A lot of the Microsoft API documents contain no actual information. You end up relying on code samples or stack overflow. Sometimes you get lucky and there is community documentation at the bottom it seems ridiculous to have to rely on that. I'm assuming that the API docs are generated from the Class / Method documentation which makes me think they have millions of undocumented lines of code. You see this in Visual Studio when using intellisense. You see some method with 10 overrides and no documentation on how they should be used. It would be great if class docs showed usage. Then that would be auto-generated into the public docs.
I worked in the Java space and used to complain that some companies didn't generate decent class/method documentation because their developers don't think it is important. The microsoft space is even worse:-(
Beauty is in the eye of the creator. Your baby (API) is ugly!
A single CPU architecture across operating systems and devices has worked out well for consumers. There are a wide variety of operating systems and user leve software on that platform. We'd need a viable cross platform application VM architectures, JVM/CLR style, if we want to avoid application islands.
I'm almost for DC statehood. We'd never have to worry about the possible catastrophe of retro-cession.
MD: over taxed, over regulated all the while telling you how good you've got it living there.
How did this get mod'd up?
I own 4 Dell Latitudes (3 year warranty) and a MacBook. The Macbook has better screen resolution, 1680x1050, and a great trackpad. The dell has a docking connector and better warranty. In 2011 the Macbook had higher memory capacity and cost less or the same as a quad core Latitude.
10,000 rounds doesn't seem like that many to a person who shoots 1,000 per month.
10,000 rounds isn't any more dangerous to you than 100 rounds. It's not like your going to have an opportunity to actually use it all in a crime.
Also a lot of the laptops still come with small trackpads with buttons. I don't need two sets of mouse pad buttons and two pointing devices on the same keyboard/palmrest.
I bought a quad core 15" macbook last year that cost the same or less than any of the competing systems I looked it.
I specifically wanted quad core, 16GB+ capable, 1680x1050 or better, bluetooth, webcame and a matte display. It is the nicest windows 7 dev box I own. The fact that the adapter doesn't strain the power socket when yanked off is a bonus that has already saved me a repair bill.
And when your child dies of aniphylactic shock because the school could not reach you on your listed emergency number and the company IP based phone system was down, then you can sue that company for everything they have or ever will have.
It is an illegal policy (reckless child endangerment) - nail em for it.
Sure and I'm in a shielded building. Can I sue them because there is no decent cell coverage at my desk?
We really can't be this lame:-(
What do you recommend for people who use public transit instead of driving to work?
How did this comment get rated insightful? Your neighbors really don't want to hear you yaking away on your personal calls anyway. Go out the loading dock and hang with the smokers.
C# is an OOP language running on the Microsoft CLR. The CLR is a virtual machine with garbage collection similar to the Java run time. Microsoft is making use of the CLR to make it possible to create programs for Windows 8 and Windows 8 RT without recompilation , just like Java.
You keep working on your language set that runs on a continually shrinking percentage of running devices. I'm sure your obsolete Silverlight, F# and J# skills will make for great "in my day" slashdot posts some time in the future.
Most folks think of vectors in terms of CRTs. The drawing is done by directly driving the electron gun across the screen at the resolution of the phosphor and the analog drive circuits. This has often been higher resolution than could be supported by frame buffers. No visible jaggies because you straight from point to point with the beam. In the pixel world, you fill pixels in the buffer at the resolution of your frame buffer and then render that out at a resolution different than the underlying phosphor element size.
The old displays didn't do color. I haven't read TFA to understand what's really going in this new scheme.
Assuming we're talking about CRT vector displays.
Display frame rates on vector displays vary based on the number and complexity of the vectors being drawn. A raster display takes the exact same amount of time to refresh the screen every time because it has precise timing for each row and the flyback. A vector display repeats drawing as soon as it is done drawing all the mapped vectors. Screens with few vectors refresh quickly. Screens with lots of vectors take longer to sweep the "electron gun" across all strokes. The result is the frame rate is dependent on the time it takes to draw all the vectors.
The term "frame rate" in terms of gaming means something else. It often represents the rate at which the game can re-draw the screen in the buffer. The frame buffer still goes to the screen always at the same pixel rate.
Send me your resume so I can make sure you dont' end up on our team.
I'd prefer to have someone who doesn't have cafe noise in the background during conference calls. I'm tired of folks batteries dying or people saying they are dying when we need to communicate. You can also keep your crappy "I saved $10/month" voip service with a narrow frequency band and horrible compression techniques. Note: Some VOIP services are great. I like mine.
You may think your efficient. I'm wondering if you are a drag on your project.
PS: We use the heck out of Lync and Skype on our distributed team. The company won't let those through the firewall so I have a separate machine on hotspot that lets me "talk" with the rest of the team. Neither are a replacement for an actual phone when we work in groups:-(
So you and the rest of Illinois have been living with lower taxes and higher benefits than you could afford at the expense of your future benefits. It sounds like a choice that the voters have been re-validating for the last 20 years. Aren't the voters asking to get paid on both ends?
Government bosses are happy to agree on payments that will come do after they leave office. The Government employees know this so they negotiate these nice package. That doesn't make it the right thing for taxpayers or those that come later that have to foot the bill.
The guy violated the military code of conduct and broke his clearance agreements. He deserves the time he's going to get and should quit whining. He and his supporters know exactly what should happen and so does the the government.
If it turns out american soldiers or agents died because of his action then feels like treason and he deserves the appropriate punishment.
That's when my kids did summer camp (actually being a kid) and eventually got their camp jobs where they worked their butts off for little pay while sweating and staying away from computers, TVs and videogames. We lived at the beach and that's when we made real money. Summer vacations and family trips.
We could do year round schools but they do it in a lot of places with overlapping schedules so that your kids end up with different break schedules. It's even harder when trying to vacation with friends.
I'd be a lot more in favor of extending the school day by 30 minutes.
Method signatures are often ridiculously long (see NSBitmapRep's initWithBitmapDataPlanes:pixelsWide:pixelsHigh:bitsPerSample:samplesPerPixel:hasAlpha:isPlanar:colorSpaceName:bitmapFormat:bytesPerRow:bitsPerPixel: method)
Parameter names in method calls are/always/ named. You can't just say obj.someMethod(x,y). It's always [obj someMethodForX:x y:y].
The above combine to make even the most basic operations tedious. Want to trim leading/trailing whitespace off a string? Enjoy [someString stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet whitespaceCharacterSet]]
I consider this an advantage. All those folks who talk about self-documenting method names finally have a place to hang their hats.
Immutable arrays, dictionaries, sets, strings. I get it, it can be useful for performance to know something is immutable (maybe, I'm not that convinced). But the common use case is most certainly mutable, so/that/ should be the default, e.g. NSArray should be mutable and then if needed there can exist some NSImmutableArray or something. But no, they did it the other way around.
Immutability is about more than just performance. Java and C# both have immutable strings. Good programming practice often recommends immutability as a way of enforcing contracts and avoiding unintended side effects. Some languages avoid mutability for any object.
The space station is like some antarctic outpost, only less interesting. I don't expect any new science out of it. It isn't acting as a launching off point to higher orbit or long range exploration. Its an international flag pole.
Maybe if we ran a national lottery to send someone new up every month.
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It is too complicated for a mulit-player scenario when martyrdom is considered a viable end state.
A lot of the Microsoft API documents contain no actual information. You end up relying on code samples or stack overflow. Sometimes you get lucky and there is community documentation at the bottom it seems ridiculous to have to rely on that. I'm assuming that the API docs are generated from the Class / Method documentation which makes me think they have millions of undocumented lines of code. You see this in Visual Studio when using intellisense. You see some method with 10 overrides and no documentation on how they should be used. It would be great if class docs showed usage. Then that would be auto-generated into the public docs. I worked in the Java space and used to complain that some companies didn't generate decent class/method documentation because their developers don't think it is important. The microsoft space is even worse :-(
Beauty is in the eye of the creator. Your baby (API) is ugly!
A single CPU architecture across operating systems and devices has worked out well for consumers. There are a wide variety of operating systems and user leve software on that platform. We'd need a viable cross platform application VM architectures, JVM/CLR style, if we want to avoid application islands.
I'm almost for DC statehood. We'd never have to worry about the possible catastrophe of retro-cession. MD: over taxed, over regulated all the while telling you how good you've got it living there.
How did this get mod'd up? I own 4 Dell Latitudes (3 year warranty) and a MacBook. The Macbook has better screen resolution, 1680x1050, and a great trackpad. The dell has a docking connector and better warranty. In 2011 the Macbook had higher memory capacity and cost less or the same as a quad core Latitude.
Another case where I wish I had "off topic" mod points available...
10,000 rounds doesn't seem like that many to a person who shoots 1,000 per month. 10,000 rounds isn't any more dangerous to you than 100 rounds. It's not like your going to have an opportunity to actually use it all in a crime.
Also a lot of the laptops still come with small trackpads with buttons. I don't need two sets of mouse pad buttons and two pointing devices on the same keyboard/palmrest.
I bought a quad core 15" macbook last year that cost the same or less than any of the competing systems I looked it. I specifically wanted quad core, 16GB+ capable, 1680x1050 or better, bluetooth, webcame and a matte display. It is the nicest windows 7 dev box I own. The fact that the adapter doesn't strain the power socket when yanked off is a bonus that has already saved me a repair bill.
And when your child dies of aniphylactic shock because the school could not reach you on your listed emergency number and the company IP based phone system was down, then you can sue that company for everything they have or ever will have.
It is an illegal policy (reckless child endangerment) - nail em for it.
Sure and I'm in a shielded building. Can I sue them because there is no decent cell coverage at my desk? We really can't be this lame :-(
What do you recommend for people who use public transit instead of driving to work?
How did this comment get rated insightful? Your neighbors really don't want to hear you yaking away on your personal calls anyway. Go out the loading dock and hang with the smokers.
Your nephews are more likely to die from the junk food being served there than from the firearms.
C# is an OOP language running on the Microsoft CLR. The CLR is a virtual machine with garbage collection similar to the Java run time. Microsoft is making use of the CLR to make it possible to create programs for Windows 8 and Windows 8 RT without recompilation , just like Java.
You keep working on your language set that runs on a continually shrinking percentage of running devices. I'm sure your obsolete Silverlight, F# and J# skills will make for great "in my day" slashdot posts some time in the future.
The old displays didn't do color. I haven't read TFA to understand what's really going in this new scheme.
The term "frame rate" in terms of gaming means something else. It often represents the rate at which the game can re-draw the screen in the buffer. The frame buffer still goes to the screen always at the same pixel rate.
I'd prefer to have someone who doesn't have cafe noise in the background during conference calls. I'm tired of folks batteries dying or people saying they are dying when we need to communicate. You can also keep your crappy "I saved $10/month" voip service with a narrow frequency band and horrible compression techniques. Note: Some VOIP services are great. I like mine.
You may think your efficient. I'm wondering if you are a drag on your project.
PS: We use the heck out of Lync and Skype on our distributed team. The company won't let those through the firewall so I have a separate machine on hotspot that lets me "talk" with the rest of the team. Neither are a replacement for an actual phone when we work in groups :-(
So you and the rest of Illinois have been living with lower taxes and higher benefits than you could afford at the expense of your future benefits. It sounds like a choice that the voters have been re-validating for the last 20 years. Aren't the voters asking to get paid on both ends?
Government bosses are happy to agree on payments that will come do after they leave office. The Government employees know this so they negotiate these nice package. That doesn't make it the right thing for taxpayers or those that come later that have to foot the bill.
The guy violated the military code of conduct and broke his clearance agreements. He deserves the time he's going to get and should quit whining. He and his supporters know exactly what should happen and so does the the government. If it turns out american soldiers or agents died because of his action then feels like treason and he deserves the appropriate punishment.
There were 250,000 people in Gaza in 1969 and 1.5 Million today. It's pretty obvious they don't want to murder everyone in Gaza .
That's when my kids did summer camp (actually being a kid) and eventually got their camp jobs where they worked their butts off for little pay while sweating and staying away from computers, TVs and videogames. We lived at the beach and that's when we made real money. Summer vacations and family trips.
We could do year round schools but they do it in a lot of places with overlapping schedules so that your kids end up with different break schedules. It's even harder when trying to vacation with friends.
I'd be a lot more in favor of extending the school day by 30 minutes.
We have 3 data plans, only one unlimited, that would easily fit inside some shared bucket for less money.
Method signatures are often ridiculously long (see NSBitmapRep's initWithBitmapDataPlanes:pixelsWide:pixelsHigh:bitsPerSample:samplesPerPixel:hasAlpha:isPlanar:colorSpaceName:bitmapFormat:bytesPerRow:bitsPerPixel: method)
Parameter names in method calls are /always/ named. You can't just say obj.someMethod(x,y). It's always [obj someMethodForX:x y:y].
The above combine to make even the most basic operations tedious. Want to trim leading/trailing whitespace off a string? Enjoy [someString stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet whitespaceCharacterSet]]
I consider this an advantage. All those folks who talk about self-documenting method names finally have a place to hang their hats.
Immutable arrays, dictionaries, sets, strings. I get it, it can be useful for performance to know something is immutable (maybe, I'm not that convinced). But the common use case is most certainly mutable, so /that/ should be the default, e.g. NSArray should be mutable and then if needed there can exist some NSImmutableArray or something. But no, they did it the other way around.
Immutability is about more than just performance. Java and C# both have immutable strings. Good programming practice often recommends immutability as a way of enforcing contracts and avoiding unintended side effects. Some languages avoid mutability for any object.
The space station is like some antarctic outpost, only less interesting. I don't expect any new science out of it. It isn't acting as a launching off point to higher orbit or long range exploration. Its an international flag pole. Maybe if we ran a national lottery to send someone new up every month.
I'm sure the rest of the "I'll rely on others to protect my children" crowd enjoyed reading your posting.