Posts by JDX

Re: MS better hope...

Laptops and PCs aren't going to be running WOA... right?!

Re: Windows XYZ

It's hardly unusual though - you can buy software for $50 for your personal/hobby use, if it's for commercial use then suddenly it's $200.

Re: Confused by the confusion....

Oh - I hadn't even realised "Windwos on Arm" was the proper brand name; I thought it was still Windows 8, and WOA was a more technical thing.

Re: It's amazing

Not many people in the real world scream at Apple. Only on techy sites like this.

Re: Re: Lets look at the time line a bit shall we

If Android genuinely infringes patents then it's reasonable they should pay... that's different from pre-existing arrangements for companies to work together regarding patents which are ubiquitous to web standards.

No. If you don't want to pay towards that portfolio, don't buy such a device.

The device you buy probably uses hundreds of patents, oddly enough you don't get to pick and choose which when buying a consumer item for a few £hundred.

Re: Google "results"

>>Prior to that, I used Google; but made sure that it was searching for "random" stuff a lot more often than my genuine searches.

That's paranoia of the most hilarious type. Well done. Perhaps you should just keep off the internet if you're so scared of people watching you.

Re: Goodbye and thanks for all the fiche

The "right thing" being stealing someone else's work because you don't want to pay the price they ask for it?

Re: Re: @Jean-Luc: Your knowledge of C++ Applications is limited

Sorry but you're simply incorrect. Java and .NET are great platforms and are perfectly suited for 90%+ of software, but optimised C++ code is faster than optimised Java code simply because Java has more stuff to do. You can't implement the same code on both to compare, you have to tweak your algorithms based on understanding how it works.

Also, your soundbite about NASDAQ is not relevant. When we talk about financial institutions needing ultrafast algorithms, we don't mean the stock exchanges. We mean the automated trading algorithms which banks develop. These are entirely different things.

Re: Re: Re: Hardly "blindingly fast"

I'm not going to suggest my compiler can create code as fast as hand-crafted ASM. But it's certainly not an order of magnitude slower. That level of performance would mean ASM would remain much more widely used because there are still areas where performance is worth the extra work... such as gaming (both code and GPU programming) and software trading.

Intrinsics and so on mean you can use SIMD without having to mess about in ASM anyway.

Re: C++11

OpenMP offers language-level multithreading. Shame it doesn't really catch on because for simple parallel tasks it is way less code than 'proper' threading libraries.

Re: Re: C vs java

Well done for failing to read his post. He said he implemented the SAME code in each, this is a discussion about how the compiler works with the SAME input, not about how to optimise code.

Go back to thinking how clever you are now.

Re: Systems Administration 101

Nowhere in the article does it actually say the software was actually running on local time, only that the changeover caused a problem. What their servers were doing is not mentioned, unless anyone has a link to a more in-depth analysis they can quote from?

Re: And that is why...

>>The safety-critical systems I worked with ran everything on GMT. The local time was simply translated to and from GMT when required.

There really is no excuse for this sort of thing.

I think you're oversimplifying. Converting all times to UTC is not a universal fix for DST issues. The moment you have an event which spans a DST cross-over, or you are working with a date in the future after the next changeover, problems start to creep back in.

When countries move their DST changeover date (USA did recently), even more difficult.

Re: Hire dumb developers - get dumb software

It's the developers who don't think they make mistakes who are the dangerous ones.

These things don't cause problems because of dumb developers, but because of lack of proper testing.

Re: No need for daylight savings these days

>>Lots of people have flexi time. If they want to get up earlier so they can go home earlier, they can.

Unless they have children. You're still doing the school run in the dark for several months, which is depressing for all concerned

>>We will have to educate the muppets who think that going to Summer Time gives more sunlight in a 24hour period though.

I think you're falsely attributing that thought to people who don't actually hold it. Even thickos know the clocks change so we get more of the daylight, even if they don't understand why it works that way.

Re: Re: Re: Eventually ...

>>No, they have exactly the same amount of daylight in winter. Playing with the clock just means that it begins and ends at different times.

Same amount as who? The Scots do have less daylight in winter than the rest of us?

>>Facebook would do well to employ this guy instead of prosecuting him. He clearly knows better than any of their current security team what needs to be tightened up.

That their security team not only detected his intrusion but tracked him back to his bedroom suggests they're not exactly useless.

Re: @Peter2

>>As he put it: "would you rather your security was designed by someone who knew the theory of security or the practice?" Using people who've been caught in the act is more common than you'd imagine and has to be the ultimate definition of rehabilitation.

Hiring someone who was once a criminal is one thing. Hiring a current criminal is another.

Re: Forcing the hand

>>Then once they've managed to reel in a few more independent developers then we'll see the option to turn it off vanish.

Hard to see that happening while anyone wants to develop corporate apps for Mac. Or do/will they provide a special way to do that as they already do for private iPad apps?