Let consenting adults engage in whatever services they deem fit, and then focus law enforcement resources on those who actually harm others.
Look, I don't care if prostitution should be legal or not. But think about his: how do you define consent? How many prostitutes are doing it only because they really need the money, to feed their family? Or maybe they are addicted to drugs, and have no other way to pay for their addiction. Can you honestly say that being a prostitute is what they really want? Is that consent? What would happen if, say, a country starts providing basic income to all their citizens. How would that affect the number of people working in prostitution? Don't you think that number would drop dramatically?
It actually was a csv file with all fields surrounded by quotes. Even the numbers. That said, the contents of that file were not provided by myself but by a third party, and the file was apparently opened in Excel by my employer's customers, who were supposed to let our software read the file.
Yes. Don't ever let Excel touch your csv files. For example, if you open a csv file with Excel and then save it again, it will have converted cells containing (large) numeric IDs to scientific notation. Without asking. Bye, data.
I didn't look into the details of the project, but to me it seems to like the following:
A JIT compiler is used in a virtual machine to run a function/method by compiling it from some sort of bytecode or intermediate representation to native code and then jumping to the generated code to execute it. So in this case this would be when the Common Language Runtime wants to run a CIL method for the first time: it generates LLVM intermediate representation from the CIL, then uses LLVM to compile that to native code.
So it would be: CIL --> LLVM data --> native code
This means that the CLR, and thus all code compiled for.NET, can run on all platforms that LLVM can generate native code for.
The problem is not WinForms, but WPF. An increasing amount of applications use WPF because WinForms is considered 'deprecated' by Microsoft and people are encouraged to use WPF instead, which is the new 'hot stuff'.
Big business and the billionaire class has taken the difference and none of that has ended up in the workers hands. We are working longer and harder and our lives are getting worse.
But I wonder why my browser needs to provide details about the plugins I have installed to any website I visit. What kind of legitimate use could that have?
Unfortunately, this upgrade broke one of my favorite plugins: Tree Style Tab. A previous upgrade caused the whole tree to be expanded when restoring the tabs at Firefox startup, and now since FF 34 new tabs are no longer opened as a child of the current tab:-(
There is a bug in the e-mail. It should be 'We therefore ask you to send this email to all your
friends and then delete all your files on your harddisk manually'.
You still need some of those files on your harddisk in order to send an e-mail. Friends with less than average intelligence might not realize that.
To make it cross-platform for real is hard. Lots of programmers don't try to avoid platform-specific and write code such as:
string fullname = directoryname + "\" + filename;
...instead of:
fullname = Path.Combine(directoryname, filename);
Another mistake is using explicitly hardcoded paths that only exist in Windows. And another challenge would be case-sensitivity of the filesystem on Linux; this can break programs that were developed and tested on Windows only.
The framework must provide for platform-independent ways to do things so that it is easier/shorter to do it the right way than using a naive but non-portable approach. Or programmers not really thinking things through will simply keep writing non-portable code anyway. The example above illustrates that; it is way more conventient to combine pathnames with such a non-portable string concatenation than it is with the right approach.
Not mentioned in TFA, and I haven't seen anyone talk about it yet in the comments here. Or maybe the answer is so obviously 'yes' that nobody even talks about it anymore.
That was exactly my point. The 'negative thinkers/pessimists' worked very hard to solve all Y2K problems, then January 1st, 2000 passed by and all the 'positive thinkers' said "see, there was nothing to worry about" without taking into account all the work that had been done to fix the problems.
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Hey everyone, stop replying all! This is very annoying.
Yes, stop using reply-all -- it bogs down the email system.
404: Katniss Not Found
Let consenting adults engage in whatever services they deem fit, and then focus law enforcement resources on those who actually harm others.
Look, I don't care if prostitution should be legal or not. But think about his: how do you define consent? How many prostitutes are doing it only because they really need the money, to feed their family? Or maybe they are addicted to drugs, and have no other way to pay for their addiction. Can you honestly say that being a prostitute is what they really want? Is that consent? What would happen if, say, a country starts providing basic income to all their citizens. How would that affect the number of people working in prostitution? Don't you think that number would drop dramatically?
Coming up: "Siri, what is the time?", "Sorry, I can't tell you that because you don't have an Apple watch"
"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I cannot tell you the answer to that."
It actually was a csv file with all fields surrounded by quotes. Even the numbers. That said, the contents of that file were not provided by myself but by a third party, and the file was apparently opened in Excel by my employer's customers, who were supposed to let our software read the file.
Yes. Don't ever let Excel touch your csv files. For example, if you open a csv file with Excel and then save it again, it will have converted cells containing (large) numeric IDs to scientific notation. Without asking. Bye, data.
Malware is when the programmer is trying to make the software do what the programmer wants, user's wishes be damned.
You mean like DRM?
That's going to be Windows OS A 10.3 Leaping Panther.
You mean more like Windows OS A 10.3 Screaming Monkey...
"Update me! Update me!"
It's not just the money. Don't forget about all lives that are lost in wars. And people suffering from air pollution caused by burning fossil fuels.
I didn't look into the details of the project, but to me it seems to like the following:
A JIT compiler is used in a virtual machine to run a function/method by compiling it from some sort of bytecode or intermediate representation to native code and then jumping to the generated code to execute it. So in this case this would be when the Common Language Runtime wants to run a CIL method for the first time: it generates LLVM intermediate representation from the CIL, then uses LLVM to compile that to native code.
So it would be: CIL --> LLVM data --> native code
This means that the CLR, and thus all code compiled for .NET, can run on all platforms that LLVM can generate native code for.
The one problem with their method is that it can only detect overflows in one direction.
No need to worry about that anymore. Zayn Malik has left in order to fix that.
...they want everything, in return for nothing.
And only a small part of a car is used for moving you from point A to point B. Who needs heating, windshield wipers, music, or even seats?
The problem is not WinForms, but WPF. An increasing amount of applications use WPF because WinForms is considered 'deprecated' by Microsoft and people are encouraged to use WPF instead, which is the new 'hot stuff'.
Or Privacy Badger, which has ad blocking only as a side-effect, not as its primary purpose.
Big business and the billionaire class has taken the difference and none of that has ended up in the workers hands. We are working longer and harder and our lives are getting worse.
"Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming"
Same here.
But I wonder why my browser needs to provide details about the plugins I have installed to any website I visit. What kind of legitimate use could that have?
Unfortunately, this upgrade broke one of my favorite plugins: Tree Style Tab. A previous upgrade caused the whole tree to be expanded when restoring the tabs at Firefox startup, and now since FF 34 new tabs are no longer opened as a child of the current tab :-(
Version numbers? We can increment them!
There is a bug in the e-mail. It should be 'We therefore ask you to send this email to all your friends and then delete all your files on your harddisk manually'.
You still need some of those files on your harddisk in order to send an e-mail. Friends with less than average intelligence might not realize that.
To make it cross-platform for real is hard. Lots of programmers don't try to avoid platform-specific and write code such as:
...instead of:
Another mistake is using explicitly hardcoded paths that only exist in Windows. And another challenge would be case-sensitivity of the filesystem on Linux; this can break programs that were developed and tested on Windows only.
The framework must provide for platform-independent ways to do things so that it is easier/shorter to do it the right way than using a naive but non-portable approach. Or programmers not really thinking things through will simply keep writing non-portable code anyway. The example above illustrates that; it is way more conventient to combine pathnames with such a non-portable string concatenation than it is with the right approach.
Does it run Linux?
Not mentioned in TFA, and I haven't seen anyone talk about it yet in the comments here. Or maybe the answer is so obviously 'yes' that nobody even talks about it anymore.
Quick!! Let's buy some extra licenses now before it's too late!
:-/
Oh wait...
Never mind, we switched to Linux a long time ago already
That was exactly my point. The 'negative thinkers/pessimists' worked very hard to solve all Y2K problems, then January 1st, 2000 passed by and all the 'positive thinkers' said "see, there was nothing to worry about" without taking into account all the work that had been done to fix the problems.
See also: Y2K