get-help is your friend, and is far superior to man with the -detailed or -examples switches. Not sure where you're getting the "1.7GB", but this page [microsoft.com] indicates that the size is more like 9KB.
I remember the first time I tried to check get-help. Windows required that I download those 9KB of files before they could be used. This seemed very silly to me. Why wouldn't the OS install come with those by default?
I played Halo 4 for over 400 hours, and I'm currently playing MCC exclusively. While I love the game, I can also say that the multiplayer in Halo 4 and definitely now in MCC are definitely lacking. So I'm not sure Microsoft is doing the world a favor by releasing this. What I can hope is that users will be able to help Microsoft make Halo online gaming experience better.
I can see this being true. The only time I max out my i7 is when I'm compiling a program. Other than that it pretty much sits 90% idling. Though, a nice SSD upgrade can also have much greater impact on performance than a CPU upgrade.
As one of what I feel to be a growing breed of Linux users that started off in Ubuntu, and has very very slowly been learning how Linux works internally, all of this is still a bit of black magic. Is there a "From Ubuntu to Linux Hacker" guide out there that briefly and simply explains how the Linux kernel works? All the resources I've found get too deep too quickly.
This is something I learned in my first year of Economics. There are 5 failures of a free market. One of those being monopolies. Unfortunately the US government seems to enjoy upholding the monopoly because of kickbacks they're given. And it was those same politicians that voted to allow themselves to receive such kickbacks.
One recent excellent case of where the prevention of a monopoly lead to better market diversity and services was AT&T/T-Mobile. I've been really enjoying the results of that decision by paying very little month-to-month.
Capitalism is a free market with minimal but key government intervention. No government intervention is anarchy. Government controlling the corporations is socialism. Corporations controlling the government is... um. Really messed up? Is there even a word that specifies that? But it seems the worst case is where the US is heading. Corporation and government collusion.
Heh, thanks for the laugh. I've had plenty of days dealing with managers who put on deadlines without understanding the tech, haven't provided a specification, don't have a planned architecture and ask impatiently "Well, why can't you just do X?" Who also don't understand that more programmers doesn't mean it'll be done faster, and uses us as scapegoats when things don't work but takes all the credit when they do.
At a software company, the programmers are special. Because they're the ones turning the product that gives everyone else a job. I'd say the same thing about any other position at any other business where they're the reason the business exists. You see, we aren't just cogs in a wheel, but MBA driven management has proven to me time and again that we're seen that way. Come back after you've solved a (software level) complex problem or coded a unique solution and known that if you hadn't been there it wouldn't have happened.
I believe another reason is because JavaScript development has increased exponentially over the years. For persons like myself, never saw the need to use GPL since you have to share your code anyways in order to use it (code is always delivered to the browser). Also when other major libraries (e.g. jQuery) have chosen MIT, then it's not helpful to choose something more restrictive.
I see this in the same light as sub leasing your apartment. The site is down right now, but I can imagine he didn't use this contractor for all his work. Maybe he had a task that would better be accomplished by someone else. And calling this a "scam" is over the top. If anything he should be promoted to manager.
Object-oriented programming was retrofitted into Javascript, and it shows. Typical bad Javascript has global variables that should be local, shared data that should be in closures, no proper objects, and no comments.
Thank you. Every time a developer wants to turn a js project OO I want to gouge their eyes out. Once I created a cross-dependency map of all the different "classes" that were in a library I had to debug. There were a least half a dozen complex circular dependency chains. If people think JavaScript lends itself to ugly code, they haven't seen developers who try to turn it into Java.
As for another language coming along. Will never happen. The language of the web must be community driven. And the community always disagrees. You know how long it's taken to get some seemingly basic features implemented? Forever. You get Adobe, Microsoft, Mozilla and more than a dozen other companies involved and each one wants something that disagrees with the rest.
And as for how it started? Netscape went to Brendan Eich and told him he had to write the language in 11 days. 11 days to implement the grammar, lexer, parser. Everything in 11 days. Then a bastardization version happened to be created by Microsoft, and bam. You have the language of the web.
JavaScript might not be the best language, but when used by experienced developers (no the overnight self-taught kind) it can be awesome. But regardless it's here to stay. So I wish people would stop bitching about how bad it is and focus on helping the developer community get better.
I've very curious as to what the sentence would have been if hypothetically he was paparazzi who took photos though a window or such while they were naked, then released those onto the internet.
In my mind there should have been two different cases. One for the data breach, and one for the release of personal information. While I don't agree with what he did, 10 years seems excessive.
I'd also like to know what they mean by "lightweight JavaScript runtime". That must be completely subjective. If they are able to create a runtime that uses even close to the amount of memory v8 requires, I'll be impressed.
While voting for individual propositions and such do matter, why do we vote for president? As far as I'm aware, that is completely decided by the electoral college. Is the popular vote recorded so we can feel warm and fuzzy inside?
um, not completely sure. i'm no linux pro, and just use package managers. but I'd assume so. when I install a new kernel, it downloads the entire new one and installs it along side the old one. so if something breaks I can just select the old kernel from the GRUB startup menu.
Seems like I may have my terminology confused. In my mind all updates are a "patch" (e.g. security hotfix, product update, etc.).
Guess I figured they would keep a branch of their source, and apply things like security fixes to a minor version and release both. For example, if I released v1.0.0 and v2.0.0, and there was a security problem that would affect both then I'd port it both supported branches like v1.0.1 and v2.0.1. When I updated, the latest version would have all the security updates.
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get-help is your friend, and is far superior to man with the -detailed or -examples switches. Not sure where you're getting the "1.7GB", but this page [microsoft.com] indicates that the size is more like 9KB.
I remember the first time I tried to check get-help. Windows required that I download those 9KB of files before they could be used. This seemed very silly to me. Why wouldn't the OS install come with those by default?
Would that come in conflict with his other mantra of "don't break user space"?
I played Halo 4 for over 400 hours, and I'm currently playing MCC exclusively. While I love the game, I can also say that the multiplayer in Halo 4 and definitely now in MCC are definitely lacking. So I'm not sure Microsoft is doing the world a favor by releasing this. What I can hope is that users will be able to help Microsoft make Halo online gaming experience better.
I can see this being true. The only time I max out my i7 is when I'm compiling a program. Other than that it pretty much sits 90% idling. Though, a nice SSD upgrade can also have much greater impact on performance than a CPU upgrade.
That trick is pretty slick.
As one of what I feel to be a growing breed of Linux users that started off in Ubuntu, and has very very slowly been learning how Linux works internally, all of this is still a bit of black magic. Is there a "From Ubuntu to Linux Hacker" guide out there that briefly and simply explains how the Linux kernel works? All the resources I've found get too deep too quickly.
The chances of any complications happening spontaneously are somewhere between "Hollywood movie plot" and "political promise."
I like how you place "Hollywood movie plot" on the left, indicating it's more plausible than a "political promise".
Interesting, thanks.
This is something I learned in my first year of Economics. There are 5 failures of a free market. One of those being monopolies. Unfortunately the US government seems to enjoy upholding the monopoly because of kickbacks they're given. And it was those same politicians that voted to allow themselves to receive such kickbacks.
One recent excellent case of where the prevention of a monopoly lead to better market diversity and services was AT&T/T-Mobile. I've been really enjoying the results of that decision by paying very little month-to-month.
Capitalism is a free market with minimal but key government intervention. No government intervention is anarchy. Government controlling the corporations is socialism. Corporations controlling the government is... um. Really messed up? Is there even a word that specifies that? But it seems the worst case is where the US is heading. Corporation and government collusion.
Heh, thanks for the laugh. I've had plenty of days dealing with managers who put on deadlines without understanding the tech, haven't provided a specification, don't have a planned architecture and ask impatiently "Well, why can't you just do X?" Who also don't understand that more programmers doesn't mean it'll be done faster, and uses us as scapegoats when things don't work but takes all the credit when they do.
At a software company, the programmers are special. Because they're the ones turning the product that gives everyone else a job. I'd say the same thing about any other position at any other business where they're the reason the business exists. You see, we aren't just cogs in a wheel, but MBA driven management has proven to me time and again that we're seen that way. Come back after you've solved a (software level) complex problem or coded a unique solution and known that if you hadn't been there it wouldn't have happened.
My eyes can handle it. My ass can't.
I believe another reason is because JavaScript development has increased exponentially over the years. For persons like myself, never saw the need to use GPL since you have to share your code anyways in order to use it (code is always delivered to the browser). Also when other major libraries (e.g. jQuery) have chosen MIT, then it's not helpful to choose something more restrictive.
Yeah, because everyone that posted a private key "compromis[ed] third party data". And it's totally not possible that some were posted for other reasons
Please, next time think before you speak.
I see this in the same light as sub leasing your apartment. The site is down right now, but I can imagine he didn't use this contractor for all his work. Maybe he had a task that would better be accomplished by someone else. And calling this a "scam" is over the top. If anything he should be promoted to manager.
Are you kidding me? Just because you can do something with a language doesn't mean you should.
That's a ridiculously obscure statement. By "do something" do you mean "do anything" when it comes to JavaScript?
iz hard 2 change how u speek?
Object-oriented programming was retrofitted into Javascript, and it shows. Typical bad Javascript has global variables that should be local, shared data that should be in closures, no proper objects, and no comments.
Thank you. Every time a developer wants to turn a js project OO I want to gouge their eyes out. Once I created a cross-dependency map of all the different "classes" that were in a library I had to debug. There were a least half a dozen complex circular dependency chains. If people think JavaScript lends itself to ugly code, they haven't seen developers who try to turn it into Java.
As for another language coming along. Will never happen. The language of the web must be community driven. And the community always disagrees. You know how long it's taken to get some seemingly basic features implemented? Forever. You get Adobe, Microsoft, Mozilla and more than a dozen other companies involved and each one wants something that disagrees with the rest.
And as for how it started? Netscape went to Brendan Eich and told him he had to write the language in 11 days. 11 days to implement the grammar, lexer, parser. Everything in 11 days. Then a bastardization version happened to be created by Microsoft, and bam. You have the language of the web.
JavaScript might not be the best language, but when used by experienced developers (no the overnight self-taught kind) it can be awesome. But regardless it's here to stay. So I wish people would stop bitching about how bad it is and focus on helping the developer community get better.
Because clearly, not wanting to live in a corporate or government dystopia is an "extremist" viewpoint.
FTFY. Don't want either dictating how I live.
I've very curious as to what the sentence would have been if hypothetically he was paparazzi who took photos though a window or such while they were naked, then released those onto the internet.
In my mind there should have been two different cases. One for the data breach, and one for the release of personal information. While I don't agree with what he did, 10 years seems excessive.
I'd also like to know what they mean by "lightweight JavaScript runtime". That must be completely subjective. If they are able to create a runtime that uses even close to the amount of memory v8 requires, I'll be impressed.
"highly dynamic"? Not sure what you mean by that. I've been writing highly optimized code for years without ever having to use 'eval'.
While voting for individual propositions and such do matter, why do we vote for president? As far as I'm aware, that is completely decided by the electoral college. Is the popular vote recorded so we can feel warm and fuzzy inside?
great insights. thanks for sharing.
um, not completely sure. i'm no linux pro, and just use package managers. but I'd assume so. when I install a new kernel, it downloads the entire new one and installs it along side the old one. so if something breaks I can just select the old kernel from the GRUB startup menu.
Seems like I may have my terminology confused. In my mind all updates are a "patch" (e.g. security hotfix, product update, etc.).
Guess I figured they would keep a branch of their source, and apply things like security fixes to a minor version and release both. For example, if I released v1.0.0 and v2.0.0, and there was a security problem that would affect both then I'd port it both supported branches like v1.0.1 and v2.0.1. When I updated, the latest version would have all the security updates.