Internet Explorer itself is now officially dead and being replaced by Edge, which should be as compliant as the other browsers.
No IE is very much alive on Windows 7, as it's the only authorized web browser my company allows on the network. Edge looks like it will be a Windows 10 browser. Who knows if the corporate world will ever adopt Windows 10.
When I was a video game tester and a lead video game tester for six years, most people told me that I have a "fun" job. My answer always mystified them, "It's fun for the first six weeks."
Working at a video game company isn't fun and games. Testers test video games, testers don't play video games. A distinction that most people don't get. Something that fresh out of school newbies have to learn the hard way when they get a job in the video game industry. Most don't last more than two months.
When I worked at Google for a while, most people told me that I have a "fun" job. Uh, no. Not when you're working at light speed and that's barely fast enough to keep up with everyone else. I've worked at many companies since Google that claimed to have a "fast pace" work environment, but none have matched the insanity at Google. Most companies don't have enough work to keep me busy every day.
I don't go to work to have fun. I go to work to get paid.
I avoided computers while going to school, even though everyone told me I should be in computers. I studied electronics in the early 1990's, but those jobs were disappearing. After a three year stint as spaghetti cook, my roommate got me a job as a software tester "intern" (i.e., Fortune 500 company couldn't afford another full-time staffer). After that six-month stint, I became a video game tester for three years. When I became a lead video game tester that lasted another three years, I went back to school to learn computer programming. I spent the last ten years in help desk and support roles. I'm now a senior system admin for computer security.
Everyone told me that I should be in computers, but I kinda fell into it anyway. From the few tech women that I ran into in my career, most fell into it as well.
Fortune 500 companies are worried about financial regulations that will limit their profits. That's why GE is selling off GE Capital to avoid those regulations.
The C64 self-destructed after 3.3 years of constant everyday use for writing, programming and video games. I had to send the floppy drive out to a repair shop after the voltage regulator shorted out. The EPSON NLQ dot matrix lasted another five years before I got a laser printer for my PC.
All the old programming books are still available on the Internet (see link below). I'm translating the old BASIC games into Python to learn the Python language better. I never got most of the games to work on the C64 because I didn't understand programming or BASIC dialects back then.
My seventh grade Apple II teacher in 1983 called my Commodore VIC-20 a toy in front of the class. That's when I learned that I came from a "poor" family because we couldn't afford an Apple II. My parents got me a Commodore 64 the following year. I went through three C64 in the next ten years. My first PC after college was literally an old IBM PC/AT (286) that a roommate brought home work in 1995.
Although the IT help desk is shared between the two halves, I worked on the eBay side and was told by my eBay supervisor that PayPal fell under banking regulations. That could easily mean accounting regulations for the purpose of keeping assets separate. OTOH, PayPal has stricter hiring requirements than eBay (i.e., a better than average credit report). This bipolar worldview within one company got confusing at times.
They've always been a little shady anyway, always wanting to ride that line between a service and a bank, while not wanting to fall into bank regulations.
Although eBay/PayPal appeared to be one company, they were separate business entities inside the company. I worked help desk for them prior to the Great Recession. Any hardware with an asset tag and licensed software got separated for either eBay or PayPal, as PayPal fell under the banking regulations and played by a different set of rules than eBay. If you were employed on the PayPal side, your credit record had to be in excellent shape or have your employment terminated. Just like working at a bank.
A new kiddie park went into my neighborhood. The bridge between play sets had side walls. Slides are enclosed tubes. A thick rubber pad is underneath the bark. Every opportunity for a kid to earn a bump on the noggin or a split lip from falling down was significantly reduced to protect the city from a liability lawsuit by a helicopter parent.
I feel for the poor poor programmer who didn't get the chance to understand Perl.
The last time I saw Perl was in the classroom ten years ago. Alas, the class got cancelled due to a lack of students and never learned the language. I'm somewhat surprised to recently learn that Perl was still around.
What a strange question. Obviously, 25 since you are using an arithmetic operator. So surely, you wanted to do arithmetic, right?
Wrong. Quoted numbers are a string operation ("10" + "15" == "1015" is correct). Unquoted numbers are an arithmetic operation (i.e., 10 + 15 == 25). You can cast a string to an integer (i.e., int("10") + int("15") == 25) or cast an integer to a string (i.e., str(10) + str(15) == "1015").
If you had wanted "1015", you would obviously have used a string operator instead ( "10" . "15" ).
Oh, it's interpreted floating-point BASIC. That explains the slowness.
I had that discussion on the Python list. The Python script takes 192 seconds for 50M dice throws because the interpreter has to create, use and destroy allocated memory for storing the results. Converting part of the script into a Python C extension reduce the time to 1.8 seconds.
I wasn't assigning blame to either the language or the developer. What I'm doing to learn Python better is revisiting the BASIC games of my misbegotten youth from 30 years ago. Some of these programs were submitted by readers of Creative Computing magazine, written for the DEC PDP minicomputers, or floating around the university computer labs at Dartmouth, Berkeley or Stanford. Translating the classics into a modern language is a bit of challenge.
The Dice program warns that rolling the dice 5,000+ times will take a long time. A typical hobbyist computer back then had a 1MHz processor. On my quad-core 3.2GHz processor, rolling the dice 50,000,000 times takes 192 seconds under Python. By using Cython to turn the dice rolling code into a C extension imported into Python, rolling the dice 50,000,000 took 1.8 seconds.
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Internet Explorer itself is now officially dead and being replaced by Edge, which should be as compliant as the other browsers.
No IE is very much alive on Windows 7, as it's the only authorized web browser my company allows on the network. Edge looks like it will be a Windows 10 browser. Who knows if the corporate world will ever adopt Windows 10.
Is still the same old Doom?
This is Slashdot, not Politico.
I'm always amused when white people demand that Mexicans go home from California.
When I was a video game tester and a lead video game tester for six years, most people told me that I have a "fun" job. My answer always mystified them, "It's fun for the first six weeks."
Working at a video game company isn't fun and games. Testers test video games, testers don't play video games. A distinction that most people don't get. Something that fresh out of school newbies have to learn the hard way when they get a job in the video game industry. Most don't last more than two months.
When I worked at Google for a while, most people told me that I have a "fun" job. Uh, no. Not when you're working at light speed and that's barely fast enough to keep up with everyone else. I've worked at many companies since Google that claimed to have a "fast pace" work environment, but none have matched the insanity at Google. Most companies don't have enough work to keep me busy every day.
I don't go to work to have fun. I go to work to get paid.
I avoided computers while going to school, even though everyone told me I should be in computers. I studied electronics in the early 1990's, but those jobs were disappearing. After a three year stint as spaghetti cook, my roommate got me a job as a software tester "intern" (i.e., Fortune 500 company couldn't afford another full-time staffer). After that six-month stint, I became a video game tester for three years. When I became a lead video game tester that lasted another three years, I went back to school to learn computer programming. I spent the last ten years in help desk and support roles. I'm now a senior system admin for computer security.
Everyone told me that I should be in computers, but I kinda fell into it anyway. From the few tech women that I ran into in my career, most fell into it as well.
That's gold dust. It's what makes California so golden.
Read The Wall Street Journal and educate yourself.
Fortune 500 companies are worried about financial regulations that will limit their profits. That's why GE is selling off GE Capital to avoid those regulations.
The C64 self-destructed after 3.3 years of constant everyday use for writing, programming and video games. I had to send the floppy drive out to a repair shop after the voltage regulator shorted out. The EPSON NLQ dot matrix lasted another five years before I got a laser printer for my PC.
All the old programming books are still available on the Internet (see link below). I'm translating the old BASIC games into Python to learn the Python language better. I never got most of the games to work on the C64 because I didn't understand programming or BASIC dialects back then.
http://www.atariarchives.org/
My seventh grade Apple II teacher in 1983 called my Commodore VIC-20 a toy in front of the class. That's when I learned that I came from a "poor" family because we couldn't afford an Apple II. My parents got me a Commodore 64 the following year. I went through three C64 in the next ten years. My first PC after college was literally an old IBM PC/AT (286) that a roommate brought home work in 1995.
Although the IT help desk is shared between the two halves, I worked on the eBay side and was told by my eBay supervisor that PayPal fell under banking regulations. That could easily mean accounting regulations for the purpose of keeping assets separate. OTOH, PayPal has stricter hiring requirements than eBay (i.e., a better than average credit report). This bipolar worldview within one company got confusing at times.
Just like every other Fortune 500 company in America.
They've always been a little shady anyway, always wanting to ride that line between a service and a bank, while not wanting to fall into bank regulations.
Although eBay/PayPal appeared to be one company, they were separate business entities inside the company. I worked help desk for them prior to the Great Recession. Any hardware with an asset tag and licensed software got separated for either eBay or PayPal, as PayPal fell under the banking regulations and played by a different set of rules than eBay. If you were employed on the PayPal side, your credit record had to be in excellent shape or have your employment terminated. Just like working at a bank.
DICE, years ago. Didn't you get the memo?
A new kiddie park went into my neighborhood. The bridge between play sets had side walls. Slides are enclosed tubes. A thick rubber pad is underneath the bark. Every opportunity for a kid to earn a bump on the noggin or a split lip from falling down was significantly reduced to protect the city from a liability lawsuit by a helicopter parent.
As NASA's New Horizons spacecraft careens through the solar system [...]
If the spacecraft is careening though solar system, did the engineers mixed up their metric and standard formulas again?
People are always surprised when I exceed their low expectations and raise the bar for them.
I feel for the poor poor programmer who didn't get the chance to understand Perl.
The last time I saw Perl was in the classroom ten years ago. Alas, the class got cancelled due to a lack of students and never learned the language. I'm somewhat surprised to recently learn that Perl was still around.
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What a strange question. Obviously, 25 since you are using an arithmetic operator. So surely, you wanted to do arithmetic, right?
Wrong. Quoted numbers are a string operation ("10" + "15" == "1015" is correct). Unquoted numbers are an arithmetic operation (i.e., 10 + 15 == 25). You can cast a string to an integer (i.e., int("10") + int("15") == 25) or cast an integer to a string (i.e., str(10) + str(15) == "1015").
If you had wanted "1015", you would obviously have used a string operator instead ( "10" . "15" ).
The dot string operator works in PHP.
Oh, it's interpreted floating-point BASIC. That explains the slowness.
I had that discussion on the Python list. The Python script takes 192 seconds for 50M dice throws because the interpreter has to create, use and destroy allocated memory for storing the results. Converting part of the script into a Python C extension reduce the time to 1.8 seconds.
I wasn't assigning blame to either the language or the developer. What I'm doing to learn Python better is revisiting the BASIC games of my misbegotten youth from 30 years ago. Some of these programs were submitted by readers of Creative Computing magazine, written for the DEC PDP minicomputers, or floating around the university computer labs at Dartmouth, Berkeley or Stanford. Translating the classics into a modern language is a bit of challenge.
The Dice program warns that rolling the dice 5,000+ times will take a long time. A typical hobbyist computer back then had a 1MHz processor. On my quad-core 3.2GHz processor, rolling the dice 50,000,000 times takes 192 seconds under Python. By using Cython to turn the dice rolling code into a C extension imported into Python, rolling the dice 50,000,000 took 1.8 seconds.
Need to roll a 20-sided dice for that one.