"The thing that still draws me here, after ten years of reading, is the community. "
^That.
and most especially this: "We've probably lost a few great commentators over the years, but it's likely not because./ isn't trendy enough for them. It's because the stories aren't nerdy enough anymore. Hey editors: we want more science stories. Challenge us. I'd personally like to see./ pick up more cutting-edge research (like computer science and computer engineering journal articles), because that's when the broad base of knowledge in the readership really shows, and where./'s value is head and shoulders above the other "social media" sites out there"
I've been coming here forever, nowhere near as much as I used to mainly because the majority of the stories don't interest me.
"I looked around and no other language has anything like this"
c#: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/recipes/DBXParser.aspx
using (DBX DBX = new DBX())
{
int count = DBX.Parse(@"test.dbx");//specify your DBX file here
if (count > 0)
{
for (int i = 0; i
{
DBX.Extract(i, (i + 1) + ".eml");//specify file to extract to //or just read the content to memory //string content = DBX.Extract(i);
}
}
}
I find it immensely saddening that you equate self-reliance with greed. It is a bit ironic because it is the exact opposite. The self-reliant attitude is that you want to work for what you want/need. And the history of the US disagrees with your claims; as the further our country has gone away from its self-reliant attitude, the more wars we have become involved in.
The government you seem to admire teaches that theft is morally ok, as long as it is the government doing it. I don't need a government to tell me to help somebody out that needs it, I know that because I have morals. You seem to believe we can have a benevolent government, where it does everything good. The sad fact is power corrupts. Government can't be efficient, especially big government. Why? Because it doesn't need to, it can take whatever it wants from you by force.
Well, debt is what happens when you go around empire-building. How many wars are Finland and Sweden involved in? How many military bases worldwide do they have? We're building a billion dollar embassy in England, and the one in Iraq is bigger than the vatican. It isn't the "pull-youself-up-with-your-own-bootstraps anti-welfare spirit" that is killing the american dream. It is that our nations rulers also think they need to rule the world (both parties). All empires come to end; of course the US was never supposed to be an empire.
"but the head is appointed by the federal government."
The head is appointed/chosen from a pre-selected list of potential appointees by the federal. "reserve" board. And the fed says to the congress, "hey, technically you get to choose which of these people to appoint, but this is the one you are going to appoint." and they follow orders.
The government can't just appoint whomever they want.
I've written a lot of code on short notice for deadlines; but even then I can't say I've written "shitty code" in a long time. But I limit my interpretation in such cases to code that is bug prone and/or hard to read. Anything that is stable and easy to read can be optimized/expanded at a later time if necessary.
Standby works great on my netbook running windows 7. Takes only a second or two at most to come back alive and ready to go.
Works just fine on my vista laptops too from various manufacturers. XP had some issues but long ago and primarily due to needing uninterupted disk space large enough to handle all the ram on the box, so if you added more ram you ran into issues.
"No, that's what comments are for, you can't expect people to be able to read your code."
Yes, you can.
Comments should be the exception, not the rule. I've written millions of lines of code over the years and only thousands of lines of comments. I'll admit that I may not write the most efficient code; but it is always extremely easy to read and flexibly designed. And people of various levels of experience can read it and either completely understand it or get the overall gist just by reading the functions names, variables, etc. I reserve comments for the truly tricky stuff.
It takes little more initial effort, ie: I never abbreviate words, I always type out the full path to a class ("System.Data.DataSet" instead of just "DataSet"), I use standard naming conventions and never take shortcuts in formatting my code. Like I said, it takes a little more initial work but it ends up reading like a novel.
Sure, comment regular expressions, but those are often difficult to read/understand just by default with no real easy way to make them readable.
Exactly. And Both Bush I and Reagan had democrat controlled house of reps their entire terms. Still, they shouldn't have given in and signed the budgets including such out of control spending.
Upon reviewing the thread I must disagree; there are a fair amount of positive posts and the people hating on what can only be considered a "good" thing have been promptly rebuttted.
True enough and if they don't do it the govt will find away to charge you for it. We are afterall still paying a "temporary tax" on phones that was put in place to fund the Spanish-American War of 1898. Hell, they will both probably find a way to charge you something extra for IPv6. Big govt + Big corporations = all your money are belong to us.
"Sort of analogous to how I think there's a good reason for the existence of folks like Dennis Kucinich, Ron Paul, and other people pursuing principled but somewhat inflexible positions. I might not want them as president of the world, but I like them being around."
Then again, where has electing people that aren't adherents to principled inflexible positions gotten us? Maybe principles do matter after all....
"That's another good example of why you need training, but it's not a problem with Notes. "
Well one could very well argue that such a non-intuitive user interface is a problem. If the problem described is a common problem that requires training just to perform basic functions and not make irreversible mistakes; I'd say that is definitely a problem with the program in question.
With that said, I haven't had to use Lotus Notes in about 12 years and remember hating the POS.
I guess it all depends on the school. I've attended two different 4-year universities and 2 different community colleges. For me, the quality of teachers and classes was higher at the community colleges and definitely a better bang for my buck.
"Anyway, you don't have to do it. Not everything is for everybody. I was just sharing my experience. It is a good tool for my needs and personality. Maybe it is not for yours."
"In my case, I changed city about 6 times, and changed school about 5 times. (no, I wasn't raised in a circus) So there is a lot of people that I knew but lost track of. I joined Facebook some weeks ago and now I have about 50 "recovered friends", that is, people that used to be my friends but then I lost touch. I chatted with some, said happy birthday to others, etc."
^That right there is why I will never get a facebook account. If I want people I used to know and associate with to make contact with me just so we can renew and some fake pseudo-online friendship. Hell, I they might be people I moved to get away from.:)
People I actually care about, I stay in touch with and have contact information, I don't need facebook for that. But hey, if you like/want that, more power to you.
That's exactly what it means. The servers/site/HDspace/bandwidth is THEIR property they can decide whatever limitation they want. If you don't like it, don't rely on them to bail you out if your HD crashes.
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"The thing that still draws me here, after ten years of reading, is the community. " ./ isn't trendy enough for them. It's because the stories aren't nerdy enough anymore. Hey editors: we want more science stories. Challenge us. I'd personally like to see ./ pick up more cutting-edge research (like computer science and computer engineering journal articles), because that's when the broad base of knowledge in the readership really shows, and where ./'s value is head and shoulders above the other "social media" sites out there"
^That.
and most especially this:
"We've probably lost a few great commentators over the years, but it's likely not because
I've been coming here forever, nowhere near as much as I used to mainly because the majority of the stories don't interest me.
"I looked around and no other language has anything like this" //specify your DBX file here //specify file to extract to
//or just read the content to memory
//string content = DBX.Extract(i);
c#: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/recipes/DBXParser.aspx
using (DBX DBX = new DBX())
{
int count = DBX.Parse(@"test.dbx");
if (count > 0)
{
for (int i = 0; i {
DBX.Extract(i, (i + 1) + ".eml");
}
}
}
" If Microsoft had actually open-sourced .NET it would probably have blown Java out of the water. But they didn't and they probably won't"
.net framework source. You can too:
http://referencesource.microsoft.com/netframework.aspx
Uhm. I have much of the
I find it immensely saddening that you equate self-reliance with greed. It is a bit ironic because it is the exact opposite. The self-reliant attitude is that you want to work for what you want/need. And the history of the US disagrees with your claims; as the further our country has gone away from its self-reliant attitude, the more wars we have become involved in.
The government you seem to admire teaches that theft is morally ok, as long as it is the government doing it. I don't need a government to tell me to help somebody out that needs it, I know that because I have morals. You seem to believe we can have a benevolent government, where it does everything good. The sad fact is power corrupts. Government can't be efficient, especially big government. Why? Because it doesn't need to, it can take whatever it wants from you by force.
Well, debt is what happens when you go around empire-building. How many wars are Finland and Sweden involved in? How many military bases worldwide do they have? We're building a billion dollar embassy in England, and the one in Iraq is bigger than the vatican. It isn't the "pull-youself-up-with-your-own-bootstraps anti-welfare spirit" that is killing the american dream. It is that our nations rulers also think they need to rule the world (both parties). All empires come to end; of course the US was never supposed to be an empire.
"limited government" you say? That notion died in 1913 and it ain't ever coming back without a full-on revolution.
"but the head is appointed by the federal government."
The head is appointed/chosen from a pre-selected list of potential appointees by the federal. "reserve" board. And the fed says to the congress, "hey, technically you get to choose which of these people to appoint, but this is the one you are going to appoint." and they follow orders.
The government can't just appoint whomever they want.
I've written a lot of code on short notice for deadlines; but even then I can't say I've written "shitty code" in a long time. But I limit my interpretation in such cases to code that is bug prone and/or hard to read. Anything that is stable and easy to read can be optimized/expanded at a later time if necessary.
Standby works great on my netbook running windows 7. Takes only a second or two at most to come back alive and ready to go. Works just fine on my vista laptops too from various manufacturers. XP had some issues but long ago and primarily due to needing uninterupted disk space large enough to handle all the ram on the box, so if you added more ram you ran into issues.
"No, that's what comments are for, you can't expect people to be able to read your code."
Yes, you can.
Comments should be the exception, not the rule. I've written millions of lines of code over the years and only thousands of lines of comments. I'll admit that I may not write the most efficient code; but it is always extremely easy to read and flexibly designed. And people of various levels of experience can read it and either completely understand it or get the overall gist just by reading the functions names, variables, etc. I reserve comments for the truly tricky stuff.
It takes little more initial effort, ie: I never abbreviate words, I always type out the full path to a class ("System.Data.DataSet" instead of just "DataSet"), I use standard naming conventions and never take shortcuts in formatting my code. Like I said, it takes a little more initial work but it ends up reading like a novel.
Sure, comment regular expressions, but those are often difficult to read/understand just by default with no real easy way to make them readable.
Yeah, I can't remember the last time I clicked on one of those "shortened" urls. I just skip over them. I prefer to know where I'm going.
Exactly. And Both Bush I and Reagan had democrat controlled house of reps their entire terms. Still, they shouldn't have given in and signed the budgets including such out of control spending.
Upon reviewing the thread I must disagree; there are a fair amount of positive posts and the people hating on what can only be considered a "good" thing have been promptly rebuttted.
I've been using the hotbrick LB-2 for years to aggregate dsl and cable lines. Works like a charm.
http://www.hotbrick.com/produto.asp?tipo=3&catpro=2
I thought they had up to a 4connection version, but I don't see it anymore.
True enough and if they don't do it the govt will find away to charge you for it. We are afterall still paying a "temporary tax" on phones that was put in place to fund the Spanish-American War of 1898. Hell, they will both probably find a way to charge you something extra for IPv6. Big govt + Big corporations = all your money are belong to us.
"Sort of analogous to how I think there's a good reason for the existence of folks like Dennis Kucinich, Ron Paul, and other people pursuing principled but somewhat inflexible positions. I might not want them as president of the world, but I like them being around."
Then again, where has electing people that aren't adherents to principled inflexible positions gotten us? Maybe principles do matter after all....
"and this is coming from someone who works on a multi-million line perl 5 "
Wowzer, I feel for you. Perl 4 was the first language I learned, loved it at the time. But now my days are filled with the joy of C#.
"That's another good example of why you need training, but it's not a problem with Notes. "
Well one could very well argue that such a non-intuitive user interface is a problem. If the problem described is a common problem that requires training just to perform basic functions and not make irreversible mistakes; I'd say that is definitely a problem with the program in question.
With that said, I haven't had to use Lotus Notes in about 12 years and remember hating the POS.
Agreed, the fact that the .net framework source is available nowadays is a HUGE change, a positive change.
I guess it all depends on the school. I've attended two different 4-year universities and 2 different community colleges. For me, the quality of teachers and classes was higher at the community colleges and definitely a better bang for my buck.
The only thing you really missed there was the really simple, non-image intensive interface. That alone spurred people to use google.
Somebody always posts something I want to mod up when I don't have mod points.
"Anyway, you don't have to do it. Not everything is for everybody. I was just sharing my experience. It is a good tool for my needs and personality. Maybe it is not for yours."
We are in complete agreement.
Cheers!
"In my case, I changed city about 6 times, and changed school about 5 times. (no, I wasn't raised in a circus) So there is a lot of people that I knew but lost track of. I joined Facebook some weeks ago and now I have about 50 "recovered friends", that is, people that used to be my friends but then I lost touch. I chatted with some, said happy birthday to others, etc."
:)
^That right there is why I will never get a facebook account. If I want people I used to know and associate with to make contact with me just so we can renew and some fake pseudo-online friendship. Hell, I they might be people I moved to get away from.
People I actually care about, I stay in touch with and have contact information, I don't need facebook for that. But hey, if you like/want that, more power to you.
That's exactly what it means. The servers/site/HDspace/bandwidth is THEIR property they can decide whatever limitation they want. If you don't like it, don't rely on them to bail you out if your HD crashes.