As the technical owner of a realtime derivative pricing service in a large investment bank, i can report that graduates are perfectly capable of doing work in complex multithreaded applications! obviously, the right level of support, review and testing needs to be in place, but when doesn't it?
technology stack - lots of java for middle tier business logic and distribution, C++ for core pricing algorithms.
This is true for formal references, but if you work in quite a close-knit industry then people tend to know someone that they can tap for an informal word.
Hmmm... we've got all age and date related data off the CVs now, guess the name will be the next step.
I just checked, and C# apparently uses reference-count garbage collection. erm... no. the CLR implements a mark-sweep-compact generational GC pretty much like Java's.
these don't have any problems with circular reference structures - if it can't be reached from a root and marked, it'll get collected.
still just a blunder, as you say.
this article should be binned - misleading title and nothing but a puff-piece for a profiler. i much prefer YourKit, incidentally:-)
don't split things up and string them on an untested distributed "restart" architecture. this will fuck you over and be a constant source of pain.
get the core code right through testing, purify, using safe libraries where possible, ensuring that data meets constraints before commits, etc. i don't think C++ is noticably more error-prone than any other language (although memory alloc is harder without GC, it's still a solved problem - smart pointer abstractions to obviate problems, purify to catch things you miss... etc).
of course, real men look back at the mini-CD adaptors that tiny CD singles required on very old CD players with something halfway between arousal and nostalgia.
sorry to sound all supportive and everything, but JP comes across as a pretty together person - certainly more sane than most of the script kiddies out there. more power to him.
the only way to protect your children in this sort of arena is to either keep them out of it (when young enough) or to bring them up to be sufficiently responsible (when they get smart enough - and they will in spades).
oh, and AFAIKS this article is bang in the middle of slashdot's charter. moral responsibility - after a bare minimum - is not/.'s job. interesting tech articles are. this is one.
Anyways, the most successful Cyberpunk story of this year was definetly the Matrix, which does not fit into the definition of his post- class by a longshot. And the next cyberpunk movie is probably going to be the film version of Neuromancer (barring the Matrix sequels).
So film-makers are stealing ideas from 20 year old science fiction? Move along, nothing new to see here - the mainstream is inevitably some way behind the "cutting edge", and cinema is a medium which requires mainstream capital to back it up. I don't think that your counter-example is a good one.
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As the technical owner of a realtime derivative pricing service in a large investment bank, i can report that graduates are perfectly capable of doing work in complex multithreaded applications! obviously, the right level of support, review and testing needs to be in place, but when doesn't it?
technology stack - lots of java for middle tier business logic and distribution, C++ for core pricing algorithms.
This is true for formal references, but if you work in quite a close-knit industry then people tend to know someone that they can tap for an informal word.
Hmmm... we've got all age and date related data off the CVs now, guess the name will be the next step.
i knew a developer who had RSI and bought footpedals for emacs (mapped to M- and C-, if I remember correctly, although I think there were others).
ofc, i'm more of an xemacs man myself:-)
these don't have any problems with circular reference structures - if it can't be reached from a root and marked, it'll get collected.
still just a blunder, as you say.
this article should be binned - misleading title and nothing but a puff-piece for a profiler. i much prefer YourKit, incidentally:-)
the cathartic depths of great literature
bwahahahahah.
Please don't hold the third one against me
no chance, i switched off after the mispelt voracious...
don't split things up and string them on an untested distributed "restart" architecture. this will fuck you over and be a constant source of pain.
get the core code right through testing, purify, using safe libraries where possible, ensuring that data meets constraints before commits, etc. i don't think C++ is noticably more error-prone than any other language (although memory alloc is harder without GC, it's still a solved problem - smart pointer abstractions to obviate problems, purify to catch things you miss... etc).
hey, arthur carved the letters himself - he might have fucked up the letter frequencies... :-)
hmmm...
dear blizzard, have you stopped beating your wife yet?
i'm sure i have a 2nd edition copy of the DMG somewhere. never caught on - who'd call magic-users mages, ffs?
bleh.
wrong: iostream and friends are part of the C++ standard. printf and friends are part of ANSI C.
right: prototype OOP - odd at first, but powerful.
wrong: your example. nowt that isn't more suited to a lisp dialect...
right: going home and drinking booze.
my $0.
of course, real men look back at the mini-CD adaptors that tiny CD singles required on very old CD players with something halfway between arousal and nostalgia.
or maybe that's just me...
maybe 100 years ago.
anyone who thinks the times is the most "non-tabloid" is mad. well, except in the "not tabloid format" sense, i guess.
pete
sorry to sound all supportive and everything, but JP comes across as a pretty together person - certainly more sane than most of the script kiddies out there. more power to him.
/.'s job. interesting tech articles are. this is one.
the only way to protect your children in this sort of arena is to either keep them out of it (when young enough) or to bring them up to be sufficiently responsible (when they get smart enough - and they will in spades).
oh, and AFAIKS this article is bang in the middle of slashdot's charter. moral responsibility - after a bare minimum - is not
cheers
pete23, reality on demand
sigh.... sad sci-fi spod moment: it ain't *harry*...
Anyways, the most successful Cyberpunk story of this year was definetly the Matrix, which does not fit into the definition of his post- class by a longshot. And the next cyberpunk movie is probably going to be the film version of Neuromancer (barring the Matrix sequels).
So film-makers are stealing ideas from 20 year old science fiction? Move along, nothing new to see here - the mainstream is inevitably some way behind the "cutting edge", and cinema is a medium which requires mainstream capital to back it up. I don't think that your counter-example is a good one.
makes a change from drug smuggling and supporting oppressive regimes, i s'pose.
pete23 - reality on demand