It is a nit in Make, but generally it's because most editors don't highlight the differences between spaces and tabs, so a makefile may "look" ok until you try to use. Some editors, especially those common in unix and not Windows abominations, will highlight errors in makefiles or show tabs and spaces differently.
On the other hand, even though everyone and their great aunt will complain about how terrible Make is, there really hasn't been a replacement that just works as simply and straightforward and without an additional truckload of new blemishes.
The only syntactic part of white space in Python and other similar languages is whether a line has more or less indention than the line before and after it. So as long as you keep the SAME indentation as the block of code you are adding a line to then you're fine. Why would you evern consider adding two extra spaces in the middle of a block, it would look bad in any language. This is the most trivial of problems (the only real snag being tabs vs spaces).
This isn't really semantic per se, it's syntactic. You're going to get syntax errors or warnings if you drop in extra spaces where no new block is expected.
Lack of explicit types goes back decades to the earliest interpreted languages (for the earliest languages, types were not there to detect errors but to provide hints to the compilers). Python is a relatively late language to this game. Then go and look at some typed languages like C/C++ where many developers just do not fundamentally understand types and where it might even be better to just let the compiler figure them out (like some compilers do).
Used to be a time that the church, synogogue, or temple that you went to had little correlation to your political views. Today religion and politics are tightly tied together. Everything's political now, people will judge you on what type of coffee you drink.
They're copying what corporations do. The US government as a whole has gotten far to enamored by contractors. The reasons contractors are used in corporations is to get around corporate rules and procedures; easier to hire, easier to fire, interviews are waived, required trainings are bypassed, their decisions often must be accepted despite opposition from actual employees. You end up with less accountability. With government, there are similar issues. Contractors don't add in to head count so much depending upon who's doing the accounting, you can get them short term, you don't have to screen each one instead you just trust their contracting company, you don't need pension accounts, etc. Also less accountability as a result.
(Someone I know used to contract for a film studio, and they prefered contractors instead of employees, so that their names don't have to go into the end credits)
There's the ego that says "I better do a damn good job now because everyone's watching", and the ego that says "I don't need to listen to anyone because I'm the smartest effing president that ever lived!"
Borrowing from the future, going into debt. Essentially more people go hungry, we cut down more forests, use more non-renewable resources, and so forth.
The Russians did try to influence the election, and has very solid evidence behind it. This says nothing bad whatsoever about Trump or that he colluded with them. However, by refusing to acknowledge the evidence and continually denying that Russia did anything does look bad for Trump, it makes him look like an ego-driven child. Worse, when Trump tries to hinder the investigation it hurts him legally. It's in Trump's own best interests to acknowlege the Russian issue is a real thing.
There aren't wild explanations. No one is seriously claiming that the Russians "stole" the election, except some stupid voters who don't know how to reason (and we have plenty of those types of voters on both sides).
The real problem however is him trying to hinder the investigation. This is going to hurt him far more than if he just admitted that the Russians indeed tried to influence the election. He's only doing this because he wants everyone to believe he's the most popular guy ever, that he had the largest inaugural day ever, that he won by a huuuge margin, etc. He's embarrassed that by focusing on the Russian scandal that some people might think he isn't as popular as he claims. His denial is all ego based.
There was attempts to influence the elections. It probably had no effect on the outcome. However, neither should it be treated as if it's perfectly ordinary. Russia was involved in trying to influence the election and that can't be allowed to just be glossed over. And this most certainly was not the peak of their capabilities and they've not lost the means and motivation. In fact, the bigger scandal is not the Russian interference itself but the attempt to cover it up and deny it.
So true, some Democrats may be blowing it out of proportion, but also too many Republicans are just trying to shut the whole investigation down and pretend nothing happened.
Oh sure, they'll use these things if they're a hipster. They'll be bragging later on their blog about how it was a much more authentic experience, and suddenly these things will be cool and hip again.
Back in the mid 90s, a computer store I was at lost their network connection to the back office. Possibly a power outage though at the time there were lights on in the building. The cashiers could not figure out how to sell stuff. So they had three cashiers at each high tech register - one talking to the customer and writing out a receipt, one with a big button calculator, and one with a procedures manual behind feeding them instructions. It was probably more laughable at the time because there were stores in walking distance that used normal cash register tills.
Today however it's worse. Occasionally I stop off at a fast food place and the person behind the register doesn't know how to count out change, and sometimes can't count the exact change I hand them in the first place.
This is the essence of too many of these free-market worshippers. As long as they have their pie, they don't care what happens to everyone else. They'll justify it by saying that they worked hard to get where they are and so poor people must just be lazy and not as deserving. Or if they're not as polite, they'll just say "screw them!"
Except that too often the choice ends up to not go to school at all, as history shows. Quality public education benefits everyone in society, not just those who are rich.
Agreed. Public schools get a bad rap when too often the parents are the ones to blame. Oh they may whine and moan about how we need to improve the schools and make sure they're funded, but sa soon as they get their own kids too many parents suddenly change their minds and sign them up for private schools or home schooling, or if rich enough they move to a more exclusive school district. It's modern day white flight, but just not as overtly racist as it used to be.
A peach cobbler store isn't far off. I have met people who bragged that S.F. living is awesome because there's a mini cupcake store on the corner of their block. I kid you not. It would have been sad if they had to walk two blocks to get their cupcakes.
Cities need to be less naive and stop the bullshit. This situation happens often, not just in S.F. The city councils think the big payday is coming, and that all the money will trickle down, so they approve the sweetheart deals. But it doesn't end up happening. Subsidized sports arenas, unrealistic Olypmpic bids, ass kissing Amazon, etc. Often you get fewer jobs than expected, or lower paying jobs, or other businesses close up because they can't compete.
Every new business of a certain size will have cafeterias, this has been the standard for many decades. The city should have taken this into account.
They did this in Mountain View recently, it's totally bizarre since Mountain View has a glut of downtown restaurants that are always crowded.
This is also not just a tech industry perk, we've have cafeterias in companies for over a century. It's important to business that the workers don't vanish for two hours every day to go hunting for lunch, so cafeterias are less of a perk and more of a business necessity. No one's going to want to voluntarily eat at the overpriced S.F. eateries every day. The only difference between a cafeteria and a restaurant across the street is that the cafeteria is only open part of the time and is occasionally subsidized. It sounds like the industry is just asking government to supply them with guaranteed business.
This seems more like a contiuation of backlash against workers showing up in San Francisco? This will just encourage companies to stay away. Then S.F. will be stuck again being merely a bedroom community where entitled residents commute 50 miles to the jobs that pay enough to cover the rent.
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I've seen that done with a script. These don't gain more traction because the whitespace problem really isn't a concern.
It is a nit in Make, but generally it's because most editors don't highlight the differences between spaces and tabs, so a makefile may "look" ok until you try to use. Some editors, especially those common in unix and not Windows abominations, will highlight errors in makefiles or show tabs and spaces differently.
On the other hand, even though everyone and their great aunt will complain about how terrible Make is, there really hasn't been a replacement that just works as simply and straightforward and without an additional truckload of new blemishes.
The only syntactic part of white space in Python and other similar languages is whether a line has more or less indention than the line before and after it. So as long as you keep the SAME indentation as the block of code you are adding a line to then you're fine. Why would you evern consider adding two extra spaces in the middle of a block, it would look bad in any language. This is the most trivial of problems (the only real snag being tabs vs spaces).
This isn't really semantic per se, it's syntactic. You're going to get syntax errors or warnings if you drop in extra spaces where no new block is expected.
Lack of explicit types goes back decades to the earliest interpreted languages (for the earliest languages, types were not there to detect errors but to provide hints to the compilers). Python is a relatively late language to this game. Then go and look at some typed languages like C/C++ where many developers just do not fundamentally understand types and where it might even be better to just let the compiler figure them out (like some compilers do).
Used to be a time that the church, synogogue, or temple that you went to had little correlation to your political views. Today religion and politics are tightly tied together. Everything's political now, people will judge you on what type of coffee you drink.
They're copying what corporations do. The US government as a whole has gotten far to enamored by contractors. The reasons contractors are used in corporations is to get around corporate rules and procedures; easier to hire, easier to fire, interviews are waived, required trainings are bypassed, their decisions often must be accepted despite opposition from actual employees. You end up with less accountability. With government, there are similar issues. Contractors don't add in to head count so much depending upon who's doing the accounting, you can get them short term, you don't have to screen each one instead you just trust their contracting company, you don't need pension accounts, etc. Also less accountability as a result.
(Someone I know used to contract for a film studio, and they prefered contractors instead of employees, so that their names don't have to go into the end credits)
There's the ego that says "I better do a damn good job now because everyone's watching", and the ego that says "I don't need to listen to anyone because I'm the smartest effing president that ever lived!"
Borrowing from the future, going into debt. Essentially more people go hungry, we cut down more forests, use more non-renewable resources, and so forth.
The Russians did try to influence the election, and has very solid evidence behind it. This says nothing bad whatsoever about Trump or that he colluded with them. However, by refusing to acknowledge the evidence and continually denying that Russia did anything does look bad for Trump, it makes him look like an ego-driven child. Worse, when Trump tries to hinder the investigation it hurts him legally. It's in Trump's own best interests to acknowlege the Russian issue is a real thing.
There aren't wild explanations. No one is seriously claiming that the Russians "stole" the election, except some stupid voters who don't know how to reason (and we have plenty of those types of voters on both sides).
The real problem however is him trying to hinder the investigation. This is going to hurt him far more than if he just admitted that the Russians indeed tried to influence the election. He's only doing this because he wants everyone to believe he's the most popular guy ever, that he had the largest inaugural day ever, that he won by a huuuge margin, etc. He's embarrassed that by focusing on the Russian scandal that some people might think he isn't as popular as he claims. His denial is all ego based.
There was attempts to influence the elections. It probably had no effect on the outcome. However, neither should it be treated as if it's perfectly ordinary. Russia was involved in trying to influence the election and that can't be allowed to just be glossed over. And this most certainly was not the peak of their capabilities and they've not lost the means and motivation. In fact, the bigger scandal is not the Russian interference itself but the attempt to cover it up and deny it.
So true, some Democrats may be blowing it out of proportion, but also too many Republicans are just trying to shut the whole investigation down and pretend nothing happened.
Oh sure, they'll use these things if they're a hipster. They'll be bragging later on their blog about how it was a much more authentic experience, and suddenly these things will be cool and hip again.
Back in the mid 90s, a computer store I was at lost their network connection to the back office. Possibly a power outage though at the time there were lights on in the building. The cashiers could not figure out how to sell stuff. So they had three cashiers at each high tech register - one talking to the customer and writing out a receipt, one with a big button calculator, and one with a procedures manual behind feeding them instructions. It was probably more laughable at the time because there were stores in walking distance that used normal cash register tills.
Today however it's worse. Occasionally I stop off at a fast food place and the person behind the register doesn't know how to count out change, and sometimes can't count the exact change I hand them in the first place.
Nonsense, public toilets would be rented out to tech workers for a very affordable $1200/month.
We need subsidized letters!
Wait, they have a cafe inside city hall...
This is the essence of too many of these free-market worshippers. As long as they have their pie, they don't care what happens to everyone else. They'll justify it by saying that they worked hard to get where they are and so poor people must just be lazy and not as deserving. Or if they're not as polite, they'll just say "screw them!"
Except that too often the choice ends up to not go to school at all, as history shows. Quality public education benefits everyone in society, not just those who are rich.
Agreed. Public schools get a bad rap when too often the parents are the ones to blame. Oh they may whine and moan about how we need to improve the schools and make sure they're funded, but sa soon as they get their own kids too many parents suddenly change their minds and sign them up for private schools or home schooling, or if rich enough they move to a more exclusive school district. It's modern day white flight, but just not as overtly racist as it used to be.
A peach cobbler store isn't far off. I have met people who bragged that S.F. living is awesome because there's a mini cupcake store on the corner of their block. I kid you not. It would have been sad if they had to walk two blocks to get their cupcakes.
Even Manhattan thinks that San Francisco is too crazy and self absorbed.
Cities need to be less naive and stop the bullshit. This situation happens often, not just in S.F. The city councils think the big payday is coming, and that all the money will trickle down, so they approve the sweetheart deals. But it doesn't end up happening. Subsidized sports arenas, unrealistic Olypmpic bids, ass kissing Amazon, etc. Often you get fewer jobs than expected, or lower paying jobs, or other businesses close up because they can't compete.
Every new business of a certain size will have cafeterias, this has been the standard for many decades. The city should have taken this into account.
They did this in Mountain View recently, it's totally bizarre since Mountain View has a glut of downtown restaurants that are always crowded.
This is also not just a tech industry perk, we've have cafeterias in companies for over a century. It's important to business that the workers don't vanish for two hours every day to go hunting for lunch, so cafeterias are less of a perk and more of a business necessity. No one's going to want to voluntarily eat at the overpriced S.F. eateries every day. The only difference between a cafeteria and a restaurant across the street is that the cafeteria is only open part of the time and is occasionally subsidized. It sounds like the industry is just asking government to supply them with guaranteed business.
This seems more like a contiuation of backlash against workers showing up in San Francisco? This will just encourage companies to stay away. Then S.F. will be stuck again being merely a bedroom community where entitled residents commute 50 miles to the jobs that pay enough to cover the rent.
Satellite internet is not broadband speeds.
While corporations always become corrupt and bloated.