If moving to a functional programming language breaks your algorithms, then you are somehow doing it wrong.
Easy. Pure functional programming doesn't permit side-effects. Algorithms that perform I/O at various points in the algorithm can't easily be expressed in languages like that.
Also, although some popular functional languages like ML and Erlang have hacks to get around this, purely functional programming doesn't like a function modify global state. Without those hacks in the language, algorithms that require in-place modification of arrays (such as some sorting algorithms) can't be expressed at all in those languages. (You can modify the algorithms to not do in-place modifications of arrays, but then that's not the original algorithm any more.)
I've recently gotten into FP. I started with Erlang and then branched into ML and Haskell. In case you're interested, here are the best books I've encountered for each language:
Just as the USA have lost their moral right to castigate countries who use torture as a tool of statecraft,
I think "moral high ground" and "moral authority" are bogus concepts. Something is right or wrong regardless of the character of the person/nation pointing it out.
If you're torturing for statecraft, you deserve to be criticized. Even if the (hypo)criticizer is the U.S.
I'm not trying to start a flamewar (seriously), but I wonder if this is what happened when Jesus' disciples reportedly met with him after his death.
Although that would require multiple people to have similar hallucinations at the same time, since some of the accounts describe Jesus meeting with groups of disciples after his death.
He can only get it GPL'd if it is A) his to begin with, or B) he gets a lawful agent of the university to authorize him to do so. If he, acting alone, merely applies a GPL label to it, this will do nothing, because he is not acting with legal capacity to surrender the rights in the first place. Just FYI.
Unless he actually does own the rights to the software. Which was his original question.
which in turn extended their mean lifespan by 24 to 46 percent.
WTF does it mean for there to be a range of means? It's not like they're sampling the population of all mice to which they gave this treatment, and have to estimate the mean.
But to claim without aero, it's not vista, is just plainly false.
If Microsoft advertisements implied that anything called "Vista" would come with the Aero interface, then that's essentially a defining attribute of Vista. From that perspective, if something lacks the Aero interface, it's not what MS ads referred to as Vista.
... and in those years, I got a virus/spyware exactly once: by stupidly going to a keygen site my friend suggested, which was full of malware. The rest of the time, I was fine.
Even in the Windows shops I worked in, most people just locked their systems at the end of the day and left.
Who reboots every day?
I do. It saves on a little consumption of fossil fuels and the emission of CO2. And rebooting only takes about 60 seconds.
My text editor (Kate) can remember the set of files I had open. Firefox can remember the tabs I had open. Or worst-case scenario I can sleep the computer.
You know, the die-hard haters who come out of the woodwork every time Novell is mentioned, dredging up the years old Microsoft deal, which I predicted at the time would have zero impact on Linux and FOSS and have been vindicated in that prediction - except for the haters.
Yeah, but in all fairness, I think many of us forgot that you predicted that. If we'd remembered, we would definitely have kept our mouths shut.
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Easy. Pure functional programming doesn't permit side-effects. Algorithms that perform I/O at various points in the algorithm can't easily be expressed in languages like that.
Also, although some popular functional languages like ML and Erlang have hacks to get around this, purely functional programming doesn't like a function modify global state. Without those hacks in the language, algorithms that require in-place modification of arrays (such as some sorting algorithms) can't be expressed at all in those languages. (You can modify the algorithms to not do in-place modifications of arrays, but then that's not the original algorithm any more.)
I've recently gotten into FP. I started with Erlang and then branched into ML and Haskell. In case you're interested, here are the best books I've encountered for each language:
Programming Erlang
Programming Haskell
ML for the Working Programmer
Also, I'd definitely recommend starting with Erlang, because the Programming Erlang book made for a very easy introduction to functional programming.
I think "moral high ground" and "moral authority" are bogus concepts. Something is right or wrong regardless of the character of the person/nation pointing it out.
If you're torturing for statecraft, you deserve to be criticized. Even if the (hypo)criticizer is the U.S.
Apple doesn't believe anything. It's a corporation and doesn't have a mind.
Perhaps the author meant, "Some members of Apple's senior management appear to believe ..." ?
The utter selfishness of what the thieves do is mind-boggling.
I'm not entirely against trading their haul of copper for a small quantity of lead.
He'd rework it so the Cylons shot first.
This probably should wait until George Lucas is dead, just to be safe.
I'm not trying to start a flamewar (seriously), but I wonder if this is what happened when Jesus' disciples reportedly met with him after his death.
Although that would require multiple people to have similar hallucinations at the same time, since some of the accounts describe Jesus meeting with groups of disciples after his death.
He can only get it GPL'd if it is A) his to begin with, or B) he gets a lawful agent of the university to authorize him to do so. If he, acting alone, merely applies a GPL label to it, this will do nothing, because he is not acting with legal capacity to surrender the rights in the first place. Just FYI.
Unless he actually does own the rights to the software. Which was his original question.
For proprietary, trade-secret reasons, MS needed to develop a workforce that doesn't need chairs. Microsoft spokeswoman C. DeFenestra refused comment.
"If there is no God, then all is permitted." - Ivan Karamazov in The Brothers Karamazov.
So what's your take on God's existence?
WTF does it mean for there to be a range of means? It's not like they're sampling the population of all mice to which they gave this treatment, and have to estimate the mean.
Bush even got it into an arms research race with the Protoss!
If their mailing address is in Nigeria, I'd settle immediately. There could be big $$$ in it for you.
That's it - every time they make one of those parodies, I'm eating a puppy.
If Microsoft advertisements implied that anything called "Vista" would come with the Aero interface, then that's essentially a defining attribute of Vista. From that perspective, if something lacks the Aero interface, it's not what MS ads referred to as Vista.
I wonder if they allow chair-throwing in court these days.
If they do, I think Microsoft stands a pretty good chance.
The judge rules from the bench. She'd fsck'ing p3wn him.
I'm pretty sure that all signals leak to some extent. If he claims no leakage at all, then he's already making ill-informed claims.
... and in those years, I got a virus/spyware exactly once: by stupidly going to a keygen site my friend suggested, which was full of malware. The rest of the time, I was fine.
How do you know?
I think "All your bases are belong to us" just got a little more frightening.
I think you'd find they have a keener understanding of how to bring a civil suit for age discrimination.
Even in the Windows shops I worked in, most people just locked their systems at the end of the day and left.
Who reboots every day?
I do. It saves on a little consumption of fossil fuels and the emission of CO2. And rebooting only takes about 60 seconds.
My text editor (Kate) can remember the set of files I had open. Firefox can remember the tabs I had open. Or worst-case scenario I can sleep the computer.
You know, the die-hard haters who come out of the woodwork every time Novell is mentioned, dredging up the years old Microsoft deal, which I predicted at the time would have zero impact on Linux and FOSS and have been vindicated in that prediction - except for the haters.
Yeah, but in all fairness, I think many of us forgot that you predicted that. If we'd remembered, we would definitely have kept our mouths shut.
I have the irrational need to stab you. Repeatedly. In the groinal area. Did I mention repeatedly?
I disagree. Based on my post, the need is actually rational, not irrational.
"Can you hear me now? Good!"