This country wasn't founded on "I have nothing to hide so come live in my home and search it while you're at it." It was founded on being left alone by our government.
In no way, shape, or form am I advocating violation of privacy. The fact that you are in a public place with no preconception of your current location being private data kinda throws your argument out the window here. Again, if you read my post, you'd notice I don't condone stuff like wiretapping, et al, since they are violations of PRIVACY.
Maybe I'm myopic. Maybe my tinfoil hat fell off a little while ago. Maybe its because I have a brand new 7 month old.
I honestly don't see a problem. For the law abiding citizen there are *tons* of benefits for this.
1. Living in Texas (and yes, I like it here, even though it was 105 today) there are more than a fair share of illegal immigrants on our roadways. Many of them downright suck at driving. Most of them don't have insurance. Put those three factors together and when someone gets hit by one driving a big van full of paint supplies, your car is going to get wrecked. Your insurance is going to jump, and pretty soon insurance overall is going to jump, due to the high number of uninsured motorist claims. Don't start the "well look at your slippery slope" as I have personally been a witness to five of these in the past year.
2. Being a new father and looking down at my son every night, I would hate to think if he were ever abducted. If he were, and these systems were on every single cop car, (or even traffic light for that matter), it would be hard pressed for that person to get anywhere without his whereabouts being known (under the assumption the police knew his plate number). It might be a long shot, but its still more than exists right now.
3. What do I have to hide? Who cares where I go, or how I get there. I have my insurance, I have my registration, I have my inspection. I'm good to go.
And for the real thick tinfoil hat folks, don't you dare compare this to wiretapping. Your location in a public place is no way comparable to a phone conversation held in the private of your own home.
I hear what you're saying, but I kinda disagree with the "people don't expect it". For me, and I'm sure a few others...half the joy of coding is finding out new things. "Oh, I didn't know you could do that!"
For me, when you have comparison operators, I like to knwo what its doing, at the comparison line. I don't see it fitting to have to sort through objects to figure out that we're really doing a glorfied "between" check.
On a side note, creating a class that has two properties, and a method for comparison is by most standards "bad design" as all classes should try to achieve a 2:1 ratio of methods to properties. When you are setting more properties than methods, you really just creating a container class with a function.
I took my example from the T-SQL "BETWEEN" word, it makes logical sense and I personally think its more readable that way.
If we're still assuming.NET here...
No those aren't the same.
For simple read-only iteration of list/arry it's lovely. If you want to say, remove an item from an enumerated collection, you're going to blow up using a for-each statement. You can't modify a collection while iterating through it in that fashion, and a good ol' for loop is what you have to use.
With.NET 3.0/3.5, you can create something called an extension method. This would probably be better than creating a range class, or even the inline code the grandparent of this used... Lets look!
public static class DateExtensions { public static bool IsBetween(this DateTime tested, DateTime start, DateTime end) { return (tested >= start && tested <= end); } }
That leads to a great implementation that doesn't hide any variables or values and still allows for easy readability
Yeah, I'm gonna be the fanboi that wrecks the party...
A few notes about me:
1. I do web design. I know the pain involoved in getting all browsers working right. 2. I work in a microsoft environment. I use Office, Exchange, VS.NET and MS SQL.
I'm not going to venture to say that/. purposefully broke the new features, or even the/. site as a whole, it does seem a bit disheartening that you didn't even take the time and effort to make sure the thing was at least functional in IE6. I understand that this is a borderline MS hate site. I honestly don't read it for its objective opinions and unbiased headlines (although i did chuckle at the MS hate for creating torrents and asking "how do you feel about sharing the cost for MS's bandwidth"). It seems like complete nonsense that you would choose to not support the majority platform's majority browser. Sure, I know that there are quirks in IE6. I know there are also quirks in Ie7. I also know IE6 is the "browser of default" (not "browser of choice", since most people don't realize there is a choice) for most users out there. Is it the majority for hits on/.? That I don't know.
As far as "a few glitches" in IE7, the thing just doesn't work. The slider, which I'm going to believe is one of the key features of the entire firehose portion, doesn't slide. The whole color bar moves.
I was never delusional about the fact that this site is Anti-MS. I didn't, however, think it would go as far as to gear the site away from those people who, even though they may work for, use, or endorse MS products, could contribute to the meaninful dialog that brought/. out of the basement and into the spotlight.
Oh, don't get me wrong. I'm not saying you shouldn't know about vector math, or use a 3d engine as a learning point for that. I'm just saying that if you had a "noob question" it was *really* tough to get an answer from anyone.
Personally, I found that the Ogre3D game engine was great for making Demos and the likes. However, the supoort was the typical "RTFM, Noob" responses on their forums. The API was nice, but support was really tough to get a hold on, especially if you're new to vectors and the likes.
Why can't that be a position for their current MMO?
WoW has been running on the same engine since release in late 2004. Many MMOs (Dark Age for example) are constantly updating their game engine. Maybe this is just a new engine for the same MMO.
I mean, if we had longer headline text, headlines like "Illinois Bill Would Ban Social Networking Sites [from public library terminals]" wouldn't have to be truncated to such blatently dramatic alternatives.
This is completely true. Its also known as "Right to Work" state.
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Welcome to the 90%?
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The other 10%, of course.
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Honestly, Java was a great tool for me to get some of the big concepts in object oriented programming (OOP). I learned all about Polymorphism, inheritence, encapsulation, etc. That said, I had a side job where I was doing basic VB.NET (when.NET first came out) which really primed me for real world web development. You're going to come across people who will argue that MS sucks, that.NET is bloated, and that life in the web has to be on Apache, not IIS6.0. Do your own research, determine you own needs, and figure out for yourself which you like. I started off fresh out of college (about a semester before) without a CS degree doing.NET development at over $50,000. IMHO, thats decent for a first out. Now, 2 years later, I'm at $75,000 a year, in a great company, doing what I know how to do. Suprisingly enough, our shop also does Java too. Its about 60%.NET, and about 35% Java, and about 5% PHP.
Damn you Bill Gates! (Obligatory "something broke" reply)
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That's not the problem. How dare Microsoft make a language that is so easy to use, people who shouldn't even be programmers are using it! (Yeah, thats about 90% of the people out there. I blame the fact that most universities still require Fortran as a base language for CS degree.)
1. From reading the article, it doesn't appear that Vista is designed to make malware easy. People make malware easy. Honestly, does anyone else find it silly that an article stating such an obvious point of "Downloading cracks and hacks leads to trojans!" makes it to the front page of/. ? Next thing you know, we'll see a post "Vista designed to help you surf for porn"
2. How realistic is the threat of something installing itself to an Install DVD? Who keeps their install DVD in their drive during normal computing? If you're like me, you keep it locked away somewhere for fear of losing it. If you're dumb enough to keep a writable copy of your image in the drive where it can be a) deleted b) infected.....well go you?
This is really kinda on a case-by-case basis. I work for a company which has an office in Dallas, New York City, Philly and Clevelend. We're considered a "large company" by all accounts, yet we have freedom. Over 20 people have Itunes installed, I have personally requested 3 LCDs to work with (which is not the norm). We do play Quake 3 at lunch, which is nice. Tuesday after work is AoE III for a couple hours. Since we're a web company, you're free to choose your own browser, whether it be IE, FF, Opera or even Safari. (We have a few mac users too).
So, I'd say not to listen to the "large is bad" type posts, and do some more looking at the community you'll be getting into at the larger company.
And for the record, I'm C# all the way. Its gotten me every job I've had so far (since i'm a yewin)
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I'm not in the military, so I'm speaking out of my ass here.
The last time I checked, you couldn't stop a suicide bomber by throwing a copy of Fedora 9 at them.
Congrats to yourself, you're someone who lives north of Kansas, doesn't have kids, and is great at generalizing.
This country wasn't founded on "I have nothing to hide so come live in my home and search it while you're at it." It was founded on being left alone by our government.
In no way, shape, or form am I advocating violation of privacy. The fact that you are in a public place with no preconception of your current location being private data kinda throws your argument out the window here. Again, if you read my post, you'd notice I don't condone stuff like wiretapping, et al, since they are violations of PRIVACY.
Maybe I'm myopic. Maybe my tinfoil hat fell off a little while ago. Maybe its because I have a brand new 7 month old.
I honestly don't see a problem. For the law abiding citizen there are *tons* of benefits for this.
1. Living in Texas (and yes, I like it here, even though it was 105 today) there are more than a fair share of illegal immigrants on our roadways. Many of them downright suck at driving. Most of them don't have insurance. Put those three factors together and when someone gets hit by one driving a big van full of paint supplies, your car is going to get wrecked. Your insurance is going to jump, and pretty soon insurance overall is going to jump, due to the high number of uninsured motorist claims. Don't start the "well look at your slippery slope" as I have personally been a witness to five of these in the past year.
2. Being a new father and looking down at my son every night, I would hate to think if he were ever abducted. If he were, and these systems were on every single cop car, (or even traffic light for that matter), it would be hard pressed for that person to get anywhere without his whereabouts being known (under the assumption the police knew his plate number). It might be a long shot, but its still more than exists right now.
3. What do I have to hide? Who cares where I go, or how I get there. I have my insurance, I have my registration, I have my inspection. I'm good to go.
And for the real thick tinfoil hat folks, don't you dare compare this to wiretapping. Your location in a public place is no way comparable to a phone conversation held in the private of your own home.
Tell me different if you think so.
I hear what you're saying, but I kinda disagree with the "people don't expect it". For me, and I'm sure a few others...half the joy of coding is finding out new things. "Oh, I didn't know you could do that!"
For me, when you have comparison operators, I like to knwo what its doing, at the comparison line. I don't see it fitting to have to sort through objects to figure out that we're really doing a glorfied "between" check.
On a side note, creating a class that has two properties, and a method for comparison is by most standards "bad design" as all classes should try to achieve a 2:1 ratio of methods to properties. When you are setting more properties than methods, you really just creating a container class with a function.
I took my example from the T-SQL "BETWEEN" word, it makes logical sense and I personally think its more readable that way.
If we're still assuming .NET here...
No those aren't the same.
For simple read-only iteration of list/arry it's lovely. If you want to say, remove an item from an enumerated collection, you're going to blow up using a for-each statement. You can't modify a collection while iterating through it in that fashion, and a good ol' for loop is what you have to use.
My two bits:
.NET 3.0/3.5, you can create something called an extension method. This would probably be better than creating a range class, or even the inline code the grandparent of this used... Lets look!
With
public static class DateExtensions
{
public static bool IsBetween(this DateTime tested, DateTime start, DateTime end)
{
return (tested >= start && tested <= end);
}
}
That leads to a great implementation that doesn't hide any variables or values and still allows for easy readability
DateTime Signup = (Fetch some value here);
if(Signup.IsBetween(DateTime.Now.AddDays(-1), DateTime.Now)))
.......
You get the jist... I know thats picky, but you don't have to give up anything these days, if you try hard enough.
Its a wiki! Go in and edit it to say "tops" instead of "shirts"!
Good for him. Too bad the credit agencies don't agree.
Yeah, I'm gonna be the fanboi that wrecks the party...
/. purposefully broke the new features, or even the /. site as a whole, it does seem a bit disheartening that you didn't even take the time and effort to make sure the thing was at least functional in IE6. I understand that this is a borderline MS hate site. I honestly don't read it for its objective opinions and unbiased headlines (although i did chuckle at the MS hate for creating torrents and asking "how do you feel about sharing the cost for MS's bandwidth"). It seems like complete nonsense that you would choose to not support the majority platform's majority browser. Sure, I know that there are quirks in IE6. I know there are also quirks in Ie7. I also know IE6 is the "browser of default" (not "browser of choice", since most people don't realize there is a choice) for most users out there. Is it the majority for hits on /.? That I don't know.
/. out of the basement and into the spotlight.
A few notes about me:
1. I do web design. I know the pain involoved in getting all browsers working right.
2. I work in a microsoft environment. I use Office, Exchange, VS.NET and MS SQL.
I'm not going to venture to say that
As far as "a few glitches" in IE7, the thing just doesn't work. The slider, which I'm going to believe is one of the key features of the entire firehose portion, doesn't slide. The whole color bar moves.
I was never delusional about the fact that this site is Anti-MS. I didn't, however, think it would go as far as to gear the site away from those people who, even though they may work for, use, or endorse MS products, could contribute to the meaninful dialog that brought
Sad day, imnsho.
Oh, don't get me wrong. I'm not saying you shouldn't know about vector math, or use a 3d engine as a learning point for that. I'm just saying that if you had a "noob question" it was *really* tough to get an answer from anyone.
Personally, I found that the Ogre3D game engine was great for making Demos and the likes. However, the supoort was the typical "RTFM, Noob" responses on their forums. The API was nice, but support was really tough to get a hold on, especially if you're new to vectors and the likes.
Dumb question:
Why can't that be a position for their current MMO?
WoW has been running on the same engine since release in late 2004. Many MMOs (Dark Age for example) are constantly updating their game engine. Maybe this is just a new engine for the same MMO.
This is indeed resolved. Sony isn't the she-devil anymore. (Not reall, and yes I own a Wii)
I mean, if we had longer headline text, headlines like "Illinois Bill Would Ban Social Networking Sites [from public library terminals]" wouldn't have to be truncated to such blatently dramatic alternatives.
This is completely true. Its also known as "Right to Work" state.
Welcome to the 90%?
The other 10%, of course.
Honestly, Java was a great tool for me to get some of the big concepts in object oriented programming (OOP). I learned all about Polymorphism, inheritence, encapsulation, etc. That said, I had a side job where I was doing basic VB.NET (when
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Damn you Bill Gates! (Obligatory "something broke" reply)
That's not the problem. How dare Microsoft make a language that is so easy to use, people who shouldn't even be programmers are using it! (Yeah, thats about 90% of the people out there. I blame the fact that most universities still require Fortran as a base language for CS degree.)
I wonder if you smoke some pot before the competition, you'll get kicked out for "doping".
Sorry, that was bad.
Two points from a MS Fanboi here:
/. ? Next thing you know, we'll see a post "Vista designed to help you surf for porn"
1. From reading the article, it doesn't appear that Vista is designed to make malware easy. People make malware easy. Honestly, does anyone else find it silly that an article stating such an obvious point of "Downloading cracks and hacks leads to trojans!" makes it to the front page of
2. How realistic is the threat of something installing itself to an Install DVD? Who keeps their install DVD in their drive during normal computing? If you're like me, you keep it locked away somewhere for fear of losing it. If you're dumb enough to keep a writable copy of your image in the drive where it can be a) deleted b) infected.....well go you?
ASP.NET is really the use of C# or VB.NET in web development. You couple this with HTML, CSS, etc.
This is really kinda on a case-by-case basis. I work for a company which has an office in Dallas, New York City, Philly and Clevelend. We're considered a "large company" by all accounts, yet we have freedom. Over 20 people have Itunes installed, I have personally requested 3 LCDs to work with (which is not the norm). We do play Quake 3 at lunch, which is nice. Tuesday after work is AoE III for a couple hours. Since we're a web company, you're free to choose your own browser, whether it be IE, FF, Opera or even Safari. (We have a few mac users too).
So, I'd say not to listen to the "large is bad" type posts, and do some more looking at the community you'll be getting into at the larger company.
And for the record, I'm C# all the way. Its gotten me every job I've had so far (since i'm a yewin)