I've never heard that Rails would make "programmers obsolete", in fact it seems to be the opposite; if you look at the official Rails site you'll notice that the biggest tag-line is "optimized for developer happiness".
Rails makes developers happier, not unemployed. What's more, anyone can write bad code in any language, so pointing to Twitter is hardly a conclusive argument. There are lots of big Rails sites out there, including Basecamp, the original Rails application.
For a better (and longer) write up on scaling Rails, I refer you to this article.
Exactly, it's estimated that there are up to a billion asteroids in our solar system, of which an estimated 100 million are larger than 10 metres across and likely to cross Earth's orbit at some point.
It's also worthy to note that even a small asteroid (i.e. about the size of a house) is enough to destroy a city, and a larger one could wreak havoc globally, regardless of where it lands.
Also, to quote Bill Bryson, "the number of people who in the world who are actively searching for asteroids is fewer than the staff of a typical McDonalds. (It is somewhat higher now. But not much)."
And we couldn't do anything about it even if we detected an asteroid that was going to hit earth, as we don't have any rockets that could reach it in time. The Saturn V rockets were retired in the early '70s, we (as a species) now have no replacement that could even reach the moon.
You might want to have a look at Retrospectiva. It has ticketing, milestones/goals, code reviews, a wiki add-on, a blog add-on, and an Agile project management add-on. Plus you're free to develop your own add-ons. It's fully open source too...
Seems slashdot didn't like nordic characters - proper link
And here's a link to an English language article from the Finnish Broadcasting Company (the Finnish equivalent of the BBC): 1Mb Broadband Access Becomes Legal Right
To be frank I was horrified when I read the title, but when you look at the mockups, it's doesn't seem to be as bad as the Office 2007 Ribbon.
For one thing it doesn't try to be "context aware" and it doesn't move everything into (partly) illogical categories/tabs. It also retains much of the menus, but moves them to a couple of buttons at the end of the address bar.
To quote from the MozillaWiki article (emphasis mine):
Firefox isn't the type of application that necessarily has contextual actions in the same way Windows Explorer does. So how to handle the functionality of the menubar if it is hidden? Chrome and Safari (and to a lesser extent IE7 & 8) have solved this by sorting, trimming and collecting the menubar functionality into two separate buttons. One of these buttons has items that apply to the webpage and another to the application itself. Now they don't always agree on which item should go in which menu, but the general principal is sound. This is a good solution.
So it would seem that Firefox is moving more toward Chrome or Safari than towards MS Office. This is a good thing, I for one think that the Chrome UI is pretty slick, despite the fact that I'm a Firefox user.
Perhaps this is a good point in time to switch to Pidgin (multi-platform and my personal choice), Adium (Mac OS X), Empathy (Gnome), Kopete (KDE), or some other, more trustworthy client?
Looking at the Skype founders' company website, they license three different products/technologies: PeerEnabler, PeerCache, and Global Index.
In their words:
PeerEnabler is "a virtual Content Distribution Network"
PeerCache is "a cache product that enabled network operators to optimize peer-to-peer traffic"
Global Index is their flagship product and "is the world's most technologically advanced, scalable and field-tested peer-to-peer technology. Global Index creates a self-organizing and self-healing distributed storage, transport and data object management system that does away with the costs of traditional datacenter solutions and enables a range of applications from communications to broadcasting and beyond."
They also explicitly state that Global Index is used in Skype.
I agree. When I create web sites I test that they work in Firefox, Safari, and Opera (and yes, IE, when I feel up to it) and I always check that they validate as proper XHTML.
Windows Vista: BAD? (Initially had bad driver support, still has 'ridiculous' hardware requirements. Although 64-bit version has better driver support than XP-64... and it runs really really awesome with a DX10 GPU, Core 2 CPU, 4GB+ RAM)
I have a Core 2 Duo (and not a lower end one either), a DX10 graphics card (mid range), and 4GB of 800MHz DDR2 and yet Vista manages to be painfully slow a lot of the time.
Not to mention the 5-10 minute start up time (measured up to a usable system).
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You're welcome to visit Kisko Labs any day, with or without t-shirts. We don't have a render farm, but we compensate by having a sauna.
Heck, we'll even throw in some Frozen Rails conference passes.
I've never heard that Rails would make "programmers obsolete", in fact it seems to be the opposite; if you look at the official Rails site you'll notice that the biggest tag-line is "optimized for developer happiness".
Rails makes developers happier, not unemployed. What's more, anyone can write bad code in any language, so pointing to Twitter is hardly a conclusive argument. There are lots of big Rails sites out there, including Basecamp, the original Rails application.
For a better (and longer) write up on scaling Rails, I refer you to this article.
How about you give Ruby a try?
Exactly, it's estimated that there are up to a billion asteroids in our solar system, of which an estimated 100 million are larger than 10 metres across and likely to cross Earth's orbit at some point.
It's also worthy to note that even a small asteroid (i.e. about the size of a house) is enough to destroy a city, and a larger one could wreak havoc globally, regardless of where it lands.
Also, to quote Bill Bryson, "the number of people who in the world who are actively searching for asteroids is fewer than the staff of a typical McDonalds. (It is somewhat higher now. But not much)."
And we couldn't do anything about it even if we detected an asteroid that was going to hit earth, as we don't have any rockets that could reach it in time. The Saturn V rockets were retired in the early '70s, we (as a species) now have no replacement that could even reach the moon.
You might want to have a look at Retrospectiva. It has ticketing, milestones/goals, code reviews, a wiki add-on, a blog add-on, and an Agile project management add-on. Plus you're free to develop your own add-ons. It's fully open source too...
Seems slashdot didn't like nordic characters - proper link
And here's a link to an English language article from the Finnish Broadcasting Company (the Finnish equivalent of the BBC): 1Mb Broadband Access Becomes Legal Right
To be frank I was horrified when I read the title, but when you look at the mockups, it's doesn't seem to be as bad as the Office 2007 Ribbon.
For one thing it doesn't try to be "context aware" and it doesn't move everything into (partly) illogical categories/tabs. It also retains much of the menus, but moves them to a couple of buttons at the end of the address bar.
To quote from the MozillaWiki article (emphasis mine):
So it would seem that Firefox is moving more toward Chrome or Safari than towards MS Office. This is a good thing, I for one think that the Chrome UI is pretty slick, despite the fact that I'm a Firefox user.
Perhaps this is a good point in time to switch to Pidgin (multi-platform and my personal choice), Adium (Mac OS X), Empathy (Gnome), Kopete (KDE), or some other, more trustworthy client?
Looking at the Skype founders' company website, they license three different products/technologies: PeerEnabler, PeerCache, and Global Index.
In their words:
They also explicitly state that Global Index is used in Skype.
Maybe they'll spend the $18 million on fixing Drupal?
While you and blahbooboo probably won't agree, I, for one, consider noscript to be the "adblock" for firefox.
Uh, isn't AdBlock the AdBlock of Firefox?
Or rather IE8 May Be End of the Line for Trident
And one would certainly hope so, given what crap you have to deal with when designing web pages, just because IE doesn't do anything right.
I agree. When I create web sites I test that they work in Firefox, Safari, and Opera (and yes, IE, when I feel up to it) and I always check that they validate as proper XHTML.
Windows Vista: BAD? (Initially had bad driver support, still has 'ridiculous' hardware requirements. Although 64-bit version has better driver support than XP-64... and it runs really really awesome with a DX10 GPU, Core 2 CPU, 4GB+ RAM)
I have a Core 2 Duo (and not a lower end one either), a DX10 graphics card (mid range), and 4GB of 800MHz DDR2 and yet Vista manages to be painfully slow a lot of the time.
Not to mention the 5-10 minute start up time (measured up to a usable system).
Yup, you're "dead" on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory
Indeed, but when the choice is between:
a) moving to Windows n, which just happens to break software that worked in Windows n-1
or
b) moving to an entirely different OS
The cons suddenly are rather similar in both options
Further proof that he is no JFK - how about instead he challenge us to get to Mars before the decade is out !!!
Well, NASA would certainly have to hussle to achieve that (~ one year to go?).
Advertising is full of lies.
There, fixed that for you.
I am actually prohibited from using GPL software at work for this very reason.
Right, but you can afford to pay for proprietary licenses for all your software.
Why does everybody as for a pony, but not a stable to keep it in, or food to keep it alive?
Does Pony meat taste that good?
Because when it's a pony from Adobe you know that it will soon crash and die, and it wouldn't know what stable is anyway.
Cue the Vista jokes now. You know, the ones this: ...and so, and so on.
"Will it run Vista?"
"Finally I can use Aero"
DISCLAIMER: I'm a Linux aficionado, but have to use Vista for development.
I could, if Gnome didn't have dependencies on FF 2.x...
I think you need to look up 'Sarcasm' on Wikipedia.
Holy shit, the i7 CPUs are failing en masse??!
YES, Sell, sell, sell. You should do what I do: base your trading on rumours you hear on Slashdot.
From Wikipedia:
The 12-foot (4 m) long Mark 15 bomb weighs 7,600 pounds (3,500 kg) and bears the serial number "No. 47782".
I thought I'd gotten lucky, but the one I found had the serial number "No. 47783". Damn.