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Ruby is standing stronger than ever.

By this metric Java is still kicking everyone's butts. Also... *all* programming languages are "dying".

I've been around the block enough times to know that if you want to survive as a programmer you had better damn well learn to program. And not in just one language, you need to know a survey of language types. Ruby is just one type in the same category as Python and Javascript. If you really want to survive 20 years as a programmer (like I did) you need to branch out more.

Now, you kids get off my lawn.

Ruby is standing stronger than ever.

By this metric Java is still kicking everyone's butts. Also... *all* programming languages are "dying".

I've been around the block enough times to know that if you want to survive as a programmer you had better damn well learn to program. And not in just one language, you need to know a survey of language types. Ruby is just one type in the same category as Python and Javascript. If you really want to survive 20 years as a programmer (like I did) you need to branch out more.

Now, you kids get off my lawn.

In the domain of language in which Ruby plays, I'd say Python has by far the brightest future.

Some graphs from google trends: ruby programming, python programming and php programming. Which one of these things is not like the others? (Hint: Python).

TIOBE data, questionable as it is.

Search for jobs at LinkedIn:

Ruby: 112 results
Python: 5,151 results
PHP: 3,046 results

And the "programmer perception" survey Berkeley did a while back (that I think was covered at Slashdot). Check out the results for the question "This language is likely to be around for a very long time".

In the domain of language in which Ruby plays, I'd say Python has by far the brightest future.

Some graphs from google trends: ruby programming, python programming and php programming. Which one of these things is not like the others? (Hint: Python).

TIOBE data, questionable as it is.

Search for jobs at LinkedIn:

Ruby: 112 results
Python: 5,151 results
PHP: 3,046 results

And the "programmer perception" survey Berkeley did a while back (that I think was covered at Slashdot). Check out the results for the question "This language is likely to be around for a very long time".

In the domain of language in which Ruby plays, I'd say Python has by far the brightest future.

Some graphs from google trends: ruby programming, python programming and php programming. Which one of these things is not like the others? (Hint: Python).

TIOBE data, questionable as it is.

Search for jobs at LinkedIn:

Ruby: 112 results
Python: 5,151 results
PHP: 3,046 results

And the "programmer perception" survey Berkeley did a while back (that I think was covered at Slashdot). Check out the results for the question "This language is likely to be around for a very long time".

As a big fan of Ruby generally, I hate to take this side, but Ruby is definitely no longer for the 'cool' kids and the community has been shrinking a bit for a while now.

Your Google query chart is a bit wonky as it captures all sorts of oddities. Here is a revised chart which only looks at Computer + Electronics related searches using Google's categories for everything except Python, which I can't seem to figure out how to get it to appear.

Interesting that even though PHP's interest has declined over time (according to the same chart), it's still more popular than Python & Ruby combined.

Nice try (intentionally spelling "java script" is not cute, dude!).

Here, I fixed it to you.

Not a surprise, anyway.

Long answer: a better indicator is how many Google queries for the respective languages are issued. And those suggest that Ruby is standing stronger than ever. Ruby is more than just Rails. And just because there is yet another web apps framework, it doesn't mean that the other ones automatically lose traction.

Happenstance of a ratio of limited phonemes to chance. Similar results appear in dictionaries of all languages. Except in click based language, good luck finding a dictionary for that group of languages , handy on the bookshelf. That particular combination appears in English and other languages in that and similar forms from "Independence" to Hindi" and "in-depth" to " in de back". You could find others with enough dedication and http://translate.google.com/
Let me know how that works out for you. Some etymology couldn't hurt.

Your an idiot without any idea of how the law works. So let me point you in the right direction with some links that didn't come from wikipedia.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/forfeiture
http://www.mackinac.org/1274
http://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications/law-enforcement-bulletin/april-2012/money-laundering-and-asset-forfeiture
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/white_collar/asset-forfeiture
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=19&cad=rja&ved=0CHcQFjAIOAo&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.drugpolicy.org%2FdocUploads%2FAsset_Forfeiture_Briefing.pdf&ei=y6e5UofjNeGqyAGxxoHABQ&usg=AFQjCNH69cfy5T2Ayp8TL9L38XZJ4VPCcw&sig2=g3-gNZLWLpcJMyhtBipLCg

But hey, it's not like there isn't precedent going back centuries for doing this.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424053111903480904576512253265073870

Even if he somehow could get out of the drug dealer and murder for hire charges he would still have the problem of proving how he legitimately got the money and why he didn't pay taxes on it. Penalties for failing to report tens of millions of dollars in income could easily put him in prison for a decades and would still result in the loss of the bitcoins because he can't prove any legitimate means why which he got them.

He admitted an entirely new set of felonies around taxes just to try to claim the bitcoins back. Again, he is one of the biggest idiots that the Internet has ever known.

So spoof your browser id string.

Oh. Let me guess. Apple and Safari won't let you do that.

Safari (desktop version) has a developer menu that lets the end user specify any HTTP_USER_AGENT string:

https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B3wWtj5n3Y6QZzFwb0h1YlJLQkU&export=download
https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B3wWtj5n3Y6QVEdMc0tnZGlwSHc&export=download

Apple (all iOS versions) will let browsers change their HTTP_USER_AGENT; here's the Mercury browser doing just that:

https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B3wWtj5n3Y6QWlJKSk9uOUhOVG8&export=download

So spoof your browser id string.

Oh. Let me guess. Apple and Safari won't let you do that.

Safari (desktop version) has a developer menu that lets the end user specify any HTTP_USER_AGENT string:

https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B3wWtj5n3Y6QZzFwb0h1YlJLQkU&export=download
https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B3wWtj5n3Y6QVEdMc0tnZGlwSHc&export=download

Apple (all iOS versions) will let browsers change their HTTP_USER_AGENT; here's the Mercury browser doing just that:

https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B3wWtj5n3Y6QWlJKSk9uOUhOVG8&export=download

So spoof your browser id string.

Oh. Let me guess. Apple and Safari won't let you do that.

Safari (desktop version) has a developer menu that lets the end user specify any HTTP_USER_AGENT string:

https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B3wWtj5n3Y6QZzFwb0h1YlJLQkU&export=download
https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B3wWtj5n3Y6QVEdMc0tnZGlwSHc&export=download

Apple (all iOS versions) will let browsers change their HTTP_USER_AGENT; here's the Mercury browser doing just that:

https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B3wWtj5n3Y6QWlJKSk9uOUhOVG8&export=download

Narcissism is a term that originated with Narcissus in Greek mythology who fell in love with his own image reflected in a pool of water. Currently it is used to describe the pursuit of gratification from vanity, or egotistic admiration of one's own physical or mental attributes, that derive from arrogant pride. " - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism/

narÂcisÂsism noun 1. excessive or erotic interest in oneself and one's physical appearance. - https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A+narcissism

So...it means exactly what I said in my post. What was the point you thought you were making?

We've just released a new mobile browser for android. We have a number of innovative feature in the works to improve the mobile browsing experience. Fairly soon, we will release the desktop to mobile form factor converter feature, which will also retain the option to see the page in it's original format. Here are a list of other features that will happen soon (at least for Android > v4). Over time the list will also evolve to give higher priority for mobile and tablet optimized sites. Did I mention it gives you free WIFI too through our advanced connection manager? Good connectivity is a major barrier to a great mobile web experience.

Why do these things always make the main page a day late? I had to search for this.

Took me almost an hour, a lot of which was trying to figure out "one way to store data".

From your linked page:

Most current applications and databases have to use Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) to perform calculations with money

This is the problem. BCD is bad at cache utilization (it wastes 17% memory) and bad at utilizing the instruction set of the processor (unless the processor natively supports BCD). If you want to see how to do extended precision integer math, quite efficiently, using nothing more than platform-native ints and with no memory inefficiencies, look no further than this C implementation

Adding a decimal floating point datatype to the CPU may well bring no performance gains at all, since most CPUs are constrained by the memory bandwidth. Good code can do non-decimal extended precision arithmetic faster than the memory can keep up, so those IBM-peddled data types help with nothing.

I'd also point out that the link I posted is just a list of google search results for "Social Safety net economic multipliers." If you see bias there, take it up with Google.

Also, I'd like to apologize for inadvertently poking at your settled world view. I know that can be quite disconcerting. I'd only point out that using verifiable, repeatable methods to validate/invalidate a hypothesis is fairly standard. We call it the "Scientific Method." Perhaps you should try it some time, rather than relying on arguments from authority (in this case, Milton Friedman) and dogma.

Of course, every dollar spent on handouts is taken out of the private sector and taking money out of the private sector reduces job opportunities so the best way to keep from straining the safety net is to quite spending so damn much money on it. If govt spending is not reduced, then the country will soon be bankrupted, there will be widespread civil unrest and a police state will be instituted in order to restore order. It may be hard for some to accept, but that is exactly what Obama and his backers want. Obama isn't intent on releasing a bunch of convicted criminals from prison for nothing - every would-be dictator recruits a private army from low-level street criminals, people devoid of conscience, willing to brutalize the law-abiding and live off them like parasites.

Bzzzt! Wrong. Thanks for playing. Economic analysis shows that government spending, especially on safety nets has a net positive effect (each dollar spent increases economic activity by more than a dollar) on the economy. I was looking around for a good example of such an analysis, but there are so many, I'll let you pick the one you like best. :)

The registrant of muktware.com in the summary link is Swapnil Bhartiya, which is administered through gandi.net by using a pseudo drop in a complex located at 4118 36th Street South, Apt A1, Arlington, Virginia.

Really?

Let me Google that for you.

Yes. Trust China. They don't spy.

I cringe every time I see elementary school children reciting the pledge of allegiance. Start them young...

Fwiw, the moderation is creepy considering that the first 30 years of the Pledge of Allegiance required everyone to put their right arm straight out, palm down, before it was changed to placing their right hand over their heart.

After my comment was posted (the one I'm replying to now), the OP's moderation changed from +4 Funny to +5 Insightful.

The reference to cringing seemed to be an understatement and appropriate, regardless of the salute's original intentions, due to its negative aspects being brought to light by the fascist states embracing it so well too well as to co-opt its ownership and meaning.

A lot of parents of different religious faiths and political affiliations, in the U.S. at least, don't like the idea of someone getting emotionally involved with their children and telling them to verbally profess allegiance or worship to an idea or image — partly due, correctly or incorrectly, to that bad worldwide experience.

number of people that would like to see the South go. They take in more federal dollars than they give while electing Representatives that campaign against receiving those dollars. They're largely the reason the rest of the Country can't have socialized medicine. Personally I can't see abandoning them, but then again I think the point of civilization isn't to protect property but to improve the lives of everyone. That's a fundamental philosophy that a lot disagree with.

Noble of ya.

I'd go for that experiment. I know who'd I'd bet on, but whatever ... why not give it a try?

number of people that would like to see the South go. They take in more federal dollars than they give while electing Representatives that campaign against receiving those dollars. They're largely the reason the rest of the Country can't have socialized medicine.

Personally I can't see abandoning them, but then again I think the point of civilization isn't to protect property but to improve the lives of everyone. That's a fundamental philosophy that a lot disagree with.

Fwiw, the moderation is creepy considering that the first 30 years of the Pledge of Allegiance required everyone to put their right arm straight out, palm down, before it was changed to placing their right hand over their heart.

Hitler copied that salute from Mussolini who had copied it from David's famous Oath of the Horatii painting. It was adopted in the US before Hitler or Mussolini started to use it and seeing how it was used to accompany a pledge it seems very obvious that it was inspired by the Oath of the Horatii.

are there good reasons why such a feature isn't just standard on mobile devices?

Florida Woman Calls 911 After McDonald's Runs Out of McNuggets

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There are too many stupid people on this planet, and our emergency response people are already overworked without having to respond to McNugget shortages.

Apparently Norton can do that as well: https://www.google.com/search?q=antivirus+self+destructed

umm...
Why does youtube need ssl?
I could understand logging in needs to be secure, but every page afterwards? They're public pages man!

Just sort of happened *shrug*

Too bad cyanogen went from great open source community effort to a cold moneygrab by couple of greedy guys. Wouldn't touch it with a pole now.

https://plus.google.com/+GuillaumeLesniak/posts/L8FJkrcahPs

I cringe every time I see elementary school children reciting the pledge of allegiance. Start them young...

Fwiw, the moderation is creepy considering that the first 30 years of the Pledge of Allegiance required everyone to put their right arm straight out, palm down, before it was changed to placing their right hand over their heart.

In socialism things ran a bit different...

Here you go. Now, good luck staying in business...

FUCK! China landed a probe on the moon. Dammit we haven't done a damm thing in ages.

Good for China. Now how many probes do they have on Mars? We just landed, what, our 4th rover?

CHINA. you know those guys who make all our cheap plastic walmart crap... is now kicking our asses in space.

Let me know when China lands men on the moon, or anything on Mars. Personally, I'm also super impressed with the Cassini mission. Did you know that Titan has lakes?

I've maintained a goofy little firefox plugin for a few years now and put together a few simple Android apps. It helps me keep my programing skills up while I'm working in IT, and the plugin's big enough I do a little project management on it :). Besides, I get bored playing video games all day long :).

Ads are integrated deeply in your Nexus 5. The phone and the OS are directly from an advertising company. Of course it has advertising.

That being said, Google's apps, in all their mothership-phoning glory count as scumware to me.

They potentially get shafted - https://plus.google.com/+GuillaumeLesniak/posts/L8FJkrcahPs

One of the new company's first actions as a corporate entity was to try and use the CyanogenMod Contributor License Agreement to relicense a major GPLv3 contribution (a total rewrite of the camera app) AFTER work was completed (even though work was started well after they had formed as a company).

So they are promising that "everything you see now will remain open source" - but actions speak louder than words, and one of their first actions was to seek rights to create a closed-source version of the camera app.

Fortunately, their CLA didn't give them the power they thought it did. They claim the whole thing was just a "misunderstanding" - but if they were unaware that Guillaume wanted to keep the GPL, why were they bringing up the CLA, a document which serves solely to mediate licensing *disputes*?

There are 17 vehicle fires every hour. Or 150,000/yr. There aren't enough front pages.

Yup, which is why the only ones that are considered newsworthy by the MSM are the oddball ones. Like when 5 or 6 models of a brand new type of car that's only existed for 2 years mysteriously (or less-than-mysteriously) burst into flames in the course of 12 months.

But that's not to say that "normal" car fires, and even the potential for car fires, doesn't make national news on a regular basis.

Here is an article from just last year, about how Ford Explorers are infamous for catching fire.

Is this enough to get the Tesla fanboys to shut the fuck up and stop acting like some sort of singled-out pariahs? How about this? Are six hundred ninety six million hits good enough for them? Probably not.

hrm...actually it seems that's perhaps what they are planning to do, by re-licensing GPL components. Interesting Google+ post from the developer of Focal about Cyanogen Inc.

And to do so they need to get the permission of the contributors, because copyright still applies and that's how copyleft licenses work. Thus the answer to "what about the contributors?" is "whatever the contributors agreed to."

If they contributed code under an open source license that allows relicensing like BSD, that was their choice and it means that either they implicitly approved from day one or didn't bother to understand the license they chose and screwed themselves.

they get loved tenderly in the ass
https://plus.google.com/+GuillaumeLesniak/posts/L8FJkrcahPs

hrm...actually it seems that's perhaps what they are planning to do, by re-licensing GPL components. Interesting Google+ post from the developer of Focal about Cyanogen Inc.

I installed cyanogenmod on my Samsung Galaxy S3 and I've been pleasantly surprised by the changes (go thorough the screenshots that I've posted - they are all of my phone running CM 10.2) . The phone performs better in every way ( my only gripe is that HDR mode is missing from the camera )
The installation might be a bit tricky ( since Google removed CynaogenMod installer from the Play Store ) . I downloaded the installer from the CM Site , ran the app, followed the instructions and then it installed CM 10.2 ( Android 4.3 ) on my GS3.
I hope with additional funding, CM can come pre-loaded on more devices - a lot of Android devices are being held back by their software. ( cartoonish TouchWiz and LG's even-more-cartoony skins are at the forefront here ). Not only is it aesthetically pleasing, it is more secure, gives more choices to the user and generally makes your phone a better phone.
I hope CM gets more funding and does a stellar job - there is not reason it shouldn't - CM team have already been doing a stellar job :)

Wait a minute AC. I realize that Google searches can be difficult, but this did not require any playing with keywords to find. Tell me how much money he is giving away when his wealth has continued to increase by "BILLIONS" of dollars annually!

From Forbes we have Bill Gates' net worth rose $6 billion from last March due to gains in his investment portfolio; his holdings include tech hygiene firm Ecolab, waste collector Republic Services and Mexican Coke bottler FEMSA. In February the first 12 non-Americans joined Bill Gates’ and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge, in which the ultra-wealthy pledge to give away at least half their net worth to charity.

If Bill gave away 1/2 his wealth, should he not have today only 33.5billion dollars instead of 67billion? Was it only 1/2 his wealth of.. income on some stock investment? 1/2 of his wealth only in Mexico? There are obviously numerous conditions and stipulations on his definition of both "wealth" and "giving away" which are not disclosed meaning there is no sincere altruistic motives.

Explicit vectorization is indeed much more reliable than automatic vectorization, and it will always deliver better performance.

Interestingly, there seems to be quite a few abstraction layer libraries for SIMD. There are also at least Boost.SIMD (part of NT2 [1]) and Vc [2].
Several array-handling libraries (NT2 [1], Eigen [3]) also a leverage SIMD explicitly.
Alternatively there are plenty of languages based on C with explicit SIMD programming, like the Intel SPMD Compiler [4].

If you're interested in SIMD, there is also apparently a workshop being held soon on this subject in Orlando [5].

[1] https://github.com/MetaScale/nt2
[2] http://code.compeng.uni-frankfurt.de/projects/vc/
[3] http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
[4] http://ispc.github.io/
[5] https://sites.google.com/site/wpmvp2014/

I'd just like to say that the Beatles haven't been bigger than Jesus since 2004, when Google started recording search results...
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F07c0j%2C%20Jesus&cmpt=q

Also, that they weren't bigger than Jesus, in text, at any time:
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=the+Beatles%2CJesus&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cthe%20Beatles%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CJesus%3B%2Cc0

Jesus is still bigger than bitcoin... for now...
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=bitcoin%2C%20jesus&cmpt=q

I'd just like to say that the Beatles haven't been bigger than Jesus since 2004, when Google started recording search results...
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F07c0j%2C%20Jesus&cmpt=q

Also, that they weren't bigger than Jesus, in text, at any time:
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=the+Beatles%2CJesus&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cthe%20Beatles%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CJesus%3B%2Cc0

Jesus is still bigger than bitcoin... for now...
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=bitcoin%2C%20jesus&cmpt=q

I'd just like to say that the Beatles haven't been bigger than Jesus since 2004, when Google started recording search results...
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F07c0j%2C%20Jesus&cmpt=q

Also, that they weren't bigger than Jesus, in text, at any time:
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=the+Beatles%2CJesus&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cthe%20Beatles%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CJesus%3B%2Cc0

Jesus is still bigger than bitcoin... for now...
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=bitcoin%2C%20jesus&cmpt=q

California will still make lots of money even if they don't tax Tesla one thin dime.

What California needs right now - more than anything else - are companies who are funneling money into paychecks and will provide the State with a database of who is getting paid, and how much.

Do not kill the goose which is trying to lay a golden egg. Sure, you can kill the goose with tax law, but in doing so, you forfeit all those eggs it was going to lay.

The streets of California are already littered with the carcasses of killed geese.

Many done in by the pen of the FTB. The parts that used to run the goose now are on welfare.

From what I can see, all this economic malaise we have had is a result of both poorly applied taxation and mismanagement of resources. We tax productivity and reward sheer gluttony/greed. So far, the FED has kept the economy "growing" by dropping interest rates over the last 30 years or so. For 30 years, the FED has been able to keep dropping the interest rates to keep liquidity in the economy so merchants could brag around 10% year-over-year growth in sales receipts, making their stock look good, as well as real-estate people carrying on over increases in home price. By lowering interest rates, bankers have been able to support increasing home price - but look at the charts.... how much leeway do the bankers have to keep this charade going?

Look what happened the last time Bernake bumped the rate up a bit. Google found lots of charts. They all say the same thing. Our economic engine is now running on fumes.

Look at the charts. This cannot go on much longer. We are now at the end of travel. The wolf is nearing the door, and we have outsourced way too much of the vital resources which kept our USA strong. The global elite will fare well, unless riots take them out. The rest of us are kinda caught in the mess.

Awesome! I didn't know that the Science Patrol made music videos.