> Also it shows rather profound ignorance of the Earth's climate and weather systems to think that a rare event must somehow be an indication of something wrong.
Outliers are early indicators in any process of discovery.
> Please note, none of this is aimed at trying to disprove or prove man made climate change. It is simply pointing out that this is a stupid argument and doesn't help your position at all.
Stating the obvious is hardly an argument. Saying the there is more energy in the system is only self-evident. More CO2 -> more heat = more energy. How is that spin? You wrongfully represent the AC as "arguing a position" -- anyone who thinks climate change is not man made is nuts. If there is more precipitation (energy), more winds (energy), than yeah, some places might be colder or wetter than before. This is not self-serving rationalization, it is stating obvious physics.
Just look at the melted polar ice cap.
But of course you're right. There's nothing wrong. Fossil fuels are our friend. Exxon is looking out for you!
wrong. He quits in disgrace. The parent's characterization of Japanese corporate culture is accurate.
There is also a much smaller wage disparity. A CEO in Japan making more than 10 times the average worker would be considered shameful. Yes -- there are CEO's capable of feeling shame left in the world.
False premise. Mercurial, for now, seems a better alternative. It has wonderful integration with windows (TortoiseHg) as well as eclipse. It is very fast and featurewise equivalent with git.
I think scala has the potential to be the next Java. It is very modern but still has a C like syntax. Scala programs can be much more terse and expressive than Java. Scala has closures, much more powerful static analysis, and so on. The strictness of the type checking makes most variable declarations redundant.
James Gosling is on record saying that scala would be a good replacement for Java.
It compiles down to the Java VM.
The next big thing will be powerful like python & ruby, but will be strongly typed. Programmers prefer strongly typed: it catches bugs at compilation time and it is easier to write IDE's for them with autocomplete and such.
What a sad thing to admit. How repulsive to proudly state. TFA is very fascinating and comes to wonderful conclusions. The comparisons it makes with the origins of genetic diversity was really amazing.
It criticizes Open Source Advocates as being close minded. You are so reinforcing his conclusions!
unfortunately the author is probably going to make a bunch of money on it Ugh! How did the parent comment get so many points!
Erlang uses POSIX threads to manage more erlang threads. They are not processes. Of course, POSIX threads are implemented on top of system threads which are implemented on top of the scheduler which may or may not be scheduling multiple cores.
The wonderful thing about Erlang and logic programming languages in general is that they can be understood as applications of rules. They are Applicative. If you have a predicate
a:- b, c. a:- d, e.
There are two kinds of parallelism available here: or parallelism and and parallelism. A clever scheduler can arrange for the subgoals b, c, d, and e to run in parallel. An or parallel implementation would attempt to prove (b,c) concurrently with (d,e) and an and parallel implementation would attempt to prove b concurrently with c and then, if either or both of those failed, would attempt to prove d concurrently with e.
The fun begins when variables are shared across the subgoals. Scheduling can get very interesting then. Erlang gave up on that and instead insists that you schedule it yourself and then gave you good primitives to do so.
If you have a set standard tags, you still need people to apply them consistently. In practice, this can be done much more consistently by using machine learning techniques. You have a set of documents with agreed-upon tagging as your training set.
My favorite tools for collaboration are MediaWiki and DARCS.
Niether Notes nor Sharepoint can show you the history, discussion, and differences like MediaWiki can. And MediaWiki can do it with immediacy and with an economy of bandwidth that IBM & MS can't approach.
I've programmed for lotus notes and a flakier monster you'll never know. I am currently using sharepoint for one of my clients and it is, well, lame. So much infrastructure for sharing files. Microsoft Word files.
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A developer may have fixed something but whoever is managing the distribution may not have incorporated his changes. It may be a matter of politics, laziness, and whim. When a developer says "but my fix was committed 6 weeks ago" what he's really saying is "why the hell haven't you guys fixed the distro yet"?
As for the usefulness of bug reporting known bugs -- that is why some bug reporting tools let you vote on the importance of a bug.
I see it the other way around, with the applets being the kludge. Ajax/JavaScript/CSS/DOM/etc all work with the web - using and manipulating markup, URIs and all the other good stuff that makes the web so powerful. Applets, on the other hand, throw that all away, and cordon off a part of the page to build its own interface in.
That is turning a blind eye to the fact that every browser now has to ship with a JavaScript interpretor. Why not a Java interpretor as well? The Netscape interface to Java made manipulating the DOM from Java every bit as easy and natural as it is from JavaScript.
That's not a web application, that's a traditional application that's hijacked the browser to get onto your machine. While that might be nice for people used to building traditional applications, it's ignoring the advantages that the WWW brings to the table.
The level of interactivity and responsiveness you can craft in a Java applet is a whole lot better than what you can do with Web 2.0. Java applet's can interact with your graphic card, can take over the screen, and all while staying in a secure sandbox. It was actually designed for this stuff, instead of the evolving mess of standards of dizzying complexity that we lovingly call Web 2.0.
Having a Java engine resident and running while visiting applets is a whole different experience from the plug-in marshalling that happens now. Running Java applets from the pure Java browser HotJava was really delightful. Its always puzzled me that Sun didn't pursue the development of that browser.
Java & any other higher level language (such as Python, Prolog, Ant, or Groovy) that is implemented in Java. This is so most people can just think of whatever you deliver as a Java based application.
Why is it more reasonable? Because, in spite of most language researchers agreeing that ML & Prolog are fabulous languages it is hard to find (cheap) programmers that can use those languages effectively.
Which distribution you choose has a great deal of impact on usability. Redhat went to great lengths to make KDE and Gnome as similar as possible.
The developers of both GUI's are familiar with both Windows & OSX and try to go beyond them in their work. It would be useful to have an objective list of where they diverge.
distributed, load balanced, objects -- it will load balance across a cluster as well as on SMP machines, which are very common in SUN installations. A servlet must be serializable so that at any point the container can externalize it and resume it on another node.
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Entanglement communicates state by some mechanism that has no measurable latency. Making a computing device based on entanglement would be amazing.
The Green Party Platform.
> Also it shows rather profound ignorance of the Earth's climate and weather systems to think that a rare event must somehow be an indication of something wrong.
Outliers are early indicators in any process of discovery.
> Please note, none of this is aimed at trying to disprove or prove man made climate change. It is simply pointing out that this is a stupid argument and doesn't help your position at all.
Stating the obvious is hardly an argument. Saying the there is more energy in the system is only self-evident. More CO2 -> more heat = more energy. How is that spin? You wrongfully represent the AC as "arguing a position" -- anyone who thinks climate change is not man made is nuts. If there is more precipitation (energy), more winds (energy), than yeah, some places might be colder or wetter than before. This is not self-serving rationalization, it is stating obvious physics.
Just look at the melted polar ice cap.
But of course you're right. There's nothing wrong. Fossil fuels are our friend. Exxon is looking out for you!
wrong. He quits in disgrace. The parent's characterization of Japanese corporate culture is accurate.
There is also a much smaller wage disparity. A CEO in Japan making more than 10 times the average worker would be considered shameful. Yes -- there are CEO's capable of feeling shame left in the world.
> Which president most recently granted MFN status to China and signed NAFTA?
Clinton. Right? Why is that important?
Are you saying another president would have protected American manufacturing jobs better?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodeisel#Yield
The yields tropical regions can get from palm are pretty amazing to but what is ideal is using useless land (NV) for algae farms.
Frankly I'd rather wear a cowboy hat and drink out of a toilet than program in C++. Scala under Netbeans -- now that is the good stuff!
False premise. Mercurial, for now, seems a better alternative. It has wonderful integration with windows (TortoiseHg) as well as eclipse. It is very fast and featurewise equivalent with git.
Haskell should appeal to their sense of mathematical beauty. It is an efficient, terse, and pure language.
Another more mainstream but similar language is Scala.
Don't forget Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs -- required freshman course at MIT. All course materials online.
By the way, a really fantastic introduction to programming for kids is Scratch.
I think scala has the potential to be the next Java. It is very modern but still has a C like syntax. Scala programs can be much more terse and expressive than Java. Scala has closures, much more powerful static analysis, and so on. The strictness of the type checking makes most variable declarations redundant.
James Gosling is on record saying that scala would be a good replacement for Java.
It compiles down to the Java VM.
The next big thing will be powerful like python & ruby, but will be strongly typed. Programmers prefer strongly typed: it catches bugs at compilation time and it is easier to write IDE's for them with autocomplete and such.
What a sad thing to admit. How repulsive to proudly state. TFA is very fascinating and comes to wonderful conclusions. The comparisons it makes with the origins of genetic diversity was really amazing.
It criticizes Open Source Advocates as being close minded. You are so reinforcing his conclusions!
unfortunately the author is probably going to make a bunch of money on it Ugh! How did the parent comment get so many points!I'm just waiting for OpenMoko to finish their beta.
I enjoy the Stanford CS Colloquium.
The article doesn't actually link to the subject sites, so here you are: fora.tv and ResearchChannel.
If you have a set standard tags, you still need people to apply them consistently. In practice, this can be done much more consistently by using machine learning techniques. You have a set of documents with agreed-upon tagging as your training set.
The idea was to have Java already running. One JVM per machine. Netscape got this right.
My favorite tools for collaboration are MediaWiki and DARCS.
Niether Notes nor Sharepoint can show you the history, discussion, and differences like MediaWiki can. And MediaWiki can do it with immediacy and with an economy of bandwidth that IBM & MS can't approach.
I've programmed for lotus notes and a flakier monster you'll never know. I am currently using sharepoint for one of my clients and it is, well, lame. So much infrastructure for sharing files. Microsoft Word files.
A developer may have fixed something but whoever is managing the distribution may not have incorporated his changes. It may be a matter of politics, laziness, and whim. When a developer says "but my fix was committed 6 weeks ago" what he's really saying is "why the hell haven't you guys fixed the distro yet"?
As for the usefulness of bug reporting known bugs -- that is why some bug reporting tools let you vote on the importance of a bug.
I hava a better idea -- write an applet. You can then have a real gui.
I'll never understand why HotJava died -- running applets on HotJava was a joy -- instantaneous startup.
Having a Java engine resident and running while visiting applets is a whole different experience from the plug-in marshalling that happens now. Running Java applets from the pure Java browser HotJava was really delightful. Its always puzzled me that Sun didn't pursue the development of that browser.
ML & Prolog?
Caml is strongly typed and is used for scripting.
Here's a more reasonable answer:
Java & any other higher level language (such as Python, Prolog, Ant, or Groovy) that is implemented in Java. This is so most people can just think of whatever you deliver as a Java based application.
Why is it more reasonable? Because, in spite of most language researchers agreeing that ML & Prolog are fabulous languages it is hard to find (cheap) programmers that can use those languages effectively.
Which distribution you choose has a great deal of impact on usability. Redhat went to great lengths to make KDE and Gnome as similar as possible.
The developers of both GUI's are familiar with both Windows & OSX and try to go beyond them in their work. It would be useful to have an objective list of where they diverge.
I find myself in a similar state but I'm trying to get from word (and html) to wiki markup.
I agree that filtered html | tidy gives workable output for html. How do I get html converted to wiki markup? Or word to wiki markup for that matter?
Not feasable given the current structure. To vote your hopes instead of your fears: Instant Runoff Voting (specifically
Condorcet Voting with Clone Proof Schwartz Sequential Dropping Cyclic Ambiguity Resolution
("majority prefers" is not transitive)).
distributed, load balanced, objects -- it will load balance across a cluster as well as on SMP machines, which are very common in SUN installations. A servlet must be serializable so that at any point the container can externalize it and resume it on another node.