Sorry but on this issue I'm disregarding the words of Anonymous Cowards.
Normally they add value on this site but the astro-turfing has been far too immense on this particular issue and I just don't trust anything posted entirely anonymously.
Pseudonymous posters at least have a posting history I can use to determine their relative reliability.
Titanium does not have any special strength vs weight. It is slightly below Steel and slightly above aluminium. But at the end of the day they are all basically the same
No, they are not.
Which is why we make aircraft out of aluminium or titanium, and use steel where strength is more important than weight.
How the fuck you got an 'informative' for that spiel of bullshit is astounding.
but being mean to a white person for being white or such isn't at all the same thing as being mean to someone who is part of a group that has been systematically oppressed throughout history and has to deal with that kind of shit every day
Yes it is. It's called racism and it's wrong. Don't fucking do it.
I'll say things like "straight people suck" to my friends. Sure, that's not nice. It probably doesn't help. But it's not nearly has hurtful as being called a "faggot" by a stranger
Yes, it is. I'm straight and whether I suck or not is between me and my boyfriend.
Notice that if you type "heterophobic" into a word processor, it'll give you a red squiggly under it because it's not a word.
Well, take it out of your written self-portrait then.
That's why it's not the same.
Yes, it is the same. Don't fucking abuse me because I'm different to you, then bitch that you get abuse, you fucking hypocrit.
Let me ask you something, when you see those movies with the bumbling male loser and the sensible compassionate woman, which one do you sympathise with? Which one is the narrative sympathetic to? Who is the character you're meant to identify with?
Hint: It's never the man. Who, as you failed to point out, is there to be ridiculed, mocked and laughed at.
See also: "Meet the Parents" or half the 'comedy' films produced by Hollywood in the past decade.
Care to help set up a support group for the short balding men with round faces, because they're statistically disadvantaged on pay and seniority.
Incidentally, I don't see women being paid less for equal hours/effort/experience/seniority/skill and I don't see them ridiculed any more than men for it.
I've never been asked O(N) at interview. Maybe things work differently in the UK.
I'd sidestep the question anyway. Who gives a shit about the performance of that one algorithm, other factors will influence system speed and responsiveness far more.
In fact, if the primary reason you're recruiting is because you have one mission-critical algorithm that you need highly optimising and the rest of the architecture is solid, then you don't need me anyway. Hire a fresh computer science graduate on a contract for four months.
Cop: "Do you know what the speed limit here is?" Me, reading the speed limit sign behind him: "Yes, 50mph" Cop: "How fast were you going?" Me: "About 50" Cop: "No, you weren't. We had to do 80mph to catch up with you"
At this point I kept quiet. They'd put their lights on half a mile behind me.
After that little chat (and no ticket) I pulled away while he was still walking back to his car. Cruise control on at 50 to assure compliance. A quarter of a mile later, they pulled me over again. This time the driver got out.
Cop 2: "Why would you do that?" Me: "Do what?" Cop 2: "Go over the limit, knowing we were right behind you?" Me: "Do you really think I'd be that stupid?" Cop 2: "Well, I don't know you.." Fair point. Me: "I was driving at 50mph. I had cruise control on." Cop 2: "No. We had to do 65mph to catch up with you."
At this point I'm so proud that I didn't laugh, didn't mock her, didn't get out of the car and fucking slap her for being so bloody stupid.
Yeah, I had a requirements doc come through, attached to an email stating "This is a great set of requirements - nothing stopping us designing a solution now!"
One Excel based mockup of a screenshot and mention of six data sources that would need to be integrated.
Nothing about the data needed, or even what three of those data sources were. Nothing about data transforms, quality, enrichment, matching, de-duplication, survivorship. Nothing about screen functionality, user interactions, configurability. Nothing about availability, user numbers, scalability, performance.
Next thing I know I'm being called a 'blocker' and 'unresponsive' for asking for a little more information before we engage a third party to build a solution.
It all ended well. Third party engaged, CFO happy, idiotic ignorant manager playing political games firmly slapped, my team publicly thanked as being instrumental to success.
Still not sure it'll deliver though - still no fucking requirements. But there's a limit to how much you can mitigate risk..
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It's easier to just hack the ISP's QoS rules and prioritise my own bandwidth. No need to rush home from work that way.
I'm up for that - we'd get to nuke France.
It's worth losing London for.
Sorry but on this issue I'm disregarding the words of Anonymous Cowards.
Normally they add value on this site but the astro-turfing has been far too immense on this particular issue and I just don't trust anything posted entirely anonymously.
Pseudonymous posters at least have a posting history I can use to determine their relative reliability.
Since when the fuck was a 30% difference "roughly the same"?
Titanium does not have any special strength vs weight. It is slightly below Steel and slightly above aluminium. But at the end of the day they are all basically the same
No, they are not.
Which is why we make aircraft out of aluminium or titanium, and use steel where strength is more important than weight.
How the fuck you got an 'informative' for that spiel of bullshit is astounding.
You're supposed to sympathise with the idiotic braindead imbecile? Oh.
No wonder I thought it was a shit film.
Indeed. But kill 90% of the men and rape 90% of the women and it's the rape that'll get the headlines.
I'm reminded of the time I saw "Blazing Saddles" on a local broadcast channel. Needless to say, they silenced the word "Nigger"
There's a painful irony in that particular piece of censorship.
There's probably a more scientifically accurate term for someone that's scared of gay men.
'Homo' is the genus of hominids, not merely the subset that enjoy same-sex relationships. Homophobia is a fear of hominids.
Personally, games are where I get to be a complete bagful of dicks , because I'm not one in real life
I almost agree. It's not so much that I'm not one in real life, it's that societal norms prevent me from properly expressing my feelings.
However, I do tend to use gender, sexual preference and racially neutral terms and insults online.
"Fuckwit" is universal, unless playing with someone that has a genuine learning disability in which case it may be merely accurate.
but being mean to a white person for being white or such isn't at all the same thing as being mean to someone who is part of a group that has been systematically oppressed throughout history and has to deal with that kind of shit every day
Yes it is. It's called racism and it's wrong. Don't fucking do it.
I'll say things like "straight people suck" to my friends. Sure, that's not nice. It probably doesn't help. But it's not nearly has hurtful as being called a "faggot" by a stranger
Yes, it is. I'm straight and whether I suck or not is between me and my boyfriend.
Notice that if you type "heterophobic" into a word processor, it'll give you a red squiggly under it because it's not a word.
Well, take it out of your written self-portrait then.
That's why it's not the same.
Yes, it is the same. Don't fucking abuse me because I'm different to you, then bitch that you get abuse, you fucking hypocrit.
Let me ask you something, when you see those movies with the bumbling male loser and the sensible compassionate woman, which one do you sympathise with? Which one is the narrative sympathetic to? Who is the character you're meant to identify with?
Hint: It's never the man. Who, as you failed to point out, is there to be ridiculed, mocked and laughed at.
See also: "Meet the Parents" or half the 'comedy' films produced by Hollywood in the past decade.
Ever seen comments about the looks of a male CEO?
Yes. In fact, here's a fucking article full of comparisons of male CEOs: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com...
Care to help set up a support group for the short balding men with round faces, because they're statistically disadvantaged on pay and seniority.
Incidentally, I don't see women being paid less for equal hours/effort/experience/seniority/skill and I don't see them ridiculed any more than men for it.
lesbian overtones in a guy in a diving suit
Locking the man into an airtight container to minimise his influence
with a drill on his arm
..but retaining the body horror fear of penetration he represents
and a little girl sticking a syringe in dead bodies
..then subverting it into a female penetration scenario, taking advantaged of the neutered (dead) males.
always being a buffed guy
No, the diatribe didn't identify misandry or the unrealistic portrayal of men in video games.
Apparently we're not allowed to be part of the victim culture.
I've never been asked O(N) at interview. Maybe things work differently in the UK.
I'd sidestep the question anyway. Who gives a shit about the performance of that one algorithm, other factors will influence system speed and responsiveness far more.
In fact, if the primary reason you're recruiting is because you have one mission-critical algorithm that you need highly optimising and the rest of the architecture is solid, then you don't need me anyway. Hire a fresh computer science graduate on a contract for four months.
I've earned every job I've had on merit.
This whole 'networking' thing is great if you have the skills and aptitude for it, but a lot of us don't.
That depends whether you're generating revenue on those two hours of work.
Dunno, makes me want to puke.
Why not?
I don't understand why a fairly simple piece of electronics can't be manufactured cheaply. Multimeters aren't exactly cutting edge.
I recently had a conversation..
Cop: "Do you know what the speed limit here is?"
Me, reading the speed limit sign behind him: "Yes, 50mph"
Cop: "How fast were you going?"
Me: "About 50"
Cop: "No, you weren't. We had to do 80mph to catch up with you"
At this point I kept quiet. They'd put their lights on half a mile behind me.
After that little chat (and no ticket) I pulled away while he was still walking back to his car. Cruise control on at 50 to assure compliance. A quarter of a mile later, they pulled me over again. This time the driver got out.
Cop 2: "Why would you do that?"
Me: "Do what?"
Cop 2: "Go over the limit, knowing we were right behind you?"
Me: "Do you really think I'd be that stupid?"
Cop 2: "Well, I don't know you.."
Fair point.
Me: "I was driving at 50mph. I had cruise control on."
Cop 2: "No. We had to do 65mph to catch up with you."
At this point I'm so proud that I didn't laugh, didn't mock her, didn't get out of the car and fucking slap her for being so bloody stupid.
Oddly enough, still no ticket.
Yeah, I had a requirements doc come through, attached to an email stating "This is a great set of requirements - nothing stopping us designing a solution now!"
One Excel based mockup of a screenshot and mention of six data sources that would need to be integrated.
Nothing about the data needed, or even what three of those data sources were. Nothing about data transforms, quality, enrichment, matching, de-duplication, survivorship. Nothing about screen functionality, user interactions, configurability. Nothing about availability, user numbers, scalability, performance.
Next thing I know I'm being called a 'blocker' and 'unresponsive' for asking for a little more information before we engage a third party to build a solution.
It all ended well. Third party engaged, CFO happy, idiotic ignorant manager playing political games firmly slapped, my team publicly thanked as being instrumental to success.
Still not sure it'll deliver though - still no fucking requirements. But there's a limit to how much you can mitigate risk..
Or skip NASA and go with someone cheaper.
Sorry, no. Prices have come down a lot since I last checked.
The price per kilogram to Low Earth Orbit varies from $4,000 to $12,500 per kilogram
-- http://www.interorbital.com/in...
I'm cool with that.