Mussels and brie on crackers, and some dried bananas. I'm a grown-up now and can eat whatever I want for dinner.

Yeah...I think it's good to catch the teens early, before they get into the adult system and learn the game. We have the "diversion program" for that. Short sharp shock nice and early, get them to...

Well, sometimes rehabilitation works, you just have to careful not to waste it on the ones that play games. The prison I mentioned earlier has a tough program and transfers anybody not cooperating....

How did you get the impression that they are not (theoretically) for rehabilitation?

Since a sentence tends to have a release date, often after a few years, that would imply that the system hopes...

Something tells me that you've been a victim of crime, jwenting..?

You would be unpleasantly surprised. In the US, many prisons are privatised and operate manufacturing facilities using inmates as workers, turning a significant profit. Their emphasis has turned away...

There are a lot of really ordinary people in prison too, who are not particularly criminal nor smart, just screwed up.

I prefer responding to the requirements of each situation, driven by clearly being able to see what is required. A kind of absolute pragmatism. All it requires is clarity, which is not the easy part.

The main thing I get out of design patterns is a kind of vocabulary with which I can succinctly describe a design, helping with code documentation. A description like "Stateful-Builder, producing a...

Bravo, well said.

I too refuse to live a victim complex.

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Why dont you simulate a routing algorithm? Maybe have a bunch of hosts executing a distributed algorithm like RIP. That would be something that you could start really simple with, just the core...

That can be a good thing ;)

Being able to write documentation is PURE GOLD. A rare and underrated skill you definitely want to cultivate, that many employees will value you for, don't fret!

It will be partly due to you being fresh on the job, where people get scared of the newcomer breaking code, thats normal to an extent, but yes, they probably are having trouble fitting you into their...

Hi everyone,

this is the first forum I ever joined, I've been a lurker on a few of them, I'll admit it.

I'm glad to sign up with one that has a broad range of topics, where the backgrounds and...

A Web application framework in Java. Hierarchical-MVC, each controller a state machine, each state with a template or UI panel. View is an nested composition of the views of the current states of the...

My mother was a bit like that when she was on the way out, thats why I half believe it. She was so philosophical, being the hard core Buddhist and so on, it was just business as usual for her. People...

Never tried spitting them...I just eat them. The Rock melons have a nice big gooey mass of them, and it's like poor man's caviar to me.

PS. What I mean by learning of curve of Java is that when you use Java you have to also use a number of the frameworks built on it, like J2EE etc.

I've asked myself that question a few times..I think it's that women often just don't see themselves "in the role" of the software geek, like they cant visualise it. I'm an average guy, not massively...

Th: Design Patterns, Elements of Reusable Software

A PROLOG implementation of a machine learning algorithm (PRISM) for a university assignment. The notes on the algorithm had an error in them..oops.

Nice one, she's got some clarity there.

I'm half way through my second watermelon, and have one more after that. Oh yeah, just remembered the battered surimi chunks, bonus.