A lot of those complexities are there to enforce type safety. So I can, for example, use boost's type-safe signal/slot library and catch a lot of errors at compile time that would have resulted in run-time exceptions in other languages. Having had to maintain several java programs that used reflection (Apparently because the designer had read about it in his "Java for Dummies" book and thought it was cool,) I have to say I appreciate catching errors at compile time. Or in unit testing.
C++ in the early days did suck. Look at a last-generation library like gdal -- you never know who owns any particular piece of data, and you'll constantly find yourself in situations you need that piece of data outside the only place you can actually enforce its destruction when it's no longer needed. You rarely run into those problems in current-generation libraries like boost. Once we started to figure out how to use it, the language got a whole lot better. Most developers don't need to delve into esoteric metaprogramming techniques to be able to use the language effectively.
I just felt a strange disturbance in The Force, as if a million divorce lawyers suddenly yelled out "CHA-CHING!" and then... yelled out "CHA-CHING!" again!
Fortunately they'll be rid of it soon! Everyone will move to Windows 10 and their shiny new Edge browser, which I'm sure was created as a completely bug-free code-base with a fuck-ton of unit tests to prevent regressions!
Ow. I think I hurt myself trying to make it through that post with a straight face.
Oh yeah! I remember talking that in some class about great computing failures! Didn't they just put all the keywords and syntax from Fortran, Pascal and COBOL into one language? Right about the same time as AT&T was inventing C, as I recall!
I remember back in the early '90's, IBM made a number of statements that they were putting all their chips behind OS/2, and that it was going to be OS/2 everywhere. The shiny new OS/2 they were working on for the PowerPC (Mach kernel) could boot and stay up for 20-30 seconds and they were confident that was going to improve. They were going to put OS/2 on their mid-range devices! They were going to put it on their mainframes! If you were their customer you'd only have to learn one OS and use it on everything from your ATM machine to your big iron. Oh by the way, they'd also just bought Lotus for $4 Billion, were mandating that all employees were going to use Lotus Notes for E-Mail and they were planning to port their ticketing system, RETAIN, to Lotus Notes.
AFAIK, they never did actually kill RETAIN off. Nothing could outperform that thing, much less fucking Lotus Notes. Also AFAIK, Lotus Notes continues to suck for E-Mail inside IBM The old mainframe-based E-Mail, Profs, was a significantly better E-Mail system. And they killed OS/2 off in '95 or '96. Quite possibly the best thing about Linux everywhere on the company's hardware is that IBM Didn't Invent It.
This is stunning news! Stunning! I am literally stunned, as I type this.
By the way, AP Pascal in a high school in upstate New York in the '80's had you programming recursive descent parsers in a Pascal environment on Apple 2 (II,//,//e, etc) computers and would have put you ahead of what most colleges were teaching in Freshman CS at the time. So, way to take a step back, nation's educational system.
At Jeff's level I'm sure it's all daisies and unicorns. I imagine they just hang around all day dipping their balls in gold and getting hand jobs from their hand job robots. They'd probably be stunned to learn that down in the trenches there's not a hand job robot to be seen, and exposed balls are going to get kicked, not dipped in gold.
HR can't even tell a good programmer from a bad one, much less a rock star. And pretty much every ad asking for one is not offering a rock star's salary. I've never met a rock star programmer personally, though a couple guys who used to hang out on undernet IRC's #linux channel were probably close. I've met a lot of people who thought they were rock stars, but they weren't. I've also worked at only one employer who needed programmers that talented. Sadly, they didn't have any, and weren't offering particularly attractive salaries.
He did have a plan. Says it clearly couldn't work now. It doesn't seem like a very Republican platform, to be sure. Of course, at the moment, he seems to be doing more to advance the chances of a Democratic candidate than Hillary is. Seems like every time he opens his Trump hole, another 4-5% of the country decides they want to vote Democrat.
The guys who can't hold their arsenic are looking a bit ill, but for us folks who grew up in the 70's with mercury, asbestos and lead paint (You know, before the Republicans invented the EPA and ruined everything) it's just like old times! Hey, at least they're not raining radioactive fallout down on us like they did in the 60's!
He said he'd resign once he got the shit he wants passed. With a mandate like that he could wait for 2 years and then release a list of all the representatives who've been cock-blocking him with the expectation that they'd be un-elected. That's pretty much the level of support that he would need in order to get elected in the first place.
Even if you are eating healthy... I stopped drinking soft drinks in the late 90's, largely because I realized just how addicted I had become to them. I'm a software engineer with a fairly unhealthy lifestyle, but I stopped gaining weight at that point. Fast forward a few years, I'm having lunch with a co-worker (Who easily weighs somewhere between 275 and 300 pounds.) I order water, he gets a diet cola. And gets two refills before the food arrives. Now I'm thinking, those saccharine studies they did in the 70's, they gave the rats a LOT more saccharine than a human being could conceivably ingest, but I'm not entirely certain what I just witnessed would be considered as "normal usage" in any such study. It's also a huge blind spot for this guy, who seems to think that you can drink diet cola like... well I'd say water, but if I'd drunk that much water in that meal, I'd have been peeing for 20 minutes.
Basically the soft drink companies are peddling an addictive (at the very least through the addition of caffeine) product that's bad for you. It's even more bad for you when your addiction ramps up like that. We should treat those companies like we did the tobacco manufacturers and regulate their products just as harshly. At the very least, there needs to be an assessment of just how much they're costing the country each year in health care costs and we should be taxing them at that rate.
This isn't about this. This is about the governments and their corporate cronies (Or the corporations and their government cronies) ramping up their efforts against the darknets. As DMCA enforcement gets more draconian, more people are starting to turn to the likes of Tor to get their Game of Thrones videos. The corporations are out ahead of it for a change. Look for innocuous legislation to be introduced in 2016, perhaps as a rider to a funding bill, that will quietly make running darknet nodes illegal. President Trump will quickly rubber-stamp the legislation. We'll probably be none the wiser for a couple of years, until the DOJ conducts a number of rapid-fire raids and dismantles the network in the USA.
Heh. Take that shit to trial in Kentucky. You won't be able to find enough jury members who wouldn't acquit. Hell, if I were sitting on that jury, I wouldn't convict the guy, and I'm decidedly anti-gun in my politics as of late.
How the hell am I supposed to boycott the movie any more than I already was because it was an Adam Sandler movie? I'm already not seeing it as hard as I can!
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Oreos! Wrapped in bacon and deep fried! That's smart!
C++ in the early days did suck. Look at a last-generation library like gdal -- you never know who owns any particular piece of data, and you'll constantly find yourself in situations you need that piece of data outside the only place you can actually enforce its destruction when it's no longer needed. You rarely run into those problems in current-generation libraries like boost. Once we started to figure out how to use it, the language got a whole lot better. Most developers don't need to delve into esoteric metaprogramming techniques to be able to use the language effectively.
I just felt a strange disturbance in The Force, as if a million divorce lawyers suddenly yelled out "CHA-CHING!" and then... yelled out "CHA-CHING!" again!
Ow. I think I hurt myself trying to make it through that post with a straight face.
Well... and whatever this is, on Ceres. That looks like some precursor shit right there, too.
Oh yeah! I remember talking that in some class about great computing failures! Didn't they just put all the keywords and syntax from Fortran, Pascal and COBOL into one language? Right about the same time as AT&T was inventing C, as I recall!
AFAIK, they never did actually kill RETAIN off. Nothing could outperform that thing, much less fucking Lotus Notes. Also AFAIK, Lotus Notes continues to suck for E-Mail inside IBM The old mainframe-based E-Mail, Profs, was a significantly better E-Mail system. And they killed OS/2 off in '95 or '96. Quite possibly the best thing about Linux everywhere on the company's hardware is that IBM Didn't Invent It.
By the way, AP Pascal in a high school in upstate New York in the '80's had you programming recursive descent parsers in a Pascal environment on Apple 2 (II, //, //e, etc) computers and would have put you ahead of what most colleges were teaching in Freshman CS at the time. So, way to take a step back, nation's educational system.
At Jeff's level I'm sure it's all daisies and unicorns. I imagine they just hang around all day dipping their balls in gold and getting hand jobs from their hand job robots. They'd probably be stunned to learn that down in the trenches there's not a hand job robot to be seen, and exposed balls are going to get kicked, not dipped in gold.
HR can't even tell a good programmer from a bad one, much less a rock star. And pretty much every ad asking for one is not offering a rock star's salary. I've never met a rock star programmer personally, though a couple guys who used to hang out on undernet IRC's #linux channel were probably close. I've met a lot of people who thought they were rock stars, but they weren't. I've also worked at only one employer who needed programmers that talented. Sadly, they didn't have any, and weren't offering particularly attractive salaries.
He did have a plan. Says it clearly couldn't work now. It doesn't seem like a very Republican platform, to be sure. Of course, at the moment, he seems to be doing more to advance the chances of a Democratic candidate than Hillary is. Seems like every time he opens his Trump hole, another 4-5% of the country decides they want to vote Democrat.
The guys who can't hold their arsenic are looking a bit ill, but for us folks who grew up in the 70's with mercury, asbestos and lead paint (You know, before the Republicans invented the EPA and ruined everything) it's just like old times! Hey, at least they're not raining radioactive fallout down on us like they did in the 60's!
2. The warning should be Charlton Heston saying "Soylent is lead and cadmium! IT'S LEAD AND CADMIUM!"
Nah it's fine. All the plastic is filtered out when they run the water through the asbestos filters!
It'd be funny, if everyone did.
One more app that will get wiped when the first thing I do with my new phone is root it and install CyanogenMod.
Steve Jackson was later fired by Nintendo for speaking with the public. When reached for comment, he said "WTF?! I don't even WORK THERE!"
But what does it mean? We should discuss it over a Genessyan Oonyx!
He said he'd resign once he got the shit he wants passed. With a mandate like that he could wait for 2 years and then release a list of all the representatives who've been cock-blocking him with the expectation that they'd be un-elected. That's pretty much the level of support that he would need in order to get elected in the first place.
William Munny: We all have it coming, kid.
Basically the soft drink companies are peddling an addictive (at the very least through the addition of caffeine) product that's bad for you. It's even more bad for you when your addiction ramps up like that. We should treat those companies like we did the tobacco manufacturers and regulate their products just as harshly. At the very least, there needs to be an assessment of just how much they're costing the country each year in health care costs and we should be taxing them at that rate.
This isn't about this. This is about the governments and their corporate cronies (Or the corporations and their government cronies) ramping up their efforts against the darknets. As DMCA enforcement gets more draconian, more people are starting to turn to the likes of Tor to get their Game of Thrones videos. The corporations are out ahead of it for a change. Look for innocuous legislation to be introduced in 2016, perhaps as a rider to a funding bill, that will quietly make running darknet nodes illegal. President Trump will quickly rubber-stamp the legislation. We'll probably be none the wiser for a couple of years, until the DOJ conducts a number of rapid-fire raids and dismantles the network in the USA.
What? The performance is covered by a copyright and I'll get DMCAed? Fuck.
Here is NOT a performance of a cat playing the world's smallest violin for the cable companies.
Heh. Take that shit to trial in Kentucky. You won't be able to find enough jury members who wouldn't acquit. Hell, if I were sitting on that jury, I wouldn't convict the guy, and I'm decidedly anti-gun in my politics as of late.
How the hell am I supposed to boycott the movie any more than I already was because it was an Adam Sandler movie? I'm already not seeing it as hard as I can!