God I hate having to come by and fix code from developers with this attitude after they've fled the company. But at least it pays well.
Hold on a second. All I said was that you should know what the company's fiscal year is and how they refer to it. If you don't know the business of the company at least at a minimal level, like knowing their fiscal year, then surely my stored procedure and its use of tables, however commented, will not be useful. I don't understand the mentality of "code should be written so that ANY coder can pick it up and take off." If you have no knowledge of the business, then that's your starting point. Code is not meant to replace your meeting with the folks at the company to get a basic grasp of the company's operations.
Yeah, those are great until 5 years later when someone like me comes along and has to look through the code to see if you used a 2-digit or 4-digit year before calling the procedure.
Well, by that logic I'd have to write a paragraph just to clarify what the fiscal year actually is, that it runs from 7/1 of previous year to 6/30 of the fiscal year, that we're using the Gregorian calendar and not the Islamic calendar, blah blah. If by the time you're modifying or looking at my code you don't know what the corporation calls their fiscal year, then you have no business in that code to begin with.
One thing that pulls me through my day (and life for that matter) is humor. It belong everywhere, even at some funerals. It lightens life. As a programmer, I have many comments that would amount to jokes. Hell, for many of my stored procedures, the first parameter is called @fiscal_year and right at the top when I'm explaining the parameters, the comment for that one says "Duh!"
Nobody's ever complained about humor peppered in the comments. Never in the output, but comments are fair game.
Israel's evidence clearly show Iran's pattern of lying, and Iran's statements clearly indicate they where still actively developing nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them, despite the "deal".
You mean the papers that CIA has known about for a decade? And which were the precursor to the agreement that was made? What Israel brought to the table is nothing new. It was known before, which is why an agreement was needed to curb the Iranians' effort to make a nuclear bomb. The agreement did just that. IAEA has certified over and over that Iran is in compliance with the terms of the agreement.
Do not mistake Iran for NK. The last thing China would've wanted was a war in the Korean peninsula. It was China that pressured and convinced Kim into this position. Kim is batshit crazy and he would never have come to the table like this on his own.
Contrast that with Iran. The ruling parties are batshit crazy, but there's nobody to reign them in. They will not just bow to the U.S.' wishes. They are defiant, and they have many countries on their side, and this move by the U.S. is throwing even more countries on their side.
If the U.S. strikes Iran, it'll be Israel's proxy war. This is not a war we want. It's a war Israel wants and used bogus "proof" (documents from before 2015) to get U.S. to do this. The sunset clauses in the agreement didn't mean shit. Who knows what the situation would look like in 15-25 years from now? We could've always renegotiated a deal in 12-13 years anyways.
This will be a great excuse to make first strike against Iran, which is what Israel wants. Bad move on Iran's part. They should just count U.S. out and deal with the rest of the World. The U.S. is alienating itself greatly already anyways.
I just checked my order history and it looks like I order between 160-200 orders per year from Amazon, and most of those are one or two items, and I agree that it's a lifestyle. Not only am I getting great prices (albeit to the detriment of working conditions of Amazon workers, see next paragraph), but I also avoid paying sales tax on most of them, I can comparative shop for the exact product I want from the seller with the best price, I get a GREAT return policy, and I don't have to waste my time going from store to store to find a good price or the exact price I want. I do ALL my shopping on Amazon, with the exception of pantry items, but I may switch to that, too, at some point.
Talking about the working conditions at Amazon, I haven't purchased anything from Walmart in the past 15 years. I boycotted them because of their treatment of workers and suppliers. I am having a real hard time with my conscience making purchases from Amazon, though. If the working conditions are truly as bad as they say they are (workers pissing in bottles, afraid that a bathroom break might dip their productivity), then I'd be a hypocrite if I continued to purchase from Amazon.
The issue is that I don't really see an alternative for my lifestyle. There has to be a reasonableness to when I can expect items arriving at my door. I also run a business and order a lot of computer parts. Some of the items I can wait on and may actually end up ordering them from Newegg and they arrive whenever, but some I really need to know that it'll be here two days from now. There's NO service out there that can compete with Amazon on the shipping and delivery AND compare with Amazon's prices. When Amazon says I'll receive an item on Sunday, I WILL receive it on Sunday, period. That guarantee is worth everything.
You laugh, but a law passes on the side of these three asshole corporations, they'll be the first ones to DRM a series of 10 notes (think the little intro that comes when you turn your phone (mine's Samsung) on) and have your vacuum cleaner play that song every time you turn it on, just so that their device would fall under the "unrepairability" protection.
You miss the point. Even if he DID have a gun in his pocket, even if he reached for it, 20 cops with their guns drawn and pointed at him should not be shooting until they have 100% positive proof that he has a gun via a visual. They have the element of time on their side, the time it takes to take a gun out of a pocket, raise it, and shoot. Plus they're not supposed to hurt innocent civilians, so wouldn't you think they should err on the side of caution? After all, they swore to put their own lives (and their bullet-proof vests) on the line.
Meanwhile, the Wichita police officer who mistakenly fired the fatal shot that killed a 28-year-old father of two will not face charges. The district attorney concluded that several of the officers closest to victim Andrew Finch thought he reached down to pull up his pants, leaving his right arm hidden from the officers, the Wichita Eagle reports. "The officer who fired the shot, along with some others, thought Finch was reaching for a gun."
You are in a SWAT team. You have been trained for a gunfight. You're there, along with 20 of your buddies, ALL of your weapons drawn and in your hand and pointing to the guy who just walked out of his house and is clueless of WTF is happening. All you need to do is pull a trigger one or more times to take him down. "I thought he was reaching for a gun" is not a good defense. Wait until you actually SEE a fucking gun before you shoot the poor bastard. I can't believe he's not going to face charges for a reckless murder.
Find a free vpn service, like vpngate, and run your connection over to a site (other than netflix, due to geoblocking) that normally runs slow for you. If your speed sees an increase, then yes they are throttling traffic to certain websites. If your speed is the same or less then no your connection to the outside world is just shitty. That is the #1 benefit to vpns for the consumer imho. Unless it is a specific service they are degrading they can't tell who your vpn connects to, and either they throttle all vpns, which commercial users would frown upon, or they throttle none of them beyond regular bandwidth limits and you can find out if that is where the problem lies.
Not necessarily. VPN traffic is very to determine based on size and frequency of packets. Take, for instance, using a BitTorrent client behind VPN. You see many short burst packets going in and out for a while and they can pretty much deduce that you're doing BitTorrent. Many equal length packets coming in and small packets going out? You're downloading a large file. How do you think you're get near advertised link speeds (or better) when going to speedtest.net, even through a VPN?
They gave up huge amounts of customisation with 57, and I am still irritated every time I have to use it by so many little things that are worse than they were before as a direct result, while literally nothing has improved perceptibly for me.
The one thing that pisses the shit out of me is the warnings on the login/password input boxes when the site is not SSL. First of all, the browser doesn't know if the code that posts the form uses SSL or not. You can't deduce whether the connection is going to be SSL just based on the "action" parameter of the form.
Secondly, SSL is a piece of shit anyways. It doesn't mean anything. ANYBODY can get an SSL certificate. I myself paid for it for a year before I moved to a free option. Plus it's highly vulnerable to MITM attack since valid CAs issued CA certificate to bogus companies (cough, BlueCoat). Firefox fucked that functionality (or fuckily added that functionality, whichever is correct.
Why even waste time and resources on a user hostile action, how will these actions benefit users?
How? Make things simpler. Go the Apple way. Take as many options as you can away from the user so that the user is left with not too many choices. "Hmm, should I delete all cookies? Well, it may fix the issue, so why not."
It's funny. Even Microshaft Internet Exploder offers an option to remove individual cookies.
For a very small percentage of intelligent self-motivated kids, I am sure that was true. But it is EVEN EASIER TODAY. Barriers have gone down.
lol. You mean the bar has gone done. Like in a pole vault. I can pole vault over a 3 foot barrier. Hell! I don't even need to use a pole vault.
Kids overcame what you describe as "barrier", so it wasn't a barrier. It just set people apart, like they should be. It's the same as a medical school entrance criteria based on MCAT score. If you can't memorize a bunch of mumbo, jumbo to get a good grade on an MCAT test, then you're not worthy of attending medical school.
What about security issues? Incorrect escaping making it vulnerable to some cross-site attack, leaking cookies or similar to pages that should not have access or something "crazy" like that?
Bzzzt, wrong! Security, while nice on the front-end, really is a job for the back-end. The back-end has to assume nothing about the data that has been passed to it and needs to scrutinize everything before it actually does what it's supposed to.
Don't they understand? Doing shit like this means we won't have DefCon in the U.S. any longer. Think of the hotels and all the revenue we'll be missing!!! Does Trump know about this?
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God I hate having to come by and fix code from developers with this attitude after they've fled the company. But at least it pays well.
Hold on a second. All I said was that you should know what the company's fiscal year is and how they refer to it. If you don't know the business of the company at least at a minimal level, like knowing their fiscal year, then surely my stored procedure and its use of tables, however commented, will not be useful. I don't understand the mentality of "code should be written so that ANY coder can pick it up and take off." If you have no knowledge of the business, then that's your starting point. Code is not meant to replace your meeting with the folks at the company to get a basic grasp of the company's operations.
Yeah, those are great until 5 years later when someone like me comes along and has to look through the code to see if you used a 2-digit or 4-digit year before calling the procedure.
Well, by that logic I'd have to write a paragraph just to clarify what the fiscal year actually is, that it runs from 7/1 of previous year to 6/30 of the fiscal year, that we're using the Gregorian calendar and not the Islamic calendar, blah blah. If by the time you're modifying or looking at my code you don't know what the corporation calls their fiscal year, then you have no business in that code to begin with.
One thing that pulls me through my day (and life for that matter) is humor. It belong everywhere, even at some funerals. It lightens life. As a programmer, I have many comments that would amount to jokes. Hell, for many of my stored procedures, the first parameter is called @fiscal_year and right at the top when I'm explaining the parameters, the comment for that one says "Duh!"
Nobody's ever complained about humor peppered in the comments. Never in the output, but comments are fair game.
Israel's evidence clearly show Iran's pattern of lying, and Iran's statements clearly indicate they where still actively developing nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them, despite the "deal".
You mean the papers that CIA has known about for a decade? And which were the precursor to the agreement that was made? What Israel brought to the table is nothing new. It was known before, which is why an agreement was needed to curb the Iranians' effort to make a nuclear bomb. The agreement did just that. IAEA has certified over and over that Iran is in compliance with the terms of the agreement.
Contrast that with Iran. The ruling parties are batshit crazy, but there's nobody to reign them in. They will not just bow to the U.S.' wishes. They are defiant, and they have many countries on their side, and this move by the U.S. is throwing even more countries on their side.
If the U.S. strikes Iran, it'll be Israel's proxy war. This is not a war we want. It's a war Israel wants and used bogus "proof" (documents from before 2015) to get U.S. to do this. The sunset clauses in the agreement didn't mean shit. Who knows what the situation would look like in 15-25 years from now? We could've always renegotiated a deal in 12-13 years anyways.
Don't disillusion yourself into thinking this is all Trump. There are strings pulled above him by Israel's Yahoo and Bolton.
This will be a great excuse to make first strike against Iran, which is what Israel wants. Bad move on Iran's part. They should just count U.S. out and deal with the rest of the World. The U.S. is alienating itself greatly already anyways.
My screen name is OgdenMorrow. Do you assume I'm a while, male, old fart?
Stack Overflow is operated by more than one person? WTF?
Talking about the working conditions at Amazon, I haven't purchased anything from Walmart in the past 15 years. I boycotted them because of their treatment of workers and suppliers. I am having a real hard time with my conscience making purchases from Amazon, though. If the working conditions are truly as bad as they say they are (workers pissing in bottles, afraid that a bathroom break might dip their productivity), then I'd be a hypocrite if I continued to purchase from Amazon.
The issue is that I don't really see an alternative for my lifestyle. There has to be a reasonableness to when I can expect items arriving at my door. I also run a business and order a lot of computer parts. Some of the items I can wait on and may actually end up ordering them from Newegg and they arrive whenever, but some I really need to know that it'll be here two days from now. There's NO service out there that can compete with Amazon on the shipping and delivery AND compare with Amazon's prices. When Amazon says I'll receive an item on Sunday, I WILL receive it on Sunday, period. That guarantee is worth everything.
Citing both numerators without citing both denominators doesn't mean anything.
You laugh, but a law passes on the side of these three asshole corporations, they'll be the first ones to DRM a series of 10 notes (think the little intro that comes when you turn your phone (mine's Samsung) on) and have your vacuum cleaner play that song every time you turn it on, just so that their device would fall under the "unrepairability" protection.
lol. Way to come around the back and bite my sentence. I completely agree with you.
You miss the point. Even if he DID have a gun in his pocket, even if he reached for it, 20 cops with their guns drawn and pointed at him should not be shooting until they have 100% positive proof that he has a gun via a visual. They have the element of time on their side, the time it takes to take a gun out of a pocket, raise it, and shoot. Plus they're not supposed to hurt innocent civilians, so wouldn't you think they should err on the side of caution? After all, they swore to put their own lives (and their bullet-proof vests) on the line.
You are in a SWAT team. You have been trained for a gunfight. You're there, along with 20 of your buddies, ALL of your weapons drawn and in your hand and pointing to the guy who just walked out of his house and is clueless of WTF is happening. All you need to do is pull a trigger one or more times to take him down. "I thought he was reaching for a gun" is not a good defense. Wait until you actually SEE a fucking gun before you shoot the poor bastard. I can't believe he's not going to face charges for a reckless murder.
Not necessarily. VPN traffic is very to determine based on size and frequency of packets. Take, for instance, using a BitTorrent client behind VPN. You see many short burst packets going in and out for a while and they can pretty much deduce that you're doing BitTorrent. Many equal length packets coming in and small packets going out? You're downloading a large file. How do you think you're get near advertised link speeds (or better) when going to speedtest.net, even through a VPN?
The one thing that pisses the shit out of me is the warnings on the login/password input boxes when the site is not SSL. First of all, the browser doesn't know if the code that posts the form uses SSL or not. You can't deduce whether the connection is going to be SSL just based on the "action" parameter of the form.
Secondly, SSL is a piece of shit anyways. It doesn't mean anything. ANYBODY can get an SSL certificate. I myself paid for it for a year before I moved to a free option. Plus it's highly vulnerable to MITM attack since valid CAs issued CA certificate to bogus companies (cough, BlueCoat). Firefox fucked that functionality (or fuckily added that functionality, whichever is correct.
How? Make things simpler. Go the Apple way. Take as many options as you can away from the user so that the user is left with not too many choices. "Hmm, should I delete all cookies? Well, it may fix the issue, so why not."
It's funny. Even Microshaft Internet Exploder offers an option to remove individual cookies.
Oh man. I already commented on this thread or I would have modded you up. Funniest shit.
Actually THOSE are the instances you can kiss FF goodbye, since grandma won't remember her username for any site she logs on to.
Are you a programmer today? Think before you answer that question. You may be working with computers, but I doubt you'd be considered a programmer.
lol. You mean the bar has gone done. Like in a pole vault. I can pole vault over a 3 foot barrier. Hell! I don't even need to use a pole vault.
Kids overcame what you describe as "barrier", so it wasn't a barrier. It just set people apart, like they should be. It's the same as a medical school entrance criteria based on MCAT score. If you can't memorize a bunch of mumbo, jumbo to get a good grade on an MCAT test, then you're not worthy of attending medical school.
That should go down in history as one of the famous quotes.
Bzzzt, wrong! Security, while nice on the front-end, really is a job for the back-end. The back-end has to assume nothing about the data that has been passed to it and needs to scrutinize everything before it actually does what it's supposed to.
Don't they understand? Doing shit like this means we won't have DefCon in the U.S. any longer. Think of the hotels and all the revenue we'll be missing!!! Does Trump know about this?