Fine him into the ground, but don't get him fired. The PUSA bragged about sexual assault (grabbin' PUSSY) and got elected. Colbert joked about something and gets fired? Give me a break. I agree his remarks might have been homo-offensive or even homophobic, but that's protected under free speech laws. Hate speech attacks individuals or orientations; homophobic speech is merely offensive. I'm a staunch advocate of free speech and I defend both Trump's "locker room talk" and Colbert's "homophobic remarks" because they are not meant to provoke, but rather to entertain. I find both incidents morally objectionable, but not to the point of obscenity or hate against a class.
tl;dr this shit doesn't matter: fix hunger, refugee crises, nuclear threats, global warming before you shit your pants over sex jokes while the whole system fails.
I live in Colorado where Sys76 is based. The original post may read like an ad, and my comment may sound like a shill, but check my post history. I'm not shill, I'm a real life Sys76 customer. Sys76 is committed to Linux on well-designed desktop/laptop systems. They have a legit business that focuses on systems designed for HPC and deep learning. I don't think they're super focused on mainstream consumer audience right now. From what I've seen they're really on the prosumer/commercial side of things -- looking to cash in on the deep learning craze, and put capable hardware and OS stack in the hands of interested people who want form-factors that fit into daily life. I'm impressed with their last-gen offerings, and I really look forward to what they'll be doing next. tl;dr: real company, real product. Keep an eye on this.
I've always felt that performing well in school is less a measure of intelligence and more a measure of one's ability to follow rules, complete assigned tasks, get along with teachers and classmates, and behave in socially acceptable ways. It even seems like highly intelligent people often perform worse-than-average in school because high intelligence often comes along with lower-than-average social skills (or a disinterest in adhering to social norms).
He basically wants to drop tag names and just have tags create generic dom nodes which get sculpted by CSS and JS.
<html6style> .myCoolTag { act-like-html: br } .heyThisIsFun { act-like-html: p } .canWeDropTheHtmlStandardNow { act-like-html: i } </html6style> <html> This is the first line. <html class="myCoolTag"> This comes after a newline <html class="heyThisIsFun"> This comes after a paragraph break. <html class="canWeDropTheHtmlStandardNow">And this is italicized.</html> </html>
That's too verbose for him though, so he wants to be able to write this:
<html6style> .myCoolTag { act-like-html: br } .heyThisIsFun { act-like-html: p } .canWeDropTheHtmlStandardNow { act-like-html: i } </html6style> <html> This is the first line. <myCoolTag> This comes after a newline <heyThisIsFun> This comes after a paragraph break. <canWeDropTheHtmlStandardNow>And this is italicized.</canWeDropTheHtmlStandardNow> </html>
You'll notice that all this does is push the HTML spec into the CSS spec. I don't see much of an advantage to that. And it makes it impossible to get even a basic understanding of HTML document structure without constantly referring back to the CSS.
He also wants all new features that would previously have been implemented by adding tags to the HTML specification to be implemented by way of shims (polyfills). But who standardizes the behavior of shimmed constructs? Well, nobody. People just pick the shims they like. And because the shims are JS + CSS, the W3C is in charge of making sure the browsers execute them properly. Kind of like how today the W3C is in charge of making sure browsers execute HTML properly.
I think this guy might be happy if we got rid of every tag except <canvas> and all reusable components (e.g. <button>) came from third party vendors. E.g. <include src="http://html6.google.com/button.polyfill">. Oh boy I can't wait.
One of the things you really miss with JavaScript is a compiler. Something to check your entire program for obvious errors. That's where unit tests come in. If you have Significant unit test coverage, you can run your unit tests instead of running your compiler. Unit tests nearly double in value (IMO) when used with a dynamic language that has no compiler.
Some of the most useful programming books I've owned were from Wrox, especially on C++. Their extra effort to address programming in practice can be very helpful to someone who needs to get stuff done. (If I needed a regurgitation of the spec, I'd just read the spec.)
I rarely avoid books based on their publisher. Instead I look for books that are reviewed favorably by many people. And I look for reviews that tend to indicate that the book is the style and level that I'm looking for. Of course there are other criteria like date of publish, etc. Sometimes I don't even realize the publisher of a book until after I'm done with the book.:)
Basically I think pre-filtering based on publisher isn't a very useful way to locate the best book for a given scenario. Hypothetically if I found a Wrox book and an O'Reilly book that were seemingly very equal, I'd choose O'Reilly. But such a situation rarely happens -- I almost always have some other substantive reason to choose one book over another.
Filing a patent requires a lot of expensive lawyer time; a company like Apple typically will not file one that it cannot defend.
It's not true. Tech companies spam the USPTO with patent applications, taking the shotgun approach of hoping something, anything will stick. It is not terribly expensive to file patents, especially when compared with the amount of money that Apple can throw around.
Marking otherwise legitimate emails as spam has a potential downside: if your spam blocker is stochastic / bayesian / learning, you will be teaching it that legitimate email patterns are "spamlike."
I prefer to just blacklist the sender's address in types of cases.
It's not "some link I found." It's EVERY link I found. If you don't think that carries serious weight, then we have a philosophical difference of opinion about finding reliable information on the internet, not about prepositions.:)
I subscribed to Experts Exchange for 12 months once. I did find probably 4 useful answers there during that time (that weren't obvious available anywhere else), and I felt like I got my money's worth.
Since StackOverflow and StackExchange came to prominence, I think Experts Exchange is no longer worth the money, and the quality of its content has declined dramatically. It's no longer worth my money. (If you're going to reply and say: "it was never worth your money," please save yourself the trouble.)
Yes, I know there are ways to get at the Experts Exchange answers without paying; and yes I know their gaming of the Google spider and search results provides a strong argument for justifying circumventing their payment system, but when I am collecting information for my professional obligations, I'd rather go through the proper channel. Has paying your way and acting in earnest really lost all respect as a valid choice?:-)
I don't really curse at my computer. I've cursed while using it, but it was not directed at the computer itself. I may have also had a few choice words directed at Western Digital the company in an recent extremely unlucky multi-drive failure (primary and backup) and subsequent data loss.
If you download Java (JRE or JDK) via the developer site, the installer doesn't have any toolbars or crapware embedded in it. Only the java.com-hosted installer has a toolbar "offer" during install. This is why I always download from java.sun.com (I suppose now it's http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html).
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Fine him into the ground, but don't get him fired. The PUSA bragged about sexual assault (grabbin' PUSSY) and got elected. Colbert joked about something and gets fired? Give me a break. I agree his remarks might have been homo-offensive or even homophobic, but that's protected under free speech laws. Hate speech attacks individuals or orientations; homophobic speech is merely offensive. I'm a staunch advocate of free speech and I defend both Trump's "locker room talk" and Colbert's "homophobic remarks" because they are not meant to provoke, but rather to entertain. I find both incidents morally objectionable, but not to the point of obscenity or hate against a class. tl;dr this shit doesn't matter: fix hunger, refugee crises, nuclear threats, global warming before you shit your pants over sex jokes while the whole system fails.
I live in Colorado where Sys76 is based. The original post may read like an ad, and my comment may sound like a shill, but check my post history. I'm not shill, I'm a real life Sys76 customer. Sys76 is committed to Linux on well-designed desktop/laptop systems. They have a legit business that focuses on systems designed for HPC and deep learning. I don't think they're super focused on mainstream consumer audience right now. From what I've seen they're really on the prosumer/commercial side of things -- looking to cash in on the deep learning craze, and put capable hardware and OS stack in the hands of interested people who want form-factors that fit into daily life. I'm impressed with their last-gen offerings, and I really look forward to what they'll be doing next.
tl;dr: real company, real product. Keep an eye on this.
I've always felt that performing well in school is less a measure of intelligence and more a measure of one's ability to follow rules, complete assigned tasks, get along with teachers and classmates, and behave in socially acceptable ways. It even seems like highly intelligent people often perform worse-than-average in school because high intelligence often comes along with lower-than-average social skills (or a disinterest in adhering to social norms).
That's too verbose for him though, so he wants to be able to write this:
You'll notice that all this does is push the HTML spec into the CSS spec. I don't see much of an advantage to that. And it makes it impossible to get even a basic understanding of HTML document structure without constantly referring back to the CSS.
He also wants all new features that would previously have been implemented by adding tags to the HTML specification to be implemented by way of shims (polyfills). But who standardizes the behavior of shimmed constructs? Well, nobody. People just pick the shims they like. And because the shims are JS + CSS, the W3C is in charge of making sure the browsers execute them properly. Kind of like how today the W3C is in charge of making sure browsers execute HTML properly.
I think this guy might be happy if we got rid of every tag except <canvas> and all reusable components (e.g. <button>) came from third party vendors. E.g. <include src="http://html6.google.com/button.polyfill">. Oh boy I can't wait.
One of the things you really miss with JavaScript is a compiler. Something to check your entire program for obvious errors. That's where unit tests come in. If you have Significant unit test coverage, you can run your unit tests instead of running your compiler. Unit tests nearly double in value (IMO) when used with a dynamic language that has no compiler.
I'd mod you up, but I've started browsing at +5. Sorry ;-)
I just donated again. Thanks for the reminder.
Are they really remembering?
Or are they just making the same choice twice?
Some of the most useful programming books I've owned were from Wrox, especially on C++. Their extra effort to address programming in practice can be very helpful to someone who needs to get stuff done. (If I needed a regurgitation of the spec, I'd just read the spec.)
I rarely avoid books based on their publisher. Instead I look for books that are reviewed favorably by many people. And I look for reviews that tend to indicate that the book is the style and level that I'm looking for. Of course there are other criteria like date of publish, etc. Sometimes I don't even realize the publisher of a book until after I'm done with the book. :)
Basically I think pre-filtering based on publisher isn't a very useful way to locate the best book for a given scenario. Hypothetically if I found a Wrox book and an O'Reilly book that were seemingly very equal, I'd choose O'Reilly. But such a situation rarely happens -- I almost always have some other substantive reason to choose one book over another.
It's not true. Tech companies spam the USPTO with patent applications, taking the shotgun approach of hoping something, anything will stick. It is not terribly expensive to file patents, especially when compared with the amount of money that Apple can throw around.
Maybe I'm daft, but what does Facebook making an App Store have to do with the security of iOS?
Marking otherwise legitimate emails as spam has a potential downside: if your spam blocker is stochastic / bayesian / learning, you will be teaching it that legitimate email patterns are "spamlike." I prefer to just blacklist the sender's address in types of cases.
It's not "some link I found." It's EVERY link I found. If you don't think that carries serious weight, then we have a philosophical difference of opinion about finding reliable information on the internet, not about prepositions. :)
It is not incorrect to end a sentence with a preposition. Citation: every single link on the first page of search results:
http://www.google.com/m?q=ending+sentence+with+preposition
I subscribed to Experts Exchange for 12 months once. I did find probably 4 useful answers there during that time (that weren't obvious available anywhere else), and I felt like I got my money's worth. Since StackOverflow and StackExchange came to prominence, I think Experts Exchange is no longer worth the money, and the quality of its content has declined dramatically. It's no longer worth my money. (If you're going to reply and say: "it was never worth your money," please save yourself the trouble.) Yes, I know there are ways to get at the Experts Exchange answers without paying; and yes I know their gaming of the Google spider and search results provides a strong argument for justifying circumventing their payment system, but when I am collecting information for my professional obligations, I'd rather go through the proper channel. Has paying your way and acting in earnest really lost all respect as a valid choice? :-)
I don't really curse at my computer. I've cursed while using it, but it was not directed at the computer itself. I may have also had a few choice words directed at Western Digital the company in an recent extremely unlucky multi-drive failure (primary and backup) and subsequent data loss.
No offense, but if you want a good traffic prediction algorithm, please offer more than my shitty quarterly salary.
Wishing for +10 Insightful to parent poster.
You mean "speech to text," not "text to speech." There's a difference.
If you don't want to reinstall (you really should) then at least run Malware Bytes in addition to a full system scan with your usual A-V software.
If you download Java (JRE or JDK) via the developer site, the installer doesn't have any toolbars or crapware embedded in it. Only the java.com-hosted installer has a toolbar "offer" during install. This is why I always download from java.sun.com (I suppose now it's http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html).
I'm afraid the battle for "begs the question" is a lost one, my friend. But keep fighting the good fight, I guess.
Instead of
"C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup"
Use
"%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Startup"
or to avoid Vista/W7 UAC issues:
"%USERPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Startup"
But they /are/ going to just destroy them. After paying for them, that is.
You can't associate files with shortcuts.