for several years there was an open genera than ran on alphas, and now apparently a mysterious virtual version that is hosted by linux. does anyone know what happened to the genera ip?
the problem with having older programmers like myself is that they are fully tired of being jerked around by incompetent management. if you've worked in 20 shops, and run a few yourself, you're alot less likely to happily pull an all nighter to try to get the release out the door. you understand that this all could have been taken care of months ago, and you went to some pains to point that out then.
the other kind of older programmer has just given up. they know better, but they understand that bitching isn't going to solve anything and they need the health insurance. they look alot less capable then they are because they just agree with everything and try to get out the door by 5.
younger programmers dont know any better, they will believe whatever you say
except for -
- security leaks
- differential pricing
- security agencies deciding that you dont fit a common pattern and
targetting you for additional surveillance
- impact on your credit rating
- ability to get certain kinds of insurance at all
- when the marketers in question aren't just selecting legitimate ads, but scams
- we just changed our privacy policy and the last 10 years of data on
you is available to anyone for the low low price of 0.0001 USD
- our company was acquired by a company whose contact information is a p.o. box in moldava....
actually i'm really suprised the makers of the more expensive models actually used some of that money to produce a product of marginally better quality
this isn't true. a fully recoverable abstraction can be maintained without digging into the architecture. you just need a point periodically where you flush everything and define a consistent checkpoint
personally i prefer doing this in the database, or operating system, or application, but suggesting that you cant do this underneath is simply wrong. it just comes down to performance
actually, fuck off. language design people have distilled the semantics of sql down to something with is actually composable, compilable, able to be evaluated in a distributed context, and actually..useful. datalog. mercury.
sql is a festering sore. its a poorly conceived idea that for random reasons survived
unfortunately thats not sufficient. you also need the us govt to throw you tens of millions in 'research contracts' that dont amount to anything, and have them agree to buy your overpriced machines even though they dont really do anything useful
obviously you haven't worked with the itu in the past. they had a whole replacement for the internet worked out. trees worth of documnets written in languages and metalanugages where the shift was not entirely clear. all just to describe an ananlogue of tpc/ip
despite is inherent us-centrism i think the ietf did a great job.
sure, in comparison to the piles of money previously given to large contractors to flail around pretending to solve the unique mission critical requirements of the military, its nothing!
compared to alot of graphics standards, its actually reasonably terse. there are some herniations...like the dro pshadow image processing and composition. the animation is a little nasty too. but generally if you ignore the ugliness of w3 encapulation and html-style syntax, its not any worse than gl, rendering libraries, or X
i really dont understand this fad. criticising other people's code is important. talking about whats going on and the cleanest way to express it is important. having design discussions is important.
so do detailed code reviews.
i really dont need to smell every fart someone makes to work with them.
some programmers view programming as language design. the construction of abstractions and their composition is really the same as defining a specialized version of the parent language with the desired semantics.
if you really care about the topic learn broadly about languages. about how they handle things like scoping, composition, interaction with the runtime, types, and static analysis. i guarantee that you and your future employers will benefit
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whitelist by prefix instead of endpoint address
toadying seems to go a long way on its own
for several years there was an open genera than ran on alphas, and now apparently
a mysterious virtual version that is hosted by linux. does anyone know what happened
to the genera ip?
slashdot. where don knuth is an idiot because he cant grasp the awesome power of php
alot of contract gigs last 6 mo. i've done 9, 6, and 4 year stints...and yes, a couple of 2s
the problem with having older programmers like myself is that they are fully tired of being jerked around
by incompetent management. if you've worked in 20 shops, and run a few yourself, you're alot less
likely to happily pull an all nighter to try to get the release out the door. you understand
that this all could have been taken care of months ago, and you went to some pains to point that
out then.
the other kind of older programmer has just given up. they know better, but they understand
that bitching isn't going to solve anything and they need the health insurance. they look alot
less capable then they are because they just agree with everything and try to get out the door
by 5.
younger programmers dont know any better, they will believe whatever you say
you need to write a front end to draw lines
but it has a database backend that you can augment, has prioritization,
dependencies, user assignment, completion estimates and completion dates
it may suck, but it seems substantially more useful than the tools that were made
for the purpose
except for - ....
- security leaks
- differential pricing
- security agencies deciding that you dont fit a common pattern and
targetting you for additional surveillance
- impact on your credit rating
- ability to get certain kinds of insurance at all
- when the marketers in question aren't just selecting legitimate ads, but scams
- we just changed our privacy policy and the last 10 years of data on
you is available to anyone for the low low price of 0.0001 USD
- our company was acquired by a company whose contact information is a p.o. box in moldava
did they really bring it up off haskell? you think they would have
noticed something
yes, but you still haven't explained why perl 6 is taking so long
you missed the renaissance of wonder?
actually i'm really suprised the makers of the more expensive models actually used some
of that money to produce a product of marginally better quality
this isn't true. a fully recoverable abstraction can be maintained without digging into
the architecture. you just need a point periodically where you flush everything and define a
consistent checkpoint
personally i prefer doing this in the database, or operating system, or application, but suggesting
that you cant do this underneath is simply wrong. it just comes down to performance
actually, fuck off. language design people have distilled the semantics of sql down to something with is actually composable, compilable, able to be evaluated in a distributed context, and actually..useful. datalog. mercury.
sql is a festering sore. its a poorly conceived idea that for random reasons survived
unfortunately thats not sufficient. you also need the us govt to throw you tens of millions in
'research contracts' that dont amount to anything, and have them agree to buy your overpriced
machines even though they dont really do anything useful
even then its a pretty difficult market
obviously you haven't worked with the itu in the past. they had a whole replacement for the internet worked
out. trees worth of documnets written in languages and metalanugages where the shift was not entirely clear. all
just to describe an ananlogue of tpc/ip
despite is inherent us-centrism i think the ietf did a great job.
sure, in comparison to the piles of money previously given to large contractors to flail around pretending to solve the unique mission critical requirements of the military, its nothing!
they want their tty back
the pci sig blurb says its mostyl cleanup and the removal of 5v support
does anyone know of anything interesting in 3.0?
does anyone believe that at any point the hardware would be the bottleneck?
compared to alot of graphics standards, its actually reasonably terse. there are some herniations...like the dro pshadow image processing and composition. the animation is a little nasty too. but generally if you ignore the ugliness of w3 encapulation and html-style syntax, its not any worse than gl, rendering libraries, or X
but not if it has no value whatsoever.
i really dont understand this fad. criticising other people's code is important. talking about whats going on and the cleanest way to express it is important. having design discussions is important.
so do detailed code reviews.
i really dont need to smell every fart someone makes to work with them.
please explain in what way the bsd license restricts the rights of the users
some programmers view programming as language design. the construction of abstractions
and their composition is really the same as defining a specialized version of the parent language
with the desired semantics.
if you really care about the topic learn broadly about languages. about how they handle
things like scoping, composition, interaction with the runtime, types, and static analysis.
i guarantee that you and your future employers will benefit
actually, from the video, its almost exactly declarative programming