It really amazes me how people on slashdot fail to read the sentences other people write, assume some arbitrary point and then goes on a rave about it.
Read the sentence you quoted again, "For me...", see that bold word means it is something that applies to me as in an individual who isn't you, nor working at your company.
The three Cs are better for you? Well all power to you then. Also, your last statement seems a bit out of context, you need to write your arguments down in a post rather than go over them in your head and only write down your conclusion. I have no idea what you are going on about...
What is it with you people and reading things that isn't there?
I don't claim threading to be hard in C++, I claim Java threading is vastly easier - see the difference? Also, if you know any C++ programmers you'd know that boost et. al. are almost never ever allowed into any big product.
Nah, that's before my time as a "professional" programmer. Back when I was studying we had a teacher, Brian Vinter, whom used to love bashing Java - one of his favorite presentations was "Wot, no chicken?" (or starving philosophers if you will).
2-3Ghz Cpus have been out for ages, they are so fast, signals can't travel any meaningful distance within a single cycle - it makes a lot more sense to core up than to try and beat the speed of light. And you pointing out a core clock from 700 to 1Ghz in 3 years is good is actually just proving my point. 8-10 years ago you would expect a double up every 18 months, it's just not economically and physically viable to keep that race going.
And yes, they might have new instructions and they might be doing more per clock cycle, but you are by no means anywhere near the double up in efficiency *per* core that we used to see. The future is threaded applications - if you can't thread, go find yourself a nice FPGA.
Also, at no point did I *EVER* say you can't thread in C++ (please read peoples post and if you do, please don't put words in their mouth) - threading, and more importantly locking is vastly easier and safer to do in Java than C++.
Sure, if you write embedded applications, Java *might* not be the best option for you, but there are loads of processors that can handle Java in embedded settings - if what you are doing is something where microseconds matter, Java isn't your cup of tea, but for 90%+ of applications out there Java would be fast enough.
For me it doesn't matter which language is faster, I'm using the one that solves my problem the fastest (e.g. shippable product fastest) and right now, Java is the main player for me.
Also, since our CPUs aren't getting any faster, we need to use languages that makes threading easier the safest way and on that topic, Java is miles ahead of C++. (Java used to have an utterly broken threading model, but these days it works [tm]).
I don't get what I'm supposed to be doing with 300.000 apps; to me it just makes the SNR that much higher - at least on Android I get a search function build by someone with the ability to call up people who knows how to make searches...
Reminds me, many a years ago I did a short internship in an Olivetti service center, on my first monitor repair the guy teaching me told me to check the cap wasn't charged before disassembling the monitor - young and naive I asked how to do that; he gave me a screwdriver and told me to short the pins. Did teach me to have respect for large caps:-). (Not sure what the proper procedure is, but dumping the charge like that sure is exciting).
Just because you can't see a bit of tongue in cheek doesn't mean there isn't some. Lots of comedians fail at making people laugh from other than sheer embarrassment.
Please do not tell people to use mysql_escape_string. That function is broken and does not escape proper.
Also, just because you need to dynamically construct a string doesn't prevent you from using prepared statements. Just need to make sure user input is always passed to the database through parameters.
That being said - don't use MySQL in the first place; handling customer data and especially billing information (OP says customer site) in MySQL is just asking for trouble. ( http://sql-info.de/mysql/gotchas.html - note this was written for 4.0 as it says, but a lot of them are still very much a problem today).
Recently a Dane got extracted for crimes her boyfriend committed when she lived in the US.
In Denmark we do not prosecute people associated with the criminal, only if they actively participated. Also, we have a 5 year statue of limitation on that type of crime, this was way beyond that.
Hatred for the US for that comment? Wouw, you need to ease up on your foreign hatred - just because someone doesn't agree with you doesn't mean they hate you...
The US recently extracted a Danish citizen for prosecution for something that was way out statue of limitations in Denmark - on top of that, she was to be prosecuted for something her boyfriend did while she was with him; this is not something we prosecute people for in Denmark (thus by Danish standards she is innocent). We do not incarcerate people for 10 years because their spouse/bff decided to break the law selling hashish.
India is currently trying (and seemingly succeeding) to extract a guy who was on the wrong side of a local skirmish in the 80's; again he isn't by Danish standards guilty of anything.
These are just two examples - neither containing Polanski, nor rape of 13 year olds. However, if you want a bit of OMG think of the children thrown in, here's a kicker for you - In Denmark it's legal to have sex with "children" aged 15 and up, somewhere between 75 and 90 percent of Danish population is guilty of child molestation per US standards.
The problem is, most solutions are simple as soon as someone thought them up - reading about a solution is vastly easier than being the first to come up with it.
I'm in the process of developing a new idea (both hardware and software) - as soon as the product is out on the shelves a lot of competing companies are going to ask "why didn't we come up with this?". It's an obvious solution to a difficult problem, but as far as I know; no one has yet thought of it.
Actually, during emergencies they are using a quick reference manual on how to get the plane down safely.
(Although quick is a relative term, they are meant for planes at altitude, take the one ditched on the Potomac, they only managed a few checkpoints before they had to ditch the plane.)
Having an iPad for looking up might be good, my personal experience with the iPad is it isn't doing what I want it to do - the advantage of a book with paper in it is you aren't risking a software crash.
This is Nintendo overreacting to some ass hat Swede who threatened with a lawsuit.
Denmark has some of the worlds most liberal laws regarding pornography and game violence, granted, we don't allow child pornography - but we do for instance allow models from age 16 as long as they have their parents consent (and supervision) to pose nude. At no point would anyone consider throwing the book at Nintendo for making a game where you can see up a skirt on a 17 year old cartoon player.
(It has become illegal to poses cartoons portraying child pornography here, but again - emphasis on pornography - a naked child does not porno make).
Are you joking? My filter might be off, but after reading the first paragraph I had no idea what Camel was, then I read the review and still have no clue what it is or what it's trying to solve...
I like how you claim we know nothing about economics and then go on to claim you can just inflate yourself out of it - how exactly do you propose to feed 300 million people? The US isn't self sustaining, causing major inflation will weaken the dollar (obviously) and make import impossible...
And if you think the Chinese can't use the loans against you you are forgetting history - the British Empire toppled on the exactly same situation, an "ally" didn't agree with what they where doing and forced their hand under threats of economic sanctions.
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Then you haven't been living next to them.
From far away, they look peaceful and elegant, up close they are massive and make a lot of noise.
Oil and gas can be drilled from "far" away - windmill on the other hand tend to stick out; and in great numbers.
Git is the Chuck Norris of 2011!
It really amazes me how people on slashdot fail to read the sentences other people write, assume some arbitrary point and then goes on a rave about it.
Read the sentence you quoted again, "For me...", see that bold word means it is something that applies to me as in an individual who isn't you, nor working at your company.
The three Cs are better for you? Well all power to you then. Also, your last statement seems a bit out of context, you need to write your arguments down in a post rather than go over them in your head and only write down your conclusion. I have no idea what you are going on about...
What is it with you people and reading things that isn't there?
I don't claim threading to be hard in C++, I claim Java threading is vastly easier - see the difference? Also, if you know any C++ programmers you'd know that boost et. al. are almost never ever allowed into any big product.
Nah, that's before my time as a "professional" programmer. Back when I was studying we had a teacher, Brian Vinter, whom used to love bashing Java - one of his favorite presentations was "Wot, no chicken?" (or starving philosophers if you will).
See this: http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/projects/ofa/java-threads/0.html
2-3Ghz Cpus have been out for ages, they are so fast, signals can't travel any meaningful distance within a single cycle - it makes a lot more sense to core up than to try and beat the speed of light. And you pointing out a core clock from 700 to 1Ghz in 3 years is good is actually just proving my point. 8-10 years ago you would expect a double up every 18 months, it's just not economically and physically viable to keep that race going.
And yes, they might have new instructions and they might be doing more per clock cycle, but you are by no means anywhere near the double up in efficiency *per* core that we used to see. The future is threaded applications - if you can't thread, go find yourself a nice FPGA.
Also, at no point did I *EVER* say you can't thread in C++ (please read peoples post and if you do, please don't put words in their mouth) - threading, and more importantly locking is vastly easier and safer to do in Java than C++.
Sure, if you write embedded applications, Java *might* not be the best option for you, but there are loads of processors that can handle Java in embedded settings - if what you are doing is something where microseconds matter, Java isn't your cup of tea, but for 90%+ of applications out there Java would be fast enough.
For me it doesn't matter which language is faster, I'm using the one that solves my problem the fastest (e.g. shippable product fastest) and right now, Java is the main player for me.
Also, since our CPUs aren't getting any faster, we need to use languages that makes threading easier the safest way and on that topic, Java is miles ahead of C++. (Java used to have an utterly broken threading model, but these days it works [tm]).
Spread some fud will ya?
Apple got sued because they didn't want to pay the licensing fees *everyone* else are paying.
Android isn't going to be sued by Nokia.
Really? So iPhone 5 is dropping GSM support?
Pure VoIP phone or what?
I don't get what I'm supposed to be doing with 300.000 apps; to me it just makes the SNR that much higher - at least on Android I get a search function build by someone with the ability to call up people who knows how to make searches...
Reminds me, many a years ago I did a short internship in an Olivetti service center, on my first monitor repair the guy teaching me told me to check the cap wasn't charged before disassembling the monitor - young and naive I asked how to do that; he gave me a screwdriver and told me to short the pins. Did teach me to have respect for large caps :-). (Not sure what the proper procedure is, but dumping the charge like that sure is exciting).
Just because you can't see a bit of tongue in cheek doesn't mean there isn't some. Lots of comedians fail at making people laugh from other than sheer embarrassment.
Please do not tell people to use mysql_escape_string. That function is broken and does not escape proper.
Also, just because you need to dynamically construct a string doesn't prevent you from using prepared statements. Just need to make sure user input is always passed to the database through parameters.
That being said - don't use MySQL in the first place; handling customer data and especially billing information (OP says customer site) in MySQL is just asking for trouble. ( http://sql-info.de/mysql/gotchas.html - note this was written for 4.0 as it says, but a lot of them are still very much a problem today).
Recently a Dane got extracted for crimes her boyfriend committed when she lived in the US.
In Denmark we do not prosecute people associated with the criminal, only if they actively participated. Also, we have a 5 year statue of limitation on that type of crime, this was way beyond that.
Hatred for the US for that comment? Wouw, you need to ease up on your foreign hatred - just because someone doesn't agree with you doesn't mean they hate you...
The US recently extracted a Danish citizen for prosecution for something that was way out statue of limitations in Denmark - on top of that, she was to be prosecuted for something her boyfriend did while she was with him; this is not something we prosecute people for in Denmark (thus by Danish standards she is innocent). We do not incarcerate people for 10 years because their spouse/bff decided to break the law selling hashish.
India is currently trying (and seemingly succeeding) to extract a guy who was on the wrong side of a local skirmish in the 80's; again he isn't by Danish standards guilty of anything.
These are just two examples - neither containing Polanski, nor rape of 13 year olds. However, if you want a bit of OMG think of the children thrown in, here's a kicker for you - In Denmark it's legal to have sex with "children" aged 15 and up, somewhere between 75 and 90 percent of Danish population is guilty of child molestation per US standards.
"places like that"?
Like the US? India? UK? All countries currently trying to extract (or recently did) people for committing a crime that didn't break any local laws.
No, those 4 buildings where put there by aliens who also happened to put up a camera and come down to us with it...
The problem is, most solutions are simple as soon as someone thought them up - reading about a solution is vastly easier than being the first to come up with it.
I'm in the process of developing a new idea (both hardware and software) - as soon as the product is out on the shelves a lot of competing companies are going to ask "why didn't we come up with this?". It's an obvious solution to a difficult problem, but as far as I know; no one has yet thought of it.
Fair enough, didn't know that - just saw someone from the brother folks had made a mess of our baconated culture :-)
Actually, during emergencies they are using a quick reference manual on how to get the plane down safely.
(Although quick is a relative term, they are meant for planes at altitude, take the one ditched on the Potomac, they only managed a few checkpoints before they had to ditch the plane.)
Having an iPad for looking up might be good, my personal experience with the iPad is it isn't doing what I want it to do - the advantage of a book with paper in it is you aren't risking a software crash.
This is Nintendo overreacting to some ass hat Swede who threatened with a lawsuit.
Denmark has some of the worlds most liberal laws regarding pornography and game violence, granted, we don't allow child pornography - but we do for instance allow models from age 16 as long as they have their parents consent (and supervision) to pose nude.
At no point would anyone consider throwing the book at Nintendo for making a game where you can see up a skirt on a 17 year old cartoon player.
(It has become illegal to poses cartoons portraying child pornography here, but again - emphasis on pornography - a naked child does not porno make).
Are you joking? My filter might be off, but after reading the first paragraph I had no idea what Camel was, then I read the review and still have no clue what it is or what it's trying to solve...
I like how you claim we know nothing about economics and then go on to claim you can just inflate yourself out of it - how exactly do you propose to feed 300 million people? The US isn't self sustaining, causing major inflation will weaken the dollar (obviously) and make import impossible...
And if you think the Chinese can't use the loans against you you are forgetting history - the British Empire toppled on the exactly same situation, an "ally" didn't agree with what they where doing and forced their hand under threats of economic sanctions.
There won't be a major war, the Chinese will just require all loans repaid, that will end the US as we know it.