Well, you seem to be forgetting that we had a system where companies systematically refused to hire people on the basis of race. Even when they were equally or better qualified, no hire. That's why we need to regulate employment on some level. Of course absolute control is bad. Absolute anything is bad.
Yes, bounds checking is a hassle in C but throwing out the whole language isn't necessary. We could default to smart pointers and add a new type qualifier for people who want the old behavior. Dangerous code would look like:
int unbound * foo=malloc(1024);
It might be required to have a compiler switch to avoid breaking ABIs that are expecting simple pointers. The bounded pointer would have to be a struct with a slim pointer and a size in it that gets updated whenever the pointer mutates, and raises a signal whenever you add or subtract too much or try to index outside of it. I'm just spintballing. I'm sure there are some detail devils but it doesn't seem impossible or even unworkable. It doesn't sound like an excuse to re-write everything. You could even do something like this as a non-standard extension RIGHT NOW.
For years people complained that C was actually slower than Fortran because of the aliasing problem, and we eventually got the restrict qualifier. So. Don't just dump the whole thing. Fix it.
Yes, but you *can* tell the difference if you play the recordings on the original vinyl with a tube amp. That's how Stradivarius intended his instruments to be heard. He even held the wood close to a fire for a few minutes, to give it that warm sound.
Drugs and prostitution happen in SF units regardless. Marijuana growing operations happen too. The motel tax and licensing does nothing to prevent those activities. It's already illegal to do that stuff. Airbnb just attracts more attention because it's the kind of thing that most people assume is OK. Many people naively think that we live in like... the land of the free or something, where you can use your property as you see fit as long as it doesn't harm the neighbor. Of course running a saloon or a baudy house would harm the neighbors; but my understanding of most Airbnb transactions is that it's like having your relatives or friends visit once in a while. I do that. My neighbors do that. Nobody minds. They could be doing Airbnb and I probably wouldn't even notice except to think they have a lot of friends.
Protection for the incumbent providers, sold as protection for the consumer
Typical pitch: don't rent from an unlicensed provider. There could be bedbugs or poor service, or it might be a fire trap or something.
Typical reality: You are lucky to escape alive with bed bugs and food poisoning when the licensed provider burns down.
Kinda funny this is what became of the original gold rush town, where anything went. Airbnb, lyft, etc... kinda like Napster and YouTube in meat space. They know their business model is an attack on the incumbents. Everybody is just shuffling the shit around, hoping they can shovel it onto somebody else and get out of town in time. OK... maybe it really is still a gold rush town on that level. Anyway, I'm not directly involved so I'll just pop the popcorn.
No. Don't torture them. On day 1 of class the teacher explains it, perhaps like this:
"Programming languages are keys that open doors in the computer. Some open more doors than others. Some open them in a different way. Some computers come with keys and some don't. There are a lot of choices on how to solve this problem. The way I've chosen is.... (teachers tells them what, perhaps even why.)".
See. No big problem, really. The students learn that a language may or may not come with the system, and that you can chose languages. The concept of components is important in software, and they learn it right up front.
Wouldn't any other setup be unstable? M/A collision leads to burst of energy. Energy gets converted back into MAtter via some other process. Does it get converted into M or A? If there's a bias on one direction or another, that one wins; but if it's a 50/50 split than you just need a little push in one direction or another and one side wins because the "wrong" side keeps getting hit with stuff that kills it and pulls it back through the energy cycle.
Of course IANAPhysicist and this seems like a very obvious PoV which means it's almost certainly wrong.
As far as colon cancer is concerned, there is a lot of common sense here. I doubt a tiny little factor like anti-oxidants on your beef is going to make much difference if you're an overweight smoker in your 50s. Having beer around might encourage you to drink heavily, which is listed there as increasing risk. So. If you already like beer marinade then great. If you don't, then there's virtually no reason to use a recipe you don't like. Concentrate on the elephant in the room before addressing the mouse.
LOL, that's good too. It's my understanding that a good Forth program has simple words with relevant names. I can just imagine giving them misleading names and/or merging them into long functions. I love concatenative language and point-free style; but just like anything else they can be abused.
Of course. They wrote it in Scheme and used call/cc wherever possible. Now nobody can get in because nobody can understand it, not even the guy who wrote it.
What stopped you from upgrading to Windows 7 anytime in literally the last 4 years?... for that matter, what's stopping you from upgrading to Windows 7 tomorrow?
Money, and not wanting to spend it unless I have to. And before anybody says "switch to Linux", no, there is stuff I want that only runs on Windows. It's not just the OS; I'll need new hardware. The hardware would probably make it to the ripe old age of 10 if they didn't EOL the OS. No combination of hardware + software has ever been this stable for this long. It's just... sad to see it go...
My Internet-enabled fridge needs to be developed using proper security procedures which are ummm.... not applicable to any other field such as SCADA or medical database systems that are already in place. Who's smoking the crack here, the journalists or Cerf? I'm betting it's the journalists and that he's misquoted and/or being quoted out of context. Too lazy to RTFA of course...
This still creates a coverage gap for XP users. If 8.1 had a sane UI today, I'd go XP-to-8.1. It's just an announcement though. With XP support going tits up in just a few days, there's no way to fill the gap without doing something transitional that you might want to throw away in a few months.
Speculative history being what it is, here's my $0.02. If Hitler were more rational, he wouldn't have become Chancellor. I think it takes a nut to get to where he got, but then because of his nuttiness the whole thing falls apart.
Not to compare Steve Jobs to Hilter in terms of morality; but there are people who say, "If only he hadn't been so arrogant as to believe that alternative medicine could cure his cancer". I think there's a similar dynamic with Jobs. If he weren't arrogant enough to believe he was better than modern medicine, he might not have been arrogant enough to believe he was better than the other device manufacturers.
More generally, the totality of your personality defines all phases of your outcome. Redefine your personality and you redefine all phases of your outcome, including the early ones that got you to where we care enough to speculate about the later phases.
OK, I see what you're getting at. There's real collaboration and then there's "throw everybody into a chit-chat blender". The closest I came to that at school was the 2nd floor computer lab which IIRC had quiet hours vs. regular time. If you had to work during regular time, there was a lot of conversation and anybody could bother you--but usually they didn't. One time I was there and some frat boys streaked it wearing stocking masks. Allegedly this was part of the initiation.
Streaking was rare though, and a noisy 2nd floor lab was not part of every-day experience. Often I'd go there after midnight when even if people talked there weren't enough of them to cause problems. It's fun to look back now. That lab was where I spent 5 hours trying to figure out why my program wouldn't compile because ( and { looked almost alike on the crappy monochrome monitors. Those were eventually replaced with good monitors...
I don't know how representative our respective anecdotes are. UVa's BSEE program had plenty of group work. We frequently worked in groups, 4 was a common number. There was also plenty of solitary assignments; but there were definitely groups with many of the "personality issues" that you get on jobs. For example, the "guy/gal who tends to free ride" vs. the "guy/gal who ends up doing all the work" and of course the "form your own groups" problem--like picking teams for pickup games, except that it was brain work.
Semantics. Slow down Cowboy, Slashdot hates pithy comebacks. Anyway, looks like a duck, quacks like a duck. I can readily identify priests, temples, dogma and followers.
I explicitly modified Christian with "right-wing" for that very reason. You've simply substituted my "right-wing Christians" with "Christians" which is some form of logical fallacy, straw-man seems like the best fit; but I'm not sure and don't really care that much since this really is a religious debate and nobody's mind will change.
Radical right-wing Christians believe in the Apocalypse, and vote for military build-ups and wars of choice. Radical left-wing UN types believe in AGW, and have the ability to fuck up our food supply and create wars too.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: "If you continuously prophesy doom, you will eventually be correct".
Note, not happy, satisfied, productive or anything really virtuous... just "correct".
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Well, you seem to be forgetting that we had a system where companies systematically refused to hire people on the basis of race. Even when they were equally or better qualified, no hire. That's why we need to regulate employment on some level. Of course absolute control is bad. Absolute anything is bad.
Bonus points for the first Slashdotter who finds a Mars-shaped rock in Australia. Picture or it didn't happen.
Yes, bounds checking is a hassle in C but throwing out the whole language isn't necessary. We could default to smart pointers and add a new type qualifier for people who want the old behavior. Dangerous code would look like:
It might be required to have a compiler switch to avoid breaking ABIs that are expecting simple pointers. The bounded pointer would have to be a struct with a slim pointer and a size in it that gets updated whenever the pointer mutates, and raises a signal whenever you add or subtract too much or try to index outside of it. I'm just spintballing. I'm sure there are some detail devils but it doesn't seem impossible or even unworkable. It doesn't sound like an excuse to re-write everything. You could even do something like this as a non-standard extension RIGHT NOW.
For years people complained that C was actually slower than Fortran because of the aliasing problem, and we eventually got the restrict qualifier. So. Don't just dump the whole thing. Fix it.
Yes, but you *can* tell the difference if you play the recordings on the original vinyl with a tube amp. That's how Stradivarius intended his instruments to be heard. He even held the wood close to a fire for a few minutes, to give it that warm sound.
Drugs and prostitution happen in SF units regardless. Marijuana growing operations happen too. The motel tax and licensing does nothing to prevent those activities. It's already illegal to do that stuff. Airbnb just attracts more attention because it's the kind of thing that most people assume is OK. Many people naively think that we live in like... the land of the free or something, where you can use your property as you see fit as long as it doesn't harm the neighbor. Of course running a saloon or a baudy house would harm the neighbors; but my understanding of most Airbnb transactions is that it's like having your relatives or friends visit once in a while. I do that. My neighbors do that. Nobody minds. They could be doing Airbnb and I probably wouldn't even notice except to think they have a lot of friends.
What is the logic behind that?
Protection for the incumbent providers, sold as protection for the consumer
Typical pitch: don't rent from an unlicensed provider. There could be bedbugs or poor service, or it might be a fire trap or something.
Typical reality: You are lucky to escape alive with bed bugs and food poisoning when the licensed provider burns down.
Kinda funny this is what became of the original gold rush town, where anything went. Airbnb, lyft, etc... kinda like Napster and YouTube in meat space. They know their business model is an attack on the incumbents. Everybody is just shuffling the shit around, hoping they can shovel it onto somebody else and get out of town in time. OK... maybe it really is still a gold rush town on that level. Anyway, I'm not directly involved so I'll just pop the popcorn.
No. Don't torture them. On day 1 of class the teacher explains it, perhaps like this:
"Programming languages are keys that open doors in the computer. Some open more doors than others. Some open them in a different way. Some computers come with keys and some don't. There are a lot of choices on how to solve this problem. The way I've chosen is.... (teachers tells them what, perhaps even why.)".
See. No big problem, really. The students learn that a language may or may not come with the system, and that you can chose languages. The concept of components is important in software, and they learn it right up front.
Wouldn't any other setup be unstable? M/A collision leads to burst of energy. Energy gets converted back into MAtter via some other process. Does it get converted into M or A? If there's a bias on one direction or another, that one wins; but if it's a 50/50 split than you just need a little push in one direction or another and one side wins because the "wrong" side keeps getting hit with stuff that kills it and pulls it back through the energy cycle.
Of course IANAPhysicist and this seems like a very obvious PoV which means it's almost certainly wrong.
As far as colon cancer is concerned, there is a lot of common sense here. I doubt a tiny little factor like anti-oxidants on your beef is going to make much difference if you're an overweight smoker in your 50s. Having beer around might encourage you to drink heavily, which is listed there as increasing risk. So. If you already like beer marinade then great. If you don't, then there's virtually no reason to use a recipe you don't like. Concentrate on the elephant in the room before addressing the mouse.
No, just rebuild the kernel. It should be a build option for text or QR panics.
I think the winning strategy is to randomly throw 50% paper to cover his rock. I'm just guessing though. No idea how much to pay.
LOL, that's good too. It's my understanding that a good Forth program has simple words with relevant names. I can just imagine giving them misleading names and/or merging them into long functions. I love concatenative language and point-free style; but just like anything else they can be abused.
Of course. They wrote it in Scheme and used call/cc wherever possible. Now nobody can get in because nobody can understand it, not even the guy who wrote it.
LOL, Now if CBS had dubbed the pocka-pocka-pocka sound of a Model T over the Tesla, that would have been "Airplane!".
What stopped you from upgrading to Windows 7 anytime in literally the last 4 years? ... for that matter, what's stopping you from upgrading to Windows 7 tomorrow?
Money, and not wanting to spend it unless I have to. And before anybody says "switch to Linux", no, there is stuff I want that only runs on Windows. It's not just the OS; I'll need new hardware. The hardware would probably make it to the ripe old age of 10 if they didn't EOL the OS. No combination of hardware + software has ever been this stable for this long. It's just... sad to see it go...
My Internet-enabled fridge needs to be developed using proper security procedures which are ummm.... not applicable to any other field such as SCADA or medical database systems that are already in place. Who's smoking the crack here, the journalists or Cerf? I'm betting it's the journalists and that he's misquoted and/or being quoted out of context. Too lazy to RTFA of course...
This still creates a coverage gap for XP users. If 8.1 had a sane UI today, I'd go XP-to-8.1. It's just an announcement though. With XP support going tits up in just a few days, there's no way to fill the gap without doing something transitional that you might want to throw away in a few months.
Speculative history being what it is, here's my $0.02. If Hitler were more rational, he wouldn't have become Chancellor. I think it takes a nut to get to where he got, but then because of his nuttiness the whole thing falls apart.
Not to compare Steve Jobs to Hilter in terms of morality; but there are people who say, "If only he hadn't been so arrogant as to believe that alternative medicine could cure his cancer". I think there's a similar dynamic with Jobs. If he weren't arrogant enough to believe he was better than modern medicine, he might not have been arrogant enough to believe he was better than the other device manufacturers.
More generally, the totality of your personality defines all phases of your outcome. Redefine your personality and you redefine all phases of your outcome, including the early ones that got you to where we care enough to speculate about the later phases.
OK, I see what you're getting at. There's real collaboration and then there's "throw everybody into a chit-chat blender". The closest I came to that at school was the 2nd floor computer lab which IIRC had quiet hours vs. regular time. If you had to work during regular time, there was a lot of conversation and anybody could bother you--but usually they didn't. One time I was there and some frat boys streaked it wearing stocking masks. Allegedly this was part of the initiation.
Streaking was rare though, and a noisy 2nd floor lab was not part of every-day experience. Often I'd go there after midnight when even if people talked there weren't enough of them to cause problems. It's fun to look back now. That lab was where I spent 5 hours trying to figure out why my program wouldn't compile because ( and { looked almost alike on the crappy monochrome monitors. Those were eventually replaced with good monitors...
I don't know how representative our respective anecdotes are. UVa's BSEE program had plenty of group work. We frequently worked in groups, 4 was a common number. There was also plenty of solitary assignments; but there were definitely groups with many of the "personality issues" that you get on jobs. For example, the "guy/gal who tends to free ride" vs. the "guy/gal who ends up doing all the work" and of course the "form your own groups" problem--like picking teams for pickup games, except that it was brain work.
Mea culpa.
Rare bird sighted on the Internet! Thank-you for the courtesy. It really does mean a lot.
Semantics. Slow down Cowboy, Slashdot hates pithy comebacks. Anyway, looks like a duck, quacks like a duck. I can readily identify priests, temples, dogma and followers.
I explicitly modified Christian with "right-wing" for that very reason. You've simply substituted my "right-wing Christians" with "Christians" which is some form of logical fallacy, straw-man seems like the best fit; but I'm not sure and don't really care that much since this really is a religious debate and nobody's mind will change.
I understand that you still think AGW isn't a religion. I respectfully disagree.
Radical right-wing Christians believe in the Apocalypse, and vote for military build-ups and wars of choice. Radical left-wing UN types believe in AGW, and have the ability to fuck up our food supply and create wars too.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: "If you continuously prophesy doom, you will eventually be correct".
Note, not happy, satisfied, productive or anything really virtuous... just "correct".