Find a good job first use whatever they want you to use. A good job where you're allowed to be creative and not Micromanaged. Find that job and usually they'll have enough sense to use development tools that give them a competitive edge. I've had crappy jobs at crappy companies. Usually they used crappy development tools. Currently, I have a good job with a good company. I write Python and C++ code for high performance Linux systems. If I came up with a good business reason to use another language the company would most likely go with it. So find the good job and the rest will follow.
Avatar is not anti-technology. Technology saved the Na'vi. The movie was making a statement about imperialism and ethnocentrism. Both the Na'vi and the humans possessed advanced technology. The Na'vi have advanced biological tech including a world spanning network that they can tap into at will. They fly, possibly better than humans can with their technology. The Na'vi are not stone age primitive people, they are a highly advanced culture with advanced technology. Their technology is just very different than human technology.
How about recording the lecture using a cell phone and otherwise pay attention to what the lecturer says. You can then take notes from the video or audio.
Jack hammers upstairs so loud that when they stopped your ears rang.
Random things would fall from the ceiling.
Strange liquids fall on your desk from the ceiling.
Noxious vapors filling the floor forcing an evacuation.
For 3 months this went on. During this time everytime we complained, the office manager who worked on a different floor would say, "Oh it's not that bad".
Most software is still embedded. Combine that with, any joker can become competent with Java or C#. There are a lot of low paying jobs dealing with Java or C# that you see advertised. Competent C and C++ developers are harder to find and consequently earn more money. I constantly am getting calls from recruiters looking to bring me in on C/C++ jobs, especially, for medical devices and military systems. This stimulus bill that Captain dumbshit just rammed through the legislative branch contains a lot of funding earmarks for medical and military. So I expect that this trend will only increase. Get familiar with the MISRA coding standard and understand how to design reliable systems in C and C++.
Won't be doing so now. I'll just stick with my Zaurus PDA and Gutenberg.
This is one of those shoot themselves in the foot moments. The people who are going to by this device and make it profitable are the ones that will want to tinker with it. If the tinkerers don't buy it the Kindle will fail as a product before it has a chance to become mainstream. Good job Amazon.
I'm a QA guy turned developer. The biotech company I'm with didn't even do QA on the hardware. When I arrived and saw the situation, I just implemented standard software development procedures. I started doing documentation including requirements gathering for existing products. Did a QA pass on the hardware I was assigned to before I did any development.
Turns out they like what I did and then they started following my example.
Besides the study being useless, it fails to make sense. All these high level languages, excepting lisp, can't be written in themselves. Everything underneath the web page (interpreters, web server, databases, OS, web browser) are all written in C or C++. For those winers that complain about working with memory, please stay away from C and C++, just admit your limitations. I don't want to have to come and fix the problems you amateurs cause.
Wow you must be new here. Expecting the/. community to do something constructive like teaching programming...
map is a higher order function that takes a list and iterates over the elements calling a function, that is also passed in, on each element. The results are returned from map as another list. lambda creates anonymous functions. So an anonymous function is created and passed into map along with a list. It's a common functional idiom. Functional programming style is well worth knowing.
Every country has its problems; France especially so. I'd tend to agree with your assessment but you come off so arrogant and self aggrandizing that I can't bring myself to agree with you. I'd go flame your ass but you'd just surrender.:D
Actually, if you read the article (I know bizarre), you would have know that it is already and FDA approved drug and is actively prescribed. It has some side effects but nothing horrible. Since it is already approved, getting it cleared for use in a an additional capacity is much easier since it has been proven safe for human use. The only thing that needs to be proved is effecacy.
I am a comcast subscriber (get over it. It's my only choice.) and as with all my past ISP's I've found their email service to be poor so I do the intelligent thing and use an email service that doesn't suck. That is why there are so many out there, lots of competition makes for good service. Go out and choose one.
I used to be a Slickedit user for years. A couple of years ago I dropped it for emacs. Any editor that uses modal dialogs or even dialogs at all just kills productivity. Also, emacs beats it for configurability. You could make a case for using VS in Windows but not in Linux just because it is harder to get emacs configured right in Windows.
Most Americans don't even know of all the help that the French offered the Americans during the War of Independence. Many of the rednecks in places like Louisiana, Oklahoma, parts of Texas, and Mississippi wouldn't even be alive today were it not for their French ancestors.
Ah, the bible belt. I always wondered why the was such concentration of "special" people there. The kind that take the bible as literal truth and want to teach creationism as science. Now we have one more thing to blame the French for.
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Find a good job first use whatever they want you to use. A good job where you're allowed to be creative and not Micromanaged. Find that job and usually they'll have enough sense to use development tools that give them a competitive edge. I've had crappy jobs at crappy companies. Usually they used crappy development tools. Currently, I have a good job with a good company. I write Python and C++ code for high performance Linux systems. If I came up with a good business reason to use another language the company would most likely go with it. So find the good job and the rest will follow.
Interesting theory. If only there were states with no income tax so we could check your theory. Oh, wait, there are!
Your Washington figure for sales tax is wrong. In Seattle sales tax is 10% and in most other places in Washington is 9.8%.
Isn't this what VBScript is for? If you don't like VB you can use JScript.
Avatar is not anti-technology. Technology saved the Na'vi. The movie was making a statement about imperialism and ethnocentrism. Both the Na'vi and the humans possessed advanced technology. The Na'vi have advanced biological tech including a world spanning network that they can tap into at will. They fly, possibly better than humans can with their technology. The Na'vi are not stone age primitive people, they are a highly advanced culture with advanced technology. Their technology is just very different than human technology.
It was interesting work but the management were clueless about software development. That's another company on my resume that no longer exists. Damn.
How about recording the lecture using a cell phone and otherwise pay attention to what the lecturer says. You can then take notes from the video or audio.
For 3 months this went on. During this time everytime we complained, the office manager who worked on a different floor would say, "Oh it's not that bad".
Thanks D4 for my Dilbert experience.
Most software is still embedded. Combine that with, any joker can become competent with Java or C#. There are a lot of low paying jobs dealing with Java or C# that you see advertised. Competent C and C++ developers are harder to find and consequently earn more money. I constantly am getting calls from recruiters looking to bring me in on C/C++ jobs, especially, for medical devices and military systems. This stimulus bill that Captain dumbshit just rammed through the legislative branch contains a lot of funding earmarks for medical and military. So I expect that this trend will only increase. Get familiar with the MISRA coding standard and understand how to design reliable systems in C and C++.
Won't be doing so now. I'll just stick with my Zaurus PDA and Gutenberg.
This is one of those shoot themselves in the foot moments. The people who are going to by this device and make it profitable are the ones that will want to tinker with it. If the tinkerers don't buy it the Kindle will fail as a product before it has a chance to become mainstream. Good job Amazon.
One more step down the road to National Socialism. Welcome to Germany circa 1938.
Read the Rich Dad books. They teach you how to think to get a head financially. They're not get rich quick books.
I'm a QA guy turned developer. The biotech company I'm with didn't even do QA on the hardware. When I arrived and saw the situation, I just implemented standard software development procedures. I started doing documentation including requirements gathering for existing products. Did a QA pass on the hardware I was assigned to before I did any development. Turns out they like what I did and then they started following my example.
If you had read the slashdot article you know we were discussing the top ten. 19th is not in the top ten. So not on the list. ;)
Ada didn't make the list.
Besides the study being useless, it fails to make sense. All these high level languages, excepting lisp, can't be written in themselves. Everything underneath the web page (interpreters, web server, databases, OS, web browser) are all written in C or C++. For those winers that complain about working with memory, please stay away from C and C++, just admit your limitations. I don't want to have to come and fix the problems you amateurs cause.
The world would end.
Wow you must be new here. Expecting the /. community to do something constructive like teaching programming...
map is a higher order function that takes a list and iterates over the elements calling a function, that is also passed in, on each element. The results are returned from map as another list. lambda creates anonymous functions. So an anonymous function is created and passed into map along with a list. It's a common functional idiom. Functional programming style is well worth knowing.
Wait... didn't we have this discussion before.
Every country has its problems; France especially so. I'd tend to agree with your assessment but you come off so arrogant and self aggrandizing that I can't bring myself to agree with you. I'd go flame your ass but you'd just surrender. :D
Except that Algorithms are specifically not patentable.
Actually, if you read the article (I know bizarre), you would have know that it is already and FDA approved drug and is actively prescribed. It has some side effects but nothing horrible. Since it is already approved, getting it cleared for use in a an additional capacity is much easier since it has been proven safe for human use. The only thing that needs to be proved is effecacy.
Bada Bump!
I am a comcast subscriber (get over it. It's my only choice.) and as with all my past ISP's I've found their email service to be poor so I do the intelligent thing and use an email service that doesn't suck. That is why there are so many out there, lots of competition makes for good service. Go out and choose one.
I used to be a Slickedit user for years. A couple of years ago I dropped it for emacs. Any editor that uses modal dialogs or even dialogs at all just kills productivity. Also, emacs beats it for configurability. You could make a case for using VS in Windows but not in Linux just because it is harder to get emacs configured right in Windows.
Most Americans don't even know of all the help that the French offered the Americans during the War of Independence. Many of the rednecks in places like Louisiana, Oklahoma, parts of Texas, and Mississippi wouldn't even be alive today were it not for their French ancestors.
Ah, the bible belt. I always wondered why the was such concentration of "special" people there. The kind that take the bible as literal truth and want to teach creationism as science. Now we have one more thing to blame the French for.