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On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 07:35:52 -0400, Warp wrote:
> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote:
>> I'm curious how you manage to be within 17 feet of a computer when
>> you're skiing. ;)
>
> He has a smartphone, of course...
#REF
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>> Surely that is TOTALLY IMPOSSIBLE! You're one of the 6 people in the
>> world working on cryptography!
>
> I'm not designing cryptographic methods - just employing existing ones.
> (Maybe.)
Actually... It turns out all of the cryptography is a 3rd party
commercial library that we purchased. The code we wrote does no
cryptography at all. Oh well...
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On 10/7/2012 3:33, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> In terms of location, the building is literally 2 blocks from my front door.
> It's almost close enough to /walk/ to work.
TIL brits don't go outdoors. :-)
> I wrote quite a lot of C# code for somebody who doesn't "know" C# yet.
> Obviously it was all exercises. And they were really more interested in my
> problem-solving approach (and social skills) than the actual code produced
> (which was obviously trivial).
Congrats. This sounds like a great job to land.
> that after all this I can actually DO the job! O_O
Of course you can. C# is actually a pretty straight-forward imperative
language unless you start getting into very weird-ass stuff like generating
code on the fly or something like that. It's a pretty big language, most of
which makes sense.
> PS. My quip about Mordor seems tame compared to some of the jokes I heard
> offered in the office. Indeed, that quip may even by why they invited me
> back in the first place... (But that's just speculation on my part.)
I wouldn't be surprised.
Again, congrats!
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
"They're the 1-800-#-GORILA of the telecom business."
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On 10/8/2012 14:00, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> something called LINQ, which seems to be of very dubious usefulness. (Unless
> you're actually writing database applications, anyway...)
FWIW, LINQ is list comprehensions, except with a vaguely SQL-like syntax.
Now you're good to go. :-)
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
"They're the 1-800-#-GORILA of the telecom business."
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On 20/10/2012 6:15 PM, Darren New wrote:
> On 10/7/2012 3:33, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
>> It's almost close enough to /walk/ to work.
>
> TIL brits don't go outdoors. :-)
Strange! And here's me thinking that it was Americans who had forgotten
how to walk. I've heard that you only go outdoors in an automobile.
--
Regards
Stephen
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On Sat, 20 Oct 2012 18:28:22 +0100, Stephen wrote:
> On 20/10/2012 6:15 PM, Darren New wrote:
>> On 10/7/2012 3:33, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
>
>>> It's almost close enough to /walk/ to work.
>>
>> TIL brits don't go outdoors. :-)
>
> Strange! And here's me thinking that it was Americans who had forgotten
> how to walk. I've heard that you only go outdoors in an automobile.
There are places that can be true, particularly in the colder climes. I
remember days growing up where it was -70F outside (with the wind chill)
- you wouldn't WANT to go outdoors in that if you could avoid it. ;)
Jim
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On 10/20/2012 10:28, Stephen wrote:
> On 20/10/2012 6:15 PM, Darren New wrote:
>> On 10/7/2012 3:33, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
>
>>> It's almost close enough to /walk/ to work.
>>
>> TIL brits don't go outdoors. :-)
>
> Strange! And here's me thinking that it was Americans who had forgotten how
> to walk. I've heard that you only go outdoors in an automobile.
That's just Los Angelos. San Diego walks everywhere. The rest of the country
walks or rides depending how fat they are. :-)
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
"They're the 1-800-#-GORILA of the telecom business."
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On 20/10/2012 06:19 PM, Darren New wrote:
> On 10/8/2012 14:00, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
>> something called LINQ, which seems to be of very dubious usefulness.
>> (Unless
>> you're actually writing database applications, anyway...)
>
> FWIW, LINQ is list comprehensions, except with a vaguely SQL-like
> syntax. Now you're good to go. :-)
I'm also not a fan of list comprehensions. Everything they can do can
also be done using monads. And in fact, in the latest GHC releases,
"list" comprehensions can be used for any monad. So really, it's just
different syntax for stuff you can already do. So why bother?
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On 10/20/2012 11:14, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> So really, it's just different
> syntax for stuff you can already do. So why bother?
Every programming language is just different syntax for stuff you can do
already in assembler. So?
Once you work with a language that does *not* have monads or list
comprehension, get back to me on whether it's useful to bother with. :-)
And you know what? What do you think LINQ is simplified syntax for? Look at
the underlying routines it translates into, and tell me if it's equivalent
to monads. I'm honestly curious.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
"They're the 1-800-#-GORILA of the telecom business."
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On 10/20/2012 10:53, Darren New wrote:
> On 10/20/2012 10:28, Stephen wrote:
>> On 20/10/2012 6:15 PM, Darren New wrote:
>>> On 10/7/2012 3:33, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
>>
>>>> It's almost close enough to /walk/ to work.
>>>
>>> TIL brits don't go outdoors. :-)
>>
>> Strange! And here's me thinking that it was Americans who had forgotten how
>> to walk. I've heard that you only go outdoors in an automobile.
>
> That's just Los Angelos. San Diego walks everywhere. The rest of the country
> walks or rides depending how fat they are. :-)
More exactly, Americans drive more, and more probably own cars, but that's
because Paris to Berlin is like a short commute by car for Americans. People
who live in cities usually don't take cars anywhere.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
"They're the 1-800-#-GORILA of the telecom business."
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