What's with CP and Astronomy?
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Astronomy in the lounge I can live with, but why is it in the Insider newsletter? It takes up precious space where IT related news could be...
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Given the crap that is sometimes posted in the newsletter, I'm glad of something a little more interesting. Perhaps if you'd care to go and find some IT related news, you could add it to the forum.
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Given the crap that is sometimes posted in the newsletter, I'm glad of something a little more interesting. Perhaps if you'd care to go and find some IT related news, you could add it to the forum.
Gosh, Pete, that seems a bit harsh; I think Kent and Sean (and, now, Kevin) do an exceptional job of web-crawling and distilling the tasty/juicy from the hype and dregs. cheers, Bill
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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Gosh, Pete, that seems a bit harsh; I think Kent and Sean (and, now, Kevin) do an exceptional job of web-crawling and distilling the tasty/juicy from the hype and dregs. cheers, Bill
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
But they aren't the only ones who post in there are they? Also, Kent has sometimes let his standards slip - on slow news days.
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Astronomy in the lounge I can live with, but why is it in the Insider newsletter? It takes up precious space where IT related news could be...
Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need. Or read my articles at my CodeProject profile.
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra
Regards, Sander
Some days there are just not enough IT news worth publishing - and one "language popuarity" news per day is still too much IMHO. I believe it is way better to have a slighlty broader focus, after all Astronomy today has more IT tahn most of the research experiments, barring particle accelerators and possibly a few others.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver "When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
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Given the crap that is sometimes posted in the newsletter, I'm glad of something a little more interesting. Perhaps if you'd care to go and find some IT related news, you could add it to the forum.
Wow, that was uncalled for. Of course personal taste, but I find the newsletter quite OK, especially when compared to other "IT" newsletters.
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Given the crap that is sometimes posted in the newsletter, I'm glad of something a little more interesting. Perhaps if you'd care to go and find some IT related news, you could add it to the forum.
IMHO, the Insider News is the real Technology Insider - the one-stop-shop for the state-of-the-art. The one site to visit every single day.
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I'm guessing, but there is probably one heck of a lot of IT used in modern Astronomy...
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Sure, but that's not what most articles are about. There's a lot of IT in production lines too, but I don't see articles about that :)
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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra
Regards, Sander
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Given the crap that is sometimes posted in the newsletter, I'm glad of something a little more interesting. Perhaps if you'd care to go and find some IT related news, you could add it to the forum.
Wow, I wouldn't go so far as to call it crap... Lots of good stuff in there. Not saying the Astronomy isn't interesting, but I don't think it belongs in an IT newsletter.
Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need. Or read my articles at my CodeProject profile.
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra
Regards, Sander
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Some days there are just not enough IT news worth publishing - and one "language popuarity" news per day is still too much IMHO. I believe it is way better to have a slighlty broader focus, after all Astronomy today has more IT tahn most of the research experiments, barring particle accelerators and possibly a few others.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver "When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
den2k88 wrote:
Astronomy today has more IT tahn most of the research experiments
Except most of those articles aren't about the technology behind the research :)
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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra
Regards, Sander
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den2k88 wrote:
Astronomy today has more IT tahn most of the research experiments
Except most of those articles aren't about the technology behind the research :)
Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need. Or read my articles at my CodeProject profile.
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra
Regards, Sander
Yes I understand that, but each achievement obtained in that fields is at least partly due to the technology, so it makes sense - much more sense than the thousands of articles summarizable in "<person with big ego> states <technology> is <dead | the future | wrong | misunderstood by everyone besides me>". Of course this is my personal view :)
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver "When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
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IMHO, the Insider News is the real Technology Insider - the one-stop-shop for the state-of-the-art. The one site to visit every single day.
You know this really sounds like "I'm Commander Shepard and this is my favourite shop on the Citadel"? :D
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver "When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
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Wow, that was uncalled for. Of course personal taste, but I find the newsletter quite OK, especially when compared to other "IT" newsletters.
And which bit, exactly, was uncalled for? The fact that I called some of the content that has been posted crap? Do you honestly believe that all of the content that has ever been in there is of the highest quality?
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Yes I understand that, but each achievement obtained in that fields is at least partly due to the technology, so it makes sense - much more sense than the thousands of articles summarizable in "<person with big ego> states <technology> is <dead | the future | wrong | misunderstood by everyone besides me>". Of course this is my personal view :)
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver "When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
It's my view as well.
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And which bit, exactly, was uncalled for? The fact that I called some of the content that has been posted crap? Do you honestly believe that all of the content that has ever been in there is of the highest quality?
This is an overly sensitive crowd these days, here at CP. Has been for a while, IMHO. You have to think about everyone's feelings before posting your opinion. :sigh:
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You know this really sounds like "I'm Commander Shepard and this is my favourite shop on the Citadel"? :D
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver "When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
I'm Coder Shepard and this is my favorite site on the internet. Imagine being greeted by that in the original voice every time you enter this place.
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This is an overly sensitive crowd these days, here at CP. Has been for a while, IMHO. You have to think about everyone's feelings before posting your opinion. :sigh:
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I'm Coder Shepard and this is my favorite site on the internet. Imagine being greeted by that in the original voice every time you enter this place.
Eugh X| In Mass Effect I did it for the money!
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver "When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
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Wow, I wouldn't go so far as to call it crap... Lots of good stuff in there. Not saying the Astronomy isn't interesting, but I don't think it belongs in an IT newsletter.
Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need. Or read my articles at my CodeProject profile.
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra
Regards, Sander
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This is an overly sensitive crowd these days, here at CP. Has been for a while, IMHO. You have to think about everyone's feelings before posting your opinion. :sigh:
Slacker007 wrote:
This is an overly sensitive crowd these days,
Isn't it just.
