What would your programming language look like if the Pointy-Haired Boss had to be able to understand it?
What would it look like? Each line must have a key in the first column:
Increases profits
Cuts costs
The competition is doing it
Helps us meet our ship date
Makes you look good to the VP
or it will fail to compile.
v.2 will have the compiler generate a histogram of keys for a given source file, and the make tool would actually generate graphs. I'm sure a real programming language designer can improve on the design.
It took me a few years in customer support to grasp this. Customer support, doctors, police, the IRS -- none of them set rules or policy. In the case of the police and IRS, from the top down, they're just executing an accumulating tangle of non-expiring laws that others have put in place.
Other than really large-scale easily-understandable malfeasance, only the actions of the customer-facing employees see these kinds of results of the public's anger and disrespect. You won't have that kind of understanding unless you've worked in a position like that.
But it sounds like the NSA non-customer-facing rank-and-file are experiencing the fallout of the malfeasance. I don't know if they can suck it up or pass the buck, but the end result might be the same.
The definition is largely "do you know that what you did was wrong."... So if a talking banana told you to do it, it doesn't really matter. You knew it was wrong and chose to do it anyway. You should have ignored the talking banana.
"I did ignore it, but then it produced a National Security letter saying I had to do it and that I wasn't allowed to tell anybody."
Based on reviews, my best guess is that you want to buy SSDs from manufacturers that own wafer fabs, because they have control over manufacturing, and their reputation for chip fabrication would suffer if they put out poor-quality SSDs. I'm thinking of Micron/Crucial, Intel, Samsung, Toshiba, Sandisk, among others.
Is this true, or are there more important factors to consider when choosing an SSD brand/model?
Doped up in a hospital bed his wounds became infected, requiring another surgery.
Not quite on-topic, but one discussion of checklists and complexity describes modern medical intensive care, and includes a story that prominently features infection issues.
'Outlook Web Access', aka Microsoft Exchange's web front-end, can provide much better search speed than the desktop client if the Exchange server is sufficiently powerful.
Yes. Look at it politically from his point of view. What was the alternative? Admit failure?
I don't know why he has to take responsibility for healthcare.gov's failure -- it was obviously a result of Bush's poorly thought-out and eventually doomed policies.
Phone tech support meets all of those criteria -- 9-5 with a phone shift somewhere in the middle, you don't have to be available once the tech support line closes, and there are contractual requirements to provide support to customers who have purchased the product.
Assuming the issue is real, is the gender disparity and situation sufficiently similar between sports and CS education to adapt Title IX's compliance test? How does Title IX's implementation actually work in practice?
This flies in the face of all that is good and natural -- the ability to evolve was clearly put in place by some kind of intelligent designer. This is blasphemy, I tell you.
That was actually my point, unnecessarily made in a roundabout way. It took Google to make a Microsoft product available to a wider group in the way that Gates is asking for. When I hear him sing their praises for doing that, I'll reevaluate his intentions.
I'm pretty sure this isn't going to get a fair shake here on Slashdot.
No, no, I'm willing to be fair about this. Now that the web has such rich functionality, let's say he takes an important flagship product and makes the core functionality available easily to the poor over the web, so anybody could use it as long as they have some basic internet access.
It wouldnt need a lot of enterprise features, just something that people can use to perform basic functions. Start with a word processor and a spreadsheet, and make it possible for poorer users to maintain data without having to own and maintain their own hardware.
Only relatively richer people can afford that right now, and even if it wouldn't make that much of a difference, it would be a place to get started, and could be implemented by paying a few developers, maybe even the ones who contributed to the original products.
Maybe it'll improve scientists' ability to explain their work to the layperson? That is, allowing a loose interpretation of 'explain', working your way through 'dumb down' all the way to 'tell/make up an engaging story'.
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What would your programming language look like if the Pointy-Haired Boss had to be able to understand it?
What would it look like? Each line must have a key in the first column:
or it will fail to compile.
v.2 will have the compiler generate a histogram of keys for a given source file, and the make tool would actually generate graphs. I'm sure a real programming language designer can improve on the design.
My favorite pastime as I get older is throwing people who don't like change under the bus.
I'll make a note of that. (Hides his monthly pass as he spots Lumpy boarding the same bus).
Yet, still, no one stands up for the IRS.
It took me a few years in customer support to grasp this. Customer support, doctors, police, the IRS -- none of them set rules or policy. In the case of the police and IRS, from the top down, they're just executing an accumulating tangle of non-expiring laws that others have put in place.
Other than really large-scale easily-understandable malfeasance, only the actions of the customer-facing employees see these kinds of results of the public's anger and disrespect. You won't have that kind of understanding unless you've worked in a position like that.
But it sounds like the NSA non-customer-facing rank-and-file are experiencing the fallout of the malfeasance. I don't know if they can suck it up or pass the buck, but the end result might be the same.
Don't 'high frequency' (at least stock/equities) trades take three days to settle anyway?
Of course, they'd have to be represented pro-bono. Bo.
The definition is largely "do you know that what you did was wrong."... So if a talking banana told you to do it, it doesn't really matter. You knew it was wrong and chose to do it anyway. You should have ignored the talking banana.
"I did ignore it, but then it produced a National Security letter saying I had to do it and that I wasn't allowed to tell anybody."
"I see. Case dismissed."
I have a disabled friend who's missing all four limbs.
It may sound odd to say this, but wouldn't Google Glass be very useful to him?
Is this true, or are there more important factors to consider when choosing an SSD brand/model?
Doped up in a hospital bed his wounds became infected, requiring another surgery.
Not quite on-topic, but one discussion of checklists and complexity describes modern medical intensive care, and includes a story that prominently features infection issues.
'Outlook Web Access', aka Microsoft Exchange's web front-end, can provide much better search speed than the desktop client if the Exchange server is sufficiently powerful.
It was a major omission on my part to not consider the number of teenagers in the workforce, who we still don't consider 'grownups'. You're right.
Yes. Look at it politically from his point of view. What was the alternative? Admit failure?
I don't know why he has to take responsibility for healthcare.gov's failure -- it was obviously a result of Bush's poorly thought-out and eventually doomed policies.
s/coin/torrent/; s/buying and selling drugs/infringing copyright/; s/queue/cue/;
Phone tech support meets all of those criteria -- 9-5 with a phone shift somewhere in the middle, you don't have to be available once the tech support line closes, and there are contractual requirements to provide support to customers who have purchased the product.
First of all, I too really want to see more females working in the tech industry.
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I used that term because I didn't want to imply only grownup women.
So ... you're not in favor of child labor laws? Or maybe its relaxation in desk-job type environments?
This way they can prove their developers wrong by actually getting nine of them pregnant.
Assuming the issue is real, is the gender disparity and situation sufficiently similar between sports and CS education to adapt Title IX's compliance test? How does Title IX's implementation actually work in practice?
"So what if rich companies can communicate more widely than you?"
The "so what" is that they have a darned good whack at drowning out all voices but their own. Inherently undemocratic.
You mean, the way things were before widespread Internet access and personal web sites?
This flies in the face of all that is good and natural -- the ability to evolve was clearly put in place by some kind of intelligent designer. This is blasphemy, I tell you.
That was actually my point, unnecessarily made in a roundabout way. It took Google to make a Microsoft product available to a wider group in the way that Gates is asking for. When I hear him sing their praises for doing that, I'll reevaluate his intentions.
I'm pretty sure this isn't going to get a fair shake here on Slashdot.
No, no, I'm willing to be fair about this. Now that the web has such rich functionality, let's say he takes an important flagship product and makes the core functionality available easily to the poor over the web, so anybody could use it as long as they have some basic internet access.
It wouldnt need a lot of enterprise features, just something that people can use to perform basic functions. Start with a word processor and a spreadsheet, and make it possible for poorer users to maintain data without having to own and maintain their own hardware.
Only relatively richer people can afford that right now, and even if it wouldn't make that much of a difference, it would be a place to get started, and could be implemented by paying a few developers, maybe even the ones who contributed to the original products.
One of the best 'reviews' I've read of it from Dan Savage (adult content, no pictures).
Maybe it'll improve scientists' ability to explain their work to the layperson? That is, allowing a loose interpretation of 'explain', working your way through 'dumb down' all the way to 'tell/make up an engaging story'.
Also, while we're at it, to be fair no individual should be permitted to spend more than a reasonable amount as a campaign contribution. Say... $1,000
s/individual/person/; and you can limit corporations as well.
How would you cool it then?