What the summary seems to be leaving out is this: Javascript will be the language they suggest n00bs who want to learn Gnome programming start with.
That's really the only change being made here. They're not re-writing apps in Javascript, they're not removing existing language support. This is purely an advisory statement for first-time Gnome programmers.
The company had zero integrity before the Dish scandal happened. Why would anyone work with them in the first place? Weren't their scammy download site and payola-based game review sites damning enough already?
Because that would destroy the "realism" of games like Call of Duty... People who play those games want to pretend they're using the ACTUAL rifles that are used by the Military.
My understanding is that with a student visa, foreign students are eligible to work for the school only. Terrible for the student, but great for the school since they have a big captive pool of TAs, graders, proctors, etc.
In fact we charge them outrageous tuitions in many cases. I went to a state university, and our department actively recruited students from India and China because they brought in the most cash.
For the same reason, there was no outreach to the community college just down the street.
I'm not sure Turbo Pascal's legacy is as influential as it should have been. Sure, plenty of modern IDEs owe a nod to TP, but what about the compiler? The thing was shockingly fast. I wish TP had been more influential in that regard.
Some interesting info about how Turbo Pascal's speed was achieved here.
Retroactive taxes aren't particularly surreal. An example of surreal taxes would be if you had to submit your check to a giant who was growing out of the floor in a building that's melting.
Like so many things, you have to learn by doing. The only way to learn how to write secure code is to learn how to hack into stuff. Otherwise, how would you even know it's working?
If we want CS students what's really involved in creating a secure system, how about a mandatory "intro to hacking" course?
Instead we should develop a simple and robust filesystem that's suitable for embedded systems and have it standardized. Right now there simply isn't an alternative to the FAT filesystems.
Normal human beings aren't allowed to have negtive opinions or critize things?
Having negative opinions and criticism is all well and good. Posting dozens of "UNITY SUX!!!!1" messages every time Ubuntu is mentioned is neither "having a negative opinion" nor is it critical; it's just dickish and pointless.
Hate Unity? Fine. But that's not what this topic is about, so save it for a time when that's relevant.
What makes you think that people who criticize Unity still run it?
If they don't run it, then why do they care enough to come on Slashdot and post about it every time Ubuntu is mentioned? Do they have some sort of psychiatric issue that prevents them from behaving like normal human beings?
There's a reason why nearly all OSes have releases that they update only sporadically as needed, it makes it much more efficient to identify bugs, security flaws and not break things unexpectedly.
Which worked fine until all the OSes decided they had to support web services and cloud storage. Now you have to update every week since Facebook (or whoever) changes their API every time you blink.
If they can put together a smart assistant that understands language well, so what if it has some limitations? AI research moves in fits and bursts. If they chip away at the problems but don't meet every goal, is that necessarily a "fail"?
I program in Vala for a living, which looks like C# but compiles down to C, which then compiles to native binaries. It's based around GObject.
Recently they added async support and it's pretty amazing. The code you have to write to use an async method is hardly beautiful, but it's MUCH less ugly than kicking off a separate thread.
That said, saying that async methods "look and behave almost exactly like sync code" is true for simple cases, but once you get any kind of complexity it's not really true. In a big enough piece of software you will end up with a lot of the same issues multithreaded apps have with order of operations, reentrancy problems, etc.
Did you actually look at the site? Almost all the content was copied and pasted straight from Wikitravel. Maybe over time it will become another option, but for now the differences are very minor.
When this story broke a couple days ago the big question was: WHY did they create this site? There's already another perfectly good travel wiki. What's the motivation for creating a second one that has the same content? Why is this news? And why do all the articles about Wikivoyage neglect to mention Wikitravel?
Is this going to be another "unlimited" service like Netflix that only has low-budget TV movies from 1982, or will this have a-la-carte options like Amazon with movies people might want to watch?
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What the summary seems to be leaving out is this: Javascript will be the language they suggest n00bs who want to learn Gnome programming start with.
That's really the only change being made here. They're not re-writing apps in Javascript, they're not removing existing language support. This is purely an advisory statement for first-time Gnome programmers.
10/10. This is how proper trolling is done.
Without Java applets, my plan to time travel back to 1997 and surf the web is completely ruined!
This is the stack trace mentioned in the article:
http://pastebin.com/UkhERvaA
Doesn't look like a c-string or printf issue to me at all.
The company had zero integrity before the Dish scandal happened. Why would anyone work with them in the first place? Weren't their scammy download site and payola-based game review sites damning enough already?
So they don't understand what "pretending" means?
My understanding is that with a student visa, foreign students are eligible to work for the school only. Terrible for the student, but great for the school since they have a big captive pool of TAs, graders, proctors, etc.
In fact we charge them outrageous tuitions in many cases. I went to a state university, and our department actively recruited students from India and China because they brought in the most cash.
For the same reason, there was no outreach to the community college just down the street.
If you get a chance could you let us know how this looks from space?
^ There, I summerized the obvious in one phrase.
Oops, guess I should have written a two page listicle so I could call myself a "mobile analyst" and get paid for stating the really fucking obvious.
I'm not sure Turbo Pascal's legacy is as influential as it should have been. Sure, plenty of modern IDEs owe a nod to TP, but what about the compiler? The thing was shockingly fast. I wish TP had been more influential in that regard.
Some interesting info about how Turbo Pascal's speed was achieved here.
Huh? "Baby Got Back" is most certainly not licensed under Creative Commons.
Retroactive taxes aren't particularly surreal. An example of surreal taxes would be if you had to submit your check to a giant who was growing out of the floor in a building that's melting.
So let's use the word correctly, please.
Like so many things, you have to learn by doing. The only way to learn how to write secure code is to learn how to hack into stuff. Otherwise, how would you even know it's working?
If we want CS students what's really involved in creating a secure system, how about a mandatory "intro to hacking" course?
Obligatory XKCD
(Seriously though, patents on file system are bullshit.)
Having negative opinions and criticism is all well and good. Posting dozens of "UNITY SUX!!!!1" messages every time Ubuntu is mentioned is neither "having a negative opinion" nor is it critical; it's just dickish and pointless.
Hate Unity? Fine. But that's not what this topic is about, so save it for a time when that's relevant.
If they don't run it, then why do they care enough to come on Slashdot and post about it every time Ubuntu is mentioned? Do they have some sort of psychiatric issue that prevents them from behaving like normal human beings?
Which worked fine until all the OSes decided they had to support web services and cloud storage. Now you have to update every week since Facebook (or whoever) changes their API every time you blink.
Yeah, but this has a kickstand. A kickstand! Aren't those all the rage with the kids these days?
If they can put together a smart assistant that understands language well, so what if it has some limitations? AI research moves in fits and bursts. If they chip away at the problems but don't meet every goal, is that necessarily a "fail"?
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I program in Vala for a living, which looks like C# but compiles down to C, which then compiles to native binaries. It's based around GObject.
Recently they added async support and it's pretty amazing. The code you have to write to use an async method is hardly beautiful, but it's MUCH less ugly than kicking off a separate thread.
That said, saying that async methods "look and behave almost exactly like sync code" is true for simple cases, but once you get any kind of complexity it's not really true. In a big enough piece of software you will end up with a lot of the same issues multithreaded apps have with order of operations, reentrancy problems, etc.
Did you actually look at the site? Almost all the content was copied and pasted straight from Wikitravel. Maybe over time it will become another option, but for now the differences are very minor.
When this story broke a couple days ago the big question was: WHY did they create this site? There's already another perfectly good travel wiki. What's the motivation for creating a second one that has the same content? Why is this news? And why do all the articles about Wikivoyage neglect to mention Wikitravel?
Is this going to be another "unlimited" service like Netflix that only has low-budget TV movies from 1982, or will this have a-la-carte options like Amazon with movies people might want to watch?
Did you miss the memo? Being all awkward and geeky is cool these days.