I'm not aware of any code of ethics. Though the company I work for has a general saying that when you do an action, ask yourself if it's something that you'll want to be remembered for, which all employees do, even the management, accountants, etc.
In other words: Would you do it if your mom was watching / would know?
Well... for some definition of the word "similar". Emacs is far - far - more extensible and, quite frankly, more powerful *and* the base LISP interpreter can actually be used for non-editing work. However, for many subsets of work that extra power and extensibility is not needed and vim is fine - especially for short, simple edits. As vi/vim usually comes with the base OS by default (especially Unix - i.e. non-Linux - systems), knowing both editors (as I do) is preferable. For most programming work or complicated file edits, I generally use emacs though - since the late 1980s - my current.emacs config file is from 1990 - and, yes, I'm old.
Great, you're *that* idiot with the deeply tab-indented code that everyone else has to reformat to make readable - thanks.
For emacs in particular, all the various "electric $LANG" modes have different ideas of which characters are electric, what their behaviour is, and what coding style I should be using.
And any setting of said modes can be customized to your liking interactively or in the.emacs config file. (I've carried mine with me since 1990) Stop tabbing and do a little research.
(defun smart-newline ()
"(reindent-then-newline-and-indent) if in a mode listed in smart-newline-modes. Otherwise just (newline)."
(interactive)
(if (memq major-mode smart-newline-modes)
(reindent-then-newline-and-indent)
(newline)))
;; Use (smart-newline) instead of (newline) -- "C-M"
(global-set-key "\C-M" 'smart-newline)
My wife Sue developed two classes for the Virginia Beach City Public Schools Gifted Education Program (in the late 1980s) focusing on critical thinking skills and they are still taught (synopses from the 2015 Curriculum Guide below). I imagine other school systems offer (or can offer) something like these - you can also Google "Think Tank for Super Thinkers"...
Think Tank for Super Thinkers (GP 1172):
One-half credit, first or second
semester, Grades 9-10
This program utilizes an
interdisciplinary approach that
introduces a core of consultants
from the professional and academic
communities of the arts, social
sciences, applied sciences, business,
and media to the participants.
Students will learn to research,
assimilate, and respond through
group work. The instructional focus
will require students to think critically
about social, political, economic, and
environmental issues of our day.
Field trips and attendance at cultural
activities may be required. This class
is offered at each high school, is
taught by the gifted resource teacher,
and is offered in an online,
blended format.
SPARKS (GP 9500):
One-half credit, first or second
semester, Grades 11-12
The SPARKS course will allow selected
students to participate in a course
designed to encourage the discovery
and discussion of new and invigorating
ideas, the development of critical
thinking skills, and synthesis of
complex issues. The course is offered
in an online, blended format, allowing
students to research and discuss
selected topics. Instructional
approaches are varied and may
include speakers, debates, workshops,
field trips, and community service
projects. Online and face-to-face
discussions will be conducted in
a multi-disciplinary atmosphere
encouraging students to make
connections and explore relationships
among different disciplines.
Sue was named the Outstanding Gifted Teacher of the Year for Virginia Region II in 2005, a few months before she died in January 2006. (See the "Teacher" link on the Remember Sue... page.)
That the Citizens United ruling did not say that corporations are people (but instead that tightly-held corporations are effectively partnerships)?
Irrelevant pedantry, the two sentiments you expressed are effectively equivalent. Mitt Romney himself said, "Corporations are people, my friend."
“Corporations are people, my friend,” Mr. Romney responded, as the hecklers shouted back, “No, they’re not!”
“Of course they are,” Mr. Romney said, chuckling slightly. “Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to people. Where do you think it goes?”
Of course, what he forgot to mention is the people everything ultimately goes to is the shareholders (and management) not the workers - who *actually* provide the labor and value of a corporation. In the mind of Republicans like Romney, the workers are replaceable cogs in the money machine who are ultimately only of value if they're inexpensive (as illustrated in recent news)...
If the Republicans can't figure out a way to marganilize people like Ted Cruz and prevent them from grabbing the microphonez they're doomed.
Ted Cruz is a garden gnome. Print up some posters and t-shirts with photos of him as the Travelocity Gnome and people will quickly see how un-presidential he is (assuming they can't see this obvious thing yet).
... somebody who can turn off emotion like a switch and only turn it on when it suits them...
I think the problematic phrase is "when it suits them" and I would speculate that it rarely suits them to turn their emotions on and empathize with others, especially when doing so would conflict with personal gain.
The other method is to simply be born a psychopath with an absence of conscience. So what point the test when 1% of the human population, 20% of the prison population and 50% of violent crimes are the statistics for psychopaths.
The articles to which TFS links point have more than a few links and references to other articles, blogs and books (yes, "see my article/book") written by Andy and the "gang of 17". Not exactly astroturfing, but certainly rather self-promotional. "Agile" is one methodology, appropriate for some situations, but certainly not the "one ring to rule them all." (if I recall, wearing that ring had some negative effects...) Now he wants us to move on to: "The GROWS (TM) Method."
All this probably benefits someone, not sure it's always us.
Why in the hell would anyone train their replacement though? If you see your job forcibly being taken over by someone else, I would say screw you and walk away.
I imagine their severance is dependent on them training their replacements. The deal probably was: (a) walk now w/o anything or (b) stay for $X weeks, train your replacements and get $Y weeks severance with $Z weeks of medical benefits.
Part of the qualification was their cost. I bet they failed that one.
The question is: Did management give the workers a choice to work for less money? My guess is probably not. Sure, some (many?) may not be able to work for less, and I imagine that management would assume anyone choosing that would only stay until able to find another job for more money, but that's not always the case.
I"m 52 and I know I can work 1/2 time (for 1/2 pay) and still have money left over for savings and I have offered that option to my employer as an option to save either my or another person's job on my team should the upcoming layoffs affect us. Judging from their attitude, however, they'll probably just lay me off anyway.
Thankfully, I'm debt-free with enough savings for... well, according to my budget, the rest of my life. Not "fuck you" money, mind you, but my budget says I'll get by okay - even better after SSI kicks in. But my wife (who died in 2006) and I didn't have any kids, always lived under our means and were/are happy with that, your mileage may vary. I'm still single and that helps too...with the budget anyway.
...output per worker fell by 1.9 percent during the first quarter of 2015.
Because the current/remaining employees are being ridden hard and put away wet. Employers are squeezing what they have, instead of hiring, to be "competitive" - even though profits are up and shareholders are happy. Or it could be because of things like this: Georgia Businessman Refuses to Hire Until Obama Is Fired (there are others):
Bill Looman, owner of U.S. Cranes LLC, said he is fed up with the bad economy and D.C. politicians who do nothing to solve the problem. So until there is a change of leadership, his company trucks will bear the message: “New Company Policy: We Are Not Hiring Until Obama Is Gone.”
Or that that the top priority of Mitch McConnell and the GOP was/is to make Obama a one-term president (which didn't go so well) and prevent any successes for the President or the Democrats - instead of actually working to fix the Economy. (Yes, the Dems are a problem too, but mainly because they're inept, not actively evil, hostile and uncaring toward those who are not rich, old, white and male - like the Republicans.)
Given how bad the traffic is in and around NYC and New Jersey, as well as the bridges (thanks Gov Christie and flunkies), perhaps La Guardia can be re-purposed using smaller planes - on those smaller runways - to simply ferry people to/from JFK and Newark airports.:-)
The staff working at the clinic should be paid by the clinic.
Ya, but then the staff would be employees, not "independent contractors" and the clinic would have to treat them as employees and provide them with things like overtime (for part-time employees) and health insurance - oh wait...
This is one of the biggest bullshit issues with the system. Why is a simple prescription $550 "retail" but the negotiated insurance rate is 1/5 of that? It's like they are trying to screw over people who have to pay out of pocket.
Real-world example: When my wife, Sue, was diagnosed with a Glioblastoma multiforme (brain tumor) in Nov 2005 (she died 7 weeks later) the list price of a 1-month supply of her chemotherapy medication Temodar was $11,000. The co-pay on my BC/BS plan would have been $1,100 (10%). The co-pay on her Optima plan was $40.
Pro-tip: It's never a good thing when the pharmacist says, "I hope you have insurance."
Nice that TFA titled, "Should You Learn a Little-Known Programming Language?" shows a screenshot of JavaScript, but I digress.
Little known languages aren't always actually little known or used, just less and/or not main-stream. They are often languages used in specialized areas or use less common syntax and or structure - like PROLOG and LISP. As such, using them can often help a programmer think and problem solve in new/different ways that may help programming in more common languages. I know learning LISP help my recursion skills.
My LISP and PROLOG skills two are a bit rusty, but I've used (and was proficient with) several dialects of LISP and would probably enjoy a job using either language again.
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Engineers have a code of ethics
I'm not aware of any code of ethics. Though the company I work for has a general saying that when you do an action, ask yourself if it's something that you'll want to be remembered for, which all employees do, even the management, accountants, etc.
In other words: Would you do it if your mom was watching / would know?
Didn't work very well, the first half the thread is discussing emacs.
We could save a lot of time if we all simply used: <ESC>-x slashdot-emacs-vim-auto-religious-feud-mode
I think you are confusing effort with productivity.
How does that exchange go?
Both vim and emacs are similar, ...
Well... for some definition of the word "similar". Emacs is far - far - more extensible and, quite frankly, more powerful *and* the base LISP interpreter can actually be used for non-editing work. However, for many subsets of work that extra power and extensibility is not needed and vim is fine - especially for short, simple edits. As vi/vim usually comes with the base OS by default (especially Unix - i.e. non-Linux - systems), knowing both editors (as I do) is preferable. For most programming work or complicated file edits, I generally use emacs though - since the late 1980s - my current .emacs config file is from 1990 - and, yes, I'm old.
I can type really, *really* fast,
Great, you're *that* idiot with the deeply tab-indented code that everyone else has to reformat to make readable - thanks.
For emacs in particular, all the various "electric $LANG" modes have different ideas of which characters are electric, what their behaviour is, and what coding style I should be using.
And any setting of said modes can be customized to your liking interactively or in the .emacs config file. (I've carried mine with me since 1990) Stop tabbing and do a little research.
(defvar smart-newline-modes
'(c-mode lisp-mode emacs-lisp-mode lisp-interaction-mode cperl-mode perl-mode java-mode)
"*Major modes for (smart-newline) action.")
(defun smart-newline ()
"(reindent-then-newline-and-indent) if in a mode listed in smart-newline-modes. Otherwise just (newline)."
(interactive)
(if (memq major-mode smart-newline-modes)
(reindent-then-newline-and-indent)
(newline)))
(global-set-key "\C-M" 'smart-newline)
(setq c-mode-hook
;; Set `C' coding styles.
'(lambda ()
(setq c-argdecl-indent 4
c-auto-newline nil
c-indent-level 4
c-tab-always-indent t
comment-column 40
)))
My wife Sue developed two classes for the Virginia Beach City Public Schools Gifted Education Program (in the late 1980s) focusing on critical thinking skills and they are still taught (synopses from the 2015 Curriculum Guide below). I imagine other school systems offer (or can offer) something like these - you can also Google "Think Tank for Super Thinkers" ...
Think Tank for Super Thinkers (GP 1172):
One-half credit, first or second semester, Grades 9-10 This program utilizes an interdisciplinary approach that introduces a core of consultants from the professional and academic communities of the arts, social sciences, applied sciences, business, and media to the participants. Students will learn to research, assimilate, and respond through group work. The instructional focus will require students to think critically about social, political, economic, and environmental issues of our day. Field trips and attendance at cultural activities may be required. This class is offered at each high school, is taught by the gifted resource teacher, and is offered in an online, blended format.
SPARKS (GP 9500):
One-half credit, first or second semester, Grades 11-12 The SPARKS course will allow selected students to participate in a course designed to encourage the discovery and discussion of new and invigorating ideas, the development of critical thinking skills, and synthesis of complex issues. The course is offered in an online, blended format, allowing students to research and discuss selected topics. Instructional approaches are varied and may include speakers, debates, workshops, field trips, and community service projects. Online and face-to-face discussions will be conducted in a multi-disciplinary atmosphere encouraging students to make connections and explore relationships among different disciplines.
Sue was named the Outstanding Gifted Teacher of the Year for Virginia Region II in 2005, a few months before she died in January 2006. (See the "Teacher" link on the Remember Sue... page.)
I would rather consider someone's ability to be president by looking at their experience, accomplishments, policy, and vision for the future.
Who says I didn't consider all that in determining that Ted Cruz is a Garden Gnome?
Better the party die an honorable death than embrace their values.
Wouldn't the Republican party have to have lived an honorable life to do this?
That the Citizens United ruling did not say that corporations are people (but instead that tightly-held corporations are effectively partnerships)?
Irrelevant pedantry, the two sentiments you expressed are effectively equivalent. Mitt Romney himself said, "Corporations are people, my friend."
“Corporations are people, my friend,” Mr. Romney responded, as the hecklers shouted back, “No, they’re not!”
“Of course they are,” Mr. Romney said, chuckling slightly. “Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to people. Where do you think it goes?”
Of course, what he forgot to mention is the people everything ultimately goes to is the shareholders (and management) not the workers - who *actually* provide the labor and value of a corporation. In the mind of Republicans like Romney, the workers are replaceable cogs in the money machine who are ultimately only of value if they're inexpensive (as illustrated in recent news)...
If the Republicans can't figure out a way to marganilize people like Ted Cruz and prevent them from grabbing the microphonez they're doomed.
Ted Cruz is a garden gnome. Print up some posters and t-shirts with photos of him as the Travelocity Gnome and people will quickly see how un-presidential he is (assuming they can't see this obvious thing yet).
... somebody who can turn off emotion like a switch and only turn it on when it suits them ...
I think the problematic phrase is "when it suits them" and I would speculate that it rarely suits them to turn their emotions on and empathize with others, especially when doing so would conflict with personal gain.
The other method is to simply be born a psychopath with an absence of conscience. So what point the test when 1% of the human population, 20% of the prison population and 50% of violent crimes are the statistics for psychopaths.
And, apparently, many (most?) CEOs are psychopaths. Which Professions Have the Most Psychopaths? (there's a list):
CEO is the profession with the most psychopaths.
Also noted here and here and ... oh just Google "ceo" "psychopath"
The articles to which TFS links point have more than a few links and references to other articles, blogs and books (yes, "see my article/book") written by Andy and the "gang of 17". Not exactly astroturfing, but certainly rather self-promotional. "Agile" is one methodology, appropriate for some situations, but certainly not the "one ring to rule them all." (if I recall, wearing that ring had some negative effects...) Now he wants us to move on to: "The GROWS (TM) Method."
All this probably benefits someone, not sure it's always us.
... as the turbine entered overspeed and the turbine blades liberated.
See. It's not just software. Turbine blades want to be free too.
The currently available Kyocera Kona (basic flip-phone) reportedly has 6 hours of talk and 29 days of standby.
Why in the hell would anyone train their replacement though? If you see your job forcibly being taken over by someone else, I would say screw you and walk away.
I imagine their severance is dependent on them training their replacements. The deal probably was: (a) walk now w/o anything or (b) stay for $X weeks, train your replacements and get $Y weeks severance with $Z weeks of medical benefits.
Part of the qualification was their cost. I bet they failed that one.
The question is: Did management give the workers a choice to work for less money? My guess is probably not. Sure, some (many?) may not be able to work for less, and I imagine that management would assume anyone choosing that would only stay until able to find another job for more money, but that's not always the case.
I"m 52 and I know I can work 1/2 time (for 1/2 pay) and still have money left over for savings and I have offered that option to my employer as an option to save either my or another person's job on my team should the upcoming layoffs affect us. Judging from their attitude, however, they'll probably just lay me off anyway.
Thankfully, I'm debt-free with enough savings for ... well, according to my budget, the rest of my life. Not "fuck you" money, mind you, but my budget says I'll get by okay - even better after SSI kicks in. But my wife (who died in 2006) and I didn't have any kids, always lived under our means and were/are happy with that, your mileage may vary. I'm still single and that helps too...with the budget anyway.
...output per worker fell by 1.9 percent during the first quarter of 2015.
Because the current/remaining employees are being ridden hard and put away wet. Employers are squeezing what they have, instead of hiring, to be "competitive" - even though profits are up and shareholders are happy. Or it could be because of things like this: Georgia Businessman Refuses to Hire Until Obama Is Fired (there are others):
Bill Looman, owner of U.S. Cranes LLC, said he is fed up with the bad economy and D.C. politicians who do nothing to solve the problem. So until there is a change of leadership, his company trucks will bear the message: “New Company Policy: We Are Not Hiring Until Obama Is Gone.”
Or that that the top priority of Mitch McConnell and the GOP was/is to make Obama a one-term president (which didn't go so well) and prevent any successes for the President or the Democrats - instead of actually working to fix the Economy. (Yes, the Dems are a problem too, but mainly because they're inept, not actively evil, hostile and uncaring toward those who are not rich, old, white and male - like the Republicans.)
Which means it's probably even flatter than Kansas.
The band or the state?
Given how bad the traffic is in and around NYC and New Jersey, as well as the bridges (thanks Gov Christie and flunkies), perhaps La Guardia can be re-purposed using smaller planes - on those smaller runways - to simply ferry people to/from JFK and Newark airports. :-)
Millennials are also expert users...
and due to Obama's handing tens of billions of dollars of our money to the insurance companies
Technically, you mean the House and Senate handing that over, as they create the laws in this country.
The staff working at the clinic should be paid by the clinic.
Ya, but then the staff would be employees, not "independent contractors" and the clinic would have to treat them as employees and provide them with things like overtime (for part-time employees) and health insurance - oh wait...
This is one of the biggest bullshit issues with the system. Why is a simple prescription $550 "retail" but the negotiated insurance rate is 1/5 of that? It's like they are trying to screw over people who have to pay out of pocket.
Real-world example: When my wife, Sue, was diagnosed with a Glioblastoma multiforme (brain tumor) in Nov 2005 (she died 7 weeks later) the list price of a 1-month supply of her chemotherapy medication Temodar was $11,000. The co-pay on my BC/BS plan would have been $1,100 (10%). The co-pay on her Optima plan was $40.
Pro-tip: It's never a good thing when the pharmacist says, "I hope you have insurance."
Remember Sue...
Nice that TFA titled, "Should You Learn a Little-Known Programming Language?" shows a screenshot of JavaScript, but I digress.
Little known languages aren't always actually little known or used, just less and/or not main-stream. They are often languages used in specialized areas or use less common syntax and or structure - like PROLOG and LISP. As such, using them can often help a programmer think and problem solve in new/different ways that may help programming in more common languages. I know learning LISP help my recursion skills.
My LISP and PROLOG skills two are a bit rusty, but I've used (and was proficient with) several dialects of LISP and would probably enjoy a job using either language again.