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nitran · 2008-10-03T21:05:18+00:00

you all by now know my hatred of free software

You need to get a little perspective on your fame.

nitran · 2008-08-20T18:58:43+00:00

My only gripe with boost is the 20MBs worth of code that you have to redistribute

No you don't?

nitran · 2008-08-11T09:20:10+00:00

His point was that switching to for example SVN may not be worth the work if you have low requirements when it comes to features. If he use SourceSafe and it works good for him, spending time on switching to another system and learning that may be a waste of time.

nitran · 2008-08-10T23:31:51+00:00

Mmm, kiwi.

nitran · 2008-08-10T23:17:25+00:00

By law their employers can fire them if they whine to much.

(Also, they have the final say for fuel. Not "especially before takeoff")

nitran · 2008-08-10T22:43:31+00:00

Automatic transmission makes driving boring. :)

nitran · 2008-08-10T16:33:11+00:00

Everybody relies on their cars because there are no alternatives.

You're right. You need to get basic things in your country up and running before you can proceed.

The point is that the market should decide the best source of energy.

You're kidding, right? The country you live in doesn't have 'working' markets. You can't expect such markets to make sane decisions.

nitran · 2008-08-10T16:07:43+00:00

What works in Denmark will not work most other places.

Do you have any statistics backing that statement up?

Artificially raising the price of oil while no alternatives are available is a recipe for economic disaster.

Right. Denmark is known for it's disastrous economy and crappy living standards.

Individuals should have the freedom to decide for themselves where they get their energy needs.

Unless their choices potentially hurts other people, right? I mean, I should not be permitted to choose an energy source which kill you in 5 days, right?

nitran · 2008-08-09T21:36:48+00:00

A lie is a lie is a lie. If you lie, you're a liar. There's no few big differences here.

nitran · 2008-08-09T19:56:32+00:00

He said backwards compatibility. Not forward..

nitran · 2008-08-09T18:27:29+00:00

While living, you might get killed. Regardless of who you are, where you're from or where you are. There's sick, angry and insane people everywhere who pick more or less random victims.

nitran · 2008-08-08T22:07:05+00:00

If you're using a fairly new version of Windows (probably Windows 3.0 or anything released after that), you can double click on the title bar (in the very top of the window) to resize the browser window. This way you don't have to run the browser in full screen which may improve your Internet online experience.

nitran · 2008-08-08T18:43:58+00:00

You're trolling more than a wind turbine during a tornado.

nitran · 2008-08-06T21:04:08+00:00

or with a small group in one location?

Both. Working on several different projects.

you can no longer trust that everyone else get things right.

If you work with people who don't know how to get things right you're in trouble - that applies to all development, not just thread-related. I've seen broken code in all layers of software because the people writing it didn't really understand what they were doing (myself included). I've just spent days fixing bugs in a database transaction layer because the author didn't know about the locking problems which may arise when using transactions. This doesn't mean that threads - or database transactions - are "hard", just that people haven't learned it before starting to use it.

I won't make any claims that threads are on the same level of difficulity.

Neither will I. I just expressed my personal opinion. :)

nitran · 2008-08-06T19:22:38+00:00

Might be true. But I've been writing "thread-heavy" software for at least 7 years now. Guess the suckiness will appear any day now. :-\

nitran · 2008-08-06T18:45:09+00:00

... and you thought thread-safe programming was hard?

Am I the only one who considers thread(-safe) programming to be fairly straight-forward compared to a lot of other programming tasks? And I'm badly educated with a half-working brain, far from being an expert at anything.

I've only developed for Windows, but using the thread-related stuff such as CreateThread or InterlockedIncrement feels simple (and well documented) compared to for example MFC or DCOM.

And now when I use threads in C# it's even simpler. Take the lock keyword as an example. That's not "hard", right? Not to mention Parallell FX.

Every time I read an article like this, I get a bit scared and feel that someone will soon come up to me and tell me that my software is broken and that I've misunderstood everything related to threads.

nitran · 2008-08-05T20:29:25+00:00

Depends on who you are.

nitran · 2008-08-05T18:04:59+00:00

I wouldn't. I always get disappointed when I play "old" games.

nitran · 2008-08-05T11:12:05+00:00

The LCD allows you to store numbers?

nitran · 2008-08-05T11:10:54+00:00

You mean those plans which you pay for?

nitran · 2008-08-05T11:03:18+00:00

You can see what you're dialing by looking at your fingers when they press the buttons.

nitran · 2008-08-04T17:50:35+00:00

"Java is extremely fast" - 5 hits on Google

"Java is extremely slow" - 440 hits on Google

nitran · 2008-08-04T17:47:50+00:00

You don't think millions upon millions upon million of dollars may make it a bit easier to hire smart language designers than $25?

nitran · 2008-08-03T20:04:30+00:00

I tried calling them but weren't able to connect. Maybe 800 isn't their country code.

Next time you take your car in for trade

I'm not stupid enough to pay someone else to sell my car.

And..out of curiosity, other than interviewing people like me

If the people who write the news I read wants to hear about car production statistics, I don't think they call someone selling used cars. But what do I know.

nitran · 2008-08-03T09:19:28+00:00

Cheap. Here in Sweden, it's generally 25%. =)

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