I'm a VIM/Makefile kind of guy so the whole IDE thing still puts me off
I'm doing android development with nedit and an xterm for compilations. Still using ant though. There is a howto for that. Also in my day job I have to work on this horrible monstrosity through eclipse. Its fucking awful and blame eclipse for many of the developers design decisions.
It fits if google were thinking oh shit oracle have their hands on java we are screwed get us out, but its not like right at the start they were rubbing their hands with glee we know we have to pay for a license but we are not going to.
The alternative approach is that we all work less, and find different things to make for each other. 100% socialism is pretty much discredited in humans anyway. Given a chance we will sit on our fat arses until we die of premature heart disease.
The article seems mostly about an expressive language for querying xml trees. Its not simple, and totally different from the relational database model. If anything it is more expressive than sql, which is quite procedural by comparison.
I used to co-locate in the same building as the local stock exchange. One day, very late, I took the elevator down to the car park, which was where the computers were. There was a guy in the elevator who looked absolutely wrecked. He was sweaty, shaky and not taking things in. He got off at my level and stumbled off towards a porsche which appeared to be similarly young and in equally bad condition.
The thing is, I work in air traffic control, where the stakes are even higher. The difference is that the operational people have an absolutely obsessive approach to managing their workforce. Traffic controllers are just not allowed to get upset or stressed. In many environments they have unlimited sick leave.
The difference, I suppose, is that traders personally stand to take home a lot of money. You could do this in any field: offer ridiculous compensation for ridiculous effort. But if you work it out, I doubt the long term returns justify what this does to people.
Yeah I had the same thought when my Dad had a heart attack. Artificial hearts have been around for a while, why can't we buy one for him? I think there is a problem going from research to implementation. Scientists like developing things but they don't encourage mass production. There should be factories in Korea churning out hearts and lungs. With engineers (rather than scientists) in the loop they would get better very fast.
As numbers go that one is right up there with the angle subtended by the Moon and the Sun from the Earth. The apparent orbital resonance between Mercury and Earth is a great joke too.
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String descriptors could be coded with arbitrary width length fields. It could use an extension bit for example.
There is nothing wrong with null terminated str^&%^&GShgayuat65a6 7gxhsvxhshxsgyuy6d5656565^&%&^&ZCVZCVZCVBAVCAF FAGAAAYSTWafgsgfsgd6565^%^^
I'm a VIM/Makefile kind of guy so the whole IDE thing still puts me off
I'm doing android development with nedit and an xterm for compilations. Still using ant though. There is a howto for that. Also in my day job I have to work on this horrible monstrosity through eclipse. Its fucking awful and blame eclipse for many of the developers design decisions.
It fits if google were thinking oh shit oracle have their hands on java we are screwed get us out, but its not like right at the start they were rubbing their hands with glee we know we have to pay for a license but we are not going to.
Dissociative identity disorder? Why?
My wife replaced me with a simple mechanism involving an electric motor and an offset rotating mass. It doesn't even need a microcontroller.
The alternative approach is that we all work less, and find different things to make for each other. 100% socialism is pretty much discredited in humans anyway. Given a chance we will sit on our fat arses until we die of premature heart disease.
Same as my, er, Android phone. Schedule a reboot every five days.
The article seems mostly about an expressive language for querying xml trees. Its not simple, and totally different from the relational database model. If anything it is more expressive than sql, which is quite procedural by comparison.
It sounds a bit like:
So you change the code and take the risk.
I can debug in minutes and push out a new version in the seconds
You must be taking a huge gamble by doing that. I don't see how your new version could be considered safe to use if it is deployed that fast.
I used to co-locate in the same building as the local stock exchange. One day, very late, I took the elevator down to the car park, which was where the computers were. There was a guy in the elevator who looked absolutely wrecked. He was sweaty, shaky and not taking things in. He got off at my level and stumbled off towards a porsche which appeared to be similarly young and in equally bad condition.
The thing is, I work in air traffic control, where the stakes are even higher. The difference is that the operational people have an absolutely obsessive approach to managing their workforce. Traffic controllers are just not allowed to get upset or stressed. In many environments they have unlimited sick leave.
The difference, I suppose, is that traders personally stand to take home a lot of money. You could do this in any field: offer ridiculous compensation for ridiculous effort. But if you work it out, I doubt the long term returns justify what this does to people.
Those customers are buying smart phones and tablets.
What if the government hands out the death penalty for possession of steganography software?
Aussie here. I take your point, but a shop selling infected hard disks sounds like news for nerds to me.
...no doubt.
Linux is great for moving files around...
They would have to drive with their head sticking out the window.
Yeah I had the same thought when my Dad had a heart attack. Artificial hearts have been around for a while, why can't we buy one for him? I think there is a problem going from research to implementation. Scientists like developing things but they don't encourage mass production. There should be factories in Korea churning out hearts and lungs. With engineers (rather than scientists) in the loop they would get better very fast.
Good luck for your daughter.
So now someone cite a scifi example of a solar system or galaxy used as a weapon?
E E 'Doc' Smith 'Lensman' series featured two galaxies colliding. Not sure if it was by design.
Niven and Pournelle were there first.
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As numbers go that one is right up there with the angle subtended by the Moon and the Sun from the Earth. The apparent orbital resonance between Mercury and Earth is a great joke too.
Its even better then burning down all the forests.
Dragon is a few years away from being man rated.
Sounds like they want (pinky to corner of mouth) One Million Dollars!