I recall reading sometime ago that US Navy studies for crewing submarines showed women coped much better will prolonged living in confined quarters than men do and an all female submarine crew would probably have higher moral than an all male crew.
I agree, it seems more experiment based than anything. Its a good idea as well. We all know SQL has shortcomings (hey nothing is perfect) and the OO database concept seems to have died a death. There are a lot of ORM tools and persistence frameworks coming into mainstream adoption now to avoid SQL in general day to day development. Several of these also have their own 'query language', so why not have another look at the root language.
You and your newfangled buggy whips. Here in the real country we ride horses the way the good lord intended. When we need to store data we just tell old Uncle Jim and he remembers it. Uncle Jim even invented relational data, why he can tell you just about anything the famiily ever done right back to when great great great great great great grand pappy Bill ran away to marry his 14 year old cousin Mary Lou.
The highlight of the ceremony was apparently a handshake between Anthony Daniels (C-3PO) and ASIMO (Honda)
If that was the highlight how many people bludgeoned themselves to death to escape the boredom? Jeez I bet even a few of the robots self terminated if that was as good as it got.
So many initial posts asking what Hibernate is when it is probably the poster child of Java Open Source (OK JBoss might be better known but unlike JBoss Hibernate is universally well regarded). Disappointing really.
Only if it was Sunday Aug 15th and you just woke up.
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Nice troll.
C# supports a full exception handling model, it just does not force you to declare and handle checked exceptions, an issue of strong contention within the Java community. Its left to the developers discretion when to check and handle errors. The orinal exception will still be available no information is lost.
For my own opinion I prefer unchecked exceptions as the code is far cleaner. Enforcing checked exceptions can be extremely clunky to handle and its highly debatable whether exceptions should be part of an interface. I also noticed a recent trend among java developers to use a single catch all exception in many cases to simplify coding.
I agree. I was so pissed of with all the junk mail I was getting through the post few years ago I abandoned my house so my address was worthless to them. Altering my lifestyle completely and living in a cardboard box under a bridge can be a bit of a chore but its worth it not to let the spammers win.
He never actually mentioned what his expectation were in the first place though so its hard to tell what was actually exceeded.
Peosonally I think more than one person needs to be impressed before you can write headlines like this, some guy scribbling on his blog is not a sufficient indicator for me.
Actually its more the other way round. If the content providers are not happy they will tell Apple to fuck off and deal with MS or some other distributor to the exclusion of Apple. Hell they can even launch their own online distribution channels if they feel like it.
that Google are doing more towards making the network the computer than companies like SUN and Oracle who have been banging on about it for years now but actually achieved nothing.
Surprising you dont seem to think good software should meet the users/customers requirements. That would be first on the list for me. Software must do what the user wants or it is a total failure as far as I am concerned. In general I would agree with your points. Code should be robust, testable, maintainable and reasonably performant. I prefer the source code to be documented well and autogenerate documenation from it rather than maintain duplicate documentation.
I am also a big fan of profiling code, and for server apps, proper load testing is and absolute must. It often only finds the low hanging fruit as performance bottle necks tend to be resource based eg the database is usually the 'culprit'. Profiling and code coverage/ code analysis are valuable tools though to identify critical paths and likely sources of problems and help developers gain a clearer picture of how the application actually works.
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I would like them to only release chips within a regularly defined cycle of say 500Mhz speed increases rather than release every improvement they can squeeze out of the chip. I think people would find it easier to plan and commit to a purchase this way. I think processors are fast enough now to handle the needs of the vast majority and theres not a great deal to be gained by flooding the market with differerent processor speeds and people _always_ waiting to maybe purchase the next small incremental release.
Slashdot Mirror
This sounds like a great idea at first till you realise the first step is for everyone to post AC on Slashdot.
Will someone please think of the karma!!!
I recall reading sometime ago that US Navy studies for crewing submarines showed women coped much better will prolonged living in confined quarters than men do and an all female submarine crew would probably have higher moral than an all male crew.
If you are not trampeled to death in the rush to volunteer for this.
I agree, it seems more experiment based than anything. Its a good idea as well. We all know SQL has shortcomings (hey nothing is perfect) and the OO database concept seems to have died a death. There are a lot of ORM tools and persistence frameworks coming into mainstream adoption now to avoid SQL in general day to day development. Several of these also have their own 'query language', so why not have another look at the root language.
You and your newfangled buggy whips. Here in the real country we ride horses the way the good lord intended. When we need to store data we just tell old Uncle Jim and he remembers it. Uncle Jim even invented relational data, why he can tell you just about anything the famiily ever done right back to when great great great great great great grand pappy Bill ran away to marry his 14 year old cousin Mary Lou.
The highlight of the ceremony was apparently a handshake between Anthony Daniels (C-3PO) and ASIMO (Honda)
If that was the highlight how many people bludgeoned themselves to death to escape the boredom? Jeez I bet even a few of the robots self terminated if that was as good as it got.
Strangest analogy ever.
Big Gay Al
So many initial posts asking what Hibernate is when it is probably the poster child of Java Open Source (OK JBoss might be better known but unlike JBoss Hibernate is universally well regarded). Disappointing really.
Only if it was Sunday Aug 15th and you just woke up.
Nice troll.
C# supports a full exception handling model, it just does not force you to declare and handle checked exceptions, an issue of strong contention within the Java community. Its left to the developers discretion when to check and handle errors. The orinal exception will still be available no information is lost.
For my own opinion I prefer unchecked exceptions as the code is far cleaner. Enforcing checked exceptions can be extremely clunky to handle and its highly debatable whether exceptions should be part of an interface. I also noticed a recent trend among java developers to use a single catch all exception in many cases to simplify coding.
I agree. I was so pissed of with all the junk mail I was getting through the post few years ago I abandoned my house so my address was worthless to them. Altering my lifestyle completely and living in a cardboard box under a bridge can be a bit of a chore but its worth it not to let the spammers win.
by influencing crackers to dupe their cracks, thus saving other organisations from their unwanted attention.
The company where I now work were downsizing and I was hired because of my propensity to TK in team games.
Griffin RadioSHARK Exceeds reifman's Expectations
He never actually mentioned what his expectation were in the first place though so its hard to tell what was actually exceeded.
Peosonally I think more than one person needs to be impressed before you can write headlines like this, some guy scribbling on his blog is not a sufficient indicator for me.
A small triumph over the near hysterical patent paranoia.
Actually its more the other way round. If the content providers are not happy they will tell Apple to fuck off and deal with MS or some other distributor to the exclusion of Apple. Hell they can even launch their own online distribution channels if they feel like it.
that Google are doing more towards making the network the computer than companies like SUN and Oracle who have been banging on about it for years now but actually achieved nothing.
I cant see them becoming a girls best friend though
That lead in was filled with pretentious twaddle
Dell are safe for the moment. Its 3$ x 10000 and some 10$ cases and no one has actually run uCLinux on one yet.
Surprising you dont seem to think good software should meet the users/customers requirements. That would be first on the list for me. Software must do what the user wants or it is a total failure as far as I am concerned. In general I would agree with your points. Code should be robust, testable, maintainable and reasonably performant. I prefer the source code to be documented well and autogenerate documenation from it rather than maintain duplicate documentation.
I am also a big fan of profiling code, and for server apps, proper load testing is and absolute must. It often only finds the low hanging fruit as performance bottle necks tend to be resource based eg the database is usually the 'culprit'. Profiling and code coverage/ code analysis are valuable tools though to identify critical paths and likely sources of problems and help developers gain a clearer picture of how the application actually works.
I would like them to only release chips within a regularly defined cycle of say 500Mhz speed increases rather than release every improvement they can squeeze out of the chip. I think people would find it easier to plan and commit to a purchase this way. I think processors are fast enough now to handle the needs of the vast majority and theres not a great deal to be gained by flooding the market with differerent processor speeds and people _always_ waiting to maybe purchase the next small incremental release.
He's a bigger moron than you think. He paid 30K US for it.
Right, because historically PHP has been an absolute bastion of security.