Knowing the kind of things that are not obvious to a reader not intimate with the code, and commenting on what the reader might want to understand, seems to be a somewhat rare skill.
Like writing in general, you have to be able to imagine the ideas unfolding in the mind of the reader, and put that to work for you. With cleverness and little surprises for general writing, and the exact opposite, to immediately satisfy the puzzlement, when commenting code.
Granted some of these older systems that derive from punch cards might not have much capacity for commenting.
I think it's more because of the NSA, CIA, etc and the general feeling we get from the U.S.A. that we cannot trust anything you do, period. Signed, the rest of the world.
No, it's because you've got some kind of chip on your shoulder about the US. There's no objective reason for you to trust anything done by any other country on the planet either.
Especially European countries, whining about the US when their own intelligence agencies are far more intrusive. Namely the big boys of Germany and the UK.
Well, even allowing for the author's wish bias that his concerns are sci fi writer brains pushing it to the forefront, it's nothing new. Ecological issues have been pushed through science fiction, as well as class warfare, since longer than most here have been alive.
What has come up repeatedly is they are non-issues with respect to impact on human life, as humanity will adapt and keep advancing technology...as long as they remain free to do so. Lives keep getting measurably better in this context.
Our economy is not horrible. People have more stuff than ever before, more food than ever before, and more inventions of medicine than ever before.
You live in a land of disproven class warfare rhetoric. "Income disparity" is an irrelevat measure. All that has meaning is the average health and wealth out there, and it is skyrocketting as China and India come online into modernity.
Ecological concerns Financial concerns Wanting to get the hell off Earth and spread concerns End of world concerns, including but not limited to more zombies
I am not seeing much different from any other year going back through the 1960s at least. Trek and the cloud city and the lower class miners itself just reflected stuff going back to Charles Dickens and earlier.
Did Slashdot ever analyze the use of -1 as a censorship tool by those who want to hide opinions they disagree with, as opposed to spam and truly offtopic stuff?
Do they still have metamod? It is supposed to strip mod rights from people who abuse moderation, but it is useless if karma can be repared quickly, and more specifically, faster than the person performs unjust moderations.
This does not follow, as it is ancient understandings. An envelop passing through the hands of the government, with deliberately viewable info, i.e. the address, is not the same as things people expect to be held in confidence.
Remember, we are just demanding a proper warrant to see it. Much of our secret, personal papers are moving online for convenience. Government doesn't get the honor of filtching through it at their whim looking for crimes.
In the US we should push for the Supreme Court to overturn outdated metadata laws based on the idea you "have no reasonable expectation of privacy in phone records at the phone company".
As people shift more of their lives into online services, they do indeed carry a 4th Amendment expectation of privacy in their "papers" with it.
It's beautifully ironic that free speech is fine as long as you say what people want to hear. I don't like trump but he has every right to spew what he wants. You can't have a claim to free speech whilst simultaneously stifling someone else's.
TFA stepped all over itself, providing a disclaimer of how they hated Trump and what he says, almost every paragraph, while defending his speech. It drips with the leftist's fear of social disapproval, so inextricably ingrained with the spread of their memes.
TBH the right does, or did this, too, when to defend gay rights, say, immediately put you under a cloud of suspicion i.e. frowning.
On the other hand, I worked on a car radio integrating an ancient Windows CE version and the Microsoft guy laughably tried to tell us how a "radio button" was supposed to work.
What if they kicked them out, claimed damage and filth, took the security deposit and pocketed it, knowing the building would shortly be demolished anyway?
Every business cost, every regulation, every law, every tax is pushed onto the consumer. Is the charge the card providers add greater or lesser than that which it replaces?
This is really irrelevant. You have historically for millenia had the right to purchase anonymously. We should not let government strip this right.
You'd also have to adjust for ticket prices vs. general inflation and general size of the economy and better economies around the world due to more economic freedom and more open free speech.
So given ROW Rest of World sales are about equal or greater than US and growing, you could almost double that. And probably double it again as there is much more than general inflation between a dime or quarter or whatever they charged and $8.50 (which I paid for 3D, not the usual $13+).
Then there's concession sales, which Disney may get a cut of, or at least that's where the theater's money comes from, shifting that burden off the tickets since ye olden days.
Basically it would be difficult to properly estimate.
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It has (maybe) a planet around it, not an exoplanet.
I was coding before they invented assholes.
Knowing the kind of things that are not obvious to a reader not intimate with the code, and commenting on what the reader might want to understand, seems to be a somewhat rare skill.
Like writing in general, you have to be able to imagine the ideas unfolding in the mind of the reader, and put that to work for you. With cleverness and little surprises for general writing, and the exact opposite, to immediately satisfy the puzzlement, when commenting code.
Granted some of these older systems that derive from punch cards might not have much capacity for commenting.
Really! And what is a story only of interest to high-born nerds doing on this political web site?
Ok, put on your glove.
Ok.
Ok, now touch this mystery object.
Ok...Gross...gross! You fucking diseased pig!
I think it's more because of the NSA, CIA, etc and the general feeling we get from the U.S.A. that we cannot trust anything you do, period.
Signed,
the rest of the world.
No, it's because you've got some kind of chip on your shoulder about the US. There's no objective reason for you to trust anything done by any other country on the planet either.
Especially European countries, whining about the US when their own intelligence agencies are far more intrusive. Namely the big boys of Germany and the UK.
Well, even allowing for the author's wish bias that his concerns are sci fi writer brains pushing it to the forefront, it's nothing new. Ecological issues have been pushed through science fiction, as well as class warfare, since longer than most here have been alive.
What has come up repeatedly is they are non-issues with respect to impact on human life, as humanity will adapt and keep advancing technology...as long as they remain free to do so. Lives keep getting measurably better in this context.
Our economy is not horrible. People have more stuff than ever before, more food than ever before, and more inventions of medicine than ever before.
You live in a land of disproven class warfare rhetoric. "Income disparity" is an irrelevat measure. All that has meaning is the average health and wealth out there, and it is skyrocketting as China and India come online into modernity.
Ecological concerns
Financial concerns
Wanting to get the hell off Earth and spread concerns
End of world concerns, including but not limited to more zombies
I am not seeing much different from any other year going back through the 1960s at least. Trek and the cloud city and the lower class miners itself just reflected stuff going back to Charles Dickens and earlier.
> excess forum moderation
Did Slashdot ever analyze the use of -1 as a censorship tool by those who want to hide opinions they disagree with, as opposed to spam and truly offtopic stuff?
Do they still have metamod? It is supposed to strip mod rights from people who abuse moderation, but it is useless if karma can be repared quickly, and more specifically, faster than the person performs unjust moderations.
This does not follow, as it is ancient understandings. An envelop passing through the hands of the government, with deliberately viewable info, i.e. the address, is not the same as things people expect to be held in confidence.
Remember, we are just demanding a proper warrant to see it. Much of our secret, personal papers are moving online for convenience. Government doesn't get the honor of filtching through it at their whim looking for crimes.
In the US we should push for the Supreme Court to overturn outdated metadata laws based on the idea you "have no reasonable expectation of privacy in phone records at the phone company".
As people shift more of their lives into online services, they do indeed carry a 4th Amendment expectation of privacy in their "papers" with it.
It's beautifully ironic that free speech is fine as long as you say what people want to hear. I don't like trump but he has every right to spew what he wants. You can't have a claim to free speech whilst simultaneously stifling someone else's.
TFA stepped all over itself, providing a disclaimer of how they hated Trump and what he says, almost every paragraph, while defending his speech. It drips with the leftist's fear of social disapproval, so inextricably ingrained with the spread of their memes.
TBH the right does, or did this, too, when to defend gay rights, say, immediately put you under a cloud of suspicion i.e. frowning.
Ya wanna bet if this Anonymous person or group is actually another bunch of white males vying for power?
God damn you idiots. Make it electrical and just have 3 soldiers carry the battery.
"Downmodding" + autocorrect = downloading
So did those downloading a joke. Good god.
On the other hand, I worked on a car radio integrating an ancient Windows CE version and the Microsoft guy laughably tried to tell us how a "radio button" was supposed to work.
Does that convention include not-envisioned, small remote control devices?
What if they kicked them out, claimed damage and filth, took the security deposit and pocketed it, knowing the building would shortly be demolished anyway?
That is a scam worthy of jail.
What deception? They have a popular product and charge what the market will bear.
You can get a cheaper Android. You can get an older model for much cheaper. You know, like 2 years older.
Like so many (this includes medicine) you want new stuff, constantly produced, and cheap. It doesn't work that way.
Re: both comic authors, a famous quote, "Who would have thought creative types had mental issues?"
Medicine is too important to be a 'for profit' industry.
Medicine is too important to not be a for-profit industry. We want Apple and Samsung cranking out new stuff as fast as possible.
You see invented stuff, then treat it as if it were oranges on a tree, and it's hunter gatherer time for this magical stuff!
Every business cost, every regulation, every law, every tax is pushed onto the consumer. Is the charge the card providers add greater or lesser than that which it replaces?
This is really irrelevant. You have historically for millenia had the right to purchase anonymously. We should not let government strip this right.
Ok I looked it up. Matinee was 75 cents and evening $1. A dollar in 1940 is over $16 today.
So prices drop and quality and features (of the literal film anyway) increase. Shame on me for doubting Julian Simon.
You'd also have to adjust for ticket prices vs. general inflation and general size of the economy and better economies around the world due to more economic freedom and more open free speech.
So given ROW Rest of World sales are about equal or greater than US and growing, you could almost double that. And probably double it again as there is much more than general inflation between a dime or quarter or whatever they charged and $8.50 (which I paid for 3D, not the usual $13+).
Then there's concession sales, which Disney may get a cut of, or at least that's where the theater's money comes from, shifting that burden off the tickets since ye olden days.
Basically it would be difficult to properly estimate.