When it comes to Craigslist then it's a case of buyer, and seller, beware.
The site originally started out as a good idea but rapidly became spammed up with dodgy sellers, fake ads and boring rants.
While there are still a few nuggets of gold in among the trash (best of rants and raves is always worth a look) it's increasingly becoming irrelevant.
I'm not surprised they didn't bother to show, since they take such a lax attitude that getting into a battle to protect user anonymity would just be too much effort.
Exactly. That was pretty much my tongue-in-cheek point. The greater our processing power, the less we need things like Erlang. Follow that out and you have your Computronium. Don't really see how this is "offtopic," but I'm over it.
#1 threat to America: Bears.
#1 threat to corporate America: Buses.
#1 threat to the universe: The Chicago Bears' bus.
I could probably do something with Jerome Bettis, but you get the idea.
An abbreviated variable name is OK if its context is well-established.
Oh, we definitely agree on that. And I'm not suggesting that these are things you do. I'm just saying that in my experience it actually has been a real problem with people who don't know when it is appropriate to abbreviate and when it is not. Some people only abbreviate, and if they are no longer in your organization and there is a bug in their code, that can really ruin your day.
Keep in mind, I believe we're talking boring old application code here, not algorithms. I would expect algorithms to use many indexes (your i's and j's and k's), vs. boring old application code which is just performing some step by step routines. Two completely different planes of existence... no one should expect a good algorithm to be readable. In fact, in my experience, the better the algorithm, the less readable it is.:)
I've met people who won't even look at code unless every single line is commented telling them precisely what it does, so "int i = a + 2;" has to have a comment above it saying "// create a signed 32-bit integer variable, i, and assign it two more than the value of a". This, in fact, is one of my biggest pet peeves. Give that variable a name. Everyone knows it's a 32-bit integer, but they don't know what the hell it is doing in your code. i could be a counter, a page number, an offset... as someone looking at someone else's code, "i" tells me nothing. "a" tells me nothing. And chances are pretty good that six months from now, even the person who wrote it originally won't know what that "i" is for, either without going back through the code and trying to figure it out. Give that variable a name... most of the time that's all you gotta do to make your code 'comment itself.'
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Standing by what I said, handing over one's intellectual property and hoping to win a contest isn't exactly a sound career move, IMHO.
"Bioware has repeatedly had contests"
Not exactly a career...
... in ambiguous headlines.
Actually, my Jeep and many modern SUVs are unibody.
When it comes to Craigslist then it's a case of buyer, and seller, beware. The site originally started out as a good idea but rapidly became spammed up with dodgy sellers, fake ads and boring rants. While there are still a few nuggets of gold in among the trash (best of rants and raves is always worth a look) it's increasingly becoming irrelevant. I'm not surprised they didn't bother to show, since they take such a lax attitude that getting into a battle to protect user anonymity would just be too much effort.
"Craigslist simply did not show up in court and lost by default" Hardly call that being forced.
Looks like a goddamn iCapsule. Damn you, Jobs!
"Open the iPod bay doors, Jobs!"
must be level?
i don't think the internet ads model generates a lot of revenue.
I think you'd have a hard time coming up with data to back up that claim. http://www.google.com/search?q=internet+ad+revenues
Exactly. That was pretty much my tongue-in-cheek point. The greater our processing power, the less we need things like Erlang. Follow that out and you have your Computronium. Don't really see how this is "offtopic," but I'm over it.
It does?
Sigh... no, it doesn't.
Eh... Moore's Law says that we'll all be on the same processor in a couple years anyway.
From the BMW website. http://www.bmw.com/com/en/insights/technology/efficient_dynamics/phase_2/clean_energy/bmw_hydrogen_7.html
Hmmmm... what does this remind me of? Oh yeah... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Hindenburg_burning.jpg Of course the Germans have learned from their mistake and as a result you won't be able to buy any in New Jersey.
... had to be there.
Right - but back then a gallon of gas was $1.
#1 threat to America: Bears. #1 threat to corporate America: Buses. #1 threat to the universe: The Chicago Bears' bus. I could probably do something with Jerome Bettis, but you get the idea.
Ockham's razor is telling me they're in a New Mexican landfill next to those Atari 2600 ET cartridges. Two glowing finger scrolling? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial_(Atari_2600)
Oh, we definitely agree on that. And I'm not suggesting that these are things you do. I'm just saying that in my experience it actually has been a real problem with people who don't know when it is appropriate to abbreviate and when it is not. Some people only abbreviate, and if they are no longer in your organization and there is a bug in their code, that can really ruin your day.
Keep in mind, I believe we're talking boring old application code here, not algorithms. I would expect algorithms to use many indexes (your i's and j's and k's), vs. boring old application code which is just performing some step by step routines. Two completely different planes of existence... no one should expect a good algorithm to be readable. In fact, in my experience, the better the algorithm, the less readable it is. :)