Hey Tim,
I knew what you were trying to get at, but wanted to point out that the sentence that you initially wrote wasn't entirely accurate.
Of course I agree that attitude matters, but skills are certainly important, hence my comment.
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I knew what you were trying to get at, but wanted to point out that the sentence that you initially wrote wasn't entirely accurate.
Of course I agree that attitude matters, but skills are certainly important, hence my comment.
Can someone explain to me why I am allowed to add a padding zero at the start without taking it out at the end?
By adding it, I am giving the sum an offset, and I can kind of understand why adding zero is not a big deal, but they reasoned:
Then S1 + S1 = (1 - 1 + 1 - 1 ...) + (1 - 1 + 1 - 1 ...)
= (1 - 1 + 1 - 1 ...) + (0 + 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 ...)
= (1 + 0) + (1 - 1) + (1 - 1) ....
= 1 + 0 + 0 ... = 1
But I might as well leave the leading Zero out and argue that:
Then S1 + S1 = (1 - 1 + 1 - 1 ...) + (1 - 1 + 1 - 1 ...)
= (1 - 1 + 1 - 1 ...) + (1 - 1 + 1 - 1 ...)
= (1 + 1) + ( -1 - 1) + (1 + 1) ....
= (2 - 2) + (2 - 2) + (2 - 2)... = 0
The same is probably true for this one here:
public bool ShowOptional() { bool bolReturn = false;
return bolReturn;There should be descriptions why the code snippets are supposed to be interesting, your and my example just look like legacy code to me.
I am more with the VIM/Emacs crowd though I guess.
I didn't know though that you could create an "evaluation window" in Eclipse. I really liked the refactoring features in Eclipse though and miss them sometimes.
This was missing for me when I started doing stuff in scala, so I hacked something to be able to do the same in Scala and jump straight to the REPL(unfortunately variables need to be passed explicitly here, but most of the REPL functionality works:
But I also believe that commanding wealth comes with responsibilities, and if some people are not willing to act responsible, they might need someone(the public) to remember them and take some of that wealth to build schools, universities or the like.
I am not saying that Mr. Hiltons wealth should be seized and randomly given to people on the streets. I am certainly not of the opinion that todays western governments are super effective either. But if I have the choice of having Paris spend that massive fortune or the government, I would opt for the government I am afraid.
If Larry Ellison decides to build himself a big pink bouncy castle the size of Oklahoma with his Oracle money he is free to do so and thats fine by me. He earned that money, he is free to do with it what he likes, I don't have to like his choices, but I won't interfere(not that I could anyways).
If someone earns his money by being born and decides to spend it on the big bouncy castle I am not fine with it. If most of what he would have inherited was taken by the public and he still manages to amass a fortune that is enough to build himself that bouncy castle, he is free to do so, and I won't interfere. He made the money,its his choice, not mine.
However, you could still say that everything up to 20 Million* has a lower tax on it and you can give that to your kids in legal ways. I think Warren Buffett and Bill Gates want to give most of their wealth away with a similar reasoning anyways.
That amount of money is still enough to buy a Ferrari and never work again while taking loads of drugs in Monaco every day.
The extra layer of indirection might be enough to guide people in the right direction. I am not sure many people would bet their fortune on their son/daughter in law being good to their kids indefinitely. That would probably provoke some very annoying lawsuits between your kids and their spouses sooner or later.
*= With some correction for inflation over the years, but lets say 20 Million of todays Dollars for example.
My underlying reasoning: Every new generation is a giant possiblity for mankind. Now who do we want to command the most resources? If we had kings, it would be the kings heir, no matter if he is clever or not. Thats bad obviously. If we have capitalism without a high inheritance tax, we might have people like Paris Hilton commanding massive fortunes even though some poor kids might have done a lot better with it if they had a chance of acquiring wealth in the first place.
By having a high inheritance tax one would avoid unbelievable fortunes being handed down to people that are not qualified at all.
Another aspect is obviously that the state needs to motivate people to work better than their peers. If - like in communism - it doesn't matter anymore if I work harder than my peers, so I don't work hard. Assuming that most people work for personal gain, wealth, and so that they children have it better than themselves, you need to leave them their wealth during their lifetime and enable them to hand down some part of their income to their kids, and not give all back to the public. If they would have to give everything to the public, the really bright people might stop working at 35 when they accumulated enough wealth for themselves, knowing their children won't benefit from it anyways.
Good article.
>> 2) Language barriers
> One, you'd be amazed how much you can get across non verballyGerman here, I have worked in Germany and abroad, I worked with an Australian guy working in Germany that spoke about five words of German and that was completely fine ( he did HTML&CSS stuff, a little bit of PHP). Our client was American as well, but he spoke some German I think. (this was 2008ish)
My managers Manager in a big consultancy was American and stayed in Germany for a year and a half I think and did just fine with only english. The project lead at the same company was from India, didn't speak a word of German. On my last visit to Berlin I was amazed how many foreigners are there and working in tech at the moment, just the stuff you pick up on the street in Friedrichshain is amazing, people talking about databases and pointers while walking past you on the street in English with all sorts of accents you can imagine.
The same is probably true for Amsterdam or Copenhagen, the dutch and the danish are usually excellent with languages.
Firstly e.g. for MD5 your hashes are never going to contain Letters > f, no uppercase and no special characters.
Secondly you are limiting the possible passwords to hashes of short natural language strings.
I think I worked more than 200 days in the end, but I like to calculate pessimistic and be positively surprised at the end of the year.
£350 * 200 = £70000 before taxes, I think £84000 is overly optimistic here.
Luckily I only have to pay a little for my studies in Germany, though many people are still complaining about the fees. I think they could learn a lot from this mans gratefulness.