There are a lot of Microsoft apologists that will come out and say that Microsoft only uses their patents defensively, as if there's nothing wrong with what they're doing.
Well, that hasn't been what they've been saying lately. They've been talking about licensing fees. Guess how people collect on those?
Right now I believe they already charge Apple licensing fees for the FAT file system. I guess they're making their IP division directly generate revenue.
Please boycott Microsoft products. They eventually use anything they make for consumers against consumers.
I got it. Also, I would not have seen the snippet of the previous poster's comment due to mod preferences w/o your post, so that was a plus too.
This overclocker really is a master. Most would just stop at "it doesn't run windows but it does get that fast". They wouldn't have bothered to do something interesting like calculate pi.
He deserves the record, and a job at Google, Microsoft, Intel, AMD, Apple, wherever he wants to work.
Finally! Someone important in the tech industry with an ordinary name.
Bill Gates is pretty ordinary, but that was a long time ago.
Now I see Sergey Brin, Bruce Perens, Theo De Raadt, and David H???????? Hanson. Plus there's people that just happen to have the same names as famous people in non-geek circles, such as Dave Thomas. And I have a Sysadmin named Martha Stewart.
I hope Jeff Robin gets a little fame for his invention. It's no small achievement.
And for those of you who think it isn't an invention, you are wrong.
It's a far more interesting project than CoPilot, for two reasons. First, the people making it are actually going to own the business. Second, the thing they're making isn't scheduled for obsolence in the next three years, as CoPilot is (when MS releases Longhorn with an RA feature).
Very interesting post. It actually took me about thirty seconds to figure out why your were going up to sqrt(currentIndex). I guess I fit into the first category:(
The main point of my post was that Joel really didn't say anything new, except he had a very elitist way of saying it. That's why I just used an age-old quote.
No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.
This means that people who aren't dedicated to their profession won't properly trap errors, will always be calling functions wrong, and won't figure out what their users want. In a word, they won't excel.
If you don't want your software to have nasty bugs, hire good programmers. If you want your software to work beautifully, hire good programmers.
It's not like this is some kind of writing competition. This is Slashdot, and I'm not even using my real name. So if I forget to double-check my writing, BFD.
If you knew C better, you would know that string literals are null-terminated. This means that "YES" would take up 4 bytes. Hence there is not enough space, and your comment doesn't contribute to the funniness of the discussion, except that it's funny that you don't know C very well.
As an example, to prove that I am write, I declare a four-byte string, initialize the bytes to 55 (just a number I picked), and sprintf "YES" into it:
Well apparently people just agree with you. And even though I like Larry Wall (he has a cool story about creating Perl and his talk about Perl 6 is interesting to me), I am inclined to agree with you about Programming Perl at least. There is a lot of fluff in that book.
Well, actually I think you would have a job. If you were the guy on PerlCast, you have two jobs, a writing job and a consulting (programming/managing) job. If you lose your writing job you still have your consulting job.
yeah. perhaps one counted going to the search home page. then they would count all of the people who don't know how to change their home page but type google.com in the address bar every time they want to search for something.
I agree. And a good opportunity, more often than not, helps people become smarter. I know I would be smarter now if I went to MIT rather than a state school. I don't try to pretend there's no big difference.
The mind-opening exercise has helped me to get my thinking in the right place, and now I am watching MIT OpenCourseware videos, and learning a lot.
Going to a great school or being mentored properly is not so much a reward as an opportunity.
The person who first told me about OpenBSD makes his own disks by taking the barebones ISO's and adding the packages (.tgz's), src.tar.gz, sys.tar.gz, and ports.tar.gz. It seems pretty easy (though I don't know jack about bootable CD's yet).
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Well, that hasn't been what they've been saying lately. They've been talking about licensing fees. Guess how people collect on those?
Right now I believe they already charge Apple licensing fees for the FAT file system. I guess they're making their IP division directly generate revenue.
Please boycott Microsoft products. They eventually use anything they make for consumers against consumers.
The point is, though, adding support for other browsers doesn't take support away from IE.
This overclocker really is a master. Most would just stop at "it doesn't run windows but it does get that fast". They wouldn't have bothered to do something interesting like calculate pi.
He deserves the record, and a job at Google, Microsoft, Intel, AMD, Apple, wherever he wants to work.
That's a lot of p.
Bill Gates is pretty ordinary, but that was a long time ago.
Now I see Sergey Brin, Bruce Perens, Theo De Raadt, and David H???????? Hanson. Plus there's people that just happen to have the same names as famous people in non-geek circles, such as Dave Thomas. And I have a Sysadmin named Martha Stewart.
I hope Jeff Robin gets a little fame for his invention. It's no small achievement.
And for those of you who think it isn't an invention, you are wrong.
Sun's HR department really needs to be clued in. They should be forced do read every Paul Graham article.*
*I've read every one of them voluntarily.
It's a far more interesting project than CoPilot, for two reasons. First, the people making it are actually going to own the business. Second, the thing they're making isn't scheduled for obsolence in the next three years, as CoPilot is (when MS releases Longhorn with an RA feature).
And both groups are above average. And neither quality is mutually exclusive.
My point is that below average, you'll find people who aren't dedicated at all. And these are the people who will add the most bugs.
The main point of my post was that Joel really didn't say anything new, except he had a very elitist way of saying it. That's why I just used an age-old quote.
No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.
This means that people who aren't dedicated to their profession won't properly trap errors, will always be calling functions wrong, and won't figure out what their users want. In a word, they won't excel.
If you don't want your software to have nasty bugs, hire good programmers. If you want your software to work beautifully, hire good programmers.
Do you ever lose Karma? I've been a real dick lately and I still have my extra point.
It's not like this is some kind of writing competition. This is Slashdot, and I'm not even using my real name. So if I forget to double-check my writing, BFD.
If you knew C better, you would know that string literals are null-terminated. This means that "YES" would take up 4 bytes. Hence there is not enough space, and your comment doesn't contribute to the funniness of the discussion, except that it's funny that you don't know C very well.
As an example, to prove that I am write, I declare a four-byte string, initialize the bytes to 55 (just a number I picked), and sprintf "YES" into it:
This prints out "89 69 83 0" - no 55's left!
I prefer to call them the Patent Bandits.
Well apparently people just agree with you. And even though I like Larry Wall (he has a cool story about creating Perl and his talk about Perl 6 is interesting to me), I am inclined to agree with you about Programming Perl at least. There is a lot of fluff in that book.
YES! People who can't write or speak well also don't have a good understanding of the concepts. It's just the way it is, and the way it has to be.
Sounds like somebody hasn't discovered he power of CPAN!
Well, actually I think you would have a job. If you were the guy on PerlCast, you have two jobs, a writing job and a consulting (programming/managing) job. If you lose your writing job you still have your consulting job.
Someone should submit a /. story so he can be properly remembered.
You're a real geek when you can understand the perl code (I can't).
Hey, that's not a smiley, that's an operator :)
yeah. perhaps one counted going to the search home page. then they would count all of the people who don't know how to change their home page but type google.com in the address bar every time they want to search for something.
I agree. It's silly.
The mind-opening exercise has helped me to get my thinking in the right place, and now I am watching MIT OpenCourseware videos, and learning a lot.
Going to a great school or being mentored properly is not so much a reward as an opportunity.
The person who first told me about OpenBSD makes his own disks by taking the barebones ISO's and adding the packages (.tgz's), src.tar.gz, sys.tar.gz, and ports.tar.gz. It seems pretty easy (though I don't know jack about bootable CD's yet).