Uh, so you deal with strings via interfaces? That's cute. Can you share your definition of IString?
Why would I care about string implementation in a completely different process?
This is even less relevant if you are writing in C or C++ because strings are already handled in the language and library in a very generic way, and with clean, compatible interface between C-style (a.k.a. the only style system cares about) and C++ strings.
I'm curious why you think so. Arguably, inter-app integration on Windows is far more widespread than on any other OS/platform, with perhaps KDE coming close (and they use essentially the same techniques).
I am not talking about "integration". "Integration" is taking a bunch of applications, squishing them together, making a huge super-application out of them, then optionally selling subsets of it and expecting others to slap their second-class-citizen applications on top by providing a special second-class-citizen interface. I am talking about consistent interfaces that allow communication between applications that may be completely unrelated to each other in origin, implementation and development model.
COM actually enforced the "interface only" approach that you seem to be a proponent of, and it did not go away -.NET can both create and use COM components.
An interface is not a good interface until two unrelated implementations of it made by two unrelated developers, can talk to each other (and even then it may be still terrible). An architecture is not a good architecture until any component can be reimplemented and replaced (what software hipsters call "refactoring" and everyone else does not call anything because they do it all the time as a part of normal development process).
That's what clean interfaces are for. You should not have to use the same implementation of some internals just because your applications communicate with each other.
Not coincidentally, Microsoft is TERRIBLE at interfaces between applications, as the entire OLE/DDE to COM to ActiveX to.NET saga demonstrates.
And yet you can write applications with Qt GUI nothing but a text editor, and it will be a better application than anything ever touched by Visual Studio or Eclipse. And it would take less time for a competent developer to write.
Maybe C++ is just a better language, and Qt is just a better library.
If you did not notice, all proprietary C and C++ compilers except Microsoft's one are dead or went out of use already, yet C and C++ are still more popular than all other languages combined.
CMS is an application that serves one purpose..NET (and what Java became) is an unholy amalgamation of execution environment, libraries, a bunch of languages and a development environment frontend, that is supposed to be used for absolutely everything.
And this is why most janitors do half-assed job. If programmers did their jobs like janitors do, NOTHING computer-related would ever work, and people would stick to paper and ink. If engineers did the same, we would walk on mud streets between straw-topped huts.
It would also interesting to see a janitors' equivalent of, say, Linux.
Nothing but trace amounts reached anywhere beyond the area I have described.
It's also cute that the article does not mention units the "Geiger counter" used, or how it differs from measurements taken elsewhere. In 1990-1993 I was involved in monitoring food contamination in the area, and the only way to measure anything meaningful was to prepare samples, place them into a box made of lead bricks, and measure it with a gamma spectrometer. Geiger counter would show more radiation coming from the nearest air duct or a piece of granite outside of the lab than from those samples.
Religion, being a politically privileged form of superstition (and often fraud), has nothing to do with morality. Government may or may not be given a task on encouraging moral and discouraging immoral behavior depending on how much the society finds it important or necessary. The idea of amoral government is an quirk (or, usually, delusion) that is popular in some places and unpopular in others, and there would be much less conflicts in the world if neither of those side tried to make their traditions universally accepted.
In most of the world people expect some degree of uniformity in public behavior and expectations. Americans do it, too, they just usually believe that their (often outright disgusting, and not in a sexual way) behavior is universally acceptable.
Right, those were isotopes "everybody was worrying about" in Europe.
You forgot to mention that except for immediate vicinity those isotopes produced no effect on health as long as people did not grow food on contaminated soil -- and even that affected about a hundred miles radius. So unless by "Europe" you mean Khoiniki, Bragin, Narovlya and Vetka, it was mostly bullshit.
(I lived in Gomel at the time -- about 80 miles from the power plant, and was completely unaffected by it).
But since they're ditching Android and turning into ARM based phones, it only means they're going to get Windows Phone 7. A good choice, as the developer tools are rock solid.
Hi, Steve Elop!
(Android runs on ARM, just like all other phone operating systems).
Actually, some of security measures were designed to prevent just that (or stealing the documentation that was shared with ICBM development, or obtaining the maps of the launch site -- remember, it was the first satellite, so no one had satellite photos yet).
Sputnik itself was just a simple sealed, battery-powered radio beacon. The hard part was to launch it in orbit.
This thing is much more complex than Sputnik, but it had to be launched on someone else's rocket, so it does not reproduce the part that is actually impressive. The success in building something that can be launched into an orbit and do something useful there (even if it is just relaying radio signals) is valuable, however this is not anywhere close to the amount of engineering that goes into a satellite launch -- in Sputnik time or now.
I hope, glorious American (and French, and Saudi) patriots realize that those "not an invasion" attacks most likely already killed more people in Libya than Gaddafi ever could. But that's OK, those dead people are "wrong", and should be replaced by American puppets, religious nuts or a combination of the above. Surely, Libyans don't deserve living under "dictator" who is merely weird, they must be punished for their brown skins by a life under colonial powers and Muslim fundamentalists just like equally deserving population of Iran was. Right?
This is completely disgusting, and I have no words to describe it that would work on people who still can't remove their military from Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Uh, so you deal with strings via interfaces? That's cute. Can you share your definition of IString?
Why would I care about string implementation in a completely different process?
This is even less relevant if you are writing in C or C++ because strings are already handled in the language and library in a very generic way, and with clean, compatible interface between C-style (a.k.a. the only style system cares about) and C++ strings.
I'm curious why you think so. Arguably, inter-app integration on Windows is far more widespread than on any other OS/platform, with perhaps KDE coming close (and they use essentially the same techniques).
I am not talking about "integration". "Integration" is taking a bunch of applications, squishing them together, making a huge super-application out of them, then optionally selling subsets of it and expecting others to slap their second-class-citizen applications on top by providing a special second-class-citizen interface. I am talking about consistent interfaces that allow communication between applications that may be completely unrelated to each other in origin, implementation and development model.
COM actually enforced the "interface only" approach that you seem to be a proponent of, and it did not go away - .NET can both create and use COM components.
An interface is not a good interface until two unrelated implementations of it made by two unrelated developers, can talk to each other (and even then it may be still terrible). An architecture is not a good architecture until any component can be reimplemented and replaced (what software hipsters call "refactoring" and everyone else does not call anything because they do it all the time as a part of normal development process).
That's what clean interfaces are for. You should not have to use the same implementation of some internals just because your applications communicate with each other.
Not coincidentally, Microsoft is TERRIBLE at interfaces between applications, as the entire OLE/DDE to COM to ActiveX to .NET saga demonstrates.
I see, you don't realize which meaning of "tool" is relevant to my comment.
Just mention a Microsoft-only "technology", and hordes of dumb people (such as yourself) will jump out of nowhere to praise it.
And yet you can write applications with Qt GUI nothing but a text editor, and it will be a better application than anything ever touched by Visual Studio or Eclipse. And it would take less time for a competent developer to write.
Maybe C++ is just a better language, and Qt is just a better library.
That's why open source exists.
If you did not notice, all proprietary C and C++ compilers except Microsoft's one are dead or went out of use already, yet C and C++ are still more popular than all other languages combined.
then Google might avoid going down the morality drain as Microsoft did.
/b/^H^H^HMicrosoft never was good.
CMS is an application that serves one purpose. .NET (and what Java became) is an unholy amalgamation of execution environment, libraries, a bunch of languages and a development environment frontend, that is supposed to be used for absolutely everything.
And this is why most janitors do half-assed job. If programmers did their jobs like janitors do, NOTHING computer-related would ever work, and people would stick to paper and ink. If engineers did the same, we would walk on mud streets between straw-topped huts.
It would also interesting to see a janitors' equivalent of, say, Linux.
Congratulations! You have learned the tool-based software development style!
(the tool is you)
Nothing but trace amounts reached anywhere beyond the area I have described.
It's also cute that the article does not mention units the "Geiger counter" used, or how it differs from measurements taken elsewhere. In 1990-1993 I was involved in monitoring food contamination in the area, and the only way to measure anything meaningful was to prepare samples, place them into a box made of lead bricks, and measure it with a gamma spectrometer. Geiger counter would show more radiation coming from the nearest air duct or a piece of granite outside of the lab than from those samples.
Religion, being a politically privileged form of superstition (and often fraud), has nothing to do with morality. Government may or may not be given a task on encouraging moral and discouraging immoral behavior depending on how much the society finds it important or necessary. The idea of amoral government is an quirk (or, usually, delusion) that is popular in some places and unpopular in others, and there would be much less conflicts in the world if neither of those side tried to make their traditions universally accepted.
Why not?
In most of the world people expect some degree of uniformity in public behavior and expectations. Americans do it, too, they just usually believe that their (often outright disgusting, and not in a sexual way) behavior is universally acceptable.
Right, those were isotopes "everybody was worrying about" in Europe.
You forgot to mention that except for immediate vicinity those isotopes produced no effect on health as long as people did not grow food on contaminated soil -- and even that affected about a hundred miles radius. So unless by "Europe" you mean Khoiniki, Bragin, Narovlya and Vetka, it was mostly bullshit.
(I lived in Gomel at the time -- about 80 miles from the power plant, and was completely unaffected by it).
But since they're ditching Android and turning into ARM based phones, it only means they're going to get Windows Phone 7. A good choice, as the developer tools are rock solid.
Hi, Steve Elop!
(Android runs on ARM, just like all other phone operating systems).
Actually, some of security measures were designed to prevent just that (or stealing the documentation that was shared with ICBM development, or obtaining the maps of the launch site -- remember, it was the first satellite, so no one had satellite photos yet).
Sputnik itself was just a simple sealed, battery-powered radio beacon. The hard part was to launch it in orbit.
This thing is much more complex than Sputnik, but it had to be launched on someone else's rocket, so it does not reproduce the part that is actually impressive. The success in building something that can be launched into an orbit and do something useful there (even if it is just relaying radio signals) is valuable, however this is not anywhere close to the amount of engineering that goes into a satellite launch -- in Sputnik time or now.
As I said, another baseless FUD campaign.
There were no patents mentioned in any of this, dumbass!
"Patents" was another (separate and just as baseless) FUD campaign.
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(Hint: what range of wavelengths and photon energy are we talking about?)
Now die in a fire, Microsoft scum!
Let's make a web site that completely and entirely depends on some interface provided by large perpetually hungry company!
And compete with that company!
Gamma rays being EM waves, might be deflected by electro magnetics...
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I think, you overestimate intelligence of your politicians. If it worked any other way, American crooks wouldn't run finances in the first place.
I hope, glorious American (and French, and Saudi) patriots realize that those "not an invasion" attacks most likely already killed more people in Libya than Gaddafi ever could. But that's OK, those dead people are "wrong", and should be replaced by American puppets, religious nuts or a combination of the above. Surely, Libyans don't deserve living under "dictator" who is merely weird, they must be punished for their brown skins by a life under colonial powers and Muslim fundamentalists just like equally deserving population of Iran was. Right?
This is completely disgusting, and I have no words to describe it that would work on people who still can't remove their military from Iraq and Afghanistan.
25 years ago I lived 80 miles from Chernobyl -- no superpowers so far.