e-ink is great if you want to read out in the sun. The 70 buck kindle also fits nicely in my cargo shorts so I can read at the outdoor mall outside Barnes and Nobles while my wife shops, and shops, and (how can they do it), shops...
I switched long ago. Flex was just an personal exploratory activity, not a long term commitment. Sure, I thought about buying it a promise ring, but backed out before I was in too deep. All joking aside, I was pleasantly surprised with the environment built around Flex, and thought that it was much superior to the applet. Why Adobe thought developers would pay for the right to build application effectively on it through FlexBuilder licenses is a New Coke type of decision.
GWT may be great, but Google is too fickle in it's long term support of anything. If I build a significant application around a technology, I want something with longevity. No offense but I hesitate to plug into anything Google for this reason. Just yesterday it seems that Google Wave was going to overtake the world -- and it was cool actually. I'm actually surprised they didn't continue to back it in the form of android or HTML5 technologies aimed at mobile devices and tablets.
I once designed a database which used small business acronyms to associate lines of business with their associated profiles. It grew to support 40 million or so customers give or take. Marketing, acquisitions, more marketing has renamed each entity an average of 5 times over the last 15 years. Being a young programmer at the time, I lacked the experience to foresee the amount of corporate churn. It's a mess:-) and we're all idiots and clever at some time or other.
Despite the demise or imminent demise of Flex. It did have a superb integrated debugging environment that I have yet to find in the Javascript world. Firebug, however, is getting there but I still find it clunky compared to the other integrated IDEs I have worked with in the past.
Re:on second thought, pass the lead gloves please.
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In the former German Democratic Republic, thousands of miners were working with Uranium ore. Twenty years earlier they died than the rest of the people, by average.
They should have washed their hands more.
Darwin's theory of natural selection beckons....
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I can hear Darwin's theory of natural selection beckoning me to resign from the gene pool as I salivate and fantasize over my jet engine driven bicycle spewing lightning bolts as I complete my newspaper route with unprecedented speed and precision.... Can you feel it calling you as well?
Moz is instantaneous. Kmail can search GBs of email very fast. Big PGSQL queries complete instantly. In short, I love it!
You should credit the software providers as much as the hardware providers. It sounds like the 1 GB of memory made more difference than the CPU upgrade on the hardware side. Big hardware can make naive algorithms run faster, but there is no substitute for efficient software. It's a damn shame that there's so little of it out there.
At the risk of going off on a tangent here, I've always felt that the programmer should have to spend a bit time on a sub-standard system so that he/she can achieve a perspective on how the software will behave for the *average* user. Programmers can lose perspective sitting behind their dual CPU 2.0 Ghz P4 machine.
Here's something that I inadventently stumbled across. I got sick of listening to redundant messages that rambled on telling me that "Bob isn't home, please leave a message at the beep, yadda yadda yadda". So, my machine simply says "Please leave a message." Telemarketers use computer systems to blanket multiple phone numbers at a time to improve throughput. The short message fools the computer systems into thinking that they are dealing with a real person.
Since the call to my house isn't filtered out by the computer system, it requires human attention and therefore drives up the cost of marketing to my house. I also get lots of "Hello? Hello? May I speak to the man of the house? Hello?". Somehow I achieve a perverse pleasure from this.
Phone spam doesn't bother me nearly as much as email spam. I constantly receive viagra and penis enlargement messages. I guess they've slapped me in the under-endowed impotent demographic. I'm against censorship and government controls, however, these bozos and crooks are destroying the usability of email. Something must be done...
Or perhaps its due to a lack of girlfriend? Geeks with too much time will sometimes do incredible things. You gotta love it!
Re:Mensa is right based on Ockhams razor
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The purpose of Mensa is to ferret out the super intelligent people. Which property is more significant in these numbers, the fact that 5 is a prime, or that the english/human representation of 8 happens to be symmetrical when folded across the x axis?
Prime numbers are one of the basic messages that humanity sent across the stars. Why? Because it's one of the universal properties likely to be understandable across any language and social barriers.
For 8 to the "correct" answer to the question further erodes my opinion of mensa. Indeed, many questions like this have multiple correct answers, including ones which our Mensa representatives have yet to find.
When writing LISP you're pretty much expressing a parse tree as a program, and yes, LISP does have some advantages when it comes to expressing certain solutions in an elegant manner.
Such a language, much like LISP, might be quite useful with respect to genetic programming.
In addition, a parse tree language which has lots of internal understanding of data flow might make for a good intermediate step in a compiler or perhaps become a better LISP.
It's good to see that Gosling isn't resting on his Java laurels but applying what he's learned in new areas of research.
JavaScript is an ill-conceived hack. 90% of my crashes are due to some problem in JavaScript.
While Netscape made many great contributions to the world of software, JavaScript was not one of them.
Mozilla has the burden of having to be backward compatible to alot of cruft I'd just as soon see go away. I'm pretty sure this contributes to the crash rate you experience here.
I was going to say something really inspirational and uplifting here but my darn browser crashed and I lost my train of thought. Trust me...it was profound.
Anyway, kudos to the Mozilla team. Long live Mozilla! Cross platform browsers rock!
Hey...I know this is probably a bad venue for a bug report but the new Junk mail filtering doesn't seem to work if you're using movemail. Can you guys take a look at this please:-)
Long ago engineers learned that nature evolves life to adapt to it's environment. We often look to nature for inspiration.
What drives nature? Survival for one. Survival often depends on having a backup so it's no surprise that nature tends to adapt redundant systems.
I have 2 hands in which I can hold a spear or club. I have 2 eyes to identify my potential predators. I have 2 ears to hear them coming. I have two...well you get the picture.
All of this is externally visible. As such, the a jpeg or gif image is likely to capture some quantifiable amount of this externally visible redundancy.
GZip which is being used here to measure visual redundancy in an ingenious manner. It's not entirely surprising that it's working.
It's better to go with a general purpose parser because your needs today are not your needs of tomorrow. Also, you may not use the more advanced features of XML but what happens when some other vendor sends you a file which does? What happens when the day you realize that a parser which supports W3C schema is the best thing since sliced bread? What happens when you decide that a parser which supports XPath could have saved you thousands of lines of code?
In Java I plug into something based upon jaxp so that I can seamlessly switch parsers if necessary. And this move saved me loads of trouble when the early version of Xerces started failing after the product went to test. Plugging in Crimson took 5 minutes and worked flawlessly. I imagine that there are similar alternatives (like jaxp) in other languages.
A good rule of thumb:
It's better to have a feature it and not need it than to need a feature it an not have it.
After having detected the signal to noise ratio of Earth and having engaged in heated deliberation for nearly 20 minutes the intergalactic council voted 2,112 to 8 (with 2 abstensions) to set the interplanetary firewalls to block out all Earth packets.
Imagine a universe where instead of a mere 95 cable channels, a universe where we could tap into the near limitless broadcasts of other races on other planets. The Andromedan Home Shopping Channel or Mercutian Lifetime Channel for instance. Ah...dare I dream?
Perhaps other races would be interested in conquering us for our media content. Screw your water and mineral resources, we want syndication rights to the Simpsons!
Quotas and caps are not the answer. What they really need is a flexible and *reasonable* billing system based upon fair usage. The problem is that the pricing is based upon overselling available resources. At any rate, the market is self correcting, it will adjust. In the end, users will flock to the system which makes the most of them happy.
This problem reminds me of the late '80s when the phone companies wanted to charge modem users extra since they couldn't multiplex as many modem signals across the same line as they were using all available bandwidth (miniscule though it was at the time).
The truth is an old computer science adage "it depends". It's easy for the casual user to judge Linux as alot faster than Solaris. Linux kicks butt given the demands of a single user while Solaris tends to shine when you get 20 users on some significant piece of hardware.
IMHO, Solaris scales better at present, however, with the new linux kernel changes geared towards the enterprise Linux is evolving very quickly into a real contender. The 2.5 kernel sports block I/O enhancements, new O/(1) scheduler, kernel preemption, new reverse-mapping VM, and thread enhancements just to name a few. Linux is evolving faster than any other operating system out there. The next 5 years should be really fun.
When Star Trek is good, it's about people. That's why my favorite episode is Inner Light. That's why I loved working on First Duty and Final Mission.
I never thought about it that way but you're absolutely right. My absolute favorite episode was The Visitor because it truly captured what the bond between father and son can mean. Yeah, I sound sappy, but I do love my son that much.
As for why Nemesis tanked...sure we're geeks but that doesn't mean we have unlimited time for movies. In an already busy Christmas season we're inundated with several blockbusters at once. We just couldn't make the time to see them all. This, however, bodes well for the Blockbuster rentals and DVD sales. Box office tickets are one measure, but not necessarily the total definitive measure of a successful movie. They'll get their money before it's over.
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e-ink is great if you want to read out in the sun. The 70 buck kindle also fits nicely in my cargo shorts so I can read at the outdoor mall outside Barnes and Nobles while my wife shops, and shops, and (how can they do it), shops...
I switched long ago. Flex was just an personal exploratory activity, not a long term commitment. Sure, I thought about buying it a promise ring, but backed out before I was in too deep. All joking aside, I was pleasantly surprised with the environment built around Flex, and thought that it was much superior to the applet. Why Adobe thought developers would pay for the right to build application effectively on it through FlexBuilder licenses is a New Coke type of decision.
GWT may be great, but Google is too fickle in it's long term support of anything. If I build a significant application around a technology, I want something with longevity. No offense but I hesitate to plug into anything Google for this reason. Just yesterday it seems that Google Wave was going to overtake the world -- and it was cool actually. I'm actually surprised they didn't continue to back it in the form of android or HTML5 technologies aimed at mobile devices and tablets.
AOP.
I once designed a database which used small business acronyms to associate lines of business with their associated profiles. It grew to support 40 million or so customers give or take. Marketing, acquisitions, more marketing has renamed each entity an average of 5 times over the last 15 years. Being a young programmer at the time, I lacked the experience to foresee the amount of corporate churn. It's a mess :-) and we're all idiots and clever at some time or other.
Sounds like Oracle/SUN started making good on those endless @deprecated annotations :-)
Despite the demise or imminent demise of Flex. It did have a superb integrated debugging environment that I have yet to find in the Javascript world. Firebug, however, is getting there but I still find it clunky compared to the other integrated IDEs I have worked with in the past.
Maybe he meant 10 base 2...
In the former German Democratic Republic, thousands of miners were working with Uranium ore. Twenty years earlier they died than the rest of the people, by average.
They should have washed their hands more.
I can hear Darwin's theory of natural selection beckoning me to resign from the gene pool as I salivate and fantasize over my jet engine driven bicycle spewing lightning bolts as I complete my newspaper route with unprecedented speed and precision.... Can you feel it calling you as well?
Moz is instantaneous. Kmail can search GBs of email very fast. Big PGSQL queries complete instantly. In short, I love it!
You should credit the software providers as much as the hardware providers. It sounds like the 1 GB of memory made more difference than the CPU upgrade on the hardware side. Big hardware can make naive algorithms run faster, but there is no substitute for efficient software. It's a damn shame that there's so little of it out there.
At the risk of going off on a tangent here, I've always felt that the programmer should have to spend a bit time on a sub-standard system so that he/she can achieve a perspective on how the software will behave for the *average* user. Programmers can lose perspective sitting behind their dual CPU 2.0 Ghz P4 machine.
Here's something that I inadventently stumbled across. I got sick of listening to redundant messages that rambled on telling me that "Bob isn't home, please leave a message at the beep, yadda yadda yadda". So, my machine simply says "Please leave a message." Telemarketers use computer systems to blanket multiple phone numbers at a time to improve throughput. The short message fools the computer systems into thinking that they are dealing with a real person.
Since the call to my house isn't filtered out by the computer system, it requires human attention and therefore drives up the cost of marketing to my house. I also get lots of "Hello? Hello? May I speak to the man of the house? Hello?". Somehow I achieve a perverse pleasure from this.
Phone spam doesn't bother me nearly as much as email spam. I constantly receive viagra and penis enlargement messages. I guess they've slapped me in the under-endowed impotent demographic. I'm against censorship and government controls, however, these bozos and crooks are destroying the usability of email. Something must be done...
Or perhaps its due to a lack of girlfriend? Geeks with too much time will sometimes do incredible things. You gotta love it!
The purpose of Mensa is to ferret out the super intelligent people. Which property is more significant in these numbers, the fact that 5 is a prime, or that the english/human representation of 8 happens to be symmetrical when folded across the x axis?
Prime numbers are one of the basic messages that humanity sent across the stars. Why? Because it's one of the universal properties likely to be understandable across any language and social barriers.
For 8 to the "correct" answer to the question further erodes my opinion of mensa. Indeed, many questions like this have multiple correct answers, including ones which our Mensa representatives have yet to find.
When writing LISP you're pretty much expressing a parse tree as a program, and yes, LISP does have some advantages when it comes to expressing certain solutions in an elegant manner.
Such a language, much like LISP, might be quite useful with respect to genetic programming.
In addition, a parse tree language which has lots of internal understanding of data flow might make for a good intermediate step in a compiler or perhaps become a better LISP.
It's good to see that Gosling isn't resting on his Java laurels but applying what he's learned in new areas of research.
JavaScript is an ill-conceived hack. 90% of my crashes are due to some problem in JavaScript.
While Netscape made many great contributions to the world of software, JavaScript was not one of them.
Mozilla has the burden of having to be backward compatible to alot of cruft I'd just as soon see go away. I'm pretty sure this contributes to the crash rate you experience here.
I was going to say something really inspirational and uplifting here but my darn browser crashed and I lost my train of thought. Trust me...it was profound.
:-)
Anyway, kudos to the Mozilla team. Long live Mozilla! Cross platform browsers rock!
Hey...I know this is probably a bad venue for a bug report but the new Junk mail filtering doesn't seem to work if you're using movemail. Can you guys take a look at this please
Long ago engineers learned that nature evolves life to adapt to it's environment. We often look to nature for inspiration.
What drives nature? Survival for one. Survival often depends on having a backup so it's no surprise that nature tends to adapt redundant systems.
I have 2 hands in which I can hold a spear or club. I have 2 eyes to identify my potential predators. I have 2 ears to hear them coming. I have two...well you get the picture.
All of this is externally visible. As such, the a jpeg or gif image is likely to capture some quantifiable amount of this externally visible redundancy.
GZip which is being used here to measure visual redundancy in an ingenious manner. It's not entirely surprising that it's working.
It's better to go with a general purpose parser because your needs today are not your needs of tomorrow. Also, you may not use the more advanced
features of XML but what happens when some other
vendor sends you a file which does? What happens when the day you realize that a parser which supports W3C schema is the best thing since sliced bread? What happens when you decide that a parser which supports XPath could have saved you thousands of lines of code?
In Java I plug into something based upon jaxp so that I can seamlessly switch parsers if necessary. And this move saved me loads of trouble when the early version of Xerces started failing after the product went to test. Plugging in Crimson took 5 minutes and worked flawlessly. I imagine that there are similar alternatives (like jaxp) in other languages.
A good rule of thumb:
It's better to have a feature it and not need it than to need a feature it an not have it.
After having detected the signal to noise ratio of Earth and having engaged in heated deliberation for nearly 20 minutes the intergalactic council voted 2,112 to 8 (with 2 abstensions) to set the interplanetary firewalls to block out all Earth packets.
Imagine a universe where instead of a mere 95 cable channels, a universe where we could tap into the near limitless broadcasts of other races on other planets. The Andromedan Home Shopping Channel or Mercutian Lifetime Channel for instance. Ah...dare I dream?
Perhaps other races would be interested in conquering us for our media content. Screw your water and mineral resources, we want syndication rights to the Simpsons!
Quotas and caps are not the answer. What they really need is a flexible and *reasonable* billing system based upon fair usage. The problem is that the pricing is based upon overselling available resources. At any rate, the market is self correcting, it will adjust. In the end, users will flock to the system which makes the most of them happy.
This problem reminds me of the late '80s when the phone companies wanted to charge modem users extra since they couldn't multiplex as many modem signals across the same line as they were using all available bandwidth (miniscule though it was at the time).
why engineering students don't get laid...
"Every time somebody says we're coming into a paperless society, I get 10 more forms to fill out."
Yes, but now you can download them online and print them for yourself.
The truth is an old computer science adage "it depends". It's easy for the casual user to judge Linux as alot faster than Solaris. Linux kicks butt given the demands of a single user while Solaris tends to shine when you get 20 users on some significant piece of hardware.
IMHO, Solaris scales better at present, however, with the new linux kernel changes geared towards the enterprise Linux is evolving very quickly into a real contender. The 2.5 kernel sports block I/O enhancements, new O/(1) scheduler, kernel preemption, new reverse-mapping VM, and thread enhancements just to name a few. Linux is evolving faster than any other operating system out there. The next 5 years should be really fun.
When Star Trek is good, it's about people. That's why my favorite episode is Inner Light. That's why I loved working on First Duty and Final Mission.
I never thought about it that way but you're absolutely right. My absolute favorite episode was The Visitor because it truly captured what the bond between father and son can mean. Yeah, I sound sappy, but I do love my son that much.
As for why Nemesis tanked...sure we're geeks but that doesn't mean we have unlimited time for movies. In an already busy Christmas season we're inundated with several blockbusters at once. We just couldn't make the time to see them all. This, however, bodes well for the Blockbuster rentals and DVD sales. Box office tickets are one measure, but not necessarily the total definitive measure of a successful movie. They'll get their money before it's over.