Oh goodness yes. We use ant and cpptasks
in a modularized product of about 600 files, consisting of various shared/static libs, unit tests, and execs. With some work, it plugs into eclipse's CDT too. Simply automates doxygen builds, and rpm builds. Oh yeah, a few modules have to be cross platform so the same build.xml works on XP and MSVC7 with those targets. All this in about a five hundred line build.xml file that took about 3 hours to initially setup and 5 minutes here and there to maintain.
A favorite contraption. I loved my Skat Skoota and my Erector Set. I can still get Erector Sets but I have never seen another Skat Skoota since the one I wore out by the mid-80's. *sniff*
Unfortunately, this is true in some cases. I'd even say "Bad code is self documenting." The code base my nose is stuck in right now is a prime example. I'd rather this code base have no docs than the misleading and outdated docs it does have. Sigh.
Your mileage may vary.... I find that VNC beats the living heck out of X11 sessions (at least the various windows X servers). Plus the whole shaky/burping LAN makes VNC such a nicer alternative in the MS-to-Unix world. Unix-to-unix I typically only use X over ssh for quick and dirty activiys, not heavy multi terminal coding sessions.
Of course you turn the bloody thing to silent or off in the theatre, but in the mall, or on a bus or a train or a plane, why should you care?
Becuase, *IF* you are annoying in a mall or on the street, or in a lobby I can freely walk away from you. In a bus, plane, or restaurant I cannot walk away from you. Since I've been removed of my choice not to listen to your boring conversation, you should lose the right to have it. One rotten apple spoils the whole bunch. If one person cannot respect cell-phone ettiquette, ban it for everyone.
Never worked in an environment where IS team just can't keep a stable network, have you?:) X just doesn't work to well when you have consoles and windows flying all over the place and then *whoops* network goes bye. Now where was I? Recovery is possible, but by the time you get back to where you were, whoops their it goes again. Xvncserver works well for that by 'preserving' your desk across outtages and inbetween the office, test lab, and the offsite developer who just got a wierd error that you can witness. But the real pain of vnc is the workstation/lab have two seperate displays.
I'm not keen on getting the latest version of anything, but the 'integrated' VNC will be a blessing. (Sorry, I like Qt, but I don't do KDE)
Oh good lord....I can't wait until you vnc to you Mom's computer one day when she's surfing porn and a bunch of 40-50 year old cocks pop right up in you face. Gee, wonder if Mom is doing here nails?
Consider the author and the source of the article. First, the NYTimes now has a history of embellishing and a keeping lying journalist n the payroll. Second, Markoff is the cat who made up stories about Mitnik breaking into NASA and other cracks and phreaks that Mitnik whole heartedly denies. Plus the jackass sold his soul to a book on Mitnik (a poorly written book at that). Now though many of you hate MS, consider the source to this story and take it with a grain of salt.
I disagree. 'Googled' can take on various meanings. It's really all about inflection.
I got fucked (Someone who had a bad day at the courthhouse)
I got fucked (Someone who had a good day in the back seat of mom and dad's car)
We've been googled. (High School science olymipic team)
We've been googled. (www.state.ak.us web admins when Alaska turns 50 years old)
So now I guess the BBC have joined the ranks of CNN, Fox etc..
Nope. They are much lower. Fox, CNN, MSNBC are just in it for the sensationalism. They may have clueless bastards in as 'experts' every now and then, but they don't just make shit up. The BBC has (not so) recently stooped to the tabloid medium. Make shit up and it sells. I know the BBC has little clout among my peer group. Do you folks from the UK take that[BBC] media conglomerate seriously?
I had Comcast digital cable in PA and it really sucked. MPEG artifacts, lost channels for minutes at a time, poor receiver (worst user interface ever)
I had Time Warner digital cable in Austin, TX. Excellent. Never an artifact or dropping of channels.
I lived at a place in NJ with DirectTV. Good. Few dropped signals, but never for more than 30 seconds.
I currently have comcast digital cable in NJ. Same situation as in PA, but worse. A few times a week at random moments (especially during a critical point in a movie), ALL channels become the Home Shopping Network for a two minute span. Very annoying. Lots of MPEG atifacts, three seconds to change a channel, and the channel lineups have changed three times in the past 4 months.
Moving to atlanta soon, going with the b/c only comcast is available.
Forgot to add:
Still buggy.
More difficult to get up and running on different platforms than, say java or Qt
Python bindings are bad (not %100 implemented, little if any documentation that says so)
Decent, but not a clean API
To each his own, but after working with Qt and Java/Swing, I found wxWindows a very hackish
UI toolkit. Not to say it doesn't do the job,
but I wouldn't recommend it.
Oh No! Absolutely wrong. Use of the word 'proactive' should never be restricted. Ever been denied a software/hardware purchase? Slip in the word 'proactive' in your reason for purchase to the penny pinching purchasing manager and you'll have a better chance to get your stuff.
Yeah, but the beauty of typing those programs in is that you COULD actually learn. I'd start typing in the game/program, then modify it with new features or bells and whistels, then I'd usually write two or three more programs from scratch (based on the original idea). Hell, I was 11 years old so I had much more creative juice then as I do today. Ah, how the corporate world sometimes does that to you. *sniff*
But anyway, not only did I learn the art of debugging, but taught me how to effectively read someone else's code, and it also taught me to 'optimize' (those programs were written in very generic basic, but I could replace a few of the generic lines with GW-BASIC specific lines). Logic building was essential, and new tricks as in "Hmm, what he trying to do here? Ah, wow, you can do it thatway too?!?"
Well, if you actually took the time to like at this submitters 'benchmark', it nothing but a poorly written microbenchmark. It provides no useful information what-so-ever.
I code in a plethora of languages (mainly, python, c, c++, java) and trust me, execution speed is not an area I look at anymore when deciding on C or Java impl (unless , of course your dealing wih cross platform graphics) It hasn't been for 3 years.
I think anyone who has done much work with either developing or running large scale java programs knows that speed can definitely be an issue.
It think it may be time for you to crawl out from that rock you live under.
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What school did you go to? I want to put it on my list of schools not to hire from.
#define SIX 1+5
#define NINE 8+1
printf("TATLTUAE = %d, SIX * NINE);
Oh you sick sick twisted individual.... You do get a gold star though. Kudos.
Good stuff...
Wow!! I surprised tin foil timmy didn't categorize this as "You're rights onlined"
Killians? Irish?
So does a good tennis/racquetball match. Plus you get some well needed exercise that the video games take away.
A favorite contraption. I loved my Skat Skoota and my Erector Set. I can still get Erector Sets but I have never seen another Skat Skoota since the one I wore out by the mid-80's. *sniff*
Unfortunately, this is true in some cases. I'd even say "Bad code is self documenting." The code base my nose is stuck in right now is a prime example. I'd rather this code base have no docs than the misleading and outdated docs it does have. Sigh.
Your mileage may vary.... I find that VNC beats the living heck out of X11 sessions (at least the various windows X servers). Plus the whole shaky/burping LAN makes VNC such a nicer alternative in the MS-to-Unix world. Unix-to-unix I typically only use X over ssh for quick and dirty activiys, not heavy multi terminal coding sessions.
Becuase, *IF* you are annoying in a mall or on the street, or in a lobby I can freely walk away from you. In a bus, plane, or restaurant I cannot walk away from you. Since I've been removed of my choice not to listen to your boring conversation, you should lose the right to have it. One rotten apple spoils the whole bunch. If one person cannot respect cell-phone ettiquette, ban it for everyone.
Matt Damon was last month's interview....someone just forgot to update the alt text..
I'm not keen on getting the latest version of anything, but the 'integrated' VNC will be a blessing. (Sorry, I like Qt, but I don't do KDE)
Nope, Texas is the state where the past a resolution honoring the Boston Strangler.
Oh good lord....I can't wait until you vnc to you Mom's computer one day when she's surfing porn and a bunch of 40-50 year old cocks pop right up in you face. Gee, wonder if Mom is doing here nails?
You're reasoning with the /. crowd?!?! Silly you.
Consider the author and the source of the article. First, the NYTimes now has a history of embellishing and a keeping lying journalist n the payroll. Second, Markoff is the cat who made up stories about Mitnik breaking into NASA and other cracks and phreaks that Mitnik whole heartedly denies. Plus the jackass sold his soul to a book on Mitnik (a poorly written book at that). Now though many of you hate MS, consider the source to this story and take it with a grain of salt.
I got fucked (Someone who had a bad day at the courthhouse)
I got fucked (Someone who had a good day in the back seat of mom and dad's car)
We've been googled. (High School science olymipic team)
We've been googled. (www.state.ak.us web admins when Alaska turns 50 years old)
So now I guess the BBC have joined the ranks of CNN, Fox etc..
Nope. They are much lower. Fox, CNN, MSNBC are just in it for the sensationalism. They may have clueless bastards in as 'experts' every now and then, but they don't just make shit up. The BBC has (not so) recently stooped to the tabloid medium. Make shit up and it sells. I know the BBC has little clout among my peer group. Do you folks from the UK take that[BBC] media conglomerate seriously?
I had Time Warner digital cable in Austin, TX. Excellent. Never an artifact or dropping of channels.
I lived at a place in NJ with DirectTV. Good. Few dropped signals, but never for more than 30 seconds.
I currently have comcast digital cable in NJ. Same situation as in PA, but worse. A few times a week at random moments (especially during a critical point in a movie), ALL channels become the Home Shopping Network for a two minute span. Very annoying. Lots of MPEG atifacts, three seconds to change a channel, and the channel lineups have changed three times in the past 4 months.
Moving to atlanta soon, going with the b/c only comcast is available.
moral of the story: Avoid Comcast
Still buggy.
More difficult to get up and running on different platforms than, say java or Qt
Python bindings are bad (not %100 implemented, little if any documentation that says so)
Decent, but not a clean API
To each his own, but after working with Qt and Java/Swing, I found wxWindows a very hackish UI toolkit. Not to say it doesn't do the job, but I wouldn't recommend it.
Oh No! Absolutely wrong. Use of the word 'proactive' should never be restricted. Ever been denied a software/hardware purchase? Slip in the word 'proactive' in your reason for purchase to the penny pinching purchasing manager and you'll have a better chance to get your stuff.
But anyway, not only did I learn the art of debugging, but taught me how to effectively read someone else's code, and it also taught me to 'optimize' (those programs were written in very generic basic, but I could replace a few of the generic lines with GW-BASIC specific lines). Logic building was essential, and new tricks as in "Hmm, what he trying to do here? Ah, wow, you can do it thatway too?!?"
I code in a plethora of languages (mainly, python, c, c++, java) and trust me, execution speed is not an area I look at anymore when deciding on C or Java impl (unless , of course your dealing wih cross platform graphics) It hasn't been for 3 years.
I think anyone who has done much work with either developing or running large scale java programs knows that speed can definitely be an issue.
It think it may be time for you to crawl out from that rock you live under.