...I go through this argument with my colleagues, who say that using short, descriptive variable names 'should' be enough as long as the code is well-organized. Who's right?
You are. No question.
I have a saying I like to use when people (usually managers) try to persuade me to take the quick/cheap way out:
"Any time/money you save by cheaping out now, you'll wind up having to pay back twice over on the back end."
I've yet to see this maxim disproved, and it's just as applicable to coding as it is to anything else. Your colleagues are certainly correct when they state that the code must be well organized, but this simply isn't enough. If you don't put in the necessary time (minimal, really) to properly document your code, you'll wind up spending a lot of time trying to figure out just what you did and why. Also, even if you can remember exactly what your code is all about, the guy that comes after you probably won't...proper documentation is professional courtesy. I suppose they'll learn after they spend a few hours puzzling over a piece of old code (that's how I learned...:P ). Sooner or later, not documenting properly will bite them in the ass.
At my workplace we use IBM laptops. I just got done instructing all the sales staff how to use the latest cute new feature (the fingerprint scanner), and now I'll have to instruct them how to use Tablet PCs as soon as these come out.
A group at Rice University has completed building the world's largest Nanotube model.
Someone ought to call the kids over at Rice University and let them know they're working in the wrong direction....the whole point of nanotubes is that they're supposed to be small.
Seriously, though, shouldn't these kids be working on something other than trying to get into the Book of Records? Like, perhaps, doing work with actual nanotubes?
The completed model, a full 360 meters in length, has been accepted by the Guinness Book of World Records.
Wow...what's the category? World's Biggest Waste of Time?
From the Web Page, translated to 'English' (props to the babelfish):
In every package, puppy of personality rich 5 dog kinds. Dog kind is various of course sex coat color character (the mischievous spoilt child et. al.). Also the room where the puppy lives with the respective package differs.
Do you live some puppy?
* The first time, when it keeps advancing communication and play, the puppy of the other package appears with every package.
Yup...the worst mistake I saw is the summary talking about the finished product supporting 28 users, when it states quite clearly in the software's webpage that the maximum number of users is 10.
OK...that makes more sense...kinda defeats the whole idea of the thin-client/dumbterm solution, but that raises an important question...is the thin-client/dumbterm model even viable anymore in today's era of low-priced desktop systems?
I'm sorry, but this is one of the dumber products I've seen out there.
The software retails for $99 per workstation, and this gets you only one year...additional years are $29, again per station.
Add to that cost the cost of all those dual-headed video cards, USB cards and hubs, and DVI and USB extenders, and your total cost is not at all inconsequential. And for all this work, you have a maximum of 10 users to a server? Plus, those users are physically tethered to the server, severely restricting your network design.
It seems to me that all this and a lot more could be accomplished with less money and less hassle via some very low-end systems and VNC. In fact, that's how I'm accomplishing it right now.
I remember that...I also remember the cop thwacking me with his electric billy club every time I got too close to him...I remember thinking, "Just you wait, asshole...the instant I get my hands on a weapon, I'm coming back here..."
Anyway, I was at the end of the game, playing on the most difficult level, trying to kill the giant big-head-floating baby thing...I was pretty messed up...and found myself completely out of ammo. For a while I ran around trying to dodge all the shit giant space-baby was throwing at me, when I got caught by that green teleporting attack and found myself in that chimney-like structure. After fighting off the hordes of little floating space-babies and making it to the top, I found myself in possession on one rocket. (As I selected the rocket luncher, I conjured up a mental picture of Gordon kissing the rocket before he fitted it to the end of the launcher.) I aimed very carefully, and let fire. Fortunately, the one rocket was what was needed to finally take out the giant space-baby thing and win the game.
I screamed with triumph for about five minutes straight...it was the best boss-victory I've ever experienced.
I remember when I was heavily into GTA:VC...long after I had actually completed the game, I would still start it up and tool around Vice City, looking to get into some trouble. Sniping multiple targets from the roof of a building or leading police on a mad chase with a PCJ was very relaxing and thereaputic after a hard day at the office.
After doing this for a while, I noticed certain thought patterns while out driving...like veering toward pedestrians, unconsciously judging the distance to the nearest self-serve car wash, and reflecting how easy it would be for me to just jump out of the car, run to the crotch-rocket idiling a few lanes away, giving the rider a smart rap in the face with my elbow, and jump on...the cop three cars back will never catch me...
I hear Standard Oil, Rocky Mountain Non-Ferrous Metals, Amtrak, and Mrs. Mitten's Olde Fashioned Tea Shoppe are also companies that are currently not supporting the bill.
Oh, I'm sorry...did they also initially support the bill, and then backed down due to threats from a fundamentalist anti-gay preacher?
No? OK...so how is that at all relevant? (Hint: It's not.)
Microsoft opened the door for this themselves when they proclaimed themselves pioneers of diversity [microsoft.com]. As is obvious now, it was a purely suck-up feel-good political ploy, and when it backfired, M$ backed out.
If they never took a stand in the controversy in the first place, no one could impugn their subsequent abandonment of said stand.
Here's a quote from the good reverend from iidb.org:
In an interview with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer published Oct. 14, Hutcherson said judges are legislating from the bench. He said he and his allies were going to work toward the removal of judges and those politicians who support same-sex marriage.
Observed Hutcherson, "We're going to change your office window view."
Asked if that's why he and others are holding the rally 18 days before the general election, Hutcherson replied, "That's why we're holding the rally. Because politicians understand one thing: how to stay in office, whether they are Christians or not."
Microsoft opened the door for this themselves when they proclaimed themselves pioneers of diversity. As is obvious now, it was a purely suck-up feel-good political ploy, and when it backfired, M$ backed out.
If they never took a stand in the controversy in the first place, no one could impugn their subsequent abandonment of said stand.
Fallacious argument. Even if all boy-molesters are homosexuals (which they're not), it does not logically follow that all homosexuals are boy-molestors.
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Let's just hope the kids at Rice don't get confused and wind up making a ridiculously large model of a quantum wire instead.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I haven't written anything longhand since 1998.
At my workplace we use IBM laptops. I just got done instructing all the sales staff how to use the latest cute new feature (the fingerprint scanner), and now I'll have to instruct them how to use Tablet PCs as soon as these come out.
Blargh.
You might want to look at what human beings are like sometime.
Actually, no...I wouldn't. Every time I try that, it takes me a whole bottle of Pepto to get my stomach back under control.
A group at Rice University has completed building the world's largest Nanotube model.
Someone ought to call the kids over at Rice University and let them know they're working in the wrong direction....the whole point of nanotubes is that they're supposed to be small.
Seriously, though, shouldn't these kids be working on something other than trying to get into the Book of Records? Like, perhaps, doing work with actual nanotubes?
The completed model, a full 360 meters in length, has been accepted by the Guinness Book of World Records.
Wow...what's the category? World's Biggest Waste of Time ?
We have struck back. We are the ones with nice careers and futures while the jocks and cool guys are bagging our groceries.
From the Web Page, translated to 'English' (props to the babelfish):
Yup...the worst mistake I saw is the summary talking about the finished product supporting 28 users, when it states quite clearly in the software's webpage that the maximum number of users is 10.
Way to fact-check.
OK...that makes more sense...kinda defeats the whole idea of the thin-client/dumbterm solution, but that raises an important question...is the thin-client/dumbterm model even viable anymore in today's era of low-priced desktop systems?
$1200??? I said low-end!
If you think that's a good price for low-end, I've got some Celeron 300s laying around here you might be interested in...
No, it was:
Microsoft: It's not a bug...it's a feature!
I'm sorry, but this is one of the dumber products I've seen out there.
The software retails for $99 per workstation, and this gets you only one year...additional years are $29, again per station.
Add to that cost the cost of all those dual-headed video cards, USB cards and hubs, and DVI and USB extenders, and your total cost is not at all inconsequential. And for all this work, you have a maximum of 10 users to a server? Plus, those users are physically tethered to the server, severely restricting your network design.
It seems to me that all this and a lot more could be accomplished with less money and less hassle via some very low-end systems and VNC. In fact, that's how I'm accomplishing it right now.
Microsoft: proudly stealing from Apple since 1983.
I remember that...I also remember the cop thwacking me with his electric billy club every time I got too close to him...I remember thinking, "Just you wait, asshole...the instant I get my hands on a weapon, I'm coming back here..."
Arguably the greatest game of all time.
Anyway, I was at the end of the game, playing on the most difficult level, trying to kill the giant big-head-floating baby thing...I was pretty messed up...and found myself completely out of ammo. For a while I ran around trying to dodge all the shit giant space-baby was throwing at me, when I got caught by that green teleporting attack and found myself in that chimney-like structure. After fighting off the hordes of little floating space-babies and making it to the top, I found myself in possession on one rocket. (As I selected the rocket luncher, I conjured up a mental picture of Gordon kissing the rocket before he fitted it to the end of the launcher.) I aimed very carefully, and let fire. Fortunately, the one rocket was what was needed to finally take out the giant space-baby thing and win the game.
I screamed with triumph for about five minutes straight...it was the best boss-victory I've ever experienced.
I remember when I was heavily into GTA:VC...long after I had actually completed the game, I would still start it up and tool around Vice City, looking to get into some trouble. Sniping multiple targets from the roof of a building or leading police on a mad chase with a PCJ was very relaxing and thereaputic after a hard day at the office.
After doing this for a while, I noticed certain thought patterns while out driving...like veering toward pedestrians, unconsciously judging the distance to the nearest self-serve car wash, and reflecting how easy it would be for me to just jump out of the car, run to the crotch-rocket idiling a few lanes away, giving the rider a smart rap in the face with my elbow, and jump on...the cop three cars back will never catch me...
You said:...
Um...no I didn't.
Scroll up, Einstein...the quote you're attributing to me was actually posted by kin_korn_karn.
For God's sake, organize your thoughts.
I hear Standard Oil, Rocky Mountain Non-Ferrous Metals, Amtrak, and Mrs. Mitten's Olde Fashioned Tea Shoppe are also companies that are currently not supporting the bill.
Oh, I'm sorry...did they also initially support the bill, and then backed down due to threats from a fundamentalist anti-gay preacher?
No? OK...so how is that at all relevant?
(Hint: It's not.)
Microsoft opened the door for this themselves when they proclaimed themselves pioneers of diversity [microsoft.com]. As is obvious now, it was a purely suck-up feel-good political ploy, and when it backfired, M$ backed out.
If they never took a stand in the controversy in the first place, no one could impugn their subsequent abandonment of said stand.
I hope that clears things up for you.
The reference to murder was a tongue-in cheek joke, as anyone capable of walking without the use or their knuckles could have (and did) deduce.
(Hint: It's not really legal for Bill to order executions in Redmond...that was part of the joke.)
Sheesh...lay off the paint chips already.
"Honestly persuaded"??? You must be joking.
Here's a quote from the good reverend from iidb.org:
The man is a terrorist. Pure and simple.
It would help if you were to quote a correct definition of Guilt by Association.
And in case one refutation of your BS isn't enough, here's another.
Nice try, though.
Microsoft opened the door for this themselves when they proclaimed themselves pioneers of diversity. As is obvious now, it was a purely suck-up feel-good political ploy, and when it backfired, M$ backed out.
If they never took a stand in the controversy in the first place, no one could impugn their subsequent abandonment of said stand.
Fallacious argument. Even if all boy-molesters are homosexuals (which they're not), it does not logically follow that all homosexuals are boy-molestors.
Thanks for playing though...