Actually they would get just enough labor. This has already been tried. It is called the Alaska crab fishery where you make about that much under terrible conditions and they still have a hard time getting a full crew that can handle the demands of the job.
The politburo was informed in 1979 in a super secret session that the economy could no longer support the arms race and the USSR was broke. Nothing much seems to have come out of it, except that one young Comrade Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was in attendance. Some believe that this was the moment he started planning the changes needed for the USSR to survive.
As to Reagan his true contribution was his willingness to negotiate with the USSR. Thatcher had to point out to Reagan that Gorbachev was a willing negotiating partner. After a hesitating start Reagan got the message and bought full in on the negotiations. This was his contribution, not increase in spending, not the speech in the Berlin Wall, not his deficit increasing tax cuts.
Actually, I recall reading articles in Newsweek in the early 80s which were already outrageous. Most of them are a consequence of the war on drugs, which was intensified by Reagan and followed up by all other administrations (Bush Sr., Clinton, Bush Jr. Obama).
Ardent libertarian is the term used in polite society for "emotionally immature and intellectually unsophisticated". A libertarian society replicates the current status quo in terms or taxes and tariffs but with the difference that now you have no power over the revenue collector, which is as private corporation.
In a libertarian society I can simply refuse you to drive on my highway because I don't like your face.
It is easy to post growing sales if your profits are zero. The hard part is to have a growing business that actually makes money on each sales. Every time they seem to have gained traction on a market (like books) they seem to negate it by offering incentives such as Amazon prime. T
hey have yet to prove that they can sell products at operating costs+3% on an ongoing basis.
Minor quibble: Microsoft licensed DOS for $50K, while Patterson held back some rights. Later on after various payments and negotiations it is estimated that the final cost was more like $500K. By then DOS was already a screaming success, so they got off easy.
Many other people were introduced to IBM including Gary Kildall from Digital Research, yet he didn't become a billionaire.
And by the time he was introduced personally to IBM he was already well known for shipping the dominant basic interpreter for all personal computers, IBM compatible or not.
moment you view data through a lens of politics is the moment you stop noticing opportunities.
Or as Krugman likes to point out, how are the right wing inflationistas doing? Yet their rants are still welcome at the WSJ in spite of the fact that their views have meant losses in the tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars for WSJ readers.
The main advantage of the PPC was supposed to be higher clock rate, and looking at press releases there were supposedly higher clock rates chips available for PPC over x86.
Yet at one point I took the time to track down the actual "shipping now" announcements for the main PC manufacturers and for Apple and almost invariably by the time computers came out the door speeds were comparable.
The fact that PPC wouldn't commit to a mobile low power version was the final straw.
If you are going to count Leif Ericson as a "discoverer" then you must count the Mongols who populated America across the Bering Straight as earlier discoverers.
If on the other hand we use "discoverer" in the standard sense or person who first widely disseminated a fact then there is no doubt Columbus deserves the moniker.
Then why is it in places where guns are banned or severely restricted, like London, that the violent crime and murder rate is obscenely high?
Because they don't? London's murder rate is lower than that of any US state including generally considered safe states like New Hampshire. If you now compare with metropolitan areas London blows most cities right out of the water with its lower murder rate.
He was a nutbar way before that, I assure you. I had my first runs into him in the first half of the 90's. The Cathedral and the Bazaar remains his single shining moment.
I'm on my second touchscreen computer and fifth tablet. I do not like touch screen for a laptop/desktop. For a smartphone I can think of no better way than a touchscreen given the lack of input device. For a portable TV otherwise known as iPad a touchscreen is about the same as a dial on the side. For a Microsoft surface or a laptop with touch screen removing your fingers off the keyboard to touch the screen is cumbersome. I also found myself rarely detaching the keyboard.
The data points I have is that they offer about the same salaries outside the valley, so if you happen to be working in one of the remote offices you are making good money.
I'd be more interested in replacing the equality operator, which would accomplish the same thing.
The problem is that C usage of = goes against elementary school ingrained math usage. Any UI expert will tell you that this alone is a source of confusion. The supposed time savings of having to type:= over = are bogus. You spend about 0.25s extra time typing the colon. Now let's say you've written a 100K lines of code a year. This means you spent 7 hours typing that extra character. A single nasty = bug will easily exceed the 7 hours just in terms of finding it, before we account for the cost of the security breach.
There is no reason to make it actually difficult to turn off bounds checking
Again you are mistaken. Any UI designer will tell you that dangerous options should not be easy to activate (i.e. the three finger salute), or the double turn key for nuclear launch. Given how dangerous buffer overflow is in terms of security it shouldn't be easy to deploy code that does no bounds checking.
Your argument for stdio is non-sense. All you say applies equally to malloc. Other languages do not require loading the I/O library in the header to do the linking. If you are writing a bare bones high-level assembler as C was originally meant to be I can see why you would like to load as little as possible, but heavy footprint languages such as C++ and Java have no excuse for this cumbersome call.
People often forget that the first A in NASA stands for aeronautics. They have been hard at work at fully computerizing air traffic control. However as you can imagine this requires lots of testing given the potentially fatal consequences. NASA has held several competition rounds among contractors for the next air traffic control system, providing feedback to all candidates for the next round.
Here is one such paper. There are many others, from various academia and industry consortia. The work they are doing is rather cool.
Dude you are suggesting ways in which I can cope with a design flaw in the language, whereas it should be obvious to anyone that this is the job of the language designer, not the programmer.
Look, let me put it in simple terms: programs have bugs and languages have design flaws. It comes with the territory. That's why we issue patches for software and that's why we should release new language standards every so often cleaning up said bugs, particularly when designing a new language.
It might be too late for C, but designing a new language is a particularly apt time to fix flaws such as the = and == rigamarole. Go managed to do it, but neither Java nor Ceylon cleaned up that mess. Too much backward compatibility that we could have easily done away with,
Just because you cannot imagine a government that funds the sciences, patches holes in the streets, gives public schools decent funding and provides freedom it doesn't mean it can't be done. In fact according to the conservative Canadian think tank Frasier Institute there are six countries with higher freedom than America, five of which have significantly higher levels of government participation. They are, the according to you less free countries: New Zealand, Netherlands, Australia, Canada and Ireland.
The one exception with much lower taxes and higher freedom? Hong Kong, which funnily enough is the one who is about to fall off the list given the events of the last few weeks.
But go on telling yourself how cutting NIH budgets makes you "freer" every day.
I know how = came to be and it was the wrong choice. A large number of bugs originate with it, and simply stating how the mistake was made in no way justifies it.
Bounds check should be the default mode in any decent language and it should take quite a bit of effort to turn off (syntactic salt).
What's wrong about including stdio.h? That a proper default configuration has all the main primitives enabled. You don't need to include <while.h> to use a while loop. You don't need to include <mult.h> to use multiplication. Those are basic primitives that should be enabled by default. When C was created text terminals were still rare and one can excuse string operations not being included by default, but derivatives thereafter have no excuse to repeat this anachronism. Really think about it.
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Actually they would get just enough labor. This has already been tried. It is called the Alaska crab fishery where you make about that much under terrible conditions and they still have a hard time getting a full crew that can handle the demands of the job.
After exhausting its primary battery, it went into hibernation, most likely never to wake again.
Huh? ESA has insisted that they expect it to wake up again, maybe within the next few days and failing that by 2015.
The politburo was informed in 1979 in a super secret session that the economy could no longer support the arms race and the USSR was broke. Nothing much seems to have come out of it, except that one young Comrade Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was in attendance. Some believe that this was the moment he started planning the changes needed for the USSR to survive.
As to Reagan his true contribution was his willingness to negotiate with the USSR. Thatcher had to point out to Reagan that Gorbachev was a willing negotiating partner. After a hesitating start Reagan got the message and bought full in on the negotiations. This was his contribution, not increase in spending, not the speech in the Berlin Wall, not his deficit increasing tax cuts.
Contrary to what you say, many studies have found that the better educated and informed you are the more likely you are to be a liberal.
Of course it makes you feel better to state the opposite opinion as if it were a fact, which is yet another confirmation of the studies above.
Actually, I recall reading articles in Newsweek in the early 80s which were already outrageous. Most of them are a consequence of the war on drugs, which was intensified by Reagan and followed up by all other administrations (Bush Sr., Clinton, Bush Jr. Obama).
Flynn, an ardent libertarian,
Ardent libertarian is the term used in polite society for "emotionally immature and intellectually unsophisticated". A libertarian society replicates the current status quo in terms or taxes and tariffs but with the difference that now you have no power over the revenue collector, which is as private corporation.
In a libertarian society I can simply refuse you to drive on my highway because I don't like your face.
It is easy to post growing sales if your profits are zero. The hard part is to have a growing business that actually makes money on each sales. Every time they seem to have gained traction on a market (like books) they seem to negate it by offering incentives such as Amazon prime. T
hey have yet to prove that they can sell products at operating costs+3% on an ongoing basis.
Microsofts success was BUYING DOS for $50k.
Minor quibble: Microsoft licensed DOS for $50K, while Patterson held back some rights. Later on after various payments and negotiations it is estimated that the final cost was more like $500K. By then DOS was already a screaming success, so they got off easy.
Many other people were introduced to IBM including Gary Kildall from Digital Research, yet he didn't become a billionaire.
And by the time he was introduced personally to IBM he was already well known for shipping the dominant basic interpreter for all personal computers, IBM compatible or not.
moment you view data through a lens of politics is the moment you stop noticing opportunities.
Or as Krugman likes to point out, how are the right wing inflationistas doing? Yet their rants are still welcome at the WSJ in spite of the fact that their views have meant losses in the tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars for WSJ readers.
Here's a quip on the low quality editorials at the WSJ from The Economist, using subtle British humor:
The WSJ, a newspaper famous for publishing its comics in the Editorial page.
The main advantage of the PPC was supposed to be higher clock rate, and looking at press releases there were supposedly higher clock rates chips available for PPC over x86.
Yet at one point I took the time to track down the actual "shipping now" announcements for the main PC manufacturers and for Apple and almost invariably by the time computers came out the door speeds were comparable.
The fact that PPC wouldn't commit to a mobile low power version was the final straw.
If you are going to count Leif Ericson as a "discoverer" then you must count the Mongols who populated America across the Bering Straight as earlier discoverers.
If on the other hand we use "discoverer" in the standard sense or person who first widely disseminated a fact then there is no doubt Columbus deserves the moniker.
Then why is it in places where guns are banned or severely restricted, like London, that the violent crime and murder rate is obscenely high?
Because they don't? London's murder rate is lower than that of any US state including generally considered safe states like New Hampshire. If you now compare with metropolitan areas London blows most cities right out of the water with its lower murder rate.
Correlation does not imply causation.
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He was a nutbar way before that, I assure you. I had my first runs into him in the first half of the 90's. The Cathedral and the Bazaar remains his single shining moment.
I'm on my second touchscreen computer and fifth tablet. I do not like touch screen for a laptop/desktop. For a smartphone I can think of no better way than a touchscreen given the lack of input device. For a portable TV otherwise known as iPad a touchscreen is about the same as a dial on the side. For a Microsoft surface or a laptop with touch screen removing your fingers off the keyboard to touch the screen is cumbersome. I also found myself rarely detaching the keyboard.
The data points I have is that they offer about the same salaries outside the valley, so if you happen to be working in one of the remote offices you are making good money.
And they do not even pay that well.
This is not what recent hires have told me. Do you have any (suitably anonymized) examples in mind to back up your assertion?
I'd be more interested in replacing the equality operator, which would accomplish the same thing.
The problem is that C usage of = goes against elementary school ingrained math usage. Any UI expert will tell you that this alone is a source of confusion. The supposed time savings of having to type := over = are bogus. You spend about 0.25s extra time typing the colon. Now let's say you've written a 100K lines of code a year. This means you spent 7 hours typing that extra character. A single nasty = bug will easily exceed the 7 hours just in terms of finding it, before we account for the cost of the security breach.
There is no reason to make it actually difficult to turn off bounds checking
Again you are mistaken. Any UI designer will tell you that dangerous options should not be easy to activate (i.e. the three finger salute), or the double turn key for nuclear launch. Given how dangerous buffer overflow is in terms of security it shouldn't be easy to deploy code that does no bounds checking.
Your argument for stdio is non-sense. All you say applies equally to malloc. Other languages do not require loading the I/O library in the header to do the linking. If you are writing a bare bones high-level assembler as C was originally meant to be I can see why you would like to load as little as possible, but heavy footprint languages such as C++ and Java have no excuse for this cumbersome call.
This might be news to you, but NASA does very little work in house. Most things are contracted out.
People often forget that the first A in NASA stands for aeronautics. They have been hard at work at fully computerizing air traffic control. However as you can imagine this requires lots of testing given the potentially fatal consequences. NASA has held several competition rounds among contractors for the next air traffic control system, providing feedback to all candidates for the next round.
Here is one such paper. There are many others, from various academia and industry consortia. The work they are doing is rather cool.
Dude you are suggesting ways in which I can cope with a design flaw in the language, whereas it should be obvious to anyone that this is the job of the language designer, not the programmer.
Look, let me put it in simple terms: programs have bugs and languages have design flaws. It comes with the territory. That's why we issue patches for software and that's why we should release new language standards every so often cleaning up said bugs, particularly when designing a new language.
It might be too late for C, but designing a new language is a particularly apt time to fix flaws such as the = and == rigamarole. Go managed to do it, but neither Java nor Ceylon cleaned up that mess. Too much backward compatibility that we could have easily done away with,
Just because you cannot imagine a government that funds the sciences, patches holes in the streets, gives public schools decent funding and provides freedom it doesn't mean it can't be done. In fact according to the conservative Canadian think tank Frasier Institute there are six countries with higher freedom than America, five of which have significantly higher levels of government participation. They are, the according to you less free countries: New Zealand, Netherlands, Australia, Canada and Ireland.
The one exception with much lower taxes and higher freedom? Hong Kong, which funnily enough is the one who is about to fall off the list given the events of the last few weeks.
But go on telling yourself how cutting NIH budgets makes you "freer" every day.
I know how = came to be and it was the wrong choice. A large number of bugs originate with it, and simply stating how the mistake was made in no way justifies it.
Bounds check should be the default mode in any decent language and it should take quite a bit of effort to turn off (syntactic salt).
What's wrong about including stdio.h? That a proper default configuration has all the main primitives enabled. You don't need to include <while.h> to use a while loop. You don't need to include <mult.h> to use multiplication. Those are basic primitives that should be enabled by default. When C was created text terminals were still rare and one can excuse string operations not being included by default, but derivatives thereafter have no excuse to repeat this anachronism. Really think about it.