i disagree, you should have your fair share of discrete mathematics, you know finite state machines, de morgan laws when you are changing your if's, regular expressions,
For LOB applications often you are making specific domain languages so you should know your grammars, also understand complexity in computer science terms is VERY useful.
So you are using a lot of math every day, in every compilation, solving this bug, or whatever, just a subset of math but math nonetheless.
a lot of people can benefit from a little coding background, I met a girl, not dull at all, that program textile patterns, a lot of financial people could program a few lines and save a lot of excel madness, many scientists that can prove or disprove hypotheses, biologists banging his heads to process the sheer raw data, contemporary musicians and artists that should know how to program to make their performances.
Sure kids will hate programming the same way most of the kids hate their math lessons, or their sexual education, or the arts program. But teach to everyone programming even with bad teachers, bad curriculum will bring a new breed of innovations and make the life happier to all of us.
today works like this: bribe local authoritites and enslave miners in third world countries while destroying the environment, then let criminal organizations export them back to the us, like the blood diamonds; there is a huge black market out there.
Well funded R&D can bring us amazing advancements, I only hope this project succeeds and stops the illegal mining and the black market in the same vein of the synthetic latex.
yes, apple updates are cheaper, OTH they are more frequent, in the timeframe 2009-2012 you pay for leopard, snow leopard, lion and mountain lion, $90 or so, so yes, apple is still the king of expensive shit.
"We start modestly as space is available on our sites selling online and in some stores in the United States Microsoft. But the reception, including the press, is phenomenal. This product is one of the best PC and one of the best tablets combined in one machine. Soon, we will present in more countries, more stores. It is here that figure will talk sense." (google translate)
how do you exactly know that for example Nokia has to pay less than 2.25%, or if they have a lower rate with cross-licensing?, i don't find 2.25% unreasonable at all for the tech required to make an compliant mobile phone,patent licensing deals in the phone industry have been worth up to 5% of the price of the device involved.
yes i reread it and he ran the test and failed miserably until two months ago, after submission it failed when he ran it in a slow machine something he never did before. and is stated as a requirement to pass the tests.
he should run the Windows App Certification Kit tests where he can test the app before submission, and there are clear explanations of each and every one of the issues.
For example: - direct3d: "Ensure that the app correctly supports the minimum Direct3D feature level you chose. If that feature level is higher than feature level 9_1, then your app must still run correctly at feature level 9_1. See Developing for different Direct3D feature levels (DirectX and C++) for more details". - Crashes: "We expect apps to be fully functional without the use of Windows compatibility modes, AppHelp messages, or compatibility fixes." - Performance: Make sure that your app suspends correctly.
The website linked in the app and listing page was not finished. i think is clear of its own, your webpage is clearly not finished.
Thankfully everyone can have the tool and run it until the tests are ok, then submit it, any programmer who refuses to read the fucking manual deserves to get out of the store.
Testing is a big subject, my take was to write a full automated test, one that puts the database in a zero state and do as many business scenarios it can, simulate the pass of time, simulate external inputs in the most realistic fashion so you don't have any surprise in the deployment.
The Test Team can use the tools developed to speed up their job(put the system in X state can be made by your automated test framework). they test manually all the system too, specially the UI and report bugs,
Designing the system so you can easily test and replicate states, developing the tools and putting it all together with the team was a task i found stimulating.
The points of Thiez are flawed in every way, we know that a finite computer program can produce infinitely complex outputs, there is a lot of old school materialism around here, thankfully the scientific comunity is more open minded.
i disagree, why solving climate models is not a work of art?, why an astronomical simulation or a chess machine have a disconnection with philosophy?, the computing part is an implementation thing, yes, but they have a part of philosophy and art, at least in the eye of the implementors.
i used MPICH2 for my thesis (simulation of fluids by lattice boltzmann method, c++, ch_p4) if you are interested i can send it to you:-) .
Jumpshot is nice, you must compile MPICH with mpe enabled (the right flags are really tricky).
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I'm really concerned about this windows 2003 cluster thing, they are going to make an incompatible version, they are NOT going to use SSH, or rsh since process managament is completly different, and a lot of things will broke. sure we differ in our views about minimum specs of mpi, but we agree about the broken windows-mpi thing.
Not sure about python since I don't use it, but it is always installed
python IS required for mpiexec and mpd, NFS is required, unless you copy your executables around in every node manually, and not use any Parallel-IO capability.
Java is needed for Jumpshot-4, a graphical utility that shows profiling data.
in your debunking points you don't say a word about ssh, why?.
Services for Unix provide python?, rsh/ssh?, nfs client and server?, fortran compilers?, automake autoconf?. java? because the last time i installed mpi, these were the requirements.
RTFA. even if the title of the interview says "The Next 50 Years of Computer Security" the content is not related with the next 50 years, there are just some superficial random thoughts of alan cox about CURRENT security.
Will the promise of the same feature set and the same tools (for Windows, Mac and Linux) mean the future of cross-platform development is here?
the present of cross plataform is already here, it's called GCC.
i don't think that bookmarks better than search engine makes any sense at all, are you trying to say that instead of indexing automatically a broad range of documents for intranet usage using lucene or htdig YOU will bookmark manually every page using your favorite browser?,
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is more like have a comment history and know if you are trolling.
i disagree, you should have your fair share of discrete mathematics, you know finite state machines, de morgan laws when you are changing your if's, regular expressions,
For LOB applications often you are making specific domain languages so you should know your grammars, also understand complexity in computer science terms is VERY useful.
So you are using a lot of math every day, in every compilation, solving this bug, or whatever, just a subset of math but math nonetheless.
a lot of people can benefit from a little coding background, I met a girl, not dull at all, that program textile patterns, a lot of financial people could program a few lines and save a lot of excel madness, many scientists that can prove or disprove hypotheses, biologists banging his heads to process the sheer raw data, contemporary musicians and artists that should know how to program to make their performances.
Sure kids will hate programming the same way most of the kids hate their math lessons, or their sexual education, or the arts program. But teach to everyone programming even with bad teachers, bad curriculum will bring a new breed of innovations and make the life happier to all of us.
today works like this: bribe local authoritites and enslave miners in third world countries while destroying the environment, then let criminal organizations export them back to the us, like the blood diamonds; there is a huge black market out there.
Well funded R&D can bring us amazing advancements, I only hope this project succeeds and stops the illegal mining and the black market in the same vein of the synthetic latex.
this is still true with the current stock price?
yes, apple updates are cheaper, OTH they are more frequent, in the timeframe 2009-2012 you pay for leopard, snow leopard, lion and mountain lion, $90 or so, so yes, apple is still the king of expensive shit.
well, there is the original source
"We start modestly as space is available on our sites selling online and in some stores in the United States Microsoft. But the reception, including the press, is phenomenal. This product is one of the best PC and one of the best tablets combined in one machine. Soon, we will present in more countries, more stores. It is here that figure will talk sense."
(google translate)
as i stated before, ballmer never said that sales were modest, he said that surface had a modest distribution, i.e. only launching in a few markets.
well, your link is wrong, Ballmer Never said that SALES were modest, the quote is a " widely distributed mistranslation ".
how do you exactly know that for example Nokia has to pay less than 2.25%, or if they have a lower rate with cross-licensing?, i don't find 2.25% unreasonable at all for the tech required to make an compliant mobile phone,patent licensing deals in the phone industry have been worth up to 5% of the price of the device involved.
yes i reread it and he ran the test and failed miserably until two months ago, after submission it failed when he ran it in a slow machine something he never did before. and is stated as a requirement to pass the tests.
suspend correctly is that in a machine with low memory, slow cpu the application suspends in less than 2 seconds. at least to pass the test.
he should run the Windows App Certification Kit tests where he can test the app before submission, and there are clear explanations of each and every one of the issues.
For example:
- direct3d: "Ensure that the app correctly supports the minimum Direct3D feature level you chose. If that feature level is higher than feature level 9_1, then your app must still run correctly at feature level 9_1. See Developing for different Direct3D feature levels (DirectX and C++) for more details".
- Crashes: "We expect apps to be fully functional without the use of Windows compatibility modes, AppHelp messages, or compatibility fixes."
- Performance: Make sure that your app suspends correctly.
The website linked in the app and listing page was not finished. i think is clear of its own, your webpage is clearly not finished.
Thankfully everyone can have the tool and run it until the tests are ok, then submit it, any programmer who refuses to read the fucking manual deserves to get out of the store.
Testing is a big subject, my take was to write a full automated test, one that puts the database in a zero state and do as many business scenarios it can, simulate the pass of time, simulate external inputs in the most realistic fashion so you don't have any surprise in the deployment.
The Test Team can use the tools developed to speed up their job(put the system in X state can be made by your automated test framework). they test manually all the system too, specially the UI and report bugs,
Designing the system so you can easily test and replicate states, developing the tools and putting it all together with the team was a task i found stimulating.
The points of Thiez are flawed in every way, we know that a finite computer program can produce infinitely complex outputs, there is a lot of old school materialism around here, thankfully the scientific comunity is more open minded.
Napalm, eh?. it should fix a couple of things.
i disagree, why solving climate models is not a work of art?, why an astronomical simulation or a chess machine have a disconnection with philosophy?, the computing part is an implementation thing, yes, but they have a part of philosophy and art, at least in the eye of the implementors.
which is the size of your cluster?. because i'm just a poor student, my cluster only had 3 nodes.
i used MPICH2 for my thesis (simulation of fluids by lattice boltzmann method, c++, ch_p4) if you are interested i can send it to you :-) .
Jumpshot is nice, you must compile MPICH with mpe enabled (the right flags are really tricky).
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I'm really concerned about this windows 2003 cluster thing, they are going to make an incompatible version, they are NOT going to use SSH, or rsh since process managament is completly different, and a lot of things will broke. sure we differ in our views about minimum specs of mpi, but we agree about the broken windows-mpi thing.
Not sure about python since I don't use it, but it is always installed
python IS required for mpiexec and mpd, NFS is required, unless you copy your executables around in every node manually, and not use any Parallel-IO capability.
Java is needed for Jumpshot-4, a graphical utility that shows profiling data.
in your debunking points you don't say a word about ssh, why?.
Services for Unix provide python?, rsh/ssh?, nfs client and server?, fortran compilers?, automake autoconf?. java? because the last time i installed mpi, these were the requirements.
RTFA. even if the title of the interview says "The Next 50 Years of Computer Security" the content is not related with the next 50 years, there are just some superficial random thoughts of alan cox about CURRENT security.
an interview with Benny.
More news about Benny's job
Will the promise of the same feature set and the same tools (for Windows, Mac and Linux) mean the future of cross-platform development is here?
the present of cross plataform is already here, it's called GCC.
i don't think that bookmarks better than search engine makes any sense at all, are you trying to say that instead of indexing automatically a broad range of documents for intranet usage using lucene or htdig YOU will bookmark manually every page using your favorite browser?,