Blanket Code

(noun)

A National Recovery Administration proposal to set the minimum wage at between 20 and 45 cents per hour, a maximum workweek of 35 to 45 hours, and abolish child labor.

Related Terms

Examples of Blanket Code in the following topics:

  • Industrial Recovery

    • The codes of fair competition were to be developed through public hearings.
    • Minimum wages, maximum working hours, prices, and production quotas were all to be covered under the codes.
    • Johnson called on every business establishment in the nation to accept a stopgap "blanket code": a minimum wage of between 20 and 45 cents per hour, a maximum workweek of 35–45 hours, and the abolition of child labor.
    • Together with Roosevelt, he contended that the "blanket code" would raise consumer purchasing power and increase employment.
    • Following the provisions of NIRA, NRA engaged in drafting the codes.

  • Patents

    • If part of your code looks like it may infringe on someone else's copyright, you can just rewrite that part.
    • But a patent is a blanket injunction against implementing a certain idea.
    • It doesn't matter who writes the code, nor even what programming language is used.
    • The harm done to free software by software patents is more insidious than just direct threats to code development, however.
    • First, it stipulates that anyone distributing code under the license must implicitly include a royalty-free patent license for any patents they might hold that could apply to the code.

  • Writing It All Down

    • For example, there's no point writing guidelines like "Be polite and respectful to others on the mailing lists, and don't start flame wars," or "Write clean, readable bug-free code. " Of course these things are desirable, but since there's no conceivable universe in which they might not be desirable, they are not worth mentioning.
    • If people are being rude on the mailing list, or writing buggy code, they're not going to stop just because the project guidelines said to.
    • Such situations need to be dealt with as they arise, not by blanket admonitions to be good.
    • On the other hand, if the project has specific guidelines about how to write good code, such as rules about documenting every API in a certain format, then those guidelines should be written down as completely as possible.

  • Meeting In Person (Conferences, Hackfests, Code-a-Thons, Code Sprints, Retreats)

  • The Napoleonic Code

  • Codes of Conduct

    • Organizations adopt codes of conduct to guide employees' actions and decisions.
    • There are three types of ethical codes: codes of business ethics, codes of conduct for employees, and codes of professional practice.
    • A code of business ethics often focuses on social issues.
    • A code of practice is adopted to regulate a particular profession.
    • Similarly, behavior in organizational settings may be guided by organizational codes of conduct.

  • The Southwest

    • Women, on the other hand, are seen as more dynamic in nature and, thus, better suited for the creation of woven fabrics, such as blankets and rugs, who patterns do not have to be exact.
    • Unlike sand paintings, blankets and rugs are made to be long-lasting, and, therefore, may be photographed.

  • Hooverville

    • Democrats coined other terms, such as "Hoover blanket" (old newspaper used as blanketing) and "Hoover flag" (an empty pocket turned inside out).

  • Slave Codes

    • Slave codes in the Northern colonies were less harsh than slave codes in the Southern colonies, but contained many similar provisions.
    • The slave codes of the tobacco colonies (Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, and Virginia) were modeled on the Virginia code established in 1667.
    • South Carolina established its slave code in 1712, with the following provisions:
    • The district’s official printed slave code was issued only a month beforehand.
    • Explain the purpose of slave codes and how they were implemented throughout the United States

  • Hammurabi's Code

    • The Code of Hammurabi was a collection of 282 laws, written in c. 1754 BCE in Babylon.
    • The Code of Hammurabi is one of the oldest deciphered writings of length in the world, and features a code of law from ancient Babylon in Mesopotamia.
    • Other forms of codes of law had been in existence in the region around this time, including the Code of Ur-Nammu, king of Ur (c. 2050 BCE), the Laws of Eshnunna (c. 1930 BCE) and the codex of Lipit-Ishtar of Isin (c. 1870 BCE).
    • Nevertheless, the Code was studied, copied, and used as a model for legal reasoning for at least 1500 years after.
    • This basalt stele has the Code of Hammurabi inscribed in cuneiform script in the Akkadian language.