I remember reading an interview with Danny Hillis, it may have been in 'Wired', quite some time ago in which he said that he wanted to create a computer so human that to unplug it would be an act of murder.
,---- | A malformed object oriented system. My other major beef | with Python is that it has, to my mind, the single | worst-conceived OOP system of any language I can think | of at the moment. `----
In the offerings I saw, you had to select one of a menu of M$ operating systems. Admittedly, I did not poke through all the nooks and crannies of the site looking for a way to specify no-O/S or linux; I did get the feeling, though, that you ignored one of the constraints of the problem, and here I quote:
"Here's the catch: I will not purchase Windows!" "
Total-noob> but I'm going to
Total-noob> go out on a limb here and say
Total-noob> that PHP doesn't need a
Total-noob> debugger
That sounds like something that a sales 'droid said to my manager concerning a 4GL back in the early '90s. My manager bought it. I have to admit that, in the beginning, I was taken in, too; but in the end this turned out to be an instance of wishful thinking.
We tried to develop a modest user interface to track the flow of materiel through a shipyard in this 4GL. Of course, the implementation tuned out to be much more intricate in the real world than it had seemed to be in the 'blue sky' concept and planning meetings.
End result: the 4GL code was almost impossible to maintain. Eventually the project failed --for a combination of reasons, to be fair. Here is a king of maxim that I took away from it though:
Every line of code that is ever written will have to be
Well you asked for web sites, so here is one of my favorites. They have forums for most of the major distributions as well as forums for software, hardware, networking, security and others. The regulars at this site are helpful, tolerant and --it seems to me-- altruistic.
This is a marketing ploy. The first time I noticed it was when IBM used it in their pitch for the Series/1 16 bit minicomuter. "No high priced system programmer needed" they blared. And it may have been true in a very limited sense: You didn't need a system programmer because the software was so limited as to be almost unusable.
I have kept such notebooks over a career as a software engineer that spans 30 years. I regard these journals as personal property. I would not be averse to supplying xerox copies to an employer if they were requested, but no such request has ever been made.
When once asked in an interview what genre
he thought that his writing fell into, Burroughs
replied 'Well, science fiction, of course.' I have
to wonder if the interviewer even read any of
WB's books.
I think that _Naked Lunch_ and the Nova
trilogy (_The Soft Machine_, _Nova Express_,
_The Ticket that Exploded_) will stand the test
of time.
Star Trek fans would do well to read _Cities of the
Red Night_ in which commanders insure the loyalty
of their troops by getting them addicted and
supplying them with opiates --like the Founders
and the Jem Haddar of DS9, except that 'Cities'
was written ca. 1974.
The other day I was speaking on the phone to a headhunter and she asked a question: "What _is_ open source, anyways?". I recommended that she read this book.
follow the 'close calls' link from slashdot. that
third plot looks very much like the illustration
at the beginning of the _Hashing_ chapter in
Donald Knuth's _orting and Searching_
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, you just need their smiles.
I remember reading an interview with Danny Hillis,
it may have been in 'Wired', quite some time ago in
which he said that he wanted to create a computer
so human that to unplug it would be an act of
murder.
The thought of trying to maintain a software development schedule on Island Time, wow. It makes my brain hurt.
they would have named it Explorer
,----
| A malformed object oriented system. My other major beef
| with Python is that it has, to my mind, the single
| worst-conceived OOP system of any language I can think
| of at the moment.
`----
You obviously have not tried the one in PHP.
In the offerings I saw, you had to select one of a menu of M$ operating systems. Admittedly, I did not poke through all the nooks and crannies of the site looking for a way to specify no-O/S or linux; I did get the feeling, though, that you ignored one of the constraints of the problem, and here I quote:
"Here's the catch: I will not purchase Windows!" "
Total-noob> but I'm going to
Total-noob> go out on a limb here and say
Total-noob> that PHP doesn't need a
Total-noob> debugger
That sounds like something that a sales 'droid
said to my manager concerning a 4GL back in the
early '90s. My manager bought it. I have to
admit that, in the beginning, I was taken in, too;
but in the end this turned out to be an instance
of wishful thinking.
We tried to develop a modest user interface to
track the flow of materiel through a shipyard in
this 4GL. Of course, the implementation tuned out
to be much more intricate in the real world than
it had seemed to be in the 'blue sky' concept and
planning meetings.
End result: the 4GL code was almost impossible to
maintain. Eventually the project failed --for a
combination of reasons, to be fair. Here is a
king of maxim that I took away from it though:
Every line of code that is ever written will have
to be
1-debugged
2-maintained
Bob needs help.
Well you asked for web sites, so here is one of my favorites. They have forums for most of the major distributions as well as forums for software, hardware, networking, security and others. The regulars at this site are helpful, tolerant and --it seems to me-- altruistic.
There was a PBS program --Nova, I believe-- which did a one hour treatment of this subject. I saw it in the last 6 months on KQED.
This is a marketing ploy. The first time I noticed it was when IBM used it in their pitch for the Series/1 16 bit minicomuter. "No high priced system programmer needed" they blared. And it may have been true in a very limited sense: You didn't need a system programmer because the software was so limited as to be almost unusable.
I have kept such notebooks over a career as a software engineer that spans 30 years. I regard these journals as personal property. I would not be averse to supplying xerox copies to an employer if they were requested, but no such request has ever been made.
When once asked in an interview what genre
he thought that his writing fell into, Burroughs
replied 'Well, science fiction, of course.' I have
to wonder if the interviewer even read any of
WB's books.
I think that _Naked Lunch_ and the Nova
trilogy (_The Soft Machine_, _Nova Express_,
_The Ticket that Exploded_) will stand the test
of time.
Star Trek fans would do well to read _Cities of the
Red Night_ in which commanders insure the loyalty
of their troops by getting them addicted and
supplying them with opiates --like the Founders
and the Jem Haddar of DS9, except that 'Cities'
was written ca. 1974.
The other day I was speaking on the phone to a headhunter and she asked a question: "What _is_ open source, anyways?". I recommended that she read this book.
follow the 'close calls' link from slashdot. that third plot looks very much like the illustration at the beginning of the _Hashing_ chapter in Donald Knuth's _orting and Searching_