The BSD parts were the cli tools, and it isn't like most *nix where the gui tools are just wrappers around the cli.
The part that the userspace is "running on" was never BSD, it was NextSTEP/OpenSTEP. When Apple pushed Jobs out, he went to NeXTSTEP and started working on what became OS-X. *NIX roots, yes, BSD, no.
I find it funny, because when I'm running *BSD my only complaint is that the GNU tools are usually better in certain ways.
Not backing up is super-stupid and will get you eventually.
You're saying, all data is extremely important and if any data doesn't get stored permanently, it will "get you." "Eventually."
But no. Most data doesn't need to be backed up. Only important data needs to be backed up. Are you a photographer? Back up all your photos. Are you an internet celebrity? Back up all your selfies. Are you a food journalist? Back up all your snapshots of lunch. But if you're not any of those things, it isn't going to "get you" if you don't have backups of your lunch pictures.
Before you know if backups are important to have, or a needless opsec risk, you need to understand what the data is. Start from ignorance, and move towards knowledge before acting.
Doesn't that depend on the OS? If you were me, you'd have the power to use new software on old computers. Why are your technical capabilities so weak? Is installing an OS hard? Isn't that beginner stuff? You're a slave to your own ignorance. And like you say, you're not paying attention.
Cool kids don't get to choose anything; their clothing brands, their cars, their friends, making personalized choices about that sort of thing is something nerds and individuals value. If you want to be cool, no you don't get to choose your personal digital assistant. And no, you don't get to worry about things like "mobile bandwidth." What are you... poor?!
They're not assholes. You're the asshole, for being jealous of something that is actually lame. They're just selling vapid products.
Soldered-on SSDs are common in ultrabooks. Notebooks are always a compromise between speed, size, cost, etc. You can certainly be careful to buy a notebook with a removable SSD if you want, but it's not a given if you simply avoid Apple.
Right, the important thing is to buy a reputable product like a Thinkpad. It isn't enough to just avoid one brand known for repair-unfriendly products.
Like most things, the positive logic is more useful than the negative; find what you do want and then you know what to buy, finding what you don't want only gets you to the next step of evaluation.
I don't know about python, but I assume it is similar to Ruby in that you can prevent it from failing at all if you want. Failure is an optional luxury that is useful to debugging, but not an absolutely required feature.
In C, failure at runtime is never even defined; any mistake I make could cause it. Any.
The reason it is fun is because PHP was invented by a guy who thought that computer languages are hard, because language designers are arrogant idiots in ivory towers. And so he was going to create an easy language, that is better.
So that's why it is fun argument. They started it. "Ha-Ha!"
And it is usable, but painful, and not actually easier than just installing a content management framework. Which is really where the world is these days.
If you're actually building a new site "using" PHP, it should only mean you're installing a framework and writing content. Same as if it is a RubyOnRails framework. And if it is a dynamic database-backed website, you'll be using an ORM no matter where you go. So the problem becomes, if you're an anti-intellectual snob who listens to the pitch about why PHP is good and chose it, you probably don't understand regexes and SQL really well. And those are the languages you actually need to master for modern websites. And a couple flavors of text search template.
The one time I took a PHP contract: a guy comes into a Ruby chat channel on IRC, asks somebody for help, says in PM he has a PHP website and his programmer has been stuck on a bug for 3 days and needs help.
It was one wrong byte in a regex. A few minutes. Obvious from the log.
What if they don't know how to write new plots, and when they hire professional writers to write plots, they hate them really bad and don't want to publish it?
It almost seems as if most of them need to go out of business for a few years, so that it can re-grow as a green field that lets in ideas with a market.
I don't care if my DSLR is naive or not, I just want it to accept the storage media and save pictures to it. I don't care if I "should have to" unmount properly; that isn't a feature that is going to drive my purchase of a camera or other device, so it doesn't get to have important pedanticisms. The fact is, if it isn't properly unmounted, and it is plugged into a device that is not a general purpose computer, it might not work. If you're sure it works in all your devices, then you don't have to care, but there isn't a general answer about not caring that is actually useful.
I don't give a rat's ass what the drive is doing when you remove it. If you want to plug it into a Pentax camera without having to reformat it first, you'll eject or unmount the drive before removal.
Lots of other devices have this same problem. The drive records if it was properly ejected or not. You have to know for sure if you want the ability to use it with any compatible device on the next insert, or if you want to have to risk needing to re-insert it, and then eject, so that your device will trust you that the drive is in a known-good state.
It is not enough to know what the drive is doing "at the time," you have to know what the drive will be doing in the future too.
Also, in Tokyo you can buy lettuce grown indoors, in a highrise building, right in town. Grown with LED lights. And picked by local workers. They're Japanese, they probably washed their hands even if they didn't work in an urban farm.;)
Knowledge leads to choices, it doesn't lead to "golly everything is the same." Duh.
Neither. I meant what I said, and I said what I meant.
It was analysis. No, it was not comedy or politics.
But certainly if a person considers the ideas expressed to call them to action, more power to them! Or less, if they screw up the PR. Not my thing; but I'll be happy to offer some analysis if they manage to have some impact.
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It is not and never was "running on" BSD.
The BSD parts were the cli tools, and it isn't like most *nix where the gui tools are just wrappers around the cli.
The part that the userspace is "running on" was never BSD, it was NextSTEP/OpenSTEP. When Apple pushed Jobs out, he went to NeXTSTEP and started working on what became OS-X. *NIX roots, yes, BSD, no.
I find it funny, because when I'm running *BSD my only complaint is that the GNU tools are usually better in certain ways.
Not backing up is super-stupid and will get you eventually.
You're saying, all data is extremely important and if any data doesn't get stored permanently, it will "get you." "Eventually."
But no. Most data doesn't need to be backed up. Only important data needs to be backed up. Are you a photographer? Back up all your photos. Are you an internet celebrity? Back up all your selfies. Are you a food journalist? Back up all your snapshots of lunch. But if you're not any of those things, it isn't going to "get you" if you don't have backups of your lunch pictures.
Before you know if backups are important to have, or a needless opsec risk, you need to understand what the data is. Start from ignorance, and move towards knowledge before acting.
Doesn't that depend on the OS? If you were me, you'd have the power to use new software on old computers. Why are your technical capabilities so weak? Is installing an OS hard? Isn't that beginner stuff? You're a slave to your own ignorance. And like you say, you're not paying attention.
Cool kids don't get to choose anything; their clothing brands, their cars, their friends, making personalized choices about that sort of thing is something nerds and individuals value. If you want to be cool, no you don't get to choose your personal digital assistant. And no, you don't get to worry about things like "mobile bandwidth." What are you... poor?!
They're not assholes. You're the asshole, for being jealous of something that is actually lame. They're just selling vapid products.
Soldered-on SSDs are common in ultrabooks. Notebooks are always a compromise between speed, size, cost, etc. You can certainly be careful to buy a notebook with a removable SSD if you want, but it's not a given if you simply avoid Apple.
Right, the important thing is to buy a reputable product like a Thinkpad. It isn't enough to just avoid one brand known for repair-unfriendly products.
Like most things, the positive logic is more useful than the negative; find what you do want and then you know what to buy, finding what you don't want only gets you to the next step of evaluation.
No, you're clueless and ignorant.
Clearly he meant vincinity; the area in which the selfless goodness of PHP emanates, as if being in the presence of Saint Vincent.
What if they use XHTML? And, is it a general rule for SGML mixing with code, or is it limited to certain versions?
I don't know about python, but I assume it is similar to Ruby in that you can prevent it from failing at all if you want. Failure is an optional luxury that is useful to debugging, but not an absolutely required feature.
In C, failure at runtime is never even defined; any mistake I make could cause it. Any.
- strong typing
- strong debugging support
- reliable libraries
- reliable refactoring
- capability of scaling to large and distributed projects
This is why Go was invented; the old languages didn't have all that either.
The reason it is fun is because PHP was invented by a guy who thought that computer languages are hard, because language designers are arrogant idiots in ivory towers. And so he was going to create an easy language, that is better.
So that's why it is fun argument. They started it. "Ha-Ha!"
And it is usable, but painful, and not actually easier than just installing a content management framework. Which is really where the world is these days.
If you're actually building a new site "using" PHP, it should only mean you're installing a framework and writing content. Same as if it is a RubyOnRails framework. And if it is a dynamic database-backed website, you'll be using an ORM no matter where you go. So the problem becomes, if you're an anti-intellectual snob who listens to the pitch about why PHP is good and chose it, you probably don't understand regexes and SQL really well. And those are the languages you actually need to master for modern websites. And a couple flavors of text search template.
The one time I took a PHP contract: a guy comes into a Ruby chat channel on IRC, asks somebody for help, says in PM he has a PHP website and his programmer has been stuck on a bug for 3 days and needs help.
It was one wrong byte in a regex. A few minutes. Obvious from the log.
COBOL has decimal numeric representation, and decimal math, so it's not really that painful to work in.
And modern versions cut the boilerplate way way down. You can even call C libraries.
These days, the only way I'm not writing it in C is if I'm writing it in Go.
What if they don't know how to write new plots, and when they hire professional writers to write plots, they hate them really bad and don't want to publish it?
It almost seems as if most of them need to go out of business for a few years, so that it can re-grow as a green field that lets in ideas with a market.
The comic store near me is thriving, but mostly because of the large adult section.
Less than 25% is in the "Tank Girl-takeoff" style.
But if you're both shopping there at the same time, I totally hope she laughs at you.
If you steam the liquid out, surely it is true, all the more reason to use a masticating or cold press juicer.
an array of illuminated diodes on some silly touch-sensitive narrow one-line screen.
That sounds really horrid, I'm so glad I've never even seen such a device.
I think I'd probably make a custom keyboard before even touching a keyboard like that.
Do they at least have an eject command like most *nix? On linux it is usually /usr/bin/eject and you can use the -t flag to close it.
And if it is busy, then you can lsof /dev/cdrom
I don't care if my DSLR is naive or not, I just want it to accept the storage media and save pictures to it. I don't care if I "should have to" unmount properly; that isn't a feature that is going to drive my purchase of a camera or other device, so it doesn't get to have important pedanticisms. The fact is, if it isn't properly unmounted, and it is plugged into a device that is not a general purpose computer, it might not work. If you're sure it works in all your devices, then you don't have to care, but there isn't a general answer about not caring that is actually useful.
When you say "PC floppy," are you talking about IBM brand floppy drives, or something else?
You may find the term doesn't carry the meaning you think it does.
Horse shit.
I don't give a rat's ass what the drive is doing when you remove it. If you want to plug it into a Pentax camera without having to reformat it first, you'll eject or unmount the drive before removal.
Lots of other devices have this same problem. The drive records if it was properly ejected or not. You have to know for sure if you want the ability to use it with any compatible device on the next insert, or if you want to have to risk needing to re-insert it, and then eject, so that your device will trust you that the drive is in a known-good state.
It is not enough to know what the drive is doing "at the time," you have to know what the drive will be doing in the future too.
When you figure the difference between a label that tells you about things, and a label that is placed on things, then we can talk policy.
Right now, your grammar isn't narrowly defined enough to enter the conversation at the level of detail that your nouns and verbs call for.
Ever hear of a "farmer's market?"
Also, in Tokyo you can buy lettuce grown indoors, in a highrise building, right in town. Grown with LED lights. And picked by local workers. They're Japanese, they probably washed their hands even if they didn't work in an urban farm. ;)
Knowledge leads to choices, it doesn't lead to "golly everything is the same." Duh.
For the reason of having choice, that's all you have to worry about.
That's idiotic. Your "I want choice" can be used as an argument for absolutely anything.
Right, exactly, freedoms are always like that! You don't need to worry about if I'm making good choices or not.
You call freedom idiotic, I call it freedom.
Neither. I meant what I said, and I said what I meant.
It was analysis. No, it was not comedy or politics.
But certainly if a person considers the ideas expressed to call them to action, more power to them! Or less, if they screw up the PR. Not my thing; but I'll be happy to offer some analysis if they manage to have some impact.