GitHub is basically a web-based frontend for git, which is the de facto king of VCSes. Almost every open source project actively under development today uses it, and it's also commonly used by many closed-source software developers (including, for example, Microsoft, who also owns GitHub).
That's because it doesn't exist. The decaffeination process used on coffee would destroy tea leaves. Anything you see marked as "decaffeinated tea" isn't actually camellia sinensis at all; it's probably either some herbal mixture or rooibos.
That's why if this is an actual variety of camellia that naturally doesn't have any caffeine, it's a big deal.
If you're nearing the end of a project and the only way to complete it is if your employees work 100+ hours weeks, that's a failure on management's part. You failed to manage your time and resources, you failed to set customer expectations properly. Own up to it and take responsibility instead of making other people work themselves to death for your mistakes.
There was a time long ago when worked 80+ hours weeks for a long period of time, and it was terrible. I'm never doing that again; sometimes I'm willing to put in 50-60 hours for a project I care a lot about, but if you ask me to put in 40, the answer will be no, and if you tell me I have to, you'll be getting a resignation.
To be fair, I don't work in the gaming industry, mostly because I know the working conditions are awful compared to the rest of the software world.
To claim that there is no God, I'd expect him to provide his proof to back up the statement.
As a scientist, he probably realizes that proving absurd assertions lies on the person making the claim; assuming the negative should be the default stance, especially when there's absolutely no evidence in favor of it.
For example, I have a pink unicorn in my backyard who speaks French and can fly. Unfortunately, he turns invisible and is completely undetectable whenever anybody tries to observe or measure his existence. This is absurd and you would expect me to provide some kind of evidence if I was making that claim, right? On the other hand, if I say I don't have that invisible pink unicorn, the natural reaction is to just shrug and say that of course I don't. Nobody expects me to prove that.
Gods are the exact same thing. If somebody is going to claim that an omnipotent, omniscient, personal creator god exists, it's up to them to provide some evidence, and "Well, the universe is really complex and I don't understand it" is not evidence.
We have sshfs mounts, One-click "cloud" solutions, dynamic dns clients, etc, available in our package managers. And <$5 rentable web hosting. Hell, put a Linux "cloud server" image onto a microSD card, stick it in a Rasperry Pi, add a USB disk, enable dynamic DNS, and you haer your own Dropbox. With blackjack and hookers.
Doing all of those things still won't provide you with: - A backend with a web interface - Automatic rolling backups of every file - Automatic synchronization and redundancy between multiple devices - The ability to share files with other people, either publicly or with authenticated read-only or read/write access
To be fair, you can do that if you also put something like ownCloud on top of it all -- but now you're adding hours of setup time for an experienced admin (days or weeks for a newbie), plus the onus is on you to keep abreast of security vulnerabilities, manage your own backups, and handle upgrades. For <$5, by the way, you're not going to get much disk space or bandwidth.
For the average user, your suggestion is so laughably bad that it's hard to believe you actually mean it.
Are there any computer languages that are well-designed and well-documented?
"Well-designed" is purely a matter of opinion, and I'd say there are many that are well-documented. To be fair, there's a distinction between language documentation and standard library documentation, and sometimes library documentation can be a bit lacking -- but there are still many that are excellent.
Why was there enthusiasm for Python? It seems to me that now there is less enthusiasm for Python. Is that correct?
Python is the second most popular language on GitHub and its popularity has been climbing yearly. There are many reasons why there's enthusiasm for it, and they're mostly personal opinions, but many people would tell you the reasons they like Python are the speed of development, intuitive language syntax, a comprehensive standard library, and massive numbers of open source libraries.
Why do programmers adopt new languages so enthusiastically? Is that an interesting hobby?
Yes, actually, designing and learning new languages is fun for many people.
if there is a jury by peers, and enough people fed up with this bullshit, then they will find this as a problem they cannot resolve with just force and intimidation.
What you're proposing falls apart there, because the vast majority of people don't care at all that they have to have license plates. We are still far, far away from most people even being annoyed by their presence. If people aren't angry enough about children being separated indefinitely from their refugee parents at borders to revolt, it's not gonna happen for license plates.
As for me, I appreciate that every other vehicle on the road has to be registered and regularly inspected. I'm not a fan of having zero means to track down somebody who does a hit-and-run.
IF you're going to execute someone, this method is from what I can tell... Ideal.
But you see, that's the problem with it. Execution isn't about justice, it's about punishment. Giggle a bit, then pass out, then die? They don't suffer at all. Take a look at popular historical execution methods like hanging, the firing squad, and execution. We don't want people to die, we want them to suffer. We tell ourselves we want to be humane, but that's just to keep up the appearance of civility. Anything that makes them feel good just before they die is right out.
I know, with the way people throw a fit, you'd think that voter ID laws have historically been intentionally abused to disenfranchise minorities and the poor. Not to mention, of course, that buying political ads is a fundamental right that our forefathers wanted to ensure for every citizen.
I can tell you've put a lot of thought and research into this.
Here's an example: according to the Standard, you are not allowed to call push_back() on a map<T, unique_ptr<U> >. Can you explain why? I'll post the answer as a separate comment on this article.
C++ has a lot of problems, but if you think that being unable to "push_back" on to a map is one of them, the real problem is that you weren't paying attention during your data structures class.
Well, except that the only thing you've shown is that C is faster when the only thing you're doing is incrementing an integer inside a tight loop. There are a variety of reasons why that isn't necessarily applicable to real applications, not the least of which is that you would never actually do that in a real application.
If you want to create a useful benchmark, you'll need to test a wide variety of operations -- floating point math, string manipulation, memory allocation/deallocation, threading, recursion, and so on. And I feel like you might be surprised at how Java's thread concurrency or large string manipulation perform compared to C's...
In case you've forgotten, here's an unretouched photo of Mr Damore with two former co-workers who had just had their way with him. If you look closely, you can see that one is still holding the fork that Damore used to toss his salad. According to several other co-workers, it was entirely consensual.
I want you to take a step back and think about how you're trying to shame him based on his physical appearance and mock him by implying his sexuality, and then think about how you'd feel about anybody who did that to a woman for any reason.
What about people who like running or sports? They are putting extra stain on their knees. Should they be required to give up running for good to get that knee fixed?
You think you're being clever, but if you play baseball and get a serious knee injury, the first thing the doctor is going to tell you is no baseball for six months. After you're fully healed and your knee has recovered it's strength, you'll be fine. You can't tell an obese person "stop being obese for six months."
Honestly, that's my preferred way of doing an OS upgrade anyway. In-place upgrades inevitably leave behind weird artifacts and have strange bugs. On a modern SSD, wiping a drive and reinstalling the OS from scratch takes maybe 30 minutes, and the only things I actually care about preserving are kept in my home directory, which is on a separate partition, and everything that I really care about is backed up to a NAS, too.
Are you claiming people don't fear punishment or getting caught at all?
No, the fear of punishment is a deterrent, but the degree of punishment is almost irrelevant,
and "making an example" out of somebody has no effect at all. (although it's entertaining how when the subject of gun control comes up, gun nuts will insist that in that particular case, gun control laws won't have any effect at all...)
Then, pray tell, what would have non-negligible deterrent effect?
Unfortunately, there isn't a single, easy answer to that. You'd need to investigate the criminal's history and motives to determine what caused them to think their actions were reasonable in the first place and address that.
No, "we as a society" decided no such thing. We punish people in jail, and execute murderers. You can rephrase those things, but they are vengeance nevertheless.
And the rest of the civilized world outside of the USA considers the USA's prison system to be barbaric and abusive, so there's that.
Most people who have actually taken the time to think about it agree that the purpose of incarceration is to either reform criminals into productive members of society or to separate out the ones who can't be reformed so that they can't cause any more harm. Prioritizing revenge is primitive, bloodthirsty, and doesn't actually make anything better.
This guy is evil, he should be punished so severely others don't even fantasize doing such things.
Unfortunately, severely punishing somebody for a crime has a negligible effect on discouraging anybody else from committing the same crime. I guarantee that at no point did this person ever think, "I wonder what happened to others who have stalked and harassed people? What's my risk vs. reward ratio here?"
A book can be about a transgendered child (which is 'normal'. It sometimes happens, therefore it is normal) and not about surgery or administered hormones.
That is not what the word "normal" means. I understand what you're trying to say, but perhaps the word you're looking for is "natural." Something that is unusual is by definition not normal. I'm not placing any value judgment on it -- just because something isn't normal doesn't mean it's wrong or bad -- but when you use words like that in the wrong way, you're just going to attract the attention of people who object to your meaning but will insist on arguing with your semantics.
Some, but very rarely, and even for an election where your vote theoretically will actually count, it's hard to be motivated when your district has been intentionally gerrymandered in such a way to ensure that one particular party will always win.
You're looking at that from the wrong perspective. They did vote, and they voted against the oompa loompa, but in the end it didn't matter and he got elected anyway. The ones who were smart enough to read up on how the electoral college works even knew ahead of time that their votes were never going to matter. What's the point of voting when it can't change anything?
Well, sure, that's why I said I wasn't judging them based on those things. I'm judging them based on their margins and borders committing fundamental sins against design.
You should set your own one up as YOU like it. Linux means choice, do no impose your taste on others, for fux ache.
I'm not talking about high-level things like the color scheme or the actual usability of it. Did you look at the screenshot I linked to? I doubt there is any convenient way to tweak that desktop so that it doesn't have asymmetric margins around highlighted icons. Heck, they're not just asymmetrical, the bottom of that highlight border is actually cutting through the text.
If developers have to have everything polished from the get go, nothing would ever be developed.
That's fair, but maybe you shouldn't call your UI "beautiful" right out of the gate if you're blatantly violating basic UI principles for no good reason.
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GitHub is basically a web-based frontend for git, which is the de facto king of VCSes. Almost every open source project actively under development today uses it, and it's also commonly used by many closed-source software developers (including, for example, Microsoft, who also owns GitHub).
I've rarely seen decaf tea for sale.
That's because it doesn't exist. The decaffeination process used on coffee would destroy tea leaves. Anything you see marked as "decaffeinated tea" isn't actually camellia sinensis at all; it's probably either some herbal mixture or rooibos.
That's why if this is an actual variety of camellia that naturally doesn't have any caffeine, it's a big deal.
It shouldn't exist.
If you're nearing the end of a project and the only way to complete it is if your employees work 100+ hours weeks, that's a failure on management's part. You failed to manage your time and resources, you failed to set customer expectations properly. Own up to it and take responsibility instead of making other people work themselves to death for your mistakes.
There was a time long ago when worked 80+ hours weeks for a long period of time, and it was terrible. I'm never doing that again; sometimes I'm willing to put in 50-60 hours for a project I care a lot about, but if you ask me to put in 40, the answer will be no, and if you tell me I have to, you'll be getting a resignation.
To be fair, I don't work in the gaming industry, mostly because I know the working conditions are awful compared to the rest of the software world.
To claim that there is no God, I'd expect him to provide his proof to back up the statement.
As a scientist, he probably realizes that proving absurd assertions lies on the person making the claim; assuming the negative should be the default stance, especially when there's absolutely no evidence in favor of it.
For example, I have a pink unicorn in my backyard who speaks French and can fly. Unfortunately, he turns invisible and is completely undetectable whenever anybody tries to observe or measure his existence. This is absurd and you would expect me to provide some kind of evidence if I was making that claim, right? On the other hand, if I say I don't have that invisible pink unicorn, the natural reaction is to just shrug and say that of course I don't. Nobody expects me to prove that.
Gods are the exact same thing. If somebody is going to claim that an omnipotent, omniscient, personal creator god exists, it's up to them to provide some evidence, and "Well, the universe is really complex and I don't understand it" is not evidence.
If you aren't anonymous, then you are far less likely to be a jerk.
But Facebook has already demonstrated that this is not true.
We have sshfs mounts, One-click "cloud" solutions, dynamic dns clients, etc, available in our package managers. And <$5 rentable web hosting. Hell, put a Linux "cloud server" image onto a microSD card, stick it in a Rasperry Pi, add a USB disk, enable dynamic DNS, and you haer your own Dropbox. With blackjack and hookers.
Doing all of those things still won't provide you with:
- A backend with a web interface
- Automatic rolling backups of every file
- Automatic synchronization and redundancy between multiple devices
- The ability to share files with other people, either publicly or with authenticated read-only or read/write access
To be fair, you can do that if you also put something like ownCloud on top of it all -- but now you're adding hours of setup time for an experienced admin (days or weeks for a newbie), plus the onus is on you to keep abreast of security vulnerabilities, manage your own backups, and handle upgrades. For <$5, by the way, you're not going to get much disk space or bandwidth.
For the average user, your suggestion is so laughably bad that it's hard to believe you actually mean it.
Are there any computer languages that are well-designed and well-documented?
"Well-designed" is purely a matter of opinion, and I'd say there are many that are well-documented. To be fair, there's a distinction between language documentation and standard library documentation, and sometimes library documentation can be a bit lacking -- but there are still many that are excellent.
Why was there enthusiasm for Python? It seems to me that now there is less enthusiasm for Python. Is that correct?
Python is the second most popular language on GitHub and its popularity has been climbing yearly. There are many reasons why there's enthusiasm for it, and they're mostly personal opinions, but many people would tell you the reasons they like Python are the speed of development, intuitive language syntax, a comprehensive standard library, and massive numbers of open source libraries.
Why do programmers adopt new languages so enthusiastically? Is that an interesting hobby?
Yes, actually, designing and learning new languages is fun for many people.
if there is a jury by peers, and enough people fed up with this bullshit, then they will find this as a problem they cannot resolve with just force and intimidation.
What you're proposing falls apart there, because the vast majority of people don't care at all that they have to have license plates. We are still far, far away from most people even being annoyed by their presence. If people aren't angry enough about children being separated indefinitely from their refugee parents at borders to revolt, it's not gonna happen for license plates.
As for me, I appreciate that every other vehicle on the road has to be registered and regularly inspected. I'm not a fan of having zero means to track down somebody who does a hit-and-run.
... for the console players until the console producers start making mouse & keyboard peripherals for them.
Dude, consoles have had USB ports since somewhere around the PlayStation 2 era.
IF you're going to execute someone, this method is from what I can tell... Ideal.
But you see, that's the problem with it. Execution isn't about justice, it's about punishment. Giggle a bit, then pass out, then die? They don't suffer at all. Take a look at popular historical execution methods like hanging, the firing squad, and execution. We don't want people to die, we want them to suffer. We tell ourselves we want to be humane, but that's just to keep up the appearance of civility. Anything that makes them feel good just before they die is right out.
(Disclaimer: I'm against the death penalty)
I know, with the way people throw a fit, you'd think that voter ID laws have historically been intentionally abused to disenfranchise minorities and the poor. Not to mention, of course, that buying political ads is a fundamental right that our forefathers wanted to ensure for every citizen.
I can tell you've put a lot of thought and research into this.
Here's an example: according to the Standard, you are not allowed to call push_back() on a map<T, unique_ptr<U> >. Can you explain why? I'll post the answer as a separate comment on this article.
C++ has a lot of problems, but if you think that being unable to "push_back" on to a map is one of them, the real problem is that you weren't paying attention during your data structures class.
The results are simply unarguable.
Well, except that the only thing you've shown is that C is faster when the only thing you're doing is incrementing an integer inside a tight loop. There are a variety of reasons why that isn't necessarily applicable to real applications, not the least of which is that you would never actually do that in a real application.
If you want to create a useful benchmark, you'll need to test a wide variety of operations -- floating point math, string manipulation, memory allocation/deallocation, threading, recursion, and so on. And I feel like you might be surprised at how Java's thread concurrency or large string manipulation perform compared to C's...
In case you've forgotten, here's an unretouched photo of Mr Damore with two former co-workers who had just had their way with him. If you look closely, you can see that one is still holding the fork that Damore used to toss his salad. According to several other co-workers, it was entirely consensual.
I want you to take a step back and think about how you're trying to shame him based on his physical appearance and mock him by implying his sexuality, and then think about how you'd feel about anybody who did that to a woman for any reason.
What about people who like running or sports? They are putting extra stain on their knees. Should they be required to give up running for good to get that knee fixed?
You think you're being clever, but if you play baseball and get a serious knee injury, the first thing the doctor is going to tell you is no baseball for six months. After you're fully healed and your knee has recovered it's strength, you'll be fine. You can't tell an obese person "stop being obese for six months."
Honestly, that's my preferred way of doing an OS upgrade anyway. In-place upgrades inevitably leave behind weird artifacts and have strange bugs. On a modern SSD, wiping a drive and reinstalling the OS from scratch takes maybe 30 minutes, and the only things I actually care about preserving are kept in my home directory, which is on a separate partition, and everything that I really care about is backed up to a NAS, too.
Are you claiming people don't fear punishment or getting caught at all?
No, the fear of punishment is a deterrent, but the degree of punishment is almost irrelevant,
and "making an example" out of somebody has no effect at all. (although it's entertaining how when the subject of gun control comes up, gun nuts will insist that in that particular case, gun control laws won't have any effect at all...)
Then, pray tell, what would have non-negligible deterrent effect?
Unfortunately, there isn't a single, easy answer to that. You'd need to investigate the criminal's history and motives to determine what caused them to think their actions were reasonable in the first place and address that.
No, "we as a society" decided no such thing. We punish people in jail, and execute murderers. You can rephrase those things, but they are vengeance nevertheless.
And the rest of the civilized world outside of the USA considers the USA's prison system to be barbaric and abusive, so there's that.
Most people who have actually taken the time to think about it agree that the purpose of incarceration is to either reform criminals into productive members of society or to separate out the ones who can't be reformed so that they can't cause any more harm. Prioritizing revenge is primitive, bloodthirsty, and doesn't actually make anything better.
This guy is evil, he should be punished so severely others don't even fantasize doing such things.
Unfortunately, severely punishing somebody for a crime has a negligible effect on discouraging anybody else from committing the same crime. I guarantee that at no point did this person ever think, "I wonder what happened to others who have stalked and harassed people? What's my risk vs. reward ratio here?"
A book can be about a transgendered child (which is 'normal'. It sometimes happens, therefore it is normal) and not about surgery or administered hormones.
That is not what the word "normal" means. I understand what you're trying to say, but perhaps the word you're looking for is "natural." Something that is unusual is by definition not normal. I'm not placing any value judgment on it -- just because something isn't normal doesn't mean it's wrong or bad -- but when you use words like that in the wrong way, you're just going to attract the attention of people who object to your meaning but will insist on arguing with your semantics.
Some, but very rarely, and even for an election where your vote theoretically will actually count, it's hard to be motivated when your district has been intentionally gerrymandered in such a way to ensure that one particular party will always win.
You're looking at that from the wrong perspective. They did vote, and they voted against the oompa loompa, but in the end it didn't matter and he got elected anyway. The ones who were smart enough to read up on how the electoral college works even knew ahead of time that their votes were never going to matter. What's the point of voting when it can't change anything?
Well, sure, that's why I said I wasn't judging them based on those things. I'm judging them based on their margins and borders committing fundamental sins against design.
You should set your own one up as YOU like it. Linux means choice, do no impose your taste on others, for fux ache.
I'm not talking about high-level things like the color scheme or the actual usability of it. Did you look at the screenshot I linked to? I doubt there is any convenient way to tweak that desktop so that it doesn't have asymmetric margins around highlighted icons. Heck, they're not just asymmetrical, the bottom of that highlight border is actually cutting through the text.
If developers have to have everything polished from the get go, nothing would ever be developed.
That's fair, but maybe you shouldn't call your UI "beautiful" right out of the gate if you're blatantly violating basic UI principles for no good reason.