When I first learned C++ in college, it was expected that sometimes your program would crash.
When I first learned C++
first learned
I think you glossed over the important part of the sentence. It was expected when first learning C++ that programs would crash. Not "for no reason" but for "having just begun learning" about it. It's similar to finding out that it's expected to fall off a bicycle when starting to learn to ride a bicycle. It's from lack of experience. Sure it's possible to get it right the first try, yes it's more likely with training wheels. C/C++ is learning to ride without training wheels.
I would hope any computer language class would teach about fatal errors when languages are first learned, so that less time would be spent recreating the mistakes of others. Especially if you're teaching the advantages of a high level language. Knowing why and when to pick a specialty language is valuable. Hoping students figure it out themselves isn't.
Exactly, we need to shutdown platforms that are used by people to speak.
We need to regulate platforms that decide which people speak, and which words are allowed to be spoken. "Safe Harbors" don't alter the messages they transport, or rearrange them, or change the recipients. Facebook appears to be doing those things, rather than simply being "used by people to speak". Thus the investigation.
Exactly the same sort of backlash Arizona faces, since they already do that? None what-so-ever. Businesses and people can adjust scheduling one time, and be done with it.
Not quite sure how adopting 'full-time' Daylight Savings Time is the first step in abandoning Daylight Savings Time...
That's like telling some that the first step towards adopting a vegetarian diet is to start eating bacon cheese burgers at every meal.
I suspect that some law somewhere stipulates that daylight saving time has to be observed. The loophole is that you could potentially "always observe daylight saving time during the remainder of the year" more readily than you could change the law so that you don't have to observe it at all.
It's more like being required to by some religion to be vegetarian at night. Then finding out the increased amount of vegetable farming has led to an increase in the deer tick population. Next thing you know, you've got an allergy to red meat due to a tick bite. Lastly deciding to be vegetarian during the day as well rather than seeking treatment for the red meat allergy.
Granted, carnage is a bit of an exaggeration to describe it...
There is a measurable change in health related deaths near one solstice. There's is a roughly equivalent and opposite health benefit near the following solstice. A non-trivial number of people die as the result of the one, and aren't there to enjoy the benefit that follows.
Perhaps calling it government mandated human sacrifice would be more appropriate. It's certainly more accurate.
It's like Shirley Jackson's The Lottery, but a little more subtle.
Embrace, extend, extinguish was in its prime during the DOS era. Memory Managers, Screen Savers, Disk health utilities, Disk defragmentation programs, menuing/task swapping, document editors, spreadsheets, and even database programs had very short lifespans after a version was included with MS-DOS or MS Office.
This toolset doesn't even come close to what's natively available in Unix or Linux
Correct. However, no one wants to really learn how to use those tools. So that's where the demand for this comes from.
I guess the question, Should folks learn these tools? Should folks educate themselves? is the underlying question here. I know exactly how I feel but, how I feel doesn't change the mentality one bit.
From anything false, anything follows.
No one wants to pay employees enough money to learn what the employees willingly learn themselves, unless they can see an immediate profit from it. The false assumption that the thing with more restrictions, including price and licensing, is therefor the better thing means that Microsoft can continue to attempt embrace, extend, and extinguish simply by having more restrictive licensing when extending a Free product. Anyone who complains about restrictions imposed by the GPL variants being intolerable is pulling your leg. I recommend reading what closed source terms actually entail sometime. "Not being allowed to plagiarize" in exchange for permission to use copyrighted works by other people isn't a bad trade, and it's optional.
basic self-running computers just do not exist these days.
The computer you typed that post on is one. Jeez. Browsers magically compile and run any HTML/Javascript program you create and BASIC (among others) is a free download.
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When I first learned C++ in college, it was expected that sometimes your program would crash.
When I first learned C++
first learned
I think you glossed over the important part of the sentence. It was expected when first learning C++ that programs would crash. Not "for no reason" but for "having just begun learning" about it. It's similar to finding out that it's expected to fall off a bicycle when starting to learn to ride a bicycle. It's from lack of experience. Sure it's possible to get it right the first try, yes it's more likely with training wheels. C/C++ is learning to ride without training wheels.
I would hope any computer language class would teach about fatal errors when languages are first learned, so that less time would be spent recreating the mistakes of others. Especially if you're teaching the advantages of a high level language. Knowing why and when to pick a specialty language is valuable. Hoping students figure it out themselves isn't.
Exactly, we need to shutdown platforms that are used by people to speak.
We need to regulate platforms that decide which people speak, and which words are allowed to be spoken. "Safe Harbors" don't alter the messages they transport, or rearrange them, or change the recipients. Facebook appears to be doing those things, rather than simply being "used by people to speak". Thus the investigation.
As though an "invisible hand" shoves people into publishing early and often.
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Exactly the same sort of backlash Arizona faces, since they already do that? None what-so-ever. Businesses and people can adjust scheduling one time, and be done with it.
tl;dr being religious, being vegetarian, and the deer tick bites are all metaphors for already being dead on some level
Not quite sure how adopting 'full-time' Daylight Savings Time is the first step in abandoning Daylight Savings Time...
That's like telling some that the first step towards adopting a vegetarian diet is to start eating bacon cheese burgers at every meal.
I suspect that some law somewhere stipulates that daylight saving time has to be observed. The loophole is that you could potentially "always observe daylight saving time during the remainder of the year" more readily than you could change the law so that you don't have to observe it at all.
It's more like being required to by some religion to be vegetarian at night. Then finding out the increased amount of vegetable farming has led to an increase in the deer tick population. Next thing you know, you've got an allergy to red meat due to a tick bite. Lastly deciding to be vegetarian during the day as well rather than seeking treatment for the red meat allergy.
https://www.businessinsider.co...
Granted, carnage is a bit of an exaggeration to describe it...
There is a measurable change in health related deaths near one solstice. There's is a roughly equivalent and opposite health benefit near the following solstice. A non-trivial number of people die as the result of the one, and aren't there to enjoy the benefit that follows.
Perhaps calling it government mandated human sacrifice would be more appropriate. It's certainly more accurate.
It's like Shirley Jackson's The Lottery, but a little more subtle.
Not xkcd for once
http://www.steaksmoothie.com/?...
The Fear of Missing Out... on early adoption pricing.
Embrace, extend, extinguish was in its prime during the DOS era. Memory Managers, Screen Savers, Disk health utilities, Disk defragmentation programs, menuing/task swapping, document editors, spreadsheets, and even database programs had very short lifespans after a version was included with MS-DOS or MS Office.
This toolset doesn't even come close to what's natively available in Unix or Linux
Correct. However, no one wants to really learn how to use those tools. So that's where the demand for this comes from.
I guess the question, Should folks learn these tools? Should folks educate themselves? is the underlying question here. I know exactly how I feel but, how I feel doesn't change the mentality one bit.
From anything false, anything follows.
No one wants to pay employees enough money to learn what the employees willingly learn themselves, unless they can see an immediate profit from it. The false assumption that the thing with more restrictions, including price and licensing, is therefor the better thing means that Microsoft can continue to attempt embrace, extend, and extinguish simply by having more restrictive licensing when extending a Free product. Anyone who complains about restrictions imposed by the GPL variants being intolerable is pulling your leg. I recommend reading what closed source terms actually entail sometime. "Not being allowed to plagiarize" in exchange for permission to use copyrighted works by other people isn't a bad trade, and it's optional.
and if everybody did things their own way the result would be bloat.
fixed
...I get it, ya'll are Poe'd here, ...
Meaning subjected to Poe's Law, rather than pissed off. That would be p.o.'ed.
"You code looks like something a moron is requesting that I approve"
There have been three great movements shaping the information technology landscape.
I stopped reading there.
There have certainly been at least three, these aren't among them.
It's made of recycled phlogiston, misaligned chakras, and high quality. The premium edition contains "Thoughts and Prayers(TM)".
Thomas Jefferson raped his slaves and sold off his own children into slavery. Fuck him.
Thomas Jefferson is also dead, please stop advocating necrophilia.
The computer you typed that post on is one. Jeez. Browsers magically compile and run any HTML/Javascript program you create and BASIC (among others) is a free download.
https://thenib.com/mister-gotc...
Which brings us to today's car analogy...
The trouble with colonialism is eventually you run out of other peoples' countries.
Always remember, kids: just because they're out to get you doesn't mean you're not paranoid.
The lavender takes care of the paranoia, they're just out to get you now.
Testing mice doesn't hurt humans.
Famouse last words.
When you gotta name your product line "this works", I am, for some reason, immediately suspicious.
Lingering memories of Microsoft Works gave me the same reaction.