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A member of the military not supporting the constitution? Whatever happened to the "I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States"? He should be shot - by a civilian.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: We've had words.
I presume he is more quiet now that you have proved him you can shoot his kneecap from 150 feet away.
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I hate those days, with the typical outcome of a large pizza into my gullet.
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...and d) you left the gun at home...
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 get paid by the hour (insert obligatory "that's what she said") so if I work more than 8 hours, and I'm up to it, my bank account doesn't complain. For me, working long hours is great, every now and then. I don't think I would want to do it day in and day out, though.
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I'll get comp time. By the time next Friday comes around, I'll have more than a day of it.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: I'll get comp time.
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Well, this may relieve your stress so that you can sleep better:
If you're a salaried employee you don't have to be paid for the extra time!
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Do you want all of the locations, or...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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For the chess and javascript enthusiasts...
Test Drive - Chess[^]
I got interesting results. Of the 4 times I ran this, the non-optimized won 3 times (and the fourth was a tie).
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Ran it just once, non-optimized won. That's weird.
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Me too! I'm starting to doubt the optimizer...
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If you reduce the time, the non-optimized wins in fewer moves, despite claims to the contrary in the notes. 
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Were you testing on IE? I was. Tried Chrome, and on Chrome, the optimized version wins easily.
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Maybe it only works as (they) expected on Chrome.
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Same here.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Interesting. I guess Chrome just has the best optimizer then?
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Could be. I played with the parameters a bit, and the optimized version still won every time.
Software Zen: delete this;
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It's left some room for people to write about "pre-mature optimizations" 
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Were you testing on IE? I was. Tried Chrome, and on Chrome, the optimized version wins easily.
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So cool!
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Having grown up being read to from Bullfinch's Mythology, as well as the Norse myths, the Persian myths, etc., I am "partial" to myths, and remain fascinated by their power to invoke a strange, yet familiar, "other reality:" this is an interesting read from " a research scholar in classics and the history of science at Stanford University" exploring some of the most powerful ancient Greeks Myths in terms of what they may relate to in our modern relationship with the rapid evolution of technology, and the possibility of "artificial sentience:" [^].
"Greek legends claimed Daedalus was the first mortal to create ‘living statues’. His ‘living statues’ were animated bronze sculptures that appeared to be endowed with life as they rolled their eyes, perspired, shed tears, bled, spoke and moved their limbs. From his workshop emerged the biomimetic cow made of wood and hide, so realistic that it fooled a bull into mating with it, to satisfy Queen Pasiphae’s perverse lust. The result of this union of human, machine and animal was the Minotaur, a hideous creature with a man’s body and a bull’s head. He was destined to become the man-eating ogre imprisoned in the Labyrinth (another Daedalus design), until finally killed by the hero Theseus. Again, ancient bio-techne fused human and machine – and generated a monster."
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Didn't Mark Twain once say that there were no new ideas, only different combinations of the same "old" ideas? - or something like that.
Interesting post, none the less.
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