In reality, your logic and communication bits should be abstracted anyway - isn't that the hallmark of good programming practice?..and even then there's performance tradeoffs.
Yes. That is called "Client side programing". Which if you look at the original post that was what we were talking about. Accessing data is effectively the same if it's cached or not.
Usually caching data is 1-2 lines of code in the programming languages I work with. Not sure about what you are referencing. If you had to manually program a cache in every programing language you would be right. But that is one of the problems that is typically solved for you. It's like serializing data to XML or JSON. I am not personally writing code to do that, but there is a library that does that.
My assumption is that you have software that is in a client/server architecture, which is often the case with collaboration software like facebook.
If you are making an application that doesn't know about the rest of the world, you can either have your application cache it's static data--which is not that hard. Beyond that, your application can save your data for transit later when you have connection. For example, facebook does this currently when it fails to upload an image. The progress is saved, and the upload is completed at a later time.
If you want facebook to be an application that does status updates of your imaginary friends I'm sure that'd not be that hard to make, as long as you wanted them to have a limited set of things they were doing.
It's called web services, that return a standard format like JSON, or XML. That's how we do it at my work. Currently I'm working on a project where I serialize perl hashes and arrays into XML, and pass them via a REST based web service to a C# system that serializes it into a DataTable for display in some.NET controls. C# can deserialize the DataTables back into XML, post it to the REST based web service to where it gets re-serialized into hashes and arrays for various CRUD type actions.
GPS is completely over engineering the solution. All you really need is a stick that you take measurements from during low and high tide at a consistent time each year.
So you're saying that the teacher said, "Here's some hot dogs. Cook them now I'm going to go wander off?" Or the teacher said, "Here's how you cook hotdogs on a stick, everyone gather round and grab a stick and a hot dog."
Fast forward 20 years, and people have many experiences with school projects, recess, organized and unorganized sports. There are other ways that kids self organize in America that do not involve becoming lumberjacks at schools.
Right. And being self sufficient is way different then being a good leader, which is what the original article was proposing. I have memories of my mother telling my grand mother not to make me peanut butter and jelly sandwiches cause I needed to be able to make them myself. It's not like the Swiss have a monopoly on that kind of thing.
But to call that leadership training is preposterous.
I find the concept that handling saws, and roasting hotdogs prepares children for leadership positions ridiculous. Every child that roasts a hot dog will become a world class leader? Ridiculous. Now, if you want to say group activities will allow a couple kids out of the group to develop leadership skills that I would believe. But really, when my siblings gather in a pack of 5-6, unsupervised in my parents back yard I'd argue that they are developing more leadership skills then some Swiss tikes that have an adult supervisor just about any day.
Leave children zoning out solo on the TV, reading books, tinkering with a computer, or tweaking lawn mower and they are not developing leadership skills. Not everyone needs to be a leader though.
I think they are ultimately doing this with powershell, and the windows servers that will have no GUI. As they separate design and function more they will be able to deploy multiple UI on a solid core.
30 years of someones working life is definitely something that a society wants, particularly if they are the type of person who is motivated enough to cross national boarders. I hear you on missing the home, that definitely applies to some people (not so much myself, but I can be emphatic here).
Think of the flip side. If there were Camp Cities in China what would it look like? In the 80s it would look like Tiananmen Square. Things have gone a long way in terms of quality of life in China, but I think there are still many things left to be desired. Which is not to say American life is perfect but it is not as bad as the haters on slashdot sometimes make it out to be.
Riggght. The NSA already has enough trouble telling us how many people they are eves dropping on... let's get them officially into the medical gear too!
You just linked to hard numbers of many salaries that are atleast 100k+, with quite a few salaries that are 200k+. If that is not racking in dough, I'm not quite sure what is.
There only seems to be around 100 complaints in their database. That couldn't possibly be right could it? Or have I been wrong about how terrible the banks can be.
Here's a quick query I threw together:
Complaints by Company 1 TD BANK 1 Zions First National Bank 1 USAA Savings 5 Barclays 6 Amex 7 Wells Fargo 8 Discover 9 GE Capital Retail 15 Bank of America 24 JPMorgan Chase 27 Citibank 33 Capital One
Honestly, I don't see how XBox could be losing money with the annual subscription. That said, I won't be renewing my subscription the second time around. I was really hoping windows media center would be a good thing for, you know, media. But as it turns out it blows, so I'm going to build a mini-atx computer to replace it.
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In reality, your logic and communication bits should be abstracted anyway - isn't that the hallmark of good programming practice? ..and even then there's performance tradeoffs.
Yes. That is called "Client side programing". Which if you look at the original post that was what we were talking about. Accessing data is effectively the same if it's cached or not.
Usually caching data is 1-2 lines of code in the programming languages I work with. Not sure about what you are referencing. If you had to manually program a cache in every programing language you would be right. But that is one of the problems that is typically solved for you. It's like serializing data to XML or JSON. I am not personally writing code to do that, but there is a library that does that.
My assumption is that you have software that is in a client/server architecture, which is often the case with collaboration software like facebook.
If you are making an application that doesn't know about the rest of the world, you can either have your application cache it's static data--which is not that hard. Beyond that, your application can save your data for transit later when you have connection. For example, facebook does this currently when it fails to upload an image. The progress is saved, and the upload is completed at a later time.
If you want facebook to be an application that does status updates of your imaginary friends I'm sure that'd not be that hard to make, as long as you wanted them to have a limited set of things they were doing.
It's called web services, that return a standard format like JSON, or XML. That's how we do it at my work. Currently I'm working on a project where I serialize perl hashes and arrays into XML, and pass them via a REST based web service to a C# system that serializes it into a DataTable for display in some .NET controls. C# can deserialize the DataTables back into XML, post it to the REST based web service to where it gets re-serialized into hashes and arrays for various CRUD type actions.
Possibly because the telescope in Chile was a retrofitted existing telescope, as opposed to a new telescope.
GPS is completely over engineering the solution. All you really need is a stick that you take measurements from during low and high tide at a consistent time each year.
So you're saying that the teacher said, "Here's some hot dogs. Cook them now I'm going to go wander off?" Or the teacher said, "Here's how you cook hotdogs on a stick, everyone gather round and grab a stick and a hot dog."
Fast forward 20 years, and people have many experiences with school projects, recess, organized and unorganized sports. There are other ways that kids self organize in America that do not involve becoming lumberjacks at schools.
Right. And being self sufficient is way different then being a good leader, which is what the original article was proposing. I have memories of my mother telling my grand mother not to make me peanut butter and jelly sandwiches cause I needed to be able to make them myself. It's not like the Swiss have a monopoly on that kind of thing.
But to call that leadership training is preposterous.
I find the concept that handling saws, and roasting hotdogs prepares children for leadership positions ridiculous. Every child that roasts a hot dog will become a world class leader? Ridiculous. Now, if you want to say group activities will allow a couple kids out of the group to develop leadership skills that I would believe. But really, when my siblings gather in a pack of 5-6, unsupervised in my parents back yard I'd argue that they are developing more leadership skills then some Swiss tikes that have an adult supervisor just about any day.
Leave children zoning out solo on the TV, reading books, tinkering with a computer, or tweaking lawn mower and they are not developing leadership skills. Not everyone needs to be a leader though.
You install the GUI on top of the base command line portion. It's for squeezing resources out of your machines.
That's so funny I'm not even going to use my meta points. I'm just going to tell you directly that it was awesome.
I think they are ultimately doing this with powershell, and the windows servers that will have no GUI. As they separate design and function more they will be able to deploy multiple UI on a solid core.
30 years of someones working life is definitely something that a society wants, particularly if they are the type of person who is motivated enough to cross national boarders. I hear you on missing the home, that definitely applies to some people (not so much myself, but I can be emphatic here).
Think of the flip side. If there were Camp Cities in China what would it look like? In the 80s it would look like Tiananmen Square. Things have gone a long way in terms of quality of life in China, but I think there are still many things left to be desired. Which is not to say American life is perfect but it is not as bad as the haters on slashdot sometimes make it out to be.
Not only that, many of them want to stay here. It's the Chinese brain drain.
I dunno, wouldn't Blackberry be a better investment...?
Right... but without the patents that would allow them to successfully sell the phones in the US.
Riggght. The NSA already has enough trouble telling us how many people they are eves dropping on... let's get them officially into the medical gear too!
I've worked at an art school before, and the salaries are very similar to that. My 2c.
You just linked to hard numbers of many salaries that are atleast 100k+, with quite a few salaries that are 200k+. If that is not racking in dough, I'm not quite sure what is.
I never really understood why people who can barely afford their own expenses have kids.
It's those condom's they can't afford... that or self control.
Yea, though this is clearly partial data. I'd like to see a similar list when it has all 45,000 complaints in it.
There only seems to be around 100 complaints in their database. That couldn't possibly be right could it? Or have I been wrong about how terrible the banks can be.
Here's a quick query I threw together:
Complaints by Company
1 TD BANK
1 Zions First National Bank
1 USAA Savings
5 Barclays
6 Amex
7 Wells Fargo
8 Discover
9 GE Capital Retail
15 Bank of America
24 JPMorgan Chase
27 Citibank
33 Capital One
Honestly, I don't see how XBox could be losing money with the annual subscription. That said, I won't be renewing my subscription the second time around. I was really hoping windows media center would be a good thing for, you know, media. But as it turns out it blows, so I'm going to build a mini-atx computer to replace it.
WOOSH
I'm sick enough of my kinect taking a couple minutes to figure out who I am.