Just common sense stuff like you have to be passionate about your business, when you have your own business sometimes you have to work more than when you were an employee, focusing on solutions for the client and the list of truisms goes on and on...
It was a waste of time for me.
Hi Mr. Stroustrup, Thank you for C++. It is my language of choice.
Why the static initialization order problem was not addressed in recent reforms of the language ?
It does not seem very hard to fix.
Although I am aware of the workarounds I do not like them.
In my opinion we need to fix what is broken before adding more features.
Thank you for your attention,
Mauricio Gomes.
In addition to the fact that precise numbers needed by the calculation are not available yet we do not know A LOT about the physical reality of the universe. A huge part of it we attribute to dark energy that is basically stuff we have no idea about.
Not to mention the possibility of all of this be a simulation which would bring the possibility of changing the parameters of it.
Exodus 21
20: “If a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod and he dies at his hand, he shall be punished. "
21: “If, however, he survives a day or two, no vengeance shall be taken; for he is his property."
Thanks to this scrutiny I can learn from Exodus 21 that it is okay to beat the crap out of my slave as long as I do not kill him and Leviticus 12 teaches me that baby girls leave their mothers twice as dirty as baby boys do. In Leviticus 21 I see that no hunchback or a dwarf, or who has any eye defect, or who has festering or running sores or damaged testicles can approach the altar.
Where would civilization be without these priceless advices!
What you have described is Aristocracy, the government of the elite.
The problem is who decides who is best ? Who decides how the tests should be ?
The big thing about democracy is not the election of the best but the ability to avoid the perpetuation of the worst.
But I know what your mean. Here in Brazil our Democracy is a mix of Kleptocracy (government by burglars - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptocracy) and Kakistocracy (government of the worst - http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kakistocracy).
But at least we are free to criticize and change the gang every four years.
"Studies suggest that anatomically modern humans arose in Africa approximately 150 thousand years ago (kya), expanded throughout Africa ~60–80 kya, and to most parts of Europe and Asia ~40 kya[1]–[6]. Numerous mitochondrial DNA studies support what Foster and Matsumera [5] describe as a ‘remarkable expansion’ from a small geographic region dating broadly to ~60–80 kya."
see http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0044926
But in this case Microsoft is not stealing any of their stories or culture.
On the contrary, the project is giving them access to more information by translating foreign material to their language.
In my opinion this lawsuit is incredibly dumb because it shuts down a door to keep their own language alive.
"I just found out that my girlfriend's brother managed to cast a vote in the last presidential election even though he was 17, and technically ineligible."
It is legal for registered voters over 16 to vote.
The only difference is that voting is voluntary for teenagers under 18 and mandatory for adults up to a certain age when it is voluntary again (I think it is 70 but I am not sure).
The "jeitinho" in this case might have been occurred if the teenager was not a registered voter, otherwise it is totally legal.
Yes, I've read this: "no information is truly moving faster than light," says Boyd. "
But I have to confess that I don't get it.
I'm confused about the information transportation.
I get the same confusion with entanglement experiments.
From the article: "We sent a pulse through an optical fiber, and before its peak even entered the fiber, it was exiting the other end..."
If the pulse (or its "leading edge" or whatever other phenomena created by the input) can be detected at the other end wouldn't just its mere presence there be already an information ?
For example I want to tell Lucy (that is in the other end of the fiber) that Charlie Brown just arrived.
I press a button and there goes the pulse of light through this weird aparatus.
Then Lucy detects the whatever phenomena is generated aparently instantaneously on her end of the fiber and this is the notification that Charlie Brown has entered the room.
Wouldn't I have transmitted information (Charlie Brown arrived) faster than light ?
I've read the post about phase propagation but the same thing:
Is the phase change detectable ?
If it is not how do we know it was propagated faster than light ?
If it is detectable then isn't that phase change per se a piece of information travelling faster than light ?
What am I missing here ?
Knowledgeable Slashdotters, please illuminate my thoughts and rescue me from the darkness of the ignorance.:)
What's next ? Sue phone companies because they don't make an effort to catch eventual criminals making use of their infrastructure ? It is just another bogus claim.
I wish these kind of things be posted only if there is an actual conviction (at least in first instance).
In my opinion it becomes news if there is a conviction otherwise it is just the usual crap. I bet there must be several outrageous claims like this dismissed every month.
Hi,
If you are referring to this post I think the author may be mistakenly considering the ubiquous R.G. id card as a national ID.
As I've mentioned R.Gs (Registro Geral), are NOT guaranteed to be unique. They are issued regionally. Most people don't know that. I only learned that when I had to deal with patients identification due to software requirements not long ago.
The new eletronic R.G. are unique digital signatures but these are expensive (you have to pay yearly fees to the certification authority, something like Verisign) and still very very far from wide adoption.
Anyway I think we are talking about ubiquous free unique national IDs.
In Brazil we have national driver's licenses and CPFs (our tax id document). They are unique, they are national, they are almost free but they are not ubiquous because they are not mandatory documents.
We do not have a national ID at least as defined here.
First, let me apologize to the poster.
I know you asked for people who lived in places where this has been implemented but I took the liberty to put in my 2 cents too.
In Brazil we do not have a national ID. We have one document called R.G. (Registro Geral) but despite the name it is a regional controlled ID and it is not guaranteed to be unique nationally.
Pros: P1. Unique ID has its advantages.
I recently worked on a national children oncology system and uniquely identifying a patient was and is a problem. It is very cumbersome to guarantee uniqueness, safety, precision and portability and a unique identifier provided by a national ID card would be very nice. And we all REALLY want to be sure the right treatment is being provided to a child with cancer.
P2. Less bureaucracy.
Less documents to be issued, less fields to fill in forms, less redundancy.
P3. Less mistakes.
Identity theft apart we have still honest mistakes.
What a pain in the neck was to prove that my dishonest homonym (I meant to say a person with the same name as mine, I am not sure if that's the right word) was not me when I was buying my first apartment.
P4. Easier to track the bad guys.
The good side of the big brother / privacy issue.
Cons:
C1. Easier to track the good guys too.
Privacy, civil liberties, etc may suffer abuses having an instrument that would make it easier to track everyone.
Did you watch "V" ? I liked it.
Any other cons ?
Considering these points I would say YES, let's go for it.
From Cray web site:
"The position involves developing and maintaining infrastructure,
utilities, and applications for providing a single system image (SSI) over distributed computing resources running the Linux operating system."
Interesting, isn't it ?
I agree it can be done but it is not that easy. In my opinion for simple C code maybe but for most applications, networking, threads and different GUI apis are still major portability problems. Sure lots of frameworks try to solve these problems but they are not a standard neither a "de facto" standard. Java is currently the best option for portability. By the way, the big memory foot print mentioned here can be greately reduced by not launching one JVM for every single program. I don't know why nobody mentioned this. Best regards, morto.
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Just common sense stuff like you have to be passionate about your business, when you have your own business sometimes you have to work more than when you were an employee, focusing on solutions for the client and the list of truisms goes on and on ...
It was a waste of time for me.
Why the static initialization order problem was not addressed in recent reforms of the language ?
It does not seem very hard to fix. Although I am aware of the workarounds I do not like them. In my opinion we need to fix what is broken before adding more features. Thank you for your attention, Mauricio Gomes.
Just a small correction. The language is Assembly. Assembler is the tool. Best regards.
You know what, maybe winning the civil war was not such a good idea. Maybe you guys could reconsider and cut the south loose.
In addition to the fact that precise numbers needed by the calculation are not available yet we do not know A LOT about the physical reality of the universe. A huge part of it we attribute to dark energy that is basically stuff we have no idea about. Not to mention the possibility of all of this be a simulation which would bring the possibility of changing the parameters of it.
Exodus 21
20: “If a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod and he dies at his hand, he shall be punished. "
21: “If, however, he survives a day or two, no vengeance shall be taken; for he is his property."
Thanks to this scrutiny I can learn from Exodus 21 that it is okay to beat the crap out of my slave as long as I do not kill him and Leviticus 12 teaches me that baby girls leave their mothers twice as dirty as baby boys do. In Leviticus 21 I see that no hunchback or a dwarf, or who has any eye defect, or who has festering or running sores or damaged testicles can approach the altar.
Where would civilization be without these priceless advices!
What you have described is Aristocracy, the government of the elite. The problem is who decides who is best ? Who decides how the tests should be ? The big thing about democracy is not the election of the best but the ability to avoid the perpetuation of the worst. But I know what your mean. Here in Brazil our Democracy is a mix of Kleptocracy (government by burglars - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptocracy) and Kakistocracy (government of the worst - http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kakistocracy). But at least we are free to criticize and change the gang every four years.
"Studies suggest that anatomically modern humans arose in Africa approximately 150 thousand years ago (kya), expanded throughout Africa ~60–80 kya, and to most parts of Europe and Asia ~40 kya[1]–[6]. Numerous mitochondrial DNA studies support what Foster and Matsumera [5] describe as a ‘remarkable expansion’ from a small geographic region dating broadly to ~60–80 kya." see http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0044926
In my opinion this lawsuit is incredibly dumb because it shuts down a door to keep their own language alive.
When A.I. succeeded we became pets.
"I just found out that my girlfriend's brother managed to cast a vote in the last presidential election even though he was 17, and technically ineligible."
It is legal for registered voters over 16 to vote. The only difference is that voting is voluntary for teenagers under 18 and mandatory for adults up to a certain age when it is voluntary again (I think it is 70 but I am not sure).
The "jeitinho" in this case might have been occurred if the teenager was not a registered voter, otherwise it is totally legal.
But I have to confess that I don't get it.
I'm confused about the information transportation.
I get the same confusion with entanglement experiments.
From the article: "We sent a pulse through an optical fiber, and before its peak even entered the fiber, it was exiting the other end..."
If the pulse (or its "leading edge" or whatever other phenomena created by the input) can be detected at the other end wouldn't just its mere presence there be already an information ?
For example I want to tell Lucy (that is in the other end of the fiber) that Charlie Brown just arrived.
I press a button and there goes the pulse of light through this weird aparatus.
Then Lucy detects the whatever phenomena is generated aparently instantaneously on her end of the fiber and this is the notification that Charlie Brown has entered the room.
Wouldn't I have transmitted information (Charlie Brown arrived) faster than light ?
I've read the post about phase propagation but the same thing:
Is the phase change detectable ?
If it is not how do we know it was propagated faster than light ?
If it is detectable then isn't that phase change per se a piece of information travelling faster than light ?
What am I missing here ? :)
Knowledgeable Slashdotters, please illuminate my thoughts and rescue me from the darkness of the ignorance.
Thank you for your attention.
It is just another bogus claim.
I wish these kind of things be posted only if there is an actual conviction (at least in first instance).
In my opinion it becomes news if there is a conviction otherwise it is just the usual crap. I bet there must be several outrageous claims like this dismissed every month.
Are you referring to R.G. (Registro Geral) ?
R.G.s are not guaranteed to be unique and they cannot be considered in my opinion a national ID because they are issued regionally.
I've posted this comment and another slashdotter mentioned your comment.
If I am mistaken and you are not referring to R.G.s then what document are you referring to ?
Best regards, mau.
As I've mentioned R.Gs (Registro Geral), are NOT guaranteed to be unique. They are issued regionally. Most people don't know that.
I only learned that when I had to deal with patients identification due to software requirements not long ago.
The new eletronic R.G. are unique digital signatures but these are expensive (you have to pay yearly fees to the certification authority, something like Verisign) and still very very far from wide adoption.
Anyway I think we are talking about ubiquous free unique national IDs.
In Brazil we have national driver's licenses and CPFs (our tax id document). They are unique, they are national, they are almost free but they are not ubiquous because they are not mandatory documents.
We do not have a national ID at least as defined here.
Best regards,
mau.
I know you asked for people who lived in places where this has been implemented but I took the liberty to put in my 2 cents too.
In Brazil we do not have a national ID. We have one document called R.G. (Registro Geral) but despite the name it is a regional controlled ID and it is not guaranteed to be unique nationally.
Pros:
P1. Unique ID has its advantages.
I recently worked on a national children oncology system and uniquely identifying a patient was and is a problem. It is very cumbersome to guarantee uniqueness, safety, precision and portability and a unique identifier provided by a national ID card would be very nice. And we all REALLY want to be sure the right treatment is being provided to a child with cancer.
P2. Less bureaucracy.
Less documents to be issued, less fields to fill in forms, less redundancy.
P3. Less mistakes.
Identity theft apart we have still honest mistakes. What a pain in the neck was to prove that my dishonest homonym (I meant to say a person with the same name as mine, I am not sure if that's the right word) was not me when I was buying my first apartment.
P4. Easier to track the bad guys.
The good side of the big brother / privacy issue.
Cons:
C1. Easier to track the good guys too.
Privacy, civil liberties, etc may suffer abuses having an instrument that would make it easier to track everyone.
Did you watch "V" ? I liked it.
Any other cons ?
Considering these points I would say YES, let's go for it.
Best regards to all,
mau.
From Cray web site: "The position involves developing and maintaining infrastructure, utilities, and applications for providing a single system image (SSI) over distributed computing resources running the Linux operating system." Interesting, isn't it ?
Calumnl,
I agree it can be done but it is not that easy.
In my opinion for simple C code maybe but for most applications, networking, threads and different GUI apis are still major portability problems.
Sure lots of frameworks try to solve these problems but they are not a standard neither a "de facto" standard.
Java is currently the best option for portability.
By the way, the big memory foot print mentioned here can be greately reduced by not launching one JVM for every single program. I don't know why nobody mentioned this.
Best regards,
morto.