Considering it confuses inflation for deflation (hint: Bit coins are deflationary, goods cost less and less over time, so far, in otherwords, its an economy with programmed recession) leads me to think that perhaps this isn't actually a particularly competent guide.
GCC and a cross compiler should be fine,but if you got visual studio and put the effort into including a compile change for it,,theres not a good reason not to use it.
WXWidgets is great but its kind of shown a lot of bitrot over the years leading many to suspect its been abandoned. Apparently it hasnt. Its also had a degree of issues with dll hell in my experience, but thats more using it with python and a few non wx libraries that havent updated in millenia.
It DOES tend to look good on native platforms but you will still want to adapt things to fit UI expectations, ie the radically different menu styles of windows vs macs, and so on, as well as perhaps putting some effort into following the style guides of the various platforms. Glossy plastic and brushed steel are mac stylistic language. Smoked plastic and flat greys are windows stylistic language. 70s Brown on brown for ubuntu. Etc.
It could be worse. I remember going through this compiling and installing Minix back in the pre linux days.
And that damn thing [i]didn't[/i] compile. On purpose I think, see it was [i]educational[/i]. Hey on the upside I figured out how to write a driver for a hard drive controller nobody used (Wang) on an OS nobody heard of (Minix). Oh well, I passed the course.
I am not saying its a bad thing, clearly the example I give of Swaziland would be even worse off without its admirable education system. I am saying that it is not the top priority when a full quarter of the population is dying from terminal yet treatable illness.
Your ignoring the scale of suffering caused by disease in places like Africa and just how staggering an impact it is happening.
Take a place like Swaziland. 1/4 of the population has HIV, is too poor for triple cocktail treatment and are thus dying. 110,000 children are orphaned as a result. On top of that, 58% of the population requires treatment for pneumonia each year, and nearly 60% requiring rehydration for diarea (And we're not talking having a sore gut from a cold, but conditions that are often fatal).
Will education help them? Well swaziland has around 90% literacy rate, and an exceptionally good school enrollment rate which is comparable with even western countries. Something is failing here that *isnt* education.
The last major war Swaziland was involved in was nearly a century ago, and its monarchy is widely held to be benevolant and not particularly corrupt or malicious. Its economy however is , like many post-colonial countries, a bit of a basket case and income disparity is utterly terrible, with a fabulously rich ruling class and the majority of its population surviving on about $1.50 a day. Despite being well educated, simple education alone appears not to be fixing this.
The simple fact is a massive chunk of the productive workforce is incapacitated and dying placing enormous economic pressures on those who do work, and this causes terrible poverty, compounded of course by the terrible inequality that was foisted on the country from its legacy as a british colony.
Bracketing aside the troubling questions of wealth distribution, it is clear that swaziland is doomed without a very serious improvement in health care. HIV does not have to be a death sentence anymore when treated by modern anti-virals. We can't cure it yet, but we can make it something that doesn't kill. A westerner in a UHC country (to ensure poverty doesnt remove access to medicine) with HIV can live as long as someone without HIV as long as they continue to take the required medicines and lives a generally healthy lifestyle. Malaria is a disease that stalks the poor (when was the last time you heard of a malaria outbreak in europe, australia or the united states?) and can be trivially contained if the money is spent as it should. The remaining conditions can be contained and cured with simple antibiotics and ensuring clean water and hygenic waste disposal.
There is no reason Swasiland should be any poorer than a european country. But like many african countries, its problems revolve around universal access to healthcare, wealth disparity and equitable access to clean water and waste disposal. Education, and by this I mean the internet too, does not factor here. Whats the point of reading about the fabulous lives of the westerners whilst dying of AIDS, malaria and diahrea.
It is the scientists who are refusing to study it who are being political, to the detriment of science. They should be taken out and shot. Or at least kicked out of any professional organizations they belong to.
The problem is, the study they where asked to take had as part of its *premise* that it was caused by non human means.
This is a bit like asking physicists to come up with a reason that newtons apple falls that DOESNT involve gravity. It just stops being science.
You clearly haven't been lying on an emergency ward bed on the verge of dying of respitory failure before. Trust me, at that point the negotiating powers are rather poor and frankly one isn't feeling much like a "rational agent".
VB (We're refering to VB6 here right? I know very little about vb.net except I dont know any coders who use it) wasn't a bad language because it was accessible to beginners. It was a bad language for the same reason PHP is held in disrepute. Its because many of the underlying assumptions are poorly thought out.
VB encouraged poor type hygiene, made it difficult to abstract business processes in any sort of rational way (You tended to just drop the business logic under the buttons and glue com objects in for functionality) and encouraged a style of programming where people would just draw up the screens and then put in just enough code to make it behave like the spec. This is like old world PHP where people would just mess in logic and presentation, and end up with an awful unmaintainable mess with SQL injections, magic globals and other sorts of horrors.
Python is indeed accessible to the beginner, but its accessible because its concise and readable. It encourages proper abstraction, has a clean and readable OO system, and a great library of USUALLY well written libraries.
It has shown a few wrinkles adapting to some more recent ideas such as closure oriented programming (its the wrong choice for that) but its combination of computer-sciency abstraction and accessibility is the reason for its popularity with new coders, NOT its encoding of bad coding work flow.
Nieztche probably isn't the best example. Its beyond doubt he was a brilliant philosopher. He was also completely and utterly mad as well. The guy had crippling mental illness (Possibly from Syphilis) and as a result I'm not sure its wise to draw too many conclusions from his behavior or even his claims about his behavior.
That said, he did one of his greatest things whilst suffering from his madness, wrote an entire book about how his good friend Wagner (the composer) was an antisemetic nationalist bastard who shouldn't be trusted as far as he could be thrown. Its a hell of a way to end a friendship but god damn it was he right. Wagner, of course wrote many of the texts that inspired Hitlers cataclysmic rise. (So next time you hear someone blame nieztche, tell em to rack off. Nieztche actually admired the jews for what he believed was their sense of self preservation and deeply disliked anti-semetism and "slave morality". His sister altered many of his writings and twisted his words once niztche was so incapacitated he had no more recourse to retaliate. But it CAN be said Wagner really did have his intended influence. Heck the Wagner family where one of the earliest funders of the nazis).
MASSIVE DERAIL but forgive me, I do like my philosphical history.
No it doesn't. Science is not a democracy unless your advocating ontological relivity, but uh thats crazy talk. Its politics, not science, your thinking of.
Science thrives on *peer review*. The people in the comments of pop sci sites are not peers, unless the sight is checking to make sure the commenters have appropriate qualifications and publication history in the specific field of course.
The comments of Pop Science sites isn't "Science". Science is a *process*. Its not just an anarchic room of people screaming at each other and accusing the socially awkward dudes with pocket protectors and labcoats of being secret communists or whatever. Its about following a process and has nothing to do with opinions.
The scientific process involves doing studies that confirm or contradict in a disinterested manner a hypothesis, publishing it in a respectable journal (or in the case of thesis, submitting it to a respectable academic [ie not a think tank] institution), where noted and accepted academics (not a websites penut gallery) then either find flaws in the study and reject it, or later down the track perform their own studies and publish them.
At no point does any of this involve shouting at scientists about being part of some vast left wing conspiracy, citing popular crank-science guys with such poor grasp of statistics its a wonder they can even tie their own shoelaces right, or in fact any of this.
In other words, if your not an expert in the specific field with a doctorate and a publication history to back that up, your not engaging in peer review, your just another joe shmoe web jock yelling at the nerds for saying things that contradict your political religion.
Well the fact that Obamas SUPER COMMUNIST health care plan was so modified it ended up fact pretty much a carbon copy of Ronald "Stalin" Reagan's plan , and yet even thats not good enough for the church of reagan indicates that there is one party who's negotiating and another who's been in a process of a multi year hissy fit because theres a black president who's fucked with their innate belief in their own right to rule over us all.
I think the Democrats need to stop being bitches and actually STOP negotiating with these legislative terrorists. Watching the democrats continuously singing the republicans song whilst the republicans refuse to budge is like watching a battered wife claiming that one day husband will stop beating her and start loving her.
Because us non americans have no idea what a pint is, other than a beer glass size some of the old fashion pubs use. Apparently however those pints are english pints which are different to american pints. I think?
Sure, we can blame that on climate change, it is the fad after all.
Like the "evolution" fad , or the "round earth" fad?
the laws of science caresnot for popular thought. The physics of CO2 infra red absorbsion are well defined and the mechanism behind anthropomorphic science change would be just as valid if everyone thought like the anti-science crowd and denied the greenhouse effect.
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Considering it confuses inflation for deflation (hint: Bit coins are deflationary, goods cost less and less over time, so far, in otherwords, its an economy with programmed recession) leads me to think that perhaps this isn't actually a particularly competent guide.
GCC and a cross compiler should be fine ,but if you got visual studio and put the effort into including a compile change for it, ,theres not a good reason not to use it.
WXWidgets is great but its kind of shown a lot of bitrot over the years leading many to suspect its been abandoned. Apparently it hasnt. Its also had a degree of issues with dll hell in my experience, but thats more using it with python and a few non wx libraries that havent updated in millenia.
It DOES tend to look good on native platforms but you will still want to adapt things to fit UI expectations, ie the radically different menu styles of windows vs macs, and so on, as well as perhaps putting some effort into following the style guides of the various platforms. Glossy plastic and brushed steel are mac stylistic language. Smoked plastic and flat greys are windows stylistic language. 70s Brown on brown for ubuntu. Etc.
It could be worse. I remember going through this compiling and installing Minix back in the pre linux days.
And that damn thing [i]didn't[/i] compile. On purpose I think, see it was [i]educational[/i]. Hey on the upside I figured out how to write a driver for a hard drive controller nobody used (Wang) on an OS nobody heard of (Minix). Oh well, I passed the course.
"liberal fascists". Utter language abuse.
Oh slashdot, between climate denialism and nutty glen beckisms, when did this site jump the shark?
Hey I'm a peacenik amature who thinks we should spend the entire defence budget on mungbeans and weed.
But I'm OK if they built giant super-carriers that can fly into space.
The solution then is high powered wall penetrating lazers.
In fact the solution is always lazers. For everything.
I am not saying its a bad thing, clearly the example I give of Swaziland would be even worse off without its admirable education system. I am saying that it is not the top priority when a full quarter of the population is dying from terminal yet treatable illness.
Your ignoring the scale of suffering caused by disease in places like Africa and just how staggering an impact it is happening.
Take a place like Swaziland. 1/4 of the population has HIV, is too poor for triple cocktail treatment and are thus dying. 110,000 children are orphaned as a result. On top of that, 58% of the population requires treatment for pneumonia each year, and nearly 60% requiring rehydration for diarea (And we're not talking having a sore gut from a cold, but conditions that are often fatal).
Will education help them? Well swaziland has around 90% literacy rate, and an exceptionally good school enrollment rate which is comparable with even western countries. Something is failing here that *isnt* education.
The last major war Swaziland was involved in was nearly a century ago, and its monarchy is widely held to be benevolant and not particularly corrupt or malicious. Its economy however is , like many post-colonial countries, a bit of a basket case and income disparity is utterly terrible, with a fabulously rich ruling class and the majority of its population surviving on about $1.50 a day. Despite being well educated, simple education alone appears not to be fixing this.
The simple fact is a massive chunk of the productive workforce is incapacitated and dying placing enormous economic pressures on those who do work, and this causes terrible poverty, compounded of course by the terrible inequality that was foisted on the country from its legacy as a british colony.
Bracketing aside the troubling questions of wealth distribution, it is clear that swaziland is doomed without a very serious improvement in health care. HIV does not have to be a death sentence anymore when treated by modern anti-virals. We can't cure it yet, but we can make it something that doesn't kill. A westerner in a UHC country (to ensure poverty doesnt remove access to medicine) with HIV can live as long as someone without HIV as long as they continue to take the required medicines and lives a generally healthy lifestyle. Malaria is a disease that stalks the poor (when was the last time you heard of a malaria outbreak in europe, australia or the united states?) and can be trivially contained if the money is spent as it should. The remaining conditions can be contained and cured with simple antibiotics and ensuring clean water and hygenic waste disposal.
There is no reason Swasiland should be any poorer than a european country. But like many african countries, its problems revolve around universal access to healthcare, wealth disparity and equitable access to clean water and waste disposal. Education, and by this I mean the internet too, does not factor here. Whats the point of reading about the fabulous lives of the westerners whilst dying of AIDS, malaria and diahrea.
It is the scientists who are refusing to study it who are being political, to the detriment of science. They should be taken out and shot. Or at least kicked out of any professional organizations they belong to.
The problem is, the study they where asked to take had as part of its *premise* that it was caused by non human means.
This is a bit like asking physicists to come up with a reason that newtons apple falls that DOESNT involve gravity. It just stops being science.
Looks cool, but without a download it might as well be vaporware!
You clearly haven't been lying on an emergency ward bed on the verge of dying of respitory failure before. Trust me, at that point the negotiating powers are rather poor and frankly one isn't feeling much like a "rational agent".
VB (We're refering to VB6 here right? I know very little about vb.net except I dont know any coders who use it) wasn't a bad language because it was accessible to beginners. It was a bad language for the same reason PHP is held in disrepute. Its because many of the underlying assumptions are poorly thought out.
VB encouraged poor type hygiene, made it difficult to abstract business processes in any sort of rational way (You tended to just drop the business logic under the buttons and glue com objects in for functionality) and encouraged a style of programming where people would just draw up the screens and then put in just enough code to make it behave like the spec. This is like old world PHP where people would just mess in logic and presentation, and end up with an awful unmaintainable mess with SQL injections, magic globals and other sorts of horrors.
Python is indeed accessible to the beginner, but its accessible because its concise and readable. It encourages proper abstraction, has a clean and readable OO system, and a great library of USUALLY well written libraries.
It has shown a few wrinkles adapting to some more recent ideas such as closure oriented programming (its the wrong choice for that) but its combination of computer-sciency abstraction and accessibility is the reason for its popularity with new coders, NOT its encoding of bad coding work flow.
Nieztche probably isn't the best example. Its beyond doubt he was a brilliant philosopher. He was also completely and utterly mad as well. The guy had crippling mental illness (Possibly from Syphilis) and as a result I'm not sure its wise to draw too many conclusions from his behavior or even his claims about his behavior.
That said, he did one of his greatest things whilst suffering from his madness, wrote an entire book about how his good friend Wagner (the composer) was an antisemetic nationalist bastard who shouldn't be trusted as far as he could be thrown. Its a hell of a way to end a friendship but god damn it was he right. Wagner, of course wrote many of the texts that inspired Hitlers cataclysmic rise. (So next time you hear someone blame nieztche, tell em to rack off. Nieztche actually admired the jews for what he believed was their sense of self preservation and deeply disliked anti-semetism and "slave morality". His sister altered many of his writings and twisted his words once niztche was so incapacitated he had no more recourse to retaliate. But it CAN be said Wagner really did have his intended influence. Heck the Wagner family where one of the earliest funders of the nazis).
MASSIVE DERAIL but forgive me, I do like my philosphical history.
There is no Emannual Assange. The party loves you so carry on and think double plus good thoughts.
It's only hubris if they fail. Which in this case is clearly not the case
Er, Ada Lovelace was a century beforehand , give or take. Hopper invented Cobol, and arguably one of the first compilers.
Lovelace wrote the first computer program, for the Analytical engine, in the 1800s.
Has Django started putting in the import paths into its documentation? Because if not, substitute "best" for "infuriating and time wasting".
Hot SteamOS gritts down the pants.
Science thrives on dissent.
No it doesn't. Science is not a democracy unless your advocating ontological relivity, but uh thats crazy talk. Its politics, not science, your thinking of.
Science thrives on *peer review*. The people in the comments of pop sci sites are not peers, unless the sight is checking to make sure the commenters have appropriate qualifications and publication history in the specific field of course.
The comments of Pop Science sites isn't "Science". Science is a *process*. Its not just an anarchic room of people screaming at each other and accusing the socially awkward dudes with pocket protectors and labcoats of being secret communists or whatever. Its about following a process and has nothing to do with opinions.
The scientific process involves doing studies that confirm or contradict in a disinterested manner a hypothesis, publishing it in a respectable journal (or in the case of thesis, submitting it to a respectable academic [ie not a think tank] institution), where noted and accepted academics (not a websites penut gallery) then either find flaws in the study and reject it, or later down the track perform their own studies and publish them.
At no point does any of this involve shouting at scientists about being part of some vast left wing conspiracy, citing popular crank-science guys with such poor grasp of statistics its a wonder they can even tie their own shoelaces right, or in fact any of this.
In other words, if your not an expert in the specific field with a doctorate and a publication history to back that up, your not engaging in peer review, your just another joe shmoe web jock yelling at the nerds for saying things that contradict your political religion.
Well the fact that Obamas SUPER COMMUNIST health care plan was so modified it ended up fact pretty much a carbon copy of Ronald "Stalin" Reagan's plan , and yet even thats not good enough for the church of reagan indicates that there is one party who's negotiating and another who's been in a process of a multi year hissy fit because theres a black president who's fucked with their innate belief in their own right to rule over us all.
I think the Democrats need to stop being bitches and actually STOP negotiating with these legislative terrorists. Watching the democrats continuously singing the republicans song whilst the republicans refuse to budge is like watching a battered wife claiming that one day husband will stop beating her and start loving her.
Because us non americans have no idea what a pint is, other than a beer glass size some of the old fashion pubs use. Apparently however those pints are english pints which are different to american pints. I think?
Like the "evolution" fad , or the "round earth" fad?
the laws of science caresnot for popular thought. The physics of CO2 infra red absorbsion are well defined and the mechanism behind anthropomorphic science change would be just as valid if everyone thought like the anti-science crowd and denied the greenhouse effect.
This model is clearly bullshit, but that's rather the problem. So are all the other ones. .
Journal citation please.
Mozilla is a bit like Apache, its a broad tent of vaguelly related projects , its not just firefox.