My design is what took most of the time with the C++ implementation. The design was solid, and the implementation was fine. I'm actually a very rapid C++ programmer, but have found that Lisp gets in the way even less than C++. Also, Lisp encourages more of a bottom-up programming style and frequent testing of individual components due to its interactive programming style. In C++, for example, it's a major hassle to create a temporary set of test cases for a single method, whereas in Lisp it's very easy and quick to do.
There are still things I use C or C++ for, and there are still things I use Ruby, Perl, or PHP for; but I'm really fond of Lisp, and I'm but a newbie to the language.
I have a cell phone for making, receiving, and carrying on phone conversations. What purpose does a game serve? To keep me occupied when I'm waiting for a train? Even if we had a better rail system in this country, I'd rather read a book than play Space Invaders on my cell phone.
And musical ringtones here only amuse the teenage (be she 13 or 30, she's a de facto teenager) girl whose phone has one and her two or three teenage friends who think it's neato the first time. Everyone else in the US looks at you like you're an idiot, unless it's something truly unique or interesting. I once heard a bagpipe song as a ringtone - that was nifty, but I'm sure even that got old for the guy's friends and relations. What's wrong with "ring ring" or, better yet, a vibrating alert?
Then you have chicks who have their phone vibrate enough to mess with geological fault lines and play poorly-rendered hip-hop songs that nobody liked to begin with loud enough to annoy Antarctic penguins in their home territory.
As I said in another comment on this story - I'd rather have a pepper grinder built into my phone than games, cool ringtones, and a camera combined.
I agree on Lisp. I have been tinkering with it for years but it just started to "click" when I read
On Lisp
a few months ago. You can get a copy in PDF format online for free, and it's a great book to help you start thinking in Lisp.
I've been through a lot of languages, and I've found some favorites, but Lisp is the only one that I can't directly fault the language for anything (C++ is a close second). I haven't found anything in any other language that Common Lisp doesn't have, and a lot of things are really easy to do in Lisp compared to doing them in other languages.
For example, years ago I started a brand-new cutting-edge object-oriented MUSE-like server in C++. Last month, I decided to try in Lisp. In 1 week of coding at most 2 hours a day, I was about twice as far along as I had gotten in months with C++. I couldn't do this in Ruby, my favorite scripting language, because of the lack of real multiple inheritance, and I couldn't do it in C#, my favorite bytecode-compiled C++ ripoff, for the same reason.
Give Common Lisp a real, honest try. You'll be surprised.
I saw an ad for a cell phone that went like this:
Guy is at restaurant, pulls out cell phone and starts using the built-in pepper mill.
Want a cell phone with features you really need? We've got 'em! With games, cool ringtones, a camera,...
I'd get a hell of a lot more use out of a pepper mill than any of that other crap. I don't want to play gmaes on my cell phone - I want to have a phone conversation. I don't want to take a low-quality picture on my phone - if I wanted a camera, I'd buy one. I don't want to have cool ringtones - if I wanted to get shot, I'd at least do it in style by making a daring daylight robbery of Fort Knox on elephant-back.
Give me a phone that I can use for phone calls. Any feature that does not directly enhance the ability to place, receive, and carry on a phone conversation is entirely superfluous to me.
This really exemplifies what I meant by subjectivity in reviewing music. Lots of people clearly think like you do, judging from how they broadcast said beat throughout the traffic jam but don't care what the lyrics are about. But there are those who pay much more attention to the lyrics, and as a reviewer you may have made an objective statement about the rhythm, but you subjectively left out anything specific about the lyrics, so those people will gain little from your review.
But it's definitely easier to be objective about rap than it is about country-western or baroque. (I'm using these two together for broader range, not repetition.:P)
There's a reason that we still listen to music from the Renaissance. It's called "culture", but as a Briton you might not know about that. ( on that one, but you get the point)
You said it yourself: "subjective" is the key word. It's a lot easier to write objectively about film or books than it is about music. You can (and should) still take in film and books subjectively, but your subjective view and my subjective view are, as the word implies, subject to you and to me, respectively, and you are not me and I am not you and sometimes I'm not even I.
My point is that any review will have elements of the objective and of the subjective in it, but in music there's much less to be meaningfully objective about (outside of technical fundamentals) compared to film and books.
"MS will patent SOAP and sue anyone who uses it without license":P XML-RPC is a very open offshoot of early development on SOAP, and its simplicity means it's easier to implement, from what I've seen. Go try it out - there are extremely easy to use libraries available for C++, PHP, Ruby, and probably others.
Or, of course, you could use S-expressions to accomplish the same thing but with the breath-freshening power of Lisp.
At my alma mater, the server storing all student, faculty, and staff e-mail went down for a while. Later on, we found out that the reason it went down was that their RAID-5 array had a drive die but they either didn't notice or didn't care, because the system was still working, and several weeks later a second drive died. Don't be that guy.
You put way too much effort into that. I usually just wait for the "Where do you see yourself in five years?" and answer with a curt "Retired." Works every time.
Don't you think they're a little underqualified to be changing version numbers? That'd break all sorts of dependencies. It's much easier to keep the same version number and just put it in a different box.
I don't see how driving a bus around is innovative. I'm not just being anti-Microsoft, here; I'm trying to be objective. But a bus tour isn't innovative or, I suspect, very effective at reaching the audience Microsoft is targetting. Obviously they've put more research dollars into this than I have, but the same can be said about computer security, Clippit, and the Windows XP search assistant.
You're right! It's a vast conspiracy wherein Al Gore has caused MSFT to be infiltrated by clones of Richard Stallman who've been cosmetically altered for no particular reason. These clones have the sole mission of forcing MSFT to spend billions on subversive pro-Linux ad campaigns like this.
Microsoft: You are not rock stars! You are computer nerds with more money than brains, and you're not fooling anyone, not even your mothers! Again, you are not rock stars! Get off the bus!
This is the second best unintentional (oh, man, we can only hope it wasn't on purpose!) pun I've seen. The best takes the cake because it was so glaringly obvious and the person who made it is so brilliant that there's no way he could've missed it, and yet it was entirely unintended:
"Computer security is a hard field to break into."
Indian. I'm as native here as they are, stop being PC. If you don't know which group of Indians I'm talking about, just ask me "Dots or feathers?"
This will probably get modded down as a troll, and it doesn't need to be said. I'm just trying out a new whiskey and being cantankerous about my views on political correctness and how it's ruining the world.:)
This is just begging for it. It's not even a challenge - at 1:30 AM Pacific time it doesn't even stand a chance. Why not host it on an 8086 running Elks or Minix off of a 360KB floppy while you're at it? And power it by a couple of potatoes, too.
Don't worry so much - you have 9 months before you're a parent, and your job will be outsourced by then. Make sure your wife has opportunities lined up for after she gives birth, so you can take care of your child while she brings home the money.
We'd often put a Futurama episode on my 20" monitor full-screen in the ACM office instead of going to class, throughout my last year of college. On my 21st birthday, once we closed down the bars we came back to the office and put the entire series up to that point on shuffle and drank until we forgot they were going. Or at least I drank until then. But when push comes to shove, you've gotta do what you love, even if it's not a good idea.
I watch at least an episode or two every night. I have my favorites, and I have others that I hardly ever watch.
Futurama - painstakingly drawn in front of a live audience.
Yeah, I have all the episodes downloaded, but I want to buy the DVD's, mostly to get rid of the Dutch subtitles on How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back and give me consistent color. Oh yeah, and the commentaries.
Although I may have to make some sort of metaphorical deal with the devil to afford them all. And, by devil, I mean Robot Devil. And, by metaphorical, I mean get your coat. Time to go to work.;)
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My design is what took most of the time with the C++ implementation. The design was solid, and the implementation was fine. I'm actually a very rapid C++ programmer, but have found that Lisp gets in the way even less than C++. Also, Lisp encourages more of a bottom-up programming style and frequent testing of individual components due to its interactive programming style. In C++, for example, it's a major hassle to create a temporary set of test cases for a single method, whereas in Lisp it's very easy and quick to do.
There are still things I use C or C++ for, and there are still things I use Ruby, Perl, or PHP for; but I'm really fond of Lisp, and I'm but a newbie to the language.
I have a cell phone for making, receiving, and carrying on phone conversations. What purpose does a game serve? To keep me occupied when I'm waiting for a train? Even if we had a better rail system in this country, I'd rather read a book than play Space Invaders on my cell phone.
And musical ringtones here only amuse the teenage (be she 13 or 30, she's a de facto teenager) girl whose phone has one and her two or three teenage friends who think it's neato the first time. Everyone else in the US looks at you like you're an idiot, unless it's something truly unique or interesting. I once heard a bagpipe song as a ringtone - that was nifty, but I'm sure even that got old for the guy's friends and relations. What's wrong with "ring ring" or, better yet, a vibrating alert?
Then you have chicks who have their phone vibrate enough to mess with geological fault lines and play poorly-rendered hip-hop songs that nobody liked to begin with loud enough to annoy Antarctic penguins in their home territory.
As I said in another comment on this story - I'd rather have a pepper grinder built into my phone than games, cool ringtones, and a camera combined.
- On Lisp
a few months ago. You can get a copy in PDF format online for free, and it's a great book to help you start thinking in Lisp.I've been through a lot of languages, and I've found some favorites, but Lisp is the only one that I can't directly fault the language for anything (C++ is a close second). I haven't found anything in any other language that Common Lisp doesn't have, and a lot of things are really easy to do in Lisp compared to doing them in other languages.
For example, years ago I started a brand-new cutting-edge object-oriented MUSE-like server in C++. Last month, I decided to try in Lisp. In 1 week of coding at most 2 hours a day, I was about twice as far along as I had gotten in months with C++. I couldn't do this in Ruby, my favorite scripting language, because of the lack of real multiple inheritance, and I couldn't do it in C#, my favorite bytecode-compiled C++ ripoff, for the same reason.
Give Common Lisp a real, honest try. You'll be surprised.
I saw an ad for a cell phone that went like this:
...
Guy is at restaurant, pulls out cell phone and starts using the built-in pepper mill.
Want a cell phone with features you really need? We've got 'em! With games, cool ringtones, a camera,
I'd get a hell of a lot more use out of a pepper mill than any of that other crap. I don't want to play gmaes on my cell phone - I want to have a phone conversation. I don't want to take a low-quality picture on my phone - if I wanted a camera, I'd buy one. I don't want to have cool ringtones - if I wanted to get shot, I'd at least do it in style by making a daring daylight robbery of Fort Knox on elephant-back.
Give me a phone that I can use for phone calls. Any feature that does not directly enhance the ability to place, receive, and carry on a phone conversation is entirely superfluous to me.
This really exemplifies what I meant by subjectivity in reviewing music. Lots of people clearly think like you do, judging from how they broadcast said beat throughout the traffic jam but don't care what the lyrics are about. But there are those who pay much more attention to the lyrics, and as a reviewer you may have made an objective statement about the rhythm, but you subjectively left out anything specific about the lyrics, so those people will gain little from your review.
:P)
But it's definitely easier to be objective about rap than it is about country-western or baroque. (I'm using these two together for broader range, not repetition.
There's a reason that we still listen to music from the Renaissance. It's called "culture", but as a Briton you might not know about that. ( on that one, but you get the point)
You said it yourself: "subjective" is the key word. It's a lot easier to write objectively about film or books than it is about music. You can (and should) still take in film and books subjectively, but your subjective view and my subjective view are, as the word implies, subject to you and to me, respectively, and you are not me and I am not you and sometimes I'm not even I.
My point is that any review will have elements of the objective and of the subjective in it, but in music there's much less to be meaningfully objective about (outside of technical fundamentals) compared to film and books.
"MS will patent SOAP and sue anyone who uses it without license" :P XML-RPC is a very open offshoot of early development on SOAP, and its simplicity means it's easier to implement, from what I've seen. Go try it out - there are extremely easy to use libraries available for C++, PHP, Ruby, and probably others.
Or, of course, you could use S-expressions to accomplish the same thing but with the breath-freshening power of Lisp.
At my alma mater, the server storing all student, faculty, and staff e-mail went down for a while. Later on, we found out that the reason it went down was that their RAID-5 array had a drive die but they either didn't notice or didn't care, because the system was still working, and several weeks later a second drive died. Don't be that guy.
You put way too much effort into that. I usually just wait for the "Where do you see yourself in five years?" and answer with a curt "Retired." Works every time.
Don't you think they're a little underqualified to be changing version numbers? That'd break all sorts of dependencies. It's much easier to keep the same version number and just put it in a different box.
I really don't care for either manga or anime. Who's with me?
I don't see how driving a bus around is innovative. I'm not just being anti-Microsoft, here; I'm trying to be objective. But a bus tour isn't innovative or, I suspect, very effective at reaching the audience Microsoft is targetting. Obviously they've put more research dollars into this than I have, but the same can be said about computer security, Clippit, and the Windows XP search assistant.
Name one other computer business that's used a bus tour.
Any fans of Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie here? This thread reminds me of the Toronto Song. (Download it for the rest of this comment.)
You're right! It's a vast conspiracy wherein Al Gore has caused MSFT to be infiltrated by clones of Richard Stallman who've been cosmetically altered for no particular reason. These clones have the sole mission of forcing MSFT to spend billions on subversive pro-Linux ad campaigns like this.
Microsoft: You are not rock stars! You are computer nerds with more money than brains, and you're not fooling anyone, not even your mothers! Again, you are not rock stars! Get off the bus!
I like how it is specified in the article lead to "maintain" a retrograde orbit. As in it hasn't changed ... yet.
This is the second best unintentional (oh, man, we can only hope it wasn't on purpose!) pun I've seen. The best takes the cake because it was so glaringly obvious and the person who made it is so brilliant that there's no way he could've missed it, and yet it was entirely unintended:
"Computer security is a hard field to break into."
But this one wins the prize for subtlety.
Indian. I'm as native here as they are, stop being PC. If you don't know which group of Indians I'm talking about, just ask me "Dots or feathers?"
:)
This will probably get modded down as a troll, and it doesn't need to be said. I'm just trying out a new whiskey and being cantankerous about my views on political correctness and how it's ruining the world.
This is just begging for it. It's not even a challenge - at 1:30 AM Pacific time it doesn't even stand a chance. Why not host it on an 8086 running Elks or Minix off of a 360KB floppy while you're at it? And power it by a couple of potatoes, too.
Don't worry so much - you have 9 months before you're a parent, and your job will be outsourced by then. Make sure your wife has opportunities lined up for after she gives birth, so you can take care of your child while she brings home the money.
We'd often put a Futurama episode on my 20" monitor full-screen in the ACM office instead of going to class, throughout my last year of college. On my 21st birthday, once we closed down the bars we came back to the office and put the entire series up to that point on shuffle and drank until we forgot they were going. Or at least I drank until then. But when push comes to shove, you've gotta do what you love, even if it's not a good idea.
I watch at least an episode or two every night. I have my favorites, and I have others that I hardly ever watch.
Futurama - painstakingly drawn in front of a live audience.
Where's the moderation option for "+1: Frugal"? Thanks. :)
Yeah, I have all the episodes downloaded, but I want to buy the DVD's, mostly to get rid of the Dutch subtitles on How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back and give me consistent color. Oh yeah, and the commentaries.
;)
Although I may have to make some sort of metaphorical deal with the devil to afford them all. And, by devil, I mean Robot Devil. And, by metaphorical, I mean get your coat. Time to go to work.