a woman. The problem is not in the definition of marriage, but the rights and benefits given by the state to married couples. Marriages should be recognized by the state as a form of civil union and given rights/benefits through that.
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That said, I am definitely in the market for a new language to build sites with. Perl ain't it as I've been there and done that. Great language but I would rather maintain/fix crappy PHP sites than crappy Perl sites.
If you are looking for something that still retains most of the useful parts of perl then RoR, or one of the other Ruby web dev frameworks (yes, they do exist) might be the way to go.
Personally I am happy with Python, especially considering the community is really starting to get behind WSGI, which will end up turning the "Python has 1001 web frameworks" issue into a good thing by making it possible for individual components from each framework to interoperate. Out of the ones I have tried I like TurboGears the most, but have yet to come across anything that resembles the shoot-your-foot-while-putting-it-in-your-mouth situation that I have come across in php.
Quick question: What is the difference between a SSN and a guaranteeably unique generated string that can be associated with it in a protected database? Answer: Effectively, none. I don't see why anyone who is not actively interacting with the owner of a SSN should have access to the number itself. I do not need or want to know the passwords of the users on my system, I just need to have an effective means of (relatively) guaranteeing the security of those passwords and resetting them when desired. Both can be accomplished without seeing it, I see no reason for SSN's to be different.
I'm glad the policy are out making the city safe from wireless access points. Of course, now that all the drug dealers, rapists, pedophiles, theives, robbers, murderers, prostitutes, and school bullies are off the street, the next logical step is to make sure that the wireless APs are closed up.
Why are you here on slashdot bitching about it? You should be out helping cure aids, fight cancer, end global warming, feed the hungry, or whatever other task is the most important. Just make sure to drop it entirely in favor of something else if you find an even more important task.
Here, have a clue: They will not be pulling cops from murder investigations to go wardriving. Just like they do not pull cops from murder investigations to go write parking tickets. They have these awesome organizational concepts called departments and job responsibilities that allow them to hire people to specifically perform certain tasks. I am guessing, just guessing, that they will do so for this as well.
I did not know that running the diagnostic software was actually part of company policy. I agree, provided someone knows what the hell they are doing, that is just plain stupid. That said, considering what I have seen and heard about most of the GS employees, I would make them use diagnostic software. Nothing personal, probably not even accurate, but that is what I think.
My impression from the comment you made about dealing with morons was that it somehow was an excuse for screwing up someone's computer. Obviously that is not the case for you, and that is all anyone can legitimately ask.
Missed the HTML joke, next time cite PHP, then you get the added advantage of rabid PHP fans flaming you for talking crap about their programming language. Failing that use VB, 98% of the people who would defend it can probably be safely assumed to not be worth listening to. When I read that comment it seemed like the inventory software was being blamed for botched diagnostics, which makes absolutely no sense. Obviously it would be less than helpful for shipping. If it is any consolation 98% of all inventory software is just as bad. Sounds like there should be a hotline you can call to say: "This ticket is bugged, delete it from the database". If you call support every time that happens they will eventually give in and help you fix the problem quickly, might even make it worth actually fixing the software issue too.
The comment that you quoted was probably slightly over the line. Not everyone you work with is necessarily crap. Some may even, for some bizarre reason, enjoy it. All of the fun that you have working there can be found at another IT position. I still would suggest that you look for another job as the experience you are getting from GS does not give you much room to expand. Find an IT department that needs desktop support and do that, at least there is room to move up into something that eventually pays well.
Silly me, I have always hoped that a sufficiently advanced civilization would never bother with Steve Irwin. "Hey, watch me be a complete moron and taunt this highly poisonous and/or dangerous animal while my wife thanks God for stupid life insurance salesmen."
Right, because the costs of basic research and final development/drug testing are soooooo close to each other. Of course they are claiming the rewards for it, the spent about 90% of the cost to create it.
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So without any disclosure of work environment, staffing situations, company needs, or pretty much anything else you arrive at the conclusion that this has to be motivated by some Gartner-powered dimwit. You some kind of fucking psychic? There could be any number of valid reasons for moving to AD. I know it feels good to talk to someone like they are an idiot, but at least try to establish that as being true first.
You had teeth? Dear me, that would have been the easy life. The only reason we had broken spoons was because we had to break the spoon handles and jam them in our gums to make fake teeth. We didn't have any tools to break the spoons with neither, we just screamed obscenities at them until they fell apart. And you say you had it hard when they let you eat the dirt? We had to imagine everything we ate, and even then we were only allowed to eat imaginary rotting mud. We would have killed someone to be able to eat scratched out dirt, but we still loved it!
We didn't have any hills either. Had to build those ourselves out of belly button lint and earwax, which we stomped down into the flat ground until it was the size of a proper writing hill, and we loved it!
So your problem with Scheme is that it uses prefix notation for mathematical operations? If someone did not immediately answer the question of why the hell this is done by citing the "(function argument1 .. argumentN)" style of Scheme code then they did a shit job of teaching it. Prefix notation is useful in Scheme for two things: 1) It makes figuring out order of operations dead simple, and 2) It matches the style in which every other bit of code is written. No wonder software sucks today, the people that actually bother to go to school and learn it can't get competent treatment of the subject.
So, video games aren't allowed to have a crisis until [insert-unrelated-but-more-important-subjects] finish theirs? Read the tag line for this website again, we aren't here to talk about world events or, except in very specific senses, the US government. Yes, the video game industry is having a crisis; if you feel it is not important enough to discuss in the face of other topics then why the fuck are you here wasting your time complaining about it?
Nice title "EA Confirms Major Wii Support". I, for one, did not know EA was getting into the underwear business. Not at all suprised they are the kind of tightasses that would only make briefs.
Ultimately though there is enough room in the Python world for a few different web dev stacks. Django and TurboGears both focus on slightly different problem spaces. Django seems more CMS-oriented while TG is better at web apps; obviously this is speaking in generalities, they are both useful for either.
I was actually talking about getting a callback on a resume for an interview, but the point may still hold there as well.
Other than advertising the changes and having someone come to you asking for an edited version you are spot on. It is the involuntary participation that usually makes censorship bad.
Generally techniques like that are not used because false positives are much more disasterous than false negatives. Accidentally allowing a couple of spam messages to creep into the regular mail is not so big of a deal; deleting a reply asking for a job interview because it was miscategorized is. Most spam detection systems have to walk a fine line between doing their job and not hosing somebody's mail. That said the systems could be set up so that misspellings add weight towards the decision to categorize as spam.
Personally I am happy with Python, especially considering the community is really starting to get behind WSGI, which will end up turning the "Python has 1001 web frameworks" issue into a good thing by making it possible for individual components from each framework to interoperate. Out of the ones I have tried I like TurboGears the most, but have yet to come across anything that resembles the shoot-your-foot-while-putting-it-in-your-mouth situation that I have come across in php.
Quick question: What is the difference between a SSN and a guaranteeably unique generated string that can be associated with it in a protected database? Answer: Effectively, none. I don't see why anyone who is not actively interacting with the owner of a SSN should have access to the number itself. I do not need or want to know the passwords of the users on my system, I just need to have an effective means of (relatively) guaranteeing the security of those passwords and resetting them when desired. Both can be accomplished without seeing it, I see no reason for SSN's to be different.
Here, have a clue: They will not be pulling cops from murder investigations to go wardriving. Just like they do not pull cops from murder investigations to go write parking tickets. They have these awesome organizational concepts called departments and job responsibilities that allow them to hire people to specifically perform certain tasks. I am guessing, just guessing, that they will do so for this as well.
My impression from the comment you made about dealing with morons was that it somehow was an excuse for screwing up someone's computer. Obviously that is not the case for you, and that is all anyone can legitimately ask.
Missed the HTML joke, next time cite PHP, then you get the added advantage of rabid PHP fans flaming you for talking crap about their programming language. Failing that use VB, 98% of the people who would defend it can probably be safely assumed to not be worth listening to. When I read that comment it seemed like the inventory software was being blamed for botched diagnostics, which makes absolutely no sense. Obviously it would be less than helpful for shipping. If it is any consolation 98% of all inventory software is just as bad. Sounds like there should be a hotline you can call to say: "This ticket is bugged, delete it from the database". If you call support every time that happens they will eventually give in and help you fix the problem quickly, might even make it worth actually fixing the software issue too.
The comment that you quoted was probably slightly over the line. Not everyone you work with is necessarily crap. Some may even, for some bizarre reason, enjoy it. All of the fun that you have working there can be found at another IT position. I still would suggest that you look for another job as the experience you are getting from GS does not give you much room to expand. Find an IT department that needs desktop support and do that, at least there is room to move up into something that eventually pays well.
Right, because the costs of basic research and final development/drug testing are soooooo close to each other. Of course they are claiming the rewards for it, the spent about 90% of the cost to create it.