I got that number off Jim Clark's head engineer on his latest bioinformatics project... but your number sounds more reasonable and I'm inclined to trust Peopleware more.
Depends on what "average" means, since that is the least well-defined quantity. In fact, it could probably be defined from the figures you gave, in absence of any scientific data-gathering.;)
Unfortunately there exist no free editors that save into HTML. While Sun has such an API for doing this, it definitely will choke on the simplest things, like lists.
I've heard of a proprietary package which does this, but this was long ago and I have no idea where to find this now.
The glib answer is if you have to ask, you don't understand your software's use well enough.
It is also a failure in understanding processes. There are showstopper bugs... ('defects' is actually a better term for bugs), and those which are mere annoyances or happen in negligible circumstances, with only annoying results.
Metadata must be transmitted at some point. The cost of it is transmitting bulkier parsers; custom parsers often aren't size/speed optimized because there are so many of them. And plus, custom formats tend to grow to the point where they carry their own metadata in a flexible format anyway.
Though I agree there is some cost in some situations, it is outweighed by the possibility of writing apps that were unfeasible beforehand -- like a decent linuxconf, where you must aggregate a great deal of different config file formats.
Look around the industry, even people like Scient who have a management team with an amazing track record, are suffering badly.
I've visited Scient, and I wonder why you think that Scient would be particularly crash-proof. They're not quite as "innovative" thinkers as ArsDigita are.
Too bad ArsDigita couldn't die its own death. Everyone is dealing with counterfactuals, wondering how aD would have fared without the VC power struggles, when in reality it is not at all clear. Perhaps they were deep enough to weather these things, and perhaps they had enough street cred and goodwill to still have clients in the shrinking market. Perhaps not. No one entirely knows. Not even those people who passed themselves off as employees in the last aD article here.
Could you tell us more or point to a website with facts on this? And I'm not talking about Welch's restructuring in the '80s. I am honestly curious, since I have a high opinion of Welch.
"Ruby stands to perl (quick and dirty programming) or PHP (perl for people to stupid to perl) as Objective C does to C++ or Lisp to a useful programming language. They are great in the laboratory, and for pointy-headed geeks to play with, but they are completely useless in practice."
Thanks. I might have considered your post seriously, until you wrote this. So perhaps I should take a quick look at Ruby.
but kuro5hin has more pompous assholes that think their shit doesn't stink and they have a problem pulling their heads out of their asses
... and this is better than Slashdot how? I agree, K5 is like pompous central, and for all I know I'm part of that. Hope not, but at least I point it out there. But it seems to me that you've got an inferiorty complex that should be checked out by someone.
No kidding. And there will be the inevitable "K5 is dying" posts because of the new Slashbots which will have to be assimilated... Well in any case, they're welcome to become Kuronodes.
Interesting. Will the moderator mod me down? It didn't have much pleasant imagery, but it was quite on the spot.
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Funny thing is, I just looked at my copy five minutes before noticing this article, for the first time in weeks.
With computer books, it is easy to hate those which spend years on inane little topics that aren't really that hard. CVS isn't a way of life, just a common program people use. Brevity is good, and a review of a brief book is as well.
I knew someone who was formerly intrigued with Zope. After writing a commercial website with it, it turned out to run like a dog under any real stress. He immediately ported to Cold Fusion. Other things he mentioned was never quite knowing if his code was at fault or Zope's.
Um... because that code doesn't scale? What if you want to add things to the loop; do you want to add the mod 2 code to it each time? And I find that rarely do people use the mod operator; they have to look it up. And it is slightly inefficient to boot... you listed a trivial case, so I won't use this as the main argument, but programming like that leads to serious deficiencies. I don't think the lesson should be that trying to program clearly is going against the grain of the language.
Well, strong reactions are perfectly in line, when you have self-appointed "researchers" laughing at what they consider braindead design decisions.
They have absolutely no idea how to create s computer or design software; they are out of their depths. If they weren't, they wouldn't laugh. They would simply solve.
... a web browser and the local file browser are the same damn thing, except that the web is generally read-only. There needs to be an interchange between the two concepts, or each will be crippled.
Course, I have absolutely no interest in Nautilus, but to each her own.
You underestimate greatly. Though your name is java_sucks, I fairly often go through the sourcecode of Swing, the main Java GUI system. That is the main way to tell if the problem is in your code or their's. And you're not exactly sifting through sourcecode, you've got tools to do that for you. You may not even understand the general context of the code, but the code you read may make sense.
When you "get sourcecode," you don't just get a text dump. You also get some documentation, and the code itself has comments.
He once almost beat top Soviet player Botvinnik (IIRC; it might have been another famous Soviet); he was up the exchange with a win in sight, but then made some silly blunder. The interview I read this from was an old OMNI, with Shannon & his wife.
Of course, I get the impression that at that point, Botvinnik used tricky smoke & mirrors tactics against Shannon, but I still imagine that Shannon was honest enough that he wasn't embellishing his advantage so much.
Well, now I know why people have such a strong dislike of Katz. This really is an embarassing article. A very high-profile geek gets an article on Slashdot front page, making us all seem like idiots.
I want to answer the original poster's real question, and not just tell him to take the child out for socializing. Other people have made that clear.
How does the child like to learn? Does he like books or teachers; both perhaps? If books, then make sure you know the best books/sites out there. He doesn't have to read them, just let them be there if he wants to look through them. Eventually, he will, reading little parts as he is interested. I hear this book is entertaining for children, and he can read it if he tires of the adult tone of other books.
As for teachers... let him go to the nearby large university to visit.. Speak with a department head. Perhaps he can hang around the science grad/undergrad students doing their little projects. He can find out what people are doing, and hang on for as long as he feels like.
Of course, he can't be shut out from his peers. The goal is that he should be as comfortable with humans as with books, or at least have the chance to be, if he isn't wired that way. There are many arenas in life he should be able to feel comfortable in; I have personally known people who've been advanced a little too quickly, and they've turned.. sick in certain ways. Without an oar. Don't fawn over him for the one attribute. He is not to be a trained performing dog.
There are other places to ask, if you want more in-depth information by people who've gone through this.
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I got that number off Jim Clark's head engineer on his latest bioinformatics project... but your number sounds more reasonable and I'm inclined to trust Peopleware more.
;)
Depends on what "average" means, since that is the least well-defined quantity. In fact, it could probably be defined from the figures you gave, in absence of any scientific data-gathering.
Unfortunately there exist no free editors that save into HTML. While Sun has such an API for doing this, it definitely will choke on the simplest things, like lists.
I've heard of a proprietary package which does this, but this was long ago and I have no idea where to find this now.
The glib answer is if you have to ask, you don't understand your software's use well enough.
It is also a failure in understanding processes. There are showstopper bugs... ('defects' is actually a better term for bugs), and those which are mere annoyances or happen in negligible circumstances, with only annoying results.
nice device, Duff.
Metadata must be transmitted at some point. The cost of it is transmitting bulkier parsers; custom parsers often aren't size/speed optimized because there are so many of them. And plus, custom formats tend to grow to the point where they carry their own metadata in a flexible format anyway.
Though I agree there is some cost in some situations, it is outweighed by the possibility of writing apps that were unfeasible beforehand -- like a decent linuxconf, where you must aggregate a great deal of different config file formats.
Look around the industry, even people like Scient who have a management team with an amazing track record, are suffering badly.
I've visited Scient, and I wonder why you think that Scient would be particularly crash-proof. They're not quite as "innovative" thinkers as ArsDigita are.
Too bad ArsDigita couldn't die its own death. Everyone is dealing with counterfactuals, wondering how aD would have fared without the VC power struggles, when in reality it is not at all clear. Perhaps they were deep enough to weather these things, and perhaps they had enough street cred and goodwill to still have clients in the shrinking market. Perhaps not. No one entirely knows. Not even those people who passed themselves off as employees in the last aD article here.
Money from GE... -- now that's blood money.
Could you tell us more or point to a website with facts on this? And I'm not talking about Welch's restructuring in the '80s. I am honestly curious, since I have a high opinion of Welch.
Wow. This is really good.
but kuro5hin has more pompous assholes that think their shit doesn't stink and they have a problem pulling their heads out of their asses
... and this is better than Slashdot how? I agree, K5 is like pompous central, and for all I know I'm part of that. Hope not, but at least I point it out there. But it seems to me that you've got an inferiorty complex that should be checked out by someone.
I couldn't get past the first paragraph.
Yup, this perfectly explains a Slashdot reader.
No kidding. And there will be the inevitable "K5 is dying" posts because of the new Slashbots which will have to be assimilated... Well in any case, they're welcome to become Kuronodes.
We're talking about a company that plays hardball with contracts. If you were on the receiving end, do YOU think they'd give you mercy?
Interesting. Will the moderator mod me down? It didn't have much pleasant imagery, but it was quite on the spot.
Funny thing is, I just looked at my copy five minutes before noticing this article, for the first time in weeks.
With computer books, it is easy to hate those which spend years on inane little topics that aren't really that hard. CVS isn't a way of life, just a common program people use. Brevity is good, and a review of a brief book is as well.
I knew someone who was formerly intrigued with Zope. After writing a commercial website with it, it turned out to run like a dog under any real stress. He immediately ported to Cold Fusion. Other things he mentioned was never quite knowing if his code was at fault or Zope's.
Um... because that code doesn't scale? What if you want to add things to the loop; do you want to add the mod 2 code to it each time? And I find that rarely do people use the mod operator; they have to look it up. And it is slightly inefficient to boot... you listed a trivial case, so I won't use this as the main argument, but programming like that leads to serious deficiencies. I don't think the lesson should be that trying to program clearly is going against the grain of the language.
Well, strong reactions are perfectly in line, when you have self-appointed "researchers" laughing at what they consider braindead design decisions.
They have absolutely no idea how to create s computer or design software; they are out of their depths. If they weren't, they wouldn't laugh. They would simply solve.
... a web browser and the local file browser are the same damn thing, except that the web is generally read-only. There needs to be an interchange between the two concepts, or each will be crippled.
Course, I have absolutely no interest in Nautilus, but to each her own.
You underestimate greatly. Though your name is java_sucks, I fairly often go through the sourcecode of Swing, the main Java GUI system. That is the main way to tell if the problem is in your code or their's. And you're not exactly sifting through sourcecode, you've got tools to do that for you. You may not even understand the general context of the code, but the code you read may make sense.
When you "get sourcecode," you don't just get a text dump. You also get some documentation, and the code itself has comments.
Slashdot...
He once almost beat top Soviet player Botvinnik (IIRC; it might have been another famous Soviet); he was up the exchange with a win in sight, but then made some silly blunder. The interview I read this from was an old OMNI, with Shannon & his wife.
Of course, I get the impression that at that point, Botvinnik used tricky smoke & mirrors tactics against Shannon, but I still imagine that Shannon was honest enough that he wasn't embellishing his advantage so much.
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Well, now I know why people have such a strong dislike of Katz. This really is an embarassing article. A very high-profile geek gets an article on Slashdot front page, making us all seem like idiots.
I want to answer the original poster's real question, and not just tell him to take the child out for socializing. Other people have made that clear.
How does the child like to learn? Does he like books or teachers; both perhaps? If books, then make sure you know the best books/sites out there. He doesn't have to read them, just let them be there if he wants to look through them. Eventually, he will, reading little parts as he is interested. I hear this book is entertaining for children, and he can read it if he tires of the adult tone of other books.
As for teachers... let him go to the nearby large university to visit.. Speak with a department head. Perhaps he can hang around the science grad/undergrad students doing their little projects. He can find out what people are doing, and hang on for as long as he feels like.
Of course, he can't be shut out from his peers. The goal is that he should be as comfortable with humans as with books, or at least have the chance to be, if he isn't wired that way. There are many arenas in life he should be able to feel comfortable in; I have personally known people who've been advanced a little too quickly, and they've turned.. sick in certain ways. Without an oar. Don't fawn over him for the one attribute. He is not to be a trained performing dog.
There are other places to ask, if you want more in-depth information by people who've gone through this.