Been there, got several wardrobes full of T shirts.
If unit testing and staring at code for more than a few minutes doesn't solve this kind of problem, then the assertion hammer comes out. Assert everything, especially the things that are so obvious that they don't need an assertion. The bugs just have fewer and fewer places to hide and eventually surrender.
It seems that all this can really tell you is that there might be 4 clusters of personality type amongst the type of people who do online personality tests.
I used plenty of shared computers at college / university prior to owning one. My first shared family computer was an i486 box running Linux that I put together and hooked up to a couple of VT100 style terminals (green on black FTW), one for my wife and one for me. So shared in the sense of multiuser time sharing.
A long time ago, 20 years or so, I used to go on vacation to the US; visit the national parks, see the sights in the cities, the usual tourist things. It is a beautiful country, and I found the vast majority of people to be friendly and welcoming. I stopped going there by choice when immigration started treating myself and my family as if we were criminals. Now I only travel there on business, if I really have to and not if I can possibly avoid it. There are many countries out there which are equally beautiful, and where the people are equally friendly and welcoming. The difference is that they employ some of those folks as immigration officers.
Exactly my thoughts. I just got sick and tired of being treated like a criminal every time I went through immigration. And guess what, there are lots of other places around the world which are happy to see tourists and make them feel welcome. Who'd have thought it?
... it points out that I've stopped visiting the US because I'm sick of being treated like a criminal by their border control staff.
There are so many nicer, cheaper places where I'm greeted with a welcome and a smile and if they want to lose tourist dollars to the competition then that's up to them.
What about the London Knowledge test? who about dumping that or refund the fees to the drivers to make it more fair as the uber drivers don't have to take that test?
Agreed. This is another anachronism in a world where cheap, reliable sat nav is readily available.
I've been waiting for the next logical escalation in the battle between ad blockers and advertisers. Ad blockers were introduced, advertisers put ad-block detecters in place and refuse content. Well how about if we had ad blockers that downloaded that content, just didn't display it. And to take things one step further, how about there being an option for those with plenty of fast bandwidth to do this by default. Now imagine the implications of a few million browsers doing just that.
I seen from TFA that HBO at one point requested their own website to be removed. If I was Google I'd be paying extra special attention to requests for Mega Corp A to take down Mega Corp B's website (or even better their own), and react quickly. Of course I might be a little slower in dealing with the subsequent undo requests whilst watching the ensuing entertainment.
Now the problem is shown to exist and has lead to serious consequences, it's time to call to account the experts that testified in court that such a problem was impossible, and similarly to call to account the managers that flatly denied there was a problem. At the very least any future announcement on a similar subject that they care to make should trigger the question if they are as certain now as they were when they pronounced on this case.
Another vote for the Graph Gear here. I managed to stupidly break one a couple of years back so am on my second with a third spare one in my desk if I need it. Coming from a maths background I've always favoured pencils, only using ink if required. I think it might be the P in the INTP personality type coming through.;)
This is why I don't like the whole booth babe thing. If you regularly attend conferences that use them, then it's easy to fall into the mindset of thinking that all attractive, young women present are there purely for decoration and, on the rare instance where a tech company has a woman engineer on board, barging past them to speak to one of their male colleagues.
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Been there, got several wardrobes full of T shirts.
If unit testing and staring at code for more than a few minutes doesn't solve this kind of problem, then the assertion hammer comes out. Assert everything, especially the things that are so obvious that they don't need an assertion. The bugs just have fewer and fewer places to hide and eventually surrender.
It seems that all this can really tell you is that there might be 4 clusters of personality type amongst the type of people who do online personality tests.
Exactly what I was thinking. Still, Linux might never have happened if Torvalds took that advice.
I used plenty of shared computers at college / university prior to owning one. My first shared family computer was an i486 box running Linux that I put together and hooked up to a couple of VT100 style terminals (green on black FTW), one for my wife and one for me. So shared in the sense of multiuser time sharing.
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Dark ages... graphing calculator... Hmmm
Well, back *before* the dark ages we had a pencil and a book of log tables, and we thought ourselves lucky.
Now get off my lawn! :)
A long time ago, 20 years or so, I used to go on vacation to the US; visit the national parks, see the sights in the cities, the usual tourist things. It is a beautiful country, and I found the vast majority of people to be friendly and welcoming. I stopped going there by choice when immigration started treating myself and my family as if we were criminals. Now I only travel there on business, if I really have to and not if I can possibly avoid it. There are many countries out there which are equally beautiful, and where the people are equally friendly and welcoming. The difference is that they employ some of those folks as immigration officers.
Agreed.
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Exactly my thoughts. I just got sick and tired of being treated like a criminal every time I went through immigration. And guess what, there are lots of other places around the world which are happy to see tourists and make them feel welcome. Who'd have thought it?
... it points out that I've stopped visiting the US because I'm sick of being treated like a criminal by their border control staff.
There are so many nicer, cheaper places where I'm greeted with a welcome and a smile and if they want to lose tourist dollars to the competition then that's up to them.
We prefer the term "Mother Ship"/
What about the London Knowledge test? who about dumping that or refund the fees to the drivers to make it more fair as the uber drivers don't have to take that test?
Agreed. This is another anachronism in a world where cheap, reliable sat nav is readily available.
I've been waiting for the next logical escalation in the battle between ad blockers and advertisers. Ad blockers were introduced, advertisers put ad-block detecters in place and refuse content. Well how about if we had ad blockers that downloaded that content, just didn't display it. And to take things one step further, how about there being an option for those with plenty of fast bandwidth to do this by default. Now imagine the implications of a few million browsers doing just that.
The other pertinent piece of information that if the door is put in the locked position, it will need reconfirming as being locked within 5 minutes.
'"Locked" means the locking mechanism ignores the touchpad entry code and remains locked for five minutes (it can be repeated).'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-32070528
The problem is there are not enough pedophiles to prosecute. The state has been forced to "create" pedophiles.
Actually it turns out there are far too many pedophiles to prosecute.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29692685
Oh... wait...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28810439
And apparently we're going to need a lot more real soon now
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/22/one_in_three_brits_are_now_terrorists/
Time to start null routing all address blocks known to be used by the FBI?
Methinks someone needs to learn the difference between an OS and a Linux distribution.
Claire Lilley at the NSPCC [nspcc.org.uk] pointed out that "In every single child abuse image there is a victim, a child who has been abused"
Interesting. So she doesn't class cartoon images as child porn then? Maybe she should tell the government.
I seen from TFA that HBO at one point requested their own website to be removed. If I was Google I'd be paying extra special attention to requests for Mega Corp A to take down Mega Corp B's website (or even better their own), and react quickly. Of course I might be a little slower in dealing with the subsequent undo requests whilst watching the ensuing entertainment.
You know, to be sure?
Now the problem is shown to exist and has lead to serious consequences, it's time to call to account the experts that testified in court that such a problem was impossible, and similarly to call to account the managers that flatly denied there was a problem. At the very least any future announcement on a similar subject that they care to make should trigger the question if they are as certain now as they were when they pronounced on this case.
Another vote for the Graph Gear here. I managed to stupidly break one a couple of years back so am on my second with a third spare one in my desk if I need it. Coming from a maths background I've always favoured pencils, only using ink if required. I think it might be the P in the INTP personality type coming through. ;)
Oh Lord it's hard to be humble, when you're perfect in every way...
Ah, but you're forgetting that Cisco have lots of $$$ to afford expensive lawyers.
Wait. You didn't actually think that that law was supposed to apply to Mega Corps did you?
This is why I don't like the whole booth babe thing. If you regularly attend conferences that use them, then it's easy to fall into the mindset of thinking that all attractive, young women present are there purely for decoration and, on the rare instance where a tech company has a woman engineer on board, barging past them to speak to one of their male colleagues.