Judging someone based on the code they've written could, potentially, get you (or the person giving you that code) in legal trouble. Some companies would not want me giving out the code I've written for them. It's technically not my code to be handing out to a potential competitor. Sure, you could cherry pick some generic methods out, but those could just as easily be cherry picked from a forum.
Not to mention that you can't really trust your government to protect you every minute of every day of your live in every corner of this country. If a bear is charging you in the woods, you can't yell for police to come save you. If someone attacks you in a dark alley and they have a knife to your throat, you can't pull out your government assigned pocket police officer to arrest that person.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
It doesn't say anything about being heard (except that the Government may not limit your ability to let them judge your claim of grievance... but that's not really the same as you are saying [if I interpreted correctly])
It simply says Congress can make no law which establishes any religion as "national". It also states that Congress shall make no law preventing you from speaking, reporting, or gathering peacefully or petitioning the Government to remedy a grievance you have.
I don't see where you interpret it as a "freedom to be heard". Naturally, as a human (with proper hearing) you inherently have a freedom to hear something, but The First does not say that you should be able to hear what I'm saying right now, just like I don't have the freedom to hear what someone is saying in L.A. right now from the other side of the country. If I want to hear it, I can travel, get Internet, buy a paper, or some other method to hear what they are saying, but it doesn't guarantee that I should be able to hear it... only that there can be no law preventing them from saying it.
I've been somewhat passively following this ordeal for about a month (maybe longer) now. Personally, I think if someone is constantly changing account names and trying to game the system, it's a clear violation of the "spirit of Slashdot" to begin with... so you are arguing with an AC who pointed this out. (Articulate are not.)
Main Points: First post is well known to be the premium spot. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out they get the most views. He/they regularly changes accounts because they want to keep good karma so people read the posts. (I can't seem to find the post where they stated it, mainly because I don't remember which account it was posted under and I didn't keep the link. [didn't find it that important until now...]) They get first post on Google/Android stories and Microsoft stories. Always with the same bias. (Usually "selling" something great about Microsoft either way...)
Side Points: There are companies called "Reputation management" companies that specifically try to game online systems to try to steer opinion. Slashdot's Karma system is not flawless and can be exploited (Hell, everyone knows about sock puppets.) I personally don't like to be played. I can't help but watch this train wreck.
Don't worry, that's coming... when the "new" factor of the clouds wears off and productivity goes back to normal. Eventually, they'll just start showing random epilepsy inducing colors.
You can still program in "curly brace languages" and keep indentation. In fact, it's much more robust because it ignores white-space convention and allows the developer to have a preference. You, however, do not have that option with meaningful white space languages. I like using tabs and turning on white-space characters in my editor because it gives me nice clean columns in code. I can quickly and easily see where a block of code starts and ends. I don't have to rely on the editor having support for indentation marks.
It does turn into a problem, however, when you don't like/can't stand the "standard convention." You lose some expression and environmental preferences when moving to a language where you have to program like everyone else. The bracketed notation allows each developer to work the way they want without really impacting anyone else on the team (tabs, spaces, all one line, etc.)
Personally, I'd like to see a language that allows the IDE to save the code in raw text without line delimiters for easier source control. When you check out that code, your IDE would format it to your tastes and allow you to work on it without having to get used to someone else's formatting preferences. Upon checking in the code, all line breaks and formatting is stripped. You could do that with some of the bracketed languages already by removing single line comments (and using/* */ instead) or by using a Lisp variant, but you would run into a shit-storm of pain trying that with one of the meaningful white-space languages.
That's not even covering the issues of displaying multiple spaces on web-pages that strip more than one sequential space. You have to go through special effort to ensure that doesn't occur.
But it really doesn't find good results and now that I know it has Bing for it's search, I see why. It has some neat features, but I actually tried to use it and ended up going back to Google because I couldn't find stuff.
It is interesting. Insight, Twitter, Cmdr (as in CmdrTaco?)Pony, we all know the pony April Fools, and now "Interesting"Fella. It's as if the person(s) doing it are trying to pick names that "feel" familiar to the community.
I personally can't wait to see what the next id is named.
The argument for 60fps isn't about genetically engineered people. It's about spikes. If you are running your game at 30FPS, you'll turn a corner or some monsters spawn in the next room that drop your FPS below that. The reason people want high frame rates is because of these spikes.
I don't think it matters. The movie butchered so many comic book back stories that it was incredibly painful to watch even after "the paint was applied."
I wouldn't call it a Ferrari either. Maybe a Pinto without a paint job.
Humans do not "accept the call" of supposedly powerful figures.
So we all run around breaking every law... because we are somehow unique? We're animals, get used to it. We find someone to latch onto and follow their word. Some of us are okay being independent, but a majority need some law or religion to tell them what to/not to do.
They've been paid to sit around waiting for it to be posted so he could say something nice about Microsoft. It's officially called "online reputation management" but it's essentially someone who's paid to tote the company line and up-sell the brand. They'll have several accounts and down-mod anyone that speaks ill of the company (or poster) For instance, I'd wager they have a registered account to see the incoming stories and it gives them time to come up with some advertisement for the release post. (AKA, the long post about how Microsoft is great. This one is a "karma bump" that basically tells you what everyone already knows to build up the account karma which they use to get the karma point bonuses so more people view it and down-mod dissenting opinion.)
This is the second account that I'm aware of that these people use (CmdrPony was mentioned as their previous, I do not know of the ones previous). The last account they basically came out and said they will create a new account because someone will eventually karma bomb them by down-voting every post they can to try to reduce the amount of trolling by this account. The new account will build up karma by posting agreeable comments, then start towing the line.
It's a leader/follower condition. Humans, lions, cats, dogs, pigs, cows... they all do it. It doesn't imply that the President is king as you tried to claim. It does however point out how humans will accept a leader (just as the aforementioned creatures do) and accept their call.
My friend can do that as well, but he recently got a new phone and has been relying on speech to text instead of taking a hand off the wheel.
Personally, I refuse to even talk on a phone while driving. If it's important, they'll leave a message and I can pretty safely, open my voicemail app on speakerphone and listen to the message if it's from someone important. I won't call/text while driving though so it'll wait till I can pull over or I get to my destination.
Sure, I can understand that. That's up to the police to determine though. Most officers I've talked to have no problem with someone driving up to 10 miles per hour over the limit on a clear day. I mainly have a problem with people assuming that the other person is just driving fast for their own ego. (It may be true 90% of the time, but that doesn't make it a valid excuse to enforce your opinions on the road IMHO.)
If you are driving through a different State and don't know where the hospitals are. Granted, if you do know where the hospital is, it's best just to go there and hopefully you don't have some dick in front of you trying to control traffic.
Then they can pull over. There's rarely a case where the person in the car has to be moving while talking. That's what we have emergency responders for - who can be called into action.
I'm sitting alongside the road, calling 911 because my passenger is having a heart attack and you drive buy cutting me off.
Now, depending on the power of this jammer, I may not be able to call anyone for a few minutes... life and death minutes.
That line of thought is the same reason people ride in the left lane at the speed limit because "other people shouldn't be driving faster!" You have absolutely no idea why the person in the other car is doing what they are doing. If you don't like what they are doing, you always have a choice of giving them plenty of room to get away from you. Taking the law into your own hands is never the appropriate action unless you are defending your life from an IMMEDIATE risk.
I'll admit to not reading the article, but from that description I can think of at least one situation, however unlikely, that would invalidate the phone. If he sent 11 texts, hopped in his truck and sped off in fury. You could have have a good 5-8 minutes to get into a wreck.
Maybe it's just the programmer in me that sees "11 texts in 11 minutes" and wonders what the distribution of those texts are in that 11 minutes.
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Judging someone based on the code they've written could, potentially, get you (or the person giving you that code) in legal trouble. Some companies would not want me giving out the code I've written for them. It's technically not my code to be handing out to a potential competitor. Sure, you could cherry pick some generic methods out, but those could just as easily be cherry picked from a forum.
Not to mention that you can't really trust your government to protect you every minute of every day of your live in every corner of this country. If a bear is charging you in the woods, you can't yell for police to come save you. If someone attacks you in a dark alley and they have a knife to your throat, you can't pull out your government assigned pocket police officer to arrest that person.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
It doesn't say anything about being heard (except that the Government may not limit your ability to let them judge your claim of grievance... but that's not really the same as you are saying [if I interpreted correctly])
It simply says Congress can make no law which establishes any religion as "national". It also states that Congress shall make no law preventing you from speaking, reporting, or gathering peacefully or petitioning the Government to remedy a grievance you have.
I don't see where you interpret it as a "freedom to be heard". Naturally, as a human (with proper hearing) you inherently have a freedom to hear something, but The First does not say that you should be able to hear what I'm saying right now, just like I don't have the freedom to hear what someone is saying in L.A. right now from the other side of the country. If I want to hear it, I can travel, get Internet, buy a paper, or some other method to hear what they are saying, but it doesn't guarantee that I should be able to hear it... only that there can be no law preventing them from saying it.
I've been somewhat passively following this ordeal for about a month (maybe longer) now. Personally, I think if someone is constantly changing account names and trying to game the system, it's a clear violation of the "spirit of Slashdot" to begin with... so you are arguing with an AC who pointed this out. (Articulate are not.)
Main Points:
First post is well known to be the premium spot. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out they get the most views.
He/they regularly changes accounts because they want to keep good karma so people read the posts. (I can't seem to find the post where they stated it, mainly because I don't remember which account it was posted under and I didn't keep the link. [didn't find it that important until now...])
They get first post on Google/Android stories and Microsoft stories. Always with the same bias. (Usually "selling" something great about Microsoft either way...)
Side Points:
There are companies called "Reputation management" companies that specifically try to game online systems to try to steer opinion.
Slashdot's Karma system is not flawless and can be exploited (Hell, everyone knows about sock puppets.)
I personally don't like to be played.
I can't help but watch this train wreck.
I got something like this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817994020 and put my boot drive on it. If I have to boot Windows, I simply undock it for the update.
Don't worry, that's coming... when the "new" factor of the clouds wears off and productivity goes back to normal. Eventually, they'll just start showing random epilepsy inducing colors.
This one? http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php/images/www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAyMjk
Wait for 3.3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Reputation_Management
It's real. People get paid to do it.
More:
https://www.google.com/#q=reputation+management
You can still program in "curly brace languages" and keep indentation. In fact, it's much more robust because it ignores white-space convention and allows the developer to have a preference. You, however, do not have that option with meaningful white space languages. I like using tabs and turning on white-space characters in my editor because it gives me nice clean columns in code. I can quickly and easily see where a block of code starts and ends. I don't have to rely on the editor having support for indentation marks.
It does turn into a problem, however, when you don't like/can't stand the "standard convention." You lose some expression and environmental preferences when moving to a language where you have to program like everyone else. The bracketed notation allows each developer to work the way they want without really impacting anyone else on the team (tabs, spaces, all one line, etc.)
Personally, I'd like to see a language that allows the IDE to save the code in raw text without line delimiters for easier source control. When you check out that code, your IDE would format it to your tastes and allow you to work on it without having to get used to someone else's formatting preferences. Upon checking in the code, all line breaks and formatting is stripped. You could do that with some of the bracketed languages already by removing single line comments (and using /* */ instead) or by using a Lisp variant, but you would run into a shit-storm of pain trying that with one of the meaningful white-space languages.
That's not even covering the issues of displaying multiple spaces on web-pages that strip more than one sequential space. You have to go through special effort to ensure that doesn't occur.
Isn't using Yahoo technically still using Bing? I wonder if the results are counted twice if they come up in Yahoo and Bing over-inflating the result.
But it really doesn't find good results and now that I know it has Bing for it's search, I see why. It has some neat features, but I actually tried to use it and ended up going back to Google because I couldn't find stuff.
It is interesting. Insight, Twitter, Cmdr (as in CmdrTaco?)Pony, we all know the pony April Fools, and now "Interesting"Fella. It's as if the person(s) doing it are trying to pick names that "feel" familiar to the community.
I personally can't wait to see what the next id is named.
The argument for 60fps isn't about genetically engineered people. It's about spikes. If you are running your game at 30FPS, you'll turn a corner or some monsters spawn in the next room that drop your FPS below that. The reason people want high frame rates is because of these spikes.
I don't think it matters. The movie butchered so many comic book back stories that it was incredibly painful to watch even after "the paint was applied."
I wouldn't call it a Ferrari either. Maybe a Pinto without a paint job.
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Yeah, go ahead... keep believing that.
Humans do not "accept the call" of supposedly powerful figures.
So we all run around breaking every law... because we are somehow unique? We're animals, get used to it. We find someone to latch onto and follow their word. Some of us are okay being independent, but a majority need some law or religion to tell them what to/not to do.
They've been paid to sit around waiting for it to be posted so he could say something nice about Microsoft. It's officially called "online reputation management" but it's essentially someone who's paid to tote the company line and up-sell the brand. They'll have several accounts and down-mod anyone that speaks ill of the company (or poster) For instance, I'd wager they have a registered account to see the incoming stories and it gives them time to come up with some advertisement for the release post. (AKA, the long post about how Microsoft is great. This one is a "karma bump" that basically tells you what everyone already knows to build up the account karma which they use to get the karma point bonuses so more people view it and down-mod dissenting opinion.)
This is the second account that I'm aware of that these people use (CmdrPony was mentioned as their previous, I do not know of the ones previous). The last account they basically came out and said they will create a new account because someone will eventually karma bomb them by down-voting every post they can to try to reduce the amount of trolling by this account. The new account will build up karma by posting agreeable comments, then start towing the line.
It's a leader/follower condition. Humans, lions, cats, dogs, pigs, cows... they all do it. It doesn't imply that the President is king as you tried to claim. It does however point out how humans will accept a leader (just as the aforementioned creatures do) and accept their call.
My friend can do that as well, but he recently got a new phone and has been relying on speech to text instead of taking a hand off the wheel.
Personally, I refuse to even talk on a phone while driving. If it's important, they'll leave a message and I can pretty safely, open my voicemail app on speakerphone and listen to the message if it's from someone important. I won't call/text while driving though so it'll wait till I can pull over or I get to my destination.
It may be the only one named after him, but my Brother served on a Destroyer named for Captain Jeremiah O'Brien USN and his five brothers: Gideon, John, William, Dennis and Joseph. The O'Briens were crew members on board the sloop Unity, which captured HMS Margaretta at the entrance to Machias harbor on 12 June 1775.
Sure, I can understand that. That's up to the police to determine though. Most officers I've talked to have no problem with someone driving up to 10 miles per hour over the limit on a clear day. I mainly have a problem with people assuming that the other person is just driving fast for their own ego. (It may be true 90% of the time, but that doesn't make it a valid excuse to enforce your opinions on the road IMHO.)
If you are driving through a different State and don't know where the hospitals are. Granted, if you do know where the hospital is, it's best just to go there and hopefully you don't have some dick in front of you trying to control traffic.
Then they can pull over. There's rarely a case where the person in the car has to be moving while talking. That's what we have emergency responders for - who can be called into action.
I'm sitting alongside the road, calling 911 because my passenger is having a heart attack and you drive buy cutting me off.
Now, depending on the power of this jammer, I may not be able to call anyone for a few minutes... life and death minutes.
That line of thought is the same reason people ride in the left lane at the speed limit because "other people shouldn't be driving faster!" You have absolutely no idea why the person in the other car is doing what they are doing. If you don't like what they are doing, you always have a choice of giving them plenty of room to get away from you. Taking the law into your own hands is never the appropriate action unless you are defending your life from an IMMEDIATE risk.
I'll admit to not reading the article, but from that description I can think of at least one situation, however unlikely, that would invalidate the phone. If he sent 11 texts, hopped in his truck and sped off in fury. You could have have a good 5-8 minutes to get into a wreck.
Maybe it's just the programmer in me that sees "11 texts in 11 minutes" and wonders what the distribution of those texts are in that 11 minutes.