If you really want comments on your work you need to find someone with experience that is willing to give up some time to mentor/review your work. "Sometimes" you may even find the odd lecturer that has some industry experience, though they seem to be pretty rare and many have a highly inflated (and unexplanable) opinion of there own work. Or perhaps look at some of the online programming forums, many people want peer reviews and swapping code for review not only gets your own work reviewed but gives you exposure to what others produce.
This would be great, if you can make it happen. In the world I live in, the number of people available to think about anything - programming, or otherwise, decreases like an e^(-x) curve, thousands will give you the 30 seconds it takes to whip off a quick sound-bite of "what they think" after skimming over your question, hundreds will give an extra 60 seconds to actually read the question skim the reference material and cogitate about what you might want to hear rather than what they want to say, tens might take the time to look at a one page program and think about what you're trying to do, by the time you get to 10 pages of code you'll be lucky to find one (experienced, knowledgeable) person who will actually do it. If he's been programming for long, I assume his projects are getting up there in size.
At least the arrogant pricks defending their OSS fiefdoms will read your code most of the time, if you've submitted it in the proper form. Sure, they'll throw it back in your face if you've used superfluous parenthesis or non-style compliant indenting without even checking to see if it works; but, occasionally, they really do want that bug fixed and they will give you some substantial feedback about your methods. And, if you keep submitting to different projects long enough, you'll eventually find a reviewer who isn't an arrogant prick. The guys at Qt were rather nice about it when they said "oh, nice fix, but we're deprecating that whole branch for version 5, so we're not going to take the time to regression test your code and just leave the 4.x trunk broken for every Intel laptop graphics chipset made in 2008-2010, after all, it's actually Intel's drivers that are buggy."
It's going to be nigh impossible to get anyone to review your work code, even though they should.
If you want some brutally honest critiques of your code, along with a healthy dose of nit-picking and "cultural bias", try writing for one of the major open source projects like FFmpeg, Gimp, KDE, Qt, etc.
"Precog" is what most of your forebrain is doing most of the time, modeling, predicting, mostly guessing. Those of our ancestors who were best able to use their powers of prediction to successfully reproduce have been "genetically selected" against those who weren't as good.
If there were a mechanism that truly allowed us to know, or guess with better than statistical odds, the outcome of events in the distant (2 seconds or more) future, that would be an awesome advantage which should rapidly spread through any gene pool, unless the established social order burned them as witches or some-such all too believable tragedy.
Maybe, like life itself, precog is just a very very rare alignment of complex chemical or maybe quantum phenomena... given the billions of years of evolution that have passed without it becoming prominent on Earth, I think the odds of it emerging during my lifetime are.... remote.
Hendrix liked feedback, and so did his fans. If bubble-gum popping 0.99 single buying kids like it compressed, let 'em have it that way. They can discover "Unplugged, fresh and undistorted" later.
Damn shame what happened to The Red Velvet Car (compressed into oblivion), but I guess I'm just getting older faster than the target audience the producers of my favorite artists are aiming for.
This is value creation at its finest - we're selling ourselves (or our information) for a price we are willing to accept to a John (Google) who is more than willing to pay.
I've never faced a real legal problem, but I had a Judge Judy level dispute once and the thing of it was, it started as a $100 disagreement, that their lawyer blew up into a $600 disagreement, that we would have had to blow up into a $3000 disagreement to fight effectively in court, and, win lose or draw, it would have sucked up a couple of (additional) months of our lives to fight it. My time is worth more than any of that.
Only one, I've only seen him try to help people, you know real people who have real problems with the system at large abusing them. He's clearly in a 1% category, the other 99% of lawyers seem only concerned about propelling themselves into the 1% wealthiest category, regardless of who gets screwed along the way.
My favorite lawyer got hit with some trumped up charges and plea bargained himself into jail for a year rather than risk a jury trial - he should know better than most which decision was in his best interests.
If all defendants banded together and chose to fall on the knife simultaneously, yes it would crash the system. Good luck getting even 1% of defendants (who weren't already crazy enough to go to jury trial) to try that.
As it stands, trial by jury is the option for people with nothing left to lose - if your plea bargain leaves you with some semblance of a liveable life, you're better off taking it than rolling the dice against what is usually a 10x worse option. I wonder what the founding fathers would have wanted instead of the plea bargain system, because this surely isn't what they had in mind.
Yeah, man, like we're a semi-pro-football club, members have all been playing for 10+ years and we've all been on the team together for 3 or more, and there's lots of people who want to play with us because we totally kick ass, and man like, thanks for showing up, you know, why don't you start off our next game?
If you want to contribute code quickly, think about joining a smaller project, or even reviving an interesting looking dead one.
If you want to be a part of something big and high profile, be prepared to work the bottom of the bug list, or do some documentation.
I think you have it backwards: If the company management isn't willing to do evil, the company will never reach that mass. Sooner or later the time will come when the management must choose between their principles and their duty to maximise profits - they can't have both.
Bifocals might be another, from the perspective of a middle aged person who is reluctantly talked into ordering a pair.
Binocular vision is overrated, just get a different prescription for each eye. Oh, and try not to run into things until you learn how to deal with your altered depth perception.
At the latitude of Paris, or New York City, in the middle of summer when sunrise is around 4:30am, and your typical city dweller doesn't rise until 7 or 8, but the burns candles several hours into the night, it makes perfect sense.
In Florida, it's just stupid. Kids are going to be dropped off at school before twilight starts tomorrow morning.
It needs to go away with other anachronisms. I mortally detest it.
In the greater scheme, it's a small insult - perhaps unnecessary, but I'd rather get rid of coal fired power plants, nasty chemicals in food packaging and any number of other things first.
How do you know what treatments will become available tomorrow?
You cannot put back a soul into place once the brain matrix has rotten.
You may be surprised just how little of your brain has to be traumatized to "erase" all appearances of "you" from your actions and reactions to the world. You may also be surprised how quickly, or slowly, that apparently damaged portion of the brain can recover.
If I'm that much of a vegetable, I wouldn't want to hang around hoping..
I know plenty of people I trust to make that judgement call for me, what I don't know is if any of them will be around when the call is to be made. From what I know of the world at large, and ER docs in particular, I'd rather not hang a "valuable meat" tag on my toe while some stranger is making a judgement call as to just how messed up my brain is.
While the robot sounds expensive to buy, if you consider the cost of travel, it is saving considerable money (and carbon emissions) if it eliminates just two trips for a "real person," and the savings increase with each additional trip eliminated.
While one might argue that you could teleconference without a robot instead, there are many times when the robot facilitates interaction in ways that a camera on a wall cannot - ways that can make the difference between needing to be there in person and not.
The 1% has always blown absurd amounts of money on frivolities, back to "Let them eat cake" and beyond.
The towers could be safer, they could have interior stairs or even elevators. At some point, the extra hazard pay demanded by tower workers will begin to offset the cost of making safer towers. Also, stronger, safer towers will have a longer service lifetime. Balance will be found - $500/barrel oil will make safer towers cheaper still, by comparison.
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They didn't mention the fatal crash on takeoff as one of the contributing factors grounding the Concorde, but they did say:
and there may be a boom in the field in the coming years.
as long as it's large enough to get a radar lock
Key point, a drone carrying a RaspberryPi could be very small, smaller than many seabirds.
Greywater only contains a little poo, hair, and used toothpaste. See also: Humanure
Awesome! Go India Go! That's the kind of thinking we (the U.S.A.) need to help us stay competitive in the global marketplace.
If you really want comments on your work you need to find someone with experience that is willing to give up some time to mentor/review your work. "Sometimes" you may even find the odd lecturer that has some industry experience, though they seem to be pretty rare and many have a highly inflated (and unexplanable) opinion of there own work. Or perhaps look at some of the online programming forums, many people want peer reviews and swapping code for review not only gets your own work reviewed but gives you exposure to what others produce.
This would be great, if you can make it happen. In the world I live in, the number of people available to think about anything - programming, or otherwise, decreases like an e^(-x) curve, thousands will give you the 30 seconds it takes to whip off a quick sound-bite of "what they think" after skimming over your question, hundreds will give an extra 60 seconds to actually read the question skim the reference material and cogitate about what you might want to hear rather than what they want to say, tens might take the time to look at a one page program and think about what you're trying to do, by the time you get to 10 pages of code you'll be lucky to find one (experienced, knowledgeable) person who will actually do it. If he's been programming for long, I assume his projects are getting up there in size.
At least the arrogant pricks defending their OSS fiefdoms will read your code most of the time, if you've submitted it in the proper form. Sure, they'll throw it back in your face if you've used superfluous parenthesis or non-style compliant indenting without even checking to see if it works; but, occasionally, they really do want that bug fixed and they will give you some substantial feedback about your methods. And, if you keep submitting to different projects long enough, you'll eventually find a reviewer who isn't an arrogant prick. The guys at Qt were rather nice about it when they said "oh, nice fix, but we're deprecating that whole branch for version 5, so we're not going to take the time to regression test your code and just leave the 4.x trunk broken for every Intel laptop graphics chipset made in 2008-2010, after all, it's actually Intel's drivers that are buggy."
It's going to be nigh impossible to get anyone to review your work code, even though they should.
If you want some brutally honest critiques of your code, along with a healthy dose of nit-picking and "cultural bias", try writing for one of the major open source projects like FFmpeg, Gimp, KDE, Qt, etc.
"Precog" is what most of your forebrain is doing most of the time, modeling, predicting, mostly guessing. Those of our ancestors who were best able to use their powers of prediction to successfully reproduce have been "genetically selected" against those who weren't as good.
If there were a mechanism that truly allowed us to know, or guess with better than statistical odds, the outcome of events in the distant (2 seconds or more) future, that would be an awesome advantage which should rapidly spread through any gene pool, unless the established social order burned them as witches or some-such all too believable tragedy.
Maybe, like life itself, precog is just a very very rare alignment of complex chemical or maybe quantum phenomena... given the billions of years of evolution that have passed without it becoming prominent on Earth, I think the odds of it emerging during my lifetime are.... remote.
Hendrix liked feedback, and so did his fans. If bubble-gum popping 0.99 single buying kids like it compressed, let 'em have it that way. They can discover "Unplugged, fresh and undistorted" later.
Damn shame what happened to The Red Velvet Car (compressed into oblivion), but I guess I'm just getting older faster than the target audience the producers of my favorite artists are aiming for.
This is value creation at its finest - we're selling ourselves (or our information) for a price we are willing to accept to a John (Google) who is more than willing to pay.
Facebook is showing them that sniffing the data is where the value is at.
I spend at least 60x as much time playing StarCraft as I do AngryBirds - so, which is the better value?
I've never faced a real legal problem, but I had a Judge Judy level dispute once and the thing of it was, it started as a $100 disagreement, that their lawyer blew up into a $600 disagreement, that we would have had to blow up into a $3000 disagreement to fight effectively in court, and, win lose or draw, it would have sucked up a couple of (additional) months of our lives to fight it. My time is worth more than any of that.
You have a favourite lawyer?!
Only one, I've only seen him try to help people, you know real people who have real problems with the system at large abusing them. He's clearly in a 1% category, the other 99% of lawyers seem only concerned about propelling themselves into the 1% wealthiest category, regardless of who gets screwed along the way.
Which is one reason the system is so fucked up to start with.
Just getting ACCUSED of something can bankrupt you. Guilt doesn't enter it.
Just ask Paul Reubens about his effective 10 year sentence.
My favorite lawyer got hit with some trumped up charges and plea bargained himself into jail for a year rather than risk a jury trial - he should know better than most which decision was in his best interests.
If all defendants banded together and chose to fall on the knife simultaneously, yes it would crash the system. Good luck getting even 1% of defendants (who weren't already crazy enough to go to jury trial) to try that.
As it stands, trial by jury is the option for people with nothing left to lose - if your plea bargain leaves you with some semblance of a liveable life, you're better off taking it than rolling the dice against what is usually a 10x worse option. I wonder what the founding fathers would have wanted instead of the plea bargain system, because this surely isn't what they had in mind.
Yeah, man, like we're a semi-pro-football club, members have all been playing for 10+ years and we've all been on the team together for 3 or more, and there's lots of people who want to play with us because we totally kick ass, and man like, thanks for showing up, you know, why don't you start off our next game?
If you want to contribute code quickly, think about joining a smaller project, or even reviving an interesting looking dead one.
If you want to be a part of something big and high profile, be prepared to work the bottom of the bug list, or do some documentation.
I think you have it backwards: If the company management isn't willing to do evil, the company will never reach that mass. Sooner or later the time will come when the management must choose between their principles and their duty to maximise profits - they can't have both.
Exactly.
Paris uses CET which is 1 hour ahead of their natural time, and CEST during the summer which is 2 hours ahead
Because they recognize that nobody wants to get up before 9am, but all want to party past midnight?
Bifocals might be another, from the perspective of a middle aged person who is reluctantly talked into ordering a pair.
Binocular vision is overrated, just get a different prescription for each eye. Oh, and try not to run into things until you learn how to deal with your altered depth perception.
My respect for him just took a nosedive.
DST is stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid..
At the latitude of Paris, or New York City, in the middle of summer when sunrise is around 4:30am, and your typical city dweller doesn't rise until 7 or 8, but the burns candles several hours into the night, it makes perfect sense.
In Florida, it's just stupid. Kids are going to be dropped off at school before twilight starts tomorrow morning.
It needs to go away with other anachronisms. I mortally detest it.
In the greater scheme, it's a small insult - perhaps unnecessary, but I'd rather get rid of coal fired power plants, nasty chemicals in food packaging and any number of other things first.
You cannot put back a soul into place once the brain matrix has rotten.
You may be surprised just how little of your brain has to be traumatized to "erase" all appearances of "you" from your actions and reactions to the world. You may also be surprised how quickly, or slowly, that apparently damaged portion of the brain can recover.
And, on the flip side, you can lose > 50% of your brain and still function reasonably well.
If I'm that much of a vegetable, I wouldn't want to hang around hoping..
I know plenty of people I trust to make that judgement call for me, what I don't know is if any of them will be around when the call is to be made. From what I know of the world at large, and ER docs in particular, I'd rather not hang a "valuable meat" tag on my toe while some stranger is making a judgement call as to just how messed up my brain is.
While the robot sounds expensive to buy, if you consider the cost of travel, it is saving considerable money (and carbon emissions) if it eliminates just two trips for a "real person," and the savings increase with each additional trip eliminated.
While one might argue that you could teleconference without a robot instead, there are many times when the robot facilitates interaction in ways that a camera on a wall cannot - ways that can make the difference between needing to be there in person and not.
The 1% has always blown absurd amounts of money on frivolities, back to "Let them eat cake" and beyond.
The towers could be safer, they could have interior stairs or even elevators. At some point, the extra hazard pay demanded by tower workers will begin to offset the cost of making safer towers. Also, stronger, safer towers will have a longer service lifetime. Balance will be found - $500/barrel oil will make safer towers cheaper still, by comparison.