I see it was a comment of the submiter, but isn't it a bad-thing to slip-in product endorsement into article submissions?
I am afraid of covert ad tactics. You can never notice them, for they disguise as a personal opinion.
Most of you will probably dismiss me as a troll or flame bait, or even mod me as such, but some of you will notice the subliminal impact of a header like that.
First impression counts, and hidden presuppositions influence our choices later. It is called "nesting" if you are not familiar with propaganda.
I live next to several AOL departments, and they hired few to none of our local tech force.
AOL imported all their employees from nearby states/counties/etc.
So, their switch to Linux is not gonna help me, or none of my neighbors. They will only train their current employees to do the job. So much for the traffic jams they brought along.
You know, after getting suckered by sponsored research and publications for so many times, and made to buy into new tools and methedologies, I seem to have gotten a thick against such things.
I was going to read the report, but there is something about its table of contents that suggests an element of bias, or a flame sparking troll at best.
They make the BIG mistake of comparing two languages -again- and choosing a favorite.
Next time -please- if you want to inform the public, or just want to push an agenda, please stand on your own and don't compare your NextGreatThing(TM) to an existing GreatThing(R).
I will most definetly be there, but before I fly to Canada, can any local residents recommend some geeky places for us to visit?
Also, how is the night life there? clubs, chicks, beer?:-D
Are there gonna be any lan parties?
If debconf starts to look too formal, the fun people amongst us can get in touch through IRC/email, and arrange for our own debconf after parties and gatherings.
I will be bringing some wild lads from Virginia Tech, and Duke:-D
Did you just link to the GPL? Dude, I have a cron job the searches my harddisk for the GPL and deletes it, incase I have installed new software. Infact, the perl script invoked by cron not only does look for the name "COPYING", it also does an MD5 checksum, and knows about the finger prints of both GPL versions.
The next release will be network enabled, and we are aiming for a full blown web crawler, of google proportions, that does nothing but exploit servers and delete GPLs.
The world needs only ONE GPL, in Stallman's box, and the rest of us can symlink to it.
That is funny, but I don't think anyone feels that way about source code.
more like: "hey, good luck cleaning up the mess man, I didn't have much time to desgin it. Oh by the way, don't rearrange the order of inistantion of those two global classes, they depend on each other, what can I say, messy object model."
> Actually, that was on PRT (Public Rapid > Transit) and it was about it being developed in > the UK. This is about ULTRa, being developed in > the US.
PRT, ULTRAFAST, AUTOBIKE, VROOM-VROOM, I don't care. It is all an immigrant-less cab, at jogging speed, that will take bread off of some tables and drive cabbies jobless. wake me up when our public transportation system is fixed (Amtrak anyone?), or when there are designated roads for bicycles like Holland and China.
How much of ISO C++ is supported by the GCC compiler? Not just the intel backen, but all the other popular ones (Sparc, PPC, etc.)
The only document I saw, is the BOOST library compile logs [note, boost.org is down at the moment, try a google cache.]
I know GCC beats the pants out of VisualC++ interms of standard compliance, but how much better is it?
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Truth is, all software houses use each other for R&D.
KParts -truth must be told- is good ol ActiveX components, albeit cleaner. The ATL with its COM architecture is one of my favorite win32 tools, along side MFC. KPart is an integral part of KOffice, in the same ways COM components are part of MS Office.
No one is bashing the KDE team for going with the devil, just because they have seen the devil put its weight behind component based software and make it work. Miguel also sees the samething, and he knows that the devil would never have adopted.NET, if it didn't work.
There are very few organizations that I look up to, and W3C is definetly one of them, for its innovation, standardation, and gosh, for keeping the net still technology centric (the suits were about to steal it from US though.)
As someone who knows C++ cold (with OO CASE tools, libraries, the guts of its object system, modeling languages and notations, generic programming, framwork and toolkit design, debugging, etc.)
I am willing to give some guy a hand, and help him make a difference. But here is a catch!
I want the final version of the design spec before I even move a finger. There are way too many SF projects that serve no other purpose but to waste your time (seriously, I had this "leader" stalk me, and IM flood me!)
If the guy has a solid idea, I don't mind investing an hour a day, to co-implement his ideas.
What sucks is, when they ask YOU for ideas. I am all for democratic production, but for chrissake, say it upfront that you have no idea.
Some of these guys (kids?) are in it for more than scratching an itch. Sometimes, they just want to show off an IRC buddy, other times, they just want to get as many kudoses as "celebrity" developers.
Whatever their drive is, I would be happy to contribute to their project if: 1) they KNOW the domain of the application (yes, sometimes they want contributors to their *study* projects.)
2)They have the design spec frozen, and captured in a document.
3)They have demonstrated their seriousness, by bringing some code to the table (don't even think of ripping, or "extending" another similar project.)
4) Christ, they have a great attitude. Don't ask too many questions about my personal life, don't demand that I stick to my "code submitting" schedule --turth is, my real life comes before the deadline of their project.
5)they must admit other's contribution (this cheesy, distributed thingie has my name in the "submitted patch" category, even though I wrote half of the code, and made the stupid thing "distributed" in the first place -- yes, I broke it down into modules, and designed/implemented the inter-module messaging system.)
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"Excellent"? says who?
I see it was a comment of the submiter, but isn't
it a bad-thing to slip-in product endorsement into
article submissions?
I am afraid of covert ad tactics. You can never
notice them, for they disguise as a personal opinion.
Most of you will probably dismiss me as a troll or
flame bait, or even mod me as such, but some of you
will notice the subliminal impact of a header like
that.
First impression counts, and hidden presuppositions influence our choices later.
It is called "nesting" if you are not familiar with
propaganda.
--
I live next to several AOL departments, and they
hired few to none of our local tech force.
AOL imported all their employees from nearby states/counties/etc.
So, their switch to Linux is not gonna help me, or
none of my neighbors. They will only train their
current employees to do the job. So much for the
traffic jams they brought along.
--
You know, after getting suckered by sponsored research
and publications for so many times, and made to
buy into new tools and methedologies, I seem to
have gotten a thick against such things.
I was going to read the report, but there is something about its table of contents that
suggests an element of bias, or a flame sparking troll at best.
They make the BIG mistake of comparing two languages -again- and choosing a favorite.
Next time -please- if you want to inform the public,
or just want to push an agenda, please stand on
your own and don't compare your NextGreatThing(TM)
to an existing GreatThing(R).
(I am self moderating, no +1 for this flame.)
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I could NEVER debug C in source level debugger.
Actually, the only other tool I use when programming
on windows (other than the compiler.) is a disassembler.
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The contributors, winners, judges and just about
anyone who has anything to do with IOCCC, should
be in your "not to hire" black-list.
Unless you want your project to be implemented as
a self-printing pelindromic asciiz, that has a built in tetris.
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Do the fucking thing your boss says, as long as you
are not in power, follow orders.
But as soon as you follow the wrong orders, and
break the law, you are instantly in power.
Do your job, get paid, and fucking report them if
they ever fire you.
It is a win-win situation for you.
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Malloc is part of the C standard library. MS DOS had a malloc, and it wasn't POSIX compliant.
malloc is a function, and not a system call.
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The law part is spread through-out.
Remember when they asked if you always sign your code and how important that was to you.
There are also little nuggets burried in other questions. There is this option asking wether all software should be free or not.
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and he says his native tongue is Esperanto. Where the hell do they speak esperanto, other than liberal-arts departments and study halls?
Was this guy born in a fucking campus, right next to Chomsky's desk?
Come out you punk.
And ooh, to the FS developer with more than six kids: does your source-forge commits REALLY support all six of them? or is that another lie?
I think the same punk who was born speaking Esperanto, is the same one supporting kids with GPLed mIRC scripts.
Damn these liars.
I am off my soap box, back to remote-debugging my Ferrari fuel-injection system, that my super-model chick bought me.
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I did wonders with a white board, a marker, and Class Builder.
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I will most definetly be there, but before I fly
:-D
:-D
to Canada, can any local residents recommend some
geeky places for us to visit?
Also, how is the night life there? clubs, chicks,
beer?
Are there gonna be any lan parties?
If debconf starts to look too formal, the fun people
amongst us can get in touch through IRC/email, and
arrange for our own debconf after parties and
gatherings.
I will be bringing some wild lads from Virginia Tech, and Duke
--
Porn is one thing you don't have to search for, it
will find you.
--
So, in a way, I am inventing the world's first ;-D
immunition for a "viral" outbreak
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OMFG!
Did you just link to the GPL? Dude, I have a cron
job the searches my harddisk for the GPL and deletes it, incase I have
installed new software.
Infact, the perl script invoked by cron not only
does look for the name "COPYING", it also does an
MD5 checksum, and knows about the finger prints of
both GPL versions.
The next release will be network enabled, and we
are aiming for a full blown web crawler, of google
proportions, that does nothing but exploit servers
and delete GPLs.
The world needs only ONE GPL, in Stallman's box, and
the rest of us can symlink to it.
--
That is funny, but I don't think anyone feels that
way about source code.
more like: "hey, good luck cleaning up the mess man, I didn't have much time to desgin it. Oh by the way,
don't rearrange the order of inistantion of those
two global classes, they depend on each other, what
can I say, messy object model."
--
> Actually, that was on PRT (Public Rapid
> Transit) and it was about it being developed in
> the UK. This is about ULTRa, being developed in
> the US.
PRT, ULTRAFAST, AUTOBIKE, VROOM-VROOM, I don't
care.
It is all an immigrant-less cab, at jogging speed,
that will take bread off of some tables and drive
cabbies jobless.
wake me up when our public transportation system is
fixed (Amtrak anyone?), or when there are designated roads for bicycles like Holland and China.
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TrollAxor is funny as hell.
/. needs to hire those guys instead of
They have a news article titles "WTF is wrong with ESR's right eye", and one of the
replies says "It is GNU related I am sure"
My gosh,
corn ball katz.
(my fellow "mod down" haters, let's roll.)
--
How much of ISO C++ is supported by the GCC compiler?
Not just the intel backen, but all the other popular ones (Sparc, PPC, etc.)
The only document I saw, is the BOOST library compile logs [note, boost.org is down at the moment, try a google cache.]
I know GCC beats the pants out of VisualC++ interms
of standard compliance, but how much better is it?
--
Truth is, all software houses use each other for
.NET, if it
R&D.
KParts -truth must be told- is good ol ActiveX components, albeit cleaner.
The ATL with its COM architecture is one of my
favorite win32 tools, along side MFC. KPart is
an integral part of KOffice, in the same ways
COM components are part of MS Office.
No one is bashing the KDE team for going with the
devil, just because they have seen the devil put
its weight behind component based software and
make it work.
Miguel also sees the samething, and he knows that
the devil would never have adopted
didn't work.
There are very few organizations that I look up to,
and W3C is definetly one of them, for its innovation, standardation, and gosh, for keeping
the net still technology centric (the suits were about to steal it from US though.)
--
Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of fat free
oreo cookies, powered by Richard Simmons?
Oh, never mind.
--
Well, it has been reposted here.
--
"haters get sprayed like afrosheen" --ludacris
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another +1 cometh your way :-)
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There are plenty of people willing to help.
As someone who knows C++ cold (with OO CASE tools,
libraries, the guts of its object system, modeling
languages and notations, generic programming,
framwork and toolkit design, debugging, etc.)
I am willing to give some guy a hand, and help
him make a difference. But here is a catch!
I want the final version of the design spec before
I even move a finger. There are way too many SF
projects that serve no other purpose but to waste
your time (seriously, I had this "leader" stalk
me, and IM flood me!)
If the guy has a solid idea, I don't mind investing
an hour a day, to co-implement his ideas.
What sucks is, when they ask YOU for ideas. I am
all for democratic production, but for chrissake,
say it upfront that you have no idea.
Some of these guys (kids?) are in it for more than
scratching an itch. Sometimes, they just want to
show off an IRC buddy, other times, they just want
to get as many kudoses as "celebrity" developers.
Whatever their drive is, I would be happy to contribute
to their project if:
1) they KNOW the domain of the application (yes, sometimes they want contributors to their *study* projects.)
2)They have the design spec frozen, and
captured in a document.
3)They have demonstrated their seriousness, by bringing
some code to the table (don't even think of ripping, or "extending" another similar project.)
4) Christ, they have a great attitude. Don't ask too
many questions about my personal life, don't demand
that I stick to my "code submitting" schedule --turth is,
my real life comes before the deadline of their project.
5)they must admit other's contribution (this cheesy, distributed thingie has my name in the "submitted patch"
category, even though I wrote half of the code,
and made the stupid thing "distributed" in the first place -- yes, I broke it down into modules,
and designed/implemented the inter-module messaging system.)
oh well.
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OMFG, that is soo genial ;-D
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