No, he's saying that several hundred pools of molasses operating concurrently in a load-balanced manner move at roughly the same rate as an individual pool of molasses.
So, same speed, but higher throughput. That way more people can feel the molasses at the same time.
your custody can be affected by dismissed or acquitted charges
Sentencing rules for judges (or lack thereof) are absolutely, fundamentally fucked in this country. This all but ensures a revolving-door policy for prisoners. You're basically guaranteeing that they'll stay criminals for the rest of their lives.
Devices like iPad are making computing palatable for people who might otherwise shun desktop or laptop computers. This is deeply offensive to mainstream geeks, who are the real "elitists".
It is deeply offensive to those of us who learned how to use computers without them having to be so locked-down and dumbed-down as to render them crippled-by-design. Yet for some reason "kids today" are so intellectually hobbled that they happily hand over the reigns to their own hardware like drivers giving up keys just to tag along for a ride in the passenger seat of their own car.
Most JS code on websites is actually for cross-browser compatibility work-arounds to issues that modern browsers don't have a problem with (navigation menus, hover effects, etc.)
Once the world is rid of IE6 (and, let's be honest, IE7 as well) web developers won't need to add giant libraries to their HTML to guarantee everyone is seeing the same thing. Of course, a lot of those developers aren't much smarter than script-kiddies, and rely heavily on 100K+ JavaScript libraries because they never bothered to learn the fundamentals of the language and only understand jQuery shortcuts.
Lots of words to say, its gambling. Akin to betting on horses.
No, just the right amount of words to describe something entirely different than gambling. That's the whole point, which apparently sailed quietly past your dock.
Gambling is when you don't know the outcome. Gambling is for suckers. These guys merely recognized the patterns and took advantage of them.
the question there is whether the US federal government has lawful authority under the Constitution to order people to buy things
Just what do you think those pesky taxes are used for? To buy things. Like books for libraries. Trucks for fire departments. Guns for police. Planes for the air force and tanks for the Army.
I rely on the tank-like construction of ThinkPads, but I have to say Sony's hardware divisions know their stuff. They build excellent devices, even if their executives screw them up later on (forcing MemoryStick instead of CF/SD slots for instance).
What technological advances are you talking about, specifically? It should be easy if your analogy was apt, since it's trivial to point out the advances from a 1979 Pinto and a 2011 Focus. So what are the obviously-superior advancements in Windows 7 that all us poor Windows XP users are missing out on?
Then I have to spend an hour explaining why it's not even currently usable for any serious enterprise application, and how the spec is not yet solidified.
Yeah, and then you make the off-handed observation that you can do all of this stuff in Flash, and that this sort of thing (video + audio) is easy and is Flash's bread-and-butter, and, oh yeah, it's also worked for the past decade, and then you get modded down into oblivion because nobody wants to hear the bitter truth when there's fresh Flavor-Ade to be drunk.
Loved your screed and almost entirely agree with you. In my experience, personality is more important than talent when working with other people. If you're going solo you can be as big a jerk as you like. But it doesn't matter if you're a rock star coder when no one wants to work with you because you're an asshole.
That said, I think this needs qualification:
"A REAL coding test would be to hand someone existing, broken code and tell them to fix it, in the coding style shown... without bitching."
Bitching, no, but you have to allow for some amount of mockery and/or laughter.
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Just no early career people to fill the role (it was a junior applications engineer role).
As someone who has been desperate for a job--any job--and been turned down for having "too much experience" may I please extend a hearty "Fuck You" to you, your company, and anyone affiliated with your program.
Do you really think some 55 year-old with boatloads of experience gives a rat's ass if a job is "junior" when they're just trying to keep a roof over their head?
It probably cost us the better part of $200K by the time we were done to hire someone from China
All the companies I mention sell smartphones. They also use them.
And what has that got to do with the price of tea in China? None of those companies run their businesses on smartphones. It is absolutely laughable that you would even suggest something so vastly, remarkably ignorant, yet here is the original statement.
And now look at you, trying to change the subject after the fact. Your failure to admit this is an inadequacy of yours. Just one of many.
As for your book collection: it doesn't matter if you have--and have read--a billion books, since none of the actual information in said books appears to have sunk in.
Speaking of reading, here's some more reading about traditional RDBMS (not) being obsolete. Remember when you said that? Probably not. Here, let me quote you in case you conveniently forgot: "Additionally, map-reduce renders relational databases obsolete, as well as removing the bottleneck."
Maybe you should learn to look a bit more deeply into things instead of being a dismissive little snot.
I'm dismissive of people that have been proven (more than once, in the very same thread!) to be imbeciles.
YES YES YES JESUS FUCKING CHRIST FOR THE LOVE OF GOD YES!
Do MP3s cause my system to crash/hang/consume ginormous resources just for the sake of existing? No! Why not? Because it's a fucking codec. But with Quicktime, you've got to have a fucking Control Panel extension. For what? What in the hell could possibly necessitate a separate, specific control panel extension?
And the installer? ~30 Megs of what exactly? I could load every popular and not-very-popular codec on my computer, mkv splitters, ac3 decoders, all kinds of useless crap, and it wouldn't take half the space that Quicktime requires. Again... FOR WHAT? Did Apple write the installer in JavaScript?
Quicktime and iTunes are a JOKE. A sick, twisted, D-minus-in-any-programming-class joke.
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No, he's saying that several hundred pools of molasses operating concurrently in a load-balanced manner move at roughly the same rate as an individual pool of molasses.
So, same speed, but higher throughput. That way more people can feel the molasses at the same time.
Where are they going?
Hopefully IBM, who should have bought Sun to begin with.
Note to former Sun folks/management/board involved in the Oracle buyout: Nice job, fuckheads.
your custody can be affected by dismissed or acquitted charges
Sentencing rules for judges (or lack thereof) are absolutely, fundamentally fucked in this country. This all but ensures a revolving-door policy for prisoners. You're basically guaranteeing that they'll stay criminals for the rest of their lives.
I'm sorry to hear about your injustice.
Good luck taking away people's coffee or cocoa beans.
There would be blood in the streets. Male blood. Lots of male blood.
Have you ever seen someone high on pot drive? they are worse than drunks. [...] How do you know someone won't go homicidal while on pot?
OK, OK, we get that you've never smoked.
Here are the only numbers that matter:
Phones that use Android (spoiler: ~80, ~110 including tablets)
Phones that use iOS (spoiler: 3, including tablets)
Number of Android carriers: 4
Number of iPhone carriers: 1
The fact (and it is a fact) that Android outsells iOS should come as no surprise.
Devices like iPad are making computing palatable for people who might otherwise shun desktop or laptop computers. This is deeply offensive to mainstream geeks, who are the real "elitists".
It is deeply offensive to those of us who learned how to use computers without them having to be so locked-down and dumbed-down as to render them crippled-by-design. Yet for some reason "kids today" are so intellectually hobbled that they happily hand over the reigns to their own hardware like drivers giving up keys just to tag along for a ride in the passenger seat of their own car.
+1 Preach, Brother
Where are my mod points when I need them?
Most JS code on websites is actually for cross-browser compatibility work-arounds to issues that modern browsers don't have a problem with (navigation menus, hover effects, etc.)
Once the world is rid of IE6 (and, let's be honest, IE7 as well) web developers won't need to add giant libraries to their HTML to guarantee everyone is seeing the same thing. Of course, a lot of those developers aren't much smarter than script-kiddies, and rely heavily on 100K+ JavaScript libraries because they never bothered to learn the fundamentals of the language and only understand jQuery shortcuts.
Lots of words to say, its gambling. Akin to betting on horses.
No, just the right amount of words to describe something entirely different than gambling. That's the whole point, which apparently sailed quietly past your dock.
Gambling is when you don't know the outcome.
Gambling is for suckers. These guys merely recognized the patterns and took advantage of them.
Interception of transmissions which are not intended for you is clearly illegal
And how do you know if it's intended for you until you intercept it?
and then just take up space on the shelf that would be better used for books, pictures or photo albums
People use the same argument against CDs. And get the same response, by the way.
HARD DRIVE.
the question there is whether the US federal government has lawful authority under the Constitution to order people to buy things
Just what do you think those pesky taxes are used for? To buy things. Like books for libraries. Trucks for fire departments. Guns for police. Planes for the air force and tanks for the Army.
Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution, bucko.
I rely on the tank-like construction of ThinkPads, but I have to say Sony's hardware divisions know their stuff. They build excellent devices, even if their executives screw them up later on (forcing MemoryStick instead of CF/SD slots for instance).
Because technology advances.
What technological advances are you talking about, specifically? It should be easy if your analogy was apt, since it's trivial to point out the advances from a 1979 Pinto and a 2011 Focus. So what are the obviously-superior advancements in Windows 7 that all us poor Windows XP users are missing out on?
Corollary:
If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would ever get done.
"Cookie cutter" programmers and tech support are replaceable.
Cookie cutter plumbers are replaceable as well. The point is that they aren't out-source-able, as most jobs still require your physical presence.
Agreed. It's about as dumb as calling copyright infringement "theft." They might as well call it "jailrape."
Then I have to spend an hour explaining why it's not even currently usable for any serious enterprise application, and how the spec is not yet solidified.
Yeah, and then you make the off-handed observation that you can do all of this stuff in Flash, and that this sort of thing (video + audio) is easy and is Flash's bread-and-butter, and, oh yeah, it's also worked for the past decade, and then you get modded down into oblivion because nobody wants to hear the bitter truth when there's fresh Flavor-Ade to be drunk.
Not USB. I want a BlueTooth keyboard & mouse.
So how do you recharge it? Lemme A proprietary AC adapter? Induction? Tiny power gnomes?
Loved your screed and almost entirely agree with you. In my experience, personality is more important than talent when working with other people. If you're going solo you can be as big a jerk as you like. But it doesn't matter if you're a rock star coder when no one wants to work with you because you're an asshole.
That said, I think this needs qualification:
"A REAL coding test would be to hand someone existing, broken code and tell them to fix it, in the coding style shown... without bitching."
Bitching, no, but you have to allow for some amount of mockery and/or laughter.
Just no early career people to fill the role (it was a junior applications engineer role).
As someone who has been desperate for a job--any job--and been turned down for having "too much experience" may I please extend a hearty "Fuck You" to you, your company, and anyone affiliated with your program.
Do you really think some 55 year-old with boatloads of experience gives a rat's ass if a job is "junior" when they're just trying to keep a roof over their head?
It probably cost us the better part of $200K by the time we were done to hire someone from China
(smacks forehead)
who tell the 40 how to do their job
I bet they love you for it, too! /jk
All the companies I mention sell smartphones. They also use them.
And what has that got to do with the price of tea in China? None of those companies run their businesses on smartphones. It is absolutely laughable that you would even suggest something so vastly, remarkably ignorant, yet here is the original statement.
And now look at you, trying to change the subject after the fact. Your failure to admit this is an inadequacy of yours. Just one of many.
As for your book collection: it doesn't matter if you have--and have read--a billion books, since none of the actual information in said books appears to have sunk in.
Speaking of reading, here's some more reading about traditional RDBMS (not) being obsolete. Remember when you said that? Probably not. Here, let me quote you in case you conveniently forgot: "Additionally, map-reduce renders relational databases obsolete, as well as removing the bottleneck."
Maybe you should learn to look a bit more deeply into things instead of being a dismissive little snot.
I'm dismissive of people that have been proven (more than once, in the very same thread!) to be imbeciles.
Is QuickTime really that bad?
YES YES YES JESUS FUCKING CHRIST FOR THE LOVE OF GOD YES!
Do MP3s cause my system to crash/hang/consume ginormous resources just for the sake of existing? No! Why not? Because it's a fucking codec. But with Quicktime, you've got to have a fucking Control Panel extension. For what? What in the hell could possibly necessitate a separate, specific control panel extension?
And the installer? ~30 Megs of what exactly? I could load every popular and not-very-popular codec on my computer, mkv splitters, ac3 decoders, all kinds of useless crap, and it wouldn't take half the space that Quicktime requires. Again... FOR WHAT? Did Apple write the installer in JavaScript?
Quicktime and iTunes are a JOKE. A sick, twisted, D-minus-in-any-programming-class joke.