I think he broke up with the one in Hawaii and went to great lengths to do so - outing classified information, going on the run, etc... I think he told her, "It's not you, honey, it's the FBI." Future girlfriends beware.
At some point you have to stop adding stuff. Well, no... You don't HAVE to. But you SHOULD.
The GTK stuff seems dumb, but most of the extensions are loadable modules written in LISP and the "E" in Emacs stands for Extensible, so adding stuff is kind of the point. Back in the day of just ASCII terminals, a lot of the stuff Emacs did was very helpful. Using it as an IDE, auto-formating code, starting a compile (via a Makefile) and parsing the compiler output so you could jump directly to the files and lines with the errors, etc... Being able to FTP files in/out of buffers. Arbitrarily splitting screens (horz. and/or vert.) multiple times. The list goes on and on. Sure some of that is OBE with windowing systems, but one can be *very* productive in Emacs. And the programming language is LISP (a language I used as a (paid) research assistant in college - on a Xerox LISP workstation no less).
I use both vi and emacs also. So I surprise some people who see me use vi and then say "wait, if you know vi then why do you use emacs?"
When I get asked things like that I reply, because Emacs can do everything Vi does and more, but not the other way around. Then I show them my 300+ page GBC-bound printed copy of the Emacs manual from the 1980s (that I printed/bound myself way back when) and note that it doesn't even cover the thousands of elisp libraries that can be loaded...:-)
Yes, Vi is a fine editor for simple things and many, many people use it productively for more, but - quite frankly - there really isn't a more powerful editor on the planet than Emacs -- which can even emulate many other editors, including vi/vim, if you like.
More like guy with a reputation for having a huge ego misrepresents another option that is aimed at an entirely different group of people. The scratch environment is for a very specific audience, and it is not in any way in competition with Wolfram's audience.
Options to that thought:
The Scratch audience is more sophisticated than we think and yearn to do maths.
Wolfram's audience is less sophisticated than we think and yearn to color and draw.
Seriously, this is SUCH a niche product. Everyone uses a VI clone because it's guaranteed to be present on *nux systems.
Emacs is a niche product? I've used Emacs (or XEmacs) on every system I've every used and/or administered, from PCs running BSD, Linux and Windows to just about every known mid-large Unix BDS/SysV system to Cray supercomputers since the mid 1980s. (Running Emacs on a Cray 2 is truly a guilty pleasure.) True I may have had to install (or build and install) it myself, but still hardly niche.
Of course, I *also* know vi/vim for simple editing tasks. For serious programming, I always use Emacs or XEmacs. One can always use the vi/vim emulation mode in Emacs...:-)
I have found code reviews to be more about conformity and coding to the lowest common denominator than code "quality" (whatever that actually means). When there's complex and/or sophisticated code involved, even with in-line commentary, unless the reviewers are near, at or (preferably) above the skill/experience level of the coder, the exercise turns into either (a) a coding lesson or (b) directives to dumb it down -- and this doesn't usually help if you're the most experienced one. I don't mind the mentor in these cases, but more often than not, the others don't really care and have other things to do...
I imagine that the above is a result of the process being implemented "wrong", but I've worked several places where it's like that.
P.S. Whoever modded my initial post as "troll" obviously doesn't understand the truth buried within my snarky statement: Code reviews don't ensure quality.
If it was "brave" it would *allow* everything and deal with it.
Unless he called it Brave for other reasons, like: he consulted a witch for help, used a spell to transform Firefox into a bear. Now he must act to undo the spell before its effects become permanent.
Chase customers may write checks to BoA customers. BoA customers also write checks to Chase (and so on).
OT: Does people in the US actually use checks still? I haven't seen one since the late 80s here in northern Europe.
Yes. While I pay most of my bills electronically through my bank's bill-pay service, I still pay those one/few-times-a-year bills with a check and my various property tax bills with a check so there's a hard-copy trail. My wife used to pay for groceries with checks, but since she died in 2006, I basically use a CC for everything (or cash) and pay off the card every month.
The trouble is, depending on your age, you almost HAVE to take them when you get to retirement age.
This money was forcibly taken from my pay over many decades, rather than giving me a choice on how best to invest it for myself. If given that choice early on in my employment history, I could have e invested it and I'd be more well off by having that money grow more, and I could use it.
Sure, but even if *you* were able to invest your money wisely and sufficiently - and actually did so - over your entire career. Many, many others are not so disciplined and/or may otherwise not be able to - and I imagine you're over estimating your ability to adequately do so yourself. Even then, what if you were or got disabled before you'd saved up enough - or couldn't save enough to cover your expenses.
Medicare and SSI are both insurance -- the latter even has it in its name: Social Security Insurance. It's not a retirement plan. As universal insurance plans to cover *all* elderly and/or disabled people, everyone pays a little to support anyone who may need it.
If you vote republican and accept Medicare and social security you are a hypocrite.
Yup. That seems to be the trend.
My mother and step-father (both Republicans) are steadfastly against the Affordable Care Act (and anything "Obama" in general - like most R's), while enjoying their Medicare and Tricare (respectively). I guess single-payer, government-supported, universal health insurance is okay for them, but not the rest of us. (Big sigh - and, yes, I understand the ACA is flawed. I would prefer singer-payer for everyone.)
Just like this: "... elderly white people in Medicare-paid scooters, railing against government spending..." as recounted in the 2010 Rolling Stone article, The Truth About the Tea Party
Seemingly every third person in the place is sucking oxygen from a tank or propping their giant atrophied glutes on motorized wheelchair-scooters. As Palin launches into her Ronald Reagan impression — "Government's not the solution! Government's the problem!" — the person sitting next to me leans over and explains.
"The scooters are because of Medicare," he whispers helpfully. "They have these commercials down here: 'You won't even have to pay for your scooter! Medicare will pay!' Practically everyone in Kentucky has one."
...
"Let me get this straight," I say to David. "You've been picking up a check from the government for decades, as a tax assessor, and your wife is on Medicare. How can you complain about the welfare state?"
"Well," he says, "there's a lot of people on welfare who don't deserve it. Too many people are living off the government."
"But," I protest, "you live off the government. And have been your whole life!"
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I though their Deep Learning Toolkit was named Windows 10 - wait, who's learning what?
What to do with all the people who are now insurance agents - Ark B?
With all the power of robotics, you've taken a task that takes a human less than five seconds, and reduced it to 1.2 seconds? Wow. I'm impressed.
That's what she said.
...the banana rots or attracts fruit flies to the office.
Dude. You blew it. Better Subject: "Sounds appealing until..."
The one in Hawaii? A Russian wench?
I think he broke up with the one in Hawaii and went to great lengths to do so - outing classified information, going on the run, etc... I think he told her, "It's not you, honey, it's the FBI." Future girlfriends beware.
At some point you have to stop adding stuff. Well, no... You don't HAVE to. But you SHOULD.
The GTK stuff seems dumb, but most of the extensions are loadable modules written in LISP and the "E" in Emacs stands for Extensible, so adding stuff is kind of the point. Back in the day of just ASCII terminals, a lot of the stuff Emacs did was very helpful. Using it as an IDE, auto-formating code, starting a compile (via a Makefile) and parsing the compiler output so you could jump directly to the files and lines with the errors, etc... Being able to FTP files in/out of buffers. Arbitrarily splitting screens (horz. and/or vert.) multiple times. The list goes on and on. Sure some of that is OBE with windowing systems, but one can be *very* productive in Emacs. And the programming language is LISP (a language I used as a (paid) research assistant in college - on a Xerox LISP workstation no less).
I use both vi and emacs also. So I surprise some people who see me use vi and then say "wait, if you know vi then why do you use emacs?"
When I get asked things like that I reply, because Emacs can do everything Vi does and more, but not the other way around. Then I show them my 300+ page GBC-bound printed copy of the Emacs manual from the 1980s (that I printed/bound myself way back when) and note that it doesn't even cover the thousands of elisp libraries that can be loaded ... :-)
Yes, Vi is a fine editor for simple things and many, many people use it productively for more, but - quite frankly - there really isn't a more powerful editor on the planet than Emacs -- which can even emulate many other editors, including vi/vim, if you like.
Ever tried to describe to someone below the age of 10 why you need to declare variables?
I was a grader in college and can attest to frustrations at having to explain this to people over 10.
More like guy with a reputation for having a huge ego misrepresents another option that is aimed at an entirely different group of people. The scratch environment is for a very specific audience, and it is not in any way in competition with Wolfram's audience.
Options to that thought:
Seriously, this is SUCH a niche product. Everyone uses a VI clone because it's guaranteed to be present on *nux systems.
Emacs is a niche product? I've used Emacs (or XEmacs) on every system I've every used and/or administered, from PCs running BSD, Linux and Windows to just about every known mid-large Unix BDS/SysV system to Cray supercomputers since the mid 1980s. (Running Emacs on a Cray 2 is truly a guilty pleasure.) True I may have had to install (or build and install) it myself, but still hardly niche.
Of course, I *also* know vi/vim for simple editing tasks. For serious programming, I always use Emacs or XEmacs. One can always use the vi/vim emulation mode in Emacs... :-)
Hmm. Running vim inside emacs. You sure the universe wouldn't explode and create a giant black hole or something?
Emacs already has a vi/vim emulation mode - along with several other editors.
I have found code reviews to be more about conformity and coding to the lowest common denominator than code "quality" (whatever that actually means). When there's complex and/or sophisticated code involved, even with in-line commentary, unless the reviewers are near, at or (preferably) above the skill/experience level of the coder, the exercise turns into either (a) a coding lesson or (b) directives to dumb it down -- and this doesn't usually help if you're the most experienced one. I don't mind the mentor in these cases, but more often than not, the others don't really care and have other things to do...
I imagine that the above is a result of the process being implemented "wrong", but I've worked several places where it's like that.
P.S. Whoever modded my initial post as "troll" obviously doesn't understand the truth buried within my snarky statement: Code reviews don't ensure quality.
Does having 5 people huddled around a computer increase productivity or increase slippage?
I think you misunderstand the meaning of the word "pair". Unless you're thinking two pairs and a hot-spare.
This required us to do code reviews to ensure the quality of the code we delivered.
Ensure quality - that's adorable.
It says right in the article that Wise had a hard time detecting Neptune which is relatively close.
However he had no trouble detecting Uranus from quite a distance.
To be fair, he had a flashlight then.
[ Dyslexics: Note that was with an "a". If you saw "e" - do not Google that at work. :-) ]
If it was "brave" it would *allow* everything and deal with it.
Unless he called it Brave for other reasons, like: he consulted a witch for help, used a spell to transform Firefox into a bear. Now he must act to undo the spell before its effects become permanent.
Chase customers may write checks to BoA customers. BoA customers also write checks to Chase (and so on).
OT: Does people in the US actually use checks still? I haven't seen one since the late 80s here in northern Europe.
Yes. While I pay most of my bills electronically through my bank's bill-pay service, I still pay those one/few-times-a-year bills with a check and my various property tax bills with a check so there's a hard-copy trail. My wife used to pay for groceries with checks, but since she died in 2006, I basically use a CC for everything (or cash) and pay off the card every month.
... and without a centralized third-party clearing house.
You mean without that thing you used?
The test, which connected the banks on a private 'distributed ledger' using Microsoft's cloud-based Azure service,
Granted, you rented the cloud service yourself, for yourself, but still...
Can you not even read TFS?
The pupil, who attends a primary school in Lancashire, meant to say he lived in a "terraced house."
I guess people presume that terrorists can't have nice things... :-)
Next decade, whenever anything is detected, we'll also have James Webb to get a better look at it.
If we're lucky, James will bring his telescope. :-)
Who is paying for prime numbers!!!
Mexico.
That'd be handy for shoe laces.
Ya, until they get entangled.
The trouble is, depending on your age, you almost HAVE to take them when you get to retirement age.
This money was forcibly taken from my pay over many decades, rather than giving me a choice on how best to invest it for myself. If given that choice early on in my employment history, I could have e invested it and I'd be more well off by having that money grow more, and I could use it.
Sure, but even if *you* were able to invest your money wisely and sufficiently - and actually did so - over your entire career. Many, many others are not so disciplined and/or may otherwise not be able to - and I imagine you're over estimating your ability to adequately do so yourself. Even then, what if you were or got disabled before you'd saved up enough - or couldn't save enough to cover your expenses.
Medicare and SSI are both insurance -- the latter even has it in its name: Social Security Insurance. It's not a retirement plan. As universal insurance plans to cover *all* elderly and/or disabled people, everyone pays a little to support anyone who may need it.
If you vote republican and accept Medicare and social security you are a hypocrite.
Yup. That seems to be the trend.
My mother and step-father (both Republicans) are steadfastly against the Affordable Care Act (and anything "Obama" in general - like most R's), while enjoying their Medicare and Tricare (respectively). I guess single-payer, government-supported, universal health insurance is okay for them, but not the rest of us. (Big sigh - and, yes, I understand the ACA is flawed. I would prefer singer-payer for everyone.)
Just like this: "... elderly white people in Medicare-paid scooters, railing against government spending ..." as recounted in the 2010 Rolling Stone article, The Truth About the Tea Party
Seemingly every third person in the place is sucking oxygen from a tank or propping their giant atrophied glutes on motorized wheelchair-scooters. As Palin launches into her Ronald Reagan impression — "Government's not the solution! Government's the problem!" — the person sitting next to me leans over and explains.
"The scooters are because of Medicare," he whispers helpfully. "They have these commercials down here: 'You won't even have to pay for your scooter! Medicare will pay!' Practically everyone in Kentucky has one."
"Let me get this straight," I say to David. "You've been picking up a check from the government for decades, as a tax assessor, and your wife is on Medicare. How can you complain about the welfare state?"
"Well," he says, "there's a lot of people on welfare who don't deserve it. Too many people are living off the government."
"But," I protest, "you live off the government. And have been your whole life!"
"Yeah," he says, "but I don't make very much."
Are you kidding... for a free blowjob, I'd vote for someone...
This is disgusting. I mean, do you really want a blowjob by Trump?
How about from his daughter? Seems even The Donald, himself, would go for that - you know, if she wasn't his daughter.