I wouldn't even mind the crackers welding hotrods, if they did any of the following: Explained what welding is and how it works, and about different types of welds. Explained why they were welding what they were welding, and what that part does. Actually showed some welding technique. Didn't try to create some fake drama about the project having to be finished on time, and some fake race the clock sequences.
Those shows could be decent, but its all about the "drama" of the junior hotheads avoiding the wrath of the big honcho hothead, and no technical content at all.
Not to mention bad software. When I upgraded to win2000 I realized that really many of those crashes were not the OS at all, but the software. GPF's in particular were an application problem, not an OS issue.
Bats is a full fledged exchange now, as is direct edge. Liquidnet is still an ECN, where large institutional traders try to trade in large blocks. I meant CBOE and their CBSX, not CME, my mistake- they are still an options/futures venue. I am not sure what you mean by a retail market? When you put in a buy order with e-trade, they hit these same markets- they have to hit all the "protected markets" as defined by reg nms (any market that officially registers as an exchange).
The SEC is fairly quick with the paperwork actually, and it did not cost that much, at least not to be an ECN. The direct filing fees were somewhere in the 4 figures, how much exactly, I am not sure- I was on the technology side. Total costs were much higher, as we had to provide paperwork and evidence that we met their requirements.
Market making as a profession, where there is a guy that stands in a pit and makes markets, is pretty much dead. Its all electronic, and the electronic "paper trail" pretty much ensures that you won't get front run. Your buddy today wouldn't just send an order for $32k to the floor, he would send it to one of my algo engines, where we would spray it out and take the top of book at every trading venue we connect to until he had it filled, or sent it to a different type of algo engine that would spread the order out over a time period he controlled and sliced and diced it in the market until he got his fill- the whole point of which is to reduce market impact. HFT guys might be sniping 100 shares here and there to make a fraction of a cent on a strategy that has nothing to do with yours- they might have actually moved the market in your favor.
During market panics, the good old fashioned kind driven by fear- the difference between microseconds and 2 hours is gigantic don't you think? Imagine it being 2007, and saying what difference does it make if my house sells in 2 days or 2 years? Good old fashioned market panics are somewhat tempered by HFT btw- most of these strategies are based on mean reversion, so if prices get too out of whack with what is typical, the algos buy and sell to bring everything back in line. Of course those algos bring on new types of craziness, but no one was looking to outlaw people from trading before computers came on the scene.
Normal people and the companies listed on the markets are hurt by this arrangement. They would gladly take their business to another market that had more sane trading rules.
Which gets to the actual problem - regulations on securities markets. We have a classic example of regulatory capture here, so starting a competing market is effectively impossible. NASDAQ couldn't happen today.
Like anything else there needs to be a market in markets (sup, dawg), and this has been prevented from happening
You could not be more wrong. Do you realize that in the last 10 years, the number of trading venues has exploded from 3 big exchanges and a few tiny regionals (the NYSE, Nasdaq and Amex) to about 40 today? This change in market structure actually created my current job- smart order routing- which ensures that your order to buy 10 shares of IBM gets executed at the best price (as required by the SEC). BATS, Direct Edge, CME, Liquidnet, and many others (I worked at a brand new exchange/broker-dealer startup in 2008. I assure you can get a competing market up and running in 6 months to a year. Are you being deliberately ignorant, or do you just not know, how much you don't know?
As for HFT, you can thank those guys for being able to buy or sell within a penny of the last trade on liquid stocks. Did you prefer giving up 10 cents when both buying and selling to a market maker who really would front run you? Its much more difficult to front run in today's electronic market. Electronic trading is here to stay, and programs have bugs- whether they react in 10 microseconds, or 50 milliseconds, if some firm wants to bankrupt themselves by distorting the price momentarily of a particular stock, humans aren't going to be able to prevent them.
Here is the thing- those people have built very successful businesses and oversaw the growth of billion dollar businesses. Maybe it was a bit of luck, and being in the right place at the right time, but the bottom line is that they did it, and made apple billions of dollars. $60 million is a lot. But this is in some sense a bribe to keep up the good work over the next few years, and more so to prevent them from going off and doing their own startups.
Have you ever tried building a business? I have taken two stabs at it, and the ability to bring in revenue is by far the most valuable skill one can possess. And that's what these guys are being paid for.
Indeed- I have had a synology nas since 2007 (first a ds207, upgraded to a ds211j this year). There are tons of features right out of the box- I have been living in "the cloud" for years now. When I think of all the time I would have to spend setting up software packages for all of the features syno provides... it makes me want to cry. I have already spent way too much time getting serviio up and running to replace the standard crappy DLNA implementation.
Buying pre-built means it works for you, and you aren't spending your weekends tweaking, which is important for me (and my family). I like the fact that I can hear about a new show or movie from my coworker, log into my nas through the web gui, and start downloading it on bit torrent, so that when I come I can watch it that night without having to grab a computer.
The consumer grade NAS's have ARM processors in them. Couple those with some low power HD's and these things sip power. I have a synology ds211j, and its idle power draw is about 10 watts, maxing out at about 30.
Maybe you can home brew an arm based system... I wouldn't know where to start though. Another plus for off the shelf is the form factor- my nas is about the size of a small shoe box, it is small enough to fit on a shelf out of the way in my coat closet.
Yeah I was going to say, I have been using ajaxterm for a few years now. It has its quirks, but it works and gives me access to my home network. For those times when you just can't tolerate the company firewall, it will do.
I don't see how that could work. I have never bothered applying to Google because the area you work in is SO important. In the financial field, it is the difference between working on really cool and sexy stuff using C++, to writing sql queries all day, or just coding business logic all day in some java app. It affects your career path and trajectory, compensation, and prestige within the firm. There are tremendously different fields, many of which I would rather find a job elsewhere than do.
When I was job hunting, the role was the #1 important factor.
In all that ranting, you didn't even touch upon why you hate Samsung so much... maybe its common knowledge among Android users (though I don't think so, most seem to really like the Galaxy S from what I hear), but I have no idea what issues you had w/ your Galaxy...
The people who wrote those loans are amusingly enough in the 99%. Aside from the very top officers running these banks like Countrywide's Angelo Mozilo, most of these people pawning mortgages were generally ordinary people, some of whom made a bit of money during the boom, but most of which are broke now. You want to know who the boots on the ground were that were peddling these loans? A lot of them were friends of mine that grew up in middle class families, went to a state school, maybe got a 3.0 in psychology, and then were deployed to sell mortgages to people in droves, often making over 70k within a year. These are the people who were selling you your mortgages- the ones that the 99% signed their name in triplicate saying that they read the documents given to them, and understood them.
Aside from a small number of relatively isolated cases of fraud and taking advantage of people clearly incapable of understanding what they were doing, the half million people employed at the height of the crisis committed no crimes. You may not like what they did, or the consequences of it, but they committed no crimes, and it is not yet a crime to sell a sucker something more than it is worth.
I find all of this anger towards Wall St. rather absurd. The housing crisis was started, fueled, and continued by the 99% who refinanced their homes and took money out for themselves from their homes fictitious values, and those who continued to pay inflated prices despite basic math saying that should be impossible. Wall St may have been asleep at the wheel, but they were the lions up in the food chain, the last stop up the rung and they passed what was fed to them along to the likes of AIG and other entities. It was grass root's movement of the 99% signing their life away on these mortgages that enabled it.
And you don't think the 1% on wall st have paid? Ask the guys at Lehman and Bear Stearns who had most of their net worth wiped out. Most guys working at banks are upper middle class at best, its only the top few percent making anywhere near the millions, this hit the rank and file hard.
That's a good question. Aside from the girl getting pepper sprayed, I didn't really see anything too out of the ordinary for the NYPD. If you don't listen to a cop, lawfully or unlawfully, and resist arrest in any way, they are going to rough you up a bit. The NYPD is also a bit of a crapshoot, sometimes they are nice and let you off despite clearly doing something illegal, other days you get a jaywalking ticket.
A friend of mine works downtown and has a view of the protest, and the reason it isn't getting coverage, is that it has been quite small. I hear that it has been growing in size each day, but last Friday, the number of protesters was laughable, it looked to be about 100 people from the cellphone picture I saw- the plaza they are protesting in is more crowded during rush hour when people are going to/from work. Not much of a protest, especially by NYC standards. I mean every time the UN meets there are gatherings there many times that size.
I also get within a block of that park on my commute home. They certainly aren't making much of a splash, as I don't even notice them. I think this is a very small protest that is getting national media coverage only because its such a provocative subject.
That is not likely to be the total number of customers lost though. I pre-paid for a year when I signed up, so I am locked in at that rate until next february. This was likely the big bang, but the price change is going to put bring headwinds for the next year. Signing up 400k new customers at the new rates is impressive though.
I myself don't plan on renewing. I don't use it enough, and I was very disappointed by the streaming options- I was under the impression that most movies would be available for streaming and that is not the case at all. Plenty of TV shows are, and I saw documentaries I wouldn't have watched otherwise, but all in all the streaming doesn't have much value.
At $9.99 (one dvd + streaming), netflix flew under the radar on my monthly bills, I could waste it if I needed to. I figured that if it saved us one night out for dinner and a movie, I would break even. It hasn't even done that, and ~$20 a month on top of my $120 a month cable/internet bill is just too much.
Its nowhere near close. Maybe if you are comparing Eclipse for java and not C++. CDT feels bolted on, and poorly at that. I find most eclipse plugins are buggy as hell, and I think the whole view/perspective system is just unintuitive- one wrong move and now your whole screen is deranged. Eclipse over X is hardly functional.
I haven't used 2010 much as I have been on a linux only platform the last two years, but I miss VS tons. The debugger is the biggest thing I miss really. DDD just isn't as smooth, and not having to leave the editor is just one of those things that really improves your flow.
Not that VS doesn't have it's warts... I wish MS would stop their apple-like crusade and just support makefiles.
What I found ridiculous is that I live in a concrete and steel high rise with generators capable of powering the entire building (and no they aren't in the basement). I am about a block from the hudson, but I still felt way safer there than at my parents stick frame house surrounded by trees in the suburbs. I knew that we might be holed up there for a day or two if the storm surge was REALLY bad, but we prepared for it appropriately. They tried to get me to evacuate, but it all seemed so silly. The nearest shelter was in a mall with a glass roof. Really? And they wouldn't even take my dog.
This was a big storm. Lots of people are without power, towns all over NJ and upstate NY are flooded out. But the evacuation card should really only be used sparingly. Barrier Islands, remote beachy areas, I get it. Even Hoboken, as there are only a few roads out and that town floods in a light rain. Battery Park? Jersey City? Completely ridiculous. Its like they forgot that the biggest problem with Katrina was that NOLA is BELOW sea level. Are they really expecting Battery Park residents to start looting? Did they beef up security at Banana Republic?
Rob, Thanks for everything. I have been here since nearly the beginning (I lost two UID's along the way, though my lowest was still 5 digits), when this site was anything but corporate and it really felt like a bunch of guys in someone's basement just shooting the shit about geeky stuff. I remember around 2002/2003 and people yelling about slashvertisements and such things that I would just scratch my head and be like "this is just some guy's blog." But the perception among most users had changed by that point and there were even editorial standards that people thought you guys should be held to.
Though slashdot has lost its relevance a bit- we no longer see heavyweights like Carmack popping in to post, there was literally a period of 10 years from 1998-2008 where/. was my homepage and I read each and every story. I still read every summary, but I don't dive into the comments for every story, and the discussion has unfortunately just gotten REALLY cranky lately. I kind of miss all the MS bashing, and the flame wars:). Heh- a funny story just popped in my head- I remember the sysadmin at one of my first jobs coming over to my desk saying "errr kev, umm... we reviewed the logs, and you really seem to like slashdot ALOT." and I quickly sidestepped that line of inquiry by telling him that the numbers must be really inflated because its my homepage, and every time I bring up the webapp I was working on, it loads/. first. He kind of knew I was snowing him, but it was good enough to have him move on. Whoo! Another amusing story is when my officemate had one of his pet projects make the front page. I was impressed with myself for even knowing a guy who got on the front page!
This is very sad, with the rise of rss feeds, and sites like reddit,/. has lost a lot of my attention in the past few years. The discussion used to be the big draw, and it just hasn't done it for me lately. Those slow weeks before holidays and between christmas and new years,/. was my savior! Kind of similarly, I recently went through some life changes after going through my "post-college" phase, which lasted 10 years, and am trying to figure out what life 3.0 is going to be about, and how I can find happiness. This event somehow affirms my belief that I can't go home again and its time to be a real adult.
Good luck, somehow I feel this departure is going to lead to the end of my love affair with the site as well.
I found reading programming books on the nook color doesn't work so well. I am not sure if it was the fixed width font or something, but the code examples would often scroll off the page, which made things very difficult to learn.
My nook is about a year old though, maybe later revisions are better.
Wow, you are right. I thought that got dropped from the final version of the standard. I haven't seen anyone write about those features in a long time.
I think you hit the problems with templates nicely. While they were sitting around arguing over concepts, they could have been including support for multithreading. The new move semantics are nice, as are "official" smart pointers, though I am kind of cringing thinking about how much of a pain dealing with incompatibilities with boost smart pointers or other smart pointer libraries might be.
With the exclusion of concepts, the latest standard just moves C++ farther into an experts-only language. The whole standardization process is just too cumbersome. Its just hard to understand how the committee can ignore multithreading, while adding things like lambdas and type inferencing.
I have one of these synology boxes, and I love it. Its the low powered server I always wanted. I have the DS211j, which is about $200 (before disks, which you supply) and supports 2 disks either raided or not raided. It has 1.2 ghz ARM processor, sips about 4-10w at idle peaking around 30w (depending on your disks), and has either 128 or 256MB ram, which considering this is a lightweight server, is plenty. As an added plus the box is about the size of a small shoebox, so it can be hidden in a closet next to your router, though it doesn't make much noise if you want to keep it out in the open.
I have owned a nas for 4 years, and I feel like I have been on the "cloud" for that long. My laptop just has a 128 gig disk, everything else just sits on the nas (which aside from being raided, gets backed up to an external USB HD on a weekly basis. Besides just being a file repository, I run a web photo gallery on it, have an ip camera hooked up to it, run a DLNA server off of it, and also use the built in web based bit torrent client (which may sound not all that useful, but when you hear about a new ubuntu release that you want to try out at work, I can start the download and have it be ready when I get home. More nefariously, heard about a good movie? It can be DL'ed and be ready to be streamed to my TV that night). It runs linux, so there really is no limit as to what you can run on it, a lot of people run wordpress blogs and similar software on their nas's. For those in really restrictive corporate networks (like myself) its even possible to set up a proxy so you can access gmail or whatever else you want, though I haven't used that since I got a smart phone.
I feel like I am advertising, but I feel like every geek should have one of these, and am somewhat surprised they aren't more prevalent.
Cell phone cameras do a pretty good job. They take just as crappy a picture as any of my old crappy point and shoots. And the biggest reason that they are so popular, is that you can only take pictures when you have your camera on you. Your cell phone is always on you, so you can capture every moment. I bought a DSLR a few months ago that takes absolutely incredible pictures, which is great for family events and other planned outings, but I would never want to lug that thing around all the time. A cell phone works just fine for some 4x6's you want to put up in your home.
And to get back on topic a bit, stereos are in the same place. I dropped a few grand when I got out of school on a home theater. It's nice, but I moved to an apartment in the city, and now its so overpowered it isn't even funny. I am looking to replace the receiver, and yeah I am looking for features I can actually get use out of, like DLNA supprort, on-screen menus, plenty of hdmi connections, pandora, etc, as opposed to a 135 watt per channel amp. Also, audio enthusiasts are a special breed of nutcase. They will spend thousands on all kinds of crazy stuff with no scientific evidence it sounds better.
Not sure if you have a typo or if you are trolling or what... but 60F is only slightly above the temperature of most groundwater. 60C, aka ~140F is a bit more like it, but that seems a bit on the hot side for most hot water.
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I wouldn't even mind the crackers welding hotrods, if they did any of the following:
Explained what welding is and how it works, and about different types of welds.
Explained why they were welding what they were welding, and what that part does.
Actually showed some welding technique.
Didn't try to create some fake drama about the project having to be finished on time, and some fake race the clock sequences.
Those shows could be decent, but its all about the "drama" of the junior hotheads avoiding the wrath of the big honcho hothead, and no technical content at all.
Not to mention bad software. When I upgraded to win2000 I realized that really many of those crashes were not the OS at all, but the software. GPF's in particular were an application problem, not an OS issue.
Bats is a full fledged exchange now, as is direct edge. Liquidnet is still an ECN, where large institutional traders try to trade in large blocks. I meant CBOE and their CBSX, not CME, my mistake- they are still an options/futures venue. I am not sure what you mean by a retail market? When you put in a buy order with e-trade, they hit these same markets- they have to hit all the "protected markets" as defined by reg nms (any market that officially registers as an exchange).
The SEC is fairly quick with the paperwork actually, and it did not cost that much, at least not to be an ECN. The direct filing fees were somewhere in the 4 figures, how much exactly, I am not sure- I was on the technology side. Total costs were much higher, as we had to provide paperwork and evidence that we met their requirements.
Market making as a profession, where there is a guy that stands in a pit and makes markets, is pretty much dead. Its all electronic, and the electronic "paper trail" pretty much ensures that you won't get front run. Your buddy today wouldn't just send an order for $32k to the floor, he would send it to one of my algo engines, where we would spray it out and take the top of book at every trading venue we connect to until he had it filled, or sent it to a different type of algo engine that would spread the order out over a time period he controlled and sliced and diced it in the market until he got his fill- the whole point of which is to reduce market impact. HFT guys might be sniping 100 shares here and there to make a fraction of a cent on a strategy that has nothing to do with yours- they might have actually moved the market in your favor.
During market panics, the good old fashioned kind driven by fear- the difference between microseconds and 2 hours is gigantic don't you think? Imagine it being 2007, and saying what difference does it make if my house sells in 2 days or 2 years? Good old fashioned market panics are somewhat tempered by HFT btw- most of these strategies are based on mean reversion, so if prices get too out of whack with what is typical, the algos buy and sell to bring everything back in line. Of course those algos bring on new types of craziness, but no one was looking to outlaw people from trading before computers came on the scene.
Normal people and the companies listed on the markets are hurt by this arrangement. They would gladly take their business to another market that had more sane trading rules.
Which gets to the actual problem - regulations on securities markets. We have a classic example of regulatory capture here, so starting a competing market is effectively impossible. NASDAQ couldn't happen today.
Like anything else there needs to be a market in markets (sup, dawg), and this has been prevented from happening
You could not be more wrong. Do you realize that in the last 10 years, the number of trading venues has exploded from 3 big exchanges and a few tiny regionals (the NYSE, Nasdaq and Amex) to about 40 today? This change in market structure actually created my current job- smart order routing- which ensures that your order to buy 10 shares of IBM gets executed at the best price (as required by the SEC). BATS, Direct Edge, CME, Liquidnet, and many others (I worked at a brand new exchange/broker-dealer startup in 2008. I assure you can get a competing market up and running in 6 months to a year. Are you being deliberately ignorant, or do you just not know, how much you don't know?
As for HFT, you can thank those guys for being able to buy or sell within a penny of the last trade on liquid stocks. Did you prefer giving up 10 cents when both buying and selling to a market maker who really would front run you? Its much more difficult to front run in today's electronic market. Electronic trading is here to stay, and programs have bugs- whether they react in 10 microseconds, or 50 milliseconds, if some firm wants to bankrupt themselves by distorting the price momentarily of a particular stock, humans aren't going to be able to prevent them.
Here is the thing- those people have built very successful businesses and oversaw the growth of billion dollar businesses. Maybe it was a bit of luck, and being in the right place at the right time, but the bottom line is that they did it, and made apple billions of dollars. $60 million is a lot. But this is in some sense a bribe to keep up the good work over the next few years, and more so to prevent them from going off and doing their own startups.
Have you ever tried building a business? I have taken two stabs at it, and the ability to bring in revenue is by far the most valuable skill one can possess. And that's what these guys are being paid for.
Indeed- I have had a synology nas since 2007 (first a ds207, upgraded to a ds211j this year). There are tons of features right out of the box- I have been living in "the cloud" for years now. When I think of all the time I would have to spend setting up software packages for all of the features syno provides... it makes me want to cry. I have already spent way too much time getting serviio up and running to replace the standard crappy DLNA implementation.
Buying pre-built means it works for you, and you aren't spending your weekends tweaking, which is important for me (and my family). I like the fact that I can hear about a new show or movie from my coworker, log into my nas through the web gui, and start downloading it on bit torrent, so that when I come I can watch it that night without having to grab a computer.
The consumer grade NAS's have ARM processors in them. Couple those with some low power HD's and these things sip power. I have a synology ds211j, and its idle power draw is about 10 watts, maxing out at about 30.
Maybe you can home brew an arm based system... I wouldn't know where to start though. Another plus for off the shelf is the form factor- my nas is about the size of a small shoe box, it is small enough to fit on a shelf out of the way in my coat closet.
Yeah I was going to say, I have been using ajaxterm for a few years now. It has its quirks, but it works and gives me access to my home network. For those times when you just can't tolerate the company firewall, it will do.
I don't see how that could work. I have never bothered applying to Google because the area you work in is SO important. In the financial field, it is the difference between working on really cool and sexy stuff using C++, to writing sql queries all day, or just coding business logic all day in some java app. It affects your career path and trajectory, compensation, and prestige within the firm. There are tremendously different fields, many of which I would rather find a job elsewhere than do.
When I was job hunting, the role was the #1 important factor.
In all that ranting, you didn't even touch upon why you hate Samsung so much... maybe its common knowledge among Android users (though I don't think so, most seem to really like the Galaxy S from what I hear), but I have no idea what issues you had w/ your Galaxy...
The people who wrote those loans are amusingly enough in the 99%. Aside from the very top officers running these banks like Countrywide's Angelo Mozilo, most of these people pawning mortgages were generally ordinary people, some of whom made a bit of money during the boom, but most of which are broke now. You want to know who the boots on the ground were that were peddling these loans? A lot of them were friends of mine that grew up in middle class families, went to a state school, maybe got a 3.0 in psychology, and then were deployed to sell mortgages to people in droves, often making over 70k within a year. These are the people who were selling you your mortgages- the ones that the 99% signed their name in triplicate saying that they read the documents given to them, and understood them.
Aside from a small number of relatively isolated cases of fraud and taking advantage of people clearly incapable of understanding what they were doing, the half million people employed at the height of the crisis committed no crimes. You may not like what they did, or the consequences of it, but they committed no crimes, and it is not yet a crime to sell a sucker something more than it is worth.
I find all of this anger towards Wall St. rather absurd. The housing crisis was started, fueled, and continued by the 99% who refinanced their homes and took money out for themselves from their homes fictitious values, and those who continued to pay inflated prices despite basic math saying that should be impossible. Wall St may have been asleep at the wheel, but they were the lions up in the food chain, the last stop up the rung and they passed what was fed to them along to the likes of AIG and other entities. It was grass root's movement of the 99% signing their life away on these mortgages that enabled it.
And you don't think the 1% on wall st have paid? Ask the guys at Lehman and Bear Stearns who had most of their net worth wiped out. Most guys working at banks are upper middle class at best, its only the top few percent making anywhere near the millions, this hit the rank and file hard.
That's a good question. Aside from the girl getting pepper sprayed, I didn't really see anything too out of the ordinary for the NYPD. If you don't listen to a cop, lawfully or unlawfully, and resist arrest in any way, they are going to rough you up a bit. The NYPD is also a bit of a crapshoot, sometimes they are nice and let you off despite clearly doing something illegal, other days you get a jaywalking ticket.
A friend of mine works downtown and has a view of the protest, and the reason it isn't getting coverage, is that it has been quite small. I hear that it has been growing in size each day, but last Friday, the number of protesters was laughable, it looked to be about 100 people from the cellphone picture I saw- the plaza they are protesting in is more crowded during rush hour when people are going to/from work. Not much of a protest, especially by NYC standards. I mean every time the UN meets there are gatherings there many times that size.
I also get within a block of that park on my commute home. They certainly aren't making much of a splash, as I don't even notice them. I think this is a very small protest that is getting national media coverage only because its such a provocative subject.
That is not likely to be the total number of customers lost though. I pre-paid for a year when I signed up, so I am locked in at that rate until next february. This was likely the big bang, but the price change is going to put bring headwinds for the next year. Signing up 400k new customers at the new rates is impressive though.
I myself don't plan on renewing. I don't use it enough, and I was very disappointed by the streaming options- I was under the impression that most movies would be available for streaming and that is not the case at all. Plenty of TV shows are, and I saw documentaries I wouldn't have watched otherwise, but all in all the streaming doesn't have much value.
At $9.99 (one dvd + streaming), netflix flew under the radar on my monthly bills, I could waste it if I needed to. I figured that if it saved us one night out for dinner and a movie, I would break even. It hasn't even done that, and ~$20 a month on top of my $120 a month cable/internet bill is just too much.
Templates and general purpose API's aren't serious programming?
Its nowhere near close. Maybe if you are comparing Eclipse for java and not C++. CDT feels bolted on, and poorly at that. I find most eclipse plugins are buggy as hell, and I think the whole view/perspective system is just unintuitive- one wrong move and now your whole screen is deranged. Eclipse over X is hardly functional.
I haven't used 2010 much as I have been on a linux only platform the last two years, but I miss VS tons. The debugger is the biggest thing I miss really. DDD just isn't as smooth, and not having to leave the editor is just one of those things that really improves your flow.
Not that VS doesn't have it's warts... I wish MS would stop their apple-like crusade and just support makefiles.
What I found ridiculous is that I live in a concrete and steel high rise with generators capable of powering the entire building (and no they aren't in the basement). I am about a block from the hudson, but I still felt way safer there than at my parents stick frame house surrounded by trees in the suburbs. I knew that we might be holed up there for a day or two if the storm surge was REALLY bad, but we prepared for it appropriately. They tried to get me to evacuate, but it all seemed so silly. The nearest shelter was in a mall with a glass roof. Really? And they wouldn't even take my dog.
This was a big storm. Lots of people are without power, towns all over NJ and upstate NY are flooded out. But the evacuation card should really only be used sparingly. Barrier Islands, remote beachy areas, I get it. Even Hoboken, as there are only a few roads out and that town floods in a light rain. Battery Park? Jersey City? Completely ridiculous. Its like they forgot that the biggest problem with Katrina was that NOLA is BELOW sea level. Are they really expecting Battery Park residents to start looting? Did they beef up security at Banana Republic?
Rob,
Thanks for everything. I have been here since nearly the beginning (I lost two UID's along the way, though my lowest was still 5 digits), when this site was anything but corporate and it really felt like a bunch of guys in someone's basement just shooting the shit about geeky stuff. I remember around 2002/2003 and people yelling about slashvertisements and such things that I would just scratch my head and be like "this is just some guy's blog." But the perception among most users had changed by that point and there were even editorial standards that people thought you guys should be held to.
Though slashdot has lost its relevance a bit- we no longer see heavyweights like Carmack popping in to post, there was literally a period of 10 years from 1998-2008 where /. was my homepage and I read each and every story. I still read every summary, but I don't dive into the comments for every story, and the discussion has unfortunately just gotten REALLY cranky lately. I kind of miss all the MS bashing, and the flame wars :). Heh- a funny story just popped in my head- I remember the sysadmin at one of my first jobs coming over to my desk saying "errr kev, umm... we reviewed the logs, and you really seem to like slashdot ALOT." and I quickly sidestepped that line of inquiry by telling him that the numbers must be really inflated because its my homepage, and every time I bring up the webapp I was working on, it loads /. first. He kind of knew I was snowing him, but it was good enough to have him move on. Whoo! Another amusing story is when my officemate had one of his pet projects make the front page. I was impressed with myself for even knowing a guy who got on the front page!
This is very sad, with the rise of rss feeds, and sites like reddit, /. has lost a lot of my attention in the past few years. The discussion used to be the big draw, and it just hasn't done it for me lately. Those slow weeks before holidays and between christmas and new years, /. was my savior! Kind of similarly, I recently went through some life changes after going through my "post-college" phase, which lasted 10 years, and am trying to figure out what life 3.0 is going to be about, and how I can find happiness. This event somehow affirms my belief that I can't go home again and its time to be a real adult.
Good luck, somehow I feel this departure is going to lead to the end of my love affair with the site as well.
I found reading programming books on the nook color doesn't work so well. I am not sure if it was the fixed width font or something, but the code examples would often scroll off the page, which made things very difficult to learn.
My nook is about a year old though, maybe later revisions are better.
Yeah, there should be a -1 moron mod. I thought that got pushed out.
Wow, you are right. I thought that got dropped from the final version of the standard. I haven't seen anyone write about those features in a long time.
I think you hit the problems with templates nicely. While they were sitting around arguing over concepts, they could have been including support for multithreading. The new move semantics are nice, as are "official" smart pointers, though I am kind of cringing thinking about how much of a pain dealing with incompatibilities with boost smart pointers or other smart pointer libraries might be.
With the exclusion of concepts, the latest standard just moves C++ farther into an experts-only language. The whole standardization process is just too cumbersome. Its just hard to understand how the committee can ignore multithreading, while adding things like lambdas and type inferencing.
I have one of these synology boxes, and I love it. Its the low powered server I always wanted. I have the DS211j, which is about $200 (before disks, which you supply) and supports 2 disks either raided or not raided. It has 1.2 ghz ARM processor, sips about 4-10w at idle peaking around 30w (depending on your disks), and has either 128 or 256MB ram, which considering this is a lightweight server, is plenty. As an added plus the box is about the size of a small shoebox, so it can be hidden in a closet next to your router, though it doesn't make much noise if you want to keep it out in the open.
I have owned a nas for 4 years, and I feel like I have been on the "cloud" for that long. My laptop just has a 128 gig disk, everything else just sits on the nas (which aside from being raided, gets backed up to an external USB HD on a weekly basis. Besides just being a file repository, I run a web photo gallery on it, have an ip camera hooked up to it, run a DLNA server off of it, and also use the built in web based bit torrent client (which may sound not all that useful, but when you hear about a new ubuntu release that you want to try out at work, I can start the download and have it be ready when I get home. More nefariously, heard about a good movie? It can be DL'ed and be ready to be streamed to my TV that night). It runs linux, so there really is no limit as to what you can run on it, a lot of people run wordpress blogs and similar software on their nas's. For those in really restrictive corporate networks (like myself) its even possible to set up a proxy so you can access gmail or whatever else you want, though I haven't used that since I got a smart phone.
I feel like I am advertising, but I feel like every geek should have one of these, and am somewhat surprised they aren't more prevalent.
Cell phone cameras do a pretty good job. They take just as crappy a picture as any of my old crappy point and shoots. And the biggest reason that they are so popular, is that you can only take pictures when you have your camera on you. Your cell phone is always on you, so you can capture every moment. I bought a DSLR a few months ago that takes absolutely incredible pictures, which is great for family events and other planned outings, but I would never want to lug that thing around all the time. A cell phone works just fine for some 4x6's you want to put up in your home.
And to get back on topic a bit, stereos are in the same place. I dropped a few grand when I got out of school on a home theater. It's nice, but I moved to an apartment in the city, and now its so overpowered it isn't even funny. I am looking to replace the receiver, and yeah I am looking for features I can actually get use out of, like DLNA supprort, on-screen menus, plenty of hdmi connections, pandora, etc, as opposed to a 135 watt per channel amp. Also, audio enthusiasts are a special breed of nutcase. They will spend thousands on all kinds of crazy stuff with no scientific evidence it sounds better.
Not sure if you have a typo or if you are trolling or what... but 60F is only slightly above the temperature of most groundwater. 60C, aka ~140F is a bit more like it, but that seems a bit on the hot side for most hot water.