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Where do you get your information, movies? Sure, it's true the marijuana has a chemical effect on the brain that can affect it's ability over time, but most marijuana users aren't the surfer dude pot heads you see in the movies. There are tons of functioning professionals that occasionally smoke pot. Would these people possibly be a little more effective if they didn't? Perhaps. But that doesn't mean that Developer A who smokes pot occasionally is automatically less capable than Developer B who never smokes. You're doing your business absolutely no good by firing someone based on anything other than their ability to achieve your companies goals effectively.
As far as athletes go, Not many athletes get fired for drinking socially, chewing tobacco, or eating mcdonalds.
I'd suggest you stay out of management for a while.
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I'm sure someone already addressed this, but no.
TL:DR; SHA256 hashing on data with enough entropy is good enough for anyone.
First, making collisions impossible is.... impossible. The goal is in fact to minimize the probability at an acceptable cost. The cost of lowering probabilities is usually logarithmic on the same data. But, you can lower probabilities if you introduce more entropy (using file data instead of file name).
The acceptable collision probability depends on the damage that can be done by a collision, but for most applications the most basic hashing algorithms (SHA, MD5) are good enough as long as there's enough ENTROPY.
In the example above, an md5 hash on a filename has a higher probability for collision because file names don't have much entropy. In fact, hashing the filename itself is pointless unless your goal is just to hide it (or store it in a predictable number of characters). A hash of the file contents would have very high entropy -- the collision probability now rests on the contents of two files data (which will be different) returning the same hash.
By using SHA, assuming that every file has different data (and that overwriting a file with the same data is acceptable), The probability of a collision is lower than the probability that no one would be alive to care about a collision:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4014090/is-it-safe-to-ignore-the-possibility-of-sha-collisions-in-practice
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You're the only one with any sense here.
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I used to have rolling papers at work myself, although I usually had them in my pocket, along with my rolling tobacco. But then we're talking about the UK where only really stupid losers smoke tailor-mades; most people here with an ounce of sense (i.e. the ones who understand it's a bad habit and accept that now is not the time to fight it) roll their own straights. It's about 10x cheaper for a start, and you can roll them as small as you want.
The real WTF is assuming that anyone with rolling papers smokes cannabis. It's a bit like finding a tyre iron in someone's trunk and arresting them for assault and battery because tyre irons are so often used for hitting people on the head with.
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No, "marijuana" is not Spanish for cannabis, it's Spanish for "maryjane", which is the term used for users in the early C20 because it (supposedly) turned them into faggots. As I say, a despicably fucking insulting term which should be on a par with the notorious n word.
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I've worked with a few terrible "developers", even if they were only graduates.... but are there any as blatantly as bad as Larry? Makes we want to give up tech support (not hard) and be a dev again, for humanity. captcha: dolor. N. Singular of 'Dolores'
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That implies that the drugs are impairing his performance -- in which case, you're firing him for being a shitty coder. If the drugs AREN'T impairing his performance, why the hell do you care?
And no, it's not the same as sports. For an athlete, if he's taking drugs and gets caught he could be stripped of medals/winnings and/or unable to compete. If a coder gets caught smoking weed, the cops aren't going to come force the company to delete all the code he's written. Granted, you could argue they lose training costs if he ends up in jail, but the guy already works there so firing him now just makes them get EVEN LESS benefit from those training costs.
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Of course, but you can add the system's username to the filename. Collisions are always possible of course but a simple check whether the old and new users are the same will prevent files being overwritten by someone else.
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which who knows why may also have collisions xD
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Sure you can, but it smells like "as".
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I read it more like: "But what is the question?" is the question.