mister_handy - Slashdot User

Comment My server/laptopo (Score 1) 558

by mister_handy on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @07:44PM (#49887559) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Hardware Is In Your Primary Computer?

Home server: i7-4770s, 32gb RAM, Gigabyte Z87 motherboard (don't remember the model, but it was the cheapest with 3 x16 slots), LSI 9211, Dell PERC H800, 2x 240gb SSDs (Intel 520, Corsair Force 3) in a software RAID 1, 6x Seagate 2TB HDD in a software RAID 6, 8x 3TB HDDs (mixed models, some Seagate, some WD Reds) in a software RAID 6, plus external drive array with 8x 3TB WD Reds in a HW RAID 6. Oh, and a Chenbro SAS expander on the internal SAS bus. Primary laptop: Dell Precision M3800 (i7-4712HQ, 16gb RAM, 1TB Samsung 840 EVO mSata, 960gb Crucial M500 2.5") Primary desktop: temporarily in pieces, not working, but Dell Precision T3500 (Xeon W3570, 12gb RAM [6x 2gb]) no hard drives right now, Nvidia GTX560 don't remember who made the card.

Comment Re:Assembly == SLOW ; JAVA == FAST! (Score 1) 372

by mister_handy on Sunday November 17, 2013 @02:30AM (#45446943) Attached to: MenuetOS, an OS Written Entirely In Assembly Language, Inches Towards 1.0

Yo dawg, I heard you liked Java...

Comment Re:Here's the real problem he has (Score 1) 479

by mister_handy on Sunday October 13, 2013 @12:27AM (#45112285) Attached to: Charlie Stross: Why Microsoft Word Must Die

Two different copies of Word don't guarantee that, at least unless Word has started embedding fonts by default since I last checked.

Comment Cumberbatch? Really? (Score 2) 194

by mister_handy on Thursday October 10, 2013 @01:13PM (#45093613) Attached to: Why Julian Assange Should Embrace 'The Fifth Estate'

Thanks to the casting choice of this movie, If I ever meet Julian Assange, I am going to walk up to him and say "KHAN!!!!!"

Comment Re:Poor statistics (Score 1) 512

by mister_handy on Friday September 13, 2013 @03:31AM (#44838419) Attached to: SSD Annual Failure Rates Around 1.5%, HDDs About 5%

Comment Re:if you are a good programmer there will be no p (Score 1) 435

by mister_handy on Sunday January 01, 2012 @09:01PM (#38559826) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Re-Entering the Job Market As a Software Engineer?

The "pay is better" part is made up for in part by lack of benefits, and often being on 1099 where you have to pay about 7-10% more in federal and sometimes state self-employment taxes... but even if you want benefits and a full-time gig eventually, it's a great way to get a foot in the door and start making connections if you've been out of the industry for a while.

Comment Re:Legal Test? (Score 1) 330

by mister_handy on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @01:45PM (#34175894) Attached to: Gosu Programming Language Released To Public

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gosu OK snark aside I think that is the meaning they were going for.

Comment Re:Yuck!!! (Score 1) 330

by mister_handy on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @05:22AM (#34171388) Attached to: Gosu Programming Language Released To Public

Rock on. I just learned a new profanity in another language. I love Slashdot.

Submission + - Gosu programming language released to public today 3

Submitted by llamafirst on Monday November 08, 2010 @03:21PM

llamafirst writes: Guidewire Software released the Gosu programming language today for public availability. Gosu is a general-purpose programming language built on top of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). It is object-oriented, static typed, imperative, 100% Java compatible (use/extend Java types, implement Java interfaces, compile to Java bytecode), type inference (very readable code yet static typing!), in-line functions that you can pass as objects (closures / lambda expressions / blocks), enhancements (inject methods + properties, even on Java types!), simplified generics. Gosu has an extensible type system: type loaders dynamically inject types into the language and handle dynamic dispatch. Type loaders dynamically add types from XSDs so XML is easier, and same for consuming remote web services (SOAP WS-I). Guidewire Software's core business is big insurance software and includes Gosu in its products. So, Gosu is new to the public but billion-dollar companies worldwide use Gosu in production for critical systems right now. Gosu is provided via the Apache License v2.0. The language itself is not yet open source, although that is planned for a future community release. Read complete introduction to the Gosu language, compare to other langs, syntax diffs from Java.

Comment Re:Watch the messenger (Score 1) 457

by mister_handy on Sunday May 09, 2010 @04:32AM (#32145388) Attached to: iPad Isn't "Killing" Netbook Sales, According To Paul Thurrott

...except the iPad doesn't have a real keyboard,

Neither do netbooks.

Small, but decidely real on some. The more common "chiclets" are still better than on-screen by a mile.

has crap multimedia format support

It supports high def, unlike netbooks generally.

For a narrow set of Apple-blessed codecs. And it's still resolution-limited to 1024x768, unlike some netbooks (most are still 1024x600, but some do native 720p) and a lot of netbooks will handle 720p just fine (except with flash) if you use the right software. And yeah, having to use multiple media players (VLC for MP4, something windows-native either MPC or WMP for WMV/VC1 is kinda a pain, but at least you have a choice of media players.)

and a crap web browser with no plugin or extension support.

Flash runs like shit on netbooks.

SD flash video runs fine on most netbooks. HD, notsomuch. Many flash games run fine. A few lag badly.

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