Re:Review Ruby for the perl enthusiast please
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I use Perl and Ruby extensively. The comparisons are: Ruby is slightly faster than perl; It is easier to make C bindings in Ruby; Ruby's object oriented features doesn't involve Moose (Moose isn't necessary, in perl you can still use hash/dictionary type and bless into an object but still is a kludge); Ruby's library packaging system is an improvement over cpan (you can uninstall as easily as you installed); and unlike Perl with Ruby you will never have to debug or maintain code from a colleague who thought TIE was cool.
Unlike the other two popular interpreted languages, Ruby's upgrade path doesn't necessarily involve giving up code that was developed with a previous version. In Perl's case, Perl 6 may not actually be used in production code in our lifetime if ever.
While I agree a 124 year life sentence is excessive, hacking is still a crime and should be punished. Making false comparisons to terrorism, murder, rape, or forced slavery doesn't make hacking any less of a crime.
It would be more appropriate to compare it with burglary, espionage, vandalism, conspiracy, or theft and appropriate for the justice system to treat it that way during sentencing. Of course in today's climate... they did.
If remote workers were paid local prevailing salaries for the city/state they live in, you would find a lot less people enamored of being remote.
The problem with your logic is that if being paid according to local living expenses will deter people from working remotely, then why would I want to uproot my household and move to another town with higher expenses just so I can have a higher salary? I would still have similar enough disposable income after paying living expenses except for the problem created by paying more taxes by being in a higher income bracket. Not to mention the spouse needing to find new employment.
Let me put it another way. Would you consider a woman to be more fit for survival if she had a higher tolerance for the less flashy lifestyle of skilled, technically experienced nerds who can nonetheless retain employment in a bad economy with a competitive job market? Or is she choosing to be smart by using her brain to act maturely and override less important aversions for the sake of appreciating greater virtues? You are not born with it, it's learning that leads to adaptability. Ladies please don't be offended by comparison to a disease-carrying, blood-sucking insect.
I thought this was the basis of natural selection. The parents adapt and the offspring pick up their parent's preferences either through emulation or genetic modification. In other words, the women chose the nerd because she can look past his physical flaws in order to gain financial benefit and her offspring is likely to emulate her behavior because we all take social cues from our parents.
It would be evolution if they could show that the offspring completely ignored the DEET on its first exposure. Otherwise, I agree it looks like neural-plasticity.
The Dept of Ed for instance. American students are not better off since the creation of the Dept of Ed.
Please cite your references showing that the Dept of Ed. as the root cause of America's decline in education. I speak from personal experience that the bulk of our educational problems stem from state and local governments. Infrastructure vs operating Budgets, redistribution of property taxes collected to other counties, borrowing from education rainy day fund to balance state general budget, and legislating educational content within science classes are but a few problems that education in my state suffer from and it is all self inflicted.
That is true. However you need to consider that Microsoft would do this at the expense of their Microsoft Surface tablets. I think Microsoft would want to use Office as a asset to get Surface in the enterprise.
That would be too low of a price. $30 for the three programs seem reasonable. There isn't a demonstrable need for Office on iOS unlike Microsoft Surface.
One of them is that someone would pay $60 for an iOS version of Microsoft office when there are capable software better suited for the iPad for around $10 per application and they are compatible with Office. Microsoft knows this and wisely licenses its file API instead of diminishing their brand.
Have you considered getting your private pilot's license and maybe flying a more direct route?
Distance isn't quite far enough to make the expense of renting and flying a private plane worth the trouble and expense. I also driven in weather that I wouldn't have wanted to fly in.
I don't always fly, but when I do I let the professionals pilot me around.
You're also driving more than 99% of people in the USA. Edge cases will always be unusual. Now consider this - let's say 50% of people switch over to EVs - that leaves more gasoline for your unusual behavior, saving you money at the pump.
The price at the pump is being manipulated. The US exports a lot of gasoline. A fact that is overlooked when politicians talk about the need for more domestic oil exploration.
If you must know. I drive the 2011 Honda Accord V6 2-door coupe. Since all of the trip except maybe 12 miles is limited access highway (interstate) the automobile stays in "ECO" mode. The remaining half of the tank is used commuting back and forth between the "away" apartment and the office (gas milage drops a bit, but it's still pretty decent).
I regularly drive one-way 380 miles which is 80 miles longer than the largest battery capacity model advertises. I spend 5-1/2 hours to 6 hours on the road during this commute and would not like adding an hour layover to an already large portion of my day. My current automobile is able to make that commute easily with a 1/2 tank of gas to spare.
I would love the lower fuel costs but the lack of range and the fact that I would probably never have any real savings due to the high cost of the car make the Tesla S model a non-starter for me.
My thoughts exactly. Elon Musk is just making sure we all know that they have computer logs confirming that their cars have limitations and should not be considered a direct replacement for a cheaper more consumer friendly ICE based automobile. Think of it as a more expensive golf cart.
But there is a fault in everyone's logic when it comes to java. from what I have seen the statement is basically "Well big business and financial corps use it so it must be good".
I agree "Everybody does it this way" isn't a justification just a result. Big business uses it because it is scalable, has a decent library, works well in a non-homogenous network cluster, and is one of the oldest and popular languages with GC and language primitives for parallelization. It's much faster than the dynamic type languages, and doesn't have the kludge of a global lock like two of the popular scripting languages.
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I use Perl and Ruby extensively. The comparisons are: Ruby is slightly faster than perl; It is easier to make C bindings in Ruby; Ruby's object oriented features doesn't involve Moose (Moose isn't necessary, in perl you can still use hash/dictionary type and bless into an object but still is a kludge); Ruby's library packaging system is an improvement over cpan (you can uninstall as easily as you installed); and unlike Perl with Ruby you will never have to debug or maintain code from a colleague who thought TIE was cool.
Unlike the other two popular interpreted languages, Ruby's upgrade path doesn't necessarily involve giving up code that was developed with a previous version. In Perl's case, Perl 6 may not actually be used in production code in our lifetime if ever.
While I agree a 124 year life sentence is excessive, hacking is still a crime and should be punished. Making false comparisons to terrorism, murder, rape, or forced slavery doesn't make hacking any less of a crime.
It would be more appropriate to compare it with burglary, espionage, vandalism, conspiracy, or theft and appropriate for the justice system to treat it that way during sentencing. Of course in today's climate... they did.
The problem with your logic is that if being paid according to local living expenses will deter people from working remotely, then why would I want to uproot my household and move to another town with higher expenses just so I can have a higher salary? I would still have similar enough disposable income after paying living expenses except for the problem created by paying more taxes by being in a higher income bracket. Not to mention the spouse needing to find new employment.
I don't think your line of reasoning is valid.
I thought this was the basis of natural selection. The parents adapt and the offspring pick up their parent's preferences either through emulation or genetic modification. In other words, the women chose the nerd because she can look past his physical flaws in order to gain financial benefit and her offspring is likely to emulate her behavior because we all take social cues from our parents.
It would be evolution if they could show that the offspring completely ignored the DEET on its first exposure. Otherwise, I agree it looks like neural-plasticity.
Yes because desegregation and having to educate the learning impaired had nothing to do with the test scores.
Please cite your references showing that the Dept of Ed. as the root cause of America's decline in education. I speak from personal experience that the bulk of our educational problems stem from state and local governments. Infrastructure vs operating Budgets, redistribution of property taxes collected to other counties, borrowing from education rainy day fund to balance state general budget, and legislating educational content within science classes are but a few problems that education in my state suffer from and it is all self inflicted.
I'll just wait for one to be left behind at a bar or tavern.
Yes because none of us use similar file system naming scheme to handle our large amounts of data on our distributed file system. /sarcasm
Yes but this is NetBSD so the performance degradation wouldn't be noticed anyway.
Smartphones and tablets in the 1980s? What universe are you from?
They were too busy destroying John Carter.
Did Shia kill your dog?
He's an actor not anyone actually important. If someone offers you a lot of cash just to play pretend, you'd be stupid not to take the position.
Morality in Hollywood? Ha!
That is true. However you need to consider that Microsoft would do this at the expense of their Microsoft Surface tablets. I think Microsoft would want to use Office as a asset to get Surface in the enterprise.
That would be too low of a price. $30 for the three programs seem reasonable. There isn't a demonstrable need for Office on iOS unlike Microsoft Surface.
It's not just him. I have some weird issues with Safari stalling but it seems to only affect Slashdot. Go figure...
One of them is that someone would pay $60 for an iOS version of Microsoft office when there are capable software better suited for the iPad for around $10 per application and they are compatible with Office. Microsoft knows this and wisely licenses its file API instead of diminishing their brand.
You'll be surprised how much difference traffic conditions, wind, and rain/snow will make on your range. It's more than just temperature.
If we were to survey all the reviews of the Tesla S, we would consider Broder's review an outlier and disregard it anyway.
Too bad its true... It's not I really care if you believe it or not.
Distance isn't quite far enough to make the expense of renting and flying a private plane worth the trouble and expense. I also driven in weather that I wouldn't have wanted to fly in.
I don't always fly, but when I do I let the professionals pilot me around.
The price at the pump is being manipulated. The US exports a lot of gasoline. A fact that is overlooked when politicians talk about the need for more domestic oil exploration.
If you must know. I drive the 2011 Honda Accord V6 2-door coupe. Since all of the trip except maybe 12 miles is limited access highway (interstate) the automobile stays in "ECO" mode. The remaining half of the tank is used commuting back and forth between the "away" apartment and the office (gas milage drops a bit, but it's still pretty decent).
I regularly drive one-way 380 miles which is 80 miles longer than the largest battery capacity model advertises. I spend 5-1/2 hours to 6 hours on the road during this commute and would not like adding an hour layover to an already large portion of my day. My current automobile is able to make that commute easily with a 1/2 tank of gas to spare.
I would love the lower fuel costs but the lack of range and the fact that I would probably never have any real savings due to the high cost of the car make the Tesla S model a non-starter for me.
My thoughts exactly. Elon Musk is just making sure we all know that they have computer logs confirming that their cars have limitations and should not be considered a direct replacement for a cheaper more consumer friendly ICE based automobile. Think of it as a more expensive golf cart.
I agree "Everybody does it this way" isn't a justification just a result. Big business uses it because it is scalable, has a decent library, works well in a non-homogenous network cluster, and is one of the oldest and popular languages with GC and language primitives for parallelization. It's much faster than the dynamic type languages, and doesn't have the kludge of a global lock like two of the popular scripting languages.