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The problem is the interview process. Nobody likes it - on both sides of the table.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Researchers at the University of California at Riverside have invented a type of paper that can be printed on using just light, erased by heating, and reused up to 80 times. Won't someone think of the recycling bins?
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All paper can be erased by heat - at 451 Fahrenheit I believe?
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Neat, but pointless. By the time you would get to the reuse stage, the paper would be wrinkled, torn, creased and otherwise rendered non-reusable, aside from shopping lists, playing hangman or writing ransom notes.
To reduce paper use, the best solution is to stop printing stuff.
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Joe Woodbury wrote: By the time you would get to the reuse stage, the paper would be wrinkled, torn, creased
Put the sheets of paper through a trouser press. The paper will be smoothed and erased simultaneously.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Most of the time I prefer having extracts of documentation printed, in order to take notes and free up my virtual environment (tester + sniffer + code editor + log analyzer clutter the screen easily). Also it's refreshing for the eyes.
CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
I'm a puny punmaker.
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A paper for 5 day notes...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I personally fail to see any possible business application. That probably means that it will conquer the world.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Won't someone think of the recycling bins? Or blueprint printers. Why did no-one ever think of those?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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If left alone, the paper reverts to its original state in five days.
I can think of a lot of corrupt politicians and businessmen that would love that feature.
Then again, the solution is probably refrigeration. So I think the carbon emission benefits of re-usable paper will be outweighed by the refrigeration.
Marc
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Not entirely sure the re-use will offset the environmental costs of increased chemical production.
Scratch that - I'm pretty sure they won't, and the result will probably not be recycleable after those 80 uses.
Did Trump invest in this one?'
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Microsoft hosts the Windows source in a monstrous 300GB Git repository | Ars Technica[^]
Quote: Git, the open source distributed version control system created by Linus Torvalds to handle Linux's decentralized development model, is being used for a rather surprising project: Windows.
Quote: Microsoft has been working to enhance Git to improve the way it handles vast repositories. Central to this effort is a new project released (in part) as open source Git Virtual File system (GVFS). The premise of GVFS is straightforward enough: rather than fetching all the data at once, only a bare skeleton of the repository needs to be populated up front.
Quote: Microsoft describes the GVFS driver as the "moral equivalent of the FUSE driver in Linux." If it truly is the moral equivalent of FUSE, it suggests that Windows will at last get the same kind of extensibility and scope for user mode file systems that Unix users have enjoyed for many years.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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"If it truly is the moral equivalent of FUSE, it suggests that Windows will at last get the same kind of extensibility and scope for user mode file systems that Unix users have enjoyed for many years."
Whether they will expose that flexibility to 3rd parties is another question again.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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At least the Android team has fun...
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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And here I was, thinking it's to do with the Chinese zodiac.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Apparently, I'm a pig.
Well, 1,300,000,000 Chinese people can't all be wrong.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Why don't they have isUserALuser(), or a LART class, for that matter?
class Luser: public User
{
public:
int clueLevel() const { return 0; }
private:
};
class LART
{
public:
LART(Luser&);
LART(LART const&) = delete;
LART& operator=(LART const&) = delete;
void ApplyToLuser(int level);
private:
Luser& luser;
}
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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isUserAMonkey(): Returns "true" if the user interface is currently being messed with by a monkey.
So:
public bool isUserAMonkey() {
return true;
} ?
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It’s Safer Internet Day 2017, and Microsoft is challenging people around the world to embrace “digital civility” and to treat each other with respect and dignity online. "I love you, you love me. We're a happy family."
Avoiding the obvious joke (for once) of "Yeah, you (*&$#(*&$(#*&ers"
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Aw..... So $%^&'in cute.
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"Results show people experienced these top five risks online:
1. Unwanted contact"
Makes the civility bar pretty damn high.
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While embracing digital civility and treating each other with respect and dignity online are noble goals, they have very little to deal with a safer internet. That is unless one associates things like malware and virii with being uncivil and rude to others online. It's kind of a reach for me but, then, that's microsoft for you.
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Stop harassing me with those daily emails, Kent!
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Wouldn't the the time and money be better spent on fixing bugs, rather than publicity stunts?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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