Yes, that is one reason why I absolutely avoid using Python. Or any of the other fad languages. I am using Object Pascal for pretty much all of my project and a lot of possible bugs won't even allow the program to compile.
There are even type checks in more "open" languages, like C11, but then I noticed that a lot of people just turn off all the warnings about possible bad conversions, just to get their code compiled instead of fixing the problem properly...
A few years back I used to be (despite an Army paratrooper) in charge of a platoon to serve as boarding parties on pirate patrol in the Indian Ocean (Operation Atalanta) on board of one of our frigates. We moved in and out of the harbor of Djibouti, passing through the Gulf of Aden, a very busy shipping lane comparable to the situation down in Malaysia/Singapore. The ship did not rely just on radar/GPS to navigate those waters, but there were at all times at least 4 lookouts, in all directions, not only the one it was moving in, at night with NVG, that were scanning the surroundings at all time.
While it was easy on patrol to miss those smaller dhows and particular the skiffs, specially in choppy sea way out on the ocean, there was no way that anyone would miss to spot a huge oil tanker or container ship on a collision course. There has to be a notorious lack of responsibility and oversight, among sailors and officers, both on board and in higher command, for this to happen repeatedly.
Ignorance and arrogance kills...
Its fingerprinting for asylum seekers as young as 6 (current minimum age is 14), not all residents.
Summary fails to note that point.
And even more, the actual reason as to why the finger printing is to be done is to prevent that the same person (child) gets registered and receives services under more than one name. Children change their appearance very quickly, so a photo on an ID doesn't serve much of a purpose for them...
First programming language I learned was Pascal. First on paper only, then on a DEC PDP-8, way back in '76. Then used 6502 assembly (by hand) on a KIM-1, my first own computer...
At least here in LA, pretty much all of the Uber (Lyft, etc) drivers are among the worst driver on the road. Barely adhering even to the simplest traffic rules and the audacity to threaten you when you complain that they are sitting in a red curbed bus stop zone (clearly stating "No Stopping" in white letters on top of it) holding up public transit. No, this is not a single occurrence with a single driver, it's at least 80% of them, I experience this EVERY SINGLE DAY...
I don't understand the obsession with thinness.
Ever since my phone was less than 4cm thick I have been quite happy. What is this need to keeping shaving millimeters off?
+1
While 40mm thick would actually bother me, some of the recent developments of those thin phones are simply ridiculous, probably because they can't come up with anything really useful to distinguish them from their competitors. So they start competing with gimmicks like how thin it is. Bending iPhone anyone?
Sorry, rather keep/include (micro)SD card slots and 3.5mm earphone jacks, that makes such devices far more usable than making it another mm thinner,..
What would you need to 'learn' Windows in the first place?
I can set up a Linux laptop and make it look so much like a Windows desktop that a lot of people won't even know the difference.
And it is amazing to see how many long time Windows user know even the most basic Windows shortcuts and key/mouse combinations. Doesn't seem to be much of learning involved...
Line numbers are not a benefit. Contemporary languages don't use them and with good reason.
First of all, there are a lot of BASIC compilers or even interpreters that don't need line numbers.
Beside that, I think that compared to the stupid significant white space carp in Python, linen umbers are a lesser evil for a lot of beginners.
And then people all over the (US) Internet complain about the Chinese not inventing/developing anything buy themselves and instead copying western technology...
I am using IrfanView ever since it became available, many, many moons ago. And everything does just what I expect it to do. It is fast, supports pretty much all living picture formats and is incredibly easy to use....
Switzerland = 1590 square miles, Dallas = 380 square miles.
Switzerland is a verdant crossroads between FR, DE, IT, and AT with huge strategic value.
Dallas is a horrible shit hole of hot concrete and blue laws (I was born there).
It's a real pain with the math education in the US of A.
Switzerland has an area of 41,285 km2, that's 15,940 square miles if you are stuck with Fred Flintstones unit, so you are still off by a factor off 10...
But I like the description of Dallas...
Since when is the F-35 "cheap"? And in what "large" numbers? The project has one of the most epic cost overruns of any military project ever (so far $1.3trillion) and it is likely never be procured in the numbers initially envisioned.
Save the A10!
Scrapy (/skrepi/ SKRAY-pee) is a free and open source web crawling framework, written in Python. Originally designed for web scraping, it can also be used to extract data using APIs or as a general purpose web crawler.
I am not so sure if with this medical condition, she should ne be able to drive at all (and hence lose her license). If it's just the Ethanol in the breath that caused her to fail a breathalyzer test, that does not mean that she also has/had an increased blood alcohol level and that would be what would impair her ability to safely drive...
Yeah, no kidding... I'm pretty sure I've not used Mozilla as a mail client in at least a decade, maybe even longer.
I want a fast, lean, standards compliant browser, which respects my privacy, and isn't trying to do 50 other things.
Why is that so hard, and why does everyone think Mozilla needs to be a catchall for everything you could possibly do on the internet?
A standards compliant browser has nothing/little to do with a standards compliant email client. Firefox and Thunderbird are two different tools, for two different tasks.
It's just today's general stupidity to promote the use of a web browser to work with email, but that's probably due to some larger service providers pushing for more unwanted advertising in their web mail sites, with Yahoo, for a while now the main "sponsor" of Mozilla, one of the worst offenders in that category. And this smells awfully as if their involvement is the actually trigger about starting this discussion...
Why should Mozilla keep an Open Source email client alive?
After all, everyone loves Outlook and Windows Mail and Apple Mail, and those corporations know what's best for us.
Exactly THAT is the reason why there should be a strong Open Source email client, that people have a serious alternative to those abominations and are also safe from the overabundance of advertising on web mail serving web sites like Yahoo...
Why the fuck would anyone bother supporting 16-bit MSDOS? Really?
Simply because someone cares. Someone else is also reviving Amiga 68k support, because he cares. Our compiler is generally modular and generic enough so that such support does not result in too much interference with other functionality, or luggage that makes things unmaintainable over time.
+1 (at least for the 16-bit MSDOS part;-) )
Where's the CP/M support for Z80 then?
It'll get added as soon as you provide good quality patches for it:)
(Un)fortunately, I think we will have to wait a long time for that to happen...;-)
In general, it is sad to see how arrogant and ignorant the (programming) world has become...
Yeah but too bad with all the time it took, Pascal has become somewhat obsolete, supplanted within its core support community by Modula.
Sorry, but Modula has gone nowhere. There isn't just one Modula compiler project out there (which are few and far between anway) that comes even close to FreePascal.
And with the Lazarus IDE, you get a very easy to use RAD development environment for all the major GUI based OS, allowing for easy cross-platform development.
And just because of all the buzz of the "new kids on the block", Pascal hasn't become "obsolete" by a long shot. Pretty much all the people that I have met that made that claim have never written a single program in Pascal, they just parrot what they heard elsewhere...
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Yes, that is one reason why I absolutely avoid using Python. Or any of the other fad languages. I am using Object Pascal for pretty much all of my project and a lot of possible bugs won't even allow the program to compile. There are even type checks in more "open" languages, like C11, but then I noticed that a lot of people just turn off all the warnings about possible bad conversions, just to get their code compiled instead of fixing the problem properly...
...one small step for mankind...
A few years back I used to be (despite an Army paratrooper) in charge of a platoon to serve as boarding parties on pirate patrol in the Indian Ocean (Operation Atalanta) on board of one of our frigates. We moved in and out of the harbor of Djibouti, passing through the Gulf of Aden, a very busy shipping lane comparable to the situation down in Malaysia/Singapore. The ship did not rely just on radar/GPS to navigate those waters, but there were at all times at least 4 lookouts, in all directions, not only the one it was moving in, at night with NVG, that were scanning the surroundings at all time. While it was easy on patrol to miss those smaller dhows and particular the skiffs, specially in choppy sea way out on the ocean, there was no way that anyone would miss to spot a huge oil tanker or container ship on a collision course. There has to be a notorious lack of responsibility and oversight, among sailors and officers, both on board and in higher command, for this to happen repeatedly. Ignorance and arrogance kills...
Its fingerprinting for asylum seekers as young as 6 (current minimum age is 14), not all residents.
Summary fails to note that point.
And even more, the actual reason as to why the finger printing is to be done is to prevent that the same person (child) gets registered and receives services under more than one name. Children change their appearance very quickly, so a photo on an ID doesn't serve much of a purpose for them...
First programming language I learned was Pascal. First on paper only, then on a DEC PDP-8, way back in '76. Then used 6502 assembly (by hand) on a KIM-1, my first own computer...
Don't know what hair color that bimbo sports, but that last sentence certainly qualifies her as legally Blonde...
On something smaller and cheaper.
Smaller and cheaper than a woman from Virginia?
Ouch, that's stings...
At least here in LA, pretty much all of the Uber (Lyft, etc) drivers are among the worst driver on the road. Barely adhering even to the simplest traffic rules and the audacity to threaten you when you complain that they are sitting in a red curbed bus stop zone (clearly stating "No Stopping" in white letters on top of it) holding up public transit. No, this is not a single occurrence with a single driver, it's at least 80% of them, I experience this EVERY SINGLE DAY...
Makes you wonder how many more of those (armed) airheads are out there...
I don't understand the obsession with thinness. Ever since my phone was less than 4cm thick I have been quite happy. What is this need to keeping shaving millimeters off?
+1 While 40mm thick would actually bother me, some of the recent developments of those thin phones are simply ridiculous, probably because they can't come up with anything really useful to distinguish them from their competitors. So they start competing with gimmicks like how thin it is. Bending iPhone anyone? Sorry, rather keep/include (micro)SD card slots and 3.5mm earphone jacks, that makes such devices far more usable than making it another mm thinner,..
What would you need to 'learn' Windows in the first place? I can set up a Linux laptop and make it look so much like a Windows desktop that a lot of people won't even know the difference. And it is amazing to see how many long time Windows user know even the most basic Windows shortcuts and key/mouse combinations. Doesn't seem to be much of learning involved...
Line numbers are not a benefit. Contemporary languages don't use them and with good reason.
First of all, there are a lot of BASIC compilers or even interpreters that don't need line numbers. Beside that, I think that compared to the stupid significant white space carp in Python, linen umbers are a lesser evil for a lot of beginners.
And then people all over the (US) Internet complain about the Chinese not inventing/developing anything buy themselves and instead copying western technology...
Why are people in an "office" using a web browser for their e-mail in the first place?
I am using IrfanView ever since it became available, many, many moons ago. And everything does just what I expect it to do. It is fast, supports pretty much all living picture formats and is incredibly easy to use....
nope, the open source drivers are garbage, ....
Well, it's Open Source, so help fix it. Or so the lore says...
Switzerland = 1590 square miles, Dallas = 380 square miles. Switzerland is a verdant crossroads between FR, DE, IT, and AT with huge strategic value. Dallas is a horrible shit hole of hot concrete and blue laws (I was born there).
It's a real pain with the math education in the US of A. Switzerland has an area of 41,285 km2, that's 15,940 square miles if you are stuck with Fred Flintstones unit, so you are still off by a factor off 10... But I like the description of Dallas...
Since when is the F-35 "cheap"? And in what "large" numbers? The project has one of the most epic cost overruns of any military project ever (so far $1.3trillion) and it is likely never be procured in the numbers initially envisioned. Save the A10!
Scrapy (/skrepi/ SKRAY-pee) is a free and open source web crawling framework, written in Python. Originally designed for web scraping, it can also be used to extract data using APIs or as a general purpose web crawler.
And their tagline is "Scapy is crappy"?
I am not so sure if with this medical condition, she should ne be able to drive at all (and hence lose her license). If it's just the Ethanol in the breath that caused her to fail a breathalyzer test, that does not mean that she also has/had an increased blood alcohol level and that would be what would impair her ability to safely drive...
Yeah, no kidding ... I'm pretty sure I've not used Mozilla as a mail client in at least a decade, maybe even longer.
I want a fast, lean, standards compliant browser, which respects my privacy, and isn't trying to do 50 other things.
Why is that so hard, and why does everyone think Mozilla needs to be a catchall for everything you could possibly do on the internet?
A standards compliant browser has nothing/little to do with a standards compliant email client. Firefox and Thunderbird are two different tools, for two different tasks. It's just today's general stupidity to promote the use of a web browser to work with email, but that's probably due to some larger service providers pushing for more unwanted advertising in their web mail sites, with Yahoo, for a while now the main "sponsor" of Mozilla, one of the worst offenders in that category. And this smells awfully as if their involvement is the actually trigger about starting this discussion...
Why should Mozilla keep an Open Source email client alive?
After all, everyone loves Outlook and Windows Mail and Apple Mail, and those corporations know what's best for us.
Exactly THAT is the reason why there should be a strong Open Source email client, that people have a serious alternative to those abominations and are also safe from the overabundance of advertising on web mail serving web sites like Yahoo...
Why the fuck would anyone bother supporting 16-bit MSDOS? Really?
Simply because someone cares. Someone else is also reviving Amiga 68k support, because he cares. Our compiler is generally modular and generic enough so that such support does not result in too much interference with other functionality, or luggage that makes things unmaintainable over time.
+1 (at least for the 16-bit MSDOS part ;-) )
Where's the CP/M support for Z80 then?
It'll get added as soon as you provide good quality patches for it :)
(Un)fortunately, I think we will have to wait a long time for that to happen... ;-)
In general, it is sad to see how arrogant and ignorant the (programming) world has become...
I remember having to save my allowance to buy Borland Turbo Pascal for around $60. It came in a yellow box. A couple of other things I remember:
1) I am getting old 2) Those days sucked
Thanks to GNU and gcc we will never have to put up with that crap again.
My sincere condolences that you still have to put up with gcc, I know, it scars you for the rest of your life... >:)
Yeah but too bad with all the time it took, Pascal has become somewhat obsolete, supplanted within its core support community by Modula.
Sorry, but Modula has gone nowhere. There isn't just one Modula compiler project out there (which are few and far between anway) that comes even close to FreePascal. And with the Lazarus IDE, you get a very easy to use RAD development environment for all the major GUI based OS, allowing for easy cross-platform development. And just because of all the buzz of the "new kids on the block", Pascal hasn't become "obsolete" by a long shot. Pretty much all the people that I have met that made that claim have never written a single program in Pascal, they just parrot what they heard elsewhere...