yeah, they could make their own kind of steam network where you could find people online to play with, and they could add a chatroom where you could talk to people before creating games. That would be cool! Just like steam, but lets call it battlenet in stead, that way we could use the "steam" which has been around for at least 8 years...
And we all know that cell processors are widely used as a platform for CLR implementations... Oh wait, it's not. Let's stick to x86 since that's what's relevant here...
[...] the shear ammount of variance in hardware that Microsoft has to code for means there are going to be bugs. No matter how tight their QA is, they cannot possibly test on every hardware variant. Of course, it's not Microsofts fault:)
Oh, it's been way too long since I've done C++! I actually miss operator overloading in my day job. Maybe I should start a C++ project on the side, just for fun:)
Sorry for replying to myself, but I should have thought of it immediately. The answer is perl, of cause. The followup question becomes, which IDE lets you single-step through perl code?
I once spent 2 hours debugging some code by stepping through it. I put aside the IDE for a moment, _looked_ at the code, saw the >= that should have been an . I've not been back to IDEs and my code has been tighter and much more organized since.
In what language can you insert ">=" in stead of "." and even have it compile?
Which just means that it has lots of redundancy. Or, as one might call it, bloat. Test question: Which is quicker?
1. Spending a few hours coding your formats in some binary format making maximum use of all the bits.
2. Spending a few minutes writing code to send your internal data structure to a library that will serialize it into XML and then running the XML through a generic compression routine (if space/speed actually makes any difference to your particular application).
Consider the question in both the short and the long term. Also consider that you're paying that programmer a few hundred an hour.
Discuss.
or...
3. Spending a few minutes writing code to send your internal data structure to a library that will serialize it into YAML and then NOT running the YAML through a generic compression routine (since YAML has far less bloat and therefore far less need for compression).
Some other slashdotter aired the idea some time ago, that the price of a patent should double with each patent your company has. The price of the first patent could be relatively low to let the smaller companies get at least one patent, but keep bigger companies from hoarding thousands of patents...
Ok, I downloaded it. Opened it. Dragged it to the desktop. Doubleclicked it. Noticed that it didn't run a single of my plugins. Deleted it. Took something like 30 seconds in total. Didn't interfere with my Firefox installation at all. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Indeed the EU patent law as it is now could (and should) encourage businesses to move from the US to the EU for protection from software patent claims.
This way EU benefits from the extra tax from companies moving to EU and US might be forced to change their law or face loosing lots of tax dollars.
Actually, your results vary depending on your previous searches and your location (and probably some other parameters too). I get google maps as my sponsored link AND as the first hit. MapQuest as the second and third. Yahoo maps as fourth. Nothing really funny here.
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These are all good points, except Safari is open source, which kind of invalidates your entire post...
yeah, they could make their own kind of steam network where you could find people online to play with, and they could add a chatroom where you could talk to people before creating games. That would be cool! Just like steam, but lets call it battlenet in stead, that way we could use the "steam" which has been around for at least 8 years...
abbreviations FTW... I read that as Quake What The Fuck... that may even be appropriate...
And we all know that cell processors are widely used as a platform for CLR implementations... Oh wait, it's not. Let's stick to x86 since that's what's relevant here...
With risc of being modded redundant, I have to say of course it's not Microsofts fault ;)
But it requires Windows, which isn't free...
Oh, it's been way too long since I've done C++! I actually miss operator overloading in my day job. Maybe I should start a C++ project on the side, just for fun :)
Sorry for replying to myself, but I should have thought of it immediately. The answer is perl, of cause. The followup question becomes, which IDE lets you single-step through perl code?
In what language can you insert ">=" in stead of "." and even have it compile?
It is easily accessible from the keyboard, just follow these instructions to have a keyboard combo lock your screen.
I thought it involved something else...
Especially since looking at the /. code really isn't that hard to do.
You probably downloaded iAlertU, which is quite free and has most of the same features.
... AND live with the horrible fact that TPB is legal... ohh the free stuff and the high speed connections... it must be terrible!
Redundancy != Bloat
but
Unneeded redundancy == Bloat
See YAML for an alternative to XML which has the same features with less bloat.
1. Spending a few hours coding your formats in some binary format making maximum use of all the bits.
2. Spending a few minutes writing code to send your internal data structure to a library that will serialize it into XML and then running the XML through a generic compression routine (if space/speed actually makes any difference to your particular application).
Consider the question in both the short and the long term. Also consider that you're paying that programmer a few hundred an hour.
Discuss.
or...
3. Spending a few minutes writing code to send your internal data structure to a library that will serialize it into YAML and then NOT running the YAML through a generic compression routine (since YAML has far less bloat and therefore far less need for compression).
I think I'll go for option 3.
Some other slashdotter aired the idea some time ago, that the price of a patent should double with each patent your company has. The price of the first patent could be relatively low to let the smaller companies get at least one patent, but keep bigger companies from hoarding thousands of patents...
Personally I prefer to let my widgets use the entire dashboard, not just one side of it.... oh wait, you meant gadgets...
Wow... we have 100 times the world's population in third world countries?
Does that mean the world population will suddenly grow to 606 billion people, or that most of the third world countries will be extraterrestrial?
Ok, I downloaded it. Opened it. Dragged it to the desktop. Doubleclicked it. Noticed that it didn't run a single of my plugins. Deleted it. Took something like 30 seconds in total. Didn't interfere with my Firefox installation at all. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Indeed the EU patent law as it is now could (and should) encourage businesses to move from the US to the EU for protection from software patent claims.
This way EU benefits from the extra tax from companies moving to EU and US might be forced to change their law or face loosing lots of tax dollars.
But then again, I might be dreaming...
And if it can be forked, can I have a version where methods use proper case? I can't stand that all methods have to look like classes.
Actually, your results vary depending on your previous searches and your location (and probably some other parameters too). I get google maps as my sponsored link AND as the first hit. MapQuest as the second and third. Yahoo maps as fourth. Nothing really funny here.
See results of my search.
Lots of good humour is actually insightful.
But I agree that there is a tragic element to the point the GPP is making.