How is a planet, the largest thing we are all in contact with, "fragile", and how is anything we could build not be fragile???
Truly, the way you space fanbois think is baffling.
Ask the dinosaurs about how fragile the ecosystem is and a sysadmin about the value of offsite backups even though the datacenter is a big sturdy building.
More government is never the solution. Government is out there to screw the population and protect its own interests.
This attitude is the ultimate self fulfilling prophecy. Transparency in government is the answer. Public participation is the answer. Defanging government just gives more power to interests that the population has no hope of influencing. The current anti-government supposedly Libertarian movement is the largest boost to the oligarchy in US history.
To be fair the Noble Prize was a pre-emptive strike. Basically they were following the Bush doctrine, but for peace prizes. And about as good of an idea.
California needs to tax the crap out of, drive the business out of California in order to make California the Liberal Utopian society.
I've been hearing this crap my whole life. Yet it's still one of the strongest economies on the planet and it's always the "Liberal" governors that balance the budget. I hope you find a Libertarian/Conservative/Whatever utopia that floats your boat. Personally, I think regulations are like code. Bloat is bad, but good luck doing anything worthwhile with no-code.
I certainly appreciate the portability of the new MacBook pros with fewer big giant outdated ports littered all over the sides of them.
His point is that they are *not* outdated. You really think having a full-size HDMI, ethernet and 3 USB-A ports (FWIW my macbook air has 2 USB-A ports) makes it any less portable?
Modern Mac Book Pros have two Thunderbolt ports, two USB-C ports and a full sized HDMI. So I guess it's 1 USB and 1 Ethernet port short of a "real" pro machine. Adding Physical Ethernet would actually make the system thicker. Personally I'd rather carry the dongle. Actually, I carry two as I occasionally connect to multiple isolated networks. But I'm happy with the thinner, lighter machine for the other 97% of the time. Then again, I also connect to a lot of old hardware via DB9 connectors and RS485 but I'm OK using those dongles too rather than have some behemoth with two of everything I use once a year.
But this is an Apple thread so we must be upset that the professionals that require an Ethernet port need to spend $29 for a dongle.
This prejudice drivel gets modded "Informative?" Un-fucking-believable Slashdot
Brahmin, it's just not a caste...it's a religion.
What's your point? The OP was referencing the caste. But even if you limit it to the religious angle it's like saying it's OK to be an anti-Semite because Judaism is a religion. More specifically it's like saying "Don't hire Protestants, they're all uppity. But those Catholics are good workers. They know their place."
Most people are born into their religion. Some take it seriously, some don't. Some are tribal, some are not. Some convert, most don't. The only information to be gleaned from someone being Brahman is that it is 95% likely that their parents were Brahman. And yes, that's a completely made up statistic.
Who exactly are the prejudiced against? You can't say Indians, as if you read through, they say to hire the lower caste student.
Because the Caste system offends you, you jump to conclusions. The problem is, India does in fact have a Caste system and it still is a large part of their culture. It isn't prejudice to point out what actually exists. And yes, there is exceptions to every "stereotype". But stereotypes exist for a reason, fair or not.
So, yes, judge the individual, but don't ignore the warning signs of stereotypes for "outrage" sake.
It's prejudiced against the Brahman. A Brahman is someone whose parents were Brahman. End of story. By suggesting that people should avoid Brahmans, HornWumpus is spreading prejudice. How is that hard to understand? It's no different that the SJWs that assume all men are _____. I was born male and if someone suggests that men should not be hired because they are _____, then that person is being a prejudice ass.
I lived in India a year for work. I've worked with people from all the castes. Some are prejudice and reinforce the caste system. Not just some Brahman, some of every caste behave that way. India's culture is complex and changing quickly. You will find forward thinking people and closed minded ones. To single out the Brahman is pure prejudice. There is no excuse that makes it OK to make such a blanket statement.
But hey, I can understand people that think protecting the integrity of the voting system is less important than deciding who can buy cigarettes./sarcasm
Because the protections are not needed but typically act as an effective barrier for the already disenfranchised. Some people think it's more important to help the disenfranchised participate than to protect against a problem that does not exist.
Honestly, why do you need your phone to be thinner than that (and probably more likely to bend)? Are you planning to use it as a credit card?
You mean like the millions of people who accepted bendgate on new iPhones in order to be able to use Apple Pay?
They accepted bendgate because it's over blown and doesn't effect millions of people. Just haters and morons that think sitting on a phone is a good idea.
There are design advantages to not having the battery removable - the obvious (for example, not having to have weight and space for a hinging or slide-latch mechanism) and the less obvious (for example, waterproofing and dustproofing - the fewer openings, the better).
My Kyocera Hydro Vibe has a replaceable battery and is certified waterproof to 3 feet for 30 minutes and dust proof. It has a snap-on back with a gasket underneath around the batter/sim/sd compartment. In addition, it has *no* covers over any of the buttons, headphone or usb connection openings.
And it's almost twice as thick with about 75% of the talk time of the iPhone 6. It's a design trade off, not the evil plan that some think. Open up an iPhone or a Mac Book and every nook and cranny that is not electronics is battery. Hinges, covers, gaskets all mean less battery. Most people, myself included, would rather have the battery last longer than carry around a spare battery. Especially because I can carry around a spare external battery on the rare occasion I think it's a good idea. Of course it's been years since I bothered.)
Never hire Brahmen (top Indian caste). They think they are too good to work.
Lower Indian castes are smart, good workers.
Every Brahmen at IIT had a lower caste 'helper' that did the work for him/her. Find the helper and hire them.
Brahmen will identify themselves in interviews. All you have to do is talk about how 'upper crusty' your family is (doesn't matter if there is any truth to it). They will immediately have to top you.
This prejudice drivel gets modded "Informative?" Un-fucking-believable Slashdot. One of my best engineers is a Brahmen. Just like every other group of humans on the planet, some people are assholes. Some aren't. Fuck sake. I don't care how many asshole Brahmen's you've worked with, this is plain old confirmation bias and prejudice at work. People don't choose the fucking "caste" they are born into.
Apple *is* able to hand over the messages, but is legally obliged to maintain appearances toward the public that it can't though a theatrical court process ?
This is paranoid, but is there any way to disprove this theory ?
Or they believe it's in their best interest to support their customer's right to privacy. One nice thing about Apple is that they make their money selling devices and taking a cut of App sales rather than selling Ads and data about their customers.
Honestly, TV is more interesting and compelling than Slashdot. I'm re-watching the 2005-now Dr. Who with my girlfriend and it's awesome. Slashdot is just a bad habit I developed in the 90s that I can't seem to break.
people being afraid to touch the code to avoid breaking a rare and poorly-tested code path
In short, no unit tests were ever written.
Yes, welcome to the real world of software development where deadlines trump other things.
Like I said (assuming you're the original AC), you need to work with better engineers. Code that's hard to test is typically a poorly designed monolith. People that "don't have time" to write tests code themselves into corners and then try to write the tests after the fact. Type checking doesn't prevent that, it just makes it harder to refactor.
The best way to write Python is not to write it at all. Everywhere I've worked, any large project written in a dynamically typed language ballooned into a maintenance nightmare, sometimes to the point of people being afraid to touch the code to avoid breaking a rare and poorly-tested code path.
Seriously, it boggles the mind that, after all academic research and technical progress in compiler development, we still use dynamic languages. A compiler works like a mathematical proof machine, doubly so when a type-inferenced language is used. This is a tremendous advantage for error-checking and program correctness, yet it's "cool and hip" to take the hard way. Dynamic languages, python included, make easy things trivial, and hard things impossible. It's a tradeoff that should never be made.
Python is not the problem, bad engineering practices are. Strict typing is not a "mathematical proof machine", it's a spell checker. You can still write utter and complete garbage. Seriously, if you don't have good unit testing, functional testing and static code analysis, you are likely creating a support nightmare. And if you do have good unit testing, functional testing and static code analysis then strict typing is a hinderance to good design.
And that is the root cause of this whole situation. We need to find a way to change the overall mindset (especially in these here Unitee States) towards other people's personal sexual congresses. Not only should it be nobody else's business, but nobody should even **care** what some person they're neither related to nor dating is doing.
If someone's cheating on a spouse (and the spouse does not approve of extramarital sex), the spouse will likely find out one way or another at some point. What happens to the couple is up to them. But what your employees, or Congressional reps, or sports/music/theatre idols do in their personal lives including sex, just plain shouldn't matter.
I agree with your larger point, other people's sex lives are none of our business. Unless they make it our business. If a Congressman campaigns against homosexual activity and then gets caught engaging in homosexual activity, that is our business. The same for so called "Family Values." Anyone making claims to some sort of puritanical ethic and trying to force that ethic on others.
Basically, anyone vilifying other people for their personal activities is fair game.
Dart is an awesome language, and we have nearly a million lines of it running both client-side web and server-side. It is a spectacular language. Go is probably better on the server side, but you can't ignore the web. Imagine how much nicer Dart could be if they weren't distracted by Go.
Google has over 50,000 employees. They can do more than one thing at a time.
Nonsense, there is tech that can recover car from armed assailant as he drives away. You'll be replacing window, bumper (corpses don't brake) and needing blood cleaned from upholstery, and having to respond to law enforcement with "correct" answers but all that cost is small compared to price of car. Also society benefits from removal of scum bag.
If you are not in physical danger (and if he's driving away, you are not), then firing your gun in public is usually considered bad form.
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The only way I can see us going to Mars is if we use nuclear rockets.
Chemical rockets a bit bigger than the Saturn V would do the trick well enough. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
How is a planet, the largest thing we are all in contact with, "fragile", and how is anything we could build not be fragile???
Truly, the way you space fanbois think is baffling.
Ask the dinosaurs about how fragile the ecosystem is and a sysadmin about the value of offsite backups even though the datacenter is a big sturdy building.
... 1. Scientist...enough said ...
People with you're attitude you scare me. Enough said.
Wow, I was so scared I used the contraction instead of the possessive. Fuck.
... 1. Scientist...enough said ...
People with you're attitude you scare me. Enough said.
More government is never the solution. Government is out there to screw the population and protect its own interests.
This attitude is the ultimate self fulfilling prophecy. Transparency in government is the answer. Public participation is the answer. Defanging government just gives more power to interests that the population has no hope of influencing. The current anti-government supposedly Libertarian movement is the largest boost to the oligarchy in US history.
And Obama won a Nobel Prize. For getting elected.
To be fair the Noble Prize was a pre-emptive strike. Basically they were following the Bush doctrine, but for peace prizes. And about as good of an idea.
California needs to tax the crap out of, drive the business out of California in order to make California the Liberal Utopian society.
I've been hearing this crap my whole life. Yet it's still one of the strongest economies on the planet and it's always the "Liberal" governors that balance the budget. I hope you find a Libertarian/Conservative/Whatever utopia that floats your boat. Personally, I think regulations are like code. Bloat is bad, but good luck doing anything worthwhile with no-code.
I certainly appreciate the portability of the new MacBook pros with fewer big giant outdated ports littered all over the sides of them.
His point is that they are *not* outdated. You really think having a full-size HDMI, ethernet and 3 USB-A ports (FWIW my macbook air has 2 USB-A ports) makes it any less portable?
Modern Mac Book Pros have two Thunderbolt ports, two USB-C ports and a full sized HDMI. So I guess it's 1 USB and 1 Ethernet port short of a "real" pro machine. Adding Physical Ethernet would actually make the system thicker. Personally I'd rather carry the dongle. Actually, I carry two as I occasionally connect to multiple isolated networks. But I'm happy with the thinner, lighter machine for the other 97% of the time. Then again, I also connect to a lot of old hardware via DB9 connectors and RS485 but I'm OK using those dongles too rather than have some behemoth with two of everything I use once a year.
But this is an Apple thread so we must be upset that the professionals that require an Ethernet port need to spend $29 for a dongle.
This prejudice drivel gets modded "Informative?" Un-fucking-believable Slashdot
Brahmin, it's just not a caste...it's a religion.
What's your point? The OP was referencing the caste. But even if you limit it to the religious angle it's like saying it's OK to be an anti-Semite because Judaism is a religion. More specifically it's like saying "Don't hire Protestants, they're all uppity. But those Catholics are good workers. They know their place."
Most people are born into their religion. Some take it seriously, some don't. Some are tribal, some are not. Some convert, most don't. The only information to be gleaned from someone being Brahman is that it is 95% likely that their parents were Brahman. And yes, that's a completely made up statistic.
This prejudice drivel gets modded "Informative?
Who exactly are the prejudiced against? You can't say Indians, as if you read through, they say to hire the lower caste student.
Because the Caste system offends you, you jump to conclusions. The problem is, India does in fact have a Caste system and it still is a large part of their culture. It isn't prejudice to point out what actually exists. And yes, there is exceptions to every "stereotype". But stereotypes exist for a reason, fair or not.
So, yes, judge the individual, but don't ignore the warning signs of stereotypes for "outrage" sake.
It's prejudiced against the Brahman. A Brahman is someone whose parents were Brahman. End of story. By suggesting that people should avoid Brahmans, HornWumpus is spreading prejudice. How is that hard to understand? It's no different that the SJWs that assume all men are _____. I was born male and if someone suggests that men should not be hired because they are _____, then that person is being a prejudice ass.
I lived in India a year for work. I've worked with people from all the castes. Some are prejudice and reinforce the caste system. Not just some Brahman, some of every caste behave that way. India's culture is complex and changing quickly. You will find forward thinking people and closed minded ones. To single out the Brahman is pure prejudice. There is no excuse that makes it OK to make such a blanket statement.
That's funny
This is my first link
http://dailysignal.com/2015/07...
But hey, I can understand people that think protecting the integrity of the voting system is less important than deciding who can buy cigarettes. /sarcasm
Because the protections are not needed but typically act as an effective barrier for the already disenfranchised. Some people think it's more important to help the disenfranchised participate than to protect against a problem that does not exist.
Honestly, why do you need your phone to be thinner than that (and probably more likely to bend)? Are you planning to use it as a credit card?
You mean like the millions of people who accepted bendgate on new iPhones in order to be able to use Apple Pay?
They accepted bendgate because it's over blown and doesn't effect millions of people. Just haters and morons that think sitting on a phone is a good idea.
There are design advantages to not having the battery removable - the obvious (for example, not having to have weight and space for a hinging or slide-latch mechanism) and the less obvious (for example, waterproofing and dustproofing - the fewer openings, the better).
My Kyocera Hydro Vibe has a replaceable battery and is certified waterproof to 3 feet for 30 minutes and dust proof. It has a snap-on back with a gasket underneath around the batter/sim/sd compartment. In addition, it has *no* covers over any of the buttons, headphone or usb connection openings.
And it's almost twice as thick with about 75% of the talk time of the iPhone 6. It's a design trade off, not the evil plan that some think. Open up an iPhone or a Mac Book and every nook and cranny that is not electronics is battery. Hinges, covers, gaskets all mean less battery. Most people, myself included, would rather have the battery last longer than carry around a spare battery. Especially because I can carry around a spare external battery on the rare occasion I think it's a good idea. Of course it's been years since I bothered.)
Never hire Brahmen (top Indian caste). They think they are too good to work.
Lower Indian castes are smart, good workers.
Every Brahmen at IIT had a lower caste 'helper' that did the work for him/her. Find the helper and hire them.
Brahmen will identify themselves in interviews. All you have to do is talk about how 'upper crusty' your family is (doesn't matter if there is any truth to it). They will immediately have to top you.
This prejudice drivel gets modded "Informative?" Un-fucking-believable Slashdot. One of my best engineers is a Brahmen. Just like every other group of humans on the planet, some people are assholes. Some aren't. Fuck sake. I don't care how many asshole Brahmen's you've worked with, this is plain old confirmation bias and prejudice at work. People don't choose the fucking "caste" they are born into.
Apple *is* able to hand over the messages, but is legally obliged to maintain appearances toward the public that it can't though a theatrical court process ? This is paranoid, but is there any way to disprove this theory ?
Or they believe it's in their best interest to support their customer's right to privacy. One nice thing about Apple is that they make their money selling devices and taking a cut of App sales rather than selling Ads and data about their customers.
What a time waster. I know I am not alone either
Honestly, TV is more interesting and compelling than Slashdot. I'm re-watching the 2005-now Dr. Who with my girlfriend and it's awesome. Slashdot is just a bad habit I developed in the 90s that I can't seem to break.
people being afraid to touch the code to avoid breaking a rare and poorly-tested code path
In short, no unit tests were ever written.
Yes, welcome to the real world of software development where deadlines trump other things.
Like I said (assuming you're the original AC), you need to work with better engineers. Code that's hard to test is typically a poorly designed monolith. People that "don't have time" to write tests code themselves into corners and then try to write the tests after the fact. Type checking doesn't prevent that, it just makes it harder to refactor.
The best way to write Python is not to write it at all. Everywhere I've worked, any large project written in a dynamically typed language ballooned into a maintenance nightmare, sometimes to the point of people being afraid to touch the code to avoid breaking a rare and poorly-tested code path.
Seriously, it boggles the mind that, after all academic research and technical progress in compiler development, we still use dynamic languages. A compiler works like a mathematical proof machine, doubly so when a type-inferenced language is used. This is a tremendous advantage for error-checking and program correctness, yet it's "cool and hip" to take the hard way. Dynamic languages, python included, make easy things trivial, and hard things impossible. It's a tradeoff that should never be made.
Python is not the problem, bad engineering practices are. Strict typing is not a "mathematical proof machine", it's a spell checker. You can still write utter and complete garbage. Seriously, if you don't have good unit testing, functional testing and static code analysis, you are likely creating a support nightmare. And if you do have good unit testing, functional testing and static code analysis then strict typing is a hinderance to good design.
You need to work with better engineers.
Makes perfect sense - it's equal to the F-16 for air-to-ground and almost as good a fighter as the A-10.
Well played. Too bad I don't have modpoints.
And that is the root cause of this whole situation. We need to find a way to change the overall mindset (especially in these here Unitee States) towards other people's personal sexual congresses. Not only should it be nobody else's business, but nobody should even **care** what some person they're neither related to nor dating is doing.
If someone's cheating on a spouse (and the spouse does not approve of extramarital sex), the spouse will likely find out one way or another at some point. What happens to the couple is up to them. But what your employees, or Congressional reps, or sports/music/theatre idols do in their personal lives including sex, just plain shouldn't matter.
I agree with your larger point, other people's sex lives are none of our business. Unless they make it our business. If a Congressman campaigns against homosexual activity and then gets caught engaging in homosexual activity, that is our business. The same for so called "Family Values." Anyone making claims to some sort of puritanical ethic and trying to force that ethic on others.
Basically, anyone vilifying other people for their personal activities is fair game.
Things replaced by my smartphone: Land line, physical books, Game Boy, micro-cassette recorder, calculator, camera, walk-man, PDA, flash cards, timer, alarm clock, flash light, stupid keychain barcode cards, notepad, walkie-talkie, portable DVD player, and ...
One more thing... Swatch
Thats no excuse. It should be distributed amongst seperate machines in seperate centres instantaniously.
So faster than the speed of light using the infinitely-wide infinite improbability data bus?
Dart is an awesome language, and we have nearly a million lines of it running both client-side web and server-side. It is a spectacular language. Go is probably better on the server side, but you can't ignore the web. Imagine how much nicer Dart could be if they weren't distracted by Go.
Google has over 50,000 employees. They can do more than one thing at a time.
Nonsense, there is tech that can recover car from armed assailant as he drives away. You'll be replacing window, bumper (corpses don't brake) and needing blood cleaned from upholstery, and having to respond to law enforcement with "correct" answers but all that cost is small compared to price of car. Also society benefits from removal of scum bag.
If you are not in physical danger (and if he's driving away, you are not), then firing your gun in public is usually considered bad form.
And here I thought the UK had had the good sense of shipping all the Puritans to the New World.