Why should I have to go hunting for a theme just to undo all of the stupid changes to the Firefox UI? Anyway, I stopped using it when I found that Chrome was faster at javascript (I use Ext JS a lot) but I do miss Firebug. I'd even go so far as to say that the world only needs one rendering engine: everyone should just use chromium. There, internet problem solved.
This is usually trotted out by people who 1) haven't tried it or 2) remember FORTRAN.
But FORTRAN suffered from both too much whitespace significance, AND NOT ENOUGH.
Bear in mind that a good lint tool can find whitespace inconsistencies.
I cobbled together a simple Python script once for some reason or other (can't remember anymore) and it was OK I guess, but so many languages have C-like syntax that I prefer those generally, which is why I tend to do mostly c# and javascript these days. Using whitespace for block separation just annoyed me and I didn't like it one bit. Programming languages are a dime a dozen and I see no need to add Python to my resumé.
You mention "easier readability" but I wonder if Python gets any love among blind developers? I wouldn't want to be counting spaces in my head to determine where I'm at (you'd probably even have to turn on the reading-aloud of spaces, which would just drive me nuts!)
I used to prefer tabs for indentation for that very reason (setting my own width) but I eventually gave up the fight and went with four spaces. It seems fairly common.
How typical of someone who is most likely on the "progressive", "liberal" end of the spectrum to applaud efforts to silence opposing arguments. That's the only way such views gain prominence because they can't stand on their own. It's a fact that the US is not a part of the Paris climate deal, but apart from that, as has been pointed out by many people here, the "deal" isn't even enforceable; it's a fig leaf for climate chicken littles and achieves nothing. So what if you think the US is stuck in it for a few more years, they're not going to do squat. But children do like their petty victories so you can keep flinging poop and climasturbating to your heart's content, it changes nothing:-D
Why do I need a box listening to my every word to do simple things for me? I've seen my brother trying to use the so-called "smart" remote on his curved LCD screen, which doesn't have up and down volume buttons. Every time I see him pick the thing up and speak "volume 30" or whatever into it, the thing gets it wrong. He has to say things several times. There is no way I could tolerate such crap. Just put some standard buttons on the god-damned remote, you know, like volume up and down. I wouldn't trust an Amazon Echo as far as I could throw it. Voice recognition and the AI's that go with it are far too infantile to be relied upon in my view.
This crap is just so annoying, I can't believe that anybody would take it seriously? Even Siri and the like are irritating and don't get it right all the time. If something isn't 100% then it's junk, and this kind of crap isn't getting anywhere near my house.
Neither of my apps makes a lot of money, it's more of a hobby, so the likelihood of making less cash from the Play Store doesn't bother me. I've reached the limits of what Apple's developer straight jackets can teach me, I'm afraid.
The App Store is a desert, sadly, and Apple has given it no love for years. It's still a horrible tool to find apps and its search is pathetic. Xcode is a straight jacket and Swift keeps changing all the time. The two apps I wrote (one on iOS and the other for macOS) will be my last that get submitted to the App Store. Developers are voting with their feet and choosing not to distribute things via the App Store any more. My next phone is going to be an Android anyway because iOS and the iPhone are bitches.
1989. Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner 2000. Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki 2008. Dunedin Consort, Dunedin Players, John Butt 2009. Collegium Vocale Ghent, Philippe Herreweghe 2013. RIAS Kammerchor & Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs
If I use the "Erbarme Dich" movement to compare them all, I'd have to say that my favourites might have to be the Suzuki or Herreweghe recordings. The singing in the Jacobs and Butt versions is too operatic for my liking (probably because their altos use vibrato whereas the tenors don't in the Herreweghe and Suzuki discs). John Eliot Gardiner's alto (Anne Sofie von Otter) doesn't use enough vibrato to annoy me, and her singing is very good, which you'd expect from a name like that.
The orchestral playing of the Dunedin Consort is excellent, with quicker tempi, as is the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, so if you prefer that over the singing then you might like these. It's probably best if you just get them all, I think. Each has their own selling points;-)
Ah, of course. The St. Matthew Passion, one could not forget that at all. I have 5 different recordings of it. It's definitely a desert island disc, but which one should I take with me?:-D
To Twitter that's a big deal:-) The company is on a death spiral so any hint of life is probably a good thing to the SJW die-hards that still use the thing.
Among people who claim to know about music, but are actually musical laymen. Go ask anyone with a doctorate in music who their favourites are and I bet Bach won't be among them.
And we all know that those with doctorates in music are the true arbiters of good music, ha ha! You crack me up.
The article being linked to freezes in Chrome. Is that his point? Internet Explorer 10 won't load it either (due to a bad certificate) but Firefox does.
PS, my CPU fan has just gone crazy with Firefox going bezerk, and now even Chrome is struggling to cope after I reloaded and managed to get the page to render. Maybe the problem is that his web site sucks and has far too much advertising and other embedded garbage on it?
When English loses world importance you will be seeing Brits and Americans becoming chauvinistic about the language as well.
English is the ultimate universal language (apart from its unfortunate spelling and being difficult to learn) because it borrows words from other languages all the time. From wikipedia:
According to one study, the percentage of modern English words derived from each language group are as follows: Latin (including words used only in scientific / medical / legal contexts): ~29% French: ~29% Germanic: ~26% Others: ~16%
I don't imagine English speakers will become chauvinistic if/when the language is no longer that important; it'll just keep borrowing words as necessary.
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Bingo!
Why should I have to go hunting for a theme just to undo all of the stupid changes to the Firefox UI? Anyway, I stopped using it when I found that Chrome was faster at javascript (I use Ext JS a lot) but I do miss Firebug. I'd even go so far as to say that the world only needs one rendering engine: everyone should just use chromium. There, internet problem solved.
I'll pass. It won't even be worth downloading a torrent off the pirate bay and will probably be another "Enterprise" joke.
A Begbie voice assistant would be cool. I'd use that :-)
Amen, my brother. "Start pages" can just die already.
This is usually trotted out by people who 1) haven't tried it or 2) remember FORTRAN.
But FORTRAN suffered from both too much whitespace significance, AND NOT ENOUGH.
Bear in mind that a good lint tool can find whitespace inconsistencies.
I cobbled together a simple Python script once for some reason or other (can't remember anymore) and it was OK I guess, but so many languages have C-like syntax that I prefer those generally, which is why I tend to do mostly c# and javascript these days. Using whitespace for block separation just annoyed me and I didn't like it one bit. Programming languages are a dime a dozen and I see no need to add Python to my resumé.
You mention "easier readability" but I wonder if Python gets any love among blind developers? I wouldn't want to be counting spaces in my head to determine where I'm at (you'd probably even have to turn on the reading-aloud of spaces, which would just drive me nuts!)
Of all the bizarro made-up crazy languages out there, this has to be one of the silliest :-)
I used to prefer tabs for indentation for that very reason (setting my own width) but I eventually gave up the fight and went with four spaces. It seems fairly common.
Enough said. Whitespace which has meaning is just nasty.
How typical of someone who is most likely on the "progressive", "liberal" end of the spectrum to applaud efforts to silence opposing arguments. That's the only way such views gain prominence because they can't stand on their own. It's a fact that the US is not a part of the Paris climate deal, but apart from that, as has been pointed out by many people here, the "deal" isn't even enforceable; it's a fig leaf for climate chicken littles and achieves nothing. So what if you think the US is stuck in it for a few more years, they're not going to do squat. But children do like their petty victories so you can keep flinging poop and climasturbating to your heart's content, it changes nothing :-D
Why do I need a box listening to my every word to do simple things for me? I've seen my brother trying to use the so-called "smart" remote on his curved LCD screen, which doesn't have up and down volume buttons. Every time I see him pick the thing up and speak "volume 30" or whatever into it, the thing gets it wrong. He has to say things several times. There is no way I could tolerate such crap. Just put some standard buttons on the god-damned remote, you know, like volume up and down. I wouldn't trust an Amazon Echo as far as I could throw it. Voice recognition and the AI's that go with it are far too infantile to be relied upon in my view.
This crap is just so annoying, I can't believe that anybody would take it seriously? Even Siri and the like are irritating and don't get it right all the time. If something isn't 100% then it's junk, and this kind of crap isn't getting anywhere near my house.
Neither of my apps makes a lot of money, it's more of a hobby, so the likelihood of making less cash from the Play Store doesn't bother me. I've reached the limits of what Apple's developer straight jackets can teach me, I'm afraid.
The App Store is a desert, sadly, and Apple has given it no love for years. It's still a horrible tool to find apps and its search is pathetic. Xcode is a straight jacket and Swift keeps changing all the time. The two apps I wrote (one on iOS and the other for macOS) will be my last that get submitted to the App Store. Developers are voting with their feet and choosing not to distribute things via the App Store any more. My next phone is going to be an Android anyway because iOS and the iPhone are bitches.
The five recordings I have are as follows:
1989. Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
2000. Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
2008. Dunedin Consort, Dunedin Players, John Butt
2009. Collegium Vocale Ghent, Philippe Herreweghe
2013. RIAS Kammerchor & Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs
If I use the "Erbarme Dich" movement to compare them all, I'd have to say that my favourites might have to be the Suzuki or Herreweghe recordings. The singing in the Jacobs and Butt versions is too operatic for my liking (probably because their altos use vibrato whereas the tenors don't in the Herreweghe and Suzuki discs). John Eliot Gardiner's alto (Anne Sofie von Otter) doesn't use enough vibrato to annoy me, and her singing is very good, which you'd expect from a name like that.
The orchestral playing of the Dunedin Consort is excellent, with quicker tempi, as is the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, so if you prefer that over the singing then you might like these. It's probably best if you just get them all, I think. Each has their own selling points ;-)
Ah, of course. The St. Matthew Passion, one could not forget that at all. I have 5 different recordings of it. It's definitely a desert island disc, but which one should I take with me? :-D
To Twitter that's a big deal :-) The company is on a death spiral so any hint of life is probably a good thing to the SJW die-hards that still use the thing.
Among people who claim to know about music, but are actually musical laymen. Go ask anyone with a doctorate in music who their favourites are and I bet Bach won't be among them.
And we all know that those with doctorates in music are the true arbiters of good music, ha ha! You crack me up.
Whilst I do like Vivaldi's "Nisi Dominus", it's no Bach "Magnificat" ;-)
Take the "Et misericordia" movement, for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Agreed. Bach is for true connoisseurs ;-)
Oh, just lovely. His web site is one of those annoyingly infinite scrolling/loading abominations.
The article being linked to freezes in Chrome. Is that his point? Internet Explorer 10 won't load it either (due to a bad certificate) but Firefox does.
PS, my CPU fan has just gone crazy with Firefox going bezerk, and now even Chrome is struggling to cope after I reloaded and managed to get the page to render. Maybe the problem is that his web site sucks and has far too much advertising and other embedded garbage on it?
Those ads blocking the top half of the page are extremely annoying. It's only happened in the past few months, and I wish they'd fix it.
When English loses world importance you will be seeing Brits and Americans becoming chauvinistic about the language as well.
English is the ultimate universal language (apart from its unfortunate spelling and being difficult to learn) because it borrows words from other languages all the time. From wikipedia:
According to one study, the percentage of modern English words derived from each language group are as follows:
Latin (including words used only in scientific / medical / legal contexts): ~29%
French: ~29%
Germanic: ~26%
Others: ~16%
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I don't imagine English speakers will become chauvinistic if/when the language is no longer that important; it'll just keep borrowing words as necessary.