Some parts of Python's syntax are really nice, e.g. list comprehension:
>>> [x**2 for x in range(10) if x % 2 == 1]
[1, 9, 25, 49, 81]
It's completely different than all the Enumerable methods in Ruby, but it's very powerful and quite easy to read after a while.
(0..10).select{|i| i % 2 == 1}.map{|i| i**2}
I dunno - to me that looks almost identical - mostly just a little juxtaposed. Is it just me?
I've spent about the past decade doing Rails, am currently stuck in javascript, and may return to Rails or move to Python (which I did casually around the turn of the century).
> the tax paying public that bears the burden - at least until a technology/solution is financially viable.
I think you mean the CITIZENRY. Paying taxes has no bearing on your ability to participate in governance. NEVER EVER refer to the citizenry as taxpayers, it shows that you only think of them as purses.
I'm not sure what you're getting at, but I meant what I said. No matter who is or is not participating in governance, it is the tax paying public that bears the burden of funding things that government decides to support/enable. Doesn't matter if you vote, can vote, voted for/against, agree with, or even if you're a citizen. If you're paying taxes - or even if you're just contributing to the GDP, you're bearing the burden.
There are countries that will continue to fund those efforts and there are countries that won't.
Most of these efforts are being funded by profit-seeking capitalists, not "countries".
Build a better battery, and the world will beat a path to your door.
And those capitalists have pursued markets that reward their efforts through various incentives. Be they research funding, tax credits to companies, tax credits to consumers or whatever. And 20 years later (as of a few years ago) that funding and effort has started to really pay off in a big way. Which doesn't mean we're done.
You can say the same kind of thing about space. We now have multiple private carriers going to space. But it didn't get to be that way without billions of dollars in federal funding/research, etc.
There are countries that will continue to fund those efforts and there are countries that won't. While it's nice to say that nerds do the work, it is politicians that can help fund it, and it is the tax paying public that bears the burden - at least until a technology/solution is financially viable.
And that should be the goal - to bootstrap an industry that will stand on its own and contribute to the GDP and tax base. But government funding of that technology can play a major role in where and how fast it happens.
Meh. I don't think I own anything with a softbank label on it. And I don't remember seeing anything advertised by them. It looks like their largest California office is about 400 people. And it looks like a lot of their website content is in Japanese only. I don't see a lot of open source software from them.
They're just not a company that I'd be all that likely to take notice of. Clearly they're huge, but there are plenty of big companies that don't catch my interest.
SoftBank Group Corp. (? Sofutobanku Gurpu Kabushiki-gaisha)[4] is a Japanese multinational telecommunications and Internet corporation established on September 3, 1981, and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It has operations in broadband, fixed-line telecommunications, e-commerce, Internet, technology services, finance, media and marketing, semiconductor design, and other businesses.[5] The company is headed by founder Masayoshi Son.... SoftBank bought COMDEX from The Interface Group in 1995... On January 28, 2008, it was announced that SoftBank and Tiffany & Co. collaborated in making a limited 10 model-only cellphone... On October 15, 2012, SoftBank announced plans to take control of American Sprint Nextel by purchasing a 70% stake for $20 billion... In 2014, SoftBank co-designed Pepper, a humanoid robot, with Aldebaran Robotics....
How does this affect anyone? Linux has 2% market share. That tiny percentage is dominated by Ubuntu and Red Hat. Why does anyone care about this distribution? Nobody will use it. It is inconsequential and isn't news at all.
While I agree with your general sentiment, I think your counting is off. I think there are a few non-desktop systems that run linux, so that 2% number may be a little low.
That's about it. Whereas there are lots of choices of window manager, user toolsets (editors, mail clients, etc) on linux/X11, I don't want choice. I want one thing that works well.
The more unix windows becomes, the more likely I'll be willing to switch - but it's still a very long way off. And in general I like the productivity apps on OSX better. It's rare for me to use my windows (game) machine without cursing how drivers work, the updates, etc.
I love tmobile. If my data is getting used up they tell me (text). If I run out of data, they tell me. They don't charge me more, and they don't shut it off - they just slow things down.
After having been gouged by AT&T and Verizon (some years ago), I have no interest in going back.
Having read the text that goes with the reviews, I tend to believe they watched it and actually had the opinions expressed. And from what they say, I probably wouldn't like it, either.
I figure that's at least one better than spammed not-reviews.
Having learned some BASIC on II's and II+'s at school in Jr. High, the family bought a IIe for home before high school. I forget if we had one floppy drive or two. 128K RAM. Black and white monitor - but it could be hooked up to the TV for color.
I'd hack Ultima III save files to give my character better gear/stats - and the mapfiles to change the map contents.
The programming experiment I remember best was doing mandelbrot on the printer. I ran it over night and got about one really poor line of output before giving up on it.
Dockerfile --- # base system is Ubuntu 16.04 FROM ubuntu:16.04
# use/my/app to build WORKDIR/my/app
# copy this directory (and all subs) COPY . .
# Build my project (inside the container) RUN./configure RUN make RUN...
# Run my app on container start CMD "./bin/my_app" ---
docker built -t my_app_container . docker run my_app_container
What you will end up with is a container that has ubuntu 16.04 running your built application. And it will ONLY be running your application. Nothing else. If you docker exec -it {running_container} bash you will get a bash shell in your running container. It will be running two processes - your app and the bash shell.
So, yeah, it's kinda locked to the OS you specify - but you can change it up (https://www.brianchristner.io/docker-image-base-os-size-comparison/).
At some point I'm curious how containers aren't just basically a method of obtaining what amounts to a statically linked binary with FS jails and networking baked into the container host.
I can run a container on any OS that hosts docker.
By dockerifying my project, I can tell any developer that they need to follow 4 steps to be up and developing: 1. Install docker 2. Check out the project 3. Build the container (docker command) 4. Run the container (docker command)
And that's it. They can use whatever editor they want on their system. They can use whatever OS they want that hosts docker. And when it's time to deploy we use the same container they are using to do development. It removes all the tricky shit about getting environments right and mysteries about deployment. And it tosses developer's favorite OS question out the window. It's kind of magical.
The more I love dvd.netflix.com. The streaming service continues to be semi-lame (never seems to have what I want). And the ratings and general listing UI has done nothing but get worse for the past 10 years. But queuing up a dvd and have it arrive in a couple of days is solid. And cheap.
Slashdot Mirror
Wow. I'm first to say that?
https://www.patreon.com/
I get to fund a comic whose work I enjoy. I get to fund at the amount I want. And a comic strip writer gets to earn a living.
I think that's pretty fabulous.
Some parts of Python's syntax are really nice, e.g. list comprehension :
>>> [x**2 for x in range(10) if x % 2 == 1]
[1, 9, 25, 49, 81]
It's completely different than all the Enumerable methods in Ruby, but it's very powerful and quite easy to read after a while.
(0..10).select{|i| i % 2 == 1}.map{|i| i**2}
I dunno - to me that looks almost identical - mostly just a little juxtaposed. Is it just me?
I've spent about the past decade doing Rails, am currently stuck in javascript, and may return to Rails or move to Python (which I did casually around the turn of the century).
> the tax paying public that bears the burden - at least until a technology/solution is financially viable.
I think you mean the CITIZENRY. Paying taxes has no bearing on your ability to participate in governance. NEVER EVER refer to the citizenry as taxpayers, it shows that you only think of them as purses.
I'm not sure what you're getting at, but I meant what I said. No matter who is or is not participating in governance, it is the tax paying public that bears the burden of funding things that government decides to support/enable. Doesn't matter if you vote, can vote, voted for/against, agree with, or even if you're a citizen. If you're paying taxes - or even if you're just contributing to the GDP, you're bearing the burden.
There are countries that will continue to fund those efforts and there are countries that won't.
Most of these efforts are being funded by profit-seeking capitalists, not "countries".
Build a better battery, and the world will beat a path to your door.
And those capitalists have pursued markets that reward their efforts through various incentives. Be they research funding, tax credits to companies, tax credits to consumers or whatever. And 20 years later (as of a few years ago) that funding and effort has started to really pay off in a big way. Which doesn't mean we're done.
You can say the same kind of thing about space. We now have multiple private carriers going to space. But it didn't get to be that way without billions of dollars in federal funding/research, etc.
Nerds will save the world, not politicians.
There are countries that will continue to fund those efforts and there are countries that won't. While it's nice to say that nerds do the work, it is politicians that can help fund it, and it is the tax paying public that bears the burden - at least until a technology/solution is financially viable.
And that should be the goal - to bootstrap an industry that will stand on its own and contribute to the GDP and tax base. But government funding of that technology can play a major role in where and how fast it happens.
Meh. I don't think I own anything with a softbank label on it. And I don't remember seeing anything advertised by them. It looks like their largest California office is about 400 people. And it looks like a lot of their website content is in Japanese only. I don't see a lot of open source software from them.
They're just not a company that I'd be all that likely to take notice of. Clearly they're huge, but there are plenty of big companies that don't catch my interest.
This is /. I know who Boston Dynamics is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
SoftBank Group Corp. (? Sofutobanku Gurpu Kabushiki-gaisha)[4] is a Japanese multinational telecommunications and Internet corporation established on September 3, 1981, and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It has operations in broadband, fixed-line telecommunications, e-commerce, Internet, technology services, finance, media and marketing, semiconductor design, and other businesses.[5] The company is headed by founder Masayoshi Son. ... ... ... ... ...
SoftBank bought COMDEX from The Interface Group in 1995
On January 28, 2008, it was announced that SoftBank and Tiffany & Co. collaborated in making a limited 10 model-only cellphone
On October 15, 2012, SoftBank announced plans to take control of American Sprint Nextel by purchasing a 70% stake for $20 billion
In 2014, SoftBank co-designed Pepper, a humanoid robot, with Aldebaran Robotics.
If they have a slant it isn't really greased by the same powers here.
How does this affect anyone? Linux has 2% market share. That tiny percentage is dominated by Ubuntu and Red Hat. Why does anyone care about this distribution? Nobody will use it. It is inconsequential and isn't news at all.
While I agree with your general sentiment, I think your counting is off. I think there are a few non-desktop systems that run linux, so that 2% number may be a little low.
You couldn't buy word on the windows store? That can't be true, can it?
That's about it. Whereas there are lots of choices of window manager, user toolsets (editors, mail clients, etc) on linux/X11, I don't want choice. I want one thing that works well.
The more unix windows becomes, the more likely I'll be willing to switch - but it's still a very long way off. And in general I like the productivity apps on OSX better. It's rare for me to use my windows (game) machine without cursing how drivers work, the updates, etc.
http://theoldreader.com/
About 1990 with 4 years of CompSci under my belt. Solid stuff - lots of math, theory.
Our awesome TA asks the 20+ of us in the group "who is here because they like to program?" My hand shoots up.
I look around. I'm the only one. In a class that is only taken by CompSci students.
I dropped out shortly thereafter. I'd learned lots. I was already working a solid coding job. These were NOT my people.
There has never been a shortage of folks in computers for reasons other than the love of the art/science.
I love tmobile. If my data is getting used up they tell me (text). If I run out of data, they tell me. They don't charge me more, and they don't shut it off - they just slow things down.
After having been gouged by AT&T and Verizon (some years ago), I have no interest in going back.
Missing from the summary (and of possible intereste here), it seems that some of the funding was by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
http://www.afro.who.int/en/med...
Also basic.
Man - what's wrong with python? I haven't written in it in years, but I sure thought it was a fine language at the time...
https://theoldreader.com/ (in case you're not being facetious).
Having read the text that goes with the reviews, I tend to believe they watched it and actually had the opinions expressed. And from what they say, I probably wouldn't like it, either.
I figure that's at least one better than spammed not-reviews.
RT critics say 38%.
Why would you trust IMDB ratings for any film? Is there anyone here that finds IMDB ratings at all useful? Serious question.
I find RT scores useful for things to avoid because they're trash. And in general a high score (by critics) is a good sign.
Having learned some BASIC on II's and II+'s at school in Jr. High, the family bought a IIe for home before high school. I forget if we had one floppy drive or two. 128K RAM. Black and white monitor - but it could be hooked up to the TV for color.
I'd hack Ultima III save files to give my character better gear/stats - and the mapfiles to change the map contents.
The programming experiment I remember best was doing mandelbrot on the printer. I ran it over night and got about one really poor line of output before giving up on it.
You ought to spend a couple of hours with docker.
Dockerfile
---
# base system is Ubuntu 16.04
FROM ubuntu:16.04
# use /my/app to build /my/app
WORKDIR
# copy this directory (and all subs)
COPY . .
# Build my project (inside the container) ./configure ...
RUN
RUN make
RUN
# Run my app on container start
CMD "./bin/my_app"
---
docker built -t my_app_container .
docker run my_app_container
What you will end up with is a container that has ubuntu 16.04 running your built application. And it will ONLY be running your application. Nothing else. If you
docker exec -it {running_container} bash
you will get a bash shell in your running container. It will be running two processes - your app and the bash shell.
So, yeah, it's kinda locked to the OS you specify - but you can change it up (https://www.brianchristner.io/docker-image-base-os-size-comparison/).
At some point I'm curious how containers aren't just basically a method of obtaining what amounts to a statically linked binary with FS jails and networking baked into the container host.
I can run a container on any OS that hosts docker.
By dockerifying my project, I can tell any developer that they need to follow 4 steps to be up and developing:
1. Install docker
2. Check out the project
3. Build the container (docker command)
4. Run the container (docker command)
And that's it. They can use whatever editor they want on their system. They can use whatever OS they want that hosts docker. And when it's time to deploy we use the same container they are using to do development. It removes all the tricky shit about getting environments right and mysteries about deployment. And it tosses developer's favorite OS question out the window. It's kind of magical.
I can get that done by <any duration>.
What is this 'regulation' you speak of? (and how long is that gonna last...)
It varies by release and all that. But if something pisses me off too much I rip it and do what I want. Doesn't happen often.
The more I love dvd.netflix.com. The streaming service continues to be semi-lame (never seems to have what I want). And the ratings and general listing UI has done nothing but get worse for the past 10 years. But queuing up a dvd and have it arrive in a couple of days is solid. And cheap.