God this shit is incredibly boring. They really should randomize the day of the year that April Fools lands on and not tell anyone. Yes, I mean exactly what I just said.
Guess I'll have to actually work as all you see on news or social sites is god damn zany shit. Seriously, it's like St. Patrick's day. Does anyone seriously think it's fun to run around and pinch each other over green clothing? How about we leave that "fun" to the 9 year olds, eh?
Seriously, what is it about this Farmville crap that turns otherwise normal people into ridiculous, obsessed nerdy dweebs? I've played WoW quite a bit, I'm really quite a nerd myself but this game looks boring as shit and it seems to drag "normal" people into it like WoW draws in nerds.
Huh? I see you've stated what you consider an opinion, but amazingly it's factually incorrect. I don't know how you did it. It would be like me saying "Red is the best color" but still somehow being completely wrong on an objective basis.
Just about the only thing MySql has going for it over SQL Server is that it's free. This, and an uninformed cadre of fanbois out pretending it's better than industrial strength commercial products.
Lie. Corporations do not have the same rights as citizens. Also, the money is taxed anyway - at some point a person gets it. The money a person doesn't get goes into making jobs, doing research, expanding the corporation, etc...
Whining about "corporate taxes" is just something dumb hippies do.
Holy Fuck, the guy developed a platform then dared to put forward that platform as a technical solution?! Say it ain't so! He totally should have developed Mono then told everyone how much it sucked and how "dangerous" it was!
In this case, no one with a sense of history and a functional intellect disagrees.
You forgot "or gives a shit about FOSS as a 'movement'". I don't care about FOSS as a movement in any way. I could give less of a shit...but I don't know how. I think people who hang out at SlashDot get lost in some kind of reality distortion field and think all other professional developers are greasy neckbeards like them. Most people don't care about any of this, and would use Mono in a heartbeat if it suited their technical needs. You are a minority.
The way I see it,.net was yet another decent attempt at forcing Windows lock-in (and keeping already-locked-in partners happy and productive).
Omg, you mean Microsoft developed a product which they they used to try to sell as a competitive advantage for their OS and thus make money?! Wow, this is some wild thinking you've got going, how ever did you figure that bit of brilliance out? Were you sitting under a tree when a flying chair hit you upside the head ala Newton?!
You don't know what you're talking about. Platform choice is not nearly as important as architecture and coding efficiency. I'm sure in your little world.NET isn't used for much of anything, but out in the real world it's used a for tons of corporate mission critical software as well as in other fields.
Less type safety? Huh?
Closures, real generics, delegates, LINQ just as starters. Claiming C# as a language is not superior to Java is not a matter of opinion, it's simply not correct objectively - it's a non-fact.
It is becoming the norm. I bought a Samsung Moment intentionally because it has an awesome physical keyboard. But I find myself using it less and less and if the screen was a little bigger and the onscreen keyboard just a little better I'd probably prefer a thinner phone with no keyboard. Most people think similarly so I think the number of phones with a keyboard will not hit 0, but it will generally be less and less common.
Do you have a source for this? All I see are vague third party ramblings that WinMo7 will be closed.
If it is, and if it's like Apple's store then Microsoft might as well not even bother, they're doomed. I love MS development tools and would be tempted to look at a Windows 7 Mobile phone, but not if it's closed to installing apps from outside the app store.
Yeah, because you heard 15 years ago that NT was "just VMS" that makes your knowledge, like, _totally_ relevant! Also, there is not a single person working in Microsoft's OS group who isn't twice as experienced, three times as intelligent, and doesn't make twice the money you do. But you keep on preaching!
Severely? It's a fancy thread pool. You posted an article saying "it's a fancy thread pool, but with a nice API and usage model". Not revolutionary. The Java concurrency library fro Lea (if I remember) way back when brought the same thing to Java developers. GCD is evolution, not revolution.
No, you pretty much nailed it. That's (almost) all it is, just implemented as an environment service. What makes it so revolutionary is the cool name and the fact that it runs on an Apple product.
What doesn't help matters is that Microsoft's multi-threading APIs and libraries have been terrible since forever, and their new push towards multi-threaded programming has been to polish the turd a little. They just don't seem to have smart guys working for them any more who can design something as complex as a general purpose multi-threading library (akin to OSX's "Grand Central Dispatch"). I've seen Microsoft's weak attempt at it in.NET 4, and it's just... sad.
I love when Some Guy on SlashDot mocks those silly (Ph.D, very very highly paid, very experienced) idiot developers at Microsoft. I'm sure you're a paragon of the software world, dude.
Thank God we have you to patronizingly explain to the multi-decade experienced kernel/OS developer all about multiprocessor scheduling and it being "NP-complete"!
Yeah, I think he covered that ("pay to do it yourself"). Or do they have snazzy open systems that just automagically analyze your environment and deploy themselves successfully?
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And their medical research, which largely comes from the US or is subsidized by the higher prices we pay for drugs here. Also let's not forget the story's not over in Western Europe. We'll see how well all these wonderful social programs hold up over the next few decades with their population replacement/birth rate issues, immigration of poor people from various countries, etc... I predict serious problems, to put it mildly.
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Amen. I use an HSA and it works like this. I used to never care about doctors visits, medication costs, etc... Now I do care - as any money I can save stays in my HSA account and I can use it later, even for retirement. And if something serious happens a high deductible plan kicks in.
This is all exactly what we should do, as a first step. This actually addresses the real costs of health care. People like to rabble rouse and lie that it's the Fat Cat (rabble rousers love that phrase) Insurance Companies that are making health care expensive. Odd, then, that they post like 3-4% profit margins. Pretty tiny.
Efficiency and quality in which dimension? I get better health care than anyone on a government run single payer plan. I have an HSA and can do pretty much as I like with regards to health care, and after a maximum amount spent it becomes "free".
If you have good insurance in the US you have the best health care in the world. We do the most research, we have the best equipment, the highest number of good doctors, etc...
Other countries have... availability to poor people. This is in some ways efficiency and quality, but not in any way that means much to me.
If you're poor, you should have poorer health care. Bill Gates has much better health care than I do, even, and he's earned it.
Personally, I'm all for some kind of shitty medicare type coverage for poor people in conjunction with some simple, step by step changes to our current system to control costs and make sure good insurance is reasonably priced. A single payer system is bullshit in the US - all these success stories you hear about are a) in countries smaller than California and b) in countries doomed to collapse under their own socialist policies in the coming decades.
Why should I be put ahead in a waiting line simply because I can afford. The person who can't afford it is no worse than I am, nor is the person who has insurance who skips the line better than I.
Congratulations, you've just posted some of the hippiest, most internally inconsistent bullshit I've read in this whole thread full of hippie, inconsistent bullshit.
I tell you what - if you feel that way there are people starving in Africa right now because you choose to own a computer, because you live in something nicer than a tent resting on dirt, etc... I strongly suggest you move to bare minimum existence right now and give all your money to the needy because you are living a ridiculously better life than about 1 billion people just because you "can afford" it.
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God this shit is incredibly boring. They really should randomize the day of the year that April Fools lands on and not tell anyone. Yes, I mean exactly what I just said.
Guess I'll have to actually work as all you see on news or social sites is god damn zany shit. Seriously, it's like St. Patrick's day. Does anyone seriously think it's fun to run around and pinch each other over green clothing? How about we leave that "fun" to the 9 year olds, eh?
Seriously, what is it about this Farmville crap that turns otherwise normal people into ridiculous, obsessed nerdy dweebs? I've played WoW quite a bit, I'm really quite a nerd myself but this game looks boring as shit and it seems to drag "normal" people into it like WoW draws in nerds.
Huh? I see you've stated what you consider an opinion, but amazingly it's factually incorrect. I don't know how you did it. It would be like me saying "Red is the best color" but still somehow being completely wrong on an objective basis.
Just about the only thing MySql has going for it over SQL Server is that it's free. This, and an uninformed cadre of fanbois out pretending it's better than industrial strength commercial products.
No, he's saying he can't wait for the _hype_ over NoSQL to die.
Do you like to come on the Internets and prove you don't know what you're talking about, or do you sometimes get drunk and can't help yourself?
Lie. Corporations do not have the same rights as citizens. Also, the money is taxed anyway - at some point a person gets it. The money a person doesn't get goes into making jobs, doing research, expanding the corporation, etc...
Whining about "corporate taxes" is just something dumb hippies do.
Holy Fuck, the guy developed a platform then dared to put forward that platform as a technical solution?! Say it ain't so! He totally should have developed Mono then told everyone how much it sucked and how "dangerous" it was!
In this case, no one with a sense of history and a functional intellect disagrees.
You forgot "or gives a shit about FOSS as a 'movement'". I don't care about FOSS as a movement in any way. I could give less of a shit...but I don't know how. I think people who hang out at SlashDot get lost in some kind of reality distortion field and think all other professional developers are greasy neckbeards like them. Most people don't care about any of this, and would use Mono in a heartbeat if it suited their technical needs. You are a minority.
The way I see it, .net was yet another decent attempt at forcing Windows lock-in (and keeping already-locked-in partners happy and productive).
Omg, you mean Microsoft developed a product which they they used to try to sell as a competitive advantage for their OS and thus make money?! Wow, this is some wild thinking you've got going, how ever did you figure that bit of brilliance out? Were you sitting under a tree when a flying chair hit you upside the head ala Newton?!
You don't know what you're talking about. Platform choice is not nearly as important as architecture and coding efficiency. I'm sure in your little world .NET isn't used for much of anything, but out in the real world it's used a for tons of corporate mission critical software as well as in other fields.
Don't bother. These idiots live in tightly controlled environments and don't know much about what goes on out in the real world.
Durp, Windows?! Who uses that! IIS? Bah, who uses IIS amirite?!
Less type safety? Huh? Closures, real generics, delegates, LINQ just as starters. Claiming C# as a language is not superior to Java is not a matter of opinion, it's simply not correct objectively - it's a non-fact.
It is becoming the norm. I bought a Samsung Moment intentionally because it has an awesome physical keyboard. But I find myself using it less and less and if the screen was a little bigger and the onscreen keyboard just a little better I'd probably prefer a thinner phone with no keyboard. Most people think similarly so I think the number of phones with a keyboard will not hit 0, but it will generally be less and less common.
Do you have a source for this? All I see are vague third party ramblings that WinMo7 will be closed.
If it is, and if it's like Apple's store then Microsoft might as well not even bother, they're doomed. I love MS development tools and would be tempted to look at a Windows 7 Mobile phone, but not if it's closed to installing apps from outside the app store.
Yeah, because you heard 15 years ago that NT was "just VMS" that makes your knowledge, like, _totally_ relevant! Also, there is not a single person working in Microsoft's OS group who isn't twice as experienced, three times as intelligent, and doesn't make twice the money you do. But you keep on preaching!
Severely? It's a fancy thread pool. You posted an article saying "it's a fancy thread pool, but with a nice API and usage model". Not revolutionary. The Java concurrency library fro Lea (if I remember) way back when brought the same thing to Java developers. GCD is evolution, not revolution.
No, you pretty much nailed it. That's (almost) all it is, just implemented as an environment service. What makes it so revolutionary is the cool name and the fact that it runs on an Apple product.
What doesn't help matters is that Microsoft's multi-threading APIs and libraries have been terrible since forever, and their new push towards multi-threaded programming has been to polish the turd a little. They just don't seem to have smart guys working for them any more who can design something as complex as a general purpose multi-threading library (akin to OSX's "Grand Central Dispatch"). I've seen Microsoft's weak attempt at it in .NET 4, and it's just... sad.
I love when Some Guy on SlashDot mocks those silly (Ph.D, very very highly paid, very experienced) idiot developers at Microsoft. I'm sure you're a paragon of the software world, dude.
Paragon.
Thank God we have you to patronizingly explain to the multi-decade experienced kernel/OS developer all about multiprocessor scheduling and it being "NP-complete"!
Yeah, I think he covered that ("pay to do it yourself"). Or do they have snazzy open systems that just automagically analyze your environment and deploy themselves successfully?
And their medical research, which largely comes from the US or is subsidized by the higher prices we pay for drugs here. Also let's not forget the story's not over in Western Europe. We'll see how well all these wonderful social programs hold up over the next few decades with their population replacement/birth rate issues, immigration of poor people from various countries, etc... I predict serious problems, to put it mildly.
Amen. I use an HSA and it works like this. I used to never care about doctors visits, medication costs, etc... Now I do care - as any money I can save stays in my HSA account and I can use it later, even for retirement. And if something serious happens a high deductible plan kicks in.
Never work, though. People want free shit.
This is all exactly what we should do, as a first step. This actually addresses the real costs of health care. People like to rabble rouse and lie that it's the Fat Cat (rabble rousers love that phrase) Insurance Companies that are making health care expensive. Odd, then, that they post like 3-4% profit margins. Pretty tiny.
Efficiency and quality in which dimension? I get better health care than anyone on a government run single payer plan. I have an HSA and can do pretty much as I like with regards to health care, and after a maximum amount spent it becomes "free".
If you have good insurance in the US you have the best health care in the world. We do the most research, we have the best equipment, the highest number of good doctors, etc...
Other countries have... availability to poor people. This is in some ways efficiency and quality, but not in any way that means much to me.
If you're poor, you should have poorer health care. Bill Gates has much better health care than I do, even, and he's earned it.
Personally, I'm all for some kind of shitty medicare type coverage for poor people in conjunction with some simple, step by step changes to our current system to control costs and make sure good insurance is reasonably priced. A single payer system is bullshit in the US - all these success stories you hear about are a) in countries smaller than California and b) in countries doomed to collapse under their own socialist policies in the coming decades.
Why should I be put ahead in a waiting line simply because I can afford. The person who can't afford it is no worse than I am, nor is the person who has insurance who skips the line better than I.
Congratulations, you've just posted some of the hippiest, most internally inconsistent bullshit I've read in this whole thread full of hippie, inconsistent bullshit.
I tell you what - if you feel that way there are people starving in Africa right now because you choose to own a computer, because you live in something nicer than a tent resting on dirt, etc... I strongly suggest you move to bare minimum existence right now and give all your money to the needy because you are living a ridiculously better life than about 1 billion people just because you "can afford" it.
Seriously, that's some weak, sniveling bullshit.