I dislike C#. I have programmed with it, C++, and C as well, even relatively recently. For my particular purposes, C/C++ wound up being far better languages to code the system I needed (on Server 2012) than C#. I needed system calls that required calls into the Win32 subsystem directly, and if I need to write a library in C anyways and call it via a lightweight PInvoke wrapper, why not just write the entire thing in C and skip the extra complexity, overhead, and debugging headaches?
People that don't like C# (like me) don't like it for a number of reasons starting with lock-in, sub-standard libraries if you're wanting to be cross-platform, etc. C# was a reworked clone of Java after MS-Java was found infringing. The CLR is interesting, but is a fundamentally different solution than the VM approach used by the JVM. It solves the many languages running on Windows problem, not the run language X consistently across multiple architectures and OS problem. Hence the lock-in issue, because if I'm going to run on Linux, I'll use Java, not C#, as C# offers me nothing compelling to use it on various flavors of Linux, BSD, OSX, OS400, etc. And no, Mono isn't good enough and EF (ORM) isn't a reason either.
Apple and Samsung are having it rough this year. It almost seems like the neck-and-neck competition is causing everyone to skip QA.
Yep, phones are bursting into flames everywhere causing the gorilla in the phone market to recall all its phones. Wait, that's just Samsung. Meanwhile, Apple has uncovered a couple of bugs in a brand new OS that's been out less than 2 months. And yes, there are some significant changes under the hood, attempting to fix some of the core issues introduced in iOS9, which was unstable throughout its lifetime. However, 10.1.x seems to have regressed somewhat and a few more of those underlying issues appear to still be in the codebase.
Sugar-free means free of added sugar, not free of normal natural sugars inherent in the food. Take a look at anything called "sugar-free" and this quickly becomes obvious when compared to their "normal" counterparts. Foods labeled "sugar-free" are inherently bad for you. Water, the ultimate free from sugar ingestible, is not so labeled as a counterpoint. You should read "sugar-free" as "contains artificially created sweetening agents that are known to cause cancer by the state of CA", or at least I'd assume so.
Sugar free. First good. Then bad. Then good. Now bad again.
Actually - sugar-free is good, and has been good always. Sugar substitutes whose ingredients include toxins (methanol)? Now that sounds like it's just bad.
You work either with an unusual offshore or outsourcing contingent, or with bad Americans (a lot more likely). In every case of outsourcing/offshoring I've seen the product quality has gone down, the work space halves or less, and a variety of customer pieces become decidedly less satisfied. Having people work closely enough together to be able to converse and not have odd language or cultural issues more than makes up for any differences in performance. However, businesses don't really run on performance anymore, and haven't for a long while in some areas. Smaller teams of good people will always outperform some cheap sweatshop. The business doesn't necessarily see it that way, beancounters see individuals cost x, and over there they cost a fraction of x, thus the fraction of x "wins" according to them, and all other measures are irrelevant.
"Like" isn't your problem. Note that my statement is "disliked". It doesn't imply that they actually loved the candidate they voted for, they just disliked the candidate less.
plenty of people didn't vote because they disliked both candidates AND their states (like NY and Cali) were never, ever, ever going to go for Trump.
I voted even though my vote wasn't going to count, and hasn't for years. Primarily because the broken election system that favors at best 2 party candidates consistently offered up 0 candidates I would actually want to cast a vote for, so I vote my conscience for those I feel should receive a vote. The lesser evil vote only occurred in this election.
Regarding the popular vote, when nearly 1.4M (over 1%) more people cast a vote for the losing candidate, it may be time to examine the mechanisms of determining the winner of the election.
Either way, unless Clinton defies both the white house and the DNC, or someone ponies up enough cash to force challenges in the most likely affected states, we're likely going to be stuck with an impeached or should be impeached president within 4 years. I hope I'm wrong on that, because it doesn't do the country any good, but I won't be shocked if it goes far worse than Nixon and Reagan combined (yes, Reagan, the guy that gave us the largest recession until Bush, and who set in motion the regulatory conditions to allow the recession/depression that occurred under Bush).
It's not apples and oranges. It's arsenic and belladonna.
make it x and y, or anything else you'd like. More voted for 1 than the other. This implies fewer disliked the one they cast more votes for relative to the other option.
Fail. I'll posit that a very large number of voters didn't like either of them, they just closed their eyes and swallowed. You can't assume a vote means a like.
Fail - it's all a matter of relativity here. You may not like apples or oranges, but you're going to have to choose one. If more choose apples over oranges, then fewer people disliked apples compared to oranges. It's a matter of degree.
So 1.3M or so fewer voters disliked Clinton. That's all we can say for sure, everything else is speculation.
I do admit I'm shocked it's that large a difference in the popular vote and that the skew with the electoral college is what it is with that large a difference in the popular vote. I'm definitely with the subject line - popcorn time.
the Halderman article has a map which shows that all counties in Michigan and Wisconsin use paper ballots. So, there can be no basis for the claim that there's a difference between electronic and paper ballot counties in Wisconsin (or Michigan)!
You need to read a little further, or have better reading comprehension. from the halderman article in his responses:
Wisconsin and Pennsylvania do have post-election audit requirements that call for manual examination of a small fraction of ballots, but they are not risk-limiting audits and might not detect an outcome-changing error. Most votes in Pennsylvania are cast on paperless computer voting machines, so there is no physical record to audit. Michigan’s post-election audit procedures don’t include manually examining ballots.
Finally, if as stated the concern is with electronic voting machines, why would they call for recounts in Michigan and Wisconsin, which use paper ballots?
Because if you read it, they don't count the paper ballots.....
Simple math, more people dislike Trump than Clinton as he got fewer votes.
My personal opinion is that electronic voting machines without paper trails are invalid as they cannot be validated. Voting is too important to not have a secondary validation method possible, and a recount of paper is about the only way that can conclusively be done. I don't have a problem with the voting machine printing out paper and handing that in, and allowing the machine to send off "early" results at the end of the voting period. But the paper is absolute, and should be validated on at least a percentage basis in all elections. Anything less invites fraud.
more than 5 different houses, in 5 different areas of the country? I think not. Just really crappy cheap ass routers for the most part. To put it in perspective, even though 'n' routers were out, I was having so much trouble maintaining a decent connection on 3 different brands that I was considering dropping back down to a Cisco business class modem at 1/10th the speed and at 5 times the cost. I knew those worked because it was what we used at work. At that point, I looked at Apple's Extreme routers, because 2 friends said they were great and my tolerance for crap routers was in negative territory and I was seriously looking at spending enough on a business class router that the Apple Extreme all of a sudden came in "cheap". I bought one and never regretted it. I liked it so much that I bought a whole bunch more. They're all still working just fine and I haven't had a "service" call in years.
It's similar to the Japanese keiretsu more than anything else, with the exception that a single entity owns the majority stock. I suppose you could argue that Elon's the tip of the pyramid, but it's not a pyramid scheme.
To drive them from custom controlling apps requires some kind of access. Now most of mine are ZWave connected through a hub, but that hub is connected to a locally run app, not the cloud.
Trendnet (3 different ones), Buffalo, D-Link (several), NetGear (4 different routers), Linksys (anything after the WRT54G sucked eggs), anything consumer grade from Cisco (i.e., not their $500 a-b business grade wireless routers, those work fine, albeit slow as crap), and a host of non-name brand routers I've run across. Oh, this also includes the crap AT&T U-verse modems (I've had 4 different models over the past 5 years) and 3 different TWC modems and a Suddenlink modem - I have relatives that I've hard-wired most of their eq at this point so wireless devices are extremely limited and no need for extra expenses for them
To be fair, I haven't run TPLink, they came on the scene after I bought my first 2 extremes
Having used multiple routers from many vendors, I'll say this: the Airport Extremes are pretty darn awesome with an admittedly slightly more difficult setup for certain rules you'd like. However, they are rock solid, don't require reboots hardly ever, and connectivity actually works, versus the drops I've had on every other brand I've used, with the sole exception of the wireless that comes on the Verizon Quantum gateway modem which also has been relatively decent, although it has required a few reboots.
Regarding the wifi profiles on devices, I'm not sure it matters with Apple routers or not. I've had issues swapping out other modems as well, but it's as simple as re-entering your password. Since I have swapped out exactly 1 extreme in about 7 years, I don't think that's a huge hassle.
The problem is that 99% of IoT devices do NOT need cloud access to function. The manufacturers would like you to use their (soon to be) charged for services, because that's more revenue for them. Overall, that's a really bad idea. I have tons of IoT devices. None are able to connect outside the LAN and they work just fine.
And they help will also be for those that struggle with the idea that other people choose to do nothing, the "bludger" who is seen to be taking something from them, someone who seems to have a life style the same as someone who "does real work". A UBI needs to loose its attachment to Charity, and after the UBI a cash free society where you can have what ever you NEED (not want) for free.
Those that contribute back to society (unpaid work) can earn societal "points" that may allow international travel, a bigger home, etc as a form of compensation. Property "ownership" will also need to change.
One of the biggest problems will be those in positions of wealth and power who will not want to give those things up, especially the privilege that it gives them.
Hmm - seems that UBI solves the problem, as those doing "real" work will get additional income above and beyond UBI, which allows them those "luxuries" such as international travel, while that's a problem, hotel rooms (they're not inexhaustible and some are far more desirable than others) and desirable living space, not next to the hyperloop tubes or the waste reclamation plants.
You misunderstand. You've already earned your money, now you're looking for something interesting to do in retirement. If it pays money would be a bonus. For me, coding was and still is interesting. However, genetic engineering, biology and bio-chemistry as they relate to disease and fundamental workings of the cell have always been of interest. Once you reach that point where retirement is feasible, you just might find that investing your time in something different to be well worth-while. It doesn't have to be gardening, or achieving that perfect lawn that you can yell about.
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I dislike C#. I have programmed with it, C++, and C as well, even relatively recently. For my particular purposes, C/C++ wound up being far better languages to code the system I needed (on Server 2012) than C#. I needed system calls that required calls into the Win32 subsystem directly, and if I need to write a library in C anyways and call it via a lightweight PInvoke wrapper, why not just write the entire thing in C and skip the extra complexity, overhead, and debugging headaches?
People that don't like C# (like me) don't like it for a number of reasons starting with lock-in, sub-standard libraries if you're wanting to be cross-platform, etc. C# was a reworked clone of Java after MS-Java was found infringing. The CLR is interesting, but is a fundamentally different solution than the VM approach used by the JVM. It solves the many languages running on Windows problem, not the run language X consistently across multiple architectures and OS problem. Hence the lock-in issue, because if I'm going to run on Linux, I'll use Java, not C#, as C# offers me nothing compelling to use it on various flavors of Linux, BSD, OSX, OS400, etc. And no, Mono isn't good enough and EF (ORM) isn't a reason either.
Apple and Samsung are having it rough this year. It almost seems like the neck-and-neck competition is causing everyone to skip QA.
Yep, phones are bursting into flames everywhere causing the gorilla in the phone market to recall all its phones. Wait, that's just Samsung. Meanwhile, Apple has uncovered a couple of bugs in a brand new OS that's been out less than 2 months. And yes, there are some significant changes under the hood, attempting to fix some of the core issues introduced in iOS9, which was unstable throughout its lifetime. However, 10.1.x seems to have regressed somewhat and a few more of those underlying issues appear to still be in the codebase.
Sugar-free means free of added sugar, not free of normal natural sugars inherent in the food. Take a look at anything called "sugar-free" and this quickly becomes obvious when compared to their "normal" counterparts. Foods labeled "sugar-free" are inherently bad for you. Water, the ultimate free from sugar ingestible, is not so labeled as a counterpoint. You should read "sugar-free" as "contains artificially created sweetening agents that are known to cause cancer by the state of CA", or at least I'd assume so.
Sugar free. First good. Then bad. Then good. Now bad again.
Actually - sugar-free is good, and has been good always. Sugar substitutes whose ingredients include toxins (methanol)? Now that sounds like it's just bad.
You work either with an unusual offshore or outsourcing contingent, or with bad Americans (a lot more likely). In every case of outsourcing/offshoring I've seen the product quality has gone down, the work space halves or less, and a variety of customer pieces become decidedly less satisfied. Having people work closely enough together to be able to converse and not have odd language or cultural issues more than makes up for any differences in performance. However, businesses don't really run on performance anymore, and haven't for a long while in some areas. Smaller teams of good people will always outperform some cheap sweatshop. The business doesn't necessarily see it that way, beancounters see individuals cost x, and over there they cost a fraction of x, thus the fraction of x "wins" according to them, and all other measures are irrelevant.
"Like" isn't your problem. Note that my statement is "disliked". It doesn't imply that they actually loved the candidate they voted for, they just disliked the candidate less.
No, you can't say that for sure at all.
Sure I can, because I did, with factual backing.
plenty of people didn't vote because they disliked both candidates AND their states (like NY and Cali) were never, ever, ever going to go for Trump.
I voted even though my vote wasn't going to count, and hasn't for years. Primarily because the broken election system that favors at best 2 party candidates consistently offered up 0 candidates I would actually want to cast a vote for, so I vote my conscience for those I feel should receive a vote. The lesser evil vote only occurred in this election.
Regarding the popular vote, when nearly 1.4M (over 1%) more people cast a vote for the losing candidate, it may be time to examine the mechanisms of determining the winner of the election.
Either way, unless Clinton defies both the white house and the DNC, or someone ponies up enough cash to force challenges in the most likely affected states, we're likely going to be stuck with an impeached or should be impeached president within 4 years. I hope I'm wrong on that, because it doesn't do the country any good, but I won't be shocked if it goes far worse than Nixon and Reagan combined (yes, Reagan, the guy that gave us the largest recession until Bush, and who set in motion the regulatory conditions to allow the recession/depression that occurred under Bush).
It's not apples and oranges. It's arsenic and belladonna.
make it x and y, or anything else you'd like. More voted for 1 than the other. This implies fewer disliked the one they cast more votes for relative to the other option.
"So 1.3M or so fewer voters disliked Clinton. "
Fail. I'll posit that a very large number of voters didn't like either of them, they just closed their eyes and swallowed. You can't assume a vote means a like.
Fail - it's all a matter of relativity here. You may not like apples or oranges, but you're going to have to choose one. If more choose apples over oranges, then fewer people disliked apples compared to oranges. It's a matter of degree.
So 1.3M or so fewer voters disliked Clinton. That's all we can say for sure, everything else is speculation.
I do admit I'm shocked it's that large a difference in the popular vote and that the skew with the electoral college is what it is with that large a difference in the popular vote. I'm definitely with the subject line - popcorn time.
the Halderman article has a map which shows that all counties in Michigan and Wisconsin use paper ballots. So, there can be no basis for the claim that there's a difference between electronic and paper ballot counties in Wisconsin (or Michigan)!
You need to read a little further, or have better reading comprehension. from the halderman article in his responses:
Finally, if as stated the concern is with electronic voting machines, why would they call for recounts in Michigan and Wisconsin, which use paper ballots?
Because if you read it, they don't count the paper ballots.....
Simple math, more people dislike Trump than Clinton as he got fewer votes.
My personal opinion is that electronic voting machines without paper trails are invalid as they cannot be validated. Voting is too important to not have a secondary validation method possible, and a recount of paper is about the only way that can conclusively be done. I don't have a problem with the voting machine printing out paper and handing that in, and allowing the machine to send off "early" results at the end of the voting period. But the paper is absolute, and should be validated on at least a percentage basis in all elections. Anything less invites fraud.
more than 5 different houses, in 5 different areas of the country? I think not. Just really crappy cheap ass routers for the most part. To put it in perspective, even though 'n' routers were out, I was having so much trouble maintaining a decent connection on 3 different brands that I was considering dropping back down to a Cisco business class modem at 1/10th the speed and at 5 times the cost. I knew those worked because it was what we used at work. At that point, I looked at Apple's Extreme routers, because 2 friends said they were great and my tolerance for crap routers was in negative territory and I was seriously looking at spending enough on a business class router that the Apple Extreme all of a sudden came in "cheap". I bought one and never regretted it. I liked it so much that I bought a whole bunch more. They're all still working just fine and I haven't had a "service" call in years.
It's similar to the Japanese keiretsu more than anything else, with the exception that a single entity owns the majority stock. I suppose you could argue that Elon's the tip of the pyramid, but it's not a pyramid scheme.
To drive them from custom controlling apps requires some kind of access. Now most of mine are ZWave connected through a hub, but that hub is connected to a locally run app, not the cloud.
I'd have to ask why you have to switch out a couple of airports a week? I have a set of 8 running currently with no problems for years.
Trendnet (3 different ones), Buffalo, D-Link (several), NetGear (4 different routers), Linksys (anything after the WRT54G sucked eggs), anything consumer grade from Cisco (i.e., not their $500 a-b business grade wireless routers, those work fine, albeit slow as crap), and a host of non-name brand routers I've run across. Oh, this also includes the crap AT&T U-verse modems (I've had 4 different models over the past 5 years) and 3 different TWC modems and a Suddenlink modem - I have relatives that I've hard-wired most of their eq at this point so wireless devices are extremely limited and no need for extra expenses for them
To be fair, I haven't run TPLink, they came on the scene after I bought my first 2 extremes
Having used multiple routers from many vendors, I'll say this: the Airport Extremes are pretty darn awesome with an admittedly slightly more difficult setup for certain rules you'd like. However, they are rock solid, don't require reboots hardly ever, and connectivity actually works, versus the drops I've had on every other brand I've used, with the sole exception of the wireless that comes on the Verizon Quantum gateway modem which also has been relatively decent, although it has required a few reboots.
Regarding the wifi profiles on devices, I'm not sure it matters with Apple routers or not. I've had issues swapping out other modems as well, but it's as simple as re-entering your password. Since I have swapped out exactly 1 extreme in about 7 years, I don't think that's a huge hassle.
The problem is that 99% of IoT devices do NOT need cloud access to function. The manufacturers would like you to use their (soon to be) charged for services, because that's more revenue for them. Overall, that's a really bad idea. I have tons of IoT devices. None are able to connect outside the LAN and they work just fine.
Smart devices are easier to make than smart people.
Apparently not, the devices are as dumb as the people making them.
And they help will also be for those that struggle with the idea that other people choose to do nothing, the "bludger" who is seen to be taking something from them, someone who seems to have a life style the same as someone who "does real work". A UBI needs to loose its attachment to Charity, and after the UBI a cash free society where you can have what ever you NEED (not want) for free. Those that contribute back to society (unpaid work) can earn societal "points" that may allow international travel, a bigger home, etc as a form of compensation. Property "ownership" will also need to change. One of the biggest problems will be those in positions of wealth and power who will not want to give those things up, especially the privilege that it gives them.
Hmm - seems that UBI solves the problem, as those doing "real" work will get additional income above and beyond UBI, which allows them those "luxuries" such as international travel, while that's a problem, hotel rooms (they're not inexhaustible and some are far more desirable than others) and desirable living space, not next to the hyperloop tubes or the waste reclamation plants.
You misunderstand. You've already earned your money, now you're looking for something interesting to do in retirement. If it pays money would be a bonus. For me, coding was and still is interesting. However, genetic engineering, biology and bio-chemistry as they relate to disease and fundamental workings of the cell have always been of interest. Once you reach that point where retirement is feasible, you just might find that investing your time in something different to be well worth-while. It doesn't have to be gardening, or achieving that perfect lawn that you can yell about.
It'll be the most awesome bigly ever!!!
All this vacuum and power talk reminds me of Zero Point modules.