What Visual Studio offers, well and above other packages is a better out of the box experience. You can create a web application project (from a built in template) and run it as a "hello world" in under a minute (after install) with no prior experience with the tool. With Eclipse getting a project going is like pulling teeth. With Ruby/Python environments, there are a lot of boilerplate choices to make and command-line tools you have to learn or look up the syntax for. With VS you get integrated tools for developing against an MS-SQL database, as well as source code control integration and project planning integration. These time savings are huge.
Don't get me wrong, it's a great electric screw drill, lots of bits, screw heads and attachments. You can even mount it to use as a router. On the flip side, sometimes you just need to put a nail in the wall to hang a picture up. Lately, my favorite hammer has been Node.js... again, everyone has their own choice of tools for the job.
Just because you've taken the time to learn how to put your compiler, editor and build system together does not mean there isn't value in an out of the box system that offers that and more. Not to mention in the.Net space the sheer volume of out of the box libraries, utilities, modules and tools in place to get a job done. Not everyone is building a sky scraper... some people are building lots of RVs and dog houses.
Yeah, I looked at the beagle-board and honestly, with the pricing, would just assume get a mini-itx AMD E-### setup. I know it's not open, but at some point the minor improvements in space and cost lose out to a more powerful and compatible option. I do think that the Raspberry Pi and Node.js are just about a marriage made in heaven for learning on... just my $.02
It's doubly hard, because a lot of times, a given mb that is well supported is no longer available today.. and you buy something similar, and say the audio or nic doesn't work... fortunately easy enough to add one that is better.... that said, not enough of an osx fan to do the hackintosh thing again... I have an mbp laptop, but the latest osx release has kind of put me off... may be running mint or ubuntu on it next os update if it gets worse.
Not sure on that... I just really don't like Apple's approach... after getting a google branded nexus 7 tabet, probably going to plunk down for a galaxy nexus phone or maybe a galaxy s3... just depends... at least a few months away, sticking with my horrible zte warp.
Beyond this, there is the code debt to consider... banking and airlines rely heavily on mainframe system backends to this day because of the debt and colossal effort change or migration would take.. many solutions to do so fail, or are lipstick on a pig... I've been pushing for some platform migrations for some time... I wrote a service at work in NodeJS in about 180 lines of code, that would have taken a lot more in most other platforms (Java,.Net etc)... it's been a bit of a beach-head movement where simple services, and scripts are needed... as JS is an easier sell than PowerShell, (I'm not a fan) and I just don't like creating a compiled solution when a simple script will do the job as well or better.
I was going to say the same... a very good programmer can also keep a grasp on the larger context of what they are trying to accomplish... too many programmers know how to copy/paste code... some apply complex patterns where they aren't really needed... it takes a different kind of mind to put it all together, and still be able to handle the monotony of actually writing the code to do so. I'm fond of thought exercises, and getting things organized structured and together.. sometimes writing the code is the easiest, but most grueling part.
I consider myself a libertarian... to me the balance is that corporations would also loose a lot of artificial protections and benefits from the government... then boycotts and other consumer protests can be more effective... I don't think anyone really wants to revert the Sherman act, etc.
There are already concept models to produce tower structures for growing food. Though, there are some benefits to animal fats and proteins that are hard to replicate with more veggies... but you can do farm towers for animals as well...
I've spent on the humble bundles just to support the model... I stopped playing most games when drm became rampant, and they started suing the homebrewers.. I've also backed a few kickstarter projects as well
Well, *I* have.. so have several friends, and even some family... this includes various distros over the past decade and a half. I have it in my router, and on my phone... my newer nas is bsd based (freenas) and I run linux VMs as a playground and some server chores. I actually kind of like unity... I have a mac laptop as well... I tend to lie win7's approach the most, but appreciate some of osx, though not where it's headed. At this point it would take a lot to et my to hoist linux as a desktop on someone... generally two virus/malware infections (it works well enough for kids' desktops, as long as flash works, for web games... even then not all kids... that's about it.
the issue at hand being that the shop in question seems to be a nix shop and likely already has ldap based central acct mgt in place. so having the existing system be the point of authority over windows makes sense and is likely easier than the other way around.
Funny, I put Mint on a laptop for a friend's kid, who had a trouble with getting their machine infected... They were visiting another friend, and called because they couldn't figure out how to connect to the wifi... well, that's because they removed the tray from the panel... fortunately someone there was bright enough to walk through adding it back in over the phone.... doing that with my gram, probably not so easy.
Don't necessarily need a server license with Samba...:) You can even integrate your Samba authentication services with LDAP to effectively manage permissions across both *nix and Windows resources. Depending on your needs, it may not take that much of an experienced person to lock up an application server behind a firewall running windows... If you need many services and replication setup, this may get more complex, but you can also front-load web servers, etc with *nix services, reverse proxies (HA-Proxy, nginx etc).
Just because you have windows based applications, doesn't mean they have to be alien to you (as a unix guy).
That was my initial thought as well... Of the places I'd consider moving, England (GB), Australia and New York City are close to the bottom of those I'd even think about simply because of the restrictions you mention... I'd be more inclined to go to a country where the Pirate Party has EU representation... for the most part, I'd consider Scandinavian countries, Iceland and Ireland (proper)... Everyone else seems to be in a race to the bottom.
Actually, you'd want a dimpled undercarriage surface (similar to a golf ball... there's the weight to consider, since it would need to be structural enough to stay together at speed... It's actually something done of very high-end, and one-off cars.. it can also be done to reduce road noise.
Umn, well, there are several smaller hatchbacks available today, just look at the most recent Top Gear (USA version)... there are a lot more options than that, many of which regularly pass 35mpg. Personally, I like having my 2012 Challenger with a 5.7L V-8 as an option... When I was driving more, I needed better fuel economy, now I just want to drive something cool/fun. You want to encourage those types of cars being purchased, get the gas price around $5... where the average person would spend nearly 1/3 their income in gas for driving, and you'll see said change. Also, you could simple not allow NON-Foreign fuel to be used for gasoline... this will dry up their supply lines, raise prices, and have the net effect of lower gas usage, and better fuel economy.
Personally, I say let economics work, and stay the hell out of it... eventually people will switch, adjust or pay more.
It doesn't surprise me all that much... my last car did better at 65-70 than it did under 60. Once you're up to speed, it's often a matter of gear ratios for keeping said speed with as little more than engine idle as possible. It's likely the highest gear in your/my car were tuned for that speed.
Agreed, firebug has been so useful for so very long, it'd be better to just ensure that it keeps working, why bloat the browser for those very few that would need firebug? for that matter, most of the devs in question on Mozilla probably use firebug, so didn't see/notice the shortcomings of the new tool(s).
It's still software controlled, even if that setting is to shutdown, or long-press to shut down (usually via bios)... If it were a *hardware* shutdown, the power would simply be cut... and you'd have a lot of chkdsk runs on bootup happening.
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What Visual Studio offers, well and above other packages is a better out of the box experience. You can create a web application project (from a built in template) and run it as a "hello world" in under a minute (after install) with no prior experience with the tool. With Eclipse getting a project going is like pulling teeth. With Ruby/Python environments, there are a lot of boilerplate choices to make and command-line tools you have to learn or look up the syntax for. With VS you get integrated tools for developing against an MS-SQL database, as well as source code control integration and project planning integration. These time savings are huge.
... again, everyone has their own choice of tools for the job.
.Net space the sheer volume of out of the box libraries, utilities, modules and tools in place to get a job done. Not everyone is building a sky scraper... some people are building lots of RVs and dog houses.
Don't get me wrong, it's a great electric screw drill, lots of bits, screw heads and attachments. You can even mount it to use as a router. On the flip side, sometimes you just need to put a nail in the wall to hang a picture up. Lately, my favorite hammer has been Node.js
Just because you've taken the time to learn how to put your compiler, editor and build system together does not mean there isn't value in an out of the box system that offers that and more. Not to mention in the
nano ... I just want basic editing either way... If I need more, I'll fire up sublimetext 2 or an actual IDE.
Yeah, I looked at the beagle-board and honestly, with the pricing, would just assume get a mini-itx AMD E-### setup. I know it's not open, but at some point the minor improvements in space and cost lose out to a more powerful and compatible option. I do think that the Raspberry Pi and Node.js are just about a marriage made in heaven for learning on... just my $.02
It's doubly hard, because a lot of times, a given mb that is well supported is no longer available today.. and you buy something similar, and say the audio or nic doesn't work... fortunately easy enough to add one that is better.... that said, not enough of an osx fan to do the hackintosh thing again... I have an mbp laptop, but the latest osx release has kind of put me off... may be running mint or ubuntu on it next os update if it gets worse.
This +1 ... I've seen systems run horribly, but with a good UPS in place stable as can be...
Not sure on that... I just really don't like Apple's approach... after getting a google branded nexus 7 tabet, probably going to plunk down for a galaxy nexus phone or maybe a galaxy s3... just depends... at least a few months away, sticking with my horrible zte warp.
Beyond this, there is the code debt to consider... banking and airlines rely heavily on mainframe system backends to this day because of the debt and colossal effort change or migration would take.. many solutions to do so fail, or are lipstick on a pig... I've been pushing for some platform migrations for some time... I wrote a service at work in NodeJS in about 180 lines of code, that would have taken a lot more in most other platforms (Java, .Net etc) ... it's been a bit of a beach-head movement where simple services, and scripts are needed... as JS is an easier sell than PowerShell, (I'm not a fan) and I just don't like creating a compiled solution when a simple script will do the job as well or better.
I was going to say the same... a very good programmer can also keep a grasp on the larger context of what they are trying to accomplish... too many programmers know how to copy/paste code... some apply complex patterns where they aren't really needed... it takes a different kind of mind to put it all together, and still be able to handle the monotony of actually writing the code to do so. I'm fond of thought exercises, and getting things organized structured and together.. sometimes writing the code is the easiest, but most grueling part.
I consider myself a libertarian... to me the balance is that corporations would also loose a lot of artificial protections and benefits from the government... then boycotts and other consumer protests can be more effective... I don't think anyone really wants to revert the Sherman act, etc.
There are already concept models to produce tower structures for growing food. Though, there are some benefits to animal fats and proteins that are hard to replicate with more veggies... but you can do farm towers for animals as well...
I've spent on the humble bundles just to support the model... I stopped playing most games when drm became rampant, and they started suing the homebrewers.. I've also backed a few kickstarter projects as well
Well, *I* have.. so have several friends, and even some family... this includes various distros over the past decade and a half. I have it in my router, and on my phone... my newer nas is bsd based (freenas) and I run linux VMs as a playground and some server chores. I actually kind of like unity... I have a mac laptop as well... I tend to lie win7's approach the most, but appreciate some of osx, though not where it's headed. At this point it would take a lot to et my to hoist linux as a desktop on someone... generally two virus/malware infections (it works well enough for kids' desktops, as long as flash works, for web games... even then not all kids... that's about it.
You can symlink (mklink) to anywhere you want... not sure how you had the same drive mapped to two network paths at the same time.
the issue at hand being that the shop in question seems to be a nix shop and likely already has ldap based central acct mgt in place. so having the existing system be the point of authority over windows makes sense and is likely easier than the other way around.
Funny, I put Mint on a laptop for a friend's kid, who had a trouble with getting their machine infected... They were visiting another friend, and called because they couldn't figure out how to connect to the wifi... well, that's because they removed the tray from the panel... fortunately someone there was bright enough to walk through adding it back in over the phone.... doing that with my gram, probably not so easy.
Don't necessarily need a server license with Samba... :) You can even integrate your Samba authentication services with LDAP to effectively manage permissions across both *nix and Windows resources. Depending on your needs, it may not take that much of an experienced person to lock up an application server behind a firewall running windows... If you need many services and replication setup, this may get more complex, but you can also front-load web servers, etc with *nix services, reverse proxies (HA-Proxy, nginx etc).
Just because you have windows based applications, doesn't mean they have to be alien to you (as a unix guy).
That was my initial thought as well... Of the places I'd consider moving, England (GB), Australia and New York City are close to the bottom of those I'd even think about simply because of the restrictions you mention... I'd be more inclined to go to a country where the Pirate Party has EU representation... for the most part, I'd consider Scandinavian countries, Iceland and Ireland (proper)... Everyone else seems to be in a race to the bottom.
Actually, you'd want a dimpled undercarriage surface (similar to a golf ball... there's the weight to consider, since it would need to be structural enough to stay together at speed... It's actually something done of very high-end, and one-off cars.. it can also be done to reduce road noise.
Regulatory requirements for emissions in the USA and required devices actually limit fuel economy.
Umn, well, there are several smaller hatchbacks available today, just look at the most recent Top Gear (USA version)... there are a lot more options than that, many of which regularly pass 35mpg. Personally, I like having my 2012 Challenger with a 5.7L V-8 as an option... When I was driving more, I needed better fuel economy, now I just want to drive something cool/fun. You want to encourage those types of cars being purchased, get the gas price around $5... where the average person would spend nearly 1/3 their income in gas for driving, and you'll see said change. Also, you could simple not allow NON-Foreign fuel to be used for gasoline... this will dry up their supply lines, raise prices, and have the net effect of lower gas usage, and better fuel economy.
Personally, I say let economics work, and stay the hell out of it... eventually people will switch, adjust or pay more.
It doesn't surprise me all that much... my last car did better at 65-70 than it did under 60. Once you're up to speed, it's often a matter of gear ratios for keeping said speed with as little more than engine idle as possible. It's likely the highest gear in your/my car were tuned for that speed.
Agreed, firebug has been so useful for so very long, it'd be better to just ensure that it keeps working, why bloat the browser for those very few that would need firebug? for that matter, most of the devs in question on Mozilla probably use firebug, so didn't see/notice the shortcomings of the new tool(s).
It's still software controlled, even if that setting is to shutdown, or long-press to shut down (usually via bios)... If it were a *hardware* shutdown, the power would simply be cut... and you'd have a lot of chkdsk runs on bootup happening.
You realize that VirtualBox is now controlled by Oracle, right? I'm sorry, but I'll take VMWare as a company over anything Oracle touches/infects.
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