Standing too close to an officer is clearly not by necessity a crime. However if it is done in a threatening manner...
Uhm? I'd understand that threatening an officer could be a crime, but standing close to one "in a threatening manner", come on. It wouldn't even make a good threat: "If you go on with syntactical arguments, I'll stand close to you in a threatening manner my friend!" Whooo, shivers.
Seeing this getting flamed, he/ she has a point. The "I just do it for the art, it's not about money" type of artists may exist, but it's for sure that people that made millions selling media don't belong into that group. I don't doubt that Pink Floyd's music is art, but this was clearly a money-based decision.
Everybody and their grandma are opening an "appstore". How is this news? It's just the same that has always happened since the www grew popular: reinventing all the wheels with just another layer of abstraction. Today there is google docs using gwt which uses java to be transformed into seven versions of javascript code, which then is sent to a browser in order to render a text document...Built on top of a document delivery system (www+html+cgi). Same with all these appstores: They're just freshmeat with restrictions and corporate branding.
Of all the information I can find, no one is addressing the thickness of the display unit.
Pft, who cares. It consumes less energy and produces better (moving) pictures. That's what counts. The other properties are not as important, if the first two deliver.
Take the three minutes necessary to give the reader a proper explanation of what you don't like about it. "This fails if X possible but unlikely condition occurs," "This is unacceptably slow when more than N rows are returned because of Y," or something is more like it. "I don't have time to be helpful" is a lame excuse for not being very good at your job.
This. I always write these sorts of comments on quick hacks of my own, because I HATE it when I stumble upon undocumented code which is obviously a quick fix ignoring all exceptional cases. If you found out after a hard time of debugging a 480 line function; consisting of nested ifs containing complicated math and reference pointers pointing to god-knows-what... The reason was a probable division by zero on the 4th level (*1), you start thinking: The original author(*2) of this code KNEW this (or at least could find it out after analyzing her code for ten minutes) and COULD WRITE IT IN THE COMMENT. Best side effect: While writing a comment like this, you sometimes think about your code and find a cleaner solution in no time.
And by the way, if you simply recognize comments as part of the code, all the math of the GP concerning costs become false.
(*1) I know it's bad software design. But this is about MAINTAINING code, not software design.
(*2) It's like in literature: there are authors and writers, while in software development you have authors and programmers. Authors just do stuff, programmers just do stuff and have an ample mindset/ background/ mental condition thus delivering better quality.
Amen brother. Unless you are doing something like linux kernel development which may force you to use a terminal editor at 80x25, the 80 characters rule is stupid (and even then you can just reformat the text). I HATE it when the 80c rules breaks up statements and makes them unreadable.
I remember reading something about California...Some trees where dying out because people did always put out the bush fires. But these fires were needed by the trees to replicate, as the fires kills the bushes around the trees and the semen of the trees need the ashes to grow. I think it was some kind of famous giant tree.
Be nice parents (just be, don't "try to be"), have a real interest in your children. Send them to school but never forget: it's also YOUR thing to educate your children. If you put them in front of a XB360 or a TV or a PC connected to the net because the education is taken care of in school, epic fail. Grow some confidence, try to teach your children what YOU know, what you think is interesting or worth knowing. See what I did there?
Since I was ten years out of school I stopped believing anything following the pattern of...is going to run out/ be destroyed/ will definatively happen in X years. I remembered that a school book told me that 10 years from that time, all of the rainforest will be destroyed.
In 10 years the chance is pretty high that some more easily mined uranium will be found. They find new oil fields every other week.
Well, from today's point of view python seems like the right choice. This question just reminds me of when I started hacking, I was about the same age (11 I think). All I had was a kc 85/4 (picture of a kc 85/4; about the kc 85 series,) which was, much like the c64, programmable in basic (yes, you could use the OS of a kc 85/4 to write in machine language, but hey, I was 11). And no, I'm not dead, I just smell funny (my way of saying I'm OLD). Anyhow, I gather from my own experience, that the language you start coding in doesn't matter at all. All that matters is the desire to program that darn computer after you saw (mostly through games) what is possible if you only knew how to write code.
And hi to any of you other LKCC guys out there, just in case any of you reads/.
One important thing for me when judging the quality of a new release of a software lib/ development platform would be if it is usable with gcc. Qt is. If you look at the implications of compatibility with gcc (even a certain version), this means much: it may look terrible on some arcane systems, but it will work on all systems that give you a gcc dev env. As long as every lib you use has a decent open source license, like GPL, MIT or BSD that is.
...all you have to do is to give me some money every week...If I were you, I'd think about what can happen to that pretty phone if it wouldn't be protected...
..at least in my country, which is not the USA. The citizens MUST be able to read the law WITHOUT ANY conditions, be it monetary or otherwise. Seriously, if a down-and-out comes into the public library, stating she wants to read the code of social law, she must not be hindered, regardless of the smell. They still send out books of our constitution for free here.
try google app engine. seriously, no upfront cost, you set limits to what you want to pay and you actually pay only for the bandwith/ whatever resources you use. combined with some clever use of convential web space hosters, you get a really cheap solution. you just need to be clever and to think a bit, but hey, we're talking about indie developers.
like, make your engine open source and close up only vital parts of the game data (ie scripts etc), so you can serve the engine and most of the game data from sourceforge or any similar site. the internet is a powerful tool indeedd if you know how to use it.
Well, my experience differs. I often need to reinstall xp for friends or replace their vista installations (on their demand, I've long given up on "educating" my friends). Go to the shop, by an XP CD. Install. Try connecting to the internet. Try using WLAN. In most cases it doesn't work, because you need a driver to get the network adapter running (nforce for example), same with the WLAN adapter. No option to download updates or a graphics card driver (which would be pointless anyway without ethernet). If you are lucky they have some driver CD (they mostly don't) or you're stuck. However...I always install Ubuntu on a small second partition, so I (or they) have access to their files if windows won't boot/ is infected. Never had any problem connecting to the internet out of the box. The machines I worked on range from old notebooks to high-end gaming rigs. Moral of the story: They no longer go to the shop and by an XP CD, they just "find" the XP Black Edition (which includes lots of drivers) on teh intarwebz.
And don't get me started with that stupid "ISP connection software", it just connects via PPPOE, something which should be done through the router (I always set up their routers too, so they don't need any "program" to get online) or at least the system properties.
Any yeah, I know someone has a hardware configuration that gave her problems on Ubuntu, but hey, this is MY anecdote, and I've never ran into such trouble.
More than once I heard "I just use Linux, so I'm gonna have a secure system anyway". Yes, Linux is more secure by design than windows, but this attitude makes ppl dumb and lazy.
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Standing too close to an officer is clearly not by necessity a crime. However if it is done in a threatening manner...
Uhm? I'd understand that threatening an officer could be a crime, but standing close to one "in a threatening manner", come on. It wouldn't even make a good threat: "If you go on with syntactical arguments, I'll stand close to you in a threatening manner my friend!" Whooo, shivers.
I somewhat understand when poor or bankrupt shut down servers or stop supporting them, but MS? I mean, Halo 2 is a somewhat recent game.
Just have a look at the "Your WIFI is connected" balloon on XP.
Either that, or just disable css (firebug or chromium's web dev tools[ctrl+shift+i]). The actual "hiding" of the answers is on the client side.
Now tools for things like this are where Flash beats Java.
Well, there is http://processing.org/
Just don't tell me it's about "art"
Seeing this getting flamed, he/ she has a point. The "I just do it for the art, it's not about money" type of artists may exist, but it's for sure that people that made millions selling media don't belong into that group. I don't doubt that Pink Floyd's music is art, but this was clearly a money-based decision.
...which is the best pr0n viewer?
Everybody and their grandma are opening an "appstore". How is this news? It's just the same that has always happened since the www grew popular: reinventing all the wheels with just another layer of abstraction. Today there is google docs using gwt which uses java to be transformed into seven versions of javascript code, which then is sent to a browser in order to render a text document...Built on top of a document delivery system (www+html+cgi). Same with all these appstores: They're just freshmeat with restrictions and corporate branding.
Of all the information I can find, no one is addressing the thickness of the display unit.
Pft, who cares. It consumes less energy and produces better (moving) pictures. That's what counts. The other properties are not as important, if the first two deliver.
Take the three minutes necessary to give the reader a proper explanation of what you don't like about it. "This fails if X possible but unlikely condition occurs," "This is unacceptably slow when more than N rows are returned because of Y," or something is more like it. "I don't have time to be helpful" is a lame excuse for not being very good at your job.
This. I always write these sorts of comments on quick hacks of my own, because I HATE it when I stumble upon undocumented code which is obviously a quick fix ignoring all exceptional cases. If you found out after a hard time of debugging a 480 line function; consisting of nested ifs containing complicated math and reference pointers pointing to god-knows-what... The reason was a probable division by zero on the 4th level (*1), you start thinking: The original author(*2) of this code KNEW this (or at least could find it out after analyzing her code for ten minutes) and COULD WRITE IT IN THE COMMENT. Best side effect: While writing a comment like this, you sometimes think about your code and find a cleaner solution in no time.
And by the way, if you simply recognize comments as part of the code, all the math of the GP concerning costs become false.
(*1) I know it's bad software design. But this is about MAINTAINING code, not software design.
(*2) It's like in literature: there are authors and writers, while in software development you have authors and programmers. Authors just do stuff, programmers just do stuff and have an ample mindset/ background/ mental condition thus delivering better quality.
Amen brother. Unless you are doing something like linux kernel development which may force you to use a terminal editor at 80x25, the 80 characters rule is stupid (and even then you can just reformat the text). I HATE it when the 80c rules breaks up statements and makes them unreadable.
I remember reading something about California...Some trees where dying out because people did always put out the bush fires. But these fires were needed by the trees to replicate, as the fires kills the bushes around the trees and the semen of the trees need the ashes to grow. I think it was some kind of famous giant tree.
Be nice parents (just be, don't "try to be"), have a real interest in your children. Send them to school but never forget: it's also YOUR thing to educate your children. If you put them in front of a XB360 or a TV or a PC connected to the net because the education is taken care of in school, epic fail. Grow some confidence, try to teach your children what YOU know, what you think is interesting or worth knowing. See what I did there?
Since I was ten years out of school I stopped believing anything following the pattern of ...is going to run out/ be destroyed/ will definatively happen in X years. I remembered that a school book told me that 10 years from that time, all of the rainforest will be destroyed.
In 10 years the chance is pretty high that some more easily mined uranium will be found. They find new oil fields every other week.
Well, from today's point of view python seems like the right choice. This question just reminds me of when I started hacking, I was about the same age (11 I think). All I had was a kc 85/4 (picture of a kc 85/4; about the kc 85 series,) which was, much like the c64, programmable in basic (yes, you could use the OS of a kc 85/4 to write in machine language, but hey, I was 11). And no, I'm not dead, I just smell funny (my way of saying I'm OLD). Anyhow, I gather from my own experience, that the language you start coding in doesn't matter at all. All that matters is the desire to program that darn computer after you saw (mostly through games) what is possible if you only knew how to write code.
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And hi to any of you other LKCC guys out there, just in case any of you reads
One important thing for me when judging the quality of a new release of a software lib/ development platform would be if it is usable with gcc. Qt is. If you look at the implications of compatibility with gcc (even a certain version), this means much: it may look terrible on some arcane systems, but it will work on all systems that give you a gcc dev env. As long as every lib you use has a decent open source license, like GPL, MIT or BSD that is.
...all you have to do is to give me some money every week...If I were you, I'd think about what can happen to that pretty phone if it wouldn't be protected...
True confidence comes not from realising you are as good as your peers, but that your peers are as bad as you are.
So true.
..at least in my country, which is not the USA. The citizens MUST be able to read the law WITHOUT ANY conditions, be it monetary or otherwise. Seriously, if a down-and-out comes into the public library, stating she wants to read the code of social law, she must not be hindered, regardless of the smell. They still send out books of our constitution for free here.
yep, it's strange what looks you get when you answer the question "what do YOU believe in then?" with "common sense, and when uncertain, just sense" ;)
na, just be clever. for example...
try google app engine. seriously, no upfront cost, you set limits to what you want to pay and you actually pay only for the bandwith/ whatever resources you use. combined with some clever use of convential web space hosters, you get a really cheap solution. you just need to be clever and to think a bit, but hey, we're talking about indie developers.
like, make your engine open source and close up only vital parts of the game data (ie scripts etc), so you can serve the engine and most of the game data from sourceforge or any similar site. the internet is a powerful tool indeedd if you know how to use it.
Well, my experience differs. I often need to reinstall xp for friends or replace their vista installations (on their demand, I've long given up on "educating" my friends). Go to the shop, by an XP CD. Install. Try connecting to the internet. Try using WLAN. In most cases it doesn't work, because you need a driver to get the network adapter running (nforce for example), same with the WLAN adapter. No option to download updates or a graphics card driver (which would be pointless anyway without ethernet). If you are lucky they have some driver CD (they mostly don't) or you're stuck. However...I always install Ubuntu on a small second partition, so I (or they) have access to their files if windows won't boot/ is infected. Never had any problem connecting to the internet out of the box. The machines I worked on range from old notebooks to high-end gaming rigs. Moral of the story: They no longer go to the shop and by an XP CD, they just "find" the XP Black Edition (which includes lots of drivers) on teh intarwebz.
And don't get me started with that stupid "ISP connection software", it just connects via PPPOE, something which should be done through the router (I always set up their routers too, so they don't need any "program" to get online) or at least the system properties.
Any yeah, I know someone has a hardware configuration that gave her problems on Ubuntu, but hey, this is MY anecdote, and I've never ran into such trouble.
More than once I heard "I just use Linux, so I'm gonna have a secure system anyway". Yes, Linux is more secure by design than windows, but this attitude makes ppl dumb and lazy.
Yea, it's funny, but it is also true. Some people posted the same thing but with more words. As far as I am concerned, this should be EOT.
how can you "misuse" a gun? apart from hunting, its designed to kill humans.