Apparently you don't read replies to your posts. So I'll email this as well as posting it here for the record. I have automatic copyright to all the posts that I've made to this forum. I now request you to delete all…
Obviously we have different ideas about what constitutes intelligent argument. Please delete my account. If you need a formal request to that effect, say here how to submit that.
You said the brits were risking their lives. I said they weren't, at least to the extent that you believed - and explained why in exhaustive detail. But you disagree, based on qualifications and experience that could…
Given that I'm sitting at home watching TV - and they're all busting their asses off in the cave - it's hard to discuss this without being disrespectful to them - which I certainly don't want to be. But anyway...…
> claustrophobia can express itself in different ways Too right. I'm a reasonably experienced cave diver, and regularly dive in a system of 11km of intersecting fully-underwater tunnels, with the single entry/exit being…
I did know that, but I'm not sure how that applies. In your scenario, the tank ruptures, there's virtually no water expansion, so nothing happens. In my scenario, the tank ruptures, the internal gas content instantly…
But only by 3% - so I still won't set up my chillout lounge right next to the tank fill station! :-)
I'm no scientist and you may well be right. But I'm skeptical of your statement that "much" of the blast would be directed upwards. If you look at the pictures of tank explosions, they often show the entire room…
It's always surprised me how many people do not know that water is incompressible! For example, when someone is filling a scuba tank, it's common to put the tank in a large, often metal-sided container of water. When…
The other day I dropped in on a local scuba store that I've patronised as a customer and/or instructor for nearly 30 years. They've changed hands recently, and had a few new folk behind the counter. I waited for over 5…
> Wow, congrats on insulting people I posted a detailed exposition of my own approach to interviewing. I expected nothing more than some intelligent comments thereon. In response, someone says I'm "prejudiced", and why…
> I don't think about whiteboard code the way I think about production code. Isn't that the whole point of an interviewer writing code on the whiteboard? To see how the applicant would view that code if hired to work in…
I'm truly bemused by your response. First, if you truly believe that the code I showed is "a snippet of code completely made up or taken out of context and then anonymized by renaming variables", I can only say that I…
Wow! That sounds like a fail to me :-)
It just amazes me that employers ask complicated CS-type questions for ordinary programming jobs. I've been out of the game for 20 years, and only did a few interviews anyway (as the interviewer), so what would I know!…
I just had the exact opposite experience! I was discussing scams with my regular painter. He said he got one recently, and showed it to me on his phone. It was an SMS that said, "Dear <FORENAME>, we have been trying to…
I just don't see enough cost benefit from rewriting hundreds of thousands of lines of working code at this time. I can't see IE going away, any time soon, due to corporate tie-in. Hopefully VBScript ditto. If it all…
Further to my other reply, I've just checked the intertubes, and found that Codd's paper "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks" was published in 1970, and Dijkstra's "Go To Statement Considered…
Ok. Oracle had/has a presumeably similar thing (PL/SQL). I misread his comment to mean, postgres SQL.
Yes indeed. I haven't checked his research dates, but I was writing database software in the late (uh) 60s and early 70s. I think that was even before "goto harmful". I still remember our standards officer saying, let's…
Nope! I've never used postgres at all. Most of my RDBMS work was done on HN NSFW ALERT - oracle :-) But your comment supports my general point, which is, that data modelling and relational schema design skills are…
All of the websites concerned have strict authorization requirements and none have public APIs afaics. At the start, it just seemed easiest to automatically scrape them. I guess I could have reverse engineer their…
Nope, never heard of it. My software certainly has to click lots of thing! But it also has to do lots of data processing behind the scenes. So the clickety click is only part of the story :-)
I'll certainky take a look at it
The rubber hose would fail!
Apparently you don't read replies to your posts. So I'll email this as well as posting it here for the record. I have automatic copyright to all the posts that I've made to this forum. I now request you to delete all…
Obviously we have different ideas about what constitutes intelligent argument. Please delete my account. If you need a formal request to that effect, say here how to submit that.
You said the brits were risking their lives. I said they weren't, at least to the extent that you believed - and explained why in exhaustive detail. But you disagree, based on qualifications and experience that could…
Given that I'm sitting at home watching TV - and they're all busting their asses off in the cave - it's hard to discuss this without being disrespectful to them - which I certainly don't want to be. But anyway...…
> claustrophobia can express itself in different ways Too right. I'm a reasonably experienced cave diver, and regularly dive in a system of 11km of intersecting fully-underwater tunnels, with the single entry/exit being…
I did know that, but I'm not sure how that applies. In your scenario, the tank ruptures, there's virtually no water expansion, so nothing happens. In my scenario, the tank ruptures, the internal gas content instantly…
But only by 3% - so I still won't set up my chillout lounge right next to the tank fill station! :-)
I'm no scientist and you may well be right. But I'm skeptical of your statement that "much" of the blast would be directed upwards. If you look at the pictures of tank explosions, they often show the entire room…
It's always surprised me how many people do not know that water is incompressible! For example, when someone is filling a scuba tank, it's common to put the tank in a large, often metal-sided container of water. When…
The other day I dropped in on a local scuba store that I've patronised as a customer and/or instructor for nearly 30 years. They've changed hands recently, and had a few new folk behind the counter. I waited for over 5…
> Wow, congrats on insulting people I posted a detailed exposition of my own approach to interviewing. I expected nothing more than some intelligent comments thereon. In response, someone says I'm "prejudiced", and why…
> I don't think about whiteboard code the way I think about production code. Isn't that the whole point of an interviewer writing code on the whiteboard? To see how the applicant would view that code if hired to work in…
I'm truly bemused by your response. First, if you truly believe that the code I showed is "a snippet of code completely made up or taken out of context and then anonymized by renaming variables", I can only say that I…
Wow! That sounds like a fail to me :-)
It just amazes me that employers ask complicated CS-type questions for ordinary programming jobs. I've been out of the game for 20 years, and only did a few interviews anyway (as the interviewer), so what would I know!…
I just had the exact opposite experience! I was discussing scams with my regular painter. He said he got one recently, and showed it to me on his phone. It was an SMS that said, "Dear <FORENAME>, we have been trying to…
I just don't see enough cost benefit from rewriting hundreds of thousands of lines of working code at this time. I can't see IE going away, any time soon, due to corporate tie-in. Hopefully VBScript ditto. If it all…
Further to my other reply, I've just checked the intertubes, and found that Codd's paper "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks" was published in 1970, and Dijkstra's "Go To Statement Considered…
Ok. Oracle had/has a presumeably similar thing (PL/SQL). I misread his comment to mean, postgres SQL.
Yes indeed. I haven't checked his research dates, but I was writing database software in the late (uh) 60s and early 70s. I think that was even before "goto harmful". I still remember our standards officer saying, let's…
Nope! I've never used postgres at all. Most of my RDBMS work was done on HN NSFW ALERT - oracle :-) But your comment supports my general point, which is, that data modelling and relational schema design skills are…
All of the websites concerned have strict authorization requirements and none have public APIs afaics. At the start, it just seemed easiest to automatically scrape them. I guess I could have reverse engineer their…
Nope, never heard of it. My software certainly has to click lots of thing! But it also has to do lots of data processing behind the scenes. So the clickety click is only part of the story :-)
I'll certainky take a look at it
The rubber hose would fail!