Posts by ichibrosan

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it ... Win Phone 8? No, it's APPLE'S iOS 7

Re: But why?

The iTunes radio is not an internet radio but rather Apple's attempt to push aside Pandora. I for one want to listen to my favorite Christian station (KLOVE), but the app isn't what I was expecting. You cannot select an internet streaming provider and listen. Instead you select your genre and Apple feeds you songs out of their iTunes catalog, which you can then conveniently buy. So you will need a third party internet radio streaming client app.

Also the Apple "intuitive" navigation isn't happening for me with this new release. I have the same nausea that I felt when I encountered the ribbon in Office.

When Apple needs speed and security in Mac OS X, it turns to Microsoft

Very disturbing indeed

I don't have any problem moving away from Apples ancient filing protocol, but I find it very distasteful to make Microsoft a hero in Apple's arena. Microsoft has blown it big time with their software. The constant stream of CERT notifications, all of which say the same thing, identify Windows, IE, and Office as vulnerable to a world of viruses. Always subject to account promotion, and remote execution, Microsoft's products are a netbot writers dream.

So is it good that Microsoft is becoming technically involved with Apple's OS product? Not in my eyes.

Apple, with a pile of money larger than anyone else in view, is the success story. Good hardware, good software.

Was this story real, or just troll bait?

Open-source attack dog enters Ballmer's inner ring

Trusted Computing Initiative an insane abuse of programmers everywhere

If he was the person responsible for TCI, he is on my %^&*-list. The philosophy of the initiative was that programmers cannot be trusted to have access to assembly language. This was the primary foundation of the .NET approach.

.NET, aside from being a single sourced execution environment, locking in developers to the Windows platform, it was a huge waste of CPU processing power. Software Engineers know that running under emulation is ok temporarily for quick and dirty programs, but commercial software should be as efficient and tight as possible. When you use .NET, you are no longer depending on the hardware of the processor to correctly executre your code, but instead are depending on the .NET runtime, which like other Microsoft programs is most likely buggy in subtle ways. If your .NET program is not working correctly, where do you look for the problem?

I harte .NET for what it did to the programming community. Now all the Microsoft programming languages target .NET pseudo-code, instead of real code.

What Compsci textbooks don't tell you: Real world code sucks

Poor premise, unless you have read all the code in the world

There are all sorts of programmers, and then there are software engineers. Those who care about abstract ideas like "maintainability", Myself, I write enough code to get the job done, and then I remove as much as I can and still have it be, reliable, efficient, and maintainable. That means commented code, documentation. Pride in ones work. I don't believe I am alone in this. And I want the respect of my peers who will see my code. I have professional standards about code I write and release.

You do us all a great dis-service propagating a myth about "most code". Employers want more these days. Design patterns, best practices. Then there is "errors and omissions" insurance. We have to care about the code we write, or it comes back to get us.