"a repository of open source Clojure libraries that relies on the Linode infrastructure"
So these libraries are only available in one place? Haven't these guys heard of mirror sites? I know its easy to fool Joe ixpack into thinking The Cloud is some safe secure place and he never needs to worry about his data ever again (honest!) , but one would hope people involved in writing programming libraries would have a bit more common sense.
A lot of apps arn't done by huge corporations with a marketing dept, they're done by small start ups and I can fully understand whey they wouldn't put their resources - assuming they have the in house skills - into a web version if they're only targeting smartphones and tablets.
... on the web then its probably still there. Any data & content specific to apps probably never made it to the web in the first place.
Whether walled gardens are good or bad is a big discussion, but from a technical point of the view the web is an utter dogs dinner with HTML, javascript, CSS and a host of other bits of glue keeping a website working along with bloated, buggy browsers and thats just the front end so I can understand from a *technical* point of view why some companies think "To hell with it, lets just write a client app in Obj-C, Java, C# and be done with it".
Really its just goint full circle back to the 80s and 90s when various bits of the internet were (and still are) accessed by seperate clients.
... in an evacuated tube. What could possibly go wrong?
Thanks, but I'll stick to flying to go long distance. Its bad enough being stuck in a crowded metro train thats stopped in a tunnel, but at least you could walk out if you had to. Good luck doing that in a vacuum. As for travelling at thousands of mph a few feet from the walls , no thanks Mr Musk.
Apart from being an utterly uninspired naff name, its already been done - OSF/1 (Alpha unix) was renamed to Tru64 by compaq which did precisely zip for its sales or penetration. Product names get changed when the people managing them can't think of anything else better to do to promote it.
" The editor is smart enough to properly line up the next line based on the content of the previous line."
That is one of the most annoying things an editor can do IMO (and if someone has put it as a default in the global.vimrc they need to die a slow painful death). If my next line is in an outer block it means i have to delete the damn indentation which is a lot more labour intensive than putting some in in the first place!
Also with tabs I can change the indentation width to suit my needs, with spaces I can't without doing a global search and replace which will probably fuck something else up (eg spaces inside a string).
The whole point of a tabstop is you can change its width so a file can be indented to the preference of the person reading/editing it (set ts=[width] in vi). With spaces you're stuck with the (often poor) indentation the author chose who is essentially saying "Fuck you, you're going to read the code indented the way I want, not the way you want"
Not just contractors - entire companies are in on that sort of scam in india. In the UK the government and various companies think nothing of sending our private data to the cheapest bidder in Bangalore, then react with shock and horror when - surprise! - some of the data goes walkies. I honestly wonder sometimes if there's a maximum IQ allowed for CEOs and ministers because surely people can't honestly be this stupid they didn't forsee this sort of thing?
There's outliers and there's statistical impossibilities. The chances of him having lived 23 years (almost a 3rd of the average humans lifespan) longer than the next oldest person I'm afraid are so close to zero that you couldn't tell the difference.
"By the time either a blimp or this thing deflates enough to make the engines flop around, there isn't going to be nearly enough lift of lift of any kind to keep it in the air."
No. It would only take the wings and the engines to be out by a few degrees to make it uncontrollable.
LGBT people and atheists don't usually have a massive great chip on their shoulder and go out and riot if they don't get what they think they're owed by society. Isn't it odd how there's no quota required for indians? Perhaps its something to do with them working hard and not expecting a good job to be handed to them on a plate simply because of their skin colour.
Is that a good idea? Sure, it saves weight, but if it ever suffers partial deflation in the air there will be a total loss of control preventing them even attempting a crash landing as the aerofoils and props start pointing in random directions.
The sun is slowly heating up. Regardless of what we do as a species, in a few billion years the sun will get too hot for any of the current negative feedback mechanisms in earths climate to offset and the oceans will start to evaporate away.
That said, I'm not too worried about a runaway greenhouse happening due to man made climate change. If a 6 mile wide asteroid 65 million years ago that set most of the terrestrial plant matter on fire couldn't manage it I doubt we will. What we will do however is make it unpleasently hot in the equatorial latitudes for ourselves.
Sorry Apple, but your watch is not the killer product you thought it was. Beyond the usual fanboys nobody is interested, not just in your smartwatch, but in any smartwatch. Phones do everything the watch can do much better except as a convenient way to tell the time, and if thats all you need the watch to do you can get a a Casio for the price of a takeaway that will do it equally well and have a 5 year battery life on top.
that it could well be obsolete in less time than it took to develop it if computer controlled drones keep advancing at their current rate. There was a story not long ago about a computer flying a simulated fighter outperforming a top gun in a dogfight. Move technology on 15 years and putting a pilot in a fighter could seem rather quaint.
No one over the age of 12 gives a damn about any of Nintendos game franchises. If they think they're going to corner the kids market then good luck to them, but they might find that the kids have moved on.
"Those that think it's about the hardware, just do not play games."
Of course its about the hardware or we'd all still be playing games on an Atari 2600.
Anyone who wants decent mobile gaming has already got a choice of dozens of devices that also do more than just play games. I don't understand the logic behind this. Perhaps it'll work in japan but it'll be a dismal failure everywhere else. Still, its their billions to burn. Meanwhile playstation and xbox just keep on trucking...
Slashdot Mirror
... a fitting tribute to the actress or just that little bit creepy? I can't decide.
"a repository of open source Clojure libraries that relies on the Linode infrastructure"
So these libraries are only available in one place? Haven't these guys heard of mirror sites? I know its easy to fool Joe ixpack into thinking The Cloud is some safe secure place and he never needs to worry about his data ever again (honest!) , but one would hope people involved in writing programming libraries would have a bit more common sense.
A lot of apps arn't done by huge corporations with a marketing dept, they're done by small start ups and I can fully understand whey they wouldn't put their resources - assuming they have the in house skills - into a web version if they're only targeting smartphones and tablets.
... on the web then its probably still there. Any data & content specific to apps probably never made it to the web in the first place.
Whether walled gardens are good or bad is a big discussion, but from a technical point of the view the web is an utter dogs dinner with HTML, javascript, CSS and a host of other bits of glue keeping a website working along with bloated, buggy browsers and thats just the front end so I can understand from a *technical* point of view why some companies think "To hell with it, lets just write a client app in Obj-C, Java, C# and be done with it".
Really its just goint full circle back to the 80s and 90s when various bits of the internet were (and still are) accessed by seperate clients.
... in an evacuated tube. What could possibly go wrong?
Thanks, but I'll stick to flying to go long distance. Its bad enough being stuck in a crowded metro train thats stopped in a tunnel, but at least you could walk out if you had to. Good luck doing that in a vacuum. As for travelling at thousands of mph a few feet from the walls , no thanks Mr Musk.
Apart from being an utterly uninspired naff name, its already been done - OSF/1 (Alpha unix) was renamed to Tru64 by compaq which did precisely zip for its sales or penetration. Product names get changed when the people managing them can't think of anything else better to do to promote it.
Well apparently not all the private companies who seem to think they can do it better and cheaper than NASA. Yeah, hows that turning out so far?
" The editor is smart enough to properly line up the next line based on the content of the previous line."
That is one of the most annoying things an editor can do IMO (and if someone has put it as a default in the global .vimrc they need to die a slow painful death). If my next line is in an outer block it means i have to delete the damn indentation which is a lot more labour intensive than putting some in in the first place!
Also with tabs I can change the indentation width to suit my needs, with spaces I can't without doing a global search and replace which will probably fuck something else up (eg spaces inside a string).
The whole point of a tabstop is you can change its width so a file can be indented to the preference of the person reading/editing it (set ts=[width] in vi). With spaces you're stuck with the (often poor) indentation the author chose who is essentially saying "Fuck you, you're going to read the code indented the way I want, not the way you want"
Not just contractors - entire companies are in on that sort of scam in india. In the UK the government and various companies think nothing of sending our private data to the cheapest bidder in Bangalore, then react with shock and horror when - surprise! - some of the data goes walkies. I honestly wonder sometimes if there's a maximum IQ allowed for CEOs and ministers because surely people can't honestly be this stupid they didn't forsee this sort of thing?
"outliers can be very unusual indeed."
There's outliers and there's statistical impossibilities. The chances of him having lived 23 years (almost a 3rd of the average humans lifespan) longer than the next oldest person I'm afraid are so close to zero that you couldn't tell the difference.
"By the time either a blimp or this thing deflates enough to make the engines flop around, there isn't going to be nearly enough lift of lift of any kind to keep it in the air."
No. It would only take the wings and the engines to be out by a few degrees to make it uncontrollable.
A blimp doesn't have aerodynamic surfaces and engines that provide a significant proportion of the lift. Did you RTFA?
You moron. Its not a blimp - its part airship, part aircraft. Try engaging your brain before you post next time.
LGBT people and atheists don't usually have a massive great chip on their shoulder and go out and riot if they don't get what they think they're owed by society. Isn't it odd how there's no quota required for indians? Perhaps its something to do with them working hard and not expecting a good job to be handed to them on a plate simply because of their skin colour.
Is that a good idea? Sure, it saves weight, but if it ever suffers partial deflation in the air there will be a total loss of control preventing them even attempting a crash landing as the aerofoils and props start pointing in random directions.
I've met some people who were very smart programmers, but didn't really understand or "get" the rest of life. This seems like a prime example of that.
I would say Aspergers but every time you do these days you'll get some SJW who claims to have it ranting about discrimination etc.
The sun is slowly heating up. Regardless of what we do as a species, in a few billion years the sun will get too hot for any of the current negative feedback mechanisms in earths climate to offset and the oceans will start to evaporate away.
That said, I'm not too worried about a runaway greenhouse happening due to man made climate change. If a 6 mile wide asteroid 65 million years ago that set most of the terrestrial plant matter on fire couldn't manage it I doubt we will. What we will do however is make it unpleasently hot in the equatorial latitudes for ourselves.
"Didn't you post this same thing a few years ago!"
No. But its hardly a unique opinion.
...*yaaawn*
Sorry Apple, but your watch is not the killer product you thought it was. Beyond the usual fanboys nobody is interested, not just in your smartwatch, but in any smartwatch. Phones do everything the watch can do much better except as a convenient way to tell the time, and if thats all you need the watch to do you can get a a Casio for the price of a takeaway that will do it equally well and have a 5 year battery life on top.
that it could well be obsolete in less time than it took to develop it if computer controlled drones keep advancing at their current rate. There was a story not long ago about a computer flying a simulated fighter outperforming a top gun in a dogfight. Move technology on 15 years and putting a pilot in a fighter could seem rather quaint.
Keep telling yourself that. Maybe someone will believe it one day. Now run along, mummy has done your dinner...
I don't count a lot of millenials as adults tbh. Most of them act like overground children.
No one over the age of 12 gives a damn about any of Nintendos game franchises. If they think they're going to corner the kids market then good luck to them, but they might find that the kids have moved on.
"Those that think it's about the hardware, just do not play games."
Of course its about the hardware or we'd all still be playing games on an Atari 2600.
Anyone who wants decent mobile gaming has already got a choice of dozens of devices that also do more than just play games. I don't understand the logic behind this. Perhaps it'll work in japan but it'll be a dismal failure everywhere else. Still, its their billions to burn. Meanwhile playstation and xbox just keep on trucking...