GP was probably joking, what with the request for a compiled, black-box binary. At least, I hope to god so. Sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from satire, after all.
Oh, I can see it now. Some Linux enthusiast (wait, no, a GNU/Linux enthusiast; run-of-the-mill Linux enthusiasts are too corrupted by pragmatism) poring over hundreds of giant sheets of chip diagrams, nodding sagely at incomprehensible engineering spaghetti he doesn't even understand. "Hmmm... yes... this all seems to be in order..."
They would try; of that I have no illusions. Would they be as successful? Well, we'll never know because no one gives two shits about the regulators being in bed with the people you're clamoring for them to regulate.
Nor did I limit myself to thinking that the only dirty tricks competitors play require government involvement.
And yet it's happening. Municipal fiber efforts are being stymied by bureaucratic referees handing the game over to the telecoms. That's real, honest-to-god corruption, and it's being ignored so we can have a contrived pissing contest over free market capitalism.
It's the cost of being first adopters. It's easier to build modern infrastructure when you have no infrastructure to begin with. We've got legacy systems for everything: finance, IT, cable, phone, nuclear, etc., etc. The next people in line implement the next generation using lessons learned from the implementations before them.
When every article about a communist, pseudo-communist, or crypto-communist country has to have a post like this (and it's in every thread), it's time to start thinking about why and how all communist countries (save, perhaps, India) become totalitarian hell-holes, and whether communism as a pure ideology is too hopelessly broken to implement in reality. Not to mention that it seems to me that no Scottish communism on earth is True Scottish communism.
Western democracies are heading in that direction, but so far every country with a communist economic model has to start there.
Or, more specifically, Object Pascal. The work that Anders Hejlsberg did on Turbo Pascal and Delphi are very underrated, and conceptualized a lot of ideas that would bear fruit in C#.
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Yes, it's a magical totem where you never have to fill in the numbers. Just like all math.
"I have altered the planet's climate. Pray I do not alter it further."
Wow, the same guys? I didn't know Python coders were that active. Color me impressed.
Fucking Python? Is that different than regular Python? Does it have new language features?
GP was probably joking, what with the request for a compiled, black-box binary. At least, I hope to god so. Sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from satire, after all.
Oh, I can see it now. Some Linux enthusiast (wait, no, a GNU/Linux enthusiast; run-of-the-mill Linux enthusiasts are too corrupted by pragmatism) poring over hundreds of giant sheets of chip diagrams, nodding sagely at incomprehensible engineering spaghetti he doesn't even understand. "Hmmm... yes... this all seems to be in order..."
They would try; of that I have no illusions. Would they be as successful? Well, we'll never know because no one gives two shits about the regulators being in bed with the people you're clamoring for them to regulate.
Nor did I limit myself to thinking that the only dirty tricks competitors play require government involvement.
And yet it's happening. Municipal fiber efforts are being stymied by bureaucratic referees handing the game over to the telecoms. That's real, honest-to-god corruption, and it's being ignored so we can have a contrived pissing contest over free market capitalism.
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." -- Winston Churchill
The only barriers now are that it is a huge initial capital expense and large incumbents who will try every dirty trick to block new entrants.
The bolded part describes a government-mandated monopoly, FCC rules notwithstanding.
A market where utilities have government-mandated monopolies is not free.
/. posts from Colorado have gotten stranger and stranger...
It's the cost of being first adopters. It's easier to build modern infrastructure when you have no infrastructure to begin with. We've got legacy systems for everything: finance, IT, cable, phone, nuclear, etc., etc. The next people in line implement the next generation using lessons learned from the implementations before them.
And, I accidentally repeated repeated a word.
It's like jazz. You have to know know rules before you can break them.
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^^ Idiot.
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^^ Code guru.
You forgot Sweden; they want him for fibbing about a condom.
/duck
/run
A lot of angry people, holding signs saying "I AM ANGRY AND HOLDING A SIGN!!!"
When every article about a communist, pseudo-communist, or crypto-communist country has to have a post like this (and it's in every thread), it's time to start thinking about why and how all communist countries (save, perhaps, India) become totalitarian hell-holes, and whether communism as a pure ideology is too hopelessly broken to implement in reality. Not to mention that it seems to me that no Scottish communism on earth is True Scottish communism.
Western democracies are heading in that direction, but so far every country with a communist economic model has to start there.
...to das Auto. Then again, that pun already works in English, so nevermind.
It's ok! I got you covered! Wait... crap!
Or, more specifically, Object Pascal. The work that Anders Hejlsberg did on Turbo Pascal and Delphi are very underrated, and conceptualized a lot of ideas that would bear fruit in C#.
What is true OO and how C++ prevents me from doing it? Show some code.
It's like a resume question from Evil Overlords, Inc. software division.
That is pretty much exactly the opposite of what he said.
Real gamers use swords and steam tunnels.