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"UK Government Mandates the Teaching of The Fundamental Basis of Biology As Scientific Fact"
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"UK Government Mandates the Teaching of The Fundamental Basis of Biology As Scientific Fact"
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Wow, Argument from incredulity on teh interwebs.
I've written rails apps that supported a very large newspaper's site, which got well over 15 MILLION pageviews per month. Never once did my apps stumble or crash.
Like anything else, you have to know what you're doing, boychik. Now go read pp 14-16 of the Pragmatic Programmer and learn a little.
When "BP" has to spend 180 days in prison like a regular person convicted of manslaughter then I'll believe it.
Oh, and I'd want BP to be a registered felon, so no government jobs/contracts, no leaving the country and no crossing state lines without the court's okay.
I propose my new Bilateral Lowering Of Wages, Making Equality act: all representatives' salaries are immediately and permanently reduced to minimum wage ($15k/year).
This will...
a) save $70,000,000 of our taxes (to be used for, say, infrastructure) per year, and
b) since they're so happy to make others live at $15 large, they shouldn't have any problem making ends meet themselves.
I expect your full and unqualified support in bringing fiscal sanity back to Washington. Also, if you see Grover Norquist, tell him to stand closer to his razor for Dog's sake.
I left that place when I was 32 - after I sold my creations (plural) there to the highest bidders
Pics or it didn't happen!
I don't even see how that's possible. Etsy didn't even exist back then, so there's no way he could've sold his creations there.
Maybe he used eBay?
Go ahead and post your social security number.
And your mother's maden name
And your date of birth
You have nothing to hide? Prove it.
After doing tens of programs with pointers and stuff
...
Uh huh, guess you didn't really learn how to use them.
The point was to LEARN, so when you get in the real world, you can develop a solution where pointers (or whatever structure/technique/language feature is most appropriate) makes the most sense.
~ Free food: Bought at a cost ration of greatest weight per dollar, which translated into cheapest food medically allowed. Joke I heard was: Grade E Beef-substitute, suitable for Americans worst and finest, served to our military and death-row inmates. With the way the Army operates, I was lucky to get two meals a day from cooks. Breakfast usually consisted of coffee and cigarettes, a bagel if I was lucky. Lunch and dinner was at the dining facilities where everything was rationed out using grade school sized portions. I ate the best when I was in the field or on vacation.
Oh man, I'm so glad I was in and out way before the era of obscene contractor takeover. At least we knew that if the E-6 in charge of the mess served up rotten food, he would get Article 15'd at least.
Your post reminds me of one time I got in line for chow for dinner. Yum, roast beef: we could smell it form outside the building. I slide my metal, WW2-surplus tray down the line and the E-2 ladles me a nice portion.
I sit down and start tearing into the meat, but nearly gag in horror when I get a piece into my mouth. I pull it out and realize that it is 100% fat/gristle. The brown gravy camouflaged the fact that there was no meat. I dig around and find a few bits of actual meat. Maybe the size of a quarter, if you mash them all together. So, I did what I always do when faced with crap from REMFs:
I carefully pour the grease-infused watery brown gravy onto my potatoes and (white, pasty) bread, drink my water, and think of creative ways to frag low-bid contractors. If I hadn't had night duty, I probably would've Hoggled when I got back to the barracks. God damn Army.
Pretty hard coding Ruby when you're with a hooker, I guess..
Hugh Jackman HACKED INTO THE PENTAGON while he was "with" a hooker.
Don't tell me that some rinky-dink website would be harder.
No. No. Just stop paying him, and it'll work itself out.
In the meantime, Bob, we're gonna need to move your desk downstairs into Storage B.
You will never be unemployed again, because you work for more than one person
FIFY.
When I am employed by a company, I have one "client". When that client lets me go (rif/outsource/fired/whatever), I have no other income.
When I have 3-4 clients and one client lets me go (can't afford my rates/personality clash/they went crazy and I had to fire them/they hired someone fulltime/etc), I have other clients that keep some $$$ coming in.
As long as I have n+1 clients (where n = sufficient income), then I'm doing well.
Still haven't mastered butterflies, n00bz?
Pffft, amateurs.
I code with cosmic rays.
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of money? -- Ayn Rand