Recently I saw an Ultrasound sell on EBay for a godawful amount of money. I should have kept mine:( That was one hell of a card. I still watch Unreal occasionally, just to listen to the music.
Oh god, the memories! Not quite Doom related, but I wrote a Raytracer back in the day. I blew a hell of a lot of coin to get one of the first Tseng ET4000's with a 24 bit DAC and pretty much got a hrd-on from running my raytracer to render a sphere on a 24-bit card. No more dithering! Yay! Ran it on a 386 without a math copro which took like an hour to render a few shiny balls.
When we played network Doom we had to print the packets on paper, mail them, and scan them in on the other side. And as far ass Sound cards are concerned, we personally had to solder the transistors to build the damn thing.
What? Get real. I am neutral about it, but ALL of the parents in my daughter's school class use it, so it is good to keep of track of carpooling. Also, my wife's colleagues? All of them. My cow-orkers (lots of business travel at conventions)? All of them. Whatsapp is more used here in Germany than email. certainly waaaaaaaaay more than SMS.
I don't mind Whatsapp, it gets the job done, but I don't know what makes it so popular.
I can call in on this, having experience on all of them (and in Erlang).
Vert.x can kick node's ass twice over on a Sunday as far as performance goes. The problem is that anything Java is always going to be very verbose and cumbersome and all the appserver are like steering an oil tanker as opposed to a speedboat. Where the oil tanker can schlep much more around the speedboat is much more fun to drive.
Java is a drag to work with in general, node is fast. But in the long run vert.x APIs are much better than those of node. Javascript sucks with all it stupid callback hell. Java is a much more mature language and you can build vertx modules in pretty much anything that runs on the JVM. All of the stuff javascript does now was done in functional languages back in the 70s and 80s. Then functional languages started abstracting with monads and Javascript still needs to catch up. There is some glimmer of hope with React and RxJs, but were are not there yet. Until then, node is stuck in the remote past, and VertX is not quite.
Akka/Erlang with Actors is heaven opposed to can give node's callback hell but it requires a bit of a different way of thinking.
The problem is that Javascript's standard library is so deficient it beggars belief. The relevant NPM was about left-padding string something which pretty much every language in the world has built in. You HAVE to use a lot of external deps in JS, since the library is a desert. That said, this is a JS problem, not a Node problem.
Because the total cost of all of this is horrendous. The cost will makes planes more complicated, more time to service and all of this will raise the cost of air travel. Which will impact the economy because air travel is actually somewhat important.
All of this only make sure some nerds libertarians don't want their personal freedom impacted by a ban and can fly their stupid drones close to airports??? WHY?
Always the same. CSS today is solving the same layout problems that X11 window managers did 25 years ago. And the CSS designers think this is ubercool.
Not to mention the fact that a multi-nuke-plant powered 60 GW steerable Laser in earth orbit is going to draw quite a bit of military and political interest.
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Programmers are like cleaning ladies who think it is easier to demolish the rebuild the building instead of cleaning it up.
This works, but....
Yeah, what is with Half Life 3 in any case? Was that not promised?
Recently I saw an Ultrasound sell on EBay for a godawful amount of money. I should have kept mine :(
That was one hell of a card. I still watch Unreal occasionally, just to listen to the music.
Recently I was in the computer game museum in Berlin and lo and behold, there was a copy of Larry running. The music was instantly recognisable.
Oh god, the memories! Not quite Doom related, but I wrote a Raytracer back in the day. I blew a hell of a lot of coin to get one of the first Tseng ET4000's with a 24 bit DAC and pretty much got a hrd-on from running my raytracer to render a sphere on a 24-bit card. No more dithering! Yay! Ran it on a 386 without a math copro which took like an hour to render a few shiny balls.
When we played network Doom we had to print the packets on paper, mail them, and scan them in on the other side. And as far ass Sound cards are concerned, we personally had to solder the transistors to build the damn thing.
Get real, all the European countries are going somewhere between Right-wing and Nazi.
What? Get real. I am neutral about it, but ALL of the parents in my daughter's school class use it, so it is good to keep of track of carpooling. Also, my wife's colleagues? All of them. My cow-orkers (lots of business travel at conventions)? All of them. Whatsapp is more used here in Germany than email. certainly waaaaaaaaay more than SMS.
I don't mind Whatsapp, it gets the job done, but I don't know what makes it so popular.
Poor Bill! He aint gonne like that!
Jus remember to aim for ze head, not ze heart
There should be a bain-dead Playboy playmate or swimsuit model somewhere?
Which country?
Don't worry, soon the half-naked 18-year old nubile groupies will show up at your door with a bag full of joints.
Maybe they should start with the basics first. Like finding checking if an array contains a specific element. Leftpad is for advanced users.
I can call in on this, having experience on all of them (and in Erlang).
Vert.x can kick node's ass twice over on a Sunday as far as performance goes. The problem is that anything Java is always going to be very verbose and cumbersome and all the appserver are like steering an oil tanker as opposed to a speedboat. Where the oil tanker can schlep much more around the speedboat is much more fun to drive.
Java is a drag to work with in general, node is fast. But in the long run vert.x APIs are much better than those of node. Javascript sucks with all it stupid callback hell. Java is a much more mature language and you can build vertx modules in pretty much anything that runs on the JVM. All of the stuff javascript does now was done in functional languages back in the 70s and 80s. Then functional languages started abstracting with monads and Javascript still needs to catch up. There is some glimmer of hope with React and RxJs, but were are not there yet. Until then, node is stuck in the remote past, and VertX is not quite.
Akka/Erlang with Actors is heaven opposed to can give node's callback hell but it requires a bit of a different way of thinking.
The problem is that Javascript's standard library is so deficient it beggars belief. The relevant NPM was about left-padding string something which pretty much every language in the world has built in. You HAVE to use a lot of external deps in JS, since the library is a desert. That said, this is a JS problem, not a Node problem.
Just a shame about the totally convoluted horror of node's APIS, but OK.
Thanks, that link was really useful
Jesus Christ. IT IS A BAD IDEA TO FLY GODDAMN DRONES CLOSE TO CIVILIAN AIRLINES, OK.
Proof or no proof. Fuck, the drone idiot pilot did not get his goddamn rights taken away by the fascist government.
Because the total cost of all of this is horrendous. The cost will makes planes more complicated, more time to service and all of this will raise the cost of air travel. Which will impact the economy because air travel is actually somewhat important.
All of this only make sure some nerds libertarians don't want their personal freedom impacted by a ban and can fly their stupid drones close to airports??? WHY?
Prison bars are also pretty heavy last time I checked.
Always the same. CSS today is solving the same layout problems that X11 window managers did 25 years ago.
And the CSS designers think this is ubercool.
One of them discovered "Atomic Design" a while ago. http://patternlab.io/about.htm...
This is a rediscovery of.....modularity! Yeah! Breaking up you work in modules! What a nifty idea!!!
Something that CS and Programming language design thoroughly explored in the 1960s and 70s but whatever.
Yes. This. PULL PULL PULL.
The system should not have write rights on the backup system. The backup system should have read rights on the system.
You forgot --nuke-the-site-from-orbit
Not to mention the fact that a multi-nuke-plant powered 60 GW steerable Laser in earth orbit is going to draw quite a bit of military and political interest.