1) The amount they get (including bonuses) is not realistic compared to the work they do compared to others. Should they earn more? Sure. Should they earn 200 times more? No.
Exactly. Unless you are a wizard CEO (think Jobs or Warren Buffet) a CEO is unlikely to be worth more than 10x a senior engineer. That still leaves you with a salary in the $1-2M range, which is pretty decent.
I've met many smart people in my life: politicians, scientists, artists and CEOs. The only CEO who blew me away with his clarity of vision and thought was Nolan Bushnell. If you have a talent like that I can see them getting up to 100x a senior engineer, but those are the exception, not the rule.
With better OOP Java wouldn't need stinkin' lambdas. Lambda's just give spaghetti coders more ways to write cryptic "cutesy" code. Flexible methods can usually do that same thing.
I actually like lambdas but I think they are highly overrated. They have become trendy and furthermore it has become trending to claim you could write an awesome programs if only you had lambdas. In most cases what they mean by this is simply "if the language supports functions as first class objects" and all that lambda provide beyond that are anonymous functions.
Wow, that is amazing considering people wrote about him who were alive at the same time he is purported to.
Actually none of the gospels are believed by scholars to have been written by contemporaries of Jesus.
The dead sea scrolls mention Jesus like figures, yes in the plural, which could have formed the basis of the JC written about a hundred years after his death.
Driving your competitors out of business is not a crime.
I followed MS quite closely and they beat many companies fair and square in the market place. Their first questionable kill was when they built incompatibility directed to DRDOS. This seems to have marked the beginning of a transition on how MS operates, not long after they did STAC and many other questionable deals in which they were using their size to get an advantageous position rather than technical quality.
His dad wasn't on the board of IBM. His mom was in the board of a charity where she had met the chair of IBM. Even so, IBM wanted CP/M but Gary Kildall blew up the deal, only then did IBM approached Bill Gates and asked him if he could provide an OS for the new IBM PC.
Sure, the connection did help, but it wasn't pivotal to the deal. They were already in talks with Microsoft to buy Microsoft Basic which was the standard back then, shipped with all personal computers from all makers. They offered Microsoft the MSDOS contract before the chairman realized he knew the mom of the kid in charge of the company.
Using personal connections to get business is standard practice, any business owner will tell youu about business they got because of some personal reference. You still need to have the record to back up the personal connection. Just because I know the owners of Google does not mean I am about to get the contract for Chrome OS.
So let's recap: Bill Gates had already founded a company that was shipping the most popular basic interpreter at the time and had already been offered the OS contract for the IBM PC before someone high up at IBM realized that he was "Mary Gates' kid". Out of this he made a 90 billion dollar fortune.
Cheeto Jesus on the other hand got a million dollar from his dad, before he had succeeded at anything and parlayed it into four bankruptcies and a heavily leveraged "fortune" that is so huuuge he's not willing to show his tax returns.
Funny that you mention sugar water, since Coca-Cola has had essentially the same logo for a hundred years, with the exception of the short lived foray into "Coke" in the 80s/
Your post seems to presume that emacs is (1) still around and (2) useful.
I think both of those statements are rather questionable. A few legacy users do not qualify as "still around" and even though I used emacs for nearly ten years back in the 90s, today you couldn't pay me enough for me to use it. I've read elsewhere that this seems to be the norm, and people have migrated to graphical environments for most purposes falling back on vi when they only need a text editor.
I'm glad the headline simplified docking ports to parking spaces, as otherwise I would not have understood what it meant.... Now, where are my crayons, I have a Sarah Palin show that I need to watch.
For most Americans, retirement is not an option. This will be glaringly obvious in 2030 when the baby boomers are retired, the workforce (tax base) is smaller, and two-thirds of the federal budget goes to Social Security and Medicare.
Quick we need to lower taxes even further. That would help because Reasons.
Plus all that rust and industrial decay will give the test that Mad-Max je-ne-sais-quoi feeling... Maybe you'll be allowed to pay for your ride with a can of dog food, or you can order a gyrocopter instead of a car.
In what way is logical bit shifting similar to input or output operation? This is precisely an example of improper operator overloading. There is no way to predict what on a stream does from knowing what does on a set of bits,
Contrast this with vector arithmetic, where it is rather obvious what vec_1 = vec_2 + vec_3 means. This is proper operator overloading,
By the way, the fact that is improper overloading is more or less universally acknowledged, this is not something I'm coming up with on my own.
And none of the/. -ers complaining about operator overloading during the last 12 - 15 years ever managed to give an example about "operator overloading abuse".
They are now very rare, since people have learned to use them properly but there are still examples around of idiotic overloading of an operator in ways that are completely non-intuitive. The best example is the overloading in C++ of bit shift to do I/O.
In the 80s and 90s operator overloading was considered cool and people would implement the most absurd interactions between two objects as overloading of "+". A rather common one was "+" overloading that had side-effects on the parameters, i.e. a+b would result in changes to a, often because what they really wanted to overload was "+=", i.e. a+=b; in which case the side effect on a is obvious and natural.
Some of us are old enough to have gone through a generation of "overload everything" which was a disaster.
Only much later did people learned to use overloading sparsely and with good effects.
This is similar to OOP which is also overused. Heck in Java you can't even have a variable or a function living on its own. Everything must be an object (except native types, sometimes).
Anyone with half a brain knows that was just a sardonic comment
No it wasn't. Trump and his supporters keep on claiming this because they know the comments are inexcusable, but facts show he was serious.
First, nobody laughed when he first said it on a Tuesday, and at his first chances to clarify it he doubled down on it, it took until two days later before he claimed was a joke. Here's what happened in between:
From the Washington Post:
1. Trump campaign officials never said he was joking on Wednesday. They mounted a robust defense, mind you, but they didn't say it was a joke.
2. Trump doubled down. In a tweet after the comments exploded on social media, Trump sought to explain a little bit Ã" apparently suggesting he simply meant that the emails should be turned over to the FBI "if Russia or any other country or person has" them. Again, no mention of joking around.
3. He said it twice. This wasn't a one-off quip in Trump's news conference on Wednesday. He initially said he hoped the Russians had the emails, and then he returned later to say that if they didn't have them, he hoped they would obtain them.
4. A reporter gave him an out -- that he didn't take. NBC's Katy Tur, later in Wednesday's press conference, basically asked Trump twice if he was serious. In response, Trump indicated he had no qualms about, in Tur's words, "asking a foreign government Ã" Russia, China, anybody Ã" to interfere, to hack into the system of anybody's in this country."
So now we have a conspiracy to kill Vince Foster that not only includes Bill and Hillary, but also a Republican prosecutor. This is just like the moon landing, where for it to be true requires our sworn enemies at the time (i.e. the Russians) to go along with it. I mean it anything is possible, but you just lowered the probabilities of either of these events being true by orders of magnitude.
A conspiracy of confederates I can see, a conspiracy that includes your enemies is out there in la-la land.
Nothing "decent" about that list. Vince Foster suicide was investigated to death by Republican prosecutor Kenneth Starr. Starr's report stated that he found no reason to believe the death was other than suicide.
A list that contains such a person after being cleared by such an impeccable source with ample investigative resources is now proven to be impervious to facts.
Heck for all I know Clinton killed every one of the other names listed, but this is the equivalent of the list opening with "the earth is flat and the moon landing was faked". No one in their sane mind would give any value to such a list.
So far advanced economies have seen resource consumption per person increase much faster than the rate of population growth (and indeed continue even when the latter began to decline or even became negative).
Look at fosil fuel consumption in Germany. It has declined 25% over the last several decades. This is far more than what is attributable to renewables/nuclear power. A similar story holds for Japan and France.
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Having a limit makes sense, even a rather small one, but 140 is just too small. They should go up to 300 or so.
Which is why I watch neither.
1) The amount they get (including bonuses) is not realistic compared to the work they do compared to others. Should they earn more? Sure. Should they earn 200 times more? No.
Exactly. Unless you are a wizard CEO (think Jobs or Warren Buffet) a CEO is unlikely to be worth more than 10x a senior engineer. That still leaves you with a salary in the $1-2M range, which is pretty decent.
I've met many smart people in my life: politicians, scientists, artists and CEOs. The only CEO who blew me away with his clarity of vision and thought was Nolan Bushnell. If you have a talent like that I can see them getting up to 100x a senior engineer, but those are the exception, not the rule.
With better OOP Java wouldn't need stinkin' lambdas. Lambda's just give spaghetti coders more ways to write cryptic "cutesy" code. Flexible methods can usually do that same thing.
I actually like lambdas but I think they are highly overrated. They have become trendy and furthermore it has become trending to claim you could write an awesome programs if only you had lambdas. In most cases what they mean by this is simply "if the language supports functions as first class objects" and all that lambda provide beyond that are anonymous functions.
Wow, that is amazing considering people wrote about him who were alive at the same time he is purported to.
Actually none of the gospels are believed by scholars to have been written by contemporaries of Jesus.
The dead sea scrolls mention Jesus like figures, yes in the plural, which could have formed the basis of the JC written about a hundred years after his death.
Driving your competitors out of business is not a crime.
I followed MS quite closely and they beat many companies fair and square in the market place. Their first questionable kill was when they built incompatibility directed to DRDOS. This seems to have marked the beginning of a transition on how MS operates, not long after they did STAC and many other questionable deals in which they were using their size to get an advantageous position rather than technical quality.
His dad wasn't on the board of IBM. His mom was in the board of a charity where she had met the chair of IBM. Even so, IBM wanted CP/M but Gary Kildall blew up the deal, only then did IBM approached Bill Gates and asked him if he could provide an OS for the new IBM PC.
Sure, the connection did help, but it wasn't pivotal to the deal. They were already in talks with Microsoft to buy Microsoft Basic which was the standard back then, shipped with all personal computers from all makers. They offered Microsoft the MSDOS contract before the chairman realized he knew the mom of the kid in charge of the company.
Using personal connections to get business is standard practice, any business owner will tell youu about business they got because of some personal reference. You still need to have the record to back up the personal connection. Just because I know the owners of Google does not mean I am about to get the contract for Chrome OS.
So let's recap: Bill Gates had already founded a company that was shipping the most popular basic interpreter at the time and had already been offered the OS contract for the IBM PC before someone high up at IBM realized that he was "Mary Gates' kid". Out of this he made a 90 billion dollar fortune.
Cheeto Jesus on the other hand got a million dollar from his dad, before he had succeeded at anything and parlayed it into four bankruptcies and a heavily leveraged "fortune" that is so huuuge he's not willing to show his tax returns.
doesn't mean their logo has remained the same.
It doesn't, but still their logo is pretty much the same:
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pini...
Funny that you mention sugar water, since Coca-Cola has had essentially the same logo for a hundred years, with the exception of the short lived foray into "Coke" in the 80s/
Your post seems to presume that emacs is (1) still around and (2) useful.
I think both of those statements are rather questionable. A few legacy users do not qualify as "still around" and even though I used emacs for nearly ten years back in the 90s, today you couldn't pay me enough for me to use it. I've read elsewhere that this seems to be the norm, and people have migrated to graphical environments for most purposes falling back on vi when they only need a text editor.
I'm glad the headline simplified docking ports to parking spaces, as otherwise I would not have understood what it meant.... Now, where are my crayons, I have a Sarah Palin show that I need to watch.
For most Americans, retirement is not an option. This will be glaringly obvious in 2030 when the baby boomers are retired, the workforce (tax base) is smaller, and two-thirds of the federal budget goes to Social Security and Medicare.
Quick we need to lower taxes even further. That would help because Reasons.
Plus all that rust and industrial decay will give the test that Mad-Max je-ne-sais-quoi feeling... Maybe you'll be allowed to pay for your ride with a can of dog food, or you can order a gyrocopter instead of a car.
Na gut betrayed. Ring voice to text is the best. Can't wait for it. Antrieb Ebay popel.
*** actual voice to text conversion of my reply to you using Google android.
In what way is logical bit shifting similar to input or output operation? This is precisely an example of improper operator overloading. There is no way to predict what on a stream does from knowing what does on a set of bits,
Contrast this with vector arithmetic, where it is rather obvious what vec_1 = vec_2 + vec_3 means. This is proper operator overloading,
By the way, the fact that is improper overloading is more or less universally acknowledged, this is not something I'm coming up with on my own.
And none of the /. -ers complaining about operator overloading during the last 12 - 15 years ever managed to give an example about "operator overloading abuse".
They are now very rare, since people have learned to use them properly but there are still examples around of idiotic overloading of an operator in ways that are completely non-intuitive. The best example is the overloading in C++ of bit shift to do I/O.
In the 80s and 90s operator overloading was considered cool and people would implement the most absurd interactions between two objects as overloading of "+". A rather common one was "+" overloading that had side-effects on the parameters, i.e. a+b would result in changes to a, often because what they really wanted to overload was "+=", i.e. a+=b; in which case the side effect on a is obvious and natural.
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Some of us are old enough to have gone through a generation of "overload everything" which was a disaster.
Only much later did people learned to use overloading sparsely and with good effects.
This is similar to OOP which is also overused. Heck in Java you can't even have a variable or a function living on its own. Everything must be an object (except native types, sometimes).
No we didn't. Please tell us more...
...or JIT compilation for yet another hare brained programming language based on the JVM***
The JVM motto: slowing down well written code since 1994.
*** The Android Run Time (ART) compiles java to native code at download time.
Anyone with half a brain knows that was just a sardonic comment
No it wasn't. Trump and his supporters keep on claiming this because they know the comments are inexcusable, but facts show he was serious.
First, nobody laughed when he first said it on a Tuesday, and at his first chances to clarify it he doubled down on it, it took until two days later before he claimed was a joke. Here's what happened in between:
From the Washington Post:
1. Trump campaign officials never said he was joking on Wednesday. They mounted a robust defense, mind you, but they didn't say it was a joke.
2. Trump doubled down. In a tweet after the comments exploded on social media, Trump sought to explain a little bit Ã" apparently suggesting he simply meant that the emails should be turned over to the FBI "if Russia or any other country or person has" them. Again, no mention of joking around.
3. He said it twice. This wasn't a one-off quip in Trump's news conference on Wednesday. He initially said he hoped the Russians had the emails, and then he returned later to say that if they didn't have them, he hoped they would obtain them.
4. A reporter gave him an out -- that he didn't take. NBC's Katy Tur, later in Wednesday's press conference, basically asked Trump twice if he was serious. In response, Trump indicated he had no qualms about, in Tur's words, "asking a foreign government Ã" Russia, China, anybody Ã" to interfere, to hack into the system of anybody's in this country."
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
Reality.
So now we have a conspiracy to kill Vince Foster that not only includes Bill and Hillary, but also a Republican prosecutor. This is just like the moon landing, where for it to be true requires our sworn enemies at the time (i.e. the Russians) to go along with it. I mean it anything is possible, but you just lowered the probabilities of either of these events being true by orders of magnitude.
A conspiracy of confederates I can see, a conspiracy that includes your enemies is out there in la-la land.
Nothing "decent" about that list. Vince Foster suicide was investigated to death by Republican prosecutor Kenneth Starr. Starr's report stated that he found no reason to believe the death was other than suicide.
A list that contains such a person after being cleared by such an impeccable source with ample investigative resources is now proven to be impervious to facts.
Heck for all I know Clinton killed every one of the other names listed, but this is the equivalent of the list opening with "the earth is flat and the moon landing was faked". No one in their sane mind would give any value to such a list.
So far advanced economies have seen resource consumption per person increase much faster than the rate of population growth (and indeed continue even when the latter began to decline or even became negative).
Look at fosil fuel consumption in Germany. It has declined 25% over the last several decades. This is far more than what is attributable to renewables/nuclear power. A similar story holds for Japan and France.