Wait, you brought up B2B protocols and implied strongly that enterprises need Windows to handle that. I introduced a statement showing that isn't true.
If you're arguing that low-rent B2B solutions have those requirements, fine. That's not an area of expertise for me, but I suspect that J2EE platforms hosted in non-Windows environments are capable of even your low-rent examples.
If the CDC were able to amplify persistent threats to human life, without regard for politics, we could raise awareness appropriately for distracted driving as well as gun violence.
This does not match my experience with J2EE applications connecting to Ariba, SAP, Aspen, and Peoplesoft. I can run a J2EE server on AIX -- extremely far removed from Microsoft -- and connect an enterprise asset management solution to anything. I've seen millions, tens of millions, running through completely UNIX-based system.
I know where you're going with that line of reasoning, but enterprise applications are not all Windows-based solutions.
Sure, we all know about faraday cages and tinfoil hats here, but think about the trick they pulled on *everyone else*: non-removable batteries and radios you cannot really turn off. Think outside your demographic.
If I make the battery non-removable, I can keep the radio on without you knowing it, so I can send packets of who-knows-what whenever I like.
If I lock it down, you won't be able to detect it, or shut it off.
Don't be distracted by the bloatware and ad notifications -- those are the result of corporate flacks that can't help themselves. Your privacy is really being eroded in the background.
Think about another phone you might have, with a non-removable battery, and a very walled garden.
I find the opposite to be true. Wm Gibson is extremely literary, and it requires closer reading than someone like Neal Stephenson, who is very happy to explain his created worlds in as much detail as you can handle. I find Gibson's work to be more of a challenge, but worth the effort, much in the same way I find classic literature and even poetry to be worthy challenges.
You don't have to like it, of course, but you also can't knock it as lacking literary value. That kind of comment is more of a reflection of you than the target.
You'll need to prove your assertions. In the meantime, I'm ready to counter.
Size doesn't matter for niche items, or items that have prohibitive shipping expenses.
And, for-profit can compete with non-profit by offering a differentiator other than price. Superior customer service, tactile experience, customization, faster delivery, greater variety of options, and so forth.
This opens the door for a small-business-friendly competitor. Amazon is really not the end-all be-all of online shopping. Sure, you won't have access to the customer base it has developed, but that isn't a right guaranteed by law now is it?
I'm with you on almost every single point -- I'm a late 40s dev myself -- except this one part: " I can't think of a single developer I've met professionally who belong to the ACM or to IEEE, and when they run into an interesting problem tend to search Github or Stack Overflow, even when it is a basic algorithm problem. (I've met programmers with years of experience who couldn't write code to maintain a linked list.)"
1) I left ACM when it became apparent that the benefits of CACM readings didn't outweigh the harm they do by locking up research behind so many paywalls and special publications. It's a reasoned, principled decision that has nothing to do with a lack of interest in staying current. So, ACM or IEEE membership isn't a pure indicator of attention to craft that I perceive in your statement.
It doesn't become part of the product, it is product-neutral in its interaction. I readily admit that the coating, such as it is, would probably need to be re-applied at industrial scale, but that's a solvable engineering problem. Recouping your raw materials at each stage translates into very big money for manufacturers.
Here, step back from that one tree and see the forest.
The PoC was using ketchup and mayonnaise bottles. The real application is coating the interiors of pipelines and containment vessels, i.e. manufacturing, distribution.
If you're a ketchup manufacturer, and your raw goods are in vessels coated with this, as well as transfer piping, you recoup all of that material loss.
If you're a refinery, your crude just got a lot easier to move.
The consumer-facing application is just a means to differentiate your stupid product from everyone else's. Given the choice between a tube of toothpaste that requires strongman grip strength to fully utilize, or one that practically falls out... well, with the aging world population, this is easy to see as a marketing coup.
A keyboard. Change out the back, add a little extra battery juice, and give me back a sliding keyboard in the mode of the Motorola D4. Then, old farts could finally type again whilst in the field.
In 1994 "Concrete Mathematics" came out by Knuth, to assist mathematically-challenged readers of TAOCP. You've had 22 years to read and understand that book, in order to read and understand TAOCP
Put another way: if you haven't decomposed your problem with tackling TAOCP into manageable tasks, programming may not be for you.
A non-mathematician that uses statistics is arguing for statistics, not algebra, as a filtering mathematical standard. And, this individual then argues that "coders" (I guess programmers?) won't need things like logarithms.
"âoeGoogle can attach to AT&Tâ(TM)s poles once it enters into AT&Tâ(TM)s standard Commercial Licensing Agreement, as it has in other cities,â the statement said. "
PUC doesn't have authority to tell a municipality who can or cannot connect to a pole. Everyone isentitled to use the poles. Poles are, contrary to AT&T's old conception, not owned by AT they are owned by the town, and a town can and does wield eminent domain to possess property for a public good. Armed with some key funds from Google, Louisville can not only win, but win a landmark decision.
AT&T is overreaching. They are contracted to maintain infrastructure, and the poles are part of it, but AT&T is not going to start ripping up poles unless they want an even worse outcome in the courts. Those poles are owned by the muni, it's just up to the muni to remember that fact.
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Nor should there be. Those are some serious cash cows.
Wait, you brought up B2B protocols and implied strongly that enterprises need Windows to handle that. I introduced a statement showing that isn't true.
If you're arguing that low-rent B2B solutions have those requirements, fine. That's not an area of expertise for me, but I suspect that J2EE platforms hosted in non-Windows environments are capable of even your low-rent examples.
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If the CDC were able to amplify persistent threats to human life, without regard for politics, we could raise awareness appropriately for distracted driving as well as gun violence.
But that's probably none of my business.
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This does not match my experience with J2EE applications connecting to Ariba, SAP, Aspen, and Peoplesoft. I can run a J2EE server on AIX -- extremely far removed from Microsoft -- and connect an enterprise asset management solution to anything. I've seen millions, tens of millions, running through completely UNIX-based system.
I know where you're going with that line of reasoning, but enterprise applications are not all Windows-based solutions.
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Sure, we all know about faraday cages and tinfoil hats here, but think about the trick they pulled on *everyone else*: non-removable batteries and radios you cannot really turn off. Think outside your demographic.
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If I make the battery non-removable, I can keep the radio on without you knowing it, so I can send packets of who-knows-what whenever I like.
If I lock it down, you won't be able to detect it, or shut it off.
Don't be distracted by the bloatware and ad notifications -- those are the result of corporate flacks that can't help themselves. Your privacy is really being eroded in the background.
Think about another phone you might have, with a non-removable battery, and a very walled garden.
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I find the opposite to be true. Wm Gibson is extremely literary, and it requires closer reading than someone like Neal Stephenson, who is very happy to explain his created worlds in as much detail as you can handle. I find Gibson's work to be more of a challenge, but worth the effort, much in the same way I find classic literature and even poetry to be worthy challenges.
You don't have to like it, of course, but you also can't knock it as lacking literary value. That kind of comment is more of a reflection of you than the target.
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Mods, do your job and mark parent +1 insightful and fuckin' dead on true.
No, you're not. $9.95 is a great price point.
You'll need to prove your assertions. In the meantime, I'm ready to counter.
Size doesn't matter for niche items, or items that have prohibitive shipping expenses.
And, for-profit can compete with non-profit by offering a differentiator other than price. Superior customer service, tactile experience, customization, faster delivery, greater variety of options, and so forth.
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This opens the door for a small-business-friendly competitor. Amazon is really not the end-all be-all of online shopping. Sure, you won't have access to the customer base it has developed, but that isn't a right guaranteed by law now is it?
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Actually, that's pretty good.
Who's going to enter a single digit for a password? Of course, *now* it'll be tried, but for average snoopers, that's pretty good.
The two are not comparable *in that specific way*.
However, leading your life in your own manner within legal guidelines should be protected, regardless of how you feel personally about those actions.
Vote a certain way, get fired? Are you for real? You're wrong, and you know it.
You'd never pass the first review. And eventually word gets out.
Actually, it's to cover their thin-skinned donors, led by Dogshit Trump.
Salvation is a faith-based proposition. Technology has nothing to do with it.
I'm with you on almost every single point -- I'm a late 40s dev myself -- except this one part: " I can't think of a single developer I've met professionally who belong to the ACM or to IEEE, and when they run into an interesting problem tend to search Github or Stack Overflow, even when it is a basic algorithm problem. (I've met programmers with years of experience who couldn't write code to maintain a linked list.)"
1) I left ACM when it became apparent that the benefits of CACM readings didn't outweigh the harm they do by locking up research behind so many paywalls and special publications. It's a reasoned, principled decision that has nothing to do with a lack of interest in staying current. So, ACM or IEEE membership isn't a pure indicator of attention to craft that I perceive in your statement.
2) I can't write a linked list from memory, first try. I can't write qsort in C anymore without looking it up, and don't ask me to do a mergesort in Javascript. I can't keep all of that in my head, for the very simple fact that I don't need to. Lots of programmers are accomplished, and look shit up all the time https://theoutline.com/post/1166/programmers-are-confessing-their-coding-sins-to-protest-a-broken-job-interview-process
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...because the FDA regulates anything that goes into your body.
There is no analog for this in oil and gas.
It doesn't become part of the product, it is product-neutral in its interaction. I readily admit that the coating, such as it is, would probably need to be re-applied at industrial scale, but that's a solvable engineering problem. Recouping your raw materials at each stage translates into very big money for manufacturers.
Here, step back from that one tree and see the forest.
The PoC was using ketchup and mayonnaise bottles. The real application is coating the interiors of pipelines and containment vessels, i.e. manufacturing, distribution.
If you're a ketchup manufacturer, and your raw goods are in vessels coated with this, as well as transfer piping, you recoup all of that material loss.
If you're a refinery, your crude just got a lot easier to move.
The consumer-facing application is just a means to differentiate your stupid product from everyone else's. Given the choice between a tube of toothpaste that requires strongman grip strength to fully utilize, or one that practically falls out... well, with the aging world population, this is easy to see as a marketing coup.
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A keyboard. Change out the back, add a little extra battery juice, and give me back a sliding keyboard in the mode of the Motorola D4. Then, old farts could finally type again whilst in the field.
You have a reason, it's just not a good one.
In 1994 "Concrete Mathematics" came out by Knuth, to assist mathematically-challenged readers of TAOCP. You've had 22 years to read and understand that book, in order to read and understand TAOCP
Put another way: if you haven't decomposed your problem with tackling TAOCP into manageable tasks, programming may not be for you.
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A non-mathematician that uses statistics is arguing for statistics, not algebra, as a filtering mathematical standard. And, this individual then argues that "coders" (I guess programmers?) won't need things like logarithms.
Yep, sounds like a poli-sci major to me.
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"âoeGoogle can attach to AT&Tâ(TM)s poles once it enters into AT&Tâ(TM)s standard Commercial Licensing Agreement, as it has in other cities,â the statement said. "
PUC doesn't have authority to tell a municipality who can or cannot connect to a pole. Everyone isentitled to use the poles. Poles are, contrary to AT&T's old conception, not owned by AT they are owned by the town, and a town can and does wield eminent domain to possess property for a public good. Armed with some key funds from Google, Louisville can not only win, but win a landmark decision.
AT&T is overreaching. They are contracted to maintain infrastructure, and the poles are part of it, but AT&T is not going to start ripping up poles unless they want an even worse outcome in the courts. Those poles are owned by the muni, it's just up to the muni to remember that fact.
Kayaking in shit. NYC East River. The land of the rich and merciless.