In defense of the providers, there's a tradeoff that doesn't get much mention: shorter shifts require more frequent inpatient "handoffs" in which a knowledge transfer must occur between doctors and nurses. They recognize that handoffs are subject to miscommunication and error, and impose their own risks to patients. Historically, staying with the patient to provide a continuity of care has been the real driver of long clinical work shifts, not for the convenience of the providers schedules. Do you really think they prefer 12 hour shifts?
Why would a 'for profit' corporation go out of its way to protect the rights of consumers that don't even know they're having their privacy invaded to start with?
Especially with the tacit agreement "we'll just keep this between us, right?" to prevent any competitive disadvantage. Until Lord Snowden began his journey...
But implementing his proposal and similar ones would likely reduce the prevalence of such females.
Basically if a douchebag and his family are killed, those genes are eliminated from the pool. Repeat over enough generations and you have fewer douchebags and fewer women who want to be with those douchebags.
Yeah, yeah, I know, I'll be lynched for saying that Bill "I am Satan" Gates should be on par with RMS, ESR and Linus, but think about this for a second.
Bill founded what is now the largest software company in the world, and wether or not you agree with him, he has made a important contribution to the computing industry: Microsoft brought desktop computing to the home user.
Now, be honest. How many of us had our first computer experience with MS-DOS or Windows 3.1? Do you think that if computers still consisted on thin-client-server models based on huge VAX mainframes, that Joe and Jane Smith would be able to dial-in to AOL and connect to thousands of people around the world? Would the Internet have blossomed into the vast information network it is today without the aid of easy-to-use software from Microsoft? How about Grandma who wants to set up a webcam so she can chat with her grandchildren? She doesn't want to have to sit and hack kernels for hours. She wants Plug-and-Play, baby.
Look, disagree all you like, but thanks to things like Windows, Office, and MSN, modern computing has been made easy and affordable to everyone, thanks to pioneers like Bill Gates.
If it hadn't been MS, it'd have been someone else.
The competitive market for clones and peripherals created by the open-like architecture of the IBM PC was much more responsible for our pervasive personal computers. That, and Lotus 1-2-3.
The current state of C++ reflects the design-by-committee shackles that have long victimized it, a result of the attempt to standardize it. The irony is that it has been a great failure as a standard. But it's difficult to standardize something so inherently complex.
Committee decisions compound the original sin of the language designer. Conceived as a "better C", it aimed low, and has always been tied to a systems programming philosophy. Compare its path with that of Java, and him with Gosling. It's no coincidence that one was the product of academia, and the other of industry.
Java's feature arc has been remarkably responsive to the needs of most professional developers who want to solve real-world problems quickly, and with high quality. Much of a C++ developer's working burden is the language itself.
C++ is now irrelevant to most software application developers. In a competitive market for software product, who today would choose to build using C++ over Java, &c???
I have to agree. I've used the DBMS since Oracle 5, and it has always served well, but their ancillary products--4GLs, report writers, web products, etc.--have ranged from underwhelming to abominable, and are also quite expensive.
Hey, we can assume no one wants to be sloppy, but we can't insist on a code review before the first compile, eh?
What Java let's you do find and fix such bugs far faster in early development, resulting in greater developer productivity, and morale, for that matter. Instead of "oh, shit, what did I do?" it's "ah, I bet I know just what's wrong."
Sure, specs are great if you can get them, and the requirements are stable. Otherwise, software development becomes unending specifications development, which has been the spiral of death for many a project.
There are many clients, but why use HTTP for something it wasn't really designed for?
Same reasom so much other ungodly crap is piled high on top of HTTP: port 80 and firewall admins.
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, and it's not "simple". Glenn Reynolds, on the the other hand, is apparently quite simple, in a webbish sort of way.
"I want you kids to get ahead" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-x6FBuF4JM
In defense of the providers, there's a tradeoff that doesn't get much mention: shorter shifts require more frequent inpatient "handoffs" in which a knowledge transfer must occur between doctors and nurses. They recognize that handoffs are subject to miscommunication and error, and impose their own risks to patients. Historically, staying with the patient to provide a continuity of care has been the real driver of long clinical work shifts, not for the convenience of the providers schedules. Do you really think they prefer 12 hour shifts?
Why would a 'for profit' corporation go out of its way to protect the rights of consumers that don't even know they're having their privacy invaded to start with?
Especially with the tacit agreement "we'll just keep this between us, right?" to prevent any competitive disadvantage. Until Lord Snowden began his journey...
Hot or Not?
You think republics don't have them? What is the US Congress but a pair of well-dresses mobs?
Y'all got no sensayuma. Viva Chewbacchus!
But implementing his proposal and similar ones would likely reduce the prevalence of such females. Basically if a douchebag and his family are killed, those genes are eliminated from the pool. Repeat over enough generations and you have fewer douchebags and fewer women who want to be with those douchebags.
But these women are hot!
Yeah, like the Terrorists are just Evil. It's just their nature; they can't he'p it. Free to go.
"Why come you don't have a tattoo?"
Yeah, yeah, I know, I'll be lynched for saying that Bill "I am Satan" Gates should be on par with RMS, ESR and Linus, but think about this for a second.
Bill founded what is now the largest software company in the world, and wether or not you agree with him, he has made a important contribution to the computing industry: Microsoft brought desktop computing to the home user.
Now, be honest. How many of us had our first computer experience with MS-DOS or Windows 3.1? Do you think that if computers still consisted on thin-client-server models based on huge VAX mainframes, that Joe and Jane Smith would be able to dial-in to AOL and connect to thousands of people around the world? Would the Internet have blossomed into the vast information network it is today without the aid of easy-to-use software from Microsoft? How about Grandma who wants to set up a webcam so she can chat with her grandchildren? She doesn't want to have to sit and hack kernels for hours. She wants Plug-and-Play, baby.
Look, disagree all you like, but thanks to things like Windows, Office, and MSN, modern computing has been made easy and affordable to everyone, thanks to pioneers like Bill Gates.
If it hadn't been MS, it'd have been someone else. The competitive market for clones and peripherals created by the open-like architecture of the IBM PC was much more responsible for our pervasive personal computers. That, and Lotus 1-2-3.
It was a hack from Day 1.
The current state of C++ reflects the design-by-committee shackles that have long victimized it, a result of the attempt to standardize it. The irony is that it has been a great failure as a standard. But it's difficult to standardize something so inherently complex.
Committee decisions compound the original sin of the language designer. Conceived as a "better C", it aimed low, and has always been tied to a systems programming philosophy. Compare its path with that of Java, and him with Gosling. It's no coincidence that one was the product of academia, and the other of industry.
Java's feature arc has been remarkably responsive to the needs of most professional developers who want to solve real-world problems quickly, and with high quality. Much of a C++ developer's working burden is the language itself.
C++ is now irrelevant to most software application developers. In a competitive market for software product, who today would choose to build using C++ over Java, &c???
Uhhh, speak for yourself there, Mr. "straw".
I have to agree. I've used the DBMS since Oracle 5, and it has always served well, but their ancillary products--4GLs, report writers, web products, etc.--have ranged from underwhelming to abominable, and are also quite expensive.
What Java let's you do find and fix such bugs far faster in early development, resulting in greater developer productivity, and morale, for that matter. Instead of "oh, shit, what did I do?" it's "ah, I bet I know just what's wrong."
Sure, specs are great if you can get them, and the requirements are stable. Otherwise, software development becomes unending specifications development, which has been the spiral of death for many a project.
There are many clients, but why use HTTP for something it wasn't really designed for? Same reasom so much other ungodly crap is piled high on top of HTTP: port 80 and firewall admins.