Like ending US involvement in the Middle East? Seems to me Obama ran on that.
Which any reasonable person would say he delivered on, considering that we had nearly a quarter of a million troops there and we are down to about 10K.
If you care about the facts that is. Otherwise keep on voting for those "fiscally responsible" republicans which took the Clinton surplus and converted it into a trillion dollar deficit, all in the name of "smaller government".
This. Say what you will of Democrats, at least they run on the policies they will implement. Republicans on the other hand run on a con job of "free market" and "no deficits" which in reality means "corporate welfare up the wazoo" and "record deficits because of wars and tax cuts".
Wow, Yahoo was there before Google. Who knew. What else are you going to discover next? that Altavista was there also before Google?
And no, Yahoo was not making money in 1995. It went public in April 1996 with revenues of $1.9 million (yes with an m) for the nine month period ending on December 1995. It had a loss of $634K for that same time frame.
I'm deadly serious. Every search engine company before Google lost money hand over fist. In fact as late as 2001 or 2002 Google was still loosing money on the web search engine side.
So you would have told the Google guys, Larry and Sergei, how every single search engine company before them failed, since they couldn't monetize their search. You would have walked all smug from that meeting, having shown the "powers-that-be" how ignorant they were of the past, thinking that search engines or even page rank (independently discovered in Altavista, who failed) would make a difference.
You know what I've learned after all these years. I may not know "what works", but I sure do know what won't.
Gosh, you just said one of the things I dislike the most about the old timers. They tried something, they failed at it, and the conclusion they bring to the table is unpossible!
To be sure, by all means yes, I want to hear about what went wrong the last time around, but one failed attempt does not prove much.
As I remind them every time, the real lesson they bring is that, if we were to do exactly what you did, back at that moment in time, we would fail... likely.
Instead I refocus the meeting on whether it really is different this time around: has technology evolved? the market place matured? are we architecting the solution differently? better team? etc./rant
Normally it would, but this includes OEM installed Windows 7 copies as well as site wide licenses that ran without a hitch for years. Searching on the web one can find reports of this happening to other people. Running the authentication tool is of no use. It really points to a glitch on the Microsoft side.
I don't know about that account, but I do know that at my workplace tons of legit copies of windows 7 have started complaining that they are invalid copies. Clearly Microsoft has issues with their authentication procedures.
Not all beliefs are equal. I believe that when I walk out of the room things are still there, while someone else believes scorpions appear and dance in the light. They are not comparable. In fact if you hold the latter you would likely get some medical treatment.
A movement of 4.2 used to be called a tremor, until news organizations such as CNN and the Weather Channel got a hold of them and became earthquakes. FLASH. BREAKING NEWS. CUE GRAPHICS. CUE JINGLE followed by 48 hrs of non stop coverage.
Before that at least one structure had to topple over for a tremor to be called an earthquake.
Python brought a unique mixture of functional and imperative syntax and semantics. That is a unique contribution, regardless if you liked the end result or not.
Fair enough so long as the child is required to pay and do the things children also have to do out of much loving care for their parents.
Indeed, in most of the countries where supporting your kid in university is the law/common practice it is also the law/common practice to take care of your parents when the time comes.
It gets scarier than that: some parents believe it is their duty to support their much loved kids while they study and prepare for life. They even give them a hug when they come home for the holidays!
What is the world coming to? When I was young, kids were given up for adoption a weak after being born. They were raised in an orphanage and believe me, we were better for it.
They also tend to rely heavily on advertising and faux patriotism to sell the Korean designed, Mexican manufactured cars in the US because Ford/Chevrolet is 'Merican.
What's the name of the worst Jeep model produced in the last two decades, a 2007 newly designed car that it was so bad Chrysler considered not releasing at all? Jeep Patriot of course. I kid you not.
"But the engineer, whose aim is to maximize safety within a series of material constraints, cannot be distracted by how you and I feel."
and that boys and girls is how American car manufacturers rationalize producing the crap that they produce.
This is not surprising. GM or Ford would have to be one fscked corporation to walk out of a meeting with the mandate "let's make crap cars". Instead they manage to convince that their junk "had to be done this way", even though most other foreign car manufactures have much lower design failure rates.
It's a feature that's been added in to try and woo sloppy developers, but frankly all it does is reduce the average level of code quality by allowing people to write such sloppy code in the first place.
Yes, the GP post is confusing variable declaration and strong type safety. Experience has shown that we want both.
E.g. "variable x is a string", so if by accident the one time I used it, I happen to write "x=3" I want the compiler to complain and not silently infer the type "x is an integer".
Second, we want variable declarations so that if you accidentally write "usrename" instead of "username" the compiler complains.
Swift doesn't require you to give the type during declaration, which is a minor saving at a cost of many headaches. This is the wrong design decision, though I don't think is particularly critical.
Variables do need to be declared, which is a nice improvement over python and one of a few big things holding python back from total dominance (the others are white space, interpreted not compiled and somewhat weak pointer/data structure support).
This is nothing but segregation, which is still so common in the USA (though nowadays often self imposed) that even supposedly progressive and enlightened people fail to see how wrong it is.
Many of my supposed feminist friends want to place girls in school ghettos.
I think there is enough evidence to suggest that domestication happened independently in at least three different places: Eurasia, Australia and America. Why are they trying to narrow it to a single place?
I'm not wasting it: judging from the moderation it's clear that OSS people are now even more bent on working for free for people like me. More money in the bank for the likes of us.
Now go back to your OSS project, you are wasting my money.
Just like with IMDB, MySQL and Red Hat Linux, I love it when people give away their labor for free so that people like me can become millionaires when we package and sell their work.
Now if I only could find a way to launch an open source gardening movement so that people would mow my 40 acre mansion lawn for free...
I have a dual core i7 2.8Ghz laptop with 8Gb of RAM with 2x256 SSD in Raid 0 configuration. Every app runs blazingly fast... except the new Google Maps, which slows the computer down to a crawl. I just ran a set of comparisons and the "new and improved" google maps load times were 3-5x slower than the old google maps.
Moreover, I have yet to find a useful feature in the new maps that is not present in the old version.
This boys and girls is how companies come to be functional retards: anyone can tell the old version is better and it is just a switch of a button away from coming back, but internal politics and committees stop this from happening... as if this wasn't enough, now the company doubles down and makes an even stupider decision: removing the previous, faster and superior version.
This phenomena has been studied by Organizational Management types. Decisions taken by committees often match those taken by a person with an 80 IQ level. In this case, that number would be generous.
Windows 10 was codenamed after a location seen in Halo: Combat Evolved, so it follows that Redstone likely comes from a computer game. I wonder which one...
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Like ending US involvement in the Middle East? Seems to me Obama ran on that.
Which any reasonable person would say he delivered on, considering that we had nearly a quarter of a million troops there and we are down to about 10K.
If you care about the facts that is. Otherwise keep on voting for those "fiscally responsible" republicans which took the Clinton surplus and converted it into a trillion dollar deficit, all in the name of "smaller government".
This. Say what you will of Democrats, at least they run on the policies they will implement. Republicans on the other hand run on a con job of "free market" and "no deficits" which in reality means "corporate welfare up the wazoo" and "record deficits because of wars and tax cuts".
Wow, Yahoo was there before Google. Who knew. What else are you going to discover next? that Altavista was there also before Google?
And no, Yahoo was not making money in 1995. It went public in April 1996 with revenues of $1.9 million (yes with an m) for the nine month period ending on December 1995. It had a loss of $634K for that same time frame.
I'm deadly serious. Every search engine company before Google lost money hand over fist. In fact as late as 2001 or 2002 Google was still loosing money on the web search engine side.
So you would have told the Google guys, Larry and Sergei, how every single search engine company before them failed, since they couldn't monetize their search. You would have walked all smug from that meeting, having shown the "powers-that-be" how ignorant they were of the past, thinking that search engines or even page rank (independently discovered in Altavista, who failed) would make a difference.
You know what I've learned after all these years. I may not know "what works", but I sure do know what won't.
Gosh, you just said one of the things I dislike the most about the old timers. They tried something, they failed at it, and the conclusion they bring to the table is unpossible!
To be sure, by all means yes, I want to hear about what went wrong the last time around, but one failed attempt does not prove much.
As I remind them every time, the real lesson they bring is that, if we were to do exactly what you did, back at that moment in time, we would fail... likely.
Instead I refocus the meeting on whether it really is different this time around: has technology evolved? the market place matured? are we architecting the solution differently? better team? etc. /rant
Normally it would, but this includes OEM installed Windows 7 copies as well as site wide licenses that ran without a hitch for years. Searching on the web one can find reports of this happening to other people. Running the authentication tool is of no use. It really points to a glitch on the Microsoft side.
// comments were added to the C standard. Not good old ANSI see but still ok.
Bzzt, wrong. The last ANSI approved version of C is C99, which includes // as a comment delimiter.
I don't know about that account, but I do know that at my workplace tons of legit copies of windows 7 have started complaining that they are invalid copies. Clearly Microsoft has issues with their authentication procedures.
Yes, that includes Atheists.
Not all beliefs are equal. I believe that when I walk out of the room things are still there, while someone else believes scorpions appear and dance in the light. They are not comparable. In fact if you hold the latter you would likely get some medical treatment.
A movement of 4.2 used to be called a tremor, until news organizations such as CNN and the Weather Channel got a hold of them and became earthquakes. FLASH. BREAKING NEWS. CUE GRAPHICS. CUE JINGLE followed by 48 hrs of non stop coverage.
Before that at least one structure had to topple over for a tremor to be called an earthquake.
Python, PHP and Rust didn't.
Python brought a unique mixture of functional and imperative syntax and semantics. That is a unique contribution, regardless if you liked the end result or not.
Fair enough so long as the child is required to pay and do the things children also have to do out of much loving care for their parents.
Indeed, in most of the countries where supporting your kid in university is the law/common practice it is also the law/common practice to take care of your parents when the time comes.
It gets scarier than that: some parents believe it is their duty to support their much loved kids while they study and prepare for life. They even give them a hug when they come home for the holidays!
What is the world coming to? When I was young, kids were given up for adoption a weak after being born. They were raised in an orphanage and believe me, we were better for it.
They also tend to rely heavily on advertising and faux patriotism to sell the Korean designed, Mexican manufactured cars in the US because Ford/Chevrolet is 'Merican.
What's the name of the worst Jeep model produced in the last two decades, a 2007 newly designed car that it was so bad Chrysler considered not releasing at all? Jeep Patriot of course. I kid you not.
"But the engineer, whose aim is to maximize safety within a series of material constraints, cannot be distracted by how you and I feel."
and that boys and girls is how American car manufacturers rationalize producing the crap that they produce.
This is not surprising. GM or Ford would have to be one fscked corporation to walk out of a meeting with the mandate "let's make crap cars". Instead they manage to convince that their junk "had to be done this way", even though most other foreign car manufactures have much lower design failure rates.
It's a feature that's been added in to try and woo sloppy developers, but frankly all it does is reduce the average level of code quality by allowing people to write such sloppy code in the first place.
Exactly. It is a false convenience.
Yes, the GP post is confusing variable declaration and strong type safety. Experience has shown that we want both.
E.g. "variable x is a string", so if by accident the one time I used it, I happen to write "x=3" I want the compiler to complain and not silently infer the type "x is an integer".
Second, we want variable declarations so that if you accidentally write "usrename" instead of "username" the compiler complains.
Swift doesn't require you to give the type during declaration, which is a minor saving at a cost of many headaches. This is the wrong design decision, though I don't think is particularly critical.
Variables do need to be declared, which is a nice improvement over python and one of a few big things holding python back from total dominance (the others are white space, interpreted not compiled and somewhat weak pointer/data structure support).
No water from Arizona reaches the ocean. It is all collected before it gets anywhere close to the shore.
This is nothing but segregation, which is still so common in the USA (though nowadays often self imposed) that even supposedly progressive and enlightened people fail to see how wrong it is.
Many of my supposed feminist friends want to place girls in school ghettos.
I think there is enough evidence to suggest that domestication happened independently in at least three different places: Eurasia, Australia and America. Why are they trying to narrow it to a single place?
I'm not wasting it: judging from the moderation it's clear that OSS people are now even more bent on working for free for people like me. More money in the bank for the likes of us.
Now go back to your OSS project, you are wasting my money.
Just like with IMDB, MySQL and Red Hat Linux, I love it when people give away their labor for free so that people like me can become millionaires when we package and sell their work.
Now if I only could find a way to launch an open source gardening movement so that people would mow my 40 acre mansion lawn for free...
see ya suckers!
A. Capitalist
I have a dual core i7 2.8Ghz laptop with 8Gb of RAM with 2x256 SSD in Raid 0 configuration. Every app runs blazingly fast... except the new Google Maps, which slows the computer down to a crawl. I just ran a set of comparisons and the "new and improved" google maps load times were 3-5x slower than the old google maps.
Moreover, I have yet to find a useful feature in the new maps that is not present in the old version.
This boys and girls is how companies come to be functional retards: anyone can tell the old version is better and it is just a switch of a button away from coming back, but internal politics and committees stop this from happening... as if this wasn't enough, now the company doubles down and makes an even stupider decision: removing the previous, faster and superior version.
This phenomena has been studied by Organizational Management types. Decisions taken by committees often match those taken by a person with an 80 IQ level. In this case, that number would be generous.
Yeah, like Chicago.... oh wait!
Windows 10 was codenamed after a location seen in Halo: Combat Evolved, so it follows that Redstone likely comes from a computer game. I wonder which one...