Joel, a former programmer at Microsoft, discusses some of the reasons he thinks some very popular software companies or projects fail, including Netscape, Lotus 123, Borland, etc
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If you need caffeine, and the closest source of caffeine is a Starbucks, then the reasonable course of action is to display some adaptability, and buy from the damn Starbucks.
Crusoe does cool things because it runtime optimizes the code that it is morphing. If you were to run crusoe code natively, you'd no longer get the optimization benefits, and all you'd be left with is an even slower low-power chip.
Theoretically, you could write a Crusoe-to-Crusoe code morphing module, but that wouldn't buy you anything more than the X86-to-Crusoe morpher.
You would think that with Blizzard's boatloads of cash that if they wanted to get a game out by it's advertised release date that they could just hire on some more programmers and get the job done.
Ummmm...right...and you've done how much software development?
So, if you were to take an infinite number of digits of Pi, each of the digits would appear an equal number of times.
As long as all the probabilities are greater than 0, even if they vary wildly, all the digits would still appear equally in an infinite set. They would all be infinite.
You can look pretty foolish speaking about the infinite, if you don't know what you're talking about.
Well, the original problem was stated in the (perhaps implied) context of birthdays excluding the year.
In that context, 367 people guarantees that two of them will share the same birthday, excluding the year.
If we expand this to a human lifespan of 120 years, then you only need on the order of (120 * 366 + 1) = 44,000 to get a birthday collision, including the year of birth.
If you want to count stinking rotting corpses, or the not-yet-born in your million, piss off.
Thanks for the posting of the correct information.
This thread just illustrates the truth of my.sig.
Readers complain about the accuracy about/. stories when they can't even be bothered to look up the correct fucking information before posting themselves.
They're no better than the morons in Texas, Kansas, *and* Indiana that they so happily mock.
I'm sorry, your use of the word "transmorgify" is typo-squatting on the reverend and honorable Transmogrify project. Our lawyers will be contacting you about this violation of the Digital Mercurial Camelride Act.
For a tech article, I was kind of disappointed that they got DVD wrong. DVD doesn't stand for "Digital Versatile Disc" (though it may have at one point). DVD doesn't stand for anything.
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I imagine the interview goes something like:
Joel: We drove them all out of business.
Or for those of us too poor to afford zeroes, I can see how he was dreaming of a richer world, and type "binary", when he really meant "unary".
Then again, the unary world can be a nice one, where addition is done via concatenation.
You mean this story, already posted on slashdot, right?
See .sig for further commentary.
If you need caffeine, and the closest source of caffeine is a Starbucks, then the reasonable course of action is to display some adaptability, and buy from the damn Starbucks.
He's probably talking more about the (voluminous) History of Middle Earth series.
Crusoe does cool things because it runtime optimizes the code that it is morphing. If you were to run crusoe code natively, you'd no longer get the optimization benefits, and all you'd be left with is an even slower low-power chip.
Theoretically, you could write a Crusoe-to-Crusoe code morphing module, but that wouldn't buy you anything more than the X86-to-Crusoe morpher.
You're one of those people who just doesn't get the fact that the Crusoe gets speed gains by *not* using its native instruction set.
We're no closer to having infinite memory and infinite processor speed than we were 40 years ago.
mmmm...a set of bits of cardinality aleph-null...
I tried reading Mary Kate & Ashley Magazine cover to cover, but the pages kept getting all stuck together...
You would think that with Blizzard's boatloads of cash that if they wanted to get a game out by it's advertised release date that they could just hire on some more programmers and get the job done.
Ummmm...right...and you've done how much software development?
As long as all the probabilities are greater than 0, even if they vary wildly, all the digits would still appear equally in an infinite set. They would all be infinite.
You can look pretty foolish speaking about the infinite, if you don't know what you're talking about.
Well, the original problem was stated in the (perhaps implied) context of birthdays excluding the year.
In that context, 367 people guarantees that two of them will share the same birthday, excluding the year.
If we expand this to a human lifespan of 120 years, then you only need on the order of (120 * 366 + 1) = 44,000 to get a birthday collision, including the year of birth.
If you want to count stinking rotting corpses, or the not-yet-born in your million, piss off.
Thanks for the posting of the correct information.
This thread just illustrates the truth of my .sig.
Readers complain about the accuracy about /. stories when they can't even be bothered to look up the correct fucking information before posting themselves.
They're no better than the morons in Texas, Kansas, *and* Indiana that they so happily mock.
Do the math, slappy.
Do the math. More than 50% are below average.
Tonight, I will lift a glass to the man responsible for so much of my free pr0n.
I'm sorry, your use of the word "transmorgify" is typo-squatting on the reverend and honorable Transmogrify project. Our lawyers will be contacting you about this violation of the Digital Mercurial Camelride Act.
Once again, I'll posit that /. needs a moderation choice of "+1 (Flame)".
There happens to be an open source refactoring tool, called Transmogrify, that has been released.
Details are available at transmogrify.sourceforge.net
For a tech article, I was kind of disappointed that they got DVD wrong. DVD doesn't stand for "Digital Versatile Disc" (though it may have at one point). DVD doesn't stand for anything.
You overestimate 95% of freshman CS majors.
Yeah. So's mine. Doesn't mean that I don't have them.
If its so common sense, then why do so few people do these things?
Simple. When the customer stops paying you.
See that foot? It's funny, laugh.
I really, really, hope that I'm not missing out on some serious meta- meta- meta- levels of sarcasm here.