Right, but if that framework gets dropped later, you're going to spend a LOT more time trying to switch to another framework than you ever saved by adopting the framework in the first place. So maybe you shouldn't even bother with the framework unless it's a sure thing.
As an alternative to switching frameworks, a company could just start treating the framework code the same as their bespoke code. They'll no longer get the support of an active community - but they'll be in no worse shape than if they'd written it from scratch. Also, the quality of FOSS framework code is generally a LOT better than that of bespoke corporate code. Wheel-reinvention almost never results in a superior wheel.
Despite their explicit promise "not to screw it up", the very first action Yahoo has taken as owner of Tumbler, is to ruin Tumblr. Major bummer! Looks like I'm going to have to remove all my - decidedly non-pornographic - content and find a new home for it. Any suggestions/. for a less prudish microblogging site?
Can someone explain to me why Yahoo is still in business? Do they have actual users/customers??
it will be natural that people will want to imbue those systems with the own intelligence and personality, rather than some generated artificial version.
True. However it's entirely possible that man will not directly create the superhuman AI, but that it may emerge unintentionally from the interaction of systems created for other purposes.
I see the words being used differently: "Software engineers" work for process-centric bigcorps; "developers" work for software companies (i.e. companies whose main business is making software for other people to use); "programmers" work everywhere else. Naturally there is much overlap.
Actually recent (last ~4 years) version of Ubuntu on vanilla hardware is a contender for the most "friendly" OS I have used, competing only with Mac System 6...
Because the technophiles are the folks ordinary mass consumers turn to for product recommendations. A product endorsement from one techie to his non-techie friends & family is more valuable than hundreds of advertising impressions.
Which has rather unfortunately left me pronouncing it 'Linnux' in my head and having to consciously translate it whenever I say it out loud.
Huh? That's the correct way to pronounce Linux.
And fwiw, I've worked with lotsa skilled programmers from the subcontinent who say "dah-tah", and I've never seen anyone laugh or even blink an eye. Kids are mean, but real nerds & geeks don't give a fuck.
Plea barganing is nothing more than punshment for exercising your rights. It should be abolished entirely.
I'm not willing to call it a "plea bargain" - I prefer the old fashioned term "coerced false confession". Interestingly, everyone I have ever used the old-fashioned term with, regardless their educational background or political opinions, has immediately understood what I meant.
Let's not cooperate with the euphemism game. Calling evil "evil" is the first step toward correcting it.
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How is this fucking authoritarian fascist even sort-of, possibly, slightly representative of the views of the majority of Californians?
Right, but if that framework gets dropped later, you're going to spend a LOT more time trying to switch to another framework than you ever saved by adopting the framework in the first place. So maybe you shouldn't even bother with the framework unless it's a sure thing.
As an alternative to switching frameworks, a company could just start treating the framework code the same as their bespoke code. They'll no longer get the support of an active community - but they'll be in no worse shape than if they'd written it from scratch. Also, the quality of FOSS framework code is generally a LOT better than that of bespoke corporate code. Wheel-reinvention almost never results in a superior wheel.
These useless parasites - King's sons - are stealing our culture. They are a disgrace to Dr King's memory.
Coding next gen drones
Lotta that going on 'cross the bay in Bezerkeley...
have made me move to using DuckDuckGo for all my searches lately.
So you can get EXTRA surveillance? DDG is pretty likely a honeypot.
you can't have root access to production.
Who the fuck wants root access to production? Lotsa liability, little profit...
There's also the Yamanote Line in Tokyo.
I looked at his graphic, and I still prefer two spaces between sentences. :)
Despite their explicit promise "not to screw it up", the very first action Yahoo has taken as owner of Tumbler, is to ruin Tumblr. Major bummer! Looks like I'm going to have to remove all my - decidedly non-pornographic - content and find a new home for it. Any suggestions /. for a less prudish microblogging site?
Can someone explain to me why Yahoo is still in business? Do they have actual users/customers??
Typing at 70+wpm on a real keyboard, beats using a screen keypad anyday.
Valid point - but one that only matters to users who can type reasonably fast. Many (most?) can't.
I don't care?
Performance?
it will be natural that people will want to imbue those systems with the own intelligence and personality, rather than some generated artificial version.
True. However it's entirely possible that man will not directly create the superhuman AI, but that it may emerge unintentionally from the interaction of systems created for other purposes.
Yeah - no use spoiling a good tourist attraction.
OMG terwawrists! Quick, burn the constitution!
Congress did what their paymasters told them to.
FTFY
Correct - Obama is a totalitarian who works for the descendants of Nazi financiers.
The whole legal system is based on that premise. The very existence of a legal system is a protection for the many.
What rock have you been living under?
I see the words being used differently: "Software engineers" work for process-centric bigcorps; "developers" work for software companies (i.e. companies whose main business is making software for other people to use); "programmers" work everywhere else. Naturally there is much overlap.
We learned, yes. The people actually building our military systems, apparently not so much.
Damn straight - kick the poor!
Actually recent (last ~4 years) version of Ubuntu on vanilla hardware is a contender for the most "friendly" OS I have used, competing only with Mac System 6...
Because the technophiles are the folks ordinary mass consumers turn to for product recommendations. A product endorsement from one techie to his non-techie friends & family is more valuable than hundreds of advertising impressions.
Which has rather unfortunately left me pronouncing it 'Linnux' in my head and having to consciously translate it whenever I say it out loud.
Huh? That's the correct way to pronounce Linux.
And fwiw, I've worked with lotsa skilled programmers from the subcontinent who say "dah-tah", and I've never seen anyone laugh or even blink an eye. Kids are mean, but real nerds & geeks don't give a fuck.
Plea barganing is nothing more than punshment for exercising your rights. It should be abolished entirely.
I'm not willing to call it a "plea bargain" - I prefer the old fashioned term "coerced false confession". Interestingly, everyone I have ever used the old-fashioned term with, regardless their educational background or political opinions, has immediately understood what I meant.
Let's not cooperate with the euphemism game. Calling evil "evil" is the first step toward correcting it.