All those Windows things are just plain awful implementations of OO. It's like the blind men trying to describe an elephant, Microsoft had almost no idea what OO was and yet they went ahead full speed despite their ignorance.
Ruby is pretty good, just ignore the Rails crap. It has a big flaw in that it did not make code blocks into first class objects, and then another flaw that it tried to patch this in after the fact with very heavy weight code block objects. So it superficially feels like Smalltalk until you use it enough that you start wanted to just have Smalltalk instead.
And yet they do. Everything keeps trying to recreate Smalltalk, badly. I don't think programmers need to learn from Smalltalk as much as I think programming language designers should be required to know Smalltalk well.
You probably will learn why newer languages are trying to emulate Smalltalk but also failing and how they could have done better. Smalltalk is a high bar that very few other languages can reach. Smalltalk works because it never started life with the implicit goal of being compatible with older languages or paradigms. C++/C#/Java all screw up because they attempted too hard to be C-like, to be familiar to existing programmers, and to not rock the boat too much. Other scripting languages seem better at this but still have some major flaws in places (code blocks not being first class objects, not underlying object structure, trying to be just a language instead of a complete system, etc).
California has a regulation that the utility gets a fixed rate estimated each year by the PUC. This provides an incentive for the utility to try and reduce consumption. Before this the incentive was to encourage the consumers to keep on consuming, because that's what the unrestricted free market wants. Of course the utilities grumble and whine about it, but since they've got such a horrible reputation the citizens don't have any sympathy for the fat cats. Today I get told in my electric bill how much I am using compared to the average in the neighborhood, I'm given tips on how to save more, I can check my hourly usage online, and so on. It's a very different attitude than even in the 90s. Some places in the world have tiered rates to discourage usage at peak hours (hot hours of the day when the peaker coal/gas plants have to be fired up), or you can volunteer to have your water heater or heated pool on a separate circuit that can be shut off remotely in exchange for lower rates.
They do though. Meters of course, the ones from the fifties were just awful things, using gears to measure watt usage. Thing is, when gears wear down it favor the customer instead of the utility, so there was a vested interest in upgrading to something more accurate. And in many states with regulation the utility makes more profit if they conserve electricity so there's a motivation to get rid of the old crappy equipment. They're also making the local grid smarter by monitoring what's happening, reclosers that can automatically shut off lines to prevent spreading of blackouts, keeping the blackout small and localized and quicker to get back up. If you've still got a lousy utility then demand that they modernize, try to get a municipal run utility, or else get your state to start regulating.
It's up to the utility to save you money. It does indeed save the utility money. It also gives information the utility needs which they've never had before. It used to be that they didn't even know where all the electricity went until the end of the month meter reading. They don't know when the power is out unless people phone in, they don't even know if the right voltage is getting to a neighborhood.
There are load control devices. These aren't smart meters. But they are things to trip the circuit to things like water heaters and such. Some meters have this built in but it's relatively new (more common in countries where electricity prices are relatively high).
They HAVE been addressed. They were addressed before he brought up the issues. There is more than one maker of smart meters out there, you don't judge all autos based on the Yugo, so why brand all smart meters based upon the worst ones?
I've been in this industry for 7 years, and the way the uses "most" in every other paragraph is silly. But then you could count cheap Chinese mobile phones sold by the bucket to claim that most smart phones were poorly made, unreliable, and liable to catch fire.
We have security penetration testers sniffing through our source code and coming up with very obscure bugs which we're required to fix before release. We've had to cajole customers into turning on security (there's a bit of fear of being locked out). Yes good security is expensive but it brings in revenue also as it's a major selling feature. It's may be easier to hack the utility's back office than to hack the meters.
This is not to say that security is good enough. Of course, we need to do better. We need to do better at everything as far as security goes.
Slightly. It's like volunteering to cook and serve food at the homeless shelter on Thanksgiving. It doesn't solve the problem of hunger in the country and it's certainly not a long term plan. Neither will picking a few companies and personally asking them to save 1000 jobs today solve the employment crisis and it's not at all a long term plan on how to deal with the issue.
You are a politician if you are running for office, and even if you lose. When one is in office, ideally the politics should stop and the governing should begin.
I don't think Trump's term has started yet, but still he's credited for personally saving jobs which is something no president has any real power over. But everyone likes to shrink down the terms of office: can't take action just before a congressional break, or during a break, or just before midterm elections, or just after midterm elections when the lame ducks are still there, or during the holidays, or on a Tuesday,...
In Russia they call anyone they dislike a fascist. Any government that disagrees with Putin is a fascist, any government that wants to align with the west is fascist, any nation that allied with Nazis over fear of USSR invasions is called fascist. It is sort of the equivalent of Americans calling people they don't like, socialists. Because Russia had such a rough time of it after the USSR breakup (despite that being a good thing on the whole) they tend to lean back on winning in WWII as a point of personal pride. We have dimwitted people in the US saying "you'd all be speaking German if it wasn't for us!" and so similarly the dimwitted people in Russia will accuse othesr who are opposed to Russian government policies as nazi or fascist.
So that means one should ignore fake news sponsored by a foreign adversarial state (which is what Russia acts like to former Soviet republics and Warsaw Pact nations) because there might be some internal bias to the local news?
The government did not do this. Do you not see the difference between official government supported discrimination of political beliefs and a corporation responding to public feelings? You can ignore the private citizen extremists who want purity of thought (on the left and the right), but you can't ignore it when the government decides what you should or should not think.
Note that this is about scripted TV shows. It says nothing about whether the junk of unscripted reality shows are having a deserved death or are still holding strong.
Just get rid of all scripting. The web worked find a decade ago, and it's been going downhill since then. If you want something the browser can't do then download an application.
If I was one of the leaders in the coal industry, I most certainly would tell the angry workers with pitchforks that it was the government's fault that they were laid off. I certainly wouldn't want to tell them the truth that it was because they weren't making me enough money.
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All those Windows things are just plain awful implementations of OO. It's like the blind men trying to describe an elephant, Microsoft had almost no idea what OO was and yet they went ahead full speed despite their ignorance.
Ruby is pretty good, just ignore the Rails crap. It has a big flaw in that it did not make code blocks into first class objects, and then another flaw that it tried to patch this in after the fact with very heavy weight code block objects. So it superficially feels like Smalltalk until you use it enough that you start wanted to just have Smalltalk instead.
And yet they do. Everything keeps trying to recreate Smalltalk, badly. I don't think programmers need to learn from Smalltalk as much as I think programming language designers should be required to know Smalltalk well.
You probably will learn why newer languages are trying to emulate Smalltalk but also failing and how they could have done better. Smalltalk is a high bar that very few other languages can reach. Smalltalk works because it never started life with the implicit goal of being compatible with older languages or paradigms. C++/C#/Java all screw up because they attempted too hard to be C-like, to be familiar to existing programmers, and to not rock the boat too much. Other scripting languages seem better at this but still have some major flaws in places (code blocks not being first class objects, not underlying object structure, trying to be just a language instead of a complete system, etc).
California has a regulation that the utility gets a fixed rate estimated each year by the PUC. This provides an incentive for the utility to try and reduce consumption. Before this the incentive was to encourage the consumers to keep on consuming, because that's what the unrestricted free market wants. Of course the utilities grumble and whine about it, but since they've got such a horrible reputation the citizens don't have any sympathy for the fat cats. Today I get told in my electric bill how much I am using compared to the average in the neighborhood, I'm given tips on how to save more, I can check my hourly usage online, and so on. It's a very different attitude than even in the 90s. Some places in the world have tiered rates to discourage usage at peak hours (hot hours of the day when the peaker coal/gas plants have to be fired up), or you can volunteer to have your water heater or heated pool on a separate circuit that can be shut off remotely in exchange for lower rates.
They do though. Meters of course, the ones from the fifties were just awful things, using gears to measure watt usage. Thing is, when gears wear down it favor the customer instead of the utility, so there was a vested interest in upgrading to something more accurate. And in many states with regulation the utility makes more profit if they conserve electricity so there's a motivation to get rid of the old crappy equipment. They're also making the local grid smarter by monitoring what's happening, reclosers that can automatically shut off lines to prevent spreading of blackouts, keeping the blackout small and localized and quicker to get back up. If you've still got a lousy utility then demand that they modernize, try to get a municipal run utility, or else get your state to start regulating.
It's up to the utility to save you money. It does indeed save the utility money. It also gives information the utility needs which they've never had before. It used to be that they didn't even know where all the electricity went until the end of the month meter reading. They don't know when the power is out unless people phone in, they don't even know if the right voltage is getting to a neighborhood.
Well ya, even PC fans know not to buy an HP PC. This is not the same Hewlett-Packard that used to be a technology company.
The 2015 Macbook Pro at work. It's very nice. I wouldn't touch one of the 2016 models though.
Slashdot has been posting these anti smart meter articles for a decade. They calmed down once we got rid of some of the more fanciful editors, but...
There are load control devices. These aren't smart meters. But they are things to trip the circuit to things like water heaters and such. Some meters have this built in but it's relatively new (more common in countries where electricity prices are relatively high).
They HAVE been addressed. They were addressed before he brought up the issues. There is more than one maker of smart meters out there, you don't judge all autos based on the Yugo, so why brand all smart meters based upon the worst ones?
I've been in this industry for 7 years, and the way the uses "most" in every other paragraph is silly. But then you could count cheap Chinese mobile phones sold by the bucket to claim that most smart phones were poorly made, unreliable, and liable to catch fire.
We have security penetration testers sniffing through our source code and coming up with very obscure bugs which we're required to fix before release. We've had to cajole customers into turning on security (there's a bit of fear of being locked out). Yes good security is expensive but it brings in revenue also as it's a major selling feature. It's may be easier to hack the utility's back office than to hack the meters.
This is not to say that security is good enough. Of course, we need to do better. We need to do better at everything as far as security goes.
Slightly. It's like volunteering to cook and serve food at the homeless shelter on Thanksgiving. It doesn't solve the problem of hunger in the country and it's certainly not a long term plan. Neither will picking a few companies and personally asking them to save 1000 jobs today solve the employment crisis and it's not at all a long term plan on how to deal with the issue.
Multiple meanings.
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You are a politician if you are running for office, and even if you lose. When one is in office, ideally the politics should stop and the governing should begin.
I don't think Trump's term has started yet, but still he's credited for personally saving jobs which is something no president has any real power over. But everyone likes to shrink down the terms of office: can't take action just before a congressional break, or during a break, or just before midterm elections, or just after midterm elections when the lame ducks are still there, or during the holidays, or on a Tuesday, ...
In Russia they call anyone they dislike a fascist. Any government that disagrees with Putin is a fascist, any government that wants to align with the west is fascist, any nation that allied with Nazis over fear of USSR invasions is called fascist. It is sort of the equivalent of Americans calling people they don't like, socialists. Because Russia had such a rough time of it after the USSR breakup (despite that being a good thing on the whole) they tend to lean back on winning in WWII as a point of personal pride. We have dimwitted people in the US saying "you'd all be speaking German if it wasn't for us!" and so similarly the dimwitted people in Russia will accuse othesr who are opposed to Russian government policies as nazi or fascist.
So that means one should ignore fake news sponsored by a foreign adversarial state (which is what Russia acts like to former Soviet republics and Warsaw Pact nations) because there might be some internal bias to the local news?
Except that there was real government approved discrimination against religion, as opposed in the US where it's just a conspiracy theory.
It's not necessarily paranoia, it is more likely a political clean up of the opposition disguised as paranoia.
The government did not do this. Do you not see the difference between official government supported discrimination of political beliefs and a corporation responding to public feelings? You can ignore the private citizen extremists who want purity of thought (on the left and the right), but you can't ignore it when the government decides what you should or should not think.
Note that this is about scripted TV shows. It says nothing about whether the junk of unscripted reality shows are having a deserved death or are still holding strong.
Just get rid of all scripting. The web worked find a decade ago, and it's been going downhill since then. If you want something the browser can't do then download an application.
If I was one of the leaders in the coal industry, I most certainly would tell the angry workers with pitchforks that it was the government's fault that they were laid off. I certainly wouldn't want to tell them the truth that it was because they weren't making me enough money.
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