A standard cross-platform GUI library; perl is eminently suited for GUI work but we still have to make do with an interface to GTK. I know this isn't the nineties anymore, but GUI work still has a place.
Dead on with the perl6 thing. Continue with it, but call it something else. And produce perl6 with new and improved classes and runtime-context-free grammars and regexes without a VM.
No kidding. I was unemployed for a while (quit at the bank I was working because too boring) and had a bit of trouble finding a new job. In the end started applying for all sorts of shit, but found out that even office-supply shops and farms have continuity-desires these days. Couldn't get hired because they said: you're going to find a new job in three weeks and you'll be out of here. But, said I, I'm only shoveling sand ! No can do, sorry. Weird.
Just deal with the other 5% in the 'old fashioned' way; using CGI or C - doing everything from the ground up. And if somehow you can't - because you can't just get the session state from the ruby framework, or you can't get the style sheets from it, then you have to wonder why not. And blame ruby for it, not yourself or CGI.
Yes, and tens of thousands of phones could be inside a single cell at a given time if, for example, that cell covered a train station or a sports stadium, where both kinds of locations give ample rise to sending simultaneous messages by the thousands during certain events (delays or goals).
I 'get' what the difference is between a text-editor and a DTP-package. I'm aware of the dichotomy between 'bubble-in' text (like in vi, or in a browser) and seeing text more as a graphical representation of curves that must fit on a page (that will look the same no matter what the medium). What I still don't 'get' is how an office text editor like Word fits in between these two extremes. To me it seems impossible to make the right choices all the time: fonts may be missing, paper-sizes change, graphics become dis-aligned. How do people cope with that ? The argument has always been that full-blown DTP is too difficult for the office grunt. But look at how complicated Word is now ?! A choice must be made IMHO, and that choice must be, like Mozilla, a scriptable DTP package that, in default modus, behaves like Word or some sort, but can easily be stripped down to quench the thirst of more advanced graphical people. No more following MicroSoft, which is useless anyway (.doc files can simply be written and read by some separate commandline filter, to be incorporated in the package), and finally making a choice.
There *is* a difference though. Between an earth with less people in earlier days and an earth now with more people, who decide to collectively scale down a bit. That difference is knowledge. Granted, to keep up the pace of the increases in knowledge in the areas of medicine, farming etc, it is necessary to maintain our current day infrastructure (and adapt that infrastructure to those increases), but if you were to say: ok, our knowledge of motors / the human body and its ailments / farming is sufficient now, then theoretically you could stop at 'another level' as it were than we would have if we had said that say, two hundred years ago. I'm not advocating it, I'm just saying that it's an interesting thought-experiment.
Also, consider how the advances in for example motors have made a revolutionary machine which was at first very dirty, very clean again. The motor itself is, as it were, coming 'off the grid'. Well, apart from the ones made in Detroit, that is;P It isn't entirely unthinkable that certain advances in medicine (stem cells come to mind) will make our current day medical infrastructure seem dirty and archaic in comparison - becoming more personalized and simple, going more and more 'off the grid' as it were.
Yes, but the effect is the same. A nonsense paper got accepted by a prestigious institution. The only thing that makes the mirror-image of this nerds-get-a-dose-of-their-own-medicine-hoax incomplete, is that it wasn't perpetrated by a professor of literature. But that's all. Gloating over the Sokal affair by science students is from now on off-limits, you could say.
I accept global warming, but this seems like a very difficult thing to prove. Just intuitively - I didn't read the article (hey, this is Slashdot) - I just don't think we've been measuring cosmic rays for nearly long enough to prove anything about their variations.
The rot set in because the mentality that built the Roman empire was unsustainable: you can only conquer so many lands and have so many slaves. The well runs dry. Slaves multiply more slowly than their owners, and the distances you have to travel with your armies to defend the empire become too large.
That logic only applies when the group is self-defined and reigned-in, as it were. The British police 'their own' (and punish the perpetrators in the baby P case) because they are the British people; they have a land, a law, and a police force. They recognize themselves as British and they are recognized by their neighbouring countries as British.
All of this doesn't apply to 'muslims', who are a diverse group spread out over the world, who sometimes don't even recognize each other as being muslim, and certainly feel no obligation in 'policing' 'their own'. 'Policing' is for the police, they reason, and the people they are supposed to be policing. according to you, they sometimes don't even recognize as 'their own'. They would find your obligating them to police 'their own' probably rather condescending and unduly burdensome.
In order to police 'their own', they would have to be officially recognizable as their own, and be available for undergoing the policing (i.e. they would have to all live in the same neighbourhood). Your logic leads to obligatory religious self-identification, and ghetto's. That system exists. It's called Beirut. I don't want to live there.
I found the same link, and it helpfully tells you to edit xml in certain places. As root. It's not that I can't do it, it's just that it reminds me of how 2009 isn't going to be the year of Linux on the desktop (again).
Fedora 9 also botched an update it seems; since the day before yesterday I keep on getting pop-up messages from the packagekitd: "Update Applet Failed to reset client". And I've done nothing but be a faithful updater. But from the message I can't even begin to fathom whether what it is about is a security risk or not. I figured it might have something to do with yum, so I've run yum update manually. There were some updates, but none that fixed these Very. Annoying. Popups. Fedora Core people, are you listening ?!
MVC is good. When you understand it at its simplest. But it doesn't need a 'framework', which is where the confusion creeps in. Java is on the one hand so popular, yet so hopelessly constrained in its possibilities and libraries, that apparently this confusion seems to have become 'unrecognisable' as it were: people automatically postfix 'framework' behind 'MVC' because it's so difficult to build web-applications in java without one (well it's not, but they don't usually know that either).
A framework is a meta-language in essence, it 'sits on top' of your project. Libraries OTOH are (usually) written in your own language and 'hang below' your project (i.e. you use them, instead of it using you). Both can provide MVC, but both can provide many other things as well.
I prefer libraries me. I like to know where a request comes in, and be there when it happens. That said, libraries that model my data storage in nice structures and provide templating for output are yummy. But that's all - I feel the programming language should be *my* bitch, not the other way around. So yeah, I've had to write my own template rendering code since the existing ones all had unnecessary limitations rooted in the theory that the template shouldn't contain any code (so how are we supposed to go about iterations, theorists ?) or any complex variables (yet your data modelling library provides for those, thanks a lot !). Took all of a monday afternoon that.
All people benefit from an educated society. It's one of its cornerstones; that's what makes it so difficult to prove. It's like banking, or the judicial system; at its core a society needs trust and information, otherwise it's not a society, it's a set of (unequal) individuals, and one without history or a future at that. Without education for everybody, how would you maintain a meritocratic democracy for future generations ?
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A standard cross-platform GUI library; perl is eminently suited for GUI work but we still have to make do with an interface to GTK. I know this isn't the nineties anymore, but GUI work still has a place.
Dead on with the perl6 thing. Continue with it, but call it something else. And produce perl6 with new and improved classes and runtime-context-free grammars and regexes without a VM.
Funnily, that isn't even all too off-topic in a discussion on perl. But I'm not for it, anyway. I like my camels with a bit of hair.
No kidding. I was unemployed for a while (quit at the bank I was working because too boring) and had a bit of trouble finding a new job. In the end started applying for all sorts of shit, but found out that even office-supply shops and farms have continuity-desires these days. Couldn't get hired because they said: you're going to find a new job in three weeks and you'll be out of here. But, said I, I'm only shoveling sand ! No can do, sorry. Weird.
But chicken is about as 'unsafe' as pork, yet the whole friggin' world eats chicken.
'Alternative medicine' /does/ affect other people's health when, for example, they refuse immunization.
But I've got to say: this is just typical.
Just deal with the other 5% in the 'old fashioned' way; using CGI or C - doing everything from the ground up. And if somehow you can't - because you can't just get the session state from the ruby framework, or you can't get the style sheets from it, then you have to wonder why not. And blame ruby for it, not yourself or CGI.
No. Their employees just don't travel by train.
Not to be a dry pedantic killjoy, but he was probably watching a young calf drinking.
Yes, and tens of thousands of phones could be inside a single cell at a given time if, for example, that cell covered a train station or a sports stadium, where both kinds of locations give ample rise to sending simultaneous messages by the thousands during certain events (delays or goals).
I 'get' what the difference is between a text-editor and a DTP-package. I'm aware of the dichotomy between 'bubble-in' text (like in vi, or in a browser) and seeing text more as a graphical representation of curves that must fit on a page (that will look the same no matter what the medium). What I still don't 'get' is how an office text editor like Word fits in between these two extremes. To me it seems impossible to make the right choices all the time: fonts may be missing, paper-sizes change, graphics become dis-aligned. How do people cope with that ? The argument has always been that full-blown DTP is too difficult for the office grunt. But look at how complicated Word is now ?! A choice must be made IMHO, and that choice must be, like Mozilla, a scriptable DTP package that, in default modus, behaves like Word or some sort, but can easily be stripped down to quench the thirst of more advanced graphical people. No more following MicroSoft, which is useless anyway (.doc files can simply be written and read by some separate commandline filter, to be incorporated in the package), and finally making a choice.
There *is* a difference though. Between an earth with less people in earlier days and an earth now with more people, who decide to collectively scale down a bit. That difference is knowledge. Granted, to keep up the pace of the increases in knowledge in the areas of medicine, farming etc, it is necessary to maintain our current day infrastructure (and adapt that infrastructure to those increases), but if you were to say: ok, our knowledge of motors / the human body and its ailments / farming is sufficient now, then theoretically you could stop at 'another level' as it were than we would have if we had said that say, two hundred years ago. I'm not advocating it, I'm just saying that it's an interesting thought-experiment.
Also, consider how the advances in for example motors have made a revolutionary machine which was at first very dirty, very clean again. The motor itself is, as it were, coming 'off the grid'. Well, apart from the ones made in Detroit, that is ;P It isn't entirely unthinkable that certain advances in medicine (stem cells come to mind) will make our current day medical infrastructure seem dirty and archaic in comparison - becoming more personalized and simple, going more and more 'off the grid' as it were.
But we don't want to know this stuff. We want to know how many temporary wives you had (;P)
Have you tried turning it off and on ?
Yes, but the effect is the same. A nonsense paper got accepted by a prestigious institution. The only thing that makes the mirror-image of this nerds-get-a-dose-of-their-own-medicine-hoax incomplete, is that it wasn't perpetrated by a professor of literature. But that's all. Gloating over the Sokal affair by science students is from now on off-limits, you could say.
I accept global warming, but this seems like a very difficult thing to prove. Just intuitively - I didn't read the article (hey, this is Slashdot) - I just don't think we've been measuring cosmic rays for nearly long enough to prove anything about their variations.
The rot set in because the mentality that built the Roman empire was unsustainable: you can only conquer so many lands and have so many slaves. The well runs dry. Slaves multiply more slowly than their owners, and the distances you have to travel with your armies to defend the empire become too large.
No, it should be that Microsoft denies that the NSA has access to the
__declspec dllexport pascal WINAPI DWORD NSAAccessFunctionEx(
__in HWnd window,
__in HWnd theOtherWindow,
__in HWnd someHandleToSomethingThatsNotAWindow,
__in DWORD PRRRRRT,
__in const HANDLE SHMWFTPFQ,
__in NSAStructEx* nsastruct,
__in BOOLEAN reallytruly
);
function.
That logic only applies when the group is self-defined and reigned-in, as it were. The British police 'their own' (and punish the perpetrators in the baby P case) because they are the British people; they have a land, a law, and a police force. They recognize themselves as British and they are recognized by their neighbouring countries as British.
All of this doesn't apply to 'muslims', who are a diverse group spread out over the world, who sometimes don't even recognize each other as being muslim, and certainly feel no obligation in 'policing' 'their own'. 'Policing' is for the police, they reason, and the people they are supposed to be policing. according to you, they sometimes don't even recognize as 'their own'. They would find your obligating them to police 'their own' probably rather condescending and unduly burdensome.
In order to police 'their own', they would have to be officially recognizable as their own, and be available for undergoing the policing (i.e. they would have to all live in the same neighbourhood). Your logic leads to obligatory religious self-identification, and ghetto's. That system exists. It's called Beirut. I don't want to live there.
I found the same link, and it helpfully tells you to edit xml in certain places. As root. It's not that I can't do it, it's just that it reminds me of how 2009 isn't going to be the year of Linux on the desktop (again).
Fedora 9 also botched an update it seems; since the day before yesterday I keep on getting pop-up messages from the packagekitd: "Update Applet Failed to reset client". And I've done nothing but be a faithful updater. But from the message I can't even begin to fathom whether what it is about is a security risk or not. I figured it might have something to do with yum, so I've run yum update manually. There were some updates, but none that fixed these Very. Annoying. Popups. Fedora Core people, are you listening ?!
Sorry, but the thought of XSLT iterators and conditionals makes me shiver a bit. Nice if it works for you, though.
MVC is good. When you understand it at its simplest. But it doesn't need a 'framework', which is where the confusion creeps in. Java is on the one hand so popular, yet so hopelessly constrained in its possibilities and libraries, that apparently this confusion seems to have become 'unrecognisable' as it were: people automatically postfix 'framework' behind 'MVC' because it's so difficult to build web-applications in java without one (well it's not, but they don't usually know that either).
A framework is a meta-language in essence, it 'sits on top' of your project. Libraries OTOH are (usually) written in your own language and 'hang below' your project (i.e. you use them, instead of it using you). Both can provide MVC, but both can provide many other things as well.
I prefer libraries me. I like to know where a request comes in, and be there when it happens. That said, libraries that model my data storage in nice structures and provide templating for output are yummy. But that's all - I feel the programming language should be *my* bitch, not the other way around. So yeah, I've had to write my own template rendering code since the existing ones all had unnecessary limitations rooted in the theory that the template shouldn't contain any code (so how are we supposed to go about iterations, theorists ?) or any complex variables (yet your data modelling library provides for those, thanks a lot !). Took all of a monday afternoon that.
All people benefit from an educated society. It's one of its cornerstones; that's what makes it so difficult to prove. It's like banking, or the judicial system; at its core a society needs trust and information, otherwise it's not a society, it's a set of (unequal) individuals, and one without history or a future at that. Without education for everybody, how would you maintain a meritocratic democracy for future generations ?
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I thought you were adding some perl, man !