I always thought, that being a teen lowers your IQ. Some of the kids I grew up with, seemed to go bat shit crazy in puberty. Some of them, at some point, stopped being teens, and went on to do something with their lives.
Some of them seemed to stay being teens . . . and are probably still doing nothing today.
Politicians just simply do not understand what programming is all about . . . they think that it is a simple technical skill like plumbing . . . plumbers can now rightfully attack me, for having not enough understanding of the subtleties of plumbing!
So, you can teach an average idiot how to write some JavaScript . . . how does he or she deal with deadlocks, lockouts and race conditions . . . ?
Whoops. Until the politicians understand the fine art of computer programming . . . they should shut their mouths, and stop trying to talking about something that they do not understand.
YDid you know your father had Marxist tendencies (though he probably didn't realize it)?
Being that my father grew up in the west of Canada, on a ranch, I find your comments particularly disgusting. If you take a look at the World Trade Center coming down, you can see one of my father's greatest works coming down: the multistage antenna that RCA build. Yeah, it was built in Gibsborro, New Jersey.
Now, Pope Ratzo . ..you can take your Islamic hairy ass where ever you please . . . just not in Europe or North America . . . keep it in some Islamic Hell-Hole where you belong.
On a per-capita basis, Americans produce far more pollution than Chinese, Africans, etc.
Eh? per-capita basis? Who cares?! If your government has to close the schools in your city, and tell the old folks that they should do their morning Tai Chi at home, instead of an open park . . . your country is . . . well, let's just leave it at that.
You should try to visit China sometime . . . in a major city . . . and take a deep breath . . . I never knew that New Jersey smelled so sweet!
. . . and a great many Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, too boot, as well.
. . . now about that God-dammned-turkey-dancingingly-thingingie-zilla . . . we'll be right be out by after the last song . . . that drunk brother-in-law of ours never knows when it is time enough to leave the stage . . .:-) . . .
This shows you why America's liberal weapon laws are advantageous . . . if your kid runs up high costs on games . . . you can take him or her out in the backyard and blast their brains out with your Heckler & Koch MP7!
This fact raises the obvious question: why the hell didn't the Western powers stop him earlier? Why did they try to appease a man who so clearly stated his intentions? Were they, England and France, complete morons?
Oh, just take a look at the current Islamic invasion of Western society today . . . in 100 years, the historian folks will be calling us morons:-)
I travel sometimes with a work colleague of mine . . . when we need to go through the airport security checks, he says, "Well, it's time for us to pay our Islam tax again!" Actually, he did a paper napkin calculation of what Islam costs on productivity . . . folks standing around in security lines because of Islam, instead of doing something productive . . . a million billion dollars . . . but, of course, he is out of his tiny little mind, like me . . .
If you're afraid that the population will be seduced by it, you have bigger problems than the book.
+5 Insightful . . . probably the most insightful thing that I have read on Slashdot in the last 20 years. Now if my mod points had not only slid down the cracks in my sofa tonight . . .
That's not the right question. The question should be, "Will Donald Trump ever shut up?" And the answer is no. He has no chance of being elected, and he knows that. Who has Donald Trump pissed off? Women? Latinos? I feel discriminated against . . . he hasn't pissed off middle aged white guys . . . yet.
He is going to find his place sniping at Hilary, when she gets elected: the social gadfly of the opposition. It's a great role to play. A lot of folks really detest Hillary, but she's going to be elected anyway, just because of demographics that favor the Democrats. That will leave a lot of folks looking for a steam valve, to let off some vitriol. The trouble that Hillary will have, is a Republican Congress and Senate. She will have to resort to the "Obama Prerogative" of using Executive Orders, read, "imperial decrees", to circumvent the due process of the creation of laws in the US. Opening the border to Cuba? A good idea, but the way Obama did that was dubious, at best. Congress should have approved.
Now Obama wants to do another Executive Decree, that affects the Bill of Rights, on gun laws. In international soccer matches, that would get the red card from the referee. What will happen if Hillary decides to issue a decree about the Freedom of Speech? Democrats will close ranks behind her; Trump will honk off.
Although that sounds a bit pessimistic, I'm thinking that is what 2016 has to offer.
Exactly. I've held a Secret clearance for 38 years, and the rules covering this sort of thing are very clear. The penalties include a huge fine and very serious federal prison time.
When my father got his Top Secret Squirrel clearance, he was a Canadian citizen. Part of the deal was that he needed to become an American citizen. The spooks told him that this was necessary, because if he gave any secrets to the Ruskies, they wanted to be able to hang him. As a Canadian citizen, this would not be possible . . . but as an American citizen, they could.
He never told me his whole life what he worked on. Only after he died recently, my mother told me, that he helped create the DEW line . . . if anyone is old enough to know what that was.
I think we should make the election like an SAT multiple choice test. There should be an choice "none of the above" . . . no Clinton, no Trump.
This could toss back both mainstream political parties to come up with some better, more palatable candidates. Hell, maybe even a fringe party might get a chance to squeeze someone reasonable in . . .
"though they were not classified at the time they were sent to Clinton's personal email"
My company's policy on email is crystal clear: Company business is done on company systems. It doesn't matter if I am just ordering pencils . . . everything work related has to be able to audit. Same for government stuff . . . if Hilary claims she didn't know that, she lies like a rug. She purposely used a private server, so no one could ever really see what hanky panky she was really up to.
If she was anyone else she'd be nailed to the wall already.
I would be nailed by my scrotum on the wall. And a Roman soldier would come by to rub vinegar on my lips and poke me in the ribs with a spear.
However, as in the words of the Pledge to the Flag: "One Nation, under God, with Freedom and Justice for the rich . . .
C++ was so full of land mines and other hidden traps
I wouldn't say that "C++ was is full of land mines and other hidden traps". However, C++ enables you to bury your own land mines, and build your own hidden traps. Effective C++ taught me what stuff I need to avoid.
In fact, a project manager tasked me with creating some programming standards for our C++ project . . . a job that nobody wanted to do. This was because all the programmers were very good, but used to programming alone, and doing things their own way. There was guaranteed to be blood, devastation, death, war and horror in this discussion. So I created a presentation based on Effective C++. When we went through all the items, there was dissension indeed, but when I fell back, and we went through the wisdom of Meyers' text, we found grudgingly agreement.
To summarize, C++ is a very powerful language you can unwittingly write your own H-bomb with it. So it is great to have someone like Meyers to help you from nuking yourself.
Thank you for the detailed instructions on how to find it! Someone please mod this up as informative!
The only problem I have now is, at predawn . . . I am usually in bed, in a deep sleep . . . unless I have stayed up all night. Why can't these astronomical interesting things occur at humane hours, like, at midnight?
And also, being that I am in Northern Europe at the moment . . . the sky is too cloudy anyway:-(
Slashdot Mirror
How likely are you to die today?
"Today is the last day of your life . . . so far."
The 95% of the world living outside of the USA have absolutely no recourse to your Congress.
That is not true . . . US Congress will accept bribes from anyone in the world, independent of where they live.
This isn't going to happen. Period.
There is no way congress will pull their fingers out of their asses.
Obama can easily make this happen with an Executive Decree . . . no need for Congress to approve anything.
Newspeak
This "article" is not even news . . . it's a rant in a blog.
A new low point for Slashdot.
They still wouldn't be able to type in French on it though.
The French are not expected to type in French. They are expected to type in German.
At least that was the plan, a while back . . .
Twas the geeks at the NSA that did the Star Trek thing
Correct . . . the CIA command center is an exact copy of Deep Space Nine's Quark's Bar.
Complete with a holodeck.
C++ and Java are both great beginner's languages.
I've met folks in projects, who have been programming C++ and Java for 10 years . . . and they still program like they are beginners.
Hmmm . . . maybe a Fountain of Youth . . . ?
However, most customers will break their teeth on the shiny metal crust.
I like to put my own Jalapenos on a pizza. But with the iPizza, you need to buy any toppings from Apple.
Last month Italy claimed that Apple owed them $960 million in back taxes. Then settles to accept only $350 million from Apple.
This month Apples announces an App Center in Naples.
Is all this just a coincidence . . . ? Or was there some backroom hanky-panky dealing going on . . . ?
I always thought, that being a teen lowers your IQ. Some of the kids I grew up with, seemed to go bat shit crazy in puberty. Some of them, at some point, stopped being teens, and went on to do something with their lives.
Some of them seemed to stay being teens . . . and are probably still doing nothing today.
Accually, the Luftwaffe did build an airbase on the Moon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
However, the whole project got derailed, when the astronauts discovered the nudist colony on the Moon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
They had the choice of fighting for the master race, or playing naked volleyball with chicks who had 60's style Russ Meyer breasts.
They "did the right thing . . . "
Politicians just simply do not understand what programming is all about . . . they think that it is a simple technical skill like plumbing . . . plumbers can now rightfully attack me, for having not enough understanding of the subtleties of plumbing!
So, you can teach an average idiot how to write some JavaScript . . . how does he or she deal with deadlocks, lockouts and race conditions . . . ?
Whoops. Until the politicians understand the fine art of computer programming . . . they should shut their mouths, and stop trying to talking about something that they do not understand.
YDid you know your father had Marxist tendencies (though he probably didn't realize it)?
Being that my father grew up in the west of Canada, on a ranch, I find your comments particularly disgusting. If you take a look at the World Trade Center coming down, you can see one of my father's greatest works coming down: the multistage antenna that RCA build. Yeah, it was built in Gibsborro, New Jersey.
Now, Pope Ratzo . . .you can take your Islamic hairy ass where ever you please . . . just not in Europe or North America . . . keep it in some Islamic Hell-Hole where you belong.
My late father used to say something like, "Work is like gravity . . . it tends to be attracted towards people capable of doing the work."
Take a look around you. At folks who are actually doing work . . . and those with long titles, and are not really doing any work.
On a per-capita basis, Americans produce far more pollution than Chinese, Africans, etc.
Eh? per-capita basis? Who cares?! If your government has to close the schools in your city, and tell the old folks that they should do their morning Tai Chi at home, instead of an open park . . . your country is . . . well, let's just leave it at that.
You should try to visit China sometime . . . in a major city . . . and take a deep breath . . . I never knew that New Jersey smelled so sweet!
Polo
. . . and a great many Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, too boot, as well.
. . . now about that God-dammned-turkey-dancingingly-thingingie-zilla . . . we'll be right be out by after the last song . . . that drunk brother-in-law of ours never knows when it is time enough to leave the stage . . . :-) . . .
This shows you why America's liberal weapon laws are advantageous . . . if your kid runs up high costs on games . . . you can take him or her out in the backyard and blast their brains out with your Heckler & Koch MP7!
God Bless America!
This fact raises the obvious question: why the hell didn't the Western powers stop him earlier? Why did they try to appease a man who so clearly stated his intentions? Were they, England and France, complete morons?
Oh, just take a look at the current Islamic invasion of Western society today . . . in 100 years, the historian folks will be calling us morons :-)
I travel sometimes with a work colleague of mine . . . when we need to go through the airport security checks, he says, "Well, it's time for us to pay our Islam tax again!" Actually, he did a paper napkin calculation of what Islam costs on productivity . . . folks standing around in security lines because of Islam, instead of doing something productive . . . a million billion dollars . . . but, of course, he is out of his tiny little mind, like me . . .
If you're afraid that the population will be seduced by it, you have bigger problems than the book.
+5 Insightful . . . probably the most insightful thing that I have read on Slashdot in the last 20 years. Now if my mod points had not only slid down the cracks in my sofa tonight . . .
That's not the right question. The question should be, "Will Donald Trump ever shut up?" And the answer is no. He has no chance of being elected, and he knows that. Who has Donald Trump pissed off? Women? Latinos? I feel discriminated against . . . he hasn't pissed off middle aged white guys . . . yet.
He is going to find his place sniping at Hilary, when she gets elected: the social gadfly of the opposition. It's a great role to play. A lot of folks really detest Hillary, but she's going to be elected anyway, just because of demographics that favor the Democrats. That will leave a lot of folks looking for a steam valve, to let off some vitriol. The trouble that Hillary will have, is a Republican Congress and Senate. She will have to resort to the "Obama Prerogative" of using Executive Orders, read, "imperial decrees", to circumvent the due process of the creation of laws in the US. Opening the border to Cuba? A good idea, but the way Obama did that was dubious, at best. Congress should have approved.
Now Obama wants to do another Executive Decree, that affects the Bill of Rights, on gun laws. In international soccer matches, that would get the red card from the referee. What will happen if Hillary decides to issue a decree about the Freedom of Speech? Democrats will close ranks behind her; Trump will honk off.
Although that sounds a bit pessimistic, I'm thinking that is what 2016 has to offer.
Exactly. I've held a Secret clearance for 38 years, and the rules covering this sort of thing are very clear. The penalties include a huge fine and very serious federal prison time.
When my father got his Top Secret Squirrel clearance, he was a Canadian citizen. Part of the deal was that he needed to become an American citizen. The spooks told him that this was necessary, because if he gave any secrets to the Ruskies, they wanted to be able to hang him. As a Canadian citizen, this would not be possible . . . but as an American citizen, they could.
He never told me his whole life what he worked on. Only after he died recently, my mother told me, that he helped create the DEW line . . . if anyone is old enough to know what that was.
I think we should make the election like an SAT multiple choice test. There should be an choice "none of the above" . . . no Clinton, no Trump.
This could toss back both mainstream political parties to come up with some better, more palatable candidates. Hell, maybe even a fringe party might get a chance to squeeze someone reasonable in . . .
"though they were not classified at the time they were sent to Clinton's personal email"
My company's policy on email is crystal clear: Company business is done on company systems. It doesn't matter if I am just ordering pencils . . . everything work related has to be able to audit. Same for government stuff . . . if Hilary claims she didn't know that, she lies like a rug. She purposely used a private server, so no one could ever really see what hanky panky she was really up to.
If she was anyone else she'd be nailed to the wall already.
I would be nailed by my scrotum on the wall. And a Roman soldier would come by to rub vinegar on my lips and poke me in the ribs with a spear.
However, as in the words of the Pledge to the Flag: "One Nation, under God, with Freedom and Justice for the rich . . .
C++ was so full of land mines and other hidden traps
I wouldn't say that "C++ was is full of land mines and other hidden traps". However, C++ enables you to bury your own land mines, and build your own hidden traps. Effective C++ taught me what stuff I need to avoid.
In fact, a project manager tasked me with creating some programming standards for our C++ project . . . a job that nobody wanted to do. This was because all the programmers were very good, but used to programming alone, and doing things their own way. There was guaranteed to be blood, devastation, death, war and horror in this discussion. So I created a presentation based on Effective C++. When we went through all the items, there was dissension indeed, but when I fell back, and we went through the wisdom of Meyers' text, we found grudgingly agreement.
To summarize, C++ is a very powerful language you can unwittingly write your own H-bomb with it. So it is great to have someone like Meyers to help you from nuking yourself.
Thank you for the detailed instructions on how to find it! Someone please mod this up as informative!
The only problem I have now is, at predawn . . . I am usually in bed, in a deep sleep . . . unless I have stayed up all night. Why can't these astronomical interesting things occur at humane hours, like, at midnight?
And also, being that I am in Northern Europe at the moment . . . the sky is too cloudy anyway :-(