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Joe Woodbury wrote: A non-silly example is designing a great car and then years later try to make it all electric. Yeah, you can probably do it, but at best it will less than optimal. Given that it doesn't impact most of the car, and normal electrical wire being used in the same places where you'd expect them, I'd say it does NOT make such a huge difference as you try to have us believe.
To the contrary; it is often abused to justify starting anew (think Tesla) and fail even bigger.
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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More waste of productive hours: having to learn the latest trendy language/JavaScript library/rearrangement of Windows OS and/or Visual Studio UI.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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AlphaZero, a general-purpose game-playing system, quickly taught itself to be the best player ever in Go, chess and Shogi As long as there's an off switch, we can always win
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Not exactly; it had some help.
And, damn, even Graham didn't get the Holy Grail.
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OK, I think that they and I might have slightly differing opinions on what qualifies as a good comparison to the Holy Grail.
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The Snapdragon 8cx is a higher-end processor for Windows on Snapdragon. The first CPU that also snow boards and has tattoos
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From the article: Qualcomm is calling this the "most extreme GPU (it) has ever made. Unlike, of course, the last three GPUs it made, which it described as not being as good as the one they'd made five years earlier.
I'd love to know what goes through people's heads, when they're writing such ridiculous marketing bumf.
My money's on flies and tumbleweeds.
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Yeah,But Can It Run Crysis?
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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Imagine not having to charge your phone or laptop for weeks. That is the dream of researchers looking into alternative batteries that go beyond the current lithium-ion versions popular today. Plus, no cavities!
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Well,
(wait for it)
(wait for it)
... It looks like they know their anions!
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The future of IT infrastructure is about being always on, and always available, everywhere, according to a presentation by Gartner at its IT Infrastructure, Operations and Cloud Strategies, held this week in Las Vegas. As opposed to how we wanted our infrastructure in the past, I guess
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Just when you think Gartner can't get any more daft...
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Gartner waffled: Death of the data center
Gartner expects 80 percent of enterprise to move to the cloud or colocation and hosting sites by 2025 Yup, because cloud services providers don't use big, cooled rooms with lots of server racks, do they?
The only difference between a data centre owned and run by you and a data centre owned and run by someone else is... well, the clue is in the sentence itself.
Distributed models for data storage and access have been around for decades, but "The cloud" is not distributed data storage and access; it's just someone else's servers and storage.
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Starting today, the Rust 2018 edition is in its first release. With this edition, we’ve focused on productivity… on making Rust developers as productive as they can be. "A reddish- or yellowish-brown flaky coating of iron oxide that is formed on iron or steel by oxidation, especially in the presence of moisture." But that's not important right now.
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Lin Clary wrote: With this edition, we’ve focused on productivity Oh, well, that's **cked it, then.
As soon as some idiot starts going on about "productivity improvements in software", you just know that that translates to:
I don't actually use it myself (I just work here), but I think that if I did use it, I would want it to work this way -- and I obviously know better that than people who use it every day in ways that I don't understand, to do work that I don't even understand.
Just make everything easy to find, Boys. Let US worry about OUR productivity.
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While in the general case I tend to agree, in this case Rust is largely community-driven. It's just that currently a lot of the community are at Mozilla, who are still the main users of Rust. So "productivity improvements" in this case are driven by real developers who use the language day-to-day.
The development of Rust is very open - new proposals are visible and proposals from third parties are accepted and integrated.
So far they seem to be heading in a good direction.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: on making Rust developers as productive as they can be.
So, we've included a copy of Visual Studio Community Edition with the option of C# or C++.
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Here I am going to take you on a little guided tour through three new C# features you can try out in the preview. A reminder of future features
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C# must have been really badly broken, if they've had to fix it seven times.
Mind you, the way MS "fixes" things, these days, it's probably becoming more useless with each invocation, so will need several more versions even after good devs take over.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: C# must have been really badly broken, if they've had to fix it seven times.
Like so many things, it wasn't broken until someone decided to fix it.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Today we’re announcing that we intend to adopt the Chromium open source project in the development of Microsoft Edge on the desktop to create better web compatibility for our customers and less fragmentation of the web for all web developers. It's official
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"Guys, this damned google browser is kicking our asses!"
"Well, there's not a fat lot we can do about it; we're too busy breaking our core products, so that the boss can look good because his cloud initiative is making the most profit."
"But There's gotta be some way we can kill the google browser!"
"I know! I know! Me! Me! All we have to do is get some of our own useless devs assigned to it -- they managed to kill the best office suite in the history of the world, so killing a browser will be like picking their teeth, after a meal!"
"I like the way you think! But how do we do that?"
"Oh, that's the easy bit! We can just pretend that we've gone all open-sourcey, and our guys can just join in on the browser's development!"
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Why not this conversation:
"Guys, this damned google browser is kicking our asses!"
"In best case, how much money would Edge make if this weren't true."
Crickets
"Screw it, if you want a browser get Chrome or Firefox. Let's spend the money on QA for Windows."
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And by "QA" you mean, "Change the icons?"
TTFN - Kent
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Changing the icons requires Icon Engineers. QA need to verify and test those icons.
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