Sanskrit is presumably readable by those who need to read it. I would assume scholars in antiquity from the region and period would be well versed in Sanskrit.
In a similar vein, C does not need to be readable to the average person on the street. However, it should be readable to who need to read it (i.e. practicing programmers). If you struggle with the C syntax, you need to find a different job because Java, Javascript, C#, C++ are among the most popular languages and they look syntactically similar to C (though they are conceptually different).
The cost of the upgrade was pretty much insignificant compared to the hassle and the pain of ensuring that all your installed software packages were compatible.
Also, there are obviously ways to check if the source code shown is the source code used.
Such as?
Even tiny differences such as the compiler flags used affects the final binary. How do you know that the source code presented is the source code used for any non-trivial program?
jQuery hardly qualifies as a "huge ass" javascript framework. The gzip minified production version of the script weighs in at under 34kB. Worst case scenario if you're hosting jQuery yourself, this is a one off download. This is hardly going to cause problems, even on a mobile data connection.
On the other hand, jQuery does make code a lot neater. Especially with judicious use of selectors
.
p.s. Nice going trying to pin the Obamacare fiasco on jQuery. I don't think I've heard that one before.
My white Macbook was a Core Duo and I bought it in 2006 when Apple transitioned to x86. According to Wikipedia, the iMac G5 was discontinued in 2006. It's fair enough that they drop support for a totally different architecture after 8 years.
From the summary: (silly in my opinion, apparently they haven't heard of "partners" or considered requiring such cars have a police controlled "slow down" command)
Why is that silly? Do we really think crooks will not find some way of overriding the "slow down" command? As for "partners", a computer does not get stressed or feel under pressure when chased by cops and thus will be less likely to make mistakes.
In addition to that mimino says, you get advertising revenue from the landing page that a lot of these free wifi providers take you to the moment you log on.
1) What happens when your single server goes down? How long does it take you to get back up and running?
2) What happens if your demand is spiky?
If you're going to use an instance for a year constantly, you need to look at reserved instances. That brings the price down to $3054 for the year which is not bad as you don't pay for electricity or cooling.
But spreadsheets are the right tool for works that require fudging. It makes it that much harder for a neutral 3rd party to verify the correctness of your algorithms.
I've seen this a million times. People with poorly designed relational databases with no thought given to query plans complain that their database is slow. They then migrate said database to a NoSQL solution (typically a document database like MongoDB) and then find that it is still slow!. In a few cases, the NoSQL solution is significantly slower.
The problem is NoSQL encompasses many different types of solutions. Key value stores like Redis are pretty good (key lookups support wildcards!!!) and I use them as an alternative to memcache. Document databases like MongoDB? If you're excited about them because you don't need a schema, you're just asking for carloads of trouble down the line because you've mistakenly bought into the thinking that you can just chuck arbitrary data into Mongo and get it to perform well.
The majority of POS terminals in the wild run Windows XP. This is unlikely to change anytime soon, so I have no idea how Windows XP's official retirement in a few days time will play out as none of the retailers I work with intend to change their tills. This isn't surprising (to people who support POS terminals), as we still see terminals running Windows NT4 (!!!!!!!).
Our advice to retailers is to always have their tills on a separate non-internet facing network. No one really does this though....
It's handy having your an office suite on your tablet as it allows you to make quick edits on the go. No one is expecting you to write your thesis on a tablet, but for reviewing documents, writing comments and making small changes having Office on the iPad stupidly useful.
As for Office suites in general, I don't know what it's like where you are but in the UK you're almost guaranteed that to run into MS Office files in whatever job you do. There's no avoiding it even as a techie as your specifications and such are almost certainly written in Word.
Python. The syntax is clean and easy to pick up, and there is a lot of depth to the language. It also helps that it's useful for web development and big data analysis, so you'll be learning something that's relevant.
Obviously, with a question like that you're bound to get all sorts of answers. This is my 2 pence worth.
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Hey! It was cheaper than building a toilet...
Sanskrit is presumably readable by those who need to read it. I would assume scholars in antiquity from the region and period would be well versed in Sanskrit.
In a similar vein, C does not need to be readable to the average person on the street. However, it should be readable to who need to read it (i.e. practicing programmers). If you struggle with the C syntax, you need to find a different job because Java, Javascript, C#, C++ are among the most popular languages and they look syntactically similar to C (though they are conceptually different).
Mr Gristwood justifies the age old saying "Those who can, do; Those who can't, teach".
It's annoying that he doesn't substantiate nuggets of "wisdom" like:
The cost of the upgrade was pretty much insignificant compared to the hassle and the pain of ensuring that all your installed software packages were compatible.
Also, there are obviously ways to check if the source code shown is the source code used.
Such as?
Even tiny differences such as the compiler flags used affects the final binary. How do you know that the source code presented is the source code used for any non-trivial program?
jQuery hardly qualifies as a "huge ass" javascript framework. The gzip minified production version of the script weighs in at under 34kB. Worst case scenario if you're hosting jQuery yourself, this is a one off download. This is hardly going to cause problems, even on a mobile data connection.
On the other hand, jQuery does make code a lot neater. Especially with judicious use of selectors
.
p.s. Nice going trying to pin the Obamacare fiasco on jQuery. I don't think I've heard that one before.
He did say civilized(sic)...
My white Macbook was a Core Duo and I bought it in 2006 when Apple transitioned to x86. According to Wikipedia, the iMac G5 was discontinued in 2006. It's fair enough that they drop support for a totally different architecture after 8 years.
That's a useful list, especially if you have no clue as to what to actually search for. Like me.
Cheers.
What makes the FreeBSD network stack superior?
What the hell is ACM and why would it benefit me to join them?
If you were a halfway competent software developer, you'd already know, and if you were an elite software developer, you'd already have joined...
If you were an elite software developer, you'd be too busy to join a jumped up organisation like the ACM.
(silly in my opinion, apparently they haven't heard of "partners" or considered requiring such cars have a police controlled "slow down" command)
Why is that silly? Do we really think crooks will not find some way of overriding the "slow down" command? As for "partners", a computer does not get stressed or feel under pressure when chased by cops and thus will be less likely to make mistakes.
Why is worrying about this silly?
In addition to that mimino says, you get advertising revenue from the landing page that a lot of these free wifi providers take you to the moment you log on.
A couple of questions for you:
1) What happens when your single server goes down? How long does it take you to get back up and running?
2) What happens if your demand is spiky?
If you're going to use an instance for a year constantly, you need to look at reserved instances. That brings the price down to $3054 for the year which is not bad as you don't pay for electricity or cooling.
But spreadsheets are the right tool for works that require fudging. It makes it that much harder for a neutral 3rd party to verify the correctness of your algorithms.
With judicious use of semicolons, you could fit all that into a single line.
You might have to scroll horizontally a lot, but it's still a single line!
I've seen this a million times. People with poorly designed relational databases with no thought given to query plans complain that their database is slow. They then migrate said database to a NoSQL solution (typically a document database like MongoDB) and then find that it is still slow! . In a few cases, the NoSQL solution is significantly slower.
The problem is NoSQL encompasses many different types of solutions. Key value stores like Redis are pretty good (key lookups support wildcards!!!) and I use them as an alternative to memcache. Document databases like MongoDB? If you're excited about them because you don't need a schema, you're just asking for carloads of trouble down the line because you've mistakenly bought into the thinking that you can just chuck arbitrary data into Mongo and get it to perform well.
Do you know if there are any plans to merge Postgres-XL into vanilla Postgres?
They're probably happier paying 50x more for hardware than 200x more for development.
Surely the size of a hole only matters up to a certain point? After that you're into negative returns territory.
What if you have to use PostgreSQL? I've seen no evidence that it can scale or run multi-master.
Are you high? Instagram (200 million users) uses PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL is web scale :)
The majority of POS terminals in the wild run Windows XP. This is unlikely to change anytime soon, so I have no idea how Windows XP's official retirement in a few days time will play out as none of the retailers I work with intend to change their tills. This isn't surprising (to people who support POS terminals), as we still see terminals running Windows NT4 (!!!!!!!).
Our advice to retailers is to always have their tills on a separate non-internet facing network. No one really does this though ....
It's handy having your an office suite on your tablet as it allows you to make quick edits on the go. No one is expecting you to write your thesis on a tablet, but for reviewing documents, writing comments and making small changes having Office on the iPad stupidly useful.
As for Office suites in general, I don't know what it's like where you are but in the UK you're almost guaranteed that to run into MS Office files in whatever job you do. There's no avoiding it even as a techie as your specifications and such are almost certainly written in Word.
Other than professionally modeling...
Look, this is Slashdot. You're not going to find professional models here.
Obviously, with a question like that you're bound to get all sorts of answers. This is my 2 pence worth.