Companies don't want the exceptional 5%, they want the cheapest 5% that is slightly above average. They don't look past the per-head cost to find the hidden costs of bad code, poor design, and higher maintenance.
there are indeed no good technical histories of computer science, and little prospect of any.
I see the posthumous reactions to Steve Jobs and Dennis Ritchie as indicators that Knuth is absolutely right. Jobs, who was essentially just a marketing asshole, gets every manner of fanfare commemorating his "world-changing" achievements. Ritchie on the other hand is almost completely ignored in the media, even though he is one of the giants upon whose shoulders Jobs undeservingly stood.
I bet anyone here would agree that co-authoring UNIX is a far more important event than being the iPod/iPhone taskmaster.
That sort of patriotism is about as sincere and effective as a flag lapel pin. It's fitting though that all this happened at Christmas, because seeing the movie now is just crass consumerism. Don't confuse the two.
So far we've only run ABS in it. The tolerances with the 1.75mm nozzle are pretty tight, no less than 1.63mm. This is very dependent on how stable the filament is between coming out of the nozzle and resolidifying. We got a FilaWinder to take care of that.
Originally I started porting the site to PyroCMS, hoping I would have a clean upgrade path to a Laravel based solution. It later became apparent that Pyro lacked some features and functionality I considered critical, so I pulled out the big gun: Drupal.
WordPress is garbage. People need to realize that its superficial ease of use should not be a heavily weighted factor in choosing a CMS (for the record, WP is not a CMS, it's a blog script playing dress up). Making technical product decisions by argumentum ad populum is similarly dangerous. Pointing beginners at WP is to do them a great disservice in the long run.
Why is WP garbage?
Horrible architecture
Laughable database schema
Terrible coding practices, even for PHP
It is a relic from the days of PHP 4, because the development team refuse to break compatibility
A large community of self-described "developers" who learned all the PHP they know from the rest of the WP community that only knows how to write terrible PHP, because they mostly learn from WP itself.
All of these are contributing factors to the regular parade of WP exploits.
Now before you immediately mod this as flamebait, know that I have worked with WP in the past. I'm currently in the process of migrating a WP site to Drupal. I've read the codebase... it's one of the messiest plates of spaghetti I've ever seen. Just for kicks I grep'd the WP codebase for the global keyword... 2122 instances found. There's simply no excuse for that.
WordPress is a scourge. PHP's reputation (whatever you may think of it) is lessened by the mere existence of WP, even if PHP is the only language that could spawn such a shoddy product, much less allow it to thrive.
Chinese factories already do spit that stuff out by the ton. It is outrageous that 1kg of filament costs $35 to $50, when 1kg of plastic pellets costs $4 to $8.
One of the first things the hackerspace I belong to bought was a FilaStruder so we can make our own filament. We figure it'll pay for itself after 10 spools.
Barney Stinson settled the pronunciation many years ago on How I Met Your Mother: it's "bee-peg". Although this format probably won't be used exclusively for pictures of boobs.
Exactly, Firefox would be so much better if they wouldn't have changed the UI every 3 versions (and thus suffocating all the good complete themes) just to keep up with all the bad ideas Chrome came up with.
Every time Google messes with Gmail, the interface gets worse. The Gmail product management needs to be flogged every time they try to be too clever. By now they're owed at least a dozen floggings.
I hope "VGA" is a bad hint at what this screen will be. Pi's have HDMI output, so surely the screen will support that, if not HDMI/VGA/NTSC/PAL. Adafruit's 7 inch LCD screens are 800x640 or more, so hopefully he's not referring to 640x480 resolution.
You're speaking of the wrong "they". jQuery.com runs WordPress: that's the incompetence. If I had a nickel for every WP-based exploit or compromise, I'd have about $50, and I'm pretty sure this is another one.
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Companies don't want the exceptional 5%, they want the cheapest 5% that is slightly above average. They don't look past the per-head cost to find the hidden costs of bad code, poor design, and higher maintenance.
I see the posthumous reactions to Steve Jobs and Dennis Ritchie as indicators that Knuth is absolutely right. Jobs, who was essentially just a marketing asshole, gets every manner of fanfare commemorating his "world-changing" achievements. Ritchie on the other hand is almost completely ignored in the media, even though he is one of the giants upon whose shoulders Jobs undeservingly stood.
I bet anyone here would agree that co-authoring UNIX is a far more important event than being the iPod/iPhone taskmaster.
That sort of patriotism is about as sincere and effective as a flag lapel pin. It's fitting though that all this happened at Christmas, because seeing the movie now is just crass consumerism. Don't confuse the two.
That's a really good idea, but... cue inane "coprorations are people" counter-argument.
Someone hacks a pharmacy chain. Credit card and medical info? Jackpot.
Why MP3 players? Drop Sony CDs on NK to install a rootkit on every computer in the country.
So far we've only run ABS in it. The tolerances with the 1.75mm nozzle are pretty tight, no less than 1.63mm. This is very dependent on how stable the filament is between coming out of the nozzle and resolidifying. We got a FilaWinder to take care of that.
Originally I started porting the site to PyroCMS, hoping I would have a clean upgrade path to a Laravel based solution. It later became apparent that Pyro lacked some features and functionality I considered critical, so I pulled out the big gun: Drupal.
WordPress is garbage. People need to realize that its superficial ease of use should not be a heavily weighted factor in choosing a CMS (for the record, WP is not a CMS, it's a blog script playing dress up). Making technical product decisions by argumentum ad populum is similarly dangerous. Pointing beginners at WP is to do them a great disservice in the long run.
Why is WP garbage?
All of these are contributing factors to the regular parade of WP exploits.
Now before you immediately mod this as flamebait, know that I have worked with WP in the past. I'm currently in the process of migrating a WP site to Drupal. I've read the codebase... it's one of the messiest plates of spaghetti I've ever seen. Just for kicks I grep'd the WP codebase for the global keyword... 2122 instances found. There's simply no excuse for that.
WordPress is a scourge. PHP's reputation (whatever you may think of it) is lessened by the mere existence of WP, even if PHP is the only language that could spawn such a shoddy product, much less allow it to thrive.
Against Hillary? Nope.... she won't be the nominee.
Chinese factories already do spit that stuff out by the ton. It is outrageous that 1kg of filament costs $35 to $50, when 1kg of plastic pellets costs $4 to $8.
One of the first things the hackerspace I belong to bought was a FilaStruder so we can make our own filament. We figure it'll pay for itself after 10 spools.
Barney Stinson settled the pronunciation many years ago on How I Met Your Mother: it's "bee-peg". Although this format probably won't be used exclusively for pictures of boobs.
Surprise, you don't represent the entire USA (nor does the average /.er).
The real question is, Why is anybody still runing WordPress?
More than that, schools don't teach critical thinking, which is a requirement for being a good developer.
Zero to coder in 3 months? I don't think so. That's pretty much the equivalent of zero to literate in 3 months, which is laughable.
Exactly, Firefox would be so much better if they wouldn't have changed the UI every 3 versions (and thus suffocating all the good complete themes) just to keep up with all the bad ideas Chrome came up with.
LOL, no it won't. Whatever MS copies is always so badly reimplemented that there's no way they could achieve POSIX compliance.
Every time Google messes with Gmail, the interface gets worse. The Gmail product management needs to be flogged every time they try to be too clever. By now they're owed at least a dozen floggings.
I hope "VGA" is a bad hint at what this screen will be. Pi's have HDMI output, so surely the screen will support that, if not HDMI/VGA/NTSC/PAL. Adafruit's 7 inch LCD screens are 800x640 or more, so hopefully he's not referring to 640x480 resolution.
Hopefully what they release is at least 720p.
They won't learn, because while most people think MS is a software company, they are actually a marketing company.
Because MS hates standards. Their first vowel for exploitable software is 'i'. If you think that doesn't hold up, prepend Microsoft or Windows.
Has Netcraft unconfirmed the death?
You're speaking of the wrong "they". jQuery.com runs WordPress: that's the incompetence. If I had a nickel for every WP-based exploit or compromise, I'd have about $50, and I'm pretty sure this is another one.
Many reactions will depend on the actual version number in Win9... will it be 6.3, 7, or 9?
Exactly, rPi and BeagleBone are better comparisons to Edison and Galileo than Arduino (except the Yun).
Also, most Atmel-based Arduinos nowadays have the option for the 16 bit MCUs, which is a no-brainer.