he says: "The feedback from users was that it wasnâ(TM)t useful"
what the users REALLY said was more like: "you compromised our security, you installed spyware and didn't tell us about it or provide the option to opt-out, your uninstaller did not fully uninstall it and we now have to wipe and fully reinstall, costing us all lots of time and money, since a gaping security hole was opened up and god knows what came thru that hole before we knew abou it."
ceo-speak really is an amazing language to learn. its all about lies and deceipt, but it sure is a 'skill' one has to learn to be a top ceo these days.
a lot of noise comes from oscillating windings in chokes and coils found in dc/dc converters. they often 'sing' under load, on cheap boards. ie, ALL boards for consumer grade gear are cheap boards, today.
one of my lcd displays has a really noisy dc/dc. you can hear the physical whine it makes across the room.
so, there's physical noise but also electrical noise. in some cases, I have been told that ssd's throw more has on the 5v dc psu bus than spinning drives do! I find that amazing (in a bad way).
noise on the dc bus is not something the user would normally care about; but coil whine is something that most people can hear.
the issue is: they have no need or right to look inside our packets.
ANY of our packets.
I'm not going to split hairs about society's current view toward IP rights. its a rathole that is not productive to dive into.
just leave it at: my data is my data, I will use it as I see fit and all I ask of you is to route it to the right ip addresses and route return traffic back to me. PERIOD.
I don't want them caching. if they want to try, be my guest, but I don't WANT it and I'm just fine with getting data from the real source each and every time I request it.
if this is true, then the NSA has blatantly broken law, STOLEN property (intellectual property, that's property, right? RIIIIGHT?) and nullified most of the network and systems security we have tried to put in place over the last 10 or 20 years.
they also are using fear and intimidation to keep the population in check. ie, they are terrorists. state sponsored terrorists who steal without regard to their actions.
so, when are they going to be tried for terrorism under the patriot act??
my last tv purchase 'had' to be smart. why? because I wanted to buy from a trusted store (costco), they have only a limited of in-store brands and since I refused to buy samsung (at any cost), that left vizio. after 39" (or 37) they only sell them in 'smart' versions, sigh. so mine is smart.
but I never accepted the eula, it never init'd the network layer, it sits there with 0.0.0.0 on it (if I ever go to that screen) and the only down side is that I won't get firmware updates. but the good side is: I wont' get firmware updates! LOL
in fact, it is an upside. people are complaining about the latest forced no-choice OTA firmware that people got. they all want to revert. and so, my never-been-on-the-net tv will never have to be reverted. it works as a display device, the colors look ok once I calibrated it with my puck and my htpc system has never been better (intel onboard video, i7 fanless build, 1920 hdmi at 120hz real actual refresh. very nice!)
but to get that, I had to pay for a smart tv. which means I helped support this silliness with my money. for that, I'm sorry, but I didn't have a lot of real choice..
lenovo was caught and they are backpeddling. they SAY there is a removal script.
does it do a complete job? somehow, I have my doubts and that it leaves some stuff behind (like almost all windows 'uninstallers').
I really wish the US would punish companies (in a truly painful way, such as 10% or more of their GROSS income) when they act in bad faith, on purpose, like this.
then again, if the US punished bad actors, it would have to constantly punish ITSELF.
well, maybe that's needed too.....
as we all know, if a bad actor behaves badly and there is no punishment, what reason does he have to change his bad ways?
the fact that the US fellates all corporations, as a form of religion, is what allows them to continue the bad behavior. in fact, it encourages it by rewarding 'profit, above all else'.
it really seems clear to me that we have chosen the wrong 'god' to worship. profit, above all else, WILL be our downfall. it has started already and many of us see it. but our words are not being heard;(
I have one and mostly love it. the pci-e blacklist SUCKS (tried installing a new wireless card and it refused. not on the 'ok' list. had to install a hacked bios to allow any pcie card to be installed. HP is the same stupid way, too). and to be honest, with the hacked bios (I didnt hack it) I'm now at risk since I have no good idea what that 3rd party did to create the unblack blacklist, so to speak.
but if you don't need to hack the bios (buy all your stuff at point of purchase to be safe) then the business grade models to NOT install crapware nearly as much and they all use the same chipsets since business needs each machine to be identical. consumer versions are the chip-o-the-month club and it sounds like that's what you were ordering. uhm, don't buy consumer grade lappies from lenovo. why bother? get what they are good at, the serious lappies. the t or w grade lappies.
regular ssd, usb3 interface, UASP (scsi over usb, new standard) and you have all the speed of native sata (that the drives can put out) and are still vendor neutral.
I try to avoid samsung products these days. after the fiasco with the evo drives, I'll look for another vendor.
and then there is always the worry that samsung will insert commercials between disk block seeks (inside joke, sorry if that does not make immediate sense to you).
many of us write software (I also design hardware) and give a lot of it away. I got a lot for free and so I give back when I can.
linux would not exist if your view was what everyone believed.
there is a need for making a living, but there is also a need to be a citizen of humanity and to know when the almighty dollar is NOT the be-all and end-all in life.
we lost that balance. the day of the 'angel billionaire' is pretty much over and they are all greedy assholes who could care less about what happens to anyone but their own kind.
IP should no longer be respected. the laws are created by them for them. fuck that! it has ceased to benefit us all and should be ignored whenever possible. just to TRY to tip the balance back to normal again.
but if EVERYONE (every country) would ignore monsanto, for example, and shun them (it would be hard for a while, admittedly) then the war on IP/food would be won.
being bullied by the giants lets the giants continue to own you. the countries continue to allow themselves to be bullied. no one takes the risk. so everyone is 'owned', now.
he's had enough chances to prove that he's a champion of The People.
he failed. every.single.time.
I refuse to trust him anymore. his lips are moving, so he's lying.
not saying I trust republicans, either. I trust them even less. but my faith in democrats is at zero and so I'd prefer we scrub the whole R and D party system, redesign the WHOLE thing and start all over again.
until then, you can present all the talking heads you want. no one with any sense believes a word they say, anymore.
when I was shopping for a clothes washer, I went to sears outlet for some discounted units. what I found is that the salesmen guided me away from samsung models. that was the ONLY model that did not come with a warranty (at all!) - and these were refurbs or reconditioned units. not just customer returns, but checked out and cleaned by the store. all other brands came with the regular warranty even though they were not brand new.
plus, checking out utube videos on sammy washer repairs and the customer service horror stories convinced me that samsung was NOT the brand to buy.
I keep hearing about bad things and samsung. I wonder what's up with that company? their lcd screens almost always use bad caps that will die very shortly (JUST after warranty period!). their smart tv's spy on you (2 articles in 1 week about sammy tv's). the sammy printer I have insists you accept an EULA that says 'we have the right to SEE everything you print on your printer, and if you disagree, you don't get our printer driver installed!'.
sammy is really evil. totally fucking evil. wish people would stop buying that brand. I know, they are everywhere, but they are really fucking evil!
you are wrong; I know of no sysadmins that embrace a new init system; especially this one.
the old ones worked, had some quirks but they WORKED. they were UNDERSTOOD. they were SUPPORTABLE. they had TEXT LOG FILES. and they didn't have DEPENDANCIES on the whole friggin graphical world.
admins tend to admin servers. tell me: what the hell does a graphical set of libs have to do with headless servers, which is still the lion's share of what linux is about (not to mention embedded, more and more) ?
it does not matter what 'appliance users' want or think they want. they could care less; as long as the system runs. but for those of us who have to admin things, change for change sake is a sign of a junior person.
this whole systemd thing is going to be a textbook example of how NOT to shoe-horn things into a finely designed and architected system that has decades of stability and history to it.
linus is a kernel guy. he self-professes he does not 'like' to setup or manage his own linux systems (strange but true; check out some linus YT videos, there was one at debconf where he talks about it). he says he 'sucks at IT'. system startup is more like IT work than kernel work.
my guess is that this is not a 'linus thing' and never will be.
every so often, I try out the various 'desktops' that linux distros offer.
every time, I give up, dislike all the procs running, mem wasted, cpu cycles wasted and all the crap that comes with the desktop. feels like bloat that should not be there, not for a 'simple' linux install.
I always laugh when people look at my display. I use a red/orange color to highlight the active window and grey for the inactive ones. there is no trash icon, no iconbox, no drag/drop. a short menu appears when you click into space (no clients under) and then pick which foreground rxvt opens up (all with black bg's).
I keep things simple. but I've been using this layout for literally over 25 yrs (starting with twm and using mwm for a short while, when motif was still popular).
not having a desktop is great. in all that time, I just have not been limited (at all) in what I can do, and things seem to be fast when I just run a term window, type what I want and it instantly runs.
unix was supposed to be simple. systemd is an abortion and one that most of us do not want.
good to see this protest post with a hand-tweaked system; but the fact is, we should NOT have to flip over backwards to remove a stupid should-not-be-there-anyway daemon and its evil libs.
to write anything more than trivial test apps, you have to be GOOD at the language. and debugging it. and its portability issues (usually).
so, while you are spending^Hwasting time learning a new language, the rest of us are busy making real things with tools that we have spent years mastering.
I can tell a fresher from an vet with this attitude. the fresher wants to do 'cool things' even if it does not really help ship better product, faster. they convince themselves that this new tool or language will do that, but there's huge overhead and risk in it, not to mention - who else is going to support this new stuff? and if you and your team leave??
sign of being junior: wanting to re-invent the wheel.
sign of being senior: using tools you are expert at and not wasting time re-doing things that don't need to be redone.
I agree. it needs the curlies (which WORK great in C and takes up at most 3 chars; 1 for the curlie and 1 for a space before and after. 3 extra bytes for intro and maybe 3 for exit. 6 bytes. big deal. you should 'waste' more space with comments and vertical/horizontal whitespace, just for readability, alone.
it should have been optional. require indentation, fine. but also ALLOW those of us who like seeing an 'open and close' semantic who is explicit (not just implied) would have been the right thing to do.
someday, maybe guido will come to his senses. if/when that happens, a lot of us will breathe a sigh of relief. and then, posted code on blogs, emailed code, etc, will still be runnable without GUESSING what the source was before the formatter destroyed it.
I just recently learned python (learned it from a top python core developer, though, if that counts any).
I like the language. almost all of it. BUT, the lack of curly braces was a huge mistake. indentation is fine. we all agree its needed.
here's where 'whitespace only' indenting messes up. ever see what blogs do when you try to post code? yeah. that. and its a reality, too. you will never be able to guarantee that posted code won't be 'changed' by some web formatter or email formatter!
twice in the last 2 months I've had to extract posted source (from clueless posters) and FIX their code since it did not run OOTB. I had to GUESS where things were supposed to be nested. its not obvious; if it was, you would be able to strip all spaces out and still be able to get the same meaning.
guido just did not think about this issue. its ok, he thought about most things, but I wish he'd man-up and admit that in THIS case, curlies are truly needed. keep the rest of the forced indenting, but ADD an open and close curly so that the meaning is crystal clear, even if mis-posted or mis-indented. plus, you would be able to re-format the source to your local google 2-space standard or the rest-of-world 4-space standard.
oh, and it would not really hurt if you did have static data types. there's huge value in:
int foo (int a, char b, float c);
if you just tell me you are sending a,b,c into a routine, there's a lot that I should know that you're not telling me. it was a shame to lose this. not sure the 'power' you gain is worth the loss of immediate documentation (in the code) by declaring the types of each var and having that var always (for its scope) be that data type.
I'll take the radical view: I'm not so sure we need cops anymore.
they add more problems to society than they 'fix' !
speeding tickets, stealing your money if you have cash on you, claiming you were a 'druggie'.
no knock warrants. shooting the wrong guy. and/or his dog, too.
you don't want to call the cops if you can help it. many times I've had neighbor or noise issues, but I wont' ever call the cops. you risk a lot if you call them. once they come out, they want to come back with -someone-. might even be you. they hate to go home empty, so to speak.
I don't get troubled by criminals. the cops don't catch bad guys anymore, anyway. that would be too much like WORK!
would my life be worse off if all cops disappeared tomorrow? I honestly do not think so, and our collective lives would be more private, more safer and we'd only have a few gangs of hoodlums to worry about instead of a whole country full of them, who wear uniforms and legally carry guns (and now, ride around in tanks).
the cure is worse than the disease. and I'm NOT happy to declare that. but you have to be honest about what our country is really like, now. life would be better without a police force. or, having a police force that really fought the actual crimes and were not on a power-trip to try to fuck every citizen they can.
what you will find - and think that you got a star - is someone who spent their life (up to this point) memorizing stuff. yes, I'm thinking of folks from india (sorry, but its actually true).
and when I get into an interview situation, they ask me to recite algorithms and write code quickly on the board. neither are important to me and neither have been key to my success in my jobs, over the years. coding is NOT a race! I take my time. so what??? is that a crime? I am careful and - honestly - as you get older, you work a bit slower. but more careful (from my experience with older and younger guys).
I can GET the answer. but I rarely carry it with me, upstairs. way too much info to keep up there. at this point, I actively flush OUT useless info that can be looked up quickly.
when I respond 'I'll search for the current best algorithm, read up on it, adapt it, port it and debug it on your system. I can do that, but I won't memorize it and I won't code 'live' in front of you since that's never ever a part of software engineering.'
the older and more experienced ones get that. the younger ones just have ego issues and anything they learned last year in college should be - forever - memorized. that's how they think. they can remember that sort alg from last year. how come you can't remember it from 30 yrs ago?
sheesh. the field is being ruined by young-uns. and they think they really do know it all.
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he says: "The feedback from users was that it wasnâ(TM)t useful"
what the users REALLY said was more like: "you compromised our security, you installed spyware and didn't tell us about it or provide the option to opt-out, your uninstaller did not fully uninstall it and we now have to wipe and fully reinstall, costing us all lots of time and money, since a gaping security hole was opened up and god knows what came thru that hole before we knew abou it."
ceo-speak really is an amazing language to learn. its all about lies and deceipt, but it sure is a 'skill' one has to learn to be a top ceo these days.
a lot of noise comes from oscillating windings in chokes and coils found in dc/dc converters. they often 'sing' under load, on cheap boards. ie, ALL boards for consumer grade gear are cheap boards, today.
one of my lcd displays has a really noisy dc/dc. you can hear the physical whine it makes across the room.
so, there's physical noise but also electrical noise. in some cases, I have been told that ssd's throw more has on the 5v dc psu bus than spinning drives do! I find that amazing (in a bad way).
noise on the dc bus is not something the user would normally care about; but coil whine is something that most people can hear.
it should not matter if its a linux iso or not.
the issue is: they have no need or right to look inside our packets.
ANY of our packets.
I'm not going to split hairs about society's current view toward IP rights. its a rathole that is not productive to dive into.
just leave it at: my data is my data, I will use it as I see fit and all I ask of you is to route it to the right ip addresses and route return traffic back to me. PERIOD.
I don't want them caching. if they want to try, be my guest, but I don't WANT it and I'm just fine with getting data from the real source each and every time I request it.
if this is true, then the NSA has blatantly broken law, STOLEN property (intellectual property, that's property, right? RIIIIGHT?) and nullified most of the network and systems security we have tried to put in place over the last 10 or 20 years.
they also are using fear and intimidation to keep the population in check. ie, they are terrorists. state sponsored terrorists who steal without regard to their actions.
so, when are they going to be tried for terrorism under the patriot act??
since there's nothing inside for them to inspect or cache.
(you are torrenting and NOT running a vpn? really? why?)
superfish is the hidden, non-user interface version.
note, the lesser known, CLI version is called shellfish
(thank you, I'll be here all night.)
my last tv purchase 'had' to be smart. why? because I wanted to buy from a trusted store (costco), they have only a limited of in-store brands and since I refused to buy samsung (at any cost), that left vizio. after 39" (or 37) they only sell them in 'smart' versions, sigh. so mine is smart.
but I never accepted the eula, it never init'd the network layer, it sits there with 0.0.0.0 on it (if I ever go to that screen) and the only down side is that I won't get firmware updates. but the good side is: I wont' get firmware updates! LOL
in fact, it is an upside. people are complaining about the latest forced no-choice OTA firmware that people got. they all want to revert. and so, my never-been-on-the-net tv will never have to be reverted. it works as a display device, the colors look ok once I calibrated it with my puck and my htpc system has never been better (intel onboard video, i7 fanless build, 1920 hdmi at 120hz real actual refresh. very nice!)
but to get that, I had to pay for a smart tv. which means I helped support this silliness with my money. for that, I'm sorry, but I didn't have a lot of real choice..
lenovo was caught and they are backpeddling. they SAY there is a removal script.
does it do a complete job? somehow, I have my doubts and that it leaves some stuff behind (like almost all windows 'uninstallers').
I really wish the US would punish companies (in a truly painful way, such as 10% or more of their GROSS income) when they act in bad faith, on purpose, like this.
then again, if the US punished bad actors, it would have to constantly punish ITSELF.
well, maybe that's needed too .....
as we all know, if a bad actor behaves badly and there is no punishment, what reason does he have to change his bad ways?
the fact that the US fellates all corporations, as a form of religion, is what allows them to continue the bad behavior. in fact, it encourages it by rewarding 'profit, above all else'.
it really seems clear to me that we have chosen the wrong 'god' to worship. profit, above all else, WILL be our downfall. it has started already and many of us see it. but our words are not being heard ;(
you didnt order a business-grade laptop, did you?
I have one and mostly love it. the pci-e blacklist SUCKS (tried installing a new wireless card and it refused. not on the 'ok' list. had to install a hacked bios to allow any pcie card to be installed. HP is the same stupid way, too). and to be honest, with the hacked bios (I didnt hack it) I'm now at risk since I have no good idea what that 3rd party did to create the unblack blacklist, so to speak.
but if you don't need to hack the bios (buy all your stuff at point of purchase to be safe) then the business grade models to NOT install crapware nearly as much and they all use the same chipsets since business needs each machine to be identical. consumer versions are the chip-o-the-month club and it sounds like that's what you were ordering. uhm, don't buy consumer grade lappies from lenovo. why bother? get what they are good at, the serious lappies. the t or w grade lappies.
regular ssd, usb3 interface, UASP (scsi over usb, new standard) and you have all the speed of native sata (that the drives can put out) and are still vendor neutral.
I try to avoid samsung products these days. after the fiasco with the evo drives, I'll look for another vendor.
and then there is always the worry that samsung will insert commercials between disk block seeks (inside joke, sorry if that does not make immediate sense to you).
many of us write software (I also design hardware) and give a lot of it away. I got a lot for free and so I give back when I can.
linux would not exist if your view was what everyone believed.
there is a need for making a living, but there is also a need to be a citizen of humanity and to know when the almighty dollar is NOT the be-all and end-all in life.
we lost that balance. the day of the 'angel billionaire' is pretty much over and they are all greedy assholes who could care less about what happens to anyone but their own kind.
IP should no longer be respected. the laws are created by them for them. fuck that! it has ceased to benefit us all and should be ignored whenever possible. just to TRY to tip the balance back to normal again.
but if EVERYONE (every country) would ignore monsanto, for example, and shun them (it would be hard for a while, admittedly) then the war on IP/food would be won.
being bullied by the giants lets the giants continue to own you. the countries continue to allow themselves to be bullied. no one takes the risk. so everyone is 'owned', now.
"we have to kill batm^Hmonsanto."
they stand in the way of world progress. fight a war with THEM, then maybe the world can have a chance to feed all its people.
every time I think of monsanto, I get really angry. dammit.
he's had enough chances to prove that he's a champion of The People.
he failed. every.single.time.
I refuse to trust him anymore. his lips are moving, so he's lying.
not saying I trust republicans, either. I trust them even less. but my faith in democrats is at zero and so I'd prefer we scrub the whole R and D party system, redesign the WHOLE thing and start all over again.
until then, you can present all the talking heads you want. no one with any sense believes a word they say, anymore.
then does that mean they actively stop (or try to stop) your use of vpns and encryption?
when I was shopping for a clothes washer, I went to sears outlet for some discounted units. what I found is that the salesmen guided me away from samsung models. that was the ONLY model that did not come with a warranty (at all!) - and these were refurbs or reconditioned units. not just customer returns, but checked out and cleaned by the store. all other brands came with the regular warranty even though they were not brand new.
plus, checking out utube videos on sammy washer repairs and the customer service horror stories convinced me that samsung was NOT the brand to buy.
I keep hearing about bad things and samsung. I wonder what's up with that company? their lcd screens almost always use bad caps that will die very shortly (JUST after warranty period!). their smart tv's spy on you (2 articles in 1 week about sammy tv's). the sammy printer I have insists you accept an EULA that says 'we have the right to SEE everything you print on your printer, and if you disagree, you don't get our printer driver installed!'.
sammy is really evil. totally fucking evil. wish people would stop buying that brand. I know, they are everywhere, but they are really fucking evil!
you are wrong; I know of no sysadmins that embrace a new init system; especially this one.
the old ones worked, had some quirks but they WORKED. they were UNDERSTOOD. they were SUPPORTABLE. they had TEXT LOG FILES. and they didn't have DEPENDANCIES on the whole friggin graphical world.
admins tend to admin servers. tell me: what the hell does a graphical set of libs have to do with headless servers, which is still the lion's share of what linux is about (not to mention embedded, more and more) ?
it does not matter what 'appliance users' want or think they want. they could care less; as long as the system runs. but for those of us who have to admin things, change for change sake is a sign of a junior person.
this whole systemd thing is going to be a textbook example of how NOT to shoe-horn things into a finely designed and architected system that has decades of stability and history to it.
linus is a kernel guy. he self-professes he does not 'like' to setup or manage his own linux systems (strange but true; check out some linus YT videos, there was one at debconf where he talks about it). he says he 'sucks at IT'. system startup is more like IT work than kernel work.
my guess is that this is not a 'linus thing' and never will be.
every so often, I try out the various 'desktops' that linux distros offer.
every time, I give up, dislike all the procs running, mem wasted, cpu cycles wasted and all the crap that comes with the desktop. feels like bloat that should not be there, not for a 'simple' linux install.
I always laugh when people look at my display. I use a red/orange color to highlight the active window and grey for the inactive ones. there is no trash icon, no iconbox, no drag/drop. a short menu appears when you click into space (no clients under) and then pick which foreground rxvt opens up (all with black bg's).
I keep things simple. but I've been using this layout for literally over 25 yrs (starting with twm and using mwm for a short while, when motif was still popular).
not having a desktop is great. in all that time, I just have not been limited (at all) in what I can do, and things seem to be fast when I just run a term window, type what I want and it instantly runs.
unix was supposed to be simple. systemd is an abortion and one that most of us do not want.
good to see this protest post with a hand-tweaked system; but the fact is, we should NOT have to flip over backwards to remove a stupid should-not-be-there-anyway daemon and its evil libs.
to write anything more than trivial test apps, you have to be GOOD at the language. and debugging it. and its portability issues (usually).
so, while you are spending^Hwasting time learning a new language, the rest of us are busy making real things with tools that we have spent years mastering.
I can tell a fresher from an vet with this attitude. the fresher wants to do 'cool things' even if it does not really help ship better product, faster. they convince themselves that this new tool or language will do that, but there's huge overhead and risk in it, not to mention - who else is going to support this new stuff? and if you and your team leave??
sign of being junior: wanting to re-invent the wheel.
sign of being senior: using tools you are expert at and not wasting time re-doing things that don't need to be redone.
I agree. it needs the curlies (which WORK great in C and takes up at most 3 chars; 1 for the curlie and 1 for a space before and after. 3 extra bytes for intro and maybe 3 for exit. 6 bytes. big deal. you should 'waste' more space with comments and vertical/horizontal whitespace, just for readability, alone.
it should have been optional. require indentation, fine. but also ALLOW those of us who like seeing an 'open and close' semantic who is explicit (not just implied) would have been the right thing to do.
someday, maybe guido will come to his senses. if/when that happens, a lot of us will breathe a sigh of relief. and then, posted code on blogs, emailed code, etc, will still be runnable without GUESSING what the source was before the formatter destroyed it.
I just recently learned python (learned it from a top python core developer, though, if that counts any).
I like the language. almost all of it. BUT, the lack of curly braces was a huge mistake. indentation is fine. we all agree its needed.
here's where 'whitespace only' indenting messes up. ever see what blogs do when you try to post code? yeah. that. and its a reality, too. you will never be able to guarantee that posted code won't be 'changed' by some web formatter or email formatter!
twice in the last 2 months I've had to extract posted source (from clueless posters) and FIX their code since it did not run OOTB. I had to GUESS where things were supposed to be nested. its not obvious; if it was, you would be able to strip all spaces out and still be able to get the same meaning.
guido just did not think about this issue. its ok, he thought about most things, but I wish he'd man-up and admit that in THIS case, curlies are truly needed. keep the rest of the forced indenting, but ADD an open and close curly so that the meaning is crystal clear, even if mis-posted or mis-indented. plus, you would be able to re-format the source to your local google 2-space standard or the rest-of-world 4-space standard.
oh, and it would not really hurt if you did have static data types. there's huge value in:
int foo (int a, char b, float c);
if you just tell me you are sending a,b,c into a routine, there's a lot that I should know that you're not telling me. it was a shame to lose this. not sure the 'power' you gain is worth the loss of immediate documentation (in the code) by declaring the types of each var and having that var always (for its scope) be that data type.
I'll take the radical view: I'm not so sure we need cops anymore.
they add more problems to society than they 'fix' !
speeding tickets, stealing your money if you have cash on you, claiming you were a 'druggie'.
no knock warrants. shooting the wrong guy. and/or his dog, too.
you don't want to call the cops if you can help it. many times I've had neighbor or noise issues, but I wont' ever call the cops. you risk a lot if you call them. once they come out, they want to come back with -someone-. might even be you. they hate to go home empty, so to speak.
I don't get troubled by criminals. the cops don't catch bad guys anymore, anyway. that would be too much like WORK!
would my life be worse off if all cops disappeared tomorrow? I honestly do not think so, and our collective lives would be more private, more safer and we'd only have a few gangs of hoodlums to worry about instead of a whole country full of them, who wear uniforms and legally carry guns (and now, ride around in tanks).
the cure is worse than the disease. and I'm NOT happy to declare that. but you have to be honest about what our country is really like, now. life would be better without a police force. or, having a police force that really fought the actual crimes and were not on a power-trip to try to fuck every citizen they can.
careful, there!
what you will find - and think that you got a star - is someone who spent their life (up to this point) memorizing stuff. yes, I'm thinking of folks from india (sorry, but its actually true).
and when I get into an interview situation, they ask me to recite algorithms and write code quickly on the board. neither are important to me and neither have been key to my success in my jobs, over the years. coding is NOT a race! I take my time. so what??? is that a crime? I am careful and - honestly - as you get older, you work a bit slower. but more careful (from my experience with older and younger guys).
I can GET the answer. but I rarely carry it with me, upstairs. way too much info to keep up there. at this point, I actively flush OUT useless info that can be looked up quickly.
when I respond 'I'll search for the current best algorithm, read up on it, adapt it, port it and debug it on your system. I can do that, but I won't memorize it and I won't code 'live' in front of you since that's never ever a part of software engineering.'
the older and more experienced ones get that. the younger ones just have ego issues and anything they learned last year in college should be - forever - memorized. that's how they think. they can remember that sort alg from last year. how come you can't remember it from 30 yrs ago?
sheesh. the field is being ruined by young-uns. and they think they really do know it all.
thanks for the WHO reference.
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