I like your answer! (Esp. the 1st sentence...)

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Post #238,050

by jb4

12/14/05 6:02:38 PM

I like your answer! (Esp. the 1st sentence...)

jb4
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Post #238,064

by jake123

12/14/05 7:16:34 PM

Well, it's not like it's not true...

Of course, as one of the profs here put it, 'being able to know when you have no choice but to do every possible combination is an important career skill in this field'.

His claim was that it could be very important to be able to explain to a TLA type why neither you nor anyone else was going to be able to do what he wanted done.

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Need to QC an active linux box. - (broomberg) - (20) - Dec. 8, 2005, 09:31:32 PM EST

My guess would be handles - (jake123) - (18) - Dec. 8, 2005, 09:38:30 PM EST

How can an external process tell? -NT - (broomberg) - (17) - Dec. 8, 2005, 09:54:04 PM EST

AFAIK, it can't. - (jake123) - (16) - Dec. 9, 2005, 01:25:33 AM EST

Erm? - (jb4) - (15) - Dec. 9, 2005, 02:07:09 PM EST

No, not necessarily. - (jake123) - (14) - Dec. 9, 2005, 02:20:12 PM EST

And not necessarily again - (ben_tilly) - (13) - Dec. 9, 2005, 02:44:21 PM EST

A) Thanks. B) Harrumph! - (jb4) - (12) - Dec. 14, 2005, 03:08:54 PM EST

Well, of course you need disciplined programming - (jake123) - (8) - Dec. 14, 2005, 04:36:04 PM EST

Stupid "never took a CS course" question - (drewk) - (7) - Dec. 14, 2005, 05:06:08 PM EST

If you have to iterate over every possible combination - (jake123) - (6) - Dec. 14, 2005, 05:36:08 PM EST

I like your answer! (Esp. the 1st sentence...) -NT - (jb4) - (1) - Dec. 14, 2005, 06:02:38 PM EST

Well, it's not like it's not true... - (jake123) - Dec. 14, 2005, 07:16:34 PM EST

Okay, about what I thought - (drewk) - (1) - Dec. 14, 2005, 09:45:56 PM EST

Not only hard - (jake123) - Dec. 14, 2005, 07:18:01 PM EST

You overstate the case significantly - (ben_tilly) - (1) - Dec. 14, 2005, 10:00:28 PM EST

Yeah, that's true - (jake123) - Dec. 15, 2005, 12:02:27 AM EST

Disciplined programming, eh? - (pwhysall) - (2) - Dec. 14, 2005, 05:16:25 PM EST

Sounds like you may never have heard of it? -NT - (jb4) - (1) - Dec. 14, 2005, 06:03:15 PM EST

Nah, just that I've rarely *seen* it -NT - (drewk) - Dec. 14, 2005, 06:08:34 PM EST

do a netstat -a | grep -i waiting - (boxley) - Dec. 8, 2005, 10:11:14 PM EST

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