Comment Re:Damnit! (Score 1) 74
The Cancer will kill off the Rabies.
I think that people who have died of rabies probably would have wished that were true. It really is not a laughing matter.
The Cancer will kill off the Rabies.
I think that people who have died of rabies probably would have wished that were true. It really is not a laughing matter.
Sadly, some people in IT do
Trying to intimidate people with technical jargon garbage does a disservice to real IT work. Knowing subnetting notation is not nearly as important as say, knowing how routing works. Knowing how to write a DNS zone file is not nearly as interesting as knowing what to do when the DNS server stops working. At least try to be smug about things that actually require skill, instead of talking shit about things it takes 20 minutes to learn on Wikipedia.
There's no pure theory CS curriculum I know of that includes specialized things that IT people have to know just to get started, such as: What a
Are you trying to say that it is important to know a lot of trivia, buzzwords, and jargon, to be an IT person?
And that is a good thing why, exactly? Our standards also change for a reason.
It used to be reasonable to burn someone alive for resembling, or supposedly resembling, a fictional character in literature.
Oh and by the way, your comment is the textbook definition of intellectually lazy.
Kind of like basing your entire argument on an ad hominem fallacy? You are a brilliant satire of something, almost amusing to read.
Also "legacy training". Student learns from prof. Student becomes prof. Cycle repeats.
Also Fortran didn't stagnate in the 60s, it's been evolving over time.
Other languages are highly optimizable too. However most of the new and "cool" languages I've seen in the last ten years are all basic scripting languages, great for the web or It work but awful for doing lots of work in a short period of time. It's no mystery why Fortran, C/C++, and Ada are still surviving in areas where no just-in-time wannabe will flourish.
Do not drag genuine JIT/intermediate bytecode compiling languages through the mud by grouping them with scripting languages. AFAIK there is no cool language that is ever compiled, JIT or not.
Isn't the main performance benefit that Fortran has always claimed over C/C++ the fact that an array is guaranteed to only be used from one thread at a time, and thus you don't have to re-read from memory to registers each time you want to do something with the data in the array? A capability that was formally added to C in C99 (and pretty much universally informally added to C++) with the restrict keyword?
Correct me if I'm wrong here, as I'm not a Fortran programmer.
Correction, the whole debate about speed is mostly a thinly veiled excuse to continue using an antiquated programming language for no other pragmatic reason. Half the problem is probably the desire to use legacy libraries, but the other half is simply difficulty in learning something new.
That's just for the keycaps. You have to buy the rest of the keyboard separately (for something like $100).
I run a Unicomp Ultra Classic keyboard. It cost $80, and is worth at least twice as much. Try one out someday.
It's almost as if GNOME and Unity and all of that are like a precursor to Obamacare or something.
If you like your Gnome 2 you can keep you Gnome 2?
Yeah, but it will need to be made Accessible Computer Act compliant. This includes removing the taskbar, and generally making applications 10x harder to find than they were before. ACA compliant GNOME 2 will take four hours to install, when it used to only take 20 minutes.
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