if you put 0's in unanswered fields, then you'll have an awful lot of zeros, and since you're using bits, that's a lot of 'no' answers, which isn't what's really there.
any DBA worth his weight in salt knows that you ever see a single table with 100 columns then you have a major design issue.
splitting that up into several tables in the same database will offer a significant performance increase.
the onus isn't on the community, the onus is on the developers and their QA team. This is just an attempt to get a few more eyeballs on the verifier in case something falls through. There's nothing wrong with that.
Also it is an opportunity for someone to get recognition for breaking a new peice of software.
It is important to get extra scrutiny on newly designed peices of software, for it is the new designs that usually break in the least expected ways.
I don't think Java is as slow as you think it is. It is very fast lately, and it is actually giving C a run for its money in some respects. It is *definitely* not the slug everyone thinks it is.
They're probably using Java because its not as slow as its reputation, and its becoming a commodity language in the enterprise lately. My corporate overlords have dictated the use of Java (IBMs WebSphere) for all current and future enterprise development, and most of us developers couldn't be happier. Everywhere I do contracting work for lately also uses Java. Java Is A Great Language(TM), especially since 5.0.
There used to be a time when I believed that all techies had agreed that Java was slow and bloated, but once I stopped reading Slashdot comments so religiously I began to see some truth. It isn't slow, it isn't bloated, and it isn't something I expect the Slashdot crowd (that I'm a founding member of) to understand anytime soon.
I believe Java 6 introduces java.io.Console, which provides several convenience methods when using the console, but other than that I don't know of any language changes.
The fact of the matter is that C# will never be able to erode Java's dominance since it is not cross platform.
bull-SHIT.
here's the source for a C# compiler made available from MICROSOFT that compiles out of the box on FreeBSD and OS X. http://msdn.microsoft.com/net/sscli. Its called ROTOR.
"Low cost of entry/decent return on investment" - i like that.
i got hired by a fluke into my first programming job. knowing what the job market was like at the point it was either learn programming fast or get fired and go hungry. i chose programming.
it is not the way i would recommend learning to program.
just look at different languages, find one that is pleasing to your eye, and learn it. buy more than one book on it, by more than one publisher, read through them while you manually type each example, and learn what is going on.
once you've learned enough of that language that you can write new code and debug other's code semi-easily, and you hopefully start to ache to learn more, pick a similar language and learn it. lather, rinse, repeat until you know enough languages that you start mixing syntax of one language in with another.
And so can all the malware, spyware, crippleware, middleware, trojans, worms, viruses, and anyone with even a mild desire to make life difficult for people around them. I bet it'll be even easier to hide shadow processes on the system from the unwary user thus increasing Microsoft's ability to sell the world's desktop out to corporate marketing departments. Imagine banner ads, not in your browser, but legally (via click through EULAs) on your desktop. There's nothing you'll be able to do about it.
Registry + ActiveX + a functional shell (finally) +.NET == cataclysmic user-base catastrophe waiting to happen
Windows admins are screwed. Get out of IT now if you're still sane, get out even if you're long past sane. Life will become hell very soon.
this is super duper inflammatory flamebait. you're not just trying to start a fire, you're already on fire.
Well Monad is an object-oriented shell. Unix doesn't have that. Yes, it is based on lessons everyone learns when they discover the power of the unix shell, but its quite a bit more than that.
i honestly believe that Monad is something that someone else should implement for unix, if possible. It really is a good idea for a shell.
this is all coming from someone that has been a unix server admin for almost 10 years and a linux desktop user for about 8. i love unix, but this monad thing is very nice as well.
PHP just isn't on the same standard in my eyes as Java or C#. Doesn't PHP have something like 3,000 built-in functions? That is not a sign of a well designed language.
J2EE has a very well-respected place in larger organizations. The support is fantastic, the tools are fantastic, and the language is actually very nice, once you truly get to know it.
I used to think that Java was slow and useless, but when I actually started writing a lot of it, I found that its really not as bad as everyone told me it would be. Java is becoming the new COBOL as far as business acceptance goes, its everywhere that it needs to be, from what I've seen.
PHP is good for its own uses as well. I started programming in PHP, and I've written dozens of website backends in PHP, but the Java families (and other OO languages like C++ or C#) are just more elegant for the larger projects, web-based and otherwise.
I wish PHP and PHP programmers the best. Go, spread to anyone you can, but stay away from me. I've found a new girlfriend, and her name is Object Orientation.
I'm quite sure the immature among you will see this as flamebait, but it really isn't.
Instead of HTML+CSS, perhaps XML+XSLT would have been a better choice? I'll leave the "why" up to the reader, but I think it would have been a much better choice.
Personally, and this may sound stupid, but I'd like to see Eclipse understand Vi commands and behave as Vi does.
the shortcuts that Vi uses are superior for me, and Eclipse (being the best Java IDE for me) I'd like to see Eclipse use Vi keyboard commands through a plugin.
if that were the case, all you'd have to do is change something in the law and try again - then its a new law all over again. its like overloading methods, if the signature is different, they're not the same.
Yahoo! does not use MySQL for anything in production, at least they didn't when I was there. Jeremy Z. does work there, so that might have changed, but if you're trying to say that Yahoo! uses MySQL to store user data, or anything associated with a user profile you're dead wrong. UserDataBuckets.
My 2nd grade teacher, Mrs. Cuba, used to beat my left hand when i would use it. "DEVIL'S HAND! DEVIL'S HAND!!" Forcing me to write with my right hand, I found it somewhat difficult at first but I became somewhat useful writing with my right hand.
When she died i spray painted "DEVIL'S TEACHER" on her gravestone with a spraycan in my left hand. I was 16. this is the first time i have ever told anyone.
LCDs look the same at 60Hz or 120Hz because LCD pixels have such a huge persistence of state. it takes a while for an LCD pixel to revert to neutral, but it takes almost no time for a CRT pixel. phosphorus stops glowing relatively quickly.
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get rid of software patents and copyrights on ideas and you'll have a *great* start to enabling innovation.
in order to execute a file, you have to be able to read it from the disk.
if you put 0's in unanswered fields, then you'll have an awful lot of zeros, and since you're using bits, that's a lot of 'no' answers, which isn't what's really there.
any DBA worth his weight in salt knows that you ever see a single table with 100 columns then you have a major design issue.
splitting that up into several tables in the same database will offer a significant performance increase.
Although, the NES wasn't a multiplayer console
Two controller ports means that the NES was indeed multiplayer.
the onus isn't on the community, the onus is on the developers and their QA team. This is just an attempt to get a few more eyeballs on the verifier in case something falls through. There's nothing wrong with that.
Also it is an opportunity for someone to get recognition for breaking a new peice of software.
It is important to get extra scrutiny on newly designed peices of software, for it is the new designs that usually break in the least expected ways.
I don't think Java is as slow as you think it is. It is very fast lately, and it is actually giving C a run for its money in some respects. It is *definitely* not the slug everyone thinks it is.
They're probably using Java because its not as slow as its reputation, and its becoming a commodity language in the enterprise lately. My corporate overlords have dictated the use of Java (IBMs WebSphere) for all current and future enterprise development, and most of us developers couldn't be happier. Everywhere I do contracting work for lately also uses Java. Java Is A Great Language(TM), especially since 5.0.
There used to be a time when I believed that all techies had agreed that Java was slow and bloated, but once I stopped reading Slashdot comments so religiously I began to see some truth. It isn't slow, it isn't bloated, and it isn't something I expect the Slashdot crowd (that I'm a founding member of) to understand anytime soon.
I believe Java 6 introduces java.io.Console, which provides several convenience methods when using the console, but other than that I don't know of any language changes.
The fact of the matter is that C# will never be able to erode Java's dominance since it is not cross platform.
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bull-SHIT.
here's the source for a C# compiler made available from MICROSOFT that compiles out of the box on FreeBSD and OS X. http://msdn.microsoft.com/net/sscli. Its called ROTOR.
Remember our favorite tech-book publisher? Here's an O'Reilly article explaining how to compile and begin using ROTOR: http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2002/03/27/g
Here's an O'Reilly book on how to use the Shared Source CLI: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sscliess/
I believe it depends on when you signed up. If you were invited before the bulk invite, I think you get a better version.
I don't know though, but I do know I'm going early so I can make sure I get a copy of each.
every .NET framework install comes with a compiler.
/? switch to see the syntax.
.net, the compiler is free.
for c#: c:\windows\microsoft.net\framework\v(framework version number here)\csc.exe (vbc.exe for vb, jsc.exe for j#)
use the
you don't even NEED an ide for
"Low cost of entry/decent return on investment" - i like that.
i got hired by a fluke into my first programming job. knowing what the job market was like at the point it was either learn programming fast or get fired and go hungry. i chose programming.
it is not the way i would recommend learning to program.
just look at different languages, find one that is pleasing to your eye, and learn it. buy more than one book on it, by more than one publisher, read through them while you manually type each example, and learn what is going on.
once you've learned enough of that language that you can write new code and debug other's code semi-easily, and you hopefully start to ache to learn more, pick a similar language and learn it. lather, rinse, repeat until you know enough languages that you start mixing syntax of one language in with another.
that's what I'd do.
try this on for size: http://www.leeholmes.com/blog/DemonstrationOfMona
Well Monad is an object-oriented shell. Unix doesn't have that. Yes, it is based on lessons everyone learns when they discover the power of the unix shell, but its quite a bit more than that.
i honestly believe that Monad is something that someone else should implement for unix, if possible. It really is a good idea for a shell.
this is all coming from someone that has been a unix server admin for almost 10 years and a linux desktop user for about 8. i love unix, but this monad thing is very nice as well.
PHP just isn't on the same standard in my eyes as Java or C#. Doesn't PHP have something like 3,000 built-in functions? That is not a sign of a well designed language.
J2EE has a very well-respected place in larger organizations. The support is fantastic, the tools are fantastic, and the language is actually very nice, once you truly get to know it.
I used to think that Java was slow and useless, but when I actually started writing a lot of it, I found that its really not as bad as everyone told me it would be. Java is becoming the new COBOL as far as business acceptance goes, its everywhere that it needs to be, from what I've seen.
PHP is good for its own uses as well. I started programming in PHP, and I've written dozens of website backends in PHP, but the Java families (and other OO languages like C++ or C#) are just more elegant for the larger projects, web-based and otherwise.
I wish PHP and PHP programmers the best. Go, spread to anyone you can, but stay away from me. I've found a new girlfriend, and her name is Object Orientation.
I'm quite sure the immature among you will see this as flamebait, but it really isn't.
Instead of HTML+CSS, perhaps XML+XSLT would have been a better choice? I'll leave the "why" up to the reader, but I think it would have been a much better choice.
Personally, and this may sound stupid, but I'd like to see Eclipse understand Vi commands and behave as Vi does.
the shortcuts that Vi uses are superior for me, and Eclipse (being the best Java IDE for me) I'd like to see Eclipse use Vi keyboard commands through a plugin.
Anyone have a free plugin for that?
then why don't you put up a page of interest to slashdot visitors, and do what you can to get the link on the front page?
then, if the page gets put on slashdot.org or digg.com, you can shit a brick when you see your bandwidth bill exceed $17,000 in just four hours.
You are naive. I think that whole uppety attitude of yours will die away quickly if this happens to you.
if that were the case, all you'd have to do is change something in the law and try again - then its a new law all over again. its like overloading methods, if the signature is different, they're not the same.
Yahoo! does not use MySQL for anything in production, at least they didn't when I was there. Jeremy Z. does work there, so that might have changed, but if you're trying to say that Yahoo! uses MySQL to store user data, or anything associated with a user profile you're dead wrong. UserDataBuckets.
actually I believe the UID 666 is one that was intentionally skipped.
I remember when slashIDs came out sitting there for two hours before finally deciding to create one. I wonder what my number could have been.
I did not say that LCDs have a slower response. I said that it takes them a long time to go neutral after being told what color to be.
pick up your game boy, turn it on, and when a screen shows up, turn it off. the image does not stay there forever, it slowly goes away.
that effect is what i was describing.
wow. who do you work for?
and it was hell growing up for me as well.
My 2nd grade teacher, Mrs. Cuba, used to beat my left hand when i would use it. "DEVIL'S HAND! DEVIL'S HAND!!" Forcing me to write with my right hand, I found it somewhat difficult at first but I became somewhat useful writing with my right hand.
When she died i spray painted "DEVIL'S TEACHER" on her gravestone with a spraycan in my left hand. I was 16. this is the first time i have ever told anyone.
LCDs look the same at 60Hz or 120Hz because LCD pixels have such a huge persistence of state. it takes a while for an LCD pixel to revert to neutral, but it takes almost no time for a CRT pixel. phosphorus stops glowing relatively quickly.
protocols don't use any power, its their implementations that use power.
what about bluetooth? or some as-yet-uninvented low power wireless protocol