Have you thought about whose interests, empty slogans like "TAKE BACK CONTROL", and dog-whistle racism benefits?
Yes, this country is overflowing with idiots, and the oligarchs (British, American AND Russian) are laughing all the way to the bank.
These same idiots don't see that it was partially a Russian power-play to attack the EU, which it resents for what it sees as muscling in on its traditional "sphere of influence" (countries who got sick of being raped to death, figuratively and literally, by the Russians, and fled to the West at the first opportunity). Russia has a long memory and is out to get us. Why do you think they were cheering and toasting when the Brexit vote came through?? Because they are about what's good for Britain??
I know this site strongly leans libertarian, but you've got to realize the scale of the threat from our enemies, how slick their propaganda and subversion is, and how unrealistic it is to expect the majority of our citizens to get media-literate in a timely way before the Russians cause our society to implode.
The West is under massive assault by people who want to see us gone. Russia is out for revenge for the 1990s, and they WILL NOT STOP until we stop them, or our cities are ablaze. We've already our out equivalent of Yeltsin in the White House, and we've already seen a litany of political attacks on the European Union from the Russian side.
The Russians engineered Brexit with the help of traitors like Aaron Banks and Nigel Farage. You can bet the British government knows this, and understand the scale and seriousness of the Russian threat.
Those of you whining about British 'fascism' had better get a reality check. A completely unfettered Internet lets our adversaries pump all sorts of propaganda and astroturf into our discourse, and it's so bad, it's threatening the value of objective news itself. Putin loathes us, and is out to destroy us, and yet his useful-idiots and thralls here want to keep the doors open to Russian information war on the West.
Get a reality check. The word is a hostile place and getting worse. We must give ourselves to tools to defend ourselves against those who would wish us harm.
What about all the land you're stealing off Georgia, as you move your borders in South Ossetia and Abkhazia? Or how you sent soldiers to steal Crimia off another nation-state? Or how you're stealing Donbass? Or your countless 'frozen' conflicts (colour-revolutions by another name)?
When was the last time the US actually annexed land? It's been centuries.
Seriously, fuck off with your apologist bullshit, troll.
As much as it pains me to say, it's Obama's weakness which caused this. Obama should've come down on Putin and his entourage like a ton of bricks at the first sign of misbehaviour.
PNG'ing 35 Russian spies today is too little, too late. He should've done that the second it was clear that the traitor Snowden was defecting to Moscow.
If anything, Obama's forfeited his Peace Prize, by emboldening the vile dictator of Russia. Putin is a savage, and savages respect strength, but viscerally despise weakness.
The favourite trick of the Russian and Chinese' so-called 'internet warriors'.
Pro tip, fellas: Just because somebody else is abusive, doesn't make what you're doing right either, and DOESN'T get you off the hook re: criticism of your own greedy, disgusting, violent and hypocritical behaviour.
China and Russia should worry about the log in their own fucking eye, before point at the speck in somebody else's.
It couldn't have surely escaped notice that Wikileaks have been selectively damaging Russia's perceived opponents, and not hurting any of their friends for years.
As for Snowden: we know the Russian security apparatus are gunning for the NSA (and the Equation Group); and that murderous Sunni Islamist thugs everywhere "went dark" after Snowden's irresponsible escapades. Snowden has a fuckton of Western blood on his hands, and a LOT of explaining to do. If he had any loyalty and personal integrity at all, he'd go home and get his day in court.
You who support these "anti-secrets" nutters need to take a really, really hard look at yourselves. Don't think for a minute that the Russians have your best interests at heart -- because they don't. They want to see us beaten and humiliated, just as the neocons beat and humiliated Russia after 1989 -- and YOU'RE enabling it.
The biggest news in Java 8, obviously, are lambdas, but they also fit together with functional interfaces and java.util.stream.Stream to really change the way you build stuff in Java.
I'm absolutely loving, after making use of Java 8 streams, just how clean, succinct and compact a lot of my new code has become.
Oh -- and yes -- Java now has monads:
public String getLastFour(Optional employee) { return employee.flatMap(employee -> employee.getPrimaryAddress()) .flatMap(address -> address.getZipCode()) .flatMap(zip -> zip.getLastFour()) .orElseThrow(() -> new FMLException("Missing data"));
(Now if only they borrowed a bit more heavily from Scala or even C#: stuff like a Try monad, tuples and tuple destructuring and proper pattern matching (like C# is getting) would be awesome. Although given the glacial pace of standardization in Java-land, I'm not holding my breath.)
The military have been killing people with flying drones and bomb disposal robots for ages. Why is this suddenly a problem? Lethal force is lethal force, regardless of whether or not there is a human body 3ft behind the device doing the killing or not.
Story smells like yet another clickbait beatup written by some clueless media-studies dilettante. Why are we wasting our time even discussing this?
Swagger's the RESTful web service equivalent of WSDL. It isn't quite as featureful, but is quite a bit nicer to read. Also, many web apps embed Swagger UI, which gives you a nice way to browse and play with your web service endpoints. The quality of the tools in the Swagger universe are mixed to say the least -- Swagger UI and Swagger Editor are really quite nice. Swagger Code Generator, in my experience, is not so good.
Wasn't there some deal floated, where they'd do penance in the US, by committing to electrifying most of their car fleet?
I would absolutely love to see this, just to show the world that the West can still do great things, and to punish the Gulf Arabs, who are after millenia, still attacking, robbing and white-anting us at every opportunity. We have better uses for all that money, and it's better spent on ourselves, rather than propping up shit countries and shit cultures.
I wouldn't be so sure about this. Unless you're comparing businesses from a similar culture.
E.g. in Japan, presenteeism is an issue. People might be at the office for huge hours, but much of that time is spent fucking about rather than focusing on work. OTOH, in countries like Germany, if you don't get your work done in the allocated 8 hours, you're considered weak and incompetent.
Culture matters here, but also, it's up to the local leadership to set the tone. Some workplaces just have dumber managers who measure the wrong things when understanding developers' productivity. These same workplaces might also embrace technologies/approaches which destroy programmer productivity too (e.g. overreliance on online chat and emails, expecting devs to be preemptable at any time, etc etc).
I would wager it's exactly the same reason why so many nerds I went to university with turned into raving, foam-at-the-mouth libertarians:
Wahhabism/Qutbism is yet another simple, crude world view, which makes sense to smart minority kids who have to deal with adversity and petty racism that most Slashdotters don't have to deal with. Never mind the fact that it's wrong.... seeing yourself as a king who is being held down by people you see as culturally and religiously inferior to yourself (and then getting a license to rape and murder at will) has a lot of appeal to impressionable young minds.
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You've been played -- big time.
Have you thought about whose interests, empty slogans like "TAKE BACK CONTROL", and dog-whistle racism benefits?
Yes, this country is overflowing with idiots, and the oligarchs (British, American AND Russian) are laughing all the way to the bank.
These same idiots don't see that it was partially a Russian power-play to attack the EU, which it resents for what it sees as muscling in on its traditional "sphere of influence" (countries who got sick of being raped to death, figuratively and literally, by the Russians, and fled to the West at the first opportunity). Russia has a long memory and is out to get us. Why do you think they were cheering and toasting when the Brexit vote came through?? Because they are about what's good for Britain??
I know this site strongly leans libertarian, but you've got to realize the scale of the threat from our enemies, how slick their propaganda and subversion is, and how unrealistic it is to expect the majority of our citizens to get media-literate in a timely way before the Russians cause our society to implode.
The West is under massive assault by people who want to see us gone. Russia is out for revenge for the 1990s, and they WILL NOT STOP until we stop them, or our cities are ablaze. We've already our out equivalent of Yeltsin in the White House, and we've already seen a litany of political attacks on the European Union from the Russian side.
The Russians engineered Brexit with the help of traitors like Aaron Banks and Nigel Farage. You can bet the British government knows this, and understand the scale and seriousness of the Russian threat.
Those of you whining about British 'fascism' had better get a reality check. A completely unfettered Internet lets our adversaries pump all sorts of propaganda and astroturf into our discourse, and it's so bad, it's threatening the value of objective news itself. Putin loathes us, and is out to destroy us, and yet his useful-idiots and thralls here want to keep the doors open to Russian information war on the West.
Get a reality check. The word is a hostile place and getting worse. We must give ourselves to tools to defend ourselves against those who would wish us harm.
Stupid vatnik. Done with the hair rinse yet?
What about all the land you're stealing off Georgia, as you move your borders in South Ossetia and Abkhazia? Or how you sent soldiers to steal Crimia off another nation-state? Or how you're stealing Donbass? Or your countless 'frozen' conflicts (colour-revolutions by another name)?
When was the last time the US actually annexed land? It's been centuries.
Seriously, fuck off with your apologist bullshit, troll.
We most certainly do.
Get some perspective. Putin murders and steals far more indiscriminately than any Western leader in living memory.
Whataboutery is a surefire "tell" for Putinbot activity.
You guys really should lift your game.
As much as it pains me to say, it's Obama's weakness which caused this. Obama should've come down on Putin and his entourage like a ton of bricks at the first sign of misbehaviour.
PNG'ing 35 Russian spies today is too little, too late. He should've done that the second it was clear that the traitor Snowden was defecting to Moscow.
If anything, Obama's forfeited his Peace Prize, by emboldening the vile dictator of Russia. Putin is a savage, and savages respect strength, but viscerally despise weakness.
The motherfucking RUSSIANS are stirring up anti-Russian sentiment.
Don't want people to hate you? Stop stealing land, stop murdering people, and stop fucking lying about it.
So you don't think that stealing land and mass-murdering people is Nazi-like behaviour?
Too bad our Slavic brothers in the Kremlin don't treat us Europeans as anything but enemies, or cattle to be subjugated and exploited.
Any mention of "Victoria Nuland" Ukrainian "Nazis", "George Soros" and "color revolutions" are classic 'tells' of Russian propaganda, I find.
It's so reliable, that it wouldn't surprise me at all if you could reliably train a deep learning model to spot it easily.
Whataboutery.
The favourite trick of the Russian and Chinese' so-called 'internet warriors'.
Pro tip, fellas: Just because somebody else is abusive, doesn't make what you're doing right either, and DOESN'T get you off the hook re: criticism of your own greedy, disgusting, violent and hypocritical behaviour.
China and Russia should worry about the log in their own fucking eye, before point at the speck in somebody else's.
Spotted the wumao.
It couldn't have surely escaped notice that Wikileaks have been selectively damaging Russia's perceived opponents, and not hurting any of their friends for years.
As for Snowden: we know the Russian security apparatus are gunning for the NSA (and the Equation Group); and that murderous Sunni Islamist thugs everywhere "went dark" after Snowden's irresponsible escapades. Snowden has a fuckton of Western blood on his hands, and a LOT of explaining to do. If he had any loyalty and personal integrity at all, he'd go home and get his day in court.
You who support these "anti-secrets" nutters need to take a really, really hard look at yourselves. Don't think for a minute that the Russians have your best interests at heart -- because they don't. They want to see us beaten and humiliated, just as the neocons beat and humiliated Russia after 1989 -- and YOU'RE enabling it.
These stupid vatniks didn't realistically expect that their dirty and unsavoury tactics against the West wouldn't be repaid in kind, did they?
The biggest news in Java 8, obviously, are lambdas, but they also fit together with functional interfaces and java.util.stream.Stream to really change the way you build stuff in Java.
I'm absolutely loving, after making use of Java 8 streams, just how clean, succinct and compact a lot of my new code has become.
Oh -- and yes -- Java now has monads:
public String getLastFour(Optional employee) {
return employee.flatMap(employee -> employee.getPrimaryAddress())
}
See here
(Now if only they borrowed a bit more heavily from Scala or even C#: stuff like a Try monad, tuples and tuple destructuring and proper pattern matching (like C# is getting) would be awesome. Although given the glacial pace of standardization in Java-land, I'm not holding my breath.)
The military have been killing people with flying drones and bomb disposal robots for ages. Why is this suddenly a problem? Lethal force is lethal force, regardless of whether or not there is a human body 3ft behind the device doing the killing or not.
Story smells like yet another clickbait beatup written by some clueless media-studies dilettante. Why are we wasting our time even discussing this?
Sure you've never seen Swagger UI before? Because just about everyone I've spoke to who's ever dabbled in server-side development is familiar with it:
Demo: http://petstore.swagger.io/
Swagger's the RESTful web service equivalent of WSDL. It isn't quite as featureful, but is quite a bit nicer to read. Also, many web apps embed Swagger UI, which gives you a nice way to browse and play with your web service endpoints. The quality of the tools in the Swagger universe are mixed to say the least -- Swagger UI and Swagger Editor are really quite nice. Swagger Code Generator, in my experience, is not so good.
Specifically, Swagger Code Generator, which FWIW, is a bit crap to begin with.
Wasn't there some deal floated, where they'd do penance in the US, by committing to electrifying most of their car fleet?
I would absolutely love to see this, just to show the world that the West can still do great things, and to punish the Gulf Arabs, who are after millenia, still attacking, robbing and white-anting us at every opportunity. We have better uses for all that money, and it's better spent on ourselves, rather than propping up shit countries and shit cultures.
I'm not a Jew, you vile, hypocritical racist. Fuck off and die please.
This hypocritical, racist screed smacks of Muslim Jew-envy.
You wouldn't be Muslim by any chance?
Dunno about you, but I'm paid to deliver value. Putting in hours by themselves is not that useful.
I wouldn't be so sure about this. Unless you're comparing businesses from a similar culture.
E.g. in Japan, presenteeism is an issue. People might be at the office for huge hours, but much of that time is spent fucking about rather than focusing on work. OTOH, in countries like Germany, if you don't get your work done in the allocated 8 hours, you're considered weak and incompetent.
Culture matters here, but also, it's up to the local leadership to set the tone. Some workplaces just have dumber managers who measure the wrong things when understanding developers' productivity. These same workplaces might also embrace technologies/approaches which destroy programmer productivity too (e.g. overreliance on online chat and emails, expecting devs to be preemptable at any time, etc etc).
I would wager it's exactly the same reason why so many nerds I went to university with turned into raving, foam-at-the-mouth libertarians:
Wahhabism/Qutbism is yet another simple, crude world view, which makes sense to smart minority kids who have to deal with adversity and petty racism that most Slashdotters don't have to deal with. Never mind the fact that it's wrong.... seeing yourself as a king who is being held down by people you see as culturally and religiously inferior to yourself (and then getting a license to rape and murder at will) has a lot of appeal to impressionable young minds.