Posts by Rashakil Fol

Save it for FOX News.

@robsku, I wasn't talking about you and your time -- I use linux too, and find it perfectly babying, without spending any time at all getting it working the way I want.

No, I'm a Windows and Linux user.

> it's Unix and that scares people

No, it's a collection of poor user interfaces that offer no advantage over Windows.

> Nowadays, the PC is becoming the "dumbed-down" operating system of the masses

Now there's a completely nonsensical claim.

> I assumed, in those thrilling days of yesteryear, that Mac users weren't as smart as PC users.

Basically, if you're dumb (or have a lot of funny), that's what you thought.

> the new applications are released without some of the more sophisticated features they once brandished,

Examples, please.

> Think about it. If software companies continue to make smarter operating systems, we'll in turn, get dumber because there will less for us to do and tinker with, fix, and enhance. In essence, our skills will atrophy from lack of use. Then, the software companies, one in particular, will have us where they want us: At their mercy.

You might enjoy the writings of Ted Kaczynski.

> I don't want to be in that position. I want my technical skills to remain sharp by working with an operating system that's close to the hardware. I like to configure, enhance, tinker, tweak, and build something that's better than what's handed to me.

That's because you don't value your time. Other people pick their computer systems based on their usefulness, not their uselessness.

Are you smart enough not to use Linux? Write back and let me know.

I think hardware will still be very important. I mean, getting the screen as big and thin and cheap is possible is still important. Improvements in hardware mean lower prices, and for a vast portion of the world, this means a serious amount of savings. And hardware improvements can be important in the quality direction, too. I mean, consider an iPhone. Now consider an iPhone that can be unfolded, with two or three screens smoothly connecting into one. Or consider one that let you stick a larger battery in, very elegantly. Things like basic practical hardware design is still important and could still be improved.

> At least the report does not mention if people use their mobiles when they poo or during sex which makes a pleasant change of late.

Well your blog entry just did.

The really strange part is that they were firing him but didn't cut off his access immediately. You'd expect an organization like Fannie Mae to do that.

What reason is there for .tel domains? Is there some desire for different people to have .tel domains with the same names as some .com domain?

Who is making money off of this decision?

> Those of you who follow the state of Linux may realize that Linux is now at the precipice or "jumping off place" as an operating system.

These people have been people "realizing" this for the past 10 years.

Laying off bad American employees and replacing them with good H1Bs is a good thing.

Duh.

Juvenile chauvinist filler.

The merits of various operating systems has nothing to do with whether we're in a recession or not. What an entry of nonsense.

Here's a better idea for the economies of dying towns: have people who need internet access for their business pay for it themselves, or move somewhere where high bandwidth infrastructure is affordable.

Oh wait, you have a better idea: encourage businesses to operate inefficiently. Yeah, that's a brilliant idea.

This is not a technology blog post.

Google is only "green" in that energy is expensive and they want to save money.

The real problem is that the records were on a USB memory stick in any form.

Yawn.

Yawn. This article isn't about technology at all.

The entertainment channel known as CNBC is the last place you should look for perspectives on the financial situation.

> He says so many negative, nasty, and acrid things about Linux that there is only one possible answer: Steve Ballmer Loves Linux.

Look how stupid you are.

This is the dumbest blog entry I've ever read. You are typing wild nonsense without using any facts. Your adversarial tack is nauseating.

Well this is obvious.

Wow, it seems like you're trying to be clever. How's that working out for you?

Amen brother. For Allah!

I don't see why some of you feel the need to demean and belittle others.

I don't know. Because there's a bit of work and code that has to be executed for the garbage collector and other systems, I guess.

To evaluate the function, run ghci, load the file Wordify.hs with :l Wordify , and type wordify 123456000999 at the prompt (or some other argument).

wordify:
Converts any integer number (such as 123456000999) into a string ("one billion two hundred ninety-three million one hundred two thousand one hundred").

Oh, and to run this program, type 'ghc --make foo.hs' (where foo.hs is your actual filename) to compile and then run the program foo. You'll need to get GHC though.

It's not good form to put the body of a 'do' block (or any other artifact) on the first row. It's probably illegal, and although GHC accepts the syntax, it won't let you put any more top-level definitions in the file.

I prefer sort | uniq

Haskell version:

main = do putStr "Enter the number: "
          n <- readLn
          putStr "\n\nThe representation : "
          putStrLn . intercalate " " . map ((names !!) . digitToInt . show) $ n

names = [ "zero", "one", "two", "three", "four",
           "five", "six", "seven", "eight", "nine"]

Instead of &iA[0] and &iA[10], why not just write iA and (iA + 10)?

answered in identical thread.

ISingleResult<T> : IEnumerable<T>, so just use System.Linq.Enumerable.ToList.

This is just a sad thread.

First, make your life easier by making a function

(define (name x)
  (cond ((pair? x) 'pair)
        ((symbol? x) 'symbol)
        (else (error "i don't know how to handle this case"))))

Once you have this, make a recursive function that takes three arguments: a symbol (whose value is 'pair or 'symbol), an integer saying how many times that kind of thing occurred before the start of the current list, and a list of stuff.

D is too complicated (but cool), Ada is too much crap, Haskell is awesome and has an awesome community except there's a huge learning curve which is awesome and epiphinaical itself, Object Pascal is whatever. F# is... an excellent .NET language. Obviously.

ROFL

2) Rashakil, if you're gonna post another video of yourself on youtube. Consider wearing something that hides your puny knees.

My knees are now flabby so I don't need to hide them anymore.

And why the hell are you sitting with your knees pinned together like a female?

Why the hell not?

byte is an unsigned 8-bit integer whose values range from 0 to 255.

char is a 16-bit unicode character type. If you want to represent raw streams of bytes, you'll use bytes. You could also parse the stream of bytes by assuming it uses some sort of encoding, like UTF-8 or ASCII or something, outputting a stream of chars. A char[] is basically a UTF-16 encoded array -- not all unicode characters can fit in one char -- some take two.

Edit: I'm kind of extrapolating when it comes to my statement that a char[] is supposed to be a UTF-16 encoded array. I would expect people to use string instead of char[], and I know I read somewhere that string is encoded in UTF-16.

Amazing. Visiting the Geeks' Lounge is like sitting in a room full of children.

You're amazed by this? You must not be as smart as I thought you were :P

What do you mean, the "SQL end"? Or "the application end"? I don't understand those terms.

For starters, replace [1-9]+ with [1-9][0-9]*

When you use a preceding @ sign in C#, that means escape characters won't work. You can then write backslashes freely.

For example, @"C:\Documents and Settings\rashakil\My Documents\serkan love files" would be a valid string literal. If you want to write a double quote character in such a representation, I think (but you should double check that) you can write it by writing two double quote characters: @"blah "" hah" == "blah \" hah"

Yes, they use databases.

When we install software on a client we have some huge SQL files that create all the tables, indexes, and restrictions that we need.

Are you a scientologist?

Since this seems to be the narcissistic You-Tube video thread... here is mine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkrVnfHsmK8

he used to bother me a lot too, but now we seem to get on.

This is not true. I might act nice to jbennet, maybe, but that's all part of my master plan.

Can you tell me more about this idea ? What do you mean by saying " a lookup table" ? How can I implement it ? Should I use classes ?

A lookup table as in something that contains a small set of standard board positions and tells you what to do in those cases.

You can implement it by programming.

You can define your own datatypes if that's appropriate.

You should have been more specific.

Why?