We haven't been keeping comprehensive records of Atlantic storm activity for that long. The National Weather Service says this severe storm season is the result of several periodic climate factors peaking simultaneously, not due to the average global temperature increase that's been going on: thus far it's been too small.
going to string was just an example, could have been some other type of object for which no method in java's Object was defined. Having to design a getAsBaseball method, and all the nice double-dispatch hell that java so often requires, shows that the language design is fundamentally flawed, not that java programmers are superior because they have to take time to design such things. Done java/j2ee/ejb/jni for a few years with 150 other healthcare insurance coders, and just saying I've seen better languages BEFORE then, such as LISP and Haskell and OCAML, and better ones since, such as Ruby
hahaahahaha, you think UML is required to design or model enterprise systems? And anyone who doesn't use it or used it and finds it lacking for higher level languages and metaprogramming is "inexperienced"??
There are other methodologies and systems out there, in my 22 years in the business there were two out of eight "enterprise level" corporations/government agency that used UML. They were an internet marketing company and an insurance software company.
it's a scripting language and also has a wordcode vm which is almost done, so higher performance applications will be possible, and the competition with java will increase. Some of its more archaic features such as the globals really come from scripting heritage and are for quick scripting use, remember Ruby is 10 years old (!).
Teammaet changes class and hands it back to you? Nah, programmers will change your class and objects, adding methods WHILE THE CODE IS RUNNING, have to lose the static compiled mindset. UML is useless for dynamic oo and aspect-oriented languages anyway, it's a different mindset. UML is so 90's!
As for automatic variables, if something is supposed to be a constant, you use syntax for constant and you get warned if you change it.
I would do
a = "ant bee cat dog elf".split
the "mixin methods" are indeed powerful, and are better than multiple inheritance. Again note they can be done while the code is running
yes, the portion of the spectrum they would mess up goes from top of AM broadcast band through all the "shortwave" to 30MHz. Maybe most people in the U.S. don't care about ham hobbyists or of receiving shortwave, but remember in disasters they relay messages, and it's possible after a certain types of big disasters the ONLY source of what's going on might not be local radio or tv stations. Many found that out in Katrina.
not just ww-II, my school had such a "carrier current" station in the mid 80's in the AM broadcast band for broadcast journalism majors. Actual coverage radius wasn't even half a mile in any one direction though, but reception was pretty good on 120 acre campus. A 60Hz buzz was fairly prominent in the received signal.
glad you brought up the visitor pattern "for each" in java, what happens if I want "for_each_capitalized_string" out of an array of strings or I want two things like "each_with_index" out of an array or "each_with_key" out of a hash table? In a language like Ruby such things are *trivial* to implement. What happens when my collection needs to store different types of objects, but I want to call method "convert_to_string" on each one? In Java, ugly things happen.
hmm, travelled much? Please list third world countries where a third of the population doesn't live in horrible conditions. For every one you list, I'll list two that are BAD, food and hygiene and health definitely the main issues.
oh, but what if a language has the elegance and ease of reading, and yet also provides the ability to get more work done with a statement than an INFERIOR less well designed language? Bear in mind I've done professional Java/J2EE coding for 8 years, C++ for 15 years, LISP for 20 years, Ruby for 5 years....if you haven't tried the alternatives for a few years maybe you're just praising what you know and are comfortable with.
correction: Sun JAVA Search(tm) Sun JAVA maps(tm) Sun JAVA Earth (tm), etc. The fact that these might have little or no JAVA in them, and little or no Sun design input is of course of no importance...
what you're really talking about is j2ee and java's libraries, because java itself is not a particularly powerful langauge compared to say LISP or OCAML or Ruby, you're going to have to do alot more typing to get a particular job done (yup, I've done them all professionally.) Conceptually Java is pretty much like c++, really an 80's hybrid oo language. There are better designed languages out there with growing libraries for web and middleware server frameworks.
bloated means amount of typing required to do a given task, not a terse nor powerful language compared to some. C/C++ in the same boat there, for power and terseness try OCAML or ruby. Tcp daemons means various database, queuing and xml services implemented as tcp servers and clients. Limiting factor of performance wasn't perl, was backend databases and repositories and such.
Compactness of language????? wtf
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Perl is a very bloated scripted language, now ruby is compact, and python somewhat compact, but Perl is surely the RPG-II of the scripting language world. And yes, I've been using Perl for over 9 years, and written tcp daemons and web portals in Perl. I love/hate it.
Korea??!! I said 40+ years, not 50+, and whooping Saddam out of Kuwait I was all for that, too bad we were so stupid in the decade since. I don't think we brought down Soviet europe, it crumbled from within, just as China would if our current bunch of leaders weren't in the pockets of big corporations and loved cheap markets more than the freedom and liberty they hypocritcally claim to want for the world.
Are we really, as most of us imagine ourselves, the leaders of innovation in the world? Or are we its entertainment center? We try to be its policeman and end up with egg on our faces for the last 40+ years. We're certainly getting good at being the consumers, with 25% of the world's produce consumed by us, and our wealth flying out over the ocean, much of it never to return. We're an oligarchy of megacorps too, big business is stacking the decks in its favor at the expense of our rights and our ability to express our political will. We used to scorn the communist nations as a place where the individual was nothing and the state everything, now for us its all about Uncle Sam and big business.
Sun lost their edge in the dot-com era, too much easy money coming in from people who didn't shop. This T1 is a great first step to recovery, maybe the one other thing they could do with their recent storage acquisition is make SAN technology much easier to manage & scale , it's such a tedious manual affair at the present with draconian licensing (have to pay to activate ports on a fibre switch, for crap's sake, or activate controller features).
open source or not, these coolthreads processors are the first thing from Sun that looks exciting in the last six years. Finally, some leadership. Too late?
You still would have to trust that he's not going to let the beam escape, that shielding is done properly, and that he handles any activated materials properly - this is not something that should be done in residential area. There's also the matter of safety near large magnets and high current conductors, could even have an accident with those that might be of concern to neighbors (power outages, metal fires, etc.)
"nearly"??? nearly doesn't count, you're alive and posting and not dying of cancer. Unlike some soviet reactor designs (*cough* *cough*), we have decent containment systems, which would have kept 3MI from killing you even if coolant ran out. Disclaminer: YIWINPPAROS (yes, I've worked in nuclear power plant as refueling outage scheduler)
I was think of the opposite for a car to become more visible for purposes of safety: during the day and in good weather your car is its normal color, but turns white or light pastel color at night, dark during daytime snowstorm, yellow-green during fog, etc.
Ultrasparc doesn't really "kick the crap" out of comparable systems based on other hardware. bang-per-buck is lower, and hot swappable component systems can be had on many architectures including x86. So we can only go to 8 way on x86 now, enterprise software now does active-active clustering or has a distributed model for all the common uses, whether dbms or middleware or portals. In other words, so what if an UltraSparc scales to 128 way, when for one third the price a pile of x86 boxes can give more performancce to the same jobs?
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We haven't been keeping comprehensive records of Atlantic storm activity for that long. The National Weather Service says this severe storm season is the result of several periodic climate factors peaking simultaneously, not due to the average global temperature increase that's been going on: thus far it's been too small.
going to string was just an example, could have been some other type of object for which no method in java's Object was defined. Having to design a getAsBaseball method, and all the nice double-dispatch hell that java so often requires, shows that the language design is fundamentally flawed, not that java programmers are superior because they have to take time to design such things. Done java/j2ee/ejb/jni for a few years with 150 other healthcare insurance coders, and just saying I've seen better languages BEFORE then, such as LISP and Haskell and OCAML, and better ones since, such as Ruby
hahaahahaha, you think UML is required to design or model enterprise systems? And anyone who doesn't use it or used it and finds it lacking for higher level languages and metaprogramming is "inexperienced"??
There are other methodologies and systems out there, in my 22 years in the business there were two out of eight "enterprise level" corporations/government agency that used UML. They were an internet marketing company and an insurance software company.
that's a great idea, but of course we then still need this system to keep the beer cold.
we did that test, but after 15 minutes on HIGH none of them were complaining. They just smelled like baked ham.
it's a scripting language and also has a wordcode vm which is almost done, so higher performance applications will be possible, and the competition with java will increase. Some of its more archaic features such as the globals really come from scripting heritage and are for quick scripting use, remember Ruby is 10 years old (!).
Teammaet changes class and hands it back to you? Nah, programmers will change your class and objects, adding methods WHILE THE CODE IS RUNNING, have to lose the static compiled mindset. UML is useless for dynamic oo and aspect-oriented languages anyway, it's a different mindset. UML is so 90's!
As for automatic variables, if something is supposed to be a constant, you use syntax for constant and you get warned if you change it.
I would do a = "ant bee cat dog elf".split
the "mixin methods" are indeed powerful, and are better than multiple inheritance. Again note they can be done while the code is running
yes, the portion of the spectrum they would mess up goes from top of AM broadcast band through all the "shortwave" to 30MHz. Maybe most people in the U.S. don't care about ham hobbyists or of receiving shortwave, but remember in disasters they relay messages, and it's possible after a certain types of big disasters the ONLY source of what's going on might not be local radio or tv stations. Many found that out in Katrina.
not just ww-II, my school had such a "carrier current" station in the mid 80's in the AM broadcast band for broadcast journalism majors. Actual coverage radius wasn't even half a mile in any one direction though, but reception was pretty good on 120 acre campus. A 60Hz buzz was fairly prominent in the received signal.
glad you brought up the visitor pattern "for each" in java, what happens if I want "for_each_capitalized_string" out of an array of strings or I want two things like "each_with_index" out of an array or "each_with_key" out of a hash table? In a language like Ruby such things are *trivial* to implement. What happens when my collection needs to store different types of objects, but I want to call method "convert_to_string" on each one? In Java, ugly things happen.
that's ok, they're all the same to Bush: "one them places got our awl in the ground 'n dagnab cameljockeys on the top of it"
hmm, travelled much? Please list third world countries where a third of the population doesn't live in horrible conditions. For every one you list, I'll list two that are BAD, food and hygiene and health definitely the main issues.
oh, but what if a language has the elegance and ease of reading, and yet also provides the ability to get more work done with a statement than an INFERIOR less well designed language? Bear in mind I've done professional Java/J2EE coding for 8 years, C++ for 15 years, LISP for 20 years, Ruby for 5 years....if you haven't tried the alternatives for a few years maybe you're just praising what you know and are comfortable with.
correction: Sun JAVA Search(tm) Sun JAVA maps(tm) Sun JAVA Earth (tm), etc. The fact that these might have little or no JAVA in them, and little or no Sun design input is of course of no importance...
what you're really talking about is j2ee and java's libraries, because java itself is not a particularly powerful langauge compared to say LISP or OCAML or Ruby, you're going to have to do alot more typing to get a particular job done (yup, I've done them all professionally.) Conceptually Java is pretty much like c++, really an 80's hybrid oo language. There are better designed languages out there with growing libraries for web and middleware server frameworks.
bloated means amount of typing required to do a given task, not a terse nor powerful language compared to some. C/C++ in the same boat there, for power and terseness try OCAML or ruby. Tcp daemons means various database, queuing and xml services implemented as tcp servers and clients. Limiting factor of performance wasn't perl, was backend databases and repositories and such.
Perl is a very bloated scripted language, now ruby is compact, and python somewhat compact, but Perl is surely the RPG-II of the scripting language world. And yes, I've been using Perl for over 9 years, and written tcp daemons and web portals in Perl. I love/hate it.
Korea??!! I said 40+ years, not 50+, and whooping Saddam out of Kuwait I was all for that, too bad we were so stupid in the decade since. I don't think we brought down Soviet europe, it crumbled from within, just as China would if our current bunch of leaders weren't in the pockets of big corporations and loved cheap markets more than the freedom and liberty they hypocritcally claim to want for the world.
Are we really, as most of us imagine ourselves, the leaders of innovation in the world? Or are we its entertainment center? We try to be its policeman and end up with egg on our faces for the last 40+ years. We're certainly getting good at being the consumers, with 25% of the world's produce consumed by us, and our wealth flying out over the ocean, much of it never to return. We're an oligarchy of megacorps too, big business is stacking the decks in its favor at the expense of our rights and our ability to express our political will. We used to scorn the communist nations as a place where the individual was nothing and the state everything, now for us its all about Uncle Sam and big business.
Sun lost their edge in the dot-com era, too much easy money coming in from people who didn't shop. This T1 is a great first step to recovery, maybe the one other thing they could do with their recent storage acquisition is make SAN technology much easier to manage & scale , it's such a tedious manual affair at the present with draconian licensing (have to pay to activate ports on a fibre switch, for crap's sake, or activate controller features).
open source or not, these coolthreads processors are the first thing from Sun that looks exciting in the last six years. Finally, some leadership. Too late?
You still would have to trust that he's not going to let the beam escape, that shielding is done properly, and that he handles any activated materials properly - this is not something that should be done in residential area. There's also the matter of safety near large magnets and high current conductors, could even have an accident with those that might be of concern to neighbors (power outages, metal fires, etc.)
"nearly"??? nearly doesn't count, you're alive and posting and not dying of cancer. Unlike some soviet reactor designs (*cough* *cough*), we have decent containment systems, which would have kept 3MI from killing you even if coolant ran out. Disclaminer: YIWINPPAROS (yes, I've worked in nuclear power plant as refueling outage scheduler)
Sun doesn't make money selling workstations anymore, so it doesn't matter how pretty they are or how well they work.
I was think of the opposite for a car to become more visible for purposes of safety: during the day and in good weather your car is its normal color, but turns white or light pastel color at night, dark during daytime snowstorm, yellow-green during fog, etc.
Ultrasparc doesn't really "kick the crap" out of comparable systems based on other hardware. bang-per-buck is lower, and hot swappable component systems can be had on many architectures including x86. So we can only go to 8 way on x86 now, enterprise software now does active-active clustering or has a distributed model for all the common uses, whether dbms or middleware or portals. In other words, so what if an UltraSparc scales to 128 way, when for one third the price a pile of x86 boxes can give more performancce to the same jobs?