I say - give him his bitcoins back, with a wimpy apology. And then refuse to allow him access to computers whilst he's in prison because of the computer-network related offences he just admitted to.
And then imprison him more for evading taxes on his bitcoin income.
kind of, I know things started out as OLE, but COM was the "evolution" of that as Microsoft sought to take it out of the Office dev team and make it suitable for everyone else as well.
It was COM+ that evolved the transaction co-ordinator, something that never worked well either IMHO.
I think that makes 4 levels so far - OLE, COM, COM+ and now the native WinRT stuff that is a further evolution of it after incorporating a bunch on.NET stuff into it.
Personally, I just wish the C++standards body could come up with a standard binary interface. That'd solve all these issues Microsoft has been playing with for the last 20 years.
I am in England, so maybe your local area is different to my experiences. that said, the Germans I worked with had several foreign-born workers with them.
The only sexism in the hard sciences is typically because women generally prefer subjects like humanities, not really because men actively try to restrict women's entry.
That's true, but the debate never says that the industry is sexist and restricts or somehow oppresses men who want to enter primary school teaching. Its always about how to encourage more men to enter it.
In the It industry however, the converse is not the same - where women do not want to enter IT, its never because the field is something women aren't particularly interested in and require more encouragement, its more how male-oriented it is and so how those bastard men seek to deny poor women their rightful place.
Emscriptem is a technology that compiles code in C++ to javascript. Asm.js is a restricted subset of javascript that is much easier for the compiler to handle.
Google wants you to use quite a few different things, probably the 'best' is NaCl (native client) which runs practically native code in a sandboxed runtime.
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I assume that it used to translating float64 javascript variables to float32 C variables (or vice versa) and now they get to keep them as-is. I think all the graphics calls use float32, so maybe that's where the performance boost comes from.
it sounds as if what asm.js needs is strong typing for all variables. maybe it'd be easier for the compiler to convert the code then.
But both the above are just guesses. Personally I'd like to see a standardised language designed for high-performance web browser code, one that's more low level... maybe C:-) (at least then you could implement any language you wanted on top of it)
actually, COM was designed with Word and Excel in mind, so you could embed spreadsheets in documents. It could have been a lot better - being based on DCE RPC, but a) the DCE guys refused to licence it to Microsoft for anything resembling sense, and b) Microsoft dev division created their equivalent so it's naturally overcomplicated.
It worked well (as well as anything will) with VB, as long as you followed a couple of rules, I don't see that as a problem - everything has some restrictions, even VB:-)
asm.js is not javascript though, its a specific subset with restricted coding rules that allow the compiler to do its stuff. General js will be just as slow as any of the other script languages.
oh no, I'm fine - although I'm an old white guy, I have moved my career towards more consultancy where its an advantage - nobody wants to hire a young kid who will tell them how do to things, especially when management paying for such are old white guys too.
Still, its a well known problem for the industry that anyone with experience and skills are passed over in favour of kids who are cheaper and only know the cool new stuff, and end up having to re-learn things the old guys figured out and fixed decades ago. Until that situation gets sorted out (ie the industry becomes more professional rather than a hobby filled with flavour-of-the-month technology that never quite gets to mature) software will continue to be bugged, insecure and perform poorly, if it performs properly in the first place.
I would have hoped that upper management would be filled with guys who used to be the techies, but it seems management are getting younger (and less experienced) too, especially the ones brought in who can only talk the talk but do nothing else.
I don't see anyone complaining that nursing or primary school teaching is sexist, yet those professions have a definite bias towards one sex.
So men tend to like computers more than women, does anyone seriously think this is somehow the industry keeping women from participating? (well, ok, but only because a lot of the "men" in the industry tend to be about as mature as the primary school children I referred to earlier!)
Racist? I can't answer that so readily, but I know a lot of foreign chappies working in IT, and my last company actively discriminated against white guys by only hiring Indian developers - though admittedly they were located in India, and cost a lot less. The one previous to that recruited a lot of Lithuanians, so they could hardly be said to discriminate against the usual native causcasian population.
One thing that hurts open source adoption is this trend to stay at 0.x versions even if you practically have a good, polished product.
quite true - I looked at it and thought its a new thing and was about to pass it by simply because of that pathetic version number.
OSS guys need to know that the version is a little bit of marketing that can make you look a little better - obviously its not the whole story, not unless you're Microsoft, but it needs to communicate some information about stability and project progress.
I understand there was a bit of a rewrite between 0.16 and 0.17 - and that's hopeless numbering, it should have gone from 1.0 to 2.0 there.
oh yeah.. serves me right for posting with a pint in me! Guess I failed that interview... maybe this shows that even the simplest interview questions aren't so useful.
I agree here - but only to a point. At an interview you have to demonstrate some ability, and as there are so many idiots with bullshit CVs, you have to give some sort of test. Fortunately the tests don't (and should not) be very hard.
However, one test I had given to me a while ago was a code review. They gave me a visual studio project and said "review that, tell us what you think", and of course it had a couple of glaring bugs, a bit of very lazy coding, duplicated code that could be refactored into a common function, and similar. It wasn't about what variable names to call things (except the file called MyClass1.cs). It didn't require me to remember all the stuff I've consigned to Google's stewardship over the years and gave me the opportunity to explain my thinking.
I think such tests are vastly improved over coding tests that you end up writing differently to what the interviewer expected (and therefore he considers "wrong"). When you did tests at school, the teacher never really cared about the right answer - they cared about the working. An interview test that asks you to review code is pretty much the same principle.
doesn't matter - you can divide the input number by 3 and if its exactly zero, then print fizz out. Obviously you have to remember to put the input number into a floating point one, and it isn't necessarily going to be the most efficient... but that's not the point. The point of the test is to weed out the people who simply have zero clue.
Hell, if they took the number, converted it to a string and then compared the string to a lookup table of fizz values, that'd be acceptable in terms of passing the test; the test not being anything about a good solution, but any solution that works - and gives you a chance to explain why you decided to do it like you did to an interviewer so they know you're not a complete fuckwit.
unfortunately the populace wants to behave like the lazy child - not cleaning their room, smoking pot, drinking and sitting around watching TV all day.
You could consider the government to be the mummy state that has finally given up hope with problem child and is now going off and doing what she wants to do instead.
If only us children got off our fat arses and showed a real interest in being productive members of an intelligent society, things would be different.
Inflation: where the cost of stuff goes up every year and you can buy less with it - ie the worth of your currency goes down. Consider that we've had inflation for decades - you can no longer buy a car for $1000.
So deflation means the opposite - your currency goes up in value, so you can buy more stuff. Of course this means the people who own things would have things (typically property) that are worth less, and they don't like that. So we have inflation-based economics that uses words like "growth" to make it seem you're getting a good deal whilst at the same time handing out large chunks of yield on investment to ensure their money assets don't go down in value overall.
The poor, meanwhile, can keep begging for payrises just about equal to the rate of inflation so they can stand still, at best.
So you decide if deflation would be good for a while. (my opinion - we need a bit of both fluctuating around a nice balance to keep things stable)
which is exactly why East Texas has such a good business deciding patent cases. If its good enough for intra-US lawsuits, its good enough for cross-border ones too.
And besides, it never stopped the US from prosecuting people it considers might have violated american laws, like online gambling, no matter where in the world they live.
true, but it also means they will have to code against those cross-platform engines. So no using the.net based ones (which tend to be a bit rubbish anyway, permanent 100% cpu on all the games I've played that used them).
I'm sure Valve considers this drive towards using their engine to be a good knock-on bonus!
I read elsewhere that some users were sent shortened links that took them to the redtube video, so they didn't even know it was going to be porn until they got there.
It does smack of a scam - a bit like me claiming these words are copyright and if you read them, you owe me loadsamoney. Which you now do, of course. Please send a cheque.
Anecdotally: I have not yet seen a surface in the wild. Plenty of iphones and a few ipads, the occasional Android tablet too. But not a single surface.
Maybe if I hung around Redmond I might see a few I guess.
and you'll remain a n00b until you learn to look beyond the headline and (here, the summary) and read what was actually said and apply some critical thinking and comprehension to it.
FYI, he didn't say "there was no such thing as open source", he said "there was no open source component that did what we needed".
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indeed.
I say - give him his bitcoins back, with a wimpy apology. And then refuse to allow him access to computers whilst he's in prison because of the computer-network related offences he just admitted to.
And then imprison him more for evading taxes on his bitcoin income.
kind of, I know things started out as OLE, but COM was the "evolution" of that as Microsoft sought to take it out of the Office dev team and make it suitable for everyone else as well.
It was COM+ that evolved the transaction co-ordinator, something that never worked well either IMHO.
I think that makes 4 levels so far - OLE, COM, COM+ and now the native WinRT stuff that is a further evolution of it after incorporating a bunch on .NET stuff into it.
Personally, I just wish the C++standards body could come up with a standard binary interface. That'd solve all these issues Microsoft has been playing with for the last 20 years.
I am in England, so maybe your local area is different to my experiences. that said, the Germans I worked with had several foreign-born workers with them.
The only sexism in the hard sciences is typically because women generally prefer subjects like humanities, not really because men actively try to restrict women's entry.
That's true, but the debate never says that the industry is sexist and restricts or somehow oppresses men who want to enter primary school teaching. Its always about how to encourage more men to enter it.
In the It industry however, the converse is not the same - where women do not want to enter IT, its never because the field is something women aren't particularly interested in and require more encouragement, its more how male-oriented it is and so how those bastard men seek to deny poor women their rightful place.
Emscriptem is a technology that compiles code in C++ to javascript. Asm.js is a restricted subset of javascript that is much easier for the compiler to handle.
Google wants you to use quite a few different things, probably the 'best' is NaCl (native client) which runs practically native code in a sandboxed runtime.
I assume that it used to translating float64 javascript variables to float32 C variables (or vice versa) and now they get to keep them as-is. I think all the graphics calls use float32, so maybe that's where the performance boost comes from.
it sounds as if what asm.js needs is strong typing for all variables. maybe it'd be easier for the compiler to convert the code then.
But both the above are just guesses. Personally I'd like to see a standardised language designed for high-performance web browser code, one that's more low level ... maybe C :-) (at least then you could implement any language you wanted on top of it)
actually, COM was designed with Word and Excel in mind, so you could embed spreadsheets in documents. It could have been a lot better - being based on DCE RPC, but a) the DCE guys refused to licence it to Microsoft for anything resembling sense, and b) Microsoft dev division created their equivalent so it's naturally overcomplicated.
It worked well (as well as anything will) with VB, as long as you followed a couple of rules, I don't see that as a problem - everything has some restrictions, even VB :-)
asm.js is not javascript though, its a specific subset with restricted coding rules that allow the compiler to do its stuff. General js will be just as slow as any of the other script languages.
oh no, I'm fine - although I'm an old white guy, I have moved my career towards more consultancy where its an advantage - nobody wants to hire a young kid who will tell them how do to things, especially when management paying for such are old white guys too.
Still, its a well known problem for the industry that anyone with experience and skills are passed over in favour of kids who are cheaper and only know the cool new stuff, and end up having to re-learn things the old guys figured out and fixed decades ago. Until that situation gets sorted out (ie the industry becomes more professional rather than a hobby filled with flavour-of-the-month technology that never quite gets to mature) software will continue to be bugged, insecure and perform poorly, if it performs properly in the first place.
I would have hoped that upper management would be filled with guys who used to be the techies, but it seems management are getting younger (and less experienced) too, especially the ones brought in who can only talk the talk but do nothing else.
In computer related fields nobody cares how hot you are.
possibly the wrongest thing I've ever read on Slashdot! :-)
I don't see anyone complaining that nursing or primary school teaching is sexist, yet those professions have a definite bias towards one sex.
So men tend to like computers more than women, does anyone seriously think this is somehow the industry keeping women from participating? (well, ok, but only because a lot of the "men" in the industry tend to be about as mature as the primary school children I referred to earlier!)
Racist? I can't answer that so readily, but I know a lot of foreign chappies working in IT, and my last company actively discriminated against white guys by only hiring Indian developers - though admittedly they were located in India, and cost a lot less. The one previous to that recruited a lot of Lithuanians, so they could hardly be said to discriminate against the usual native causcasian population.
Now ageist... that is definitely a problem in IT.
One thing that hurts open source adoption is this trend to stay at 0.x versions even if you practically have a good, polished product.
quite true - I looked at it and thought its a new thing and was about to pass it by simply because of that pathetic version number.
OSS guys need to know that the version is a little bit of marketing that can make you look a little better - obviously its not the whole story, not unless you're Microsoft, but it needs to communicate some information about stability and project progress.
I understand there was a bit of a rewrite between 0.16 and 0.17 - and that's hopeless numbering, it should have gone from 1.0 to 2.0 there.
oh yeah.. serves me right for posting with a pint in me! Guess I failed that interview... maybe this shows that even the simplest interview questions aren't so useful.
I agree here - but only to a point. At an interview you have to demonstrate some ability, and as there are so many idiots with bullshit CVs, you have to give some sort of test. Fortunately the tests don't (and should not) be very hard.
However, one test I had given to me a while ago was a code review. They gave me a visual studio project and said "review that, tell us what you think", and of course it had a couple of glaring bugs, a bit of very lazy coding, duplicated code that could be refactored into a common function, and similar. It wasn't about what variable names to call things (except the file called MyClass1.cs). It didn't require me to remember all the stuff I've consigned to Google's stewardship over the years and gave me the opportunity to explain my thinking.
I think such tests are vastly improved over coding tests that you end up writing differently to what the interviewer expected (and therefore he considers "wrong"). When you did tests at school, the teacher never really cared about the right answer - they cared about the working. An interview test that asks you to review code is pretty much the same principle.
doesn't matter - you can divide the input number by 3 and if its exactly zero, then print fizz out. Obviously you have to remember to put the input number into a floating point one, and it isn't necessarily going to be the most efficient... but that's not the point. The point of the test is to weed out the people who simply have zero clue.
Hell, if they took the number, converted it to a string and then compared the string to a lookup table of fizz values, that'd be acceptable in terms of passing the test; the test not being anything about a good solution, but any solution that works - and gives you a chance to explain why you decided to do it like you did to an interviewer so they know you're not a complete fuckwit.
unfortunately the populace wants to behave like the lazy child - not cleaning their room, smoking pot, drinking and sitting around watching TV all day.
You could consider the government to be the mummy state that has finally given up hope with problem child and is now going off and doing what she wants to do instead.
If only us children got off our fat arses and showed a real interest in being productive members of an intelligent society, things would be different.
Inflation: where the cost of stuff goes up every year and you can buy less with it - ie the worth of your currency goes down. Consider that we've had inflation for decades - you can no longer buy a car for $1000.
So deflation means the opposite - your currency goes up in value, so you can buy more stuff. Of course this means the people who own things would have things (typically property) that are worth less, and they don't like that. So we have inflation-based economics that uses words like "growth" to make it seem you're getting a good deal whilst at the same time handing out large chunks of yield on investment to ensure their money assets don't go down in value overall.
The poor, meanwhile, can keep begging for payrises just about equal to the rate of inflation so they can stand still, at best.
So you decide if deflation would be good for a while. (my opinion - we need a bit of both fluctuating around a nice balance to keep things stable)
true, why a link to something horrible that is not goatse. You kids, don't know what omfgwtfit is anymore.
But I think its the first time that the actual *summary* can be considered -1 Offtopic. What was the editor thinking?
neither is it after I've had a strong curry... fortunately I can blame the less-than-subtle effects as coming from the dog.
which is exactly why East Texas has such a good business deciding patent cases. If its good enough for intra-US lawsuits, its good enough for cross-border ones too.
And besides, it never stopped the US from prosecuting people it considers might have violated american laws, like online gambling, no matter where in the world they live.
true, but it also means they will have to code against those cross-platform engines. So no using the .net based ones (which tend to be a bit rubbish anyway, permanent 100% cpu on all the games I've played that used them).
I'm sure Valve considers this drive towards using their engine to be a good knock-on bonus!
I read elsewhere that some users were sent shortened links that took them to the redtube video, so they didn't even know it was going to be porn until they got there.
It does smack of a scam - a bit like me claiming these words are copyright and if you read them, you owe me loadsamoney. Which you now do, of course. Please send a cheque.
nice try Mr Microsoft marketeer.
Anecdotally: I have not yet seen a surface in the wild. Plenty of iphones and a few ipads, the occasional Android tablet too. But not a single surface.
Maybe if I hung around Redmond I might see a few I guess.
and you'll remain a n00b until you learn to look beyond the headline and (here, the summary) and read what was actually said and apply some critical thinking and comprehension to it.
FYI, he didn't say "there was no such thing as open source", he said "there was no open source component that did what we needed".
"Collapsing this box and sending it back saves the company $0.11
Shame the postage costs $0.20, but that's how big companies roll. :-)