I'm not in the aerospace field - maybe applying directly into the private space industry is your best bet. But, in my career, I've learned the best way to enter a field that is normally closed to you is to build a solid network. That doesn't mean shmoozing your way in, however. That means, work hard at the jobs you can get, and build great professional relationships with others. As the private space industry grows, it wouldn't be surprising that someone you worked with who has a high opinion of you will enter the industry and will be asked, "got any friends? we're hiring like crazy."
You only need to look at the windows header files to realize that it was also written in C. The marginalization in the OP is not needed, and Windows users owe him just as much.
Innovation extends beyond slapping different plastic on the same old products. At least they are honest enough to admit they are not capable of actual innovation.
That's what Microsoft did with C# and the CLI, too. Either we believe that our open standards bodies are real, and that standards are indeed standards, or we believe that they are corruptible by corporations and nothing is actually standard, or we believe that somehow Google is an incorruptible paragon of holy perfection.
I understand the reasoning behind the first two. I think the third might indicate substance abuse.
I have this idea of a new language that is 100% Javascript-compatible. It would require no code conversion whatsoever, works with your existing tool chain, and requires no new learning. It started out from an Ada-like project, and I dubbed it "New ADA", or "NADA". It's evolved quite a bit and doesn't look like Ada anymore. In fact, it looks exactly like Javascript. But it's new! I recommend that everyone start using Nada as soon as possible to open a whole new world of possibilities.
Because it's a way to program apps for a platform that is likely to be relatively popular? Or maybe you'll just follow up with something even more snarky and snobby.
The immediate cause of death wasn't made clear, but this is immensely sad news for me. I have a friend who has recently been diagnosed with the same type of (rare) pancreatic cancer. Jobs' version of the cancer is supposed to be more treatable, and he wouldn't have lived as long as he did had he the more common, deadly form. I had hoped that he would survive longer.
Maybe - it takes about maybe 1 second to awake from sleep. My phone is more instantaneous. But you were comparing Windows cold boot time to iPhone wake time. Different things. And no, I don't restart Windows significantly more than I start my phone. They are both rare occurrences.
My Windows notebook awakes from sleep instantly and boots about the same speed as my iPhone. I think you're trying to compare Windows boot time to iPhone awake time. Those are 2 completely different things, and it's amazing you don't see the difference.
Microsoft has had free dev tools for a long time now. Their Express tools are free as are all their sdk's.
MonoDroid does let you use C# in android, but only the extremely naive would think a C# windows app would come over without much pain. Forget bringing over any winforms or wpf code, and in th case of the latter, your viewmodel code becomes useless as well. Your argument is a stretch.
If they don't make things real easy and cheap for developers, they're going to have problems. They might even have problems if they do make things real easy and cheap.
Any company making a huge launch or initiative is going to potentially have problems. Thanks for the deep insight here.
Of course it is highly uncertain how win8 will perform in the mobile arena, not even windows fans doubt that. The question of how compelling the platform will be will have a huge amount of light shed this week, so trying to punditize on that is kind of pointless. Much more useful to start discussing in 3 or 4 days.
Finally, Windows has never needed the approval of the/. crowd to find success, and it has never been able to rely on its biggest cheerleaders to prevent utter fail.
I think like most reasonable people not obsessed with bashing a particular company, I will wait until I have had a chance to actually play with it and see what customization is available befor I go scream bloody murder. That is coming from someone who does not like ribbons but won't mind them if I can get what I want from them.
I would like to add formatting to things I write in my notebook as well as work with tabular data sometimes. I would like to be able to doodle pictures, and maybe refine them and apply effects. And also maybe bring my photo collection with me and organize/fix/enhance photos. Oh and maybe watch some movies as well.
The line between casual use and full pc functionality is very blurry, in fact, almost a perfect gradient.
Neither are my laptop nor my phone. The computer I programmed in 6th grade could barely manage basic graphics and there was no such thing as a window outside of xerox parc.
The tablet is no more a revolution than the laptop was.
I agree with this. I have been on the verge of buying a tablet for a year now, but the fact that I can already do all the casual stuff on my phone keeps me from actually taking the plunge.
Wrote this on my iPhone, btw. When I need to do more serious work, my MacBook is irreplaceable.
I wonder how much of this has to do with that news story a little while back about that new experimental treatment for leukemia. From what I understand, it was amazingly successful and has applications in other cancers, including pancreatic cancer (my assumption is that it would apply to both the common kind and the one that he had). Since cancer risk never goes away, and since he was looking to transition out at some point, and that cancer has affected his life so deeply, and that he has extremely deep pockets, I wonder whether he will be pulling a Gates move in the area of cancer research.
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The Department of Perpetual Orange, with possible Yellow heading into this weekend.
I wonder what happens if I try to remove Chrome from, say, hmmm, Chrome OS. Am I left with just OS?
Gotta consider that as long as we're comparing behavior to Linux.
I'm not in the aerospace field - maybe applying directly into the private space industry is your best bet. But, in my career, I've learned the best way to enter a field that is normally closed to you is to build a solid network. That doesn't mean shmoozing your way in, however. That means, work hard at the jobs you can get, and build great professional relationships with others. As the private space industry grows, it wouldn't be surprising that someone you worked with who has a high opinion of you will enter the industry and will be asked, "got any friends? we're hiring like crazy."
"I'm going to fucking kill Google"
"I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this."
He had to get these quotes in because he was pissed someone edited these out of his Stanford commencement speech.
Every search will return 1 hit, and no hits ever after.
Not to mention C being the father of so many other languages that share it's general (beautiful) syntax.
You only need to look at the windows header files to realize that it was also written in C. The marginalization in the OP is not needed, and Windows users owe him just as much.
Innovation extends beyond slapping different plastic on the same old products. At least they are honest enough to admit they are not capable of actual innovation.
That's what Microsoft did with C# and the CLI, too. Either we believe that our open standards bodies are real, and that standards are indeed standards, or we believe that they are corruptible by corporations and nothing is actually standard, or we believe that somehow Google is an incorruptible paragon of holy perfection.
I understand the reasoning behind the first two. I think the third might indicate substance abuse.
I have this idea of a new language that is 100% Javascript-compatible. It would require no code conversion whatsoever, works with your existing tool chain, and requires no new learning. It started out from an Ada-like project, and I dubbed it "New ADA", or "NADA". It's evolved quite a bit and doesn't look like Ada anymore. In fact, it looks exactly like Javascript. But it's new! I recommend that everyone start using Nada as soon as possible to open a whole new world of possibilities.
In the world of programming, you choose your poison and insist to everyone that you are feeling fine.
Because it's a way to program apps for a platform that is likely to be relatively popular? Or maybe you'll just follow up with something even more snarky and snobby.
The immediate cause of death wasn't made clear, but this is immensely sad news for me. I have a friend who has recently been diagnosed with the same type of (rare) pancreatic cancer. Jobs' version of the cancer is supposed to be more treatable, and he wouldn't have lived as long as he did had he the more common, deadly form. I had hoped that he would survive longer.
Android.
Maybe - it takes about maybe 1 second to awake from sleep. My phone is more instantaneous. But you were comparing Windows cold boot time to iPhone wake time. Different things. And no, I don't restart Windows significantly more than I start my phone. They are both rare occurrences.
My Windows notebook awakes from sleep instantly and boots about the same speed as my iPhone. I think you're trying to compare Windows boot time to iPhone awake time. Those are 2 completely different things, and it's amazing you don't see the difference.
You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
Microsoft has had free dev tools for a long time now. Their Express tools are free as are all their sdk's.
MonoDroid does let you use C# in android, but only the extremely naive would think a C# windows app would come over without much pain. Forget bringing over any winforms or wpf code, and in th case of the latter, your viewmodel code becomes useless as well. Your argument is a stretch.
If they don't make things real easy and cheap for developers, they're going to have problems. They might even have problems if they do make things real easy and cheap.
Any company making a huge launch or initiative is going to potentially have problems. Thanks for the deep insight here.
Of course it is highly uncertain how win8 will perform in the mobile arena, not even windows fans doubt that. The question of how compelling the platform will be will have a huge amount of light shed this week, so trying to punditize on that is kind of pointless. Much more useful to start discussing in 3 or 4 days.
Finally, Windows has never needed the approval of the /. crowd to find success, and it has never been able to rely on its biggest cheerleaders to prevent utter fail.
I think like most reasonable people not obsessed with bashing a particular company, I will wait until I have had a chance to actually play with it and see what customization is available befor I go scream bloody murder. That is coming from someone who does not like ribbons but won't mind them if I can get what I want from them.
I would like to add formatting to things I write in my notebook as well as work with tabular data sometimes. I would like to be able to doodle pictures, and maybe refine them and apply effects. And also maybe bring my photo collection with me and organize/fix/enhance photos. Oh and maybe watch some movies as well.
The line between casual use and full pc functionality is very blurry, in fact, almost a perfect gradient.
Neither are my laptop nor my phone. The computer I programmed in 6th grade could barely manage basic graphics and there was no such thing as a window outside of xerox parc.
The tablet is no more a revolution than the laptop was.
I agree with this. I have been on the verge of buying a tablet for a year now, but the fact that I can already do all the casual stuff on my phone keeps me from actually taking the plunge.
Wrote this on my iPhone, btw. When I need to do more serious work, my MacBook is irreplaceable.
I wonder how much of this has to do with that news story a little while back about that new experimental treatment for leukemia. From what I understand, it was amazingly successful and has applications in other cancers, including pancreatic cancer (my assumption is that it would apply to both the common kind and the one that he had). Since cancer risk never goes away, and since he was looking to transition out at some point, and that cancer has affected his life so deeply, and that he has extremely deep pockets, I wonder whether he will be pulling a Gates move in the area of cancer research.
News at 11!
Seriously though, all it really shows is that $99 is past the impulse buy threshold for a quality tablet. Duh.
Right, because Microsoft really needs to hammer HTC, LG, and Samsung out of the market. That would be so righteous and genius of them.