Point is: the eastern packt never was considered second world, and neither was the "neutral block" considered 3rd world.
1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th world were simply terms of industrial/agricultur/civil development. So during cold war, the USSR was as first worldly as the US were. And now they are as second worldly as the US is:P
4th world countries don't exist anymore, 3rd wold countries are less than a handful. And as terminology has changed, we call "second world" now developing countries or "emerging countries"... considering that basically every country on the world is far above WW2 standards of e.g. the US around 1950.
And no, that is not my invention, that is how the "rest of the world" once coined the terms. The idiotic West, East, Africa notation I first encountered a few years ago (here on/. by the way). I actually doubt that Wikipedia article has any merits, sounds not really believable that the US once had such a retarded idea/definition about 1st, 2nd and 3rd world.
If you really were scared of CO2 emissions, you would be fine with 100% of nuclear power costs being subsidized, to reduce emissions. Why? The risk that you and I die due to CO2 emissions is basically zero. The risk to die in an reactor accident or due to fall out is higher than that.
I find it very difficult to find really good C programmers If you really need C programmers, why not hire a competent programmer and teach him C or simply ask him to learn it over a weekend...
Must be an american thing again... Medieval religious leaders in Europe did not support the use of zero, van der Hoek said. They saw it as satanic. "God was in everything that was. Everything that was not was of the devil," she said. Van Hoek said this. And you take it for granted? Arabic numbers/digits got introduced by a german monk, who later became pope. He picked them up in Spain. Hence there were no religious leaders against the zero. There never was a 'conspiracy' against the zero. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...
That was not the point, or was it? Anyway, if your API is C, it is obviously not object oriented. So it is pointless most of the time anyway. If you really need to call C++ from Java, there are old IBM projects, that generate the glue code for you (You can even subclass Java from C++ and other way around) In modern times you probably would use https://code.google.com/archiv... or other JNA based approaches.
It would still be going up right now, regardless of human activity./iY No it would not, it would be stable... and especially winter "peak lows" (if you can say that) would be 30 degrees lower than they are right now.
And modern clocks have a 12 there, because it is practical for looking at it, not because people are scared about a zero.
But Arabic numerals with a zero were resisted throughout the middle ages Do you have any references for that? Never heard about such "nonsense" (not that you talk nonsense, but that people behaved that nonsense like)
where there's nothing, there's no god, A zero does not mean there is "nothing", your idea about this is certainly nonsense. We always had creditors and debtors, and after the debtors has payed is debt, the account is on "zero". Does not matter if you write a dash or a crossed out 0 or a normal zero.
People always had a concept of "nothing". And using a new digit for a zero has bottom line nothing to do with that. And there is no real appalling reason to replace a XII or 12 on a watch/clock with a 0. Many people have digital clocks or only look at digital time information, they always use 00:00 in the world I travel, no idea how the US is handling that, though... perhaps I should switch my iPhone to an US timezone to see that:D
(As a side note: hebrew watches have a hebre 12 on top as well)
Which is why old clock faces have Roman numerals. Note that Roman numerals lack a symbol for zero. As I pointed out in an older post: most ancient numerical systems do that. Nevertheless they know about the concept of "nothing". See: a: "X" <- that is a ten in roman b: "Yodh" <- a 10, as in hebrew, the tenth letter of their alphabet c: "delta" <- used as a 10 in greek d: " " <- there is "nothing", obviously a zero... e: "0" <- an easier to rad and spot zero
There is no magical rejection of "nothing" or "zero", d and e are equivalent. However it took a while to acquire the usage of a zero (together with the other arabic numbers).
The switch in Europe was from roman numbers to arabic, not from a system without a zero to a system with a zero. It makes no sense to add a zero to a Roman or Greek system, in Hebrew however it would work (because the first 9 letters of the alphabet are also used as the first 9 digits).
Yes, even C vs C++; a library with a C API is always more useful than one with a C++ API. And why would that be the case? Because you "hate oo"? Show me a java library that has a C-API... your claim makes no sense. (Or a Python library or a LUA or a Scala or a Lisp one...)
You can not make undocumented code changes. First of all: to put a code change "life" (regardless if for developers only, or for 'prelife' machines or 'test' machines or the 'production' machines) you have to commit it to a source code control system. And that is only possible if you give the ticket number from the issue tracker in the commit comment (of course you usually could give a fake one in so far that it only needs to refer to an existing ticket, or open ticket or ticket in state 'progress'). Then depending if it is "just a script" or code meant for production, it goes through various stages of testing, promoting into an binary repository etc.
Yea, we actually chained Bill in the basement to the wall. His girl friend keeps calling, but we pretend he is still on vacation...
They tend to be quite anemic machines barely fit for purpose. They are marginal at best and highly likely to be knackered by a newer OS or apps. That is utter nonsense. The only situations when this happened was about 5 to 7 years after Apple switched form 68k to PowerPC and then again when they switched from PowerPC to Intel A laptop from 2012 happily runs the most recent macOS... that is just 5 - 6 years ago.
Except for a dying computer, there are not many reasons for a current day ordinary user to replace an old one.
Just because I'm *competent* in probably a few hundred things related to software engineering/software development, does not make me incompetent:D
The rest of your comment, I simply did not get: Unfortunately, people like you are not the only ones wasting organizations' money. Why would I waste money?
Most projects which grow in budget and take too much time and too much resources are that way because they are ill conceived. I don't understand... what is ill conceive and what has that to do with my demand that developers have basic knowledge about installing/administrating a linux box?
Projects which are well-conceived require very few resources to maintain. Correct. But that is not the "Dev Ops" job, and we are talking here about "Dev Ops".
But you, and people like you, grow in your influence because of your incompetence -- not despite of it. What is that supposed to mean?
The more people depend on the work you give them, the more voices there are to support your way of doing things. I usually work in very small teams... 5 - 7, rarely more.
While efficient projects get done, work seamlessly, and make it look so easy that they seem irrelevant. You are the way of how bureaucracies form. Are you sure you answered to the right post? In my teams we have no bureaucracies at all. You take a ticket from the ticket system, finish it, give it into review or close it. More simple it is not possible.
If I upgrade every 4 to 6 years instead of every 2 to 3 years, then Apple is selling half as many computers. Why would they want to do that? Because that is their business model and advantage for the customer, my 17" laptop is 12 years old and runs fine, my 13" MacBook Air is 4 years old... why the funk would I buy a new one? I guess my Mac Mini is about 10 years old, too.
If you bought a Mac Mini in 2012, you actually don't fucking need a new one now. For what purpose? You might have usage for another USB/Firewire SAN/NAS storage... and that is it.
Unless you are a really high demanding professional or a gamer who want the best graphics we are long beyond the point where people need faster/better computers (every few years).
I want a new Mac Laptop, with 17" (or more) screen, not thin but think, with battery power for 20h or longer, 1 or two SSDs on different buses and like the new 128GB laptop some RAM in that range. Upgrade options would be nice, too...
"Speed" or cores are close to irrelevant, same for GPU... World of Warcraft or Eve Online has no need for a fancy GPU.
It's consistently just a way for bad management to cut budgets by getting devs to do ops work badly, or ops to do dev work badly. DevOps is not Ops, it is administration and configuration.
A guy who i snot able to administer a linux box, set up a CI system on it AND can not develop, I never would hire.
Of course you have to know both (and many other things) to be a competent "software engineer". The question is, what will be your main work, but if you call to "support" because you have a problem with swap space, the CI/CD server, the source repository or artifact repository and are not able to either fix it yourself or nail it down to a problem an expert can understand and fix: you have no place in my team... unless you are a newcomer and are there for education and learning.
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Point is: the eastern packt never was considered second world, and neither was the "neutral block" considered 3rd world.
1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th world were simply terms of industrial/agricultur/civil development. So during cold war, the USSR was as first worldly as the US were. And now they are as second worldly as the US is :P
4th world countries don't exist anymore, 3rd wold countries are less than a handful. And as terminology has changed, we call "second world" now developing countries or "emerging countries" ... considering that basically every country on the world is far above WW2 standards of e.g. the US around 1950.
And no, that is not my invention, that is how the "rest of the world" once coined the terms. The idiotic West, East, Africa notation I first encountered a few years ago (here on /. by the way). I actually doubt that Wikipedia article has any merits, sounds not really believable that the US once had such a retarded idea/definition about 1st, 2nd and 3rd world.
And how do you "like" stuff, that you don't see?
If you really were scared of CO2 emissions, you would be fine with 100% of nuclear power costs being subsidized, to reduce emissions.
Why? The risk that you and I die due to CO2 emissions is basically zero.
The risk to die in an reactor accident or due to fall out is higher than that.
Well, :D
it is a kind of "american definition" of 1st, 2nd and 3rd world.
They don't care that the rest of the world defines it different
I find it very difficult to find really good C programmers ...
If you really need C programmers, why not hire a competent programmer and teach him C or simply ask him to learn it over a weekend
Ah, you want to say, if the API is in C, more languages can bind to it. :)
That does not make it 'mode reuseable'
If you want to mix Obj-C with C++, you simply should use the Obj-C++ compiler.
A sandbox does not prevent one to mine a crypto currency ...
Must be an american thing again ...
Medieval religious leaders in Europe did not support the use of zero, van der Hoek said. They saw it as satanic. "God was in everything that was. Everything that was not was of the devil," she said.
Van Hoek said this.
And you take it for granted? Arabic numbers/digits got introduced by a german monk, who later became pope. He picked them up in Spain. Hence there were no religious leaders against the zero.
There never was a 'conspiracy' against the zero. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...
That was not the point, or was it?
Anyway, if your API is C, it is obviously not object oriented. So it is pointless most of the time anyway.
If you really need to call C++ from Java, there are old IBM projects, that generate the glue code for you (You can even subclass Java from C++ and other way around)
In modern times you probably would use https://code.google.com/archiv... or other JNA based approaches.
Perhaps he is just flying a Thanatos in Eve Online.
It is an american thing ...
It would still be going up right now, regardless of human activity./iY ... and especially winter "peak lows" (if you can say that) would be 30 degrees lower than they are right now.
No it would not, it would be stable
And modern clocks have a 12 there, because it is practical for looking at it, not because people are scared about a zero.
But Arabic numerals with a zero were resisted throughout the middle ages Do you have any references for that? Never heard about such "nonsense" (not that you talk nonsense, but that people behaved that nonsense like)
where there's nothing, there's no god, A zero does not mean there is "nothing", your idea about this is certainly nonsense. We always had creditors and debtors, and after the debtors has payed is debt, the account is on "zero". Does not matter if you write a dash or a crossed out 0 or a normal zero.
People always had a concept of "nothing". And using a new digit for a zero has bottom line nothing to do with that. And there is no real appalling reason to replace a XII or 12 on a watch/clock with a 0. Many people have digital clocks or only look at digital time information, they always use 00:00 in the world I travel, no idea how the US is handling that, though ... perhaps I should switch my iPhone to an US timezone to see that :D
(As a side note: hebrew watches have a hebre 12 on top as well)
Which is why old clock faces have Roman numerals. Note that Roman numerals lack a symbol for zero. As I pointed out in an older post: most ancient numerical systems do that. Nevertheless they know about the concept of "nothing". See: ...
a: "X" <- that is a ten in roman
b: "Yodh" <- a 10, as in hebrew, the tenth letter of their alphabet
c: "delta" <- used as a 10 in greek
d: " " <- there is "nothing", obviously a zero
e: "0" <- an easier to rad and spot zero
There is no magical rejection of "nothing" or "zero", d and e are equivalent. However it took a while to acquire the usage of a zero (together with the other arabic numbers).
The switch in Europe was from roman numbers to arabic, not from a system without a zero to a system with a zero. It makes no sense to add a zero to a Roman or Greek system, in Hebrew however it would work (because the first 9 letters of the alphabet are also used as the first 9 digits).
Yes, even C vs C++; a library with a C API is always more useful than one with a C++ API. ... your claim makes no sense. (Or a Python library or a LUA or a Scala or a Lisp one ...)
And why would that be the case? Because you "hate oo"? Show me a java library that has a C-API
Or you write an Ansible play book ...
Find a better place to work, man!
You can not make undocumented code changes.
First of all: to put a code change "life" (regardless if for developers only, or for 'prelife' machines or 'test' machines or the 'production' machines) you have to commit it to a source code control system. And that is only possible if you give the ticket number from the issue tracker in the commit comment (of course you usually could give a fake one in so far that it only needs to refer to an existing ticket, or open ticket or ticket in state 'progress').
Then depending if it is "just a script" or code meant for production, it goes through various stages of testing, promoting into an binary repository etc.
Yea, we actually chained Bill in the basement to the wall. His girl friend keeps calling, but we pretend he is still on vacation ...
They tend to be quite anemic machines barely fit for purpose. They are marginal at best and highly likely to be knackered by a newer OS or apps. ... that is just 5 - 6 years ago.
That is utter nonsense. The only situations when this happened was about 5 to 7 years after Apple switched form 68k to PowerPC and then again when they switched from PowerPC to Intel
A laptop from 2012 happily runs the most recent macOS
Except for a dying computer, there are not many reasons for a current day ordinary user to replace an old one.
Just because I'm *competent* in probably a few hundred things related to software engineering/software development, does not make me incompetent :D
The rest of your comment, I simply did not get:
Unfortunately, people like you are not the only ones wasting organizations' money.
Why would I waste money?
Most projects which grow in budget and take too much time and too much resources are that way because they are ill conceived. ... what is ill conceive and what has that to do with my demand that developers have basic knowledge about installing/administrating a linux box?
I don't understand
Projects which are well-conceived require very few resources to maintain. Correct. But that is not the "Dev Ops" job, and we are talking here about "Dev Ops".
But you, and people like you, grow in your influence because of your incompetence -- not despite of it. What is that supposed to mean?
The more people depend on the work you give them, the more voices there are to support your way of doing things. ... 5 - 7, rarely more.
I usually work in very small teams
While efficient projects get done, work seamlessly, and make it look so easy that they seem irrelevant. You are the way of how bureaucracies form.
Are you sure you answered to the right post? In my teams we have no bureaucracies at all. You take a ticket from the ticket system, finish it, give it into review or close it.
More simple it is not possible.
And water costs how much? ...
I pay about $200 for water per year
If I upgrade every 4 to 6 years instead of every 2 to 3 years, then Apple is selling half as many computers. Why would they want to do that? ... why the funk would I buy a new one? I guess my Mac Mini is about 10 years old, too.
Because that is their business model and advantage for the customer, my 17" laptop is 12 years old and runs fine, my 13" MacBook Air is 4 years old
If you bought a Mac Mini in 2012, you actually don't fucking need a new one now. For what purpose? ... and that is it.
You might have usage for another USB/Firewire SAN/NAS storage
Unless you are a really high demanding professional or a gamer who want the best graphics we are long beyond the point where people need faster/better computers (every few years).
I want a new Mac Laptop, with 17" (or more) screen, not thin but think, with battery power for 20h or longer, 1 or two SSDs on different buses and like the new 128GB laptop some RAM in that range. Upgrade options would be nice, too ...
"Speed" or cores are close to irrelevant, same for GPU ... World of Warcraft or Eve Online has no need for a fancy GPU.
Agile requires at least one stand-up per day per team you're on.
No it does not.
There are dozens if not hundreds of agile methods, that have no daily stand up.
And if you can not cope with a 10 minutes daily stand up, you are probably an antisocial asshole with whom no one really likes to work anyway.
DevOps are not on a scrum team and are not bound to sprints.
They handle tickets as they come.
You probably do Scrum wrong, Agile wrong, and have no clue what a DevOps does.
Not 'You' but your organization.
It's consistently just a way for bad management to cut budgets by getting devs to do ops work badly, or ops to do dev work badly.
DevOps is not Ops, it is administration and configuration.
A guy who i snot able to administer a linux box, set up a CI system on it AND can not develop, I never would hire.
Of course you have to know both (and many other things) to be a competent "software engineer". The question is, what will be your main work, but if you call to "support" because you have a problem with swap space, the CI/CD server, the source repository or artifact repository and are not able to either fix it yourself or nail it down to a problem an expert can understand and fix: you have no place in my team ... unless you are a newcomer and are there for education and learning.