I know right? I mean if I came and dropped a chest full of gold on your porch you'd be complaining immediately and demanding I pay the tab for hauling that crap away!
"If someone wants to use bitcoin to transfer money then there is a relatively small risk there but you'd have to be pretty dumb to just buy and hold bitcoins for any substantial length of time."
Bitcoin swings but has historically bubbled and crashed with each bubble peaking over the previous. Smooth our those peaks and valleys and you have a constant upward progression.
The greeks have looked toward bitcoin in the past. It seems reasonable they will do so again. Being concerned about an economic collapse is not the same as being concerned an apocalypse crash of technology will happen.
That 1 in 5 is very heavily weighted toward people under 40 and almost everyone under 35 has a tattoo. This should raise the same privacy flags as facial recognition imho and should be illegal everywhere it's illegal to use facial recognition without explicit consent.
Programs definitely run faster with divide by zero errors. They stop pretty much immediately!
The ideal would probably be to have it be a flag a developer can toggle. Either divide by zero is an error (used for debugging) or divide by zero is effectively no operation, returning the original value.
6/0 means no division occurred so the answer is 6.
People will get all stuck on what is mathematically correct. They are missing the point. The point is what happens in my program and for that we need to go to the parent of math. Mathematics are a system of logical abstraction. If I have two coconuts and take one away I have 2 coconuts, logically the same must be true of apples or oranges or fingers and therefore I can predict results using my fingers.
Here is my hypothesis. Anything divided by itself is one. Anything divided by one is itself. Anything divided by nothing has not been divided at all and therefore is unchanged. In kind, the reverse is true, anything multiplied by 0 has not been multiplied and therefore is unchanged. Let's look and see.
Multiplication is addition. Division is subtraction. Let's start with multiplication and show the addition. 2*2 = 4 0+2+2 = 4 Why the zero? Because the second number in multiplication is shorthand for a sequence of +x repetitions. Since this is our first operation, the zero represents the value we had prior to the first operation.
2*1 = 2 0 + 2 = 2
2*0 = 0 0 = 0 As I mentioned above. Prior to the operation we had a value of zero, now we still do.
What about 0*2*3? This is two operations. 0*2*3 = 0 0+0+0 = 0 (first zero is the starting value) 0*3 0+0+0+0 = 0
What about 2*3*0? Does it break things due to a starting value? Again, two operations. 0+2+2+2 = 6 6*0 = 0 0 = 0 Still no. Every sequence of multiplications is broken into individual multiplications and the starting value is ALWAYS 0.
Now for division. In division we do something different. We are chopping something up into slices. Whereas multiplication is an operation that always starts with 0. Division is an operation that can start with anything.
6/2 = 3 pieces of 2 6/1 = 6 pieces of 1 6/0 = 6
6/1 and 6/0 may give the same result but there IS a difference. Let's say we have a pile of skittles and I counted them by 1's. I've pulled 6 skittles out, one by one, and ended with a pile of 6 skittles. That is 6/1. Now let's say we have a pile of 6 skittles and don't pull any out. That's 6/0.
Multiplication is a repeated sequence of additions, zero either means you are adding nothing or that the number of additions to make is 0, thereby leaving something untouched those are two different things but both result in 0. Division is taking something and splitting it apart. 0 either means you are starting with nothing or you are indicating not to divide it at all. Thus 0/0 = 0 and 0 * 0 = 0.
Mono has and always will have a subset of the functionality and ecosystem available to.Net windows developers. If a developer builds their skills around.Net using mono it's only a matter of time before the benefits of using.Net on that platform outweigh the benefits of using Linux for that developer, that project, that company. Sooner or later more jobs being available for those with.net skillsets on windows or higher paying jobs will mean mono developers taking those jobs which leads to more professional experience on that platform and rinse and repeat.
Mono is a sinkhole designed to drain developers away from Linux. Stay away from traps, use tools that provide superior capabilities on your already superior platform and build your skills and experience on those.
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I know right? I mean if I came and dropped a chest full of gold on your porch you'd be complaining immediately and demanding I pay the tab for hauling that crap away!
"If someone wants to use bitcoin to transfer money then there is a relatively small risk there but you'd have to be pretty dumb to just buy and hold bitcoins for any substantial length of time."
Bitcoin swings but has historically bubbled and crashed with each bubble peaking over the previous. Smooth our those peaks and valleys and you have a constant upward progression.
agreed the greeks definitely handled credit poorly. On the other hand they were fine before the Euro.
The greeks have looked toward bitcoin in the past. It seems reasonable they will do so again. Being concerned about an economic collapse is not the same as being concerned an apocalypse crash of technology will happen.
That 1 in 5 is very heavily weighted toward people under 40 and almost everyone under 35 has a tattoo. This should raise the same privacy flags as facial recognition imho and should be illegal everywhere it's illegal to use facial recognition without explicit consent.
In what way is this a troll?
Programs definitely run faster with divide by zero errors. They stop pretty much immediately!
The ideal would probably be to have it be a flag a developer can toggle. Either divide by zero is an error (used for debugging) or divide by zero is effectively no operation, returning the original value.
6/0 means no division occurred so the answer is 6.
People will get all stuck on what is mathematically correct. They are missing the point. The point is what happens in my program and for that we need to go to the parent of math. Mathematics are a system of logical abstraction. If I have two coconuts and take one away I have 2 coconuts, logically the same must be true of apples or oranges or fingers and therefore I can predict results using my fingers.
Here is my hypothesis. Anything divided by itself is one. Anything divided by one is itself. Anything divided by nothing has not been divided at all and therefore is unchanged. In kind, the reverse is true, anything multiplied by 0 has not been multiplied and therefore is unchanged. Let's look and see.
Multiplication is addition. Division is subtraction. Let's start with multiplication and show the addition.
2*2 = 4
0+2+2 = 4
Why the zero? Because the second number in multiplication is shorthand for a sequence of +x repetitions. Since this is our first operation, the zero represents the value we had prior to the first operation.
2*1 = 2
0 + 2 = 2
2*0 = 0
0 = 0
As I mentioned above. Prior to the operation we had a value of zero, now we still do.
What about 0*2*3?
This is two operations.
0*2*3 = 0
0+0+0 = 0 (first zero is the starting value)
0*3
0+0+0+0 = 0
What about 2*3*0? Does it break things due to a starting value?
Again, two operations.
0+2+2+2 = 6
6*0 = 0
0 = 0
Still no. Every sequence of multiplications is broken into individual multiplications and the starting value is ALWAYS 0.
Now for division. In division we do something different. We are chopping something up into slices. Whereas multiplication is an operation that always starts with 0. Division is an operation that can start with anything.
6/2 = 3 pieces of 2
6/1 = 6 pieces of 1
6/0 = 6
6/1 and 6/0 may give the same result but there IS a difference. Let's say we have a pile of skittles and I counted them by 1's. I've pulled 6 skittles out, one by one, and ended with a pile of 6 skittles. That is 6/1. Now let's say we have a pile of 6 skittles and don't pull any out. That's 6/0.
Multiplication is a repeated sequence of additions, zero either means you are adding nothing or that the number of additions to make is 0, thereby leaving something untouched those are two different things but both result in 0. Division is taking something and splitting it apart. 0 either means you are starting with nothing or you are indicating not to divide it at all. Thus 0/0 = 0 and 0 * 0 = 0.
Just my 2 cents.
It's covered by logic. To divide by nothing is to not have divided. Therefore anything divided by 0 would be itself.
It doesn't matter if the usage is good or bad. If IMAX doesn't defend the trademark it gets diluted and becomes more difficult to defend in court.
Mono has and always will have a subset of the functionality and ecosystem available to .Net windows developers. If a developer builds their skills around .Net using mono it's only a matter of time before the benefits of using .Net on that platform outweigh the benefits of using Linux for that developer, that project, that company. Sooner or later more jobs being available for those with .net skillsets on windows or higher paying jobs will mean mono developers taking those jobs which leads to more professional experience on that platform and rinse and repeat.
Mono is a sinkhole designed to drain developers away from Linux. Stay away from traps, use tools that provide superior capabilities on your already superior platform and build your skills and experience on those.