I'm sort of a "Happiness is bouncing the rubble." type of person so when I say I've had enough with the shooting people, it's roughly like Snoop Dogg saying he's smoked too much weed.
So.... I have an idea. Let's get the U.N. or somebody to sponsor an international "Nobody shoots anybody day". I, for one, could use a fucking break.
It might seem like a modest goal, but I suspect if we could actually go a whole day without murder it would be the first time in recorded history. That would be amazing. Could you imagine Katie Couric staring blankly into the cameras, and saying, "Well, ummmÂ… nothing much happened today. So, I guess we'll put up a picture of a kitten for our remaining time. Goodnight?"
Think about it. I'm willing try if you are. As a matter of fact, I'd even sit in a circle, join hands, and sing Kumbaya to make it happen.
Just one day. That's all I ask.
So.... I have an idea. Let's get the U.N. or somebody to sponsor an international "Nobody shoots anybody day". I, for one, could use a fucking break.
It might seem like a modest goal, but I suspect if we could actually go a whole day without murder it would be the first time in recorded history. That would be amazing. Could you imagine Katie Couric staring blankly into the cameras, and saying, "Well, ummmÂ… nothing much happened today. So, I guess we'll put up a picture of a kitten for our remaining time. Goodnight?"
Think about it. I'm willing try if you are. As a matter of fact, I'd even sit in a circle, join hands, and sing Kumbaya to make it happen.
Just one day. That's all I ask.
Software developers are fuckheads. Okay, not all software developers are fuckheads. It just feels that way sometimes.
Seriously, would it kill you to learn a little bit of math? Maybe just a little about Binomial Coefficients or maybe even just how to count permutations so I don't have to go all the way back to grade school multiplication and division to explain the Poisson distribution to you.
Pretty please.
While we're on the subject of math, the real numbers are infinite. In fact, they are a special kind of infinite called uncountable - but don't you worry your pretty head about that. The important point is that there are only a finite number of values that a finite number of bits can represent. Therefore, floating point numbers are, by necessity, an approximation of real numbers. So, stop treating floating point numbers as exact.
Oh, and the next person who comes to me with an algorithm question that is covered in Knuth is going to leave my office with an imprint of volume 2 on their forehead. Don't be such a bunch of lazy fucks.
And maybe, just maybe, you should learn a language besides C, C++, Java, C# or some derivative thereof. You see, coming into my office and asking me what this lambda thing is something that is socially unacceptable. It would be like me coming into your office and taking a giant crap on your keyboard. Yes, it's that unacceptable.
I use Emacs occasionally. It can do things that would take you all day in your editor. My editor has Lisp. Your editor has push-buttons. Don't get me wrong, push-buttons are okay. I use them too. But if that's all you know how to do, I have a special name for you: "button-pushing pinhead". And, no, I don't give a fuck if that label offends you. If you call me "old-school" one more time, I'll break out vi and still code circles around your lily-white ass. I've done it before and I'll do it again.
Yes, I know you hate wearing the "build-breakers hat of shame" when you break the build. Get over it. You only have to wear it while the build is broken. As soon as you check in your fix and we get a good build you can take it off. I wear it when I break the build. I'm not singling you or for ridicule even though you wear it weekly and I wear it twice a year. If you complain again, I'm going to replace the Shriner's hat with a full-on Spartan warrior's helmet with a gigantic plume. I just got back from Greece. I know where to get one. Don't push me on this.
When I tell you that John Backus died, or Jim Gray missing, I expect a reaction other than "Uhh.. Who's that?" Have a little pride in your craft and its history.
Finally, I'll let you in on a little secret. It's okay to have standards. It's okay to expect good code from your coworkers. It is okay to expect more than a stunned "Huh?" in response to the sentence, "Double dispatch is really the heart of the visitor pattern." Likewise, it's okay to heap ridicule on those who don't care, who only want the paycheck, who think, "Maybe I should have been a dentist." It's time the herd was thinned a little. Don't ridicule the weak. Help them. It's the uncaring that deserve nothing less than withering scorn.
If you agreed with some of what I said above, hose yourself off and encourage the people you work with to do the some. If they don't want to join you, if they don't care, fuck 'em. Fuck 'em right in the ear. You don't have to live like that.
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Next time I'll put up some pretty pictures from Greece to make up for the ranting.
Seriously, would it kill you to learn a little bit of math? Maybe just a little about Binomial Coefficients or maybe even just how to count permutations so I don't have to go all the way back to grade school multiplication and division to explain the Poisson distribution to you.
Pretty please.
While we're on the subject of math, the real numbers are infinite. In fact, they are a special kind of infinite called uncountable - but don't you worry your pretty head about that. The important point is that there are only a finite number of values that a finite number of bits can represent. Therefore, floating point numbers are, by necessity, an approximation of real numbers. So, stop treating floating point numbers as exact.
Oh, and the next person who comes to me with an algorithm question that is covered in Knuth is going to leave my office with an imprint of volume 2 on their forehead. Don't be such a bunch of lazy fucks.
And maybe, just maybe, you should learn a language besides C, C++, Java, C# or some derivative thereof. You see, coming into my office and asking me what this lambda thing is something that is socially unacceptable. It would be like me coming into your office and taking a giant crap on your keyboard. Yes, it's that unacceptable.
I use Emacs occasionally. It can do things that would take you all day in your editor. My editor has Lisp. Your editor has push-buttons. Don't get me wrong, push-buttons are okay. I use them too. But if that's all you know how to do, I have a special name for you: "button-pushing pinhead". And, no, I don't give a fuck if that label offends you. If you call me "old-school" one more time, I'll break out vi and still code circles around your lily-white ass. I've done it before and I'll do it again.
Yes, I know you hate wearing the "build-breakers hat of shame" when you break the build. Get over it. You only have to wear it while the build is broken. As soon as you check in your fix and we get a good build you can take it off. I wear it when I break the build. I'm not singling you or for ridicule even though you wear it weekly and I wear it twice a year. If you complain again, I'm going to replace the Shriner's hat with a full-on Spartan warrior's helmet with a gigantic plume. I just got back from Greece. I know where to get one. Don't push me on this.
When I tell you that John Backus died, or Jim Gray missing, I expect a reaction other than "Uhh.. Who's that?" Have a little pride in your craft and its history.
Finally, I'll let you in on a little secret. It's okay to have standards. It's okay to expect good code from your coworkers. It is okay to expect more than a stunned "Huh?" in response to the sentence, "Double dispatch is really the heart of the visitor pattern." Likewise, it's okay to heap ridicule on those who don't care, who only want the paycheck, who think, "Maybe I should have been a dentist." It's time the herd was thinned a little. Don't ridicule the weak. Help them. It's the uncaring that deserve nothing less than withering scorn.
If you agreed with some of what I said above, hose yourself off and encourage the people you work with to do the some. If they don't want to join you, if they don't care, fuck 'em. Fuck 'em right in the ear. You don't have to live like that.
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Next time I'll put up some pretty pictures from Greece to make up for the ranting.
This is your official Pi-day update.
I'm in the middle of finals and should be studying. I have an Analysis(math) final today around 2:30. Then industrial organizations(econ) tomorrow at 8:30. Then it's a mad scramble to get stuff done because...
Friday morning we fly out to Greece. The Missus and I have always wanted to go but there a confluence of money,childcare,and time off that makes it impossible for us not to go. Anyway, wish me luck on the finals and not dying in a ball of flames somewhere over the arctic. Maybe I'll even post a picture or two when I get back.
I'm in the middle of finals and should be studying. I have an Analysis(math) final today around 2:30. Then industrial organizations(econ) tomorrow at 8:30. Then it's a mad scramble to get stuff done because...
Friday morning we fly out to Greece. The Missus and I have always wanted to go but there a confluence of money,childcare,and time off that makes it impossible for us not to go. Anyway, wish me luck on the finals and not dying in a ball of flames somewhere over the arctic. Maybe I'll even post a picture or two when I get back.
I just finished the Illiad for a class. Being young father, big, hairy, and such, I identified with Hector. Now I want to go to Hellespont and piss on Achilles grave.
Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more, or fill the wall up with our English dead.
Um, or something like that. School starts up again tomorrow. I'm going full time this quarter and pulled back to half time at work. I took an insanely great class this summer called "Discrete Mathematical Modelling". It's making me question my current focus on theoretical math. Oh well, I'm so close the the end of my undergraduate degree that I might as well stick it out. I will, however, look into applied programs when it comes time for graduate school
Anyway, this quarter is:
Analysis (calculus from the bottom up)
Combinatorics (the theory of counting things)
Classics (Homer, Illiad, etc.)
Intermediate Macroeconomics
I would say that I'll be online less but that would be practically impossible. You see, this summer I finished this insane project that I started about 4 years ago. I built an office in my basement. When our daughter was on the way, I lost my office to become her room. About that time, I started building a new office in the basement. This was, of course, before I started back to school.
So, in the last 4 years I've:
Designed the space
Cleaned the basement (and I mean spotless)
Framed in the office
Run all the electical (I passed inspection!!)
Knocked a doorway in an existing wall to create a server room.
Hung drywall
Taped, mudded, and sanded.
Installed a door/lockset
Painted
Laid carpet
Done the trim
Finished the windows
Hung and painted a blackboard
Run network cabling
Moved in funiture and computers
I've spent almost the entirety of my free time this summer finishing it up. I moved the computers in tonight and I'm posting it from the new office.
Anyway, I'll update in the near future with a little more info about the classes.
Um, or something like that. School starts up again tomorrow. I'm going full time this quarter and pulled back to half time at work. I took an insanely great class this summer called "Discrete Mathematical Modelling". It's making me question my current focus on theoretical math. Oh well, I'm so close the the end of my undergraduate degree that I might as well stick it out. I will, however, look into applied programs when it comes time for graduate school
Anyway, this quarter is:
Analysis (calculus from the bottom up)
Combinatorics (the theory of counting things)
Classics (Homer, Illiad, etc.)
Intermediate Macroeconomics
I would say that I'll be online less but that would be practically impossible. You see, this summer I finished this insane project that I started about 4 years ago. I built an office in my basement. When our daughter was on the way, I lost my office to become her room. About that time, I started building a new office in the basement. This was, of course, before I started back to school.
So, in the last 4 years I've:
Designed the space
Cleaned the basement (and I mean spotless)
Framed in the office
Run all the electical (I passed inspection!!)
Knocked a doorway in an existing wall to create a server room.
Hung drywall
Taped, mudded, and sanded.
Installed a door/lockset
Painted
Laid carpet
Done the trim
Finished the windows
Hung and painted a blackboard
Run network cabling
Moved in funiture and computers
I've spent almost the entirety of my free time this summer finishing it up. I moved the computers in tonight and I'm posting it from the new office.
Anyway, I'll update in the near future with a little more info about the classes.
Shake and Bake!
If you love stupid movies like I do, go see Talledega Nights. They don't come much stupider that that. This quarter's nearly over. So, that's working out well.
My EVE Online addiction is raging.
If you love stupid movies like I do, go see Talledega Nights. They don't come much stupider that that. This quarter's nearly over. So, that's working out well.
My EVE Online addiction is raging.
I've been busy with school and work but thought I'd mention that I work about a block from where the Seattle shooting was today. It was a little wierd just because of the number of emergency vehicles flying around and how messed up it was trying to get out of downtown. Other than that, there's not much to report. It's odd to be able to say that. A block or two away people were shot and at least one killed today and the only detectable difference in my life was a little more traffic and some extra noise.
Gonna have to let that one sink in a while.
Gonna have to let that one sink in a while.
If you see a big, hairy, Irish-looking guy walking towards you with a determined look on his face, you'd better run, mother fucker.
If you're not a photographer who's had a crappy set go up recently, you can probably relax.
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Just to clarify, one SG complained about the quality of the set in her journal. A tip for the other photog. If you're going to start the model off in a top so tight that it leaves red marks that make her breast look like its been chewed on by a rabid wildebeast, at least have the courtesy to photoshop the red marks out.
If you're not a photographer who's had a crappy set go up recently, you can probably relax.
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Just to clarify, one SG complained about the quality of the set in her journal. A tip for the other photog. If you're going to start the model off in a top so tight that it leaves red marks that make her breast look like its been chewed on by a rabid wildebeast, at least have the courtesy to photoshop the red marks out.
So probably aught to update. Let's see the quarter's over. Next quarter should be fun.
A while ago, I started a new job. I'm a software geek. Anyway, my prior employer was a really big company that has an office in the Seattle area (not that one). Anyway, I had a hard time with how they developed software, so I left to go work for a smaller company where I have a lot more influence.
So far, it's been a blast, we starting to get tons done and everybody seems hugely engaged. Plus they are, like the last company, being really flexible in a way that lets me make headway on the math degree.
Doing C++ development again really reminds me of how much of a "rounded scissors" language Java is. Don't ge me wrong, it's much easier to write in Java, most of the time, but when you run into a situation where you have a lot of repetitive code C++ shines with templates, implicit conversions, operator overloading, and a preprocessor.
Anyway, good night, all.
A while ago, I started a new job. I'm a software geek. Anyway, my prior employer was a really big company that has an office in the Seattle area (not that one). Anyway, I had a hard time with how they developed software, so I left to go work for a smaller company where I have a lot more influence.
So far, it's been a blast, we starting to get tons done and everybody seems hugely engaged. Plus they are, like the last company, being really flexible in a way that lets me make headway on the math degree.
Doing C++ development again really reminds me of how much of a "rounded scissors" language Java is. Don't ge me wrong, it's much easier to write in Java, most of the time, but when you run into a situation where you have a lot of repetitive code C++ shines with templates, implicit conversions, operator overloading, and a preprocessor.
Anyway, good night, all.
My wife just flushed 20 awesome points down the toilet.
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I should say why. Complete hysterics because there was something wrong with the cable that threatened her ability to watch the Oscars tonight.
Being that it's out of character for her to watch television let alone get upset about missing a program her behavior tonight was, well, strange.
--- UPDATE ---
I should say why. Complete hysterics because there was something wrong with the cable that threatened her ability to watch the Oscars tonight.
Being that it's out of character for her to watch television let alone get upset about missing a program her behavior tonight was, well, strange.
