Focused mainly on one or two technology stacks (e.g. everything to do with developing a java application), with no experience outside of it
Nonsense; depth of knowledge is as important as breadth of knowledge. Ability to justify 50 different buzzwords on one's resume doesn't make someone a good programmer. It is a lot better to talk about the problems the candidate has solved, than the technology used to solve them.
Don't agree at all; not much use having a faint grasp on lots of different things if you're not able to choose (or be given) one in particular and to get on with the project. Even having in depth of a single language / technology / whatever puts a developer in a much stronger position when it comes to doing something else similar-ish - you have that sense of direction that only comes with experience.
Although years of in-depth Wording did me fsck all use getting used to that nasty ribbon thing in Office Latest:-(
for some functions, central heating being the main one. Setting off home early? Log in and get the place warmed up. Getting back late? Log in to postpone the warm up cycle. Go one step further and tie the location of your gps-enabled car / mobile phone / wristwatch etc to CH behaviour so as to have it off or frost proof setting when you're a long way away, to have it full on when you're in the house or on an established route such as commuting back from the office and drop to background heat at other times. Each person in the house would need the phone / wristwatch / implant though! And not much point in the summer. But it'd be useful for anyone who comes and goes at irregular times, who (therefore) can't program a timer to keep heating optimally efficient.
Why is there a preoccupation with webmail? It's an annoying buzzwordy type solution - oh look, we've got WEBMAIL - and is crap compared to a proper desktop client. And yes, i've got gmail. Why would I want to spend time jumping to the next screen of 20 messages (outlook webmail anyone) when i can scroll properly through thousands in a desktop client? I can't think of a *single* advantage of webmail except for the ability to access email from any pc on the web - which in my book relegates it to a backup solution and not the preferred method of access.
iTele [for os x] is free, works with generic digital tv tuner cards and supports the high definition picture for those regions where it is available, i.e. everywhere except the uk.
While all the Mac font gurus are together in one place, i wonder if anyone can explain this? In my terminal, typing l/ (lowercase l and a forward slash) produces a single character which looks like the l but with a small diagonal line running through it. It only does this in certain fonts, including monaco (which is the default font and imo the best looking 'terminal' type font). It's not just typing l/, it's any time when l/ is displayed. So directory listings are usually really messy. Helpfully, it does not happen in any other application.
OSX has extended the type / creator concept to cope properly with different file systems and the Internet.
Any normal Mac file can still have type / creator information. On a HFS+ disk (the default disk format for MacOSX) this is held within the directory structure rather than the file itself. Different strategies are used on filesystems where this can't be done (such as having a document bundle - essentially a directory that looks like a document, with various bits held in differrent files inside).
The real improvement is this. When a file comes from a PC, or UNIX source and does not have type / creator info within it, the OS is able to understand the extension. Hence.app and the rest of it. The OS can also recognise some filetypes by scanning the first few hundred bytes of the file against a set of templates. Any files starting %%pdf are acrobat files, or whatever. There was a great review covering all this, and a lot more, on arstechnica.
My brother has a RiscPC, and it is true that many features of OSX are closer to RISC OS than Windows or even MacOS. This may not be just by chance - Apple joined with Acorn (RISC OS's parent company) to form a company selling into the UK education market. Acorn stopped making machines a couple years ago, and Apple took over the company. So they have had a good chance to see RiscOS.
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for some functions, central heating being the main one. Setting off home early? Log in and get the place warmed up. Getting back late? Log in to postpone the warm up cycle. Go one step further and tie the location of your gps-enabled car / mobile phone / wristwatch etc to CH behaviour so as to have it off or frost proof setting when you're a long way away, to have it full on when you're in the house or on an established route such as commuting back from the office and drop to background heat at other times. Each person in the house would need the phone / wristwatch / implant though! And not much point in the summer. But it'd be useful for anyone who comes and goes at irregular times, who (therefore) can't program a timer to keep heating optimally efficient.
Why is there a preoccupation with webmail? It's an annoying buzzwordy type solution - oh look, we've got WEBMAIL - and is crap compared to a proper desktop client. And yes, i've got gmail. Why would I want to spend time jumping to the next screen of 20 messages (outlook webmail anyone) when i can scroll properly through thousands in a desktop client? I can't think of a *single* advantage of webmail except for the ability to access email from any pc on the web - which in my book relegates it to a backup solution and not the preferred method of access.
This is all a bit daft - he has a G5 with these two massive monitors and chucks it all because of the fan noise.
So, in some bizarre attempt at making it better, he hooks them up to a pc.
Reminds me of the Volksagon adverts - It's a Mini adventure. Those were bloody stupid as well.
iTele [for os x] is free, works with generic digital tv tuner cards and supports the high definition picture for those regions where it is available, i.e. everywhere except the uk.
http://www.defyne.org/dvb/
That's something different. What I mean is that I am typing (for example)
/Users/Paul/
cd
and the l/ on the Paul is being merged into a single character.
Yes, i'm running 10.2.6.
While all the Mac font gurus are together in one place, i wonder if anyone can explain this?
In my terminal, typing l/ (lowercase l and a forward slash) produces a single character which looks like the l but with a small diagonal line running through it. It only does this in certain fonts, including monaco (which is the default font and imo the best looking 'terminal' type font).
It's not just typing l/, it's any time when l/ is displayed. So directory listings are usually really messy.
Helpfully, it does not happen in any other application.
news links to this story, as at the time of posting. Argh.
Yeah, this is all true. But I'd rather see unidata over universe, as that's what I use in my day job. Although I hear good things about universe.
One other possibility is jBase, they have a free linux version kicking about somewhere...
Thanx for that meaningful contribution to the topic at hand.
Who gives a fuck? As long as it works properly, what does it matter?
Any normal Mac file can still have type / creator information. On a HFS+ disk (the default disk format for MacOSX) this is held within the directory structure rather than the file itself. Different strategies are used on filesystems where this can't be done (such as having a document bundle - essentially a directory that looks like a document, with various bits held in differrent files inside).
The real improvement is this. When a file comes from a PC, or UNIX source and does not have type / creator info within it, the OS is able to understand the extension. Hence .app and the rest of it. The OS can also recognise some filetypes by scanning the first few hundred bytes of the file against a set of templates. Any files starting %%pdf are acrobat files, or whatever. There was a great review covering all this, and a lot more, on arstechnica.
My brother has a RiscPC, and it is true that many features of OSX are closer to RISC OS than Windows or even MacOS. This may not be just by chance - Apple joined with Acorn (RISC OS's parent company) to form a company selling into the UK education market. Acorn stopped making machines a couple years ago, and Apple took over the company. So they have had a good chance to see RiscOS.