I love it when these guys just come out and say what is on their minds. Makes it easier to determine whether or not their skills and talents are commensurate to the position they hold.:D
C is also a ubiquitous common denominator with respect to programming in general. Many books, and programming tutorials relate back to C or use C examples in their texts.
Many programming languages are implemented in C and inherit semantics from the C compiler used to build their interpreter.
Also, many languages have some sort of FFI (Foreign Function Interface) or external linkage scheme that allows a developer to extend that language. C is common to most of these; (ie perl modules, extern C linkage in C++, and on and on...).
Still others use a compiler that converts it's native source to C code for subsequent compilation by a C compiler -- in an effort to leverage C compiler optimizations in the resulting binaries.
C is all over the damn place, and there seems to be no end to it. One of the most jaw droppingly stupid things I have ever heard repeatedly uttered over the years was the remark: "C is a dead language." My response is always "yeah kid, you keep telling yourself that."
The "Josh" character strikes me as an extreme case of Asperger's Syndrom:
Low self awareness, inability to intuit psychological situations, low empathy, manipulative, ruthless, cunning, flatness of affect but unlike true psychopaths he retains technical skills, is hygienically agnostic, and totally unconcerned with his personal appearance.
Often, when a particular area of the brain does not function well (if at all), other areas of the brain overdevelop -- in an effort to compensate for the missing brain function. His "genius" could stem from that... he could have an IQ as high as 180, but with no grasp of psychological reality, zero team integration, and a truncated worldview... he is virtually worthless.
And thats before you let him log in to your cvs server and create downstream mayhem!!!!
. . . Good for the managers. Personal problems shouldn't affect their decisions. What, the managers should instead lay off a better employee because they're feeling sorry for this woman?
The notion assumes way to much on several fronts:
1) That the managers laid off their lowest performing employee, and the lay-off was due to performance related issues (read: blame the victim).
2) Management is incapable of being callous or psychologically brutal because everything they do is strictly a "Business Decision". (ie. a person's livelihood is nothing they should take personally).
3) Psychopathy has been debunked. Nowadays we call it "Good Business Sense". Only "criminals" can be psychopaths. Right? Oh and by the way, could you hurry up with that bailout money?
The UNIX Programming Environment [Kernighan, Pike] is a great companion to the K&R, and a cute little retro read. You can get em used for around $1 (mine cost $0.85).
Some others:
C - A Reference Manual 5th ed. [Harbison, Steele]. The CARM is a great book for absent minded geeks like myself, who easily remember complicated topics but tend to forget the simple ones.
Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment 2nd ed. [Stevens, Rago] (aka The Dilbert). The one that gets used. Stevens is to UNIX what Elvis is to Rock and Roll. This book is but one of several that prove it.
It is a terrible book for beginning and intermediate C++ programmers. It is however, a great book for a highly experienced programmer who is writing library code. It is also *the* most exhaustive treatise on C++ language semantics that I know of. IMO: A daunting book for a daunting language...
Typical e-mail systems treat messages as messages, and not documents. Its made evident by the email address itself: someone@domain.net -- not alot of meta-data in there. Just a person at a place.
what blows me away is when companies that do make an effort to archive e-mail messages, insist that the operation be performed at the client, via CC or message forwarding (the cost savings technique). Sounds ripe for abuse if you ask me.
Lets face it: e-mail is too big to fail! Therefore (Satan get behind me) we must force it to do all the things it may or may not be suitable for.
Huh? You think this method is going to give anything remotely resembling the efficiency of native code? Unless the flash script language is really badly written, the performance will be even worse than programs that were manually written in flash.
Correction: Unless the C/C++ compiler was implemented very poorly, and fed terrible code, it's performance will at least be on par with equivalent code written in flash script.
C and C++ compiler optimization technology is very well established, and there are no hidden garbage collection quirks waiting to burn you.
The existence of a decent C to AS3 bytecode compiler opens up possibilities: language compilers and tools such as SmallEiffel, Ctalk, Flex, Yacc, Bison, Ragel, etc. use C as their first stage compilation target. Then there is the sheer amount of existing C/C++ code out there -- much of which can and will be adapted for use in a flash environment.
My mother works at a bank and she has to talk people out of these scams on a regular basis
I always knew that these scams were practically a national pastime in Nigeria, but what I didn't know is that not only do people still fall for these things (apparently in droves)... but often it takes a small army of professional hostage negotiators to talk them out of wiring their entire life's savings to a total stranger over in a country whose rate of societal corruption rivals OURS!!
Microsoft's obsession with backward compatibility is killing it.
Bingo. At some point they need to just take what they've learned and apply it. Then, let the resulting product be what it will be: unencumbered by the sins of the past.
I've heard a few war stories about how far they will go to re-implement some bug in a system call, just so a six year old version of Excel, or Lotus Notes will run, only to have new 3rd party software end up relying on the same buggy semantics in said sys-call. Bugs become written in stone, and your syscall namespace becomes a logjam of deprecated features.
What makes anyone think that the next release of an OS is going to be faster?
Because a Win7 system requires far more resources to run... faster CPU with more RAM and increased FSB traffic and on and on. If performance does not increase then it's not an upgrade, it's a rip off and a serious disincentive to purchase. It's something I want to know about when making a buying decision.
It's not going to be. I don't care who developed it, either, whether it be the giant of Redmond, the hipster of Cupertino, or a bunch of unwashed shut-ins writing lines of code in their moms' basements.
Hmmmm, Windows -> OS-X -> ????
Are you some sort of professional apologist?
Every iteration of an OS is actually going to be slower, and that is just a consequence of it doing more.
More of what? I call BS on that remark. I feel very strongly that you don't know what you are talking about.
For XP, the balance was nice. For Vista, it's not. For Tiger, it was. For Leopard, I guess it's not for some people (but it is for me).Linux doesn't do anything regardless of distro or update, so it's kind of hard to talk about.
Windows -> OS-X -> Linux
Congrats... you just leveled from 2nd rate Asshat to 5th level Douchebag! Your good at this game!
The point of the story is this:
You are an idiot.
All I really care about is if it runs well enough to enjoy the added benefits of that extra code.
Ooooooh! Windows 7 comes with EXTRA CODE! 30% more FREE code in every disc! WOW! What a value! In my profession, we refer to that as BLOAT! Enjoy your DRM, and don't forget to upgrade your AV every three days!
I find it comical anyone could deny bias occored, and when proven wrong its then justified by claiming Obama was more positive.
The point is being missed here: when the press is in the tank for a candidate and is not fair and balanced, everyone loses.
anyone claiming it didn't happen are shooting yourselves in the foot by justifying what happened with the press, because at the end of the day the press will turn on Obama, it always does to the standing president, and when they do its going to be comical watching everyone freak out at the "unfairness". i'll be the guy with the popcorn laughing...
Who rated this post "Insightful"? It's total crap!
Both candidates took plenty of hard shots. McCain got a pass on plenty of things; The Keating Five being the big one.
Obama, however did not get a pass on Jerremia Wright, and the William Ayers tune got heavy rotation on Fox and many other conservative talk shows.
The bias didn't really turn away from Obama until Palin made several gaffes in a row, over the course of two weeks. It became rather evident that McCain and Palin were not on the same page.
Obama|Biden ran a cohesive, campaign with a consistent message throughout. Rove|Palin ran a smear campaign, with McCain playing along! I feel bad for the guy, but thats how it went down.
For that, you need to start looking into failure scenarios and risk assessment. That's a complex piece of accounting, and it's not a job for an IT worker to be asked to do.If you're making the IT worker spend time to justify their job financially, you're not being a very efficient company.
BANG!
It is like asking a city fire department to produce a dollar figure on how much collateral fire damage and property loss they prevent in their district per year, compared to simply letting the fires burn. The correct answer is: "All of it".
I've been using OpenBSD for several years now, and right from the start I figured the lists were better suited for devs who are actually trying to deliver device drivers or serious kernelspace code.
Seriously, the online documentation for OpenBSD is some of the best I have ever seen in any OS distro, ever.
Theo is no better or worse than many in this game. His professional demeanor may need serious work, but his (Free and Open) OS doesn't. THAT is what matters most to someone like me... who learned the hard way many years ago to avoid all contact (public and private) at all times with all kerneldevs of all kinds. It's a system and it works very very well.;)
Besides, the abuse is often a form of triage. If you have a legit issue, then press that issue and ignore the mean sounding ASCII characters. If they have time to draft abusive replys, then you did your job. lol:D
So your saying that in addition to my anti-zombie kit, I now need a vast array of expensive, high-tech, non tax-deductable anti-robot weaponry as well?!
Two consultants rewrote the 140,000 lines of [original obscure language] into 4200 lines of Java.
Thanks. Now I won't be able to sleep until I know what "[original obscure language]" was used.
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I love it when these guys just come out and say what is on their minds. Makes it easier to determine whether or not their skills and talents are commensurate to the position they hold. :D
That would make a good Chick publications cartoon tract!
Q: Who spends +mod points on AC trolls?
A: Sock puppet retards.
Problem is.... parent is correct (bad form not withstanding). OP is pure over-generalized rhetorical spewage.
Because taxpayers want something for nothing.
I call bullshit on that one. When in the last 8 years have taxpayers ever really had a say in how federal tax funds are used?
C is also a ubiquitous common denominator with respect to programming in general. Many books, and programming tutorials relate back to C or use C examples in their texts.
Many programming languages are implemented in C and inherit semantics from the C compiler used to build their interpreter.
Also, many languages have some sort of FFI (Foreign Function Interface) or external linkage scheme that allows a developer to extend that language. C is common to most of these; (ie perl modules, extern C linkage in C++, and on and on...).
Still others use a compiler that converts it's native source to C code for subsequent compilation by a C compiler -- in an effort to leverage C compiler optimizations in the resulting binaries.
C is all over the damn place, and there seems to be no end to it. One of the most jaw droppingly stupid things I have ever heard repeatedly uttered over the years was the remark: "C is a dead language." My response is always "yeah kid, you keep telling yourself that."
The "Josh" character strikes me as an extreme case of Asperger's Syndrom:
Low self awareness, inability to intuit psychological situations, low empathy, manipulative, ruthless, cunning, flatness of affect but unlike true psychopaths he retains technical skills, is hygienically agnostic, and totally unconcerned with his personal appearance.
Often, when a particular area of the brain does not function well (if at all), other areas of the brain overdevelop -- in an effort to compensate for the missing brain function. His "genius" could stem from that... he could have an IQ as high as 180, but with no grasp of psychological reality, zero team integration, and a truncated worldview... he is virtually worthless.
And thats before you let him log in to your cvs server and create downstream mayhem!!!!
. . . Good for the managers. Personal problems shouldn't affect their decisions. What, the managers should instead lay off a better employee because they're feeling sorry for this woman?
The notion assumes way to much on several fronts:
1) That the managers laid off their lowest performing employee, and the lay-off was due to performance related issues (read: blame the victim).
2) Management is incapable of being callous or psychologically brutal because everything they do is strictly a "Business Decision". (ie. a person's livelihood is nothing they should take personally).
3) Psychopathy has been debunked. Nowadays we call it "Good Business Sense". Only "criminals" can be psychopaths. Right? Oh and by the way, could you hurry up with that bailout money?
I think I'll just photocopy my notes from now on.
The UNIX Programming Environment [Kernighan, Pike] is a great companion to the K&R, and a cute little retro read. You can get em used for around $1 (mine cost $0.85).
Some others:
C - A Reference Manual 5th ed. [Harbison, Steele]. The CARM is a great book for absent minded geeks like myself, who easily remember complicated topics but tend to forget the simple ones.
Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment 2nd ed. [Stevens, Rago] (aka The Dilbert). The one that gets used. Stevens is to UNIX what Elvis is to Rock and Roll. This book is but one of several that prove it.
I still have an old magenta coloured 1rst ed. It and the K&R were the first books that really enabled me to move beyond C64 Basic... lol.
It is a terrible book for beginning and intermediate C++ programmers. It is however, a great book for a highly experienced programmer who is writing library code. It is also *the* most exhaustive treatise on C++ language semantics that I know of. IMO: A daunting book for a daunting language...
Typical e-mail systems treat messages as messages, and not documents. Its made evident by the email address itself: someone@domain.net -- not alot of meta-data in there. Just a person at a place.
what blows me away is when companies that do make an effort to archive e-mail messages, insist that the operation be performed at the client, via CC or message forwarding (the cost savings technique). Sounds ripe for abuse if you ask me.
Lets face it: e-mail is too big to fail! Therefore (Satan get behind me) we must force it to do all the things it may or may not be suitable for.
Huh? You think this method is going to give anything remotely resembling the efficiency of native code? Unless the flash script language is really badly written, the performance will be even worse than programs that were manually written in flash.
Correction: Unless the C/C++ compiler was implemented very poorly, and fed terrible code, it's performance will at least be on par with equivalent code written in flash script.
C and C++ compiler optimization technology is very well established, and there are no hidden garbage collection quirks waiting to burn you.
The existence of a decent C to AS3 bytecode compiler opens up possibilities: language compilers and tools such as SmallEiffel, Ctalk, Flex, Yacc, Bison, Ragel, etc. use C as their first stage compilation target. Then there is the sheer amount of existing C/C++ code out there -- much of which can and will be adapted for use in a flash environment.
My mother works at a bank and she has to talk people out of these scams on a regular basis
I always knew that these scams were practically a national pastime in Nigeria, but what I didn't know is that not only do people still fall for these things (apparently in droves)... but often it takes a small army of professional hostage negotiators to talk them out of wiring their entire life's savings to a total stranger over in a country whose rate of societal corruption rivals OURS!!
The reality of it all is what blows me away!
Microsoft's obsession with backward compatibility is killing it.
Bingo. At some point they need to just take what they've learned and apply it. Then, let the resulting product be what it will be: unencumbered by the sins of the past.
I've heard a few war stories about how far they will go to re-implement some bug in a system call, just so a six year old version of Excel, or Lotus Notes will run, only to have new 3rd party software end up relying on the same buggy semantics in said sys-call. Bugs become written in stone, and your syscall namespace becomes a logjam of deprecated features.
What makes anyone think that the next release of an OS is going to be faster?
Because a Win7 system requires far more resources to run... faster CPU with more RAM and increased FSB traffic and on and on. If performance does not increase then it's not an upgrade, it's a rip off and a serious disincentive to purchase. It's something I want to know about when making a buying decision.
It's not going to be. I don't care who developed it, either, whether it be the giant of Redmond, the hipster of Cupertino, or a bunch of unwashed shut-ins writing lines of code in their moms' basements.
Hmmmm, Windows -> OS-X -> ????
Are you some sort of professional apologist?
Every iteration of an OS is actually going to be slower, and that is just a consequence of it doing more.
More of what? I call BS on that remark. I feel very strongly that you don't know what you are talking about.
For XP, the balance was nice. For Vista, it's not. For Tiger, it was. For Leopard, I guess it's not for some people (but it is for me).Linux doesn't do anything regardless of distro or update, so it's kind of hard to talk about.
Windows -> OS-X -> Linux
Congrats... you just leveled from 2nd rate Asshat to 5th level Douchebag! Your good at this game!
The point of the story is this:
You are an idiot.
All I really care about is if it runs well enough to enjoy the added benefits of that extra code.
Ooooooh! Windows 7 comes with EXTRA CODE! 30% more FREE code in every disc! WOW! What a value! In my profession, we refer to that as BLOAT! Enjoy your DRM, and don't forget to upgrade your AV every three days!
I find it comical anyone could deny bias occored, and when proven wrong its then justified by claiming Obama was more positive.
The point is being missed here: when the press is in the tank for a candidate and is not fair and balanced, everyone loses.
anyone claiming it didn't happen are shooting yourselves in the foot by justifying what happened with the press, because at the end of the day the press will turn on Obama, it always does to the standing president, and when they do its going to be comical watching everyone freak out at the "unfairness". i'll be the guy with the popcorn laughing...
Who rated this post "Insightful"? It's total crap!
Both candidates took plenty of hard shots. McCain got a pass on plenty of things; The Keating Five being the big one.
Obama, however did not get a pass on Jerremia Wright, and the William Ayers tune got heavy rotation on Fox and many other conservative talk shows. The bias didn't really turn away from Obama until Palin made several gaffes in a row, over the course of two weeks. It became rather evident that McCain and Palin were not on the same page.
Obama|Biden ran a cohesive, campaign with a consistent message throughout. Rove|Palin ran a smear campaign, with McCain playing along! I feel bad for the guy, but thats how it went down.
For that, you need to start looking into failure scenarios and risk assessment. That's a complex piece of accounting, and it's not a job for an IT worker to be asked to do.If you're making the IT worker spend time to justify their job financially, you're not being a very efficient company.
BANG!
It is like asking a city fire department to produce a dollar figure on how much collateral fire damage and property loss they prevent in their district per year, compared to simply letting the fires burn. The correct answer is: "All of it".
Q: we seem to have an inbuilt algorithm for determining that certain kinds of opinions can be safely put forward with little or no justification
A: I believe it's called ego.
OpenBSD is not just an OS.. it's a Quest Item!!!
Theo is no better or worse than many in this game. His professional demeanor may need serious work, but his (Free and Open) OS doesn't. THAT is what matters most to someone like me... who learned the hard way many years ago to avoid all contact (public and private) at all times with all kerneldevs of all kinds. It's a system and it works very very well. ;)
Besides, the abuse is often a form of triage. If you have a legit issue, then press that issue and ignore the mean sounding ASCII characters. If they have time to draft abusive replys, then you did your job. lol :D
So your saying that in addition to my anti-zombie kit, I now need a vast array of expensive, high-tech, non tax-deductable anti-robot weaponry as well?!
Thanks. Now I won't be able to sleep until I know what "[original obscure language]" was used.