Hmm. I must have missed that bit in the constitution. You know, that document we rely on to limit the power of the government so they don't abuse the population and get all tyrannical? Reckon I'll just have to put on my constitution-reading glasses and have another look. Bup bup bup shall not be infringed yadda yadda due process blah blah blah, nope, don't see that in there! Maybe I have one of those abridged constitutions. Maybe they cut the boring shit out to save space, or something.
Oh yeah, and not even a very good simulation. Clearly corners were cut. The dodgy temporal consistency between various points, the hard coded speed limit, the way parts of it just crash when you put too much mass in one place. I'm pretty sure it's just an n-dimensional undergrad project to demonstrate how to convert hydrogen into plutonium with nothing more than a few simple rules. Of course, now that some plutonium has been created, they'll probably shut the whole thing down as soon as someone notices.
I can't boycott them any more than I already am. I joined up with a credit union a decade and a half ago. Prior to that I was eligible for two separate class action lawsuits against national banks for their inventive and apparently illegal ways of fucking their customers. There has been surprisingly little fucking from the credit union. None, in fact. You'd think over the course of a decade and a half, there would be some fucking. Not even a bit of surprise anal at year 10. More like surprise no-anal.
Anywhoo, just switching doesn't do anyone a whole lot of good. You could also write an actual letter to their CEO explaining that you're switching banks because of this. One guy doing that won't get a whole lot of notice. If a few thousand letters start showing up, that might actually get their attention.
Usually, or else they contest an unemployment claim, meaning you have absolutely no income coming in for the duration of your unemployment. Of course, you could just quit and not be eligible for unemployment either. All completely legal.
Looks like you have an engineer that wants to play with Rust on your dime. I've seen a lot of projects try to shoehorn a lot of shitty code in a lot of shitty languages into working because some jackass thought he could be more clever in that language. A few months later he's gone and you're stuck trying to maintain some abomination that tries to do asynchronous IO using threads in Ruby or some other goddamn shit. If you have an elevator shaft on hand, I suggest you acquaint him with the bottom of it, and then get on with your project.
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Don't want to have your information collected, don't use Facebook. I mean seriously, what the fuck is wrong with you? Also, don't let Google or anyone else store a permanent cookie on you, don't stay logged in, don't keep a personal account on the search engine you use. For starters. Also don't use a web-based E-Mail service like gmail and encrypt all your E-mails fanatically. At this point the number of people willing to talk to you will be pretty small, which will make it much easier to not show up in social networks.
For bonus points, pull the battery out of your phone when you're not using it.
Even after all that, you probably won't be a freaking ghost, but at least you'll be making the few guys who know about you work for it.
That one's actually pretty easy.Actually hold some people responsible for some shit. I'm sure in a number of those cases, parents did get dinged for leaving their guns around. In general, it's really way too easy to have kids in this country. Much easier than getting a gun or a car, and you see how many irresponsible twats own one or both of those things. My fascist regime would require mandatory reversible sterilization for boys and girls at puberty and a license to have kids. The test wouldn't be particularly difficult, but it'd weed out a pretty good chunk of the jackasses I think.
In a wider context, we must enjoy gun violence or we'd have done something about it by now. Way I see it, you've got one of two options: Ban guns, like Australia did, or just give everyone a gun, require them to carry it at all times, and let the games begin! I know which one I'm rooting for!
Or I guess we could keep doing what we're doing and let evolution take its course. Maybe in a few generations we'll be able to dodge bullets like Neo in The Matrix.
What's the actual union of people who don't want to kill animals for dinner but are also pissed off that their dinner then doesn't taste like animals? It seems like those people are just impossible to please. Yes, your dinner doesn't taste like meat. That's what you signed on for there, buddy!
We could just program the new you not to notice the difference.
Or possibly your software version of you would become another part of you. At that point it'd be easy enough to set you up with an implant that allows you to communicate with it, synchronize your memories and such. Except the software you would have much easier access to the online networks of information and might even be able to copy itself around for backup purposes and to accomplish more tasks simultaneously. Freed from the constraints of having to run on a meatputer, the new you could contribute more to "you" than your meat version. Eventually, when that part of you dies, you might not even notice it, any more than you notice the deaths of a bunch of brain cells when you go on a bender. Or perhaps you could store your DNA off and have a new body cloned for you whenever you feel like being a meat thing again for a while. If you change the idea of consciousness that radically, it's hard to even speculate what the mind of the future even looks like.
About half will vote Democrat because they're Democrats. About half will vote Republican because they're Republicans. If the Democrats or Republicans feel disheartened about their candidate, they'll just stay home, and 20% or less of voters will actually turn out to vote. The politicians and point-one-percenters are treating Americans like little bitches because they are little bitches. This situation will continue until that stops being the case.
Git, with jenkins integration and sensible branching policy. When jenkins sees a commit to the current development branch, or nightly, it can kick off your testing for you and tell you if anyone broke the build. Have a development branch where most churn takes place, an integration branch that you can release the development branch to when you're gearing up for a release and the features go to integration testing and a current release branch that's updated with the integration-tested code and released. Once your testers have OKed the integration build, it can be merged to your releases branch and executable that's going out the door can be built. Tag your releases with sensible versions once that happens successfully, so that you can always build your current release or any past release by checking out a tag and rebuilding it. You can use an update hook to lock your release branch so that no commits can happen to it outside release windows.
Really about 1/4th of what you need is a VCS, and 3/4s of what you need is a sensible, documented and enforced process that requires unit tests and reproducible builds. I've been in the industry for 25 years now and have only seen this a couple of times. Sun's was very strict and required an 11 page form to be filled out so that the version control branch you were updating to could be unlocked. You had to include what feature or bug the update addressed, a description of what your code did, a sign off from a code review board and the diffs for the commit. Once you checked it all in, an automated system would pick up the changes, build and test them and send out an E-Mail blaming you if the build broke. Rogue Wave software also had an automated build and test system which would do nightly builds of their libraries over all the systems they supported (Which was damn close to all the systems that were ever invented.)
At most other places, the build process was an afterthought that was thrown together by the developers on the team. This could be anything from some hastily-assembled makefiles to home-rolled shell scripts. Java projects would typically use ant or maven. Or occasionally ant AND maven. I've encountered one or two java projects that used make. I've also encountered one or two projects where they couldn't guarantee or had forgotten how to do a reproducible build. These ranged from "Oh just run make 3 or 4 times in the top level until all the build errors from missing libraries go away" to "Steve was running a jenkins server on his personal workstation and it got shut down when he was laid off. Can you fix that for us while you're at it?" If any of that sounds like where you're at, the first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem.
Part of the problem is that people who don't wan the job are the ones most qualified to have it. We should have a draft, like jury duty. Just randomly select people for Washington duty. You get it, you HAVE to go to Washington and run the joint for 4 years. Then you get kicked out and won't get selected again. My reasoning for why this would work is that at the moment we could pick people randomly from a phone book and it would work better than what we have. Career politicians interested only in money and power beholden to huge corporations are a big part of the problem. My system would eliminate that. And 99% of Americans would probably be OK with it just for the salary you'd be pulling while you do it (170-230K a year even if you're in the rabble in the House of Representatives.)
I might be interested when it also glows in the dark. A tiny little glow pig would be awesome. This should be feasible at current levels of technology. Get to it!
Oh sure, but if you look at it the Democrats have always been sucking the Entertainment Industry's cock more than the Republicans have. Republicans deregulate the banking industry, Democrats push copyright extensions. Still looking for a party that wants to regulate the banking industry and shorten copyright duration. *shrug*.
Well you CAN write maintainable code in perl, you just have to use some discipline. Turn "use strict;" on everywhere, break your project up into packages across functional lines and have unit tests on everything. You know, all that stuff that no companies ever do. Given the choice between having to maintain a perl project and a ruby one, I'd take the perl project every time. At least you'll have some chance that the developers wrote some decent code, if only in self defense since they usually end up maintaining it themselves for a few years.
I thought we put image formats to bed in the 90's. Hell, it feels like png is just barely starting to be used by reputable companies even though browsers have supported it for a while. It also seems like we still don't have a viable replacement for animated GIFs either, even though png was supposed to take care of that as well. I suppose even if this image format is wildly successful by those standards, I'll just about be ready to retire by the time we start seeing it in widespread use.
Yuh huh. Served in their school system there, it was a disgusting greenish hue, in an even more disgusting pineapple... "sauce". I may have only been 6 at the time, but I still count it as one of the more disgusting things I've ever put in my mouth. And I've had durian and natto.
Yeah, that's a good point. I've met a couple of people who were apparently traumatized by canned peas growing up, at least one of them so severely that I thought he should seek therapy to address his food hang-ups. I've also met several people who were apparently traumatized by fish growing up. Again, at least one of them probably needed therapy for it. Given that we've been screwing up our kids to the point where they need therapy, we'd probably be better off if we just gave them all a brick and let them fend for themselves.
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Hmm. I must have missed that bit in the constitution. You know, that document we rely on to limit the power of the government so they don't abuse the population and get all tyrannical? Reckon I'll just have to put on my constitution-reading glasses and have another look. Bup bup bup shall not be infringed yadda yadda due process blah blah blah, nope, don't see that in there! Maybe I have one of those abridged constitutions. Maybe they cut the boring shit out to save space, or something.
No, wait. That's stupid.
Oh yeah, and not even a very good simulation. Clearly corners were cut. The dodgy temporal consistency between various points, the hard coded speed limit, the way parts of it just crash when you put too much mass in one place. I'm pretty sure it's just an n-dimensional undergrad project to demonstrate how to convert hydrogen into plutonium with nothing more than a few simple rules. Of course, now that some plutonium has been created, they'll probably shut the whole thing down as soon as someone notices.
Anywhoo, just switching doesn't do anyone a whole lot of good. You could also write an actual letter to their CEO explaining that you're switching banks because of this. One guy doing that won't get a whole lot of notice. If a few thousand letters start showing up, that might actually get their attention.
Usually, or else they contest an unemployment claim, meaning you have absolutely no income coming in for the duration of your unemployment. Of course, you could just quit and not be eligible for unemployment either. All completely legal.
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Are you sure about that? I'd like to see your TPS reports...
Looks like you have an engineer that wants to play with Rust on your dime. I've seen a lot of projects try to shoehorn a lot of shitty code in a lot of shitty languages into working because some jackass thought he could be more clever in that language. A few months later he's gone and you're stuck trying to maintain some abomination that tries to do asynchronous IO using threads in Ruby or some other goddamn shit. If you have an elevator shaft on hand, I suggest you acquaint him with the bottom of it, and then get on with your project.
Don't want to have your information collected, don't use Facebook. I mean seriously, what the fuck is wrong with you? Also, don't let Google or anyone else store a permanent cookie on you, don't stay logged in, don't keep a personal account on the search engine you use. For starters. Also don't use a web-based E-Mail service like gmail and encrypt all your E-mails fanatically. At this point the number of people willing to talk to you will be pretty small, which will make it much easier to not show up in social networks.
For bonus points, pull the battery out of your phone when you're not using it.
Even after all that, you probably won't be a freaking ghost, but at least you'll be making the few guys who know about you work for it.
In a wider context, we must enjoy gun violence or we'd have done something about it by now. Way I see it, you've got one of two options: Ban guns, like Australia did, or just give everyone a gun, require them to carry it at all times, and let the games begin! I know which one I'm rooting for!
Or I guess we could keep doing what we're doing and let evolution take its course. Maybe in a few generations we'll be able to dodge bullets like Neo in The Matrix.
Sounds like a lot of them are.
What's the actual union of people who don't want to kill animals for dinner but are also pissed off that their dinner then doesn't taste like animals? It seems like those people are just impossible to please. Yes, your dinner doesn't taste like meat. That's what you signed on for there, buddy!
Or possibly your software version of you would become another part of you. At that point it'd be easy enough to set you up with an implant that allows you to communicate with it, synchronize your memories and such. Except the software you would have much easier access to the online networks of information and might even be able to copy itself around for backup purposes and to accomplish more tasks simultaneously. Freed from the constraints of having to run on a meatputer, the new you could contribute more to "you" than your meat version. Eventually, when that part of you dies, you might not even notice it, any more than you notice the deaths of a bunch of brain cells when you go on a bender. Or perhaps you could store your DNA off and have a new body cloned for you whenever you feel like being a meat thing again for a while. If you change the idea of consciousness that radically, it's hard to even speculate what the mind of the future even looks like.
About half will vote Democrat because they're Democrats. About half will vote Republican because they're Republicans. If the Democrats or Republicans feel disheartened about their candidate, they'll just stay home, and 20% or less of voters will actually turn out to vote. The politicians and point-one-percenters are treating Americans like little bitches because they are little bitches. This situation will continue until that stops being the case.
Really about 1/4th of what you need is a VCS, and 3/4s of what you need is a sensible, documented and enforced process that requires unit tests and reproducible builds. I've been in the industry for 25 years now and have only seen this a couple of times. Sun's was very strict and required an 11 page form to be filled out so that the version control branch you were updating to could be unlocked. You had to include what feature or bug the update addressed, a description of what your code did, a sign off from a code review board and the diffs for the commit. Once you checked it all in, an automated system would pick up the changes, build and test them and send out an E-Mail blaming you if the build broke. Rogue Wave software also had an automated build and test system which would do nightly builds of their libraries over all the systems they supported (Which was damn close to all the systems that were ever invented.)
At most other places, the build process was an afterthought that was thrown together by the developers on the team. This could be anything from some hastily-assembled makefiles to home-rolled shell scripts. Java projects would typically use ant or maven. Or occasionally ant AND maven. I've encountered one or two java projects that used make. I've also encountered one or two projects where they couldn't guarantee or had forgotten how to do a reproducible build. These ranged from "Oh just run make 3 or 4 times in the top level until all the build errors from missing libraries go away" to "Steve was running a jenkins server on his personal workstation and it got shut down when he was laid off. Can you fix that for us while you're at it?" If any of that sounds like where you're at, the first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem.
Part of the problem is that people who don't wan the job are the ones most qualified to have it. We should have a draft, like jury duty. Just randomly select people for Washington duty. You get it, you HAVE to go to Washington and run the joint for 4 years. Then you get kicked out and won't get selected again. My reasoning for why this would work is that at the moment we could pick people randomly from a phone book and it would work better than what we have. Career politicians interested only in money and power beholden to huge corporations are a big part of the problem. My system would eliminate that. And 99% of Americans would probably be OK with it just for the salary you'd be pulling while you do it (170-230K a year even if you're in the rabble in the House of Representatives.)
And the author of the winning file extension name should get 10,000 Korean Dong.
I might be interested when it also glows in the dark. A tiny little glow pig would be awesome. This should be feasible at current levels of technology. Get to it!
Oh sure, but if you look at it the Democrats have always been sucking the Entertainment Industry's cock more than the Republicans have. Republicans deregulate the banking industry, Democrats push copyright extensions. Still looking for a party that wants to regulate the banking industry and shorten copyright duration. *shrug*.
Well you CAN write maintainable code in perl, you just have to use some discipline. Turn "use strict;" on everywhere, break your project up into packages across functional lines and have unit tests on everything. You know, all that stuff that no companies ever do. Given the choice between having to maintain a perl project and a ruby one, I'd take the perl project every time. At least you'll have some chance that the developers wrote some decent code, if only in self defense since they usually end up maintaining it themselves for a few years.
Have another Jolt! We'll wait!
I thought we put image formats to bed in the 90's. Hell, it feels like png is just barely starting to be used by reputable companies even though browsers have supported it for a while. It also seems like we still don't have a viable replacement for animated GIFs either, even though png was supposed to take care of that as well. I suppose even if this image format is wildly successful by those standards, I'll just about be ready to retire by the time we start seeing it in widespread use.
Yuh huh. Served in their school system there, it was a disgusting greenish hue, in an even more disgusting pineapple... "sauce". I may have only been 6 at the time, but I still count it as one of the more disgusting things I've ever put in my mouth. And I've had durian and natto.
Yeah, that's a good point. I've met a couple of people who were apparently traumatized by canned peas growing up, at least one of them so severely that I thought he should seek therapy to address his food hang-ups. I've also met several people who were apparently traumatized by fish growing up. Again, at least one of them probably needed therapy for it. Given that we've been screwing up our kids to the point where they need therapy, we'd probably be better off if we just gave them all a brick and let them fend for themselves.