Wow, that's what? $10 worth of storage at today's prices.
I have five 1TB WD Red NAS hard drives in Z2 (RAID6) configuration (i.e., I can suffer two hard drive failures) for 3TB of usable storage space on my FreeNAS file server. That's $250 in hard drives that I bought last year on sale.
I can see why you're hesitant to increase your disk allocation for it. Wouldn't want to devote more than $10 to media storage.
I rather not delete the backups for my other systems to make room for another media library. It'll be five years before I can buy higher capacity hard drives at $50 each to replace the current hard drives.
My entire neighborhood is filled with nothing but Indians, and a vast majority of jobs at my workplace are also Indian.
When I worked at Cisco, the only minorities we had in our work group was a Mexcian-American, an Italian-American and myself (German, English, Swedish, Irish and French Canadian). Only vegan pizza available at company events.
Before Donald Trump became the president, he used to criticize former President Barack Obama for spending too much time playing golf. But according to recent reports, in less than 90 days of his presidency, Donald Trump has played golf twice as much as Obama did and the tax payers are not at all happy with it.
If you were smart, you'd be writing software to simply output all the unique items from the spreadsheet so you have to only view a portion of the spreadsheet.
We write scripts to fix 80,000+ workstations at a time. While the script is running, I'm posting comments on Slashdot.
But that's why you work in gov't. They should outsource your job to monkeys.
No. "complex or specialized" means something that sounds too technical to a government worker droid to understand.
I work in government IT. No high school diploma, two associate degrees (General Education in 1994 and Computer Programming in 2007), a handful of IT certifications, and 20+ years experience in software testing and IT.
What? This requires high school level math skills? That sounds complex and specialized.
The only math I deal with is splitting up a 1M+ item security scan spreadsheet with a half-dozen coworkers to remediate in three weeks. Or two weeks if management has a bug up their collective asses.
You can do binary search on an ordered sequence in memory, not just in a tree.
That's the context I remembered learning binary search over a decade ago. May very well have done it on an ordered sequence. Search and sort algorithms aren't something I'll do from scratch these days. The closest I came to that recently is sorting a list of text files in numerical order, where the OS returned an ASCII sort and I needed a natural sort. The solution in Python was to copy the numerical names without the extension into a list, use sort(key=int) to sort the list, and than combine numerical names with extension to get a sorted file list.
Think more broadly, though. Your own government could be out to get you, too.
That would require the Republicans to negotiate among themselves on a common agenda to get something done. I don't expect that to change in the near future.
That's another thing that made me uncomfortable, it's like crapping onto the car seat (which happens to have a seat heating).
Uncomfortable is when your ass hovers above the toilet seat because the malfunctioning heater element is searing hot and your balls touch the icy cold water in the toilet bowl.
Oh, look, a karma whoring motherfucker! Get the fuck out of your parents' basement, you bottom dwelling, shit-encrusted, pink-skirted fuckstick. Absolutely nobody here likes you, and we're not afraid to admit our disdain for your sorry ass. Please forget your password and never disgrace this site with your pathetic presence again.
This AC from 1999 woke up and discovered that we still don't have flying cars. I'm disappointed too, but I don't take it out on other people.
Depends on what microcontroller I used on the hardware side. The newer ones have built-in boot loaders and accept C code over USB. The older ones require assembly language to take up less space than BASIC or C.
Besides, the preprocessor may have been auto-generated with something like lexx/yacc which makes a giant state machine and will just give you a giant headache trying to figure it out from the code.
I got the O'Reilly lexx/yacc book.
You need to read up on tokens, lexemes, parse trees and other internal representations, once you understand those, you'll understand the meat and potatoes of a compiler.
Those subjects are covered in the compiler book, which was previously used as a textbook in the early 1990's.
Also you're probably far better off looking at something like GCC than some old Borland crap.
The code in the compiler book was compiled with Borland C in the late 1980's. I have to modify the code to be ANSI C compliant for GCC to compile without error.
Oh. Did you take any Gen Ed classes, like perhaps legendary literature or folkloric fantasy?
During my first tour through college, I took a half dozen lit classes (English Lit 1 & 2, American Lit 1 & 2, Women Lit and World Lit) and graduated with A.A. degree in General Education (1994). The only reason I graduated with G.E. instead of English is that the G.E. requirements didn't require a biology lab to dissect a frog. Because I completed an A.A. degree, I was only required to complete the major classes for an A.S. degree and graduated in Computer Programming (2007).
And taking classes when you have a full time job - well, good luck with scheduling.
Depends on how motivated you are. I worked 60+ hours per week as a video game tester, taught Sunday school and took two classes per semester for five years. I even made the college president's list for maintaining a 4.0 GPA in my major.
That was made possible by a $3,000 tax credit that George W.
signed into law after 9/11 to help people transition into new careers. While I don't work as a programmer, understanding programming help me troubleshoot difficult problems in IT support.
>> I'm currently going through an old compiler book to translate Borland C into modern C
err... why?
To learn C better. Also to learn how to write compilers. The used — and very obsolete — edition of the book was cheaper than the current edition ($5 vs. $70), and modern C compiler books are very expensive. Once I understand how to write compilers, I'll write a BASIC compiler in Python. I've been translating old BASIC games into Python, which I've never gotten to work on my Commodore 64 as a teenager. Of course, Python extensions are written in C (or Cython).
Keep in mind that I got an A.S. degree in computer programming and work in IT support. My education was practical, not theoretical or theological.
It's on my to-do list. I'm currently going through an old compiler book to translate Borland C into modern C and learn Pascal to use the resulting Pascal compiler.
I wanted to take assembly in college. Alas, I went back to community college after the dot com bust. I couldn't get classes in the beginning because they were too many students. I couldn't get classes towards the end because they weren't enough students. When I showed up for the assembly class, I was the only student to show up and the class needed 20+ students to qualify for state funding. Since assembly wasn't a required course, I couldn't take it as an independent study class.
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Wow, that's what? $10 worth of storage at today's prices.
I have five 1TB WD Red NAS hard drives in Z2 (RAID6) configuration (i.e., I can suffer two hard drive failures) for 3TB of usable storage space on my FreeNAS file server. That's $250 in hard drives that I bought last year on sale.
I can see why you're hesitant to increase your disk allocation for it. Wouldn't want to devote more than $10 to media storage.
I rather not delete the backups for my other systems to make room for another media library. It'll be five years before I can buy higher capacity hard drives at $50 each to replace the current hard drives.
My iTunes library is 350GB. I don't have space for another media library.
My entire neighborhood is filled with nothing but Indians, and a vast majority of jobs at my workplace are also Indian.
When I worked at Cisco, the only minorities we had in our work group was a Mexcian-American, an Italian-American and myself (German, English, Swedish, Irish and French Canadian). Only vegan pizza available at company events.
You're thinking about the last asshole.
Nope. This president.
Before Donald Trump became the president, he used to criticize former President Barack Obama for spending too much time playing golf. But according to recent reports, in less than 90 days of his presidency, Donald Trump has played golf twice as much as Obama did and the tax payers are not at all happy with it.
http://www.inquisitr.com/4115232/donald-trump-14th-golf-trip-playing-twice-as-much-as-barack-obama-says-report/
I doubt "troll shorts" will ever become a popular fashion item.
You left out the "unemployed for two years" part this time.
The Great Recession is over. Time to move on, Dude.
If you were smart, you'd be writing software to simply output all the unique items from the spreadsheet so you have to only view a portion of the spreadsheet.
We write scripts to fix 80,000+ workstations at a time. While the script is running, I'm posting comments on Slashdot.
But that's why you work in gov't. They should outsource your job to monkeys.
Monkeys don't qualify for security clearances.
Look, a president delivering on one of his promises is a big *big* deal in my opinion.
Especially this president who can only get his golf game done each weekend.
Can't wait to see some of my coworkers go back to where they came from :-)
The Russian men can leave. The hot Russian women can stay.
The second is to make the requirement so outlandish that nobody will take the job.
Those HR job ads are a bit obvious to spot: "Must have five years of experience in a new technology that came out six months ago."
No. "complex or specialized" means something that sounds too technical to a government worker droid to understand.
I work in government IT. No high school diploma, two associate degrees (General Education in 1994 and Computer Programming in 2007), a handful of IT certifications, and 20+ years experience in software testing and IT.
What? This requires high school level math skills? That sounds complex and specialized.
The only math I deal with is splitting up a 1M+ item security scan spreadsheet with a half-dozen coworkers to remediate in three weeks. Or two weeks if management has a bug up their collective asses.
You can do binary search on an ordered sequence in memory, not just in a tree.
That's the context I remembered learning binary search over a decade ago. May very well have done it on an ordered sequence. Search and sort algorithms aren't something I'll do from scratch these days. The closest I came to that recently is sorting a list of text files in numerical order, where the OS returned an ASCII sort and I needed a natural sort. The solution in Python was to copy the numerical names without the extension into a list, use sort(key=int) to sort the list, and than combine numerical names with extension to get a sorted file list.
Think more broadly, though. Your own government could be out to get you, too.
That would require the Republicans to negotiate among themselves on a common agenda to get something done. I don't expect that to change in the near future.
That's another thing that made me uncomfortable, it's like crapping onto the car seat (which happens to have a seat heating).
Uncomfortable is when your ass hovers above the toilet seat because the malfunctioning heater element is searing hot and your balls touch the icy cold water in the toilet bowl.
Oh, look, a karma whoring motherfucker! Get the fuck out of your parents' basement, you bottom dwelling, shit-encrusted, pink-skirted fuckstick. Absolutely nobody here likes you, and we're not afraid to admit our disdain for your sorry ass. Please forget your password and never disgrace this site with your pathetic presence again.
This AC from 1999 woke up and discovered that we still don't have flying cars. I'm disappointed too, but I don't take it out on other people.
The Chinese government stole my background case file for my security clearance a few years ago. So, yes, I believe a government is out to get me.
Chances you will ever use it is basically zero.
Depends on what microcontroller I used on the hardware side. The newer ones have built-in boot loaders and accept C code over USB. The older ones require assembly language to take up less space than BASIC or C.
You know you can load a binary into a debugger and view the assembly code?
Been there, done that. Commodore 64 in the 1980's and DOS debug in the 1990's.
Besides, the preprocessor may have been auto-generated with something like lexx/yacc which makes a giant state machine and will just give you a giant headache trying to figure it out from the code.
I got the O'Reilly lexx/yacc book.
You need to read up on tokens, lexemes, parse trees and other internal representations, once you understand those, you'll understand the meat and potatoes of a compiler.
Those subjects are covered in the compiler book, which was previously used as a textbook in the early 1990's.
Also you're probably far better off looking at something like GCC than some old Borland crap.
The code in the compiler book was compiled with Borland C in the late 1980's. I have to modify the code to be ANSI C compliant for GCC to compile without error.
Oh. Did you take any Gen Ed classes, like perhaps legendary literature or folkloric fantasy?
During my first tour through college, I took a half dozen lit classes (English Lit 1 & 2, American Lit 1 & 2, Women Lit and World Lit) and graduated with A.A. degree in General Education (1994). The only reason I graduated with G.E. instead of English is that the G.E. requirements didn't require a biology lab to dissect a frog. Because I completed an A.A. degree, I was only required to complete the major classes for an A.S. degree and graduated in Computer Programming (2007).
Did you do any classes on algorithms?
That was probably under the "Data Structures" course.
If so, was binary search covered?
Binary search for the tree data structure.
And taking classes when you have a full time job - well, good luck with scheduling.
Depends on how motivated you are. I worked 60+ hours per week as a video game tester, taught Sunday school and took two classes per semester for five years. I even made the college president's list for maintaining a 4.0 GPA in my major. That was made possible by a $3,000 tax credit that George W. signed into law after 9/11 to help people transition into new careers. While I don't work as a programmer, understanding programming help me troubleshoot difficult problems in IT support.
>> I'm currently going through an old compiler book to translate Borland C into modern C
err... why?
To learn C better. Also to learn how to write compilers. The used — and very obsolete — edition of the book was cheaper than the current edition ($5 vs. $70), and modern C compiler books are very expensive. Once I understand how to write compilers, I'll write a BASIC compiler in Python. I've been translating old BASIC games into Python, which I've never gotten to work on my Commodore 64 as a teenager. Of course, Python extensions are written in C (or Cython).
Keep in mind that I got an A.S. degree in computer programming and work in IT support. My education was practical, not theoretical or theological.
So, learn assembly in your free time.
It's on my to-do list. I'm currently going through an old compiler book to translate Borland C into modern C and learn Pascal to use the resulting Pascal compiler.
I wanted to take assembly in college. Alas, I went back to community college after the dot com bust. I couldn't get classes in the beginning because they were too many students. I couldn't get classes towards the end because they weren't enough students. When I showed up for the assembly class, I was the only student to show up and the class needed 20+ students to qualify for state funding. Since assembly wasn't a required course, I couldn't take it as an independent study class.