Re:Who Actually USES These Patterns?
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Yeah , I'm sure Linus used patterns all the time when he was writing that "crud" known as the Linux kernel. Hello , this is earth calling , come in please Major Tom...
Re:Who Actually USES These Patterns?
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Virtually no one. I've been in the industry 10 years in banking and the scientific fields and I've yet to see any real programmers using this sort of stuff. Its written for ivory tower academics and students mainly.
Only shit coders read books like this
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The sort of people who read these books are the sort who normally couldn't code their way out of a paper bag. Ask them to write a low level device driver or network protocol and they'll piss their pants , but ask them to write some high level description of some GUI front end using as many buzzwords as they can shoehorn into the design document and they're in their element. And this is one of the books they'd have sitting on their shelf. Its a comfort blanket for people who kid themselves they're programmers but in reality are designers who should never be let near any C++ compiler. Is it any wonder with modern day management trumpeting this kind of rubbish that afar greater percentage of IT projects overrun, are overbudget and don't meet the spec than ever before?
VoIP uses a LARGE amount of bandwidth. If these and similar sorts of services are disabled then
bandwidth will be freed for other uses. Ok , its only a small compensation but nevertheless...
Something a bit less long winded and ugly. Mimicking HTML using and is pointless
and reduces readability. There are probably dozens of better control character combinations that could denote block start & ends that would
aid readbility.
Yes so its portable. Yes so its (mostly) human readable. So what? So is GWBASIC. XML is just a data description format (I wont grace it by calling it a language , its not) and there have
been plenty of portable DDFs in the past. Pdf ,
postscript (though the latter is actually a
language). So why all the hoo-ha about XML? Seems to me that various marketing types have jumped on the bandwagon with this one and are going to ride it till the wheels fall off and take all the suckers along with them.
Just put all your stuff on cassette tape then you can play any fucking tune you want. Christ you people bore me to death with your whining about "does it play X or Y format".
Wtf is ogg when its at home? Oh let me guess , some new "super" format thats supported by 3 start ups but has that geek kudos because its not mainstream.
WHen you have 23 people in a room theres a 50% chance that 2 share the same birthday because there are only 365 days in a year. If there were 2^48 days in a year that 50% would drop so low as to be virtually irrelevant.
Why? Because the massive gravity inside a black hole tends towards the infinite the closer you get to the centre. In turn this slows time down to a virtual stop. If there is no time then nothing can happen and this includes forming a singularity. All that happens is that the matter will get crushed smaller and smaller but on a slower and slower basis until it reaches a size where it effectively has stopped collapsing because time is running so slowly its more or less halted.
Its called PUG , not sure the author ever completed it but I tried it and it seems quite
nice give or take a few minor bugs:
http://www.ogham.demon.co.uk/zips/pug091.tgz
Where do you work , in a home for the retarded? I;m sorry buf if people can't mentally link moving a mouse with a cursor moving on screen then they'd probably have serious problems driving a car or riding a bike ("Duh , i like turn this wheel and the car turns right , duh , nah , its like too complex man") and anyone who
can't tell left from right is just plain thick or has brain damage. You can't build everything in society for the 0.01% of the population who have theses issues and besides which its unlikely these people would have a reason to use a computer in the first place.
Re:Does everything have to become a movie?
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Yeah , long live P2P... or not as the case may be when a lot of bands pack it in because everyone is ripping off their stuff so theres no
new stuff to rip. Also you display your ignorance of how the music biz works because 99.99% of gigs don't make ANY money for a band. After the sponsor has taken their cut along with management and facilities most bands are lucky to break even and rely on CD sales to earn their money. Yeah , congrats dude , I'm sure those musos will be SO happy that you're getting all their stuff for free while they lose money.
Crash resistent? Yeah right. Tell you what , next time you boot up hi-tech FreeBSD , mount a DOS floppy disk , then pull the disk out , then try and write to that disk. You might want to back up anything you're doing before this however as 9 times out of 10 you'll get a total system crash. With bugs like this that linux sorted 10 years ago is it any wonder that anyone who knows anything about unix will not touch freebsd? If they can't fix glaring bugs like this what other horrors await under the stairs in the kernel?
I know the article is about that but the thread wasn't. And computer controlled clutches are not that common since they're very expensive and frankly just not very good outside race conditions. SUre they can pop in and out in a nanosecond when upshifting but using them in stop start traffic apparently is a nightmare.
We;re not talking about high end race machines , we're talking about road cars. The average road car auto box is a joke as far as performance is concerned. The only reason people want an auto is laziness or (in the case of americans) the fact that using a stick and clutch is too difficult for them.
YOu obviously no squat about manual transmissions or you'd realise that its not how quick the transmission shifts but WHEN it shifts. Automatics have an annoying habit of shifting when you don't want them to , oh , like for instance like when going around a corner. And
who the hell would be shifting transmission on a road car at 150mph? Even a ferrari would be in top gear by then and shifting down would blow the engine!
I'm afraid that you're not holding onto a clue.
I get fed up with hearing BS about hacker "culture" , as if hackers are some minority group discriminated against whose additions to global society have yet to be realised. Lets be clear about this, hackers are normally a bunch of kids who's parents are rich enough to afford a PC and who dick around online messing up other peoples computers. (Don't even start me on the hacker/cracker debate , thats playing semantic games. Most people view the word hacker to mean someone who causes trouble so ergo thats what the word means now) To make out that these little brats have some kind of "culture" we should all appreciate and get to understand is pure 100% bullshit and is an insult to real cultures out there.
Being a Linux user and hence not used to my computer being screwed behind my back I'm wondering how they actually modify IE so that
it redirects sales to themselves. Have they used
some clever technique or is it dead simple and just another example of windows being shot full of holes?
The example he gave of coding for cocoa was
objective C. Surely someone with his experience wouldn't make the mistake of saying it was C++????
A trivial point I know but he he makes such an obvious and blatant mistake there what else does he get wrong in this and other articles which people take as gospel because he's considered a "guru"?
Its another company having another stab at distributed componentware. All it'll turn out to be in the end is a bunch of easy to use classes for C# since distributed systems tend not to work well in business enviroments since every calculation is dependent on the last and this causes horrendous thrashing of the network as data is passed back and forth all the time. Much better to do that sort of thing on one big machine. Systems such as seti@home that let a machine chew on large bits of data before they spit back a result arn't a viable model for businesses. This doesn't stop the MS marketdroids from flogging the distributed moniker as the latest buzzword to all the pointy haired managers of the world though. They'll succeed too since they're damn good at selling solutions in search of a problem. Witness Active Directory.
"Most stereo equipment runs embedded linux or BeOS"?
Really? So I need embedded linux in my amplifier do I? Please explain why and what it exactly its used for in this context. And also while you're at it explain why CD players and VCRs that have happily been using low cost low spec microcontrollers for decades suddenly need to have 32 bit controllers with a load of RAM shoved in them so they can run an OS which they don't even need. The only exceptions might be DVD players but thats not exactly stereo equipment is it.
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Yeah , I'm sure Linus used patterns all the time when he was writing that "crud" known as the Linux kernel. Hello , this is earth calling , come in please Major Tom...
Virtually no one. I've been in the industry 10 years in banking and the scientific fields and I've yet to see any real programmers using this sort of stuff. Its written for ivory tower academics and students mainly.
The sort of people who read these books are the sort who normally couldn't code their way out of a paper bag. Ask them to write a low level device driver or network protocol and they'll piss their pants , but ask them to write some high level description of some GUI front end using as many buzzwords as they can shoehorn into the design document and they're in their element. And this is one of the books they'd have sitting on their shelf. Its a comfort blanket for people who kid themselves they're programmers but in reality are designers who should never be let near any C++ compiler. Is it any wonder with modern day management trumpeting this kind of rubbish that afar greater percentage of IT projects overrun, are overbudget and don't meet the spec than ever before?
VoIP uses a LARGE amount of bandwidth. If these and similar sorts of services are disabled then bandwidth will be freed for other uses. Ok , its only a small compensation but nevertheless...
Something a bit less long winded and ugly. Mimicking HTML using and is pointless and reduces readability. There are probably dozens of better control character combinations that could denote block start & ends that would aid readbility.
Yes so its portable. Yes so its (mostly) human readable. So what? So is GWBASIC. XML is just a data description format (I wont grace it by calling it a language , its not) and there have been plenty of portable DDFs in the past. Pdf , postscript (though the latter is actually a language). So why all the hoo-ha about XML? Seems to me that various marketing types have jumped on the bandwagon with this one and are going to ride it till the wheels fall off and take all the suckers along with them.
Just put all your stuff on cassette tape then you can play any fucking tune you want. Christ you people bore me to death with your whining about "does it play X or Y format".
Wtf is ogg when its at home? Oh let me guess , some new "super" format thats supported by 3 start ups but has that geek kudos because its not mainstream.
WHen you have 23 people in a room theres a 50% chance that 2 share the same birthday because there are only 365 days in a year. If there were 2^48 days in a year that 50% would drop so low as to be virtually irrelevant.
Why? Because the massive gravity inside a black hole tends towards the infinite the closer you get to the centre. In turn this slows time down to a virtual stop. If there is no time then nothing can happen and this includes forming a singularity. All that happens is that the matter will get crushed smaller and smaller but on a slower and slower basis until it reaches a size where it effectively has stopped collapsing because time is running so slowly its more or less halted.
Its called PUG , not sure the author ever completed it but I tried it and it seems quite nice give or take a few minor bugs: http://www.ogham.demon.co.uk/zips/pug091.tgz
Where do you work , in a home for the retarded? I;m sorry buf if people can't mentally link moving a mouse with a cursor moving on screen then they'd probably have serious problems driving a car or riding a bike ("Duh , i like turn this wheel and the car turns right , duh , nah , its like too complex man") and anyone who can't tell left from right is just plain thick or has brain damage. You can't build everything in society for the 0.01% of the population who have theses issues and besides which its unlikely these people would have a reason to use a computer in the first place.
Yeah , long live P2P ... or not as the case may be when a lot of bands pack it in because everyone is ripping off their stuff so theres no
new stuff to rip. Also you display your ignorance of how the music biz works because 99.99% of gigs don't make ANY money for a band. After the sponsor has taken their cut along with management and facilities most bands are lucky to break even and rely on CD sales to earn their money. Yeah , congrats dude , I'm sure those musos will be SO happy that you're getting all their stuff for free while they lose money.
Crash resistent? Yeah right. Tell you what , next time you boot up hi-tech FreeBSD , mount a DOS floppy disk , then pull the disk out , then try and write to that disk. You might want to back up anything you're doing before this however as 9 times out of 10 you'll get a total system crash. With bugs like this that linux sorted 10 years ago is it any wonder that anyone who knows anything about unix will not touch freebsd? If they can't fix glaring bugs like this what other horrors await under the stairs in the kernel?
I know the article is about that but the thread wasn't. And computer controlled clutches are not that common since they're very expensive and frankly just not very good outside race conditions. SUre they can pop in and out in a nanosecond when upshifting but using them in stop start traffic apparently is a nightmare.
We;re not talking about high end race machines , we're talking about road cars. The average road car auto box is a joke as far as performance is concerned. The only reason people want an auto is laziness or (in the case of americans) the fact that using a stick and clutch is too difficult for them.
YOu obviously no squat about manual transmissions or you'd realise that its not how quick the transmission shifts but WHEN it shifts. Automatics have an annoying habit of shifting when you don't want them to , oh , like for instance like when going around a corner. And who the hell would be shifting transmission on a road car at 150mph? Even a ferrari would be in top gear by then and shifting down would blow the engine! I'm afraid that you're not holding onto a clue.
I get fed up with hearing BS about hacker "culture" , as if hackers are some minority group discriminated against whose additions to global society have yet to be realised. Lets be clear about this, hackers are normally a bunch of kids who's parents are rich enough to afford a PC and who dick around online messing up other peoples computers. (Don't even start me on the hacker/cracker debate , thats playing semantic games. Most people view the word hacker to mean someone who causes trouble so ergo thats what the word means now) To make out that these little brats have some kind of "culture" we should all appreciate and get to understand is pure 100% bullshit and is an insult to real cultures out there.
Being a Linux user and hence not used to my computer being screwed behind my back I'm wondering how they actually modify IE so that it redirects sales to themselves. Have they used some clever technique or is it dead simple and just another example of windows being shot full of holes?
The example he gave of coding for cocoa was objective C. Surely someone with his experience wouldn't make the mistake of saying it was C++???? A trivial point I know but he he makes such an obvious and blatant mistake there what else does he get wrong in this and other articles which people take as gospel because he's considered a "guru"?
.net is about distributed systems , which bit don't you understand? Sorry , is that slow enough for your lonely braincell to be able to take in?
If you find that hard to understand then you're just a bit dim pal. To heavily support, to support heavily , yeah , big difference. Jeez...
Its another company having another stab at distributed componentware. All it'll turn out to be in the end is a bunch of easy to use classes for C# since distributed systems tend not to work well in business enviroments since every calculation is dependent on the last and this causes horrendous thrashing of the network as data is passed back and forth all the time. Much better to do that sort of thing on one big machine. Systems such as seti@home that let a machine chew on large bits of data before they spit back a result arn't a viable model for businesses. This doesn't stop the MS marketdroids from flogging the distributed moniker as the latest buzzword to all the pointy haired managers of the world though. They'll succeed too since they're damn good at selling solutions in search of a problem. Witness Active Directory.
Saying that going to Java or C# is moving beyond C++ is a bit like saying buying a ford is an upgrade from a ferrari. Gimme a break...
"Most stereo equipment runs embedded linux or BeOS"? Really? So I need embedded linux in my amplifier do I? Please explain why and what it exactly its used for in this context. And also while you're at it explain why CD players and VCRs that have happily been using low cost low spec microcontrollers for decades suddenly need to have 32 bit controllers with a load of RAM shoved in them so they can run an OS which they don't even need. The only exceptions might be DVD players but thats not exactly stereo equipment is it.