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Software development for easy problems is getting easier. Enough of the hand wringing; that's good thing. A lot of stuff surrounding hard problems is getting easier, but it still takes brains and experience to solve them. (DevOps has little, if anything, to do with this, but when a reporter runs out of words, it provides filler.)
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javascript is still alive..whats this writer complaining about...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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A library that I work on often these days, meshoptimizer, has changed over time to use fewer and fewer C++ library features, up until the current state where the code closely resembles C even though it uses some C++ features. Didn't this get decided decades ago?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Didn't this get decided decades ago? If you're saying that they're slow off the mark, I'll have no option but to groan miserably.
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Dropping std::vector Quote: substantially improved performance of unoptimized builds Well no sh*t Sherlock.
I've run across this before and it completely misses the boat. One major point of "higher" level languages is that you gain maintainability and reduction of bugs (due, in part, to using very tested code versus rolling your own for everything) at the price of some performance.
The "it takes longer to build" just makes me laugh when I remember four hour build times of C-based projects which were smaller than my recent projects, but which build several magnitudes faster. And again, you trade off build times for checking in debug builds and faster execution in release builds.
What I don't understand is why the author stopped at 'C'. Assembly not only builds lightning fast, it's generally as fast in "debug" mode as "release" mode. Never mind that it will take you 8 hours to write, versus 2 hours for C and all of 2 seconds in C++ (since you aren't implementing anything, just using what someone else wrote for you.)
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In a stunning bit of transparency, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella confirmed that Cortana will never be competitive with Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant. So it will instead be recast as a skill for those more popular assistants, as has long been rumored. She joins Bob, Clippy, and the Microsoft Agent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: She joins Bob, Clippy, and the Microsoft Agent ... kin, courier, origami, windows vista, windows 8, windows phone, zune, the msn watch, bob (their bob, not our Bob!), playforsure, terraserver, windows live, internet explorer, and, hopefully soon, the effluent interface and windows 10.
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It's fun to mock Microsoft, but I do give credit that they are willing to take the dog out back, shoot it, dismember it and burn the remains. Meanwhile Google ties the dog up and lets it starve to death and then denies that it's dead.
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what were they even-thinking...this happens when you are late in the game...especially with the new windows releases cycles and showing features down consumer throats to test...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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List of impacted devices includes PS4, Xbox One, Samsung Chromebooks, and Microsoft Surface devices. Why?! Fie!
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OK, two points:
0: it's on zdnet, so it's just another of their overblown click-bait scare stories.
1: They're right, for once!
Don't panic, Mr. Mainwaring!!![^]
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Windows 10 Mobile will receive its last patches and security updates on December 10 this year, as Microsoft winds down the last remaining bit of development on its smartphone platform. "Beautiful friend, this is the end"
The Live Tiles are no more, they are bereft of life
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windows 10 mobile?
What's that, then?
Honestly! If you blink, these days, you can miss a lot!
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Private tweets sent by users of Twitter's Android app could have been exposed publicly for years. "Never put anything on the internet you don't want your grandmother to read"
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No problem.
As soon as a certain person who lives in a certain-coloured house realises that the twitter archive can and will be used against him in a court of law, he'll order the whole thing destroyed, and blame that other bunch of people that he blames for everything he does.
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So bad customer service is nothing new! Hasn't changed a bit in 4000 years!
I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart
I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
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I like the way the guy is complaining exactly how someone would nowadays.
It's a tiny window on what the people were really like.
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Quote: the “training sessions,” where the dogs did all their learning, took place within a computer. “We introduce a method for training a neural network policy in simulation,” the authors write, “and transferring it to a state-of-the-art legged system, thereby leveraging fast, automated, and cost-effective data generation schemes.” The artificial intelligence — here applied to a specific dog-sized machine named the ANYmal, but the method should work on any machine — learns all its tricks in the digital world, where there are no complicated and expensive parts to engineer and replace, then shows off its abilities in the real world.
Using this technique, the researchers improve on all previous attempts to manipulate such robots, achieving a new level of control and efficiency. In particular, ANYmal can now run up to 25 percent faster than ever, and it recovers from all fall it experienced in real-world testing. (Hence the abuse, above.) [^]
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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I now know Kung-Fu...
Let's check it out.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Nelek wrote: I now know Kung-Fu... Well enough to know that it's real name is "gong fu"?
Those bluddy English forringers in Hong Kong gave it the wrong name*.
* But don't necessarily quote me on that; I haven't fact-checked it -- but it's more sardonic than saying that it's a Mandarin/Cantonese difference
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just another FU.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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GONG!!!
Get 'im off the stage!
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Knowing your irony/sarcasm skills and not being english speaker... I need clarification.
Are you telling you didn't know about "Kung-Fu"?
Ae you telling I don't know that it actually is "Gong Fu" (AFAIK that's related to the tea ceremony)?
Or are you just kidding me in a way I don't realize?
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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I was jovially inquiring whether you knew that the real name of the martial arts system is "gong fu", which it is.
If you were to go to the Shaolin temple and call it "kung fu", you'd get kicked all round the square -- mind you, that seems to be what most people go there for, so maybe it's not so bad an idea.
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