Twitter's developers care more about being cool and hip and using the latest tool so that they remain popular, than they do about having a site that stays up 7 days a week.
What made you decide those alternatives were weak? We've used Magnolia to deliver a site that got 4 hits a second on average, it certainly wasn't weak. Did you actually look at the product, or just look at the website and not find something shiny?
One look at the author being Bruce Tate, and you wonder why they didn't just link to his book at the top of the article instead of the bottom. Way to go Brucey!
"In the discussions of intelligent design, one hears a yearning for an old-fashioned creation story, in which some singular, inchoate entity stepped in to give rise to complex life-forms--humans in particular."
Actually, I just hear a bunch of idiots trying to take a fable from 2 thousand years ago and use it to explain things in place of modern science.
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1. Find an article on a development-oriented site. Possible sites include: www.ibm.com/developerworks, www.macdevcenter.com, devx.com, and persiankitty.com. 2. Pick a recent article on your chosen site. 3. Paraphrase the article in a few sentences, or if thats too difficult, just cut and paste the first few sentences of the article. 4. Post your paraphrase/cut and paste, along with a link to the article, to slashdot. 5. Bask in the glory as people attribute your ability to find an article with actually knowing what the article is talking about.
Its about time someone said this. Let me state first my opinion: 99.9% of game journalists are complete fucking fanboys. When I want to see a product review for the latest game, what do i get? Unless the game is completely, obviously broken, I get glowing reviews that are basically rehashed press releases. All the major game sites do this, from gamespy to (of course) anything IGN. Game journalists are basically the equivilent of those stupid movie review catchlines you see from no one you've ever heard of, the kind that say "Funniest movie of the year!" for Gigli, etc.
Game journalists: stop regurgitating the marketing fluff, start writing honest articles, and people might actually care about what you say. Even if it means you don't get your paycheck from the game companies any more.
We tried using slashcode for a very simple site (www.cyberlodge.org). Let me come out and say this:
SLASHCODE IS THE SHITTIEST PIECE OF SHIT I HAVE EVER WORKED WITH.
Now that I've said that... Slashcode looks like it was written by first year high school computer science students. Simply trying to change the look of the slashcode site is an exercise in futility, requiring messing with the ugly code with its interspersed look. If there are Design Patterns and Best Practices, then Slashcode would be the antithesis of them.
1. You must have your own forum to dispense the bullshit.
2. Once you have the forum setup, pick something that is really popular right now. Lets say, "eating".
3. Expand on this popular activity and project how popular it will be in the future. Use an exponential scale, and then scale that up by a few orders of magnitude. Example: "5 years from now EVERYONE will be eating! They'll be eating all the time, everywhere! Eating is changing the world!"
4. Sit back and enjoy the accolades from people who think you have some kind of future-predicing ability.
Since did a "review" constitute repeating the publisher's marketing brochure and then adding a small paragraph about what problems the game has? If I wanted to read glowing fanboy type crap, I'd go look at what IGN has to say about the game.
IGN is complete shit. Their reviews are worth less than the data that stores them. I'd rather just pay a monkey to hoot and holler and act excited - at least you know the monkey is honest. Their sites are so jam packed full of ads its not even funny. And who gives a f*** what their stupid staff is playing right now?
Don't even get me started about fileplanet. I don't want to sign up to IGN's marketing system just to get a game patch, and I don't want to pay to do it either.
I hope IGN gets bought up by someone who promptly fires off the entire staff and turns it into, well, its hard to make it worse, so just fire the staff.
Supreme court justices are neither democrats nor republicans, so your little jibe doesn't hold. Judges swing both ways depending on the issue - notice when Scalia votes with O'Conner.
I wish he'd post his real name so I could mark him an enemy.
"Depression, of course, is the failure of society to admit that with our 'up' moods must come 'down' stages. If we're never down how can we truly enjoy being upbeat and happy?"
Are you really that stupid? Depression is a known medical illness. I'm not talking about "man today sucks" depression, I'm talking about Clinical Depression. Again, slashdot readers, if you're not a doctor, perhaps you shouldn't be commenting on things you have no clue about.
As for your Brave New World reference, some would say its a complete sham. After all, you don't see anyone complaining about taking medication to defeat illness or aging - only when it comes to mental health do people start saying "suck it up"!
Hibernate can, but not for you "out of the box". Since its easily expandeable though, you can write custom hibernate types that might handle what you need to do.
I've been assigned a task that involves taking our proprietary, shitty out of date codebase and converting it into some newfangled F/OSS system! Since this involves the words F/OSS and (insert/. favorite scripting language here) I know you'll post my story. My question is, has anyone in the/. crowd done this before, preferably with a detaild step by step how-to blog showing how? Also, what brand deoderant will get the the chix at the local linux users group?
Don't forget Electric, an open source VLSI tool written in java. Sun recently interviewed the author about the challenge of rewriting it in java. Here's the article (with download).
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Stupid article - so three coders (JRuby team) quit, and Sun's losing in sales to IBM (which they were doing anyway before the merger).
Twitter's developers care more about being cool and hip and using the latest tool so that they remain popular, than they do about having a site that stays up 7 days a week.
Yes - this is the definitive guide, must read.
What made you decide those alternatives were weak? We've used Magnolia to deliver a site that got 4 hits a second on average, it certainly wasn't weak. Did you actually look at the product, or just look at the website and not find something shiny?
One look at the author being Bruce Tate, and you wonder why they didn't just link to his book at the top of the article instead of the bottom. Way to go Brucey!
I agree. I'd personally recommend Java, as most colleges and classes are using it, plus it lets learners go straight into OO and learn good practices.
"In the discussions of intelligent design, one hears a yearning for an old-fashioned creation story, in which some singular, inchoate entity stepped in to give rise to complex life-forms--humans in particular."
Actually, I just hear a bunch of idiots trying to take a fable from 2 thousand years ago and use it to explain things in place of modern science.
1. Find an article on a development-oriented site. Possible sites include: www.ibm.com/developerworks, www.macdevcenter.com, devx.com, and persiankitty.com.
2. Pick a recent article on your chosen site.
3. Paraphrase the article in a few sentences, or if thats too difficult, just cut and paste the first few sentences of the article.
4. Post your paraphrase/cut and paste, along with a link to the article, to slashdot.
5. Bask in the glory as people attribute your ability to find an article with actually knowing what the article is talking about.
Its about time someone said this. Let me state first my opinion: 99.9% of game journalists are complete fucking fanboys. When I want to see a product review for the latest game, what do i get? Unless the game is completely, obviously broken, I get glowing reviews that are basically rehashed press releases. All the major game sites do this, from gamespy to (of course) anything IGN. Game journalists are basically the equivilent of those stupid movie review catchlines you see from no one you've ever heard of, the kind that say "Funniest movie of the year!" for Gigli, etc.
Game journalists: stop regurgitating the marketing fluff, start writing honest articles, and people might actually care about what you say. Even if it means you don't get your paycheck from the game companies any more.
You would use java web start. Maybe you should consider writing something like it for this project?
We got pwn3d by the iPod.
We tried using slashcode for a very simple site (www.cyberlodge.org). Let me come out and say this:
SLASHCODE IS THE SHITTIEST PIECE OF SHIT I HAVE EVER WORKED WITH.
Now that I've said that... Slashcode looks like it was written by first year high school computer science students. Simply trying to change the look of the slashcode site is an exercise in futility, requiring messing with the ugly code with its interspersed look. If there are Design Patterns and Best Practices, then Slashcode would be the antithesis of them.
1. You must have your own forum to dispense the bullshit.
2. Once you have the forum setup, pick something that is really popular right now. Lets say, "eating".
3. Expand on this popular activity and project how popular it will be in the future. Use an exponential scale, and then scale that up by a few orders of magnitude. Example: "5 years from now EVERYONE will be eating! They'll be eating all the time, everywhere! Eating is changing the world!"
4. Sit back and enjoy the accolades from people who think you have some kind of future-predicing ability.
The javamail api can do everything you need, and you can plug bouncycastle's api along with it so you have it PGP encrypted.
Since did a "review" constitute repeating the publisher's marketing brochure and then adding a small paragraph about what problems the game has? If I wanted to read glowing fanboy type crap, I'd go look at what IGN has to say about the game.
IGN is complete shit. Their reviews are worth less than the data that stores them. I'd rather just pay a monkey to hoot and holler and act excited - at least you know the monkey is honest. Their sites are so jam packed full of ads its not even funny. And who gives a f*** what their stupid staff is playing right now?
Don't even get me started about fileplanet. I don't want to sign up to IGN's marketing system just to get a game patch, and I don't want to pay to do it either.
I hope IGN gets bought up by someone who promptly fires off the entire staff and turns it into, well, its hard to make it worse, so just fire the staff.
Supreme court justices are neither democrats nor republicans, so your little jibe doesn't hold. Judges swing both ways depending on the issue - notice when Scalia votes with O'Conner.
Is the topic of i18n too new to garner any usable info?
Uh, its been around for a decade at least. Maybe a google search would help you.
Graduate!
Ya, radical idea I know.
I wish he'd post his real name so I could mark him an enemy.
"Depression, of course, is the failure of society to admit that with our 'up' moods must come 'down' stages. If we're never down how can we truly enjoy being upbeat and happy?"
Are you really that stupid? Depression is a known medical illness. I'm not talking about "man today sucks" depression, I'm talking about Clinical Depression. Again, slashdot readers, if you're not a doctor, perhaps you shouldn't be commenting on things you have no clue about.
As for your Brave New World reference, some would say its a complete sham. After all, you don't see anyone complaining about taking medication to defeat illness or aging - only when it comes to mental health do people start saying "suck it up"!
They're going to use Apple's Spotlight?
Hibernate can, but not for you "out of the box". Since its easily expandeable though, you can write custom hibernate types that might handle what you need to do.
Hi Slashdot!
/. favorite scripting language here) I know you'll post my story. My question is, has anyone in the /. crowd done this before, preferably with a detaild step by step how-to blog showing how? Also, what brand deoderant will get the the chix at the local linux users group?
I've been assigned a task that involves taking our proprietary, shitty out of date codebase and converting it into some newfangled F/OSS system! Since this involves the words F/OSS and (insert
Will this next one not suck?
Don't forget Electric, an open source VLSI tool written in java. Sun recently interviewed the author about the challenge of rewriting it in java. Here's the article (with download).