How about "ready for l33+ kiddie's desktop"? Linux sucks, because kazaa doesn't work, counter strike doesn't run and all the "cool hacks" you know no longer apply.
The biggest IT company in finland has been building the voting system for the finnish parlament for a few years now. There are 200 members in the parlament, the system records the standard yes-no-abstain-absent from every member. Not hard, could be a study project for a bunch of undergrads
The project is over a year late and millions over budget. The result? The same company was selected to deliver the country-wide e-election system. Yay for corruption!
Actually, holding on to your stock while startup-hopping is a quite nice way to guarantee easy retirement:) If you work for 2-3 years per startup for 30 years one of them is quite likely to make you a nice nest egg. More so than working as a placeholder in a large company.
Users as in your aunt Tillie who was hired to sit at the front desk or users as in the developers?
I work as a developer and I couldn't possibly imagine switching to Microsoft One True Platform, Selected By Company Management. I pick my platform, I maintain my platform. I tell you I need a piece of software X, you buy it for me. No "going through the management chain" or any of that bullshit.
This might sound a bit arrogant, but I won't go to accounting and tell them how we should do the company taxes whereas it's quite common for accounting to do decisions on developer tools. Quite often the answer is "Sorry, that's quite expensive and we won't pay $400 just for the fun of trying out a new tool". Well, guess why there is pirated software on the developers' machines:-)
For some reasons startups seem to understand this and large companies don't. Might be the developer-auntie ratio.
My post wasn't about advocating python, it was about unadvocating learned-this-in-the-70s programming languages and constructs. Vector is so much better than straight loop copying, but I'm quite certain that most of the code "out there" is not using the tools provided. Case in point: grandparent:-)
High-performance computing is an entirely different area altogether, but even there things are drifting towards high-level languages with just the most critical part written in assembler.
That is Hard for the compiler to figure out.
Compare this to the python syntax where
aa=array([[2, 4, 6])
bb=array([[1, 3, 5])
cc=aa + bb// cc == [3, 7, 11]
Guess how hard it is for the compiler to pick SIMD in this case?
It's really quite amazing how the programmer first has to express "add these two arrays" on a really low level, then the compiler needs to figure out what the programmer is really trying to do in order to generate code that's actually taking advantage of SSE primitives. Why not express what you want to do instead of giving near-assembly-level instructions for doing it? The lower level you program on, the less leeway the compiler has for generating the optimal code.
Having a noticable part of the high-income population move away from a given town because of really crappy telecom service just migth shake the political forces into action.
The bugs in other browsers tend to be in "hm, that margin is too wide" category and IE is mostly in "where the F::K is my content?" category.
Use italics in a floating div in IE7 and the text disappears. Sometimes. Bold and normal fonts work fine. Just another nice cup of BS from redmond.
As a web developer, I can say that I hate IE. Fortunately Facebook is now telling IE6 users to upgrade:)
As someone who has been commuting at least 45 minutes for most of my career Do you feel like this is spending your mortal, never-getting-it-back time well?
Well, we do have physics and trees and hills in Finland but I can't even remember the last time I had a call drop.
Just last thursday I took a 140km train trip to a nearby city and spent the whole time chatting on irc. Used the same ssh connection for the whole trip. Nice 3g handovers @ 120 km/h (Nokia N73). Greetings from the 21st century..
Actually, when my grandpa was dying the hospital staff had to ask us to be quiet because the laughter was bothering the other patients. The person laughing hardest? My grandad.
Three hundred permatemps with brushes will never reach the same level of art that one Michaelangelo does.
And for some odd reason, the Michaelangelos don't want to work for Microsoft..
Normal Users(TM) usually reinstall when the computer stops booting. Good luck uninstalling at that point. And if this trend continues we'll soon have to uninstall every piece of software one-by-one before nuking an install
Cool, you managed to convince another girl to "leave the hard stuff to one of the guys". Of course he will do it for you, sweetie! *grumble* Too few geek girls and people actively guiding women away from anything harder than email & surfing..
You chose to take medicine whose side effect was a breach in the laws of thermodynamics? Maybe we could give said medicine to all the starving kids in the third world..
Hear hear! Teenagers in Britain realize that a mobile phone considerably improves their social life. For some very odd reason, they would rather keep it than take a lump of cash.
30% of people would not give up running water for a million pounds! 17% would not give up electric lights!
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How about "ready for l33+ kiddie's desktop"? Linux sucks, because kazaa doesn't work, counter strike doesn't run and all the "cool hacks" you know no longer apply.
Yeah, that term is completely bricked
Here in Finland, nobody has a landline these days..
Haven't you heard that $14.95 is the new $10!
The biggest IT company in finland has been building the voting system for the finnish parlament for a few years now. There are 200 members in the parlament, the system records the standard yes-no-abstain-absent from every member. Not hard, could be a study project for a bunch of undergrads
The project is over a year late and millions over budget. The result? The same company was selected to deliver the country-wide e-election system. Yay for corruption!
Actually, holding on to your stock while startup-hopping is a quite nice way to guarantee easy retirement :) If you work for 2-3 years per startup for 30 years one of them is quite likely to make you a nice nest egg. More so than working as a placeholder in a large company.
Users as in your aunt Tillie who was hired to sit at the front desk or users as in the developers?
:-)
I work as a developer and I couldn't possibly imagine switching to Microsoft One True Platform, Selected By Company Management. I pick my platform, I maintain my platform. I tell you I need a piece of software X, you buy it for me. No "going through the management chain" or any of that bullshit.
This might sound a bit arrogant, but I won't go to accounting and tell them how we should do the company taxes whereas it's quite common for accounting to do decisions on developer tools. Quite often the answer is "Sorry, that's quite expensive and we won't pay $400 just for the fun of trying out a new tool". Well, guess why there is pirated software on the developers' machines
For some reasons startups seem to understand this and large companies don't. Might be the developer-auntie ratio.
My post wasn't about advocating python, it was about unadvocating learned-this-in-the-70s programming languages and constructs. Vector is so much better than straight loop copying, but I'm quite certain that most of the code "out there" is not using the tools provided. Case in point: grandparent :-)
High-performance computing is an entirely different area altogether, but even there things are drifting towards high-level languages with just the most critical part written in assembler.
That is Hard for the compiler to figure out. // cc == [3, 7, 11]
Compare this to the python syntax where
aa=array([[2, 4, 6])
bb=array([[1, 3, 5])
cc=aa + bb
Guess how hard it is for the compiler to pick SIMD in this case?
It's really quite amazing how the programmer first has to express "add these two arrays" on a really low level, then the compiler needs to figure out what the programmer is really trying to do in order to generate code that's actually taking advantage of SSE primitives. Why not express what you want to do instead of giving near-assembly-level instructions for doing it? The lower level you program on, the less leeway the compiler has for generating the optimal code.
Probably has to do with the fact that foreigners deal a lot more with written word and a lot less with everyday speech.
Having a noticable part of the high-income population move away from a given town because of really crappy telecom service just migth shake the political forces into action.
The bugs in other browsers tend to be in "hm, that margin is too wide" category and IE is mostly in "where the F::K is my content?" category. Use italics in a floating div in IE7 and the text disappears. Sometimes. Bold and normal fonts work fine. Just another nice cup of BS from redmond. As a web developer, I can say that I hate IE. Fortunately Facebook is now telling IE6 users to upgrade :)
Well, we do have physics and trees and hills in Finland but I can't even remember the last time I had a call drop. Just last thursday I took a 140km train trip to a nearby city and spent the whole time chatting on irc. Used the same ssh connection for the whole trip. Nice 3g handovers @ 120 km /h (Nokia N73). Greetings from the 21st century..
Finland is also installing fiber. I think we can finally lay the "sparse population" argument to rest :)
Actually, when my grandpa was dying the hospital staff had to ask us to be quiet because the laughter was bothering the other patients. The person laughing hardest? My grandad.
Three hundred permatemps with brushes will never reach the same level of art that one Michaelangelo does.
And for some odd reason, the Michaelangelos don't want to work for Microsoft..
'nuff said
Normal Users(TM) usually reinstall when the computer stops booting. Good luck uninstalling at that point. And if this trend continues we'll soon have to uninstall every piece of software one-by-one before nuking an install
Cool, you managed to convince another girl to "leave the hard stuff to one of the guys". Of course he will do it for you, sweetie! *grumble* Too few geek girls and people actively guiding women away from anything harder than email & surfing..
You chose to take medicine whose side effect was a breach in the laws of thermodynamics? Maybe we could give said medicine to all the starving kids in the third world..
Not in finland
So your (unique, mortal) time is worth $20/a few hours?
I think we should have a cap for shameless slashverts per week per product..
Hear hear! Teenagers in Britain realize that a mobile phone considerably improves their social life. For some very odd reason, they would rather keep it than take a lump of cash.
30% of people would not give up running water for a million pounds! 17% would not give up electric lights!
Stupid "money is everything" attitude.. *grumble*