And by the way, not all front-end devs are idiots, some come from C/Java back-end languages.
While I agree on that, 10% that know what they are doing (recent experience, me and the dev in a room and we have solved a complicated permission issue in one hour), the rest is between clueless (recent experience on the same thing: they are still asking questions that do not make sense 4 weeks later, despite being given correct and detailed instructions and a way to test) and worse (same recent experience, with two web-developers responsible for an existing application asking me what the "path" part of an URL was...). I really do not know where the mass of incompetent and clueless "developers" comes from and how they get any work done. But I now understand why things I need an hour for takes them 4 weeks and costs $20'000 (internal "funny money" billing).
I am not too sure about Perl 6. It seems to suffer from the "Second System Effect" in a lot of places. Time will tell, but at the moment I am staying on Perl 5.
I fully agree on JS and PHP and on "coders" in general. Python is quite nice as glue though, with the heavy lifting done natively in C after prototyping it in Python. I have done this several times now with pretty good success. Of course, I would not want to write anything really large in Python or together with other people, as it is decidedly not a language for beginners. Combining the usual moron "coders" with Python is a recipe for disaster.
There is absolutely no egg on my fact, but a ton on yours. This is a special-purpose GC that requires adjustments to language design and may have serious negative impact on performance, memory-use, responsiveness, etc. if a language moves to it. The language then would have to adjust its native run-time system on other platforms as well or support two. That is not going to happen on most cases. This thing will also not even be usable with many languages, because they require opaque pointers to work. Basically, the only good use is if you design a new language exclusively targeted at WebAssembly and its GC primitives and are willing to accept the limitations that causes.
You may as well have been claiming that Boem-Weiser is a generally good choice for a GC. It is not. It is something you use only when you have no choice. This thing is similar, if it ever materializes.
That is what personal integrity and discretion looks like. Geek Squad very likely does not even understand these concepts and is happy to sell out their customers. Might have something to do with why they are not doing so well...
And yes, defending civil liberties often means defending scumbags, because the (usually utterly despicable and repulsive) "authorities" try to abrade these liberties first with test-cases of that nature. Later, if not stopped, they will universally do it to everybody.
Fascinating. I recommend you read up on the "Dunning-Kruger" effect and on what actually constitutes an "insult" instead, the complexity of GC design will fly right over your head. (And no, even that is not an "insult", just a statement of fact derived from your claims...)
That is complete nonsense. A GC needs to be custom-tailored for the language used. A GC primitive is not going to help for any language besides exactly the one it was designed for. Seriously, read up on what a GC is and how it works. It is not some function you can call that works the same everywhere.
Depending on skill and task, a console debugger is very much state-of-the-art. I used DDD for a while, but I found that I do not need it and that, in fact, is slows me down. Of course, I only use a debugger for really hard things, for the rest I have not needed one in decades.
Ahem, that is not hypothetical at all but the way it is done? Languages with GC come with a GC adapted to their needs. GC is not something an execution platform supplies and it does not need to have "primitives" for it. In fact, I do not think such primitives exits in any assembler dialect, as memory management is a high-level function provided by the kernel and/or runtime library. A GC then sits on top of that. In particular, WebAssembly aims at very close to native performance, so having a GC implemented in it is really not different than in any other assembly language.
Maybe you are thinking of something like a Java VM, but that really is not anything assembler-like. That is a complex runtime environment with libraries, memory management, GC, and so on and with significant losses compared to native performance, except for code that spends most time in natively implemented libraries or when a JIT is used (and hence the target is not a Java VM anymore).
The thing is, that is not true. The rich pay more if general health is bad due to lower productivity. The rich profit more from a society with more healthy and productive members than the poor do. This has to be some non-rational "make them suffer" attitude at work, because it does not make economic sense at all, even in a country that is just barely first world and second world in many ways. This idea only makes sense in 3rd world countries where most labor is unskilled and nothing is invested into poor people by way of education, making them entirely expendable.
It is about preventing an USB stick from claiming to be something else, e.g. a keyboard or a network card. Not that that helps any if there is a malicious executable on the stick...
The Canadian system basically would not look out of place at all in Europe. It is what a modern society has. I really do not understand what is wrong with the US population here. Health care as something everybody has access to increases the productivity of a society and decreases social unrest. It is an economically smart move. Is this some "whoever gets sick must have offended God" nonsense?
GDB is very, very good. If you were "not impressed", then you did not get how to use it. One way to make it more "caveman" (people that cannot express themselves in written form) compatible is to use DDD.
And that is why in any place that values freedom and the rule of law, the police needs to be kicked in the nuts hard and regularly to remind them that they serve the people, not the other way round.
Well, he can always go the way Hitler did it, by starting several really large ground wars and sending all the unemployed there as conscripts. Of course, the pay will suck and the job will be deadly and soul-destroying, but hey, jobs!
Whenever I think people cannot get any dumber, something like this is in the news. Expecting a pathological liar to keep promises is hard to top, but I am sure the idiots will find a way to do even dumber things.
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Maybe you should ask Trump to do something about it.
And by the way, not all front-end devs are idiots, some come from C/Java back-end languages.
While I agree on that, 10% that know what they are doing (recent experience, me and the dev in a room and we have solved a complicated permission issue in one hour), the rest is between clueless (recent experience on the same thing: they are still asking questions that do not make sense 4 weeks later, despite being given correct and detailed instructions and a way to test) and worse (same recent experience, with two web-developers responsible for an existing application asking me what the "path" part of an URL was...). I really do not know where the mass of incompetent and clueless "developers" comes from and how they get any work done. But I now understand why things I need an hour for takes them 4 weeks and costs $20'000 (internal "funny money" billing).
I am not too sure about Perl 6. It seems to suffer from the "Second System Effect" in a lot of places. Time will tell, but at the moment I am staying on Perl 5.
I fully agree on JS and PHP and on "coders" in general. Python is quite nice as glue though, with the heavy lifting done natively in C after prototyping it in Python. I have done this several times now with pretty good success. Of course, I would not want to write anything really large in Python or together with other people, as it is decidedly not a language for beginners. Combining the usual moron "coders" with Python is a recipe for disaster.
There is absolutely no egg on my fact, but a ton on yours. This is a special-purpose GC that requires adjustments to language design and may have serious negative impact on performance, memory-use, responsiveness, etc. if a language moves to it. The language then would have to adjust its native run-time system on other platforms as well or support two. That is not going to happen on most cases. This thing will also not even be usable with many languages, because they require opaque pointers to work. Basically, the only good use is if you design a new language exclusively targeted at WebAssembly and its GC primitives and are willing to accept the limitations that causes.
You may as well have been claiming that Boem-Weiser is a generally good choice for a GC. It is not. It is something you use only when you have no choice. This thing is similar, if it ever materializes.
That is what personal integrity and discretion looks like. Geek Squad very likely does not even understand these concepts and is happy to sell out their customers. Might have something to do with why they are not doing so well...
And yes, defending civil liberties often means defending scumbags, because the (usually utterly despicable and repulsive) "authorities" try to abrade these liberties first with test-cases of that nature. Later, if not stopped, they will universally do it to everybody.
Fascinating. I recommend you read up on the "Dunning-Kruger" effect and on what actually constitutes an "insult" instead, the complexity of GC design will fly right over your head. (And no, even that is not an "insult", just a statement of fact derived from your claims...)
I am just saying that your argument is invalid. It is not the rich wanting to get richer (because they will not this way), it is the rich being evil.
That is complete nonsense. A GC needs to be custom-tailored for the language used. A GC primitive is not going to help for any language besides exactly the one it was designed for. Seriously, read up on what a GC is and how it works. It is not some function you can call that works the same everywhere.
Depending on skill and task, a console debugger is very much state-of-the-art. I used DDD for a while, but I found that I do not need it and that, in fact, is slows me down. Of course, I only use a debugger for really hard things, for the rest I have not needed one in decades.
Ahem, that is not hypothetical at all but the way it is done? Languages with GC come with a GC adapted to their needs. GC is not something an execution platform supplies and it does not need to have "primitives" for it. In fact, I do not think such primitives exits in any assembler dialect, as memory management is a high-level function provided by the kernel and/or runtime library. A GC then sits on top of that. In particular, WebAssembly aims at very close to native performance, so having a GC implemented in it is really not different than in any other assembly language.
Maybe you are thinking of something like a Java VM, but that really is not anything assembler-like. That is a complex runtime environment with libraries, memory management, GC, and so on and with significant losses compared to native performance, except for code that spends most time in natively implemented libraries or when a JIT is used (and hence the target is not a Java VM anymore).
The thing is, that is not true. The rich pay more if general health is bad due to lower productivity. The rich profit more from a society with more healthy and productive members than the poor do. This has to be some non-rational "make them suffer" attitude at work, because it does not make economic sense at all, even in a country that is just barely first world and second world in many ways. This idea only makes sense in 3rd world countries where most labor is unskilled and nothing is invested into poor people by way of education, making them entirely expendable.
It is about preventing an USB stick from claiming to be something else, e.g. a keyboard or a network card. Not that that helps any if there is a malicious executable on the stick...
The Canadian system basically would not look out of place at all in Europe. It is what a modern society has. I really do not understand what is wrong with the US population here. Health care as something everybody has access to increases the productivity of a society and decreases social unrest. It is an economically smart move. Is this some "whoever gets sick must have offended God" nonsense?
Hmm. Is that an alternate fact or fake news? I do not understand that distinction either.
Aehm, why would languages with a GC not run in WebAssembly?
WebAssembly will primarily allow real coders to write applications that run in browsers. No JavaScript wannabees need to apply.
GDB is very, very good. If you were "not impressed", then you did not get how to use it. One way to make it more "caveman" (people that cannot express themselves in written form) compatible is to use DDD.
Sorry, but no. I will stay with what has worked well for a long time.
And that is why in any place that values freedom and the rule of law, the police needs to be kicked in the nuts hard and regularly to remind them that they serve the people, not the other way round.
Well, in any sane jurisdiction, both prosecutor and judge would go to jail for what they did.
Yes, please, PLEASE do that! We would dearly love being rid of you!
After all, this is the guy who said, "Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated". Nobody knew? Really?
And yet, most of Europe just manages. Probably we are living in "alternate facts" here...
What makes you think that he *won't*?
Well, he can always go the way Hitler did it, by starting several really large ground wars and sending all the unemployed there as conscripts. Of course, the pay will suck and the job will be deadly and soul-destroying, but hey, jobs!
Whenever I think people cannot get any dumber, something like this is in the news. Expecting a pathological liar to keep promises is hard to top, but I am sure the idiots will find a way to do even dumber things.