Hey, I have no idea what are "american hours" or "european hours". I actually reply to comments at 4pm as frequently as I do at 4am, and I express some very non-popular opinions such as "Microsoft isn't that bad", "BSD isn't dead and I love it", "israel is somewhat of a mistake", "USA is a looney bin run by big corps with a shadow of a democracy", "PHP is a (somewhat) acceptable programming language" and many of my comments are modded up. I don't do hourly tracking of my comments (because I actually have a life, I know, *surprise*), but I'd expect american coloqualisms to be quite easy to grasp for a foreigner, and even if not, I doubt they'd take offense on that.
As a somewhat frequent moderator this past months and someone from "other non-english speaking country" (I assume that was what you were referring as "other country"), I can tell you I don't recall modding down a single post (it may have happened, but not likely). I believe every user has right to their opinion, even if it is unproductive, insultive, or batshit insane. And yes, I've modded up posts that don't reflect my personal views or opinions, but I founded them relevant to the discussion.
Re:How similar to PC-BSD as far as simplicity?
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AFAIK PBI is a PC-BSD funcionality only. If you want a GUI package manager, there are several available (kpackagekit, gnome-packagekit, DesktopBSD Tools, etc), but I can't give you any feedback on them because I never used them. From console, you can install binary packages (pkg_add -r for fetch from the web and install), or build from ports (my favourite approach).
Usually OpenBSD's OpenSSH is the most up-to-date version (as with PF/ALTQ and CARP, as they also are OpenBSD code). Some years ago I noticed that openssl was a lot faster on OpenBSD than on FreeBSD, and probably the performance of firewalling with PF is better with OpenBSD, but I pretty much gave up on OpenBSD due to lack of improvement on the SMP front, the generalized uninterest in container technology such as jails (or sysjails), poor filesystem performance and the upgrade mess - reinstalling the operating system every year isn't a viable option for me. That said, I sometimes buy the CDs and t-shirts to help the project, and OpenBSD is still a kick-ass operating system, and it is amazing how they keep on improving actual funcionality with such short release cycles.
Expecting that a programmer knows about common programming structures and algorithmic concepts is as reasonable as expecting a driver to know how to drive a car. Multiplication and division aren't even directly related to computer science, but to numerical methods, and any 10-year old can teach you how to do it.
About two decades ago, electricity and carpentry were mandatory disciplines in the 7th and 8th grade. I'm not a carpenter, but I can use the basic toolset, operate a tower drill and a table saw, do woodwork finishing with sandpaper and apply varnish if I need to. I learned it in school. Knowing how to exchange a wall socket is a bit like knowing how to change a flat tire - it is potentially dangerous, but you'll save yourself a lot of time and money if you actually know how to do it.
The same idea applies to plumbing - shure, complex stuff should be left to the professionals, but exchanging a connection pipe or installing a faucet is not more complex than using a cellphone or a computer browser, and everyone should know how to use them.
Programming is a vocation, like many vocations, that some people are cut out for and other people are not.
You mean, like arts, sports, geography, history, math, physics, etc?
I see no harm in exposing young students to basic programming concepts. The objective isn't creating new programmers, is teching people about how software works, and how to decompose problems into logical expressions, which is - by itself - a valuable addition to any field.
If it's not a fair system, it will not depend necessarily on supply or on demand, as they can be twisted to change what you call "free market". And that's the point I was making initially.
Where does it say that a free market is fair, or that both supply and demand are based on free will and not manipulated? You have plenty of examples of goods whose scarcity is artificially created to induce increasing of price, or even demand itself by transmitting the false notion that is a "rare" must-have item. You have great examples - oil, diamonds, brand clothing, iphones/ipads/gizmo du jour, etc.
On other countries, people don't live scared by their government. Usually most fundamental laws are written in the country's constitution (and access to universal healthcare is usually present), and to change it you'd need an astonishing majority (Where I live, you'd need 75% of 230 votes of the parliament, spanning 5 political parties), and even then, usually other powers can interfere, such as the president.
On the other hand, I believe that the current bi-party state of affairs in american policy is a long way from being an actual democracy, but hey, I'm a cynical person.
America is not Britain, France, Canada, Germany, or any other country. America has it's own citizens with their own culture and their own viewpoints.
That's part of the problem - America is run by big dollar companies, and has been for decades. There's no "citizenship" in politics, decisions are made by pouring money on the pockets of the right people - and it's all legal. In every other country, if that ever happended, would be considered a crime.
The time it takes to get it done doesn't really matter, when you haven't started it yet.
Meanwhile while you're trying to engineer a perfect system, years go by and people die. Free (or close enough) universal healthcare is a reality in most civilized countries you can think of, and they're not bankrupt because of it. Most issues you mention have been solved for decades. Privatized healthcare also exists on those countries, and from my own experience and the people close to me, they couldn't care less about you when you stop being a walking money bag or demand too much work.
The big problem with your reasoning is, no doctor can guarantee that your child will be healthy and disease-free. And sometimes, you even get some false positives.
I hope you don't work with PHP, C#, Java or any other language that implements the linked list concept as "lists", "collections", "streams", "heaps", "stacks", etc.
I actually have no idea, but I believe there's no "quick response". If it's a one-time operation, you can transverse the list comparing it to the counter you mentioned. If it's not, and you always need the middle element, you can have a cache pointer as you suggested, use a double-linked list and an index number inserted in the list, and shift the pointer element left or right, when adding or removing items from the list. In some implementations, probably using a pointer hashmap would be more efficient, but it would depend on what exactly you are trying to accomplish and/or the current implementation.
I hate this kind of questions because they are too generic, but the counter approach is the obvious one and it seems to be the right answer. Asking "wtf is a linked list" or "why would I need that" seems to be the wrong one - specially in web development, when - as an example - PHP's SPL classes (specially Iterator-based) implement these concepts and are widely used.
I use them (a lot) in some environments. Have used them a lot with assembly, specially for heap management implementations. And many OO languages implement list and collection concepts, that in fact are fancy OO linked lists.
I never said they would "kill the dollar", and in fact I've mentioned how catastrophic it would be for the entire world. But the truth is that there is pressure by the US to increase yuan value, and that in the last 2 years they have been heavily expanding to ermerging markers, such as Brazil and Angola, so what is true today may not be in a couple of years.
The dimensions of a country aren't in proportion with their economic power. But, if you think China will keep growing 9% per year focusing on USA as a market, and considering that 37% of their GDP comes directly from exports, you are mistaken. In fact, the chinese are investing a lot in both Africa and South America (specially Brazil) as a means to reduce US influence over their political and economic affairs.
A violation of any major treaty (such as bombing a country with nukes) would lead to an international embargo - even if they wanted, they can't interfere without compromising their own safety. And it's not like the americans or the french are very pleased with Israeli shenanigans pulled in the last couple of years, so if what you described happened, I would be very surprised.
Given that most governments would opt to assume a part or the whole sum of the finantial institutions debt in case of default (as it already happened in USA, Ireland, Belgium and Portugal), the government debt can actually change at any time. The link you provided has current account absolute values, and not in proportion to GDP, so it can't be used for direct comparison between countries without some math.
Is a serious issue for who? The only people I see complaining about it fall under one of the following categories - dumbasses that can't actually use a computer, and users that claim they actually use Linux or whatever. Every operating system has its quirks, it's a fact of life.
There have been some BIOS virus proof-of-concept over the years, and EFI boot will present a brand new attack vector for persistent malware. So, reinstalling from a CD/DVD may not be enough to prevent infection.
Don't worry, when Ubuntu is attractive enough to be a target to desktop malware, they will find a way. Considering the somewhat recent debian repository incident, I wouldn't be overly confident about the purity of both your DVD and the subsequent GB of updates it will download after install.
Actually, you are wrong. Spain has a GDP foreign debt of 284% and Germany has a GDP foreign debt of 176%. The US have 101%, and they are in much better finantial shape than many strong countries in EU.
Spain also has a complex, almost non-regulated, mutualist banking system (Caixas), and very poor performance in the EU stress tests. The only reason Spain has no interest to the IMF/European Fund is because most of the foreign debt is held by Germany and the UK, and a rescue operation would imply much more money than what the European Fund had avaliable, and would cause a direct hit in both UK's and Germany's banking companies.
I used as reference the following infographic: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15748696
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Hey, I have no idea what are "american hours" or "european hours". I actually reply to comments at 4pm as frequently as I do at 4am, and I express some very non-popular opinions such as "Microsoft isn't that bad", "BSD isn't dead and I love it", "israel is somewhat of a mistake", "USA is a looney bin run by big corps with a shadow of a democracy", "PHP is a (somewhat) acceptable programming language" and many of my comments are modded up. I don't do hourly tracking of my comments (because I actually have a life, I know, *surprise*), but I'd expect american coloqualisms to be quite easy to grasp for a foreigner, and even if not, I doubt they'd take offense on that.
As a somewhat frequent moderator this past months and someone from "other non-english speaking country" (I assume that was what you were referring as "other country"), I can tell you I don't recall modding down a single post (it may have happened, but not likely). I believe every user has right to their opinion, even if it is unproductive, insultive, or batshit insane. And yes, I've modded up posts that don't reflect my personal views or opinions, but I founded them relevant to the discussion.
AFAIK PBI is a PC-BSD funcionality only. If you want a GUI package manager, there are several available (kpackagekit, gnome-packagekit, DesktopBSD Tools, etc), but I can't give you any feedback on them because I never used them. From console, you can install binary packages (pkg_add -r for fetch from the web and install), or build from ports (my favourite approach).
Usually OpenBSD's OpenSSH is the most up-to-date version (as with PF/ALTQ and CARP, as they also are OpenBSD code). Some years ago I noticed that openssl was a lot faster on OpenBSD than on FreeBSD, and probably the performance of firewalling with PF is better with OpenBSD, but I pretty much gave up on OpenBSD due to lack of improvement on the SMP front, the generalized uninterest in container technology such as jails (or sysjails), poor filesystem performance and the upgrade mess - reinstalling the operating system every year isn't a viable option for me. That said, I sometimes buy the CDs and t-shirts to help the project, and OpenBSD is still a kick-ass operating system, and it is amazing how they keep on improving actual funcionality with such short release cycles.
Expecting that a programmer knows about common programming structures and algorithmic concepts is as reasonable as expecting a driver to know how to drive a car. Multiplication and division aren't even directly related to computer science, but to numerical methods, and any 10-year old can teach you how to do it.
About two decades ago, electricity and carpentry were mandatory disciplines in the 7th and 8th grade. I'm not a carpenter, but I can use the basic toolset, operate a tower drill and a table saw, do woodwork finishing with sandpaper and apply varnish if I need to. I learned it in school. Knowing how to exchange a wall socket is a bit like knowing how to change a flat tire - it is potentially dangerous, but you'll save yourself a lot of time and money if you actually know how to do it.
The same idea applies to plumbing - shure, complex stuff should be left to the professionals, but exchanging a connection pipe or installing a faucet is not more complex than using a cellphone or a computer browser, and everyone should know how to use them.
Programming is a vocation, like many vocations, that some people are cut out for and other people are not.
You mean, like arts, sports, geography, history, math, physics, etc?
I see no harm in exposing young students to basic programming concepts. The objective isn't creating new programmers, is teching people about how software works, and how to decompose problems into logical expressions, which is - by itself - a valuable addition to any field.
If it's not a fair system, it will not depend necessarily on supply or on demand, as they can be twisted to change what you call "free market". And that's the point I was making initially.
Where does it say that a free market is fair, or that both supply and demand are based on free will and not manipulated? You have plenty of examples of goods whose scarcity is artificially created to induce increasing of price, or even demand itself by transmitting the false notion that is a "rare" must-have item. You have great examples - oil, diamonds, brand clothing, iphones/ipads/gizmo du jour, etc.
On other countries, people don't live scared by their government. Usually most fundamental laws are written in the country's constitution (and access to universal healthcare is usually present), and to change it you'd need an astonishing majority (Where I live, you'd need 75% of 230 votes of the parliament, spanning 5 political parties), and even then, usually other powers can interfere, such as the president.
On the other hand, I believe that the current bi-party state of affairs in american policy is a long way from being an actual democracy, but hey, I'm a cynical person.
America is not Britain, France, Canada, Germany, or any other country. America has it's own citizens with their own culture and their own viewpoints.
That's part of the problem - America is run by big dollar companies, and has been for decades. There's no "citizenship" in politics, decisions are made by pouring money on the pockets of the right people - and it's all legal. In every other country, if that ever happended, would be considered a crime.
The time it takes to get it done doesn't really matter, when you haven't started it yet.
Meanwhile while you're trying to engineer a perfect system, years go by and people die. Free (or close enough) universal healthcare is a reality in most civilized countries you can think of, and they're not bankrupt because of it. Most issues you mention have been solved for decades. Privatized healthcare also exists on those countries, and from my own experience and the people close to me, they couldn't care less about you when you stop being a walking money bag or demand too much work.
The big problem with your reasoning is, no doctor can guarantee that your child will be healthy and disease-free. And sometimes, you even get some false positives.
I hope you don't work with PHP, C#, Java or any other language that implements the linked list concept as "lists", "collections", "streams", "heaps", "stacks", etc.
I actually have no idea, but I believe there's no "quick response". If it's a one-time operation, you can transverse the list comparing it to the counter you mentioned. If it's not, and you always need the middle element, you can have a cache pointer as you suggested, use a double-linked list and an index number inserted in the list, and shift the pointer element left or right, when adding or removing items from the list. In some implementations, probably using a pointer hashmap would be more efficient, but it would depend on what exactly you are trying to accomplish and/or the current implementation.
I hate this kind of questions because they are too generic, but the counter approach is the obvious one and it seems to be the right answer. Asking "wtf is a linked list" or "why would I need that" seems to be the wrong one - specially in web development, when - as an example - PHP's SPL classes (specially Iterator-based) implement these concepts and are widely used.
I use them (a lot) in some environments. Have used them a lot with assembly, specially for heap management implementations. And many OO languages implement list and collection concepts, that in fact are fancy OO linked lists.
I never said they would "kill the dollar", and in fact I've mentioned how catastrophic it would be for the entire world. But the truth is that there is pressure by the US to increase yuan value, and that in the last 2 years they have been heavily expanding to ermerging markers, such as Brazil and Angola, so what is true today may not be in a couple of years.
The dimensions of a country aren't in proportion with their economic power. But, if you think China will keep growing 9% per year focusing on USA as a market, and considering that 37% of their GDP comes directly from exports, you are mistaken. In fact, the chinese are investing a lot in both Africa and South America (specially Brazil) as a means to reduce US influence over their political and economic affairs.
A violation of any major treaty (such as bombing a country with nukes) would lead to an international embargo - even if they wanted, they can't interfere without compromising their own safety. And it's not like the americans or the french are very pleased with Israeli shenanigans pulled in the last couple of years, so if what you described happened, I would be very surprised.
So, the malware can crack open an image file that nobody said wasn't criptographically signed, but somehow UEFI is uncrackable?
Given that most governments would opt to assume a part or the whole sum of the finantial institutions debt in case of default (as it already happened in USA, Ireland, Belgium and Portugal), the government debt can actually change at any time. The link you provided has current account absolute values, and not in proportion to GDP, so it can't be used for direct comparison between countries without some math.
Is a serious issue for who? The only people I see complaining about it fall under one of the following categories - dumbasses that can't actually use a computer, and users that claim they actually use Linux or whatever. Every operating system has its quirks, it's a fact of life.
There have been some BIOS virus proof-of-concept over the years, and EFI boot will present a brand new attack vector for persistent malware. So, reinstalling from a CD/DVD may not be enough to prevent infection.
Don't worry, when Ubuntu is attractive enough to be a target to desktop malware, they will find a way. Considering the somewhat recent debian repository incident, I wouldn't be overly confident about the purity of both your DVD and the subsequent GB of updates it will download after install.
Actually, you are wrong. Spain has a GDP foreign debt of 284% and Germany has a GDP foreign debt of 176%. The US have 101%, and they are in much better finantial shape than many strong countries in EU.
Spain also has a complex, almost non-regulated, mutualist banking system (Caixas), and very poor performance in the EU stress tests. The only reason Spain has no interest to the IMF/European Fund is because most of the foreign debt is held by Germany and the UK, and a rescue operation would imply much more money than what the European Fund had avaliable, and would cause a direct hit in both UK's and Germany's banking companies. I used as reference the following infographic: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15748696