This study measures a fact (death certificates vs reported drink rates).
Facts can vary with each collections but don't tend to reverse.
You can discover a problem with your collection methods but these researchers have other papers and have been doing this a while so it's unlikely (google their names).
What do you mean you are going to wrap a 999999 order field. 999999 is a very big number. You'll probably never need more order numbers than that.
Okay, okay... we'll make ALL numeric fields full 64 bit numbers. Okay- now WHY are you saying that's a problem?
Loved the one about bubble sorting objects. hehehe. sorting a 1,000 item list produced over 1,000,000 objects in production. Of course it was tested on 20 item lists in dev.
It usually sneaks in due to performance issues. Most security issues are performance issues in disguise. Once performance isn't an issue, we can afford stronger security.
It's getting there. But we keep adding more features, coolness, animated, more realistic graphics, etc. instead of tightening security fully.
After a friend of mine was looking for work for about 8 months, I told her, "Dye your hair". She got the next job.
A few years later, one of her coworkers (a nice, young, christian lady) told her bluntly, "Wow, if I had known you were over 40, I would have voted against hiring you". She brought a lot of organization and documentation to the shop which was fast moving and very "seat of the pants" and all the fast coding was starting to turn highly customized and unmaintainable (as it always does).
So dye your hair.
(I'll take this opportunity to point at that a 60+ year old friend of mine is working the 20 year olds into the ground while also designing. they did have to pull the coding away from him forcibly but he still does some.)
You caught grief on this but I have to back you up on this.
As SMART and EDUCATED as a 20 year old is, they are IGNORANT and INEXPERIENCED.
So over my life time, I went from "making 20 year old mistakes" to "making 30 year old with 10 years experience" mistakes to a point in my late 30's where with about 15-18 years of experience including a half dozen years of objected oriented experience and project management on top of a computer science degree (not a business degree with computer science) I finally knew a little bit. Not as much as consultants who worked on 3 major projects at three different companies a year had at 15 years but I didn't make the obvious mistakes due to ignorance and inexperience.
And about that time I started working on things developed by 20 year olds (because they were "cheap") which made all the old mistakes and were impossible to fix because the mistakes were embedded in the design.
I have nothing against bright 20 year olds managed/lead by an experienced senior coder/analyst/designer. That's a cost effective method for business that produces reasonable results. But you do not want the 20 year olds running the shop. And that's what happens when you start laying off and refusing to hire anyone over 45.
And think about what business gets out of it. Failed multi million dollar projects or "successful" but poorly performing or hard to maintain projects. And projects which reflect the utter lack of business expertise the young eager programmers bring to the table.
Meanwhile, the young eager programmers work incredible hours (10+ to 12+ or more) for 10 to 15 years, including weekends and holidays, and late night support calls, and then they get about 10 decent years, and then THEY get laid off and dumped.
Unbelievable.
Thank god I did follow the management path. They have all the coders working 10+ hour days and weekends right now for an emergency project which will get the upper managers big bonuses and the line workers maybe 10% (for working an extra 40% for a couple years). Will be very happy when the market tightens up again (which unfortunately means ageism since the boomers ahead of me have to frikkin retire). And I sympathize with the poor graduating 20 year olds- they are screwed. No jobs so no experience and a $40k college bill.
Because I've seen movies lately where the only change to the nude scene is that the lady's nipples are blurred away. So you see the entire breast- just not the nipples. But you can see the guy's nipples.
It beats having dialogue cut away like the old days.
Yes. You can show a breast stripped of flesh but not a breast.
The thing that gets me is the word "shit". Everyone says this word including fairly young children. It's just goofy to ban it. It's a bodily function.
I can see the argument against hard core porn but nudity is also goofy. However, I can see cable providers contractually specifying certain channels will be nudity free and then serving sets of those up to people who want to avoid nudity.
In my experience, programmers with production access cause more visible problems but have substantially higher productivity (6x to 8x).
My company has previously had unbelievably tight controls put in place as a result of SOX which added a 45 day overhead to any change (except emergency changes) regardless of size (which means small projects were no longer approved- only home runs).
Now we are going to SAP. All that is gone for now-- productivity is off the charts. I'm sure they will start locking it down after we get the first production environment settled but it is nice to be productive again.
Superheros were either "Toolmasters" (like ironman-- our our version "Steel Lady"), Ubermensches (like batman, our version was "Thinx"), and Uniques (like superman, the flash, etc., our version was Tasha the Nauseator). I forget but I think Captain Hero was a toolmaster who I played as an ubermensche. So he had a lot of cool toys and average physical statistics.
The 2044 game centered on two rival news papers, one was anti hero and the other was pro hero. Part of the fun was reading the writeup after fighting some bankrobbers.
For example: "Captain Hero stops bank robbery by Chinese Terror gang" vs "Chaos Captain 'hero' again causes massive property damage and violates civil rights of uemployed immigrants"
We were all young, happy and optimistic back then. Wonder if it was youth or if things are really tougher now. I suspect they are.
back in the 1980's, I played a superhero who rode an electric motorcycle (it being all futuristic) and I had speakers with "real harley sound" effects which I could turn on and off.
And if Hans had pissed off the CIA, State Department, Pentagon and all of their allies in various countries, we might have been even more skeptical of the charges. These people can fabricate convincing evidence. It becomes impossible to tell the truth any more.
If I'm going to say "cab sav" many times in an internet post there is no way I'm going to type out "Cabernet Sauvignon" every time.
The purpose of the event was to have a theme for a party. You know a social event... with a dozenish girls and guys.
I cooked the meal: grilled mushrooms, brussel sprouts, and kobe beef. I also had 5 types of cheese (3 of them were really not liked-- 2 of them vanished).
Who cares about importance- we had a lot of laughter, I had an overly intimate goodnight hug with a girl I'm sweet on, and everyone who attended enjoyed themselves.
And we did all learn something about wine. The person who discovered he had a real taste for wine had gotten more into wine since then since he can really tell and likes the difference between a $20 and a $60 bottle of wine. Most of the rest of us learned that our taste buds stop at about $20. Any decent 91+ wine is going to be just fine for us (and some of those get down to $12).
Have not watched Sideways yet. My taste tends towards Inception, Expendables, Other Guys type of movies.
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The next tasting was 4 grades of scotch, $25 to $225. Again, everyone really enjoyed the chance to try and taste them side by side. While everyone agreed the $225 Blue was smoother, most liked the $35 McCallen (sp) best.
In October I'll be doing chicken and 5 types of chard's (hehe).
--- Having a tasting is a really fun theme for a $400ish party and I recommend folks try it. And it gives everyone a reason to drink- even folks that don't normally-- but the quantities are limited so no one gets plastered. It's really cool.
Exactly. Without any formal training and no wine snobs, we just knew what we liked.
Comments on the wine were not shared during the tasting. The wine was swallowed, not spit out- tho the quantities were small- basically 2 glasses per person total.
The bottles were in paper bags numbered 1 to 6 in random order.
Oh, and we did notice a difference in the wine temperature on a second round as well as the effects of letting the wine breath.
I had a blind cab sav wine tasting with 6 wines ($3 to $62).
The person from the northeast placed them "correctly" except swapping the $20 and $30 wine.
The people from texas tended to prefer the $20 wine the "top" wine.
The worst wine was rated lowest by over half the people there.
The 3rd wine (price wise) had a peculiar "oak" gripping the sides of the tongue that people either liked or disliked but everyone could sense.
My comment on the $62 Hess was "this tastes the most like the 'ideal' of cab sav" but I preferred the Estancia cabsav. It was sweeter on the tongue (not from sugar either- it was a weird sweetness.)
Our blind trial provided strong evidence that we could sense differences between the wines but adjacent cost bands tended to blend together and everything over $20 was "just darn good". The $35 Robert Mondavi was not as well liked as the $20 Estancia generally.
I paired the wine with high quality steak. Some wines pair "magically" with the right foods. The wine tastes better and the food tastes better.
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That's not the opposite.
This study measures a fact (death certificates vs reported drink rates).
Facts can vary with each collections but don't tend to reverse.
You can discover a problem with your collection methods but these researchers have other papers and have been doing this a while so it's unlikely (google their names).
we have made too many things illegal and have not updated "felony" dollar levels in decades.
Given a few years more inflation, stealing a candy bar will be a felony.
It's like a spiral, when they don't "get it" they will be not getting the same things in new ways.
(I do like the spiral idea... nice analogy).
What do you mean you are going to wrap a 999999 order field. 999999 is a very big number. You'll probably never need more order numbers than that.
Okay, okay... we'll make ALL numeric fields full 64 bit numbers. Okay- now WHY are you saying that's a problem?
Loved the one about bubble sorting objects. hehehe. sorting a 1,000 item list produced over 1,000,000 objects in production. Of course it was tested on 20 item lists in dev.
It usually sneaks in due to performance issues.
Most security issues are performance issues in disguise.
Once performance isn't an issue, we can afford stronger security.
It's getting there. But we keep adding more features, coolness, animated, more realistic graphics, etc. instead of tightening security fully.
After a friend of mine was looking for work for about 8 months, I told her, "Dye your hair". She got the next job.
A few years later, one of her coworkers (a nice, young, christian lady) told her bluntly, "Wow, if I had known you were over 40, I would have voted against hiring you". She brought a lot of organization and documentation to the shop which was fast moving and very "seat of the pants" and all the fast coding was starting to turn highly customized and unmaintainable (as it always does).
So dye your hair.
(I'll take this opportunity to point at that a 60+ year old friend of mine is working the 20 year olds into the ground while also designing. they did have to pull the coding away from him forcibly but he still does some.)
it will change and swiftly. but it will be about 8 to 12 more years for things to tighten up.
You caught grief on this but I have to back you up on this.
As SMART and EDUCATED as a 20 year old is, they are IGNORANT and INEXPERIENCED.
So over my life time, I went from "making 20 year old mistakes" to "making 30 year old with 10 years experience" mistakes to a point in my late 30's where with about 15-18 years of experience including a half dozen years of objected oriented experience and project management on top of a computer science degree (not a business degree with computer science) I finally knew a little bit. Not as much as consultants who worked on 3 major projects at three different companies a year had at 15 years but I didn't make the obvious mistakes due to ignorance and inexperience.
And about that time I started working on things developed by 20 year olds (because they were "cheap") which made all the old mistakes and were impossible to fix because the mistakes were embedded in the design.
I have nothing against bright 20 year olds managed/lead by an experienced senior coder/analyst/designer. That's a cost effective method for business that produces reasonable results. But you do not want the 20 year olds running the shop. And that's what happens when you start laying off and refusing to hire anyone over 45.
And think about what business gets out of it. Failed multi million dollar projects or "successful" but poorly performing or hard to maintain projects. And projects which reflect the utter lack of business expertise the young eager programmers bring to the table.
Meanwhile, the young eager programmers work incredible hours (10+ to 12+ or more) for 10 to 15 years, including weekends and holidays, and late night support calls, and then they get about 10 decent years, and then THEY get laid off and dumped.
Unbelievable.
Thank god I did follow the management path. They have all the coders working 10+ hour days and weekends right now for an emergency project which will get the upper managers big bonuses and the line workers maybe 10% (for working an extra 40% for a couple years). Will be very happy when the market tightens up again (which unfortunately means ageism since the boomers ahead of me have to frikkin retire). And I sympathize with the poor graduating 20 year olds- they are screwed. No jobs so no experience and a $40k college bill.
Hard times for all right now.
Because I've seen movies lately where the only change to the nude scene is that the lady's nipples are blurred away. So you see the entire breast- just not the nipples. But you can see the guy's nipples.
It beats having dialogue cut away like the old days.
Yes. You can show a breast stripped of flesh but not a breast.
The thing that gets me is the word "shit". Everyone says this word including fairly young children.
It's just goofy to ban it. It's a bodily function.
I can see the argument against hard core porn but nudity is also goofy.
However, I can see cable providers contractually specifying certain channels will be nudity free and then serving sets of those up to people who want to avoid nudity.
In my experience, programmers with production access cause more visible problems but have substantially higher productivity (6x to 8x).
My company has previously had unbelievably tight controls put in place as a result of SOX which added a 45 day overhead to any change (except emergency changes) regardless of size (which means small projects were no longer approved- only home runs).
Now we are going to SAP. All that is gone for now-- productivity is off the charts. I'm sure they will start locking it down after we get the first production environment settled but it is nice to be productive again.
lol.
Thanks for taking the time to post that you didn't care.
It means a lot to me.
He was "Captain Hero".
The game was set on the island of Inguria.
Superheros were either "Toolmasters" (like ironman-- our our version "Steel Lady"), Ubermensches (like batman, our version was "Thinx"), and Uniques (like superman, the flash, etc., our version was Tasha the Nauseator). I forget but I think Captain Hero was a toolmaster who I played as an ubermensche. So he had a lot of cool toys and average physical statistics.
The 2044 game centered on two rival news papers, one was anti hero and the other was pro hero. Part of the fun was reading the writeup after fighting some bankrobbers.
For example: "Captain Hero stops bank robbery by Chinese Terror gang" vs "Chaos Captain 'hero' again causes massive property damage and violates civil rights of uemployed immigrants"
We were all young, happy and optimistic back then. Wonder if it was youth or if things are really tougher now. I suspect they are.
back in the 1980's, I played a superhero who rode an electric motorcycle (it being all futuristic) and I had speakers with "real harley sound" effects which I could turn on and off.
The only reason it doesn't attract taxation is that the government can't efficiently track it yet.
Our traffic and tax laws were passed when it wasn't possible to enforce 100% compliance.
If you sell your car, you owe a small amount of taxes. If you buy products out of state, you owe a "use" tax instead of a sales tax in most states.
And if Hans had pissed off the CIA, State Department, Pentagon and all of their allies in various countries, we might have been even more skeptical of the charges.
These people can fabricate convincing evidence. It becomes impossible to tell the truth any more.
Well of course they are going to get a dope smuggling, seditionist, pedophile, bigamist whose murdered and raped several people.
I'm surprised he got away with it this long.
If I'm going to say "cab sav" many times in an internet post there is no way I'm going to type out "Cabernet Sauvignon" every time.
The purpose of the event was to have a theme for a party. You know a social event... with a dozenish girls and guys.
I cooked the meal: grilled mushrooms, brussel sprouts, and kobe beef. I also had 5 types of cheese (3 of them were really not liked-- 2 of them vanished).
Who cares about importance- we had a lot of laughter, I had an overly intimate goodnight hug with a girl I'm sweet on, and everyone who attended enjoyed themselves.
And we did all learn something about wine. The person who discovered he had a real taste for wine had gotten more into wine since then since he can really tell and likes the difference between a $20 and a $60 bottle of wine. Most of the rest of us learned that our taste buds stop at about $20. Any decent 91+ wine is going to be just fine for us (and some of those get down to $12).
Have not watched Sideways yet. My taste tends towards Inception, Expendables, Other Guys type of movies.
---
The next tasting was 4 grades of scotch, $25 to $225. Again, everyone really enjoyed the chance to try and taste them side by side. While everyone agreed the $225 Blue was smoother, most liked the $35 McCallen (sp) best.
In October I'll be doing chicken and 5 types of chard's (hehe).
---
Having a tasting is a really fun theme for a $400ish party and I recommend folks try it. And it gives everyone a reason to drink- even folks that don't normally-- but the quantities are limited so no one gets plastered. It's really cool.
Exactly. Without any formal training and no wine snobs, we just knew what we liked.
Comments on the wine were not shared during the tasting. The wine was swallowed, not spit out- tho the quantities were small- basically 2 glasses per person total.
The bottles were in paper bags numbered 1 to 6 in random order.
Oh, and we did notice a difference in the wine temperature on a second round as well as the effects of letting the wine breath.
I had a blind cab sav wine tasting with 6 wines ($3 to $62).
The person from the northeast placed them "correctly" except swapping the $20 and $30 wine.
The people from texas tended to prefer the $20 wine the "top" wine.
The worst wine was rated lowest by over half the people there.
The 3rd wine (price wise) had a peculiar "oak" gripping the sides of the tongue that people either liked or disliked but everyone could sense.
My comment on the $62 Hess was "this tastes the most like the 'ideal' of cab sav" but I preferred the Estancia cabsav. It was sweeter on the tongue (not from sugar either- it was a weird sweetness.)
Our blind trial provided strong evidence that we could sense differences between the wines but adjacent cost bands tended to blend together and everything over $20 was "just darn good". The $35 Robert Mondavi was not as well liked as the $20 Estancia generally.
I paired the wine with high quality steak. Some wines pair "magically" with the right foods. The wine tastes better and the food tastes better.
But those burning worms do get humans in africa to go to the water source where the worms lay their eggs. Which other humans drink and hatch.
Hopefully we will beat them before they break out into the larger world.
"Toxoplasma gondii,"hijacks the sexual reward pathway" in rats' minds. "
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/04/how-cat-poo-parasite.html
It also has unspecified effects on humans (current theory is neurotic behavior-- which could affect entire civilizations and cultures).
Sunglasses and spray paint as the new hot selling items.
On that note, a rich guy like him couldn't afford an independent cell modem? I have one.
OTH, he probably felt he was doing nothing wrong until he got caught.
I suspect there is a lot more under non-disclosure agreements than came out== that and a 40 mil paycheck if he didn't fight it.