And don't think you (or at least I) are particularly better in this regard by virtue of being Christian. Christian extremists don't seem to have any more trouble with marching into Christian church services right here in the USA and murdering people they have religious disputes with.
History Channel has become a joke with things like Ghost Hunters, Ancient Aliens, and enough crap to make you think they've jumped the shark and become a source you can no longer rely on for actual history.
Yup. The joke over on the History Stack is that they are fixing to change their name to HyFy. Posting a question based on something you saw there is a really good way to get your question closed.
Look at it this way, calling ASN.1 a language makes about as much sense as calling TCP/IP a language. For most of us, it makes more sense to call it a "protocol", and to call the thing you reach for to implement that protocol a "language".
Genghis Khan was a historical figure that was very likely buried somewhere.
The former is true, while the latter is sheer speculation on your part. Again, most Mongolians of his day were exposed on the steppe after death, and there are no contemporary accounts of him being treated differently.
Maybe ASN.1 and SMI are so little known as a programming language because... they're not a programming language
Obviously not so little-known either. I came in this story to post this same comment, and saw that no less than 2 people had beaten me there. Probably more.
I'm surprised its supposed to be some kind of skill that pays big too. ASN.1 essentially attacks the same problem XML does (platform independent data representation), but in a binary rather than textual way. Saying you are familiar with ASN.1 is no more (really less) useful than saying you are familiar with XML, because what is important is what subset of it is in use by the system you are communicating with. A person unfamiliar with the specific application can not be expected to already know that, and the standard itself is documented well enough that any reasonably-proficient practitioner should be able to pick it up.
(he was a Shamanist with a lot of Nestorian Christian family members). Lama Buddhism became the religion of Mongols only 400 years later
This is why its important to read the whole link:
Depositing the corpse in the steppe was meant to sacrifice it to predatory animals. According to Mongolians this is the last virtous act a person can carry out. This idea is much older than Lamaism and exhibits a really strong shamanistic element of spiritual thought.
The other thing I didn't bring up (because I don't have a single little link for it handy) was that the story about the tomb with the untold wealth cannot be found in any sources for several hundred years after the event. So whatever knowledge we have about there being a tomb with stuff in it did not come from directly (and given the time differential and location of that source, most likely not indirectly either) from anybody with actual first-hand experience of the event in question.
IOW, its a myth. There might be a germ of something true in some myths, but realistically you might as well be looking for Noah's arc.
Interesting that I say "black folks", and suddenly the topic becomes "violent felons", like somehow the two are equivalent phrases. How f'ed up is that?
The Mongols didn't bury their dead. Their religion (like that of many nomadic pastoral societies) relied on open-air burials. The whole "tomb" myth was most likely invented by their Chinese neighbors.
Interesting country, where white folks earnestly protest that they should be able to openly carry weapons and not be viewed as a threat, while black folks have to protest that they should be able to walk around unarmed and not be viewed as a threat.
...just in time to for the entire system to become completely irrelevant, because almost nobody gets their media broadcast over public airwaves anymore.
Well, if its something you enjoy doing (like say enough to volunteer to work on your neighbor's) that's a different kettle of fish.
But for the vast majority of maintenance work, there are other things I'd rather be doing with my free time. Add to that the fact that I can get more paid overtime at work if I want it, and the calculation becomes fairly simple: would I be financially better off spending the time to (inexpertly) fix it myself, or drop it off with someone who fixes that issue every day, and spend the time I'd spend hacking on it at work earning money?
Clearly he is referring to Elon James White, founder and CEO of TWiB media. Where many folks would just whine about voices of color (and of women) not being properly represented in the media, he's actually doing something about it.
There is pretty much nowhere else you can go to hear first-hand experience on things like living with ADHD, living as a target of racisim, Dr. Who, the new slate of superhero shows on TV, being attacked by police in the Fergeson protests, game systems, politics, and Comics. In other words, the real life of a geek.
That would be a neat trick, since we haven't discovered and cataloged all species yet, not even close.
Take beetles as an example. New species of beetles are being discovered constantly. Beetles make up a quarter of all known animal life-forms, and by some estimates there are orders of magnitude more undiscovered beetle species than there are known animal species of any kind. We will probably never even come close to discovering them all.
Nah. Even LoB was clearly intended as a story about a different guy. They even showed Jesus in the movie, to emphasize that this is a different person they are talking about.
It was a story about someone being popularly deified when they clearly weren't in fact a deity. That certain Christians took the depiction of this possibly happening as an attack on their own faith says a lot more about their own insecurities than it does about the movie. (This is coming from a Christian, btw.)
The Mississippians did in fact have proper cities, and even some bronze use. This is in fact to be expected anywhere you have a fertile river valley, cultivatable crops, and human beings. The largest we know of was at present day East St. Louis, and was likely 6,000-40,000 people at its height (about 1/2 to 1/3 the population of Paris at that time). They even had some bronze working going on there.
But the important thing to know is that this is just one site. There were similar settlements all up and down the Mississippi and its tributaries. They are usually called "mounds" which is a funny way to talk about a town/city if you ask me. There's even one here in Oklahoma, complete with native copper artifacts. And there are more that were either destroyed, or perhaps have not been found for some reason. We know there were several mowed over when St. Louis was being built in the 1800's.
Not unexpected (but cool to know!). Jared Diamond is essentially a popular non-fiction author who can "speak science" thanks to a background in Biology. Thus any information in his books is known ("old") information being synthesized for a popular audience. Sometimes the logical results of that synthesis might be somewhat novel, but the information itself is not. So I knew when I read it (again a decade ago), that this must have already been the accepted consensus for a while.
The book by the way is Collapse. It has a whole chapter on the decline of the Maya, so it may be a worthwhile read for anyone interested in this topic.
Although the findings aren't the first to tie a drought to the Mayan culture's demise, the new results strengthen the case that dry periods were indeed the culprit.
This is kind of an understatement. Drought has been one of the (if not THE) leading theories for the Mayan decline source. Jared Diamond called it out as the cause in his popular book Collapse almost a decade ago.
Its good to see some more data points confirming this theory, but that appears to be all this is.
Smarter would probably be to do a seek-and-destroy on all code using fiscal years, since that seems to be the source of the problem. If one person made that mistake, others may as well.
Ahhh. That's fiscal year stuff. I had no idea that was even in ISO. I'm guessing the coder at Twitter who accidentally used it didn't either.
So now this makes sense: Today happens to be the first day of the fiscal year 2015. That field was using UTC as well, so basically as soon as it hit midnight GMT, blam. And as the GP said, the dates happened to match up the last two years, so nobody noticed the bug for 3 years.
They are using ISO Year for the Date header, for some reason. (the last 3 years wouldn't have been affected)
Care to elaborate on this a bit? The only ISO standard I know of that says anything about dates is ISO 8601, which just deals with date/time representations. There's nothing in there I know of that could actually change the year on you (unless it happens to be the last day of the year and you are far enough from the UTC time zone).
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In the name of "Allah", who will be the next victim ?
Almost certainly a Muslim. Islamists kill more Muslims that all their other victims combined.
In fact... here's your answer: 38 poor saps killed today in Yemen who were minding their own business. All Muslims.
And don't think you (or at least I) are particularly better in this regard by virtue of being Christian. Christian extremists don't seem to have any more trouble with marching into Christian church services right here in the USA and murdering people they have religious disputes with.
.. editor-in-chief Stéphane Charbonnier ... said he did not see the bombing as the work of French Muslims, but of what he called "idiot extremists."
And he was right, for what that's worth. There are few things in this world more dangerous than drawing the attention of lots of idiots.
History Channel has become a joke with things like Ghost Hunters, Ancient Aliens, and enough crap to make you think they've jumped the shark and become a source you can no longer rely on for actual history.
Yup. The joke over on the History Stack is that they are fixing to change their name to HyFy. Posting a question based on something you saw there is a really good way to get your question closed.
Look at it this way, calling ASN.1 a language makes about as much sense as calling TCP/IP a language. For most of us, it makes more sense to call it a "protocol", and to call the thing you reach for to implement that protocol a "language".
Go fuck your self. In Ada.
The whole point of the design of Ada is to make that exact activity very difficult to do.
If you really want to go fuck yourself, C++ is the language for you.
...or 72 clones of themselves.
Genghis Khan was a historical figure that was very likely buried somewhere.
The former is true, while the latter is sheer speculation on your part. Again, most Mongolians of his day were exposed on the steppe after death, and there are no contemporary accounts of him being treated differently.
Maybe ASN.1 and SMI are so little known as a programming language because... they're not a programming language
Obviously not so little-known either. I came in this story to post this same comment, and saw that no less than 2 people had beaten me there. Probably more.
I'm surprised its supposed to be some kind of skill that pays big too. ASN.1 essentially attacks the same problem XML does (platform independent data representation), but in a binary rather than textual way. Saying you are familiar with ASN.1 is no more (really less) useful than saying you are familiar with XML, because what is important is what subset of it is in use by the system you are communicating with. A person unfamiliar with the specific application can not be expected to already know that, and the standard itself is documented well enough that any reasonably-proficient practitioner should be able to pick it up.
(he was a Shamanist with a lot of Nestorian Christian family members). Lama Buddhism became the religion of Mongols only 400 years later
This is why its important to read the whole link:
Depositing the corpse in the steppe was meant to sacrifice it to predatory animals. According to Mongolians this is the last virtous act a person can carry out. This idea is much older than Lamaism and exhibits a really strong shamanistic element of spiritual thought.
The other thing I didn't bring up (because I don't have a single little link for it handy) was that the story about the tomb with the untold wealth cannot be found in any sources for several hundred years after the event. So whatever knowledge we have about there being a tomb with stuff in it did not come from directly (and given the time differential and location of that source, most likely not indirectly either) from anybody with actual first-hand experience of the event in question.
IOW, its a myth. There might be a germ of something true in some myths, but realistically you might as well be looking for Noah's arc.
Interesting that I say "black folks", and suddenly the topic becomes "violent felons", like somehow the two are equivalent phrases. How f'ed up is that?
...and then Narnia and Oz.
The Mongols didn't bury their dead. Their religion (like that of many nomadic pastoral societies) relied on open-air burials. The whole "tomb" myth was most likely invented by their Chinese neighbors.
Interesting country, where white folks earnestly protest that they should be able to openly carry weapons and not be viewed as a threat, while black folks have to protest that they should be able to walk around unarmed and not be viewed as a threat.
They could have gotten $3000 for it, if they could have found a way to wedge a couple of vacuum tubes into it.
...just in time to for the entire system to become completely irrelevant, because almost nobody gets their media broadcast over public airwaves anymore.
Well, if its something you enjoy doing (like say enough to volunteer to work on your neighbor's) that's a different kettle of fish.
But for the vast majority of maintenance work, there are other things I'd rather be doing with my free time. Add to that the fact that I can get more paid overtime at work if I want it, and the calculation becomes fairly simple: would I be financially better off spending the time to (inexpertly) fix it myself, or drop it off with someone who fixes that issue every day, and spend the time I'd spend hacking on it at work earning money?
Clearly he is referring to Elon James White, founder and CEO of TWiB media. Where many folks would just whine about voices of color (and of women) not being properly represented in the media, he's actually doing something about it.
There is pretty much nowhere else you can go to hear first-hand experience on things like living with ADHD, living as a target of racisim, Dr. Who, the new slate of superhero shows on TV, being attacked by police in the Fergeson protests, game systems, politics, and Comics. In other words, the real life of a geek.
You know: news for nerds. Stuff that matters.
That would be a neat trick, since we haven't discovered and cataloged all species yet, not even close.
Take beetles as an example. New species of beetles are being discovered constantly. Beetles make up a quarter of all known animal life-forms, and by some estimates there are orders of magnitude more undiscovered beetle species than there are known animal species of any kind. We will probably never even come close to discovering them all.
Nah. Even LoB was clearly intended as a story about a different guy. They even showed Jesus in the movie, to emphasize that this is a different person they are talking about.
It was a story about someone being popularly deified when they clearly weren't in fact a deity. That certain Christians took the depiction of this possibly happening as an attack on their own faith says a lot more about their own insecurities than it does about the movie. (This is coming from a Christian, btw.)
But the important thing to know is that this is just one site. There were similar settlements all up and down the Mississippi and its tributaries. They are usually called "mounds" which is a funny way to talk about a town/city if you ask me. There's even one here in Oklahoma, complete with native copper artifacts. And there are more that were either destroyed, or perhaps have not been found for some reason. We know there were several mowed over when St. Louis was being built in the 1800's.
Not unexpected (but cool to know!). Jared Diamond is essentially a popular non-fiction author who can "speak science" thanks to a background in Biology. Thus any information in his books is known ("old") information being synthesized for a popular audience. Sometimes the logical results of that synthesis might be somewhat novel, but the information itself is not. So I knew when I read it (again a decade ago), that this must have already been the accepted consensus for a while.
The book by the way is Collapse. It has a whole chapter on the decline of the Maya, so it may be a worthwhile read for anyone interested in this topic.
Although the findings aren't the first to tie a drought to the Mayan culture's demise, the new results strengthen the case that dry periods were indeed the culprit.
This is kind of an understatement. Drought has been one of the (if not THE) leading theories for the Mayan decline source. Jared Diamond called it out as the cause in his popular book Collapse almost a decade ago.
Its good to see some more data points confirming this theory, but that appears to be all this is.
As I said before, the USA owes the NK a big fucking apology.
We just released a movie starring their beloved leader. Is that not enough?
Smarter would probably be to do a seek-and-destroy on all code using fiscal years, since that seems to be the source of the problem. If one person made that mistake, others may as well.
Ahhh. That's fiscal year stuff. I had no idea that was even in ISO. I'm guessing the coder at Twitter who accidentally used it didn't either.
So now this makes sense: Today happens to be the first day of the fiscal year 2015. That field was using UTC as well, so basically as soon as it hit midnight GMT, blam. And as the GP said, the dates happened to match up the last two years, so nobody noticed the bug for 3 years.
They are using ISO Year for the Date header, for some reason. (the last 3 years wouldn't have been affected)
Care to elaborate on this a bit? The only ISO standard I know of that says anything about dates is ISO 8601, which just deals with date/time representations. There's nothing in there I know of that could actually change the year on you (unless it happens to be the last day of the year and you are far enough from the UTC time zone).