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Kent Sharkey wrote: Hopefully we can plug this into Q&A soon
Urgentz! My computer says I must be an idiot because my source code is such garbage! Plz Helps!
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Marc Clifton wrote: Kent Sharkey wrote: Hopefully we can plug this into Q&A soon
Done I have popcorn!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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No, nothing can make sense of some of the Q's in Q&A
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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As great as that is, Microsoft recently explained that the update also removes some experiences in Windows 10, so here’s what you need to know before you consider installing it on your PC. Bad(ish) news for fans of the XPS viewer
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Quote: Other notable features removed from Windows 10 can be seen below, complete with suggestions on alternatives:
People – Suggestions will no longer include unsaved contacts for non-Microsoft accounts: You can instead manually save the contact details for people you send mail to or get mail from.
Language control in the Control Panel: You can instead use the Settings app to change your language settings.
They removed people from their operating system? The biggest one for me was language control. Now I have to go back to the swear jar and my piggy bank is running on an empty stomach the way it is.
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Here’s what you need to know about the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, which goes into effect 25 May 2018 Just in case you're wondering why every site has changed its privacy policy lately
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Your computer is not a fast PDP-11. You want us to install byte switches again?
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Where do all these people you reference buy their straw men? (Or is that straw people?)
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I don’t know, but they must be cheap. So many of them out there.
TTFN - Kent
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The site seems, appropriately foobar'd.
I guess that's what happens when you express a radical view about C, as anyone reading K&R would know.
"We are sorry ...
... but we have temporarily restricted your access to the Digital Library. Your activity appears to be coming from some type of automated process. To ensure the availability of the Digital Library we can not allow these types of requests to continue. The restriction will be removed automatically once this activity stops.
We apologize for this inconvenience."
Shocking, everyone knows clicking on a link automates the process of typing a URL manually into an address bar, or maybe they want us to go really low-level and access the page by IP.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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As if the ACM had the faintest clue...
Software Zen: delete this;
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It probably means they tried writing their website in C and the entire server melted down over an attempt to access freed memory.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Same here... Maybe it's that there brand new web proxy/filter installed at work.
I did eventually get to read it from searching the title and viewing the cached-view from some website.
By one of the definitions of what makes a language "low level", the claim was the ability to have direct access to a memory address. That brought me back to Commodore BASIC's methods of PEEK and POKE to read/write an address.
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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he's all bent out of shape about C because optimizing compilers do a lot of work to make average code more efficient ? and even angrier that CPUs take even more drastic steps to make average code run faster?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Your computer is not a fast PDP-11. You want us to install byte switches again? |
Yes, those where really neat, especially when demo-ing things to people who didn't know what they were for!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Computer Programmers make me sad sometimes. We're so good at so many things, and so good at learning whatever we want, but there are certain things we simply refuse to get better at, despite them not being all that hard, to our own detriment. Feel free to make a counter-proposal
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Bezos revealed that one of the top pieces of advice he offers new Amazon employees is that they shouldn't view the two as a strict trade-off. Work harder, you dogs?
Oh, he "sets aside a few minutes every day to wash his own dishes". Bra-vo! There's the work-life circle completed.
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ReasonsIdNeverWorkForAmazon++
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Business Insider: Bezos believes that his new hires should stop attempting to achieve "balance" within their professional and personal lives, since that implies a strict trade-off between the two. Instead, Bezos envisions a more holistic relationship between work and life outside the office.
Historically, the world's richest man has a non-traditional approach to work: He makes time for breakfast every morning with his family, doesn't set his alarm before going to bed, schedules surprisingly few meetings, and still sets aside a few minutes every day to wash his own dishes.
This counterintuitive approach to maintaining a healthy symmetry within his professional and personal pursuits is one of the chief pieces of advice Bezos offers his staff.
Quoting out of context does not add to your credibility.
Ad astra - both ways!
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I have credibility?
TTFN - Kent
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You had credibility 
Ad astra - both ways!
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Amazon is a courier company ...no an IT Company..no a e-commerce paltform ...online bookstore? No wait
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Smartwatches as devices for messaging and search are far eclipsed by the desktop, laptop, tablet and phones, for obvious reasons, namely their tiny touchscreens. In tech parlance, the smartwatch "input-output bottleneck" is lamentable, as it is a headache trying to work with such a small space. Because just trying to read email on your watch isn't awkward enough
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A growing number of U.S. adults no longer view the internet as a largely “good thing” for society. I'm still not sure about fire, either.
Then again, maybe not?
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Not surprised. We think we're so smart with self driving cars, but the horse and buggy was far more advanced, its just that now there's a computer chip at the reigns instead of a horse.
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