People who complain that you can't build large scale systems without a compiler likely over-rely on the latter and are slaves to IDEs. If you write good unit tests and enforce Test Driven Development, the compiler becomes un-necessary and gets in the way.
Says the guy that never worked on a project with 100+ classes and 100k+ lines of code...
Yup... and that's a small project. It's been a long time since I worked on any project smaller than a million lines of code.
I'm sure there's some people who can manage millions of lines of code spread across tens of thousands of files with vi, but it sure ain't me.
Neural nets perform well when the input data is large enough to be statistically valid. I suspect that the reason we've seen recent advances in the, otherwise well understood, area of neural nets is cheap commodity hardware has made it trivial to build faster cluster computers with *large nerdy number* of RAM.
I wouldn't be surprised to learn that building massive networks of inter-connected neural nets is the next stage.
Do you really think it's not the same code at the supported windows 7 build?
It's simply not tested on Vista anymore, and therefore not guaranteed to work.
But seriously, who gives a crap about Vista in 2017, it was largely disliked even when it was the new hotness and that was four major releases back, 2006... man I feel old. That was a decade ago and I was almost over the hill even then.
Sometimes dropping support is not because it won't work, but because the cost/benefit ratio of testing to guarantee it will work is not worth the effort.
Pertinent facts:
Vista represents less than 1% of the market, we're talking 3 to 4 times less than linux
Vista exited mainstream support FIVE YEARS AGO
Vista extended support expires this week
At some point you just stop beating the dead horse.
. . . . more users to Gab, where the only filters on what you see, are the ones **you** set on your own account
The average celebrity has an order of magnitude more twitter followers than Gab has users.(Heck, even a spoof account does ) As much as I'd like there to be an alternative, a service with 0.04% the users doesn't feel like a challenger.
The lesson to learn here was that you don't let idiots in ivory towers with ZERO connection to actual work run your economy. Sadly, nobody bothered to learn it.
I love how stating the obvious also counts as casting shade in 2017.
So as a user you downloaded a suspect binary but it's the OS that's at fault?
It's certainly true that Windows sucks for this kind of issue, and always has, but there's only so much you can do to protect idiot users from themselves.
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Time to grow a pair guys and join the 21st century.
Wow. What a Sexist thing to say...
Try harder
The best thing about this is the whiny men complaining.
Time to grow a pair guys and join the 21st century.
People who complain that you can't build large scale systems without a compiler likely over-rely on the latter and are slaves to IDEs. If you write good unit tests and enforce Test Driven Development, the compiler becomes un-necessary and gets in the way.
Says the guy that never worked on a project with 100+ classes and 100k+ lines of code...
Yup... and that's a small project. It's been a long time since I worked on any project smaller than a million lines of code.
I'm sure there's some people who can manage millions of lines of code spread across tens of thousands of files with vi, but it sure ain't me.
Review system could easily cover multiple pushes per review, the git based one we use certainly can and it's not terribly sophisticated otherwise.
This administration couldn't deliver a pizza give a GPS and a limousine service.
Neural nets perform well when the input data is large enough to be statistically valid. I suspect that the reason we've seen recent advances in the, otherwise well understood, area of neural nets is cheap commodity hardware has made it trivial to build faster cluster computers with *large nerdy number* of RAM.
I wouldn't be surprised to learn that building massive networks of inter-connected neural nets is the next stage.
Shots fired
Do you really think it's not the same code at the supported windows 7 build?
It's simply not tested on Vista anymore, and therefore not guaranteed to work.
But seriously, who gives a crap about Vista in 2017, it was largely disliked even when it was the new hotness and that was four major releases back, 2006... man I feel old. That was a decade ago and I was almost over the hill even then.
That's probably the single most relevant fact, thanks. .
That and the testing cost.
I kind of love that Microsoft's expiry notice basically says if you're still running Vista you should probably buy a new computer.
Sometimes dropping support is not because it won't work, but because the cost/benefit ratio of testing to guarantee it will work is not worth the effort.
Pertinent facts:
Vista represents less than 1% of the market, we're talking 3 to 4 times less than linux
Vista exited mainstream support FIVE YEARS AGO
Vista extended support expires this week
At some point you just stop beating the dead horse.
Here's a good example of what they're doing: http://blog.dilbert.com/post/1...
Supressing fake news, so that's good. (Was Adams always a douchenozzle or was that a recent development?)
. . . . more users to Gab, where the only filters on what you see, are the ones **you** set on your own account
The average celebrity has an order of magnitude more twitter followers than Gab has users.(Heck, even a spoof account does ) As much as I'd like there to be an alternative, a service with 0.04% the users doesn't feel like a challenger.
The lesson to learn here was that you don't let idiots in ivory towers with ZERO connection to actual work run your economy. Sadly, nobody bothered to learn it.
I love how stating the obvious also counts as casting shade in 2017.
Unfortunately I was a Canadian living in Canada between April 1st 2003 and December 31st 2008 and not eligible.
Fortunately I remain a Canadian in Canada in 2017 and may survive to 2020.
True, but at least they stylize certain letters unlike Mozilla which hasn't done even that.
No... that's EXACTLY what they've done.
I think you'll have to wait until 3:17 AM to find out.
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And Nazis. Dinosaurs and Nazis and zombies.
And zeppelins...
Take my money
Either you and I have different definitions of simple or you're a lot better at sarcasm than I.
When did Slashdot start accepting submissions from people who don't know the difference between a bootloader and a driver?
Where are my mod points when I need them...
I salute you sir.
If you think 15C is miserable then you should never come to Canada, we hit -30 over the weekend in the capital and we're having a warm winter.
So as a user you downloaded a suspect binary but it's the OS that's at fault?
It's certainly true that Windows sucks for this kind of issue, and always has, but there's only so much you can do to protect idiot users from themselves.
Am I alone in thinking that if malicious code has admin level write access to system disks then you're already fubar?
The horse is gone! Shut the barn door!
Yes you can. There a surprisingly large high tech sector in Nashua
(I've never lived in NH, but I has a couple of customers I was supporting in Nashua.)