Sure, technical skills may improve some parts of the world, where the VCs do not corrupt everything. But we should start by making the world around us, our home, our family, our beloved people, our workplace, our towns, better places.
If you want to change the world, try to change your neighborhood for a start. Be nice to people. Even if your are not able to change the world, you can make some places on it nicer and some people happier.
Choose the solution, it may be technical, or not. Tech people know how to create stuff, investigate issues and solve problems. These are fine assets to change what sucks around you.
Visual Basic 6 was an acceptable procedural language, nothing to see there.
But usually, VB6 developers did not use solely VB6, they had to use the awful and crufty MS Office controls and APIs. The damn thing crashes for no reason, had awful performance on MS Access queries (a smoking pile of whatever is you hate the most), everything around MS Office to VB6 connectivity was terrible. And worse than terrible, it usually did not even work and was heavily under-documented. Random crashes, crazy behaviors, name your nightmare; it was in there too.
So no, I do not see the point of open sourcing VB6 as it will give us no access to all these APIs that may have be useful if they were working properly.
On Professional Windows editions, you can choose the timeframes of updates. That's my whole point of picking carefully the right tool, in full knowledge of one requirements.
It looks like these streamers do not realize that their computer is a work tool. So, when you buy or choose a work tool, you have to ensure it fits your job. Nothing should be able to interrupt a stream. No Skype notification, no friggin Steam notification, no SMS alert on your phone, just game, game and game. Anything else should have been moved out of the way. Your tools and workplace should be specially tuned for that. But hey, people just expect an average gamer PC to magically turn into a professional tool without any action.
It is what leading people and/or companies is all about. Make fast decisions, then if wrong fix the consequences and learn from your errors. That is the learn from your errors that most entrepreneurs do not get.
And there should be another mandatory one for all these inflated ego types: most good decisions are not about being smart but being fast and lucky. I guess that Linus was at the right place at the right time too, that he is not a GNU or BSD zealot probably helped a lot too.
Thou shalt always mirror your dependencies. Never assume that everything will always be available. That's continuous integration 101.
Second paradigm: mirror even your dependencies source code, if you can.
I had issues with a dedicated 3Com pci board on FreeBSD, had to switch to OpenBSD for the damn thing to work. Never had issues with this card on any other OS. I could not even think how a network card driver could be so f*cked up on an OS. I mean, if the damn driver does not work, as automated tests should show (did they even have automated non-regression tests by then, around 2004?), why was it in the kernel? It should have been disabled and documented.
So I do not think the issue is about crap hardware. It's about spotty support of specific pieces of hardware.
Has this happened to real people at Slashdot, or is this disinformation propagated by ACs? Cause from here, it looks like disinformation...
But hey, as this is proprietary software, it could be an ugly and illegal piece of A/B testing. It could. Still, no proof seen here. My Windows 7 boxes are doing fine (and my Windows 10 too, BTW).
It mostly depends on your team.
Pair-programming is hard, code reviews are pretty easy. Pair-programming increases team cohesion, but it to be properly done or it becomes than useless.
There is the driver, who writes the code and the observer who review and thinks more about the general design. There should be a frequent alternance, unless there is a vast experience gap between the two people, then the less experimented drives more (to avoid the keyboard domination antipattern).
Pair-programming should only happen on 60% to 75% of the day, because it really washes you out.
It works best with small teams (4 to 6 people)
Pair programming may not work with your team, but when it does, it brings a great team cohesion and a great code quality and better design. And as one who practiced it for 5 years (but not these days, in another team), it was great!
They do learn from history. Look at Intel, they used underhanded and illegal tactics to harm AMD, they succeed, had to pay a negligible fine, and almost killed AMD. LCD screens price fixing? About the same, but with several companies,there also was so many illegal business practices which escaped unstated, with a slap on the hand... even the CEO in my own company once told us to stop a project to align with current regulation, because it is less expensive to to nothing rather than follow the rules.
When everybody breaks the rules and no country cares, it's not a problem. And Please, do not compare Krups to Philips... Philips got 4 times Krups gross margin.
Not with a HDR profile. HDR is about mapping bigger values that what the bit depth allows through a non-linear color profile, it's a bit like a 24bit RGB jpeg with an AdobeRGB profile.
Please, cut the AI bullshit. No game development company will ever use this for AI. AI in console games has not evolved significantly for something like 20 years, since 3D pathfinding became good enough. IA is always dumb and will always be because marketers think most people want shiny graphics, explosions and big guns.
Then there are already a bunch of sports (motor included) which are a joke to you:
- Formula 1 and pretty much every motor sport gear has limitation on tire grip, engine power, aerodynamics, brake/acceleration assistance, and much more
- cycling, where they have to actually add weight to the bicycles. Consumer bikes go faster than pro ones
- swimming, where full body suits were banned
- in athletics, they forbid some special floor material which allowed to break records (I don't remember the year, though), some shoes are banned and probably much more, I guess
- golf, some type of clubs are banned
- skiing, some kinds of skis and suits are banned
- tennis, some kinetic energy-recovering rackets were banned, as far as I can remember.
And there are probably many more...
also known originally as ARPANET, was born as a goverment project, which ended as one of the greatest achievement of the humanity in term of global communication. Do I really need to say anything else?
btrfs volumes allows you to share core files between containers and not waste additional disc space. If you use a standard template to make other lxc containers, it makes new containers real cheap as it takes almost no additional disc space for each new one.
Yup, I know that Docker uses the same kernel-level isolation mechanisms as LXC. But looks like it is not exactly the same as I've heard of recurrent garbage collection (files) issues with some Docker stuff. I could not guess how a properly designed docker container, with volumes for growing data, could lead to docker image growth. I thought that Docker images were meant to be read-only.
BTW, ff your want Docker prebuilt containers, but bare LXC, runc (https://runc.io/) is a kind of Docker over LXC.As far as I could figure, it looks like it basically untars a docker archive in a lxc file tree. But it is still as alpha as one can do. I could not even build the damn stuff. Still, the core concept is really promising.
True.But a LXC is a container system; not a real virtualization solution. It's powerful, it's clean, it's wicked cool with btrfs and it's my favourite. It just lacks neat docker tools such as docker composer.
The main bottleneck of virtualization is not CPU, which is already optimized as hell, it's I/O. With virtualization you add additional layers to access storage and network devices, and thus destroying your random read/writes performances. Sure, that is not an issue for the average app, but virtualize your favorite brand of database server and you will enter a world of pain at the worst time ever possible (a high load scenario).
It should, but how? Do you actually know that several MS Office version are incompatible with each other? Sure, you can import your text but the formatting is off. What people are asking for is something that even Microsoft was never able to provide.
I got an example to illustrate that, when I did IT support in a small hospital. A secretary called me because her word documents looked different on her brand new computer, on Word 2000. It was, sure. She indented everything with the spacebar, but even if she had used proper Office 2000 formatting (tabs and stuff), it would not have looked the same; It never does. In the end, she had to repair the indentation from scratch on every single template she created.
What people want is MS Office, which LibreOffice will never be. Office is Office, just like Windows is Windows. If you want to do regular business things, it's MS Excel and MS Word on MS Windows. Habits die hard.
You create them. All examples I have ever seen or heard about working from home were following the same pattern:
- A guy works in his company
- He builds lots of trust with his manager, boss, whatever
- (optional) he wants to move to another place for whatever personal reasons
- He asks if remote work is possible
- If enough trust was built, it happens.
- If he dedicates a room to it, without distractions, he has a proper internet connexion (good enough for reliable teleconferencing), it works.
Points cannot be compared between teams, you know. That's like agile 101. Even if you try to standardize the scale through teams, you cannot prove that these points are the same thing.
If you start measuring productivity with points, your developpers are going to game the system and change their scale to achieve your said productivy. Sometimes, it happens unconsciously.
If you say "it's too expensive" then, they are going to game the system to reduce points. In either case, you lose.
Story points are just a way to know how much team-decided stuff can be done in a week for that same team. Do not try to put more meaning into it.
And java versus PHP means nothing. What kind of projects? Web? What frameworks? Sure, PHP has lots of pitfals, but some Java frameworks and some JDK classes have numerous too. What about functional complexity?Does JAVA means backend for you and PHP is frontend for you?
Comparing apples and Oranges, you are down to this.
Alright, so you have a friend that accepts to go through the whole wedding while drinking no booze, doing pretty nothing else than taking pictures and not enjoying the moment. Taking pictures instead of praying for ceremony, not dancing for the first dance (and many others), just pictures pictures and more pictures.
I would not wish that for any of the friends I would invite to my wedding... they are friends, not slaves.
Wedding photography is a real job, not an overly complicated one, but it requires dedication and a bit of a mental distance to your subjects. You can have a friend with the glass, the camera and wanting, sure, enjoy all the nice photos you'll miss cause your friend is not a machine.
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Sure, technical skills may improve some parts of the world, where the VCs do not corrupt everything. But we should start by making the world around us, our home, our family, our beloved people, our workplace, our towns, better places.
If you want to change the world, try to change your neighborhood for a start. Be nice to people. Even if your are not able to change the world, you can make some places on it nicer and some people happier.
Choose the solution, it may be technical, or not. Tech people know how to create stuff, investigate issues and solve problems. These are fine assets to change what sucks around you.
Come on, how come any publication could be considered as interesting or serious when it uses exclusively students as a sample?
Both statements are true.
Visual Basic 6 was an acceptable procedural language, nothing to see there.
But usually, VB6 developers did not use solely VB6, they had to use the awful and crufty MS Office controls and APIs. The damn thing crashes for no reason, had awful performance on MS Access queries (a smoking pile of whatever is you hate the most), everything around MS Office to VB6 connectivity was terrible. And worse than terrible, it usually did not even work and was heavily under-documented. Random crashes, crazy behaviors, name your nightmare; it was in there too.
So no, I do not see the point of open sourcing VB6 as it will give us no access to all these APIs that may have be useful if they were working properly.
On Professional Windows editions, you can choose the timeframes of updates. That's my whole point of picking carefully the right tool, in full knowledge of one requirements.
It looks like these streamers do not realize that their computer is a work tool. So, when you buy or choose a work tool, you have to ensure it fits your job. Nothing should be able to interrupt a stream. No Skype notification, no friggin Steam notification, no SMS alert on your phone, just game, game and game. Anything else should have been moved out of the way. Your tools and workplace should be specially tuned for that. But hey, people just expect an average gamer PC to magically turn into a professional tool without any action.
It is what leading people and/or companies is all about. Make fast decisions, then if wrong fix the consequences and learn from your errors. That is the learn from your errors that most entrepreneurs do not get.
And there should be another mandatory one for all these inflated ego types: most good decisions are not about being smart but being fast and lucky. I guess that Linus was at the right place at the right time too, that he is not a GNU or BSD zealot probably helped a lot too.
Thou shalt always mirror your dependencies. Never assume that everything will always be available. That's continuous integration 101.
Second paradigm: mirror even your dependencies source code, if you can.
I had issues with a dedicated 3Com pci board on FreeBSD, had to switch to OpenBSD for the damn thing to work. Never had issues with this card on any other OS. I could not even think how a network card driver could be so f*cked up on an OS. I mean, if the damn driver does not work, as automated tests should show (did they even have automated non-regression tests by then, around 2004?), why was it in the kernel? It should have been disabled and documented.
So I do not think the issue is about crap hardware. It's about spotty support of specific pieces of hardware.
Has this happened to real people at Slashdot, or is this disinformation propagated by ACs? Cause from here, it looks like disinformation...
But hey, as this is proprietary software, it could be an ugly and illegal piece of A/B testing. It could. Still, no proof seen here. My Windows 7 boxes are doing fine (and my Windows 10 too, BTW).
You can in France too.
It mostly depends on your team.
Pair-programming is hard, code reviews are pretty easy. Pair-programming increases team cohesion, but it to be properly done or it becomes than useless.
There is the driver, who writes the code and the observer who review and thinks more about the general design. There should be a frequent alternance, unless there is a vast experience gap between the two people, then the less experimented drives more (to avoid the keyboard domination antipattern).
Pair-programming should only happen on 60% to 75% of the day, because it really washes you out.
It works best with small teams (4 to 6 people)
Pair programming may not work with your team, but when it does, it brings a great team cohesion and a great code quality and better design. And as one who practiced it for 5 years (but not these days, in another team), it was great!
They do learn from history. Look at Intel, they used underhanded and illegal tactics to harm AMD, they succeed, had to pay a negligible fine, and almost killed AMD. LCD screens price fixing? About the same, but with several companies,there also was so many illegal business practices which escaped unstated, with a slap on the hand... even the CEO in my own company once told us to stop a project to align with current regulation, because it is less expensive to to nothing rather than follow the rules.
When everybody breaks the rules and no country cares, it's not a problem. And Please, do not compare Krups to Philips... Philips got 4 times Krups gross margin.
Not with a HDR profile. HDR is about mapping bigger values that what the bit depth allows through a non-linear color profile, it's a bit like a 24bit RGB jpeg with an AdobeRGB profile.
Please, cut the AI bullshit. No game development company will ever use this for AI. AI in console games has not evolved significantly for something like 20 years, since 3D pathfinding became good enough. IA is always dumb and will always be because marketers think most people want shiny graphics, explosions and big guns.
Then there are already a bunch of sports (motor included) which are a joke to you:
- Formula 1 and pretty much every motor sport gear has limitation on tire grip, engine power, aerodynamics, brake/acceleration assistance, and much more
- cycling, where they have to actually add weight to the bicycles. Consumer bikes go faster than pro ones - swimming, where full body suits were banned
- in athletics, they forbid some special floor material which allowed to break records (I don't remember the year, though), some shoes are banned and probably much more, I guess
- golf, some type of clubs are banned
- skiing, some kinds of skis and suits are banned
- tennis, some kinetic energy-recovering rackets were banned, as far as I can remember.
And there are probably many more...
also known originally as ARPANET, was born as a goverment project, which ended as one of the greatest achievement of the humanity in term of global communication. Do I really need to say anything else?
btrfs volumes allows you to share core files between containers and not waste additional disc space. If you use a standard template to make other lxc containers, it makes new containers real cheap as it takes almost no additional disc space for each new one. Yup, I know that Docker uses the same kernel-level isolation mechanisms as LXC. But looks like it is not exactly the same as I've heard of recurrent garbage collection (files) issues with some Docker stuff. I could not guess how a properly designed docker container, with volumes for growing data, could lead to docker image growth. I thought that Docker images were meant to be read-only. BTW, ff your want Docker prebuilt containers, but bare LXC, runc (https://runc.io/) is a kind of Docker over LXC.As far as I could figure, it looks like it basically untars a docker archive in a lxc file tree. But it is still as alpha as one can do. I could not even build the damn stuff. Still, the core concept is really promising.
True.But a LXC is a container system; not a real virtualization solution. It's powerful, it's clean, it's wicked cool with btrfs and it's my favourite. It just lacks neat docker tools such as docker composer.
The main bottleneck of virtualization is not CPU, which is already optimized as hell, it's I/O. With virtualization you add additional layers to access storage and network devices, and thus destroying your random read/writes performances. Sure, that is not an issue for the average app, but virtualize your favorite brand of database server and you will enter a world of pain at the worst time ever possible (a high load scenario).
It should, but how? Do you actually know that several MS Office version are incompatible with each other? Sure, you can import your text but the formatting is off. What people are asking for is something that even Microsoft was never able to provide.
I got an example to illustrate that, when I did IT support in a small hospital. A secretary called me because her word documents looked different on her brand new computer, on Word 2000. It was, sure. She indented everything with the spacebar, but even if she had used proper Office 2000 formatting (tabs and stuff), it would not have looked the same; It never does. In the end, she had to repair the indentation from scratch on every single template she created.
What people want is MS Office, which LibreOffice will never be. Office is Office, just like Windows is Windows. If you want to do regular business things, it's MS Excel and MS Word on MS Windows. Habits die hard.
You create them. All examples I have ever seen or heard about working from home were following the same pattern:
- A guy works in his company
- He builds lots of trust with his manager, boss, whatever
- (optional) he wants to move to another place for whatever personal reasons
- He asks if remote work is possible
- If enough trust was built, it happens. - If he dedicates a room to it, without distractions, he has a proper internet connexion (good enough for reliable teleconferencing), it works.
Points cannot be compared between teams, you know. That's like agile 101. Even if you try to standardize the scale through teams, you cannot prove that these points are the same thing.
If you start measuring productivity with points, your developpers are going to game the system and change their scale to achieve your said productivy. Sometimes, it happens unconsciously.
If you say "it's too expensive" then, they are going to game the system to reduce points. In either case, you lose.
Story points are just a way to know how much team-decided stuff can be done in a week for that same team. Do not try to put more meaning into it.
And java versus PHP means nothing. What kind of projects? Web? What frameworks? Sure, PHP has lots of pitfals, but some Java frameworks and some JDK classes have numerous too. What about functional complexity?Does JAVA means backend for you and PHP is frontend for you?
Comparing apples and Oranges, you are down to this.
Now, if only he could fix the bugs in Banished, that would be even nicer feature than creating a one man shader language...
Alright, so you have a friend that accepts to go through the whole wedding while drinking no booze, doing pretty nothing else than taking pictures and not enjoying the moment. Taking pictures instead of praying for ceremony, not dancing for the first dance (and many others), just pictures pictures and more pictures.
I would not wish that for any of the friends I would invite to my wedding... they are friends, not slaves.
Wedding photography is a real job, not an overly complicated one, but it requires dedication and a bit of a mental distance to your subjects. You can have a friend with the glass, the camera and wanting, sure, enjoy all the nice photos you'll miss cause your friend is not a machine.