> 1) Are my grandparents healthier? No, all 4 died below the average life expectancy for their gender.
Good luck to you, buddy...
> 2...Maybe "eat local" should be a movement.
It actually is one, look at http://www.slowfood.com/ and http://www.locavorian.com/ For a start, there are lots more where that came from. "Foraging" is the new hip gastronomy thing, some of the best chefs in the world go and look in fields for herbs.
> 3...But cavemen weren't known for long, happy lives..
You are right, they weren't. Anytime I meet an ecological anti-medicine, anti-everything green whackjob who moans and moans about everything, claims that my cellphone will make my balls shrink(heard that!) or that they follow the advice Hildegard von Bingen (a 12th century witch doctor) or whatever freaks them out this time, I have only one question: If everything is so bad why is the life expectancy of humans rising? If they can answer that I will listen to their green ecological crap.
I use a specific email address for any org that I deal with, something like @my.address.net So I can see who I get spam/malware from and I can block specific senders.
I used a specific_bank@my.address.net for a loan application once and I got malware from that bank a year or so late. I certainly did not use the email for anything else. The BANK had a virus somewhere that harvested my email and God knows what. I transferred the loan to another institute.
This is in Germany where there are actual laws about this.
Agreed. There are many corporate shops who have long-running codebases written in Delphi that works just fine.
I once had an offer for some temporary contracting on a project at a company close to here. I looked at Delphi and declined the job. Nothing wrong with Delphi, I was just not used to the tools and felt they would have better value for money with an experienced Delphi programmer.
Delphi and C++ (and LISP and Ruby and Java and Python) are good for different things. Sure, there is a lot of overlap but I would not write an FFT in LISP anymore than I would write a website backend in Assembler.
No rather than teaching my kids to eat with their hands I teach them to use proper tools, like cutlery. I can just recommend it, significantly less of a mess.
And the OSS freaks forgot about things like Motion, After Effects, Logic Pro (and a very large community of audio and synth plugins) that goes with media production. Video editing is just the tip of the iceberg.
If I want a Unix box I will just use one. What is this zeal to Linuxify everything? Mac is very good at Media editing. And it IS a Unix box, and yes, I do spend most of my life on a command line.
Where the hell do you people live? I live in Germany (in a medium sized town). The local kids all walk around, ride around and they as 10-12 years old. No one cares. My kid is 5. She can't walk to kindergarten, but the kids that are 6 walk there. In a group of 2. Alone. Over a major road at that. A mile. Up a hill. In winter. No-one cares.
"the mother said she does not want the child and the father supports her".
My wife is a obstretician, we have had 2 children, I was at both births and one thing your hear from her, her colloeagues and the midwife is "Never listen to anything a woman says while she is in labor". I can attest to this:)
If you like wordstar, install joe on Linux. It has the same commands. Which is why, after 30 years, I am still using it to edit things when I am in a command shell. I hate Unix machines where only vi is installed. joe forever!
On my Desktop I do use sublime text and sometimes TextMate
For those interested in time travel, the inaugural meeting of the International Time Travel Association will be held at the Perimeter Institute last Tuesday at 20:00.
The API is. By faaaaaaaaaar the most work is going to be to learn all the NS_xxx classes and how you write and plug together an IOS app. The language on which this is built is small in comparison. The libraries and APIs and things that you manipulate is where the action is.
Same goes for Java. the Java APIs are waay more work than Java, the language. If you learn Groovy or Clujure, which both run on the Java platform, you still need to learn the APIs or you won't achieve much.
And so on for Ruby and any other language.
That said, I would shoot for Swift if I was a beginnner.
No, Java was very heavily influenced by RoR. Before DHH said "Screw Java" J2EE was a seriously bad, complex mess. After lots of people went to RoR because it is such a PITA to write J2Ee (I was one) a lot of simplyfying went into J2EE which improved it.
And you also have to schlep out to Hamburg's airport, which takes 30 minutes. And check-in. Which takes another 30 minutes.
In München Franz-Josef-Strauss airport is about 40 minutes per train from the inner city. Which means you have ore than an hour to your final destination.
So that took about 2.5 hours + the hour flight. Sure a bit faster, but much, much more hassle.
This is the case, yes. As afar as I recall the noise has something to do with a shockwave when the trains enters or exits a tunnel.
Tunnels and shockwaves are also the reason the high-speed trains are pressurised. Deutsche Bahn (who also runs 300+ kph trains) advertised a while ago for a physicist who is an expert on shock waves.
Look at the value of an actual business. The hardware on which the database runs is cheap. The data is the product of all the work of all the people who worked there for the last 10-15 years, in the case of companies that do not manufacture things. Do you really think thay paying a couple of thousand Dollars even compensates for that? If you pay an average worked 60000 per year, and you have 200 of them, that is a 1.2 mil per year, and over ten years you gave out 120 million bucks. In comparison to that, the datastorage container is a joke.
My father had a one man business (a drugstore). He once moanes about eh price he had to pay for replacing his borked backup tape drive. Until I pointed out that if his HDD fails without a backup HE WILL LOSE HIS BUSINESS. He saw the light real quick.
Oracle is the same for medium to large businesses.
Thanks for keeping the OSS Oracle/Apple/MS haters in the real world. Oracle does have attributes that PostgreSQL can't match, for large datasets. The problem is that a almost none of the hackers here work with really large datasets. The other problem is that hardware is cheap. The data stored on them is so expensive as be irreplacable.
That said, I use PostgreSQL for most projects because I don't HAVE really large datasets (I have a lot of small ones).
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> 1) Are my grandparents healthier? No, all 4 died below the average life expectancy for their gender.
Good luck to you, buddy...
> 2...Maybe "eat local" should be a movement.
It actually is one, look at http://www.slowfood.com/ and http://www.locavorian.com/
For a start, there are lots more where that came from. "Foraging" is the new hip gastronomy thing,
some of the best chefs in the world go and look in fields for herbs.
> 3...But cavemen weren't known for long, happy lives..
You are right, they weren't. Anytime I meet an ecological anti-medicine, anti-everything green whackjob who moans and moans about everything, claims that my cellphone will make my balls shrink(heard that!) or that they follow the advice Hildegard von Bingen (a 12th century witch doctor) or whatever freaks them out this time, I have only one question: If everything is so bad why is the life expectancy of humans rising? If they can answer that I will listen to their green ecological crap.
That said, I do grow my own vegetables.
I use a specific email address for any org that I deal with, something like @my.address.net So I can see who I get spam/malware from and I can block specific senders.
I used a specific_bank@my.address.net for a loan application once and I got malware from that bank a year or so late. I certainly did not use the email for anything else. The BANK had a virus somewhere that harvested my email and God knows what. I transferred the loan to another institute.
This is in Germany where there are actual laws about this.
Agreed. There are many corporate shops who have long-running codebases written in Delphi that works just fine.
I once had an offer for some temporary contracting on a project at a company close to here. I looked at Delphi and declined the job. Nothing wrong with Delphi, I was just not used to the tools and felt they would have better value for money with an experienced Delphi programmer.
Delphi and C++ (and LISP and Ruby and Java and Python) are good for different things. Sure, there is a lot of overlap but I would not write an FFT in LISP anymore than I would write a website backend in Assembler.
No rather than teaching my kids to eat with their hands I teach them to use proper tools, like cutlery. I can just recommend it, significantly less of a mess.
Or a problem of an arrogant nerd who thinks syntax highlighting editors is for arty-farty types
Premiere Pro and FCP on MACOS/X
And the OSS freaks forgot about things like Motion, After Effects, Logic Pro (and a very large community of audio and synth plugins) that goes with media production. Video editing is just the tip of the iceberg.
If I want a Unix box I will just use one. What is this zeal to Linuxify everything? Mac is very good at Media editing. And it IS a Unix box, and yes, I do spend most of my life on a command line.
Where the hell do you people live? I live in Germany (in a medium sized town). The local kids all walk around, ride around and they as 10-12 years old. No one cares. My kid is 5. She can't walk to kindergarten, but the kids that are 6 walk there. In a group of 2. Alone. Over a major road at that. A mile. Up a hill. In winter. No-one cares.
"the mother said she does not want the child and the father supports her".
My wife is a obstretician, we have had 2 children, I was at both births and one thing your hear from her, her colloeagues and the midwife is "Never listen to anything a woman says while she is in labor". I can attest to this :)
script type="spoken/english" would be more interesting
Damn shame, we would all be better off if PHP gets shot in the pre-title sequence
If you like wordstar, install joe on Linux. It has the same commands. Which is why, after 30 years, I am still using it to edit things when I am in a command shell. I hate Unix machines where only vi is installed. joe forever!
On my Desktop I do use sublime text and sometimes TextMate
For those interested in time travel, the inaugural meeting of the International Time Travel Association will be held at the Perimeter
Institute last Tuesday at 20:00.
Hell, C-Cups are already enough for me!
The API is. By faaaaaaaaaar the most work is going to be to learn all the NS_xxx classes and how you write and plug together an IOS app. The language on which this is built is small in comparison. The libraries and APIs and things that you manipulate is where the action is.
Same goes for Java. the Java APIs are waay more work than Java, the language. If you learn Groovy or Clujure, which both run on the Java platform, you still need to learn the APIs or you won't achieve much.
And so on for Ruby and any other language.
That said, I would shoot for Swift if I was a beginnner.
No, Java was very heavily influenced by RoR. Before DHH said "Screw Java" J2EE was a seriously bad, complex mess. After lots of people went to RoR because it is such a PITA to write J2Ee (I was one) a lot of simplyfying went into J2EE which improved it.
I would agree on that.
I swear I did not think I would live to see the time where JavaScript was picked for performance...
BSD-Based, supports everything you want, great hardware...
And you also have to schlep out to Hamburg's airport, which takes 30 minutes. And check-in. Which takes another 30 minutes.
In München Franz-Josef-Strauss airport is about 40 minutes per train from the inner city. Which means you have ore than an hour to your final destination.
So that took about 2.5 hours + the hour flight. Sure a bit faster, but much, much more hassle.
This is the case, yes. As afar as I recall the noise has something to do with a shockwave when the trains enters or exits a tunnel.
Tunnels and shockwaves are also the reason the high-speed trains are pressurised. Deutsche Bahn (who also runs 300+ kph trains) advertised a while ago for a physicist who is an expert on shock waves.
Look at the value of an actual business. The hardware on which the database runs is cheap. The data is the product of all the work of all the people who worked there for the last 10-15 years, in the case of companies that do not manufacture things. Do you really think thay paying a couple of thousand Dollars even compensates for that? If you pay an average worked 60000 per year, and you have 200 of them, that is a 1.2 mil per year, and over ten years you gave out 120 million bucks. In comparison to that, the datastorage container is a joke.
My father had a one man business (a drugstore). He once moanes about eh price he had to pay for replacing his borked backup tape drive. Until I pointed out that if his HDD fails without a backup HE WILL LOSE HIS BUSINESS. He saw the light real quick.
Oracle is the same for medium to large businesses.
You must be joking, right? Postgres can kick MySQL's ass, sure, but Oracle? For seriously large sets and reliability? No way!
Thanks for keeping the OSS Oracle/Apple/MS haters in the real world. Oracle does have attributes that PostgreSQL can't match, for large datasets. The problem is that a almost none of the hackers here work with really large datasets. The other problem is that hardware is cheap. The data stored on them is so expensive as be irreplacable.
That said, I use PostgreSQL for most projects because I don't HAVE really large datasets (I have a lot of small ones).
Now Comic Sans will become CERN's official font.
"Send a rocket to explore the big bang"
Someone misunderstood the mission briefing.