english 'iloveyou' is at #26 but the Mandarin for the same is 'wo ai ni'... 'woaini1314' is at #83. the 1314 means "forever"... because it sounds like forever when pronounced in Cantonese. At #93 is '5845201314' - when pronounced in mandarin - 'wo fa shi, wo ai ni, yi san yi si'.... which sounds like - "i swear to love you forever and ever"... More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_in_Chinese_culture#Combinations
I think the analogy you are after here is that media corporations really want a "CLOSED" Internet that is compliant and fully under their control, as opposed to an "OPEN" Internet which they can't control... its the inevitable swing back to a closed technology, as happened with the telegraph (started off open then became dominated by western union) and the telephone (started off open then dominated by AT&T). The problem is that the technologies behind the Internet will make it extremely difficult to pull this off, but this may be the first salvo in the battle.
I suspect this is powerful enough computing power that there will be an argument to keep it restricted to "the cloud". Too much power for the average citizen, more than anyone but a terrorist would need, that kinda thing.
Erm, that's what they said about the first ever computer, you know, the quote that went: "there is a global market for a total of 8 computers" or something.
I'm probably wrong here but isn't this post just showing a ratio as opposed to a correlation coefficient? e.g. the javascript number of 294% could have been shown as 2.94 but maybe the % gives it a bit more impact?
exactly....
when all they"ve got is your full name, dob, address, credit history and maybe associated bank account
getting an ip out of that lot is still going to be *extremely* difficult.
hence google's insistence upon real identites for google+
it makes their marketing ability that much easier
Jeffrey Richter's books on CLR C# development (.NET) are also excellent - they cut through so much crap its unbelievable. They are specific to one technology, but do the job very well.
The over-obsession with building tools and/or code generators is one of the historical things that stops programmers from being productive... i.e. actually delivering production software. I think this book would be a little less relevant now, given the frameworks/libraries and generally good development tools available off the shelf (e.g. visual studio, etc.)
The fact that C is still 2nd in language popularity (according to TIOBE) and is possibly the most dominant language used in embedded (firmware) development says something about its simple yet powerful design. This book was the genesis of that.
Anything important such as a land title transfer or some such has to be done on the original... but remember signatures can also be forged or copied... but the fax makes it relatively easy to sign something and then send it back to where it came from... unlike the scanning/emailing method which is just a pain in the ass, and no more secure.
I know its language specific, but the way the book was written and structured made learning a new (and challenging) language easy for me... really inspired writing.
facebook, microsoft, yahoo, google... they all issue targeted ads using any snippet of personal information they can glean from you or your browsing habits. Its been this way since the start of the internet (cookies). At least google gives you some tools such as chrome's "incognito" feature. In my mind facebook is far worse in this regard, and not many people cared that much when they started issueing targeted ads targeted to your relationship status, sex, location etc.
Q: How do I write to a file in COSMOS
A: You can't, yet.
Q: Can I use screen resolutions higher than 640x480?
A: Not yet, that would require individual device drivers writing.
Q: What doesn't work
A: Interfaces (In the programming sense and the graphical sense)
Foreach - Requires interfaces, so use for instead for now
I admire their attempt at doing something fresh, but how can you call this an OS when it can't write to files? And currently it only runs console mode apps. Sorry, but a 25 year old DOS box can do more than this.
As a side note, the users on StackOverflow, the site where the votes came from are generally working developers who use the site to solve day to day language specific problems. I think they have come up with a fairly decent list for a top 10, and yes possibly favouring trade craft (top 2) over theory.
As a student I learnt C using K&R's classic in 1989, the year after it came out. Then later in a job, I used Deitel and Deitel to pick up both C++ and Java... great books, but K&R and D & D are totally different in approach.
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Its already been made into a tv show called 'south atlantic raiders' by the comic strip. Well sort of. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0544884/
english 'iloveyou' is at #26 but the Mandarin for the same is 'wo ai ni' ... 'woaini1314' is at #83. the 1314 means "forever" ... because it sounds like forever when pronounced in Cantonese. At #93 is '5845201314' - when pronounced in mandarin - 'wo fa shi, wo ai ni, yi san yi si'. ... which sounds like - "i swear to love you forever and ever"... More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_in_Chinese_culture#Combinations
http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/114005/how-does-sopa-threaten-stack-overflow/114007#114007
I think the analogy you are after here is that media corporations really want a "CLOSED" Internet that is compliant and fully under their control, as opposed to an "OPEN" Internet which they can't control ... its the inevitable swing back to a closed technology, as happened with the telegraph (started off open then became dominated by western union) and the telephone (started off open then dominated by AT&T). The problem is that the technologies behind the Internet will make it extremely difficult to pull this off, but this may be the first salvo in the battle.
I suspect this is powerful enough computing power that there will be an argument to keep it restricted to "the cloud". Too much power for the average citizen, more than anyone but a terrorist would need, that kinda thing.
Erm, that's what they said about the first ever computer, you know, the quote that went: "there is a global market for a total of 8 computers" or something.
I'm probably wrong here but isn't this post just showing a ratio as opposed to a correlation coefficient? e.g. the javascript number of 294% could have been shown as 2.94 but maybe the % gives it a bit more impact?
exactly ....
when all they"ve got is your full name, dob, address, credit history and maybe associated bank account
getting an ip out of that lot is still going to be *extremely* difficult.
hence google's insistence upon real identites for google+
it makes their marketing ability that much easier
In the form of taking deposits and lending it out at interest. No wonder there is so many of them in this list.
with Zuckerberg being the puppet master, selling off access to our life stories to corporate marketers.
yeah - C.S. Date's book on database design is very important for all relational database development.
Jeffrey Richter's books on CLR C# development (.NET) are also excellent - they cut through so much crap its unbelievable. They are specific to one technology, but do the job very well.
The over-obsession with building tools and/or code generators is one of the historical things that stops programmers from being productive ... i.e. actually delivering production software. I think this book would be a little less relevant now, given the frameworks/libraries and generally good development tools available off the shelf (e.g. visual studio, etc.)
The fact that C is still 2nd in language popularity (according to TIOBE) and is possibly the most dominant language used in embedded (firmware) development says something about its simple yet powerful design. This book was the genesis of that.
Anything important such as a land title transfer or some such has to be done on the original ... but remember signatures can also be forged or copied ... but the fax makes it relatively easy to sign something and then send it back to where it came from ... unlike the scanning/emailing method which is just a pain in the ass, and no more secure.
That was 12th on stack overflow's list
Not that I'd vote for one, but just a bit surprised considering the silver bullet it was meant to be for software engineering in general.
The dragon book came in at number 10 on the list in the original article ... quite a feat.
I know its language specific, but the way the book was written and structured made learning a new (and challenging) language easy for me ... really inspired writing.
facebook, microsoft, yahoo, google ... they all issue targeted ads using any snippet of personal information they can glean from you or your browsing habits. Its been this way since the start of the internet (cookies). At least google gives you some tools such as chrome's "incognito" feature. In my mind facebook is far worse in this regard, and not many people cared that much when they started issueing targeted ads targeted to your relationship status, sex, location etc.
The freedom to be who you want to be by Alma Whitten, Director of Privacy, Product and Engineering, Google.
...
Youtube and Blogger already have a large amount of users with pseudonyms already, so they couldn't do anything there.
However, it seems its easier for them just to apply their "real name policy" to new products, like Google+ and Google checkout
by Robert C Martin. Its got nuggets of gold in every chapter and covers a whole gammut of topics.
From their FAQ
Q: What works?
A: Console apps.
From their Technical FAQ
Q: How do I write to a file in COSMOS
A: You can't, yet.
Q: Can I use screen resolutions higher than 640x480?
A: Not yet, that would require individual device drivers writing.
Q: What doesn't work
A: Interfaces (In the programming sense and the graphical sense)
Foreach - Requires interfaces, so use for instead for now
I admire their attempt at doing something fresh, but how can you call this an OS when it can't write to files? And currently it only runs console mode apps. Sorry, but a 25 year old DOS box can do more than this.
As a side note, the users on StackOverflow, the site where the votes came from are generally working developers who use the site to solve day to day language specific problems. I think they have come up with a fairly decent list for a top 10, and yes possibly favouring trade craft (top 2) over theory.
As a student I learnt C using K&R's classic in 1989, the year after it came out. Then later in a job, I used Deitel and Deitel to pick up both C++ and Java ... great books, but K&R and D & D are totally different in approach.