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  1. Re:Can China do this? on California Considers Banning Internal Combustion Engines To Meet Emissions Goals (sacbee.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, let me tell you, Governor Brown will show you, that California will spare no expense, leave no stone unturned, to narrow the gap when it comes to talking about banning combustion cars!

  2. Re:The Law Should Not Allow Equifax To Exist. Peri on Equifax Will Offer Free Credit Locks for Life, New CEO Says (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course of course, there is no difference in legal protection.

    Now you stop being naive, and say something that shows you at least read what I wrote.

  3. Re:The Law Should Not Allow Equifax To Exist. Peri on Equifax Will Offer Free Credit Locks for Life, New CEO Says (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I admire your trust in the law, but it's a bit naive.

    IF I owe you money, you're going to care a lot more about making the accounts even than if you owe me money. In the case of the debit card (and I'm trying to get the fraud money back), the bank owes me money. In the case of the credit card, I owe the bank money.

    In one case, the company will do no more than required by law. Which case is that?

  4. Re:The Law Should Not Allow Equifax To Exist. Peri on Equifax Will Offer Free Credit Locks for Life, New CEO Says (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1
  5. Re:To be unfair... [Re: To be fair...] on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Rejects Trump Bias Claims (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    They're very entertaining.

  6. Re:To be unfair... [Re: To be fair...] on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Rejects Trump Bias Claims (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    "In other words, they looked for the issues causing division in America, and hammered on them."

    That is maybe the most accurate and succinct description of the Trump agenda ever written.

    Normally you write good comments but right now you sound like a naive kitten. It's an extremely common political strategy for all kinds of politicians, because it works.

    Any good politician will look at an issue that can divide them from their opponent, pick a side (hopefully the side with more people on it), and hammer away. If the opponent sees (through polling or whatever) that there are more voters on the opposite side of that issue, he/she may flip-flop, or risk being voted out.

  7. Re:The Law Should Not Allow Equifax To Exist. Peri on Equifax Will Offer Free Credit Locks for Life, New CEO Says (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Why don't you use a debit card then?

    In my case, mainly because with a debit card, the money is already gone. With a credit card, it's in your own pocket. That gives you a much better bargaining position when things go wrong.

  8. Re:Let's address the elephant in the room on Internet Explorer Bug Leaks Whatever You Type In the Address Bar (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Why not always blame Republicans? Trump did it.

  9. Re:Let's address the elephant in the room on Internet Explorer Bug Leaks Whatever You Type In the Address Bar (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't worry! They have NOT leaked your social security number and credit card # out through the IE address bar. Definitely not that.

  10. Maybe they should have asked Ham Radio Operators to fly to......wherever Slashdot is located.

  11. Re:Does nobody read anymore? on Is Project Management Killing Good Products, Teams and Software? (techbeacon.com) · · Score: 1
    The quote from MMM that really captures it for me is this one:

    "The key thrust of recent years was delegating power down. It was like magic! Improved quality, productivity, morale. We have small teams with no central control. The teams own the process, but they have to have one. They have many different processes. They own the schedule, but they feel the pressure of the market. This pressure causes them to reach for tools on their own."

    A lot of 'modern' management schemes, like scrum, are designed to goad programmers to work harder. Even Silicon Valley portrays Scrum as getting programmers to work harder. That's the whole purpose, it's a stick managers can wield.

    The kind of programmers I like working with can self-manage. The only coordination we need is figuring out who will work on what.

  12. "Let's all sit down for this standup because it will take too long. Wait......you want to change the name from standup? Why?"

  13. The only way this works (financially) is if they can publicize well enough, "DDOS against Cloudflare won't work, they have too much bandwidth," and people stop trying.

    IF they are successful in holding off a few well-publicized DDOS attempts, then their strategy will probably work.

  14. I'm not sure why they're paying attention to the Administration at all.

    That's the real story here, imo.

  15. Re:This is why I jumped off the Apple treadmill on Apple's Swift 4.0 Includes A Compatibility Mode For 'The Majority' Of Swift 3.x Code (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not a lie. You claimed they switched around the order of parameters.

    They did.

    Backwards compatibility: no they don't keep or pretend to keep that. But that wasn't the point in question.

    IT is the entire point.......why do you think this thread started?
    Languages that aren't stable have users with Stockholm Syndrome.

  16. Re: it's what's for dinner on Can We Reduce Cow Methane Emissions By Breeding Low-Emission Cattle? (popsci.com) · · Score: 2

    How is the electricity for these electric cars generated? From coal. From oil. From natural gas.

    It's a two-step process. If you want to reduce CO2 emissions, you need to replace cars, and you need to replace power plants. Replacing either of them by itself will still cut emissions, though.

  17. Re:This is why I jumped off the Apple treadmill on Apple's Swift 4.0 Includes A Compatibility Mode For 'The Majority' Of Swift 3.x Code (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    You could write a decent frontend for the Stockfish chess engine. There's one available for OSX, but it isn't very good (it would be nice if it let you investigate variations without resetting the board, for example).

  18. Re:This is why I'm staying on on Apple's Swift 4.0 Includes A Compatibility Mode For 'The Majority' Of Swift 3.x Code (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Objective-C has runtime type binding and introspection.
    C++ has operator overloading.

  19. Re:Journey to the Center of Willful Blindness on Apple's Swift 4.0 Includes A Compatibility Mode For 'The Majority' Of Swift 3.x Code (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    So do you have any actual reason to think that C++ will be overtaken by Swift, or is that just your hope?

  20. Re:This is why I jumped off the Apple treadmill on Apple's Swift 4.0 Includes A Compatibility Mode For 'The Majority' Of Swift 3.x Code (infoworld.com) · · Score: 0

    You were making it up.

    Liar.

    Are you seriously going to commit to the position that Apple maintains backwards compatibility? Because they don't.

  21. Re:This is why I jumped off the Apple treadmill on Apple's Swift 4.0 Includes A Compatibility Mode For 'The Majority' Of Swift 3.x Code (infoworld.com) · · Score: 0

    I'm not sure you are complaining about anything real here.

    I'm not sure you're not a moron. So there. Insults traded, good job.

  22. Re:Still peering inward I see on Apple's Swift 4.0 Includes A Compatibility Mode For 'The Majority' Of Swift 3.x Code (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Uh, these aren't even arguments. Objective-C has been running on Linux since the 90s. Still hasn't taken off.

  23. Re:This is why I jumped off the Apple treadmill on Apple's Swift 4.0 Includes A Compatibility Mode For 'The Majority' Of Swift 3.x Code (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    It was around 2012. Weirdly, I feel like we had a conversation about this very topic before, a while ago.

  24. Re:You need to look outside your own bubble on Apple's Swift 4.0 Includes A Compatibility Mode For 'The Majority' Of Swift 3.x Code (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    IBM cloud is your example? Really?

  25. Re:This is why I jumped off the Apple treadmill on Apple's Swift 4.0 Includes A Compatibility Mode For 'The Majority' Of Swift 3.x Code (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    So.....30 years ago is the most recent thing you can think of?
    btw, you can use a function before the prototype, and you can also omit the return type of a function. LLVM will give you a warning, but it will compile. I've also noticed that in his modern code, Donald Knuth prefers the old style function parameter declarations. Kind of weird, I didn't realize those still work, too.