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Comment: Re:God's experiment in free will (Score 1) 1150

by JonySuede (#40149863) Attached to: Debate Over Evolution Will Soon Be History, Says Leakey

You pretty much sum up why I enjoy a DINK life of lust and luxury. I do not agree with that premise : humans are worth creating, for their own sake but I happens to follow the Ten Commandments of the cosa nostra with regard to my extended family as I find them sounds:

        No one can present himself directly to another of our friends. There must be a third person to do it.
        Never look at the wives of friends.
        Never be seen with cops.
        Don't go to pubs and clubs, unless it is your owns.
        Always being available for the family is a duty.
        Appointments must be respected unless the family called.
        Wives must be treated with respect.
        When asked for any information, the answer must be the truth.
        Money cannot be appropriated if it belongs to others or to other families.
        Do not befriend anyone who has a close relative in the police, anyone with a two-timing relative in the family, anyone who behaves badly.

Comment: Re:I only download free books (Score 1) 310

by JonySuede (#40132245) Attached to: Apple Fires Back At DoJ Over eBook Price Fixing

Quite a few artists would likely be happier if we changed advanced into wages, but who is going to pay those wages?

I propose the white king and the left black bishop. The king shall levy a tax of one turkey by acre of farming land and the bishop shall levy 1 gold coin per furlong from each able men.

Comment: Re:Explain the mind of a genius? (Score 1) 412

by JonySuede (#40130675) Attached to: 350-Year-Old Newton's Puzzle Solved By 16-Year-Old

I never learn how to do it manually, but I did understand i:.
At that time I was in an EE school where a TI-92 was mandatory, the teachers selected problems unsolvable by the analytic solver of the calculator but solvable if you applied theirs successive discriminants method. I therefore implemented the techniques and outputted the reasoning and the text I had to wrote to answer to those questions. It took me 15 minutes to finish the exam. The professor surprised by the time I took to complete his 3 hours exam, took a red pen out of his pocket and to his sad surprise everything was right; there was no red on my answer sheets.

He asked me how I accomplished that. I then told him about my software and he then said that I should really consider leaving EE for CS and asked me not to copy my program as it would require the university to redo a big part of their curriculum. I kept my end of the deal and he was right as I eventually got bored by EE and I effectively went into CS a year later...

Comment: Re:COBOL might be an awful, outdated language (Score 1) 264

by JonySuede (#40123199) Attached to: US CIO/CTO: Idea of Hiring COBOL Coders Laughable

Plan for batches, as they will come back to bite you in the ass.
I had the happy fun time of having to write a software that could print batches of up to 18000 invoices (with a lot's of special font that made the pdf creation an exercise in baroqueness) on a commercial xerox printer, as that feature was forgotten in the analysis phase... You know the marketing department forgot to told us that the mandatory electronic invoice was opt-out, that the seniors were automatically excluded and some other minors details like that. In the marketing guy head mass printing and online viewing were the same thing, the reality is that even in 2012 enterprise mass printing is still gory mess.

Comment: Re:Good luck with that... (Score 1) 264

by JonySuede (#40123033) Attached to: US CIO/CTO: Idea of Hiring COBOL Coders Laughable

You can be effective even when the culture makes it hard. My strategy: full speed ahead, torpedo's be dammed; I do this as in my institution asking for forgiveness takes less time than asking for permission. That worked as I got promoted to a point where's my only way to move up is to wait that those above me retires or dies. But in a big organization like mine, mavens like me represent about .5% of the workforce, in a start-up that ratio could be as high as 1.

To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.

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