How is the project named? Is it something reminiscent of the function (like PaintShop Pro, Photoshop, Internet Explorer) or something entirely random, forcing more cognitive load on an uninformed user (Gimp, Firefox, Juice)?
Nice cherry picking there. Want to see how I can do that...
How about uninformed users figuring out these from their names: Excel, Access, Silverlight, Outlook, Visio, Quicken, Maya, Acrobat, Premier, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Houdini, OmniGraffle, Solaris, Java, vSphere etc?
That was the only bit bad enough to really break dramatic suspension of disbelief for me - especially as it was so inconsistent with (I assume) correct physics in other parts of the movie. Every other time some reached the end of their tether (hehe) they bounced back.
Most of the other quibbles require quite a high threshold of domain knowledge to pick up on.
Not just putting words in mouths but also completely reversing stuff. The slashdot summary said:
But the tweet referenced the bombing of Syrian airports by Soviets
when the actual tweet said:
Israel Air Force bombards airports in Syria to prevent Soviet weapons reaching the Syrian Army
Which is a completely different thing. There I was thinking "I never knew the Soviets bombed anything in that war" and "why the hell would they be bombing the Syrians?".
They let their children go outside? That is irresponsible parenting plain and simple! Don't they know it is dangerous outside?! There are gunmen with bombs and pedophiles on every corner!
That's nothing - there's also pollen, UV light, insects and dirt!
Are the new Lenovo laptops any good? I saw some models recently and they all had the "chiclet" style keyboards -- not very good, not sturdy. Maybe IBM should have retained design of these laptops.
I upgraded Thinkpads from an old IBM R51 to a Lenovo T530 with a Full HD IPS screen about 6 months ago. I'm very happy with it - even if it doesn't quite feel as sturdy as the old Thinkpads were they are still better than most other modern laptops.
I've got to the point where I'm kinda happy with the new keyboard too. And it had flawless Linux support too out of the box (I avoided the Nvidia optimus stuff and just went with the Intel graphics only).
There must be some sort of fine line between aggravating service members enough that they are tougher and fight harder, and going too far where they would rather opt for being a PoW so they could at least wipe their arse.
The continual removal of configuration options from Firefox is not only insulting, it's pointless. I seriously doubt it reduces the amount of code for the browser by any significant amount.
It's not about the amount of code total, it's about the amount of code they have to test/support/fix.
Middle eastern countries are a somewhat diverse bunch in terms of overall attitudes. I can imagine quite a large difference in how well women do overall in say somewhere like Lebanon vs Saudi Arabia.
I didn't notice any links in the TFA, but they only really mentioned (vaguely) stuff from Jordan. I don't think Jordan is at the Saudi end of the scale here.
So you know about Eucalytus and CloudStack, but don't know what OpenStack is? OpenStacks press coverage / hype over the last year or more has completely dwarfed that of the other two.
That seems like knowing a bit about NetBSD and OpenBSD, but having no idea what Linux is.
Unless of course Eucalytus and CloudStack were recent discoveries from researching OpenStack... in which case I'll shut up now:)
Not only that, but at night I'd hate to think how a confused motorist could react when they see an oncoming headlight on their side of the road.
They would legitimately be expecting to pass by white lights on one side and red lights on the other.
If it isn't a well lit area and/or has little room off to the sides, an oncoming white light on the opposite site might cause them to subconsciously react as if they thought they were on the wrong side of the road and swerve across in front of you trying to recover from their 'mistake'.
And depending how many other oncoming white headlights there are it could get even more confusing or hard to spot you.
I'd feel much safer riding with the traffic wearing one or two bright red tail lights and reflectors on my ankles. It's debatable just how much warning you'd get and if you'd be able to get out of the way anyway heading into traffic.
weapon of mass destruction to me is exactly what it sounds like. does it cause "mass destruction" if the answer is yes, than it is in fact a weapon of mass destruction.
Mass destruction? You mean like it literally destroys mass? Apart something from science fiction (eg an antimatter bomb), as far as I'm aware that pretty much leaves nukes ie they might destroy a few grams of mass by converting it to energy.;)
Python, Ruby, Lua, PHP, Lisp, Perl, Awk, etc. are bad : they lack pointers and strong types.
So what reasonably popular actually useful languages aren't bad?
I would've though C++ and Ada could fit your requirements for pointers AND strong typing, but they don't really seem all that useful for the purposes of the topic at hand (webapps).
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But it is nicely compressible.
Nice cherry picking there. Want to see how I can do that...
How about uninformed users figuring out these from their names: Excel, Access, Silverlight, Outlook, Visio, Quicken, Maya, Acrobat, Premier, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Houdini, OmniGraffle, Solaris, Java, vSphere etc?
Thank you.
That was the only bit bad enough to really break dramatic suspension of disbelief for me - especially as it was so inconsistent with (I assume) correct physics in other parts of the movie. Every other time some reached the end of their tether (hehe) they bounced back.
Most of the other quibbles require quite a high threshold of domain knowledge to pick up on.
Not much work building hotrods any more huh?
Don't you mean the XHTML 2.0 fiasco? That was when things really went off the rails. Or maybe even the slow uptake of browsers supporting XHTML 1.1?
HTML 4 was ancient history by the time WHATWG was even a twinkle in anyones eye.
Not just putting words in mouths but also completely reversing stuff. The slashdot summary said:
when the actual tweet said:
Which is a completely different thing. There I was thinking "I never knew the Soviets bombed anything in that war" and "why the hell would they be bombing the Syrians?".
Easy - take the highest possible finite number you can think of... "nearly infinite" is just a bit higher again.
eg 105 or so is "nearly infinite" to my four year old. "Nearly infinite" might well be higher for you.
That's nothing - there's also pollen, UV light, insects and dirt!
I upgraded Thinkpads from an old IBM R51 to a Lenovo T530 with a Full HD IPS screen about 6 months ago. I'm very happy with it - even if it doesn't quite feel as sturdy as the old Thinkpads were they are still better than most other modern laptops.
I've got to the point where I'm kinda happy with the new keyboard too. And it had flawless Linux support too out of the box (I avoided the Nvidia optimus stuff and just went with the Intel graphics only).
Maybe if you asked for examples in "any language" rather than "every language"?
So was LinkedIn for that matter too.
There must be some sort of fine line between aggravating service members enough that they are tougher and fight harder, and going too far where they would rather opt for being a PoW so they could at least wipe their arse.
Yeah, and I only had one birthday in a span of over 700 days while others get them roughly every 365 days!
Moron.
It's not about the amount of code total, it's about the amount of code they have to test/support/fix.
Not disagreeing with your point, but...
Isn't anything short of complete isolation "security through obscurity" to differing degrees?
Even encryption is just an excellent level of obscurity.
Maybe that phrase should really be "security through insufficient obscurity" :)
You didn't explain it at all!
What's a "keyword"? And what does "==" mean?
I didn't get the memo either. Are we still allowed to hate Larry Ellison?
Slightly different game, but I used to like playing as Col. Khadaffy or Kookamamie. Ronnie Raygun was fun too.
Middle eastern countries are a somewhat diverse bunch in terms of overall attitudes. I can imagine quite a large difference in how well women do overall in say somewhere like Lebanon vs Saudi Arabia.
I didn't notice any links in the TFA, but they only really mentioned (vaguely) stuff from Jordan. I don't think Jordan is at the Saudi end of the scale here.
So you know about Eucalytus and CloudStack, but don't know what OpenStack is? OpenStacks press coverage / hype over the last year or more has completely dwarfed that of the other two.
That seems like knowing a bit about NetBSD and OpenBSD, but having no idea what Linux is.
Unless of course Eucalytus and CloudStack were recent discoveries from researching OpenStack... in which case I'll shut up now :)
Not only that, but at night I'd hate to think how a confused motorist could react when they see an oncoming headlight on their side of the road.
They would legitimately be expecting to pass by white lights on one side and red lights on the other.
If it isn't a well lit area and/or has little room off to the sides, an oncoming white light on the opposite site might cause them to subconsciously react as if they thought they were on the wrong side of the road and swerve across in front of you trying to recover from their 'mistake'.
And depending how many other oncoming white headlights there are it could get even more confusing or hard to spot you.
I'd feel much safer riding with the traffic wearing one or two bright red tail lights and reflectors on my ankles. It's debatable just how much warning you'd get and if you'd be able to get out of the way anyway heading into traffic.
Not so fast... HTML5 has brought back <b> and it has a new semantic purpose.
For the first time Slashdot is now at the cutting edge! Without having to do anything either (ok ok they did change the doctype).
Mass destruction? You mean like it literally destroys mass? Apart something from science fiction (eg an antimatter bomb), as far as I'm aware that pretty much leaves nukes ie they might destroy a few grams of mass by converting it to energy. ;)
I forgot about Go? Is that it?
So what reasonably popular actually useful languages aren't bad?
I would've though C++ and Ada could fit your requirements for pointers AND strong typing, but they don't really seem all that useful for the purposes of the topic at hand (webapps).