As I like to tell people - thank {god} we live on the ground instead of in the ocean. I mean, when's the last time you walked past a mailbox, or your couch, and it suddenly turned into some horrifying predator and ate you? life is pretty good up here on the terra firma.
Ad hominem attacks aside, the question remains. Now that #OrangeManBad isn't here, who, exactly is,as you say, "the problem"? From what I've seen, Californians have a bad habit of electing people who can't accomplish anything, and then blame their woes on people who are so far removed from being able to have any influence that it's laughable. The forestry service under Trump is the same forestry service that logged (pardon the pun) eight years under Obama. What did Obama do to mitigate the fires? The Dixie fire continues to burn without restrainnt, what's the solution? Frankly, as much as I don't like the man, Trump is right - when it comes to forest fires in CA, it's kind of your mess to clean up. Drive down any road on the coast and you'll find acres of arroyos full to the brim with deadwood - literal tinderboxes that nobody is cleaning up. Okay, 50x% of the forests belong to the Federal Government? Cool, don't build your houses within a half mile firebreak of them. The other 50%? Well, gosh, I guess you all should have a chat or something.
In local news, officials announced that the accidental nuclear detonation a few blocks from the Acme Nuclear Weapons Depot was in fact the fault of a nearby farmers market. Back to you Jim for the college sports update.
Was the algorithm also able to identify the senior executive who was responsible for his firm hiring 150 unengaged and unproductive people, or is their big data team still working on that one?
Learning to manage is a lot like learning how to write a novel - at first you think you need all those words but then you can learn to cut fifty percent of what you wrote and still get the same point across. It’s kind of the same deal with the hours spent at work - identify and eliminate time sinks and suddenly you’re doing the same work in half the time.
Same here. Most of my cross country trips are in an ‘08 corvette. It gets about 26 mpg if you leave it on cruise, and takes about 8 minutes to fill up. And I can also stop wherever I want for a nice meal or whatever. Combined with zero maintenance because it’s built for about 10x as hard as you’d ever think of driving it, it works out just fine. I think electric vehicles are awesome, but it’s pretty hard to beat gasoline in terms of power for your money.
Honestly. I miss the old days. I worked in intelligence at the tail end of the Cold War. We kept all our shit on paper, in a safe, and planted a couple of nice young Marines with guns in front of it. It worked well as a system - so well in fact that when the OPM got hacked and a bunch or people’s security clearance documents got leaked I was like “Well, thankfully my information couldn’t have gotten leaked, it’s on microfiche in a safe somewhere and I really doubt anyone would be stupid enough to scan all that shit into a computer.” Of course about eight months later I get a letter in the mail, lol. Yep, they put it in a computer after all, ha ha.
Same here, I started on 6502 assembly and you had to know a lot of that stuff just because we didn’t have cool libraries like the STL and so on. You want to sort something, well you’d better write a sort routine.
Wow, what a response. Thank you for taking the time to reply and I think you did a far better job of summing up the challenge of being a “modern C++ programmer” than I could have dreamed of. I had no idea that Scott Meyers had bailed on the language, I’m honestly stunned to read that.
I spent a lot of years writing C++ code and really enjoyed it, it’s a fun language and you can pretty much do anything with it. But the problem I encountered with it was that it just became so wide in terms of features that you have a hard time keeping up - you can spend years using the language to build real software and then walk into a job interview and get demolished by all sorts of crazy stuff you didn’t even know existed. I remember purchasing the book “Modern C++ Design” by Andrei Alexandrescu and after reading it I realized it was time to find something else to do. It was an awesome book and I loved it, but all I did was work on trading systems and I knew I’d never be able to keep up with C++ interviews if that was the direction they’d be taking. But I still love the memories of working with it, so much damned fun.
Sure, this is true. In 500 BC I would have lived in a cave. But now I have a garage, it has a door, and one thing I need is an app that lets me open the door when I get back from cycling. Fortunately, there’s an app for that!
During an interview for a job with a Wall Street outfit, the interviewer asked me “In C++, how would you determine the concrete type of a pointer to a base class if you did not have runtime type information?”
I couldn’t think of an answer, and then he explains “It’s quite simple - you would use dynamic_cast.”
I needed the job so I just smiled and said “Oh, that’s really cool - I didn’t know about that.”
Trusted computing. Oh man, those were heady days. We really thought we could lick that shit with type enforcement and all that jazz. Spending months analyzing covert channels and trying to hard to build safe systems. Now days all you have to do is send one damned email and you own the whole enterprise. So sad, it’s like it was all for naught. But hey, I still have a pristine copy of the rainbow books if you want one :-)
I’d say that depends. I got sucked into a couple of different “opportunities” that turned out to be clown shows and I had to leave under six months both times. It was pretty hard on my CV, but what are you going to do?