Unfortunately already commented in here; otherwise I'd mod you up.
Any halfway-complex piece of code will almost never be perfect the first time you write it. With programming assignments back in college occasionally I'd run a rough draft of it just to see how it failed and basically fall out of my chair in surprise when it worked the first time.
You don't need to know that during a code review, though.
On the other hand, I'm sure you'd agree that raising the standards for men until the reject rate is equal for both genders will result in even better code quality overall right? See... we can frame it either way.
The obvious answer here is to anonymize the code review such that you don't know whose code you're reviewing.
Suppose you may still be able to tell from coding style and comments, but then you're just being a twat yourself, and there's only so much we can do about that.
The main problem with "Edgebook" is the lack of brand recognition for "Edge". Mind you, with Microsoft it can sometimes be a good thing that people don't associate a product with their existing stuff.
That's the computer put out by Edge, that guy in U2, right?
I really don't know why it remains so popular.
It doesn't. Have you seen their user graph? They're hemorrhaging their userbase.
And if they somehow (cough cough) manage to weasel their way out of getting convicted, bar the middle-managers on up from ever holding another government position/job.
This is, what, the third or fourth time we've heard "okay okay, we swear this time we're really stopping it, for real," and then found out a little later no, they actually didn't. At this point it's a rogue agency, as they clearly don't give a wet slap what the authorities are telling them to do. Dissolve the entire thing and make a new agency with some fucking accountability!
/. (or another "news" site) had a recent post about N.S.A. technicians having low morale and there being high turnover there
Well no wonder, when they're being told to do fucking blatantly illegal things for their job.
Not sure what a non-Euclidean joke would be. I was covering both sides.
Have you ever tried using GTKRadiant? Trying to shape a 3-d object using 3 fixed planes in a 2D editor gets interesting
Also the documentation is terrible, but at least it exists. Thank god for wikis.
Pretty much the exact opposite IMO. Now Penny Arcade is some kind of non-Euclidean universe of rubbery noodle-appendages and dad jokes.
I meant "softlinks were only in XP (and later)", not "only softlinks were in XP", sorry. My phrasing was ambiguous.
(believe it or not NT supported the equivalent of unix Hard Links and SoftLinks)
Do you have a source for this? I'm only finding symbolic links in XP from googling. And that was only kernel mode; user-mode symlinks debuted in Vista.
NTFS junction points[edit]
Main article: NTFS junction point
The Windows 2000 version of NTFS introduced reparse points, which enabled, among other things, the use of Volume Mount Points and junction points. Junction points are for directories only, and moreover, local directories only; junction points to remote shares are unsupported.[12] The Windows 2000 and XP Resource Kits include a program called linkd to create junction points; a more powerful one named Junction was distributed by Sysinternals' Mark Russinovich.
Not all standard applications support reparse points. Most noticeably, Backup suffers from this problem and will issue an error message 0x80070003[13] when the folders to be backed up contain a reparse point.
Shortcuts[edit]
Shortcuts, which are supported by the graphical file browsers of some operating systems, may resemble symbolic links but differ in a number of important ways.
Symbolic links to directories or volumes, called junction points and mount points, were introduced with NTFS 3.0 that shipped with Windows 2000. From NTFS 3.1 onwards, symbolic links can be created for any kind of file system object. NTFS 3.1 was introduced together with Windows XP, but the functionality was not made available (through ntfs.sys) to user mode applications. Third-party filter drivers – such as Masatoshi Kimura's opensource senable driver – could however be installed to make the feature available in user mode as well. The ntfs.sys released with Windows Vista made the functionality available to user mode applications by default.
I've heard the analogy before that the hardest parts of flying are takeoff and landing. And cars are basically taking off/landing all the time.
Putting a rock through a car's windshield won't physically disable the vehicle. It might disable the *driver*, but that's somewhat different.
Chucking something into the unshielded propellers *will* disable the vehicle (presumably). And then you have an extra dimension to make the ensuing crash more "fun."
in some places a 15 yr old can't consent while in other places a 13 yr old can consent
Not in North America. At a state level, the lowest is 16.
Unless you go to Mexico and further south.
seems arbitrary.
Well, yeah. How else would you do it? Have the jury talk to the victim and decide case-per-case whether they consented? That's a terrible idea.
Many people are unenthusiastic about their work.
