There are plenty of coders (especially those new to the profession) who don't understand the value of tidy code.
I wish I had mod points for you, as this particular issue is one of my pet-peeves. Sloppy formatting means sloppy thinking and lack of care, both of which compete directly with my trust of the author's abilities, after which the code ceases to be worth much.
Over the years I've seen code that has followed one standard or another, and more than my share whose only rehabilitating feature was the fact that I could tell it was a cut-and-paste mess produced by someone who frobs rather than tunes an algorithm. Clean consistency, irrespective of the particular style, has always determined my reading comfort, and therefore understanding of the code, far more than blind and across-the-board style-naziism. That and the generous application of vertical whitespace to delineate significant blocks of logic.
When I work on my own code, I use my own preferred style. If I work on someone else's code, I do my best to adjust to that style because I'm awesome that way
What all you nay-sayers forget is that this is only the very beginning of (debatable) usefulness. What comes out of this research over the next 10, 30 or 50 years, however, may prove surprising, and not just for how far this "mule" has come, but what other technologies it throws off along the way.
There have been people in the United States, too, who relied blindly on their GPS, went astray in the desert, ran out of fuel, and some ended up dying before being found (the article I recall predates the Apple fiasco.)
The lesson to be taken from all of these situations is that people ought to check the path that the GPS offers before they set out, especially if there is a chance that they are going through, or even headed into a distant wilderness. There's no substitute for a healthy dose of caution, or even skepticism where your life or comfort may be at stake.
Dammit, now you guys owe me a new keyboard!!
No boom today. Boom tomorrow.
Precisely, instead of a Glow In The Dark super power, they should have gone for Immunity To Fire. Cockroach Fail, methinks.
I remember rather fondly typing on a Model M way back, but I could not use one at home these days because of the racket. If there were one with (most of) the tactile feedback, but nice and quiet, I'd be sold. Any suggestions?
IANAL, but the spirit of the law is no vacuous concept. When the letter of the law subverts the spirit, the result is a bad law that invites violations. In this case, Apple refuses to comply with the of the judge's decisions: A simple, clean apology is demanded, but while Apple says "so sorry," they also lift the middle finger. Twice.
I there any company that has so swiftly turned from the path of innovation to litigation, and proven itself a more sore loser than Apple? The cynic in me says that Apple is on the swift, sure way to suicide.
Well said. In fact, the blanket claim that some institution (company, government, etc.) is evil, takes people out of the equation, absolves them of blame, and simultaneously detracts from the fact that any solution must involve people. I think it is for that reason that freedom of speech and the use of protest actually are so important. Without such tools in the hands of the population the perpetrators (let's simply call them misguided, sloppy, and/or too caught up in their work) cannot even be made aware of the fact that they ought to look up, look around, and perhaps realize that their actions may be way out of line.
Indeed, during the press conference the following figures were stated at least twice:
Exit altitude: 128100 ft (39045m) [record]
Free fall time: 4m 20s
Free fall distance: 119826 ft (36529m)
Max velocity: 373 m/s (1342.8 km/h, 833.9 mph, Mach 1.24) [record]
A third record would be the maximum distance of ascent with a human-occupied balloon, which may exceed the 39045m of exit altitude, as the balloon appeared to descend somewhat before Baumgartner exited. Actually, if the telemetry information displayed on the feed can be trusted then he reached at least 39068m (128177 ft) at the time that he was first sticking his feet out into the open.
No matter the numbers, this is an impressive achievement!
Yes indeed, retarded snot suckers are editing this shit: Why are Michigan University students forging U.S. currency? Who is proposing the use of invisible nano QR codes? No answer is even hinted at in the summary:
Invisible nano QR codes have been proposed as a way to stop forgery of U.S currency by students of Michigan University.
Nothing to see here, move along!
There are times when I feel that a
Yeah, not being able to delete a folder of files sucks big-time:
Win7: "You need permission to do that"
Me: "Oh yeah? Why do you then FAIL TO ASK me when I'M ALREADY THE F-ING ADMIN?"
Win7: <shrug> <grin>
/me resorts to deleting files one at a time by manually descending through dozens of directories and mumbling, "f---ing retard O/S"
I think I'll stick with WinXP for the few things that still require Windows...
Linux FTW.
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh
