It really depends on the algorithm. This is apparently about the type of language used, not the opinions expressed. If the algorithm mostly removes one word replies like "Fucktard", and leaves in place "I respectfully disagree with you that Mr Trump's policies will have the effect you describe", then, well, it's fine. What's the problem?
What I find interesting right now is that the word "Toxic" is used to describe the kinds of comments that'll be removed, and immediately rather a lot of people on Slashdot (not you) immediately assume it's anything that's anti-StrawJW.
Kinda tells you something about the people who use the term "SJW" to describe opponents of their own beliefs, doesn't it.
Given Go is a mainstream language without anything unusual about it, and given that's pretty much well known, I'd say most programmers wouldn't consider it a barrier. The programmers that do? Probably the people who aren't going to contribute to an open source project in the first place.
Why do I say this? Well, because you either love programming or you don't. If you do, then yes, open source is interesting to you, and no, you're not going to be put off by having to use a language you're only 90% familiar with (because, like I said, for non-LISP/Prolog/etc programming languages, you're already 90% familiar with them), you'll consider that a feature, not a bug.
What might put a programmer off contributing to a project because of the language is if the language is unpleasant or a chore to use, not if the language is not something they've used before. But Go isn't that either.
I'm a developer too. I've been in this profession for nearly 25 years, and been programming since I was 10 years old. If something can be modified and the source is available, I tend to play with it, regardless of the language. I really suspect most of us are the same way. Those who aren't... well, do you think they're really interested in open source?
Ether seemed a good model at the time and it did explain enough of the world that you could build useful conclusions when assuming it, despite it being fundamentally wrong. We may well be seeing the same thing with string theory today.
A fairly reasonable "decide that amount" is "you can have as much freedom as you want, as long as you don't deprive other people of the same freedom." That's been a legitimate social consensus for a very long time.
Quite, the same thing happened when they started to introduce human driven motor vehicles in place of the horse powered vehicles in the late 19th Century. A few lawsuits later, and nobody wanted to drive cars any more because of the risk. That's why we're stuck with horse and buggies in 2017, and nobody has gasoline or electrically powered motor vehicles.
I don't think real developers care. As long as it's not written in LISP or some other language that's radically different from normal paradigms, and as long as the development environment is just a matter of checking some options in their favorite IDE, most programmers will be entirely happy.
You grossly underestimate the ability of decent programmers to switch from language to language. What we care about is not whether a language is rarely used, but whether it can do what we need it to easily and quickly - and whether the libraries are easily googlelable of course.
Go is a mainstream language, if a little basic. It's fine. That won't be the problem.
Cellphones, yeah, but we're still at the stage that smartphones - which is what the article is about (nobody ever walked the streets looking down at their Motorola RAZR) - are still optional. I lived for over a year without one, just using a flip, and nobody at work noticed.
I'd be enormously surprised if Chinese businessmen working in manufacturing industries dependent upon American and European clients aren't interested in news relating to how easy it'll be to export to the US and to European nations in the near future. I would, absolutely, expect them to show more interest than they've done in the past given the ramifications for Trump, who appears to oppose the degree of international trade we have, and Brexit, which will change the relationship of nations and thus have massive ramifications for trade.
Just because the "average" Chinese person doesn't care, doesn't mean that a significant minority will suddenly have a lot more interest in US and European events than they did previously. With China being a fairly populous country, you'd expect that to amount to a lot of new readers.
You mean they should stop reporting on the President of the United States when he does something with serious consequences if whatever he did happens to be a bad thing?
That's... not the way the press is supposed to act in a free society, FWIW. The Press is supposed to cover what the government does and what the impact of that is. You might not like that, but the rest of us prefer it that way.
People have been claiming newspapers are obsolete in some shape or form for 50 years, ever since television became everyone's primary method for keeping up with the news. In practice, newspapers, while hit, never went away, while TV news has become supplanted by the Internet.
And who is dominating news on the Internet? Oh, yeah, the newspapers. Most of us have at least one newspaper's website that's on our rotation of sites to check every day, despite the attempts to get us to use news apps or search engine news aggregators - both of which suffer in that they mix the latest from, say, the Daily Mail, with that of The Guardian or Washington Post.
As for this:
Few people spend the time to read the entire article when they are looking for headlines and sound bites
Few do, But few have ever done. You think, if you teleported back to a New York Subway car in the 1940s, every strap hanger was reading the New York Times on the way to work? Go to a London Underground Tube Train in the 1950s, and every passenger was reading The Times, Guardian, or Telegraph?
There's always been a range of newspapers providing news in different formats for different readers, and the most popular have always been the ones screaming headlines that today we'd call "clickbait", and whose articles are scarcely a few sentences long.
The New York Times is an exception, because it caters for the market of people who want more. It's always been a small minority that reads it. The difference between the days of paper and today are that all of a sudden the NYT can have an engaged audience that spreads far beyond the range a printed, time critical, newspaper can be delivered within, and that without page limits, its no longer limited to coverage of the region it serves.
Which is why the New York Times is doing very well right now, when 20 years ago it wasn't.
Because those features are required if you're going to implement full applications in the browser, as, for example, Google Docs (and Office 365 Online) are classic examples. They don't implement them for marketers, they're implemented because developers are trying to do advanced things in HTML and Javascript.
And while I know many on Slashdot would prefer applications not be built with web technologies, that's the way the world's going right now, for better or worse. Increasingly users are expecting the applications they use to be delivered over the web, accessible from any standards compliant web browser.
And it'll probably continue that way until or unless the concept of web pages and online apps gets separated, but that would require a good understanding of the needs of the former, and an agreement by vendors on an API (like Android's) for the latter, and that's not going to happen soon.
APK does. He's boasted several times his Hosts file manager is written in Delphi, which is apparently an Object Pascal implementation and the successor to Turbo Pascal.
Belonging to a group does not make you more credible to comment on an argument. Drop the tribalism and identity politics...
I'm sorry, but were you responding to the parent, or the grandparent, some idiot called x0ra, who wrote:
I guess you forgot that both Milo Yiannopoulos and Ben Shapiro are respectively of jew descent and practicing jew...
BTW you do know Ben Shapiro no longer works for Breitbart, right? He quit a year or so ago, when Breitbart started defending senior Trump staff when they assaulted Breitbart's own reporters.
Here's Shapiro on the alt-right. Amongst the choice quotes are:
[Bannon] allowed the site to be taken over and used by a bunch of alt-right people who are not fond of Jews, are not fond of minorities.
So FWIW, one of the two people you mention actually strongly supports the notion that Breitbart is controlled by anti-semites. The other, Yiannopoulos, incidentally, isn't proof of anything: he's attacked his own sexuality before, and he's rejected his jewish roots.
Trump's more qualified than some hack of a community organizer. Why do qualifications suddenly matter? Right, he's not on Team Blue.
The only person who's been elected in the last umpteen years who was, at some stage in his life, a "community organizer" was a Constitutional law professor who was later elected a Senator before becoming President. But, as you point out, he was also at one point a community organizer, that is, someone who worked with ordinary people to solve problems through the political process at a low level.
Perhaps it's time right wingers who think this is a criticism actually think about what they're saying.
Their LTE network uses SIM cards; they can't easily stop you from using SIM cards in a different device without violating enough of LTE to make equipment vendors unlikely to work with them.
Again though, I'd agree that right now, while their LTE network remains at the "being rolled out stage", they should be avoided.
I wouldn't recommend them for the same reason, but give them time, they're moving to a proper GSM-family LTE network at the moment and they're likely to phase out the old cdmaOne/cdma2000 crap. There almost certainly are non-cdmaOne/2000 LTE phones out there that work with Sprint's LTE network, it's just, obviously, you're going to run into gaps in coverage that are even worse than usual.
It shouldn't, but that doesn't mean it wouldn't or that a malevolent hardware manufacturer wouldn't risk trashing their reputation by refusing to honor a warranty when they should...
I'm a software guy however, not a lawyer. I don't even read EULAs.
I think they're going more for a language/framework agnostic route. ChromeOS was all about web technologies, but I think a sizable impetus around NaCl was that web technologies were always going to be limited and inefficient.
I don't think NaCl is their long term bet, I just seriously doubt they'll try to get people to write everything in JavaScript. The major issue is that web browsers seem to double in memory requirements every two or three years, and are slower today on modern hardware than they were on low end hardware ten years ago.
Java served a purpose with Android. It is/was relatively easy to write relatively efficient, low bug count, complex applications using Java, in a way not possible with most other languages. At the same time a new generation of programmers were exposed to Java's bureaucracy and other flaws, said "Ew", and have been waiting for a good, Google supported, alternative. I don't think Google has picked a successor yet.
...yeah, I don't like that either. But it can be done for most Chromebooks out there (maybe not the ARM Chromebooks right now, though it's hard to imagine it's impossible if it's possible for the IA Chromebooks)
If it has a battery or diesel engine, it's more of a hybrid and not really what we're discussing here. As for multiple parallel paths, that's not really overtaking, just taking an alternative route that happens to be parallel. The distinction becomes important when a trolleybus needs to overtake something unexpected, such as a broken vehicle (trolleybus or otherwise) in its path.
Cars are bought by consumers. Issues for consumers include brand, color, embarrassment/pride factor, next door neighbor's advice, brother-in-law's advice, special financing, and maybe, once a decision has been made between two or three vehicles within that range, which is more reliable and cost efficient over a five year expected lifespan.
Buses are generally bought by corporations (sometimes government owned.) The purchase has to be justified to several entities, who are sometimes even legally obliged to sue you if your decision makes no sense. If you're government owned, there's a good chance you need to incorporate a number of social factors such as pollution. If you're not, you still probably need to factor in the taxes on such emissions, and you need to keep fuel costs low.
Even allowing for corruption and crap like "Buy America" rules, making super-efficient buses gives your buses an immense competitive edge over your rivals.
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It really depends on the algorithm. This is apparently about the type of language used, not the opinions expressed. If the algorithm mostly removes one word replies like "Fucktard", and leaves in place "I respectfully disagree with you that Mr Trump's policies will have the effect you describe", then, well, it's fine. What's the problem?
What I find interesting right now is that the word "Toxic" is used to describe the kinds of comments that'll be removed, and immediately rather a lot of people on Slashdot (not you) immediately assume it's anything that's anti-StrawJW.
Kinda tells you something about the people who use the term "SJW" to describe opponents of their own beliefs, doesn't it.
Amazon.com -> Electronics -> Printers and Ink -> Dot Matrix
Prices vary, but $200-500 seems to be the ballpark. This seems typical..
Given Go is a mainstream language without anything unusual about it, and given that's pretty much well known, I'd say most programmers wouldn't consider it a barrier. The programmers that do? Probably the people who aren't going to contribute to an open source project in the first place.
Why do I say this? Well, because you either love programming or you don't. If you do, then yes, open source is interesting to you, and no, you're not going to be put off by having to use a language you're only 90% familiar with (because, like I said, for non-LISP/Prolog/etc programming languages, you're already 90% familiar with them), you'll consider that a feature, not a bug.
What might put a programmer off contributing to a project because of the language is if the language is unpleasant or a chore to use, not if the language is not something they've used before. But Go isn't that either.
I'm a developer too. I've been in this profession for nearly 25 years, and been programming since I was 10 years old. If something can be modified and the source is available, I tend to play with it, regardless of the language. I really suspect most of us are the same way. Those who aren't... well, do you think they're really interested in open source?
Ether seemed a good model at the time and it did explain enough of the world that you could build useful conclusions when assuming it, despite it being fundamentally wrong. We may well be seeing the same thing with string theory today.
A fairly reasonable "decide that amount" is "you can have as much freedom as you want, as long as you don't deprive other people of the same freedom." That's been a legitimate social consensus for a very long time.
Quite, the same thing happened when they started to introduce human driven motor vehicles in place of the horse powered vehicles in the late 19th Century. A few lawsuits later, and nobody wanted to drive cars any more because of the risk. That's why we're stuck with horse and buggies in 2017, and nobody has gasoline or electrically powered motor vehicles.
(The concept you're looking for is "Insurance".)
I don't think real developers care. As long as it's not written in LISP or some other language that's radically different from normal paradigms, and as long as the development environment is just a matter of checking some options in their favorite IDE, most programmers will be entirely happy.
You grossly underestimate the ability of decent programmers to switch from language to language. What we care about is not whether a language is rarely used, but whether it can do what we need it to easily and quickly - and whether the libraries are easily googlelable of course.
Go is a mainstream language, if a little basic. It's fine. That won't be the problem.
This must be why Macs have a reputation of being so hard to use. No drive letters. /s
Cellphones, yeah, but we're still at the stage that smartphones - which is what the article is about (nobody ever walked the streets looking down at their Motorola RAZR) - are still optional. I lived for over a year without one, just using a flip, and nobody at work noticed.
I'd be enormously surprised if Chinese businessmen working in manufacturing industries dependent upon American and European clients aren't interested in news relating to how easy it'll be to export to the US and to European nations in the near future. I would, absolutely, expect them to show more interest than they've done in the past given the ramifications for Trump, who appears to oppose the degree of international trade we have, and Brexit, which will change the relationship of nations and thus have massive ramifications for trade.
Just because the "average" Chinese person doesn't care, doesn't mean that a significant minority will suddenly have a lot more interest in US and European events than they did previously. With China being a fairly populous country, you'd expect that to amount to a lot of new readers.
You mean they should stop reporting on the President of the United States when he does something with serious consequences if whatever he did happens to be a bad thing?
That's... not the way the press is supposed to act in a free society, FWIW. The Press is supposed to cover what the government does and what the impact of that is. You might not like that, but the rest of us prefer it that way.
People have been claiming newspapers are obsolete in some shape or form for 50 years, ever since television became everyone's primary method for keeping up with the news. In practice, newspapers, while hit, never went away, while TV news has become supplanted by the Internet.
And who is dominating news on the Internet? Oh, yeah, the newspapers. Most of us have at least one newspaper's website that's on our rotation of sites to check every day, despite the attempts to get us to use news apps or search engine news aggregators - both of which suffer in that they mix the latest from, say, the Daily Mail, with that of The Guardian or Washington Post.
As for this:
Few do, But few have ever done. You think, if you teleported back to a New York Subway car in the 1940s, every strap hanger was reading the New York Times on the way to work? Go to a London Underground Tube Train in the 1950s, and every passenger was reading The Times, Guardian, or Telegraph?
There's always been a range of newspapers providing news in different formats for different readers, and the most popular have always been the ones screaming headlines that today we'd call "clickbait", and whose articles are scarcely a few sentences long.
The New York Times is an exception, because it caters for the market of people who want more. It's always been a small minority that reads it. The difference between the days of paper and today are that all of a sudden the NYT can have an engaged audience that spreads far beyond the range a printed, time critical, newspaper can be delivered within, and that without page limits, its no longer limited to coverage of the region it serves.
Which is why the New York Times is doing very well right now, when 20 years ago it wasn't.
Because those features are required if you're going to implement full applications in the browser, as, for example, Google Docs (and Office 365 Online) are classic examples. They don't implement them for marketers, they're implemented because developers are trying to do advanced things in HTML and Javascript.
And while I know many on Slashdot would prefer applications not be built with web technologies, that's the way the world's going right now, for better or worse. Increasingly users are expecting the applications they use to be delivered over the web, accessible from any standards compliant web browser.
And it'll probably continue that way until or unless the concept of web pages and online apps gets separated, but that would require a good understanding of the needs of the former, and an agreement by vendors on an API (like Android's) for the latter, and that's not going to happen soon.
APK does. He's boasted several times his Hosts file manager is written in Delphi, which is apparently an Object Pascal implementation and the successor to Turbo Pascal.
A BDSM buddy of mine also dressed as a full-on Nazi at an S&M party I once went to.
Of course, like Silverman, he's Jewish. Yeah, they're allowed. Get over it.
I'm sorry, but were you responding to the parent, or the grandparent, some idiot called x0ra, who wrote:
BTW you do know Ben Shapiro no longer works for Breitbart, right? He quit a year or so ago, when Breitbart started defending senior Trump staff when they assaulted Breitbart's own reporters.
Here's Shapiro on the alt-right. Amongst the choice quotes are:
So FWIW, one of the two people you mention actually strongly supports the notion that Breitbart is controlled by anti-semites. The other, Yiannopoulos, incidentally, isn't proof of anything: he's attacked his own sexuality before, and he's rejected his jewish roots.
The only person who's been elected in the last umpteen years who was, at some stage in his life, a "community organizer" was a Constitutional law professor who was later elected a Senator before becoming President. But, as you point out, he was also at one point a community organizer, that is, someone who worked with ordinary people to solve problems through the political process at a low level.
Perhaps it's time right wingers who think this is a criticism actually think about what they're saying.
Their LTE network uses SIM cards; they can't easily stop you from using SIM cards in a different device without violating enough of LTE to make equipment vendors unlikely to work with them.
Again though, I'd agree that right now, while their LTE network remains at the "being rolled out stage", they should be avoided.
I wouldn't recommend them for the same reason, but give them time, they're moving to a proper GSM-family LTE network at the moment and they're likely to phase out the old cdmaOne/cdma2000 crap. There almost certainly are non-cdmaOne/2000 LTE phones out there that work with Sprint's LTE network, it's just, obviously, you're going to run into gaps in coverage that are even worse than usual.
It shouldn't, but that doesn't mean it wouldn't or that a malevolent hardware manufacturer wouldn't risk trashing their reputation by refusing to honor a warranty when they should...
I'm a software guy however, not a lawyer. I don't even read EULAs.
I think they're going more for a language/framework agnostic route. ChromeOS was all about web technologies, but I think a sizable impetus around NaCl was that web technologies were always going to be limited and inefficient.
I don't think NaCl is their long term bet, I just seriously doubt they'll try to get people to write everything in JavaScript. The major issue is that web browsers seem to double in memory requirements every two or three years, and are slower today on modern hardware than they were on low end hardware ten years ago.
Java served a purpose with Android. It is/was relatively easy to write relatively efficient, low bug count, complex applications using Java, in a way not possible with most other languages. At the same time a new generation of programmers were exposed to Java's bureaucracy and other flaws, said "Ew", and have been waiting for a good, Google supported, alternative. I don't think Google has picked a successor yet.
The solution to that is patching the firmware.
If it has a battery or diesel engine, it's more of a hybrid and not really what we're discussing here. As for multiple parallel paths, that's not really overtaking, just taking an alternative route that happens to be parallel. The distinction becomes important when a trolleybus needs to overtake something unexpected, such as a broken vehicle (trolleybus or otherwise) in its path.
Do people make jokes about the Srebrenica massacre?
Cars are bought by consumers. Issues for consumers include brand, color, embarrassment/pride factor, next door neighbor's advice, brother-in-law's advice, special financing, and maybe, once a decision has been made between two or three vehicles within that range, which is more reliable and cost efficient over a five year expected lifespan.
Buses are generally bought by corporations (sometimes government owned.) The purchase has to be justified to several entities, who are sometimes even legally obliged to sue you if your decision makes no sense. If you're government owned, there's a good chance you need to incorporate a number of social factors such as pollution. If you're not, you still probably need to factor in the taxes on such emissions, and you need to keep fuel costs low.
Even allowing for corruption and crap like "Buy America" rules, making super-efficient buses gives your buses an immense competitive edge over your rivals.