I use google, I use it because I want to or rather because the other search engines aren't that good. Here's the thing : I pay my freaking internet bills! Just for the concept of being able to use any web site I'd like. So the ISPs are already getting my money for google hits. Not only that, but google also pays for its bandwidth to an ISP already. This sounds like lame excuses 2.0 with a demagogic twist. How about you fuck off?
Yes, I used to hate it because of indentation, but that floating context less code can be fixed with a good editor like geany or kate that have code collapse and thus add helpful lines to the left of your code...
Now that I used python so much this year, I hate it only for the fact I often have to wait the whole program execution before finding out a freaking variable is mistyped...
Your comment would make sense if it wasn't for a little thing... It is bullshit. Try checking out marketshare, Java is still beating.NET's ass. My cell phone? Running Java games already. Oh, you think it would run a.NET app? oh snap, it does not run windows, so screw it.
.NET will be the platform that you can write once and run anywhere.
One day, just like chrome is going to run on Linux, one day...
Really, it annoys Linux users to be treated like the later guy, it should be feel even worse for Solaris people, even Sun treats you like something that is ok not to support from the first day. It was possible to just delay the whole freaking release, but even for Sun it is perfectly ok to just screw these operating systems and only care about OS/X and windows, that's great.
"Sun released JavaFX 1.0 today, in a bid to take on Adobe's Flash and Microsoft's Silverlight technologies
Why exactly would Sun want to take on Silverlight? It is not like silverlight is even relevant right now......Ok, it may already have an amazing marketshare of 0.01 percent the pages that abuse annoying multimedia...
You may assume the Chinese government has installed surveillance on it and thousands of backdoors, etc. And perhaps they did... But I think that it is more than that.
They would sure like to have an OS in which they have a saying rather than having to trust American corporations, it is probably about control but not of the population but of their tech infrastructure. They are probably also looking in advance the sorts of issues TPM is going to cause them if they keep in MS' domain, not to mention all the annoying anti piracy harass they are to deal with,
if they want to stop piracy and still have an actual tech infra estructure, they will have to move out of windows and any sort of American-controlled software, and they know that with cybercafes they have something that is easy to enforce and effective to introduce their brand new Chinese OS to people so they can prepare further migrations later - worse case scenario, some gamers will be unable to play WoW anymore... something that the Chinese gov. would be happy to see, since they basically hate WoW...
. They chose Linux as a base, mostly because they can.
Wow, slashdot cut my message, I was trying to say something like this:
I did implement the heuristic, I could also implement the usage message: (printf("Type n or 0 to exit\n") That's an extra line! But then again the python guy was not counting the two extra lines he used to call main, and I am also counting a lot of blank lines in my program while his python code seems to have been stripped of those.
After that it comes the sarcastic remark about no brackets == less line, etc... I guess a certain guy with mod points just doesn't have talent for catching up sarcasm...
Basically, that's one of the reasons this article is DARN overrated...
If I were to use sort stuff in c++, I would do:
sort( validMoves.begin(), validMoves.end() , byLesserNeighborgCount() )
Sure I will have to make a functor for the byLesserNeighborgCount stuff, but here is the catch, my code is more readable than his python code! wha? That's right, I am not using totally made up terms like lambda just to save me a couple of extra lines in the functor, not only that, but my comparasion is forced to be one from another function, adding more modularity to the code and making the main recursive algorithm shorter... Plus by actually naming the functor it is clear what I actually am doing, I am sorting the possible moves by lesser neighborg count! Amazing is it?
Of course, boost has lambda and like that code I posted down there, I could also exploit pair so I don't have to type the comparisons at all... But saving a couple of lines is totally irrelevant, the better objective is to make something that probably needs 2 extra lines but is actually readable by itself, I wouldn't even need to comment that code... Line count is worthless...
This year I have dedicated some time to learn python, basically, it is a fun language, and it is the first thing I choose for small programs aka scripts that do simple things, like generating a sequence, etc. functional stuff was also useful for a certain numerical methods homework I had to do previous semester.
For simple things it is quite good, and it is fun to play with the syntax constructs, hence the reason it was a good choice for this simple algorithm.
However, I would stay miles away from using it on anything that required more than 200 lines of script in a single file... I have already experienced what a nightmare python can be... You kind of get tired of having to wait 30 seconds of execution only to find out you didn't type a name correctly in the last method your program calls...
I understand that people think that education is a right. I don't see it that way, but it's where we are today. If people want to socialize education, so be it.
Wow dude... So, making education a right is socializing education? How about you fuck off? Really... Oh my God, perhaps YOU are the product of the British school system, that would explain it all.
You know, it would have been possible to make aero not use 3d in case there is no acceleration available, now you have UI that requires 4 cores and will still be slow, great compatibility!
The problem is a social one rather than a psychological issue. In other words, the patients have turned to heavy gaming because they felt they didn't fit in elsewhere
So, is this saying that they are not addicted or that they are addicted because of social issues?
The target is a person that, like a web developer, needs to run three browsers, yet unlike a web developer, is not able to actually use the three browsers, maybe one day, we might guess what sort of person that is.
You say software must be OSI compliant, but you cannot use the OSI compliant version of alfresco... So, just don't use alfresco but use another OSI compliant CM system? What's the problem with this?
Sure a couple of developers probably buy that sort of bullcrap, I never wasn't really sure whether Miguel Icaza was doing stuff intentionally or perhaps he actually is just a naive MS fan with good intentions, who knows? Whatever the intentions from the devs they don't really change what the objective is with moonlight...
All I can do is thank heaven this little plot to make.net required for web browser is really not working that well, the few websites that were using silverlight are moving back to flash, which at least isn't freaking.net , now if only we could go back to standards so the web was accessible and made sense once again...
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I prefer "There's a correlation between correlation and causation"
you think?
Why is it RIAA stories always end with someone mentioning that he performs anal?
I use google, I use it because I want to or rather because the other search engines aren't that good. Here's the thing : I pay my freaking internet bills! Just for the concept of being able to use any web site I'd like. So the ISPs are already getting my money for google hits. Not only that, but google also pays for its bandwidth to an ISP already. This sounds like lame excuses 2.0 with a demagogic twist. How about you fuck off?
Now that I used python so much this year, I hate it only for the fact I often have to wait the whole program execution before finding out a freaking variable is mistyped...
wow, the dream of every mail spammer, getting your spam featured in slashdot!
hahahahahaha
One day, just like chrome is going to run on Linux, one day...
Really, it annoys Linux users to be treated like the later guy, it should be feel even worse for Solaris people, even Sun treats you like something that is ok not to support from the first day. It was possible to just delay the whole freaking release, but even for Sun it is perfectly ok to just screw these operating systems and only care about OS/X and windows, that's great.
Why exactly would Sun want to take on Silverlight? It is not like silverlight is even relevant right now... ...Ok, it may already have an amazing marketshare of 0.01 percent the pages that abuse annoying multimedia...
They would sure like to have an OS in which they have a saying rather than having to trust American corporations, it is probably about control but not of the population but of their tech infrastructure. They are probably also looking in advance the sorts of issues TPM is going to cause them if they keep in MS' domain, not to mention all the annoying anti piracy harass they are to deal with,
if they want to stop piracy and still have an actual tech infra estructure, they will have to move out of windows and any sort of American-controlled software, and they know that with cybercafes they have something that is easy to enforce and effective to introduce their brand new Chinese OS to people so they can prepare further migrations later - worse case scenario, some gamers will be unable to play WoW anymore... something that the Chinese gov. would be happy to see, since they basically hate WoW...
. They chose Linux as a base, mostly because they can.
If they just want to play WoW, that's fine, you just mentioned one of those games that actually work well in WINE. platinum in winehq...
After that it comes the sarcastic remark about no brackets == less line, etc... I guess a certain guy with mod points just doesn't have talent for catching up sarcasm...
If I were to use sort stuff in c++, I would do:
sort( validMoves.begin(), validMoves.end() , byLesserNeighborgCount() )
Sure I will have to make a functor for the byLesserNeighborgCount stuff, but here is the catch, my code is more readable than his python code! wha? That's right, I am not using totally made up terms like lambda just to save me a couple of extra lines in the functor, not only that, but my comparasion is forced to be one from another function, adding more modularity to the code and making the main recursive algorithm shorter... Plus by actually naming the functor it is clear what I actually am doing, I am sorting the possible moves by lesser neighborg count! Amazing is it?
Of course, boost has lambda and like that code I posted down there, I could also exploit pair so I don't have to type the comparisons at all... But saving a couple of lines is totally irrelevant, the better objective is to make something that probably needs 2 extra lines but is actually readable by itself, I wouldn't even need to comment that code... Line count is worthless...
This year I have dedicated some time to learn python, basically, it is a fun language, and it is the first thing I choose for small programs aka scripts that do simple things, like generating a sequence, etc. functional stuff was also useful for a certain numerical methods homework I had to do previous semester.
For simple things it is quite good, and it is fun to play with the syntax constructs, hence the reason it was a good choice for this simple algorithm.
However, I would stay miles away from using it on anything that required more than 200 lines of script in a single file... I have already experienced what a nightmare python can be... You kind of get tired of having to wait 30 seconds of execution only to find out you didn't type a name correctly in the last method your program calls...
I take the point of the blog plug was that I shouldn't be able to do it in C++ with 60 lines....
//hence the reason I am waiting for c++0x ;
:(
1 #include <set>
2 #include <iostream>
3 #include <cassert>
4 using namespace std;
5
6 int dx[8]={1,1,-1,-1,2,2,-2,-2}, dy[8]={2,-2,2,-2,1,-1,1,-1};
7 int D[50][50];
8 int N,C;
9
10 #define valid(x,y) ((x>=0) && (x<N) && (y>=0) && (y<N) && (D[x][y]==-1 ) )
11
12 bool show()
13 {
14 for (int i=N;i--;)
15 {
16 for (int j=N;j--;)
17 cout<<"\t"<<D[i][j];
18 cout<<"\n";
19 }
20 return true;
21 }
22
23 bool rec(int x, int y)
24 {
25 D[x][y]=C++;
26 if(C==N*N)
27 return show();
28
29 set< pair<int, pair<int,int> > > poss;
30 for (int r=8;r--;)
31 if(valid(x+dx[r], y+dy[r]))
32 {
33 int neighb=0;
34 for (int t=8;t--;)
35 neighb+= valid(x+dx[r]+dx[t],y+dy[r]+dy[t] );
36 poss.insert( make_pair(neighb, make_pair(x+dx[r],y+dy[r] ) ));
37 }
38
39 for (typeof(poss.begin()) q=poss.begin(); q!=poss.end(); q++)
40 if (rec(q->second.first, q->second.second))
41 return true;
42
43 D[x][y]=-1;
44 C--;
45
46 return false;
47 }
48
49 void solve(int n)
50 {
51 N=n, C=0;
52 memset(D,-1,sizeof(D));
53 assert(rec(0,0))
54 }
55
56 int main()
57 {
58 int n;
59 while((cin>>n) && (n>0))
60 solve(n);
61 return 0;
62 }
The bastards! Those darn brackets force me to have 2 extra lines
Wow dude... So, making education a right is socializing education? How about you fuck off? Really... Oh my God, perhaps YOU are the product of the British school system, that would explain it all.
You know, it would have been possible to make aero not use 3d in case there is no acceleration available, now you have UI that requires 4 cores and will still be slow, great compatibility!
except, that way they will keep doing it...
So, is this saying that they are not addicted or that they are addicted because of social issues?
The target is a person that, like a web developer, needs to run three browsers, yet unlike a web developer, is not able to actually use the three browsers, maybe one day, we might guess what sort of person that is.
You say software must be OSI compliant, but you cannot use the OSI compliant version of alfresco... So, just don't use alfresco but use another OSI compliant CM system? What's the problem with this?
Wow, this thing got mod points? Isn't slashdot getting worse and worse as we speak?
Cheer up, we didn't lose a SCO, we got a Novell.
All I can do is thank heaven this little plot to make .net required for web browser is really not working that well, the few websites that were using silverlight are moving back to flash, which at least isn't freaking .net , now if only we could go back to standards so the web was accessible and made sense once again...