Comment Are you old? (Score 2) 479
That might be your problem.
That might be your problem.
Not to troll, but the problem with restricting advertising is that you are restricting free speech. This is a legitimate concern: who makes the decisions and on what basis when you start down the path of "strictly factual"? It's not that simple. Any number of repressive governments across the globe have laws against publicizing "false" statements but these laws are clearly used to suppress anything they don't like.
Without having looked at the post or scrutinized the language, here's a couple of guesses:
1) looks like C: i.e. verbose, vacuous, loopy.
2) has crappy (i.e. industry-standard) array-handling.
3) fails to incorporate any of the decades of research about how people approach problems versus how programming languages do.
...especially with law firms specializing in personal injury.
...coming soon?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
Not according to the lack of imagination by the posters here I've seen so far.
How much time do you waste with boilerplate crap like this because of nearly clumsy array-handling ideas that date back to the Great Flood?
How bloated is code because of the vacuousness of most common languages that
require
several lines
to do
the simplest
things?
Basing one's choice of language to learn on its current popularity - though this may be economically prudent - retards progress in programming languages almost as much as new languages' emphasis on backwards compatibility and ease of learning for novices.
"Backward compatibility" gives us the backward languages that predominate today. Making things easy for beginners gives us languages mostly only suitable for newbies.
Contrast this novice-oriented, backward-looking orientation with the little-understood idea that a language can be a tool of thought, that it can provide us with useful conceptual building blocks for thinking about computation at a high level.
If you follow the "Risks Digest" - formerly the "Risks in Computing" newslist - now in its 27th year, you'll see that one of the most common themes is the repetition of known bad practices.
"Live and don't learn" could be the official motto of the IT industry.
How does this bullshit excuse apply to someone like me who's only child has graduated from college?
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Clearly false:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money...
and
http://www.debt.org/faqs/ameri...
...courtesy of xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1127/ .
The facts are otherwise. Based on estimates at a talk I was at recently - see the latter part of this (pdf) http://www.orie.cornell.edu/en... - traditional asset management comprises about 20% of trading volume; HFT accounts for over 30% and hedge funds for more than 25%. There may be some HFT done at hedge funds as well, but it's clear that the tail is wagging the dog.
So, you're talking about the Tea Party?
Good suggestion - much like a suggestion to apply a band-aid to a punctured artery.
You can follow these rules - and more - as rigorously as you please but still be undone by any number of simple things someone can do to a spreadsheet quite easily - like adding a row or column that looks like it's included in a calculation, but isn't.
If A = B and B = C, then A = C, except where void or prohibited by law. -- Roy Santoro