I read that as "We cannot be bothered to get a proper education and assume there will be well paid jobs for us as soon as we leave high school". But I'm sure it's not what you meant.
I highly doubt displaced, former foundry workers, who spent the last 30 years mastering the art of steel production, would give a flying fuck that Samsung opened a new facility where they used to work and is now hiring software engineers.
Amusingly, I used to work in a foundry and I'm currently a software developer. (Employer keeps trying to call me an engineer, but I call it alchemy.)
I think you over estimate the time or skill required to master steel production. You could have a high-schooler trained to do it inside a year.
Such a shame that the American people allow the university (and medical) systems to hold them hostage instead of allowing the whole country to move into the 20th century.
This means that it only is useful if you can solve the problem faster by writing it with regular expressions than you can with whatever language you are using it form.
In my experience there is something close to a 10/1 ratio between gratuitous pointless uses of regular expressions and effective useful ones.
My favorite abuse case is where no real wildcarding is done and all they really want to know is, "does this string contain this substring". I find extreme cases in bad perl.
I found a build script that was attempting to prepare localization templates, it would build a regular expression for each variable it was trying to replace (with no real wildcarding of course) and then evaluate each line in the template with every expression. Since the number of lines in the template were directly proportional to the number of variables this was n^2 evaluations.
I replaced this with a simple linear approach where a look up table with all the translations are read into a lookup table in memory and each line of the template can be scanned character by character.
The resulting script went from O(n^2) with regular expressions to O(n) with simple character comparisons, our problem input went from 20 minutes to process to less than a second, 1200 times faster.
Regular expressions are very powerful, but they are no substitute for thinking or datastructures or algorithms.
Don't teach new programmers regular expressions, teach them to think. Teach them how to analyse algorithms. Teach them how to build datastructures.
Then, once you've done all that, then you can teach them regular expressions, but make sure they know what they're doing. (And it won't work, they'll immediately start abusing them, happens every time.)
Tried this with Siri,not only did it find people selling fur-lined leather gloves, it also found photos of models wearing skimpy dresses with gloves on.
Let's see: you use an overblown proprietary binary blob that contains who-knows-what in times of overall NSA spying, and you dare complain that this binary blob has lost one tiny bit of functionality w.r.t. Windows' binary blob? Don't worry, the main functionality of this nVidia blob (NSA backdoor?) is still fully functional.
Nvidia has never been a perfect partner to the opensource world, however your tinfoil hat is too tight son, it's clearly cutting off the blood flow to your brain.
No, I know where the quote comes from, it just wasn't applicable. Vader made a deal, Nvidea made no deal with Linux. Their only deals are with Microsoft, who are probably the Vader here (Darth Ballmer?).
That's kind of the point, most of the time the opensource world does not get to make deals with corporations. You take what they dole out and then you thank them for it.
I don't like it, and I'm hoping it doesn't last, but it does seem to be the reality.
In the ideal world our esteemed colleagues at Redmond will continue to screw themselves over and the world will turn slowly to Linux and all the hardware vendors will start playing ball, and there is some indication that has been the gradual trend over the past five years or so, but don't hold your breath and don't expect anyone to play fair.
Some authors improve with time and exposure, others are a flash in the pan. Some produce their greatest works young, and other old.
The Tom Clancy I will always remember is "Red Storm Rising" (not a great novel, but a great page turner) , "Red October" and "Patriot Games". Tom Clancy's early books were fantastic page turners, not high art but highly entertaining and quite well thought out. I wish that all of his works were of the same quality, or better.
Now we will never know if there was the potential for greatness that sometimes comes with the "wisdom of elders".
Thank you for the memories Tom, as far as I'm concerned "Red October" still stands as a "best in genre" after 30 years.
The relevant bits of the FreeBSD userland are periodically (every major release) imported into OS X. The two systems are fairly different, so kernel changes in FreeBSD probably won't show up, but tweaks to command line tools and other stuff probably will.
Darwin is not a BSD kernel, so the kernel changes will never show up, no probably about it.
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OK, so I didn't use the best example.
Doesn't change nor diminish my point.
I read that as "We cannot be bothered to get a proper education and assume there will be well paid jobs for us as soon as we leave high school". But I'm sure it's not what you meant.
What did you mean?
... if you never studied history.
I'm pretty sure we heard the same tripe at every phase of every innovation since the dawn of technology.
Fortunately the revolution will not be televised.
I highly doubt displaced, former foundry workers, who spent the last 30 years mastering the art of steel production, would give a flying fuck that Samsung opened a new facility where they used to work and is now hiring software engineers.
Amusingly, I used to work in a foundry and I'm currently a software developer. (Employer keeps trying to call me an engineer, but I call it alchemy.)
I think you over estimate the time or skill required to master steel production. You could have a high-schooler trained to do it inside a year.
Such a shame that the American people allow the university (and medical) systems to hold them hostage instead of allowing the whole country to move into the 20th century.
100% agreed.
Regular expressions are but one tool, but for far too many people it's a hammer and every problem is a nail.
This means that it only is useful if you can solve the problem faster by writing it with regular expressions than you can with whatever language you are using it form.
In my experience there is something close to a 10/1 ratio between gratuitous pointless uses of regular expressions and effective useful ones.
My favorite abuse case is where no real wildcarding is done and all they really want to know is, "does this string contain this substring". I find extreme cases in bad perl.
I found a build script that was attempting to prepare localization templates, it would build a regular expression for each variable it was trying to replace (with no real wildcarding of course) and then evaluate each line in the template with every expression. Since the number of lines in the template were directly proportional to the number of variables this was n^2 evaluations.
I replaced this with a simple linear approach where a look up table with all the translations are read into a lookup table in memory and each line of the template can be scanned character by character.
The resulting script went from O(n^2) with regular expressions to O(n) with simple character comparisons, our problem input went from 20 minutes to process to less than a second, 1200 times faster.
Regular expressions are very powerful, but they are no substitute for thinking or datastructures or algorithms.
Don't teach new programmers regular expressions, teach them to think. Teach them how to analyse algorithms. Teach them how to build datastructures.
Then, once you've done all that, then you can teach them regular expressions, but make sure they know what they're doing. (And it won't work, they'll immediately start abusing them, happens every time.)
So Java applets will become less common on the internet? OMG, I can't belive this!
Everyone down to the pub. I'm buying.
Did I just step out of a time machine?
I just looked out the window... there's a freaky old guy out there with a funky looking Delorean looking very confused.
are the most useful thing I learned in the last 5 years.
Regular expressions are incredibly powerful and useful, if you know how to use them and how to not abuse them.
Much like welding torches.
I do like the idea of IBM.com or Watson.com boldly becoming a tranquil place to find answers.
Incense and windchimes... can we patent this?
Tried this with Siri,not only did it find people selling fur-lined leather gloves, it also found photos of models wearing skimpy dresses with gloves on.
I'm sure there's a deeper meaning here.
DisplayPort is better than HDMI, and in practice mini DisplayPort to HDMI adapter are only slightly more expensive than micro HDMI to HDMI.
Absolutely, I've got 2550x1440 monitors using display port, try doing that with HDMI
And I was being a little flippant.
Yes, any binary that you don't have the source to is a potential security hole.
But it's like worrying about people wearing bombs in their shoes, you're focusing on the wrong thing.
Why Apple's CEO? The Samsung Wrist Phone...
Are you kidding? I'm guessing the conversation around the bong was more along the lines of:
".... so dude... we managed to convince our competitors, the pundits and the market that we'd make a stupid fucking watch right?"
*giggles*
"... I know right ... and now Samsung have actually tried to compete with the damn thing .."
*more giggles* *at least one board member falls off his chair*
"... oh man ... I can't wait to retire and write this up... they'll never believe this shit..."
Ah if only I had not already commented on this...
So I'll point out that step 4) should include a cover letter that clearly documents your actions in 1), 2) & 3)
Step 5) would be to document the above and any responses from NVIDIA somewhere in public on the web.
No profit here, but much satisfaction from righteous indignation.
Let's see: you use an overblown proprietary binary blob that contains who-knows-what in times of overall NSA spying, and you dare complain that this binary blob has lost one tiny bit of functionality w.r.t. Windows' binary blob? Don't worry, the main functionality of this nVidia blob (NSA backdoor?) is still fully functional.
Nvidia has never been a perfect partner to the opensource world, however your tinfoil hat is too tight son, it's clearly cutting off the blood flow to your brain.
No, I know where the quote comes from, it just wasn't applicable. Vader made a deal, Nvidea made no deal with Linux. Their only deals are with Microsoft, who are probably the Vader here (Darth Ballmer?).
That's kind of the point, most of the time the opensource world does not get to make deals with corporations. You take what they dole out and then you thank them for it.
I don't like it, and I'm hoping it doesn't last, but it does seem to be the reality.
In the ideal world our esteemed colleagues at Redmond will continue to screw themselves over and the world will turn slowly to Linux and all the hardware vendors will start playing ball, and there is some indication that has been the gradual trend over the past five years or so, but don't hold your breath and don't expect anyone to play fair.
Whoosh?
Tesla Model S Catches Fire: Is This Tesla's 'Toyota' Moment?
Only when you consider Toyota's slogan is "Driving excitement". I can think of nothing more exciting than OH GOD OH GOD WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE.
That was pretty much the excitement of driving a Pontiac Firefly close to the speed limit. (Downhill with a tailwind...)
No. A single incident without a fatality is rarely a cause for such panic unless this is hyped by those opposed to electric cars.
Good thing that never happens.
That's a lot of vapor.
Only if they leave the valve open.
Some authors improve with time and exposure, others are a flash in the pan. Some produce their greatest works young, and other old.
The Tom Clancy I will always remember is "Red Storm Rising" (not a great novel, but a great page turner) , "Red October" and "Patriot Games". Tom Clancy's early books were fantastic page turners, not high art but highly entertaining and quite well thought out. I wish that all of his works were of the same quality, or better.
Now we will never know if there was the potential for greatness that sometimes comes with the "wisdom of elders".
Thank you for the memories Tom, as far as I'm concerned "Red October" still stands as a "best in genre" after 30 years.
Yes, let's all worship angiosperms.
That does have it's merits, for example we can prove they exist and unlike many gods they are nice to have in the house and garden.
The relevant bits of the FreeBSD userland are periodically (every major release) imported into OS X. The two systems are fairly different, so kernel changes in FreeBSD probably won't show up, but tweaks to command line tools and other stuff probably will.
Darwin is not a BSD kernel, so the kernel changes will never show up, no probably about it.
So Slashdot wants to turn itself from a place to get into a good argument into something that just gives you abuse. Insightful comment. :-)
We've always been coming here for abuse. (I was trying to fit "Eastasia" into the comment but I have failed... for now...)
that's weird since Apple's stock is trending down over the last year, and coke is trending up .
Interestingly it's trending down if you look at the past 12 months, but up if you look at the last 6 or 48 or more.
If you look at a 5 year trend it's constantly up until a huge bubble for the first three quarters of 2012. Anyone remember what that was about?