Quacktime is worse. Quicktime is the only program that has fried machines that I've tried installing it on. Not just once, but three times. Plain old virgin installs of the OS, and the latest version of Quicktime, on three different machines. Crashed during install, and the thing never ran properly. It would always lock the machine up every time it tried to play a Quacktime movie. I finally just deleted the thing to fix the problems.
You are correct. Increasingly, I am programming C++ in a functional style. It all started when I learned STL and its generic programming.
So, nowadays when I want to apply a class of related functions to many different objects, I am just as likely to use a function object coupled with a STL container instead of a polymorphic solution.
I live in Texas and I'm pissed that they would run a protection racket. "Pay us $5 and we'll stop harassing you with our phone calls."
Screw that. I've been telling every single telemarketer who calls to put me on their do not call list. That has worked much better than anything else I could have done. I rarely get calls anymore.
The way he described his solution, he HAS allowed for different formulas for the flow rate.
To put things into C terms, he's got a whole set of functions that do different calculations. He's also got a whole set of pointers to those functions.
At run time, the type of the object is examined, and the right function pointer is used to call the right function to do the right calculation.
This is very standard practice when programing in C. I used to do it all the time. The only difference here is that C++ gives a language construct to make the bookkeeping easier.
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If you bring your DVD player from Holland, you'll also need to bring your TV set. Presumably the DVD would emit a PAL compatible signal, right? Or does that S-video thingy get around that problem..?
Linux is making serious inroads into corporations. I have personally worked on Linux solutions for companies that you have definitely heard of, and which run a lot of machines. One of those companies has retail stores in every city of the US, and many overseas. Each store has multiple registers and back office systems. All of them are going to be running Linux within the next couple years.
The other company is in the financial industry. You'd think that they have all the money in the world, but they too are implementing Linux solutions in an effort to save money. They took this step SPECIFICALLY based on Amazon's experience with Linux: it saved them a dump truck full of money.
So that's why Microsoft is concerned. The hype is definitely gone. Reality has set in, and Linux is kicking ass.
Sometimes, but not always, if your code is a mess, then that means that your business is a mess too. If your programmers have a hard time understanding the business, then your customers will too.
When you investigate those twistly little lines of code, see if a business rule can be simplified. Try really hard. If it can't be, then put it into code. Don't make the opposite mistake of making the rules TOO simple.
I installed it on 2.4.14 and I didn't notice a single bit of difference.
BUT, I'm also not doing anything that can really take advantage of it. I don't play music or movies. The most I will ever do is run vi and gcc at the same time.
So, it depends on what you do with your machine. The patch seems to work for people who want to play video on a machine with a high load.
You've got a point, but only partially. While it is true that we can't smoke pot now despite the civil disobedience of millions of people, it is also true that anybody of any race can sit at the front of the bus and the lunch counter at Woolworth's.
Henry David Thoreau was put into jail for not paying his taxes. Thoreau was big on the idea of civil disobedience as a way to address injustice in society. His friend Ralph Waldo Emerson visited him in jail and asked him "Henry, what are you doing in jail?"
Henry replied, "What are you doing OUT of jail?"
(Of course, if you live in a $27 house, even if it's on lakefront property, having the government take everything you own isn't a big deal.)
My key selling points include the ability to construct complex systems relatively quickly, an iterative approach to creating the end product by means of continuous interaction with the client
etc.
This does not make you unique. Everyone makes those claims. And most of them follow through on those claims most of the time. What would make you unique is if you could do what you promise 100% of the time. But, that's a very hard thing to do. Read the Software Engineering literature and you'll see that a huge percentage of projects fail. Most of the time it's not even for technical reasons. One of the worst situations you can get into as a consultant is to be caught between two powerful factions in a company. DOOM! DOOM!
So, my advice is this:
1) Be honest to the customer. Everyone tries to be. The hard part is being honest with yourself. If the customer is abusing you, you've got to realize it and get rid of them even if it means not eating for a week. If the customer is purposely driving the project into failure for political reasons you have no control over, you've got to admit it and get rid of them because failure will not help you succeed.
2) Don't do fixed bids if you can help it. Believe it or not, just about everyone's tried it, and those kinds of projects can be extremely painful for you. Customers can jerk you around all day because it doesn't cost them anything.
3) Politics: a fact of life. You're not going to get away from politics. In fact, you're likely to run into much more politics. At most consulting companies I've worked for, there has been a project manager AND a client manager. The client manager was in charge of kissing the client's ass, making sure that their vice Presidents ass was getting properly kissed. At smaller companies, the project manager was in charge of managing the relationship with the client.
If you get into business with a partner, realize that finding a business partner can be much more difficult than finding a wife who will love you, put up with your shit, and not cheat on you. Make sure that you put the appropriate amount of consideration into who you take on as a partner. Friends are sometimes NOT the right people to have as a business partner.
OK, that's all my advice. If I had more, I would have to charge you. (consultant joke! - you should have a rolodex full of jokes to tell your clients. Funny consultants make more money, trust me.)
No, it's not illegal to say it in the theater. Imagine two scenarios:
1) you yell fire, there is no fire, and nobody panics: Nothing happens. You did nothing wrong.
2) you yell fire, there is no fire, everybody panics and somebody gets trampled to death. You get arrested for charges related to the death of the person, NOT for yelling fire. Yelling fire was perfectly OK. You're charged with something other than "illegal speech".
Did you realize that Afghanistan is landlocked? Not much worry that the Afghans will get one and threaten us. But if they do, I'm sure the Swiss Navy will take care of it for us.
My Deb box is at the latest Potato version, so there's nothing to update. Once Woody goes into freeze, I'll probably upgrade to that.
Running a stable system is far far more important to me than running the latest stuff. I rely on this computer to do my work, and If I break something, it's a bad thing.
What is your greatest strength?
What is your greatest weakness?
ACK! Sorry, those were the SUCKIEST questions ever. In fact they are almost pet peeves of mine. PLEASE let all those HR departments out there that still use these MORONIC questions to just STOP, please. Damn, if anyone ever asks me those questions AGAIN I will blow a NUT.
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Quacktime is worse. Quicktime is the only program that has fried machines that I've tried installing it on. Not just once, but three times. Plain old virgin installs of the OS, and the latest version of Quicktime, on three different machines. Crashed during install, and the thing never ran properly. It would always lock the machine up every time it tried to play a Quacktime movie. I finally just deleted the thing to fix the problems.
The spammer is a poet and he don't realize it!
Aren't there two islands? Why not call them the New Zealands then? Is that so wrong? Or how about New Zealand and Newer Zealand?
Is that some kind of sponge that escaped from a kitchen sink somewhere and reverted to a life in the wild? The mind boggles...
That's nothing. I left my house right here before I went to the bar, and now it's missing. Does anybody know who moved my house?
I didn't realize that the residents of Omaha were eating so much fiber that you could detect it in the sewers.
You are correct. Increasingly, I am programming C++ in a functional style. It all started when I learned STL and its generic programming.
So, nowadays when I want to apply a class of related functions to many different objects, I am just as likely to use a function object coupled with a STL container instead of a polymorphic solution.
I've got something to say. I got your address off a mailing list, so I'll come over to your house and yell it out of your window.
P.S. Please have dinner ready by 6. Thanks.
I live in Texas and I'm pissed that they would run a protection racket. "Pay us $5 and we'll stop harassing you with our phone calls."
Screw that. I've been telling every single telemarketer who calls to put me on their do not call list. That has worked much better than anything else I could have done. I rarely get calls anymore.
The way he described his solution, he HAS allowed for different formulas for the flow rate.
To put things into C terms, he's got a whole set of functions that do different calculations. He's also got a whole set of pointers to those functions.
At run time, the type of the object is examined, and the right function pointer is used to call the right function to do the right calculation.
This is very standard practice when programing in C. I used to do it all the time. The only difference here is that C++ gives a language construct to make the bookkeeping easier.
If you bring your DVD player from Holland, you'll also need to bring your TV set. Presumably the DVD would emit a PAL compatible signal, right? Or does that S-video thingy get around that problem..?
Linux is making serious inroads into corporations. I have personally worked on Linux solutions for companies that you have definitely heard of, and which run a lot of machines. One of those companies has retail stores in every city of the US, and many overseas. Each store has multiple registers and back office systems. All of them are going to be running Linux within the next couple years.
The other company is in the financial industry. You'd think that they have all the money in the world, but they too are implementing Linux solutions in an effort to save money. They took this step SPECIFICALLY based on Amazon's experience with Linux: it saved them a dump truck full of money.
So that's why Microsoft is concerned. The hype is definitely gone. Reality has set in, and Linux is kicking ass.
Sometimes, but not always, if your code is a mess, then that means that your business is a mess too. If your programmers have a hard time understanding the business, then your customers will too.
When you investigate those twistly little lines of code, see if a business rule can be simplified. Try really hard. If it can't be, then put it into code. Don't make the opposite mistake of making the rules TOO simple.
I installed it on 2.4.14 and I didn't notice a single bit of difference.
BUT, I'm also not doing anything that can really take advantage of it. I don't play music or movies. The most I will ever do is run vi and gcc at the same time.
So, it depends on what you do with your machine. The patch seems to work for people who want to play video on a machine with a high load.
You've got a point, but only partially. While it is true that we can't smoke pot now despite the civil disobedience of millions of people, it is also true that anybody of any race can sit at the front of the bus and the lunch counter at Woolworth's.
Henry David Thoreau was put into jail for not paying his taxes. Thoreau was big on the idea of civil disobedience as a way to address injustice in society. His friend Ralph Waldo Emerson visited him in jail and asked him "Henry, what are you doing in jail?"
Henry replied, "What are you doing OUT of jail?"
(Of course, if you live in a $27 house, even if it's on lakefront property, having the government take everything you own isn't a big deal.)
Hmmmm. That's amazing. I wonder how many billions of Solitaires go into a single Slashdot?
My key selling points include the ability to construct complex systems relatively quickly, an iterative approach to creating the end product by means of continuous interaction with the client
etc.
This does not make you unique. Everyone makes those claims. And most of them follow through on those claims most of the time. What would make you unique is if you could do what you promise 100% of the time. But, that's a very hard thing to do. Read the Software Engineering literature and you'll see that a huge percentage of projects fail. Most of the time it's not even for technical reasons. One of the worst situations you can get into as a consultant is to be caught between two powerful factions in a company. DOOM! DOOM!
So, my advice is this:
1) Be honest to the customer. Everyone tries to be. The hard part is being honest with yourself. If the customer is abusing you, you've got to realize it and get rid of them even if it means not eating for a week. If the customer is purposely driving the project into failure for political reasons you have no control over, you've got to admit it and get rid of them because failure will not help you succeed.
2) Don't do fixed bids if you can help it. Believe it or not, just about everyone's tried it, and those kinds of projects can be extremely painful for you. Customers can jerk you around all day because it doesn't cost them anything.
3) Politics: a fact of life. You're not going to get away from politics. In fact, you're likely to run into much more politics. At most consulting companies I've worked for, there has been a project manager AND a client manager. The client manager was in charge of kissing the client's ass, making sure that their vice Presidents ass was getting properly kissed. At smaller companies, the project manager was in charge of managing the relationship with the client.
If you get into business with a partner, realize that finding a business partner can be much more difficult than finding a wife who will love you, put up with your shit, and not cheat on you. Make sure that you put the appropriate amount of consideration into who you take on as a partner. Friends are sometimes NOT the right people to have as a business partner.
OK, that's all my advice. If I had more, I would have to charge you. (consultant joke! - you should have a rolodex full of jokes to tell your clients. Funny consultants make more money, trust me.)
The last time I had a terrible dilemma with the choice of a user interface was when I chose bash over ksh.
On the Fourth of July, either one will do.
No, it's not illegal to say it in the theater. Imagine two scenarios:
1) you yell fire, there is no fire, and nobody panics: Nothing happens. You did nothing wrong.
2) you yell fire, there is no fire, everybody panics and somebody gets trampled to death. You get arrested for charges related to the death of the person, NOT for yelling fire. Yelling fire was perfectly OK. You're charged with something other than "illegal speech".
See my point?
Did you realize that Afghanistan is landlocked? Not much worry that the Afghans will get one and threaten us. But if they do, I'm sure the Swiss Navy will take care of it for us.
My Deb box is at the latest Potato version, so there's nothing to update. Once Woody goes into freeze, I'll probably upgrade to that.
Running a stable system is far far more important to me than running the latest stuff. I rely on this computer to do my work, and If I break something, it's a bad thing.
What is your greatest strength?
What is your greatest weakness?
ACK! Sorry, those were the SUCKIEST questions ever. In fact they are almost pet peeves of mine. PLEASE let all those HR departments out there that still use these MORONIC questions to just STOP, please. Damn, if anyone ever asks me those questions AGAIN I will blow a NUT.
And for my second question, what will they call the particle after that?