pointyhat

+1 for right priorities :)

I cycle between 0 - makes me more productive :)

I'm always adjusting it so that might be beneficial after all :)

Dang. Must be lucky with mine. Good luck with VBox :)

Do they do a naked version?

May be something completely unrelated?

I had the same trouble ironically. Blamed my desk and chair for ages. Then I sold my car and it went away. The thing I didn't realise was that the car whilst having the perception of being infinitely more comfortable turned out to cause all sorts of muscle strains.

Default ones worked for me. Windows 2008 64-bit. 40Gb disk. Do you haave VT-x on your CPU?

That sounds like someone is having a massive laugh at everyone's expense.

I never quite understood the appeal of standing up all day. Having done a couple of jobs in my youth which involved standing up all day and spending 2 hours a day on a train standing up, I couldn't think of anything less appealing.

I love my Aeron and so does my arse.

I tried it on VMWare workstation 7. Works fine for me.

Works fine on VMWare workstation 7 for me. Installed as Windows 2008 64-bit profile.

Hardly. I like it here.

And as for startups, I worked for one once. It's a big business now.

I build software which happens to reside on the web, not "web sites" or "web applications". Sometimes we have desktop applications deployed because they require real-time data. Sometimes we integrate with massive systems with millions of users. We don't use functional languages (they do not suit our workload and don't scale to our recruitment requirements), we use message queues (NServiceBus, zeromq), we use image libraries (GDI, reportlab), we use all the funky nosql stuff (Mongo), we use ORMs (NHibernate), we don't use computer vision or sound because we don't need it in our space.

Big, exciting things happen where I am.

It's the bubble you are in that I'd hate to be in. The superficial one which appears to be based on pushing social crap, novelty iPhone applications and glorified todo lists on the world.

My problem is that we did ALL OF THIS in 2001. The process hasn't changed, but the tools have and the time to market is the same.

Bars are horrid for working out "what portion of a whole" is represented. I don't care what iTunes does - it looks like shit.

Unless you ask.

Tell me two characteristics or features of node.js that cannot be built (in an old-fashioned circa 2001 way) with either ASP/JScript, Perl/mod_perl or PHP 4?

I'm not interested in "scalability" as that's moot - hardware is cheap.

You should have not implemented it to start with :)

Pie charts are fine if you use them carefully. Funnel charts are a sin though:

http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/bad-graphics-funnel-chart/

Your 7 year old should be playing outside.

Don't take their childhood away so they can live by your standards.

What about me? :) I agree with him.

So you're suggesting that the time to market of an ASP.Net MVC, NHibernate, Autofac, Razor, SQL Server application is going to be lower than a classic asp and SQL server application?

I agree with your sentiment but I see the other side of it. Technology is cumulative but noise slows down decision making and fragments knowledge.

The world does not need 200 programming languages, 1000 javascript frameworks, 500 different web servers and 20-odd social platforms which exist only to boost the ego of the originator who can market their idea better than othersr. It needs some concise, un-fancy-looking tools that are fit for purpose and can be used as a common ground for communicating ideas. There is so much fragmentation it's unbelievable.

Everyone thinks they can do better, yet no-one delivers any real efficiency improvement.

TBH going back in time, I can still deliver the same output as node.js with classic ASP/Jscript from 1998 arguably with less code and time spent.

Back on the subject of med research; they tend to still use Perl, bits of sticky tape and TI89/92 calculators a lot apparently (word of mouth from a friend who works in tissue sample analysis).

Yes it is. It has driven me away. It's so damn inconsistent and chock full of bugs, even in the LTS releases. Not only that, Launchpad is about as likely to get a fix released as Microsoft Connect is. Fedora rawhide is more stable!

Bar one stubborn piece of equipment hanging on 10.04LTS, I've entirely switched to Debian which can actually be trusted, has a decent release QA and doesn't change every two seconds.

Whilst I like SICP and have studied it thoroughly, it's a way of life if you choose it to be. Most don't.

Reminder: pg and zed are not deities. They have an opinion.

But 99.9% of these innovations don't help the world. They help a small subset of a small subset of a small subset of problems from a small subset of a small subset of a small subset of society.

Compare to if someone worked out how to stop Neurofibromatosis dead in its tracks for example (a condition my youngest daughter has), they'd give 1 in 3000 people a better chance.

People get a Jesus complex because they build a tool that a vocal minority uses.

It sounds like you're suggesting that we should replace our children's life with sterile simulations of reality?

I'm a programmer but I value physical experience far more than anything a machine can portray.

The programming bit allows me to remove the menial tasks and solve the menial problems so I can enjoy my real attachment to this world.

Without going on too much of a philosophical tangent; not about fusion - about everything in general. It allows me to concentrate on now rather than in the future. Now is the only time that is certain. Now is the only time you get to enjoy your life before it's over or your children leave.

Give this man a medal. This is exactly the problem with this planet.

Maths, which ultimately leads into functional programming (all IMHO).

It's fundamental in possibly less than 5% of careers. Don't inflate it to something it isn't.

Personally, I think there are plenty of good programmers.

Unfortunately there are a lot of problems which people like to solve over and over again...