As the article points out many languages have a lot of quirks. While the pragmatic programmer is one of my favourite books on coding I dont think learning a new language every year is a particularly useful thing to do. There is a world of difference between just 'learning' a language and gathering the experience over an extended period of time to become truly proficient in it. I already code in serval languages and while I might have a passing interest in reviewing a couple more just to see how they work I really dont want to invest the time required to learn them properly when I dont see them appear in job adverts.
Or does anyone else find the idea of someone restricted by a back injury playing the part of an action hero with superpowers more than a tad silly ??
Personally I think they should have got some else to play the part. I doubt many people will go just because Toby is in the movie. From my own experience with back injury it severly restricts the range and fluidity of motion, not something you want to see in your average action super hero. I imagine teh stunt double will end up doinga lot more work on this movie than originally intended.
And some critics said "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial" relied heavily on the account of Christ's passion - a suggestion that director Steven Spielberg, who is Jewish, rejected.
I got as far as the line above and had to stop reading. I dont remember ET whipping out a hammer or saw during the movie to do a bit of carpentry and if I remember correctly he goes back to his buddies in the end without being crucified to death.
Its a movie. Turn your brain off for a couple of hours and enjoy the spectacle
This is part of a cunning plan in collusion with HP to make forging the new colour bills prohibitively expensive due to the new massive overhead of time limited, half full HP ink cartridges.
Of course he measn his p0rn collection. Everyones knows slashdotters seldom get the chance to actually practice with real girls and must rely on video to provide them with educational imformation on this subject
By your toilet reference I can see you have obviously mistaken a stream of diarrhea for someones stream of consiousness.... easy mistake to make with many of the blogs out there.
However, the logistics involved in transporting a 40,000 lb subway car would probably make such a project impossible.
I think your neighbours would probably make it even more impossible by killing you as soon as they found out what your intentions would to do to their property valuations
Need to order about 25000 AA bateries to power one of these babies ??
Also does anyone know where I can get a good repetive recording of 'Mind the gap' so my dream to replicate a london subway station can finally become a reality.
Ths article is not about preventing spam. Its about how the postal serices, and probably a few others are vunerable to malicious disruption via abuse of internet capabilities
Just because its expensive and a lengthy, difficult a pain in the ass process does not mean an organisation does not have the option to go down that path. How would OSS ever gain market share at the enterprise level if they could not ?? My original point about a fair unbiased choice stands. It will be every bit as expensive to switch from a poor OSS choice as from a poor proprietary one.
BTW offtopic but whoever modded my original post redundant is a twat:-)
By all means consider all available solutions(realistic one anyway). To do otherwise would be remiss. There are IT professionals out there who are familiar with the capabilities and shortcoming of both proprietary and open source software you know and can make an informed and unbiased recommendation. My point was there seemed to be excessive emphasis on justifying proprietary selections over OSS ones which is not a fair selection process
Frankly I am amazed at how frequently this "locked" argument is twisted. Proprietary software houses do not send armed guards to get your signature at gunpoint and prevent the installation/evaluation of other software. If you do not like the license you do not have to purchase and are free to find an alternative. If you cant find a suitable alternative then you can hire developers and build your own systems otherwise its welcome to a capitalist market and the law of supply and demand.
Read the article, they, as most people are aware the real cost is in support and maintenance. There is no such thing as free software. There may be no price tag attached to the aquisition of some Open Source software but it costs to support and maintain it. To say otherwise is highly disingenuous, if not down right untrue
provide justification whenever a proprietary software product is acquired instead of open source software;
I have always been of the opinion that the correct tool should be chose for the task at hand, be that tooling open or proprietary I really dont care.
I get concerned when I see clauses such as those above when there is no corresponding clause for justifying Open source choice over proprietary. Forcing adoption of Open Source thru legisaltion is every bit as bad, if not worse as the methods MS used to gain dominance.
Do they no realise that slashdot readers will soon have no windows and in some cases no walls, using paper thin LCD's instead so all this distortion reduction will be wasted.
Yeah but we live in such a fucked up world that shortly visiting a site will imply (after a few flesh eaters redefine your rights) that you agree to view all the sites 'sponsors' or otherwise messages which just happen to pop up on your screen.
The next step then will then be to make it illegal to block popups.
and exactly how many competitions to code games in VB will you enter ?
A lot of game development involves pushing the boundaries. Its a lot easier and emminently more practical to do that when you are already familiar/expert with the technology.
In your job you are constrained to use what you are told but you were probably hired because you were at least familiar if not proficient in the organisations technology standards already, not becase they felt like converting a few perl codes to c++ gurus.
But he might have a point for discussion anyway. I think its a bit foolish to talk about excessive risk when you basically strap yourself to several thousand tons of explosives, if the astrounauts are prepared to do it then I salute their courage.
I think of more prevalence is whether the shuttle is value for money. Its main reson for current existence seems to be the ISS which is turning into a money pit of epic proportions which now we cannot afford to abandon, thus ironically safeguarding the shuttle. I was staggered to read how cheaply John Carmack at all were planning to achieve sub orbital flights. Not a particularly balanced comparrison I agree but I would be in favour of NASA and the other spaces agencies for that matter investing a bit of time and effort with these independent efforts to develop more innovative and hope fully cheaper solutions.
Also if they could do it ASAP please because I really want to take a space flight before I am consigned to the great NULL.
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As the article points out many languages have a lot of quirks. While the pragmatic programmer is one of my favourite books on coding I dont think learning a new language every year is a particularly useful thing to do. There is a world of difference between just 'learning' a language and gathering the experience over an extended period of time to become truly proficient in it. I already code in serval languages and while I might have a passing interest in reviewing a couple more just to see how they work I really dont want to invest the time required to learn them properly when I dont see them appear in job adverts.
Well its certainly more interesting than watching a bunch of drug powered freaks trying to batter each other into submission in American football
there be several bikini clad beauties supporting the brazillian team or will I be wasting my time perving ... I mean watching this
Or does anyone else find the idea of someone restricted by a back injury playing the part of an action hero with superpowers more than a tad silly ??
Personally I think they should have got some else to play the part. I doubt many people will go just because Toby is in the movie. From my own experience with back injury it severly restricts the range and fluidity of motion, not something you want to see in your average action super hero. I imagine teh stunt double will end up doinga lot more work on this movie than originally intended.
Exactly. How do you think he hurt his back ?
I can see a small south american tribe here have a good prior art claim on something called amazon that sells dead trees
No one can be told what the Matrix icon represents, you must experience the Matrix icon for yourself
With dialog like "Noone can be told what the Matrix is", "Woah", and "I know Kung Fu" it's no wonder everyone's in an intellectual tiffy over it.
Thats probably the most insightful summation of the crap written about the Matrix I have seen.
And some critics said "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial" relied heavily on the account of Christ's passion - a suggestion that director Steven Spielberg, who is Jewish, rejected.
I got as far as the line above and had to stop reading. I dont remember ET whipping out a hammer or saw during the movie to do a bit of carpentry and if I remember correctly he goes back to his buddies in the end without being crucified to death.
Its a movie. Turn your brain off for a couple of hours and enjoy the spectacle
This is part of a cunning plan in collusion with HP to make forging the new colour bills prohibitively expensive due to the new massive overhead of time limited, half full HP ink cartridges.
That if I as a European purchase something from an online store in California I must pay sales tax to the state of California ?
Of course he measn his p0rn collection. Everyones knows slashdotters seldom get the chance to actually practice with real girls and must rely on video to provide them with educational imformation on this subject
By your toilet reference I can see you have obviously mistaken a stream of diarrhea for someones stream of consiousness .... easy mistake to make with many of the blogs out there.
However, the logistics involved in transporting a 40,000 lb subway car would probably make such a project impossible.
I think your neighbours would probably make it even more impossible by killing you as soon as they found out what your intentions would to do to their property valuations
Need to order about 25000 AA bateries to power one of these babies ??
Also does anyone know where I can get a good repetive recording of 'Mind the gap' so my dream to replicate a london subway station can finally become a reality.
Ths article is not about preventing spam. Its about how the postal serices, and probably a few others are vunerable to malicious disruption via abuse of internet capabilities
Just because its expensive and a lengthy, difficult a pain in the ass process does not mean an organisation does not have the option to go down that path. How would OSS ever gain market share at the enterprise level if they could not ?? My original point about a fair unbiased choice stands. It will be every bit as expensive to switch from a poor OSS choice as from a poor proprietary one.
:-)
BTW offtopic but whoever modded my original post redundant is a twat
By all means consider all available solutions(realistic one anyway). To do otherwise would be remiss. There are IT professionals out there who are familiar with the capabilities and shortcoming of both proprietary and open source software you know and can make an informed and unbiased recommendation. My point was there seemed to be excessive emphasis on justifying proprietary selections over OSS ones which is not a fair selection process
Frankly I am amazed at how frequently this "locked" argument is twisted. Proprietary software houses do not send armed guards to get your signature at gunpoint and prevent the installation/evaluation of other software. If you do not like the license you do not have to purchase and are free to find an alternative. If you cant find a suitable alternative then you can hire developers and build your own systems otherwise its welcome to a capitalist market and the law of supply and demand.
Read the article, they, as most people are aware the real cost is in support and maintenance. There is no such thing as free software. There may be no price tag attached to the aquisition of some Open Source software but it costs to support and maintain it. To say otherwise is highly disingenuous, if not down right untrue
provide justification whenever a proprietary software product is acquired instead of open source software;
I have always been of the opinion that the correct tool should be chose for the task at hand, be that tooling open or proprietary I really dont care.
I get concerned when I see clauses such as those above when there is no corresponding clause for justifying Open source choice over proprietary. Forcing adoption of Open Source thru legisaltion is every bit as bad, if not worse as the methods MS used to gain dominance.
Yes its a form of oppression forced upon us by our evil overlords. Please come and liberate us from this monstrocity
Do they no realise that slashdot readers will soon have no windows and in some cases no walls, using paper thin LCD's instead so all this distortion reduction will be wasted.
Yeah but we live in such a fucked up world that shortly visiting a site will imply (after a few flesh eaters redefine your rights) that you agree to view all the sites 'sponsors' or otherwise messages which just happen to pop up on your screen.
The next step then will then be to make it illegal to block popups.
and exactly how many competitions to code games in VB will you enter ?
A lot of game development involves pushing the boundaries. Its a lot easier and emminently more practical to do that when you are already familiar/expert with the technology.
In your job you are constrained to use what you are told but you were probably hired because you were at least familiar if not proficient in the organisations technology standards already, not becase they felt like converting a few perl codes to c++ gurus.
But he might have a point for discussion anyway. I think its a bit foolish to talk about excessive risk when you basically strap yourself to several thousand tons of explosives, if the astrounauts are prepared to do it then I salute their courage.
I think of more prevalence is whether the shuttle is value for money. Its main reson for current existence seems to be the ISS which is turning into a money pit of epic proportions which now we cannot afford to abandon, thus ironically safeguarding the shuttle. I was staggered to read how cheaply John Carmack at all were planning to achieve sub orbital flights. Not a particularly balanced comparrison I agree but I would be in favour of NASA and the other spaces agencies for that matter investing a bit of time and effort with these independent efforts to develop more innovative and hope fully cheaper solutions.
Also if they could do it ASAP please because I really want to take a space flight before I am consigned to the great NULL.