I have a friend who is a physics major, one of the primary reasons he was learning to program was to use MPI & OpenMP languages, and presuming fortan has a very high performance / robust compiler for using MPI, this would probably be the soul reason it's used for large super computer & cluster computations because it's designed for distributed computation. I think this guy has the best answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2266643/for-what-are-fort...
I'm going to have to agree with your statement, "Creating a complex web application with Views, Sub Views & Deep-linking is difficult, no matter what framework you use". I tried using emberjs, their docs at the time were all over the place since they were not in-sync with their distributed code-base for learning. I've noticed more people have created good tutorials working with backbonejs and seems the right path moving forward for atleast making something remotely understandable.
Firebug is a monster ram whore, ideally the functionality would be built into firefox so it can be maintained as a core-set functionality. Then they can assemble unit tests etc to make sure it's there for the longrun.
Better auto-complete for css fields for the css editor in the new FF, such that it's on par with the firebug auto-complete functionality in the dom/css inspecter
I think something that would be useful as a dev tool in FF, which only chrome right now has a decent tool for is restful url testing, similar in part to https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/advanced-rest-clie... I haven't seen anything even remotely similar for FF, maybe a optional plugin for this kind of tool, it would make my development process much quicker for the client-side code which is being used for restful interfaces. especially if we can maintain our session when submitting information.
I couldn't really even get started the last time I used ember.js, their website w/ their examples were all worthless since they kept updating their code-base on literally a daily basis. I think I'm going to really take a serious look at angularJS now.
I've worked in the "war-room" style environment, it's okay as long as it's only for work, and not play, because when you have the "game-room" the "work-env" in the same place, productivity goes way way down. It's hard to work when you see your co-workers playing table tennis or foosball, especially at how loud foosball is or tennis is when they laugh etc. I'm not against these things, I just think that companies might consider spending a little more money on an office or atleast put their game-rooms in separate areas, and require a library policy in open-warroom offices.
Blows my mind. Apple is very innovative when it comes to personal computers and mobile devices. Amazon cleans the floor with them on scaling infrastructure and making services huge. I wonder what would happen if apple bought amazon, hmm.. muhahahahahaha.
I wish California filed one of these law suites. I have on my credit from my fathers purchase using my name -- who subsequently died obtained a subscription for DirectTV, they delivered and installed 1 dvr, and 3 receivers, they charged to my profile non-payment of $950 cancellation fee. My father never even used the DVR, I guess he didn't know how to use it. Ugh!
Wow, think they could make that any longer? I mean, I don't think it was long enough. 78 characters isn't long enough, I think it should be at least 96.
I'd really like to know why they don't have a PHP library, considering it powers half the web. The key shouldn't be to promote someone elses own language when using infrastructure products but rather to support everyone in using their tool. Mongo supports everything under the sun, so should this.
About 2 years ago, I used to think, old people are scary because they bring in bad habits. But today, I think that older people with modern tech skills are an amazing asset because of their experience. Working for years as a programmer in many different languages means they have a huge arsenal of knowledge in solving problems and using techniques most junior & even mid-level software/engineers have not been exposed to. The older they are, usually their solutions are more efficient, maybe more or less elegant, but they can solve problems in many different platforms.
Today, If i wanted to hire someone, as long as I saw that they are still working with modern languages & libraries, not constantly re-inventing the wheel, I would be extremely interested in their abilities, especially to help architect solutions.
Rewriting linux kernel in common lisp would be like rebuilding the water & electricity grid in NY,NY. It can be done, but with a lot of time and effort, but before it gets off the ground people who know anything about the old infrastructure will say it is probably a futile task and shouldn't be done. That is why Linux is written in C, because it's dirty, it's effective & efficient and people get shit done in it. Also C & assembly work together hand in hand. C is a direct translation to asm.
Apple would be dropping the ball if they went to ARM, especially on all the people using MS products. Not to mention they would essentially destroy the businesses of Vmware Fusion & Parallels for their virtualization environments which many many people still use to this day in large enterprise organizations to maintain a dual-environment compatibility layer. If they want to throw out their enterprise market, then this will be a great way to go about doing it.
there was an API which i found a while back, but it didn't work at all, all the unit tests it had failed, so my guess was that google changed their api once again and the project was worthless. The solution i came up with was the only reliable one i could build. It was only like 6 lines of code.
I did something like this, but using xpath queries, only problem is when they decide to change these, you will have "fun" times retesting all the dom locations to fix your scraper when the time does come when it breaks.
I'm disappointed because yesterday I'm browsing about looking for Louis CK videos and now I can't see all the other great comedians as well. I think the interface no longer promotes exploring of new content.