Err, Mrs LizardKing once said that she'd attempted sex when she had the painters in, and that it was uncomfortable because the menstrual blood caused chafing. Apparently a ladies "red wee" is a bit like unstrained orange juice - it's got bits in it.
And no, I can hardly believe we're discussing menstruation on Slashdot. In response to an article about a serial interface.
I decided to create a method in every class - "deleteMe", which nulls everything out when called.
Well at least the consistent name means it will be easy to remove when a competent programmer gets hold of your code.
I'm sure the garbage collector cleans it up soon after. Good enough. Has worked fine ever since.
The classic sign of a lazy bodger. You could have actually checked, and then found out that your nulling exercise has zero influence on the garbage collectors activity.
Yeah, and my cock is so long it rubs against one of my ankles when I walk. If you can really back up your claims, then I'd know about it because I'd have read your books and articles.
SpringSource make their money out of consultancy, training and support. My company doesn't even use Spring (we use an in house Spring-like framework which is based on Rod Johnson's early code that became Spring), but we have bought training on things like Tomcat from SpringSource as they employ at least one of the Tomcat maintainers. They also employ at least one major Apache HTTPD maintainer, which makes sense as people often proxy their web applications from Apache. Many of the major financial companies in London use Spring, and employ consultants from SpringSource. The rates they can charge are pretty high, which suggest they are in demand, and as other posters have pointed out it's almost a mandatory requirement for Java programmers that they know Spring these days.
I'd like to see how well they compete with open source solutions first (Django, Rails)
The Spring framework is way more sophisticated than Django or Rails. It also scales without the headaches involved with Rails, and isn't web specific like Django. Comparing Spring to Django or Rails is like comparing PostgreSQL to MS Access. Yes, the latter will get you the ability to do something simple in a hurry, but it has limited features and wont scale. As for Java being an albatross, how easily are things like unit testing, inversion of control or reusability accomplished in toy programming languages like PHP or Ruby?
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Seems strange that the amd64 iso is only 247Mb
That's because it only includes what would be called a "base" install by the standards of most Linux distros. You'll get all the command line utilities, developer tools and an X Window install if you choose to install all the packages from the CD. What you wont get is things like a GNOME or KDE environment - those can be added after installing from CD by using the package tools. With these tools you can download pre-compiled packages from the NetBSD FTP server or (preferably) a mirror close to you.
If he had phrased it as "their 200 MIPS, 64MB RISC computers" then he would have been on the money. In 1996 most of the machines I was using had Pentium Pro processors that were essentially RISC chips with an up front decoder for Intel's shit instruction set (the other machines I was using were SparcStations and an Alpha server). So Tannenbaum was right because he was arguing there would be a shift from true CISC chips to more efficient and powerful RISC ones. As for the monolithic argument, Torvalds started conceding that point when Linux went modular, and he has since gone on record saying that the monolithic approach was wrong (although the only practicable one given his goals when he started work on his kernel).
Just had this happen with a Canadian band called Propagandhi. I was checking there proper website regularly, as I knew they'd be touring after their new album came out. Next thing I know, the album's out and they are on tour in the UK that week. Their website was updated a week before, and the dates only announced in advance on fucking Myspace.
So your blaming Sun for Ciscos ineptitude. I have code written under the 1.0.2 Java SDK that still runs under Java 1.6. There again, unlike Cisco's engineers I understood what portability was, because I was targeting SunOS as well as Windows.
I made no claim that International English was less of a mess than US English, but in the specific case cited, US English is more of a mess. As for "draught" being something that's drunk (not necessarily alcoholic), that's an archaic usage that I can't ever recall hearing someone use in conversation.
Lastly, there's no such thing as "international English"
I suggest you look into linguistics and the evolution of modern English. It has nothing to do with paranoid accusations of "American hating". American English, as originally codified by Webster, is very distinct from the English natively spoken elsewhere. This is due to the more recent imperial connections, so dialects such as Australian, New Zealand and South African English are linguistically the same as UK English. American English reflects features of US history, in that it has had longer to diverge than Australian English for example, with less colonial administrators educated in Britain, and a long exposure to large numbers of people with other native tongues.
No wonder they have so many burglaries then. I worked on the outskirts of Milton Keynes for several years (at Cranfield) and was amazed at the number of chavs and skagheads I saw whenever I ventured into the centre of doughnut city.
Real people don't call them "bobbies". They're coppers, plod, filth, pigs, old Bill and on those rare occasions you actually need their help, the police.
According to an article I read (on the Register I think) the British Charmin is different to the stuff you can get in the States. When it was originally released in the UK it had the same strength and consistency as the US stuff, but it turns out that Brits and Yanks wipe their arses in different ways. Over there they scrunch it up before wiping, while over here people fold it flat. Turns out doing it the British way resulted in "penetration" - shitty hands in other words. So the manufacturer had to make it stronger for the Brits.
That explains the treatment a college friend got when we went to France on an educational trip. He was French-Canadian by birth, and despite living in the UK for a number of years his passport was still Canadian. At the border control in France he was held up for ages and asked loads of strange questions while the rest of use went through without trouble. Then for the remainder of the trip French people were incredibly rude to him, particularly if he spoke French to them. To the rest of us the French were mostly just surly and uncommunicative - a nice way to make a bunch of sixteen year old believe the stereotype isn't exactly false.
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Err, Mrs LizardKing once said that she'd attempted sex when she had the painters in, and that it was uncomfortable because the menstrual blood caused chafing. Apparently a ladies "red wee" is a bit like unstrained orange juice - it's got bits in it.
And no, I can hardly believe we're discussing menstruation on Slashdot. In response to an article about a serial interface.
I decided to create a method in every class - "deleteMe", which nulls everything out when called.
Well at least the consistent name means it will be easy to remove when a competent programmer gets hold of your code.
I'm sure the garbage collector cleans it up soon after. Good enough. Has worked fine ever since.
The classic sign of a lazy bodger. You could have actually checked, and then found out that your nulling exercise has zero influence on the garbage collectors activity.
I don't see anything in the article about Java becoming more like Haskell!
Shurely you meant Scala?
They are pretending to be an Apple device. I don't think that's legal.
This computer is claiming to be an IBM PC. IBM sued. IBM lost.
Yeah, and my cock is so long it rubs against one of my ankles when I walk. If you can really back up your claims, then I'd know about it because I'd have read your books and articles.
I've been programming in non-garbage-collected languages for 20+ years, written decidedly non-trivial programs, and I've never once had a memory leak.
Sorry, you sound like one of those kids at school who were always coming out with the most preposterous bull.
Somewhat off-topic, but I do love it when millionaires tell me money's bad. Like that berk John Lennon.
Try www.tejat.net for even more hilarity. No wonder this muppet doesn't have to cater for IE.
Pretty much what I was thinking, except it was the TOS in my Atari ST that set me off down that particular memory lane.
Glib(sic) looks like preprocessor soup because it has to be portable and fast.
Then why does the libc in NetBSD not look like preprocessor soup - yet it still outperforms Linux?
He's not fit to write C.
Which is probably why glibc source code looks like preprocessor soup.
SpringSource make their money out of consultancy, training and support. My company doesn't even use Spring (we use an in house Spring-like framework which is based on Rod Johnson's early code that became Spring), but we have bought training on things like Tomcat from SpringSource as they employ at least one of the Tomcat maintainers. They also employ at least one major Apache HTTPD maintainer, which makes sense as people often proxy their web applications from Apache. Many of the major financial companies in London use Spring, and employ consultants from SpringSource. The rates they can charge are pretty high, which suggest they are in demand, and as other posters have pointed out it's almost a mandatory requirement for Java programmers that they know Spring these days.
I'd like to see how well they compete with open source solutions first (Django, Rails)
The Spring framework is way more sophisticated than Django or Rails. It also scales without the headaches involved with Rails, and isn't web specific like Django. Comparing Spring to Django or Rails is like comparing PostgreSQL to MS Access. Yes, the latter will get you the ability to do something simple in a hurry, but it has limited features and wont scale. As for Java being an albatross, how easily are things like unit testing, inversion of control or reusability accomplished in toy programming languages like PHP or Ruby?
Seems strange that the amd64 iso is only 247Mb
That's because it only includes what would be called a "base" install by the standards of most Linux distros. You'll get all the command line utilities, developer tools and an X Window install if you choose to install all the packages from the CD. What you wont get is things like a GNOME or KDE environment - those can be added after installing from CD by using the package tools. With these tools you can download pre-compiled packages from the NetBSD FTP server or (preferably) a mirror close to you.
I think the dear AST is up to no good...
Don't blame IT World's linking of the Minix article with a one that gets your fanboy hackles up on Tannenbaum - it makes you look like an idiot.
If he had phrased it as "their 200 MIPS, 64MB RISC computers" then he would have been on the money. In 1996 most of the machines I was using had Pentium Pro processors that were essentially RISC chips with an up front decoder for Intel's shit instruction set (the other machines I was using were SparcStations and an Alpha server). So Tannenbaum was right because he was arguing there would be a shift from true CISC chips to more efficient and powerful RISC ones. As for the monolithic argument, Torvalds started conceding that point when Linux went modular, and he has since gone on record saying that the monolithic approach was wrong (although the only practicable one given his goals when he started work on his kernel).
Just had this happen with a Canadian band called Propagandhi. I was checking there proper website regularly, as I knew they'd be touring after their new album came out. Next thing I know, the album's out and they are on tour in the UK that week. Their website was updated a week before, and the dates only announced in advance on fucking Myspace.
So your blaming Sun for Ciscos ineptitude. I have code written under the 1.0.2 Java SDK that still runs under Java 1.6. There again, unlike Cisco's engineers I understood what portability was, because I was targeting SunOS as well as Windows.
No point in mentioning the bats. Poor bastards will see them soon enough.
Because Webster et al clearly didn't understand dipthongs for example.
It's no more confusing than UK English.
I made no claim that International English was less of a mess than US English, but in the specific case cited, US English is more of a mess. As for "draught" being something that's drunk (not necessarily alcoholic), that's an archaic usage that I can't ever recall hearing someone use in conversation.
Lastly, there's no such thing as "international English"
I suggest you look into linguistics and the evolution of modern English. It has nothing to do with paranoid accusations of "American hating". American English, as originally codified by Webster, is very distinct from the English natively spoken elsewhere. This is due to the more recent imperial connections, so dialects such as Australian, New Zealand and South African English are linguistically the same as UK English. American English reflects features of US history, in that it has had longer to diverge than Australian English for example, with less colonial administrators educated in Britain, and a long exposure to large numbers of people with other native tongues.
it's a suburb of Milton Keynes
No wonder they have so many burglaries then. I worked on the outskirts of Milton Keynes for several years (at Cranfield) and was amazed at the number of chavs and skagheads I saw whenever I ventured into the centre of doughnut city.
the cops (or bobbies, or whatever)
Real people don't call them "bobbies". They're coppers, plod, filth, pigs, old Bill and on those rare occasions you actually need their help, the police.
We have Charmin just like everybody else.
According to an article I read (on the Register I think) the British Charmin is different to the stuff you can get in the States. When it was originally released in the UK it had the same strength and consistency as the US stuff, but it turns out that Brits and Yanks wipe their arses in different ways. Over there they scrunch it up before wiping, while over here people fold it flat. Turns out doing it the British way resulted in "penetration" - shitty hands in other words. So the manufacturer had to make it stronger for the Brits.
That explains the treatment a college friend got when we went to France on an educational trip. He was French-Canadian by birth, and despite living in the UK for a number of years his passport was still Canadian. At the border control in France he was held up for ages and asked loads of strange questions while the rest of use went through without trouble. Then for the remainder of the trip French people were incredibly rude to him, particularly if he spoke French to them. To the rest of us the French were mostly just surly and uncommunicative - a nice way to make a bunch of sixteen year old believe the stereotype isn't exactly false.