but what is evident from the ThinkStock-like illustration that goes with Barack Obama's article: this is going to greatly favour Uber, a company to be abhorred for its greed, stupidity and lack of ethics.
I've used Forte for Java, and then Netbeans. On-premise contracts with various customer sometimes require Eclipse, using which feels like a herd of rodents nibbling at my brain. To me (caveat: this is an opinion based upon 17+ years of experience, not a fact) Netbeans is, indeed, superior to any other IDE in existence, except for emacs if used properly.
What I admire in Netbeans is the ergonomic look-and-feel. It always seems as if the tool or feature you're looking for is right at hand, or at the most 2 mouse actions away. I LOVE the maven integration, and having Mercurial / git / Subversion out of the box. And no, installing plugins does not make the whole thing bloated and impossible to move around, as with Eclipse.
So yes, Netbeans moving to Apache: great ! Let's take it away from Oracle's NeGlect (TM) attic.
Dude, I have been using emacs as a build environment (read: to instruct various compilers what to do) for ages. Also, as a preprocessor, as a postprocessor and as everything an OS could possibly provide me with. No, serious - I get your irony. I'm waiting for emacsOS. Really. Just for laughs.
First job, at Airbus, Toulouse, France. Fresh from university (I'd graduated in maths). I was shown my desk and computer. The OS was some flavour of Unix I've forgotten about. My first assignment was "to have a look at this programming language, ADA, and learn about the customized preprocessor #pragma entries Airbus uses". I asked "but how the hell do I edit this?"
"Oh, most of us here use emacs". I was baffeld. Learned it, painfully so. Never looked back to another editor.
BGF, or binary graph format. My invention. A revolutionary new way to represent graphs (i.e., the mathematical structure known as graphs). File layout = memory layout: a bgf file can be loaded as-is into memory. Even in Java, if you load bgf into off-heap memory, graph traversal time can be as low as 20 nanoseconds/edge, when using bgf. If anybody knows a problem that can be stated as a graph problem, and where extremely fast graph processing makes the world a better place, ping me.
Facebook hardly ever gets it right. Whatever it does. Facebook can not meaningfully be associated with "right" within any moral framework worthy of that name.
has come to. News now is: marketing rumours about the iAnal flagship of a company that ceased innovating... how long ago again ? Ten years ? Imhotep, Archimedes and Einstein are turning in their graves.
What we are seeing here is essentially see the slow and painful reinvention of email with broadcast functionality. I could even see that turning into an open standard in another few years, as it's rather pointless to have so many apps doing the same thing and be incompatible with each other.
Dude, you got yourself a start-up idea there, do you realize that ? Contact me if you do .
Ah. Nice circular argument here. Indians are technically proficient, because American institutions outsource to India. These institutions do so, because Indians are technically proficient.
The United Nations Outer Space Treaty says that no nation and no institution can clame ownership of any celestial body outside of the Earth. If OSIRIS, however, brings back a sample replete with, say, gold or rare earth metals, a real space race for asteroid mining may be triggered. Wonder what will happen, then, to said treaty ?
As an example; technical education in India is about US$1000 per year (http://qz.com/445500/the-cost-of-getting-a-decent-education-in-india-is-now-staggering/). According to GP, that would be roughly 35 times cheaper at the very least.
Technical "education", in India, is also hardly worth the ink written to spell those words.
My first steps on the internet were divided between pages with hyperlinks, i.e. the internet as it is - more or less - nowadays, and gopher pages. Interestingly, I always failed to get the point of gopher, where "classical" hyperlinked pages made immediate sense to me. Same thing as with TCP/IP vs Token Ring: I instantaneously "got" TCP/IP, and only much later understood the point of Token Ring. So then - gopher: good riddance ? I guess so, yes. Along with set-top boxes, netscape, Flash, and VB script.
Jesus fucking Jeremiah Christ on a Poop Stick. The F-16 is, after the Supermarine Spitfire, the single most successful fighter *ever*. It has been deployed in more roles than the initial designers and customers could have ever dreamed of, and is gloriously resisting wear, tear and fatigue way better than projected. Did you write that sentence from a Starbucks on your Apple laptop, i.e. from your virtual armchair, dear fanboi strategist ?
If you can stand some failures and upgrade your drives regularly anyway, Seagate might be cheaper for you. If you prefer reliability and long term data retention, pay a little more for HGST.
Makes sense. At the start-up where I'm currently being chief engineer, we're foreseeing a storage problem in a couple of months, and writing down specs and requirements for a long-term storage solution. I'm leaning towards the HGST solution, for reasons of long term data retention: it will definitely be a use case that a customer asks for 5- or 10-year old data, and we don't want to be able to fulfill that request by being penny wise pound foolish on Seagate. YMMV.
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Don't any decent people live over there?
No.
Or do all the decent ones simply say "screw this" and leave, because the Chinese people I meet locally are great people.
Yes.
This article does damn well have an illustration
but what is evident from the ThinkStock-like illustration that goes with Barack Obama's article: this is going to greatly favour Uber, a company to be abhorred for its greed, stupidity and lack of ethics.
We had such a socialist revolution. In 1917, in Russia. Ah, Cuba and North Korea had those, too. Do you like the results ?
As usual, ever since he became CEO, Larry Ellison is full of shit. He's the imaginably the closest living CEO to Dilbert's one.
This is irony, I intensely hope..... please let it be irony.
I've used Forte for Java, and then Netbeans. On-premise contracts with various customer sometimes require Eclipse, using which feels like a herd of rodents nibbling at my brain. To me (caveat: this is an opinion based upon 17+ years of experience, not a fact) Netbeans is, indeed, superior to any other IDE in existence, except for emacs if used properly.
What I admire in Netbeans is the ergonomic look-and-feel. It always seems as if the tool or feature you're looking for is right at hand, or at the most 2 mouse actions away. I LOVE the maven integration, and having Mercurial / git / Subversion out of the box. And no, installing plugins does not make the whole thing bloated and impossible to move around, as with Eclipse.
So yes, Netbeans moving to Apache: great ! Let's take it away from Oracle's NeGlect (TM) attic.
Dude, I have been using emacs as a build environment (read: to instruct various compilers what to do) for ages. Also, as a preprocessor, as a postprocessor and as everything an OS could possibly provide me with. No, serious - I get your irony. I'm waiting for emacsOS. Really. Just for laughs.
First job, at Airbus, Toulouse, France. Fresh from university (I'd graduated in maths). I was shown my desk and computer. The OS was some flavour of Unix I've forgotten about. My first assignment was "to have a look at this programming language, ADA, and learn about the customized preprocessor #pragma entries Airbus uses". I asked "but how the hell do I edit this?"
"Oh, most of us here use emacs". I was baffeld. Learned it, painfully so. Never looked back to another editor.
BGF, or binary graph format. My invention. A revolutionary new way to represent graphs (i.e., the mathematical structure known as graphs). File layout = memory layout: a bgf file can be loaded as-is into memory. Even in Java, if you load bgf into off-heap memory, graph traversal time can be as low as 20 nanoseconds/edge, when using bgf. If anybody knows a problem that can be stated as a graph problem, and where extremely fast graph processing makes the world a better place, ping me.
emits x-rays after having been hit by the semen rays of her last-night date. So ?
Facebook hardly ever gets it right. Whatever it does. Facebook can not meaningfully be associated with "right" within any moral framework worthy of that name.
has come to. News now is: marketing rumours about the iAnal flagship of a company that ceased innovating... how long ago again ? Ten years ? Imhotep, Archimedes and Einstein are turning in their graves.
Good point. Conciseness was / is one of Twitter USPs, so to say, and now they ditch it. Diary of an announced catastrophe, this is going to be.
What we are seeing here is essentially see the slow and painful reinvention of email with broadcast functionality. I could even see that turning into an open standard in another few years, as it's rather pointless to have so many apps doing the same thing and be incompatible with each other.
Dude, you got yourself a start-up idea there, do you realize that ? Contact me if you do .
As the Dutch proverb goes, "a cat in a tight corner can make odd jumps". Twitter is in a tight place, to which this move may IMHO be a witness.
Ah. Nice circular argument here. Indians are technically proficient, because American institutions outsource to India. These institutions do so, because Indians are technically proficient.
The United Nations Outer Space Treaty says that no nation and no institution can clame ownership of any celestial body outside of the Earth. If OSIRIS, however, brings back a sample replete with, say, gold or rare earth metals, a real space race for asteroid mining may be triggered. Wonder what will happen, then, to said treaty ?
As an example; technical education in India is about US$1000 per year (http://qz.com/445500/the-cost-of-getting-a-decent-education-in-india-is-now-staggering/).
According to GP, that would be roughly 35 times cheaper at the very least.
Technical "education", in India, is also hardly worth the ink written to spell those words.
Dude, that saveie6.com site is the funniest thing I've seen this year.
My first steps on the internet were divided between pages with hyperlinks, i.e. the internet as it is - more or less - nowadays, and gopher pages. Interestingly, I always failed to get the point of gopher, where "classical" hyperlinked pages made immediate sense to me. Same thing as with TCP/IP vs Token Ring: I instantaneously "got" TCP/IP, and only much later understood the point of Token Ring. So then - gopher: good riddance ? I guess so, yes. Along with set-top boxes, netscape, Flash, and VB script.
Care to share those alleged data ? Sources ? Links ?
Jesus fucking Jeremiah Christ on a Poop Stick. The F-16 is, after the Supermarine Spitfire, the single most successful fighter *ever*. It has been deployed in more roles than the initial designers and customers could have ever dreamed of, and is gloriously resisting wear, tear and fatigue way better than projected. Did you write that sentence from a Starbucks on your Apple laptop, i.e. from your virtual armchair, dear fanboi strategist ?
If you can stand some failures and upgrade your drives regularly anyway, Seagate might be cheaper for you. If you prefer reliability and long term data retention, pay a little more for HGST.
Makes sense. At the start-up where I'm currently being chief engineer, we're foreseeing a storage problem in a couple of months, and writing down specs and requirements for a long-term storage solution. I'm leaning towards the HGST solution, for reasons of long term data retention: it will definitely be a use case that a customer asks for 5- or 10-year old data, and we don't want to be able to fulfill that request by being penny wise pound foolish on Seagate. YMMV.
I dearly hope this was sarcasm. Or irony.