Comment Re:Not so fast (Score 5, Funny) 418
Yep, an entire orchestra can play of a few pages of dead wood. Voila problem solved.
For once it would have been almost appropriate to misspell "voilà" as "viola"...
Yep, an entire orchestra can play of a few pages of dead wood. Voila problem solved.
For once it would have been almost appropriate to misspell "voilà" as "viola"...
Au contraire. Acting like a reasonably normal human being will allow you to interact with a significantly larger and more influential group of people.
I think you may have misinterpreted the joke.
A non-recursive algorithm to walk a tree structure still requires memory space proportional to the maximum depth of the tree,
Not always, no. For example, if the nodes in the tree all have a reference to their "parent" nodes (which they may already have for other reasons), you can traverse the tree in O(1) space. That doesn't help if the nodes don't have parent references (adding them would increase the size of the tree by O(n) which is usually much bigger than O(max depth)), but if the tree is sorted (as it typically is) you can find the parent of a node in O(1) space, albeit in O(max depth) time.
Oh so which is it? They're asian or pakistani?
I have to ask - which continent do you consider Pakistan to be in?
British PMs are never elected, their party is.
I think the PM still has to win their seat. Has a PM ever served where their party won FPTP but they didn't win their seat?
Yes, but not since 1902. (It used to be acceptable for the PM to come from the House of Lords, which is unelected.)
CentOS 6.8 is NOT the latest CentOS version, with CentOS 7.0 taking that honor.
Actually 7.2 is the latest!
What Firefox build supports it? Because none that I have seen do.
You've never had to use Windows? You lucky soul
In fact the Linux builds support it too - it's disabled by default, but if you set the "browser.backspace_action" option to 0 (which is the default for Windows installs) it will enable it, if you really want to
Since every single browser also supports Backspace to go back, they were hardly being different!
By "every single browser" I assume you mean "Opera stupidly".
No - Firefox supports it; IE and Edge support it; Safari supported it prior to version 6; as you mention, Opera supports it... it's hardly a Chrome innovation
Yes, what was the point of it anyway, given every single browser ever uses the universal ALT-Left to go back?
Were they just trying to be different?
Since every single browser also supports Backspace to go back, they were hardly being different!
And if the web version does not require a smartphone then why the hell would a proper program require one?
The web one does require a smartphone, too.
Stock Waterman wrote it.
Stock Aitken Waterman. No need to miss out Matt Aitken!
Being less verbose isn't necessarily a good thing.
Definitely agree - sometimes being explicit is better. But this is definitely an area where Java and Go take very different approaches.
More sophisticated concurrency model? Perhaps, I'd say it's more abstracted away so you may not have to worry about it, usually, but that must means it's going to be harder if your problem doesn't fit well in their concurrency model. (Need we discuss Open GL?)
Actually the OpenGL thing is solved fairly easily - but in general this is a valid observation; my point is that Java's approach (with explicit threads, synchronisation etc) is much closer to C's than Go's is.
But where "go" and "Java" differ, they are extremely similar looking when you compare them to "C".
And my point is that's clearly not true - apart from garbage collection, the two languages have relatively little in common; they may both do more abstraction than C, but what they choose to abstract, and how they implement it, is very different.
How does 'The Go Programming Language' compare to 'The C Programming Language'?
About as well as Java compares with "C" and in almost exactly the same ways.
That's doing Go a massive disservice; Go differs from Java in very significant ways. To name but a few:
In fact, apart from having garbage collection, Java and Go are really not that similar (within the realm of somewhat-compiled imperative languages).
Check with Oracle about the terms they use if you want to distribute their Java Virtual Machine in a commercial product. I can assure you it involves you providing them with cash before they will let you even distribute Java, unmodified, as part of your product. I know this from experience. I'll warn you, Java from Oracle does NOT come cheap if you wish to distribute it. Sure they will let you and your customer download it for free, but they want their cut if you download and distribute Java to a customer.
OK, I checked with Oracle, and they said this:
Can I distribute Java with my software?
Yes, you can provide Java with your software provided you abide by the terms and conditions of Java binary code license.
Go is great, and there are definitely advantages to Go's BSD licensing model, but this is not one of them
Two can Live as Cheaply as One for Half as Long. -- Howard Kandel
