Comment Re:It should be dead (Score 1) 283
find me a language that makes it impossible to write bad, unreadable, unmaintainable code and I will show you an AI capable of doing your job for you.
find me a language that makes it impossible to write bad, unreadable, unmaintainable code and I will show you an AI capable of doing your job for you.
It doesn't strike you that engineering your environment around a particularly unnecessary aspect of a programming language is a sign of a problem with the language? The whitespace thing is really annoying to a lot of people. I'm a fan of whitespace, really, but I prefer to do it my way, or when being paid, the way my team wants it done.
I use python on a regular basis, it definitely has some advantages to perl in terms of datastructures, but it also has some bugshit crazy aspects too and an idiomatic style that really doesn't make a lot of sense and the control portion of the language has gone so far in to OOP excess that I find myself having to code around it.
So the magic mouse swipe gestures aren't obvious to people used to regular mice, I was very resistant, but I now love and miss them.
But I otherwise agree, I don't find anything about OSX to be "intuitive" to people used to using windows or linux. OSX is a fine windowing system, but it's a little rough around the hedges when it comes to usability for the portion of the world that simply cannot become Apple converts.
Hardware wise though, I have not found anything that comes close to an MBP. Windows or OSX, it beats the unholy snot out of its competition.
Last time I was in their neighborhood, MS employees were hauling MBPs around as their primary laptops. I never understood how they could get away with that, but "research" was in their job title...
That's great, so they're going to port their code to Open CL, then run it on your FPGA? Why not just buy a GPU and plug it in?
If they're really set on your FPGA, why not buy a PCIe attached version of your FPGA? Xilinx has them and they go up to pcie v3 x8? What about power? Datacenters care, FPGAs are going to use more power. Why is this a good idea?
s/datastructure/datacenter/
caffeine, it's what should have been for breakfast.
No ignore that entire last sentence, it's dumb. FPGAs don't do floating point very well for one and even their integer performance will never rival a GPGU either in performance, or power. For another, I can and do, use both FPGAs and OpenCL/GLSL in my daily life and would infinitely prefer to port my functions to OpenCL over an FPGA. It's quite a bit more work to synthesize and validate an FPGA design than it is to write OpenCL code and debug the usual way.
I think it's far more likely customers are implementing custom hardware solutions using the FPGA related to power management, server management and datastructure infrastructure that can only be done with an FPGA in certain power domains. I say this having designed servers and dealt with the feature requests.
What a joke. Check out my local dealership here in Texas: http://www.penskeautomotive.co...
Bet they're local to quite a few people in the US. And Germany. And Italy. And the UK. And Puerto Rico.
China is communist exactly the way in which the US is capitalist.
I've never worked in a place that did not have a competitive analysis lab and that did not have a tear-down process where everyone's products were looked at top to bottom, literally dissected, x-rayed, etc. It's used by everyone from design engineers on future products, to supply chain analysts to lawyers looking for patent infringements.
It's a good practice, too often companies get dominated by a few senior people with strong personalities who refuse to change. Show them a landscape of products were things are done differently, and with evidence that those things are working BETTER, and you can sometimes unclog some old-fartism. It's rare to see products with idea that hadn't been thought of before, but frequently you see implemented ideas that were shot down in your own org by someone.
I don't care how prerelease something is, if you put it out there expect that your competitors will see it.
There are several Austin locations, but they share that in common.
If the device has flashing LEDs, bright backlights, etc., OK I see the point. If it simply bothers people that someone in there is a geek, then I'll just wait for someone to ban the gays, the blacks and my favorite annoyance, hipsters.
I don't own the device and it'll be a long time before I'm convinced it wouldn't make me sick, but "We don't want none of your kind here" isn't an emotion I sympathize with from any establishment for any reason.
It does if they want my continued business.
Does google glass distract other people from viewing? Or is this just more paranoia about movie pirates masquerading as trendy tech-hate?
This is why you don't negotiate with terrorists.
Fast, cheap, good: pick two.