In Emacs, it seems kind of hard to do things like renaming a variable or function. In Visual Studio, you just right-click the name (any kind of name), choose Rename, type the new name. If there are any conflicts, it warns you. If a class file needs to be renamed as a result, it renames the file and updates the project too. It's smart enough not to confuse names from different modules that happen to be the same.
Same issue for finding all references to a variable, function, class, or whatever. Right-click, Find All References. The result is not a search, it actually looks at the compiled code to ensure that it lists all, and only, instances of the specific item you clicked, not other items that share the same name.
When you are debugging, VS automatically shows you profiling info, like how many ms it took to execute each step, or each block of code. It tells you what parts of your code have been covered by unit tests. It's full of shortcuts, like: type "try", hit tab, it creates the try/catch block for you.
Maybe emacs can do some of this stuff, but I think you'll be hard-pressed to show that it is more powerful than VS.
Oh, I've used both vi and emacs since the 90s. You don't have to explain. I agree, Emacs is ahead of vi / vim.
But I wonder if you've actually used Visual Studio. It doesn't even make sense to "support emacs," that's kind of like saying you want Firefox to "support Chrome." Visual Studio is an extremely powerful editor, as well as being a robust IDE.
Personally, I use a mix of VS and Notepad++, depending on the task. I left vim behind a few years ago when I found that there was no longer any functionality I didn't have in VS / Notepad++.
Not sure which part you object to. But yes. Both vi / vim and emacs were developed in the mid-1970s. That makes them about 40 years old. COBOL and FORTRAN are only slightly older. Both of those editors were great in their day, as were the languages. They absolutely deserve a place in our technology museums.
Walk into any fast food restaurant. Those security cameras? They aren't just about preventing armed robbery. They are there to watch employees. Same goes for convenience stores, just about any kind of store.
Your employer probably logs every URL you navigate to, and every email address you exchange emails with.
OK so slashdot isn't perfect. But it does have a great moderation system. Why else do we all skip the article and go straight to the comments? All the crap gets downmodded very quickly, so the rest of us can quickly skip to the insightful...or funny...comments.
This is like police getting a warrant for video surveillance recordings from a business next door to where a crime occurred. There is no presumption that the neighboring business did something wrong, or that the owner or any patron of that business did something wrong. The point of the warrant is to gather evidence relating to the crime that occurred.
This kind of warrant seems reasonable to me, provided that due process is followed. There is no presumption of guilt of any person who was in the area, rather, a presumption that persons in the area might be able to recall details of the incident. Yes, the perpetrator might be among them. But being located in the area, in itself, doesn't imply guilt.
This is why there are such things as warrants. Police are required to get proper authorization before "infringing" on people's privacy and property rights.
I'm reminded of a Yogi Berra quote. "Nobody goes to that restaurant any more, it's always too crowded."
How exactly are Google and Microsoft irrelevant?
If Microsoft were really irrelevant, we wouldn't be talking about them. Microsoft absolutely dominates the business world. Windows still runs on 82% of desktop computers worldwide. Microsoft Office so dominates the business market that nobody else even matters. Sure, Bing and Edge are jokes, but Microsoft hasn't exactly died either.
Google is dying? Do you have some data to support that claim?
This graph of Google's quarterly revenues certainly doesn't look like what you would expect from a dying company. Their search engine market share has dropped by less than 4% in the last 7 years, to 87% (Bing has really eaten into this market, you know, topping 5.8%). In 2017, they increased their full time employee count by more than 15,000. Android market share hovers around 87%.
What exactly makes you think that Google is "dying"?
In addition to selection bias, as the summary noted, there is also the matter of sample size, compared to the entire universe. The margin of error would have to be very large.
Also, can one really estimate motion in terms of billion-year cycles from studies conducted over, at most, a few years?
There is no privacy when it comes to phone conversations, whether or not it's in a "private" room. I'm reminded of the Tim Allen skit, the "soundproof room."
Sounds easy, just let computers handle the calculation!
But...good luck trying to schedule a meeting with people in different cities. Everyone would have to take the proposed meeting time and subtract, say, 7:38 from universal time, to figure out when the meeting is. OK, so let the computer handle the calculations. I already have meetings scheduled for 9:00-10:00, which for you is 11:17-12:17, so my schedule is less likely to fit easily with your.
Or...remember to watch the national newscast at 9:38, but the show before it doesn't end until 10:00.
It's actually very handy for many reasons that the various time zones are whole hour increments apart.
We can't even get common-sense regulations like net neutrality. Instead, we have regulations like DMCA that prevent people from repairing their own equipment, and keep intellectual property out of the public domain forever. And we're supposed to trust this same government to protect us from AI?
The station being outside the loop is not a problem for Houstonians. I've lived in Houston for almost 30 years. We consider "the loop" to be the boundary of the "inner city." For most of us, that's plenty close to downtown.
Keep in mind, this train is not really targeting people who rely on public transportation. This train is intended to compete with airlines. Houstonians won't have any issues driving to the station on 290.
The official web site of the proposed Texas bullet train, from Houston to Dallas, says that the Texas project will cost "over 12 billion" and start construction in 2019. Like the California project, the Texas project has been plagued by delays and cost increases. I wonder who succeed first, or at all.
No way it's going to blend THAT well with the wall.
Think about it. Have you ever taken a picture, then held up the camera to the thing you just photographed to compare? The colors are always a little bit off. And think about the way the room's colors change from dim to bright and back with time of day and weather conditions. There's no way the TV is going to be able to compensate for changing lighting conditions.
You'd be better off just displaying a random picture, like a big digital picture frame.
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OK so I did some googling.
In Emacs, it seems kind of hard to do things like renaming a variable or function. In Visual Studio, you just right-click the name (any kind of name), choose Rename, type the new name. If there are any conflicts, it warns you. If a class file needs to be renamed as a result, it renames the file and updates the project too. It's smart enough not to confuse names from different modules that happen to be the same.
Same issue for finding all references to a variable, function, class, or whatever. Right-click, Find All References. The result is not a search, it actually looks at the compiled code to ensure that it lists all, and only, instances of the specific item you clicked, not other items that share the same name.
When you are debugging, VS automatically shows you profiling info, like how many ms it took to execute each step, or each block of code. It tells you what parts of your code have been covered by unit tests. It's full of shortcuts, like: type "try", hit tab, it creates the try/catch block for you.
Maybe emacs can do some of this stuff, but I think you'll be hard-pressed to show that it is more powerful than VS.
Oh, I've used both vi and emacs since the 90s. You don't have to explain. I agree, Emacs is ahead of vi / vim.
But I wonder if you've actually used Visual Studio. It doesn't even make sense to "support emacs," that's kind of like saying you want Firefox to "support Chrome." Visual Studio is an extremely powerful editor, as well as being a robust IDE.
Personally, I use a mix of VS and Notepad++, depending on the task. I left vim behind a few years ago when I found that there was no longer any functionality I didn't have in VS / Notepad++.
Not sure which part you object to. But yes. Both vi / vim and emacs were developed in the mid-1970s. That makes them about 40 years old. COBOL and FORTRAN are only slightly older. Both of those editors were great in their day, as were the languages. They absolutely deserve a place in our technology museums.
Walk into any fast food restaurant. Those security cameras? They aren't just about preventing armed robbery. They are there to watch employees. Same goes for convenience stores, just about any kind of store.
Your employer probably logs every URL you navigate to, and every email address you exchange emails with.
I don't know why this is even news.
C'mon people! There are so many great editors out there today that are actually modern.
- Notepad++
- Sublime Text
- Visual Studio Code
- Visual Studio
These editors can do all the important stuff that vim and emacs could do, and you don't have to memorize a whole list of commands to use them!
OK so slashdot isn't perfect. But it does have a great moderation system. Why else do we all skip the article and go straight to the comments? All the crap gets downmodded very quickly, so the rest of us can quickly skip to the insightful...or funny...comments.
You'd have to add +5 at least, +1 wouldn't be enough incentive for slashdot readers!
The thing is, there WAS probable cause.
This is like police getting a warrant for video surveillance recordings from a business next door to where a crime occurred. There is no presumption that the neighboring business did something wrong, or that the owner or any patron of that business did something wrong. The point of the warrant is to gather evidence relating to the crime that occurred.
This kind of warrant seems reasonable to me, provided that due process is followed. There is no presumption of guilt of any person who was in the area, rather, a presumption that persons in the area might be able to recall details of the incident. Yes, the perpetrator might be among them. But being located in the area, in itself, doesn't imply guilt.
This is why there are such things as warrants. Police are required to get proper authorization before "infringing" on people's privacy and property rights.
Well of course! Pretty soon Alexa will take over the world!
OK, I'll bite. What technology is about to dethrone Google?
I'm reminded of a Yogi Berra quote. "Nobody goes to that restaurant any more, it's always too crowded."
How exactly are Google and Microsoft irrelevant?
If Microsoft were really irrelevant, we wouldn't be talking about them. Microsoft absolutely dominates the business world. Windows still runs on 82% of desktop computers worldwide. Microsoft Office so dominates the business market that nobody else even matters. Sure, Bing and Edge are jokes, but Microsoft hasn't exactly died either.
I cited data. Where is yours?
Google is dying? Do you have some data to support that claim?
This graph of Google's quarterly revenues certainly doesn't look like what you would expect from a dying company. Their search engine market share has dropped by less than 4% in the last 7 years, to 87% (Bing has really eaten into this market, you know, topping 5.8%). In 2017, they increased their full time employee count by more than 15,000. Android market share hovers around 87%.
What exactly makes you think that Google is "dying"?
In addition to selection bias, as the summary noted, there is also the matter of sample size, compared to the entire universe. The margin of error would have to be very large.
Also, can one really estimate motion in terms of billion-year cycles from studies conducted over, at most, a few years?
There is no privacy when it comes to phone conversations, whether or not it's in a "private" room. I'm reminded of the Tim Allen skit, the "soundproof room."
https://youtu.be/J9XhVuoNEe0
You may THINK you have privacy in one of those rooms, but you do not.
Sounds easy, just let computers handle the calculation!
But...good luck trying to schedule a meeting with people in different cities. Everyone would have to take the proposed meeting time and subtract, say, 7:38 from universal time, to figure out when the meeting is. OK, so let the computer handle the calculations. I already have meetings scheduled for 9:00-10:00, which for you is 11:17-12:17, so my schedule is less likely to fit easily with your.
Or...remember to watch the national newscast at 9:38, but the show before it doesn't end until 10:00.
It's actually very handy for many reasons that the various time zones are whole hour increments apart.
We can't even get common-sense regulations like net neutrality. Instead, we have regulations like DMCA that prevent people from repairing their own equipment, and keep intellectual property out of the public domain forever. And we're supposed to trust this same government to protect us from AI?
Well, using your PC instead of a smartphone certainly won't shield you from having Web vendors learning, and sharing, tons of personal data on you!
The station being outside the loop is not a problem for Houstonians. I've lived in Houston for almost 30 years. We consider "the loop" to be the boundary of the "inner city." For most of us, that's plenty close to downtown.
Keep in mind, this train is not really targeting people who rely on public transportation. This train is intended to compete with airlines. Houstonians won't have any issues driving to the station on 290.
Did I read that right? 2 mm * 82 years = 6.5 inches or so. Is that amount really going to cause runways to be flooded?
The official web site of the proposed Texas bullet train, from Houston to Dallas, says that the Texas project will cost "over 12 billion" and start construction in 2019. Like the California project, the Texas project has been plagued by delays and cost increases. I wonder who succeed first, or at all.
Yep, and that's why we now have Notepad++!
ALL innovation is copying.
Most involves making a new combination of previously existing constructions or works.
Even the iPhone copied features from previous phones and PDAs, it just refined them and made them cool.
Who exactly is Microsoft copying here?
No way it's going to blend THAT well with the wall.
Think about it. Have you ever taken a picture, then held up the camera to the thing you just photographed to compare? The colors are always a little bit off. And think about the way the room's colors change from dim to bright and back with time of day and weather conditions. There's no way the TV is going to be able to compensate for changing lighting conditions.
You'd be better off just displaying a random picture, like a big digital picture frame.