You Perl programmers make me mad! You act like Linux versions of VB programmers. Overestimating the depth of your own knowledge.
You have learned to program in Perl and now that you know that you think you know everything about all programming languages.
Funny thing though. There is a LOT of people who have swiched from Perl to Python (myself included), but I have yet to meet someone who volunteerly have switched the other way around.
Please try Python and get to know it before dissing it, or get a marketing job at Microsoft spreading FUD because that's what you are doing now.
(I have nothing against Perl, it's just the know-all attitude of some of the developers that ticks me of. And the fact that their comments get such a high rating on/.)
The biggest problem as far as I can see is that the pedophiles can just use Photoshop/Gimp/Painter etc. to make real child porn look like artistic drawings.
How do you prosecute that then? It allready happens now, and is a problem for the police.
Re:In the scheme of things it doesn't really matte
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>Last week when my friend broke his arm, he did a
>few miles on a treadmile, and nows he's back
>playing Squash!
>I'm poping in at lunchtime to get this genetic
>heart disorder fixed. I reckon 10 Miles on the
>cycle should do it.
You are overlooking the fact that the money spend on the surgery perhaps could save more lifes if used differently.
I am not saying that we shouldn't have any surgery at all, not even that we should not have robotic surgery, but operations can become so expensive that if used they will cause other people their life through negligence.
You just don't see those people complaining on tv because they are in good health.
Surgery hasn't really added anything to public health on average. Only a few months added average lifespan.
Clean water, high quality foods, preservatives, better housing and penicillin has been the real life savers. With average lifespans going from around 30 to around 70 years due to those.
So instead of using a lot of money on Robotic heart surgery it would be better to build health gyms. That would increase avg. lifespan more than C3PO with a knife.
Now that the genome is mapped there will be an explosion in proteomics (gene and protein) research and then we will start to get somewhere with cancer, virus and bacteria.
Come nano we can hopefull live for several hundred years.
Robotic surgery... Hah! I laugh at robotic surgery. It's a dead end.
But I hope it will be there if I ever need it.
The problem is incompetent managers
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Too Old To Code?
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There is a lot of research that shows that there is most often 1-10 difference in productivity, sometimes even as much as 1-100 between good and poor programmers.
If an experienced programmer can be 10 times as efficient as a rookie, why should it then matter how long a rookie works???
We are not laying bricks, serving burgers or doing cleaning where the amount of time worked roughly corresponds to the amount of work accomplished.
I am not exactly old yet (35) but I have seen so much absolutely BAD code from these young hotshots.
Often a client asks if we cannot reuse some code they have bought from another company. I have never seen any code that could be reused. Code and presentation is mixed, magical values everywhere and cut'n paste code.
It's so pathetic.
Apparantly some managers think that because some 18 year old can do something that they cannot themself, that they must be geniouses. Well they are not.
Get a good experienced coder anytime and pay them double salary, let them work 40 hours a week and still make 50% more money...
Re:Nanomedicine already exists
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Actually there are two paths to Nano nirvana. Thru biotech or thru "mechanics".
Genetic enginering and all that squishy stuff is but one way to do it. Different technology = different solutions.
So probably there will be room for both methods. The nano people are certainly aware of the biological solutions too.
I don't get this discussion. It has come up a lot lately also in the debate about the BSD license vs. the GPL.
If an open license is good, then a completely open license should be even better... no?
If you believe that the open source model is better than proprietary software then it shouldn't really matter if someone can fork the source tree and close it off with added proprietary stuff, because the main tree would still have the best software as a result of the open source model and peoples general interrest in free software. All the best people work elsewhere remember?
Most people would still develop for the main branch and the proprietary branches would soon be forced to become folded back into the main tree or they would perrish because of lack of support/interrest.
I do believe that one of the main reasons for the succes of open source is that it is free beer as well as free speech. Take away either and the interrest would dwindle.
I honestly don't believe that it makes any difference whether software is released under the GPL or completely without copyright.You wouldn't be able to close of the source of a program make some changes and then charge money for it when there is a very similar product allready available and open source'd.
Imagine for one moment in a parallel universe, where Linux had been developed without copyright, the absurd notion that Microsoft would fork the entire Linux codetree and make some proprietary changes and then try to sell it. doh. There would shurely be a lot of buyers... not!
The license doesn't matter much.
A good party is made from free speech, free beer, and the coolest people. maxm
As a webdesigner I have probably used all the tools available. None of them where really good for big sites (+100 pages).
The best one I have used is Dreamveawer 2, but I use it mainly for layout and design.
When it comes to big sites (>100 pages) pure HTML is a bad way to create sites. There is no encapsualtion of code or re-use at all.
What I find myself doing now more and more often is writing objects and functions in serverside JavaScript that renders my HTML. (I REALLY like JavaScript. Such a clean language.)
Something like:
var title = "This is the title" var body = "Beginning" body += "Next item" body += "Third Item etc." page(title, content) can render a LOT of HTML and is very simple to use and maintain. Especially those last minute changes of large protions of a site. Content and design is completely seperated
It's funny but it is kind of like every programmer forgets what he knows about good code design when doing HTML.
I found that when I did large sites they would always run late. Simply because there would be more ways for the pages in the site not to match. And then when something didn't macth it would take longer to correct because the sites where bigger.
Max M's 1. rule of webdesign: The time used to solve problems gets squared with size of the site. This can be solved by looking at a website as a programming task, and then throw good software engineering practices at the problem.
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I must say that I myself use an easier approach called the "PI" method.
actual completion time = estimated completion time * PI
So 4 hours is actually 4 * 3.14 = 12.56 hours in actual development time.
It could be solved easily enough I think, and I am currently writing a module that I belive would solve most of the problems I have when using Zope.
All that is needed is a relation "product".
relations.add([obj1, obj2], [obj3, obj4, obj42])
relations.getRelations(obj1)
>>>[obj3, obj4, obj42]
relations.getRelations(obj3)
>>>[obj1, obj2]
Every object in zope is defined by its id, and it's path, so it could be done relatively easily.
Then you would get the advantages of a relational model in the ZODB.
You could even use a different instance of the class for different object types. Like you make many relation tables in a traditinal rdbm.
It's allready made. Just that it was called "Evil Dead"
Bwah!
/.)
You Perl programmers make me mad! You act like Linux versions of VB programmers. Overestimating the depth of your own knowledge.
You have learned to program in Perl and now that you know that you think you know everything about all programming languages.
Funny thing though. There is a LOT of people who have swiched from Perl to Python (myself included), but I have yet to meet someone who volunteerly have switched the other way around.
Please try Python and get to know it before dissing it, or get a marketing job at Microsoft spreading FUD because that's what you are doing now.
(I have nothing against Perl, it's just the know-all attitude of some of the developers that ticks me of. And the fact that their comments get such a high rating on
The biggest problem as far as I can see is that the pedophiles can just use Photoshop/Gimp/Painter etc. to make real child porn look like artistic drawings.
How do you prosecute that then? It allready happens now, and is a problem for the police.
>Last week when my friend broke his arm, he did a
>few miles on a treadmile, and nows he's back
>playing Squash!
>I'm poping in at lunchtime to get this genetic
>heart disorder fixed. I reckon 10 Miles on the
>cycle should do it.
You are overlooking the fact that the money spend on the surgery perhaps could save more lifes if used differently.
I am not saying that we shouldn't have any surgery at all, not even that we should not have robotic surgery, but operations can become so expensive that if used they will cause other people their life through negligence.
You just don't see those people complaining on tv because they are in good health.
Surgery hasn't really added anything to public health on average. Only a few months added average lifespan.
... Hah! I laugh at robotic surgery. It's a dead end.
Clean water, high quality foods, preservatives, better housing and penicillin has been the real life savers. With average lifespans going from around 30 to around 70 years due to those.
So instead of using a lot of money on Robotic heart surgery it would be better to build health gyms. That would increase avg. lifespan more than C3PO with a knife.
Now that the genome is mapped there will be an explosion in proteomics (gene and protein) research and then we will start to get somewhere with cancer, virus and bacteria.
Come nano we can hopefull live for several hundred years.
Robotic surgery
But I hope it will be there if I ever need it.
There is a lot of research that shows that there is most often 1-10 difference in productivity, sometimes even as much as 1-100 between good and poor programmers.
...
If an experienced programmer can be 10 times as efficient as a rookie, why should it then matter how long a rookie works???
We are not laying bricks, serving burgers or doing cleaning where the amount of time worked roughly corresponds to the amount of work accomplished.
I am not exactly old yet (35) but I have seen so much absolutely BAD code from these young hotshots.
Often a client asks if we cannot reuse some code they have bought from another company. I have never seen any code that could be reused. Code and presentation is mixed, magical values everywhere and cut'n paste code.
It's so pathetic.
Apparantly some managers think that because some 18 year old can do something that they cannot themself, that they must be geniouses. Well they are not.
Get a good experienced coder anytime and pay them double salary, let them work 40 hours a week and still make 50% more money
Actually there are two paths to Nano nirvana. Thru biotech or thru "mechanics".
Genetic enginering and all that squishy stuff is but one way to do it. Different technology = different solutions.
So probably there will be room for both methods. The nano people are certainly aware of the biological solutions too.
I do believe it is generally fair that the record industry try to protect their investment.
It is also fair that they have a lot of money. I want professional musicians spending all their time making great music. Not just amateurs.
The problem right now is that we are paying for the production and distribution af plastic platters that we no longer need.
We are paying for the salary of shop clerks handing the CD's over the counter. Which is also unnessecary.
We are paying for trucking.
We are paying for a lot of stuff that we don't want or need.
A record company today needs no more than a website, record studio and a marketing dept.
Why do we have to pay for all this unnessecary old time infrastructure when it is not nessecary? This is what is really annoying me.
The recording industry could make the same profit by having lower prices, higher sales and less expenses!!!!
I would LOVE to pay for MP3 if it meant always having a site to go to for downloading the songs I want at a fair price. ($1-$2 an album)
I would even pay for all my old Vinyl albums one more time, so that I wouldn't have to rip them myself.
If an open license is good, then a completely open license should be even better... no?
If you believe that the open source model is better than proprietary software then it shouldn't really matter if someone can fork the source tree and close it off with added proprietary stuff, because the main tree would still have the best software as a result of the open source model and peoples general interrest in free software. All the best people work elsewhere remember?
Most people would still develop for the main branch and the proprietary branches would soon be forced to become folded back into the main tree or they would perrish because of lack of support/interrest.
I do believe that one of the main reasons for the succes of open source is that it is free beer as well as free speech. Take away either and the interrest would dwindle.
I honestly don't believe that it makes any difference whether software is released under the GPL or completely without copyright.You wouldn't be able to close of the source of a program make some changes and then charge money for it when there is a very similar product allready available and open source'd.
Imagine for one moment in a parallel universe, where Linux had been developed without copyright, the absurd notion that Microsoft would fork the entire Linux codetree and make some proprietary changes and then try to sell it. doh. There would shurely be a lot of buyers ... not!
The license doesn't matter much.
A good party is made from free speech, free beer, and the coolest people. maxm
The best one I have used is Dreamveawer 2, but I use it mainly for layout and design.
When it comes to big sites (>100 pages) pure HTML is a bad way to create sites. There is no encapsualtion of code or re-use at all.
What I find myself doing now more and more often is writing objects and functions in serverside JavaScript that renders my HTML. (I REALLY like JavaScript. Such a clean language.)
Something like:
var title = "This is the title"
var body = "Beginning"
body += "Next item"
body += "Third Item etc."
page(title, content)
can render a LOT of HTML and is very simple to use and maintain. Especially those last minute changes of large protions of a site. Content and design is completely seperated
It's funny but it is kind of like every programmer forgets what he knows about good code design when doing HTML.
I found that when I did large sites they would always run late. Simply because there would be more ways for the pages in the site not to match. And then when something didn't macth it would take longer to correct because the sites where bigger.
Max M's 1. rule of webdesign: The time used to solve problems gets squared with size of the site.
This can be solved by looking at a website as a programming task, and then throw good software engineering practices at the problem.