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I wonder how many cops take steroids, and whether 'roid rage is a factor in shootings. Or any other drugs for that matter. Drug testing for police is woefully lacking. http://www.quora.com/How-often...

europe has better training. being a police officer in europe is a much more highly professional attitude with much more rigorous training

http://www.quora.com/How-do-UK...

Tim Dees, Retired cop and criminal justice professor, Reno Police Department, Reno Muni...

Upvoted by Quora User, I live in the UK. Graeme Shimmin, I am British. Marc Bodnick, 15 years transactions experience

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Speaking from the perspective of a U.S. cop, there are several areas with significant differences. I should point out that I've never been to the UK, but have read a lot about this issue and discussed it with cops and non-cops in the UK.

I believe the most critical difference is the amount of training required of UK police. New hires attend a "police college" course of several months before going into the field to work for another few months under close supervision (sorry, I don't have the precise durations here, but it's considerably more training than most U.S. police receive). They then return to the police college for several more weeks until they are assigned to their duty stations. From here, on-the-job training is similar to that in the U.S., where the new constable works with a senior partner for several months before he is given a solo assignment. He is still closely supervised and his performance reviewed frequently for his first year to two years of service.

also, like europe, and i'll try not to completely derail the conversation, but no one should get a gun in the usa without rigorous training first, including testing and ongoing inspections. exactly like we do with getting a drivers license and a car. same level of responsibility, same standards, right?

without so many easy guns in he hands of idiots, cops are less jumpy

"if guns are outlawed, only outlaws..." actually, when guns are harder to get, the kind of casual hothead that causes all the mayhem with guns simply doesn't get a gun and reaches for a knife instead. *casual* hotheads are not trying hard in life, they will not try hard to get a gun, ti takes too much effort in a serious society. and a knife is far less lethal, so homicide rates drop

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

so the "if guns are outlawed, only outlaws..." is a propaganda lie

besides, we're not even talking about "outlawing" guns. we're talking about rigorous training which every responsible gun owner already agrees with and complies with. so what is the problem exactly? why is this country held hostage by a paranoid schizophrenic fringe on the issue of guns? most gun *owners* agree with what i am saying

yes, the criminal masterminds will still get illegal guns. and use them wisely and surgically: criminal *masterminds*. so again, no ridiculous mayhem. we're talking about the casual hothead that is thwe problem here. he should not get a gun easily, like he currently does in the usa

a responsible gun owner knows the seriousness of a gun and really has no problem insisting everyone get good training

anyway, with less easy guns getting easily in the hands of hot heads cops have less reason to be so jumpy with their own guns. the change won't be immediate, it will take awhile to drain the swamp of easy guns

as if that is somehow an argument not to drain the swamp, because the right thing is hard to do and will take time is never an argument against doing the right thing

See rootless in OS X El Capitan: http://apple.stackexchange.com... http://www.quora.com/Can-someo...

Yes, there's a trend going upwards but there are only 1,400 papers with 50 or more authors. In 2009 about 1 million biomedical papers were published. So if we make the unlikely assumption that all the high author number papers are biomedical, that means that a whopping ~0.15% of the papers published each year have more than 50 authors. Not exactly a big deal.

Not exactly a big deal?

Guess that depends on just how much of that ~0.15% is used to drive change and affect policy for millions of citizens.

Don't dismiss what these papers are used for. We're not exactly gathering thousands of minds together to document how to build a lemonade stand.

Yes, there's a trend going upwards but there are only 1,400 papers with 50 or more authors. In 2009 about 1 million biomedical papers were published. So if we make the unlikely assumption that all the high author number papers are biomedical, that means that a whopping ~0.15% of the papers published each year have more than 50 authors. Not exactly a big deal.

i was talking about a more local electrical arrangement

but yes, long distance, that's a complicated topic, what distance are you really talking about and what other interconnections do you need? dc does have advantages in many cases, especially very long distance

but now we are very far away from the topic of a guy charging his laptop and running some LED lights

The advantage of AC has always been that it is easy to change the voltage up and down with a transformer; DC requires more equipment and some losses to convert.

That being said, transferring AC power between separate grids requires making sure the phase of the power transmitted matches from the two grids (so that the power from the two grids doesn't cancel or ring), which is difficult and expensive. This is not a problem for DC, so DC lines are used in cases such as where power is transferred from another grid to increase the capacity of an existing grid, or between countries that use different frequency power.

Capacitance between the AC phases (usually 3 phases are transmitted at once over a line) or between the line and the surrounding soil or water causes losses that are not a problem with DC. Therefore, undersea high voltage lines tend to be DC.

Overall line loss is also lower per 1,000 km, so very long distance transmission lines sometimes use DC.

http://www.quora.com/When-and-...

I think you need reminding of the origin of the free software movement.

It was in a fight back against loss of previous common freedom, that are not so common these days. Having been born into a greater captivity than Stallman you maybe never had those freedoms and do not feel the loss.

"When Stallman noticed the jamming tendency in the Xerox laser
printer, he thought of applying the old fix or "hack" to this printer.
In the course of looking up the Xerox laser-printer software, however,
Stallman made a troubling discovery. The printer didn't have any
software, at least nothing Stallman or a fellow programmer could read.
Until then, most companies had made it a form of courtesy to publish
source-code files--readable text files that documented the individual
software commands that told a machine what to do. Xerox, in this
instance, had provided software files only in compiled, or binary, form."

http://www.quora.com/What-is-t...

It's also notable that you had to use a car analogy to make a point, which suggests that the point you are trying to make cannot reasonably be made in the software scenario; if it could it would be a more effective argument.

Tip: Analogies are good for explanations but not good for arguments. Often the point in discussion has implications on whether or not the analogy applies. Your analogy may only make sense to people who already take your view.

But in this case your analogy is faulty.

I suggest that the first flaws are that the car and the manual are physical artefacts that can't be in the possession of the donor and recipient at the same time, this alone disqualifies the analogy.

More specifically because your analogy is incorrectly applied.

No-one compels you to give YOUR car with YOUR manual. But you might say to the recipient: I give you MY car and MY manual on the condition that when you pass the car on you must also pass the manual on. Nobody compels the recipient to pass the manual on, he willingly accepts it as a condition of receiving the car.

This analogy as applied means that if you choose to COPY or DISTRIBUTE someone else's copyrighted works, you may only do so lawfully, which means by license or by legal recognized exceptions (e.g. fair use). You may therefore accept the terms of the license, or refrain from copying, or be in breach of copyright.

The license clearly grants additional freedoms that copyright does not grant.

You don't mention what "such laws" you are talking about. Is Stallman arguing FOR any laws?

Also, how is it environmentally friendly to mine millions of rare earth minerals to produce a product that only lasts 20 years? http://www.quora.com/How-large...

The reasons why are fairly obvious to me. Any teacher will tell you that more than half the job is teaching someone to STOP doing it the wrong way. This technique makes sure you never pick up bad habits.

Secondly, muscle memory. By physically forcing you arm into the correct position, your muscles learn to do it correctly. It's as if your drill sergeant is grabbing your hand and forcing you to do it right.

Oh and to the idiots that think women are bad shots, you are wrong. Data from biathlons clearly show that women are better shots, but slower runners. http://www.quora.com/Shooting/...

Note, I have previously written an unpublished science fiction novel that used a similar technique to train martial arts - the machine relentlessly drilled you in the correct form until your muscle memory gets it right. Same concept, with a smaller set of muscles.

not even the most advanced security system will protect against weak passwords. since the fappening apple has made 2fa default and rolled it out across more services. which it should have been before. but still, choose good passwords!

https://www.quora.com/How-were...

No I don't. I include insults in my posts because they're justified. There are some profoundly stupid people on this board. You are personally an excellent example of my point.

But I do include reasons and an argument outside of the insult for why I conclude things.

Contradict me. Try it.

As to linus not calling people idiots etc:

http://www.quora.com/Is-Linus-...

Everyone that knows anything knows about it. Since you don't, you don't know anything.

Kindly fuck off. You're useless.

And this is the problem with industry thinking. It is NOT stealing.

In that case, NSA, Google, Facebook et al. collecting our data aren't "stealing" anything either.

They are NOT property law.

Distinction without difference. The infringer gets something for nothing — like a thief. The copyright holder loses something — like a theft-victim.

The term "intellectual property" is an intentional obfuscation

Had the Commandments been the "living and breathing document", that certain folks like to pretend the US Constitution is, something like "thou shall not enjoy artwork against the artist's wishes" would've been found in it by now.

Ideas can NOT be owned.

Why not?! Inasmuch as anything can be owned, why can't ideas be? The deed on my house is just as much a "piece of paper" as anything granting rights to a song. If you can download a song against its owner's wishes, why can't you move into my home while I'm away and change the locks? It is (or ought to be) just as socially (un)acceptable...

They do not exist for the benefit of the copyright holder. They exist for the benefit of society as a whole. [...] Read Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution.

There is nothing in the article affirming your Socialistic view, that my idea exists for "society as a whole". All the section says on the matter is: "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;"

So, you said an untruth (most likely, lied): the Constitution acknowledges the benefit the authors may derive from their writings and discoveries and leaves it to Congress to develop a system to reward them. Which Congress did — long ago — and it is referred to as "intellectual property".

Are you going to host it in Antigua?

I'd beg to differ, as there was a long and fruitful conversation on quora about exactly this.
I read through at least the first 20 replies, and they're quite good.*

http://www.quora.com/Why-do-sc...

Not to mention that the idea that scientists are strongly liberal is supported by ample statistical evidence (one example at http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.c... - Paul Krugman is hardly the mouthpiece of the GOP).

*let me be clear, I love science and hard science fiction, I think creationism is mythological poppycock, and yet I am a *staunch* conservative. So go figure.

I've heard that Dodos were delicious. I'm for getting them unextincted and setting up a fast food chain. Gotta think of a good name though, something catchy.

Actually, no they weren't! Apparently thy were killed by dogs more than people for meant. And we all know that dogs will eat just about anything...

Apatheism was the position of the Buddha regarding God:

The Buddha said: "I do not care to know your various theories about God. What is the use of discussing all the subtle doctrines of the soul? Do good and be good. And this will take you to freedom and whatever truth there is."

http://www.quora.com/What-is-t...

So maybe not the norm, but it does happen.

Instead of responding with anger and vitriol how about we talk rationally? I'm interested in electric cars and would love to own one once they make economic and practical sense. However given the comments it seems that the warranty on the transmission is far more conservative than that on the battery pack so the ratio is still about 2-3 times longer life for the transmission only it is ~8 years vs. 20.

On top of this the study you linked to made no mention of aging effects without regard to use: battery capacity declines with age and that decline is non-linear with time. If the current technology is post 2008 then I doubt they will have a good understanding of the aging yet and will be using projections which can be inaccurate.

However I admit that I am surprised by the far longer lifetime for batteries that they are claiming which is great. Sadly though this page tells me that they still have a way to go yet. If leaving the battery at -30C or below for a day will invalidate the warranty then the car is still useless for those of us who live in Canada.

Lastly though even at 8 years (with degraded capacity) the "fuel" cost is still significant. At 100k miles for a $20k pack (using the figures from the OP) and assuming $0.10/kWh and that 85kWh=265miles that works out at $0.232/mile. If I assume 30mpg for a petrol powered car that works out at a cost of $6.96 per gallon-equivalent or $1.83/litre which is 2.5 times the current cost of petrol in the US (according to Google)...and that's before we factor in the longer life of the transmission.

So my numbers may have been off but the conclusion is still the same. At the current cost of petrol in the US ($0.70/litre in March 2015) you save ~5.66 cents/mile on fuel so the price per kWh of a battery needs to drop to $66/kWh to match the cost of petrol over a 100k mile lifetime.

The Case for the Empire
Are the "Rebels" in the Star Wars universe terrorists?
10 Reasons The Galactic Empire Wasn’t As Bad As Everyone Thinks
Who were the bad guys in Star Wars' original trilogy?
Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters (Warning: TVTropes link)

Wiki is not a source of truth, it is a source of editable information often edited for purposes of propaganda. A quick google search finds more articles disproving Wiki than I can count. Here are the first three.

Claiming that killing people saves lives is delusional to the point of insanity. Unfortunately this insanity is alive and well, though today we claim "we must kill all the Muslims to get peace" instead of those "dirty Japs". The only way to justify the delusion is to invent your own version of history, which never happened. Don't worry, I learned the same lessons in public schools and had to learn to think on my own to see the delusion.

If you have doubts, ask yourself if we ever had to land a single troop in Japan to get them to surrender? Check your history! Japan was completely blockaded. They had no ships to defend a convoy, no local production of petroleum, and could not defend themselves from any form of bombardment we were already attacking them with. We had planes fire bombing them at will, without an atomic bomb. There was no reason to invade them, it was only a matter of time before they surrendered. Then ask yourself why we dropped those bombs on non-military targets, because you won't be able to come up with a real answer for that either!.

That is right, we dropped the a-bomb because the US didn't give a shit about human lives or suffering. Our Government had no problem bitching about the Germans with their Jewish concentration camps, but yet we locked up whole families of Japanese Americans in our own. Oh, I know.. we didn't kill the people we put in jail so we were good guys right?

If you want to justify it, at least be honest about the reasons we bombed two cities full of civilians and not military targets. We are the bully that beat up the sickly kid, and people like you laugh about it. Fucking disgusting!

I wonder if it could be distributed globally. I mean like an epi pen or even in a sensor in a subway that would automatically use the stuff if sarin or some other chemical gas is detected.

Yes, this should be a top priority, along with installing a titanium shield on everyone's house, just in case they are hit by a meteor. We can fund these programs by reducing spending on silly frivolities like vaccinations, nutrition, and literacy.

Or you could spend less on the gas masks you have currently in all major subway stations, such as in Seoul. Not everyone of us lives as far from the enemy as you do.

A penny a month per gigabyte... that's $10/month per terabyte... that is already what Dropbox charges for "fast" storage. So what gives? Why would I pay $10/month for a terabyte of slow storage when I can get the same amount of storage for the same price in a regular, fast format with Dropbox?

Here is an answer from someone on Quora.

Dropbox offers no Service Level Agreement. Actually they specifically provide no warrantees whatsoever about their service (http://www.dropbox.com/terms). This is a non-starter for many CIOs.

Beyond that, the fact that Dropbox doesn't "own" the underlying cloud storage architecture -- Amazon S3 -- could be an issue, although they advertise it as secure via in-transit and on-disk encryption (https://www.dropbox.com/help/27).

If it still is the case that Dropbox uses S3 itself, then that wouldn't make business sense for them to pay more for storage than they're charging their own customers (even if they've decided not to offer a Service Level Agreement).

So my guess is that this has to do with the way they count the storage for customers. Assuming that their customers do not encrypt their data before they place it on DropBox (which would make sense because DropBox customers are rarely CIOs themselves), then DropBox is most likely hashing the content and only storing a single copy of a file even if there are thousand virtual instances of that same file throughout their system.

Also note that in the special case where a company is footing the bill and DropBox can't count the same file multiple times within that same company, otherwise the customer company would complain, then DropBox actually advertises a rate of $15 per 5 terabytes per month per user (with no Service Level Agreement of any kind even for business users).

...the burner phones. :-)

http://www.quora.com/Why-does-...

I recently read an article that was essentially "how could Steven Hawking have kids", and somebody with a similar condition basically stated that while you lose motor functions elsewhere, that particular part of the anatomy tends to work as it's part of the Parasympathetic nervous system

Lol, nice. I like that term.

What really irks me is that the opposite of skeumorphic doesn't have to be "postmodern fugly". It feels like the designers have swung the pendulum so far in the opposite direction that they've eliminated a lot of helpful and attractive design elements, such as the judicious use of borders, bevels, gradients, gloss, and transparency.

Of the big three adopting this new style, I much prefer Google's approach, which I've heard described as skeuominimalism. I'm completely fine with ditching the tacky faux-leather, felt, or wood-panel backgrounds that were rightfully mocked and discarded. But Google seems to be a bit more sane in how they're also using subtle gradients, border, and shadows where appropriate, rather than going so flat it makes the damn thing harder to navigate.

Note the last line of the article: http://www.scientificamerican....

Laymen article: http://www.quora.com/How-long-... ... spent fuel is in pools for about 10 years.

That is more interesting: http://www.nrc.gov/waste/spent...

This is a german article: http://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki...Ãrme (contains umlaut a) ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D... the numbers vary a bit, the german one has a table in the middle, saying after a month the heat is 0.13% and after three months it is 0.07%

The next paragraph after that table states: fuel rods create enough decay heat to melt themselves _months_ after shutdown, if they are not cooled obviously.

Well, to get real numbers I guess we need a anti radiation suit, wait for the next melt down, and measure our selves ^_^ would you volunteer for the first two weeks?

Speaking of intellisense........

When I first saw it, I thought, "hey, that's really cool, I like that." Soon I got worried and I thought, "I'll bet there will be poorly built projects that are impossible to understand without intellisense." Sure enough, at my next job I started working on a codebase that was impossible to work with without Intellisense. Intellisense had become the central organizing methodology.

Here's the orginal quote about the programming contest. I haven't found its original source, but I believe it was said by Alan Kay.

This has nothing to do with the relations between Brazil and Japan and everything to do with the fact that Nintendo is dying. This company has shown time and again that all they can do is release tired useless gimmick after tired useless gimmick and pass that off as "innovation". They release the same games every single year with absolutely no change and force their customers to pay a massive premium. The Wii was a massive joke, except no one laughed. Their 3DS handheld has less power than the original PlayStation Portable and costs 3 times as much and has no games. The Wii U has less power than the original XBOX much less the 360. Don't get me started on that abomination of a controller that weighs as much as a cinder-block, has a range of about 1 foot, and a battery life measured in minutes and not hours.

Nintendo is the corporate equivalent of the walking dead. I doubt they will even be around in five years. Even their own shareholders can't stand them. They would just be better selling off all their IP to a company that knows how to actually produce something, like Disney. Then Miyamoto and Iwata should do the world a favor and commit sepuku to atone for the massive failures they have inflicted on the game industry.

Ooo, this should be fun. I'mma go ahead and debunk basically everything you've just said that can be proven with numbers.

The Wii was a massive joke.: FALSE. The Wii has sold over 100 million units, and about 9 times as much software (so, about 9 games per console. Not bad!)

The 3DS handheld has less power than the original Playstation Portable and costs 3 times as much and has no games: FALSE. The 3DS runs an ARM11 Dual-core at 268 Mhz compared to the PSP's CPU held back to 222MHz. The only way it's more powerful is through mods/hacking. In addition, the 3DS has had over 186 million software units sold, compared to psp's 5.2 million. In addition, the PSP retailed for $199. The 3DS retailed for $249, and later went down to $149. So, no, not three times more.

The Wii U has less power than the original XBOX much less the 360: FALSE.The WII U is lcocked at 1.24 GHz, compared to the original Xbox's 733Mhz. Now, the Wii U does have a slower clock than the 360, but has more memory and a higher GPU clock. Raw CPU power will only get you so far, and the Wii U is more than capable of out-shining the 360.

Controller weighs as much as a cinder-block, has a range of 1 foot and battery life measured in minutes, not hours.: FALSE. The Wii U gamepad weighs about 1.1 pounds. Cinder blocks, on the other hand, usually come in at 30 to 35 pounds. The range goes up to 27.5 feet, but typically works best up to 15. The Battery life CAN be measured in minutes, but only if you consider that 180 to 300 minutes a better way of saying it than 3 to 5 hours.

Nintendo is the corporate equivalent of the walking dead. I doubt they'll even be around in five years.: FALSE. Nintendo has enough money saved up to last 52 years, assuming an annual deficit of 250 million. That seems unlikely given that they had a profit of over

See here... http://www.quora.com/What-was-...

Great link, thanks. Lots of context to help the non-French among us understand Charlie Hebdo.

I'd love to see the equivalent here in New Zealand but it would never fly in our nation of piss-weak, politically-correct softcocks.

It's about the welfare-stereotype. Actuallly a good example of how how Charlie works. They use what's in the news and transform it into a tasteless absurdity.
See here... http://www.quora.com/What-was-...

I am wondering the same:
http://www.quora.com/Who-is-Dustin-Curtis

Apparently he's a genius because he designed a blogging platform with no features and no user interface because that's some how fucking genius and makes your brain work better.

Found a nice simple explanation of how this works here. There is a secret somewhere that isn't compromised, but it is ephemeral and isn't ever stored anywhere or transmitted. So that's what you meant by "long term". It's very clever. Makes perfect sense now, but it's counterintuitive, at least to me.

Anyway, thanks. I learned something new, which is why I still come to /.

Just to clarify what I'm talking about:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/su...
https://www.cryptocoinsnews.co...
https://www.quora.com/Why-does...
https://news.ycombinator.com/i...
http://www.thefrisky.com/2014-...

Current list of Ebola drugs, tacky headline on their stock market status

You live in a fantasy world.

http://www.nationalgeographic....

http://www.quora.com/What-happ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O...

That is an often-repeated myth. There was no Microsoft bailout of Apple. That $150M was a drop in the bucket for Apple, which still had over $1B in the bank at the time.

What really happened was that Microsoft had to settle a losing patent infringement with Apple--essentially, Microsoft stole QuickTime source code and got caught red-handed. The bulk of this settlement came in an undisclosed cash amount--anywhere from $500M to $2B, according to analysts. Microsoft also had to commit to continue releasing Office for Mac, although it did get Apple to bundle Internet Explorer with Macs. (No big loss for Apple; Netscape at the time sucked like a vacuum cleaner.) The $150M investment was, in fact, the least significant part of the transaction.

People keep trying to have the government do stuff that they're not allowed to do, such as funding scientific research. "But it's really important! We need to force everyone to pay for it by funding it from taxes." Hasn't anyone read the 10th amendment? The states can take care of that stuff. Keep the limits on the feds!

I just wrote a blog post on this subject a day or two ago:
http://freedomgeek.quora.com/S...

Then who was it waving black flags with white arabic on it, throwing eggs at the police?

Lots of organizations, even at the level of nation states, have similar flags. To put your question in perspective: "Then who was painting their aircraft red white and blue logos?" Well, it was the French, or the Netherlands, or the RAF roundel. They were either fighting with the Romanians, or the Republic of Chad, Moldova, or Andorra.

Already done : we have around 43% of earth's land surface covered by humans .

Is Slashdot hoping to borrow some of the success of popular questions on Quora? Because there is little or no news value in it... See here http://www.quora.com/Computer-... for 203 answers and counting.

What's the difference between a data scientist and a statistician? A data scientist is a statistician who lives in San Francisco. Credit: https://www.quora.com/Data-Sci...

Which science fiction novels or short stories would make the best low budget crowdfunded movies? http://www.quora.com/Which-sci...

As if marketing don't exploit your brain. Ever hear of "supernormal stimuli"? This post has some interesting info for you: http://ciotti.quora.com/Was-Yo...

The question was on quora not long ago. One guy said it tasted somewhere between beef and turkey, another said chicken but this may have been a joke. It's kind of hard to find online, but this place, giraffine, sells their meat, milk and fur. They also say it tastes like horse but more tender: lean and intense.

There is certainly a lot of political agenda polemic when it comes to energy, and this article is no different.

As Slashdot is theoretically geared toward engineers, having a hard look at the numbers involved is not an optional consideration. See here for Germany's story:

http://www.quora.com/Alternative-Energy/Should-other-nations-follow-Germanys-lead-on-promoting-solar-power-1?srid=ue54&share=1

Solar is great for micro/local-level offsets in particularly sunny places, and it's good if you want to build a compound for the zombie apocalypse. As a key component of energy policy for the United States, it is not and has never been practical compared to wind or nuclear power.

Politicians in every party love being able to pick winners and losers. It's one of the perks of the jobs. People imagine solar as warm, fuzzy, and mother Earth friendly. If that were the case, Germany wouldn't have a bigger carbon footprint now than it did before it had the world's largest nameplate capacity of solar power production.

If you're concerned about global warming from burning fossil fuels, the only choice at the moment that satisfies all the requirements of most first world country's energy policy is nuclear. Nothing else comes close.

No Bull

This guy says is better than I can - http://balajiviswanathan.quora.com/Indian-Space-Mission-Poverty-and-Closet-Racism?srid=7qo&share=1

.. on India's Mars mission and how the world reacted to it. http://balajiviswanathan.quora.com/Indian-Space-Mission-Poverty-and-Closet-Racism

Take a look at this chart:

http://qph.is.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-bcc9036c04a16179b3ecfd490333a32e

Interesting examination of it on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Dharmesh-Bhatt/Quora-gold/Batteries-are-following-Moores-law

Honestly, I don't understand what all the complaining is about. It just seems like a lot of language snobbery to me.

Ah yes, the mark of an amateur. Dismissing concerns about good language design principles as snobbery or elitism.

Only in the amateur world of PHP and in the GOP are things like education considered elitism and should be shunned.

PHP is never the right answer as folks from Facebook learned the hard way. http://www.quora.com/Quora-Infrastructure/Why-did-Quora-choose-Python-for-its-development/answer/Adam-DAngelo