Vicurex is tiny. They only did US$30,822 of business [bitcoincharts.com] in the past 30 days. The corner pawnbroker is probably a bigger business. The corner gas station definitely is.
You forgot the corner hooker. Unless she's really ugly.
This is precisely the reason I learned Vim: it's installed on every Linux system and it works well over SSH. It's great for the small amount of remote administration I do on my shared web hosting account.
There's a reason people argue about vim and emacs...
Vim: Oh look, this isn't an argument. Emacs: Yes it is. Vim: No it isn't. It's just contradiction. Emacs: No it isn't. Vim: An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition. Emacs: No it isn't. Not if it's written in Lisp.
Sorry, but I'm the kind of person who just buys a screwdriver when faced with a screw. (Thus, I use Windows instead of Linux.;-) So, I guess you'll have to ask Facebook.
Can someone please convert the summary in english, with basic explanations?
The basic idea is that they've hacked PHP into something called "Hack" by turning it into something PHP was never intended to be. Yet Hack is still backwards-compatible with PHP. Presumably, this is to avoid the need to convert Facebook's large base of sluggish PHP code into some other language which was designed from the start for run-time efficiency. Instead, they can make incremental efficiency changes to their code base to make it run as if it had been written in a more efficient language in the first place. Much saving of expensive hardware and power will ensue.
If all you've ever used is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. But if you eventually find yourself faced with a screw and you're really smart, you can just hack your hammer into a screwdriver rather than hammering in the screw like those not-so-smart folks who find themselves using the wrong tool do.
These things seem to matter to somebody. See http://linux.slashdot.org/stor.... Also, calling it something like "Millennium Edition" probably would be a bad idea.;-)
When you do that, you have to ask yourself if you deliver quantity and/or quality two to three times greater than those younger programmers.
I've sometimes asked myself that, but I don't think that's really the right question. Sometimes it isn't about quantity and/or quality. It's about the ability to get the job done at all. Sometimes experience can make it possible to solve a problem that can't be solved without it. An instinct for the right and wrong ways to approach a problem, gained from experience, can be key. For example, I once was given a problem that a very bright new grad had worked on for months and had utterly failed at. But based on knowledge and understanding about that particular sort of problem that had been gained from experience, I was able to solve it, from scratch, in much less time than he had already spent on it. The new grad didn't lack ability or academic knowledge, he simply lacked experience.
Much of my experience in that area resulted from mentoring I received from some folks who were already experienced in it when *I* was a new grad. At that time, I never doubted that they were getting paid more than me, and I never doubted that they were worth it. Now that I'm in that position myself, I doubt it even less.;-)
I'm not a big fan of sigs, but I've been toying with creating one along the lines of "If you think this is a troll or flamebait, you probably didn't get the joke."
I've long held a theory that polygraphs are near-useless as scientific lie-detection devices, but are used primarily as a sort of psychological "truth serum". In other words, the fact that someone is connected to something that they *think* can detect a lie encourages them to tell the truth. That's just my personal theory though - I have no science to back that up.
Vim
7-zip
Python
Visual Studio
BeyondCompare
Sysinternals
Firefox, Chrome, and Opera
grep (I use a really ancient one from Borland C - I've tried GNU's version but simply don't like it)
git, Tortoise Git, and msysgit
OpenOffice or LibreOffice
Adobe Acrobat and Flash (sadly)
and last but not least (drum roll, please)...
Classic Shell
Note that my list contains a few key things that only run on Windows, notably Visual Studio and the ancient Borland grep. I keep hoping that the "GNU/Linux System" will catch up in both regards, but I'm not holding my breath.;-)
I've got a 2012 Ford with Sync, and it's actually fine. Just don't expect its voice recognition to play the actual music track you've asked for. Fortunately, the juxtaposition between what you asked for and what it gives you can be more entertaining than hearing the track you requested. It's a feature.
I don't know if the voice recognition in Apple's system would work any better, but that seems to be the hard part of the problem. Maybe Apple will solve that by phoning home to the mother ship to decode what you say. Then think of all the fun you'll be missing, gentlemen - you won't have voice recognition to kick around anymore.
Slashdot Mirror
I desperately hope they keep their humans at the massage parlor.
That would indeed be a happy ending.
Vicurex is tiny. They only did US$30,822 of business [bitcoincharts.com] in the past 30 days. The corner pawnbroker is probably a bigger business. The corner gas station definitely is.
You forgot the corner hooker. Unless she's really ugly.
I am imagining how they produced the images of faces of people where were actually in pain.
They turned the dial on the Milgram Experiment up to 11. Or so it seems...
This is precisely the reason I learned Vim: it's installed on every Linux system and it works well over SSH. It's great for the small amount of remote administration I do on my shared web hosting account.
There's a reason people argue about vim and emacs...
Vim: Oh look, this isn't an argument.
Emacs: Yes it is.
Vim: No it isn't. It's just contradiction.
Emacs: No it isn't.
Vim: An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition.
Emacs: No it isn't. Not if it's written in Lisp.
Sorry, but I'm the kind of person who just buys a screwdriver when faced with a screw. (Thus, I use Windows instead of Linux. ;-) So, I guess you'll have to ask Facebook.
Darn, I thought it was as an episode of "Arrested Development" I hadn't seen yet. Maebe not.
Beta might not be Slashdot's biggest problem
Can we include indirect effects when measuring a problem's size? ;-)
Can someone please convert the summary in english, with basic explanations?
The basic idea is that they've hacked PHP into something called "Hack" by turning it into something PHP was never intended to be. Yet Hack is still backwards-compatible with PHP. Presumably, this is to avoid the need to convert Facebook's large base of sluggish PHP code into some other language which was designed from the start for run-time efficiency. Instead, they can make incremental efficiency changes to their code base to make it run as if it had been written in a more efficient language in the first place. Much saving of expensive hardware and power will ensue.
If all you've ever used is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. But if you eventually find yourself faced with a screw and you're really smart, you can just hack your hammer into a screwdriver rather than hammering in the screw like those not-so-smart folks who find themselves using the wrong tool do.
These things seem to matter to somebody. See http://linux.slashdot.org/stor.... Also, calling it something like "Millennium Edition" probably would be a bad idea. ;-)
When you do that, you have to ask yourself if you deliver quantity and/or quality two to three times greater than those younger programmers.
I've sometimes asked myself that, but I don't think that's really the right question. Sometimes it isn't about quantity and/or quality. It's about the ability to get the job done at all. Sometimes experience can make it possible to solve a problem that can't be solved without it. An instinct for the right and wrong ways to approach a problem, gained from experience, can be key. For example, I once was given a problem that a very bright new grad had worked on for months and had utterly failed at. But based on knowledge and understanding about that particular sort of problem that had been gained from experience, I was able to solve it, from scratch, in much less time than he had already spent on it. The new grad didn't lack ability or academic knowledge, he simply lacked experience.
Much of my experience in that area resulted from mentoring I received from some folks who were already experienced in it when *I* was a new grad. At that time, I never doubted that they were getting paid more than me, and I never doubted that they were worth it. Now that I'm in that position myself, I doubt it even less. ;-)
Remember, Charlie Chaplin once lost at a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest.
So did Harpo Marx.
(He didn't look a thing like Charlie Chaplin.)
I'm not a big fan of sigs, but I've been toying with creating one along the lines of "If you think this is a troll or flamebait, you probably didn't get the joke."
Yup. In fact, the lack of any new features in 2.7 is a primary feature that the 3.x line sadly will lack for the foreseeable future. ;-)
"This is your brain. This is your brain on electrodes. Any questions?"
Corollary: "Hey, this stuff I just picked off my foot is actually kindda tasty!"
You forgot doctors, cops, detectives, private detectives, and lawyers. Isn't it about time to make a TV drama about engineers?
I've long held a theory that polygraphs are near-useless as scientific lie-detection devices, but are used primarily as a sort of psychological "truth serum". In other words, the fact that someone is connected to something that they *think* can detect a lie encourages them to tell the truth. That's just my personal theory though - I have no science to back that up.
Glad somebody here is old enough to get my joke.
Is he - or is he not - related to Steve Martin?
Or, you get it for get it for FREE with a two-year contract.
Trash "research" like this is one of the big reasons I had to leave academia...And I'm not referring to abstruse areas of investigation
And I bet they even use abstruse words like "abstruse".
Good list. It overlaps many of mine:
Vim
7-zip
Python
Visual Studio
BeyondCompare
Sysinternals
Firefox, Chrome, and Opera
grep (I use a really ancient one from Borland C - I've tried GNU's version but simply don't like it)
git, Tortoise Git, and msysgit
OpenOffice or LibreOffice
Adobe Acrobat and Flash (sadly)
and last but not least (drum roll, please)...
Classic Shell
Note that my list contains a few key things that only run on Windows, notably Visual Studio and the ancient Borland grep. I keep hoping that the "GNU/Linux System" will catch up in both regards, but I'm not holding my breath. ;-)
I don't know if the voice recognition in Apple's system would work any better, but that seems to be the hard part of the problem. Maybe Apple will solve that by phoning home to the mother ship to decode what you say. Then think of all the fun you'll be missing, gentlemen - you won't have voice recognition to kick around anymore.
Water levels are being lowered to both reduce water pressure and give the inspectors access to the area.
"This just shows how the government wastes your money. They've even got dam inspectors. We don't need no dam inspectors."