On the one hand we have patent trolls, and on the other we have a large fleet of drones armed with hellfire missiles. Seems like somewhere in the middle should be a solution!
I've been watching developers a lot lately. The ones I've been watching will do anything in their power to not have to think about the data they're dealing with. Rather than code an SQL query, they'll harp at their manager that they need a object persistence framework. Rather than deal with hardware, they'll build everything as web services, until even a time query takes several seconds and 14 layers of abstraction. Rather than consider a data structure, they'll stuff everything into a map whether the application fits or not. Rather than take advantage of the speed of local storage, they'll mount everything on NFS. Every time the choice is between applying brute force and ignorance and actually thinking about what they're doing, they'll choose brute force and ignorance.
So really, what is reactive programming trying to accomplish here? Can I write tight, fast code that is sustainable over the long term, or is it just another stupid fucking thing bad developers insist they need so they can browse the web while the company struggles under the weight of their shoddy software?
Is the best kind of pizza. Now if they could just keep my water from exploding, too. In general I like my food and drink to be in the non-exploding category.
Even with a few very annoying pathing bugs, it's still kind of fun to bust out Dwarf Fortress and spend a few days each month pushing dwarves around. The stubby little bastards are simultaneously brilliant and so stupid that even when they manage to trap themselves in a room that's slowly filling with lava (with your good iron pick!) when there's an up ramp right behind them, you can't help but feel a small bit of satisfaction from watching them die. I remember the first time I breached a cavern and didn't realize I had to wall it off, and some ancient beast lumbered into my fortress. The dwarves were running everywhere and completely freaking out and the beast kept shooting this poison cloud everywhere and I just sat there laughing my ass off watching it all. I've never experienced anything like that in a game before.
And even though it only has ASCII graphics, if I play it too long I'll start dreaming of dwarves with their viking helmets in their marble halls. It's quite remarkable...
You COULD mandate end-to-end encryption if you were really that worried about it. That probably also wouldn't avoid snooping, but it'd make it a bit more difficult. We should probably also move away from using the browser as a mail client. But you're not really worried about snooping, are you? You're just worried about US snooping.
That happens all the time! You just have to stuff enough mass in one place to overflow the mass counter! Fortunately for the simulation, the localized error-handling keeps the whole damn thing from crashing.
And trying to put Everything in a box just makes Everything angry. Everything also doesn't like it when you anthromorphize it. For some value of Everything. I suppose some things might like it when you anthropomorphize them, but they're not Everything, are they?
Previous generations have all been exposed to exactly the same crap, we just didn't know they could cause brain damage at the time. And we turned out... hmm... Ok, so maybe that does explain some stuff...
This is a great idea! How about this then! We'll just tax a bit of their earnings every year for the rest of their natural lives! Anything that's left over we could put toward infrastructure, making sure that food and the environment is safe and paying salaries of Government workers! Of course, the more successful graduates will end up subsidizing the less successful ones and people who opted never to go to college, but that's just the way this sort of thing tends to go.
But we don't have the power to grant asylum as the THING THAT WE ARE!
Oh... oh... wait! Motion to give ourselves the power to grant asylum as the guys who run the thing that we're running! No... that would never work! Perhaps you should try Belgium. They'll give anyone asylum!
I was going to go into work, but I can't find a mule on short notice.:-P
When I was living down south, I usually ran my tires down to the wires as you can mostly get away with that down there. A good set of new all-season radials goes a long way toward making those crappy roads passable, even with rear wheel drive. Other problem down there is they're not really set up to clear the roads at all, so you get a lot more ice and snow on the road than you do in northern regions. Where I live now I swap my tires out a lot more often and they put some stuff down that keeps the roads more-or-less melted. Though a few days ago I drove in to work on top of a 2" thick layer of ice and didn't have a problem with it. Well... other than the huge temptation to do donuts in the parking lot on top of 2 inches of ice...
Having had 5 days of power outages in the last 4 years, I'm pretty much over expecting the power company to deliver power when I need it most. A backup generator is high on my list of priorities.
Obviously a large number of them think they're better at negotiating than they actually are. Nothing makes an IBM manager's asshole clench like the suggestion that the labor might be unionized, because they realize this. The last time they talked about fucking with the pension plan, they quickly backed off after the local site started holding protests and threatened to unionize. Some mediocre employees might benefit from unions, but it's easy to forget that unions brought us the 40 hour work week (Weekends were not so common back in the day,) and the current revulsion against exploiting child labor. In fact, many of the labor practices we take for granted today were brought about by union negotiation. The current perception that union workers are lazy good-for-nothings is largely Fox News propaganda, bought into by people who think they might one day be in a wealthier class than they currently are, but who never actually will.
Mostly being on salary, any hours you work over 40 a week are basically on your dime. Funnily a lot of companies where 60 hour weeks are the norm also pay below market on their salaries. But that's neither here nor there.
Knowing this, do you budget unit tests into your time? Or designs that allow unit testing? Do you write modular code that doesn't repeat itself and makes it easy to isolate bugs? Do you hold project managers' feet to the fire for requirements documents and demand revised estimates if they have a last-minutes requirements change? Well I suppose that depends on how much you like working on your own dime, doesn't it?
He IS that kind of God! Putting that delicious-looking apple tree smack in the middle of his garden? You can't win against a guy like that. He's the sort of person who puts bricks under hats.
Having learned from previous mistakes, the agency had taken the precaution of encrypting the documents using an incomprehensible standard known as "French," so no one really paid it any mind.
With gas going up and the hard-won benefits of our grandparents' unions eroding, it probably won't be much longer before the majority of Americans can't afford to own or operate any private vehicle, much less one that flies. Enjoy your bleak-ass future, bitches, I'm having another cigarette!
It sounds to me like AOL and IBM need a union. Bonus; if they trick some poor guy from India into coming over and working for them on a H1B, I bet the union could figure out how to hold the H1B if he ever decides to try to find other work.
We got this from Yul Brynner in 1989. Should have listened to him then, Skippy. Anyway, like the South Park cheerful smoking song goes, "If it gives me cancer when I'm 80 I don't care, who the hell wants to be 90 anyway?" I guess the answer to that one must be "Leonard Nimoy."
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Nah, they'll just push the dead hooker a bit to one side.
On the one hand we have patent trolls, and on the other we have a large fleet of drones armed with hellfire missiles. Seems like somewhere in the middle should be a solution!
So really, what is reactive programming trying to accomplish here? Can I write tight, fast code that is sustainable over the long term, or is it just another stupid fucking thing bad developers insist they need so they can browse the web while the company struggles under the weight of their shoddy software?
2) Can a 50 mm autocannon be mounted anywhere on the exoskeleton?
If the answers to these questions are "yes", I think I might enjoy old age significantly more than I thought I would.
Is the best kind of pizza. Now if they could just keep my water from exploding, too. In general I like my food and drink to be in the non-exploding category.
And even though it only has ASCII graphics, if I play it too long I'll start dreaming of dwarves with their viking helmets in their marble halls. It's quite remarkable...
You COULD mandate end-to-end encryption if you were really that worried about it. That probably also wouldn't avoid snooping, but it'd make it a bit more difficult. We should probably also move away from using the browser as a mail client. But you're not really worried about snooping, are you? You're just worried about US snooping.
That happens all the time! You just have to stuff enough mass in one place to overflow the mass counter! Fortunately for the simulation, the localized error-handling keeps the whole damn thing from crashing.
And trying to put Everything in a box just makes Everything angry. Everything also doesn't like it when you anthromorphize it. For some value of Everything. I suppose some things might like it when you anthropomorphize them, but they're not Everything, are they?
Previous generations have all been exposed to exactly the same crap, we just didn't know they could cause brain damage at the time. And we turned out... hmm... Ok, so maybe that does explain some stuff...
That's crazy talk! How the hell am I supposed travel FORWARD in time! It's not like anyone can JUST DO THAT!
Meh. I doubt the people would go for it...
Gotta say I'm a bit tempted to rejoin Facebook just to explore the options, since I might be aware of 4 or 5, tops...
Or you could just ask Q to create an alternate universe in which you already have a reservation...
Oh... oh... wait! Motion to give ourselves the power to grant asylum as the guys who run the thing that we're running! No... that would never work! Perhaps you should try Belgium. They'll give anyone asylum!
When I was living down south, I usually ran my tires down to the wires as you can mostly get away with that down there. A good set of new all-season radials goes a long way toward making those crappy roads passable, even with rear wheel drive. Other problem down there is they're not really set up to clear the roads at all, so you get a lot more ice and snow on the road than you do in northern regions. Where I live now I swap my tires out a lot more often and they put some stuff down that keeps the roads more-or-less melted. Though a few days ago I drove in to work on top of a 2" thick layer of ice and didn't have a problem with it. Well... other than the huge temptation to do donuts in the parking lot on top of 2 inches of ice...
Having had 5 days of power outages in the last 4 years, I'm pretty much over expecting the power company to deliver power when I need it most. A backup generator is high on my list of priorities.
What's Rand Paul doing that he's so concerned about?
Obviously a large number of them think they're better at negotiating than they actually are. Nothing makes an IBM manager's asshole clench like the suggestion that the labor might be unionized, because they realize this. The last time they talked about fucking with the pension plan, they quickly backed off after the local site started holding protests and threatened to unionize. Some mediocre employees might benefit from unions, but it's easy to forget that unions brought us the 40 hour work week (Weekends were not so common back in the day,) and the current revulsion against exploiting child labor. In fact, many of the labor practices we take for granted today were brought about by union negotiation. The current perception that union workers are lazy good-for-nothings is largely Fox News propaganda, bought into by people who think they might one day be in a wealthier class than they currently are, but who never actually will.
Too many dongs.
Knowing this, do you budget unit tests into your time? Or designs that allow unit testing? Do you write modular code that doesn't repeat itself and makes it easy to isolate bugs? Do you hold project managers' feet to the fire for requirements documents and demand revised estimates if they have a last-minutes requirements change? Well I suppose that depends on how much you like working on your own dime, doesn't it?
He IS that kind of God! Putting that delicious-looking apple tree smack in the middle of his garden? You can't win against a guy like that. He's the sort of person who puts bricks under hats.
Having learned from previous mistakes, the agency had taken the precaution of encrypting the documents using an incomprehensible standard known as "French," so no one really paid it any mind.
With gas going up and the hard-won benefits of our grandparents' unions eroding, it probably won't be much longer before the majority of Americans can't afford to own or operate any private vehicle, much less one that flies. Enjoy your bleak-ass future, bitches, I'm having another cigarette!
It sounds to me like AOL and IBM need a union. Bonus; if they trick some poor guy from India into coming over and working for them on a H1B, I bet the union could figure out how to hold the H1B if he ever decides to try to find other work.
We got this from Yul Brynner in 1989. Should have listened to him then, Skippy. Anyway, like the South Park cheerful smoking song goes, "If it gives me cancer when I'm 80 I don't care, who the hell wants to be 90 anyway?" I guess the answer to that one must be "Leonard Nimoy."