C'mon guys, maybe I missed someone commenting on the extremely obvious, but COBOL code is less "buggy" because COBOL code does 1/10,000th of what Java code does. COBOL code is several orders of magnitude simpler and the problem space it addresses is so very small compared to Java.
As proof I'll create a computer language with 10 commands that simply moves an image of a turtle around a screen. Guess what? 99% of programs written in that language will be bug-free. Why? Because it is a simple language.
Ergo, COBOL is like using a screwdriver to do things only screwdrivers can do while Java is like a whole workshop full of tools that will let you build almost anything and, yeah, you're going to mess up more often building almost anything.
absolutely. the whole story is a joke, this article is just surreptitious advertising for a software company that can't be taken seriously in anything IT related just for being capable of producing such nonsensical, laughable marketing.
this is like comparing error ratio between baking cookies and running a pastry shop.
if we have to believe blindly in any sort of fancy metrics (and there seems to be plenty of people in desperate need for it), we should at least restrict them on systems that are truly comparable.
Always wondered why in heaven sites like this even exist in the first place. If people is dumb/lazy enough to seek out original sources or google for themselves, and instead blindly accepts recommendations and even downloads sw from these cheap shopwindows, i guess they simply deserve all spyware in the world.
I used to be a "serious" developer, until I realized that people will pay out the nose for a blog written in 20 minutes
That's just fine. But then your choice of a framework over another is largely a matter of personal preference. You could do just that with any of the zillions that are available, couldn't you? And I'm not disregarding (by any means) that market segment (but I wonder how long it takes until it is completely taken over by do-it-yourself sites and/or services... maybe you should keep stimulating your intellect now and then, just in case:D).
And then... that's just you calmly making a living. The OP is talking about a dedicated team of (apparently skilled) developers and a long term product strategy. In such a context his question really makes no sense at all. Just my opinion.
Avoid ORM in any framework to increase performance
oh my!
why not avoid frameworks alltogether to increase performance? (assumed learning to properly code and properly use the tools at you disposal the way they were meant to be used is not an option)
this thread has brought Wt to my attention which seems pretty interesting stuff. thanks for the info.
on the other hand, just glimpsed at CodeIgniter and was greeted by this on the website:
"Codeigniter is a web framework thta helps you write INCREDIBLE php programs!"
"Build a weblog in under 20 minutes!"
/me yawns and walks away.
to the OP: it would depend on your team being serious developers doing serious software or you just wanting to crap out cheap dumb fancy websites asap. in the first case you wouldn't ask this question. in the latter... well, it doesn't matter.
"Extreme programming" refers to a set of practices in sw development that have been around since the late 90's. Most of them are nowadays known by the new buzzword "Agile programming" (bell ringing now?), which refers greatly to the same old techniques plus new hype plus an invigorated emphasis on scrum all over the process.
The referred practices are solid and have their concrete applications and advantages. Adopted blindly they are just another way to sell smoke while compromising the viability of your product/team. I guess this will never change, but, hey, having new buzzwords around is always cool!
1) Only Citizens capable of voting in an election can contribute to campaigns they are eligible to vote on. 2) PACs cannot donate to Campaigns to ELECTED offices. 3) Corporations cannot donate to Campaigns. 4) Unions cannot donate to Campaigns.
Funny, that's how it is in Spain and, know what? This just pops up another black market, and the result is just more opacity.
Corporations and Unions can run their own damn campaigns making it clear exactly where the $$ is coming from.
It is quite clear in the US, many of us in Spain would like to have it so. The real problem is another one: people simply don't care, don't want no know.
Actions like this by the EU are pretty much the last hope
could also be the last joke.
I wonder if this tension is real. For the US (with the biggest share in mass ip money making) this aggressive move pushes forward the idea that something has to be done, it puts the issue on the international agenda. On the other hand, this tension depicts EU as a trustworthy protector of civil rights to the eyes of e-populace. An ideal partner for US to start working with on the real thing that (rasp) has to be done, say... global censorship? A game as old as humanity, it's called "the good cop and the bad cop".
(As an EU citizen I don't trust EU politicians. They are just as fucked up as americans.)
Well, how about it Anon...they are calling you out.
yeah...I figured...pussies.
well, how about the marines or seals dropping in? aren't they all about defending freedom, democracy and all that crap? wouldn't they kick in when population is being terrorized?
yeah... I figured... pussies only get mobilized if there's something to steal, and there's no such thing like mex-oil.
It has to do with facts that everyone's playing games nowadays.
hit the nail. it's called massification.
Next article will probably blame it on climate change, who knows. Populism is annoying.
populism bloomed with massification of speech, too
Why are people posting articles with provoking headlines exaggerating the issue at hand?
well...eeeer... because of massification?:D
but greed is still a substantial factor. it's an old story: corporate greed exploiting the masses' greed, trading money for whatever, short brain pleasure center stimulus in this case. in this sense, the article just points out the obvious: that the industry concentrates in milking consumers. wow, really?? and this is "killing videogames"? no shit? well, there's diversification too: music got massive but still very fine music is being created every day, probably more than ever, for those who care to listen. same with games.
Tell me did you think those Americans "deserved it"?
they were soldiers, not civilians. a good chance of death is what a soldier buys the very moment he enlists.
Those folks lived because we dropped the bomb
you can't possibly know that. even if you did it still wouldn't be a valid reason to build a wmd and throwing it at the population.
the USA was looking at 350,000 to 500,000 dead if we invaded the home islands
the forecast was actually higher. roosevelt throwed around figures that even tripled that. so what? who said invasion was the only option, or was a reasonable option at all? it would still not be a valid reason to build a wmd and throw it at the population.
Teenaged boys and girls were taught how to use grenades and spears.
you should stop spraying that crap, really. it is well known that japanese were very crude and fanatic. that, you could reasonably expect from a culture that had jumped out from feudal middle age just a few decades earlier. you can't by any means be implying that the only way to deal with this kind of people is.... build a wmd and throw it at the population.
besides... your father sure did tell you that the guys in his company were all honorable brothers in arms, straight and enduring hearts. that's maybe because your father only told you the shit he wanted you to believe... or wanted himself to remember. if not, and if he'd served in irak, he could have told you about girls being raped by marines (always good buddies) right in front of their just executed family, being burned alive afterwards. if that family had known beforehand, they might as well have throwed themselves at the troops with their pants stuffed with explosives. even your family might do the same in a similar situation. (wait, you're american, why in heaven would you be in such a situation?)
your father may have been a good or a bad soldier, but he couldn't have built a wmd and throwed it at popuilation, himself. that's a different story, hairy feet. governments do such things, because they can. and they do that on their own record in total disregard to public opinion (this was the topic, bytheway:D). and if needed they are eager to manipulate public opinion to spread the belief that there may exist any utterly bizarre argument for... building a wmd and throwing it at people.
Those folks lived because we dropped the bomb.
this is more than a really sick excuse out of the blue. it is awfully perverse to me.
American soldiers shouldn't have defended themselves?
I still don't get the association between "american soldiers defending themselves" and "build a wmd and throw it at the population".
And that's really it. It's a whole bunch of people who refuse to do any hard work and are upset that the people who did work hard their entire lives were (gasp) REWARDED FOR IT.
be sensible, it's a bit hard to swallow that those REWARDS are paid off with public resources. on top of that, if you consider that their "hard work" consisted in injecting puffs into the economy and running away with the bonus, leaving the whole financial system KOd... you'll understand some of the anger.
of course Occupy will not acomplish anything concrete. it's just fucking healthy, that's it, people HAVE to rebutt this chicanery, at least look at it, even if it is only for mental hygiene. it doesn't hurt either, it may spread some awareness, some food for thought and fuel the desire for change or to figure out better ways. wolves are indeed bad, but it's not that ordinary citizens aren't to blame for their sheepy complacence either.
anyway civil disorder I fear there will be, and I don't believe it will stem from dissent or from this form of anger. it will erupt from sheer misery and mass margination, in a few years. this is bad because it's pure social violence without debate or reflection, and won't change anything either. slashdot baffles me: "they are americans, with high standard of living". lol, who, the 99%?... well, if you say so. apart from tv-talkshows, have you looked at any serious US economy analysis or forecast, lately? didn't you know that the bailouts just evaporated and there are still a lot of biggies waiting on line to collapse, but the pot is now empty? that state debt is record since ww2 and being downgraded already? that dollar is already in decline as reference currency, and you just want the fed to devaluate it even more? how in heaven do you think US will climb out of its current recession? "working hard"? and for how long do you think this recession will sustain your "high living standard"? It's not a gift of god, sorry to disappoint you
well. throw another war in the recipe and it would start to sound plausible
plain, succint and verifiable facts (no, you don't need a veteran father to verify that).
We are talking fanatics here, my late uncle was in the pacific at both Saipan and Okinawa and I got to here of the horror first hand from him. He said they'd get a bunker surrounded then broadcast in Japanese "If you don't come out we are gonna have no choice but to call in the flamethrowers, we'll give you food, treat your injuries, and take you to safety if you'll just come out and surrender" and instead they would strap grenades on their chests and banzai charge the lines. he said the bodies were literally piled up like cordwood, the stench of death was beyond belief, yet they still came. He also watched women throw infants off the cliffs rather than surrender their children, that kind of shit haunted him for years, hearing the screams of babies as they fell to their deaths.
So sincerely fuck your bleeding heart bullshit. as Truman said "I can tell you how many Americans were saved by the dropping of those bombs" and in a time of war THAT is what matters. Either you give 100% or you go the fuck home, that's it. I would remind you we had already killed more than the atomics in Tokyo alone and as I said even AFTER TWO BOMBS They had to broadcast the surrender from multiple sites because several general took over a radio tower and was broadcasting they were gonna fight to the last man.
While you may think it would have been cool for Americans to line up and just grind little kids into fucking hamburger with the 50cals I can tell you thanks to the stories of my family who fought in both theaters (grandfather in Europe liberating one of the camps, great uncle in the pacific as a marine) that having to kill little kids because its you or them? NOT good on the soldiers. Killing a soldier is one thing, killing an 8 year old girl because she is going kamikaze with a grenade tied to the end of a bamboo spear? totally different ball game.
This could indeed qualify as fanatism. I recommend you broaden your views somewhat beyond of your (most respectable, no doubt) father's war impressions. No matter the horror, the savagery, there is always more to it (usually expresable in plain and cold money). We're talking about governments and information, here. And remember, Mahattan project started long before a single marine put a foot on any japanese shore. So much for your baby kamikaze horror stories.
--
"property, the whole thing is about property" (1st Sgt. Edward Welsh, "The thin red line").
I understand your points, but I didn't intend to debate if the bombing was moral/reasonable/whatever. I just made its particular significance very clear: a government of a democratic country (by any standards) deliberately and autonomously built a wmd and used it against civilians and in an undisclosed way, as "tech4" pointed out. A hard fact that "hairyfeet" blurred by displaying his moral stance towards the issue which is, at least, debatable. So much less an issue that should be kept undisclosed to citizens, methinks.
Of course a majority of US citizens could have favored the wmd development and even the bombings. But who knows... nobody asked them! They weren't even told about until it was done (and lots of information has ben held back until very recently)
I'm not look(ing) at the examples where governments have abused their ability to classify things and then conclude(ing) that all classification is bad.. The point is that while there is the mere possibility that (democratic) governments classify and hide any such farreaching activities (and Hiroshima and Nagasaki are not possibilities but proof) then democracy is at the end of very limited use. Maybe that's why it is more of a mockery, today. My view is that there should not be information classification whatsoever.
look at the footage of Saipan, of Iwo jima, when there was NO hope of victory, no hope of even a draw they still fought on.
ok.
Saipan was overrun Jun 1944, Iwo Jima Feb 1945.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were obliterated Aug 1945, directly causing the death of 150.000 - 250.000 civilians.
A nuclear bomb is a weapon specifically designed to blow up entire cities. There is no imaginable military target for which such a device could be considered effective or even suitable. US invested billions of dollars employing more than 150.000 people for 7 years, to design and implement such an atrocity. And then they used it. Against civilians, of course, as was intended. Twice.
The US has a lot of things they did wrong but I'd bullshit dropping the bombs is not among them.
I simply punch the number into my phone a few times and now my hands remember it
ye who yells for a new sdcard, blame only your dumb hands and fingers!
the main problem with your mnemonic technique is that it doesn't work with all existing key layouts... so instead of realizing that this makes it a poor (unpractical) technique, you'd rather want everybody/everything to use one layout that suits you. it's indeed weird that there are different layouts around, and I really don't know if there is a good reason for this or it just happened so, but that's what there is.
improve your technique, make it platform independent:-). you could train your symmetrical muscle memory skills. practicing memopunching the same number always both ways could help. maybe you could even patent it or pull a show!
advanced tips: try punching simultaneously with both hands on different layouts. switch hands for bonus.
Well, you better hope Google doesn't ban you for not using real time or if they even think you're not using your real name - Google+ ban isn't only to Google+, it's to all the other Google services like Gmail and YouTube too.
not true. i'm banned from g+ because of name policy violation and can access gmail and youtube. ban only affects socalled social services like g+, picasa and buzz. besides, I can still access g+ in readonly mode.
the naming policy is completely off. they really can't pretend to know better than me how I want to be named. I find it outright idiotic, so there goes g+... good sw, though. a shame.
Given that I am using a database, "whatever language I am using" is SQL. Or should I write a program that writes a program that programs a database server? That is plain silly.
If you say so... since when is "INSERT IGNORE" SQL?
You tie yourself to an implementation you don't control, then you cry when that implementation leaves you stranded. *That* is silly.
Not that we aren't doing that all the time, whenever we stick to some implementation. What is silly is doing it for silly reasons, like the one you present. Your automated morphing scripts won't probably run in MySQL 7.0, if any. But they won't run in Oracle, DB2 or Postgres either. This is not an agile environment, it's a gratuituously constrained one.
So you would want the SQL script in your source code control system and be able to run non-interactively. For an example, see Evolving A Database With MySQL.
Ditto: you are tying yourself (unnecesarily) to specific implementations (that incidentally are going to be propietary soon, as it seems). That's not agile programming, it's shortsightness, or agile getting-in-trouble. Don't be lazy, write your data morphing scripts in whatever language you are using and... fcuk Oracle:-)
I suspect the binary-only extensions from Oracle are part of an attempt to prevent that sort of thing. After all, if a large part of the user base becomes reliant on non-forkable proprietary extensions during the next few years, then forking MySQL when Oracle's commitment to keep it FOSS expires would be largely fruitless.
That's an obvious possibility but for now its just "extensions": monitoring and and mostly fancy stuff for enterprise dba. Nothing the big majority of mysql base can't live without (if of any real interest at all). Anyway if your software depends critically on this kind of stuff (or any other propietary candy) then you have bigger problems to worry about than Oracle.
yeah, fuck'em all. and can I understand someone with this opinion forgets to put UK on that list but... how in heaven could you forget France????? you are an antipatriot!:) your map
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C'mon guys, maybe I missed someone commenting on the extremely obvious, but COBOL code is less "buggy" because COBOL code does 1/10,000th of what Java code does. COBOL code is several orders of magnitude simpler and the problem space it addresses is so very small compared to Java.
As proof I'll create a computer language with 10 commands that simply moves an image of a turtle around a screen. Guess what? 99% of programs written in that language will be bug-free. Why? Because it is a simple language.
Ergo, COBOL is like using a screwdriver to do things only screwdrivers can do while Java is like a whole workshop full of tools that will let you build almost anything and, yeah, you're going to mess up more often building almost anything.
absolutely. the whole story is a joke, this article is just surreptitious advertising for a software company that can't be taken seriously in anything IT related just for being capable of producing such nonsensical, laughable marketing.
this is like comparing error ratio between baking cookies and running a pastry shop.
if we have to believe blindly in any sort of fancy metrics (and there seems to be plenty of people in desperate need for it), we should at least restrict them on systems that are truly comparable.
I'm thinking my MongoDB backed web app is pretty safe from SQL injection.
url?
Always wondered why in heaven sites like this even exist in the first place. If people is dumb/lazy enough to seek out original sources or google for themselves, and instead blindly accepts recommendations and even downloads sw from these cheap shopwindows, i guess they simply deserve all spyware in the world.
I used to be a "serious" developer, until I realized that people will pay out the nose for a blog written in 20 minutes
That's just fine. But then your choice of a framework over another is largely a matter of personal preference. You could do just that with any of the zillions that are available, couldn't you? And I'm not disregarding (by any means) that market segment (but I wonder how long it takes until it is completely taken over by do-it-yourself sites and/or services ... maybe you should keep stimulating your intellect now and then, just in case :D).
... that's just you calmly making a living. The OP is talking about a dedicated team of (apparently skilled) developers and a long term product strategy. In such a context his question really makes no sense at all. Just my opinion.
And then
Avoid ORM in any framework to increase performance
oh my!
/me yawns and walks away.
... well, it doesn't matter.
why not avoid frameworks alltogether to increase performance? (assumed learning to properly code and properly use the tools at you disposal the way they were meant to be used is not an option)
this thread has brought Wt to my attention which seems pretty interesting stuff. thanks for the info.
on the other hand, just glimpsed at CodeIgniter and was greeted by this on the website:
"Codeigniter is a web framework thta helps you write INCREDIBLE php programs!"
"Build a weblog in under 20 minutes!"
to the OP: it would depend on your team being serious developers doing serious software or you just wanting to crap out cheap dumb fancy websites asap. in the first case you wouldn't ask this question. in the latter
"Extreme programming" refers to a set of practices in sw development that have been around since the late 90's. Most of them are nowadays known by the new buzzword "Agile programming" (bell ringing now?), which refers greatly to the same old techniques plus new hype plus an invigorated emphasis on scrum all over the process.
The referred practices are solid and have their concrete applications and advantages. Adopted blindly they are just another way to sell smoke while compromising the viability of your product/team. I guess this will never change, but, hey, having new buzzwords around is always cool!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_programming
They are just as fucked up as americans
Ooops, I meant "US politicians". :-)
I propose the following:
1) Only Citizens capable of voting in an election can contribute to campaigns they are eligible to vote on.
2) PACs cannot donate to Campaigns to ELECTED offices.
3) Corporations cannot donate to Campaigns.
4) Unions cannot donate to Campaigns.
Funny, that's how it is in Spain and, know what? This just pops up another black market, and the result is just more opacity.
Corporations and Unions can run their own damn campaigns making it clear exactly where the $$ is coming from.
It is quite clear in the US, many of us in Spain would like to have it so. The real problem is another one: people simply don't care, don't want no know.
Actions like this by the EU are pretty much the last hope
could also be the last joke.
I wonder if this tension is real. For the US (with the biggest share in mass ip money making) this aggressive move pushes forward the idea that something has to be done, it puts the issue on the international agenda. On the other hand, this tension depicts EU as a trustworthy protector of civil rights to the eyes of e-populace. An ideal partner for US to start working with on the real thing that (rasp) has to be done, say ... global censorship? A game as old as humanity, it's called "the good cop and the bad cop".
(As an EU citizen I don't trust EU politicians. They are just as fucked up as americans.)
Well, how about it Anon...they are calling you out.
yeah...I figured...pussies.
well, how about the marines or seals dropping in? aren't they all about defending freedom, democracy and all that crap? wouldn't they kick in when population is being terrorized? ... I figured ... pussies only get mobilized if there's something to steal, and there's no such thing like mex-oil.
yeah
They are so hidden, backended, dependable, and
yeah, nowadays if you aren't on the daily highlights you barely exist. sort of hidden.
so stiched into the fabric of IT that people just have forgotten that they exist.
beautiful. william gibson? :D
It has to do with facts that everyone's playing games nowadays.
hit the nail. it's called massification.
Next article will probably blame it on climate change, who knows. Populism is annoying.
populism bloomed with massification of speech, too
Why are people posting articles with provoking headlines exaggerating the issue at hand?
well ...eeeer ... because of massification? :D
but greed is still a substantial factor. it's an old story: corporate greed exploiting the masses' greed, trading money for whatever, short brain pleasure center stimulus in this case. in this sense, the article just points out the obvious: that the industry concentrates in milking consumers. wow, really?? and this is "killing videogames"? no shit? well, there's diversification too: music got massive but still very fine music is being created every day, probably more than ever, for those who care to listen. same with games.
Tell me did you think those Americans "deserved it"?
they were soldiers, not civilians. a good chance of death is what a soldier buys the very moment he enlists.
Those folks lived because we dropped the bomb
you can't possibly know that. even if you did it still wouldn't be a valid reason to build a wmd and throwing it at the population.
the USA was looking at 350,000 to 500,000 dead if we invaded the home islands
the forecast was actually higher. roosevelt throwed around figures that even tripled that. so what? who said invasion was the only option, or was a reasonable option at all? it would still not be a valid reason to build a wmd and throw it at the population.
Teenaged boys and girls were taught how to use grenades and spears.
you should stop spraying that crap, really. it is well known that japanese were very crude and fanatic. that, you could reasonably expect from a culture that had jumped out from feudal middle age just a few decades earlier. you can't by any means be implying that the only way to deal with this kind of people is .... build a wmd and throw it at the population.
besides ... your father sure did tell you that the guys in his company were all honorable brothers in arms, straight and enduring hearts. that's maybe because your father only told you the shit he wanted you to believe ... or wanted himself to remember. if not, and if he'd served in irak, he could have told you about girls being raped by marines (always good buddies) right in front of their just executed family, being burned alive afterwards. if that family had known beforehand, they might as well have throwed themselves at the troops with their pants stuffed with explosives. even your family might do the same in a similar situation. (wait, you're american, why in heaven would you be in such a situation?)
your father may have been a good or a bad soldier, but he couldn't have built a wmd and throwed it at popuilation, himself. that's a different story, hairy feet. governments do such things, because they can. and they do that on their own record in total disregard to public opinion (this was the topic, bytheway :D). and if needed they are eager to manipulate public opinion to spread the belief that there may exist any utterly bizarre argument for ... building a wmd and throwing it at people.
Those folks lived because we dropped the bomb.
this is more than a really sick excuse out of the blue. it is awfully perverse to me.
American soldiers shouldn't have defended themselves?
I still don't get the association between "american soldiers defending themselves" and "build a wmd and throw it at the population".
And that's really it. It's a whole bunch of people who refuse to do any hard work and are upset that the people who did work hard their entire lives were (gasp) REWARDED FOR IT.
be sensible, it's a bit hard to swallow that those REWARDS are paid off with public resources. on top of that, if you consider that their "hard work" consisted in injecting puffs into the economy and running away with the bonus, leaving the whole financial system KOd ... you'll understand some of the anger.
of course Occupy will not acomplish anything concrete. it's just fucking healthy, that's it, people HAVE to rebutt this chicanery, at least look at it, even if it is only for mental hygiene. it doesn't hurt either, it may spread some awareness, some food for thought and fuel the desire for change or to figure out better ways. wolves are indeed bad, but it's not that ordinary citizens aren't to blame for their sheepy complacence either.
anyway civil disorder I fear there will be, and I don't believe it will stem from dissent or from this form of anger. it will erupt from sheer misery and mass margination, in a few years. this is bad because it's pure social violence without debate or reflection, and won't change anything either. slashdot baffles me: "they are americans, with high standard of living". lol, who, the 99%? ... well, if you say so. apart from tv-talkshows, have you looked at any serious US economy analysis or forecast, lately? didn't you know that the bailouts just evaporated and there are still a lot of biggies waiting on line to collapse, but the pot is now empty? that state debt is record since ww2 and being downgraded already? that dollar is already in decline as reference currency, and you just want the fed to devaluate it even more? how in heaven do you think US will climb out of its current recession? "working hard"? and for how long do you think this recession will sustain your "high living standard"? It's not a gift of god, sorry to disappoint you
well. throw another war in the recipe and it would start to sound plausible
Horseshit, complete and utter horseshit.
plain, succint and verifiable facts (no, you don't need a veteran father to verify that).
We are talking fanatics here, my late uncle was in the pacific at both Saipan and Okinawa and I got to here of the horror first hand from him. He said they'd get a bunker surrounded then broadcast in Japanese "If you don't come out we are gonna have no choice but to call in the flamethrowers, we'll give you food, treat your injuries, and take you to safety if you'll just come out and surrender" and instead they would strap grenades on their chests and banzai charge the lines. he said the bodies were literally piled up like cordwood, the stench of death was beyond belief, yet they still came. He also watched women throw infants off the cliffs rather than surrender their children, that kind of shit haunted him for years, hearing the screams of babies as they fell to their deaths.
So sincerely fuck your bleeding heart bullshit. as Truman said "I can tell you how many Americans were saved by the dropping of those bombs" and in a time of war THAT is what matters. Either you give 100% or you go the fuck home, that's it. I would remind you we had already killed more than the atomics in Tokyo alone and as I said even AFTER TWO BOMBS They had to broadcast the surrender from multiple sites because several general took over a radio tower and was broadcasting they were gonna fight to the last man.
While you may think it would have been cool for Americans to line up and just grind little kids into fucking hamburger with the 50cals I can tell you thanks to the stories of my family who fought in both theaters (grandfather in Europe liberating one of the camps, great uncle in the pacific as a marine) that having to kill little kids because its you or them? NOT good on the soldiers. Killing a soldier is one thing, killing an 8 year old girl because she is going kamikaze with a grenade tied to the end of a bamboo spear? totally different ball game.
This could indeed qualify as fanatism. I recommend you broaden your views somewhat beyond of your (most respectable, no doubt) father's war impressions. No matter the horror, the savagery, there is always more to it (usually expresable in plain and cold money). We're talking about governments and information, here. And remember, Mahattan project started long before a single marine put a foot on any japanese shore. So much for your baby kamikaze horror stories.
--
"property, the whole thing is about property" (1st Sgt. Edward Welsh, "The thin red line").
I understand your points, but I didn't intend to debate if the bombing was moral/reasonable/whatever. I just made its particular significance very clear: a government of a democratic country (by any standards) deliberately and autonomously built a wmd and used it against civilians and in an undisclosed way, as "tech4" pointed out. A hard fact that "hairyfeet" blurred by displaying his moral stance towards the issue which is, at least, debatable. So much less an issue that should be kept undisclosed to citizens, methinks.
Of course a majority of US citizens could have favored the wmd development and even the bombings. But who knows ... nobody asked them! They weren't even told about until it was done (and lots of information has ben held back until very recently)
I'm not look(ing) at the examples where governments have abused their ability to classify things and then conclude(ing) that all classification is bad.. The point is that while there is the mere possibility that (democratic) governments classify and hide any such farreaching activities (and Hiroshima and Nagasaki are not possibilities but proof) then democracy is at the end of very limited use. Maybe that's why it is more of a mockery, today. My view is that there should not be information classification whatsoever.
look at the footage of Saipan, of Iwo jima, when there was NO hope of victory, no hope of even a draw they still fought on.
ok. Saipan was overrun Jun 1944, Iwo Jima Feb 1945. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were obliterated Aug 1945, directly causing the death of 150.000 - 250.000 civilians. A nuclear bomb is a weapon specifically designed to blow up entire cities. There is no imaginable military target for which such a device could be considered effective or even suitable. US invested billions of dollars employing more than 150.000 people for 7 years, to design and implement such an atrocity. And then they used it. Against civilians, of course, as was intended. Twice.
The US has a lot of things they did wrong but I'd bullshit dropping the bombs is not among them.
FTFY
those with engineering degrees have verifiable credentials for doing it,
oh, do they?
hm, those credentials ... are they soft tissue, suitable for personal hygiene?
I simply punch the number into my phone a few times and now my hands remember it
ye who yells for a new sdcard, blame only your dumb hands and fingers!
the main problem with your mnemonic technique is that it doesn't work with all existing key layouts ... so instead of realizing that this makes it a poor (unpractical) technique, you'd rather want everybody/everything to use one layout that suits you. it's indeed weird that there are different layouts around, and I really don't know if there is a good reason for this or it just happened so, but that's what there is.
improve your technique, make it platform independent :-). you could train your symmetrical muscle memory skills. practicing memopunching the same number always both ways could help. maybe you could even patent it or pull a show!
advanced tips: try punching simultaneously with both hands on different layouts. switch hands for bonus.
Well, you better hope Google doesn't ban you for not using real time or if they even think you're not using your real name - Google+ ban isn't only to Google+, it's to all the other Google services like Gmail and YouTube too.
not true. i'm banned from g+ because of name policy violation and can access gmail and youtube. ban only affects socalled social services like g+, picasa and buzz. besides, I can still access g+ in readonly mode.
the naming policy is completely off. they really can't pretend to know better than me how I want to be named. I find it outright idiotic, so there goes g+ ... good sw, though. a shame.
Given that I am using a database, "whatever language I am using" is SQL. Or should I write a program that writes a program that programs a database server? That is plain silly.
If you say so ... since when is "INSERT IGNORE" SQL?
You tie yourself to an implementation you don't control, then you cry when that implementation leaves you stranded. *That* is silly.
Not that we aren't doing that all the time, whenever we stick to some implementation. What is silly is doing it for silly reasons, like the one you present. Your automated morphing scripts won't probably run in MySQL 7.0, if any. But they won't run in Oracle, DB2 or Postgres either. This is not an agile environment, it's a gratuituously constrained one.
If he's using MySQL then I suspect it's the latter.
Wow. This statement qualifies you as a classic incompetent. Are you lying too? :D
So you would want the SQL script in your source code control system and be able to run non-interactively. For an example, see Evolving A Database With MySQL.
Ditto: you are tying yourself (unnecesarily) to specific implementations (that incidentally are going to be propietary soon, as it seems). That's not agile programming, it's shortsightness, or agile getting-in-trouble. Don't be lazy, write your data morphing scripts in whatever language you are using and ... fcuk Oracle :-)
I suspect the binary-only extensions from Oracle are part of an attempt to prevent that sort of thing. After all, if a large part of the user base becomes reliant on non-forkable proprietary extensions during the next few years, then forking MySQL when Oracle's commitment to keep it FOSS expires would be largely fruitless.
That's an obvious possibility but for now its just "extensions": monitoring and and mostly fancy stuff for enterprise dba. Nothing the big majority of mysql base can't live without (if of any real interest at all). Anyway if your software depends critically on this kind of stuff (or any other propietary candy) then you have bigger problems to worry about than Oracle.
Let's see... fuck Denmark, fuck Italy, fuck Netherlands, fuck Norway, fuck Sweden, fuck Spain, fuck Turkey, fuck Jordan, fuck Qatar, fuck UAE. Fuck them all.
yeah, fuck'em all. and can I understand someone with this opinion forgets to put UK on that list but ... how in heaven could you forget France????? you are an antipatriot! :)
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