Agree. I always thought Brendan Eich's decision to base his scripting language on Self and make it a functional language instead of the Algol-like mediocre dreariness of PHP and Java and Python was a brilliant idea. Javascript has been held back for many years because of the DOM and browser wars. It also has a somewhat limited (and silly at places) standard library, but the base language is not bad at all. The fact that compiling technology for Imperative languages was 20 years ahead of anything functional and dynamic did not help either.
Higher-order functions? Quit advanced object system? In 1996? The language was waaaaay ahead of its time. And Brendan Eich is a genius. I wish I will have the opportunity to meet him one day.
I once had a FOSS idiot try to outgun me on a project where I was using Adobe Photoshop, Indesign, and Illustrator and he was trying to push some Linux crap to produce some print things. I did the work in a 3rd of the time and the quality was better and there were no issues with passing things on to external printers and other pros. In print production I use Linux, MAc and Windows in my workflow all the time. Just because the program is written by a team in a corporate office does make it evil.
Guess who made the money in the end? Hint: Not the FOSS fanatic idiot.
The price of good tools is irrelevant if they increase your productivity with 3000%
And before you try to accuse me of being a GUI freak, I produce Word files on a regular basis with XSL scripts from the command line.
Snowden is working with the Russians. The leaks are just too precisely targeted to be released by an amateur. The punishment for high treason is the death penalty.
The "framebuffer loop"???!!! Do you seriously think every pixel is pushed out there by the CPU? Even in a ZX 80 or a machine from the 50s or 60s this is not the case.
I sort of tend to agree. At work I have 2 19 inch monitors (and the laptop's display) and at home I have a 24 inch. 2 19 inchers are waaay better than 1 24, especially if you use a program like Moom that can switch windows around with hotkeys.
I often work with 2 24 inch monitors at home and I think a 3 monitor setup with 19-24-19 would be my ideal candidate.
But, again, with moom, which can also move windows to specific places on screen maybe a 4K display might be nice. Hmmm.
Not only is it easier to read, it is also much more composable. It is MUCH easier to compose multiple conditions with a
(x in (select id from...) and (y in (select id from...) sort of thin than to build a query from a join. This is especially useful if you have some GUI with a query facility where users sometimes build their own queries.
Composability and the ability to plug together components is a very important part of maintainability in software.
This is why I always find the idea of Star Wars and other Scifi where the average joe has a space ship that can fly through the galaxy to be ludicrous. A spaceship that can do that must have the power of several large thermonuclear weapons somewhere to power it. Probably orders of magnitude more in fact. That sort of power in the hands of Han Solo who is a space-ship mechanic who just takes his spanner to his unstable ship? What happens when he turns into some bad-ass? Or when he simply screws up? Spaceport and surrounding parts goes up in smoke together with a few million people. And we worry about the stability of nuclear power plants?!!
This is also why I think people like Freeman Dyson who proclaim the era of biological hacking has arrived to be extremely disturbing. Biological agents have the ability to replicate themselves by taking energy from the organisms they host. If Mr Dyson thinks that this is a good idea in the hands of some religious psychopaths I begin to doubt his sanity.
The company I used to work at published a journal with Elsevier. They sent us a password that we then passon on to the customur. The password was generated by such a script. Once the password was 'fancyknickers'. It was assigned to a woman.
Well, Sun was in the "giving stuff away" business and now they are not in business anymore and Oracle still is.
Bankruptcy happens when you get in less money than you spend and you cannot pay your people anymore. Should the Sun enigneers stay and work for handouts to keep the Java community happy? Out of altruism?
More than one U-2 was lost. Except for the obvious Gary Powers case, a U-2 loss also accounted for the only military casualty in the Cuban Missile crisis.
The nazis has a plan to invade Switzerland, Operation Edelweiss. They did not commit to it because while the operation was certainly doable Switzerland's rugged terrain and well trained militia would have caused unacceptable losses to the Wehrmacht. So they let it go. All the surrounding countries were in Nazi hands or allied in any case so it was not worth the fuss.
Yugoslavia was a different matter because it was on the way to Greece which the Nazis considered important to improve control of the eastern mediterranean. Not that that plan worked out very well. The med was a British lake through the war.
Yes there is a slight... delay here and there. Dunno. It does not feel slow, but it is not butter-smooth anymore either.
That said, I like the new UI.
I am still a bit hesitant to upgrade my iPhone 4, because of my experience a few years ago with an upgrade on an iPhone 3 which definitely was not pleasant.
The green background is not helping either! Website like that make me pine for a good old fashioned monochrome monitor. I think I am going to dig out my Hercules Graphics Card.
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Agree. I always thought Brendan Eich's decision to base his scripting language on Self and make it a functional language instead of the Algol-like mediocre dreariness of PHP and Java and Python was a brilliant idea. Javascript has been held back for many years because of the DOM and browser wars. It also has a somewhat limited (and silly at places) standard library, but the base language is not bad at all.
The fact that compiling technology for Imperative languages was 20 years ahead of anything functional and dynamic did not help either.
Higher-order functions? Quit advanced object system? In 1996? The language was waaaaay ahead of its time. And Brendan Eich is a genius. I wish I will have the opportunity to meet him one day.
I use Logic Pro on a Hackintosh, and it is greaaat! i7 quad with 32 Gb RAM and a SSD boot disk.
Sound like some Talibanesque fanatic speaking.
I once had a FOSS idiot try to outgun me on a project where I was using Adobe Photoshop, Indesign, and Illustrator and he was trying to push some Linux crap to produce some print things. I did the work in a 3rd of the time and the quality was better and there were no issues with passing things on to external printers and other pros. In print production I use Linux, MAc and Windows in my workflow all the time. Just because the program is written by a team in a corporate office does make it evil.
Guess who made the money in the end? Hint: Not the FOSS fanatic idiot.
The price of good tools is irrelevant if they increase your productivity with 3000%
And before you try to accuse me of being a GUI freak, I produce Word files on a regular basis with XSL scripts from the command line.
Snowden is working with the Russians. The leaks are just too precisely targeted to be released by an amateur. The punishment for high treason is the death penalty.
Yes, it calls a halt otherwise the machine's fan would run all the time and a cell phone would have a battery life of about 10 minutes.
It is scary how many people here talk about idle loops. The CPU halts and the timer interrupts it.
When I was 16 I once got thrown out of a computer show for something very similar...
The "framebuffer loop"???!!! Do you seriously think every pixel is pushed out there by the CPU? Even in a ZX 80 or a machine from the 50s or 60s this is not the case.
Bettertouchtool and moom does the same on MacOS/X. And they can work with a leapmotion which is really a geek dream.
I sort of tend to agree. At work I have 2 19 inch monitors (and the laptop's display) and at home I have a 24 inch. 2 19 inchers are waaay better than 1 24, especially if you use a program like Moom that can switch windows around with hotkeys.
I often work with 2 24 inch monitors at home and I think a 3 monitor setup with 19-24-19 would be my ideal candidate.
But, again, with moom, which can also move windows to specific places on screen maybe a 4K display might be nice. Hmmm.
You do not know who "this guy" is, do you?
Fuji's digital cameras are not half-decent, they are pretty good. Especially their new hybrid-viewfinder rangefinders are very, very sweet.
Not only is it easier to read, it is also much more composable. It is MUCH easier to compose multiple conditions with a
(x in (select id from ...) and (y in (select id from ...) sort of thin than to build a query from a join. This is especially useful if you have some GUI with a query facility where users sometimes build their own queries.
Composability and the ability to plug together components is a very important part of maintainability in software.
This. This. This.
This is why I always find the idea of Star Wars and other Scifi where the average joe has a space ship that can fly through the galaxy to be ludicrous. A spaceship that can do that must have the power of several large thermonuclear weapons somewhere to power it. Probably orders of magnitude more in fact. That sort of power in the hands of Han Solo who is a space-ship mechanic who just takes his spanner to his unstable ship? What happens when he turns into some bad-ass? Or when he simply screws up? Spaceport and surrounding parts goes up in smoke together with a few million people.
And we worry about the stability of nuclear power plants?!!
This is also why I think people like Freeman Dyson who proclaim the era of biological hacking has arrived to be extremely disturbing. Biological agents have the ability to replicate themselves by taking energy from the organisms they host. If Mr Dyson thinks that this is a good idea in the hands of some religious psychopaths I begin to doubt his sanity.
The company I used to work at published a journal with Elsevier. They sent us a password that we then passon on to the customur. The password was generated by such a script. Once the password was 'fancyknickers'. It was assigned to a woman.
An Aston Martin DB9 is also pretty good. It is also pretty expensive. Same can be said for a lot
of things in this world. What is your point?
Well, Sun was in the "giving stuff away" business and now they are not in business anymore and Oracle still is.
Bankruptcy happens when you get in less money than you spend and you cannot pay your people anymore.
Should the Sun enigneers stay and work for handouts to keep the Java community happy? Out of altruism?
Who knows, Maybe Uncle Larry was right after all.
More than one U-2 was lost. Except for the obvious Gary Powers case, a U-2 loss also accounted for the only military casualty in the Cuban Missile crisis.
The nazis has a plan to invade Switzerland, Operation Edelweiss. They did not commit to it because while the operation was certainly doable Switzerland's rugged terrain and well trained militia would have caused unacceptable losses to the Wehrmacht. So they let it go. All the surrounding countries were in Nazi hands or allied in any case so it was not worth the fuss.
Yugoslavia was a different matter because it was on the way to Greece which the Nazis considered important to improve control of the eastern mediterranean. Not that that plan worked out very well. The med was a British lake through the war.
Yes there is a slight... delay here and there. Dunno. It does not feel slow, but it is not butter-smooth
anymore either.
That said, I like the new UI.
I am still a bit hesitant to upgrade my iPhone 4, because of my experience a few years ago with an upgrade on
an iPhone 3 which definitely was not pleasant.
He/she is just standard left wing parrot who has never read history in his/her pathetic left wing little life.
As far as bloodthirsty is concerned, there is Ghenghis Khan, Tamerlane, Stalin and Hitler. In that order.
The left tends to forget that the Soviet Union was a really nasty piece of work.
No, they almost NUKED an unarmed cow!
This: The person who wants the power the most, is the last person who should be trusted with it.
The skills needed to acquire power are not the same as the ones needed to exercise it properly.
Why don't you program in ASM then?
MOV DX,10
MOV AX,10
ADD DX,AX
That is what this look like in Java right now!
No, we need more instructors who look like Heidi Klum!
The green background is not helping either! Website like that make me pine for a good old fashioned monochrome monitor. I think I am going to dig out my Hercules Graphics Card.