Text editors need not be all things for all people, that's for emacs.
I un-fondly remember the years when it became blatantly obvious MS was tangling their products and operating systems in a bid to become irreplaceable. They quickly lost sight of the real reason these products were created and eventual chaos followed.
It is nice in a way though, it validates the principle that things that are created with the intention of serving the customer first and not the vendor will ultimately shine.
It's not so much that I want it to be hard for beginners.
It is rather because in assembler, you must truly understand all the bits. The internal (binary) representation of your data, how signed and unsigned numbers work (2's complement) and the like.
If you can make them see that, then all other languages become clearer. They then have a greater understanding of automatic memory allocation, even garbage collection.
That is how it felt to me.
After assembler, C made a lot of sense because I could see an almost direct correspondence with the instructions in C and assembler.
Later, C++ and finally Java were easier to 'get' for me because of it.
The original article seemed to be saying that abstracting away too much is producing programmers that can't think and don't understand their tools.
Start with the base, then everything else makes a lot more sense.
Under the current system of software patents, no software is free. It's just that most patent holders haven't figured out what, if anything, to do about it.
Teaching assembler is the base. After that, all digital representation can be understood as a patter on ones and zeros. Higher-level languages can then be mastered faster. Start at the base.
And if the posts were held before becoming visible, there wouldn't even have been one.
The community your are a member of seems to be near this level of completeness.
Having a few trusted reviewers who read all posts before letting them pass would be the last step.
People often complain about schemes like this that their messages need to be seen immediately so people can respond immediately but I say having two or three moderators would make the whole process pretty quickly anyway.
Remember when you used to mail things? THAT took time and the world STILL progressed.
I know it is a lot but you would need a valid e-mail to post, and administrator would need to follow up with you to OK your account, your registration e-mail would actually have to contain the actual reason of why you want to post, all posts would have to be moderated/verified before they became visible, ex...
I can hear you all protesting already: But what about anonymity, what about ease-of-use?
Yes, yes... But it IS the only way.
It's a price I'd be willing to pay to end the spam because as we have seen, most users are unable to keep their machines disinfected.
Being a programmer, your skill is programming and it is normal that you work in programming.
If you get laid off, you may work for a competitor, otherwise that would mean your ex-employer is deliberately trying to prevent you from making a living. If the only programming job you were able to find were for a competitor, you could not be expected to turn it down since you need to have a livelihood.
If you didn't get laid off but quit and the employer wants to prevent you from working for a competitor, your ex-employer must pay you the money you would earn doing so for the period of time of your non-compete agreement. In effect the ex-employer would pay you for sitting on your ass for the non-compete period.
In other words, no one may deprive you of making a living in your chosen field.
I am looking to buy an economical pickup truck. I was going to buy a Toyota, Think I'll get a Nissan instead, send a copy of the invoice and canceled check to Toyota, and tell them why.
Best of the discussion so far. Toyota may not care about what their lawyers are doing to a bunch of geeks on the Internet but organizing a Toyota boycott might.
In fact, e-mail to Toyota saying that their position has caused you to re-evaluate buying their product might be enough to have them quash their lawyers...
I meant to write squash, but that's just wishful thinking...
If you want to distribute compilations, you must not use the 'native' gcc option, it will cause the compiler instances to emit objects in the native format of the compiler invoked and your compilation hosts may not all be identical.
I will remove the ads. Felt cheap putting them there to begin with.
For the record, my G1G1 OLPC was ordered in mid-November and was received in late January.
It has a defective keyboard (which I can fix) but otherwise it is a great little machine. I am just worried about playing around in there (my big hands) since it is the only unit I have.
Not if you got infected. Although Google does promise that they use your site's Google index rating to select the ads and in the case of GentooXO, that would mean things that have to do with the OLPC, so there is almost no chance malware writers would write ads for this segment...
I use ad-blocking techniques, so every time I check the site I see no ads at all but the few times I have seen it from someone else's computer, the ads DID seem targetted to the OLPC, which is sort of neat.
I didn't click on the ads though, that is another stipulation in the Google adwords contract, you must never click on your own ads.
Anyone here ever read the contract? It is really long!
Try embedding them in a block of text, or putting them in the header, or something
Ah, but in the contract you must accept with Google, they explicitly forbid you to do anything to attract attention to the ads, which does sort of make sense...
All that and a poison apple, might as well remove the ads entirely.
So why worry? At least this way the malware companies pay someone and end up infecting no one.
Seriously have YOU ever clicked on an ad?
I've put adwords on my site www.gentooxo.org thinking it would help me pay for the site's hosting and the bandwidth I use to distribute my customized-for-olpc linux distro but you know what? According to my stats NO ONE has ever clicked on an ad! And that's after about two thousand visits to the site and maybe 200 downloads!
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I agree with part of what you said - simplicity.
Text editors need not be all things for all people, that's for emacs.
I un-fondly remember the years when it became blatantly obvious MS was tangling their products and operating systems in a bid to become irreplaceable. They quickly lost sight of the real reason these products were created and eventual chaos followed.
It is nice in a way though, it validates the principle that things that are created with the intention of serving the customer first and not the vendor will ultimately shine.
Let's hope Google keeps that lesson.
Sorry, I have definitely given up on MS and will only give a crap about them when PAID to.
Shut my mouth!
You are correct. I misread.
That is really cool!
To think I went to the trouble to download the manual only to misunderstand it....
Now I'm really excited!
I have been trying to get my copy of Star Wars Rogue Squadron running on Linux since moving to Linux!
It really only ran well on Windows 98. Not on Wine, I tried. I really hope I can get it running.
I stand corrected! Thanks!
That's funny, I downloaded the manual and it says graphics hardware acceleration is supported on Windows hosts only.
How long will drives like this last?
Surely longer than mechanical drives with platters, but has anyone actually verified it?
Also, when they fail, what is the most common reason for failing? Is it something that you could recover the data from?
Maybe it is way too early to know the answers
As if regular spam wasn't enough, now I have to worry about 'em jamming chickens into my inbox.
It still doesn't explain why the moon's constitution is so different from the Earth's.
Lots of iron on Earth, almost none on the moon.
I believe in the 'capture' theory: Luna is a wanderer that Earth snagged.
Actually, I believe the monoliths put Luna there, but that's a bit too much for the purposes of explaining its difference.
It's not so much that I want it to be hard for beginners.
It is rather because in assembler, you must truly understand all the bits. The internal (binary) representation of your data, how signed and unsigned numbers work (2's complement) and the like.
If you can make them see that, then all other languages become clearer. They then have a greater understanding of automatic memory allocation, even garbage collection.
That is how it felt to me.
After assembler, C made a lot of sense because I could see an almost direct correspondence with the instructions in C and assembler.
Later, C++ and finally Java were easier to 'get' for me because of it.
The original article seemed to be saying that abstracting away too much is producing programmers that can't think and don't understand their tools.
Start with the base, then everything else makes a lot more sense.
Um, public domain?
Teaching assembler is the base.
After that, all digital representation can be understood as a patter on ones and zeros.
Higher-level languages can then be mastered faster.
Start at the base.
And if the posts were held before becoming visible, there wouldn't even have been one.
The community your are a member of seems to be near this level of completeness.
Having a few trusted reviewers who read all posts before letting them pass would be the last step.
People often complain about schemes like this that their messages need to be seen immediately so people can respond immediately but I say having two or three moderators would make the whole process pretty quickly anyway.
Remember when you used to mail things? THAT took time and the world STILL progressed.
I know it is a lot but you would need a valid e-mail to post, and administrator would need to follow up with you to OK your account, your registration e-mail would actually have to contain the actual reason of why you want to post, all posts would have to be moderated/verified before they became visible, ex...
I can hear you all protesting already: But what about anonymity, what about ease-of-use?
Yes, yes... But it IS the only way.
It's a price I'd be willing to pay to end the spam because as we have seen, most users are unable to keep their machines disinfected.
Ah, but then you come to Slashdot and read the posts of your fellow geeks and are re-assured...
never mind...
I'd watch that.
Schroedinger?
Being a programmer, your skill is programming and it is normal that you work in programming.
If you get laid off, you may work for a competitor, otherwise that would mean your ex-employer is deliberately trying to prevent you from making a living. If the only programming job you were able to find were for a competitor, you could not be expected to turn it down since you need to have a livelihood.
If you didn't get laid off but quit and the employer wants to prevent you from working for a competitor, your ex-employer must pay you the money you would earn doing so for the period of time of your non-compete agreement. In effect the ex-employer would pay you for sitting on your ass for the non-compete period.
In other words, no one may deprive you of making a living in your chosen field.
Or in other words "Money is money"
Best of the discussion so far.
Toyota may not care about what their lawyers are doing to a bunch of geeks on the Internet but organizing a Toyota boycott might.
In fact, e-mail to Toyota saying that their position has caused you to re-evaluate buying their product might be enough to have them quash their lawyers...
I meant to write squash, but that's just wishful thinking...
If you want to distribute compilations, you must not use the 'native' gcc option, it will cause the compiler instances to emit objects in the native format of the compiler invoked and your compilation hosts may not all be identical.
Bah, it doesn't matter!
I wasn't doing it for the money anyway.
I will remove the ads. Felt cheap putting them there to begin with.
For the record, my G1G1 OLPC was ordered in mid-November and was received in late January.
It has a defective keyboard (which I can fix) but otherwise it is a great little machine. I am just worried about playing around in there (my big hands) since it is the only unit I have.
Not if you got infected.
Although Google does promise that they use your site's Google index rating to select the ads and in the case of GentooXO, that would mean things that have to do with the OLPC, so there is almost no chance malware writers would write ads for this segment...
I use ad-blocking techniques, so every time I check the site I see no ads at all but the few times I have seen it from someone else's computer, the ads DID seem targetted to the OLPC, which is sort of neat.
I didn't click on the ads though, that is another stipulation in the Google adwords contract, you must never click on your own ads.
Anyone here ever read the contract? It is really long!
Must be your target-demographic...
Obviously (in my case) only geeks and nerds would visit (YAY Geeks and Nerds!)
In your case... You didn't say what your blog is about, it would be interesting to note the difference.
Ah, but in the contract you must accept with Google, they explicitly forbid you to do anything to attract attention to the ads, which does sort of make sense...
All that and a poison apple, might as well remove the ads entirely.
Oops, link should have been: http://gentooxo.org/disclaimer.shtml
So why worry?
At least this way the malware companies pay someone and end up infecting no one.
Seriously have YOU ever clicked on an ad?
I've put adwords on my site www.gentooxo.org thinking it would help me pay for the site's hosting and the bandwidth I use to distribute my customized-for-olpc linux distro but you know what? According to my stats NO ONE has ever clicked on an ad!
And that's after about two thousand visits to the site and maybe 200 downloads!
Here is my 'required by google' policy on the ads:
http://gentooxo.org/disclaimer.shtml/
So useless are the ads that I am thinking I will simply drop them...
No idea but one things is for sure, it can auto-evolve itself spammers...