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Until IE supports what the other guys do, I'll keep blaming it. Get me CSS3 supported gradients instead of having to use SVG backgrounds. Get me web workers. Mobile browsers support more than IE9 does. Sure, those are in IE10 but that's not available unless you have Windows 8.
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: if you build things correctly, your sites and applications work in them all.
That's not entirely true. If you handle all the nuances correctly, then it will work for all of them. But that's the thing, why should there have to be a single IF statement for checking which browser you're using in order to render the page correctly?
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If they were supposed to work the same in every browser they'd be called standards. Oh, wait...
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Master Wq was addressing some Vim novices. After his lecture on the many virtues of Vim, he asked if there were any questions. A young man raised his hand. “Master, by what means might one filter for the second column of a plaintext table for all rows that contain the string ‘tcp’?” Zen mind, newbie mind.
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GUIs have even reinvented the world of software development, beginning with tools like Visual Basic, before extending coding tasks to the average joe with new-age tools such as Scratch and Google’s App Inventor. But among hardcore computer types the command line persists. If you’re a developer or a sysadmin, there are times when it makes more sense to use the command line interface, or “shell,” built into operating systems like Linux and UNIX. Do you get more done here? %
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Yes. I spend most of my day in a DOS box -- it's where it's at.
There are very few tasks where a GUI is superior.
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Does it make sense to carry around two, three, or more portable computing devices? I’m sure lots of people will carry more than one device. Me, I use the big laptop because I do multimedia grinding. I use the small tablet because it makes my hands and eyes happy. I carry a phone because it’s always online. How many devices do you carry during the day?
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: How many devices do you carry during the day?
That depends on what I put in my backpack the night before!
Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.
Dave Barry
Read more at BrainyQuote[ ^]
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Technology is adapting, trying to keep up with our needs and how we handle things. How come then, that the email never really changed? When the first email was sent in the 1970s there was no big difference to the email we know today. ...or why I live at the inbox.
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Probably the same reason that letters (snail-mail) haven't really changed much since 1840: they work. (Okay, not as popular because of email but still relatively unchanged from the time of the first postage stamp until now).
You can whack all sorts of work-flow and other goodies onto email but at the end of the day it's just a message.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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Before Linux was around there was a huge problem on the UNIX-based operating systems, since they were all proprietary and each OEM had their own version of the OS. Now, if you look carefully and you’ll notice that the same is happening with Android.... Everyday Android feels a lot more like vaporware for me. Interesting view from someone who thinks Blackberry is a compelling alternative.
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I closed the page when I saw the usual crap about HTML 5 being the "future".
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I have always half-jokingly taken credit for inventing the @reply on Twitter. Recently, user @rabble put together a blog post titled Origin of the @reply - Digging Through Twitter’s History, in which he did some research to show when it was first used. Only his research isn’t entirely correct and it doesn’t give fair credit to everyone involved. Those who forget history are condemned to @reply it.
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Hadoop is firmly planted in the enterprise as the big data standard and will likely remain firmly entrenched for at least another decade. But, building on some previous discussion, I’m going to go out on a limb and ask, “Is the enterprise buying into a technology whose best day has already passed?” GFS, MapReduce and you.
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Daily Code Drills is an experiment by Zed Shaw, creator of the Learn Code the Hard Way series of tutorials, to see if a daily drill in Python or Ruby helps build your coding muscles. Try to do this every day for as long as you can or until you can do the whole thing in 10 minutes. Where is your drill sergeant, men? Stack traced, sir!
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The beaurocrats are taking over - oh yawn.
What about a daily drill of actual work - radical idea I know.
Peter Wasser
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa
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Self-publicist.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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We already know there are tools to measure how fast a program runs. There are programs called profilers which measure running time in milliseconds and can help us optimize our code by spotting bottlenecks. While this is a useful tool, it isn't really relevant to algorithm complexity. Algorithm complexity is something designed to compare two algorithms at the idea level — ignoring low-level details such as the implementation programming language, the hardware the algorithm runs on, or the instruction set of the given CPU. We want to compare algorithms in terms of just what they are: Ideas of how something is computed. Algorithm complexity is just a way to formally measure how fast a program or algorithm runs.
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Err... no, that's completely wrong.
Algorithm complexity has almost nothing to do with how fast the algorithm runs.
How fast an algorithm runs depends on the machine it's running on, the language it's written in, how well the algorithm has been coded, and many other factors besides.
Algorithm complexity is a measure of how difficult it is to derive the algorithm outputs from the inputs.
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pt1401 wrote:
Algorithm complexity is a measure of how difficult it is to derive the algorithm outputs from the inputs.
but the main reason anybody cares about algorithmic complexity (outside of pure academic research) is because studying an algorithm, determining its complexity, and then searching for a simpler method, is a path to performance gains. end users, library callers and QA testers do not care how "difficult" the algorithm is, they just want the algorithm to turn input into output as fast as possible.
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Complexity is a pretty generic term. Perhaps it's algorithm performance complexity vs algorithm design complexity. Though, the term "complexity" does imply nuance more than magnitude. Maybe a better term would be "algorithm efficiency".
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Daniel Clifford recently gave a great talk at Google I/O 2012 called “Breaking the JavaScript Speed Limit with V8″. In it he goes in depth to explain 13 simple optimizations you can do in your JavaScript code to help Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine compile / run your JavaScript code faster. In the talk he gives a lot of great explanations as to what they are and why they help, but if you just want the quick and dirty list, here goes... Better than it ran before. Better, stronger, faster...
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Some developers waste time waiting for their employer to train them on new technology or complaining they aren’t getting the training to stay current. While companies continue to cut training budgets, every developer should take the initiative to educate themselves, especially with so many free resources available on the web. When a developer takes risks like this, everyone on a team benefits. You really need to come out of the dark ages of software development.
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Somehow felt that the article was a smart ad for Scala :P
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What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light? A new xkcd series answering your hypothetical questions with physics.
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The Internet was designed to be robust, fault-tolerant and distributed, but its technology is still in its infancy.
The fact that the Web has not stopped functioning in its initial decades sometimes encourages us to assume that it never will. But like any system, biological or man-made, the Internet has the potential to fail. Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed.
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Apple didn’t cut the iPad from whole cloth (which probably would have been linen). It was built upon decades of ideas, tests, products and more ideas. Before we explore the iPad’s story, it’s appropriate to consider the tablets and the pen-driven devices that preceded it. From the Dynabook to the future.
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PCs are more complicated and less reliable than they should be. They require too much maintenance, like a car that requires you to top off the oil, check the tire pressure and fill the gas tank on every trip. Even though they use chips that are far more powerful than the ones in the iPad, they’re often much slower. They rarely have built-in wireless broadband. Every moment I spend dealing with this stuff is a moment I’m not spending creating content. I find that deeply frustrating. Is the iPad good for content creation as well as content consumption?
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I'd argue that the last truly revolutionary version of Windows was Windows 95. In the subsequent 17 years, we've seen a stream of mostly minor and often inconsequential design changes in Windows – at its core, you've got the same old stuff: a start menu, a desktop with icons, taskbar at the bottom, overlapping windows, toolbars, and pull-down menus.... Windows 8 is, in my humble opinion, the most innovative version of Windows Microsoft has released since Windows 95. What's good about Windows 8? A ton of stuff.
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I'd argue that the last truly revolutionary version of Windows was NT4.
It marked the transition from a personal OS to a business-capable OS - Win95 was more revolutionary with it's UI changes, but NT4 was the game-changer for MS.
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NT4 brought a lot to the table, but I thought Win2k brought the best parts of NT to an OS that was better suited to day-to-day desktop use.
Director of Content Development, The Code Project
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Today at the annual Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto, Canada, Microsoft shared the details about the upcoming Windows Milestones with its partners. The Windows Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Financial Officer Tami Reller provided details on Windows 8 General Availability.
Windows 8 is on track and all set to Release to Manufacturing (RTM) in the first week of August. The enterprise consumers with Software Assurance benefits will have early access to RTM or final build of Windows 8 in August.
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If you read your Insider or looked a few messages down, you'd find that this "news" was posted last night.
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Sorry for reposting 
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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak quips Steve Jobs "came back reincarnated at Microsoft" referring to the Redmond-based company's recent design breakthroughs that have culminated in the new Surface, a tablet which sports a marriage of art and technology reportedly befitting of the late tech guru
Haven't he said that about Windows phone already?
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On a somewhat related note... I chanced upon a Windows phone last night and came away pretty impressed. This 1 month old LG phone (probably an Omnia variant)fared better than my 3 month old Galaxy 3 in terms of responsiveness and overall graphics.
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Do you find all the apps you want?
I'm getting a new phone in december so I'm interested in knowing if you find all you want.
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I already have the Samsung Focus (AKA Omnia) running WP7.5. By December, the new WP8 phones should be hitting the shelves. Expect the next gen Lumia to be scrummilicious.
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From what I have read, most people only really use a few apps. Tons of apps do no good if they don't do what you want. How many apps does one tend to use on a PC, and that is an environment that is a lot easier to use (but a lot harder to carry around).
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Looks like they finally got their own Audible app so now it appears pretty complete. If that had happened sooner i'd probably be using my wp7 now instead of my shiny new droid.
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If you already have an idea of what you want to be able to do you can always search the marketplace to see if it's there. So far, there are over 100,000 apps but if the kind of thing you want to do is not there it doesn't matter whether there are 5 apps or a million. 
Kevin
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Spot on!
But sometimes you don't even know you need an app until your're told that it exists.
That was the case with Tasker[^] for me, and therefore my question.
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Rest assured.. all the necessary apps ( Skype , App launchers etc.) are either already there or on their way to hit the Marketplace.
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SalCon wrote: I chanced upon a Windows phone last night and came away pretty impressed.
I gather that most people who have one like it. I have one and I like it. However, it is also the first smartphone I've owned so I can't say how it compares to iPhone and Android - except that my Apple fan boy brother was also impressed with it (Nokia Lumia).
Kevin
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That way I can consider myself a little experienced  ... Have owned Galaxy S1 then the S3 and also tested iPhone 4. Sans the hype.. IMHO when it comes to functionality Android usually scores over iPhone but my brief encounter with the windows phone made me think about a possible switch in the future.
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I've had both iPhone and WP7.5. I like the windows phone better. The only thing that is really annoying is that the facebook integration doesn't filter out all the game statuses, etc. This is due to an integration issue since it is an external app and I beleive the claim is that they cannot do that with an external app.
The graphics are responsive, the live tiles are really nice, I like having them. The UI design with the keyboard (on the HTC Titan) is really nice, I like the keyboard staying on the bottom and the suggestion bar as well. I like that the browser address bar is on the bottom and always visible. This lets you interact with it without putting your hands in the viewing area. I think they should go further with the theme and let you colorize the main tiles to different colors instead of restricting you to one color.
There are a few minor things that can can be corrected, such as if they have a .com button on the keyboard and the last character you typed was a period, it would be left with ..com. This can be easily addressed.
Overall, I do like it better than the IPhone, especially having a device with a larger screen. I can type faster with the windows phone and make corrections easier as well. The suggestions bar works much better than the suggestions on the IPhone.
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Considering that WinPhone is a new platform there might be a few glitches initially , as was the case with the "pre-2.0 Android".
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I assume that WP 8 will be better still, though of course will require a new phone. In the meantime it will be interesting to see what if anything WP 7.8 adds apart from the start screen. Personally, I'm not that bothered as I'm happy enough for the time being.
Kevin
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