Keeping your spirits up is vital, even if you've just been sucked out of a plane!:D
Exactly. It could happen that you fall into a vertical tube with very slippery walls that bends very slowly, slowing you down by mild friction until it's horizontal, all part of, say, some city in the clouds.
I've seen it happen, although the guy had some serious emotional issues.
1. Trying to figure stuff out.
2. Whatever professors do at universities.
3. Whatever led to modern technology.
All the same thing?
In my opinion 1. largely part of 3., 2. used to be very much 1. but moved away from it quite a bit and into the direction of what clerics do at churches.
If a banker complains against the corrupt banking system, would you call that hypocrisy too? Or would you call it honorable, because he's isn't defending what he benefits from?
When the Democrats do something stupid, it's because it's expected from the diverse, working class roots they largely come from.
I'm not American, but I thought the Republicans represented the working class somewhat more whereas the Democrats are largely favoured by intellectuals, hence the bias of Slashdot.
In Germany, you have the same correlation of the the working class being more conservative than the academia.
Yeah, scrutiny. How diligent, watchful and objective all these people are, who are arguing against the likes of Google and how bad these developments are. They're real heroes. All this technical and sociological insight and achievement they have and do, they are just so much more clever than me that I don't get how evil Google really is.
Well, I still root for Google and these bastards still can go to hell for all that I care. I don't think they are watching or scrutinizing or anthing, they are whining because they've lost the power to prevent cool people from doing cool stuff.
You go Google, but please change your stupid motto.
On simple integer-based calculations, C, C++, Java and C# are one and the same assuming comparable compilers, that's why most benchmarks are idiotic.
In particular, whenever someone says Java/C# is factor x slower than C/C++ - that's always bogus, regardless of x.
The greatest problem with Java is that is has no value-types: If you want to group to doubles into one coordinate, you need a class, ie. a reference - and if you want an array of coordinates, you have an array of references. *That* is Java's problem.
C# fixes this biggest issue and allows code to be as efficient as C/C++ without writing it in a completely awkward way, as would be necessary with Java. There still some things missing compared to C++. Speed isn't one of them.
There's also, *cough* C# *cough*.
Compared to D, its generics are weaker, value types are always PODs and there are no reference return values. Especially the final thing is a shame. Also no const correctness and native C compatibility.
It's a lot less, but with its value types and other goodies it's a lot more than Java - both performance- and convenience-wise.
I used to be a hard-core C++ zealot, but I have to say - give me reference return values for C# and won't ask for more.
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Keeping your spirits up is vital, even if you've just been sucked out of a plane! :D
Exactly. It could happen that you fall into a vertical tube with very slippery walls that bends very slowly, slowing you down by mild friction until it's horizontal, all part of, say, some city in the clouds.
I've seen it happen, although the guy had some serious emotional issues.
Let me try 3 definitions for science:
1. Trying to figure stuff out.
2. Whatever professors do at universities.
3. Whatever led to modern technology.
All the same thing?
In my opinion 1. largely part of 3., 2. used to be very much 1. but moved away from it quite a bit and into the direction of what clerics do at churches.
If a banker complains against the corrupt banking system, would you call that hypocrisy too? Or would you call it honorable, because he's isn't defending what he benefits from?
What, exactly, is it you call hypocrisy?
When the Democrats do something stupid, it's because it's expected from the diverse, working class roots they largely come from.
I'm not American, but I thought the Republicans represented the working class somewhat more whereas the Democrats are largely favoured by intellectuals, hence the bias of Slashdot.
In Germany, you have the same correlation of the the working class being more conservative than the academia.
Yeah, scrutiny. How diligent, watchful and objective all these people are, who are arguing against the likes of Google and how bad these developments are. They're real heroes. All this technical and sociological insight and achievement they have and do, they are just so much more clever than me that I don't get how evil Google really is.
Well, I still root for Google and these bastards still can go to hell for all that I care. I don't think they are watching or scrutinizing or anthing, they are whining because they've lost the power to prevent cool people from doing cool stuff.
You go Google, but please change your stupid motto.
On simple integer-based calculations, C, C++, Java and C# are one and the same assuming comparable compilers, that's why most benchmarks are idiotic. In particular, whenever someone says Java/C# is factor x slower than C/C++ - that's always bogus, regardless of x. The greatest problem with Java is that is has no value-types: If you want to group to doubles into one coordinate, you need a class, ie. a reference - and if you want an array of coordinates, you have an array of references. *That* is Java's problem. C# fixes this biggest issue and allows code to be as efficient as C/C++ without writing it in a completely awkward way, as would be necessary with Java. There still some things missing compared to C++. Speed isn't one of them.
There's also, *cough* C# *cough*. Compared to D, its generics are weaker, value types are always PODs and there are no reference return values. Especially the final thing is a shame. Also no const correctness and native C compatibility. It's a lot less, but with its value types and other goodies it's a lot more than Java - both performance- and convenience-wise. I used to be a hard-core C++ zealot, but I have to say - give me reference return values for C# and won't ask for more.
No, they just like Google less because Google is richer and American. Oh, and I'm allowed to say this because I'm German.