Just because something is Turing complete doesn't mean I would want to program in it. I would rather use HTML5 + CSS3 for the purpose they were designed for (rendering web pages), and use a proper language to program the backend.
OTOH, I agree with putting HTML & CSS on the Github's top 10 list, since it takes skill & practice to develop in those as much as in a conventional programming language.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
These rights come from the fact that they increase the freedoms, personal liberties and pursuit of happiness of our citizens. Denying the right to marry to gay people does the opposite: decrease their freedoms and hinder their pursuit of happiness. You should accept this whether or not you believe in an imaginary sky fairy.
If you don't believe there was a clear religious motive to this murder, I strongly urge you to setup an atheist blog in Bangladesh and see what happens to you.
Absolutely correct. Also his manager should be taking him out to a goodbye lunch with the team. This was the case in all my previous places of employment.
Let's not forget that quite a number of people end up coming back to their previous companies after working elsewhere. It's always good to leave a good lasting impression on the departing employees. Not-burning-bridges goes both ways.
I'm a person who enjoys a pipe or a cigar once a month. I smoke alone on my balcony, so the smoke dissipates in the wind quickly and doesn't seem to bother anyone else. Any health effects incurred on me, I'm sure it's not as bad as smoking a pack of cigarettes a day. I don't even inhale the smoke (with pipes and cigars you are not supposed to inhale, as I will explain below) so the health risks are even less. Given these, why would you want to take this small pleasure away from me?
Cigars and pipes are not as addictive as cigarettes, and there is a reason for that. Cigarettes are designed to be inhaled. Their smoke is engineered to be more acidic, with additives to the tobacco and such. The acidic smoke is more readily absorbed by the lungs. Pipe and cigar smoke on the other hand is more alkaline in its nature. It is not absorbed well by the lungs. Instead, it is more readily absorbed by the mouth's mucosal membranes. Therefore you don't inhale cigar & pipe smoke. The result of all this is a major difference in the smoking experience. With cigarettes, you get an intense nicotine spike that lasts 5 minutes and then leaves you unsatisfied and wanting more. (The surface area of lung's absorbing membranes is a lot more than the mouth's, as you would expect, hence the intense nicotine spike.) With pipes & cigars, you get a slow and steady absorption of nicotine for an hour or so. It is relaxing and meditative. And you don't feel like having another cigar immediately after, since you are already left satisfied. I have been enjoying my once-a-month balcony smoking sessions for 3 years now. I have no feelings of craving or addiction. If I was smoking cigarettes, I highly doubt I would be able to enjoy one once a month. Instead, I would end up smoking two packs of cigarettes a day.
You may say let's just ban cigarettes then. Well, prohibition has worked so well in its history after all. Look at how nobody uses alcohol or drugs anymore, since we banned them back in the days...
Cigarette use is already in the decline. Instead of taking completely useless prohibitionary measures, if we wait long enough, cigarette use will be completely replaced by vaper use. And there will be the occasional esoteric cigar & pipe smoker like me, who quietly enjoys his cigar in his balcony, porch, or at the local tobacconist.
I strongly believe that religious fundamentalism should be publicly ridiculed. It is intolerant by its very nature. It is also harmful to humanity, an affront to morality, and a cancer to civilization. The more we publicly ridicule and humiliate religious fundamentalism, the more it will lose its power.
The congress is full of evolution/climate-change denying anti-science cretins. They are the ones who ultimately sign the checks for science funding. What else did we expect? Science is dead in this country. Welcome to the dark ages.
If an asteroid was going to strike the Earth in a few hours, I would want to know, so I can start drinking shitload of scotch. I am definitely not dying sober.
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Just because something is Turing complete doesn't mean I would want to program in it. I would rather use HTML5 + CSS3 for the purpose they were designed for (rendering web pages), and use a proper language to program the backend.
OTOH, I agree with putting HTML & CSS on the Github's top 10 list, since it takes skill & practice to develop in those as much as in a conventional programming language.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961
These rights come from the fact that they increase the freedoms, personal liberties and pursuit of happiness of our citizens. Denying the right to marry to gay people does the opposite: decrease their freedoms and hinder their pursuit of happiness. You should accept this whether or not you believe in an imaginary sky fairy.
What do you think about new "system languages" like Go and Rust? Are they OK in your opinion, or do they suck as much as C++?
If you don't believe there was a clear religious motive to this murder, I strongly urge you to setup an atheist blog in Bangladesh and see what happens to you.
What? Did something bad happen in Denmark or Sweden?
Absolutely correct. Also his manager should be taking him out to a goodbye lunch with the team. This was the case in all my previous places of employment.
Let's not forget that quite a number of people end up coming back to their previous companies after working elsewhere. It's always good to leave a good lasting impression on the departing employees. Not-burning-bridges goes both ways.
Are you saying my Pandora station is emceed by a human? I knew it!
I'm a person who enjoys a pipe or a cigar once a month. I smoke alone on my balcony, so the smoke dissipates in the wind quickly and doesn't seem to bother anyone else. Any health effects incurred on me, I'm sure it's not as bad as smoking a pack of cigarettes a day. I don't even inhale the smoke (with pipes and cigars you are not supposed to inhale, as I will explain below) so the health risks are even less. Given these, why would you want to take this small pleasure away from me?
Cigars and pipes are not as addictive as cigarettes, and there is a reason for that. Cigarettes are designed to be inhaled. Their smoke is engineered to be more acidic, with additives to the tobacco and such. The acidic smoke is more readily absorbed by the lungs. Pipe and cigar smoke on the other hand is more alkaline in its nature. It is not absorbed well by the lungs. Instead, it is more readily absorbed by the mouth's mucosal membranes. Therefore you don't inhale cigar & pipe smoke. The result of all this is a major difference in the smoking experience. With cigarettes, you get an intense nicotine spike that lasts 5 minutes and then leaves you unsatisfied and wanting more. (The surface area of lung's absorbing membranes is a lot more than the mouth's, as you would expect, hence the intense nicotine spike.) With pipes & cigars, you get a slow and steady absorption of nicotine for an hour or so. It is relaxing and meditative. And you don't feel like having another cigar immediately after, since you are already left satisfied. I have been enjoying my once-a-month balcony smoking sessions for 3 years now. I have no feelings of craving or addiction. If I was smoking cigarettes, I highly doubt I would be able to enjoy one once a month. Instead, I would end up smoking two packs of cigarettes a day.
You may say let's just ban cigarettes then. Well, prohibition has worked so well in its history after all. Look at how nobody uses alcohol or drugs anymore, since we banned them back in the days...
Cigarette use is already in the decline. Instead of taking completely useless prohibitionary measures, if we wait long enough, cigarette use will be completely replaced by vaper use. And there will be the occasional esoteric cigar & pipe smoker like me, who quietly enjoys his cigar in his balcony, porch, or at the local tobacconist.
Thank you for your hard work! We know more about our universe thanks to the hard work of scientists like you.
Exactly, tolerance is a two-way street.
I strongly believe that religious fundamentalism should be publicly ridiculed. It is intolerant by its very nature. It is also harmful to humanity, an affront to morality, and a cancer to civilization. The more we publicly ridicule and humiliate religious fundamentalism, the more it will lose its power.
The congress is full of evolution/climate-change denying anti-science cretins. They are the ones who ultimately sign the checks for science funding. What else did we expect? Science is dead in this country. Welcome to the dark ages.
There is already a working well-proven economic model that promotes equality while preserving economic robustness: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...
Looks like Agent Smith was correct. We are viruses that will spread uncontrollably and consume all the resources on our way.
Good countries invest in the education and future of their youth, regardless of their class or background.
Bad countries send the youth of their poor to die in pointless wars in foreign countries.
Yeah, sometimes the reality is that simple.
Sometimes there seems to be evidence for the patient having visual knowledge not explainable by hallucinations.
[Citation needed.]
I have seen some of my friends try this Atkins/Keto diet thing. None of them lost any weight. Some of them even gained more weight.
In the end it seemed like it's a lot of torture for nothing. I would recommend everyone to stay away from this fad.
[Citation needed] for all three of you ACs.
Nice try Infosys executive!
In other news today: USA is a Plutocracy.
I'm still wondering how Perl was "discovered".
I wish I had mod points to give to you. This is exactly how I feel about this whole thing as well.
It was a religion named Communism that killed millions of people in China and Russia. Any sort of dogmatic ideology is bad for humanity.
If an asteroid was going to strike the Earth in a few hours, I would want to know, so I can start drinking shitload of scotch. I am definitely not dying sober.
I for one welcome our robotic car overlords who will be veering me off a bridge as they see fit.