Then there was the whole Eich debacle. Regardless of your stance, it's pretty disgusting that somebody had to lose his job merely because of his beliefs regarding same-sex marriages.
He didn't lose his job merely because of his beliefs regarding same-sex marriages.
He lost his job because he spent money attempting to get laws passed which would prevent people, including his employees, from getting married. That made it hard for him to be a leader for those employees, so he resigned his position.
If he had merely had opinions, there wouldn't have been an issue.
But hey, don't let the actual facts get in the way of a dishonest misstatement of the situation.
while there were various decent, proprietary, dialects that let you actually write code that did stuff, *standard* Pascal was as much use as a chocolate teapot
And that's still a problem today. There's no standard for OO Pascal, and the ANSI Pascal standards have been moribund since 1990.
That's why I abandoned Pascal (and Modula-2): I didn't want to get locked in to a single vendor.
The news hit the developers in the Stockholm office very hard to the point that people were actually sobbing.
Yeah, they probably know how well being bought by Microsoft worked out for Sublogic. Or Oddworld Inhabitants. Or Bungie, even, forced to crank out endless formulaic sequels.
On the one hand, I can't blame notch, because if Microsoft offered me enough cash to retire, I'd sell out. But on the other hand, notch is already a millionaire, right? It's not like he needs the money.
Since I started avoiding bread, potato (not sweet potato), rice, pasta and sugar, I've lost a lot of weight.
I did even less -- I cut the added sugar (specifically fructose) to the AHA recommended limits, but I allowed myself to eat all the other carbs I liked, and as much raw fresh fruit as I liked. Weight fell off me and has stayed off for 6 months now. My waistline dropped by 4". So far it seems I can basically eat as much as I like, including carbs, whenever I'm hungry, and stay at a healthy weight, so long as I keep my sugar intake low. So personally, I'm pretty much convinced that Dr Robert Lustig is right about fructose.
This is part of why I don't bother to support half-assed roll-your-own 2FA systems like PayPal's, or stupid SMS-based schemes like Apple's. If you want to offer 2FA, offer me RFC 6238 so I can handle all my 2FA accounts in one convenient app and I know you didn't invent it yourself.
Mind you, I guess PayPal's programmers would have just implemented RFC 6238 client side and sent an extra parameter to say I'd got the code right.
Quote: "Chrome Remote Desktop is fully cross-platform. Provide remote assistance to Windows, Mac and Linux users, or access your Windows (XP and above) and Mac (OS X 10.6 and above) desktops at any time, all from the Chrome browser on virtually any device, including Chromebooks."
Eh, I find RedHat way too conservative. RHEL is still shipping Ruby 1.8, for example, and only has 1.9 in beta, even though 1.8 was EOL 6 months ago and 2.0 is stable.
... why would they want to thaw hundreds or thousands of people who are jobless with no family or means to support themselves, and will need extensive education and rehabilitation to re-enter society?
Slave labor. Medical experimentation. To put in zoos. There are many possibilities.
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ROGER CARASSO died last year while on vacation. I think that is more worthy of a thread on Slashdot.
Then there was the whole Eich debacle. Regardless of your stance, it's pretty disgusting that somebody had to lose his job merely because of his beliefs regarding same-sex marriages.
He didn't lose his job merely because of his beliefs regarding same-sex marriages.
He lost his job because he spent money attempting to get laws passed which would prevent people, including his employees, from getting married. That made it hard for him to be a leader for those employees, so he resigned his position.
If he had merely had opinions, there wouldn't have been an issue.
But hey, don't let the actual facts get in the way of a dishonest misstatement of the situation.
They were offered horizontal promotions.
They were given the opportunity to excel in a more external capacity.
They were reverse rehired.
while there were various decent, proprietary, dialects that let you actually write code that did stuff, *standard* Pascal was as much use as a chocolate teapot
And that's still a problem today. There's no standard for OO Pascal, and the ANSI Pascal standards have been moribund since 1990.
That's why I abandoned Pascal (and Modula-2): I didn't want to get locked in to a single vendor.
More to the point, Android is an open source and freely redistributable platform.
Thanks, Baghdad Bob, but I've been monitoring the purge for some time.
Samba is no longer used in Mac OS X.
Apple got rid of it as part of their GPL software purge.
Yup, NSA has full access to Skype, with their cooperation.
Semantic indentation? Blech.
If you want Python, go write Python. Don't ruin Lisp trying to turn it into Python.
Actually, OS X contains code and bugs that date back to the 1970s.
The ones he insists don't exist because the Guardian article is all lies?
If you're going to issue a denial, you should at least get your story internally consistent.
The news hit the developers in the Stockholm office very hard to the point that people were actually sobbing.
Yeah, they probably know how well being bought by Microsoft worked out for Sublogic. Or Oddworld Inhabitants. Or Bungie, even, forced to crank out endless formulaic sequels.
On the one hand, I can't blame notch, because if Microsoft offered me enough cash to retire, I'd sell out. But on the other hand, notch is already a millionaire, right? It's not like he needs the money.
Since I started avoiding bread, potato (not sweet potato), rice, pasta and sugar, I've lost a lot of weight.
I did even less -- I cut the added sugar (specifically fructose) to the AHA recommended limits, but I allowed myself to eat all the other carbs I liked, and as much raw fresh fruit as I liked. Weight fell off me and has stayed off for 6 months now. My waistline dropped by 4". So far it seems I can basically eat as much as I like, including carbs, whenever I'm hungry, and stay at a healthy weight, so long as I keep my sugar intake low. So personally, I'm pretty much convinced that Dr Robert Lustig is right about fructose.
Of course, YMMV, I'm not a doctor, etc etc.
On the one hand, I like my glasses. They have also prevented stuff from getting in my eyes more than once.
On the other hand, LASIK involves someone slicing into the front of my eyeballs while I am fully conscious and watching them do it.
This is part of why I don't bother to support half-assed roll-your-own 2FA systems like PayPal's, or stupid SMS-based schemes like Apple's. If you want to offer 2FA, offer me RFC 6238 so I can handle all my 2FA accounts in one convenient app and I know you didn't invent it yourself.
Mind you, I guess PayPal's programmers would have just implemented RFC 6238 client side and sent an extra parameter to say I'd got the code right.
Well then, sounds like you've identified yourself a business opportunity.
Yup, I switched from Eclipse to IntelliJ IDEA for my regular Java development as well as Android.
It's faster, leaner, more helpful, and has a far less cluttered UI.
I just wish it wasn't $199, I'd totally buy a personal license for $99. (There's zero chance of my employer buying it for me.)
that, and i can't figure out why it's better.
Both ANT and Maven represent your build script as huge horrific XML files. Gradle uses a simple human-readable JSON-like syntax.
That and ANT is goddamn slow.
Quote: "Chrome Remote Desktop is fully cross-platform. Provide remote assistance to Windows, Mac and Linux users, or access your Windows (XP and above) and Mac (OS X 10.6 and above) desktops at any time, all from the Chrome browser on virtually any device, including Chromebooks."
So it sounds like it's supposed to work.
Funny, but I thought citizens were guaranteed rights to a fair trial.
What a quaintly pre-9/11 notion.
I miss Micropolis.
I don't. I worked in data recovery back then, and we used to nickname them "Micrapolis" because we saw so many.
You mean like only allowing official Microsoft-branded memory?
DOJ didn't do shit.
Eh, I find RedHat way too conservative. RHEL is still shipping Ruby 1.8, for example, and only has 1.9 in beta, even though 1.8 was EOL 6 months ago and 2.0 is stable.
Seems to me if you make sure your premium number is on the "Do not call" list, you should be in the clear.
... why would they want to thaw hundreds or thousands of people who are jobless with no family or means to support themselves, and will need extensive education and rehabilitation to re-enter society?
Slave labor. Medical experimentation. To put in zoos. There are many possibilities.