Anonymous inner classes are closer, but I think I said "closures kinda sorta" or something to that effect anyway.
The problem with Objective-C --- well, hardly the only problem, let's say a problem --- is that it loses the underlying virtual machine and thus shares C's problem that a large part of the behavior of a program can't be predicted until you know what machine its going to execute on. It's also relatiuvely hard to learn, since it has two syntaxes, C and Smalltalk-like.
Well, of course Smalltalk doesn't really have either one, or even separate compilation, so there are similarities to Ada, C, C++, Eiffel, and so on, that distinguish Java from smalltalk. On the other hand, Java has the bytecode interpreter basis, closures of a sort, garbage collection, and a large standard class library with lots of GUI and network richness.
Perhaps more to the point, Jim Gosling has been quoted as saying that Java was based on trying to bring Smalltalk to C++ programmers.
No, you're not my son, you're just another young moron who thinks links reflect knowledge. Of course, if you read your links you'll see that COBOL was driven by FLOW-MATIC; Java wasn't designed by a committee, but the version of C you've most certainly used was; and that LISP, FORTRAN, and COBOL are in fact exactly contemporary.
If you had much deep knowledge of programming languages --- or had read the links you posted --- you'd also realize that Java has more in common with Smalltalk than pretty much any other conventional language in any way except syntax.
What you probably don't know is that I stopped sleeping with your mother when I realized she'd have children that were ugly and dress funny.
Grace Hopper was, and James Gosling is, most definitly a programmer. If you don't think COBOL was an advance at its time, you've just never coded 701 machine code.
If you think Java's syntax is radically different from C's syntax, you've never coded in one or both of them.
2.2 Sieverts is 220 rems. that's like 8-10 times previous estimates. And you've got to wonder about quotes like this:
Others suggest more radical solutions might be needed. "Radiation exposure is certainly one of the major problems facing future interplanetary space travellers," says Murdoch Baxter, founding editor of the Journal of Environmental Radioactivity. "Unless we can develop instantaneous time and space transfer technologies like Dr Who's TARDIS."
The Journey to the West is hilarious, you should get the whole thing sometime.
Anyway, it's not that Buddhists distrust the sense themseves: they distrust thoughts about the senses. Those thoughts then can modify the way you perceive the sensory data --- consider watching someone eat, with evident enjoyment, a dark brown semi-liquid substance with a spoon. Your perception of it, down to visceral reactions, is wildly different if you think it's chocolate ice cream or dog poop.
I've been doing Buddhist practices for damn near 40 years now, and I've noticed it anecdotally: a lot of visual illusions don't seem to work any longer. Now, it's hard to separate that out from being, well, old (remember how as a kid it looked for all the world like the moon was racing along with your car when Mom and Dad drove you somewhere at night?) and perceptual psych is way down the list of things I want to do in my spare time, but it seems completely plausible to me that monks who spend lots more time in these practices than I do would show these effects very strongly.
Exceeding focus of thought is required to write a sentence like that one, I hope you know.
... as someone who has suffered from depression for years, let me hint to you that there are several other things in the IT "lifestyle" ("Life? Don't talk to me about life....") that have something or other to do with depression.
(1) Self-care. The style that we encourage in CS courses, with our image of hackers working for days at a time and living on the four programmer food gorups ("caffeine, grease, salt, and processed sugar"), is not something that people can generally physically deal with even into the middle twenties. Sleep and periodic meals make a big big difference to mood.
PHB's who think that you can actually do more in an 80 hour week than in a 50 hour week just add to this, which leads to...
(2) Feelings of helplessness. We start out with the frustrations of programming, where we're doing perhaps the most complicated intellectual task invented by humanity, doing it with a body of knowledge that's really only 50 or 60 years old, and dealing periodically with apparently inexplicable problems. Then add the canonical Dilbert moments: PHB's, "flexible" schedules, expected overtime, "offshoring", our own inclination toward being obsessive-compulsive (which we either start with or are trained into by our tools and techniques), and then dealing with a whole lot of people who don't understand the intellectual challenges or share the style of rigorous thought and obsession with detail that go with our field. Depression and burnout are very much related to feelings of helplessness.
(3) programming tends to involve people who are less extroverted and less social. People who are bright, introverted, and unsocial tend to feel isolated and alone. Depressing.
In fact, a lot of us would test pretty highly for Asperger's Syndrome, which is akin to mild autism.
The point is that you don't need some new "information glut" syndrome to explain a prevalence of depression and burnout.
Its not like Google's revenue has anything to do with search, except as a way to pull people to their site. But they get revenue by presenting targeted ad content.
Now, whether ad=paid services are a feasible long-term model is another question, but the broadcast networks have managed for 50 years, and last I looked Yahoo was making money.
Slashdot Mirror
Anonymous inner classes are closer, but I think I said "closures kinda sorta" or something to that effect anyway.
The problem with Objective-C --- well, hardly the only problem, let's say a problem --- is that it loses the underlying virtual machine and thus shares C's problem that a large part of the behavior of a program can't be predicted until you know what machine its going to execute on. It's also relatiuvely hard to learn, since it has two syntaxes, C and Smalltalk-like.
Well, of course Smalltalk doesn't really have either one, or even separate compilation, so there are similarities to Ada, C, C++, Eiffel, and so on, that distinguish Java from smalltalk. On the other hand, Java has the bytecode interpreter basis, closures of a sort, garbage collection, and a large standard class library with lots of GUI and network richness.
Perhaps more to the point, Jim Gosling has been quoted as saying that Java was based on trying to bring Smalltalk to C++ programmers.
yes.
Don't worry, everyone is runnning from the IT world. It'll be competitive again soon.
COBOL pays well.
No, you're not my son, you're just another young moron who thinks links reflect knowledge. Of course, if you read your links you'll see that COBOL was driven by FLOW-MATIC; Java wasn't designed by a committee, but the version of C you've most certainly used was; and that LISP, FORTRAN, and COBOL are in fact exactly contemporary.
If you had much deep knowledge of programming languages --- or had read the links you posted --- you'd also realize that Java has more in common with Smalltalk than pretty much any other conventional language in any way except syntax.
What you probably don't know is that I stopped sleeping with your mother when I realized she'd have children that were ugly and dress funny.
Nope.
(That's supposed to be responsible for lots of UV. You're thinking of greenhouse effect.)
I also slip and put a snippy reply to the aforementioned moron attached to the guy who's defending me.
I qualified as a fallout-shelter medic before you were born, child. I use fahrenheit thermometers and slip and call UTC time GMT or Zulu.
Martin's Law: no matter what you say on slashdot, there will alwyas be some moron to play "I'm more scientific than thou".
2.2 Sieverts is 220 rems. that's like 8-10 times previous estimates. And you've got to wonder about quotes like this:
Others suggest more radical solutions might be needed. "Radiation exposure is certainly one of the major problems facing future interplanetary space travellers," says Murdoch Baxter, founding editor of the Journal of Environmental Radioactivity. "Unless we can develop instantaneous time and space transfer technologies like Dr Who's TARDIS."
The Journey to the West is hilarious, you should get the whole thing sometime.
Anyway, it's not that Buddhists distrust the sense themseves: they distrust thoughts about the senses. Those thoughts then can modify the way you perceive the sensory data --- consider watching someone eat, with evident enjoyment, a dark brown semi-liquid substance with a spoon. Your perception of it, down to visceral reactions, is wildly different if you think it's chocolate ice cream or dog poop.
This is interesting.
I've been doing Buddhist practices for damn near 40 years now, and I've noticed it anecdotally: a lot of visual illusions don't seem to work any longer. Now, it's hard to separate that out from being, well, old (remember how as a kid it looked for all the world like the moon was racing along with your car when Mom and Dad drove you somewhere at night?) and perceptual psych is way down the list of things I want to do in my spare time, but it seems completely plausible to me that monks who spend lots more time in these practices than I do would show these effects very strongly.
Exceeding focus of thought is required to write a sentence like that one, I hope you know.
Funny how complete ignorance of a subject will confuse you.
When was the last time RMS was pleased by anything?
(Richard: one word: Prozac.)
Jeez, I said "would test highly for" and "akin to a" ... how much softening and pussy-footing do you need?
Is that your medical opinion, Doctor?
... as someone who has suffered from depression for years, let me hint to you that there are several other things in the IT "lifestyle" ("Life? Don't talk to me about life....") that have something or other to do with depression.
...
(1) Self-care. The style that we encourage in CS courses, with our image of hackers working for days at a time and living on the four programmer food gorups ("caffeine, grease, salt, and processed sugar"), is not something that people can generally physically deal with even into the middle twenties. Sleep and periodic meals make a big big difference to mood.
PHB's who think that you can actually do more in an 80 hour week than in a 50 hour week just add to this, which leads to
(2) Feelings of helplessness. We start out with the frustrations of programming, where we're doing perhaps the most complicated intellectual task invented by humanity, doing it with a body of knowledge that's really only 50 or 60 years old, and dealing periodically with apparently inexplicable problems. Then add the canonical Dilbert moments: PHB's, "flexible" schedules, expected overtime, "offshoring", our own inclination toward being obsessive-compulsive (which we either start with or are trained into by our tools and techniques), and then dealing with a whole lot of people who don't understand the intellectual challenges or share the style of rigorous thought and obsession with detail that go with our field. Depression and burnout are very much related to feelings of helplessness.
(3) programming tends to involve people who are less extroverted and less social. People who are bright, introverted, and unsocial tend to feel isolated and alone. Depressing.
In fact, a lot of us would test pretty highly for Asperger's Syndrome, which is akin to mild autism.
The point is that you don't need some new "information glut" syndrome to explain a prevalence of depression and burnout.
Its not like Google's revenue has anything to do with search, except as a way to pull people to their site. But they get revenue by presenting targeted ad content.
Now, whether ad=paid services are a feasible long-term model is another question, but the broadcast networks have managed for 50 years, and last I looked Yahoo was making money.
Golly, is that how they reproduce?
You're kidding, right?
(1)Feed them and pet them and you've pretty much done what they want.
(2) you can sleep with three of them simultaneously and no one cares.
(3) If you're busy or tired, they'll just lick each other.
Really and honestly, if you run IE you're contantly chasing it. I just spent an hour on the phone helping a friend get rid of Sober.O.
When I read my mail in EMACS on a Linux box, all that ever happens is I have new viral emails from friends with Windows to add to my collection.
Take it from me, they're too much trouble.
(I was married once.)
I've got enough problems without worrying about weird-ass links and IE vulnerabilities. (Sadly, no, I can't avoid using MS products at work.)
"He who would make a pun would pick a pocket."
Worse, I didn't think of it.
... is that she apparently can't read the help or look at the menus, since "File>Import" does fine.
Less hilarious is that I posted a pointer to the same article some hours earlier, but was rejected.
*snif*