Google replacing Python with Go in large parts of the company. Do you have documentation for that? (I am really interested, because that would be an interesting event).
But I don't think Python ever had an important job at Google. I can't even name any of their important projects which are done in Python.
"although it won’t be able to run apps developed for Windows RT, unless the developers in question also built a version of their app for Windows 8—you really can’t get here from there"
I thought RT used.net and thus the software would be supported on both arm and x86.
The biggest problem I see with the surface pro, is that it is a tablet with no tablet software, because it can't run RT software. So it is a niche marked, even within the niche windows tablet marked.
Neither, both have quality problems. And my Corsair SSD disk will not even boot with usb on linux. I don't know how they managed to make a non-standard usb interface.
Funny. If i search, the top hits are: 1: Wikipedia 2: Wikipedia 3: Opera 4: Opera 5: "News for webbrowser" 6: "Firefox" 7: "Firefox" 8: webopedia.com 9: Chrome.
And it might be a personalized search, but I have newer used or searched for opera before.
The solution is very simple: The unit test must be written by a different person from the guy who wrote the code. That way you also ensure that the documentation is written and correct, because you can't write a unit test if you don't have any documentation for what the function should do.
There is no single player mode in "Diable 3". Yes you can play alone but it is still multiplayer and your actions may still changes have effects for other players even if you newer meet them. (Auction house, and the fact that all your heros share part of the same world) are examples on this effect. You can say this design suck, but it was the way Blizzard build it.
To take the newest ubisoft settlers* for example. There is a campaing which is single player only. You can't play it with other players even if you vant to. And it still required that always online drm.
*Which sucks. Settlers 2 is imo still the best settlers game ever made.
The boottime problem can be solved simely by buying a small(32/64GB) ssd disk, and then install linux on that. This will cost you less then 200$. And if you don't have the budget for that, then please your story to thedailywtf.com because it sounds like some interesting fuckup happend someware in your organization.
Seems someone ate the rest of my text. But if you do it this way, then the windows computers will se a single system with a folder for each harddisk. The only reason this might cause problems is if you really need files from different harddisks to appear as if they are in the same folder.
Why do you need a unified filesystem. Can't you just share/myShareOnTheServer and then mount each disk to a subfolder in/myShareOnTheServer (such as/myShareOnTheServer/disk1).
Nothing which the require the developer to write in php can be called progress.
And while the ability to run LibreOffice and modify the code while the program is running would be really cool, the available tools are still far from able to do that.
There are funny enough java tools which are working in that direction. And the best are able recompile parts of a running program, and then let the program use the new code without stopping it.
They have. The multithreaded garbadge collecter which is available in java 7 really only pause programs for a very very short time because it does most of the garbadge collection in the background. (Also a very good use of modern multi core cpus).
Because then it will not work on any graphics card/motherboard released after the game release, due to missing drivers.
It will also make patching really difficult, and you need to cache most of the game data to the harddisk anyway which will be difficult for any non-standard hd setup such as raid. (Streaming a game directry from a dvd will be far to slow. Even consoles cache most of the games to harddisk).
True, but you need to write your own html template, to configure the look and feel of the website. Unless you want a total generic looking website. Which may be ok, depending on budget and customer.
But this is a site for an architect, and based on what happend last time I designed a site for an architect he will end up doing a new theme from start anyway even if he ends up using a cms:-}
First a note "When you write: WYSIWYG editors" i asume you talk about using them as graphics designers with drag/drop and not just as fancy html editors.
First: No I don't think there is any value in "knowing and using WYSIWYG editors" if you already know html. If you know html then writing html is at least as fast as using a WYSIWYG editor. But there are really 3 reasons that most sites are not made with a WYSIWYG.
1: What happens when the architect want to edit the text on the site, or want to add an other page to the top menu? Then you need a cms system, and converting a handwritten html document to a cms theme is relative simple. Converting from WYSIWYG to a theme is hell.
2: Javascript: If you want to apply any simple javascript transformation such as "read more", enlarge image on click. Fade part of the page down or anything else, then doing that on the WYSIWYG is very difficult, because you don't know how the dom look.
3: And to make matters much worse. The current implementations of WYSIWYG sucks. It's like the software developers have accepted that there software vil not be used to do design of highend websites, so they have given up any quest to produce valid small and valid html. And they miss the features such as third party cms system theme integration which would actuelly make them usefull.
If Item 33 is true, then that missing feature is in itself using the phone useless for me.
I have configured my Android phone, to flash both the light and screen in case of missing phone calls/sms messages. So If someone calls me and I don't take it, the screen will flash(3 second on, 60 second pause) until i acknowledge the missed call.
Is this basic feature really missing from Windows Phone?
"The root cause of this problem is an email server compromise. The email server belongs to one of our team members."
Really? Does their server really send (unencrypted) emails with root passwords to their entire system? Or did the email server just happend to have root access? I don't even know what possibility is worst.
But there were no way Google could ever be compatible with java on the phone. Because they would either have to be compaitble with the entire java jdk 1.6 stack including awt/swing and would end up with something which would be really really slow, ugly, huge and not something you would ever want on a phone.
Or they could be compatible with Java Me, but then Android would really really suck, because Java Me is a really bad platform to base an entire system on It is missing far to many things and Java Me are not designde to be the base for a modern smartphone.
So to sum up: Java the language is really good on smart phones, which is why google is using it in all but name. Java the virtual machine(With its bytecode system and security model) is ok on mobile devices which is why google made Dalvik which is very close to the official java vm. Java the library/framework/platform sucks for mobile devices and there is no way in hell Google could make something successfull while beeing 100% compability with anything available under the java name.
Which is why they wanted to license the language and vm, and then implement their own mobilephone platform using that(Which is what this memo most likely is about).
But sun fucked up. They should have said: Ok we accept that the current java libraries/frameworks are not usefull for a full mobile platform, so pay us some money for a license to java, and the java vm implementation, and then make a new platform. Let us call it "java me 7.0" and then that platform would have been what is now android.
It is the same problem Microsoft had with java. They originally wanted to make java the program language used for windows gui programming, but they correctly identified a range of problems with java which made it very cumbersome to develop gui applications in java. So they updated the language. And then sun should have said "Hey your are right, your changes to the language will make it much more usefull, lets include them in java 1.2. Insted they said no and launched a lawsuite which ended with Microsoft developing.net.
And as a guy who do gui development in java, I can only say that I wish Sun would have included most of Microsofts changes to the java language with jdk 1.2, because the current system of using interfaces to simulate callbacks really really suck. But at least they will fix it in java 1.8 so better late then newer.
No, the vaccine worked. The reason most of the children who got infected also had the vaccines, was that 81% of all children had recieved the vaccine. The risk of getting the infection was still greater for the children who newer got the vaccine.
So the correct headline would be "Vaccine not as effective as previously thought".
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Does: "MD: TRIM support for linear (commit), raid 0 (commit), raid 1 (commit), raid 10 (commit), raid5 (commit)"
meen that if I run a software raid-1 on sdd disk, then Linux can do Trim on the disks?
Google replacing Python with Go in large parts of the company. Do you have documentation for that? (I am really interested, because that would be an interesting event).
But I don't think Python ever had an important job at Google. I can't even name any of their important projects which are done in Python.
You do know, that since Windows RT can't run Android java code, or iPhone objective C code, they most likely had to rewrite large parts of the game.
I Think that 10.000£ development sounds low, considering it is a game which have sold over 100.000 units on Android.
So what does the following from the article mean:
"although it won’t be able to run apps developed for Windows RT, unless the developers in question also built a version of their app for Windows 8—you really can’t get here from there"
Why can't it run software for Windows 8 RT?
I thought RT used .net and thus the software would be supported on both arm and x86.
The biggest problem I see with the surface pro, is that it is a tablet with no tablet software, because it can't run RT software. So it is a niche marked, even within the niche windows tablet marked.
Neither, both have quality problems. And my Corsair SSD disk will not even boot with usb on linux. I don't know how they managed to make a non-standard usb interface.
Funny. If i search, the top hits are:
1: Wikipedia
2: Wikipedia
3: Opera
4: Opera
5: "News for webbrowser"
6: "Firefox"
7: "Firefox"
8: webopedia.com
9: Chrome.
And it might be a personalized search, but I have newer used or searched for opera before.
The solution is very simple: The unit test must be written by a different person from the guy who wrote the code. That way you also ensure that the documentation is written and correct, because you can't write a unit test if you don't have any documentation for what the function should do.
The problem with html5 apps is javascript. That language is just not designed to delopment of huge applications.
There is no single player mode in "Diable 3". Yes you can play alone but it is still multiplayer and your actions may still changes have effects for other players even if you newer meet them. (Auction house, and the fact that all your heros share part of the same world) are examples on this effect. You can say this design suck, but it was the way Blizzard build it.
To take the newest ubisoft settlers* for example. There is a campaing which is single player only. You can't play it with other players even if you vant to. And it still required that always online drm.
*Which sucks. Settlers 2 is imo still the best settlers game ever made.
The boottime problem can be solved simely by buying a small(32/64GB) ssd disk, and then install linux on that. This will cost you less then 200$. And if you don't have the budget for that, then please your story to thedailywtf.com because it sounds like some interesting fuckup happend someware in your organization.
Seems someone ate the rest of my text. But if you do it this way, then the windows computers will se a single system with a folder for each harddisk. The only reason this might cause problems is if you really need files from different harddisks to appear as if they are in the same folder.
Why do you need a unified filesystem. Can't you just share /myShareOnTheServer and then mount each disk to a subfolder in /myShareOnTheServer (such as /myShareOnTheServer/disk1).
Where did you look? There is a binary installer available for Linux, Windows and MacOSX at http://www.enterprisedb.com/products-services-training/pgdownload
Nothing which the require the developer to write in php can be called progress.
And while the ability to run LibreOffice and modify the code while the program is running would be really cool, the available tools are still far from able to do that.
There are funny enough java tools which are working in that direction. And the best are able recompile parts of a running program, and then let the program use the new code without stopping it.
They have. The multithreaded garbadge collecter which is available in java 7 really only pause programs for a very very short time because it does most of the garbadge collection in the background. (Also a very good use of modern multi core cpus).
Because then it will not work on any graphics card/motherboard released after the game release, due to missing drivers.
It will also make patching really difficult, and you need to cache most of the game data to the harddisk anyway which will be difficult for any non-standard hd setup such as raid. (Streaming a game directry from a dvd will be far to slow. Even consoles cache most of the games to harddisk).
True, but you need to write your own html template, to configure the look and feel of the website. Unless you want a total generic looking website. Which may be ok, depending on budget and customer.
But this is a site for an architect, and based on what happend last time I designed a site for an architect he will end up doing a new theme from start anyway even if he ends up using a cms :-}
First a note "When you write: WYSIWYG editors" i asume you talk about using them as graphics designers with drag/drop and not just as fancy html editors.
First: No I don't think there is any value in "knowing and using WYSIWYG editors" if you already know html. If you know html then writing html is at least as fast as using a WYSIWYG editor. But there are really 3 reasons that most sites are not made with a WYSIWYG.
1: What happens when the architect want to edit the text on the site, or want to add an other page to the top menu? Then you need a cms system, and converting a handwritten html document to a cms theme is relative simple. Converting from WYSIWYG to a theme is hell.
2: Javascript: If you want to apply any simple javascript transformation such as "read more", enlarge image on click. Fade part of the page down or anything else, then doing that on the WYSIWYG is very difficult, because you don't know how the dom look.
3: And to make matters much worse. The current implementations of WYSIWYG sucks. It's like the software developers have accepted that there software vil not be used to do design of highend websites, so they have given up any quest to produce valid small and valid html. And they miss the features such as third party cms system theme integration which would actuelly make them usefull.
If Item 33 is true, then that missing feature is in itself using the phone useless for me.
I have configured my Android phone, to flash both the light and screen in case of missing phone calls/sms messages. So If someone calls me and I don't take it, the screen will flash(3 second on, 60 second pause) until i acknowledge the missed call.
Is this basic feature really missing from Windows Phone?
True, but most of the downtime for datacenters are due to external events, such as lost power/internet connection.
And you can't really make the power company restore power to you, before they restore it to Amazon.
In the USA that is true, but Nokia sells most of it phones outside of USA where consumers pick the phones.
From https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?PHPSESSID=a5fdf1db75465f52e9f1ebb06e67b70e&topic=81045.380:
"The root cause of this problem is an email server compromise. The email server belongs to one of our team members."
Really? Does their server really send (unencrypted) emails with root passwords to their entire system? Or did the email server just happend to have root access? I don't even know what possibility is worst.
But there were no way Google could ever be compatible with java on the phone. Because they would either have to be compaitble with the entire java jdk 1.6 stack including awt/swing and would end up with something which would be really really slow, ugly, huge and not something you would ever want on a phone.
Or they could be compatible with Java Me, but then Android would really really suck, because Java Me is a really bad platform to base an entire system on It is missing far to many things and Java Me are not designde to be the base for a modern smartphone.
So to sum up:
Java the language is really good on smart phones, which is why google is using it in all but name.
Java the virtual machine(With its bytecode system and security model) is ok on mobile devices which is why google made Dalvik which is very close to the official java vm.
Java the library/framework/platform sucks for mobile devices and there is no way in hell Google could make something successfull while beeing 100% compability with anything available under the java name.
Which is why they wanted to license the language and vm, and then implement their own mobilephone platform using that(Which is what this memo most likely is about).
But sun fucked up. They should have said: Ok we accept that the current java libraries/frameworks are not usefull for a full mobile platform, so pay us some money for a license to java, and the java vm implementation, and then make a new platform. Let us call it "java me 7.0" and then that platform would have been what is now android.
It is the same problem Microsoft had with java. They originally wanted to make java the program language used for windows gui programming, but they correctly identified a range of problems with java which made it very cumbersome to develop gui applications in java. So they updated the language. And then sun should have said "Hey your are right, your changes to the language will make it much more usefull, lets include them in java 1.2. Insted they said no and launched a lawsuite which ended with Microsoft developing .net.
And as a guy who do gui development in java, I can only say that I wish Sun would have included most of Microsofts changes to the java language with jdk 1.2, because the current system of using interfaces to simulate callbacks really really suck. But at least they will fix it in java 1.8 so better late then newer.
No, the vaccine worked. The reason most of the children who got infected also had the vaccines, was that 81% of all children had recieved the vaccine. The risk of getting the infection was still greater for the children who newer got the vaccine.
So the correct headline would be "Vaccine not as effective as previously thought".