I knew it was boring way up in Northern Michigan, but until now, I never imagined just how boring it actually is. I guess in Manitoba they must be benchmarking DOS calls in various MS operating systems. I guess it beats watching caribu mate.
1) We make a lot of money. We have lots of opportunities for raises. I'll be damned if my 20% annual raise is reduced to a "cost of living increase" by a union
2) We are not politically unified. Programmers don't fit into a single voting block as factory workers tend to do. I doubt that we're all going to get behind Tom Harkin for the next election.
3) For many people, programming is a step towards management (not me, I'm a programmer forever). What the hell are those people going to do? Fight management one day, and then become a manager the next? Talk about blowing up a bridge WELL BEFORE you even get to it...
4) We don't need unions to protect our benefits. Generally, we don't care about benefits past the medical care and 401K. We just want employers to forget the sports equipment reimbursement type of "benefit" and just give us the fuckin' money.
5) I don't want a union to tell me that I can only work 37.5 hours a week. I work as long as I want to, or as short as I want to. A union would force some kind of stifiling structure on my life. If I'm going to be at work at 9 AM, then that's because I happened to be awake all night, not because I've turned into a clock puncher.
I like the old "hair of the dog" remedy for a hangover. The problem is that I have Boston Terriers and they don't shed enough to provide a really effective cure.
At Mars it would work. On Earth, you need taper, because without it you would overwhelm the nuclear forces that hold matter together. There is no material possible that could support an untapered tether at Earth.
Can they take their neural net and apply it to a bunch of programs that I have, and tell me which ones will terminate and which ones don't?
Seems like the problem of classifying what is offensive is just as hard as classifying what programs will terminate. Why do they even bother? Can I find someone to pay me to make gold out of tinfoil?
They need to start looking for prehistoric vampire hampsters preserved in amber. Those vicious little animals could put a lot of blood in their stomachs, plus they used to pack quite a load in their little cheek pouches. Thankfully, they died out when no more dinosaur blood could be found.
A large number of messages in this list have been marked funny. Is the age of a language proportional to the number of jokes that people have invented about it?
I think there must be an organized attempt to make some kind of statement or something about the moderation system. As if anyone really gives a rat's ass. Oh well, if the trolls weren't doing this, they'd be free to fuck up important things. We should be thankful I guess.
Please put in the sockets and signals that Qt implement? Those are damn nice.
And something else... figure out some way to make the error messages from templates more readable. Templates are extremely nice, but when you screw one up, finding your mistake involves parsing a line with 8000 characters. This one's probably more for compliler implementers, but if there's a clean way to help in the language, do it.
If you're worried about stringing a wire across the room, just get one of those wireless phone jacks. Don't worry about getting the ones rated for high speed modems. Mine is the plain old crappy kind, and my TiVo connects at 14400. I haven't noticed any problems from that yet.
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The performance that I care about is "do it work???" and the NE2000 cards give me no trouble at all. 3c509 cards are also sweet and trouble free.
I knew it was boring way up in Northern Michigan, but until now, I never imagined just how boring it actually is. I guess in Manitoba they must be benchmarking DOS calls in various MS operating systems. I guess it beats watching caribu mate.
1) We make a lot of money. We have lots of opportunities for raises. I'll be damned if my 20% annual raise is reduced to a "cost of living increase" by a union
2) We are not politically unified. Programmers don't fit into a single voting block as factory workers tend to do. I doubt that we're all going to get behind Tom Harkin for the next election.
3) For many people, programming is a step towards management (not me, I'm a programmer forever). What the hell are those people going to do? Fight management one day, and then become a manager the next? Talk about blowing up a bridge WELL BEFORE you even get to it...
4) We don't need unions to protect our benefits. Generally, we don't care about benefits past the medical care and 401K. We just want employers to forget the sports equipment reimbursement type of "benefit" and just give us the fuckin' money.
5) I don't want a union to tell me that I can only work 37.5 hours a week. I work as long as I want to, or as short as I want to. A union would force some kind of stifiling structure on my life. If I'm going to be at work at 9 AM, then that's because I happened to be awake all night, not because I've turned into a clock puncher.
My BS alarm is going off. How about a pointer to the article you're talking about? You're making a claim, and you need to provide the evidence.
I like the old "hair of the dog" remedy for a hangover. The problem is that I have Boston Terriers and they don't shed enough to provide a really effective cure.
Does it run in VMWare? Or Plex86? That capability would be a great way to try it out.
NEVER EVER buy any other laptop than an IBM Thinkpad. They're the best.
What do you mean computer science terms? I didn't even mention the words "halting problem" even once.
And, if you know just a little of what I am talking about, you'd know that problems that are equivalent to the halting problem ARE impossible.
I maintain that an obscenity filter is impossible. First, you have to define obscenity, and I challenge you to do that.
At Mars it would work. On Earth, you need taper, because without it you would overwhelm the nuclear forces that hold matter together. There is no material possible that could support an untapered tether at Earth.
Can they take their neural net and apply it to a bunch of programs that I have, and tell me which ones will terminate and which ones don't?
Seems like the problem of classifying what is offensive is just as hard as classifying what programs will terminate. Why do they even bother? Can I find someone to pay me to make gold out of tinfoil?
You convinced me. I just ran my Atari ST over with a truck. I haven't felt this good since 1985!
Ouch! What the hell is that thing I keep bumping my head on??????
They need to start looking for prehistoric vampire hampsters preserved in amber. Those vicious little animals could put a lot of blood in their stomachs, plus they used to pack quite a load in their little cheek pouches. Thankfully, they died out when no more dinosaur blood could be found.
Anyone out there with a licence plate that says
'CDR CAR'?
A large number of messages in this list have been marked funny. Is the age of a language proportional to the number of jokes that people have invented about it?
Come on big blue, we sure could use WordPro and 1-2-3 on Linux.
Obviously you got more than your fair share.
I think there must be an organized attempt to make some kind of statement or something about the moderation system. As if anyone really gives a rat's ass. Oh well, if the trolls weren't doing this, they'd be free to fuck up important things. We should be thankful I guess.
Do you realize that the whole world is now aware that your education was substandard?
I believe that's his point. If Ecclesiastes didn't exist, then he would be able to take credit for it.
I agree. Shameful that Shakespeare is still available, because it just overshadows everything made since then.
Silly idea that because something is great something else sucks a little bit more. Creativity isn't a zero sum game.
Could this fake company name be a purposeful mishmash of the words "indict" and "convict"? Who said that the suits don't have sense of humor?
Please put in the sockets and signals that Qt implement? Those are damn nice.
And something else... figure out some way to make the error messages from templates more readable. Templates are extremely nice, but when you screw one up, finding your mistake involves parsing a line with 8000 characters. This one's probably more for compliler implementers, but if there's a clean way to help in the language, do it.
Indrema is the Amiga of the 21st century!
This thing will never die!
If you're worried about stringing a wire across the room, just get one of those wireless phone jacks. Don't worry about getting the ones rated for high speed modems. Mine is the plain old crappy kind, and my TiVo connects at 14400. I haven't noticed any problems from that yet.
Shit man, take a pill. And please stay away from a computer. I don't want any "right wing code" to accidentally find it's way into the Linux kernel.