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  1. Trump? on Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Programming Books You Wish You Had Read Earlier? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    War is peace

    Trump is the only president yet to invade anyone new, and actually talking about withdrawing from places like Afghanistan and Syria - which Democrats are against...

    Who is I claiming "War is Peace" again exactly?

    And if you want to look at who has solid dominion over absurd twists of logic, look no further than any of the "there is no such thing as gender" crowd, all solidly leftists.

  2. Design and Evolution of C++ on Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Programming Books You Wish You Had Read Earlier? · · Score: 1

    Even if you don't like C++ much, The Design and Evolution of C++ is a great book for understanding why pretty much any language ends up the way it does, seeing the tradeoffs and how a language comes to grow and expand from simple roots. It's way more interesting to read than you might expect (not very dry, and more about human interaction than you would expect).

    Other than that reading through back posts in a lot of coding blogs that have been around a long time is probably a really good idea.

    Also a side recommendation is Strunk & White Elements of Style, which apply somewhat to coding style as well as human writing. Very short. There are probably better books about writing words but none so applicable to coding I think (open to suggestions if people know of better ones).

  3. I've found what works best is the Pheonix on Lessons From Six Software Rewrite Stories (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    I've been a lot of projects, some where we re-wrote from scratch, some where we just kept trying to overhaul stuff...

    It's true what he says about re-writing either missing, or spending a long time discovering the special understanding of things embedded deep in your code.

    What is ALSO true though, is that trying to fold new things into an ancient code base becomes harder and harder over time, to the point where even the smallest of features is torture to implement.

    The approach that has actually seemed to work best on a number of projects I've been on, is to make the project kind of a Phoenix - create an overhaul that rises from the ashes of the old as it were.

    In practical terms that means really burning out some deep seating issue that creates problems expanding or maintaining the software. Not the whole thing, just the most painful part. Replace it completely, tear into a hundred files and remove the tendrils of evil that have spread throughout.

    Then make it all work again.

    After that, suddenly it's easier to work with the codebase - not just because some aspect of it is newer, but also because you understand so much of it so much better.

    Also probably a rule of thumb related to that is, no-one works on a re-write who has not lived In the code fore at least two years. That may be a tall ask these days.

    I'd advise this even switching to some wholly new technology, just do part and build a bridge that works between the new and old halves.

  4. I am seriously looking forward to Battle Angel Nana!

  5. Re:They are paying taxes, just more direct on Amazon To Fund Computer Science Classes at 1,000 US High Schools (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean paying to improve things that you could personally benefit from rather than what society at large needs for everyone to benefit,

    Pretty sure society benefits from more programmers, especially if people can lift families out of poverty my taking that career (worked for me).

  6. Re:Well yeah... on American Airlines Has Cameras In Their Screens Too (buzzfeednews.com) · · Score: 1

    The question is if they are not using them, who might be using them then?

    As stated, there is no porn based on them, therefore we can be assured they are not being used.

    Why not simply cover them as suggested in TFS then?

    Tape costs money and has weight (only half joking).

    Also Spirit is planning to charge you extra for a tape-camera seat.

  7. Well yeah... on American Airlines Has Cameras In Their Screens Too (buzzfeednews.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Probably quite a lot of them do, with the screen units being integrated and similar units used across airlines.

    I really doubt they are being used though, or else you would see porn based on captures from them.

  8. Definition on Nike Bricks Its Shoes With a Faulty Firmware Update (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    My left shoe won't even reboot...

    Well there's your problem, you should try to re-shoe.

  9. Maybe you should check before flame on Amazon To Fund Computer Science Classes at 1,000 US High Schools (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    The funding determines the finding, right?

    Does it?

    Look for yourself, the classes are through the (I think poorly named) Edhesive.

    Doesn't seem very AWS focused to me at all. In fact you do not even reach "Unit 11: Internet" until the very end of the second term.

  10. They are paying taxes, just more direct on Amazon To Fund Computer Science Classes at 1,000 US High Schools (geekwire.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Amazon by offering free training to high school kids, is paying a form of tax - they are just choosing what the money gets spent on.

    Wish normal citizens could do the same.

  11. In case you were wondering what classes on Amazon To Fund Computer Science Classes at 1,000 US High Schools (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    The article says they use Edhesive (Side note, maybe spell checkers should be hooked into DNS registries to avoid autocorrecting domain names).

    The breakdown in study looks decent, but I can't seem to tell how the classes will actually be run.

  12. Think it would be great for reading on Samsung Announces the Galaxy Fold, a Phone That Opens Into a Tablet (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    That's large enough I think it would be really nice for reading, and certainly a lot easier to carry around than a small tablet.

    I could also see it being more useful for things like video/photo editing, especially if software was optimized to take advantage of both sides.

  13. The have a 2x tele, a wide camera, and a super wide.

    I would agree that an even longer telephoto lens would be cool, but at some point you are really going to be extending out that camera bump probably too far.

  14. This just illuminates there is not anything that cannot be ruined by having comments that are not heavily policed - if you cannot police said comments, do not allow them.

    It also shows an unexpected misuse of a simple tool - likes and recommendation engines. But here I really don't see any way to solve this, because what if someone really WANTS to see gymnastic related videos? That by itself is harmless or even useful. I don't think we should break all useful tools just because someone can misuse them - instead why not use that data to try and catch out people who are misusing the matching engines. and try to catch them out in something more illegal?

    Society seems bent to hide or mask any behavior even slightly disagreeable. But then how can you know who the people are that hold opinions you do not like? I greatly prefer a world where people can say what the like, and I can derive my sense of who they are from it.

  15. Re:Seems really interesting on Samsung Announces the Galaxy Fold, a Phone That Opens Into a Tablet (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Good luck, hope they turn out well! Will look for video reviews as well, I couldn't really find anything showing it in action since it's so new...

  16. They did add another camera on Samsung Announces Galaxy S10, Galaxy S10 Plus, and Galaxy S10E Smartphones (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    The super wide angle camera is kind of interesting, especially for use in video - you can get adaptors to give you a fisheye view but having it on-device seems handy.

  17. Re:Seems really interesting on Samsung Announces the Galaxy Fold, a Phone That Opens Into a Tablet (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think it'll be a problem exactly, I was thinking maybe the weight would be about the same as an iPhone Plus.

    Will also be interesting to see how apps cope with this very different kind of screen with a strange aspect ratio. Maybe they've made it easy to run side by side apps.

  18. Seems really interesting on Samsung Announces the Galaxy Fold, a Phone That Opens Into a Tablet (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I've been looking forward to something like this for a while, will be interesting to see how well that works in person.

    Seems like it will be a kind of heavy device though with batteries on each side...

  19. Re:Elon Musk and Bitcoin in one Slashdot post? on Elon Musk: Bitcoin Structure is Brilliant, But Has Its Cons; Paper Money is Going Away (ark-invest.com) · · Score: 1

    Slashdot groupthink hates it when you point out the groupthink.

    I know, right? The unofficial logo for Slashdot is a bunch of panties crumpled into a tight ball. Maybe a black hole with a constant stream of panties swirling outside the event horizon.

    All we need is a story about Musk, Bitcoin, and global warming for the perfect storm of clickbait.

    Yep, closer every day! I can almost feel it coming, the Clickening.

  20. I see a different future on Apple To Target Combining iPhone, iPad and Mac Apps by 2021: Report (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    it's still not going to stop 3rd parties from doing the same thing as Apple did: namely take their iPad app and run it through Marzipan to provide a sub-par experience on the Mac.

    That's kind of what Appel did but in part they were limited by Marzipan itself. Third parties (and Apple) have a lot of incentive to make Mac versions of the app better, the same way developers already add things to make iPad versions different and better than iPhone versions. It improves sales and makes people happy, so devs will mostly do what they can to make a Mac version of the app works as well as it can with a Mac...

    That is further helped by all iOS developers using Macs to develop, so they'll have plenty of opportunity to test and fix up things they don't like about the desktop version.

  21. Elon Musk and Bitcoin in one Slashdot post? on Elon Musk: Bitcoin Structure is Brilliant, But Has Its Cons; Paper Money is Going Away (ark-invest.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Going to sit back and watch the waves of hate roll in like a storm off the coast of Hawaii!

  22. Didn't take Nostradamus on CERN's World-First Browser Reborn: Now You Can Browse Like It's 1990 · · Score: 1

    Who knew this would turn the Internet to a shithole where cheap tricks for data collection and crap dominate in such a short time.

    Didn't use Usenet much I take it...

    If I have seen further, it was because I stood on piles of writhing freaks.

  23. No, actually not well founded on Apple To Target Combining iPhone, iPad and Mac Apps by 2021: Report (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    We already have a few Marzipan apps in MacOS 10.14, namely the News and Home apps. And your fears are well founded.

    Those are basically test apps of a pre-release version of the framework, the final version will have a lot more ability and not be so removed from the system.

    There's no reason to think Marzipan apps need be much less featured, when iOS has many of the same frameworks the Mac does for doing just about anything. The reason Marzipan exists is because the Mac UI framework is pretty old at this point and has so much stuff tacked on it can be hard to build out windows that would be easier to make on iOS with the same functionality.

    We need to see what comes out of WWDC before we start jumping to any conclusions about what it does or does not mean. One thing I am pretty sure it does mean, is even more companion apps on the Mac for popular mobile apps - how can that be anything but good?

  24. For most un-revealed features I don't think it would be a big deal, but some people are careful not to buy devices that have microphones so I could see it being more of an issue that it turned out there was one...

  25. In one of the responses from Nest I read, it seemed you could disable the microphone via the app - so maybe you could have known that way before?

    They should have let users know for sure, I was just wondering if that control was there the whole time and few if any noticed.