Is one of the more innovative companies out there. They have a good solid history of wearable computing designs, so I support them in protecting their assets. This is NOT another IBM or MS. This is NOT an evil company doing evil things. Shit, back in 1994 all I wanted was one of their devices. I still want one, they're badass.
well, if you count that, I got my 740 turbo volvo stationwagon to fly on several ocassions:) as well as my ford aerostar, honda accord...et al. (yes, cars are people too.)
you must have a very small list of music. I have my 40GB ipod filled to the brim. It is much faster for me to scroll and click just once than to have to scroll thru a multitude of lists. Another benefit is that I have only one list where I need to remember relative positions, which I do have a pretty good idea of, and of how fast I need to move my thumb to get there. All that video game playing paid off well in my case, not so much for you it seems.
in summary: scrolling a single long list is only longer if you are a very slow and imprecise scroller.
I walk along the avenue, never thought I'd meet an OS like youuuuu meet an OS like youuuuu............. with free software and free gui the kind that lets me live so freee like speech and beer it's freee...... and Iran, Iran so far away, and Iran, Iran so far away, linux couldn't get away.
It's been said here before that SF's language distribution is a farce, mainly because most SF.net project never get completed. Back on point, I agree that every language has its place. Perl has a great role in MANY places, and there is quite an extensive perl community (to argue your point that people huddle around good languages - there are many many people huddled around perl. Look at CPAN or perlmonks for example). There's a reason perl is included by default in OS X and was _required_ for freebsd for so long: it is a great language. Right now I make my living writing enterprise perl projects, and have a significantly lower error rate than the java team at my company. My last job, I wrote a credit processing system in perl that handled millions of dollars a day. without error. If you write well in any language, it is maintainable and readable by anyone. Similarly, you can just as easily write terrible code in any language, as parts of the java team are finding out rather painfully. Just like we have monkeys destroying the english language, monkeys have destroyed other languages.
Now if you don't agree with anything else I've said - who can live without duct tape?;)
the ability to read different programming languages is the same as being able to read different human languages. It's a matter of differing grammar, syntax and character notations. Not everyone can grasp chinese or russian or hebrew, but does that make them valueless languages? I didn't think so. You'll especially run into problems if you try and read/write chinese as if it were english, or perl as if it were C.
Luckily I am surrounded by brilliant programmers. We use plenty of those tricks and seemingly unreadable lines of code to get things done quickly and efficiently. We all have our own style, but we are all more than capable of reading and modifying each other's code. I have been called a perl expert by coworkers and I say the same of them.
Just because I can't touch up a Van Gough painting, does that mean his style and technique should never be used? No, just that someone with enough talent and skill needs to come along to do the job right.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. --Such has been the patient sufferance of these United States; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present bicameral legislature is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
Java is a dead end language. No evolution. Like COBOL. COBOL is a dead end language. No evolution. Like Sanscrit. Perl evolves. It will stay alive forever.
right tool for the job? Since when is duct tape not the right tool for any job? WTF kind of geek are you?;-)
for the record, I write perl for a living, and due to the results of my last project, the company that used to be "java all the way, perl is on the way out" has now done a 180. It CAN be done right. But like any language, computer or human, most people will mangle the hell out of it. Like ebonics.
this isn't news. this isn't even interesting. oooh, someone grouped textfiles for us to read! shit, they've been doing that for decades. c'mon man, maybe if they had some kinda text2speech app that ran on the ipod, then it would be news.
Slashdot Mirror
one of the great pleasures of being a smoker is pissing off the non-smokers. I guess I'll have to eat more beans.
oh, and first post or something.
well that won't work at all for publishing. Try something like:
/. user 26199."
"The sense of humor as a function of slashdot reader identity evaluates to zero for the case of
Which code would that be?
:)
Oh...take your pick
the combination listed above might as well be the narcotic type, the amount of caffeine you'll be intaking. Very similar effects as a matter of fact.
I call it The Olympian - it keeps you running full speed all night (and most of the next day) like an olympic athlete.
ouzo
coke
coffee
redbull
An acquired taste, but sure to get you drunk, black you out, and keep you going!
the kid that plays malcolm in "malcolm in the middle" could be a great kid version of rick moranis. put him in drag and call him Annie Lonestar
Is one of the more innovative companies out there. They have a good solid history of wearable computing designs, so I support them in protecting their assets. This is NOT another IBM or MS. This is NOT an evil company doing evil things. Shit, back in 1994 all I wanted was one of their devices. I still want one, they're badass.
well, if you count that, I got my 740 turbo volvo stationwagon to fly on several ocassions :) as well as my ford aerostar, honda accord...et al. (yes, cars are people too.)
you must have a very small list of music. I have my 40GB ipod filled to the brim. It is much faster for me to scroll and click just once than to have to scroll thru a multitude of lists. Another benefit is that I have only one list where I need to remember relative positions, which I do have a pretty good idea of, and of how fast I need to move my thumb to get there. All that video game playing paid off well in my case, not so much for you it seems.
in summary: scrolling a single long list is only longer if you are a very slow and imprecise scroller.
and I meant grumpy cranky.
I walk along the avenue,
never thought I'd meet an OS like youuuuu
meet an OS like youuuuu.............
with free software and free gui
the kind that lets me live so freee
like speech and beer it's freee......
and Iran, Iran so far away,
and Iran, Iran so far away,
linux couldn't get away.
I'd rather scroll to an exact position once, than have to scroll to an exact position, click, scroll to an exact position, click, etc.
Less clicking === more listening
btw I read your website. You sure are cranky.
wtf mate?!?!
read SIG, $buf, 1024;
in 58, for most readers of /. it was our parents or grandparents voting, not us.
of course, that would require sunlight, making the robots unsuitable for cleaning out outhouses.
I believe that the loose typing is one of perl's greatest strengths. To each their own I suppose.
It's been said here before that SF's language distribution is a farce, mainly because most SF.net project never get completed. Back on point, I agree that every language has its place. Perl has a great role in MANY places, and there is quite an extensive perl community (to argue your point that people huddle around good languages - there are many many people huddled around perl. Look at CPAN or perlmonks for example). There's a reason perl is included by default in OS X and was _required_ for freebsd for so long: it is a great language. Right now I make my living writing enterprise perl projects, and have a significantly lower error rate than the java team at my company. My last job, I wrote a credit processing system in perl that handled millions of dollars a day. without error. If you write well in any language, it is maintainable and readable by anyone. Similarly, you can just as easily write terrible code in any language, as parts of the java team are finding out rather painfully. Just like we have monkeys destroying the english language, monkeys have destroyed other languages.
;)
Now if you don't agree with anything else I've said - who can live without duct tape?
the ability to read different programming languages is the same as being able to read different human languages. It's a matter of differing grammar, syntax and character notations. Not everyone can grasp chinese or russian or hebrew, but does that make them valueless languages? I didn't think so. You'll especially run into problems if you try and read/write chinese as if it were english, or perl as if it were C.
so what? I've done the same using php/perl and postgres on cheap x86 hardware.
from my experience, it doesn't take much to make a java coder's head explode ;-)
Luckily I am surrounded by brilliant programmers. We use plenty of those tricks and seemingly unreadable lines of code to get things done quickly and efficiently. We all have our own style, but we are all more than capable of reading and modifying each other's code. I have been called a perl expert by coworkers and I say the same of them.
Just because I can't touch up a Van Gough painting, does that mean his style and technique should never be used? No, just that someone with enough talent and skill needs to come along to do the job right.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. --Such has been the patient sufferance of these United States; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present bicameral legislature is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
Java is a dead end language. No evolution. Like COBOL.
;-)
COBOL is a dead end language. No evolution. Like Sanscrit.
Perl evolves. It will stay alive forever.
right tool for the job? Since when is duct tape not the right tool for any job? WTF kind of geek are you?
for the record, I write perl for a living, and due to the results of my last project, the company that used to be "java all the way, perl is on the way out" has now done a 180. It CAN be done right. But like any language, computer or human, most people will mangle the hell out of it. Like ebonics.
pesky moose and squirrel can no longer evade me!
this isn't news. this isn't even interesting. oooh, someone grouped textfiles for us to read! shit, they've been doing that for decades. c'mon man, maybe if they had some kinda text2speech app that ran on the ipod, then it would be news.
That's why I have all my gadgets, so I can work outside while smelling those roses :)