For those who said such an implementation has its legitimate use:
It is stupid. Period.
Write a simple "onclick" javascript, and the webpage can ping back all external links to its own server for whatever statistics purpose. Using redirect links for statistical purpose is NEVER necessary.
Also, waiting for those slow servers to reponse and redirect their redirection link is annoying. Just give me the site I am going to anyway please!
(Yes, I hate superman movies, as when a lorry hits him, he should be moved backwards, unless he's of enormous mass, in which case he should collapse any floor he walks upon, etc. etc.)
Superman can fly with no air pushed backward. So he is using his mystical flying power, not his mass, to stop the lorry.
Flywheel is less efficient weight-wise. To re-balance a 8kg robot (or even heavier model later) falling upside down, how heavy / how fast must the flywheel be?
Tail can be further improved by giving it more angles of freedom. We can also let it be able to coil up. Hard to beat tail.
"This agreement shall be effective from the date it is made and shall continue in force for a period of five (5) years from the date it is made, and thereafter for successive five (5) year terms, unless and until terminated by one year prior notice in writing by either party."
Rogers Communications believed the placement of the second comma stated the contract was good for at least five years, while Bell Aliant said the comma indicated the deal could be terminated before if one year's notice was given.
It is an example of why long sentences are bad. If a sentence is too long for verbal conversations, it is likely also too long for written materials, if one care clarity.
The inconsistency of English grammar is also its strength. While English grammar is indeed a hybrid monster, it is also "familiar enough" for everyone from the world to adopt.
Meanwhile, "simplified Chinese" is definitely a stupid move forced upon peoples by the Chinese Communist Party. The non-phoenetic nature of Chinese writing is what glues the East Asia peoples together over 2 millieniums. Everyone can read a piece of writing in their own topographs without feeling alienated, even if some of them are incomprehensible to each other. Combining "hour" and "our" is stupid. Yes, chairman Mao is stupid.
It's "break the senetence", not "break the grammar". Writing a super long sentence, even when grammatically correct, is crazy and for legalese only: they earn more money when only they, not us, understand what the law is saying.
And your teacher's argument is lame. Zero grammar mistakes does not imply zero ambiguity.
Out of interest, what languages do you think are simple?
Requirement 1:
When the task complexity increases, the code complexity should NEVER increases superlinearly. Less than linear will be good if achieveable.
Requirement 2:
A program that run okay once, shall run okay ALWAYS. No subtlety induced by the language itself should be there.
Requirement 3:
(For general purpose language) If compilers/interpreters for the language cannot be "simple", then the language itself cannot.
The first general purpose computer language I learned is Pascal. Today I still like it the most. It works, and it is predictable.
If it gains traction, then it will have to deal with feature creep (keeping up with the new hot languages), standard library bloat, backward compatiblity, and differing interpretations of the spec by compilers and developers. Then it becomes no longer simple.
My judgement is, simple things should have simple codes.
Of course, what do "simple" means is always subject to debate, as discussed in the article.
Is it simple to read by human? read by machine? debug?
In Chinese it is more like 2012Y 6M 4D in both speaking and formal writing (no comma!). For speaking, the day 4th when by itself is usually called the "4 no." to distinguish from "4 days" and "the 4th day (of other thing else)". If month and day are mentioned together, it is also not uncommon to further shorten it to 6M4, especially when it's in (Chinese) lunar calendar. Meanwhile, for modern memorial date, like the event this time, it is often shortened (again!) and codified to 6 4, or 8 9 6 4.
Now you know why 64.89 triggered the censor alarm.
There are already too many stupid gadgets in blue since the advancement of blue LED. Blue light disrupt sleeping cycle and irritate my eyes. Be friendly and give me a softer light please. (Since it is probably done in LED) Amber or green would be great, just don't use blue.
Your concept of "retirement ages too young" is flawed.
There are only so much jobs. No matter how willing to work peoples are, the overall amount of money employees can get per population won't increase, except by inflation. Elders retire later, young getting jobs harder. Upon more and more automation, jobs that actually produce products for necessary consumptions decrease. Riches that control natural resources drip less and less water down to the public.
Therefore, telling people to retire later helps nothing. Really nothing. It's about resources distributions and redistributions.
And the good people behind LibreOffice still can't figure out why anyone wouldn't want a free office suite.
That's sad but true. Although the LibreOffice looks as if there is a macro function, there is just plainly no documentation for people to write custom code! Oh sorry, there's documentation for the BASIC language, but not the API to access the spreadsheet...
But if they use a disc format proprietary enough, it may be so incompatible to DVD and Blu-way that disc copying is prohibitively expensive. At least not doable at home.
The problem with that solution, is that it give no protection against "man in the middle" attack.
Please elaborate, as I have not suggested any changes in the protocol (yet). I am merely asking browsers to present things more accurately, closer to the truth, not "see the little lock then you are safe" stuff. Also not over-reactive to outdated/self-signed cert.
If you went to a site with a cert signed by those big companies, those sites are trusted with no questions. If a site don't want to pay and use a self-signed cert instead? Wow, the end-user are warned as if it is more dangerous than plain HTTP site!
A more rational mechanism should be telling users the truth honestly, i.e. "this site's traffic is encrypted and the authority is promised by xxx.com, or if self-signed, self-proclaimed". Those big companies aren't that trustful, they are just lucky enough to gain an early seat into the root cert trust list in the dawn of internet.
Ultimately, not everyone can get a job, and it may not be their personal faults.
When technology advances, old jobs are eliminated and new jobs are created. But one day, there won't be enough new jobs to fill the hole. Machines and now, computers, replaced manual labours one by one. Capitalism will fail. And a significant amount of people will be born to live by social welfare, not because they are lazy, but because they have no choices.
Any currencies can be destroyed by abandonment, there are no differences to that. It's just that government-backed currency usually won't be abandoned by the issuing government.
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For those who said such an implementation has its legitimate use:
It is stupid. Period.
Write a simple "onclick" javascript, and the webpage can ping back all external links to its own server for whatever statistics purpose. Using redirect links for statistical purpose is NEVER necessary.
Also, waiting for those slow servers to reponse and redirect their redirection link is annoying. Just give me the site I am going to anyway please!
That depends on how fast it's going. . .
True when the car is rock solid.
(Yes, I hate superman movies, as when a lorry hits him, he should be moved backwards, unless he's of enormous mass, in which case he should collapse any floor he walks upon, etc. etc.)
Superman can fly with no air pushed backward. So he is using his mystical flying power, not his mass, to stop the lorry.
Flywheel is less efficient weight-wise. To re-balance a 8kg robot (or even heavier model later) falling upside down, how heavy / how fast must the flywheel be?
Tail can be further improved by giving it more angles of freedom. We can also let it be able to coil up. Hard to beat tail.
"This agreement shall be effective from the date it is made and shall continue in force for a period of five (5) years from the date it is made, and thereafter for successive five (5) year terms, unless and until terminated by one year prior notice in writing by either party."
Rogers Communications believed the placement of the second comma stated the contract was good for at least five years, while Bell Aliant said the comma indicated the deal could be terminated before if one year's notice was given.
It is an example of why long sentences are bad. If a sentence is too long for verbal conversations, it is likely also too long for written materials, if one care clarity.
The inconsistency of English grammar is also its strength. While English grammar is indeed a hybrid monster, it is also "familiar enough" for everyone from the world to adopt.
Meanwhile, "simplified Chinese" is definitely a stupid move forced upon peoples by the Chinese Communist Party. The non-phoenetic nature of Chinese writing is what glues the East Asia peoples together over 2 millieniums. Everyone can read a piece of writing in their own topographs without feeling alienated, even if some of them are incomprehensible to each other. Combining "hour" and "our" is stupid. Yes, chairman Mao is stupid.
It's "break the senetence", not "break the grammar". Writing a super long sentence, even when grammatically correct, is crazy and for legalese only: they earn more money when only they, not us, understand what the law is saying.
And your teacher's argument is lame. Zero grammar mistakes does not imply zero ambiguity.
Not that China already have a lot of nearly mutually exclusive dialects...
Out of interest, what languages do you think are simple?
Requirement 1:
When the task complexity increases, the code complexity should NEVER increases superlinearly. Less than linear will be good if achieveable.
Requirement 2:
A program that run okay once, shall run okay ALWAYS. No subtlety induced by the language itself should be there.
Requirement 3:
(For general purpose language) If compilers/interpreters for the language cannot be "simple", then the language itself cannot.
The first general purpose computer language I learned is Pascal. Today I still like it the most. It works, and it is predictable.
But then they forgot one thing: NEVER underestimate humans stupidity.
If it gains traction, then it will have to deal with feature creep (keeping up with the new hot languages), standard library bloat, backward compatiblity, and differing interpretations of the spec by compilers and developers. Then it becomes no longer simple.
My judgement is, simple things should have simple codes.
Of course, what do "simple" means is always subject to debate, as discussed in the article.
Is it simple to read by human? read by machine? debug?
Sorry. In my head, "simple" and java is incompatible.
In Chinese it is more like 2012Y 6M 4D in both speaking and formal writing (no comma!). For speaking, the day 4th when by itself is usually called the "4 no." to distinguish from "4 days" and "the 4th day (of other thing else)". If month and day are mentioned together, it is also not uncommon to further shorten it to 6M4, especially when it's in (Chinese) lunar calendar. Meanwhile, for modern memorial date, like the event this time, it is often shortened (again!) and codified to 6 4, or 8 9 6 4.
Now you know why 64.89 triggered the censor alarm.
Mod parent up. Slashdot made a serious mistake in the video. There is no side-strap for this launch. Pick a correct animation next time please.
Cog = COnfiG
There are already too many stupid gadgets in blue since the advancement of blue LED. Blue light disrupt sleeping cycle and irritate my eyes. Be friendly and give me a softer light please. (Since it is probably done in LED) Amber or green would be great, just don't use blue.
Your concept of "retirement ages too young" is flawed.
There are only so much jobs. No matter how willing to work peoples are, the overall amount of money employees can get per population won't increase, except by inflation. Elders retire later, young getting jobs harder. Upon more and more automation, jobs that actually produce products for necessary consumptions decrease. Riches that control natural resources drip less and less water down to the public.
Therefore, telling people to retire later helps nothing. Really nothing. It's about resources distributions and redistributions.
I actually met someone in IT who wrote code using Word...
I wonder if it is VBScript? :)
And the good people behind LibreOffice still can't figure out why anyone wouldn't want a free office suite.
That's sad but true. Although the LibreOffice looks as if there is a macro function, there is just plainly no documentation for people to write custom code! Oh sorry, there's documentation for the BASIC language, but not the API to access the spreadsheet...
But if they use a disc format proprietary enough, it may be so incompatible to DVD and Blu-way that disc copying is prohibitively expensive. At least not doable at home.
Like Water Dam?
The problem with that solution, is that it give no protection against "man in the middle" attack.
Please elaborate, as I have not suggested any changes in the protocol (yet). I am merely asking browsers to present things more accurately, closer to the truth, not "see the little lock then you are safe" stuff. Also not over-reactive to outdated/self-signed cert.
If you went to a site with a cert signed by those big companies, those sites are trusted with no questions. If a site don't want to pay and use a self-signed cert instead? Wow, the end-user are warned as if it is more dangerous than plain HTTP site!
A more rational mechanism should be telling users the truth honestly, i.e. "this site's traffic is encrypted and the authority is promised by xxx.com, or if self-signed, self-proclaimed". Those big companies aren't that trustful, they are just lucky enough to gain an early seat into the root cert trust list in the dawn of internet.
Ultimately, not everyone can get a job, and it may not be their personal faults.
When technology advances, old jobs are eliminated and new jobs are created. But one day, there won't be enough new jobs to fill the hole. Machines and now, computers, replaced manual labours one by one. Capitalism will fail. And a significant amount of people will be born to live by social welfare, not because they are lazy, but because they have no choices.
Any currencies can be destroyed by abandonment, there are no differences to that. It's just that government-backed currency usually won't be abandoned by the issuing government.