wildjim

Fully virtualised servers are not necessarily all that efficient either, especially if they're configured to do simple resource dedication among the hosted systems/processes.

Shared systems can wrap their hosted processes with very fine-grained utilisation monitoring and reallocation, as well.

... I really hate having to use Python.

Not a lot has changed, then...

Also, IIRC, the colonies tended to have a commonality in heritage of the colonists, too. E.g. at one time, Australia had a "large number" of criminals, there are quite a lot of Dutch in NZ -- there are large parts of NZ with very strong Scots heritage -- New York is famous for Irish heritage, other parts of USA are famous for German, etc. The UK hasn't really had the same homogenisation outside the big cities.

But you could argue every language is a derivative of another, or another's functionality, or style, or...

To fairly call a language "a type of X" there honestly has to be a lot more in common with it.

> "It's a Lisp where..." in the same way that a unicycle is "a bicycle where..."

... it has wheels??!!

I'm sorry, it's not Lisp. It has several of Lisp's useful features, but it's likewise missing a large number of them; to the point that it's a real disservice to glibly compare it and conveniently ignores a lot of the power of Scheme, Common Lisp, and their true ancestors/siblings.

Money pays the bills, of course, and these days, the cost of living can cut a hefty wedge into that money...

TBH, if I can pay the bills, save for retirement, and have a little left for me and my family, I am happy; but the truth is, it's a struggle.

Watched a documentary recently, experimenting with 3hours/day. It was cancelled after a week because the "victim" was showing dangerous side-effects and beginning to show major-organ dysfunction, apparently from the stress caused by lack of sleep.

What really makes the iPad any more special, especially considering the price?

Please don't say the UI, as it's not so well loved by everyone...

I'm not sure I disagree -- "Usuary" used to be thoroughly illegal/immoral/etc didn't it?

... and "People are brainwashed to think that paying a credit card is more important than paying for the necessities of life." - Maybe if people spent more time worrying about the necessities of life and less about luxury they wouldn't be in debt in the first place.

I definitely believe credit cards are less important than basic necessities.

Perhaps the averse reactions here have something to do with too many of us living in densely populated/over-populated or even over-stimulated environments; the short-attention-span generation?

I actually think it'll just be a long, uphill battle.

IIRC, Qualcomm are preparing the very first baseband/radio chip(s) that can support both. I believe it's a soft-radio, so you can reprogram it for whichever frequencies and protocols you need to support.

And that's ignoring fully Windows/Linux capable systems like Samsung's Q1's, and Viliv's range.

It is standard for everywhere except the USA; mobile usage has been traditionally significantly higher in Europe than USA, so you wouldn't really want to miss out on that market!

I read much of his online book before deciding to buy a paper copy, figuring the result was definitely worth the money, therefore the guy deserved to be paid; this was a few years ago. I don't exactly remember when, so hopefully before 2007...

I strongly suspect this article is based on two aspects:

- one is to sell his services with a type of confirmation bias, i.e. to confirm "what every manager suspected about their programmers but could never prove", which leads to:

- ending up "helping" the same type of companies/clients throughout his career.

The perfect upgrade is impossible (i.e across all user's machines); my experience has been only Debian and Gentoo come anywhere near close to painless, but to be fair, that's probably mostly because I'm constantly doing micro-upgrades on these dist's (Deb "testing" track) and there are still some app's or packages that haven't been tested into oblivion by the time I get to them, and so require me to troubleshoot and fix on occasion.

If you care about stability more than being near upstream's head, you have to choose an LTS dist, and you have to vett every single upgrade the Vendor/Maintainer wants to apply. If not, accept that there's a percentage risk which you have little control over.

It's basically very accurate.

Good on him for not cowing under the "business norms" here.

And as to hurting his reputation: that sounds like you're referring to rep to upper management, who will probably not care, and will have hardly anything to do with his next hire, anyway.

People who will be choosing to hire him are pretty likely to identify with him at some level, even if it's historically, for a start. If they'd be worried about his "honesty", he really wouldn't be happy working there, anyway. In my experience, people who've been totally honest about their opinions to colleagues and managers have been, on average, more successful and definitely more respected.

Then again, perhaps that's just a antipodean perspective.

The biggest problem is cert's would almost never pass the same standards as the equivalent from most govt's Education Exam board. If they did, perhaps they would be more useful. Education Exam standards can also vary significantly between countries, and these com's sadly can't be bothered in expending the effort internationally.

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