Mutation just means a change. The first person with Attribute Z was the mutation. Breeding happened. The trait was inherited. More breeding happened. etc. If the mutation was beneficial or preferential, it spread faster. If it was detrimental, it spread slower or disappeared.
Skin color, hair color, eye color ---- all mutations from whatever was original (probably dark for all three).
This exactly. Also, if you are on chat, it's easier to keep doing other things (i.e. watch TV) between questions. Just like the agent is multi-tasking, you can to.
The GP post would have disconnected his chat and still not had his problem fixed........this way may be annoying, but you'll eventually get to the L2 tech.
If the script works 70% of the time, then they just need someone who is able to follow the script without straying. These people are the L1 techs that man the phone. At some point the script says "escalate to L2". You pay L2 more because they are the ones that are inquisitive and will dig into a problem a little more. Your best bet is to not use the phone but to use online chat instead.......you bypass any accent issues and you can get your case past the script faster.
Another benefit of a versioning system is that you don't have to keep large chunks of commented out code. If it needs to go, delete it. It's in the history if you need to go back to it. This alone will clean up most of the spaghetti that a one-coder shop faces.
I'm hosting a party. And in traditional Slashdot fashion, it will be a party of one and in my mom's basement. Attendees will be given a bowl of hot grits that they may or may not slather over Jane Foster MiniMates (http://www.artasylum.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/janefosterfrostgiantback39.jpg) -- aka. Petrified Natalie Portman.
A carrier can hit you hard with missles/guns. Or a carrier can hit you fast by launching jets. A carrier is a portable full array of armed forces (land, sea, and air).
But is it a cube or a sphere (your description implies sphere but your definition implies cube)? If a sphere, is that a radius or a diameter? There's a reason that we use volume as a dimension......volume doesn't depend on shape.
When you focus on just those items, sure. But that table didn't include all of the features of both languages. Where's LINQ? Lamda expressions? etc.?
Run that same table to compare against any other language derived from C/C++.......there will be similar overlap. The point of that table looked like it was to get someone started on making the move from one language to the other.
Ditto. I have the HTC Arrive and still tell people that I love WP7 (of course, I'm mad at Sprint for their lack of support for WP7 --- I just hope it corrects with WP8) and I code in C# all day long. But that post was a tad "blech" to me as well.
But I was glad to see that WP8 made Yahoo's cut of "still relevant" phones.
Oh, the best bet is to negotiate the price and then negotiate the financing. They are two different transactions (one with the dealer and the other with the financing company) and you should treat them as such. But he indicated that there was a cash discount. My point was that paying with a credit card should get the same discount as cash.
I assume a Car Yard is what I refer to as a Car Dealership -- a place to purchase cars.......
I think the key is who is taking the risk. A car dealership gives a discount for cash because they don't take any risk. If you take a loan, there's a chance you will default.....and they take a hit for that. A normal shop (i.e. for clothes) doesn't take the hit if you use credit (other than increased transaction fees), so they don't give a discount.
If you were to go in to a car dealership and negotiate as if you were paying cash, but paid with a credit card, they would still give you the discount.
It's not just more pay, though. It's an upgrade in title. While that isn't that important in the grand scheme of day-to-day, when you go for the NEXT job, being a director has different implications than being a lead engineer. The next company will be more likely to hire you in at a management level instead of an IC level.......which usually entails more pay / perks.
As is this 40yo. If you're good at what you do, you'll be employable (no matter what the field, no matter what your age).
Oh, and I'm also one of those self taught programmers that went on to a degree in Computer Science. I understand the theory as well as the practice. I don't know "a language" -- I know how to program......a language is syntax and libraries. Sure, there are nuances of a language that only come with experience, but I can be up and coding in any language in a very short while and above average in skill within a few months. ----- This is how you stay employable.
Sadly, this is the closest thing I've ever found on the Internet to help someone get started picking the distro that fits their needs......and it's woefully incomplete. Which is my point.
It isn't that Linux isn't good. It's that for normal people, going to zero knowledge to running Linux is too daunting. Until someone comes along and creates a wizard that asks someone the right questions and results in "you should be using distro X with desktop environment Y and here are some starter apps that meet your needs", Linux will continue to be a niche product in terms of desktop usage. (Server usage is different -- because the audience is different.)
I don't think it's the learning curve. I think it's that there's TOO MUCH choice. I've made the argument many times over various other similar posts, but there isn't a lot of help for people unfamiliar with Linux to lead them to the right choices. If I ask one person, they'll say "Fedora is the best" and someone else will say "Ubuntu is better" and yet another person will say "No! It's Debian." or any other three distros that you want to pick. Same goes for desktop environments (GNOME vs KDE).
I'm a technically competent person (I've been coding since C64. I've built my own machines. I've installed Ubuntu via PXE.) But I don't want to spend hours and hours installing a distro, playing with it, and figuring out if it meets my needs.....only to turn around and blow it all away to try out the next one. There's too many choices and no guidance about what a particular distro does best.
I know each version of Linux is capable of the same things in the end, but some are better (by default) at certain things -- less configuration, less hunting for an obscure package, whatever. There's a reason a fork was made. If even just that was detailed, it might make it easier to pick a distro that matches your needs.
I'd be more inclined to think that it's because too many announcements have been leaked because people picked apart the SDK. (i.e. the 9-pin Apple connector)
Limiting the SDK release would likely minimize these types of leaks.
The reason they spend so much time on the comment block at the beginning is because of the auto-doc / code-context tools. If you put the "magic comment" info in, then you get pop-up text telling you the details about the arguments, for example.
Personally, I think commenting too much of the why in the code takes away from the design document. The design document should be a lot more complete (and in proper language instead of sentence fragments) -- including images and flowcharts and links to business rules. If you rely on the comment to understand the code, you miss a lot of the key information that a design document provides.
Comments that a brief but include references to the location in the design doc (i.e. version / page / section of the document) are more useful (and less clutter).
The things most frequently offered for free off of Craigslist are matresses (eww!), couches, and desks. You should be able to get a couple of desks and use the materials to create a custom desk fairly easily.
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Mutation just means a change. The first person with Attribute Z was the mutation. Breeding happened. The trait was inherited. More breeding happened. etc. If the mutation was beneficial or preferential, it spread faster. If it was detrimental, it spread slower or disappeared.
Skin color, hair color, eye color ---- all mutations from whatever was original (probably dark for all three).
Winner, winner, Chicken Dinner!
This exactly. Also, if you are on chat, it's easier to keep doing other things (i.e. watch TV) between questions. Just like the agent is multi-tasking, you can to.
The GP post would have disconnected his chat and still not had his problem fixed........this way may be annoying, but you'll eventually get to the L2 tech.
If the script works 70% of the time, then they just need someone who is able to follow the script without straying. These people are the L1 techs that man the phone. At some point the script says "escalate to L2". You pay L2 more because they are the ones that are inquisitive and will dig into a problem a little more. Your best bet is to not use the phone but to use online chat instead.......you bypass any accent issues and you can get your case past the script faster.
You could just wear one of those IR light hats.....
Just sneeze instead. It's not a smile. Within the letter of the law.
Another benefit of a versioning system is that you don't have to keep large chunks of commented out code. If it needs to go, delete it. It's in the history if you need to go back to it. This alone will clean up most of the spaghetti that a one-coder shop faces.
I'm hosting a party. And in traditional Slashdot fashion, it will be a party of one and in my mom's basement. Attendees will be given a bowl of hot grits that they may or may not slather over Jane Foster MiniMates (http://www.artasylum.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/janefosterfrostgiantback39.jpg) -- aka. Petrified Natalie Portman.
This.
A carrier can hit you hard with missles/guns. Or a carrier can hit you fast by launching jets. A carrier is a portable full array of armed forces (land, sea, and air).
That's why they aren't battleships.
Amen!
From the guy who surfs the Slashdot comments at -1.
If you code in a C-based language:
00 is 00st
01 is 00nd
10 is 10rd
11 is 11th
Which was the parent's point.
But is it a cube or a sphere (your description implies sphere but your definition implies cube)? If a sphere, is that a radius or a diameter? There's a reason that we use volume as a dimension......volume doesn't depend on shape.
Or.....assuming there is AT LEAST 1 (slight difference in mindset).
When you focus on just those items, sure. But that table didn't include all of the features of both languages. Where's LINQ? Lamda expressions? etc.?
Run that same table to compare against any other language derived from C/C++.......there will be similar overlap. The point of that table looked like it was to get someone started on making the move from one language to the other.
Ditto. I have the HTC Arrive and still tell people that I love WP7 (of course, I'm mad at Sprint for their lack of support for WP7 --- I just hope it corrects with WP8) and I code in C# all day long. But that post was a tad "blech" to me as well.
But I was glad to see that WP8 made Yahoo's cut of "still relevant" phones.
Oh, the best bet is to negotiate the price and then negotiate the financing. They are two different transactions (one with the dealer and the other with the financing company) and you should treat them as such. But he indicated that there was a cash discount. My point was that paying with a credit card should get the same discount as cash.
I assume a Car Yard is what I refer to as a Car Dealership -- a place to purchase cars.......
I think the key is who is taking the risk. A car dealership gives a discount for cash because they don't take any risk. If you take a loan, there's a chance you will default.....and they take a hit for that. A normal shop (i.e. for clothes) doesn't take the hit if you use credit (other than increased transaction fees), so they don't give a discount.
If you were to go in to a car dealership and negotiate as if you were paying cash, but paid with a credit card, they would still give you the discount.
That's odd.....because I have all three.......
It's not just more pay, though. It's an upgrade in title. While that isn't that important in the grand scheme of day-to-day, when you go for the NEXT job, being a director has different implications than being a lead engineer. The next company will be more likely to hire you in at a management level instead of an IC level.......which usually entails more pay / perks.
As is this 40yo. If you're good at what you do, you'll be employable (no matter what the field, no matter what your age).
Oh, and I'm also one of those self taught programmers that went on to a degree in Computer Science. I understand the theory as well as the practice. I don't know "a language" -- I know how to program......a language is syntax and libraries. Sure, there are nuances of a language that only come with experience, but I can be up and coding in any language in a very short while and above average in skill within a few months. ----- This is how you stay employable.
Sadly, this is the closest thing I've ever found on the Internet to help someone get started picking the distro that fits their needs......and it's woefully incomplete. Which is my point.
It isn't that Linux isn't good. It's that for normal people, going to zero knowledge to running Linux is too daunting. Until someone comes along and creates a wizard that asks someone the right questions and results in "you should be using distro X with desktop environment Y and here are some starter apps that meet your needs", Linux will continue to be a niche product in terms of desktop usage. (Server usage is different -- because the audience is different.)
I don't think it's the learning curve. I think it's that there's TOO MUCH choice. I've made the argument many times over various other similar posts, but there isn't a lot of help for people unfamiliar with Linux to lead them to the right choices. If I ask one person, they'll say "Fedora is the best" and someone else will say "Ubuntu is better" and yet another person will say "No! It's Debian." or any other three distros that you want to pick. Same goes for desktop environments (GNOME vs KDE).
I'm a technically competent person (I've been coding since C64. I've built my own machines. I've installed Ubuntu via PXE.) But I don't want to spend hours and hours installing a distro, playing with it, and figuring out if it meets my needs.....only to turn around and blow it all away to try out the next one. There's too many choices and no guidance about what a particular distro does best.
I know each version of Linux is capable of the same things in the end, but some are better (by default) at certain things -- less configuration, less hunting for an obscure package, whatever. There's a reason a fork was made. If even just that was detailed, it might make it easier to pick a distro that matches your needs.
I'd be more inclined to think that it's because too many announcements have been leaked because people picked apart the SDK. (i.e. the 9-pin Apple connector)
Limiting the SDK release would likely minimize these types of leaks.
The reason they spend so much time on the comment block at the beginning is because of the auto-doc / code-context tools. If you put the "magic comment" info in, then you get pop-up text telling you the details about the arguments, for example.
Personally, I think commenting too much of the why in the code takes away from the design document. The design document should be a lot more complete (and in proper language instead of sentence fragments) -- including images and flowcharts and links to business rules. If you rely on the comment to understand the code, you miss a lot of the key information that a design document provides.
Comments that a brief but include references to the location in the design doc (i.e. version / page / section of the document) are more useful (and less clutter).
The things most frequently offered for free off of Craigslist are matresses (eww!), couches, and desks. You should be able to get a couple of desks and use the materials to create a custom desk fairly easily.
But cows will provide a fuel source for the return trip. Just need a methane collection device.