Yeah but we had dreamweaver and the like back in the day. It still took a designer and a lot of luck to have anything that looked decent on the couple of browsers we had. Now you have 3-4 major browsers each with several versions in use on everything from a crappy 320X480 low end phone to a multi-mon 4k setup. I haven't seen very many html conversions that were better than "readable" including written by otherwise technical physicists/computer scientists in LaTex (already a pseudo programming language) that look fantastic in pdf.
I like the ribbon but I agree fat toolbar plus crappy wide screen 9/16 didn't help. Not sure if having the toolbar on the side would have helped. Perhaps failure of focus groups but I heard talks about this choice. Essentially all that MS usage collection told them people were asking them to add features that have existed for a decade. They added the ribbon to force people to see the features that they might not have bothered seeing if it was a couple levels down a nested menu.
It was $40 for the upgrade from 7 - 8. It was free for 8.1 from 8. So I think MS is more likely to go the Apple model: cheap OS, allow the new shinny gadgets to sell the full (ish) price versions. Tablets and phones are likely going to be free because people are much more likely to drop a couple dollars per app for a half dozen mobile apps than they are for desktop apps (at least that has been my experience).
My understanding is Aereo uses antennas inside of the US to capture the content. This has been found to violate US copyright laws. I'd agree with you if they were using attennas located in Canada/Mexico to pickup signals originating in the US and then only selling in those countries. Still there probably is reciprocal agreements between those countries to respect each others copyrights. Its a similar thing with any large industry. For example healthcare: you don't need FDA approval in Canada but Health Canada almost always waits until something is legal in the US before allowing it in Canada even if it originates from a 3rd country. Similar airport security etc. Lots of industries the US is either the dominant customer or a bully that will force you to obey their rules even in your country or be punished.
Perhaps VS users don't have the baggage of trying to save the world via their tech choices and instead realize it is just an enjoyable well paying job. Life's much easier when you aren't fighting to get all your tools to like one another. Perhaps you aren't being driven crazy when you first start trying to do something (because of canned templates that are somewhat reasonable to get you started with): you get the crap in smaller portion sizes not in an all weekend: why won't this damn git repo build shitfest you get with a lot/most projects built by vi/Emacs zealots that think it is normal the have to know where every dll lives and what version it is on your OS before you can get a Solitaire app to compile.
I agree. VS needs lots of resources. Our last boxes were 3 year old machines with 16GB of RAM. VS opening took about 40s. Compile took oh 2 min or so. New hardware (probably mostly the SSD but we do go over 16GB of ram used routinely (web service, VS, SQL Server etc all running on all our dev boxes) so having 32GB helps). Anyways, you need hardware that is less than 2 years old IMO to be thrilled with VS, but I don't want to work for any company that won't invest 2k every couple years for my tools anyways so it is a non-issue to me (I'll leave when I don't like my tools).
I do agree with some of his complaints though: how VS determines what needs to be rebuilt is a mystery to me. I've literally had the solution fully up to date and run a unit test. It starts right away. Run the next test in the list (in the same class/dll and with no code changes) all of a sudden VS decides it needs to spend 40s building a bunch of stuff before it can run. Still navigate too, find all references, intellisense etc all save me much more time and especially context switching throughout the day that I'll never go back to my make/vi|emacs days.
Make them spend months and millions to compel you to decrypt it. Then... oh crap I thought that was the password. But I guess it might be something else.
Exactly. I routinely break a build to find errors. Want to refactor something? Remove the code it depends on and try to build. Now fix the compile errors. Much easier than trying to make all the dependent code not need the dependancy and then removing it especially when playing with >500k lines of code as I do routinely (you just can't remember to fix everything reliably even when it turns out you did know the full set of places where it was used).
If not couldn't they end up 5 years later getting a judge ordering them to return the bitcoins at whatever the going rate is? Does the government routinely sell off shares in companies they seize too?
People are just stupid that think they need 60+ hz: your eye can't refresh that quickly so who cares if your screen can? Often they are pushing high res on screens that max out at less than the framerate their GPU is pushing. So now not only their eye but their hardware can't use the frames. I get that when the system gets busy (or the game complex) frame rates can drop but I'm not sure upping the peak framerate is the best answer. Gaming rigs likely should be configured to have most system proccesses bound to a subset of the CPUs so some are always free for the game, nothing on the game drive but the games so there is no competing demand for disk access etc. Anyways before dropping 3k on a GPU I'd probably drop $250 on the GPU, about $1500 on a dual socket motherboard and a second quad core CPU, and the rest on ram and harddrives. I beat you'd get a much smoother framerate and better performance when doing other things too.
No northern Canada to Edmonton (using Edmonton as an example because I think it is the northernmost major city) is about 2500 km. Add to that whatever distance you go outside of Canadian waters the polar route is still 3000+ km. As the song goes "Canada is really big" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vxDDcTc64c&feature=kp)
Exactly. That is Canada's biggest defence from a Russian invasion: distance and climate. You can stretch your supply lines a few thousand kilometers across the artic and get hardly anything of value (in terms of industry/people, there is a bunch of mining interests up there but I don't suspect an invading army to be picking up pick axes any time soon after invading). By the time you get to population centres NATO will have spun up and be waiting in Edmonton or wherever. Then the navy pounds your supply lines in the rear (they are good at that) and you die like Napoleon.
For a second there I thought you were saying polar bears with molasses which as the adage goes might be a good way to slow down an invader (slower than molasses in January). Even if the Russians came through Nunavut it would be too close for comfort for the americans in Alaska I think so they'd be involved. What they might get away with is small chunks at a time like they are in europe. Not try to take northern Canada but just a small island, or a few miles into territorial waters for oil drilling. Not a big enough deal for the world to risk a full scale war again but still a douchy move that would be what we've come to expect from Putin.
Exactly. Freedom of speech (which isn't true everywhere anyways) doesn't require third parties to make your speech available. If Amazon is so dominant that authors/publishers can't function without them then start giving talks instead, start a youtube channel etc etc. The written word for sale for $9.99 on Amazon is not the only way of communicating.
Indeed. The B-1 has about a 12k km range and about 5,000lb greater ordinance. Yeah it's combat radius is maybe half that but no one is launching their planes during sustained hostilities from 6k km away. So say they have to fly 500km to get to the CAS area, they can float around for another 11k km/speed time roughly... then they refuel from a tanker. No one says you have to fly them supersonic all the time though cruise is 0.9 mach so you probably lose range at slower speeds not sure if the extra linger works out in your favor or not.
Exactly. You take out the enemies with your modern stuff. Then you use your glorified 747's to bomb them back into the stone age. No point risking $750M on a fight to drop 50,000lbs of bombs when a $50M plane will drop 70,000lb once you own the skies.
To be fair there is no majority in the city I work (white is the largest minority). But even then white is a larger minority I think than outside the door (less black people too, more Chinese (lots of asians in the local population but a lot of them are Korean/Vietnamese/Indian but they are hardly represented at my work)). That said diversity is cool. I think gender diversity is worse in our field though where does it start? I went to university with 40 guys and 3 girls. So yeah they'll be roughly a 13/1 guy girl ratio when you get in the workplace... surprise:) I guess you might never get a balanced representation of society in all professions: more men might be interested in tech than nursing not just because of bias but cultural/biological etc reasons.
Of course if the country (I use country generically I'm not in the US but have similar demographics issues) enforced immigration policy And mandated minimum English skills as a requisite to immigrating perhaps we wouldn't be in the situation where industries are dominated by migrant labor that can't communicate with the majority of the population. Having a preferred language outside the norm is one thing, being incapable of communicating unless government services are supplied in every language under the sun is a different thing.
That might be more of their claim of "trade secret". They don't want the native population to realize how disproportionate their number of indians are vs locals compared with the local population. Tax breaks to create jobs... which get filled via H1B. Meanwhile they could quite well still be turning down latino and black applicants in droves.
Math mistakes aside there are cultural/historical and other factors that do lead professions to be skewed one way or another. If you are living in a city where immigration is the main source of population growth and immigrates are primarily coming from asia, as is the case where I'm living, guess what? A disproportionate number of applications will tend to be brown/yellow. Will the employee fit with our "corporate culture" will be answered differently if this is the first orthodox Jew applying or you already have a orthodox Jewish club. In the one cause you'll need more information, in the second case rightly or wrongly you will likely assume: he'll find someone here to pal around with.
Not sure which IDE "automatically commits". You probably can configure most of them to do it but does it do it smartly? I don't want to have to sort through a commit for every keystroke or one made at every arbitrary point (like every 5min). What is the chances it will compile? What are the chances any commit will have a complete step? I suppose you could trigger it from build events or better from when your unit tests run and pass but that wouldn't be automatic any more. Similar for word processors.
Nothing. There will always be broken people where no deterrence matters they just get their rocks off doing whatever crime it is they like. Hopefully the combination of probation/monitoring when they are out and long sentences limits the damage they can do. There is something to be said for old forms of punishment here: if we took a hand for each time you got caught doing armed robbery say you probably wouldn't have much in the way of 3rd time offenders. Could call it cruel and unusual but is it any more cruel than repeatedly letting someone into society that you know you'll have to put back in 6mths (that is cruel both to the psychologically damaged criminal and society that has to fear him)? If we aren't going to institutionalize repeat offenders we should remove their ability to offend.
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Yeah but we had dreamweaver and the like back in the day. It still took a designer and a lot of luck to have anything that looked decent on the couple of browsers we had. Now you have 3-4 major browsers each with several versions in use on everything from a crappy 320X480 low end phone to a multi-mon 4k setup. I haven't seen very many html conversions that were better than "readable" including written by otherwise technical physicists/computer scientists in LaTex (already a pseudo programming language) that look fantastic in pdf.
I like the ribbon but I agree fat toolbar plus crappy wide screen 9/16 didn't help. Not sure if having the toolbar on the side would have helped. Perhaps failure of focus groups but I heard talks about this choice. Essentially all that MS usage collection told them people were asking them to add features that have existed for a decade. They added the ribbon to force people to see the features that they might not have bothered seeing if it was a couple levels down a nested menu.
Wrath of Khan?
It was $40 for the upgrade from 7 - 8. It was free for 8.1 from 8. So I think MS is more likely to go the Apple model: cheap OS, allow the new shinny gadgets to sell the full (ish) price versions. Tablets and phones are likely going to be free because people are much more likely to drop a couple dollars per app for a half dozen mobile apps than they are for desktop apps (at least that has been my experience).
Creative works are one of the few remaining products where the US leads. Any wonder they are crazily protective of them?
My understanding is Aereo uses antennas inside of the US to capture the content. This has been found to violate US copyright laws. I'd agree with you if they were using attennas located in Canada/Mexico to pickup signals originating in the US and then only selling in those countries. Still there probably is reciprocal agreements between those countries to respect each others copyrights. Its a similar thing with any large industry. For example healthcare: you don't need FDA approval in Canada but Health Canada almost always waits until something is legal in the US before allowing it in Canada even if it originates from a 3rd country. Similar airport security etc. Lots of industries the US is either the dominant customer or a bully that will force you to obey their rules even in your country or be punished.
UnNintendo Consequences?
Perhaps VS users don't have the baggage of trying to save the world via their tech choices and instead realize it is just an enjoyable well paying job. Life's much easier when you aren't fighting to get all your tools to like one another. Perhaps you aren't being driven crazy when you first start trying to do something (because of canned templates that are somewhat reasonable to get you started with): you get the crap in smaller portion sizes not in an all weekend: why won't this damn git repo build shitfest you get with a lot/most projects built by vi/Emacs zealots that think it is normal the have to know where every dll lives and what version it is on your OS before you can get a Solitaire app to compile.
I agree. VS needs lots of resources. Our last boxes were 3 year old machines with 16GB of RAM. VS opening took about 40s. Compile took oh 2 min or so. New hardware (probably mostly the SSD but we do go over 16GB of ram used routinely (web service, VS, SQL Server etc all running on all our dev boxes) so having 32GB helps). Anyways, you need hardware that is less than 2 years old IMO to be thrilled with VS, but I don't want to work for any company that won't invest 2k every couple years for my tools anyways so it is a non-issue to me (I'll leave when I don't like my tools).
I do agree with some of his complaints though: how VS determines what needs to be rebuilt is a mystery to me. I've literally had the solution fully up to date and run a unit test. It starts right away. Run the next test in the list (in the same class/dll and with no code changes) all of a sudden VS decides it needs to spend 40s building a bunch of stuff before it can run. Still navigate too, find all references, intellisense etc all save me much more time and especially context switching throughout the day that I'll never go back to my make/vi|emacs days.
Make them spend months and millions to compel you to decrypt it. Then ... oh crap I thought that was the password. But I guess it might be something else.
Exactly. I routinely break a build to find errors. Want to refactor something? Remove the code it depends on and try to build. Now fix the compile errors. Much easier than trying to make all the dependent code not need the dependancy and then removing it especially when playing with >500k lines of code as I do routinely (you just can't remember to fix everything reliably even when it turns out you did know the full set of places where it was used).
If not couldn't they end up 5 years later getting a judge ordering them to return the bitcoins at whatever the going rate is? Does the government routinely sell off shares in companies they seize too?
People are just stupid that think they need 60+ hz: your eye can't refresh that quickly so who cares if your screen can? Often they are pushing high res on screens that max out at less than the framerate their GPU is pushing. So now not only their eye but their hardware can't use the frames. I get that when the system gets busy (or the game complex) frame rates can drop but I'm not sure upping the peak framerate is the best answer. Gaming rigs likely should be configured to have most system proccesses bound to a subset of the CPUs so some are always free for the game, nothing on the game drive but the games so there is no competing demand for disk access etc. Anyways before dropping 3k on a GPU I'd probably drop $250 on the GPU, about $1500 on a dual socket motherboard and a second quad core CPU, and the rest on ram and harddrives. I beat you'd get a much smoother framerate and better performance when doing other things too.
No northern Canada to Edmonton (using Edmonton as an example because I think it is the northernmost major city) is about 2500 km. Add to that whatever distance you go outside of Canadian waters the polar route is still 3000+ km. As the song goes "Canada is really big" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vxDDcTc64c&feature=kp)
Exactly. That is Canada's biggest defence from a Russian invasion: distance and climate. You can stretch your supply lines a few thousand kilometers across the artic and get hardly anything of value (in terms of industry/people, there is a bunch of mining interests up there but I don't suspect an invading army to be picking up pick axes any time soon after invading). By the time you get to population centres NATO will have spun up and be waiting in Edmonton or wherever. Then the navy pounds your supply lines in the rear (they are good at that) and you die like Napoleon.
For a second there I thought you were saying polar bears with molasses which as the adage goes might be a good way to slow down an invader (slower than molasses in January). Even if the Russians came through Nunavut it would be too close for comfort for the americans in Alaska I think so they'd be involved. What they might get away with is small chunks at a time like they are in europe. Not try to take northern Canada but just a small island, or a few miles into territorial waters for oil drilling. Not a big enough deal for the world to risk a full scale war again but still a douchy move that would be what we've come to expect from Putin.
Exactly. Freedom of speech (which isn't true everywhere anyways) doesn't require third parties to make your speech available. If Amazon is so dominant that authors/publishers can't function without them then start giving talks instead, start a youtube channel etc etc. The written word for sale for $9.99 on Amazon is not the only way of communicating.
Indeed. The B-1 has about a 12k km range and about 5,000lb greater ordinance. Yeah it's combat radius is maybe half that but no one is launching their planes during sustained hostilities from 6k km away. So say they have to fly 500km to get to the CAS area, they can float around for another 11k km /speed time roughly ... then they refuel from a tanker. No one says you have to fly them supersonic all the time though cruise is 0.9 mach so you probably lose range at slower speeds not sure if the extra linger works out in your favor or not.
Exactly. You take out the enemies with your modern stuff. Then you use your glorified 747's to bomb them back into the stone age. No point risking $750M on a fight to drop 50,000lbs of bombs when a $50M plane will drop 70,000lb once you own the skies.
To be fair there is no majority in the city I work (white is the largest minority). But even then white is a larger minority I think than outside the door (less black people too, more Chinese (lots of asians in the local population but a lot of them are Korean/Vietnamese/Indian but they are hardly represented at my work)). That said diversity is cool. I think gender diversity is worse in our field though where does it start? I went to university with 40 guys and 3 girls. So yeah they'll be roughly a 13/1 guy girl ratio when you get in the workplace ... surprise :) I guess you might never get a balanced representation of society in all professions: more men might be interested in tech than nursing not just because of bias but cultural/biological etc reasons.
Of course if the country (I use country generically I'm not in the US but have similar demographics issues) enforced immigration policy And mandated minimum English skills as a requisite to immigrating perhaps we wouldn't be in the situation where industries are dominated by migrant labor that can't communicate with the majority of the population. Having a preferred language outside the norm is one thing, being incapable of communicating unless government services are supplied in every language under the sun is a different thing.
That might be more of their claim of "trade secret". They don't want the native population to realize how disproportionate their number of indians are vs locals compared with the local population. Tax breaks to create jobs ... which get filled via H1B. Meanwhile they could quite well still be turning down latino and black applicants in droves.
Math mistakes aside there are cultural/historical and other factors that do lead professions to be skewed one way or another. If you are living in a city where immigration is the main source of population growth and immigrates are primarily coming from asia, as is the case where I'm living, guess what? A disproportionate number of applications will tend to be brown/yellow. Will the employee fit with our "corporate culture" will be answered differently if this is the first orthodox Jew applying or you already have a orthodox Jewish club. In the one cause you'll need more information, in the second case rightly or wrongly you will likely assume: he'll find someone here to pal around with.
Not sure which IDE "automatically commits". You probably can configure most of them to do it but does it do it smartly? I don't want to have to sort through a commit for every keystroke or one made at every arbitrary point (like every 5min). What is the chances it will compile? What are the chances any commit will have a complete step? I suppose you could trigger it from build events or better from when your unit tests run and pass but that wouldn't be automatic any more. Similar for word processors.
Nothing. There will always be broken people where no deterrence matters they just get their rocks off doing whatever crime it is they like. Hopefully the combination of probation/monitoring when they are out and long sentences limits the damage they can do. There is something to be said for old forms of punishment here: if we took a hand for each time you got caught doing armed robbery say you probably wouldn't have much in the way of 3rd time offenders. Could call it cruel and unusual but is it any more cruel than repeatedly letting someone into society that you know you'll have to put back in 6mths (that is cruel both to the psychologically damaged criminal and society that has to fear him)? If we aren't going to institutionalize repeat offenders we should remove their ability to offend.