The world needs Java programmers, sure, but it also needs people that understand computer science and can go on to advance the subject for the rest of us and future generations.
The best part is, I've let my Windoze skills atrophy to the point where I'm pretty useless when it comes to registry hacking and the like.
Using only Linux and Mac OS X for 5-6 years will do that to you. It's a blessed relief. I feel a strange, sublime disconnect from the whole world of adware, spyware, macro viri, popups, banner ads, etc...
So no 'mortal' I know bugs me unless they've got a Mac, in which case they rarely need any help anyway.
Morse is more efficient than ASCII or any other standard char-based encoding... Morse uses between 1 and 4 bits for letters, 4 bits for numbers and 6 bits for punctuation.. Not only that, but it's optimized for common text (in order to save operators' fingers, talk about 19th century compression!) in that the shortest sequences go to the most common letters. For example, 'E' is a single bit (dot), 'A' is two bits (dot dash), etc...
An interesting project IMHO would be to try and build, say, a gutenberg text as a binary file encoded in Morse, to see what kind of compressability that would offer.. Hmm........
mpeg4/AAC last time I looked was rather unpleasant in Linux, the faad stuff was still beta and hard to get working with mencoder. I had tried to transcode video into a 3gpp-ish format for my P800 phone (Mr. Show episodes to watch on the ferry) and it was really horribly painful. This was about 9-12 months ago.
Quicktime on OS X on the other hand was just simply wonderful, and well worth the $30 in this regard. Though its 3gpp presets were a little stupid (meant for lesser cellphone screens), it could be customized to emit video that was perfectly sized for the P800's playback region.
Streaming via darwin streaming server is actually fine on linux though, very easy to setup and operate, much much MUCH better than any real server junk out there. Authentication alone is several orders of magnitude less fucked up than realserver (but that's largely because real's authentication is several orders of magnitude more fucked up than it has any right to be)...
If you want to kill your management career quickly all you need to do is tell your managers that everything is fine when it isn't. A manager would rather know early what the problems are. If you're handling it, say so, but don't pretend issues don't exist. You need your superiors on your side because the real problem might not even be on your level to resolve.
This advice only applies to rational companies. There are many companies that are fucked, and where taking this advice would be a serious CLM.
Ebert said something to the effect that he'd never seen New York without trash covering the street. It was Vancouver, of course.
Someone else (who I plagiarized, probably Wil Wheaton;) wondered in a review whether there were mountains in the Bronx.. Being that in several scenes in "Rumble in the Bronx" you could clearly make out Grouse Mountain.
Then again, Sam Raimi shot Spiderman 2 in NYC and there was a remarkably improbable stretch of elevated R train in Manhattan..
I'm a bit tired getting screwed and seeing Americans eat all those free lunches.
Mmmm.. Delicious...
Then again, the debt incurred by massive European social programs and aging (and shrinking) populations unable to satisfy that debt will devalue the Euro soon enough.. Be patient..
This is cool, but I doubt IBM is thinking they're giving away the store here...
Granted, those 2000+ patents aren't all (or even necessarily predominantly) for software, but given the # of years they've been researching at that level their portfolio must be ree-diculously large at this point..
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PHP is the only generally the best programming language. It's just that simple.
Ohh, the comedy!
*knee slap!!!*
BTW, how's that function overloading coming along? Still byzantine stupid and unpleasant?
If you're using it to replace C to develop complex application, you're proving Mr. Kay's point.
Define complex.
Control software for the Space Shuttle? Perl, not so much.
Anything handled in a web browser? Indubitably.
How many Space Shuttle control software implementations do we need vs the demand for web-based apps?
Without perl, my work would in Ruby or Python, and far far easier.
... At least in Python.
Yeah, but cutting and pasting between xterms would _SUCK_...
And yeah, as long as people whinge about Perl's flexibility, I will counterwhinge with an equally obnoxious and stupid Python indentation wisecrack.
The world needs Java programmers, sure, but it also needs people that understand computer science and can go on to advance the subject for the rest of us and future generations.
Guess who the real world needs more of?
Perl bindings to native toolkits (QT, GTK) work pretty well once you learn them. Perl5 is as OO as a programmer forces herself to be (or not to be).
Perl isn't a hammer, it's an atomic swiss-army knife that has very very sharp blades for the unwary to gore themselves on.
Methinks I sense another cranky curmudgeon?
Hey, fixing computer problems for _my_ family is definitely worth two hours on the couch ;)
The best part is, I've let my Windoze skills atrophy to the point where I'm pretty useless when it comes to registry hacking and the like.
Using only Linux and Mac OS X for 5-6 years will do that to you. It's a blessed relief. I feel a strange, sublime disconnect from the whole world of adware, spyware, macro viri, popups, banner ads, etc...
So no 'mortal' I know bugs me unless they've got a Mac, in which case they rarely need any help anyway.
If you don't have a retainer or any kind of lenghty relationship with the client, I would recommend at least $75/hr.
You could probably go for less, but I would only do so if they pay in cash on the spot. Mmm... Untrackable, untaxable cash......
How many writes is the flash in iPod shuffle certified for?
Interesting hack, but running a DB-driven website off 'em is not the wisest idea..
OTOH, I've worked at jobs with stupider infrastructures...
Same thing you coulda asked Xerox a quarter century ago...
oops, 5 bits for numbers, typo :p
Morse is more efficient than ASCII or any other standard char-based encoding... Morse uses between 1 and 4 bits for letters, 4 bits for numbers and 6 bits for punctuation.. Not only that, but it's optimized for common text (in order to save operators' fingers, talk about 19th century compression!) in that the shortest sequences go to the most common letters. For example, 'E' is a single bit (dot), 'A' is two bits (dot dash), etc...
An interesting project IMHO would be to try and build, say, a gutenberg text as a binary file encoded in Morse, to see what kind of compressability that would offer.. Hmm........
... blink the uc(SSID) in Morse code..
... Is that the smart co will see this and say 'how do we make our own dogfood better than this?', then go out and do it.
The dumb co will see this and put out a memo telling folks it's a CLM.
Gosh, I wonder which way this will go?
(And yes, I know M$ doesn't build the player hardware, but they _could_.. I mean, they build good HW (xbox, kynds, mice, joysticks)...)
mpeg4/AAC last time I looked was rather unpleasant in Linux, the faad stuff was still beta and hard to get working with mencoder. I had tried to transcode video into a 3gpp-ish format for my P800 phone (Mr. Show episodes to watch on the ferry) and it was really horribly painful. This was about 9-12 months ago.
Quicktime on OS X on the other hand was just simply wonderful, and well worth the $30 in this regard. Though its 3gpp presets were a little stupid (meant for lesser cellphone screens), it could be customized to emit video that was perfectly sized for the P800's playback region.
Streaming via darwin streaming server is actually fine on linux though, very easy to setup and operate, much much MUCH better than any real server junk out there. Authentication alone is several orders of magnitude less fucked up than realserver (but that's largely because real's authentication is several orders of magnitude more fucked up than it has any right to be)...
If you want to kill your management career quickly all you need to do is tell your managers that everything is fine when it isn't. A manager would rather know early what the problems are. If you're handling it, say so, but don't pretend issues don't exist. You need your superiors on your side because the real problem might not even be on your level to resolve.
This advice only applies to rational companies. There are many companies that are fucked, and where taking this advice would be a serious CLM.
Fair nuff, though I think it'd be better to vectorize the whole interface and scale stuff to fit.
Equip the players with Bluetooth and or Infrared so that I can easily copy songs from my mate if I want to.
Sounds like the new Mot phones to me.. And older mp3/stereo capable bleutoothe fonez like my p800...
Anyone else notice that only about 5% of the webpage is the actual article while the rest of it is cluttered in ads and other crap.
Nope, just a bunch of crosshatch white and grey boxes.
Then again, I use Privoxy.
Ebert said something to the effect that he'd never seen New York without trash covering the street. It was Vancouver, of course.
;) wondered in a review whether there were mountains in the Bronx.. Being that in several scenes in "Rumble in the Bronx" you could clearly make out Grouse Mountain.
Someone else (who I plagiarized, probably Wil Wheaton
Then again, Sam Raimi shot Spiderman 2 in NYC and there was a remarkably improbable stretch of elevated R train in Manhattan..
I'm a bit tired getting screwed and seeing Americans eat all those free lunches.
Mmmm.. Delicious...
Then again, the debt incurred by massive European social programs and aging (and shrinking) populations unable to satisfy that debt will devalue the Euro soon enough.. Be patient..
... Why bother paying another $129?
;)
Also, is minimac fanless? Jes' curious..
(Looks like my cube may get on ebay after all
This is cool, but I doubt IBM is thinking they're giving away the store here...
Granted, those 2000+ patents aren't all (or even necessarily predominantly) for software, but given the # of years they've been researching at that level their portfolio must be ree-diculously large at this point..
the cold war wasn't that long ago, there's likely residual prejudice towards the color red (in association)
I'm sure that would come as a surprise to "red states"...