I worked at a large OS/2 site and the users hated it with a vengeance. One of the tricks which the shell would play on them would be to put 100 icons in a folder with no way to sort through them because they all had the same x,y coordinate. There was no organise by name or anything. They had to drag and drop every icon.
Outside work I saw its bootstrap being used all over the place where people needed a convenient way to boot different operating systems. There wasn't really better solution around at the time.
Ice spread from the poles on Earth because water which vaporized in the tropics condensed at the poles when the planet was cool. But Mars doesn't have free water in the tropics. There is probably permafrost there but its locked away, immobile.
I am sorry to inform you that Gravity's rainbow is awful and not worth reading. It has way too little about missiles and too much about the boring personal life of the protagonists. The subject is relevant though because the rainbow of the title is the parabolic trajectory of a missile after boost phase, and it could certainly make a plane blow up.
We bathe ourselves in kilowatts of infrared radiation, and apart from heating, we don't worry about our chemistry or cells being changed, so it isn't really an argument about a few watts (at most) from mobile phones.
Photons from microwaves can't ionize matter. This is why ultraviolet photons are so dangerous: they can cause chemical changes in living tissue. Microwaves can't do that it it is silly to worry about it.
The two attempts by Bruce Perens to run a Technocrat website shows that maintenance alone is also not a factor. A site has to have good quality content, adequate security, adequate bandwidth and a feel of involvement. There were some... problems with some of the stories posted, almost certainly not intended, but the underlying Zope had problems and the Technocrat software wasn't brilliant at checking input for errors.
Technocrat could have been run as a subreddit at zero cost to him. But Bruce chose to take his bat and ball and go home. Nobody asked him to pour money into that site. It didn't have to operate that way.
Its more that the rich feature set of java gives developers a way to create needlessly complex architectures. Of course it shouldn't happen that way but I have seen a few really bad examples.
I honestly don't understand what the advantages of weak typing are
It saves a bucket load of interface definitions and references, which arguably makes the code cleaner. When things are kept simple, duck typing works quote well but if you get into interfaces with dozens of methods it is possible to lose track. APIs which have been translated from java are easy to spot in python for their "everything in the box" approach.
You never can. Its the big failing of automatic unit tests. With strong typing your compiler can help with static analysis. But with weak typing you rely on unit tests to detect regression but because of the proliferation of code paths, you can't do that either.
Its funny. I have heard Java described as the new Cobol. Its not so much that the java language is verbose. Its more that its ecosystem of APIs is verbose in the way you go about using them, and the scalabilty of the language seems to cause software architectures to grow out of control.
Yeah I am a python programmer and the only thing I would add is that javascript is worse because it doesn't have a compiled format. Source code is directly included. If I include module B after module A, it can rename parts of A to its heart's content.
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I worked at a large OS/2 site and the users hated it with a vengeance. One of the tricks which the shell would play on them would be to put 100 icons in a folder with no way to sort through them because they all had the same x,y coordinate. There was no organise by name or anything. They had to drag and drop every icon.
Outside work I saw its bootstrap being used all over the place where people needed a convenient way to boot different operating systems. There wasn't really better solution around at the time.
Ice spread from the poles on Earth because water which vaporized in the tropics condensed at the poles when the planet was cool. But Mars doesn't have free water in the tropics. There is probably permafrost there but its locked away, immobile.
But isn't it the point about this summon mode that the car moves towards you when you are not in the car?
Maybe the trailer is on the wrong site of the road.
http://sourcepuller.sourceforg...
there was a source code revision system called RCS.
Still is. Inside CVS.
Part of it may be that nothing like git existed as free software at the time. GNU Arch is the only system I can think of and it was quite new.
Bryan O'Sullivan had to stop working on Mercurial around the same time, because his employer used bitkeeper.
I think GIT is just Linus's name for Tridge.
I am sorry to inform you that Gravity's rainbow is awful and not worth reading. It has way too little about missiles and too much about the boring personal life of the protagonists. The subject is relevant though because the rainbow of the title is the parabolic trajectory of a missile after boost phase, and it could certainly make a plane blow up.
Reading between the lines I think she got upset when the guy wouldn't make conversation with her.
Why is that piece of paper more important than me?, and so on.
Gravity's rainbow?
Coherence has nothing to do with it. The output of a kilowatt laser spread over one square metre wouldn't be an issue at all.
We bathe ourselves in kilowatts of infrared radiation, and apart from heating, we don't worry about our chemistry or cells being changed, so it isn't really an argument about a few watts (at most) from mobile phones.
Photons from microwaves can't ionize matter. This is why ultraviolet photons are so dangerous: they can cause chemical changes in living tissue. Microwaves can't do that it it is silly to worry about it.
The two attempts by Bruce Perens to run a Technocrat website shows that maintenance alone is also not a factor. A site has to have good quality content, adequate security, adequate bandwidth and a feel of involvement. There were some... problems with some of the stories posted, almost certainly not intended, but the underlying Zope had problems and the Technocrat software wasn't brilliant at checking input for errors.
Technocrat could have been run as a subreddit at zero cost to him. But Bruce chose to take his bat and ball and go home. Nobody asked him to pour money into that site. It didn't have to operate that way.
Kuro5hin
Corrosion. Its a snowcrash reference, to Da5id.
Its more that the rich feature set of java gives developers a way to create needlessly complex architectures. Of course it shouldn't happen that way but I have seen a few really bad examples.
I honestly don't understand what the advantages of weak typing are
It saves a bucket load of interface definitions and references, which arguably makes the code cleaner. When things are kept simple, duck typing works quote well but if you get into interfaces with dozens of methods it is possible to lose track. APIs which have been translated from java are easy to spot in python for their "everything in the box" approach.
Having all file type objects behave the save
I couldn't agree more!
Why can you not test all execution paths in Ruby?
You never can. Its the big failing of automatic unit tests. With strong typing your compiler can help with static analysis. But with weak typing you rely on unit tests to detect regression but because of the proliferation of code paths, you can't do that either.
Its funny. I am doing work now in python which I was doing in fortran in 1986.
Its funny. I have heard Java described as the new Cobol. Its not so much that the java language is verbose. Its more that its ecosystem of APIs is verbose in the way you go about using them, and the scalabilty of the language seems to cause software architectures to grow out of control.
Yeah I am a python programmer and the only thing I would add is that javascript is worse because it doesn't have a compiled format. Source code is directly included. If I include module B after module A, it can rename parts of A to its heart's content.
Hey I could do that in C with ten million lines of code!