|
The edge-cases absolutely do need to be considered.
If I were, for example, to Tweet "Up the IRA!", I would expect to have my Twitter account closed. Furthermore, I'd take it on the chin rather than going on about evil liberal conspiracies, political correctness, the New World Order and Great Cthulhu, and say "Yeah. Fair cop, I crossed a line there!"
Now most of your list of offences relate to gender issues but is not possible that the posts in question were abusive rather than "wrong"? Let's face it, a lot of closet cases do get very rude when dealing with LGBT types and such subjects are always going to be a gathering point for trolls. I can't imagine that it's simply a case of people getting kicked off accidentally transposing a pro-noun or two. It would be interesting to see some examples.
I again, repeat, my slightly tongue-in-cheek comment at the start of this thread. We can safely ignore the notion that all loony-right thought is somehow barred from Twitter because Trump posts his brain-farts on there every day!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
|
|
|
|
|
PeejayAdams wrote: The edge-cases absolutely do need to be considered.
No, they seriously don't.
Using Twitter to recruit terrorists is NOT a free speech issue
Using Twitter to allow paedophiles to communicate with each other is NOTa free speech issue.
De-platforming someone for voicing their opinion that transgender men are not men (and vice versa) IS a free speech issue.
If you want to discuss free speech issues, then I'll gladly join in. Otherwise, count me out.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
Home | LinkedIn | Google+ | Twitter
|
|
|
|
|
If you seriously think that edge cases don't matter, never get a job as a software tester. The devil is ALWAYS in the detail.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
|
|
|
|
|
If you implement code to cater for edge cases before focussing attention on the key functionality, then don't get a job as a software developer.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
Home | LinkedIn | Google+ | Twitter
|
|
|
|
|
After years of building the iPhone primarily in China, Apple is preparing for a major expansion of iPhone manufacturing in India. India, Wisconsin?
|
|
|
|
|
Intel was reportedly struggling to produce 5G chips in time for the 2020 iPhone. You know what they say, if at first you don't succeed, give up and try an entirely different business.
|
|
|
|
|
Volkswagen will use Chinese software developers to help design a global autonomous vehicle architecture thanks to the prevalence of qualified programmers which carmakers are struggling to hire elsewhere If you can program a car to drive in China, it can drive anywhere.
|
|
|
|
|
Volkswagen China’s passenger cars chief Stephan Woellenstein said: In a short period from now they will be able to do 15 to 20 million lines of programming code on an annual basis
Who the hell measures productivity or success by LOC? 
They can hire me and I'll give them roughly that amount a day 
|
|
|
|
|
Sander Rossel wrote: I'll give them roughly that amount a day
Documented in Chinese? 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
|
|
|
|
|
That was my first reaction too. If SmogWagen is using such a pernicious anti-metric to gauge progress I expect the results to be about as safe as their emissions control systems were green.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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
|
|
|
|
|
Sander Rossel wrote: Who the hell measures productivity or success by LOC? 
IBM did. And it was a great success (for Microsoft).
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
|
|
|
|
|
and the emissions will be negative.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
|
|
|
|
|
"Turn light at the right", says the car!
Oops, that is only if you take physical control of the driving!  
|
|
|
|
|
If the questions asked at Nvidia's forums are any indication, they do not have a prevalence of qualified programmers.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
|
|
|
|
|
Linkage : Microsoft buys Express Logic, adds a third operating system to its IoT range | Ars Technica[^]
This will give them another OS for IoT devices. ThreadX is a very lightweight, real time OS so this could be very useful. That is, depending on how it is made available to users and corporations. It will be interesting to see how this works out.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
|
|
|
|
|
ThreadX is very lightweight. CE was pretty lightweight as well and a very good embedded OS. Microsoft didn't care and won't care now.
|
|
|
|
|
CE might have been appropriate for IoT devices but I think they scuttled it before the market for IoT stuff really took off.
As for ThreadX, they wasted a lot of money if they really don't care. I hope they see it for what it really is. What I mean by that is it's main focus is being very lightweight so shoe-horning .net into it would be entirely absurd. They need to get C and C++ to work on it and keep it ultra minimalist.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
|
|
|
|
|
Rick York wrote: They need to get C and C++ to work on it and keep it ultra minimalist.
Agree!
I often find myself wondering even about RPi. I own one and messed around with it.
It seems overkill for most embedded type of stuff and it is seriously minimal compared to a lot of IoT stuff, maybe comparable to windows ce and PocketPC.
But it's too large for IoT stuff. With IoT you just want some discrete component that runs on its own and does something very simple. These things like RPi are entire OSes seems too large for IoT to me.
For IoT they should be thinking extremely small like Arduino.
Just straight-up C based programs that can do a lot but is very minimal. Yes, I know that the Arduino IDE and associated language isn't quite just C but I think you know what I mean.
|
|
|
|
|
Basing my comments on previous experience. In reality, the CE kernel is still IoT capable. Instead of buying ThreadX, why not just make CE royalty free?
I do agree with the idea of making it "ultra minimalist"; one problem CE had is they kept stacking crap on top of it (and .NET Compact had some serious flaws. Another problem is they were behind on driver support. The biggest problem is that Microsoft refused to support it in any meaningful way. For non-trivial issues, they'd send you to an overpriced reseller, most of whom were utterly clueless and useless. Then there was the licensing...)
|
|
|
|
|
Well, I have read a few other things about this deal and Microsoft's intentions. It appears they are going to integrate Azure into ThreadX so it will soon be losing that "lightweight" character and minimalism I was hoping for. I can't say that I am surprised.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
|
|
|
|
|
https://upperedge.com/oracle/using-java-heres-how-oracles-new-2019-java-se-licensing-affects-you/[^]
After 1.8 Build 201, Java is no longer free for commercial use. Got an app that runs on Java? Your customers will be paying Oracle a MONTHLY licensing fee, per seat, to run your app.
Think about that. At 10,000 seats, that's a $1.50 each (fewer machines is more expensive.) So, $15,000 a month to run an app or $180,000/year.
Oh, and they're stepping up their auditing of Java use.
With .NET now multi-platform, maturing, AND FREE, how does this move make any sense?
|
|
|
|
|
Each time I see development stats, it looks like Java is slipping. Add to that the vast use it currently has, and the inability of most industries to quickly replace an entire software architecture already in place... and Oracle is able to milk it for quite a lot.
Some devs refuse to change and will be a driving force in their company to keep using Java, this money is just overhead if there is a large development group that would have to be retrained/replaced to get off Java.
This will affect Oracle long term (beyond my productive lifetime), but I see it as a huge short term gain.
However, if I was a Java dev, I would be highly upset.
|
|
|
|
|
Yeah, that crossed our minds. Where I'm at, our Java bill is going to be ... rather steep, every year.
Redevelopment costs of the in-house apps are a one-time charge and can start to be recouped in Java license fee savings after an average of five years of development and deployment. Some apps sooner, some a bit later.
We've got some 3rd-party apps that are Java dependent. Those vendors are going to take a large hit. If they haven't started redevelopment... well, we all know how that ends.
|
|
|
|
|
Correct me if I'm wrong, this applies to the newer Java releases or also to the projects that use old runtimes?
Because we know how it will go...
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
|
|
|
|
|
I think Version 8 Update 201 is the last free version for commercial use. Update 211 and up now falls under the new licensing scheme.
Developer and personal use is still free.
|
|
|
|
General 
News 
Suggestion 
Question 
Bug 
Answer 
Joke 
Praise 
Rant 
Admin 
Submit an article or tip
