Odd. Since C++11 I've used the new features to remove about 15% of my old code base (which is about 300,000 lines), and I find the new code significantly easier to read and maintain. What new feature is giving you trouble?
Sorry for the slow response. R-value move semantics took me a little getting used to, and I still find them difficult to reason about.
But the biggest, ongoing issue is template resolution. The process can be extremely complex, and yet happens without the programmer being able to see if/how it unfolds step by step, especially with SFINAE being an accepted principle. And the resulting error messages are usually indecipherable, especially when trying to use the STL without having a deep expertise in its proper use.
" could not prove that his particular cellphone records had been swept up in NSA dragnets."
U.S. federal judges, you are fucking cowards with your bullshit deference to executive-branch "privilege". You let the administration use bullshit tactics to pervert justice, and you use that as an excuse to not protect citizens' fundamental, Constitutionally enumerated rights. You demand that citizens prove that which cannot be proven without committing a crime, but let the administration just bleat "executive privilege" or "state secrets" or "it's for the kids", and consider that doing your job.
If the software were to get open-sourced, then immediately everyone would have access to it (because you don't need to understand it in order to simply build it). And if it was worth maintaining, presumably OSS developers could make it more maintainable over time.
No offence, but is your business really so small you can't afford a spare Mac?
Not impossible, just painful. Not sure if you've ever run a small business before, but cashflow can sometimes be very limited, especially in the early stages. Bear in mind that cameras and other photo equipment also compete for budget.
I'm not morally offended at his approach, but as a crowd-funding campaign, it does present a risk/reward ratio that I'm not willing to accept.
What would be more acceptable is if he firs developed the software and shows its worth, and then offered to open-source it for some specified amount of money. That eliminates almost all risk related the fact or quality of the delivery.
Do we have to explain that "has started" means that he's working on it, "(a)lmost available" means it's not done yet, and that those two conditions are not mutually exclusive?
Well, to be honest I think a car analogy would help.
I think I agree with everything you say, but there's an unfortunate catch, at least for my wife's kind of business. The ecosystem around Photoshop and Lightroom is so extensive and useful, that I really don't think she'd ever be able to edit photos as quickly or as well using the obvious OSS substitutes. It's possible she could come close, but I'd be very skeptical that we could ever justify the time it would take her to adapt her skillset and to adjust her workflow.
That's just an unfortunate reality of running a small business while also being a wife and mother: time is money, and both are often in short supply. So time-efficiency, as well as quality output to make happy customers is huge. So although I like to minimize all kinds of risk (e.g., that introduced by depending on proprietary OS's and apps), we probably just can't afford the time investment it would require.
Now it's possible that there are OSS substitutes for Photoshop and Lightroom (and the various 3rd-party tools, and user communities) that would make the switch practical. I'm just not aware of them. I'd be glad to hear any practical suggestions.
Have you heard about the latest updates bringing this marvellous 1984 functionality to Windows 7 and 8, you know, for you to have one less reason to upgrade to Windows 10? Guess not...
Actually yeah, although I was caught off-guard until I read about them. Fortunately they're optional updates, and I hadn't installed any of them yet.
My wife has a small photography business, and Photoshop and Lightroom are huge aspects of her photo editing workflow. She's invested untold hours building up skills in them, and that proficiency really pays off in terms of the quality and speed of her editing work.
Right now she edits on our Windows 7 box. I'm almost dead set against us using Windows 10 because of this privacy crap (and now I apparently have to try undoing the telemetry those assholes snuck into Windows 7.)
I feel caught between a rock and a hard place, because switching to a Mac would be an unwelcome expense for us. Also an business risk, since I can cheaply repair or upgrade a PC, but I have not expectation of being able to do that on a Mac. So if a Mac craps out near one of her deadlines, I'm not confident that I can get it (or a replacement) online as fast as we really want.
I'm just amazed at how hard Microsoft is working to drive us away. They've gone from being a reasonable partner for our kind of business (Windows 7), to being one of our largest sources of medium- and long-term risk. They're now making our decision to use Windows for her business, into a strategic mistake.
I really hope Adobe comes up with some decent solution to people in our shoes. If they have a Linux port of Creative Suite in their back pocket, this would be a dandy time to start selling it.
Compared to biology, there's less taxonomy in chemistry and far less in physics.
I'd say that as a highschooler, taxonomy made biology seem like a completed field, and the supposed explanatory power of Newton's laws (at a medium scale) and relativity made physics seem approximately completed. In both cases, I was left with a distinct lack of sense of wonder, because it seemed like ongoing research was just spending huge amounts of effort tidying up arcane little corners of the knowledge base.
When I was in high school, I found anatomy and biology boring, because it seemed like memorizing a finalized taxonomy of living creatures' details. If I'd had an appreciation for both how insanely awesome living creatures' designs are and that there are lots of mysteries still to be solved, I'd have been far more likely to get into the field. Ditto for chemistry and physics.
It is an illegal action against the individual members of AshleyMadison.com, as well as any freethinking people who choose to engage in fully lawful online activities.
According to this, adultery is illegal in 21 of the 50 United States.
Ashley Madison as at the very least being hypocritical, considering their business is probably guilty of criminal conspiracy for its actions in those states.
You fail to respond to his point.... The problem is that conservatives view more punishment as a good thing without regard to sanity.
I think you're mistaken on both points above. I'm stating that in my experience, a large plurality of conservatives I know do not carte blanch see more punishment as better.
But they do see a different set of behaviors as worthy of punishment than do many liberals, which may explain part of that perception by liberals. And if your point is that the difference in what is worthy of punishment warrants calling conservatives insane, I think you're broadening the conversation into something else.
Slashdot Mirror
"Cheapest Functional Computer For Students?"
An Arduino running Haskel?
Because he's old.
Stop being so Dice-friendly PC! It's because he's a guy.
What they're trying to do is actually make a stable, scalable web service using Windows. It's like putting a man on the moon!
For a second I thought the editors and community may have promoted this story to the front page because it was informative and insightful.
Then I saw it was from Dice, and I knew better.
Odd. Since C++11 I've used the new features to remove about 15% of my old code base (which is about 300,000 lines), and I find the new code significantly easier to read and maintain. What new feature is giving you trouble?
Sorry for the slow response. R-value move semantics took me a little getting used to, and I still find them difficult to reason about.
But the biggest, ongoing issue is template resolution. The process can be extremely complex, and yet happens without the programmer being able to see if/how it unfolds step by step, especially with SFINAE being an accepted principle. And the resulting error messages are usually indecipherable, especially when trying to use the STL without having a deep expertise in its proper use.
I use C++ all day, every day. Every time the C++ standardization committee meets, the language gets more obscure to me.
U.S. federal judges, you are fucking cowards with your bullshit deference to executive-branch "privilege". You let the administration use bullshit tactics to pervert justice, and you use that as an excuse to not protect citizens' fundamental, Constitutionally enumerated rights. You demand that citizens prove that which cannot be proven without committing a crime, but let the administration just bleat "executive privilege" or "state secrets" or "it's for the kids", and consider that doing your job.
Assholes.
If the software were to get open-sourced, then immediately everyone would have access to it (because you don't need to understand it in order to simply build it). And if it was worth maintaining, presumably OSS developers could make it more maintainable over time.
Not impossible, just painful. Not sure if you've ever run a small business before, but cashflow can sometimes be very limited, especially in the early stages. Bear in mind that cameras and other photo equipment also compete for budget.
Nicely done.
I'm not morally offended at his approach, but as a crowd-funding campaign, it does present a risk/reward ratio that I'm not willing to accept.
What would be more acceptable is if he firs developed the software and shows its worth, and then offered to open-source it for some specified amount of money. That eliminates almost all risk related the fact or quality of the delivery.
I wonder, how will this editor compare to LibreOffice Online ("LOOL"), when it's finally released?
I assume the reviewer will be a mister Duke Nukem.
You can read it all about in the new John Grisham - the W3C Editing Task Force
And an edgy, noire hero with different tattoos on his fists: <pain> and </pulse>.
Do we have to explain that "has started" means that he's working on it, "(a)lmost available" means it's not done yet, and that those two conditions are not mutually exclusive?
Well, to be honest I think a car analogy would help.
what I really want in this broad category is for Slack to support GitHub markdown.
I think I agree with everything you say, but there's an unfortunate catch, at least for my wife's kind of business. The ecosystem around Photoshop and Lightroom is so extensive and useful, that I really don't think she'd ever be able to edit photos as quickly or as well using the obvious OSS substitutes. It's possible she could come close, but I'd be very skeptical that we could ever justify the time it would take her to adapt her skillset and to adjust her workflow.
That's just an unfortunate reality of running a small business while also being a wife and mother: time is money, and both are often in short supply. So time-efficiency, as well as quality output to make happy customers is huge. So although I like to minimize all kinds of risk (e.g., that introduced by depending on proprietary OS's and apps), we probably just can't afford the time investment it would require.
Now it's possible that there are OSS substitutes for Photoshop and Lightroom (and the various 3rd-party tools, and user communities) that would make the switch practical. I'm just not aware of them. I'd be glad to hear any practical suggestions.
Thanks for the tip!
Have you heard about the latest updates bringing this marvellous 1984 functionality to Windows 7 and 8, you know, for you to have one less reason to upgrade to Windows 10? Guess not...
Actually yeah, although I was caught off-guard until I read about them. Fortunately they're optional updates, and I hadn't installed any of them yet.
My wife has a small photography business, and Photoshop and Lightroom are huge aspects of her photo editing workflow. She's invested untold hours building up skills in them, and that proficiency really pays off in terms of the quality and speed of her editing work.
Right now she edits on our Windows 7 box. I'm almost dead set against us using Windows 10 because of this privacy crap (and now I apparently have to try undoing the telemetry those assholes snuck into Windows 7.)
I feel caught between a rock and a hard place, because switching to a Mac would be an unwelcome expense for us. Also an business risk, since I can cheaply repair or upgrade a PC, but I have not expectation of being able to do that on a Mac. So if a Mac craps out near one of her deadlines, I'm not confident that I can get it (or a replacement) online as fast as we really want.
I'm just amazed at how hard Microsoft is working to drive us away. They've gone from being a reasonable partner for our kind of business (Windows 7), to being one of our largest sources of medium- and long-term risk. They're now making our decision to use Windows for her business, into a strategic mistake.
I really hope Adobe comes up with some decent solution to people in our shoes. If they have a Linux port of Creative Suite in their back pocket, this would be a dandy time to start selling it.
No offense, but I'm not going to limit to my writing to avoid offending your faith-based beliefs.
Ditto for chemistry and physics.
Compared to biology, there's less taxonomy in chemistry and far less in physics.
I'd say that as a highschooler, taxonomy made biology seem like a completed field, and the supposed explanatory power of Newton's laws (at a medium scale) and relativity made physics seem approximately completed. In both cases, I was left with a distinct lack of sense of wonder, because it seemed like ongoing research was just spending huge amounts of effort tidying up arcane little corners of the knowledge base.
When I was in high school, I found anatomy and biology boring, because it seemed like memorizing a finalized taxonomy of living creatures' details. If I'd had an appreciation for both how insanely awesome living creatures' designs are and that there are lots of mysteries still to be solved, I'd have been far more likely to get into the field. Ditto for chemistry and physics.
According to this, adultery is illegal in 21 of the 50 United States.
Ashley Madison as at the very least being hypocritical, considering their business is probably guilty of criminal conspiracy for its actions in those states.
I think you're mistaken on both points above. I'm stating that in my experience, a large plurality of conservatives I know do not carte blanch see more punishment as better.
But they do see a different set of behaviors as worthy of punishment than do many liberals, which may explain part of that perception by liberals. And if your point is that the difference in what is worthy of punishment warrants calling conservatives insane, I think you're broadening the conversation into something else.
I'm not surprised. Killing someone does tend to make them less likely to commit a crime.