Jeff Atwood [...] and he's a huge asshole, so i guess he's a bit of an expert on this.
I only know of him from his old blog, and then eventually at StackOverflow and Discourse. While it is true that none of these cure cancer, as a fellow software developer I thought he's obviously contributed more than I or most people to the world of software development. What makes you say "he's a huge asshole"?
Wikipedia to the rescue: "Phish is an American rock band that was founded at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont in 1983. The band is known for musical improvisation, extended jams, blending of genres, and a dedicated fan base."
Seems to me the Slashdot editors could have beefed up the summary a bit.
You get what you pay for. And I'm talking about the software developers here, not commenting on the toys. Company X hires junior developers, or can only retain developers working for minimal pay.
Guess what the quality of their work is going to be? Guess what the company's QA department looks like?
Does this mean I will finally have a way to block my children from spending their time following Team 10, Jake Paul, and other related garbage?
For a while I put in a host entry on their computer to redirect www.youtube.com to 127.0.0.1, but that is a pretty big hammer. They do have legitimate things they watch on Youtube, like tutorials on MIT Scratch and Blender. But this recent craze with you youtubers making crazy amounts of money and influencing kids in negative ways...wish there was a way to block that kind of garbage.
All these comments, and not a single person pointed out the obvious: where is this font? Where are the side-by-side images showing some popular fonts next to this new IBM offering. "The quick brown fox, etc..." Event watched the video, but it is essentially useless. No real explanation as to why this is necessary over Helvetica, how crisper/softer/something it will be, easier to read, less ink, higher contrast,...anything?
First fight starts at 8:32. Fight is over at the very first punch at 8:55. I use "punch" loosely, as the robot just holds an arm out and runs forward into the 2nd one, knocking it over.
Slow motion of the "punch" is at 10:26-11:00.
Next fight with another robot starts around 13:20. Drone gets knocked out of the air at 14:18. Robot-on-robot hits around 15:00, after which they pause for round 2. Battle resumes at 20:00, this time with a chainsaw attachment. Chainsaw damage starts around 21:20. But it is low-speed, not very exciting. Knock some shit over at 22:04, and the whole thing ends at 22:30.
I was too young at the time to notice, but anyone know if there was this kind of "lets-ban-all-evil-things!" reaction when remote control cars first became available to average consumers?
Is this a natural reaction to something new, or is there really a never before seen level of danger with tiny unmanned drones in the skies above us?
"The 2013 amendment to Wi-Fi is an air interface for “white space” frequencies (from 54 MHz to 698 MHz in the USA; Europe and the UK use a more realistic 490 to 790 MHz), with a maximum per-channel 35.6 Mbps (16 channels can be bonded together to get nearly 600 Mbps)."
And:
"The standard is designed for links up to 1 km in range, the kind of reach that 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi can only manage with a cantenna."
The better part of that episode is when Darlene is trying to get Elliot's attention. He's trying to brush her off, saying he's busy, and she stops him dead in his tracks by saying "init 1".
Single user mode! E.g., "pay attention to me".
I loved it! Had to rewind it to listen to her deliver that line again to make sure I heard correctly. The show is amazing that way.
Just wait until they turn on their automatic convert-to-low-quality-JPEG functionality.:) All your.BMP files will be converted to 400 KiB.JPG files. Hope your executable is OK with lossy compression.
I was looking for a text file showing the number since obviously this prime wont fit in a uint32_t. 74,207,280 bits means nothing to me due to the size. Seeing a 22.8 MiB text file filled with digits gave it some scale.
So everyone is talking about San Bernardino CA. Here is a twist: Did you know this was the 2nd mass shooting in the U.S. for today?
Not kidding. Earlier today in Savannah GA was another mass shooting. Another twist: This is not unusual!
On many days in the U.S., there is more than 1 mass shooting. U.S. mass shootings (meaning 4 or more people shot in an event or related events) are a daily occurrence. Starting today, we'd have to go back to November 10 to find three consecutive days without a mass shooting.
As a Canadian looking at the news flowing across the border, this boggles my mind.
Started my career with OS/2, and IBM's C++ compiler. Worked on some really nice systems in the 90s that used OS/2: automated trains, banking systems, robotics. But I was burned by IBM: first when they killed OS/2, then when they killed off OCL and their C++ suite for both Windows and OS/2. Jumped to linux in 2001 and haven't looked back since. But lesson learned: I'd have a hard time trusting an IBM OS or compiler suite.
What does bringing back OS/2 do today? Nothing. It would need something really innovative to make it worthwhile again. E.g., let it run Linux binaries and Win64.exe files? Having some kind of package translation layer that allows people to install.rpm or.deb files to take advantage of existing Linux repos and software?
It is unfortunate that IBM gave up on both OS/2 and OCL/Visual C++ when they did. But "OS/2" is now 15-20 years behind the curve. Go ahead and make it available as a toy to remember the old days if you must, but I suspect it would take non-trivial development investments to re-awaken it.
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Isn't this what you get when you mix water with corn starch?
Some of the science behind it explained here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Jeff Atwood [...] and he's a huge asshole, so i guess he's a bit of an expert on this.
I only know of him from his old blog, and then eventually at StackOverflow and Discourse. While it is true that none of these cure cancer, as a fellow software developer I thought he's obviously contributed more than I or most people to the world of software development. What makes you say "he's a huge asshole"?
Wikipedia to the rescue: "Phish is an American rock band that was founded at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont in 1983. The band is known for musical improvisation, extended jams, blending of genres, and a dedicated fan base."
Seems to me the Slashdot editors could have beefed up the summary a bit.
I don't understand what I just read. Is Phish bad? Is it related to Phishing?
You get what you pay for. And I'm talking about the software developers here, not commenting on the toys. Company X hires junior developers, or can only retain developers working for minimal pay.
Guess what the quality of their work is going to be? Guess what the company's QA department looks like?
No surprise. Race to the bottom!
Does this mean I will finally have a way to block my children from spending their time following Team 10, Jake Paul, and other related garbage?
For a while I put in a host entry on their computer to redirect www.youtube.com to 127.0.0.1, but that is a pretty big hammer. They do have legitimate things they watch on Youtube, like tutorials on MIT Scratch and Blender. But this recent craze with you youtubers making crazy amounts of money and influencing kids in negative ways...wish there was a way to block that kind of garbage.
All these comments, and not a single person pointed out the obvious: where is this font? Where are the side-by-side images showing some popular fonts next to this new IBM offering. "The quick brown fox, etc..." Event watched the video, but it is essentially useless. No real explanation as to why this is necessary over Helvetica, how crisper/softer/something it will be, easier to read, less ink, higher contrast, ...anything?
"13 years ago"? Meaning 2004? OS/2 and Warp were already long dead by then. Maybe you meant 23 years ago, when Warp 3 first came out.
Disclaimer: I worked at IBM in the 90s, and was an OS/2 developer until IBM pulled the plug around Y2K.
> the president's personal account kicked back the error message "does not exist."
Cannot help but think: "...and nothing of value was lost."
From the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
First fight starts at 8:32. Fight is over at the very first punch at 8:55. I use "punch" loosely, as the robot just holds an arm out and runs forward into the 2nd one, knocking it over.
Slow motion of the "punch" is at 10:26-11:00.
Next fight with another robot starts around 13:20. Drone gets knocked out of the air at 14:18. Robot-on-robot hits around 15:00, after which they pause for round 2. Battle resumes at 20:00, this time with a chainsaw attachment. Chainsaw damage starts around 21:20. But it is low-speed, not very exciting. Knock some shit over at 22:04, and the whole thing ends at 22:30.
I was too young at the time to notice, but anyone know if there was this kind of "lets-ban-all-evil-things!" reaction when remote control cars first became available to average consumers?
Is this a natural reaction to something new, or is there really a never before seen level of danger with tiny unmanned drones in the skies above us?
If we go down this route, we may as well make it worthwhile and ask him to leak the next 2 seasons of Firefly.
Yep, he's either delusional, or it's part of some huge scam.
Couldn't it be both?
The Indian government has spent billions of rupees to install public toilets in villages, [...cut...]
I haven't looked up the exchange rate of rupees to dollars in years, but doesn't billions of rupees convert to something like $1.50?
Tempted to say: "and nothing of value was lost".
On the other hand, looks like we finally found a use for Mac hardware!
(I have on my asbestos underpants...waiting for the Apple fans to show up...)
"...and nothing of value was lost."
Does Slashdot count as "social network?"
F5'ing the homepage waiting for the next story so I can read through questionable comments may contribute to my depression.
Article contains few technical details. This one is just slightly better: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
Quotes:
"The 2013 amendment to Wi-Fi is an air interface for “white space” frequencies (from 54 MHz to 698 MHz in the USA; Europe and the UK use a more realistic 490 to 790 MHz), with a maximum per-channel 35.6 Mbps (16 channels can be bonded together to get nearly 600 Mbps)."
And:
"The standard is designed for links up to 1 km in range, the kind of reach that 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi can only manage with a cantenna."
For the metric challenged, 1km = 0.6 miles.
Potatoes.
Have you not read the book or seen the movie?
The better part of that episode is when Darlene is trying to get Elliot's attention. He's trying to brush her off, saying he's busy, and she stops him dead in his tracks by saying "init 1".
Single user mode! E.g., "pay attention to me".
I loved it! Had to rewind it to listen to her deliver that line again to make sure I heard correctly. The show is amazing that way.
Just wait until they turn on their automatic convert-to-low-quality-JPEG functionality. :) All your .BMP files will be converted to 400 KiB .JPG files. Hope your executable is OK with lossy compression.
I was looking for a text file showing the number since obviously this prime wont fit in a uint32_t. 74,207,280 bits means nothing to me due to the size. Seeing a 22.8 MiB text file filled with digits gave it some scale.
How "big" is 22,338,618 digits? Text file containing the prime is 22.8 MiB in size. http://www.mersenne.org/primes...
So everyone is talking about San Bernardino CA. Here is a twist: Did you know this was the 2nd mass shooting in the U.S. for today?
Not kidding. Earlier today in Savannah GA was another mass shooting. Another twist: This is not unusual!
On many days in the U.S., there is more than 1 mass shooting. U.S. mass shootings (meaning 4 or more people shot in an event or related events) are a daily occurrence. Starting today, we'd have to go back to November 10 to find three consecutive days without a mass shooting.
As a Canadian looking at the news flowing across the border, this boggles my mind.
Source 1: https://www.reddit.com/r/GunsA...
Source 2: http://www.theguardian.com/us-...
Started my career with OS/2, and IBM's C++ compiler. Worked on some really nice systems in the 90s that used OS/2: automated trains, banking systems, robotics. But I was burned by IBM: first when they killed OS/2, then when they killed off OCL and their C++ suite for both Windows and OS/2. Jumped to linux in 2001 and haven't looked back since. But lesson learned: I'd have a hard time trusting an IBM OS or compiler suite.
What does bringing back OS/2 do today? Nothing. It would need something really innovative to make it worthwhile again. E.g., let it run Linux binaries and Win64 .exe files? Having some kind of package translation layer that allows people to install .rpm or .deb files to take advantage of existing Linux repos and software?
It is unfortunate that IBM gave up on both OS/2 and OCL/Visual C++ when they did. But "OS/2" is now 15-20 years behind the curve. Go ahead and make it available as a toy to remember the old days if you must, but I suspect it would take non-trivial development investments to re-awaken it.