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Wait, you actually put a hit counter on the individual segments of the MM Filter?  
Seriously through, have any of them overflowed an int64 yet?
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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Michael Martin wrote: Stella Artois
Oh great - you get that rancid dingo-piss in Australia too? 
Presumably it's for the blokes who think Fosters and Castlemaine are just too good...
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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F***et!
Tried to reply 3 times and lost my witty replies.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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No worries! I read "between" your failed posts and safely received your witty repartee. 
Upvote on your witty reply!! 
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Oh crap!
I just received my new Mac Mini 2.6ghz 8GB i5 this past monday and it has El Capitan on it for my new venture into iOS iPhone dev.
First Mac EVER. As a PC user I had heard only a bit about Mac OS so I just thought, "Okay, good, I got El Capitan and that's relatively new, right?"
Well, I guess I was wrong.
And this Mac Mini ain't so fast already, let me tell you.
Oh boy...
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raddevus wrote: First Mac EVER. As a PC user I had heard only a bit about Mac OS so I just thought, "Okay, good, I got El Capitan and that's relatively new, right?"
Well, I guess I was wrong.
You weren't very wrong. El Capitan is a year old. Recently Apple has updated OS X (now called macOS) every year. Despite Apple's marketing propaganda, every year its usually a mild evolution not a revolution. From what I can tell, this year's update is no different. A handful of new features, some useful - some not.
That being said, I'll guess your Mac Mini will be fine. Might even speed up... just give it 20-30 minutes after the update to rebuild its caches and indexes.
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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Great info. Thanks very much for taking the time to let me know.
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The mac mini is...well, it's not their workhorse. We use one in the office to handle our teleconferences. Fine for basic stuff but there are definitely faster micro PCs out there.
I've used a Macbook Air for a number of years now and it's definitely fast enough. Can't wait for the next iteration.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: The mac mini is...well, it's not their workhorse
I'm learning the truth of that as I develop my first iOS apps. Well, it's a bit better than I first thought, but it becomes quite laggy at times. Mostly, inconsistency feels like the norm. 
Well, I'm using it only for the iOS dev so I can probably tolerate it for a while.
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Yesterday never comes.
However, upgrade headaches will, and they'll be taller than the highest peak in the Sierras.
Then again maybe knot.
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Ah ha! So that's why my internet stopped working!
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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An OS update that installs and just gets on and does its job?!?!
What a nightmare!
Where's the drama? The tragedy? The wringing of hands and the wailing of mourning widows?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I know - I'm still trying to find out what's wrong with it. Driving me nuts.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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So MVC is introduced by Smalltalk. I thought it was by Java. After all these years I was fooling myself with this assumption. Shame of me. Thanks InfoQ for the related news.
modified 23-Sep-16 10:26am.
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Microsoft Visual C++ was introduced by Microsoft
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Hahahahah. I'm not as such fool. Don't forget my name Stephen.
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You'll find that pretty much every paradigm you can think of can trace its way back to things like Smalltalk, the original Unix implementations, VMS and Xerox PARC. There's been precious little real new material since the mid 80s; merely refinement of concepts that were introduced earlier.
This space for rent
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Indeed, the great inventions were happended decades back. These days people lost their track and yet produce programming language like incubator.
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We're too busy on Facebook, Twitter, and WoW now to innovate.
Jeremy Falcon
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: There's been precious little real new material since the mid 80s
Yes, I miss my retractable cup-holders on desktop towers
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Well, many "new" ideas are typically based on tech from at least a couple of decades ago. Often they're simply before their time. Or the "new" incarnation is in a more usable form.
Kevin
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OOPS was introduced in Simula!
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MVC has been around since the 70s. Same with XML (as SGML) too. Like Pete has mentioned, we're just rehashing old crap with new shiny names and acting like it's a game changer.
Jeremy Falcon
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Essay on Aeon, "Coding is not ‘fun’, it’s technically and ethically complex" by Walter Vanini: [^]Quote: Unfortunately, this rosy portrait bears no relation to reality. For starters, the profile of a programmer’s mind is pretty uncommon. As well as being highly analytical and creative, software developers need almost superhuman focus to manage the complexity of their tasks. Manic attention to detail is a must; slovenliness is verboten. Attaining this level of concentration requires a state of mind called being ‘in the flow’, a quasi-symbiotic relationship between human and machine that improves performance and motivation.
I find many articles on Aeon fascinating, but this article leaves me with the kind of feeling I have looking at road-kill too closely, so, of course, I want to share that with you.
imho, it is absurd to speak of the ethics of coding beyond the usual concerns involving any intellectual property (ownership, plagariasm, theft, etc.), or the usual concerns around employment (exploitation, fair/unfair compensation, etc.); the ethical "dimensions" are in the context in which programming occurs, the ultimate purpose of the code, the intentions of its creators and owners, the actions of its users or owners vis-à-vis others.
Once upon a time (1983), this derelict who writes to you now created and ran a "computer education" program (Apple II's, Apple dot-matrix printers) for the French-American Bilingual School in San Francisco for one academic year (and one year was enough contact with kids below the age of 12 to last me a lifetime). Yes, those kids had fun; fun creating "Turtle dances" in LOGO and then actually dancing to them to music; yes, some had fun creating programs to create graphics like spirographs, and Mandelbrot sets, and such. And, many did not have "fun" in spite of my best efforts, but found using the computer challenging in some way. But, after tall, compared to today, that pre-Internet time is virtually a technological stone-age. There were bulletin-boards around, and, in fact, one kid at school used his dad's computer to somehow find a list of uncensored bay area bulletin boards, some of which had names like "KillerToilets," and brought copies of that list to school which caused a certain scandal, and I had parents coming to see me about that. Also of interest during that year was the a group of parents banding together to demand I teach BASIC, as well as LOGO (I agreed with them, and, in fact, was planning to do so).
While in my "native language and culture" (Corporate Occupied MallburgerLand aka "USA") the word "fun" may indeed have a somewhat belittling, diminutive, connotation (depending on how it's used in context), other cultures may not share such deprecation (in Thai the word "sanuk" is a key cultural meme, and it means much more than "casual" fun).
So my peers, and mentors, what say you: programming is "fun"" ... or not ?
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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