Ruby example: do_something() if some_time 7.days.ago
To me, this line of Ruby code is perfectly clear and self-documented. It is also about as short as you could make it. If I had to write the same code in Java, it would be long enough that I would feel it required a comment.
This is where so many programers go wrong. The code is self documenting in the respect that you know it's checking the age of something to see if it was 7 days ago, but you have no idea WHY it's checking that. Why not 6 days ago? What if it's 8 days ago?
Comments should say WHAT and WHY you are doing something not HOW you are doing it. The HOW is the code itself. If someone was to look at that code, do they know what your intent was? Were you looking for something that was exactly 7 days old, or something 7 days old or older.
No way should you ever do this. If it's worth doing then it's worth getting paid for doing it.
Then please explain the success behind FOSS. There are people out there putting in way more then 20 hours a week on FOSS and not getting paid a dime....
Ummm... Host the ad yourself? It is supposed to block things that do not originate from your domain. If the ad is on your domain, it shouldn't get blocked.
Then why didn't you buy a Chevy, or Mercedes, or any of a hundred other cars? If you knew what was going to happen and you bought the Ford anyway, who is to blame? Ford?
Larry Flynt won an important Supreme Court decision on February 24, 1988,[6] after having been sued by Jerry Falwell in 1983 over an offensive ad parody in Hustler that featured Falwell. The ad suggested that Falwell's first sexual encounter was with his mother in an out-house. Falwell sued Flynt citing emotional distress caused by the ad but lost in court. The decision clarified that public figures cannot recover damages for "intentional infliction of emotional distress" based on parodies.
I didn't RTFA, but what if it wasn't a regular CD? What if it was an MP3 CD? Imagine what the "Damages" would be then! If they could cram 1500 songs on a CD, it would be $225,000,000.00 in damages! Seems fair to me....
let's hope that the project does not run out of work units to pass out.
If they are out of work units, doesn't that mean they are that much closer to their goal? To me, it seems that if they run out of work units, it means the work is being completed quicker then expected. Seems like a good problem to have.
I'll take one for my laptop and several for my desktop machine (which sounds like it's not currently avaialble) as long as it is transparent to the OS and doesn't kill performance.
I deal with a lot of my customer's data from time to time and it would be nice to have extra safeguards in place IF my laptop or desktop machine was stolen. It would also be nice to be able to protect all my source code. Just because they can't log into the OS doesn't mean they can't copy the data off the drive. This would prevent that.
If Vista does require this, and I hear someone turn on their laptop with "welcome to Windows Vista!", I'm going to throw their laptop out a window, no pun intended.
Most Airlines frown upon things being thrown out the window in mid flight....
Who's going to believe that a man with 4 networked computers (one recently "cleaned"), high speed internet, and a wifi setup (perhaps with security disabled for just such a defense) is a "computer novice" subjected to the attacks of a roving gang of drive-by internet pirates? I'm sure it looks good for his friends and family to hear him proclaim innocence to the claims, but he should be aware that perjury is a crime!
Um... ME? I help friends all the time with their computers. In fact I am about to help a friend set up the fourth computer in his house. He has one, and all 3 of his kids have their own computers. Guess what? They are all networked and they use WiFi to do it.
Why am I doing that? Because he and his family are novices when it comes to networking.
As for the clean machine? First thing I do is wipe the drive and reset it up to get rid of all the preloaded crap from the factory. Guess I'm trying to hide something too...
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Vegas? :)
You mean just like Microsoft, Sony, Sega, Konami, etc...?
verbosity != self-documented
Ruby example:
do_something() if some_time 7.days.ago
To me, this line of Ruby code is perfectly clear and self-documented. It is also about as short as you could make it. If I had to write the same code in Java, it would be long enough that I would feel it required a comment.
This is where so many programers go wrong. The code is self documenting in the respect that you know it's checking the age of something to see if it was 7 days ago, but you have no idea WHY it's checking that. Why not 6 days ago? What if it's 8 days ago?
Comments should say WHAT and WHY you are doing something not HOW you are doing it. The HOW is the code itself. If someone was to look at that code, do they know what your intent was? Were you looking for something that was exactly 7 days old, or something 7 days old or older.
Are probably the greatest things (productivity wise) they ever added to an IDE.
No more :
...code...
PRINT "Got to this point!"
...code...
...code...
PRINT "Now I'm here!"
No way should you ever do this. If it's worth doing then it's worth getting paid for doing it.
Then please explain the success behind FOSS. There are people out there putting in way more then 20 hours a week on FOSS and not getting paid a dime....
They will have to build a server farm code named "Sky Net" in order to reproduce Arnie!
So once you waive your rights, you are not allowed to re-invoke them?
This case will probably hit the SCOTUS.
It will be a case to watch, that's for sure!
You can't make up the question, but you can make up the answer... nothing says you have to use REAL information in those questions....
Most of the time, its none of their business anyway...
Why not just allow spaces in the password?
On the last mission, just land it at the new owners place.
How hard could that possibly be?
I hear it's going to make a comeback as soon as they add support for DirectX 10!
PEN DOWN
FORWARD 10
TURN RIGHT
FORWARD 10
TURN RIGHT
FORWARD 10
TURN RIGHT
FORWARD 10
Ummm... Host the ad yourself? It is supposed to block things that do not originate from your domain. If the ad is on your domain, it shouldn't get blocked.
Might as well get rid of:
G.I. Joe
Army Men
Toy Guns
Sports (Football, Hockey, etc..)
and the list goes on...
Good thing you didn't write it small like John Hancock did on the Constitution!
Then why didn't you buy a Chevy, or Mercedes, or any of a hundred other cars? If you knew what was going to happen and you bought the Ford anyway, who is to blame? Ford?
This was already decided by the Supreme Court:
Larry Flynt won an important Supreme Court decision on February 24, 1988,[6] after having been sued by Jerry Falwell in 1983 over an offensive ad parody in Hustler that featured Falwell. The ad suggested that Falwell's first sexual encounter was with his mother in an out-house. Falwell sued Flynt citing emotional distress caused by the ad but lost in court. The decision clarified that public figures cannot recover damages for "intentional infliction of emotional distress" based on parodies.
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Flynt
A parody is a parody....
Not even close! HA! Mine is poEw34285z!
Oh damn it...
I didn't RTFA, but what if it wasn't a regular CD? What if it was an MP3 CD? Imagine what the "Damages" would be then! If they could cram 1500 songs on a CD, it would be $225,000,000.00 in damages! Seems fair to me....
let's hope that the project does not run out of work units to pass out.
If they are out of work units, doesn't that mean they are that much closer to their goal? To me, it seems that if they run out of work units, it means the work is being completed quicker then expected. Seems like a good problem to have.
I would rate this article a Dupe....
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http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12
Do you have $5.00?
Not if he just bought a PS3..
Too bad as I'll never buy another Valve game because of Steam.
I'll take one for my laptop and several for my desktop machine (which sounds like it's not currently avaialble) as long as it is transparent to the OS and doesn't kill performance.
I deal with a lot of my customer's data from time to time and it would be nice to have extra safeguards in place IF my laptop or desktop machine was stolen. It would also be nice to be able to protect all my source code. Just because they can't log into the OS doesn't mean they can't copy the data off the drive. This would prevent that.
If Vista does require this, and I hear someone turn on their laptop with "welcome to Windows Vista!", I'm going to throw their laptop out a window, no pun intended.
Most Airlines frown upon things being thrown out the window in mid flight....
Who's going to believe that a man with 4 networked computers (one recently "cleaned"), high speed internet, and a wifi setup (perhaps with security disabled for just such a defense) is a "computer novice" subjected to the attacks of a roving gang of drive-by internet pirates? I'm sure it looks good for his friends and family to hear him proclaim innocence to the claims, but he should be aware that perjury is a crime!
Um... ME? I help friends all the time with their computers. In fact I am about to help a friend set up the fourth computer in his house. He has one, and all 3 of his kids have their own computers. Guess what? They are all networked and they use WiFi to do it.
Why am I doing that? Because he and his family are novices when it comes to networking.
As for the clean machine? First thing I do is wipe the drive and reset it up to get rid of all the preloaded crap from the factory. Guess I'm trying to hide something too...