Oh right, "Freedom". Of course. In that case why stop at a bazooka, why shouldn't you be able to own a SAM or even an ICBM? I mean its your constitoooshnal right ain't it?
Go back to swinging from your monkey bars you cretin.
"Yes, yes it does. Try a dictionary. It might help."
Apparently you don't understand the difference between "frequent occurance" and "normal". I suggest you buy yourself a dictionary unless you allow any condition that suits your political leanings to be encompassed by the term normal so rendering it meaningless.
"As before, gays have been part of normal society for longer than it's been civilized."
So have psychopaths.
"Right, only in the last few decades have we permitted homosexual people to admit that they exist without persecution, which is how people like yourself can be so hilariously confused: willful ignorance."
I suggest you take a trip out of your comfort zone to countries away from the cuddly comfy west and see how "confused" I am. Give your boyfriend a kiss and cuddle in the middle of a street almost anywhere in the middle east, africa, russia, central america or the more conservative parts of far east and see how long before you're beaten up or in prison. Hell, even do it in a lot of southern US states and see what happens.
That means there must be some new error syntax to emulate a gallic shrug and some vague hand waving. A much nicer alternative to a a meaningless number or some unfriendly message.
So why is this on slashdot exactly? This site is supposed to be about the tech itself, not the financial problems of the people behind it. Thats what The Economist is for.
I suspect even algorithms - except at the hardware control level - will be surpassed once neutral networks become viable for most things. And once you've taught a neural net to do something you just copy its pattern like a piece of software onto other machines. The fact that they can learn means they won't need to be programmed in the conventional sense though someone will probably have to literally show them how to do something.
I wouldn't bet on that for much longer. The smarter computers get the more likely they'll be able to figure out how to do a task on their own rather than being explicitely told whether it be doing a nightly backup, troubleshooting their own DB or implementing new tasks that previously would have required programming.
I'm sure in 100 years there'll still be humans doing these sorts of jobs - in the same way you can still find people making horse shoes - but not in anything like the same numbers. IT for humans will go back to being a niche, almost hobby activity.
I wonder if some lead IT whizz kid decided it would be really "kool" and look good on his CV to replace all that crufty old cobol running on the cobweb covered mainframe in the corner with this months latest hot language?
I'm exaggerating a bit, but it does seem to me having worked in the dev industry for > 20 years that a lot of the younger devs really don't understand the serious reasons behind the phrase If It Ain't Broke... If you mention it they either think you're being ironic or just too old to "get it". Sadly its them who don't get it but they're too arrogant/naive to realise it.
Don't be an ass. Its not in any employees interest including the CEO to run it into the ground when a lot of them are on performance related pay. And its certainly not in the governments interest.
I suggest you put your tin foil hat away. This is just plain old fashioned incompetance.
>Because that's ugly when integrated with normal code.
Is it? Seems cleaner to me. HYMMV.
>These are really dumb reasons.
They seem like good reasons to me. I think you're the one trying to argue your prefered method without any decent reasons to back it up other than you prefer it aesthetically.
"Even then #ifdefs are the wrong way to do it. Create a system abstraction layer (or use one of the several excellent ones that exist) and call that. Then for each platform build and link the appropriate implementation of the abstraction layer. "
Sorry, I disagree. Abstraction layers are inefficient and add to bloat especially if the code only differentiates in a few places between platforms. I'm sure they look nice on a whiteboard design but in the real world they're rarely the best solution for home grown code.
The smart ones only know java , the rest think HTML +CSS are programming languages and javascript is the domain of almost omnipotent god like beings whose radiance they can only begin to emulate.
Not if it does a lot of low level systems calls. Unless you think win32 is going to work on Linux for example or Xlib will have no problem working on Windows.
... the russians and chinese arn't going to suddenly go out and arrest a load of US spies making it obvious that they've cracked it. They'll probably use the information to make high value gains. When the british cracked Enigma in WW2 they made damn sure it wasn't obvious to the germans that it had been cracked and even allowed some of their own ships to be sunk even though they knew where U boats were just so they had the advantage of continuing to decode more important correspondence.
So because the others do it that makes it ok does it? Don't a fucking bell end all your life. The ability for a program to suspend itself for a time interval by setting an alarm/interrupt timer has been around since the 70s on most multitasking OS's, it doesn't need any kind of special background task. But as is usual these days, far better to make everything more complex to try and fixed problems solved decades ago.
Oh btw, its spelt a-r-s-e. An a-s-s is a donkey. HTH
Not being able to maintain a network connection because the program may be permanently suspended at any moment is not a good model for network application development. And a LOT of programs use network connectivity these days.
"and that the illegal market only exists because of legislation. Thus the solution is to fix the legislation"
Yeah, and while we're at it lets solve the murder crisis by making it legal. GTFU assuming you haven't burnt out so many braincells getting high already that its not possible for you.
.... that all the stick-it-to-the-man trustafarians and right on student types who'll no doubt funded this will eventually wise up and realise the sort of desperately unpleasent people and groups that make a profit out of places like silk road. We're not talking knock off DVDs here or a bit of pot there, this is mass market drug dealing. Just because its online doesn't make it ok.
I wonder just how many of these idiots could send a donation to a columbian drugs gang?
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Oh right, "Freedom". Of course. In that case why stop at a bazooka, why shouldn't you be able to own a SAM or even an ICBM? I mean its your constitoooshnal right ain't it?
Go back to swinging from your monkey bars you cretin.
You're like a drunk with a hangover who thinks the solution to it is just to drink more.
""I should be able to have a howitzer or a bazooka if I want one"
Idiots that say that sort of thing and actually mean it.
"Yes, yes it does. Try a dictionary. It might help."
Apparently you don't understand the difference between "frequent occurance" and "normal". I suggest you buy yourself a dictionary unless you allow any condition that suits your political leanings to be encompassed by the term normal so rendering it meaningless.
"As before, gays have been part of normal society for longer than it's been civilized."
So have psychopaths.
"Right, only in the last few decades have we permitted homosexual people to admit that they exist without persecution, which is how people like yourself can be so hilariously confused: willful ignorance."
I suggest you take a trip out of your comfort zone to countries away from the cuddly comfy west and see how "confused" I am. Give your boyfriend a kiss and cuddle in the middle of a street almost anywhere in the middle east, africa, russia, central america or the more conservative parts of far east and see how long before you're beaten up or in prison. Hell, even do it in a lot of southern US states and see what happens.
It was a joke. Know what they are? Get over yourself. Oh, and I'm not an american either.
That means there must be some new error syntax to emulate a gallic shrug and some vague hand waving. A much nicer alternative to a a meaningless number or some unfriendly message.
So why is this on slashdot exactly? This site is supposed to be about the tech itself, not the financial problems of the people behind it. Thats what The Economist is for.
Zero overhead? And how pray do you manage that then genius? Any extra call adds overhead.
I suspect even algorithms - except at the hardware control level - will be surpassed once neutral networks become viable for most things. And once you've taught a neural net to do something you just copy its pattern like a piece of software onto other machines. The fact that they can learn means they won't need to be programmed in the conventional sense though someone will probably have to literally show them how to do something.
"For us tech workers things will be very good,"
I wouldn't bet on that for much longer. The smarter computers get the more likely they'll be able to figure out how to do a task on their own rather than being explicitely told whether it be doing a nightly backup, troubleshooting their own DB or implementing new tasks that previously would have required programming.
I'm sure in 100 years there'll still be humans doing these sorts of jobs - in the same way you can still find people making horse shoes - but not in anything like the same numbers. IT for humans will go back to being a niche, almost hobby activity.
There's a difference between re-starting and re-running. With a batch the first is normal, the 2nd is a big no no.
I'd imagine stopping any batch system halfway through is going to cause a mess. There's a reason it has the word "batch" in it.
I wonder if some lead IT whizz kid decided it would be really "kool" and look good on his CV to replace all that crufty old cobol running on the cobweb covered mainframe in the corner with this months latest hot language?
I'm exaggerating a bit, but it does seem to me having worked in the dev industry for > 20 years that a lot of the younger devs really don't understand the serious reasons behind the phrase If It Ain't Broke... If you mention it they either think you're being ironic or just too old to "get it". Sadly its them who don't get it but they're too arrogant/naive to realise it.
Don't be an ass. Its not in any employees interest including the CEO to run it into the ground when a lot of them are on performance related pay. And its certainly not in the governments interest.
I suggest you put your tin foil hat away. This is just plain old fashioned incompetance.
>Because that's ugly when integrated with normal code.
Is it? Seems cleaner to me. HYMMV.
>These are really dumb reasons.
They seem like good reasons to me. I think you're the one trying to argue your prefered method without any decent reasons to back it up other than you prefer it aesthetically.
"Even then #ifdefs are the wrong way to do it. Create a system abstraction layer (or use one of the several excellent ones that exist) and call that. Then for each platform build and link the appropriate implementation of the abstraction layer. "
Sorry, I disagree. Abstraction layers are inefficient and add to bloat especially if the code only differentiates in a few places between platforms. I'm sure they look nice on a whiteboard design but in the real world they're rarely the best solution for home grown code.
The smart ones only know java , the rest think HTML +CSS are programming languages and javascript is the domain of almost omnipotent god like beings whose radiance they can only begin to emulate.
Not if it does a lot of low level systems calls. Unless you think win32 is going to work on Linux for example or Xlib will have no problem working on Windows.
... the russians and chinese arn't going to suddenly go out and arrest a load of US spies making it obvious that they've cracked it. They'll probably use the information to make high value gains. When the british cracked Enigma in WW2 they made damn sure it wasn't obvious to the germans that it had been cracked and even allowed some of their own ships to be sunk even though they knew where U boats were just so they had the advantage of continuing to decode more important correspondence.
So because the others do it that makes it ok does it? Don't a fucking bell end all your life. The ability for a program to suspend itself for a time interval by setting an alarm/interrupt timer has been around since the 70s on most multitasking OS's, it doesn't need any kind of special background task. But as is usual these days, far better to make everything more complex to try and fixed problems solved decades ago.
Oh btw, its spelt a-r-s-e. An a-s-s is a donkey. HTH
Needless complexity to solve a problem thats self inflicted by MS.
Not being able to maintain a network connection because the program may be permanently suspended at any moment is not a good model for network application development. And a LOT of programs use network connectivity these days.
*sigh*
"and that the illegal market only exists because of legislation. Thus the solution is to fix the legislation"
Yeah, and while we're at it lets solve the murder crisis by making it legal. GTFU assuming you haven't burnt out so many braincells getting high already that its not possible for you.
Don't be so fucking naive. You think this stuff is manufactured and sold by some sweet little grannies just to make up their pensions?
.... that all the stick-it-to-the-man trustafarians and right on student types who'll no doubt funded this will eventually wise up and realise the sort of desperately unpleasent people and groups that make a profit out of places like silk road. We're not talking knock off DVDs here or a bit of pot there, this is mass market drug dealing. Just because its online doesn't make it ok.
I wonder just how many of these idiots could send a donation to a columbian drugs gang?