Have you used ASP.NET MVC? Because if you're not using the HTML helpers (which among other things create tags for you), you're doing it wrong. Tags are matched, but you get some line breaks in weird places that make the generated HTML not as neat as I prefer. And the checkbox helper emits two controls instead of one, so that the model binding magic works.
So these quarantine containers won't be needed by our troops being sent there, because they won't be working with people directly, just handling their bodily fluids. That's a relief!
I for one (and maybe the only one on Slashdot!) never hated js, always liked it, I just don't feel it belongs outside where it was invented, because it has compromises due to what is was created for, where outside that environment there are much more suitable choices. Neither would I like seeing SQL turned into a language across other layers of an application.
And I understand your point that less cost in development opens up more things for it to be economically sensible to automate. I just don't want my occupation to turn into writing shitty code for every little thing.
Well, whatever emerges, will be about enabling the less-skilled (in software engineering), and hence lower paid, to take up programming.
But I shuddered when Google I think it was was making some kind of Java to JavaScript translator. I thought people who only knew and only cared to know Java would end up having much of the software industry catered to them, to where development ceased in the languages of other environments.
Now I'm wondering if it'll be js instead. I wouldn't be suprised if next there'll be a js way to query and manage relational databases, so that "JavaScript Engineers" don't have to learn SQL DDL and DML.
Not around here. But I had to abandon 10 years of C++ for that very reason. Unfortunately. (Luckily MS has grown C# with a lot of what are to me C++ influences, unlike Java which was among other things meant to be an anti-C++.)
> You won't really be seeing a doctor (or nurse) on the screen. Just an avatar and a script.
Dr. Watson I presume?
If smart watches take off, these could be your kits. Last I heard the rumor mills have Apple coming out with one next month, with "more than 10 sensors" (not all of them necessarily being biometric ones, granted), and MS with one with 11 sensors the following month. Especially with the fanatic following that Apple has (in devices), if they can make the smartwatch "cool", then smartphone makers who are seeing sales stagnate due to no more new compelling features can sell a few generations of smartwatches with progressively more and advanced sensors reading more of one's vitals.
"This call is being monitored for legal purposes."
<two minutes of legal disclaimers, regarding the lesser reliability of diagnosing over the phone>
"Do you consent to all of these terms? Press 1 for yes, or hang up for no."
And OTOH, the cost savings could be overcome by more demands on the healthcare system from people more willing to make a phone call on the spot than an appointment for a office visit for who knows how long into the future. What I usually do is wait and see if <mysterious symptom> goes away on its own in a few days. But in the back of my mind, I know I can't get in to see a doctor immediately (excluding going to urgent care, which from experience can soak up half your day, first with waiting around an hour or two to be seen, then time for test results to come back, while the doctore you're assigned is multitasking between a bunch of other visitors). So with the phone call option, I'd probably call every time. Even for the same price, and up to half an hour wait (put it on speakerphone), if I actually get to be heard by an MD.
(And this way, maybe many of the folks who got medical degrees and wanted to practice medicine, but could only get a job working for an insurance company evaluating diagnoses and claims, might be able to get into tele-practice at least.)
This is done so they can pretend to be looking for workers, when in fact they are trying NOT to hire anyone so they can meet the government's requirements and employ more lower paid H1B visa workers. There are actually HR seminars about how NOT to hire people while still complying with the requirements of looking for work.
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It's a silly name because it doesn't serve up Structured Query Language, it consumes that. "Microsoft Relational Data Server" would've been better.
(And for anyone old enough to remember, yes I know the product originally started out licensing Sybase's SQL Server engine.)
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The database name is not chopped off in an abbreviation, that's the server (and instance) name that's being abbreviated, and the database name is not visible at all on the tab.
Luckily you can customize which things get put on them. For example in SSMS 10.5, menu Tools/Options, expand Text Editor in the tree view, and select Editor Tab and Status Bar. My preference is database name and file name.
Dunno why the tabs don't expand to show everything when there's available space. Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever seen that. Tabs in Firefox are fixed width too, truncating with an ellipsis instead of using the available space.
I don't pay CNN directly for their network, I pay TWC for their infrastructure and the availability of CNN on it, and they pay CNN for their content. Make Netflix et al. like movie pay channels.
Unfortunately both sides completely lied about that issue. My side about death panels being new if we go govt. healthcare, and your side about death panels being not if we go govt. healthcare.
When in actuality what it really boils down to is whether one thinks that the death panel effect would be worse under the cost-cutting and profit motive of private healthcare, or the cost-cutting and social engineering motive of public healthcare. (And I suspect the answer to that is simply whether one is on the political Left or Right.)
Holy crap, dude! A car that fights you over the steering wheel! This is the most alarming thing I've heard in a while. If someone not paying attention ventures onto or over the line between our lanes, I need to be able to calmly ease my car over to hug the other side.
It's just amazing what a bad idea certain "helping" automation can be. This will just make everyone unsafer, at least until every car on the road has it. I was thinking if I had that I'd have it off normally, and only turn it on if I was driving tired. And there it is.
[...] there is a learning here for today's developers that can't wait to implement non-standardized vendor specific prefix functions in production sites [...]
The difference is, developers railed against it before, and now they're for it. So it never was about MS doing non-standard stuff, it was always just about MS. The reasons offered were phony (as most of them are), unfortunately (for consistency and interoperability on the web, that is).
I'm guessing you've taken the 1920 x 1080 23" or so monitor you were given at work and run it at 1280 x 720. This would make your DPI (a nice tool for this) go the other way, to about 64 DPI. Or in terms of how we used to measure this in the CRT days, a gonzo near.40 dot pitch! (Most people used their CRT's at.28 dot pitch back then.)
Incidently, I use a 27" 1920 x 1200 at home, which is about a.30 dot pitch or 84 DPI, because after staring at a mainstream (read: inexpensive) coding monitor all day at work, I find the slightly larger text more comfortable on tired eyes.
Simply memorizing it would indeed be a suboptimal idea. Better to internalize it. That is, study and ponder it until it makes sense. (Afterall, operator precedence in a language isn't just what fell out, it's designed in to be the way it is.)
Bad analogy; you tried to parallel laborious obfuscation with the most straightforward way of typing out an expression. Plain English is like plain <insert computer language>. Adding superfluous parens would be akin to putting footnote indicators in a simple English sentence that painstakingly elaborates on each clause in terms of the others:
if (C | D == A && B)
She sells seashells by the seashore.
vs.
if ((C | D)( == (A && B)))
She sells[1] seashells by[2] the seashore. [1] That is, what she's selling is actually just seashells, and not some heretofore undefined concept referred to by the long name of "seashells by the seashore". [2] That is, in proximity to the seashore, not in seashore-sized batches.
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At least the contaminants are packaged up neatly in big glass blobs
It'd be even better if they could be packaged up neatly in big ass boobs.
Have you used ASP.NET MVC? Because if you're not using the HTML helpers (which among other things create tags for you), you're doing it wrong. Tags are matched, but you get some line breaks in weird places that make the generated HTML not as neat as I prefer. And the checkbox helper emits two controls instead of one, so that the model binding magic works.
So these quarantine containers won't be needed by our troops being sent there, because they won't be working with people directly, just handling their bodily fluids. That's a relief!
I for one (and maybe the only one on Slashdot!) never hated js, always liked it, I just don't feel it belongs outside where it was invented, because it has compromises due to what is was created for, where outside that environment there are much more suitable choices. Neither would I like seeing SQL turned into a language across other layers of an application.
And I understand your point that less cost in development opens up more things for it to be economically sensible to automate. I just don't want my occupation to turn into writing shitty code for every little thing.
Well, whatever emerges, will be about enabling the less-skilled (in software engineering), and hence lower paid, to take up programming.
But I shuddered when Google I think it was was making some kind of Java to JavaScript translator. I thought people who only knew and only cared to know Java would end up having much of the software industry catered to them, to where development ceased in the languages of other environments.
Now I'm wondering if it'll be js instead. I wouldn't be suprised if next there'll be a js way to query and manage relational databases, so that "JavaScript Engineers" don't have to learn SQL DDL and DML.
Heh, so Java itself is multi-platform, because each version of it is its own platform! ;)
Not around here. But I had to abandon 10 years of C++ for that very reason. Unfortunately. (Luckily MS has grown C# with a lot of what are to me C++ influences, unlike Java which was among other things meant to be an anti-C++.)
> You won't really be seeing a doctor (or nurse) on the screen. Just an avatar and a script.
Dr. Watson I presume?
If smart watches take off, these could be your kits. Last I heard the rumor mills have Apple coming out with one next month, with "more than 10 sensors" (not all of them necessarily being biometric ones, granted), and MS with one with 11 sensors the following month. Especially with the fanatic following that Apple has (in devices), if they can make the smartwatch "cool", then smartphone makers who are seeing sales stagnate due to no more new compelling features can sell a few generations of smartwatches with progressively more and advanced sensors reading more of one's vitals.
Every phone call will start with:
"This call is being monitored for legal purposes."
<two minutes of legal disclaimers, regarding the lesser reliability of diagnosing over the phone>
"Do you consent to all of these terms? Press 1 for yes, or hang up for no."
And OTOH, the cost savings could be overcome by more demands on the healthcare system from people more willing to make a phone call on the spot than an appointment for a office visit for who knows how long into the future. What I usually do is wait and see if <mysterious symptom> goes away on its own in a few days. But in the back of my mind, I know I can't get in to see a doctor immediately (excluding going to urgent care, which from experience can soak up half your day, first with waiting around an hour or two to be seen, then time for test results to come back, while the doctore you're assigned is multitasking between a bunch of other visitors). So with the phone call option, I'd probably call every time. Even for the same price, and up to half an hour wait (put it on speakerphone), if I actually get to be heard by an MD.
(And this way, maybe many of the folks who got medical degrees and wanted to practice medicine, but could only get a job working for an insurance company evaluating diagnoses and claims, might be able to get into tele-practice at least.)
This is done so they can pretend to be looking for workers, when in fact they are trying NOT to hire anyone so they can meet the government's requirements and employ more lower paid H1B visa workers. There are actually HR seminars about how NOT to hire people while still complying with the requirements of looking for work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
It's a silly name because it doesn't serve up Structured Query Language, it consumes that. "Microsoft Relational Data Server" would've been better.
(And for anyone old enough to remember, yes I know the product originally started out licensing Sybase's SQL Server engine.)
The database name is not chopped off in an abbreviation, that's the server (and instance) name that's being abbreviated, and the database name is not visible at all on the tab.
Luckily you can customize which things get put on them. For example in SSMS 10.5, menu Tools/Options, expand Text Editor in the tree view, and select Editor Tab and Status Bar. My preference is database name and file name.
Dunno why the tabs don't expand to show everything when there's available space. Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever seen that. Tabs in Firefox are fixed width too, truncating with an ellipsis instead of using the available space.
But isn't it also spin to call helping yourself to someone else's stuff "sharing"?
You should know better than to call out an instance of non-USian holier than thouness on Slashdot.
So on things in general that are technically not true, but effectively are, is your position that they're bullshit?
I don't pay CNN directly for their network, I pay TWC for their infrastructure and the availability of CNN on it, and they pay CNN for their content. Make Netflix et al. like movie pay channels.
Unfortunately both sides completely lied about that issue. My side about death panels being new if we go govt. healthcare, and your side about death panels being not if we go govt. healthcare.
When in actuality what it really boils down to is whether one thinks that the death panel effect would be worse under the cost-cutting and profit motive of private healthcare, or the cost-cutting and social engineering motive of public healthcare. (And I suspect the answer to that is simply whether one is on the political Left or Right.)
Holy crap, dude! A car that fights you over the steering wheel! This is the most alarming thing I've heard in a while. If someone not paying attention ventures onto or over the line between our lanes, I need to be able to calmly ease my car over to hug the other side.
It's just amazing what a bad idea certain "helping" automation can be. This will just make everyone unsafer, at least until every car on the road has it. I was thinking if I had that I'd have it off normally, and only turn it on if I was driving tired. And there it is.
[...] there is a learning here for today's developers that can't wait to implement non-standardized vendor specific prefix functions in production sites [...]
The difference is, developers railed against it before, and now they're for it. So it never was about MS doing non-standard stuff, it was always just about MS. The reasons offered were phony (as most of them are), unfortunately (for consistency and interoperability on the web, that is).
And Microsoft never quite wanted to go along with how retarded the WC3 box model was.
FTFY. See: http://quirksmode.org/css/user-interface/boxsizing.html
The secret's in the common denominator of those.
I'm guessing you've taken the 1920 x 1080 23" or so monitor you were given at work and run it at 1280 x 720. This would make your DPI (a nice tool for this) go the other way, to about 64 DPI. Or in terms of how we used to measure this in the CRT days, a gonzo near .40 dot pitch! (Most people used their CRT's at .28 dot pitch back then.)
Incidently, I use a 27" 1920 x 1200 at home, which is about a .30 dot pitch or 84 DPI, because after staring at a mainstream (read: inexpensive) coding monitor all day at work, I find the slightly larger text more comfortable on tired eyes.
How did you determine yours, and do you really sit three feet from your computer monitor?
Simply memorizing it would indeed be a suboptimal idea. Better to internalize it. That is, study and ponder it until it makes sense. (Afterall, operator precedence in a language isn't just what fell out, it's designed in to be the way it is.)
Bad analogy; you tried to parallel laborious obfuscation with the most straightforward way of typing out an expression. Plain English is like plain <insert computer language>. Adding superfluous parens would be akin to putting footnote indicators in a simple English sentence that painstakingly elaborates on each clause in terms of the others:
if (C | D == A && B)
She sells seashells by the seashore.
vs.
if ((C | D)( == (A && B)))
She sells[1] seashells by[2] the seashore.
[1] That is, what she's selling is actually just seashells, and not some heretofore undefined concept referred to by the long name of "seashells by the seashore".
[2] That is, in proximity to the seashore, not in seashore-sized batches.
One of these two pairs is easier to scan.