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If I read it right Helium does nothing else but makes it possible to recompile the old code to optimize it - I can't see a hint about actual changes to the original logic...So the machines are not raising after all...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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A consultant has claimed that The Oracle Corporation has this year adopted new and aggressive techniques to drive its enterprise clients into adding unwanted cloud options to existing contracts in order to avoid being driven completely out of the Oracle infrastructure. "A leopard cannot change its spots"
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IBM irRational did something similar to my employer a few years back. Short term the sales weasel scored a several year contract worth significantly more than the old one. Long term the stunt left a sufficiently bad taste in managements mouths that the end of that long term contract saw all of the major irRational tools sunsetted one after the next. It's possible the company still has a Rose license for a UML addict; but all three of what were semi-mass use tools (ClearCase, ClearQuest, ReqPro) are gone. And there was much rejoicing.
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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In a Core Infrastructure Initiative survey of at-risk software most in need of close attention, many fundamental Linux utilities sit at the top. ... of open source software. Don't worry Flash, you're still #1 to me.
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Look, let’s face it: Ruby tools are terrible. Because Marc isn't the only one that feels that way
Or:
You had me at terrible (OK, it's not quite that bad, just ... quirky)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Because Marc isn't the only one that feels that way
Awesome!
Marc
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Why have they used a picture of Rust?
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As Eric Lippert put it a few years ago when talking about the differences between strongly typed compiled languages and dynamically timed scripting languages is that the former give you a huge set of "unit tests" that are created by the language spec, are automatically updated every time you edit the code, and then are ran every time you click the compile button.
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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However, the biggest contrast highlighted in the video is between Ruby and Smalltalk, another dynamic language.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Video? Is that linked to somewhere in the article body, even with my content blocker off I'm not seeing one.
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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Dan Neely wrote: the former give you a huge set of "unit tests" that are created by the language spec
Exactly. And also mirrors my experience -- 50% or more of the coding time is writing tests / single stepping through the Ruby code, simply to make sure there isn't a type problem, a typo, or some other issue.
Marc
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It's even worse if you're working on a short term project and glacial procurement means having to do with only sublime and printf debugging to do all the type/value/etc snooping that an IDE would make much easier.
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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Dan Neely wrote: It's even worse if you're working on a short term project and glacial procurement
Ugh. I guess slower than the 30 day trial of RubyMine, eh? Eclipse is free though.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: Ugh. I guess slower than the 30 day trial of RubyMine, eh?
Potentially. Enough that I didn't want to risk it anyway...
Marc Clifton wrote: Eclipse is free though.
I didn't realize eclipse spoke Ruby. Might have to try it if I ever get another project using it again. As much as I detest it, at least I do know more or less how to use it.
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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Lies are a fact of life. But technology may soon make them obsolete. But of course, the article could be lying.
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Easy with dumb liars. It might have trouble with Epimenides. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epimenides_paradox[^]
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
modified 9-Jul-15 22:30pm.
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Quote: dumb liars Epimenides was a Cretan not a Cretin!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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See On the Decay of the Art of Lying by Mark Twain
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Idiotsville post wrote: Peoples' data is already being turned against them Yes, dissidents are easily found using big data - but the lying has not become any less. Ask the most transparent government ever
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Go is an attempt to make programmers more productive. We wanted to improve the software development process at Google, but the problems Google has are not unique to Google. Everything you ever wanted to know about Go, and more
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Disk-image encryption is now included in the virtualization software. Virtualize all the boxes!
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The Gmail Postmaster Tools help qualified high-volume senders analyze their email, including data on delivery errors, spam reports, and reputation. For those who email
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As announced at WWDC last month, Apple is making a beta of its newly updated mobile operating system, iOS 9, available to the general public for testing starting today, alongside the beta version of OS X El Capitan, its updated desktop OS. Because breaking your machine (and phone) is a sign of love
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BETA get it while the gettin's good.
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