Agreed, but if the copyright on something has expired, then companies should be free to open up something like that to the world
If the copyright on something has expired, then it IS open to the world. The company doesn't have to do anything. And if they have an agreement/contract with another company, then so what? The copyright would be expired.
If you only learn one language you are not learning programming.
Sure you are... You are just programming in one language. That is like telling someone who only speaks English, that they really aren't studying History (or math, or any other subject)
My "The C Programming Language" is just over 200 pages, while my Python: Essential Reference is about 700. Except that most of the language specific stuff is in the first 100 pages or so, while the gazillion libraries included take up the other 600 pages.
. If you're checking out people's source and checking in stuff with different indentation then you're an idiot. Python fortunately prevents this.
Actually it doesn't, and that is part of the problem. Python only enforces that the indentation at a given scope is consistent. But it doesn't say that every indentation has to be 2 spaces or 4 spaces or whatever.
People who bring up the whitespace issue are noobs.
NO serious program language would FORCE you to use whitespace the way Python does. It is insane.
The fact that it looks nice, and most people end up doing it that way is irrelevant. The fact that most editors don't show the difference between tabs and spaces, and that you can't easily comment out some code (or reuse it momentarily, somewhere else) makes Python a paint to use.
Am I a noob? I've only been using Python for about a year. And I constantly bemoan the whitespace idoicy.
It is moronic to use whitespace that way. New or not.
Imagine hundreds of books set in the Dune Universe or the Star Wars Universe or Cory Doctorow's shitty wet dream of a universe he calls a novel...... crap.
There ARE hundreds of books written in the Star Wars Universe. And there are hundreds written in the Star Trek Universe.
But you know what is worse, there are THOUSANDS written in the real universe. OMG! The horror! Imagine all of the unimaginative novels written by authors that suck and couldn't come up with their own ideas, so they wrote about our own real universe.
e. You have sexism that runs deep through the dogma of all three. You have churches who have officially sanctioned everything from genocide to sexually abusing children to slavery. This stuff isn't even in the distant past. I can find examples in the last century where each of these religions has committed terrible atrocities
Those crimes are human in nature, and are not relegated to a particular religion (or set of religions)
How does this work at any speed, other than standing still?
They claimed they tested this in the lab, simulating different car speeds by varying the speed of the streams of water. Except the water always started off in the same place, which is not the case of a rain drop, when you are travelling at high speed. Not to mention the rain doesn't always fall straight down.
Based on the picture, it appears that it looks at the "top" to see where the rain drops are, but you if you are travelling at hghway speeds, you don't really care about the rain drops at the "top"
1. Yes, all advertising is evil. The money wasted on advertising could be used to do things like provide cheaper or better products instead. If advertising is essential to consumer-capitalism, that means there is something fundamentally wrong with consumer-capitalism.
Without advertising, companies won't have money to provide cheaper or better products.
If people that buy internet access always have access to several different options then any ISP that behaves badly will lose customers.
The problem is people don't have several different options.
I have two, DSL or Cable. BOTH of which are a government allowed monopoly. As such they must be regulated.
Why not give the people what they want full access too all musical works from all record companies with proper ownership rights.. Can't be that hard and all the money wasted on litigation could have paid for that service already.
They won't let you buy what you want, so you just take it? I know lots of places that won't sell you want you want, I guess you just take their stuff too?
Not providing the source code either suggests you have something bad to hide,
Not providing the source code does not suggest in any way shape or form that you have something to hide. Only that you wish to get compensated for your hard work.
but I'm not that great about donating to the open source ones that wish to run on donations either.
How do you expect them to run? Should the developers starve then?
I've moral problems with contributing to software that takes away my freedom,
So you don't contribute to software projects that update the Constitution? I don't understand, what freedoms to you feel these programs are taking away? So you don't buy a car, because it will take away your freedom to walk?
He's right. TV is really just for the old and the dull, now. I mean, really... paying out the ass to be force fed advertisements?
I pay may for my internet than I do for my cable... My internet forces me to watch way more ads than my tv does. At least i can fast forward through the tv commercials (if I wasn't so lazy)
I've interviewed at Google, and at Microsoft, as well as a few other technical places, for similar positions. The interview process was very similar. Stand in front of a white board, solve and then code a small problem. Or discuss design. I think the biggest difference is lunch was not exactly an interview with Google, but it was with Microsoft.
Many technical companies will do several hour long interviews. Interviewing is difficult, and that want to spend some time to get it right. If you want the job, you'll take the time... otherwise stay with your current job.
it combines a paid-for business version of Google's standard maps product with an application downloaded to a worker's smartphone, creating a real-time record of worker locations
Slashdot Mirror
Agreed, but if the copyright on something has expired, then companies should be free to open up something like that to the world
If the copyright on something has expired, then it IS open to the world. The company doesn't have to do anything. And if they have an agreement/contract with another company, then so what? The copyright would be expired.
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If you only learn one language you are not learning programming.
Sure you are... You are just programming in one language. That is like telling someone who only speaks English, that they really aren't studying History (or math, or any other subject)
My "The C Programming Language" is just over 200 pages, while my Python: Essential Reference is about 700. Except that most of the language specific stuff is in the first 100 pages or so, while the gazillion libraries included take up the other 600 pages.
. If you're checking out people's source and checking in stuff with different indentation then you're an idiot. Python fortunately prevents this.
Actually it doesn't, and that is part of the problem. Python only enforces that the indentation at a given scope is consistent. But it doesn't say that every indentation has to be 2 spaces or 4 spaces or whatever.
People who bring up the whitespace issue are noobs.
NO serious program language would FORCE you to use whitespace the way Python does. It is insane.
The fact that it looks nice, and most people end up doing it that way is irrelevant. The fact that most editors don't show the difference between tabs and spaces, and that you can't easily comment out some code (or reuse it momentarily, somewhere else) makes Python a paint to use.
Am I a noob? I've only been using Python for about a year. And I constantly bemoan the whitespace idoicy.
It is moronic to use whitespace that way. New or not.
Imagine hundreds of books set in the Dune Universe or the Star Wars Universe or Cory Doctorow's shitty wet dream of a universe he calls a novel...... crap.
There ARE hundreds of books written in the Star Wars Universe. And there are hundreds written in the Star Trek Universe.
But you know what is worse, there are THOUSANDS written in the real universe. OMG! The horror! Imagine all of the unimaginative novels written by authors that suck and couldn't come up with their own ideas, so they wrote about our own real universe.
e. You have sexism that runs deep through the dogma of all three. You have churches who have officially sanctioned everything from genocide to sexually abusing children to slavery. This stuff isn't even in the distant past. I can find examples in the last century where each of these religions has committed terrible atrocities
Those crimes are human in nature, and are not relegated to a particular religion (or set of religions)
They remind me of a saying -- Their organization is so ridiculous that no matter how hard you tried you just couldn't make something like that up.
And yet someone did... Almost as if a science fiction author created a whole universe...
Doesn't that imply that some things reflect positively on the "church?"
How does this work at any speed, other than standing still?
They claimed they tested this in the lab, simulating different car speeds by varying the speed of the streams of water. Except the water always started off in the same place, which is not the case of a rain drop, when you are travelling at high speed. Not to mention the rain doesn't always fall straight down.
Based on the picture, it appears that it looks at the "top" to see where the rain drops are, but you if you are travelling at hghway speeds, you don't really care about the rain drops at the "top"
1. Yes, all advertising is evil. The money wasted on advertising could be used to do things like provide cheaper or better products instead. If advertising is essential to consumer-capitalism, that means there is something fundamentally wrong with consumer-capitalism.
Without advertising, companies won't have money to provide cheaper or better products.
If people that buy internet access always have access to several different options then any ISP that behaves badly will lose customers.
The problem is people don't have several different options.
I have two, DSL or Cable. BOTH of which are a government allowed monopoly. As such they must be regulated.
No concern of heat or dry or hurricane or earthquake or tornado ...
And there are no volcanoes either...
Because its warmer in Maine. Not sure why you are singling out Maine, most of the state lies south of Washington.
Why not give the people what they want full access too all musical works from all record companies with proper ownership rights.. Can't be that hard and all the money wasted on litigation could have paid for that service already.
For Free? Because that is what most people want.
Except they won't let you buy what you want.
They won't let you buy what you want, so you just take it? I know lots of places that won't sell you want you want, I guess you just take their stuff too?
Not providing the source code either suggests you have something bad to hide,
Not providing the source code does not suggest in any way shape or form that you have something to hide. Only that you wish to get compensated for your hard work.
but I'm not that great about donating to the open source ones that wish to run on donations either.
How do you expect them to run? Should the developers starve then?
I've moral problems with contributing to software that takes away my freedom,
So you don't contribute to software projects that update the Constitution? I don't understand, what freedoms to you feel these programs are taking away? So you don't buy a car, because it will take away your freedom to walk?
He's right. TV is really just for the old and the dull, now. I mean, really... paying out the ass to be force fed advertisements?
I pay may for my internet than I do for my cable... My internet forces me to watch way more ads than my tv does. At least i can fast forward through the tv commercials (if I wasn't so lazy)
It's like YouTube
It isn't like YouTube at all.
, and I have a valid Arizona driver's license. I doubt that I will be randomly asked for my immigration papers..
FTA:
An Arizona state driver's license provides the presumption of legal residency
So yeah, if you have an AZ driver license, I doubt they'll ask you "papers please"
I've interviewed at Google, and at Microsoft, as well as a few other technical places, for similar positions. The interview process was very similar. Stand in front of a white board, solve and then code a small problem. Or discuss design. I think the biggest difference is lunch was not exactly an interview with Google, but it was with Microsoft.
Many technical companies will do several hour long interviews. Interviewing is difficult, and that want to spend some time to get it right. If you want the job, you'll take the time... otherwise stay with your current job.
it combines a paid-for business version of Google's standard maps product with an application downloaded to a worker's smartphone, creating a real-time record of worker locations
Not to MY smartphone.
How about "Slashdot Pirates Prior Slashdot Story"