Calm down. Just because Dropbox is big enough to "build their own cloud" doesn't mean it's right for everyone. There are always exceptions to the rule. Google, Facebook, Dropbox etc. are different. Your startup still needs the public cloud, be it AWS, Azure, or Google. When you get big enough, do what you want.
I like the fact that Chrome is just always up to date and they are continuously releasing. I don't have to worry about what version I'm using. Shouldn't all browsers move to that model?
billg: you know how we've forced every computer user in the world to buy a copy of windows for their computer?
steveb: yes
billg: well, i've come up with a way to make them buy TWO copies of windows for each computer!
steveb: brilliant!
billg: brilliant!
Visual Basic has had this for years. It's called Stop. When running in the IDE execution breaks at the Stop command just as if you had a breakpoint defined. The command does nothing when running outside of the IDE.
I know this won't be popular, but the lowly Visual Basic has had this feature forever. Of course, this will be very useful for real (compiled) languages and has to be better than the piece of crap "Edit and Continue".
Wait a minute....Weren't they extorting Philadelphia school system for money a couple of years ago?? No wonder the school system can't afford to build new schools. Now Bill is going to play hero???
Slashdot storySalon
I really had a problem in a multi-threaded server that I had written. It seemed that if I would connect a lot of users(which caused a lot of allocations) then after they disconnected the memory usage for the app would stay constant. Subsequently, if I connected with fewer users the memory would be constant. But, if I connected with more users than the first time, then the memory would increase by the difference. Strange, huh? Not a memory leak issue because otherwise the memory usage would always grow. It just seemed that STL would not reclaim memory. I finally started migrating most of my structures away from STL and it alleviated the problem.
Here's my only beef with the STL: memory management. I've run into many situations where the STL memory manager just won't seem to release memory, especially in the string class. Now, it could have been the specific implementation that I was using, but I've seen many others with the same issue.
I didn't really mean that he/she should skip all of the undergraduate work, but rather to make the Master's degree the goal instead of just another Bachelor's. Getting a Bachelor's degree involves a lot of non-CS courses that could be skipped. Instead, focus on all of the pre-requisites for the Master's level courses like math, data structures, algorithms, etc.
If you already have a Bachelor's degree then you should just start working on a Master's. It doesn't really matter what your Bachelor's degree is in, but it may mean that you need to take a bunch of prerequisite courses.
Another piece of advice....I wouldn't try to hurry through a CS program. You don't realize how much you don't know until you start taking the classes. While still a young field, computer science has come a long way which means you get to learn from many other's discoveries and mistakes. It would be naive and arrogant to think that just because you've been programming for a long time that you can speed through the education. This is from experience. I, too, had been programming since I was 12 (I'm 29) and when I started down the path of my CS education I thought I could breeze throught it. I was wrong and I glad I was. I now have Master's in CS and even though it took me a long time I wouldn't trade it for anything.
Good luck!!!
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Calm down. Just because Dropbox is big enough to "build their own cloud" doesn't mean it's right for everyone. There are always exceptions to the rule. Google, Facebook, Dropbox etc. are different. Your startup still needs the public cloud, be it AWS, Azure, or Google. When you get big enough, do what you want.
I like the fact that Chrome is just always up to date and they are continuously releasing. I don't have to worry about what version I'm using. Shouldn't all browsers move to that model?
KD
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Kilroy is Here.
http://itunes.com/apps/kilroy
Just what we need is _both_ Microsoft and Adobe screwing up flash on the Mac. That will ensure it never sees the light of day on an iPhone.
it's like a guiness commerical.
billg: you know how we've forced every computer user in the world to buy a copy of windows for their computer?
steveb: yes
billg: well, i've come up with a way to make them buy TWO copies of windows for each computer!
steveb: brilliant!
billg: brilliant!
Visual Basic has had this for years. It's called Stop. When running in the IDE execution breaks at the Stop command just as if you had a breakpoint defined. The command does nothing when running outside of the IDE.
"Windows, Linux, it doesn't matter. I'm amphibious."
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Funny, though...He didn't mention which browser he uses. Just "my browser". Maybe he's a closet Firefox user.
Didn't they promise no reboots for Windows 2000 and then again for XP. I'll believe it when I see it.
I know this won't be popular, but the lowly Visual Basic has had this feature forever. Of course, this will be very useful for real (compiled) languages and has to be better than the piece of crap "Edit and Continue".
Anyone else think this is Bill's white whale?
Wait a minute....Weren't they extorting Philadelphia school system for money a couple of years ago?? No wonder the school system can't afford to build new schools. Now Bill is going to play hero??? Slashdot story Salon
I really had a problem in a multi-threaded server that I had written. It seemed that if I would connect a lot of users(which caused a lot of allocations) then after they disconnected the memory usage for the app would stay constant. Subsequently, if I connected with fewer users the memory would be constant. But, if I connected with more users than the first time, then the memory would increase by the difference. Strange, huh? Not a memory leak issue because otherwise the memory usage would always grow. It just seemed that STL would not reclaim memory. I finally started migrating most of my structures away from STL and it alleviated the problem.
Here's my only beef with the STL: memory management. I've run into many situations where the STL memory manager just won't seem to release memory, especially in the string class. Now, it could have been the specific implementation that I was using, but I've seen many others with the same issue.
I didn't really mean that he/she should skip all of the undergraduate work, but rather to make the Master's degree the goal instead of just another Bachelor's. Getting a Bachelor's degree involves a lot of non-CS courses that could be skipped. Instead, focus on all of the pre-requisites for the Master's level courses like math, data structures, algorithms, etc.
If you already have a Bachelor's degree then you should just start working on a Master's. It doesn't really matter what your Bachelor's degree is in, but it may mean that you need to take a bunch of prerequisite courses. Another piece of advice....I wouldn't try to hurry through a CS program. You don't realize how much you don't know until you start taking the classes. While still a young field, computer science has come a long way which means you get to learn from many other's discoveries and mistakes. It would be naive and arrogant to think that just because you've been programming for a long time that you can speed through the education. This is from experience. I, too, had been programming since I was 12 (I'm 29) and when I started down the path of my CS education I thought I could breeze throught it. I was wrong and I glad I was. I now have Master's in CS and even though it took me a long time I wouldn't trade it for anything. Good luck!!!