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  1. Re:What does it say about you? on Does Using an AOL Email Address Suggest You're a Tech Dinosaur? · · Score: 1

    I tried to use it just yesterday on the latest Mac Pro available. It was unusable crap. Bing maps behaved much better.

  2. Re:What does it say about you? on Does Using an AOL Email Address Suggest You're a Tech Dinosaur? · · Score: 1

    When I was at Ford, up until a few years ago, the limit was around 100MB. Disk space isn't actually as cheap as you think it is, especially if there are laws dictating what and when you can delete emails. Additionally, neither Ford nor HP are in the business of providing email service, so there's no reason to offer unlimited storage. The webmail providers data mine the hell out of those emails. The more, the better.

  3. Re:Nope. Not happening. on Is Big Data Leaving Hadoop Behind? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Go kill yourself. And your parents, for not aborting you when they had the chance.

  4. Re:rather expected on Third Bangladeshi Blogger Murdered In As Many Months · · Score: 1

    Christianity was there not-so-long ago.

    I bolded the keyword for you. Even if Christians were doing this today that would not excuse Muslims. But when the rest of the World's religions have pretty much given up on this kind of behavior, it's really not much to ask that Islam grow up already. Their religion isn't that much younger than Christianity.

  5. Re:rather expected on Third Bangladeshi Blogger Murdered In As Many Months · · Score: 1

    When I was in HS, I had a math teacher who is black. He, at the time, had 2 women he was paying child support payments to, which is why he was working a second teaching job at a religious private HS. PPH clinics in minority (read: black) neighborhoods makes sense.

  6. Re:rather expected on Third Bangladeshi Blogger Murdered In As Many Months · · Score: 1

    You have a rather ignorant view of Christianity if you can equate Jesus and the Pedophile with regards to founding a religion. For one, Jesus may not have existed. Two, if he did, he was preaching to Jews, and not actually trying to form a religion. The Apostles created Christianity. Jesus was no more than a figurehead.

  7. Re:Controversial because? on Bill Gates Still Trying To Buy Some Common Core Testing Love · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with polygamy? Just makes sure your wives don't live together, or their periods will synchronise. Talk about living Hell!

  8. Waste of money on How Responsible Are App Developers For Decisions Their Users Make? · · Score: 1

    Information Builders is not getting their money's worth out of this idiot.

    Thus, the creators of the app have an ethical obligation to ensure that people can reach the right conclusions from the facts and the way they are presented in the app.

    Who decides what the right conclusion is? Why waste time and money creating an app if you already know the "right" conclusion; just send it to all employees via a one-time email.

  9. Re:More hoops before travelling through USA on Judge: Warrantless Airport Seizure of Laptop 'Cannot Be Justified' · · Score: 1

    You can adjust your W-2 (is that the right form?) so that you don't have any (Federal) income tax withheld. I don't think you can do that for other deductions, though.

  10. Re:More hoops before travelling through USA on Judge: Warrantless Airport Seizure of Laptop 'Cannot Be Justified' · · Score: 2

    No longer true. In recent years the US has started going after non-residents who don't file.

  11. Re:More hoops before travelling through USA on Judge: Warrantless Airport Seizure of Laptop 'Cannot Be Justified' · · Score: 1

    That's not true. Many countries have a reciprocal tax treaty with the US. I live in Israel. If I don't file, the IRS can request that my assets in Israel be frozen. On the flip-side, because I earn all my income in Israel and pay local taxes, I don't owe anything to the US, unless I earn a ridiculously high amount. I actually get a refund every year for my daughter, until she hits 18, of course.

  12. Re:More hoops before travelling through USA on Judge: Warrantless Airport Seizure of Laptop 'Cannot Be Justified' · · Score: 1

    That is not true. The US requires you file income taxes. I pay nothing. I actually receive the child credit for my daughter, so I am literally getting $1000/yr just for filing.

  13. Re:Great. Let's sit here and wait for the next wav on Ice Loss In West Antarctica Is Speeding Up · · Score: 1

    It's hard to pick a fight after it's started.

  14. Re:Replace C? on Swift Vs. Objective-C: Why the Future Favors Swift · · Score: 1

    I take it you've never worked on an app with a well-defined logic layer. Apple writes a lot of C++ themselves, and they're not concerned about portability beyond OS X and iOS.

  15. Re:Swift is not ready to replace ObjC on Swift Vs. Objective-C: Why the Future Favors Swift · · Score: 1

    A significant, though perhaps still minor, portion of Cocoa Touch is also written in (Objective-)C++.

  16. Re:I disagree on Swift Vs. Objective-C: Why the Future Favors Swift · · Score: 1

    I like syntactical shortcuts too. Apple has added many to Objective-C over the years, and I have welcomed all of them. However, there is still a single style. For any particular feature, there's one syntax that works. Contrast with Swift. Even if you learn only one style and stick with that until you're comfortable, it's hard to learn from others because code can be in so many different styles. If you hit a shortcut you're not familiar with, you hit an obstacle. By definition, a path with obstacles is not "approachable". Swift has a too many such obstacles, in my opinion.

    Your point about private categories is an issue of style, not syntax. If you learn about categories, you understand the syntax wherever you see it; it's always the same.

  17. Re:On iOS platforms. on Swift Vs. Objective-C: Why the Future Favors Swift · · Score: 1

    Why would they do that? Preventing new app submissions (including updates to existing apps) from linking to the ObjC runtime is a lot different than not including the runtime with the OS.

    Also, someone else pointed out that even Swift apps link to the ObjC runtime. I don't know if that's true for pure Swift apps, but either way, it's extremely unlikely that Apple will stop including the runtime.

  18. Re:Swift is destroying Rust. on Swift Vs. Objective-C: Why the Future Favors Swift · · Score: 1

    Swift can also interop with C, but it's ugly.

  19. Political Correctness on World Health Organization Has New Rules For Avoiding Offensive Names · · Score: 1

    What about renaming political correctness disease to something less offensive, or at least more accurate?

  20. Re:On iOS platforms. on Swift Vs. Objective-C: Why the Future Favors Swift · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How should Apple be able to force you to use one or the other?

    should or could?

    Apple can easily do both.

    should: because Apple says so, and they control the App Store. Apple doesn't have to give a reason other than deprecation.

    could: compiled swift code looks different than objective-C code. It also links against the swift runtime and not the objective-C runtime. It's not hard to tell the difference.

  21. Re:More approachable? on Swift Vs. Objective-C: Why the Future Favors Swift · · Score: 1

    Correction to the correction:

    unwrapping

    I didn't get much sleep.

  22. Re:More approachable? on Swift Vs. Objective-C: Why the Future Favors Swift · · Score: 0

    Minor correction:

    optionals, including binding and implicit and explicit wrapping

  23. More approachable? on Swift Vs. Objective-C: Why the Future Favors Swift · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I don't know how this idea started, but only a non-programmer could think Swift is more approachable than Objective-C. Swift is way more complicated and has more fundamentals that must be understood.

    let versus var
    optionals, including implicit and explicit binding
    differences between structs and classes (value versus reference)
    generics
    different ways of specifying parameters, including named and unnamed parameters
    property declarations, including a multitude of shortcuts

    The problem is, if you don't learn most of the syntax in all its variety, you'll have a hard time understanding any random code you come across. Learning by example helps make a language approachable.

  24. Re:all of us are going to die on The Challenge of Web Hosting Once You're Dead · · Score: 2

    You completely and utterly fail at both logic and reading comprehension.

    Let me spell it out for you, because you are stupid:

    No one who is currently alive has ever died. There are over 6 billion people living today, hence there are over 6 billion people who have never died.

  25. Re:Um.. Why? on Prison Messaging System JPay Withdraws Copyright Claims · · Score: 1

    Funny. I am a practicing Jew, and I have never heard of a book that promoted all of those things.