PHP- yeah, array() is braindead. They could have gone with something like [], but they just didn't have that level of imagination.
In vim, % goes from the start of a block ("{") to the end, and vice versa. I was going to ask if it does the same for $START/"end" , and I checked: it doesn't, which is lame, and (for me), another reason to prefer C-syntax languages: Java, PHP, Javascript.
Righthaven did what was improbable: Getting into the Slashdot hall of shame such that any story about them is automatically front-page material, the equivalent of SCO, RIAA, MPEG-LA, MPAA, and friends.
While true, it's also worth exploring how this ruling can have an effect without being a binding precedent: When making a ruling, judges often look for older cases which are related in some way.
They often even look to foreign jurisdictions (other states, or even countries). Yes, they're not binding, but they sometimes get cited anyway, as in "ABC court decided X, maybe that's good legal reasoning."
So, we haven't won the war, but a small battle nonetheless.
The funniest thing is where hipster languages attempt to drop the brackets because they're "cruft", and then they end up having to add back in $START and "end" keywords to replace them.
The general Slashdot consensus is that openness is good, information wants to be free.
But for some reason, or another, when it comes to the nuclear issue, a switch gets flipped in the minds of pronuclear geeks, and information deserves only to be released to a select priesthood.
The fact is that if nuclear can't stand the heat (stand up on its own merits), it should get out of the energy production kitchen.
Does it seem to anyone else that the background tasks (like preventing malware) you have to perform in order to use computers have increased to the level where computers aren't fun any more?
What will the result of this be?
More and more people will be attracted to the Apple closed garden model.
That, on the other hand, doesn't appeal to us geeks.
Is there a future for open platforms, and what can the FOSS community do to keep them both 1) open and 2) safe?
Maybe they should have NASCAR, American Idol, and Supersize portions which allow the American Sheeple wallow in blissful ignorance about what latest corporate welfare or other scheme their government is up to without having to spend money and time on these kinds of onerous crackdowns.
Back in the day, if you asked someone what their email address is, you'd get various takes on a blank/concerned/weirded out stare. So, yeah, Internet was available, but by no means mainstream.
Would you mind telling us what you're replacing it with? RHEL, Ubuntu Server, *BSD, other?
And how have you replicated those nice Solaris features (containers, that debugging thing, the new copy-on-write filesystem), or if they are missed at all?
I take it you share my frustration. Somebody mod this up.
(Oh, and before posting a rant about CC fees, I guess I should have remembered that the electrons for higher dollar amounts weigh more, hence it costs more money to ship them through the tubes of the Internet.)
Well, not as a buyer, but as a seller. These days, a lot of professionals and small businesses are taking payment by credit card.
Yeah, I know, the fee pays for the convenience of cc billing, and there has to be a fee. What we're talking about is why, with the huge decrease in operating costs plus massive increase in volumes (everybody uses a CC these days), they're still charging the same rates.
You'd think with the enormous increase in processing power experienced over the past 4 decades, the amount of money required for operating the credit card networks would have plummeted.
So why are credit card fees still anywhere from 2% on up (borne by sellers)?
And is it (much) more expensive to send $100 vs. $10?
>I'm using MariaDB for a 6TB production system and it works flawlessly.
Good to hear that, one heard rumors of MySQL eating data years back, though you can't be sure if that was due to operator error, but the old MySQL attitude of "who needs atomicity" probably didn't help.
Would you care to share any pointers? I'm sure you're using a 64-bit OS. RHEL or Ubuntu/Debian?
And what about replication? For high availability/scaling or backups? Does mysqldump give you a consistent dump? (I.e, if the dump takes 15 min, and within that time a row was dropped from table A, and later associated rows from table B, the backup will contain either both the A row+friends, or neither.)
While I realize that short-term supply disruption will have an effect on prices, I don't understand why people think that having a democracy instead of a dictatorship inherently means higher prices.
I mean, granted that it might be harder to buy off a democratically-elected leader, but democracies want to sell fuel and gain foreign exchange, too, right?
The article doesn't say how many engines were on this plane.
Anyway, what happened is that the software failed and gave bad readings. This seems to be cautionary tale regarding the limits of human engineering, and, of course, it'll always be humans who are doing the engineering.
It also brings up the scary prospect of problems in the software and sensors of a nuclear power plant.
You can send text, but will it be recognized properly? Will the receiving phone show a bunch of text with XML, and then ask you what to do with it? Will it fill in all fields correctly, and automatically create an entry in your Contacts?
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PHP- yeah, array() is braindead. They could have gone with something like [], but they just didn't have that level of imagination.
In vim, % goes from the start of a block ("{") to the end, and vice versa. I was going to ask if it does the same for $START/"end" , and I checked: it doesn't, which is lame, and (for me), another reason to prefer C-syntax languages: Java, PHP, Javascript.
Righthaven did what was improbable: Getting into the Slashdot hall of shame such that any story about them is automatically front-page material, the equivalent of SCO, RIAA, MPEG-LA, MPAA, and friends.
While true, it's also worth exploring how this ruling can have an effect without being a binding precedent: When making a ruling, judges often look for older cases which are related in some way.
They often even look to foreign jurisdictions (other states, or even countries). Yes, they're not binding, but they sometimes get cited anyway, as in "ABC court decided X, maybe that's good legal reasoning."
So, we haven't won the war, but a small battle nonetheless.
(N.B. sig.)
The funniest thing is where hipster languages attempt to drop the brackets because they're "cruft", and then they end up having to add back in $START and "end" keywords to replace them.
Is "end" really much better than "}" ?
The general Slashdot consensus is that openness is good, information wants to be free.
But for some reason, or another, when it comes to the nuclear issue, a switch gets flipped in the minds of pronuclear geeks, and information deserves only to be released to a select priesthood.
The fact is that if nuclear can't stand the heat (stand up on its own merits), it should get out of the energy production kitchen.
The big solar thermal plant in Arizona is selling electricity at $.14/kWh .
That's more than the US average of 12 cents, but it's still a few cents, and not dollars. Going forward, it's going to be competitive.
And nuclear doesn't include the cost of waste disposal, and coal doesn't include other external costs.
Does it seem to anyone else that the background tasks (like preventing malware) you have to perform in order to use computers have increased to the level where computers aren't fun any more?
What will the result of this be?
More and more people will be attracted to the Apple closed garden model.
That, on the other hand, doesn't appeal to us geeks.
Is there a future for open platforms, and what can the FOSS community do to keep them both 1) open and 2) safe?
Maybe they should have NASCAR, American Idol, and Supersize portions which allow the American Sheeple wallow in blissful ignorance about what latest corporate welfare or other scheme their government is up to without having to spend money and time on these kinds of onerous crackdowns.
Back in the day, if you asked someone what their email address is, you'd get various takes on a blank/concerned/weirded out stare. So, yeah, Internet was available, but by no means mainstream.
Would you mind telling us what you're replacing it with? RHEL, Ubuntu Server, *BSD, other?
And how have you replicated those nice Solaris features (containers, that debugging thing, the new copy-on-write filesystem), or if they are missed at all?
Maybe I'm missing something, but what are you doing on your laptop to be downloading 220MB between 9 and 11 am?
Depending on the answer, couldn't you be plausibly doing the same thing on the phone?
There are >2mil UIDs? Noobs.
>How exactly is "Windows traffic" on a phone indistinguishable from "Windows traffic" on a PC, yet somehow those are both different from iOS traffic?
iOS electrons wear purple with sunglasses.
This is actually a good point, and different from the fraudulent card use issue.
On the other hand, it should only apply to payments on credit, and not debit cards.
Yeah, from the perspective of many corporations, lack of oligopoly is market failure.
I take it you share my frustration. Somebody mod this up.
(Oh, and before posting a rant about CC fees, I guess I should have remembered that the electrons for higher dollar amounts weigh more, hence it costs more money to ship them through the tubes of the Internet.)
Well, not as a buyer, but as a seller. These days, a lot of professionals and small businesses are taking payment by credit card.
Yeah, I know, the fee pays for the convenience of cc billing, and there has to be a fee. What we're talking about is why, with the huge decrease in operating costs plus massive increase in volumes (everybody uses a CC these days), they're still charging the same rates.
Well, I guess we're seeing market failure.
Basically, an oligopoly between Visa and Mastercard.
You'd think with the enormous increase in processing power experienced over the past 4 decades, the amount of money required for operating the credit card networks would have plummeted.
So why are credit card fees still anywhere from 2% on up (borne by sellers)?
And is it (much) more expensive to send $100 vs. $10?
>I'm using MariaDB for a 6TB production system and it works flawlessly.
Good to hear that, one heard rumors of MySQL eating data years back, though you can't be sure if that was due to operator error, but the old MySQL attitude of "who needs atomicity" probably didn't help.
Would you care to share any pointers? I'm sure you're using a 64-bit OS. RHEL or Ubuntu/Debian?
And what about replication? For high availability/scaling or backups? Does mysqldump give you a consistent dump? (I.e, if the dump takes 15 min, and within that time a row was dropped from table A, and later associated rows from table B, the backup will contain either both the A row+friends, or neither.)
Single master/multiple master?
Datatype for primary keys?
Does it croak on ALTER TABLE?
While I realize that short-term supply disruption will have an effect on prices, I don't understand why people think that having a democracy instead of a dictatorship inherently means higher prices.
I mean, granted that it might be harder to buy off a democratically-elected leader, but democracies want to sell fuel and gain foreign exchange, too, right?
SqlDog? ("sequel dog")
OK, it looks like he's using JPay (which I just learned about 5min ago): "Americaâ(TM)s Trusted Inmate Money Transfer Service"
The article doesn't say how many engines were on this plane.
Anyway, what happened is that the software failed and gave bad readings. This seems to be cautionary tale regarding the limits of human engineering, and, of course, it'll always be humans who are doing the engineering.
It also brings up the scary prospect of problems in the software and sensors of a nuclear power plant.
You can send text, but will it be recognized properly? Will the receiving phone show a bunch of text with XML, and then ask you what to do with it? Will it fill in all fields correctly, and automatically create an entry in your Contacts?