... as scripting languages require less total code, and therefore it's easier to absorb quickly.
No, it doesn't. If you are talking one small script that does one thing, sure, but I have never seen that. I inherited a mess of Perl from someone who wrote things in incredibly little amounts of code, but wrote many, many of these things and then tweaked them to do more than what they were intended to do. It took me a while to figure out what they were doing, but my colleague who had to learn Perl on the job is totally lost in the maze of code.
A lot of this is due to scripting languages giving way too much freedom with little or no way of putting a leash on when you need it. Don't agree with me they need a leash? Read the Apocalypses from Wall or check out the direction Python has been heading in for awhile. Sometimes, I just want to code a one liner and be done with it, but if I want to make something larger, it would be nice to have type checking and boundaries between modules to make it easier to enforce my coding discipline.
I have a problem with scripting language biggots (just as scripting language lovers rightly have a problem with conventional language biggots): they have the world's best hammer, and everything and everyone is a nail.
"You know that feeling you have deep down inside that life's gonna suck when you grow up? You're absolutely right, but you wouldn't want to miss a single moment of it."... and here's an archive of Motley Fool columns from 1992-2003...
You mean real programming teams where the members secretly loathe each other and would rip each others throats out if it weren't for the nightly Quake Arena sessions do do that vicariously? The arrogance, the dysfunctional personalities, the backstabbing. Almost all of the programming teams I worked on would feel more at home in CBS's Survivor.
... dealing with customers...
"Yeah, I kind of want it to handle any bizarre half-assed situation I can think of a year from now without requiring any programming changes. No, I have no idea what that could be, but please make it do that."
... or working through a well-defined software process...
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! What world does he live in?
More importantly, it can discourage those who would welcome such an environment but mistakenly fear spending their career stuck in a cubicle hunched over a computer monitor.
That's not a mistaken fear. That's a reality for every occupation!
If Jack Valenti had his way back in 1982 (he almost did as the Sony BetaMax case went all the way to the Supreme Court) we wouldn't have VCRs today
That's not what he said in the article. He said he wanted a piracy royalty on all blank videotapes to compensate copyright holders for losses due to piracy. In other words, he wanted the VCR to succede and become a free source of revenue for Hollywood.
Remember: Paying a piracy royalty is being convicted of a crime before you've even committed it, assuming you were ever going to commit the crime in the first place...
The US needs to get serious about education, and fast. With the tech boom and the world shinking as it is, this is a really bad time to be stupid.
It's not just the government. American parents pay lip service to education, but don't really set either a good example nor push their children to excel. I remember in school the classes always had a mix of real poor performers to really good students. The difference was not the teachers, but their home-life and parents. Parents get the kind of education system they want. If they don't care, don't expect the government to care either.
[Insert your favorite bash to blame for this here]
But that violates the/. tradition of posting your thoughts and never reading the article! Heck, some members don't even think about what they're posting.
You know, they say Revenge is a dish best served cold, and revenge is sweet. So does this mean that Revenge is ice cream? I'd like chocolate revenge, please!
Encrypt your files and name them something like "Hot Goat Sex", and share them on Kazaa/Gnutella/eDonkey/etc. Then, when you lose your data, you just go cruising the the net for your files again! The only problem will be sorting out your files from the real goatse.cx files!
I'm in a unionized IT environment (represented by the OPIEU). It has it's positives: good benefits, lots of time off, sane hours and overtime, but because of union contracts, we also get lower wages than our peers and less "personal recognition" rewards (i.e., performance bonuses or higher sallaries).
On the other hand, the work environment is a lot more stable.
See those things waving at you in the distance ? They are the Facts, wander over and see them some time.
It is a well established fact that the Republican party and the Facts are well separated. The Democrats are closer to them, but just keep their eyes closed and keep an imaginary version of reality in their mind's eye.
If they can reduce emissions to nothing, why not go ahead and use gasoline? It's no use just sitting there in the ground.
Now that's a non sequitor if I ever saw one. Emissions include CO2, which gasoline will always produce. To be zero-emission, it means no CO2 either. Also, gasoline is deliberately manufactured during the cracking process at the refinery. If there were less demand for gasoline, then the oil can be used for other purposes thus reducing the demand for oil which means less trade deficits for the U.S., better national security by reducing dependence on foreign sources of oil, reducing the price of oil which reduces the amount of money for terrorism, etc., etc.
I don't see how battery-powered cars help anything, if we're just going to build more coal plants to charge the batteries.
You've made a huge freaking assumption that coal plants are the only source of electricity.
The biggest casualty will probably be our
Constitution. Whenever a tragedy likes this occurs, the government always announces a get tough on terrorists policy that will have no effect on the psychopaths who do this, but will severely limit our rights.
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No, it doesn't. If you are talking one small script that does one thing, sure, but I have never seen that. I inherited a mess of Perl from someone who wrote things in incredibly little amounts of code, but wrote many, many of these things and then tweaked them to do more than what they were intended to do. It took me a while to figure out what they were doing, but my colleague who had to learn Perl on the job is totally lost in the maze of code.
A lot of this is due to scripting languages giving way too much freedom with little or no way of putting a leash on when you need it. Don't agree with me they need a leash? Read the Apocalypses from Wall or check out the direction Python has been heading in for awhile. Sometimes, I just want to code a one liner and be done with it, but if I want to make something larger, it would be nice to have type checking and boundaries between modules to make it easier to enforce my coding discipline.
I have a problem with scripting language biggots (just as scripting language lovers rightly have a problem with conventional language biggots): they have the world's best hammer, and everything and everyone is a nail.
*THWACK*
"Owwwwwwww!"
"No, 'Waaaaagh!'"
"'Waaagh?'"
*THWACK*
This from a guy whose every post gets instantly modded +5. In the Kingdom of the Geeks, Wesley Crusher is the Fonz. :-)
"You know that feeling you have deep down inside that life's gonna suck when you grow up? You're absolutely right, but you wouldn't want to miss a single moment of it." ... and here's an archive of Motley Fool columns from 1992-2003 ...
I remember when all OS's came on ROM. :-)
You mean real programming teams where the members secretly loathe each other and would rip each others throats out if it weren't for the nightly Quake Arena sessions do do that vicariously? The arrogance, the dysfunctional personalities, the backstabbing. Almost all of the programming teams I worked on would feel more at home in CBS's Survivor.
"Yeah, I kind of want it to handle any bizarre half-assed situation I can think of a year from now without requiring any programming changes. No, I have no idea what that could be, but please make it do that."
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! What world does he live in?
That's not a mistaken fear. That's a reality for every occupation!
'Nuff said!
That's not what he said in the article. He said he wanted a piracy royalty on all blank videotapes to compensate copyright holders for losses due to piracy. In other words, he wanted the VCR to succede and become a free source of revenue for Hollywood.
Remember: Paying a piracy royalty is being convicted of a crime before you've even committed it, assuming you were ever going to commit the crime in the first place...
I have a problem with a search engine that wants to use Flash as its interface.
It's not just the government. American parents pay lip service to education, but don't really set either a good example nor push their children to excel. I remember in school the classes always had a mix of real poor performers to really good students. The difference was not the teachers, but their home-life and parents. Parents get the kind of education system they want. If they don't care, don't expect the government to care either.
[Insert your favorite bash to blame for this here]
Give the article a read, and share your thoughts
But that violates the /. tradition of posting your thoughts and never reading the article! Heck, some members don't even think about what they're posting.
HELL YEAH!
You know, they say Revenge is a dish best served cold, and revenge is sweet. So does this mean that Revenge is ice cream? I'd like chocolate revenge, please!
Isn't it enough that we /. websites, but now we have to do it in the real world too? :-)
You might want to check out FreeNet then.
Encrypt your files and name them something like "Hot Goat Sex", and share them on Kazaa/Gnutella/eDonkey/etc. Then, when you lose your data, you just go cruising the the net for your files again! The only problem will be sorting out your files from the real goatse.cx files!
I'm in a unionized IT environment (represented by the OPIEU). It has it's positives: good benefits, lots of time off, sane hours and overtime, but because of union contracts, we also get lower wages than our peers and less "personal recognition" rewards (i.e., performance bonuses or higher sallaries).
On the other hand, the work environment is a lot more stable.
It sounds like The Sneetches by Dr. Seuss with the Telcos playing the "Fix-it-up Chappie". This could be really amusing.
Not unless it's To Serve Man.
I hope people get this joke...
The technical name for Step #3 is "Insert Miracle Here".
<Kodos-voice> Go ahead! Throw your vote away!</Kodos-voice>
It is a well established fact that the Republican party and the Facts are well separated. The Democrats are closer to them, but just keep their eyes closed and keep an imaginary version of reality in their mind's eye.
Leading to the strange sight of abandoned car tops with no wheels littering the highway.
Now that's a non sequitor if I ever saw one. Emissions include CO2, which gasoline will always produce. To be zero-emission, it means no CO2 either. Also, gasoline is deliberately manufactured during the cracking process at the refinery. If there were less demand for gasoline, then the oil can be used for other purposes thus reducing the demand for oil which means less trade deficits for the U.S., better national security by reducing dependence on foreign sources of oil, reducing the price of oil which reduces the amount of money for terrorism, etc., etc.
You've made a huge freaking assumption that coal plants are the only source of electricity.
They'll just use two skaetboards. :-)
Imagine now someone abandoning their car on the side of the road. Minutes later, there's only a skateboard left...
How about: How many /.'s will rethink the competence
of the CIA and NSA covert SIGINT after 9/11?
From rossz (link to article):
The biggest casualty will probably be our Constitution. Whenever a tragedy likes this occurs, the government always announces a get tough on terrorists policy that will have no effect on the psychopaths who do this, but will severely limit our rights.Hole in One, rossz!