I'm always amazed when Anonymous Coward is able to solve, by thought alone, problems that all of NASA is only able to solve by tedious experimentation, and the collection and analysis of empirical data.
I totally agree with you there, that's the main reason I've never done more than glance at Objective-C.
I doubt you've even glanced at it, else you'd realize it's not a proprietary language controlled and distributed by one company, but as open as C, upon which it is built. Used extensively by and controlled by are not the same thing. (Admittedly, NeXT tried to make the Obj-C front end proprietary, but Stallman sicced his hippy lawyers on them to make sure it stayed GPLed). And I think you're doing yourself a disservice by not exploring it a bit, at least enough to make informed comments in public about it. I immediately found it very expressive and flexible, akin to Python, though sometimes a bit verbose.
JavaScript is a fad that's on its way out. The same thing happened to Ruby due to Ruby on Rails. The Ruby hype really started taking off around 2006, but by 2010 people realized how shitty Ruby and RoR actually are. That's why we hear almost nothing about either of them these days. The same thing is happening to JavaScript, although it's delayed slightly. It really started taking off around 2008, so it's a couple of years behind Ruby. By 2013, it's likely that JavaScript and its advocates will be widely shunned, too.
2008? JavaScript gained widespread popularity around mid-1996, so by your reckoning it should have faded away sometime in 2001. Like all languages, JavaScript has its warts and WTF moments, but it is the poor craftsman who blames his tools, especially if those tools are being used by millions of other craftsman around the world to create all manner of novel and useful applications (to admittedly varying levels of quality, but again that's more about the developer's skill level than the language itself). Solving the JavaScript problem is a simple five-step process, though: create the One Perfect Language, convince the major browser manufacturers to include a flawless implementation, get all of the current JS developers to learn to code in it correctly, rewrite all existing codebases in it, and make the entire world upgrade their browsers. Done! Now, what's for lunch...?
Can you please list all of the sites that break in the latest Firefox? And don't just speculate vaguely on what those sites may be, but actually list broken sites, so we can confirm.
Gentoo is for sissies who like having their hands held and bottoms wiped. Real men - you know, the kind with beards and repulsive body odor - use Linux From Scratch.
Yer right, friend from 1993. If it don't fit on a floppy, it's leaky, slow bloatware!! (Oh, and I expect you'll be posting the charts and data proving the slowness and memory leaks as soon as you compile them, as well as the embarrassment surveys you took among the Linux community) And oh, yea - isn't it embarrassing for you to be posting such heated remarks about Linux from your parents's Windows PC?
Hmmm. Everything also tastes better with bacon. So the question is: does putting real maple syrup on your bacon cause them to improve one another's flavors until your breakfast reaches a maximum recursion limit?
Pick up a book called El Sicario if you want the answer to those question directly from someone who once was an assassin for one of the cartels in Juarez. It's a fascinating and quick read. (Disclaimer: I am neither a drug kingpin nor a former cartel assassin.)
Likewise, everyone should drop their phone company and set up their own CLEC. Or maybe everyone else isn't a socially hostile and ultra paranoid geek and are willing to trade information that's publicly available anyway for a convenient and centralized site for social interaction.
I seem to get over things a hell of a lot faster than the media does.
Apparently not. You're still on about Michael Jackson's death, which happened over two years ago, and you're still on about the media coverage of it, which, by your own admission, ended a "a couple of months" after he died. Sigh. If only the media and the rest of the world, i.e., "everyone who is dumb...which is most of the population incidentally" would adopt Mr. Big-brained Anonymous Coward's list of things to discuss...
Oh, yea...I'm guessing you're one of those guys that gets really upset when someone uses the term "irony" incorrectly. You have just given a perfect example of it. Which, if my assumption stands, is doubly ironic.
Velcro was serendipitously invented almost two decades before NASA was. From the Wikipedia article: "As Velcro only became widely used after NASA's adoption of it, NASA is popularly -- and improperly -- credited with its invention." And though research into heating dielectric materials with high-energy electrical fields had been previously researched, the heating effect of microwaves was also serendipitously discovered by a guy working on radar for Raytheon. So, both inventions were exactly things that were created and only later found a niche. Nice try, though.
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I'm always amazed when Anonymous Coward is able to solve, by thought alone, problems that all of NASA is only able to solve by tedious experimentation, and the collection and analysis of empirical data.
I totally agree with you there, that's the main reason I've never done more than glance at Objective-C.
I doubt you've even glanced at it, else you'd realize it's not a proprietary language controlled and distributed by one company, but as open as C, upon which it is built. Used extensively by and controlled by are not the same thing. (Admittedly, NeXT tried to make the Obj-C front end proprietary, but Stallman sicced his hippy lawyers on them to make sure it stayed GPLed). And I think you're doing yourself a disservice by not exploring it a bit, at least enough to make informed comments in public about it. I immediately found it very expressive and flexible, akin to Python, though sometimes a bit verbose.
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...import his private and public keys into the local database...
That's what they want you to think....
JavaScript is a fad that's on its way out. The same thing happened to Ruby due to Ruby on Rails. The Ruby hype really started taking off around 2006, but by 2010 people realized how shitty Ruby and RoR actually are. That's why we hear almost nothing about either of them these days. The same thing is happening to JavaScript, although it's delayed slightly. It really started taking off around 2008, so it's a couple of years behind Ruby. By 2013, it's likely that JavaScript and its advocates will be widely shunned, too.
2008? JavaScript gained widespread popularity around mid-1996, so by your reckoning it should have faded away sometime in 2001. Like all languages, JavaScript has its warts and WTF moments, but it is the poor craftsman who blames his tools, especially if those tools are being used by millions of other craftsman around the world to create all manner of novel and useful applications (to admittedly varying levels of quality, but again that's more about the developer's skill level than the language itself). Solving the JavaScript problem is a simple five-step process, though: create the One Perfect Language, convince the major browser manufacturers to include a flawless implementation, get all of the current JS developers to learn to code in it correctly, rewrite all existing codebases in it, and make the entire world upgrade their browsers. Done! Now, what's for lunch...?
I believe it's Dan Aykroyd's house in the 1981 film Neighbors (a film that could have been great but suffered too many rewrites).
Can you please list all of the sites that break in the latest Firefox? And don't just speculate vaguely on what those sites may be, but actually list broken sites, so we can confirm.
...and not in a cramped tin box sitting next to a stranger.
Speak for yourself.
Whoosh!
Gentoo is for sissies who like having their hands held and bottoms wiped. Real men - you know, the kind with beards and repulsive body odor - use Linux From Scratch.
Yer right, friend from 1993. If it don't fit on a floppy, it's leaky, slow bloatware!! (Oh, and I expect you'll be posting the charts and data proving the slowness and memory leaks as soon as you compile them, as well as the embarrassment surveys you took among the Linux community) And oh, yea - isn't it embarrassing for you to be posting such heated remarks about Linux from your parents's Windows PC?
Hmmm. Everything also tastes better with bacon. So the question is: does putting real maple syrup on your bacon cause them to improve one another's flavors until your breakfast reaches a maximum recursion limit?
Pick up a book called El Sicario if you want the answer to those question directly from someone who once was an assassin for one of the cartels in Juarez. It's a fascinating and quick read. (Disclaimer: I am neither a drug kingpin nor a former cartel assassin.)
Remember when the Nazis tried that?
When did Vancouver become part of the US? Did I miss some recent war between the US and Canada?
Likewise, everyone should drop their phone company and set up their own CLEC. Or maybe everyone else isn't a socially hostile and ultra paranoid geek and are willing to trade information that's publicly available anyway for a convenient and centralized site for social interaction.
Apparently not. You're still on about Michael Jackson's death, which happened over two years ago, and you're still on about the media coverage of it, which, by your own admission, ended a "a couple of months" after he died. Sigh. If only the media and the rest of the world, i.e., "everyone who is dumb...which is most of the population incidentally" would adopt Mr. Big-brained Anonymous Coward's list of things to discuss...
Oh, yea...I'm guessing you're one of those guys that gets really upset when someone uses the term "irony" incorrectly. You have just given a perfect example of it. Which, if my assumption stands, is doubly ironic.
If what you develop on your Mac fails because another system has a case-sensitive filesystem, then you, too, have developed in a sloppy manner.
Are they?
Cheers to the birth of inventor of lickerish (not to be confused with licorice)!
Jay Walkers was framed!!
I think you mean WALL ST and BROADWAY.
Velcro was serendipitously invented almost two decades before NASA was. From the Wikipedia article: "As Velcro only became widely used after NASA's adoption of it, NASA is popularly -- and improperly -- credited with its invention." And though research into heating dielectric materials with high-energy electrical fields had been previously researched, the heating effect of microwaves was also serendipitously discovered by a guy working on radar for Raytheon. So, both inventions were exactly things that were created and only later found a niche. Nice try, though.
Yea, but only once per domain, and then it's cached by your machine.
UDRC, because you can be