Yet it is the "red" states that get more from the feds than they pay in and the "blue" states that do not, which means that those "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" states are welfare states.
The whole blue/red state thing is a stupid divisive tool.
Outside of 4-5 counties, Washington is deep red, although with a strong libertarian bend. Remove Whatcom county at the Canadian Border down to Thurston Country at the south of Puget Sound and Washington is no different and just as backwards as Idaho.
You mean the hundreds of large companies that employ people to work on the Linux kernel because Linux is such an important part of their business?
That Linux?
What does a kernel have to do with the success on the desktop? If you want to talk about a complete OS, the kernel is but one piece and I challenge you to find a mainstream Linux distro that is more difficult to install than Windows.
I just built a new machine a few month back that I dual boot. I had OpenSUSE installed, fully configured including drivers, dev tools(even third party tools like RubyMine) and updated inside 45 minutes.
After 45 minutes, Windows 7 wasn't even 10% done with updates, much less have useful drivers and apps on it.
None of that has anything to do with the subject at hand: the Linux kernel is an example of a successful project where its devs are scattered to the wind, and unlike a company that lets its programmers work at home, Linux devs are employed by many competing interests, that Linus successfully wrangles them to keep the kernel functional and coherent is a testament to his abilities as a project manager.
Claiming that the Linux kernel isn't one of the biggest successes is to ignore the reality that it runs everywhere, from the smallest machines to the most powerful supercomputing clusters and is a success on two planets.
I know a university that has an entire class B block and they claim that they need them because they pass them out to anyone connecting to wifi on campus. In reality they could get by with maybe 20 addresses, at most.
Yup, connect your laptop on campus and you have an internet routable address.
Just because you didn't need them, that doesn't mean everyone with depression could get by. It is dangerous and stupid to take your case and apply it to all.
Some people don't have any side-effects taking an anti-depressant and someone else might feel like they got hit by a wrecking ball. I have known people taking the same medication react completely differently. I know without a doubt that one of my friends would have been long dead without antidepressants and she is functional and productive because of them and the side effects she gets are very minor.
SSRI's do kind of suck though. SNRI's and NaSSa's are usually better when SSRI's either don't work or cause bad side-effects.
According that Apple only had net revenue of $42.1 billion. So that's like our 30k household finding $320 in the couch. A rather nice day I'm sure.
Not really. $320 is a lot of food money for the family living on $30,000.
It may be the same percentage, but after a certain amount, it doesn't affect your lifestyle(or business) in any real sense.
You think that if Bill Gates lost 1/2 billion overnight, his life would change at all?
I guarantee that the family will feel the loss of $320 far more than Gates or Apple losing $500,000,000.
The fine is a joke. The US needs to start adding in punitive damages to corporate bad behaviour. Off the cuff numbers: If the price fixing gave Apple $1 billion in profit, the fine should be $4 billion.
Even with the fines, it is more profitable to behave badly than it is to be honest. Apple would do it all over again, except try a little harder to get away with it.
The fact that a pesky little thing called freedom of association escaped him. It was made all the more sad that he failed to understand that being a dirty commie, is not in itself illegal.
Lambdas are far more useful than simply abstracting loops, which are an abstraction itself. You can actually pass in code to other methods so you don't have to use retardation like Comparable and Comparator to endlessly repeat yourself for each search or sort you want to perform that differs from the default implementation. At least interfaces can have implementation, that is a small improvement.
In Ruby because C# makes me feel dirty: array.sort #default sort array.sort {|l,r| rl} # reverse sort, pretending that reverse doesn't exist array.sort{|l,r| l.some_valr.some_value}
Pre-Java 8, that was a painful thing to do. More usefully you can now use lambdas instead instead of the nasty boilerplate of anonymous classes to clean up your code for things like listeners.
Spend some time in Scala or JRuby and find out that you can do a lot, cleanly, concisely, easy to maintain and in a tenth of the LOC that Java requires. It will make your Java code better.
And no Java generics suck because of type erasure leading to this senselessness:
ArrayList myStrings = new ArrayList(); ... String tmp = (String)myStrings.get(0);
What a joke.
There are tools in IDE's to take care of the boilerplate but it still exists and still needs to be maintained.
What cracks me up are Java accessors and mutators that don't do any thing other than store and retrieve a value.
public void setIdiocy(SomeType idiot) { this.idiot=idiot; }
Just make the fields public, it is the same thing.
Well if Oracle succeeds they will get sued because a fair amount of the method headers in the API's are exactly the same as function headers in C or C++.
It is not implementation that Oracle is trying to protect, but function/method headers which are no different than a table of contents or an ingredient list in a recipe, neither of which of copy-writable.
Once the number of games that will run on Linux reaches a tipping point, a lot of gamers, who build their own rigs any way will start moving to Linux because Windows is a ball-ache to keep clean and is an unnecessary expense. There is a reason MS is giving away Windows 10 for free for a year and it is not because of any altruism. They are trying to cock-block Steam from succeeding in their Linux push.
Gamers are about the last portion of the home PC market that MS has locked in.
I am not sure what she is whining about, the RIAA members give very little money to the artists, using the term artist very loosely as it rarely describes RIAA acts, especially bland, uninspired crap like Taylor Swift.
Many acts are in debt to a major label even after a moderately successful album.
She should be used to getting reamed without lube.
Slashdot Mirror
Why should we be thinking of his parents? It won't help.
The magazines the wife reads are 90% ads. She sometimes has to flip 5-10 pages of nothing but ads to continue reading.
I can't believe anyone actually uses that to try and guilt people into not blocking ads.
Yet it is the "red" states that get more from the feds than they pay in and the "blue" states that do not, which means that those "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" states are welfare states.
The whole blue/red state thing is a stupid divisive tool.
Outside of 4-5 counties, Washington is deep red, although with a strong libertarian bend. Remove Whatcom county at the Canadian Border down to Thurston Country at the south of Puget Sound and Washington is no different and just as backwards as Idaho.
You mean the hundreds of large companies that employ people to work on the Linux kernel because Linux is such an important part of their business?
That Linux?
What does a kernel have to do with the success on the desktop? If you want to talk about a complete OS, the kernel is but one piece and I challenge you to find a mainstream Linux distro that is more difficult to install than Windows.
I just built a new machine a few month back that I dual boot. I had OpenSUSE installed, fully configured including drivers, dev tools(even third party tools like RubyMine) and updated inside 45 minutes.
After 45 minutes, Windows 7 wasn't even 10% done with updates, much less have useful drivers and apps on it.
None of that has anything to do with the subject at hand: the Linux kernel is an example of a successful project where its devs are scattered to the wind, and unlike a company that lets its programmers work at home, Linux devs are employed by many competing interests, that Linus successfully wrangles them to keep the kernel functional and coherent is a testament to his abilities as a project manager.
Claiming that the Linux kernel isn't one of the biggest successes is to ignore the reality that it runs everywhere, from the smallest machines to the most powerful supercomputing clusters and is a success on two planets.
Even if the average skill level of the workforce tripled, there would still be standouts.
Was the OP claiming to be a billionaire?
Its called keeping busy. If a person feels that they have a purpose in life after retirement, they tend to live longer, all other things being equal.
I know a university that has an entire class B block and they claim that they need them because they pass them out to anyone connecting to wifi on campus. In reality they could get by with maybe 20 addresses, at most.
Yup, connect your laptop on campus and you have an internet routable address.
There is lots of address waste.
Blaming SSRI's is just as lazy and ignorant as blaming guns.
Just because you didn't need them, that doesn't mean everyone with depression could get by. It is dangerous and stupid to take your case and apply it to all.
Some people don't have any side-effects taking an anti-depressant and someone else might feel like they got hit by a wrecking ball. I have known people taking the same medication react completely differently. I know without a doubt that one of my friends would have been long dead without antidepressants and she is functional and productive because of them and the side effects she gets are very minor.
SSRI's do kind of suck though. SNRI's and NaSSa's are usually better when SSRI's either don't work or cause bad side-effects.
According that Apple only had net revenue of $42.1 billion. So that's like our 30k household finding $320 in the couch. A rather nice day I'm sure.
Not really. $320 is a lot of food money for the family living on $30,000.
It may be the same percentage, but after a certain amount, it doesn't affect your lifestyle(or business) in any real sense.
You think that if Bill Gates lost 1/2 billion overnight, his life would change at all?
I guarantee that the family will feel the loss of $320 far more than Gates or Apple losing $500,000,000.
The fine is a joke. The US needs to start adding in punitive damages to corporate bad behaviour. Off the cuff numbers: If the price fixing gave Apple $1 billion in profit, the fine should be $4 billion.
Even with the fines, it is more profitable to behave badly than it is to be honest. Apple would do it all over again, except try a little harder to get away with it.
Yeah, that is funny.
The fact that a pesky little thing called freedom of association escaped him. It was made all the more sad that he failed to understand that being a dirty commie, is not in itself illegal.
Things started to really devolve after McCarthy's witch, I mean red hunts.
Damn slashdot ate my ruby code in my first post. Between the l and r is supposed to be the "spaceship" operator.
The comparator is a bad thing and something that is no longer needed.
That is excess boilerplate which you seem to not understand.
A mutator that does nothing than store the value passed into it is exactly like exposing public variables. There is no difference at all.
Being able to hide the name of a variable is hardly of any value.
String tmp = myStrings.get(0);
The compiler will issue a warning because Java is as stupid as C++
You keep proving over and over that Java programmers are no better than the PHP clowns, you're just a bunch of API monkeys.
for and while loops are syntactic sugar for GOTO's.
What do you think they compile down to?
smh
Lambdas are far more useful than simply abstracting loops, which are an abstraction itself. You can actually pass in code to other methods so you don't have to use retardation like Comparable and Comparator to endlessly repeat yourself for each search or sort you want to perform that differs from the default implementation. At least interfaces can have implementation, that is a small improvement.
In Ruby because C# makes me feel dirty:
array.sort #default sort
array.sort {|l,r| rl} # reverse sort, pretending that reverse doesn't exist
array.sort{|l,r| l.some_valr.some_value}
Pre-Java 8, that was a painful thing to do. More usefully you can now use lambdas instead instead of the nasty boilerplate of anonymous classes to clean up your code for things like listeners.
Spend some time in Scala or JRuby and find out that you can do a lot, cleanly, concisely, easy to maintain and in a tenth of the LOC that Java requires. It will make your Java code better.
And no Java generics suck because of type erasure leading to this senselessness:
ArrayList myStrings = new ArrayList();
String tmp = (String)myStrings.get(0);
What a joke.
There are tools in IDE's to take care of the boilerplate but it still exists and still needs to be maintained.
What cracks me up are Java accessors and mutators that don't do any thing other than store and retrieve a value.
public void setIdiocy(SomeType idiot) {
this.idiot=idiot;
}
Just make the fields public, it is the same thing.
Well if Oracle succeeds they will get sued because a fair amount of the method headers in the API's are exactly the same as function headers in C or C++.
It is not implementation that Oracle is trying to protect, but function/method headers which are no different than a table of contents or an ingredient list in a recipe, neither of which of copy-writable.
What?
Joel is talking about moving your code to a new platform not updating your application.
Moving your code to the new shiny means that you aren't moving and are spending a lot of time and money not moving.
He is saying don't move to .NET, stick with VB6 so you can continue to add features.
It is not that complicated.
Python also broke backwards compatibility, and it caused the exact same kind of issue for teams that were entrenched in version 2.x.
Wrong, Python 2.x is still being developed. It is not like VB6 in the slightest. Python 2.7.10 was released just last month.
Yeah, Guido should have called Python 3 something else, but it is not like the differences are that massive if you want to upgrade to 3.
Yup
Once the number of games that will run on Linux reaches a tipping point, a lot of gamers, who build their own rigs any way will start moving to Linux because Windows is a ball-ache to keep clean and is an unnecessary expense. There is a reason MS is giving away Windows 10 for free for a year and it is not because of any altruism. They are trying to cock-block Steam from succeeding in their Linux push.
Gamers are about the last portion of the home PC market that MS has locked in.
err encryption-aware
It seems like just another point of failure to me.
The idea that it is useful when moving equipment has some merit, but you don't need an encryption-away FS to do it.
I am not sure what she is whining about, the RIAA members give very little money to the artists, using the term artist very loosely as it rarely describes RIAA acts, especially bland, uninspired crap like Taylor Swift.
Many acts are in debt to a major label even after a moderately successful album.
She should be used to getting reamed without lube.
You need a citation for the value, to everyone including business, of public highways and streets?