"I think that says more about where you live than the use of the words..."
The usage of words is a cultural thing
Well... yes. Is there some disagreement here? o_O
perhaps you should be a little more accepting of cultural differences, and a little less snobbish.
Did I ever say there was anything wrong with his culture? (also, lol at the "intolerance will not be tolerated" logic:P)
To clarify, I was taking issue with "Shit is not normally considered to be a rude word.", because while that may be true for his culture, in the global culture (ie, what yahoo is complying with), I would dare say that the majority of people would consider it rude (if only slightly so).
Real coders write code that you can take a ruler from any given close brace and draw a vertical line right up to the matching open brace, every time
Drawing a line from a close brace to an opening brace is useless, as the opening brace has no actual effect on code; drawing a line straight up to hit the opening statement (if, while, etc) is just as clear (actually, it's the indentation that makes things clear, not the braces), but far more useful.
Speed. Now a binary distro can install things quickly but not run them very quickly.
In the last benchmark I saw, gentoo occasionally managed to be something like 0.5% faster on some tasks, and was occasionally 20% slower when the user compiled with an optimisation which backfired; the package maintainer's choice of optimisations for the specific package were generally better than the user's choice for their specific CPU... That was a few years back though (when gentoo fanboyism was at its peak), not sure what's changed since~
Googling for said article, I find lots of references to it, but the site itself seems to no longer exist, and archive.org crashes when trying to access it -_-
If MS can make Office 07 faster and more efficient for me to use than OpenOffice with its painfully slow operation, then surely its a miracle that they can do that despite using 20 year old spaghetti code
"Faster than openoffice" is hardly challenging... Call me back when word loads as fast as vi + latex, or excel crunches data like postgres + python:P
(If you *must* compare traditional office apps, try some of the independant projects like abiword or gnumeric~)
Holy shit, has it really been 10 years since this?
So IBM announces a 25 gig hard drive... does the world need this yet? Unless this is in a RAID, would you really want to trust 25 gigs on a single drive?
Several people point out a third party extension which doesn't work in FF3, to which I shall reply: Just use Opera, it's had all these amazing new innovations for years, built in and working fine with the latest version:P
A couple of my coworkers play quake against eachother; should I kill everyone in the office to stop any chance of further conflict?
I'd agree that getting involved always *has the potential* to improve the situation; however, it also has the potential to make things a hell of a lot worse. Having some idea what's happening and not being a jerk are good qualities -- blindly getting involved in any situation is not certain to lead to improvement~
For me at least, year 7 maths was simpler than what I was taught in year 6.
I still have the scar from my first maths test in year 7, in a grammar school which only took the top 10% of local pupils. I was so excited to finally get to a place where I'd be challenged, but then:
This is a triangle: *picture of a triangle*. How many sides does it have?
Put these numbers in order: 7, 4, 9, 2, 1. (Hint: You may want to use the number-line provided)
Like I said, I don't know what the profit margins are or how little they could sell their drugs for and still turn a profit. But someone has to feed the monster.
Seeing as drug research benefits pretty much everyone, why isn't the government doing it?
For all of you who have "set up a machine" for their parents and it "works just fine", I submit that requiring an expert to set up a system for an end user is the very definition of "not ready".
By that defenition, Windows isn't ready either:-|
In today's world that end user (even Mom) might need to change something, install something new, access something different
My parents have found changing settings and installing programs easier on linux (Ubuntu) than Windows:-P
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PHP5 supports type hinting
Ooh, that looks pretty useful... *writes out a function to only accept strings*
Argument 1 passed to test() must be an instance of string, string given
Umm.. wtf? *googles*
Oh, type hinting only supports certain types of types.
Conclusion: PHP still sucks, and the new features are as half-assed as ever :-(
"I think that says more about where you live than the use of the words..."
The usage of words is a cultural thing
Well... yes. Is there some disagreement here? o_O
perhaps you should be a little more accepting of cultural differences, and a little less snobbish.
Did I ever say there was anything wrong with his culture? (also, lol at the "intolerance will not be tolerated" logic :P)
To clarify, I was taking issue with "Shit is not normally considered to be a rude word.", because while that may be true for his culture, in the global culture (ie, what yahoo is complying with), I would dare say that the majority of people would consider it rude (if only slightly so).
I can understand if the name was Cuntington but "shit" is an everyday word (So is "cunt" where I live)
I think that says more about where you live than the use of the words...
like this (duck)
Or this:
*quack* >o
flowto is the new-age goto?
Real coders write code that you can take a ruler from any given close brace and draw a vertical line right up to the matching open brace, every time
Drawing a line from a close brace to an opening brace is useless, as the opening brace has no actual effect on code; drawing a line straight up to hit the opening statement (if, while, etc) is just as clear (actually, it's the indentation that makes things clear, not the braces), but far more useful.
4. Project/Task/Issue/Bug tracking. I use SVN integrated with Trac at home. It's not very good compared to commercial offerings, but it works.
I'm curious, what does trac lack, and which commercial offerings do better?
Split up open source developers into teams: ... [a plan follows]
I hope to god that nobody ever puts you into a management role; but with a plan like that, I fear you are there already :(
Speed. Now a binary distro can install things quickly but not run them very quickly.
In the last benchmark I saw, gentoo occasionally managed to be something like 0.5% faster on some tasks, and was occasionally 20% slower when the user compiled with an optimisation which backfired; the package maintainer's choice of optimisations for the specific package were generally better than the user's choice for their specific CPU... That was a few years back though (when gentoo fanboyism was at its peak), not sure what's changed since~
Googling for said article, I find lots of references to it, but the site itself seems to no longer exist, and archive.org crashes when trying to access it -_-
If MS can make Office 07 faster and more efficient for me to use than OpenOffice with its painfully slow operation, then surely its a miracle that they can do that despite using 20 year old spaghetti code
"Faster than openoffice" is hardly challenging... Call me back when word loads as fast as vi + latex, or excel crunches data like postgres + python :P
(If you *must* compare traditional office apps, try some of the independant projects like abiword or gnumeric~)
So we should be expecting it around 2015, reaching stability with SP3 in 2020?
120mil unique hits in one month + 120mil unique hits the next month = approx 120mil unique hits total, not 240
I think of this...
Isn't everyone always complaining that this *isn't* the case?
(Also, pet peeve: "A lot" is two words)
Holy shit, has it really been 10 years since this?
So IBM announces a 25 gig hard drive... does the world need this yet? Unless this is in a RAID, would you really want to trust 25 gigs on a single drive?Several people point out a third party extension which doesn't work in FF3, to which I shall reply: Just use Opera, it's had all these amazing new innovations for years, built in and working fine with the latest version :P
A couple of my coworkers play quake against eachother; should I kill everyone in the office to stop any chance of further conflict?
I'd agree that getting involved always *has the potential* to improve the situation; however, it also has the potential to make things a hell of a lot worse. Having some idea what's happening and not being a jerk are good qualities -- blindly getting involved in any situation is not certain to lead to improvement~
I still have the scar from my first maths test in year 7, in a grammar school which only took the top 10% of local pupils. I was so excited to finally get to a place where I'd be challenged, but then:
This is a triangle: *picture of a triangle*. How many sides does it have? Put these numbers in order: 7, 4, 9, 2, 1. (Hint: You may want to use the number-line provided)It made me ;_;
Seeing as drug research benefits pretty much everyone, why isn't the government doing it?
What's absurd about one bit of native binary code outperforming a different bit of native binary code? o_O
The guy made a 3GW reactor in a cave, out of scrap parts!
NoSQL, half way between standard SQL and unix command line, stores data in plain text files
By that defenition, Windows isn't ready either :-|
In today's world that end user (even Mom) might need to change something, install something new, access something differentMy parents have found changing settings and installing programs easier on linux (Ubuntu) than Windows :-P
One of the 20-odd libraries it uses reached 1.0 status last week \o/
Blender wasn't an open source child, it was bought out by open source when the company creating it went bust~