I too shall give a shout-out for Notepad++ but it does have one glaring problem: no function navigation for each language where syntax highlighting is supported. I have had to stop using Notepad++ when my projects got so big that I spent most of my time scrolling. I switched to Genie in that case. While I did miss Notepad++ overall Genie provides function navigation on the left side. It should be trivial to add this to Notepad++, and maybe I will attempt to add that feature in the near future if someone doesn't beat me to it. None of the add-ons for Notepad++ quite do the job.
It also fails when an outside vendor needs an interface into the data.
Totally not true. It is easy to get interface to excel data while online or offline through various open source libraries in many languages, COM, or office automation (VB). My god, even the AS/400 iSeries can output queries as excel data files. Excel is almost as common as a freaking text file. There are virtually no limits, hell I could develop middle-ware to hook an excel spreadsheet to a live ERP database and vise-verse.
Oh, $75 for an unlimited internet connection that is probably clocking 10-100Mbps, I feel so sorry for you. My only decent internet option is Verizon 4G at $80 per month with a 10GB transfer limit. The last two months I have been billed $200 a month. Can't watch movies or it will cost more, can't download games from steam....the list goes on. I don't even want to talk about it.
I don't recommend Powershell as a "language" to learn programming either. They made it for non-coders--as if those people should be writing PS scripts either. I find that it does not mesh well with the way I think as a programmer. It feels like a mix between VB and Javacript. I tried to like it, and it does deliver way more power than CMD, but it is not very accessible. It wouldn't have been anymore difficult for non-coders to learn how to do all of this stuff in a subset of C# syntax, but instead they came up with totally different syntax, IDE, and security caveats.
I second that. I spend over 1000 hours per year learning new languages and frameworks and that is not enough time. You need to get more time than 1 hour per day and you should concentrate on practical languages and the popular frameworks if you hope to get a job in the field. Java and C#.net, Hibernate, LINQ, ASP.NET MVC, PHP and various MVC frameworks, etc...the list goes on. You often need skills in multiple types of programming and different but related languages since a lot of projects include integration and migration. Don't forget to manage your code in a popular subversion system, do unit testing, and become proficient in Visual Studio 2010+, Eclipse and possibly Netbeans. Pay attention to the latest methods for accessing and managing databases as well as dependency injection frameworks. You are in for a ride. Get a GITHub account.
My wife just finished a German course and she spent a lot of time learning English just to learn German because of a ll the technical jargon used to refer to sentence structure and word context. Most people don't know all of the technical aspects of English. What the hell is a "gerund?!"
The only time it is wrong to bend or destroy the rules is when people cannot understand what you are saying (ambiguity). Sometimes I have to read a line in the Wall Street Journal seven times to figure out what the hell they are doing because they follow the rules. That's stupid. Contractions are not supposed to be used technically--they were adopted to save printing space and labor hundreds of years ago.
I would say Brazilian Spanish (Portuguese). That market is growing substantially and we have yet to integrate. Their Spanish is markedly different from the Spanish spoken north of them and across the pond. They are still a rather isolated economic region that is under-served by the US (trade-wise). Great opportunity for a software developer.
I'd say Chinese but not for the erroneous reason you give. The US economy is running on flat tires and has been for years and it still dwarfs the Chinese economy. The Chinese have serious fundamental problems with their culture which prevent them from jumping to the next level. If anyone involved with US economic policy was worried about them overtaking us then they would have put things in place to prevent it. One frenzy of congress and China is shut down. We own them. Don't think for a minute through that they are not hungry to remedy this situation.
Southeastern hill dialect is Scottish in origin and more correct than the "normal" dialect used by the rest of pop America--if you are into such pedantry. So STFU you dumb shit. You ain't known nuthin'
I just took a MOS Excel 2010 exam today, and after working extensively with Excel for years and having studied it thoroughly for certification testing, I still cannot remember where everything is on the ribbon. I had gotten to the point where I didn't think about it because I only use certain functionality every day, but if you need to branch out from common tasks you have to hunt around--very frustrating. There simply isn't enough abstract terminology to organize everything that goes on the ribbon. I want the old menus back, in fact, it would be better to just learn keyboard shortcuts and avoid the GUI (which is *mostly* possible--still no keyboard shortcut to get to the name box, WTH).
would the 1000W one be more efficient than the 500W one at, say, 250W?
Depends upon the quality of components and the engineering of the circuits. You can't assume this is the case when el-cheapo power supplies enter the scenario.
It is not overkill. The smaller the load and the greater the rated load capacity the more efficient and predictable the output.
Essentially, resistance increases as more load is demanded or drawn through the power supply. A higher rated power supply will exhibit less resistance at all mid-rang and higher range loads.
So, if you are using a 600W power supply and drawing 300W you are much more efficient (less heat, less resistance--same thing) than running a 400W power supply while drawing 300W. Higher rated power supplies are usually a better choice over all, but 1000W is "overkill" for a regular desktop machine. A rating of 600-700W with quality components is sufficient for most gaming rigs with dual GPUs, high-wattage CPUs and multiple hard drives. If you spend $15 on a PS don't expect it to run long, and when it does go it could be in a big way.
Better quality components are required to gain efficiency which of course means reduced heat and greater reliability--speaking of electronics (especially power supplies). I have never bought a quality power supply thinking that I was going to save money on electricity, I but them because I don't want my, or my cleints', computer going down because I wanted to save $50 on a power supply.
When electronics fail it is normally power supply related.
Salt in what wounds? Abuse of the tax system? What ABUSE? How is logic totally breaking down amongst geeks of all people, we're supposed to be analytical and strive for logical correctness.
The tax hole is a social engineering mess that needs re-engineered. No one will ever agree to taxing corporations anymore than they are now, in fact they obviously have too high of a tax rate as it is. Corporations are our employers and customers! You suggest we take their money, dump it into the black hole of government which will distribute it to less responsible people--people who do not buy software, or music, or anything besides purely hedonistic garbage like cigarettes, soda po, and video games? Break it down to the tribe level and it doesn't make any economic sense to do this. Churches operate without being taxed and no one is bitching about that. Why not? Answer that question fundamentally and you will then have an argument for not taxing corporate (business) income as well.
That is not a tax but a duty. A duty on money? Nah. Just quit taxing companies period and watch the train jump back on the tracks. Right now companies have to pull all kinds of shenanigans to manage their tax burden. To pay the maximum tax is irresponsible of anyone.
Numerous companies are holding vast sums of cash outside of the country and they can't repatriate the money because they will be taxed on it. I'm sure you can see the problem with this scenario. If people, companies are locking up their money over seas and are unwilling to repatriate it the system is broken. Corporate income tax needs to go away--OK reduce it to 5%. The benefits of a tax-free corporate entity would only equal more investment and job retention. The tax rate is high because they want to stop small businesses from forming corporations where the owner declares a salary of $1 and takes capital gains. Personally, I see nothing wrong with that either. Quit taxing the most responsible productive people in our society--quit choking the engine of our economy.
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I too shall give a shout-out for Notepad++ but it does have one glaring problem: no function navigation for each language where syntax highlighting is supported. I have had to stop using Notepad++ when my projects got so big that I spent most of my time scrolling. I switched to Genie in that case. While I did miss Notepad++ overall Genie provides function navigation on the left side. It should be trivial to add this to Notepad++, and maybe I will attempt to add that feature in the near future if someone doesn't beat me to it. None of the add-ons for Notepad++ quite do the job.
It also fails when an outside vendor needs an interface into the data.
Totally not true. It is easy to get interface to excel data while online or offline through various open source libraries in many languages, COM, or office automation (VB). My god, even the AS/400 iSeries can output queries as excel data files. Excel is almost as common as a freaking text file. There are virtually no limits, hell I could develop middle-ware to hook an excel spreadsheet to a live ERP database and vise-verse.
Remember long distance charges? They were higher during peak hours. This post is spot on, thanks.
You mean $60 a month for 5GB.
Because his family members and friends are pissed about data caps on their phones. This is one bit of lobbying I don't mind though.
Oh, $75 for an unlimited internet connection that is probably clocking 10-100Mbps, I feel so sorry for you. My only decent internet option is Verizon 4G at $80 per month with a 10GB transfer limit. The last two months I have been billed $200 a month. Can't watch movies or it will cost more, can't download games from steam....the list goes on. I don't even want to talk about it.
As an admin I would write scripts to read through server logs and email me severe errors and warnings every morning.
I don't recommend Powershell as a "language" to learn programming either. They made it for non-coders--as if those people should be writing PS scripts either. I find that it does not mesh well with the way I think as a programmer. It feels like a mix between VB and Javacript. I tried to like it, and it does deliver way more power than CMD, but it is not very accessible. It wouldn't have been anymore difficult for non-coders to learn how to do all of this stuff in a subset of C# syntax, but instead they came up with totally different syntax, IDE, and security caveats.
I second that. I spend over 1000 hours per year learning new languages and frameworks and that is not enough time. You need to get more time than 1 hour per day and you should concentrate on practical languages and the popular frameworks if you hope to get a job in the field. Java and C# .net, Hibernate, LINQ, ASP .NET MVC, PHP and various MVC frameworks, etc...the list goes on. You often need skills in multiple types of programming and different but related languages since a lot of projects include integration and migration. Don't forget to manage your code in a popular subversion system, do unit testing, and become proficient in Visual Studio 2010+, Eclipse and possibly Netbeans. Pay attention to the latest methods for accessing and managing databases as well as dependency injection frameworks. You are in for a ride. Get a GITHub account.
It's Mega Man played by Nick Nolte.
My wife just finished a German course and she spent a lot of time learning English just to learn German because of a ll the technical jargon used to refer to sentence structure and word context. Most people don't know all of the technical aspects of English. What the hell is a "gerund?!"
When you guys start talking in code it makes me want to go code something damnit. I'm trying to get my slashdot done.
The only time it is wrong to bend or destroy the rules is when people cannot understand what you are saying (ambiguity). Sometimes I have to read a line in the Wall Street Journal seven times to figure out what the hell they are doing because they follow the rules. That's stupid. Contractions are not supposed to be used technically--they were adopted to save printing space and labor hundreds of years ago.
I would say Brazilian Spanish (Portuguese). That market is growing substantially and we have yet to integrate. Their Spanish is markedly different from the Spanish spoken north of them and across the pond. They are still a rather isolated economic region that is under-served by the US (trade-wise). Great opportunity for a software developer.
Freaking Chinese that you need to speak with the 1.2 billion people in china. You know what he means.
I'd say Chinese but not for the erroneous reason you give. The US economy is running on flat tires and has been for years and it still dwarfs the Chinese economy. The Chinese have serious fundamental problems with their culture which prevent them from jumping to the next level. If anyone involved with US economic policy was worried about them overtaking us then they would have put things in place to prevent it. One frenzy of congress and China is shut down. We own them. Don't think for a minute through that they are not hungry to remedy this situation.
Southeastern hill dialect is Scottish in origin and more correct than the "normal" dialect used by the rest of pop America--if you are into such pedantry. So STFU you dumb shit. You ain't known nuthin'
I just took a MOS Excel 2010 exam today, and after working extensively with Excel for years and having studied it thoroughly for certification testing, I still cannot remember where everything is on the ribbon. I had gotten to the point where I didn't think about it because I only use certain functionality every day, but if you need to branch out from common tasks you have to hunt around--very frustrating. There simply isn't enough abstract terminology to organize everything that goes on the ribbon. I want the old menus back, in fact, it would be better to just learn keyboard shortcuts and avoid the GUI (which is *mostly* possible--still no keyboard shortcut to get to the name box, WTH).
would the 1000W one be more efficient than the 500W one at, say, 250W?
Depends upon the quality of components and the engineering of the circuits. You can't assume this is the case when el-cheapo power supplies enter the scenario.
It is not overkill. The smaller the load and the greater the rated load capacity the more efficient and predictable the output.
Essentially, resistance increases as more load is demanded or drawn through the power supply. A higher rated power supply will exhibit less resistance at all mid-rang and higher range loads.
So, if you are using a 600W power supply and drawing 300W you are much more efficient (less heat, less resistance--same thing) than running a 400W power supply while drawing 300W. Higher rated power supplies are usually a better choice over all, but 1000W is "overkill" for a regular desktop machine. A rating of 600-700W with quality components is sufficient for most gaming rigs with dual GPUs, high-wattage CPUs and multiple hard drives. If you spend $15 on a PS don't expect it to run long, and when it does go it could be in a big way.
Better quality components are required to gain efficiency which of course means reduced heat and greater reliability--speaking of electronics (especially power supplies). I have never bought a quality power supply thinking that I was going to save money on electricity, I but them because I don't want my, or my cleints', computer going down because I wanted to save $50 on a power supply.
When electronics fail it is normally power supply related.
Salt in what wounds? Abuse of the tax system? What ABUSE? How is logic totally breaking down amongst geeks of all people, we're supposed to be analytical and strive for logical correctness.
before Google rose to power.
You make them sound the Lich King or something.
The tax hole is a social engineering mess that needs re-engineered. No one will ever agree to taxing corporations anymore than they are now, in fact they obviously have too high of a tax rate as it is. Corporations are our employers and customers! You suggest we take their money, dump it into the black hole of government which will distribute it to less responsible people--people who do not buy software, or music, or anything besides purely hedonistic garbage like cigarettes, soda po, and video games? Break it down to the tribe level and it doesn't make any economic sense to do this. Churches operate without being taxed and no one is bitching about that. Why not? Answer that question fundamentally and you will then have an argument for not taxing corporate (business) income as well.
That is not a tax but a duty. A duty on money? Nah. Just quit taxing companies period and watch the train jump back on the tracks. Right now companies have to pull all kinds of shenanigans to manage their tax burden. To pay the maximum tax is irresponsible of anyone.
Numerous companies are holding vast sums of cash outside of the country and they can't repatriate the money because they will be taxed on it. I'm sure you can see the problem with this scenario. If people, companies are locking up their money over seas and are unwilling to repatriate it the system is broken. Corporate income tax needs to go away--OK reduce it to 5%. The benefits of a tax-free corporate entity would only equal more investment and job retention. The tax rate is high because they want to stop small businesses from forming corporations where the owner declares a salary of $1 and takes capital gains. Personally, I see nothing wrong with that either. Quit taxing the most responsible productive people in our society--quit choking the engine of our economy.