Really not advocating it, just saying it can work. Also, that is not a "horrible over-engineered solution". Sending a key and getting a group of results is pretty mild.
well, as others said, your web browser could send a non-unique hash of the site to Google. Google could then send a list of all sites that match the hash. Cache the list for a while on the client. Then your client sees if the actual site is in the returned list. Google gets a guess and you get some privacy.
For the most part, I agree with that, but I guess it really is how different is the language. I would expect a lot of problems with people going from the C-based languages to something like Erlang or Haskell.
On that note, I would expect going from custom PHP to Ruby and Rail to be two level new learning needed. If you try to write PHP in Ruby on Rails you will feel a lot of pain.
And moving to C# or Java would, for most developers, probably be a dramatic gain in functionality
Apple ships Java with the machine, you can use it. Apple also had a Java version of the Cocoa framework, but dropped it. It was clunky and a pain because Java can't really duplicate the dynamic nature of Objective-C.
Objective-C has been part of gcc for a long time. Saying you are locked-in by it is kinda misleading, especially when you hold up C# as an example of openness.
Prototype-based inheritance is just as valid OOP as Class-based. It is really a shame people don't try to embrace new ways of thinking. NewtonScript was a particularly good prototype-based language, Self and Io are also very cool.
As to the static versus dynamic, when you look at what things like Strongtalk and most modern Lisps show about performance, some of the arguments fall mighty flat. Also, I find it instructive that the Java version of the Cocoa framework had to be dropped because of the problems in expressing the framework in a static language like Java. The inclusion of Generics (and the Java version of the implementation) tend to make me think there are problems there.
My biggest example is "Myth : A snow plow can blow a car off the road as it passes at a high speed"
So, they test this myth on a flat, dry road with no crosswind and ignore the fact that a snowplow operates on a curved (as in dips to the sides to help with rain/snow removal), wet and/or icy road with very, very probable crosswind. Ignoring the facts of why a snowplow might be on the road. Heck, let's just remember that a snowplow is plowing the snow and could / will spray a car.
Not only were they wrong, they gave people bad information that could give a driver bad ideas of how things will work in the northland in winter around snowplows.
a 30 year old drunk-driving fatality is pretty minor. Hell, Cheney just shot a guy in the face
death > injury
Death is never minor. I don't care about your politics - this comparison could only happen in a political discussion by a fanatic (right or left - doesn't matter).
I don't think it will work fine. No normal consumer will "download a disc image, etc." They will take the player back and complain it is not playing anything anymore, or start a "virus" scare with the disc that "destroyed" their player.
Actually, this sounds like a great new business for "Geek Squad". We can rescue your player from those evil hackers - pay us.
Calling Lisp a functional language these days might not be exactly true, and with a good editor, s-expressions are not really as much of an issue after a little while.
Haskell looks quite nice and has facilities (monads) to deal with some procedural stuff.
Since they are doing this, other sites will drop in the google rankings and Wikipedia will rise (more links in - none out). This would be more interesting if Wikipedia ever took advertising or "sponsored pages" in a PBS manner, since Wikipedia would likely rank higher than the "expert pages" Wikipedia links to.
So, under your interesting interpretation, all GPL code that contains code that was originally BSD-licensed cannot be distributed anymore because it violates the GPL. Better tell the FSF.
The sad part is that we look at this like an engineering problem. For people doing business related software, it really isn't. Mostly, we are trying to formalize a process that has "guidelines" and "best practices", but no true hard rules. There is no laws of physics in the business world.
Obviously, there are some rules (e.g. accounting), but nothing that governs the whole process.
So, every piece of business software becomes an exercise in politics. We all hate politics. The mindset required to really like politics tends not to be prevalent in people who like programming. Politics are imprecise and have wiggle room that doesn't translate well into software.
The second part to this is that we are a young profession. Not even a hundred years of programming. We are craftsman, not engineers despite some people's job titles.
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The ads on the side of the article might not be safe for work depending on how strict things are.
Really not advocating it, just saying it can work. Also, that is not a "horrible over-engineered solution". Sending a key and getting a group of results is pretty mild.
well, as others said, your web browser could send a non-unique hash of the site to Google. Google could then send a list of all sites that match the hash. Cache the list for a while on the client. Then your client sees if the actual site is in the returned list. Google gets a guess and you get some privacy.
On that note, I would expect going from custom PHP to Ruby and Rail to be two level new learning needed. If you try to write PHP in Ruby on Rails you will feel a lot of pain.
but they impose a belief system and set of idioms that probably shouldn't be ignored.
I guess it will be abstinent after she sees the obstinate and dumb remark
Apple ships Java with the machine, you can use it. Apple also had a Java version of the Cocoa framework, but dropped it. It was clunky and a pain because Java can't really duplicate the dynamic nature of Objective-C.
Objective-C has been part of gcc for a long time. Saying you are locked-in by it is kinda misleading, especially when you hold up C# as an example of openness.
As to the static versus dynamic, when you look at what things like Strongtalk and most modern Lisps show about performance, some of the arguments fall mighty flat. Also, I find it instructive that the Java version of the Cocoa framework had to be dropped because of the problems in expressing the framework in a static language like Java. The inclusion of Generics (and the Java version of the implementation) tend to make me think there are problems there.
Apple's market cap is 86.64B and AMD is 7.56B (just to add Nvidia is 11.89B). Apple has around 12B in the bank.
Well, given a version of OS X is going to run on the iPhone - I would bet SJ could get a version of OS X to run.
So, they test this myth on a flat, dry road with no crosswind and ignore the fact that a snowplow operates on a curved (as in dips to the sides to help with rain/snow removal), wet and/or icy road with very, very probable crosswind. Ignoring the facts of why a snowplow might be on the road. Heck, let's just remember that a snowplow is plowing the snow and could / will spray a car.
Not only were they wrong, they gave people bad information that could give a driver bad ideas of how things will work in the northland in winter around snowplows.
a 30 year old drunk-driving fatality is pretty minor. Hell, Cheney just shot a guy in the face
death > injuryDeath is never minor. I don't care about your politics - this comparison could only happen in a political discussion by a fanatic (right or left - doesn't matter).
Actually, this sounds like a great new business for "Geek Squad". We can rescue your player from those evil hackers - pay us.
Taxpayers foot the bill so they can get cheap transportation on their goods. They are not innocent bystanders.
Dvorak must need to bump up his pages hits to have money to go on vacation
Given how the UI looks and acts on a Mac, I can assure you that this is not the case.
more mercury, "worse" light, great. Is there a non-fluorescent that gives off decent light, doesn't have mercury, and fits in the energy requirements?
Calling Lisp a functional language these days might not be exactly true, and with a good editor, s-expressions are not really as much of an issue after a little while.
Haskell looks quite nice and has facilities (monads) to deal with some procedural stuff.
Since they are doing this, other sites will drop in the google rankings and Wikipedia will rise (more links in - none out). This would be more interesting if Wikipedia ever took advertising or "sponsored pages" in a PBS manner, since Wikipedia would likely rank higher than the "expert pages" Wikipedia links to.
So, under your interesting interpretation, all GPL code that contains code that was originally BSD-licensed cannot be distributed anymore because it violates the GPL. Better tell the FSF.
Somehow, I have more faith in Berkley's lawyer's interpretation of US Copyright Law than a random article's flaky conclusions.
The sad part is that we look at this like an engineering problem. For people doing business related software, it really isn't. Mostly, we are trying to formalize a process that has "guidelines" and "best practices", but no true hard rules. There is no laws of physics in the business world. Obviously, there are some rules (e.g. accounting), but nothing that governs the whole process.
So, every piece of business software becomes an exercise in politics. We all hate politics. The mindset required to really like politics tends not to be prevalent in people who like programming. Politics are imprecise and have wiggle room that doesn't translate well into software.
The second part to this is that we are a young profession. Not even a hundred years of programming. We are craftsman, not engineers despite some people's job titles.
a lot of sci-fi films start this way.... then bad thing happen
Speak for yourself, little man!
you have multiple?!?Could you imagine all the Assault charges filed because of WOW