Talking of buffers between reality, in Japan, there has recently been big uptick of teenagers wearing surgical masks at all times, not just when ill. Some comments explaining why include, "it's very tiresome to have to use my face to express my emotions."
Here is the article in Japan Today
Don't worry, it's going to be at least 3 years before phones get big enough to rub your genitals while you're on the phone. For now you have to do that yourself.
The big problem for the offline retailers is that they can't seem to compete on price of new games. They CAN compete on the price of used games however. This way, the online retailer makes the original sale and the offline retailer gets a taste when the gamer disposes of it.
A lot of the used games I've bought in bricks and mortar stores have been impulse buys because they were cheap and money was burning a hole in my pocket. I would never have paid full price anyway.
What if his friends are similarly inclined? That's not beyond the realms of possibility.
Have fun playing this years games while your friends are off spending their hard earned on blackjack and hookers.
Considering their track record with DST changes affecting alarms, especially around iOS updates, I don't trust Apple to make a timepiece you can rely on.
For real seat-of-your pants excitement, take the place of the monkey in the the next Iranian launch. If you make it back, you might also need new pants but don't worry, probably you won't need new pants.
One thing you might consider about junior guys is that they often say things like 'this code is crap' not because they really want to change it but because they want you to notice that they're smart. He probably is a bit socially awkward and doesn't get that he's also being offensive. Pretty much he's just trying to prove that he's knowledgeable, knows how to do 'the right thing', is a good coder etc.
I think the best way to resolve the situation is not to distract him by giving him some greenfield work to do. This give him the scope to prove himself without pissing you off in the process. What you actually think of HIS code is a totally different topic.
Interestingly, the Daily Mail is a paper aimed predominantly at women and is the only newspaper in the UK with a majority female readership. Just look at the right hand row of images for proof. Women in general are more 'think of the children' than 'think of your rights' (or porn).
implement a time-varying notch filter at all the harmonics...well someone must have tried this, right? I wonder how well it works.
That gets me thinking. If you had the historical hum signal and your recording at the same time, you could just invert the historical signal and overlay it onto your recording. The two mirrored hums should cancel each other out. This leaves you with a clean recording that you could then manipulate and then apply a different historical hum when you're done. Pretty simple really. I'm beginning to worry about this being used as evidence now...
You're talking about the analog filters, at the point of making the recording. If you used a phone or a digital recorder of some kind, post-recording in the digital domain (with FFT based filters) you can definitely completely remove single frequencies. It creates all kinds of weird watery sounding artifacts and absence of a noise print is suspicious as hell so combined be enough evidence to discount the recording as tampered with. Anyway, post-mangling I wonder if you could overlay your own noise print from a different time of day...
The noise gate would only kick in with the sound levels in the recording drop below that 20-40db threshold. You could still overlay the historical 50Hz hum over the rest of the recording where the gate was open. These should still match up. Where it might would not match would be if is 50Hz + harmonics notch filters were applied to the recording specifically to reduce mains hum. This is possible too.
people who need numbers that are provably random, compute a hash value of stock indexes
What are you saying? That the stock market is random or that you can snapshot it and use it as a random seed? The first is wrong and the second as an actual implementation seems highly contrived and improbable. What kind of people are we talking about that would do this? The market seems like a rather arbitrary choice for this too when you could use 1000s of other measurable/sampleable things from within your code. Lets not even get started on all the design decisions you need to make to ensure that your hash generates truly random seeds from the plethora of values available to you in the market.
It occurs to me that there are two kinds of interested parties. Those who really, REALLY need true random sources and will probably buy appropriate hardware to do this. Then there's the rest of us for whom the wide range of pseudo-random algorithms already available is good enough without having convoluted and slow implementations like seeding from hashes of stock market values. It seems like a bit of a weird and esoteric choice when there are plenty of other good, simple and local options for random seeds. This mysterious third kind of programmer that feels inclined to do this probably needs a better grasp of both pseudo-random numbers and/or efficient implementations of random-number sources.
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Talking of buffers between reality, in Japan, there has recently been big uptick of teenagers wearing surgical masks at all times, not just when ill. Some comments explaining why include, "it's very tiresome to have to use my face to express my emotions." Here is the article in Japan Today
Don't worry, it's going to be at least 3 years before phones get big enough to rub your genitals while you're on the phone. For now you have to do that yourself.
In the meantime, enjoy this vision of the future.
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The big problem for the offline retailers is that they can't seem to compete on price of new games. They CAN compete on the price of used games however. This way, the online retailer makes the original sale and the offline retailer gets a taste when the gamer disposes of it.
A lot of the used games I've bought in bricks and mortar stores have been impulse buys because they were cheap and money was burning a hole in my pocket. I would never have paid full price anyway.
What if his friends are similarly inclined? That's not beyond the realms of possibility. Have fun playing this years games while your friends are off spending their hard earned on blackjack and hookers.
Check out his book too, it's a really fun and entertaining read.
Considering their track record with DST changes affecting alarms, especially around iOS updates, I don't trust Apple to make a timepiece you can rely on.
Just release it to the market slowly, like the OPEC do.
For real seat-of-your pants excitement, take the place of the monkey in the the next Iranian launch. If you make it back, you might also need new pants but don't worry, probably you won't need new pants.
With an integer overflow. Interviewers take note. ;)
Wood chippings left over after making some of these...
http://www.theramsled.com/
One thing you might consider about junior guys is that they often say things like 'this code is crap' not because they really want to change it but because they want you to notice that they're smart. He probably is a bit socially awkward and doesn't get that he's also being offensive. Pretty much he's just trying to prove that he's knowledgeable, knows how to do 'the right thing', is a good coder etc.
I think the best way to resolve the situation is not to distract him by giving him some greenfield work to do. This give him the scope to prove himself without pissing you off in the process. What you actually think of HIS code is a totally different topic.
So are nuclear weapons but that doesn't mean I should be allowed to own one.
So you can tail people with your lights off like in the movies. Because that's not conspicuous, oh no...
...and straight into a cushy job at Seagate or Western Digital.
Fascinating! I did a quick scientific survey of my colleagues and it seems that some peoples faces are evolved for punching too!
Interestingly, the Daily Mail is a paper aimed predominantly at women and is the only newspaper in the UK with a majority female readership. Just look at the right hand row of images for proof. Women in general are more 'think of the children' than 'think of your rights' (or porn).
But most of that food depicted went bad about 30 or 40 years ago.
That gets me thinking. If you had the historical hum signal and your recording at the same time, you could just invert the historical signal and overlay it onto your recording. The two mirrored hums should cancel each other out. This leaves you with a clean recording that you could then manipulate and then apply a different historical hum when you're done. Pretty simple really. I'm beginning to worry about this being used as evidence now...
You're talking about the analog filters, at the point of making the recording. If you used a phone or a digital recorder of some kind, post-recording in the digital domain (with FFT based filters) you can definitely completely remove single frequencies. It creates all kinds of weird watery sounding artifacts and absence of a noise print is suspicious as hell so combined be enough evidence to discount the recording as tampered with. Anyway, post-mangling I wonder if you could overlay your own noise print from a different time of day...
The noise gate would only kick in with the sound levels in the recording drop below that 20-40db threshold. You could still overlay the historical 50Hz hum over the rest of the recording where the gate was open. These should still match up. Where it might would not match would be if is 50Hz + harmonics notch filters were applied to the recording specifically to reduce mains hum. This is possible too.
"You have the right to free speech and I have the right not to listen."
What are you saying? That the stock market is random or that you can snapshot it and use it as a random seed? The first is wrong and the second as an actual implementation seems highly contrived and improbable. What kind of people are we talking about that would do this? The market seems like a rather arbitrary choice for this too when you could use 1000s of other measurable/sampleable things from within your code. Lets not even get started on all the design decisions you need to make to ensure that your hash generates truly random seeds from the plethora of values available to you in the market.
It occurs to me that there are two kinds of interested parties. Those who really, REALLY need true random sources and will probably buy appropriate hardware to do this. Then there's the rest of us for whom the wide range of pseudo-random algorithms already available is good enough without having convoluted and slow implementations like seeding from hashes of stock market values. It seems like a bit of a weird and esoteric choice when there are plenty of other good, simple and local options for random seeds. This mysterious third kind of programmer that feels inclined to do this probably needs a better grasp of both pseudo-random numbers and/or efficient implementations of random-number sources.
Sorry boss, can't do work today. Adblock.
I don't know, usually the most shitty and unreliable stuff in the whole stack is MY code.
Hasn't the head of the Apple Maps team has already been taken 'outback'?