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Now I can base my analysis on two code-bases written in different languages on the same platform implementing the same application. Yes
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'Struth
I've always been of the opinion that code is only good if you can come back to it after six months and not either
- want to kill the author for writing such crap code
- want to kill the author for writing such illegible code
I don't think I've ever seen a programming language that could be as compact as APL, but no way would I sign up to maintain an app written in it.
TTFN - Kent
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Golf Script[^] could probably give APL a run for its money; but I wouldn't want to use it for anything serious either...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Yes; but not in the ways he discusses.
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That's definitely a better answer than mine. Thank you. (I was trying to think of something like that, but I've been very foggy the last week or so. Mind if I steal it for the outgoing newsletter?)
TTFN - Kent
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CPOL
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Plan 9, the Unix replacement at Bell Labs since the 1980's for operating system research that ultimely disbanded in the early 2000's, was under the Lucent Public License. The Lucent Public License is considered to be open-source by the OSI and FSF, but now Alcatel-Lucent (the corporate inheritor of Bell Labs) has authorized UC Berkeley to make all of the Plan 9 software available under the GPLv2. "Plan 9? Ah, yes. Plan 9 deals with the resurrection of the dead."
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"This isn't plans one through eight. It's Plan Nine!..." -Jerry Seinfeld
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Oh my - the full version! Criswell! (the haircut of my dreams). Well, I know what I'm doing for the next hour or so.
TTFN - Kent
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I started to watch it a couple of months ago and didn't get past the first few minutes.
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Instead of relying on a single company's servers to record a video and send it back out to viewers, BitTorrent Live is peer-to-peer: it has a broadcaster send their video to a handful of viewers who then watch the video while sending it out to even more viewers to do the same thing. YouTube too easy for you?
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Garann Means asks: are geek stereotypes and the prevailing developer monoculture putting the web industry at risk? You are unique. Just like everyone else
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Kent Sharkey wrote: developer monoculture
WTF is that? Mono culture? Is that some sort of disease?
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Culture of swollen glands 
TTFN - Kent
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday she would talk to French President Francois Hollande about building up a European communication network to avoid emails and other data passing through the United States. Remember that time those two got together without the US? It didn't work out too well
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you're not funny
Seulement, dans certains cas, n'est-ce pas, on n'entend guère que ce qu'on désire entendre et ce qui vous arrange le mieux... [^]
Joe never complained of anything but ever did his duty in his way of life, with a strong hand, a quiet tongue, and a gentle heart [^]
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What's the use of a European internet with all computers running OSes made in USA, and all network hardware being manufactured in USA? Or China - is that better?
And with many US companies having offices in Europe, even US armed forces in Europe, and thus being part of that network - isn't that a secret network with the "enemy" already listening inside?
Totally useless.
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It's a brain fuzz, at first. At second, the laws of the country of the server location are applicable, and therefore an European intranet may be of use when trying to fight cyber crime (or privacy infringement), at least within the European borders. Let's be honest, companies could just relocate servers to European countries, and achieve the same effect.
Women are waiting for love and men are waiting for women. - Wolf Wondratschek
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I do like the comment by pgbd:
"Every time the vast superiority of innovative US technology comes up with another new product, the Europeans seek helplessly for a way to combat it instead of coming up with a few inventions of their own."
I do hope he's enjoying the World Wide Web as he drives to work in his car, or commutes on the train.
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Yeah. Or the next time he has to take antibiotics to treat a serious infection...
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It will not happen. This means no more diablo, wow, battlefield or whatever game which needs a server (this means like 80% of the recently new games)you can think of. The gamers will riot and everyone knows you should never angry a gamer.
I pray they wont do something so stupid soon after all diablo reaper of souls is coming on 25.03.
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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