It's a lot easier to get right (if you understand that mindset). Even if you don't use functional languages, using those techniques (i.e., minimizing mutable state) help a lot in more conventional languages too!
Actually, how do you know that the photon bumped the meter to 3.2eV if you do not witness the light reflecting off the device? Isn't the whole of the scientific process limited by our senses?
I understood your point but for it to be valid, there would have to have been another alternative to spending so much on a war. You have offered no such alternative. From my understanding, the southern states were pretty intent on leaving the union (hence the whole secession thing).
Do you think that if the slaves were purchased that way, it would've ended slavery? Wouldn't the South have just brought more slaves in to replace the old?
What the hell does your GPA have to do with anything? Surely you have a valid reason for having the low GPA besides 'I couldn't/didn't understand the material'?
Even the common taboo against homosexual sex could have been beneficial to primitive societies because such practices were significantly more likely to spread disease through the population. Obviously, modern medicine makes this a non-issue, today.
Umm... really?? I suppose you haven't heard of the 'epidemic' known as HIV/AIDS?
All of the above actually.:-) But, I was responding to the remark about skiing and snowboarding being dissimilar in specific. I actually thought the analogy to skiing/snowboarding was pretty accurate too.
I don't think they can. If I was a Windows user, looking at the Vista situation, I'd think "I can use Vista, and none of my apps will work. Or I can use Ubuntu, and none of my apps will work, and the OS won't suck as much."
Not so. All of your apps that worked on XP also work on Vista and will continue to work on Windows 7. Maybe your point would be valid if you indicted Windows 8 and MS decided to break backwards compatibility (not likely).
Don't forget Java. Yes, it's slow; but if portability is your primary concern, it shouldn't be overlooked (many open-source apps use it to keep from writing different versions).
And, how do you think that data wouldn't be lost when the drive does kill over? Looks to me like data loss is a risk either way; with NTFS, it just happens all at once when the drive dies and with FAT, it accumulates along the way!:-)
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That may have been true before .NET. But nowadays why would anyone choose VB over C#? [Because they like to type??]
It's a lot easier to get right (if you understand that mindset). Even if you don't use functional languages, using those techniques (i.e., minimizing mutable state) help a lot in more conventional languages too!
... and that is why they should be using functional languages.
Why not just use a functional language like Haskell and you'd have both the implementation and the 'mathematical definition' in one fell swoop.
Actually, how do you know that the photon bumped the meter to 3.2eV if you do not witness the light reflecting off the device? Isn't the whole of the scientific process limited by our senses?
Nice post!
I understood your point but for it to be valid, there would have to have been another alternative to spending so much on a war. You have offered no such alternative. From my understanding, the southern states were pretty intent on leaving the union (hence the whole secession thing).
Not to mention false alarms... there's no telling how many other uninteresting types of small furry creatures are going to trigger the sensor.
Noticing a good idea as a good idea doesn't make you one of it's founders.
You should tell that to our beloved father of the internet--Al Gore.
Do you think that if the slaves were purchased that way, it would've ended slavery? Wouldn't the South have just brought more slaves in to replace the old?
IT's probably a BOT!
Wouldn't it need to be 2 others as in 'minority report'?
No, I've heard that (in fact about a decade or more ago). But, the fact remains that it spreads much more quickly through homosexual (or anal) sex.
Actually they did. And, they told us not to shoot up meth and go on all-night-long no-condom buttfucking sprees.
What the hell does your GPA have to do with anything? Surely you have a valid reason for having the low GPA besides 'I couldn't/didn't understand the material'?
Even the common taboo against homosexual sex could have been beneficial to primitive societies because such practices were significantly more likely to spread disease through the population. Obviously, modern medicine makes this a non-issue, today.
Umm... really?? I suppose you haven't heard of the 'epidemic' known as HIV/AIDS?
All of the above actually. :-) But, I was responding to the remark about skiing and snowboarding being dissimilar in specific. I actually thought the analogy to skiing/snowboarding was pretty accurate too.
I do both and disagree--they are similar.
Extrapolating too far is foolishness that happens far too often.
Thanks for your honesty. Now please convince the Darwinist historical scientists about as much with respect to distant *past* events.
I don't think they can. If I was a Windows user, looking at the Vista situation, I'd think "I can use Vista, and none of my apps will work. Or I can use Ubuntu, and none of my apps will work, and the OS won't suck as much."
Not so. All of your apps that worked on XP also work on Vista and will continue to work on Windows 7. Maybe your point would be valid if you indicted Windows 8 and MS decided to break backwards compatibility (not likely).
For me, personally, it's bad enough to have to deal with IE. I really wouldn't look forward to fighting the Win32 API.
You're forgetting .NET. It really is a rather painless/pleasant environment to develop client apps in. [And, it's portable too if you like Mono].
Don't forget Java. Yes, it's slow; but if portability is your primary concern, it shouldn't be overlooked (many open-source apps use it to keep from writing different versions).
Did we ever leave it? Most people [mgmt types and hardcore devs] are still [unjustifiably & unfortunately] quite superstitious of .NET.
idiot.
first of all, it's "it's" not its. and second, it's 'OS X' not 'windows'.
And, how do you think that data wouldn't be lost when the drive does kill over? Looks to me like data loss is a risk either way; with NTFS, it just happens all at once when the drive dies and with FAT, it accumulates along the way! :-)