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CTEs aren't for creating a simple value. They are for creating a table variable.

Take it, but don't stop the ruby. At this stage it is worth getting as much programming experience and direction as possible.

pohart

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I agree that you can't learn to program from sitting in lectures, but they can help you. They can help especially in conjunction with well chosen programming assignments. Most programming assignments are designed to introduce you to new topics in algorithms or data-structures. This allows you to expand your abilities more quickly that you would on your own. Learning ruby simultaneously will hopefully help jmonegro learn some of the shortcomings of java. The projects probably won't be large enough for him to see many disadvantages in ruby. ruby really shines in the kind of small programs people normally write when first learning a language (among other areas).

pohart

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while it's possible that mentioning it to your employer may have negative consequences, I think it much more likely that your employer will get you what you need as far as an ergonomic workspace. Unfortunately you need to have some idea of what you need in an ergonomic workspace to ask. So if you have the money, try different things at home. You may also be able to borrow coworkers items to try them. Frequently, someone who has dealt with RSI and found some simple solutions will be excited to share whatever helped them.

pohart

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small mice always cause me problems

pohart

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before spending $1000, adjust your chair, keyboard, and mouse so that your posture is good, your shoulders are relaxed and your wrists are in a neutral position. You may not be able to do this with a standard keyboard, but a split keyboard is less than $100. if your chair doesn't adjust, get one that does. I personally like a chair that doesn't have armrests, as they sometimes cause me to raise my shoulders or contort my wrists, and I am comfortable resting my arms on my body/legs/

pohart

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I think you went to the wrong school. you should not have been doing boring monotonous busywork in any program at ANY college/university. I double majored in Economics and Computer Science, and was one credit away from a math major as well. The busy work that I did was limited to a single 400 level Economics course. The course was required for business majors, and apparently business majors at SUNY Albany were unable to perform arithmetic or even perform simple substitutions into formulas without a disgusting amount of hand holding. Other than that my education was busy work free.

pohart

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While I see the point of such a thing, I don't like the idea of only reading the posts of people sharing my values/ideas. I already have my values/ideas and reading them will reinforce, instead of expand, them.

pohart

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I had over half of the class accused of cheating in an undergrad class.

He let them off the first time without including the grade on that assignment, but warned that it would not be acceptable on future assignments. When people did it again they failed.

Two of them were caught cheating in another class, and attempted to withdraw after they were told they had Fs for failing. They were kicked out of school.

But it really should take less than 3 instances of cheating in class and 1 of cheating on the system to get kicked out.

pohart

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My professor's view was also that D and F were pretty much the same also, you can't get very many Ds and stay in school. D is kind of like a "high fail." I believe we were limited in the number of Ds on our transcript for graduation, although I don't remember anymore.

pohart

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I always thought this was an issue at my school. Fail the students who need to fail. Supposedly we had a rule that no more than 25% of a class should fail. I was in classes where more than that deserved to fail.

I also seriously considered dropping out when I received a D+ in a class that I felt deserved a solid F. I rarely went to class, I did none of the homework, and consequently received 3% of the total available test points.

I was also in the top half of that class. I considered dropping out because I felt my degree would be worthless if the standards were so low. Instead I started working hard and found that getting A's and B's was still appropriately difficult, even if getting a D+ was not.

pohart

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> Of course nobody is going to walk 3 miles, that's stupid.

What is stupid about that? Every day at lunch a group of 4 of us go on a three mile walk. Most days we stroll and it takes an hour.

  If I had my own cart I could certainly do that once a week.

OK, so no more meat every day, but I could still have eggs every day and milk some days. And I still wouldn't need to use any refrigeration. And since I live within 3 miles of several farms and have a bike, I could make a few milk/meat trips a week. I would probably be drinking sheep's milk and eating mutton more, because that is what is close, but that still sounds fine.

pohart

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I understand the risks of raw milk and want it. I also understand why we have it regulated. I would like to relax the regulation to allow me to get raw milk in some situations. but I don't want BigCo. selling it. BigCo. can't be trusted.

pohart

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the parent isn't saying anything about it being so important, he is saying that not regulating isn't working is some particular cases.

pohart

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the problem is that no milk will be uncertified. There will be certain certifiers that will certify anything, and it will be extremely difficult for a buyer to tell the difference.

Look at something like eggs. People pay more for eggs because they are "free range", but free range just means that they have access to the range, not that they are capable of using that access.

And it is in firms interest to provide a patently unsafe product as long as not enough people are lost due to the unsafe product to counteract the savings.

without regulation it would be much harder to determine the cause of the problem.

If I am exposed to e-coli due to lettuce or spinach (each certified by a different agency), I won't know. I'll assume it was from my overeasy eggs or rare beef, or because the cook doesn't wash his hands. the farmer could go on selling tainted vegetables for quite a long time before the cause is found.

pohart

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teachers seem solidly in the middle for the three groups.

This brings up something interesting, as a group, we like to think of ourselves as above average when compared to other disciplines, but Computer & Info. Sciences was comparable to Education. Consider that in many states, ALL teachers must go to graduate school, so many more of them are taking the GRE than Computer & Info. Sciences.

I suppose most schools with Computer Science grad programs probably also have a lite Information Science/Business program that would drag our scores down significantly. I know mine did.

pohart

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this has been my only problem with hn. good links. great discussion. can't get more links w/out going back to the top

pohart

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As another Eco Major I think I agree with you. The problem is that runs on banks are like a giant prisoner's dilemma. Everyone is better off getting out if there is a problem, and no worse off if there is not. What he is talking about is similar, and even if the politicians from the other countries realize what is happenning, they will probably be more likely to do what the people want so they can an keep there jobs and be on top during the depression than to try and save the world economy and end up out of office.

pohart

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A different kind of gross mismanagement: One that involved less fraud, and backroom transaction.

I agree that SOX is probably not particularly useful. Although it does target some specific bad practices that were instrumental in Enron's collapse, especially wrt off-balance-sheet transactions and auditor independence. Of course mismanagement can cause businesses to fail, and can cause businesses to fail spectacularly. SOX was designed around a particular model of failure and it is disingenuous to claim that because there are other models of failure are possible, SOX is a waste.

Again: SOX is probably not worth the expense, but the Bear collapse is unrelated.

pohart

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What I'm saying is that just because a particular set of regulations didn't help in a particular case doesn't mean that regulation is worthless. SOX was created primarily intended to prevent the type of gross-mismanagement that brought down Enron.

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