If I click on "Wednesday 30 October", I get a page with columns on both sides, but the content is missing. There's a big white rectangle in the middle. Have you been slashdotted perhaps?
What's the big advantage of PHP over C++? The author mentions C++ being "cumbersome" and "prone to buffer overflows". That's a load of BS.
If you have a proper set of string, socket and associative array libraries, C++ works just as well as PHP and offers a whole lot more, if only the ability to check for existence of variables. Plus you don't have to type these f?c?i?g dollar signs in front of ever variable.
The other argument, "memory leaks degrade server performance" indicates bad programming, which is not going to be improved in PHP, but which can be solved in aforementioned libraries. Simply don't allocate anything dynamically outside the libraries. Plus, PHP has its own memory problems, if you don't take care of your arrays. Of course, memory will be freed as soon as the program stops, but that holds for C++ as well and memory management by process termination is another sloppy practice.
So PHP is easier to use in Apache, but that should not be a reason for making such an important change to your code.
And then comes the biggest joke of them all: the list of criteria! Do they really want us to believe that data types in PHP are better than in C++? Do they really think that PHP has "a pleasant syntax"? Or is this simply a red herring?
I can imagine using PHP for web-sites where being neat and efficient simply doesn't pay off, but for the "world's largest web site"...
I can imagine a couple of people in a funny mood writing such a paper. Somebody sees it, sends it around, and along the way someone takes it seriously. All in all, a joke. Less serious than Sokal's joke on the sociologists, I'm sure. Or Hendrik Schön's on the physicists...
What surprised me were so many strong reactions amongst a few bad attempts of counter-irony. Is the slashdot population humor impaired?
A good few of you need to lighten up a bit, it seems. This paper is a joke. As in funny, although it might not be to everybody's taste. It is ironic or sarcastic or cynic, but not serious. Read it, and, more importantly, THINK, for crying out loud, before posting...
That is NOT CS. Computer Science does not teach you how to do Unix system administration or how to set up your hardware. It teaches you general principles, and at good universities, the formal underpinnings. Mathematics happens to come in very handy in this, so that's why CS should include math, although calculus (integrating, complex numbers) is IMHO less important to CS than discrete math (algebra, graph theory), probability calculus and some statistics.
So you might be able to do some high-performance computing, but I would like to see you write some parallel algorithms to distribute a work load over several interrelated processors without them locking up or design a compiler. That's the part you don't pick up installing Linux. Then again, it's also the part most of the slashdot crowd doesn't know either...
I think so too. My guess is that the person who asked this question never ever managed to even get near a "female". My SO happens to like a game called "Rayman", which I think is rather bland, whereas she really detests Unreal Tournament, which I, eh, see as an interesting way to use a computer...
Management summary: this is a non-item submitted by someone whose nick should have been "clueless nerd ISO advice by real men".
Wow man! You just set a new standard for euphemisms! Congratulations!
What if *I* wasn't the one who accepted?
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I read the remark about "get a minor to press accept", but more realistically, it's going to be the system administrator who accepts the EULA, which leaves me free to do whatever I want. He can't make the "promise" in my name.
What will this lead to? Does the EULA not apply to other users, or will we get a login screen with all EULAs pertaining to all software once installed on the system?
And what about people who don't understand what they accept? E.g., I am not a native speaker of English, yet I use systems with English "localisation". The only way to stop them accepting the EULA without understanding is to have some kind of test afterwards. Especially in the read-all-when-logging-in scenario this can become quite a problem...
Pussy? What the hell is that supposed to mean? AFAIK it refers to a feline animal or the vagina, but neither seems a meaningful response to my posting...
This is NOT a suitable topic for SlashDot. This is so totally non-informative (what, keyboard switches? Wow, that's revolutionary new technology that's going to change the lives of 5 billion people!), I can't believe it gets posted.
I agree completely with you. ALICE is technically speaking uninteresting and AIML is a pretentious attempt to use the word "meta" in yet another abbreviation. There are far, far better dialogue systems out there, albeit with a much more limited scope. No, ALICE's attraction must be its simplicity and availability.
They didn't cover this kind of technical detail in your MS in CS with a focus on AI? My god, what a great course that must have been. I mean, ALICE is even dumber than SHRLDU. Everybody passed, I guess?
I don't see the problem. Anyone who allows access to his network, competes with the ISPs at a price they cannot match, while they have to pay the increased costs for the extra band width. It's either this, or paying per byte.
If you try "unicorn" on Google, you'll get 753,000 hits. If that doesn't prove unicorns exist, what will? An O'Reilly book with a picture of a unicorn on the front perhaps?
Darwin attacked the views of rev. Paley, so I think the name "Richard Paley" may be a pun in itself. Do a Google search for "Darwin Paley" and you'll see..
Guys, you are missing the point. He's not a troll, he's being sarcastic. Daisy and pencil are quite easy to translate (in normal contexts), and he knows it. Didn't any of you see the reference to the Sumerians? As in extinct people?
Please note that Nigeria is not generally considered to be a free, democratic country that respects human rights. People get sentenced to stoning to death. The states in the north have introduced the sharia (sometimes called "islamic laws", although they have not been written by Mohammed, but have been derived from his writings afterwards by the people in power). Nigeria's High Council has declared this illegal, but the government has said it cannot do anything against it.
Also, Amnesty International and Human Rights' Watch regularly mention Nigeria. The judicial system is prejudiced and corrupt, sentences are hard and cruel, prisons are full, and people get tortured.
I think Nigeria has problems that are far, far bigger than spamming, but, if you are thinking of accusing people of spamming by pressing a button in a browser window, you might actually be responsible for sending someone into prison. Please don't do that. It's not worth it.
If Steve Newman was not a relative his job would consist of... 'Would you like fries with that?'"
Well, if that's literal, it's the worst insult I've ever seen. It fails to insult totally and miserably. Firstly, even in it's context, it fails to clarify whose job (Steven Newman's or his relative's) is referred to and therefore who is being insulted. Secondly, on the dots you can read anything you like, but would that make "I think you are..." an insult? I sent texts like these in love letters. Only in the mind of the reader can this be an insult. So the one constructing the insult is anyone but the writer. How any judge could pass sentence based on this, is a mystery to me.
Freedom of speech? U s a, schmu s a. I'm really glad I don't live there...
I have written a few small applications in REBOL to index web sites and it was quite easy to do. To achieve the same thing in e.g. C/C++ would have taken much, much more time.
The language has some really useful built-in functions for processing urls and html documents. This, together with features such as list processing and simple string manipulation functions, make it a very powerful (scripting) language for certain tasks (such as indexing web sites or maintaining mailing lists, etc). In my opinion, it is much more powerful than e.g. Perl.
The syntax and semantics of the language are also quite neat and better thought out than it might seem at first sight (IMHO), although it takes some getting used to. I had some initial problems with the "by reference" mechanism.
However, it is not your ideal language for all uses. I found file management somewhat problematic: files are apparently maintained in working memory until you close them, which caused massive swapping in my indexing application as soon as the file size grew over 100Mb... There are ways to overcome this, though, but it's not the most elegant thing I ever saw.
Conclusion: check it out, it may have something that you might need or never thought possible in a language.
Theo
Slashdot Mirror
If I click on "Wednesday 30 October", I get a page with columns on both sides, but the content is missing. There's a big white rectangle in the middle. Have you been slashdotted perhaps?
What's the big advantage of PHP over C++? The author mentions C++ being "cumbersome" and "prone to buffer overflows". That's a load of BS.
If you have a proper set of string, socket and associative array libraries, C++ works just as well as PHP and offers a whole lot more, if only the ability to check for existence of variables. Plus you don't have to type these f?c?i?g dollar signs in front of ever variable.
The other argument, "memory leaks degrade server performance" indicates bad programming, which is not going to be improved in PHP, but which can be solved in aforementioned libraries. Simply don't allocate anything dynamically outside the libraries. Plus, PHP has its own memory problems, if you don't take care of your arrays. Of course, memory will be freed as soon as the program stops, but that holds for C++ as well and memory management by process termination is another sloppy practice.
So PHP is easier to use in Apache, but that should not be a reason for making such an important change to your code.
And then comes the biggest joke of them all: the list of criteria! Do they really want us to believe that data types in PHP are better than in C++? Do they really think that PHP has "a pleasant syntax"? Or is this simply a red herring?
I can imagine using PHP for web-sites where being neat and efficient simply doesn't pay off, but for the "world's largest web site"...
I'm amazed.
I can imagine a couple of people in a funny mood writing such a paper. Somebody sees it, sends it around, and along the way someone takes it seriously. All in all, a joke. Less serious than Sokal's joke on the sociologists, I'm sure. Or Hendrik Schön's on the physicists...
What surprised me were so many strong reactions amongst a few bad attempts of counter-irony. Is the slashdot population humor impaired?
A good few of you need to lighten up a bit, it seems. This paper is a joke. As in funny, although it might not be to everybody's taste. It is ironic or sarcastic or cynic, but not serious. Read it, and, more importantly, THINK, for crying out loud, before posting...
That is NOT CS. Computer Science does not teach you how to do Unix system administration or how to set up your hardware. It teaches you general principles, and at good universities, the formal underpinnings. Mathematics happens to come in very handy in this, so that's why CS should include math, although calculus (integrating, complex numbers) is IMHO less important to CS than discrete math (algebra, graph theory), probability calculus and some statistics.
So you might be able to do some high-performance computing, but I would like to see you write some parallel algorithms to distribute a work load over several interrelated processors without them locking up or design a compiler. That's the part you don't pick up installing Linux. Then again, it's also the part most of the slashdot crowd doesn't know either...
I think so too. My guess is that the person who asked this question never ever managed to even get near a "female". My SO happens to like a game called "Rayman", which I think is rather bland, whereas she really detests Unreal Tournament, which I, eh, see as an interesting way to use a computer...
Management summary: this is a non-item submitted by someone whose nick should have been "clueless nerd ISO advice by real men".
Open a tap and watch it instead
Wow man! You just set a new standard for euphemisms! Congratulations!
I read the remark about "get a minor to press accept", but more realistically, it's going to be the system administrator who accepts the EULA, which leaves me free to do whatever I want. He can't make the "promise" in my name.
What will this lead to? Does the EULA not apply to other users, or will we get a login screen with all EULAs pertaining to all software once installed on the system?
And what about people who don't understand what they accept? E.g., I am not a native speaker of English, yet I use systems with English "localisation". The only way to stop them accepting the EULA without understanding is to have some kind of test afterwards. Especially in the read-all-when-logging-in scenario this can become quite a problem...
Another one with the same ideas. It's not a perfect article. For this kind of thing they publish magazines.
And I don't think using bad language is a sign of maturity and certainly not for winning arguments.
That's why they have such magazines as Byte or PC Weekly, where these things are compared from time to time in a decent features for dollar review.
And I won't quite bitching since the editor probably threw out something more interesting just to place this.
And would you call me "asshole"? I could thing you were be a nerdy, self-centered 15 year old zit head, but you won't hear me saying so.
Pussy? What the hell is that supposed to mean? AFAIK it refers to a feline animal or the vagina, but neither seems a meaningful response to my posting...
This is NOT a suitable topic for SlashDot. This is so totally non-informative (what, keyboard switches? Wow, that's revolutionary new technology that's going to change the lives of 5 billion people!), I can't believe it gets posted.
I agree completely with you. ALICE is technically speaking uninteresting and AIML is a pretentious attempt to use the word "meta" in yet another abbreviation. There are far, far better dialogue systems out there, albeit with a much more limited scope. No, ALICE's attraction must be its simplicity and availability.
They didn't cover this kind of technical detail in your MS in CS with a focus on AI? My god, what a great course that must have been. I mean, ALICE is even dumber than SHRLDU. Everybody passed, I guess?
I don't see the problem. Anyone who allows access to his network, competes with the ISPs at a price they cannot match, while they have to pay the increased costs for the extra band width. It's either this, or paying per byte.
If you try "unicorn" on Google, you'll get 753,000 hits. If that doesn't prove unicorns exist, what will? An O'Reilly book with a picture of a unicorn on the front perhaps?
Darwin attacked the views of rev. Paley, so I think the name "Richard Paley" may be a pun in itself. Do a Google search for "Darwin Paley" and you'll see..
Guys, you are missing the point. He's not a troll, he's being sarcastic. Daisy and pencil are quite easy to translate (in normal contexts), and he knows it. Didn't any of you see the reference to the Sumerians? As in extinct people?
Please note that Nigeria is not generally considered to be a free, democratic country that respects human rights. People get sentenced to stoning to death. The states in the north have introduced the sharia (sometimes called "islamic laws", although they have not been written by Mohammed, but have been derived from his writings afterwards by the people in power). Nigeria's High Council has declared this illegal, but the government has said it cannot do anything against it.
Also, Amnesty International and Human Rights' Watch regularly mention Nigeria. The judicial system is prejudiced and corrupt, sentences are hard and cruel, prisons are full, and people get tortured.
I think Nigeria has problems that are far, far bigger than spamming, but, if you are thinking of accusing people of spamming by pressing a button in a browser window, you might actually be responsible for sending someone into prison. Please don't do that. It's not worth it.
Tolkien did, and it's called: the Silmarillion.
If Steve Newman was not a relative his job would consist of ... 'Would you like fries with that?'"
..." an insult? I sent texts like these in love letters. Only in the mind of the reader can this be an insult. So the one constructing the insult is anyone but the writer. How any judge could pass sentence based on this, is a mystery to me.
Well, if that's literal, it's the worst insult I've ever seen. It fails to insult totally and miserably. Firstly, even in it's context, it fails to clarify whose job (Steven Newman's or his relative's) is referred to and therefore who is being insulted. Secondly, on the dots you can read anything you like, but would that make "I think you are
Freedom of speech? U s a, schmu s a. I'm really glad I don't live there...
I have written a few small applications in REBOL to index web sites and it was quite easy to do. To achieve the same thing in e.g. C/C++ would have taken much, much more time. The language has some really useful built-in functions for processing urls and html documents. This, together with features such as list processing and simple string manipulation functions, make it a very powerful (scripting) language for certain tasks (such as indexing web sites or maintaining mailing lists, etc). In my opinion, it is much more powerful than e.g. Perl. The syntax and semantics of the language are also quite neat and better thought out than it might seem at first sight (IMHO), although it takes some getting used to. I had some initial problems with the "by reference" mechanism. However, it is not your ideal language for all uses. I found file management somewhat problematic: files are apparently maintained in working memory until you close them, which caused massive swapping in my indexing application as soon as the file size grew over 100Mb... There are ways to overcome this, though, but it's not the most elegant thing I ever saw. Conclusion: check it out, it may have something that you might need or never thought possible in a language. Theo