>> to solve the naming conundrum for the satellites of Pluto.
Which one? Of all the Roman gods, Pluto is the one not short of lackeys.
Charon -> Used!
Nyx -> Used!
Hydra -> Used!
Allecto
Tisiphone
Megaera -> For the 6th
Second example: this case. So the Vatican has been shown to be corrupt in its financial dealings, and what is their reaction? Hunt down the whistleblowers, rather than punish the ones doing the actual crime! It's the same kind of thinking--what threatens the Church, in their view, is not the failure to do the morally proper thing. It's whomever exposes their leadership for the arrogant crimes they commit under the guise of being holy.
Find and replace and will still make complete sense:
Vatican => United States
Church => Nation
Oh, come on!
Please read history before you post.
The only reason Galileo was not burned alive is because he was a close friend to the pope.
It was his colleges who wanted him death because his ideas were against the ideas they had based their entire carriers on.
The academic establishment is even more reluctant to change than the catholic church.
You can't give me screwed up results if you don't know who I am.
What makes you believe that Google needs you login to their products to know who you are?
I am pretty sure they could make a reasonable guess about who you are based on the search profile of the IPs you use.
Not yet. For Skynet to become sentience it needs to infect the GiG and a sufficiently large number of machines.
The second part is ongoing (the botnet is growing), the first part is just waiting for the opportune moment!
While the handling of Vi or Emacs actually *is* breathtakingly bizar and unwieldy, what you're saying is not correct. If someone actually takes the time to learn to use Emacs and the extensions it offers for developement - which can take a few years - it can be the most powerfull and fast IDE out there
Well, you hit it! No reasonable developer (not to mention company) want's to spend a few years mastering a tool. In the case of coding for fun, I would like to start working on what I am interested in, not spending ages trying to figure out the editor.
In the case of companies, they just want to hire a developer and turn him into a productive contributor as soon as possible (usually a month or less)
I once work with one of them (don't remember if it was Vi or Emacs) and I couldn't figure out how to get out of it or how to open the help, so I had to restart the machine
They buy the equipment to record, sign up with Amazon/Apple/whoever to manufacture/distribute, and then sign up with Label A for promotion. Label A gets a cut of the sales, but doesn't own any rights to the music.
I see the future a bit different. I would like to pay to the promotion companies (labels?) a fee per service with a clear way to measure the effectiveness. I don't think they will get any where with a business case like: "Give me a fix part of your income and trust me, I am doing what is best for you."
... In a school project, its 2 weeks of trying to understand and clarify what the prof actually wants you to do, and 3 days of hacking together some minimal pile of garbage that just barely does it. In the real world, you actually care about overall architecture, design, methodologies for coordinating a team, maintainability, testability, etc.
This difference you mention is plain wrong! That makes me think you have not worked in any "real world" project. Most of the project have an ill-defined set of requirements and an unrealistic delivery date. So, you have to spend 2 months of trying to understand and clarify what the customer actually wants, and 3 weeks of hacking together some minimal pile of garbage that just barely does it.
Old programmers never die, they just branch to a new address.
