I used to be a C/C++ dev, and wrote a lot of COM objects for the financial space back in the day. The ten different ways to cast something was becoming a pain to deal with.
I was tasked to evaluate.NET/C# for my company in about 2001, liked what I saw and moved over to C# with a short stint in Java along the way, and I have NEVER looked back.
Writing LOB applications is all about delivering functionality for the end user. In C# I've designed the most, developed the most and maintained the most applications I've ever managed to do in my 30 year career in software development.
Beautiful generics, LINQ, clean looking code, interoperability with legacy code, ultra-rich APIs and a rock-solid dev environment, ECMA-standardised are clear winners for me and C#.
A greybeard trying to breathe new life onto a now 30 year old language he put together doesn't surprise me, but C++ is never going to get the attention it once had. Sorry Bjarne, I saw it all before with Bertrand Meyer trying his darndest to keep Eiffel relevant. Same thing's happening with your baby, sorrry to say.
My DAB portable radio has a high power usage and chews through AA's at an alarming rate, far far higher than my old FM analog radio.
I would be very concerned about the suitability of DAB in sitiations of emergency, where people are asked to have portable radios with a fresh set of batteries, they wouldn't last long at all!
And one other problem with DAB, try tuning one in the dark, or otherwise looking at the display. Trying to navigate the stations is extremely difficult compared to a simple tune up or down. And if you have gone off onto a sub menu then it's really difficlt to find where you are. I spare a thought to think how blind or poorly-sighted people have to navigate DAB radio channels.
Nerds are and should be interested in many things, politics being one of them.
And Oh Boy this is stuff that MATTERS.
Since when did 'News for nerds' imply Slashdot should cover technical stories only, as you seem to think it does?
The computers look good when displayed in the Apple Store and in advertising because they don't have any dongles plugged into them. So they appeal to Jony Ive's sense of elegant design.
It's only when you buy one and need to use it in the real world, interfacing to the gear you have, that Jony's sleek lightweight machine is encumbered with dongles and the like, because having a star designer in control of everything seems to mean function now comes second to form. Do the engineers get a look in?
Guess how satellites that monitor global warming, weather, ocean current, polar ice and a whole lot more get up there so they can, as you ask, "solve real issues like climate change"?
Think before you post.
I was wondering whether to mod you Funny or Informative for " I work at Facebook... It doesn't tie to your Facebook account beyond a one-time import of your name and profile picture".
I don't use TwitBook (really, it doesn't use me) at home nor anywhere else, and thanks to your comment I would definately avoid using a work-related version if I had the misfortune to be somewhere it was being trialled.
How on earth (or halfway to Mars) did the 'Tigger' typo in the diagram slip past checks? Or did no-one at the company look over the 'How it works' page?
And that unsecured capacitor in the video makes me shudder.
The first thing that came to mind was, there will be some sort of external control by GSK. If you don't pay some sort of subscription to keep the device managing your nerves, would they turn off the device so you have your old symptoms back?
An upper capture loop sounds worthwhile, but I have been puzzled as to why the deck of the droneship is not a mesh grid, and the landing feet don't have semi flexible barbs.
I wanted to buy some connectors from them.
"NO MINIMUM ORDER" it said, on or near the front of the catalog....goes to the item page...
"MINIMUM ORDER 10"
or something like that.
End of attempting to order. I went to eBay and bought exactly what I wanted, in the quantity I wanted.
For interest's sake, the idea of a crushable hhoneycomb landing leg arrangement was used for the Apollo Lumar Modules. It was very light as it only needed to be used once, unlike a hydraulic or spring system.
Have a look at page 6 of the LM Structures document at http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a...
Like others, I both love git and hate it. The bit I dislike the most is the inconsistency in commands and their opposites.
For instance, it is easy to add files to staging: git add.
Oops! A bunch of other things got added, because I'm a newbie and haven't yet tuned my.gitconfig. Fine, I'm still learning.
OK, have a guess at undoing it: git unadd
wtf?...nope..
Frustrating searching to find that git reset is really unadd. Yeah, I could guess that! not.
And that's the crux of it. Sure you can add git aliases, but an xxx/unxxx pattern could have been built in right from the (ahem) git-go for any sensible command. Git commit/uncommit... merge/unmerge... etc etc.
And the great thing about git: Linus realised disk space was becoming to cheap to meter. Why bother crunching a delta on something when it was easier to just store compressed blobs. Thus the advantage of simple, fast and cheap (pick any three) branching.
They all seem to do it - Space.com, Spaceflightnow.com, Spacefellowship, Nasaspaceflight.
They know their audience is educated yet they persist in writing articles with both metric or imperial units. Or worse, they mix them as in this instance. They also take the let-me-convert-everythgin-for-you approach and put the complementary units in parentheses.
Why they don't just stick to one measurement system - SI makes the most sense - I do not know. However I do believe spaceflight enthusiasts are NOT idiots.
I heard a news report - might have been BBC - years ago that a study had found that a high correlation between lightning strike victims and the probability of developing Multiple Sclerosis later in life.
All the text is jammed in the middle, with the heirarchy a jumbled mass of links. I HATE IT.
If this goes ahead, slashdot will wither very quickly.
As others have said - make it like it was 10 years ago.
Reality catches up to science fiction... the Thunderbirds episode 'PATH OF DESTRUCTION' had International Rescue using handheld laser cutters to cut into the cabin of the mighty Crablogger. That was back in 1965.
I earned a second major in Statistics alongside my Comp Sci degree. In my 25 years of systems programming, application programming, *nix, Windows, GUI apps, data gathering, data analysis, web, comms, you name it - in a wide variety of fields I have NEVER used any of my statistics knowledge more complicated than a mean or median to this day. Not one single bit.
I recall that at least one early version of Micosoft Internet Explorer back in the late 90s had the earth globe 'throbber' animation show, in sequence: the Americas, Europe, then the blue 'e' then back to the Americas. No Asia or Oceania. At the time I could hardly believe it that a giant company that had always promoted internationalisation of its software could have such a 'fail' moment.
Presumably this 'brain' would be able to be restored from a backup to a known good state, and the simulation tweaked in some other direction. That's something human brains aren't capable of.
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I used to be a C/C++ dev, and wrote a lot of COM objects for the financial space back in the day. The ten different ways to cast something was becoming a pain to deal with. .NET/C# for my company in about 2001, liked what I saw and moved over to C# with a short stint in Java along the way, and I have NEVER looked back.
Writing LOB applications is all about delivering functionality for the end user. In C# I've designed the most, developed the most and maintained the most applications I've ever managed to do in my 30 year career in software development.
I was tasked to evaluate
Beautiful generics, LINQ, clean looking code, interoperability with legacy code, ultra-rich APIs and a rock-solid dev environment, ECMA-standardised are clear winners for me and C#.
A greybeard trying to breathe new life onto a now 30 year old language he put together doesn't surprise me, but C++ is never going to get the attention it once had. Sorry Bjarne, I saw it all before with Bertrand Meyer trying his darndest to keep Eiffel relevant. Same thing's happening with your baby, sorrry to say.
My DAB portable radio has a high power usage and chews through AA's at an alarming rate, far far higher than my old FM analog radio. I would be very concerned about the suitability of DAB in sitiations of emergency, where people are asked to have portable radios with a fresh set of batteries, they wouldn't last long at all! And one other problem with DAB, try tuning one in the dark, or otherwise looking at the display. Trying to navigate the stations is extremely difficult compared to a simple tune up or down. And if you have gone off onto a sub menu then it's really difficlt to find where you are. I spare a thought to think how blind or poorly-sighted people have to navigate DAB radio channels.
...I couldn't find it on the dropdown.
Nerds are and should be interested in many things, politics being one of them.
And Oh Boy this is stuff that MATTERS.
Since when did 'News for nerds' imply Slashdot should cover technical stories only, as you seem to think it does?
The computers look good when displayed in the Apple Store and in advertising because they don't have any dongles plugged into them. So they appeal to Jony Ive's sense of elegant design.
It's only when you buy one and need to use it in the real world, interfacing to the gear you have, that Jony's sleek lightweight machine is encumbered with dongles and the like, because having a star designer in control of everything seems to mean function now comes second to form. Do the engineers get a look in?
Guess how satellites that monitor global warming, weather, ocean current, polar ice and a whole lot more get up there so they can, as you ask, "solve real issues like climate change"?
Think before you post.
I was wondering whether to mod you Funny or Informative for " I work at Facebook ... It doesn't tie to your Facebook account beyond a one-time import of your name and profile picture".
I don't use TwitBook (really, it doesn't use me) at home nor anywhere else, and thanks to your comment I would definately avoid using a work-related version if I had the misfortune to be somewhere it was being trialled.
How on earth (or halfway to Mars) did the 'Tigger' typo in the diagram slip past checks? Or did no-one at the company look over the 'How it works' page? And that unsecured capacitor in the video makes me shudder.
I'd say the Edison was credit card sized. And (relatively) expensive-sized, like this new one.
The first thing that came to mind was, there will be some sort of external control by GSK. If you don't pay some sort of subscription to keep the device managing your nerves, would they turn off the device so you have your old symptoms back?
An upper capture loop sounds worthwhile, but I have been puzzled as to why the deck of the droneship is not a mesh grid, and the landing feet don't have semi flexible barbs.
I wanted to buy some connectors from them. "NO MINIMUM ORDER" it said, on or near the front of the catalog. ...goes to the item page...
"MINIMUM ORDER 10"
or something like that.
End of attempting to order. I went to eBay and bought exactly what I wanted, in the quantity I wanted.
For interest's sake, the idea of a crushable hhoneycomb landing leg arrangement was used for the Apollo Lumar Modules. It was very light as it only needed to be used once, unlike a hydraulic or spring system. Have a look at page 6 of the LM Structures document at http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a...
For instance, it is easy to add files to staging:
git add
Oops! A bunch of other things got added, because I'm a newbie and haven't yet tuned my
OK, have a guess at undoing it:
git unadd
wtf?...nope..
Frustrating searching to find that git reset is really unadd. Yeah, I could guess that! not.
And that's the crux of it. Sure you can add git aliases, but an xxx/unxxx pattern could have been built in right from the (ahem) git-go for any sensible command. Git commit/uncommit... merge/unmerge... etc etc.
And the great thing about git: Linus realised disk space was becoming to cheap to meter. Why bother crunching a delta on something when it was easier to just store compressed blobs. Thus the advantage of simple, fast and cheap (pick any three) branching.
They all seem to do it - Space.com, Spaceflightnow.com, Spacefellowship, Nasaspaceflight. They know their audience is educated yet they persist in writing articles with both metric or imperial units. Or worse, they mix them as in this instance. They also take the let-me-convert-everythgin-for-you approach and put the complementary units in parentheses. Why they don't just stick to one measurement system - SI makes the most sense - I do not know. However I do believe spaceflight enthusiasts are NOT idiots.
...that before long, VHS cells will be developed and they'll kill off the Beta cells.
I heard a news report - might have been BBC - years ago that a study had found that a high correlation between lightning strike victims and the probability of developing Multiple Sclerosis later in life.
Agree entirely. Movin' on Up? More like moving on Across ...to another tech site.
Excellent, insightful comment. I whish I had mod points.
Pretty, but the curved screen effect is way overdone to the point of being obnoxious.
All the text is jammed in the middle, with the heirarchy a jumbled mass of links. I HATE IT. If this goes ahead, slashdot will wither very quickly. As others have said - make it like it was 10 years ago.
Reality catches up to science fiction... the Thunderbirds episode 'PATH OF DESTRUCTION' had International Rescue using handheld laser cutters to cut into the cabin of the mighty Crablogger. That was back in 1965.
I earned a second major in Statistics alongside my Comp Sci degree. In my 25 years of systems programming, application programming, *nix, Windows, GUI apps, data gathering, data analysis, web, comms, you name it - in a wide variety of fields I have NEVER used any of my statistics knowledge more complicated than a mean or median to this day. Not one single bit.
I recall that at least one early version of Micosoft Internet Explorer back in the late 90s had the earth globe 'throbber' animation show, in sequence: the Americas, Europe, then the blue 'e' then back to the Americas. No Asia or Oceania. At the time I could hardly believe it that a giant company that had always promoted internationalisation of its software could have such a 'fail' moment.
Presumably this 'brain' would be able to be restored from a backup to a known good state, and the simulation tweaked in some other direction. That's something human brains aren't capable of.