Just wait until you get an actual job - if you insist on using K&R anywhere I've ever worked, you'll get canned for not following the coding standard, assuming you actually read it. That goes double for Microsoft shops (of which I've only ever worked in one, back in 1999). I've never seen K&R in use outside of school.
The great thing about science is that bad ideas get tossed out as fresh evidence comes to light. Happily, evolutionary theory just gets stronger and stronger as time goes on.
Let me guess: you're religious, right? You seem to think that an idea, once stated, must last forever and ever, amen.
Phew, those are some fairly harsh commentaries. However, it would be nice if the bigger distributions would cooperate with the autopackage guys, simply because there is no way in hell any given distribution will have every piece of software everyone might want. What if Adobe wants to distribute Photoshop CS on Linux? I guess it's possible to do it like Crossover on Gentoo, which has an ebuild that installs the downloaded binary. But I don't think that solution scales well.
Absolutely 100% agreed. Of course, this becomes easier as you get more experience, and thus more bargaining power - I worked a lot more when I was just starting out. And there's also that whole "work smarter, not harder" thing that comes into play with age and experience.
The only exception to the eight hours max a day rule is when you're with a small startup or some other venture in which you have a direct stake. Then working like a madman, at least temporarily, may be worth it (full disclosure: I'm in a startup).
But on the whole, yeah, the thought of looking back at my life and thinking, "Hmm, I just spent my entire youth working" is a horrifying one.
Which brings me back on topic: I wonder how many Google developers have totally thrown themselves into their work, going at it 60+ hours a week? It doesn't matter how cool your job is - at that rate, if you're a salaried employee, then your life is slipping away.
"I have yet to hear explanations for why temperatures actually DROPPED from the 1940s to the 1970s despite an increase in our use of automobiles and other gases."
Wow, good one! I'll bet the world's atmospheric scientists never, ever thought of that little "fact", eh? Leave it to a common-sense guy like you - the veritable man in the street - to bring these buffoons to their senses. All that university stuff - bah! All you need is a bit of good old American know-how. Well done! Now let's sharpen our pencils and get down to work! We'll show these darned eggheads what's what, boy oh boy!
Clearly, the parent is some sort of subtle joke, because I refuse to believe that anyone could be this stupid. Such is my faith in humanity and its innate decency and propensity for logical thinking.
Alberta Report is a well-known lunatic fringe magazine, and an embarrassment to Canada. It is run by a family of ultra-conservative Catholics. I think it has a circulation of around 6 copies. I know they were forced to scale back dramatically due to poor sales.
Well, I guess the proof is in the pudding, as they say. TrollTech survive by selling licenses for their toolkit, obviously. There are literally hundreds of apps out there written using it (Photoshop CS, for example). Contrary to your opinion, commercial developers love Qt. No offense, but small developers like you just don't write the big apps that sell. If you made money from your apps, a Qt license would be no big deal. Sorry. (Yes, I'm a C++ developer of many years, and I've worked for big companies and small - right now, I'm in a 16 person startup. I know the value of time to market and working with the best tools.)
I'd like to hear about commercial apps written with gtk. Can you name any? I can't.
1. A couple of guys from "The Iliad". 2. The name of a bunch of cars from the early part of the 20th century. 3. A major Dutch soccer team. 4. A toilet and bath cleaner. 5. A town in Ontario. 6. A character from the movie "Flash Gordon". 7. A "web technology" whose component parts have existed for ages, but marketing people believe makes them sound smart and "cutting edge". 8. Many other things.
It is NOT, and has NEVER BEEN, a mere "window cleaner"! Good god, man!
Cyril Bear Theory - I like it! That darned evolution (oops, I should say EVILution) has way too many holes in it, and it is in no way a fact. And I'll bet you can't disprove God, so that means Cyril Bear is real!
Well, I'm off to chat with the orange aliens who live in the carrot tree in my backyard. Bye!
South Korea is almost entirely Windows-based. They are the world's biggest gamers (telling them use Wine is an insult), and their huge online community sites, banking sites, etc. etc. are IE-only. There is absolutely no way Linux could even touch the functionality they demand.
Nice of you to dismiss one of their largest MMORPGs as "crap", too. Unless it is supported flawlessly, no other browser, let alone OS, stands a chance. And I use Wine all the time, and it is FAR from flawless.
Yes, it's true. But that's accumulated over the year. With that much snow, it settles and packs down, although it might still be around 20 feet deep. I don't live there anymore;)
Your post is correct, except for the bit about KDE. It really is a nice object system they have going there (not sure what you mean by a "true" object-oriented environment - are there false ones?), if you ever bother to sit down and try it out. Qt's signals/slots mechanism is intuitive and "magical". The main issues in KDE are usability (which is a big one), multimedia, and dealing with the X11 heritage, the final one being a problem faced by all Linux desktops in general.
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Just wait until you get an actual job - if you insist on using K&R anywhere I've ever worked, you'll get canned for not following the coding standard, assuming you actually read it. That goes double for Microsoft shops (of which I've only ever worked in one, back in 1999). I've never seen K&R in use outside of school.
The great thing about science is that bad ideas get tossed out as fresh evidence comes to light. Happily, evolutionary theory just gets stronger and stronger as time goes on.
Let me guess: you're religious, right? You seem to think that an idea, once stated, must last forever and ever, amen.
Phew, those are some fairly harsh commentaries. However, it would be nice if the bigger distributions would cooperate with the autopackage guys, simply because there is no way in hell any given distribution will have every piece of software everyone might want. What if Adobe wants to distribute Photoshop CS on Linux? I guess it's possible to do it like Crossover on Gentoo, which has an ebuild that installs the downloaded binary. But I don't think that solution scales well.
Absolutely 100% agreed. Of course, this becomes easier as you get more experience, and thus more bargaining power - I worked a lot more when I was just starting out. And there's also that whole "work smarter, not harder" thing that comes into play with age and experience.
The only exception to the eight hours max a day rule is when you're with a small startup or some other venture in which you have a direct stake. Then working like a madman, at least temporarily, may be worth it (full disclosure: I'm in a startup).
But on the whole, yeah, the thought of looking back at my life and thinking, "Hmm, I just spent my entire youth working" is a horrifying one.
Which brings me back on topic: I wonder how many Google developers have totally thrown themselves into their work, going at it 60+ hours a week? It doesn't matter how cool your job is - at that rate, if you're a salaried employee, then your life is slipping away.
1. Why are you type in a monospace font? Which leads me to point 2:
2. You're a retard.
"I have yet to hear explanations for why temperatures actually DROPPED from the 1940s to the 1970s despite an increase in our use of automobiles and other gases."
Wow, good one! I'll bet the world's atmospheric scientists never, ever thought of that little "fact", eh? Leave it to a common-sense guy like you - the veritable man in the street - to bring these buffoons to their senses. All that university stuff - bah! All you need is a bit of good old American know-how. Well done! Now let's sharpen our pencils and get down to work! We'll show these darned eggheads what's what, boy oh boy!
Ah, good old Mentifex, back again. For those of you who are unaware of the history of one of the Internet's greatest kooks, here is a nice faq.
http://www.nothingisreal.com/mentifex_faq.html
"Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark."
That, my good man, is pure poetry. Hats off to you.
Clearly, the parent is some sort of subtle joke, because I refuse to believe that anyone could be this stupid. Such is my faith in humanity and its innate decency and propensity for logical thinking.
Alberta Report is a well-known lunatic fringe magazine, and an embarrassment to Canada. It is run by a family of ultra-conservative Catholics. I think it has a circulation of around 6 copies. I know they were forced to scale back dramatically due to poor sales.
Well, I guess the proof is in the pudding, as they say. TrollTech survive by selling licenses for their toolkit, obviously. There are literally hundreds of apps out there written using it (Photoshop CS, for example). Contrary to your opinion, commercial developers love Qt. No offense, but small developers like you just don't write the big apps that sell. If you made money from your apps, a Qt license would be no big deal. Sorry. (Yes, I'm a C++ developer of many years, and I've worked for big companies and small - right now, I'm in a 16 person startup. I know the value of time to market and working with the best tools.)
I'd like to hear about commercial apps written with gtk. Can you name any? I can't.
What! The mighty Ajax is all of the following:
1. A couple of guys from "The Iliad".
2. The name of a bunch of cars from the early part of the 20th century.
3. A major Dutch soccer team.
4. A toilet and bath cleaner.
5. A town in Ontario.
6. A character from the movie "Flash Gordon".
7. A "web technology" whose component parts have existed for ages, but marketing people believe makes them sound smart and "cutting edge".
8. Many other things.
It is NOT, and has NEVER BEEN, a mere "window cleaner"! Good god, man!
Trust me, it's hard on the liver.
Er, did you read the article? They address the rigid cow issue.
Also, you appear to be without a sense of humour.
It would appear that you forgot to take your pills today.
Cyril Bear Theory - I like it! That darned evolution (oops, I should say EVILution) has way too many holes in it, and it is in no way a fact. And I'll bet you can't disprove God, so that means Cyril Bear is real!
Well, I'm off to chat with the orange aliens who live in the carrot tree in my backyard. Bye!
You're a kook.
I guess you're too young to remember "Hacked By Chinese".
South Korea is almost entirely Windows-based. They are the world's biggest gamers (telling them use Wine is an insult), and their huge online community sites, banking sites, etc. etc. are IE-only. There is absolutely no way Linux could even touch the functionality they demand.
Nice of you to dismiss one of their largest MMORPGs as "crap", too. Unless it is supported flawlessly, no other browser, let alone OS, stands a chance. And I use Wine all the time, and it is FAR from flawless.
Yes, it's true. But that's accumulated over the year. With that much snow, it settles and packs down, although it might still be around 20 feet deep. I don't live there anymore ;)
The town I grew up in had 1199 inches of snow in 1973. It was in the Guiness Book of World Records.
Currently, even though things are really warming up these days, it still averages 30 feet a year. It's not called the Great White North for nothing.
Your post is correct, except for the bit about KDE. It really is a nice object system they have going there (not sure what you mean by a "true" object-oriented environment - are there false ones?), if you ever bother to sit down and try it out. Qt's signals/slots mechanism is intuitive and "magical". The main issues in KDE are usability (which is a big one), multimedia, and dealing with the X11 heritage, the final one being a problem faced by all Linux desktops in general.
Damn!
I wonder why the MPPE patch isn't a part of the stock kernel then? It's been around forever.
That's nice to see this finally in there, very good for those of us that need to use this protocol to VPN in to work. No more MPPE patches for me!
1. I'm not an American intellectual.
2. I'm from a much smaller town than you are. We only had a road built to it in my lifetime; we only got power off the grid in the '90s.