Yes. Re-invent the wheel. A wheel that weakly does something specialized languages do extremely well. Let me go get that hammer to do the welding while we're at it.
It's probably too late for you. It's probably too late for me (but I'm giving a whack at it). What Jobs is probably refering to is that when you are at a college age, you can take risks, and still recover. You can still royally screw up your financials, but you still have your family and the rest of your life to look forward to. After college, people are in debt. Then they get into the rat race of debt-paycheck-work, and most likely, never get out.
Take this a step back. How were you raised? Were you raised with the college is the safe thing to do mentality, or were you raised with give life all you got and try make yourself a successful person before you are 30? Were you chided for using your backyard lemons without permission to sell lemonade out front for $50c/glass, or did your dad go and buy you 10 lbs more from the local farmer? Was it so bad that you got a C in English, but nobody cared that you could write a program to do your math homework in 5 minutes?
My point being is that a lot of a person's make-up for success starts at home. Perhaps we won't as succesfull as we'd like to be this life, but we can give our children the edge that they need.
that a country who's citizens feel inept in their ability to innovate, who's animation studio's used Donald Duck's big eyes for all of it's animated characters, is now ahead of american animation studios in terms of originality and storyline.
This just goes to show, that Disney, with its huge corporate culture, has lot its sense of where it came from. Where's the magic when we don't care about any of the Disney characters anymore?
When I walk into a store selling Apple components, all of the prices have seem to have been standardized. I walk into Fry's electronics, and the thirty inch flat-panel is $2999. I walk into an Apple store and the thirty inch flat-panel is $2999. I bet if I walked up to an Apple Factory, they would sell me the thirty inch flat-panel for... $2999.
Apple has never been in the game of "cheap" hardware, letting the market decide how much things will cost, etc. They like their components viewed as top-shelf, and I doubt things will change in the future. All Intel means to Apple is more profit, not lower prices for the consumer.
So I try to install SuSE on a Fujitsu N5010, but I have to do a network install, and it craps out after loading the ram disk. Tried it again with a different mirror, same result. I download Ubuntu, I boot off it, and I get a black screen right after the kernel boots up. I download Slackware, and there doesn't seem to be any partition resizing software on the CDs. I think I found a free utility, but I haven't tested it out yet. So far this adventure has taken me three days (a few hours after work).
No! You want it to be a webservice! We can have a directory object containing file objects that output XML where each character of the filename has it's own tag. We can support localization and internalization and even make make friendly prompts for users, like "Hello Mr. User. Here are your files." We could even detect if they are male or female and change the message accordingly by invoking another web service that manages all their credentials. Oh, and if you are going to do that, we need to think of security so, we need SSL here. Yeah, and who knows if their actual keyboards are secure, so let's ship it with a dongle that ensures that the keyboard is of our supported configuration. It'll be a masterpiece I tell you. A distributed, > 6-sigma uptime, product brought to you by people who know your business.
Evil. Your company will use it to create a patchwork system of code to "fix bugs" or add business logic in every application instantly. Then all of the sudden, you decide to switch your mentality of how you use databases because you get a clue on how application testing should be performed (on an in-memory database that can be brought up and down instantly). But 'lo and behold your in-memory database might not support or have those triggers. Hello slow unit tests and vendor lock-in!
Stored Procedures:
Sometimes a necessary evil. These are almost as bad as triggers, however they don't execute unless you explicitly call them. However, they have the same version control and lockin problems that triggers do.
Any Other New Feature:
Basically, unless it can be described using a standard SQL dialect that's well supported, I'd stay away from it unless absolutely necessary. Please also refrain from deluding yourself on the meaning of necessary.
Would it be possible to design an enryption system such that if semi-trusted party X spent Y CPU-cycles brute-forcing, it could be broken, but for all other parties no?
Oh really? Trying to get Japanese Font and input support on my machine ruined my regular fonts and nothing had the professional feel of IME. Could you please link me to some decent solutions Anonymous Coward?
Actually, the disc isn't 72x suceptible to scratches because the the data on the disc takes 72x less physical space. In other words, although a 1 inch scratch will damage more documents, the odds are that it affected the particular document you are looking for are proportionally reduced.
Every single person I've converted to Firefox from IE has been more than pleased. All the techies I know have already converted, and the newbies appreciate Firefox's clean-cut, easy-to-use interface just as much if not more than IE's. It's also been shown by numerous studies across the web that Firefox/Mozilla has sizable market share now, making it force to drive the web. For example, w3Schools reports 17% for October of this year.
In other words, I already see the public making the change you think isn't happening. I also believe that it's only going to get better from here.
What were they smoking when they decided to make "byte" a signed primitive type?
All integral types are signed. This keeps things simple, otherwise you need ushort, uint, and ulong as well. Your second point basically the first, except expressed via a complaint about the API.
Would it have REALLY killed them to have made the JVM step in when somebody tries to call the.equals(Object) method of an object the JVM knows to be null and simply return "true" if the argument object is null, and false if it's not instead of throwing a NullPointerException?
Equals is an *instance* method with all the properties of such a method. You need an *instance* of an object in order to call the method. If you make an exception, you go down a slippery path of making more exceptions, and a slow, clunky JVM would most likely result.
Likewise, would it have REALLY killed Gosling to acknowledge that String DESERVES special treatment relative to other Object types and overloaded "==" to test for semantic equality instead of literal equality when applied to Strings? I challenge him to think of one single instance where ANYONE has ever genuinely cared whether two semantically equivalent strings do or don't literally point to the same sequence of bytes in memory.
I've seen == used for speed purposes. I've also used the same technique from time-to-time, but not that often. I could see this concession being made, as it often confuses beginning programmers.
Even so, it's highly probably that if it were compromised, then somebody would say something. Sort of like how you eat at a restaurant without verifying that the chef has washed his hands.
It's quite simple. There are a lot of times when one comes up with an idea, and your place of employment has no incentive to develop it, but you still see the potential. It is therefore asinine for any employer to balk at it when an employee develops the idea on their own time and resources. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
For some reason, Firefox randomly screws up the table layout scheme used on Slashdot. IE on the other hand renders this site fine. This happens both on my laptop and on my work machine. Quite ironic that the only time I load IE is to read articles that laud non-MS browsers.
Isn't it ironic that people who have so many other problems in their lives decide to gripe on others about minutae, such as the use of the word "ironic"?
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Yes. Re-invent the wheel. A wheel that weakly does something specialized languages do extremely well. Let me go get that hammer to do the welding while we're at it.
It's probably too late for you. It's probably too late for me (but I'm giving a whack at it). What Jobs is probably refering to is that when you are at a college age, you can take risks, and still recover. You can still royally screw up your financials, but you still have your family and the rest of your life to look forward to. After college, people are in debt. Then they get into the rat race of debt-paycheck-work, and most likely, never get out.
Take this a step back. How were you raised? Were you raised with the college is the safe thing to do mentality, or were you raised with give life all you got and try make yourself a successful person before you are 30? Were you chided for using your backyard lemons without permission to sell lemonade out front for $50c/glass, or did your dad go and buy you 10 lbs more from the local farmer? Was it so bad that you got a C in English, but nobody cared that you could write a program to do your math homework in 5 minutes?
My point being is that a lot of a person's make-up for success starts at home. Perhaps we won't as succesfull as we'd like to be this life, but we can give our children the edge that they need.
that a country who's citizens feel inept in their ability to innovate, who's animation studio's used Donald Duck's big eyes for all of it's animated characters, is now ahead of american animation studios in terms of originality and storyline.
This just goes to show, that Disney, with its huge corporate culture, has lot its sense of where it came from. Where's the magic when we don't care about any of the Disney characters anymore?
When I walk into a store selling Apple components, all of the prices have seem to have been standardized. I walk into Fry's electronics, and the thirty inch flat-panel is $2999. I walk into an Apple store and the thirty inch flat-panel is $2999. I bet if I walked up to an Apple Factory, they would sell me the thirty inch flat-panel for ... $2999.
Apple has never been in the game of "cheap" hardware, letting the market decide how much things will cost, etc. They like their components viewed as top-shelf, and I doubt things will change in the future. All Intel means to Apple is more profit, not lower prices for the consumer.
So I try to install SuSE on a Fujitsu N5010, but I have to do a network install, and it craps out after loading the ram disk. Tried it again with a different mirror, same result. I download Ubuntu, I boot off it, and I get a black screen right after the kernel boots up. I download Slackware, and there doesn't seem to be any partition resizing software on the CDs. I think I found a free utility, but I haven't tested it out yet. So far this adventure has taken me three days (a few hours after work).
Err yeah. Average user. Whatever.
No! You want it to be a webservice! We can have a directory object containing file objects that output XML where each character of the filename has it's own tag. We can support localization and internalization and even make make friendly prompts for users, like "Hello Mr. User. Here are your files." We could even detect if they are male or female and change the message accordingly by invoking another web service that manages all their credentials. Oh, and if you are going to do that, we need to think of security so, we need SSL here. Yeah, and who knows if their actual keyboards are secure, so let's ship it with a dongle that ensures that the keyboard is of our supported configuration. It'll be a masterpiece I tell you. A distributed, > 6-sigma uptime, product brought to you by people who know your business.
to sell 50,000 shares at 950 :)
Triggers:
Evil. Your company will use it to create a patchwork system of code to "fix bugs" or add business logic in every application instantly. Then all of the sudden, you decide to switch your mentality of how you use databases because you get a clue on how application testing should be performed (on an in-memory database that can be brought up and down instantly). But 'lo and behold your in-memory database might not support or have those triggers. Hello slow unit tests and vendor lock-in!
Stored Procedures:
Sometimes a necessary evil. These are almost as bad as triggers, however they don't execute unless you explicitly call them. However, they have the same version control and lockin problems that triggers do.
Any Other New Feature:
Basically, unless it can be described using a standard SQL dialect that's well supported, I'd stay away from it unless absolutely necessary. Please also refrain from deluding yourself on the meaning of necessary.
I see the entire text on the front page? Slashcode broken?
Would it be possible to design an enryption system such that if semi-trusted party X spent Y CPU-cycles brute-forcing, it could be broken, but for all other parties no?
I stopped reading your post at "some nasty thing."
Oh really? Trying to get Japanese Font and input support on my machine ruined my regular fonts and nothing had the professional feel of IME. Could you please link me to some decent solutions Anonymous Coward?
How'd you drink your 64 ounce thirst destroyer?
Matt Daemon.
Actually, the disc isn't 72x suceptible to scratches because the the data on the disc takes 72x less physical space. In other words, although a 1 inch scratch will damage more documents, the odds are that it affected the particular document you are looking for are proportionally reduced.
Wow, talk about pessimism.
Every single person I've converted to Firefox from IE has been more than pleased. All the techies I know have already converted, and the newbies appreciate Firefox's clean-cut, easy-to-use interface just as much if not more than IE's. It's also been shown by numerous studies across the web that Firefox/Mozilla has sizable market share now, making it force to drive the web. For example, w3Schools reports 17% for October of this year.
In other words, I already see the public making the change you think isn't happening. I also believe that it's only going to get better from here.
My brain autocorrected the "a" with "and".
It's pink.
No, its a light red.
You know they've got a name for light red, know what it is?
What?
PINK!
Only got dial-up? Get somebody to download SP2 for you. Enable firewalling on every port. Run Firefox and Thunderbird.
What were they smoking when they decided to make "byte" a signed primitive type?
.equals(Object) method of an object the JVM knows to be null and simply return "true" if the argument object is null, and false if it's not instead of throwing a NullPointerException?
All integral types are signed. This keeps things simple, otherwise you need ushort, uint, and ulong as well. Your second point basically the first, except expressed via a complaint about the API.
Would it have REALLY killed them to have made the JVM step in when somebody tries to call the
Equals is an *instance* method with all the properties of such a method. You need an *instance* of an object in order to call the method. If you make an exception, you go down a slippery path of making more exceptions, and a slow, clunky JVM would most likely result.
Likewise, would it have REALLY killed Gosling to acknowledge that String DESERVES special treatment relative to other Object types and overloaded "==" to test for semantic equality instead of literal equality when applied to Strings? I challenge him to think of one single instance where ANYONE has ever genuinely cared whether two semantically equivalent strings do or don't literally point to the same sequence of bytes in memory.
I've seen == used for speed purposes. I've also used the same technique from time-to-time, but not that often. I could see this concession being made, as it often confuses beginning programmers.
Or maybe Rick James doing bones, "God damn it Jim, I'm doctor, not the king of funk, bitch."
Even so, it's highly probably that if it were compromised, then somebody would say something. Sort of like how you eat at a restaurant without verifying that the chef has washed his hands.
It's quite simple. There are a lot of times when one comes up with an idea, and your place of employment has no incentive to develop it, but you still see the potential. It is therefore asinine for any employer to balk at it when an employee develops the idea on their own time and resources. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
For some reason, Firefox randomly screws up the table layout scheme used on Slashdot. IE on the other hand renders this site fine. This happens both on my laptop and on my work machine. Quite ironic that the only time I load IE is to read articles that laud non-MS browsers.
Isn't it ironic that people who have so many other problems in their lives decide to gripe on others about minutae, such as the use of the word "ironic"?