Why the hell they buy external expertise... if there is one firm that is really obnoxious good in sharing, it's facebook. It's their damn business model and there is a market for it apparently. Now excuse me, I need to check on my friends.
Visual programming isn't big for the same reason people talk and not use drawings to communicate in day to day life. A decent well explained and understood language is faster, universal and more convenient. Drawings are used in situations where you can't communicate true a spoken or written language. As a replacement tool. It's very basic since with a spoken or written language you can uniformly have so much more precise interpretation of your intentions. Same goes for visual programming at this moment in time. I won't say there isn't a future for it, but as a replacement tool for the tried and tested programming environments it has a long way to go. Come up with a visual programming system for writing actually sophisticated code and you might have yourself a winner. Only party that comes in mind is Labview from NI.
Ok, despite the fact that the UK like the USA is being run and held captive by complete morons with only self-enrichment at all costs in mind, this is 1 guy. One guy does not equal the whole of the UK.
Very good point. However, even God won't be able to help you once you go into the depths called VI or EMACS. Seriously, I have gotten Emacs to make me coffee and raise my kids, but I still don't know how to save a damn textfile. Don't get me started on VI either. That would truly become a holy war. *starts up edit.exe, white on blue, 80 chars width. It's all I need to tell someone to f* off.
I can express my intentions just fine with ASCII. They have cunningly invented a system for that. It's called language and it comes in very handy.
The only thing I would consider missing is a pile of shit-character. I could use that one right now.
Or they just find a suicidal dude, let him jump, make sure he doesn't open the chute and then sue that bastard for liability. It was his idea after all.
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Why the hell they buy external expertise... if there is one firm that is really obnoxious good in sharing, it's facebook. It's their damn business model and there is a market for it apparently. Now excuse me, I need to check on my friends.
True = Through.
Visual programming isn't big for the same reason people talk and not use drawings to communicate in day to day life. A decent well explained and understood language is faster, universal and more convenient. Drawings are used in situations where you can't communicate true a spoken or written language. As a replacement tool. It's very basic since with a spoken or written language you can uniformly have so much more precise interpretation of your intentions. Same goes for visual programming at this moment in time. I won't say there isn't a future for it, but as a replacement tool for the tried and tested programming environments it has a long way to go. Come up with a visual programming system for writing actually sophisticated code and you might have yourself a winner. Only party that comes in mind is Labview from NI.
Ok, despite the fact that the UK like the USA is being run and held captive by complete morons with only self-enrichment at all costs in mind, this is 1 guy. One guy does not equal the whole of the UK.
Very good point. However, even God won't be able to help you once you go into the depths called VI or EMACS. Seriously, I have gotten Emacs to make me coffee and raise my kids, but I still don't know how to save a damn textfile. Don't get me started on VI either. That would truly become a holy war. *starts up edit.exe, white on blue, 80 chars width. It's all I need to tell someone to f* off.
Oh crap... I guess you can forget about my earlier comment. I'm adopting unicode as we speak! U+1F4A9 ftw.
I can express my intentions just fine with ASCII. They have cunningly invented a system for that. It's called language and it comes in very handy. The only thing I would consider missing is a pile of shit-character. I could use that one right now.
Good times!
I am sure malaria will agree and go away forever.
*looks at wife*
Yes offcourse my american friend... *calls french daycare centre*
So then DON'T post it on the frontpage! My life is boring enough thank you very much.
That one was for the folks who blame the Iranian government :) Should have put that in the same message.
who brought you WMD's in Iraq and a double-rape case against wikileaks. Come on... they may be Muslims but they aren't retarded.
I would give my lollypop away to make that statement even remotely true.
We all are suspects these days. It sucks and we should do something about it.
ai, there should a is smaller sign there before 1. Bad slasdottie.
Base 10 is flawed. Our math-system isn't accurate enough because we all know 0.9999999999 1
I don't :(
and told them: You aren't a packleader. With Cesar the dogs where perfectly happy. How much money did this nonsense cost the taxpayer?
Let's hope so! :D
http://xkcd.com/386/
Or they just find a suicidal dude, let him jump, make sure he doesn't open the chute and then sue that bastard for liability. It was his idea after all.
Hey but tomorrow we'll have a... well.. tomorrow we will officially have a new government. Let's leave it at that. Lol.
Actually, there are... on Bonaire and St. Maarten. Parent was trolling IMO has been modded up again since.