This is actually one of the major arguments for automation, besides technological advancement. The jobs go elsewhere, to where purchases made with gained profits and increased wages direct them. And here I was thinking that CISC 497 would never teach me anything I didn't already know.
In most fields this is obviously silly, but I think there could be a future for the word in CS. A lot of coders are self-taught, after all; perhaps the "educationalism" movement promotes formal schooling. Just a zany idea.
Maybe we can run away to Grammar Argentina before the Grammar Nuremberg Trials completely wipe away the last vestiges of quality control in the English language.
A less tinfoil-y way of looking at it might be "Only trusted hardware can possibly produce images with legitimate fidelity certificates. The algorithm for making fidelity certificates is available. Nothing stops me from forging a fidelity certificate after the fact. This is no way to protect an image's fidelity."
Because it would be faster and easier to maintain if all of said code was removed, period? Just because llvmpipe is an improvement over swrast doesn't make the resultant performance tolerable. It's just a better piece of chewing gum on the pipe that leaks by design.
Yes, but don't expect support for it—I don't think it sees much use beyond dogfooding. I suspect it's only a matter of time before it gets dropped. (On that note, has anyone ever heard of someone using KDE on Windows seriously?)
I think the underlying cause of this disparity is the lack of a solid, authoritative JS development environment. When C# programmers are confused, they turn to MS's documentation. When Java programmers are confused, they turn to Snoracle's documentation. C programmers probably turn to K&R or whatever textbook they were brought up with; or perhaps the vendor documentation again.
But Javascript doesn't work that way. Any given piece of code has to run on at least four implementations (Mozilla, Microsoft, Webkit, and Opera) and so the social expectation that others have worked out the problem in a cross-platform way is much more critical—although that being said, at least MS and Mozilla now offer solid reference material for JS... yet it's still hardly cross-platform.
Another perspective might be that, in general, most programmers will learn compiled languages (pretty much all of the other popular TIOBE ones) through school. There still isn't a course at my university that teaches JS, excepting perhaps some very introductory web design class. In the absence of an authoritative structure, programmers may be less motivated to seek out an authority for how to write good JS, which is reasonable since there really isn't one.
I so know how you feel. "Must... not... let people misunderstand... dammit, I already apologised, why are you people still pointing out the same mistake?!" I've been there a few times too.:)
Unfortunately that doesn't dissuade Internet marriage proposals; my scraggly brown locks do nothing to protect me. I would share, but an independent review board of ethicists told me I probably shouldn't. (Also, "blond" is masculine, "blonde" is feminine. Unless you were trying to imply that Linus Torvalds gets a lot of marriage proposals?)
I certainly respect and will always cherish 3.5, but the new 4.xes aren't that bad either. I'm betting that by KDE 5 and GNOME 4, the K Desktop Environment will have a fairly masterful market share once more.
I propose a new rule modeled after Godwin's law: Turkmenbashi invocation. If something was instituted as a Turkmen policy between 2 November 1990 and 21 December 2006, it's automatically a bad or laughable idea.
(And now we wait for someone to complain about the generalization with a specific example of a good policy, thereby missing the joke.)
I don't think machismo is going to solve anything under these circumstances. Are you sure you intended to make such a brazen and childish comment without posting anonymously?:)
It's possible, but it would be an arms race. Certain kinds of viruses, like the mimivirus, which infects amoebae, are capable of stealing genes from their host organisms. HIV, by contrast, mutates and reproduces at a rate so high that it has a reasonable likelihood of inadvertently developing such a protective glycoprotein over the course of a few infections, akin to how superbugs develop from conventional bacteria.
(Also, I may have been a little bit in error in describing exactly how HIV functions before; it's not that it presents human surface proteins, although there are viruses that do this, HIV is primarily a nuisance because of its fast pace of evolution, and tendency to target the cells that are supposed to be cleaning up after it.)
Your post implies that "usable is Unity". Somehow I don't think that's what you wanted. Soviet Russia jokes aren't about negation, they're about inverting.
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This is actually one of the major arguments for automation, besides technological advancement. The jobs go elsewhere, to where purchases made with gained profits and increased wages direct them. And here I was thinking that CISC 497 would never teach me anything I didn't already know.
In most fields this is obviously silly, but I think there could be a future for the word in CS. A lot of coders are self-taught, after all; perhaps the "educationalism" movement promotes formal schooling. Just a zany idea.
Maybe we can run away to Grammar Argentina before the Grammar Nuremberg Trials completely wipe away the last vestiges of quality control in the English language.
All three! Think of it less as an extra charge and more like "a way to customize what your new, bigger bills say". :)
A less tinfoil-y way of looking at it might be "Only trusted hardware can possibly produce images with legitimate fidelity certificates. The algorithm for making fidelity certificates is available. Nothing stops me from forging a fidelity certificate after the fact. This is no way to protect an image's fidelity."
Because it would be faster and easier to maintain if all of said code was removed, period? Just because llvmpipe is an improvement over swrast doesn't make the resultant performance tolerable. It's just a better piece of chewing gum on the pipe that leaks by design.
Yes, but don't expect support for it—I don't think it sees much use beyond dogfooding. I suspect it's only a matter of time before it gets dropped. (On that note, has anyone ever heard of someone using KDE on Windows seriously?)
I think the underlying cause of this disparity is the lack of a solid, authoritative JS development environment. When C# programmers are confused, they turn to MS's documentation. When Java programmers are confused, they turn to Snoracle's documentation. C programmers probably turn to K&R or whatever textbook they were brought up with; or perhaps the vendor documentation again.
But Javascript doesn't work that way. Any given piece of code has to run on at least four implementations (Mozilla, Microsoft, Webkit, and Opera) and so the social expectation that others have worked out the problem in a cross-platform way is much more critical—although that being said, at least MS and Mozilla now offer solid reference material for JS... yet it's still hardly cross-platform.
Another perspective might be that, in general, most programmers will learn compiled languages (pretty much all of the other popular TIOBE ones) through school. There still isn't a course at my university that teaches JS, excepting perhaps some very introductory web design class. In the absence of an authoritative structure, programmers may be less motivated to seek out an authority for how to write good JS, which is reasonable since there really isn't one.
I so know how you feel. "Must... not... let people misunderstand... dammit, I already apologised, why are you people still pointing out the same mistake?!" I've been there a few times too. :)
Unfortunately that doesn't dissuade Internet marriage proposals; my scraggly brown locks do nothing to protect me. I would share, but an independent review board of ethicists told me I probably shouldn't. (Also, "blond" is masculine, "blonde" is feminine. Unless you were trying to imply that Linus Torvalds gets a lot of marriage proposals?)
Do I have a t-shirt for you.
Karma whoring is always in-style.
I was gunning for a "+1, Uselessly Informative" mod. It was definitely a poorly-edited summary!
I never suggested it did—note the "irrelevant"—I was just being a purveyor of useless trivia.
I said it was irrelevant. Sheesh! It's not pedantry if you claim it's trivia. More like... deferred pedantry.
I have some fun but irrelevant news for you: "an" is older than "a"; the word is ultimately cognate with "one". If you go back far enough, it's the only indefinite article used. Wikipedia also talks about an hilarious process called 'juncture loss'.
I certainly respect and will always cherish 3.5, but the new 4.xes aren't that bad either. I'm betting that by KDE 5 and GNOME 4, the K Desktop Environment will have a fairly masterful market share once more.
I propose a new rule modeled after Godwin's law: Turkmenbashi invocation. If something was instituted as a Turkmen policy between 2 November 1990 and 21 December 2006, it's automatically a bad or laughable idea.
(And now we wait for someone to complain about the generalization with a specific example of a good policy, thereby missing the joke.)
That explains that! I'll make another.
I don't think machismo is going to solve anything under these circumstances. Are you sure you intended to make such a brazen and childish comment without posting anonymously? :)
It's possible, but it would be an arms race. Certain kinds of viruses, like the mimivirus, which infects amoebae, are capable of stealing genes from their host organisms. HIV, by contrast, mutates and reproduces at a rate so high that it has a reasonable likelihood of inadvertently developing such a protective glycoprotein over the course of a few infections, akin to how superbugs develop from conventional bacteria.
(Also, I may have been a little bit in error in describing exactly how HIV functions before; it's not that it presents human surface proteins, although there are viruses that do this, HIV is primarily a nuisance because of its fast pace of evolution, and tendency to target the cells that are supposed to be cleaning up after it.)
It's, er, par for the course? Fourth-year CS students tend to be like that.
Yes! Just like Go, which is clearly not just the thirty-second most popular language.
Knock knock!
Who's there?
A malformed joke!
'A malformed joke' who?
A malformed joke!
Your post implies that "usable is Unity". Somehow I don't think that's what you wanted. Soviet Russia jokes aren't about negation, they're about inverting.