I would consider that to be covered in my reason #1, but yes I agree that is a legitimate concern.
I'm also looking at it. It looks reasonable enough, until you try parsing the go routines and synchronization aspects.
My guess is that they didn't do that for a couple of reasons:
1) Its a revolutionary language design ( at least in their opinion) which would suffer from not having all libraries written with its unique capabilities.
2) JVM's can be cumbersome to use. (I've taken so called "Senior Java Developers" and had them stumbling around to try to compile, debug and run java programs from a command line).
3) Its more fun to write your own (this project was probably someone's free hacking time), without any prior design constraints.
Well, its a wide, wide world my friend. The things you don't know about could fill a library of congress or two.
But on topic, these cards have many uses. Telemarketers used to give time limited payroll debit cards out for performance bonuses. In some parts of the world, they are given out instead of checks. With the idea being that you don't have to go to an open bank to get it cashed. Plus in many areas outside the US, checks are dead. No one uses or accepts them. obviously these aren't the kind of people that are planning for a future retirement in the hamptons.
Yeah, no. Over your head, *Whoosh* and what not. You either understand this as funny satire, or you don't. Understand how Beck works, or don't. I'd rather argue with gene ray about the non-existence of earth's 4 corner simultaneous 4-day time cube. It would be more entertaining, and less frustrating.
I agree with that statement 100%. However, the point of this website was not to fight fire with fire, but to fight fire with satire. That is something altogether different. However, one could legitimately ask if this kind of humor is lost on its intended audience as it requires something of an ability to objectively evaluate arguments, rather than simply agree with everything that person A says. Thus the real effect of such satire may just be preaching to the choir, while enraging those predisposed to defend Beck.
I would have modded the story a troll, if possible. There are two ways of looking at things that are not contradictory. Changing business plans and changing consumer behavior. While he is proposing to change consumer behavior, obviously the only way he has to do that is through their product line up ( ie changing his business model). Like the whole super sizing of popcorn at movie theaters. its 4.59 for small (8 oz), 4.75 for a medium (12 oz), or 4.80 for a large(24 oz). The product is set up to sell a large volume of popcorn. If he made all sizes an equal price per oz, then that would likely change consumer behavior towards buying smaller sizes of popcorn. In fact the current model was designed to get people to buy popcorn at a high price, but think of it as a value. Tricky, huh.
So the business model will most definitely change, but most likely not in a way that will make any of us ( with brains ) happy. Then agian, I don't watch tv much. Already pulled that plug a while ago.
The problem with bloat isn't disk space, its code complexity. The more bloat, the more complex the code is, the more security problems, the more bugs, the more difficult it is to implement a good, useful feature. Of course, one man's bloat is another man's killer feature, so its sort of relative. But still, windows has too many ways of doing things in their api's. Then again, even Linus has called his own kernel bloated. Maybe that's the price we pay for the functionality we crave these days.
Oh, its not just data, but a whole bunch of code as well. That makes it a bit more complex. We made the transition off foxpro ( also from the dos oglden age) by removing the code first and connecting to the db purely over odbc, then transferring the data.
Nice util though ( I wasn't allowed to open source my foxpro to mysql tool ). If it had existed 6 years ago, we might have gone postgres rather than mysql.
Sorry if my previous response was a bit glib, it still sounds like a complex setup that took some time to create. I'm sure there were probably some reasons why you spent the time doing that rather than transitioning off foxpro first.
The courts aren't trying to stamp this out, that's not their job. Their job is to administer justice according to the law. Arresting thief's, doesn't prevent all thefts. Catching tax cheats, doesn't prevent people from cheating on their taxes. So blame the record companies, or the legislators that passed the laws, but courts aren't really malfunctioning here.
And don' you dare invoke the imagery of Don Quixote. He was a crusader for truth, love and all good things in this life. Not to be used with the *IAA's money grab.
For example, we still use a lot of legacy FoxPro databases
Ouch!! You have my deepest sympathies. I don't agree with the guy who said its only for enterprises, but I think you would have been better off just not using foxpro. Its not that difficult to transition from. just do it. You'll be happier.
Way to destroy the credibility in the first part of a post with bat-crap craziness in the second. You win my prize for the most schizophrenic post of the day.
You may collect your prize of a bloody mary with a shot of mole sauce at your convince.
Yeah, but it was written by politicians apparently too proud of themselves for coming up with the acronym to realize that it has another more widely used meaning. Its like when my dad calls his monitor " the computer", The desktop "the cpu", and the Ram "the hard drive". He's sort of just proud he's in the right ballpark and doesn't call the keyboard a typewriter.
But it should be clear that navigating a steep terrain in any direction is a difficult task that should not be taken lightly.
So moving to the state of learned form unlearned requires the navigation of difficult terrain that will take time to navigate before drinking the sweet elixir of success made from the fermentation of the fruit crushed by your plodding steps of education.
No, no no. I'm not saying one persons opinion is better than a rigorous study. I am saying that this one man's opinion is better than most other individual's opinions.
Well, yes if it went awry and that's not a bad thing, then it was 'frikin fantastic'. Its like crash testing cars. Yes, the car is crashed, but we know know more information about how it will affect the occupants so we can build safer cars.
2) His use case probably exceeds that of most people here
I am neither insensitive, nor am I a clod. At very worst, I am a sensitive sophisticate. I'd explain myself in further detail, but I am too busy saving whales from greenpeace while wearing a top hat, monocle and blowing smoke rings with my cigarette holder.
Those bastards will just waste the opportunity to harvest precious ambergris!
1) He has proof that he's not an idiot when it comes to low level systems. 2) His use case probably exceeds that of most people here ( lots of diffs, patches, small random io, git usage, ect). If it works for his desktop, it will work for yours.
But how do I know for sure that you aren't a robot sent from the future to discourage future survivors from getting the vaccine before it mutates into a superbug, facilitating the robot takeover?
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You assume otherwise? That's why my phone is a phone. Good luck contact/photo sucking off of that.
I would consider that to be covered in my reason #1, but yes I agree that is a legitimate concern. I'm also looking at it. It looks reasonable enough, until you try parsing the go routines and synchronization aspects.
My guess is that they didn't do that for a couple of reasons:
1) Its a revolutionary language design ( at least in their opinion) which would suffer from not having all libraries written with its unique capabilities.
2) JVM's can be cumbersome to use. (I've taken so called "Senior Java Developers" and had them stumbling around to try to compile, debug and run java programs from a command line).
3) Its more fun to write your own (this project was probably someone's free hacking time), without any prior design constraints.
Well, its a wide, wide world my friend. The things you don't know about could fill a library of congress or two.
But on topic, these cards have many uses. Telemarketers used to give time limited payroll debit cards out for performance bonuses. In some parts of the world, they are given out instead of checks. With the idea being that you don't have to go to an open bank to get it cashed. Plus in many areas outside the US, checks are dead. No one uses or accepts them. obviously these aren't the kind of people that are planning for a future retirement in the hamptons.
Yeah, no. Over your head, *Whoosh* and what not. You either understand this as funny satire, or you don't. Understand how Beck works, or don't. I'd rather argue with gene ray about the non-existence of earth's 4 corner simultaneous 4-day time cube. It would be more entertaining, and less frustrating.
I agree with that statement 100%. However, the point of this website was not to fight fire with fire, but to fight fire with satire. That is something altogether different. However, one could legitimately ask if this kind of humor is lost on its intended audience as it requires something of an ability to objectively evaluate arguments, rather than simply agree with everything that person A says. Thus the real effect of such satire may just be preaching to the choir, while enraging those predisposed to defend Beck.
No you haven't. Netscape was a completely different code base. Its like saying you've been using BSD since 1969.
Have you watched any movies lately?
They're so bad only morons would pay 9.00 to see.
I consider myself somewhat smarter,waiting for them on redbox.
I would have modded the story a troll, if possible. There are two ways of looking at things that are not contradictory. Changing business plans and changing consumer behavior. While he is proposing to change consumer behavior, obviously the only way he has to do that is through their product line up ( ie changing his business model). Like the whole super sizing of popcorn at movie theaters. its 4.59 for small (8 oz), 4.75 for a medium (12 oz), or 4.80 for a large(24 oz). The product is set up to sell a large volume of popcorn. If he made all sizes an equal price per oz, then that would likely change consumer behavior towards buying smaller sizes of popcorn. In fact the current model was designed to get people to buy popcorn at a high price, but think of it as a value. Tricky, huh.
So the business model will most definitely change, but most likely not in a way that will make any of us ( with brains ) happy. Then agian, I don't watch tv much. Already pulled that plug a while ago.
The problem with bloat isn't disk space, its code complexity. The more bloat, the more complex the code is, the more security problems, the more bugs, the more difficult it is to implement a good, useful feature. Of course, one man's bloat is another man's killer feature, so its sort of relative. But still, windows has too many ways of doing things in their api's. Then again, even Linus has called his own kernel bloated. Maybe that's the price we pay for the functionality we crave these days.
By similar logic, you are George Washington as he was human, a trait he shares with you.
Oh, its not just data, but a whole bunch of code as well. That makes it a bit more complex. We made the transition off foxpro ( also from the dos oglden age) by removing the code first and connecting to the db purely over odbc, then transferring the data.
Nice util though ( I wasn't allowed to open source my foxpro to mysql tool ). If it had existed 6 years ago, we might have gone postgres rather than mysql.
Sorry if my previous response was a bit glib, it still sounds like a complex setup that took some time to create. I'm sure there were probably some reasons why you spent the time doing that rather than transitioning off foxpro first.
The courts aren't trying to stamp this out, that's not their job. Their job is to administer justice according to the law. Arresting thief's, doesn't prevent all thefts. Catching tax cheats, doesn't prevent people from cheating on their taxes. So blame the record companies, or the legislators that passed the laws, but courts aren't really malfunctioning here.
And don' you dare invoke the imagery of Don Quixote. He was a crusader for truth, love and all good things in this life. Not to be used with the *IAA's money grab.
Ouch!! You have my deepest sympathies. I don't agree with the guy who said its only for enterprises, but I think you would have been better off just not using foxpro. Its not that difficult to transition from. just do it. You'll be happier.
Way to destroy the credibility in the first part of a post with bat-crap craziness in the second. You win my prize for the most schizophrenic post of the day.
You may collect your prize of a bloody mary with a shot of mole sauce at your convince.
Yeah, but it was written by politicians apparently too proud of themselves for coming up with the acronym to realize that it has another more widely used meaning. Its like when my dad calls his monitor " the computer", The desktop "the cpu", and the Ram "the hard drive". He's sort of just proud he's in the right ballpark and doesn't call the keyboard a typewriter.
But it should be clear that navigating a steep terrain in any direction is a difficult task that should not be taken lightly.
So moving to the state of learned form unlearned requires the navigation of difficult terrain that will take time to navigate before drinking the sweet elixir of success made from the fermentation of the fruit crushed by your plodding steps of education.
No, no no. I'm not saying one persons opinion is better than a rigorous study. I am saying that this one man's opinion is better than most other individual's opinions.
Well, yes if it went awry and that's not a bad thing, then it was 'frikin fantastic'. Its like crash testing cars. Yes, the car is crashed, but we know know more information about how it will affect the occupants so we can build safer cars.
I am neither insensitive, nor am I a clod. At very worst, I am a sensitive sophisticate. I'd explain myself in further detail, but I am too busy saving whales from greenpeace while wearing a top hat, monocle and blowing smoke rings with my cigarette holder.
Those bastards will just waste the opportunity to harvest precious ambergris!
I do, because:
1) He has proof that he's not an idiot when it comes to low level systems.
2) His use case probably exceeds that of most people here ( lots of diffs, patches, small random io, git usage, ect). If it works for his desktop, it will work for yours.
Yeah, forgot about the passage of time. I couldn't find this more recent article from jeff atwood when I first posted it.
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001304.html
With ssd right now, the manufacturer makes a big difference in quality and reliability.
http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2008/10/so-i-got-one-of-new-intel-ssds.html
He sorta knows what he's talking about more often than a random average slashdotter.
Why do humans have to eat the bycatch? What's wrong with throwing it overboard for sharks and other sea scavengers?
But how do I know for sure that you aren't a robot sent from the future to discourage future survivors from getting the vaccine before it mutates into a superbug, facilitating the robot takeover?