Or, in this case, MacVim. You get all you nice butterfly-key commands, and the power of Vim. I actually use TextMate for my Rails development for the most part, and MacVim for some things. Maybe Python is the real issue. I don't know, I never liked it enough to go into depth with it. I've had no development, test, or production deployment issues for any of my Ruby, Scala, Scheme, Perl or Clojure development, and my production environments run from OS X Server to Ubuntu to Debian to (occasionally) Solaris.
Seriously, if you can't navigate the discrepencies between multiple environments, you need to "man up and code in the real world," not some academic fairyland where dev and prod environments are identical and Emacs is actually a useful editor.
I think you can easily determine the competence of any programmer by how much they hate their primary language.
It depends as much on the language. I don't trust the competence of any PHP programmer who actually likes PHP... likewise with C++, Java, and several others.
On the other hand... Talk to the true Ruby wizards, and they won't shut up about the glory and wonder of Ruby. It also holds with Smalltalk, some Lisp flavors... and so on.
With machine-centered languages, like C, C++, PL/I, Ada, etc., to truly grok the language comes from doing battle with it. For programmer-centered languages (Ruby, Scala, Smalltalk, etc.), to truly grok the language comes from loving it for every little quirk
Then you have the languages objectionable to both programmer and machine (BASIC, Pascal, COBOL), which one doesn't discuss in polite company.
You really can start anywhere, and I also recommend the Tom Baker years, or the beginning of the new (2005) series.
It really doesn't matter, however; there's a reason the Torchwood writers had a running gag about wiping people's memories with a drug called 'Retcon'.
... Apple is offering a technical solution to the problem.
Creating technical solutions to social problems is the Geek Way.
I had a problem with my roommates flipping a switch (with no lights or anything connected) that cut power to everything in my server rack. I could have has a "house meeting" or something, but it seemed much more efficient to solve the problem with a wire nut and take the switch out of the loop.
Never engage in social interaction when a simple hack will suffice, or the terrorists win.
By your logic, Windows is the 'most important' OS because of its installed base.
I call bullshit.
Importance == influence and innovation far more than importance == installed base. And the GNU/Linux OS concepts Debian pioneered were 'the shape of things to come' in many ways, from APT to/etc organization to their FHS implementation.
Debian still continues to be an important and rock-solid distro. I like Ubuntu on the desktop, but on the server, give me Debian any day. And if you really want the latest and greatest packages.. just run testing already.
RHEL had a large installed base in 'enterprisey' scenarios because they were the first to offer corporate support contracts, and spread their own share of FUD about other vendors/distros. I was forced to use it at work until we finally convinced the higher-ups to let us use Debian on our purely internal boxen, Ubuntu on production Linux servers (just in case we needed 'corporate support,' there's Canonical)... there's a reason sysadmins refer to RHEL as 'Red Hell'.
Nowhere does it say anything about screen resolution. Why is it that people seem to think that the physical size (in inches) of the screen is the only thing that matters?
I always ask the same question about women.
Baby, I know it don't look big, but it can do 2560x1440 at 32bpp and 120 fps!
You are the problem, not the solution. It *is not* your system. It exists solely for the use of "users".
Except that, it Is *my* system, or at least, my employer's. IT decides who gets to use it, what their privileges will be, when to grant and revoke access... That's the problem, users who think the systems they access belong to them. In any sort of enterprise environment (i.e., one where there exists such a thing as a sysadmin), the system exists solely for business reasons, some of which include/require access by end-users. But that's an unfortunate coincidence, which we do our best day-in and day-out to minimize.
If our primitive ancestors were seeing meat, it meant hunting was done, and they didn't have to worry about getting trampled by a wooly mammoth for a few days. Talk about your stress relief...
Very true. I started the new app I'm developing at work on Rails 3/ruby 1.9.2 b/c I needed newer features... but there are no plans to stop developing Rails 2.3.x or Ruby 1.8.x for the immediate future.
Servers exist for a reason, there are people (called system administrators) who can specialize in making sure the server software you're accessing, your data, etc. all are secure and have 99% uptime.
The whole "client/server" paradigm is so 1969.
Besides, as one of these so-called 'system-administrators,' I'd like to point out that The People In Charge are determined to ensure that neither the software, data, or anything else will be anything like secure, nor have 99% uptime, by running Windows Server everywhere. The people who buy servers don't have to run them, and don't make their purchasing decisions on technical considerations. The people who run the servers keep things patched together with random Linux boxen running kludgey Perl scripts that the powers-that-be neither know nor care about. And you wonder why people would prefer to just have their own little server on their home internet connection. My router is a broken laptop running Ubuntu Server. Took a couple hours to get up and running, beats the hell out of a Linksys router, and oh, look, I can run Apache on it! You don't need a sysadmin for one home server. You need a sysadmin for a farm of incompatible systems that break all the time.
I have friends who are very intelligent people who are very accomplished in non-computing fields who use virus and adware-ridden Windows machines. I don't suspect they're interested in taking the time necessary to fully secure a server that holds a digital representation of their life.
Really? Have you installed Ubuntu lately? It's easier than installing Windows!
So this idea of a total peer-to-peer networking is not an approach I think we should pursue, not because it's not technically achievable (it totally is), but because it's not practical on a social level. This is reflected in the difference between Appleseed's approach to open source social networking and Diaspora's: Appleseed uses a federated node structure, and Diaspora claims to use a P2P...but I worry that if we push for Moglen's approach, we may see a small ghetto of tech savvy users who adopt it, while everyone else chooses to remain with the proprietary systems, because they're just that much less hassle.
So it wouldn't make sense to do a compatibility layer between the two systems, to allow for interconnection between those who are either lazy or unsophisticated, and those who take their free software/cypherpunk zealotry to hitherto undreamt-of levels? Hell, how hard would that protocol be? OpenSSL and some XML feeds?
"One who would code for the lazy and unsophisticated must take care that he does not thereby become lazy and unsophisticated." -- Nietzsche's ghost
It makes much more sense to me to push for federated, hosted solutions, so that an ecosystem of servers (administered by professionals) can exist, and users can move freely between them.
Technocratic apparatchik. Actually, I think I've called you that before!:-)
In fact, all of those are being addressed in an open source, open standard, open protocol distirbuted social networking platform currently in early beta:
You can already download the source, put it on your webserver, and connect to the rest of the appleseed network. It's not ready for prime time, but the potential is definitely there.
I think Facebook will be around for a while, but the writing's on the wall: "You have been weighed in the balance and found wanting."
Slashdot Mirror
+1 for sarcasm
Or, in this case, MacVim. You get all you nice butterfly-key commands, and the power of Vim. I actually use TextMate for my Rails development for the most part, and MacVim for some things. Maybe Python is the real issue. I don't know, I never liked it enough to go into depth with it. I've had no development, test, or production deployment issues for any of my Ruby, Scala, Scheme, Perl or Clojure development, and my production environments run from OS X Server to Ubuntu to Debian to (occasionally) Solaris.
Seriously, if you can't navigate the discrepencies between multiple environments, you need to "man up and code in the real world," not some academic fairyland where dev and prod environments are identical and Emacs is actually a useful editor.
I think you can easily determine the competence of any programmer by how much they hate their primary language.
It depends as much on the language. I don't trust the competence of any PHP programmer who actually likes PHP... likewise with C++, Java, and several others.
On the other hand... Talk to the true Ruby wizards, and they won't shut up about the glory and wonder of Ruby. It also holds with Smalltalk, some Lisp flavors... and so on.
With machine-centered languages, like C, C++, PL/I, Ada, etc., to truly grok the language comes from doing battle with it. For programmer-centered languages (Ruby, Scala, Smalltalk, etc.), to truly grok the language comes from loving it for every little quirk
Then you have the languages objectionable to both programmer and machine (BASIC, Pascal, COBOL), which one doesn't discuss in polite company.
It really doesn't matter, however; there's a reason the Torchwood writers had a running gag about wiping people's memories with a drug called 'Retcon'.
... Apple is offering a technical solution to the problem.
Creating technical solutions to social problems is the Geek Way.
I had a problem with my roommates flipping a switch (with no lights or anything connected) that cut power to everything in my server rack. I could have has a "house meeting" or something, but it seemed much more efficient to solve the problem with a wire nut and take the switch out of the loop.
Never engage in social interaction when a simple hack will suffice, or the terrorists win.
it's an errand boy sent by grocery clerks* to collect a bill.
*multinational corporations
I call bullshit.
Importance == influence and innovation far more than importance == installed base. And the GNU/Linux OS concepts Debian pioneered were 'the shape of things to come' in many ways, from APT to /etc organization to their FHS implementation.
Debian still continues to be an important and rock-solid distro. I like Ubuntu on the desktop, but on the server, give me Debian any day. And if you really want the latest and greatest packages.. just run testing already.
RHEL had a large installed base in 'enterprisey' scenarios because they were the first to offer corporate support contracts, and spread their own share of FUD about other vendors/distros. I was forced to use it at work until we finally convinced the higher-ups to let us use Debian on our purely internal boxen, Ubuntu on production Linux servers (just in case we needed 'corporate support,' there's Canonical)... there's a reason sysadmins refer to RHEL as 'Red Hell'.
...is 4chan.org
jeezus, do we need a Turing Test for gamers now?
Nowhere does it say anything about screen resolution. Why is it that people seem to think that the physical size (in inches) of the screen is the only thing that matters?
I always ask the same question about women.
Baby, I know it don't look big, but it can do 2560x1440 at 32bpp and 120 fps!
Microsoft canned a product because it was buggy and didn't work properly? Must be a first.
It's like watching your baby grow up and leave home...
I couldn't help crying a little when they gave APNIC 103.0.0.0/8
Rupert Murdoch said that The Daily offers 'unthinkable innovations' to the world of publishing.
Rupert Murdoch and News Corporation: always setting out to do the unthinkable.
Since my Gmail account is technically in Mountain View, can I sue for damages?
You are the problem, not the solution. It *is not* your system. It exists solely for the use of "users".
Except that, it Is *my* system, or at least, my employer's. IT decides who gets to use it, what their privileges will be, when to grant and revoke access... That's the problem, users who think the systems they access belong to them. In any sort of enterprise environment (i.e., one where there exists such a thing as a sysadmin), the system exists solely for business reasons, some of which include/require access by end-users. But that's an unfortunate coincidence, which we do our best day-in and day-out to minimize.
You're welcome.
If our primitive ancestors were seeing meat, it meant hunting was done, and they didn't have to worry about getting trampled by a wooly mammoth for a few days. Talk about your stress relief...
Very true. I started the new app I'm developing at work on Rails 3/ruby 1.9.2 b/c I needed newer features... but there are no plans to stop developing Rails 2.3.x or Ruby 1.8.x for the immediate future.
The MPAA needs to learn the Rules of the Internet.
Ignorance of the law is no defense.
If DDOS attacks are suddenly legal, there are a fuckton of servers I want to point at the MPAA right now.
you could do that... but it would be better just to refactor and take advantage of lazy-loading queries using the new finder methods.
it is for now... but it will be a deprecated 3.1 app, and a completely borked 3.2 app: http://m.onkey.org/2010/1/22/active-record-query-interface
Watch, now that I said that... the next hot new product == facebook.com/b/
Servers exist for a reason, there are people (called system administrators) who can specialize in making sure the server software you're accessing, your data, etc. all are secure and have 99% uptime.
The whole "client/server" paradigm is so 1969.
Besides, as one of these so-called 'system-administrators,' I'd like to point out that The People In Charge are determined to ensure that neither the software, data, or anything else will be anything like secure, nor have 99% uptime, by running Windows Server everywhere. The people who buy servers don't have to run them, and don't make their purchasing decisions on technical considerations. The people who run the servers keep things patched together with random Linux boxen running kludgey Perl scripts that the powers-that-be neither know nor care about. And you wonder why people would prefer to just have their own little server on their home internet connection. My router is a broken laptop running Ubuntu Server. Took a couple hours to get up and running, beats the hell out of a Linksys router, and oh, look, I can run Apache on it! You don't need a sysadmin for one home server. You need a sysadmin for a farm of incompatible systems that break all the time.
I have friends who are very intelligent people who are very accomplished in non-computing fields who use virus and adware-ridden Windows machines. I don't suspect they're interested in taking the time necessary to fully secure a server that holds a digital representation of their life.
Really? Have you installed Ubuntu lately? It's easier than installing Windows!
So this idea of a total peer-to-peer networking is not an approach I think we should pursue, not because it's not technically achievable (it totally is), but because it's not practical on a social level. This is reflected in the difference between Appleseed's approach to open source social networking and Diaspora's: Appleseed uses a federated node structure, and Diaspora claims to use a P2P...but I worry that if we push for Moglen's approach, we may see a small ghetto of tech savvy users who adopt it, while everyone else chooses to remain with the proprietary systems, because they're just that much less hassle.
So it wouldn't make sense to do a compatibility layer between the two systems, to allow for interconnection between those who are either lazy or unsophisticated, and those who take their free software/cypherpunk zealotry to hitherto undreamt-of levels? Hell, how hard would that protocol be? OpenSSL and some XML feeds?
"One who would code for the lazy and unsophisticated must take care that he does not thereby become lazy and unsophisticated." -- Nietzsche's ghost
It makes much more sense to me to push for federated, hosted solutions, so that an ecosystem of servers (administered by professionals) can exist, and users can move freely between them.
Technocratic apparatchik. Actually, I think I've called you that before! :-)
I'd like to shake his hand.
The Appleseed Project
You can already download the source, put it on your webserver, and connect to the rest of the appleseed network. It's not ready for prime time, but the potential is definitely there.
I think Facebook will be around for a while, but the writing's on the wall: "You have been weighed in the balance and found wanting."