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  1. Re:Really? on Japan's Richest Man Outlines Renewable Energy Plan · · Score: 1

    Uninhabitable, sorry.

    For my defense, this word is kinda tricky.

  2. Re:Really? on Japan's Richest Man Outlines Renewable Energy Plan · · Score: 2

    his country has just experienced what still could become the worst nuclear accident ever.

    Ever heard of Chernobyl, which nearly made the whole of Europe inhabitable, required 600,000 "liquidators" to be mobilised to build a cover on top of the reactor (most of which died of severe radiation poisoning less than 20 years later), bankrupted the USSR (it cost hundred of billions of modern dollars), and removed 10 million of acres of land from Belarus and Ukraine?

    The Fukushima disaster is not close to being the worst nuclear accident at all.

  3. Re:Reinventing the wheel on Type Safety Coming To DB Queries · · Score: 1

    Of course, it must be valid C++ syntax. But that's hardly a serious limitation.

    select >> "*" >> from >> "t" >> where >> "foo" == "bar"

    is a possible syntax. You could also use '.', '[]', or whatever you think is nice.

  4. Re:Reinventing the wheel on Type Safety Coming To DB Queries · · Score: 2

    C++ supports domain-specific embedded languages, which blur the distinction between libraries and compilers.
    DSELs in C++ are implemented through expression templates, Boost.Proto formalizes the way to define grammars and tree transformations for such things.

  5. Reinventing the wheel on Type Safety Coming To DB Queries · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The domain-specific language should just be SQL itself, rather than some weird variant which is then used to generate some weird language with XML crap in it.

    Embed SQL into the host language using a DSEL (domain specific embedded language), type-check it, then convert the AST to a the equivalent SQL string and send it to a server.
    That's the right thing to do.

    And it's trivial to do in a language like Scala or C++ (which is personally think is ironically more suited for DSELs than Scala).

  6. Re:So the set is Zero on Adobe Brings Flash-Free Flash To iOS Devices · · Score: 1

    Can you name a single site that really does that well?

    Dofus.
    They also use Flash-derived techniques to make anime.

  7. Re:So what does this do different? on Google To Introduce New Programming Language — Dart · · Score: 1

    Web Programming is largely a solved problem

    Was it ever a problem?
    It's just something you need to throw coding monkeys at.

  8. Re:Pull US financial support on South Korea Censors Its Own Censor · · Score: 1

    I'm sure a lot would disagree that Americanism compares favourably to it.
    A significant portion of muslims are in favour of Islamism.

  9. Re:Pull US financial support on South Korea Censors Its Own Censor · · Score: 1

    That's merely one point of view.
    I'm sure muslims would disagree.

  10. Re:Pull US financial support on South Korea Censors Its Own Censor · · Score: 1

    It's mutually beneficial, but it's the US that initially chose to do that to keep the countries in control, since they like to believe they're the world saviors and dispensers of justice, and that everyone should try to be more like them.

  11. Re:My approach on Costly SSDs Worth It, Users Say · · Score: 1

    SSD for a desktop computer is a waste of money.

  12. Re:Pull US financial support on South Korea Censors Its Own Censor · · Score: 1

    It's the US that's forcing countries to accept its military bases, not the other way around.

  13. Re:Distractions on Laptops In the Classroom Don't Increase Grades · · Score: 1

    Nonsense. You spend more time on the mechanics of writing

    It's supposed to be an automatism, you don't need to think at all.
    It's like playing the piano, without training you have to think of which key to press when and you're completely unable to do two different things at once with your two hands, but, once you're used to the mechanic, it doesn't require to focus your thoughts on what your hands are doing.

  14. Re:The correct order on What Is the Most Influential Programming Book? · · Score: 1

    You've forgotten the compiler books.

  15. Re:Thanks, GoF, for all the Java and C# bloat. on What Is the Most Influential Programming Book? · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up.

  16. Re:Distractions on Laptops In the Classroom Don't Increase Grades · · Score: 1

    Are you disabled or something? Typing is at best 10 times faster than hand-writing.
    Plus hand-writing actually gives you time to think about what you're about to write, and is more flexible in terms of special characters or layouts (math with a keyboard is /way/ slower than by hand)

  17. Re:Oracle? on James Gosling Leaves Google · · Score: 1

    Comeau, for example.

  18. Machine code on Sixteen Years Later: GNU Still Needs An Extension Language · · Score: 1

    Why use a toy language?
    Use a real language, compile it down to machine code, and link it with a DLL/so interface.

  19. Re:Oracle? on James Gosling Leaves Google · · Score: 1

    C++0x is not a published standard yet.
    C++, in that context, refers to C++03.

  20. Re:Oracle? on James Gosling Leaves Google · · Score: 1

    There are fully conforming C++ compilers.

  21. A mess on Ask Slashdot: What Will IT Look Like In 10 Years? · · Score: 1

    Is what IT will look like in 10 years.

  22. Re:I use a Mac you insensitive clod! on Most People Have Never Heard of CTRL+F · · Score: 1

    Other than laptops (Of all brands), the only recent apple keyboard with a function key is the half-length bluetooth keyboard.

    70% of the apple computer sales are laptops.
    At least that was like that in 2009, I expect it to be worse now, more like 80 or 90%.

  23. Same hardware as iPad on PS Vita Specs Announced · · Score: 1

    This is essentially the same hardware as the iPad 2, but a bit better.

  24. Re:Learn your AVC's on Most People Have Never Heard of CTRL+F · · Score: 1

    So you're using copy and paste to transfer data between virtual machines.
    This is ridiculous.

    Plus you're likely to run into problems with line endings.
    You should use your versioning system to transfer your code between systems. Make a branch if need be.

  25. Re:Learn your AVC's on Most People Have Never Heard of CTRL+F · · Score: 1

    Selection with the mouse (or with the mouse plus shift) is much more practical and easier to fine-tune.

    -- You type something in one application/textbox/window and want to copy the whole thing somewhere else.

    Why would you even do this?
    Either you use the right application directly, or you find a way to feed a text file to your application.