The title is incorrect; type safety is already available in DB queries, at least on Windows clients. You can use LINQ directly in C# and VB, or standalone via LINQPad.
I'm all for new languages... but IMHO, I think LINQ is better. It looks more like SQL for all of us who already know SQL. It reads in the most logical order for word completion (select is after from/where, not before). And it's very carefully built on top of pure functional structures (SelectMany is equivalent to monadic Bind).
Then use msconfig, and leave Soluto to people who need it.
It might surprise you, but some people actually don't know what BOOT.INI and WIN.INI and SYSTEM.INI mean. Some people don't know the difference between startup items and system services.
If you do, STFU and stop wasting everyone's time, including yours, complaining about something that can seriously help other people. I have to fight against your kind day in and day out, just to let me design software so that our users might actually want to use it.
I don't need to understand math in order to understand that a baseball hit up at an angle will follow a parabolic trajectory to the earth. The same can hold for much of physics; it's possible to understand a few expected behaviors without needing to understand every little detail and every mathematical concept that backs it up.
That's a decent starter, without too much math. (IANAP... there are probably better introductions, that's just an obvious find.) In fact, learning about these things may get one interested enough to care about the math, and to learn the intricate details.
Nor, for that matter, that P!=NP, which is a more or less essential assumption in public-key cryptography. If it isn't, then as the key size grows, time to brute-force increases linearly, not exponentially as we think it does.
Not necessarily. Even assuming P = NP, the conversion from the NP problem to the equivalent P problem doesn't necessarily take linear time. And it doesn't mean that the P solution itself can run in linear time. If it turns out that both the conversion and the P solution are O(n^10^10^10^10^10), they would be practically worthless for anything.
a) give cheap access only to low income families with children,
XOR b) don't give it at all because for whatever reasons (practical or greedy, probably the later) because they don't plan to give it cheap access to all low income people
You take what you can get and work on it. And you lobby towards more affordable access to all as you travel down the road.
You're forgetting one thing: the lobby is now smaller as a result of picking A. Had we picked B, the lobby would have still been large enough to fight, but now it is smaller and it is less likely to get heard.
Not really. Running the program/input in question is an option, so long as the executing environment itself always halts. It must somehow detect that the program/input in question does not halt, but then halt itself while returning that fact.
The undecidable nature of the halting problem indicates that there is no executing environment for which this is true for all possible programs and inputs.
This software appears to be able to answer that question for some programs and inputs.
Sounds like the solution to the problem of parents who aren't normally supportive of their child's education.
(Yes, I'm aware that many parents are unable to support their child in this way due to both knowledge and time constraints. Not trying to troll here.)
But this isn't a new concept. When I was in school, we often did assignments in the classroom and read chapters at home. This is just a new video format. But as it turned out, we rarely had to do much of the reading, as the hands-on assignments would cover 95% of what would be tested.
I don't think the airline would be able to refuse the TSA. In many airports, the TSA just guards each entry point, and once through, you can go anywhere in the airport. So even if Delta refuses the TSA, United may still allow them and they would still need to be placed at all entry points.
I think that to do it properly, all airlines and the airport itself would have to refuse the TSA. Good luck with that... the only airports with few enough airlines to collude effectively are too small to tempt the government, and the large airports have too many airlines.
Trust in a government that has so many secrets that it can't trust its own people to keep them.
Any information released by the United States government to its people will inevitably and efficiently be disseminated to foreign powers, friend or foe. Over 300 million citizens, and all it takes is one Internet leak.
You may disagree with the number of secrets (as do I), but you can't say that fewer secrets would somehow increase trust. Those remaining secrets would be kept guarded as closely, or more so, than they are today.
(Actually hoping it is... but these Internets don't make it easy to tell. And if it's not a joke, please tell me you aren't a software project manager...)
I'd never heard of it before, but now that you have informed me... Google's page 1 of "snipping tool javascript" doesn't seem to suggest it can be used from Javascript at all. It's a user program. It's not even included in XP, it has to be downloaded along with several other tablet PC prerequisites. And Linux/Mac are obviously not supported.
This is the great thing about 2011, after all. Back a decade or so ago, saying "Concerned about IE? Don't use it." was just unrealistic for many web apps.
I, for one, welcome our new open, competitive overlords.
Your statement actually implies that the TSA is doing very well at their job, because increased funding is correlated with lack of terrorist-related deaths.
That said... I totally agree with you that the TSA sucks and really isn't worth it. Correlation/causation and all that. Just came to say, your justification does not make for a sound argument.
Wait, what? I make client applications... Windows apps. I don't make websites. I don't make client applications that require constant connection with a server. So your statement completely forgets about me and thousands of developers who need to make real applications that work in the real world, not some dream land in the cloud.
I'm beginning to wonder if Microsoft hasn't forgotten about us too.
Oh... and this: HTML5 may excel with GUI, but it's not better than WPF. WPF is definitely better in terms of combining the power, flexibility, and ease-of-development of UIs. (Before the flaming begins... I never said WPF is better for everyone, it's just better for me and my Windows clients.)
I have a Xoom, and I recommend Thumb Keyboard. It lets you have a split layout for landscape mode on a tablet... very nice, Apple took the same idea and put it in iOS 5 for iPad. You can find it on the Android Market.
Does iOS have real widgets (that you can change out for whatever you want... like wifi/3g/etc. buttons)? Does iOS have voice-recognition throughout? Does iOS currently have a split keyboard, or let you replace the stock? Do iOS devices support SD cards? Does iOS support a mouse?
Disclaimer: I own both an iPhone and a Xoom, and the wife has an Android phone (HTC Aria). I don't see any reason to replace my iPhone anytime soon. But I cannot and would not try to claim that it has Android beat in all categories. The iPad does have Honeycomb beat in tablet apps... so I'm hoping the GT 10.1 will get enough momentum to help change that.
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Did you seriously miss the "Read more" link right next to "A Lift/MongoDB query DSL"?
Perhaps the problem is you, not the link.
The title is incorrect; type safety is already available in DB queries, at least on Windows clients. You can use LINQ directly in C# and VB, or standalone via LINQPad.
I'm all for new languages... but IMHO, I think LINQ is better. It looks more like SQL for all of us who already know SQL. It reads in the most logical order for word completion (select is after from/where, not before). And it's very carefully built on top of pure functional structures (SelectMany is equivalent to monadic Bind).
Then use msconfig, and leave Soluto to people who need it.
It might surprise you, but some people actually don't know what BOOT.INI and WIN.INI and SYSTEM.INI mean. Some people don't know the difference between startup items and system services.
If you do, STFU and stop wasting everyone's time, including yours, complaining about something that can seriously help other people. I have to fight against your kind day in and day out, just to let me design software so that our users might actually want to use it.
More generally: theory without application is usually boring.
If only most teachers/professors understood this.
It's easy. Just change the gravitational constant of the universe.
I don't need to understand math in order to understand that a baseball hit up at an angle will follow a parabolic trajectory to the earth. The same can hold for much of physics; it's possible to understand a few expected behaviors without needing to understand every little detail and every mathematical concept that backs it up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_general_relativity
That's a decent starter, without too much math. (IANAP... there are probably better introductions, that's just an obvious find.) In fact, learning about these things may get one interested enough to care about the math, and to learn the intricate details.
Nor, for that matter, that P!=NP, which is a more or less essential assumption in public-key cryptography. If it isn't, then as the key size grows, time to brute-force increases linearly, not exponentially as we think it does.
Not necessarily. Even assuming P = NP, the conversion from the NP problem to the equivalent P problem doesn't necessarily take linear time. And it doesn't mean that the P solution itself can run in linear time. If it turns out that both the conversion and the P solution are O(n^10^10^10^10^10), they would be practically worthless for anything.
a) give cheap access only to low income families with children,
XOR
b) don't give it at all because for whatever reasons (practical or greedy, probably the later) because they don't plan to give it cheap access to all low income people
You take what you can get and work on it. And you lobby towards more affordable access to all as you travel down the road.
You're forgetting one thing: the lobby is now smaller as a result of picking A. Had we picked B, the lobby would have still been large enough to fight, but now it is smaller and it is less likely to get heard.
If you want to cache the native .NET image, use ngen.exe.
Not really. Running the program/input in question is an option, so long as the executing environment itself always halts. It must somehow detect that the program/input in question does not halt, but then halt itself while returning that fact.
The undecidable nature of the halting problem indicates that there is no executing environment for which this is true for all possible programs and inputs.
This software appears to be able to answer that question for some programs and inputs.
Sounds like the solution to the problem of parents who aren't normally supportive of their child's education.
(Yes, I'm aware that many parents are unable to support their child in this way due to both knowledge and time constraints. Not trying to troll here.)
But this isn't a new concept. When I was in school, we often did assignments in the classroom and read chapters at home. This is just a new video format. But as it turned out, we rarely had to do much of the reading, as the hands-on assignments would cover 95% of what would be tested.
I don't think the airline would be able to refuse the TSA. In many airports, the TSA just guards each entry point, and once through, you can go anywhere in the airport. So even if Delta refuses the TSA, United may still allow them and they would still need to be placed at all entry points.
I think that to do it properly, all airlines and the airport itself would have to refuse the TSA. Good luck with that... the only airports with few enough airlines to collude effectively are too small to tempt the government, and the large airports have too many airlines.
Trust in a government that has so many secrets that it can't trust its own people to keep them.
Any information released by the United States government to its people will inevitably and efficiently be disseminated to foreign powers, friend or foe. Over 300 million citizens, and all it takes is one Internet leak.
You may disagree with the number of secrets (as do I), but you can't say that fewer secrets would somehow increase trust. Those remaining secrets would be kept guarded as closely, or more so, than they are today.
Is that some kind of joke?
(Actually hoping it is... but these Internets don't make it easy to tell. And if it's not a joke, please tell me you aren't a software project manager...)
You mean, the Windows Snipping Tool?
I'd never heard of it before, but now that you have informed me... Google's page 1 of "snipping tool javascript" doesn't seem to suggest it can be used from Javascript at all. It's a user program. It's not even included in XP, it has to be downloaded along with several other tablet PC prerequisites. And Linux/Mac are obviously not supported.
Is that some kind of joke?
This is the great thing about 2011, after all. Back a decade or so ago, saying "Concerned about IE? Don't use it." was just unrealistic for many web apps.
I, for one, welcome our new open, competitive overlords.
Actually, according to evolution, this is the entire point... have kids and have many, survival of the fittest and all.
Your statement actually implies that the TSA is doing very well at their job, because increased funding is correlated with lack of terrorist-related deaths.
That said... I totally agree with you that the TSA sucks and really isn't worth it. Correlation/causation and all that. Just came to say, your justification does not make for a sound argument.
Haha... not sure if intentional, but your steps define GP's steps pretty well.
And my response is, that it's not even "mainly" used for server-side processing. There's much more to .NET than ASP.NET.
.NET is mainly used for server-side processing.
Wait, what? I make client applications... Windows apps. I don't make websites. I don't make client applications that require constant connection with a server. So your statement completely forgets about me and thousands of developers who need to make real applications that work in the real world, not some dream land in the cloud.
I'm beginning to wonder if Microsoft hasn't forgotten about us too.
Oh... and this: HTML5 may excel with GUI, but it's not better than WPF. WPF is definitely better in terms of combining the power, flexibility, and ease-of-development of UIs. (Before the flaming begins... I never said WPF is better for everyone, it's just better for me and my Windows clients.)
I have a Xoom, and I recommend Thumb Keyboard. It lets you have a split layout for landscape mode on a tablet... very nice, Apple took the same idea and put it in iOS 5 for iPad. You can find it on the Android Market.
Does iOS have real widgets (that you can change out for whatever you want... like wifi/3g/etc. buttons)?
Does iOS have voice-recognition throughout?
Does iOS currently have a split keyboard, or let you replace the stock?
Do iOS devices support SD cards?
Does iOS support a mouse?
Disclaimer: I own both an iPhone and a Xoom, and the wife has an Android phone (HTC Aria). I don't see any reason to replace my iPhone anytime soon. But I cannot and would not try to claim that it has Android beat in all categories. The iPad does have Honeycomb beat in tablet apps... so I'm hoping the GT 10.1 will get enough momentum to help change that.
I wanted to buy a few at $7 a couple of weeks ago. Any way you look at it, high price or low, I would have come out way ahead if I had.
Oh... and let's not forget, I no longer need a Mac or PC to connect that iPad, or my iPhone.