The owner of this car would probably greatly appreciate being notified that not only did the stupid-douche consulting outfit not secure the car properly and had it stolen, they are now recklessly delaying notifying the police in a desperate attempt to avoid being found out.
If you want to do something funny on 4/1, collect the submitted attempts at humor, and choose the best one or two to post. Then it might actually be funny. But running every stream-of-lameness piece of shit that crosses your inbox is just pathetic. In other words, editors, act like editors.
Oh, wait, never mind...
I can't see how they could get any service provider to sign up for that unless they are providing more business than the provider can handle.
I was being sarcastic, referencing the 18-month practically worldwide non-compete they were forcing temporary warehouse workers to sign. (Until bad press stemming from The Verge article motivated them to drop that ridiculous requirement.)
They'll require providers to sign a non-compete preventing them from taking business from any other source...
The whole thing sticks of basic programming incompetence.
Yep. I used a shorter password and had no problem at all registering.
Unfortunately, I was never again able to login after the first time.
And why I hate freedom for making Flash click to play.
Because when you do that, your browser still reports to the sites that it supports Flash, which encourages them to continue using it. If you REMOVE Flash, then it's not reported as a supported type, and the statistics skew more and more toward showing Flash being unsupported, which contributes to the ultimate demise of Flash.
So, THAT is why I say you hate freedom for making Flash click to play
if it were my summary I would definitely attribute it to somebody else, because it makes absolutely no sense.
Right. It makes no sense precisely because it is NOT in any way a summary, which would take a few moments' effort to write. It's just a copy and paste of the first few sentences of the article.
"But what about when Yahoo, CNN.com, TMZ and other busy destination sites heave disaster upon visitors?" what does the rest of the summary mean?
Exactly. The article goes on to explain that. A summary would at least give some idea. The copy & paste of the first few sentences, cut off at an arbitrary point, totally leaves you hanging.
Direct copy-and-paste from an article should be quoted, to make it clear that in fact msm1267 wrote nothing at all.
Sigh, OTOH, at least the "summary" is not a gross misrepresentation, like so many others.
Managing lots of things competing for their attention is what pilots need to be excellent at.
While true, another human being fighting for her life would be more of a problem than most.
...we're talking about real life here, it's unlikely that a single man will be able to knock out anyone in an instant, especially while sitting down.
Indeed, the co-pilot is likely not a martial-arts expert, and would have a lot of things competing for his attention.
Indeed. Moreover, regardless how depressive the pilot is in the cockpit, he will be way less tempted to perform such a silly suicide action with someone just close to him. We're not talking about a jack-bauer style terrorist here. Quite the opposite actually.
I wouldn't jump to any conclusion quite yet. I've know people who were depressed, even known ones who were suicidal, and none of them would ever want to take 150 other people, mostly strangers, with them. OTOH, I've seen a pretty outwardly-normal-seeming person have a psychotic break, and I can tell you, in that state, all bets based on prior behavior are off... (In fact, changing the subject, I've wondered if Darren Wilson's hard-to-believe description of his encounter with Michael Brown indicates that Brown had a psychotic break. Rare in the real world, but also somewhat concentrated in males his age, and consistent with the very very strange behavior claimed...)
I dare say that a flight attendant (mostly women) is not going to stop a (co)pilot (mostly men) with a plan for murderous suicide.
She doesn't have to overpower him. She only has to get that switch moved to a different position for a couple of seconds.
It's stupid if you're benchmarking relative efficiency -- it's not an efficient implementation (and you'll have no trouble finding explanations for why the Python and Java code they wrote, while simpler, is not efficient).
I think we're talking at cross-purposes. When I said "not actually that stupid" I was referring to the implementation of String as immutable and highly-efficient to share cross threads, and implicitly including that there's StringBuilder for more-efficient building-up of strings. That design is not stupid.
I certainly did not mean that the benchmark or paper were "not actually that stupid". The benchmark was just ridiculously bad, and the paper utterly stupid. As some other poster said, showing that reallocating a string a million times and appending a single character each time is slower than writing a million characters into a buffer, that's literally a high-school level paper--I think I'd add that it's C-level (haha) high school work.
We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone without reason.
Here's a clue for you: just because somebody posts it on a door, does not make it legal.
While a business shouldn't be allowed to not serve a segment of society, a business shouldn't be forced to contribute to something to which they object (on any grounds, but religious grounds for this argument). So while a bakery should have to sell a pre-made cake/cookie/whatever to any customer that walks in, it shouldn't have to make a cake promoting...
Although you wouldn't know it from my comment to which you are replying, I actually do agree with that. As soon as you force once bakery to provide a custom cake for a gay wedding, you open the door to the neo-Nazi who was offended when a bakery refused to inscribe a birthday cake for his little boy, whose first name is "Adolph" and middle name is "Hitler". (BTW, in case you missed it when it was news, I didn't make up that example, it actually happened.)
To the systems programmer, users and applications serve only to provide a test load.
