Not only does SQL work, it is the best at what it does.
The only people who hate on SQL are the people who don't understand databases.
Generally, these are the same people who like labels, tag clouds and ruby on rails.
They produce a lot of high level hand waving with regards to the actual code and endless amounts of "herp derp I dunno" when asked why their shit performs slower than the 10 year old system it's supposed to replace. These are bad people.
Here here. Well said. If you think you can do everything without structured data you've never heard of accurate reporting before, which is what businesses need to be competitive and not waste money and all that fancy schmancy business stuff.
Insightful? People like noSQL because it allows them to have messy unstructured data and not do any data modelling.
We're still using SQL 20 years later because it's a great layer between your OO code and your relational data. Unless you want to use a heirachical database (which no-one does) SQL works fine. Sure you can use an ORM but at some stage you'll need to handle the conversion between relational and OO.. unless you're happy being ignorant as to how your database works and not be able to performance tune anything.
The whole NoSQL movement is as bad as the XML movement. I'm sure it's a great idea in some cases, but otherwise it's a solution looking for a problem.
Excellent quote.
Timothy, you're asking the wrong question. "Is anyone using this system in production?" bzzzz, wrong. The correct question is "What systems are people _using_ in production?"
which has over 6000 shots, and used a combination of webcam shots, digital camera shots and a live action camera.
I will like to venture the opinion that the software for stop motion animation is generally terrible.
I tried out a bunch of software and almost all of them were either :
- Too expensive
- Crashed too often
- Difficult to use
- Had practically no features
- Were impossible to evaluate
For something that's such a simple thing, take a bunch of shots and join them together, the software that's out there is _terrible_. The only one that was even vaguely plausable to use was Stop Motion Pro - and even then it was expensive. The only caveat that I'd like to add is that it was about 4 years ago.
I ended up using software called MonkeyJam, which even still crashed frequently, and used Adobe's Premiere Pro to join it all together. It was a nightmare.
This article is a basic puff piece on how nice and easy everything is, in particular:
"Young kids can make a film in their room and distribute it and have half a million people view it"
what a load of rubbish. Show me a bunch of stop motion films that a bunch of kids have made in their rooms with over half a million views. Unless it's spectacular nobody is going to view it.
Seems like a bit of a co-incidence.. especially because this is the second time it has happened. Last time there was a protest organised about shutting down the Tote due to insane liquor licensing - but the protest was a waste of time as a decision had already been made.
I guess politically it's a lot less damaging if they stop the protest from happening.
But maybe they've started doing next years budget and realised just how expensive this filtering nonsense will be.. and that they can safely cut it because no-one wants it. They can save face by saying "it's just been delayed".
Couldn't agree more. After coding in Java for 2 years I then moved onto an c# ASP.NET project.
I was in heaven. Could get things done 5 times faster, no stuffing around. Java
is just configuration hell and terrible documentation. Screw Java, go microsoft.
He also wrote an article about how Exceptions are pointless and a waste of time,
and that we should track "ErrorNumbers" ourselves manually.
He completely ignored the fact that exceptions were developed to solve
the problem of "working out in the stack where the error happened", and when
people pointed that out how ridiculous his solution was he refused to change
his mind. So screw it.
Adobe should not be held accountable. It's not their problem. If I write a program in c# to delete your hard disk, create the EXE, upload it to my website, you download and run it, what, it's Microsoft's fault? What if I write the program in Java and send you a link to a JAR file? Going to sue Sun?
Smash is correct, if you allow users to upload executable content to your website, you're a knob.
* Stores all of your passwords in a secure encrypted file
* Has auto-type so you don't have to type or remember your passwords
* Has a great password generator tool, so that you can reset all of your passwords to something secure
* Easily transferable password database.
* Can run off a USB stick
I checked it out a month ago on the recommendation of a mate, and have been using it ever since.
It has everything that you need. Fantastic program and has been serving me brilliantly for the past month. I have now gone through all of the sites that I use regularly and have been resetting my passwords to something random. If any of those passwords are leaked then it won't be the disaster it could have been!
And on the plus side, for the sites that I login to very occasionally (eg, once every six months) I don't have to scrounge around in my memory trying to figure out what my username+password is.
And for those horrible sites that have mandatory minimum password requirements, it makes it really easy to generate a password that fits their bizarre criteria. (Eg, only 6-10 characters long, certain characters not allowed, must contain upper and lower case etc etc etc).
Don't use Firefox's password storage! They are all stored in plain text! Anyone can view them!!
That's the way it goes in software development. The middle tier gets bigger, gets inept, custom shit comes out, it gets integrated into the middle tier shit....continue;
Lol. Great sentence.
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sco08y is completely correct. Everyone thinks of this once until someone points out that it's a bad idea.
Show them how an engine works by getting them to coil wire around a magnet and
hook it up to an LED.
Then move onto car engines and show how it's the same idea. Then
explain how to turbo charge an engine.
Computer stuff that you need to know but are never taught: How to safely open up
your box, take it apart and put it back together
The difference between memory and hard disk space and what paging is. Get
a computer and take it down to 128 meg of memory and see what happens. Use
perfmon.
Basic electronics, multimeter usage, soldering iron - all very handy. Take
a stuffed electronic guitar in (just cut a wire or whatever) and show them how
to fix it.
How to not put personal stuff onto the internet and explain what happens if
you do. Then try it with a "John Smith" registered on facebook, myspace etc.
Then google the person next week.
How the internet works - do a quick HTML website and explain it all
Explain how there's more to the world than just the USA and yes,
you can actually go to those countries. (sorry, low blow)
Show how to back up your data and explain why! Different
possibilities such as a local HD, external HD, external computer,
using an internet backup provider.
Sewing. Seriously. Sew a zipper onto a jacket. Fix the holes in your socks.
Make some trakkies (don't know what you yanks call them).
Bike maintenance and fixing. How to adjust everything, what
tools you need. How to make it more efficient. Get people to bring in their bikes.
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Not only does SQL work, it is the best at what it does.
The only people who hate on SQL are the people who don't understand databases. Generally, these are the same people who like labels, tag clouds and ruby on rails. They produce a lot of high level hand waving with regards to the actual code and endless amounts of "herp derp I dunno" when asked why their shit performs slower than the 10 year old system it's supposed to replace. These are bad people.
Here here. Well said. If you think you can do everything without structured data you've never heard of accurate reporting before, which is what businesses need to be competitive and not waste money and all that fancy schmancy business stuff.
Insightful? People like noSQL because it allows them to have messy unstructured data and not do any data modelling.
We're still using SQL 20 years later because it's a great layer between your OO code and your relational data. Unless you want to use a heirachical database (which no-one does) SQL works fine. Sure you can use an ORM but at some stage you'll need to handle the conversion between relational and OO.. unless you're happy being ignorant as to how your database works and not be able to performance tune anything.
Yeah, what morons. Imagine shielding yourself from explosions by using the strongest transparent material available!
The clue's in the name:
> was found hidden inside an unoccupied office in the Icelandic
>Parliament, Althingi, connected to the internal network
It was Al's thingy wasn't it?
I was there last week. Facebook is blocked. Twitter is blocked, Youtube is blocked. Blogspot is blocked. Yes, the firewall is there.
Stop. Just stop now.
I'm sick and tired of rape jokes. Rape is not funny. Just don't.
The other day I overheard a 12 year old repeat a rape joke from family guy. It takes a lot to appall me but that did.
Best for you right now? Update your .bashrc file.
Best for all the people who miss this little nugget? Include it in the kernel.
The whole NoSQL movement is as bad as the XML movement. I'm sure it's a great idea in some cases, but otherwise it's a solution looking for a problem.
Excellent quote.
Timothy, you're asking the wrong question. "Is anyone using this system in production?" bzzzz, wrong. The correct question is "What systems are people _using_ in production?"
A few years ago I completed a massive stop motion project:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd0nQE_nw20
which has over 6000 shots, and used a combination of webcam shots, digital camera shots and a live action camera.
I will like to venture the opinion that the software for stop motion animation is generally terrible.
I tried out a bunch of software and almost all of them were either :
- Too expensive
- Crashed too often
- Difficult to use
- Had practically no features
- Were impossible to evaluate
For something that's such a simple thing, take a bunch of shots and join them together, the software that's out there is _terrible_. The only one that was even vaguely plausable to use was Stop Motion Pro - and even then it was expensive. The only caveat that I'd like to add is that it was about 4 years ago.
I ended up using software called MonkeyJam, which even still crashed frequently, and used Adobe's Premiere Pro to join it all together. It was a nightmare.
This article is a basic puff piece on how nice and easy everything is, in particular:
"Young kids can make a film in their room and distribute it and have half a million people view it"
what a load of rubbish. Show me a bunch of stop motion films that a bunch of kids have made in their rooms with over half a million views. Unless it's spectacular nobody is going to view it.
The answer is: Fence Posts.
I wonder if this decision was related to the protest that had been organised?
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=100265633350951
Seems like a bit of a co-incidence.. especially because this is the second time it has happened. Last time there was a protest organised about shutting down the Tote due to insane liquor licensing - but the protest was a waste of time as a decision had already been made.
I guess politically it's a lot less damaging if they stop the protest from happening.
But maybe they've started doing next years budget and realised just how expensive this filtering nonsense will be.. and that they can safely cut it because no-one wants it. They can save face by saying "it's just been delayed".
Couldn't agree more. After coding in Java for 2 years I then moved onto an c# ASP.NET project. I was in heaven. Could get things done 5 times faster, no stuffing around. Java is just configuration hell and terrible documentation. Screw Java, go microsoft.
He also wrote an article about how Exceptions are pointless and a waste of time,
and that we should track "ErrorNumbers" ourselves manually.
He completely ignored the fact that exceptions were developed to solve
the problem of "working out in the stack where the error happened", and when
people pointed that out how ridiculous his solution was he refused to change
his mind. So screw it.
Adobe should not be held accountable. It's not their problem. If I write a program in c# to delete your hard disk, create the EXE, upload it to my website, you download and run it, what, it's Microsoft's fault? What if I write the program in Java and send you a link to a JAR file? Going to sue Sun?
Smash is correct, if you allow users to upload executable content to your website, you're a knob.
KeePass.
* Stores all of your passwords in a secure encrypted file
* Has auto-type so you don't have to type or remember your passwords
* Has a great password generator tool, so that you can reset all of your passwords to something secure
* Easily transferable password database.
* Can run off a USB stick
I checked it out a month ago on the recommendation of a mate, and have been using it ever since.
It has everything that you need. Fantastic program and has been serving me brilliantly for the past month. I have now gone through all of the sites that I use regularly and have been resetting my passwords to something random. If any of those passwords are leaked then it won't be the disaster it could have been!
And on the plus side, for the sites that I login to very occasionally (eg, once every six months) I don't have to scrounge around in my memory trying to figure out what my username+password is.
And for those horrible sites that have mandatory minimum password requirements, it makes it really easy to generate a password that fits their bizarre criteria. (Eg, only 6-10 characters long, certain characters not allowed, must contain upper and lower case etc etc etc).
Don't use Firefox's password storage! They are all stored in plain text! Anyone can view them!!
That's the way it goes in software development. The middle tier gets bigger, gets inept, custom shit comes out, it gets integrated into the middle tier shit....continue;
Lol. Great sentence.
sco08y is completely correct. Everyone thinks of this once until someone points out that it's a bad idea.
Unmod parent up.
We did this for our DB and it completely killed the server. Every
single update also doing an insert into another table? Performance killer.
Unfortunately there's just no other way to do it. You can either:
1 - store the entire history of updates
2 - store delta's
3 - backup your DB every day.
There's nothing else you can do. Or is there??
Don't forget Filemaker Pro - the world's worst database.
Most business's that I've worked for use imaging - and it's definitely the way to go.
But what about at home? Are there any good open source or free imaging software? Can you DIY?
Couldn't agree more.
Awesome game.
Play it a bunch of times, and you'll die a bunch of times. Then start making notes.
Engine - sorry, I meant electricity : )
Cheers man, thanks! Wow, a nice comment on the internet, Quixotic, you're a rarity.
Sort of reminds me of pogo stilts.