No, no, I've seen them leak memory, too. Java seems to inspire some incredibly sloppy programming. "Oh, we don't have to worry about memory anymore! Let's make a 30MB string and pass it around like a... STRING BONG!" And our production MQ server leaks file handles so fast that it's best to just have a cron job that reboots the system once a day:-/
Glaxo makes drugs. Polio is treated by drugs. This sounds like a win/win for Glaxo! Now if some person had released 45 liters of concentrated live polio virus into the water supply, that might be considered a successful act of terrorism, but Glaxo is a corporation, so everyone should see that it's different!
Oh but it does. I can write C++ code and be much more sure that I'm not leaking memory or resources than I can with C or Java. You can manage resources in C++ much better than you can in any of the alternatives I've looked into. You just create objects on the stack, let them handle their memory management internally and automatically clean up when they go out of scope. It takes a while to wrap your head around that idiom, though -- whether coming from a C background or a Java background, your inclination will still be to allocate all objects with new. Then you have to keep track of all those objects and delete them at the right time, or (worse) expect the programmers using your library to.
And that works for the vast majority of programming that most programmers are going to be doing. Most of the time where I run into impossible things, it's either due to trying to use threads (UNIX-style signal handling with threads !#%!@T!) or an overly-complicated design that needs to be simplified. Or, sometimes, both.
Having access to bug tracking databases has resulted in me deciding not to use a product a couple of times, while it has encouraged me to use a product zero times. Having access to them gives you excellent insight into development priorities and developer attitudes toward customers. You can have a pretty high expectation that developer priorities are not your priorities as a customer. You can also have a pretty high expectation that your developers generally think customers are retarded. Neither of those things is particularly good to display on the Internet.
On the other hand, nothing tastes quite as good as the tears of an engineering group that put several million dollars into R&D for a DRM scheme, just to have it broken by a Swedish teenager three days after their product goes live.
I'm going over the headlines today working on my pandering campaign platform. So far as president I promise to fire the entire forest service, prosecute the phoebus cartel to the fullest extent of the law and demand that my banking regulators not only do their jobs properly but to antagonize the bankers as much as possible (Up to and including stabbing them in the face if they feel it's required.) I predict this will be fairly popular on the internet but end up receiving no campaign contributions. How's that working so far?
I don't mind paying $20 for a light bulb I'll probably never have to replace again. I have some high hanging lights that require a step ladder and some OSHA violations to replace. I'll be happy to slap a LED in there next time they burn out, and probably never have to deal with it again.
The extreme reaction some people have to ANY debt is just as bad as irresponsibly maxing out all available credit in the first place. Running a 10K+ balance on a credit card with a 30% API obviously isn't a great idea, but keeping a credit card around for emergencies and keeping it paid off isn't a bad thing. Neither is taking out a mortgage on a home you can actually afford. A mortgage on a house is one of the few investments that most Americans (the bottom 90%) can actually make work for them. Most of the other ones require you to have a few million dollars sitting around that you can use as leverage.
Learn when and where your money can be used to work for you and live within your means. This is simple advice that is apparently pretty hard to follow. It's also the only one-size-fits-all statement on that subject that I'd be comfortable making.
Oh I do my own little projects at home. Lately I've been generating a fair bit of video from gopro footage of my skydives. I also do some programming for fun. Traditionally my setup at home has always been a little better than my setup at work. If I got used to working with a huge amount of screen space at work, I'd want something similar at home.
So how many Xterms can you have open with 6 30" displays?
If I had that setup at home, I'd find the fucking postage stamp I'm allocated at work to be insufferable. Actually I already do. If I had that setup at work, I'd have to drop a few grand to duplicate it at the house.
I'm pretty sure I'm not going to find a game I'd want to play that'd allow me to make effective use of that many monitors. Maybe if I were building a realistic VR flight simulator with X-Plane, or something. I guess you could use it for bitcoin farming or nuclear physics simulations, if you were into that sort of thing...
I'm guessing the desktop isn't the enviable real estate it once was. They're probably going to fumble around in the mobile space some more. The last time they were caught this flat-footed by a new technology, IBM was trying to start up competition with them on the desktop and Microsoft's position was quite strong. They just had to... borrow... the TCP/IP stack from BSD and they were good to go. They just had to poke IBM in the eye a couple of times to convince them to go elsewhere. I suspect they'll find Google to be a somewhat more difficult competitor to deal with. Especially given the state of Microsoft's search engine and... mobile platform.
I remember the original Saccharin scare in the '70's, and several of the hippy chicks in my extended family warning me and my parents off artificially sweetened "poison." Yeah, they actually said "poison." Hippy chicks are like that. Fast forward to the late '90's and the food companies start pushing the idea that "No, they're fine! Really!" As annoying as the hippy chicks are, I'm more inclined to trust them over some corporation whose entire profit-driven reason for existing is to turn me into a fat fuck. The guys who own them probably also own the pharmaceutical companies that make the drugs that try to fix all the side effects of being a fat fuck, too. That's a win-win for them, right there.
Ultimately if you want to solve this problem, don't eat sugar OR artificial sweeteners. Don't put anything that could be found in a vending machine in your body. Good dietary tip right there. If everyone in the world just stopped drinking soft drinks, that'd be an enormous win for humanity's overall health. Sure, it would destroy a few of the most powerful companies on the planet in the process, but you can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.
If I recall correctly, most of that is coming from the universal service fund. It's designed so that some farmer who's the only guy for 40-50 miles can get phone service at all. The last mile problem gets MUCH worse when that last mile is 50 miles.
It this country, we have an expectation that phone service will just work everywhere, that you can turn on your tap and get drinkable water, that you can turn on the lights and they'll always work and that you can get on the road and drive anywhere. Out west, none of those things has ever been guaranteed. I can see a future where "We the People" make it increasingly difficult to pay for the infrastructure that makes these things possible. There have been several instances in the news recently where some city or other can't (or won't) provide drinkable water to its people. In other "Advanced, industrialized" countries (like India,) daily blackouts are a thing in a lot of places. We only avoid that because we had the foresight to build our infrastructure. Once all that falls to shit (Which it's doing rapidly) it's going to be a LOT more expensive to get back to this state than it would have been if we'd just maintained it in the first place. I'm getting older and will probably die before the country REALLY starts to collapse, but you kids might want to start getting used to farm living now. It looks like that's all the previous couple of generations is going to leave you.
Shops like that end up with a reputation. They work by burning through suckers who haven't heard about them yet. Turnover rate's usually fast and pretty close to 100%, The recruiters for one of the local grind-houses are getting desperate and don't tell you who they're recruiting for until you get to the end of their pitch about the "great opportunity" they have. In the past year I've heard two separate co-workers listen through the whole thing, get to that part and say "Oh, them? No thanks, I'm not interested."
Funnily enough, contractors are usually get a better work/life balance at the grind-houses I've seen lately. The companies will abuse their salaried work base for as many free hours as they can get, but contractors put in their 40 a week and are done. You can tell when they're actually desperate to get something out the door because that's when they ask the contractors to work paid overtime.
How much financial penalty is there for having insecure routes (or routers?) Hmm... None, basically. Ok. How much is this upgrade going to cost? Wow...that much? Well, there's your problem!
The tool looks at the rest of your music collection while it's deleting the U2 album and judges you accordingly. "Oh, the Justin Beiber gets to stay but you're deleting the U2 album? OK I see how it is!"
The laser was meant to drill a hole in his head but someone set it to "Stun". Give it a second to charge up and I'll bring up back into conformance with the treaty...
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That's going to upset some people over at r/bezels.
No, no, I've seen them leak memory, too. Java seems to inspire some incredibly sloppy programming. "Oh, we don't have to worry about memory anymore! Let's make a 30MB string and pass it around like a... STRING BONG!" And our production MQ server leaks file handles so fast that it's best to just have a cron job that reboots the system once a day :-/
Glaxo makes drugs. Polio is treated by drugs. This sounds like a win/win for Glaxo! Now if some person had released 45 liters of concentrated live polio virus into the water supply, that might be considered a successful act of terrorism, but Glaxo is a corporation, so everyone should see that it's different!
And that works for the vast majority of programming that most programmers are going to be doing. Most of the time where I run into impossible things, it's either due to trying to use threads (UNIX-style signal handling with threads !#%!@T!) or an overly-complicated design that needs to be simplified. Or, sometimes, both.
Looking forward to Facebook posting videos of my colonoscopy!
I wonder how that meeting at Samsung went. I'm guessing it opened with someone saying "Ok guys! We need to come up with some ways we can fuck Apple!"
2) You take the supervisor to the basement and put one in his ear. Also duh. God damn are we running an intelligence agency or a kindergarden?
Having access to bug tracking databases has resulted in me deciding not to use a product a couple of times, while it has encouraged me to use a product zero times. Having access to them gives you excellent insight into development priorities and developer attitudes toward customers. You can have a pretty high expectation that developer priorities are not your priorities as a customer. You can also have a pretty high expectation that your developers generally think customers are retarded. Neither of those things is particularly good to display on the Internet.
On the other hand, nothing tastes quite as good as the tears of an engineering group that put several million dollars into R&D for a DRM scheme, just to have it broken by a Swedish teenager three days after their product goes live.
Some people still seem to feel strongly about it and as a pandering politician I shall leave no platform unpandered!
I'm going over the headlines today working on my pandering campaign platform. So far as president I promise to fire the entire forest service, prosecute the phoebus cartel to the fullest extent of the law and demand that my banking regulators not only do their jobs properly but to antagonize the bankers as much as possible (Up to and including stabbing them in the face if they feel it's required.) I predict this will be fairly popular on the internet but end up receiving no campaign contributions. How's that working so far?
I don't mind paying $20 for a light bulb I'll probably never have to replace again. I have some high hanging lights that require a step ladder and some OSHA violations to replace. I'll be happy to slap a LED in there next time they burn out, and probably never have to deal with it again.
Learn when and where your money can be used to work for you and live within your means. This is simple advice that is apparently pretty hard to follow. It's also the only one-size-fits-all statement on that subject that I'd be comfortable making.
Oh I do my own little projects at home. Lately I've been generating a fair bit of video from gopro footage of my skydives. I also do some programming for fun. Traditionally my setup at home has always been a little better than my setup at work. If I got used to working with a huge amount of screen space at work, I'd want something similar at home.
If I had that setup at home, I'd find the fucking postage stamp I'm allocated at work to be insufferable. Actually I already do. If I had that setup at work, I'd have to drop a few grand to duplicate it at the house.
I'm pretty sure I'm not going to find a game I'd want to play that'd allow me to make effective use of that many monitors. Maybe if I were building a realistic VR flight simulator with X-Plane, or something. I guess you could use it for bitcoin farming or nuclear physics simulations, if you were into that sort of thing...
I'm guessing the desktop isn't the enviable real estate it once was. They're probably going to fumble around in the mobile space some more. The last time they were caught this flat-footed by a new technology, IBM was trying to start up competition with them on the desktop and Microsoft's position was quite strong. They just had to... borrow... the TCP/IP stack from BSD and they were good to go. They just had to poke IBM in the eye a couple of times to convince them to go elsewhere. I suspect they'll find Google to be a somewhat more difficult competitor to deal with. Especially given the state of Microsoft's search engine and... mobile platform.
Ultimately if you want to solve this problem, don't eat sugar OR artificial sweeteners. Don't put anything that could be found in a vending machine in your body. Good dietary tip right there. If everyone in the world just stopped drinking soft drinks, that'd be an enormous win for humanity's overall health. Sure, it would destroy a few of the most powerful companies on the planet in the process, but you can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.
It this country, we have an expectation that phone service will just work everywhere, that you can turn on your tap and get drinkable water, that you can turn on the lights and they'll always work and that you can get on the road and drive anywhere. Out west, none of those things has ever been guaranteed. I can see a future where "We the People" make it increasingly difficult to pay for the infrastructure that makes these things possible. There have been several instances in the news recently where some city or other can't (or won't) provide drinkable water to its people. In other "Advanced, industrialized" countries (like India,) daily blackouts are a thing in a lot of places. We only avoid that because we had the foresight to build our infrastructure. Once all that falls to shit (Which it's doing rapidly) it's going to be a LOT more expensive to get back to this state than it would have been if we'd just maintained it in the first place. I'm getting older and will probably die before the country REALLY starts to collapse, but you kids might want to start getting used to farm living now. It looks like that's all the previous couple of generations is going to leave you.
Funnily enough, contractors are usually get a better work/life balance at the grind-houses I've seen lately. The companies will abuse their salaried work base for as many free hours as they can get, but contractors put in their 40 a week and are done. You can tell when they're actually desperate to get something out the door because that's when they ask the contractors to work paid overtime.
How much financial penalty is there for having insecure routes (or routers?) Hmm... None, basically. Ok. How much is this upgrade going to cost? Wow...that much? Well, there's your problem!
The tool looks at the rest of your music collection while it's deleting the U2 album and judges you accordingly. "Oh, the Justin Beiber gets to stay but you're deleting the U2 album? OK I see how it is!"
The laser was meant to drill a hole in his head but someone set it to "Stun". Give it a second to charge up and I'll bring up back into conformance with the treaty...
Now bullies are going to beat them up to take their fingerprints. That might be less fun.
A Darwinian solution to the problem is right on track!
Hey! It COULD work! If everyone had 30cm lips! They'll use Steve Tyler for the proof of concept!