I wholeheartedly agree. There's nothing worse than coming across documentation that was clearly cut-n-pasted from another function but never revised to reflect the actual function someone is documenting, or comments that are so old and out-of-date that no one remembers if they are relevant/true anymore. Writing documentation for new code is easy, it's the upkeep by other developers that completely renders it useless.
Documenting a public interface so that Doxygen can generate some good output is worth-while, or a complex mathematical expression that has a lot of constants in it, but that's where I stop.
An even bigger industry that this applies to is the food industry. Coca-Cola can't patent coke, only make it a Trade Secret. Same goes for Bush's Baked Beans!
I thought most of the time just a hash of the password was transmitted, which would not allow this as the hash changes in multiples places when you change a specific location of the original password...
I use the same setup here at my work in conjunction with FoxyProxy to conditionally load internal sites without using the SSH tunnel. Very handy stuff!
Of course...there's no question that he COULD have done it for 24. I could reply to your post saying that he might have done it for 34 hours, but it's still not worth posting.
"3) 96F - average body temperature"
That's nuts! An AVERAGE temperature to calibrate a thermometer? That's the same thing as calibrating my speedometer in my car to the average speed of a laden swallow. The freezing temperature and stable temperature are also "averages". Depending on your elevation, or air pressure, this number changes also. I believe you could say that these numbers are the average temperatures for most people on Earth.
I'm not sure I agree that shell users are a dying breed. Being a young developer (25yo) I and most, if not all, my co-workers are using a shell to develop and run unit debug/trace in. I think the amount of computer users in general has gone up so merely the ratio of shell/gui users has gone down.
The best skill you can have in any tech industry is the ability to acquire new skills. As an interviewer for our development team I'll agree that this is an admirable skill, yes...but it's hard to qualify during an interview.
Interviewer: "Do you think you could pick up the language/tools we use here?"
Interviewee: "Oh definitely, I learn very quickly!"
Interviewer: "Good enough for me...welcome aboard!"
Nothing is a substitute for experience with the specific skill required for a job. Learning helps after you've already obtained said job.
"The next generation SETI@home is 500 times more powerful then anything anyone has done before," said project chief scientist Dan Werthimer. "That means we are 500 times more likely to find ET than with the original SETI@home." Isn't 500 x 0% still equal to 0%?
The article mentions that the length, not the quality, will probably go down. So at 13Mbps H264 that's about 89 minutes of high quality video on a 8.5GB dual layer DVD. If you want sound too (gosh!) that adds about 1.5Mbps DTS and brings you to around 80 minutes. That's enough for a couple episodes of your favorite TV series.
I was merely talking about the auto-insurance. Life insurance and employer costs are surely affected but these don't affect our auto-insurance as motorists. Someone who wears a helmet can die two days later as well at the hospital from trauma. I don't have the statistics to tell you if it's cheaper for the auto-insurance companies or not, but I'm sure they do and I know for a fact they don't push one bit here in Colorado for a helmet law where there is none currently.
And yes, people dying is a bad thing all around for more than just financial reasons:P
I'm not in the insurance game, but I've heard myths that insurance rates are higher because of people who wear helmets. A $5,000 funeral is a hell of a lot cheaper than a $50,000 hospital bill from the same accident. Don't know how true that is...
True, 3+ (I'd argue 5 at least) years down the road you probably could get put into a developer position with an accounting degree...but that's after 3+ years. You might as well have gone back to school and gotten a second degree in CS at that point aside from maybe working as an accountant during that time, but then you have no real work experience as a developer AND no educational experience. As an interviewer for our development department I would have a hard time hiring someone who came in and said they self taught themselves programming while they were keeping the books and wanted to jump into production code...you'd have to really WOW me.
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I wholeheartedly agree. There's nothing worse than coming across documentation that was clearly cut-n-pasted from another function but never revised to reflect the actual function someone is documenting, or comments that are so old and out-of-date that no one remembers if they are relevant/true anymore. Writing documentation for new code is easy, it's the upkeep by other developers that completely renders it useless. Documenting a public interface so that Doxygen can generate some good output is worth-while, or a complex mathematical expression that has a lot of constants in it, but that's where I stop.
God could not help out Tebow this afternoon, had bigger things on his plate.
I haven't RTFA yet, but if it's not a patent solely on software I don't think most folks here will have too much of a problem with it.
Just like there weren't any IPv4-only services in the beginning? What kind of an argument is that?
Sometimes I wish it could behave more like running a remote X application without having to bring up the entire desktop, but other than I'm a convert.
It can...that's the only way I use it. Check the options for your client.
Would ElGamal also be immune since it's based on Discrete Logarithms?
An even bigger industry that this applies to is the food industry. Coca-Cola can't patent coke, only make it a Trade Secret. Same goes for Bush's Baked Beans!
I thought most of the time just a hash of the password was transmitted, which would not allow this as the hash changes in multiples places when you change a specific location of the original password...
A better analogy would be VNC over wifi as X Windows transmits a lot more than just a raster image of what is currently visible.
I use the same setup here at my work in conjunction with FoxyProxy to conditionally load internal sites without using the SSH tunnel. Very handy stuff!
Of course...there's no question that he COULD have done it for 24. I could reply to your post saying that he might have done it for 34 hours, but it's still not worth posting.
Live in Colorado myself...ever heard of the "Make My Day" law?? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Doctrine_in_the_United_States
http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/ A great place to start when you're stumped.
10 million digits would be more than 31 MB.
You read the wrong post that he was replying to.
I'm not sure I agree that shell users are a dying breed. Being a young developer (25yo) I and most, if not all, my co-workers are using a shell to develop and run unit debug/trace in. I think the amount of computer users in general has gone up so merely the ratio of shell/gui users has gone down.
Interviewer: "Do you think you could pick up the language/tools we use here?"
Interviewee: "Oh definitely, I learn very quickly!"
Interviewer: "Good enough for me...welcome aboard!"
Nothing is a substitute for experience with the specific skill required for a job. Learning helps after you've already obtained said job.
The article mentions that the length, not the quality, will probably go down. So at 13Mbps H264 that's about 89 minutes of high quality video on a 8.5GB dual layer DVD. If you want sound too (gosh!) that adds about 1.5Mbps DTS and brings you to around 80 minutes. That's enough for a couple episodes of your favorite TV series.
Quantum transmission speeds will be slow until someone figures out how to speed it up.
I was merely talking about the auto-insurance. Life insurance and employer costs are surely affected but these don't affect our auto-insurance as motorists. Someone who wears a helmet can die two days later as well at the hospital from trauma. I don't have the statistics to tell you if it's cheaper for the auto-insurance companies or not, but I'm sure they do and I know for a fact they don't push one bit here in Colorado for a helmet law where there is none currently. And yes, people dying is a bad thing all around for more than just financial reasons :P
I'm not in the insurance game, but I've heard myths that insurance rates are higher because of people who wear helmets. A $5,000 funeral is a hell of a lot cheaper than a $50,000 hospital bill from the same accident. Don't know how true that is...
The truly amazing thing was that after tests, the gum still retained it's flavor. "Fabulous."
The same reason you reward a student with a C average who gets a B, and try to encourage a A average student who gets a B to do better next time.
True, 3+ (I'd argue 5 at least) years down the road you probably could get put into a developer position with an accounting degree...but that's after 3+ years. You might as well have gone back to school and gotten a second degree in CS at that point aside from maybe working as an accountant during that time, but then you have no real work experience as a developer AND no educational experience. As an interviewer for our development department I would have a hard time hiring someone who came in and said they self taught themselves programming while they were keeping the books and wanted to jump into production code...you'd have to really WOW me.