You wrote, "I'm an IT university student but my degree program focuses almost exclusively on Microsoft tools (Visual Studio, C#, ASP.NET, etc.) which is why I would like to expand my repertoire on my own."
That is a really damning comment on your university.
If I were selecting an IT course at a university, this would be one of the first filters I would apply.
"Inbox 2.0" will display messages more prominently from people who are more important to you, determining the strength of your relationship by how often you exchange e-mail and instant messages with him or her. Now there's a novel idea that deserves a patent immediately!
I've been doing that in the mail reader I use for oh, only about a decade now.
I never thought the day would come but my vote goes to emacs.
I've been using it for over 20 years, from back in the day when it was considered enormously bloated. These days it has a tiny footprint by comparison. Mine's running in 10MB just now and I use it as file editor, IDE for a dozen languages, mail reader, browser, calendar, diary, etc.
So the only way to represent the concept of a class with an ordering but no equality is to have a run-time failure every time someone tries to compare them for equality?
What do you think a programming language should do when I try to compare two things that can't be compared for equality?
Read the parent. It's about a class which has an ordering but no equality. This is a useful and practical notion: a set of entities about which you can determine whether one is larger than another in some sense without necessarily having a notion of equality.
But this is just one small example of what you get with a language that makes no attempt to define any semantics whatsoever.
What is the licensing for this language? I've found lots of copyright notices, but no licensing information. Huh? A license for a language? Think about it for a minute. What on earth would that be?
Do you ever search in a language other than English, and if you do, how often does it turn up foreign vs domestic sites?
Leaving aside the ironic USA-centrism in the wording of the questions, yes, as a matter of fact I do search in other languages. Or, better put, I don't restrict my searches to any particular language at all. I read eight European languages and, especially when I'm looking for an answer to a technical question, I'm as happy to find an answer in Spanish or Finnish as in English.
Google really falls down in this department. I have a ".nl" domain and as a result Google seems boosts pages in Dutch over more relevant pages in other languages. A useful option for Google would be to allow selection of languages (plural) in which you'd like to see results.
Or maybe we'll have to wait for the European Quaero project to solve this one...
Despite emacs' higher profile as a free software poster child, I think more people actually use vi than emacs. We sell more copies of our vi book than of our emacs book -- almost twice as many each year.
This speaks volumes, IMHO.
Emacs speaks for itself, while VI users need to buy books to learn how to jump through hoops with an inferior editor.
What's with everyone screaming blue murder over copyright infringement! If this isn't fair use, then what is?
The blogger is doing the owner of the card a service, posting one pic a day, adding a narrative to get attention until enough eyeballs have seen the pix that the true owner is found.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.fpx.de/fp/Software/Gorilla/
Password Gorilla works on just about every platform. Password files work across platforms. And it's GPL. I've been using it for years.
You wrote, "I'm an IT university student but my degree program focuses almost exclusively on Microsoft tools (Visual Studio, C#, ASP.NET, etc.) which is why I would like to expand my repertoire on my own."
That is a really damning comment on your university.
If I were selecting an IT course at a university, this would be one of the first filters I would apply.
I don't want to buy a computer with an OS. I want to buy a computer without one.
Whatever is on there when I buy it gets wiped before I install my Linux distro of choice.
Why oh why do they go with a touchpad on such a small device?
I would have already decided to buy one if it had a pointing stick.
Because there are far more interesting things to do with a Linux box than play games on it.
For me, and other trackpoint addicts,
No trackpoint = no sale.
+1
I've been doing that in the mail reader I use for oh, only about a decade now.
See http://www.gnus.org/
I never thought the day would come but my vote goes to emacs.
I've been using it for over 20 years, from back in the day when it was considered enormously bloated. These days it has a tiny footprint by comparison. Mine's running in 10MB just now and I use it as file editor, IDE for a dozen languages, mail reader, browser, calendar, diary, etc.
That's a lot of bang for your megabyte.
Poor article. Even the Wikipedia article is more "exhaustive." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_compression
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Even two minutes googling for "data compression" will get you more useful and better "compressed" information.
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~dan/pubs/DataCompression.
http://datacompression.info/
http://www.maximumcompression.com/
http://www.compression-links.info/Link/248_Markov
What do you think a programming language should do when I try to compare two things that can't be compared for equality?
Read the parent. It's about a class which has an ordering but no equality. This is a useful and practical notion: a set of entities about which you can determine whether one is larger than another in some sense without necessarily having a notion of equality.But this is just one small example of what you get with a language that makes no attempt to define any semantics whatsoever.
Sure, and democracy is not democracy if people engage in complex arguments about it.
Vote Bush!
Leaving aside the ironic USA-centrism in the wording of the questions, yes, as a matter of fact I do search in other languages. Or, better put, I don't restrict my searches to any particular language at all. I read eight European languages and, especially when I'm looking for an answer to a technical question, I'm as happy to find an answer in Spanish or Finnish as in English.
Google really falls down in this department. I have a ".nl" domain and as a result Google seems boosts pages in Dutch over more relevant pages in other languages. A useful option for Google would be to allow selection of languages (plural) in which you'd like to see results.
Or maybe we'll have to wait for the European Quaero project to solve this one...
Keep in mind that the US Constitution is the longest standing constitution in the world, and US is not a very old country.
Yeah, right. The oldest written constitution of an existing nation may be that of San Marino.
Despite emacs' higher profile as a free software poster child, I think more people actually use vi than emacs. We sell more copies of our vi book than of our emacs book -- almost twice as many each year.
This speaks volumes, IMHO.
Emacs speaks for itself, while VI users need to buy books to learn how to jump through hoops with an inferior editor.
There, I've said it!
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Um, me too... I think.
It's is an article in an IT management journal about a study commissioned by a company that makes "21st century information products."
Obviously UK IT employers are worried, otherwise they wouldn't be commissioning these kinds of "studies".
In that context the conclusion (that IT workers are more valued than they think they are) is hardly surprising!
The point of this is that the internet, as it started, was wholly concieved and created by the US.
Good point. And the television was wholly concieved and created by a Scotsman.
Turn over all broadcasting rights to the Scottish parliament forthwith!
With that attitude, this guy could do the world a big favour.
He should register a patent on "being a jerk" and then sue anyone else who tried to be such a jerk.
Half of the people programming are below-average programmers.
And how many slashdot posters are below average statisticians?
After all, more that 99% of all people have more than the average number of legs.
This must be the most content-free interview I've read this year.
I watched the piece on BBC TV news this morning.
:-(
Guy sits down, opens his laptop, starts a Microsoft OS, opens IE and calls up his bank's homepage.
Other guy comes in, sits down, opens his laptop. He's running Linux!
Really, Linux on a BBC news piece, wow!
But then he starts evin twinning the Microsoft guy's wifi link. He's the Linux bad guy.
Nice one BBC.
What's with everyone screaming blue murder over copyright infringement! If this isn't fair use, then what is?
The blogger is doing the owner of the card a service, posting one pic a day, adding a narrative to get attention until enough eyeballs have seen the pix that the true owner is found.
Freudian slip from a Microserf? Or should that read treat?