When you need the cheapest, most power-efficient servers you can find, to the point where you criticize your suppliers publicly, you're not willing to pay for the most expensive cables out there.
Besides, all the seal clubbers are buying those up.
Sit yourself down for a half hour, promising yourself that at the end of the half hour, you'll get up and take a break.
That's conditioning for misery. While it might work in a factory, it also guarantees that you will burn out, fast. Not to mention programming is the kind of job you absolutely must have fun with to realize your potential. You don't code so the day will be over quicker, you code because you enjoy it.
Just remember the excitement you first felt when you successfully told a computer what to do.
3) Determine the absolutely smallest possible component of this job that you need to do. Maybe a 5 minute job. If you can't break down a big job into smaller jobs, you're in the wrong business. Pick that smallest little job and do it. Write it down on a physical list and tick it off. Actually do this step.
4) Determine the next little job. Work a bit to find the next smallest task. Rinse and repeat.
I hear ya. Whatever you do with that code, keep fiddling with it. Keep your attention on it even if it's just some comment formatting. After a while, your brain starts to get into gear and next time you look up from your screen, the janitor will be telling you to go home already.
For most of us, there is a certain period of time we have to sit and look stupid, before we can be productive. Just stick with it.
Well its about time the Conservatives got on the right side of this. The Liberals are whores to the American media companies. The Conservatives SHOULD have been rational about this but they got in bed with the same people who will TURN ON THEM EVERY ELECTION. The Media companies are ultimately Liberal stooges. Still, it remains to be seen if this is simply lip service or if this is something else.
You mean you have two big parties which are not equally bad? Canada can't be that wierd.
That's the beauty of a default: it'll just freaking work. Not ideally, but good enough to get you going and let you change it later on, at your own pace.
Wrong. That's hardware detection. And it's gotten so good I don't even have an xorg.conf anymore.
Imprefect does not mean useless, just ask the boffins at Lockheed, Airbus, or anyone else in the bussiness of civil, mechanical, hydrostatic or electrical engineering.
It does when we're talking about global climate and ecosystem. If one of those places with severely reduced wind suddenly provides the perfect breeding ground for a new strain of bacteria that eventually wipes out humanity, you don't get to say "Whoops. We'll do it better next time."
Of course this is an absurd example, but it illustrates my point perfectly.
I always thought that warning messages were more likely to get you killed in the 0.05s you spend pressing "ok" when you could have done the one thing you wanted to do.
They'd be more effective to only let you use the TV in "radio mode", e.g. no video to distract you from the road.
Democracy is a POS form of government. Has been at least as far back as the Greek empire.
There never was a "Greek empire" with democracy. There were separate city states, with varying forms of government. The "empire" you think of is most probably Athens, where democracy did work, but that's not because of the system. It's because everyone knew everyone else, and honor was considered more important than life. If you got caught with a lie, even your grandson would be called a son of a liar.
Oh wow, we can spot something as tiny as a hurricane!
Here's a question for you to simulate with that: if we lower the average wind speed by 3 MPH across the globe, how does that affect the reproductive capabilities of the oak tree? How about other trees, like the maples, which use the wind to get their seed as far away as possible? Other plants which don't use bees?
Simulations are fun, but don't ever think you thought of everything.
Ocean water a few degrees warmer in select areas destroys coastal ecosystems, what will the wind averaging a few MPH less do?
For starters, there are a lot of plants that rely on the wind to distribute their reproduction material, not to mention the passats are responsible for the major oceanic currents which have a significant role in the climate of coastal areas around the world.
I don't think we can gather enough processing power in my lifetime to do a reasonable simulation on a system that complex.
At least as far as the Win-9X series running over DOS, MS automounting still also allowed for occasional auto-unmounting before all the write processes had finished, without making this at all clear to the typical user.
If you ever saw a FDD, you'd know that it was a hardware feature. Don't blame the software for the big plastic button that ejected your disk mid-write.
And it was perfectly clear to everyone that when the drive makes loud noises, don't interrupt it.
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With an election every four years, show me one politician that cares about those. Correspondingly, show me one who does care and gets re-elected.
The latest child porn scandal brings orders of magnitude more votes than the survival of the human race.
He will return as a pop dancing Zombie.
Again? Let's hope his nose doesn't fall off this time.
and that merely endorsing the idea of copyright law was not grounds for a mistrial
Separation of legislative and judiciary branches, anyone? A judge should not be involved in lawmaking, ever. Period.
Just like you don't give a cop the right to make up laws on the spot.
When you need the cheapest, most power-efficient servers you can find, to the point where you criticize your suppliers publicly, you're not willing to pay for the most expensive cables out there.
Besides, all the seal clubbers are buying those up.
Sit yourself down for a half hour, promising yourself that at the end of the half hour, you'll get up and take a break.
That's conditioning for misery. While it might work in a factory, it also guarantees that you will burn out, fast. Not to mention programming is the kind of job you absolutely must have fun with to realize your potential. You don't code so the day will be over quicker, you code because you enjoy it.
Just remember the excitement you first felt when you successfully told a computer what to do.
3) Determine the absolutely smallest possible component of this job that you need to do. Maybe a 5 minute job. If you can't break down a big job into smaller jobs, you're in the wrong business. Pick that smallest little job and do it. Write it down on a physical list and tick it off. Actually do this step.
4) Determine the next little job. Work a bit to find the next smallest task. Rinse and repeat.
I hear ya. Whatever you do with that code, keep fiddling with it. Keep your attention on it even if it's just some comment formatting. After a while, your brain starts to get into gear and next time you look up from your screen, the janitor will be telling you to go home already.
For most of us, there is a certain period of time we have to sit and look stupid, before we can be productive. Just stick with it.
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Wait a minute. Did Noah have daughters too?
if you take to a soldier in the right ear as your going down the squad line
The following person not only remembers it, he's scarred for life.
Seems like the classic example.
Classic in what way? I don't hear requests for cigarettes or change with either ear.
So you don't produce anything of value? I wouldn't be bragging about that.
I do, I just don't write a new operating system for every new project.
Mod parent up. The "several other [antivirus] scanners" won't detect new ones because they're tested against before release.
From a software engineering point of view, malware is state of the art.
All that he has done here is take a bunch of stuff that is known to work, but not economically, and tied it all together with a pretty diagram.
I do that too, just not with diagrams. I'm a programmer.
I'm just waiting for someone to figure out how to hijack what is essentially a wireless connection to someone's broadband...
Yeah. What better way to get out of a RIAA lawsuit than "they hacked my router"?
Well its about time the Conservatives got on the right side of this. The Liberals are whores to the American media companies. The Conservatives SHOULD have been rational about this but they got in bed with the same people who will TURN ON THEM EVERY ELECTION. The Media companies are ultimately Liberal stooges. Still, it remains to be seen if this is simply lip service or if this is something else.
You mean you have two big parties which are not equally bad? Canada can't be that wierd.
That's the beauty of a default: it'll just freaking work. Not ideally, but good enough to get you going and let you change it later on, at your own pace.
Wrong. That's hardware detection. And it's gotten so good I don't even have an xorg.conf anymore.
Maybe to get widespread broadband, the US needs an emerging tyra.. oh wait.
Imprefect does not mean useless, just ask the boffins at Lockheed, Airbus, or anyone else in the bussiness of civil, mechanical, hydrostatic or electrical engineering.
It does when we're talking about global climate and ecosystem. If one of those places with severely reduced wind suddenly provides the perfect breeding ground for a new strain of bacteria that eventually wipes out humanity, you don't get to say "Whoops. We'll do it better next time."
Of course this is an absurd example, but it illustrates my point perfectly.
I always thought that warning messages were more likely to get you killed in the 0.05s you spend pressing "ok" when you could have done the one thing you wanted to do.
They'd be more effective to only let you use the TV in "radio mode", e.g. no video to distract you from the road.
I'm fairly certain they're still ignoring the issue that the most people were interested in changing, legalization of marijuana.
California already voted on that. Then Washington told them they don't get to choose anymore.
Democracy is a POS form of government. Has been at least as far back as the Greek empire.
There never was a "Greek empire" with democracy. There were separate city states, with varying forms of government. The "empire" you think of is most probably Athens, where democracy did work, but that's not because of the system. It's because everyone knew everyone else, and honor was considered more important than life. If you got caught with a lie, even your grandson would be called a son of a liar.
Oh wow, we can spot something as tiny as a hurricane!
Here's a question for you to simulate with that: if we lower the average wind speed by 3 MPH across the globe, how does that affect the reproductive capabilities of the oak tree? How about other trees, like the maples, which use the wind to get their seed as far away as possible? Other plants which don't use bees?
Simulations are fun, but don't ever think you thought of everything.
Ocean water a few degrees warmer in select areas destroys coastal ecosystems, what will the wind averaging a few MPH less do?
For starters, there are a lot of plants that rely on the wind to distribute their reproduction material, not to mention the passats are responsible for the major oceanic currents which have a significant role in the climate of coastal areas around the world.
I don't think we can gather enough processing power in my lifetime to do a reasonable simulation on a system that complex.
There is nothing special about what they did...
Exactly. Besides, Nokia LGPL'd Qt. They could invade Iran, and still keep good PR.
At least as far as the Win-9X series running over DOS, MS automounting still also allowed for occasional auto-unmounting before all the write processes had finished, without making this at all clear to the typical user.
If you ever saw a FDD, you'd know that it was a hardware feature. Don't blame the software for the big plastic button that ejected your disk mid-write.
And it was perfectly clear to everyone that when the drive makes loud noises, don't interrupt it.