The neo-puritan push comes from student unions, they appear to have the power to dictate who can say what on campus. Such as shame since those same universities were the home of free speech during the civil rights movement.
Jews have been persecuted for 2000yrs and have also persecuted of others for a similar length of time. The money thing is related to the historical fact that Jews were the only one of the three main religions that permitted a money lender to charge interest. Christians and muslims considered it a sin but it was ok to borrow from them, this changed when the Medici family invented modern banking. Remember, baby Jesus threw the 'evil' money lender's out of dad's house, right?
AFAIK poppies come in a variety of colors and potencies. Here in the real Oz the red poppy means one thing, href="http://www.greatwar.co.uk/poems/john-mccrae-in-flanders-fields.htm">Flander's Field. Legend has it that all the poppies in Flanders Field where white, the bloodshed of WW1 turned them red. There is a national holiday where lots of people wear the (fake) red poppies that are sold by the 'RSL' - a highly regarded returned soldiers charity.
"Base load" in FUD dreamt up by coal miners and adopted by nuke enthusiasts.
No city in the world has a flat demand curve, no coal/nuke plant can meet that non flat demand curve without extensive use of hydro storage and fast switching gas fired turbines. In fact there is no technology that comes close to meeting an average city's demand curve without storage. The exact same infrastructure we currently use to bend the flat:base load" curve into the required wavy demand curve can also be used with solar and wind, In the case of solar it may be that you need less of this infrastructure since peak sunlight conveniently coincides with peak consumption. If the people building this plant are contemplating molten salt for storage, it implies hydro storage is impractical or impossible in that particular location.
The US telco industry is proof that monopolies are inefficient, likewise 6 out of every 7 US prisons should also go out of business. I dare say that lowering the US prison population by 80-90% (to be in line with EU, China, AU, etc) would save the US taxpayer a hell of lot more money than overcharging prisoners for phone calls. However, the US prison system is not just inefficient and greedy, it's sociopathic and unnecessarily destructive.
PS: On a more positive note for the environment, it is now cheaper for India to build solar/wind farms than it is to build coal fired plants fed by imported Aussie coal. That's a GoodThing(TM) for everyone except Aussie miners and their dependent industries. India expects to connect 400 million people to electricity, sewerage, and water in the next decade, that's roughly the same number of people as the US/UK/AU/NZ combined. They are very serious about that goal since the current (popular) government was elected on a promise of "clean electricity" and "an indoor toilet in every home". Solar and wind are popular ideas with rural Indians who in general despise mining companies, IMO for good reasons in many cases.
Here in Oz we dig up bauxite in the north and ship millions of tons of the stuff thousands of km south to be smelted then ship it north again to be sold. Why? - A couple of decades ago the state government in the south built a new coal powered generator and port facilities specifically for the new smelter that now supplies the company with (very) cheap electricity. Why the corporate welfare in the guise of "public" infrastructure? - because "jobs".
The mine itself is in NT, NT has more sunshine that Arizona and a high unemployment rate, the sensible thing to do would have been to build a solar generator and the smelter near the mine (and the chronically unemployed), but local politics and global economics are not interested in sensible when it costs them "jobs" or money.
In some cases that's true but the real reason is domestic politics. Here in Oz we have the ABC/SBS which is modelled on the BBC and is almost as old as the BBC. We used to have TV/Radio licenses when I was a kid in the 60's but we dumped them decades ago, it's an antiquated system based on the idea that TV/Radio's are a luxury item. People who pay license fees believe they own something and don't think others should get it for free (UK), people who pay for the same thing via taxes may object to doing so but do not care if others use it (AU).
As with the UK, the ABC/SBS is set up and run as an independent statutory body and is by far the most trusted news outlet in the country, this is despite recent attacks on its integrity from Murdoch's newspapers and his pet politicians. That tactic doesn't work very well with Aussie voters because most Aussies have seen the ABC attacked as biased by ALL sides of politics, its track record over the decades has earned our trust, we value its existance much more than the politicians who determine its budget.
Progressive's strongly support free speech. These people are more correctly labelled neo-puritans, they have invaded the student bodies of universities all over the US and to a lesser extent the UK/AU. They're a new flavour of narrow-minded puritan that progressives fought against during the civil rights movement.Outspoken progressives such as Dawkins and Maher are calling them out for what they are; puritans in progressive clothing.
You're probably someone who considers themselves and 'old school hacker' and have been out of a programming job for twenty years. Things have changed, dude.
I'm not the GP but I have been coding in C/C++ for a living for the past 25yrs, I even spent a couple of years teaching it to CS undergrads. IMO K&R is every bit as elegant an informative as Knuth, with the added advantage that the examples are in a real code rather than pseudo-code, the shell sort example is still one of the best examples of beautifully simple code I have ever seen. Swallow your pride, retrieve the book from the trash and take another look, virtually every example has all the good bits of modern OO design, before the term "OO design" was even invented.
In short you sound like a freshly minted "hacker" that has never seen the inside of a commercial software house.
compiling single files from multiple projects in parallel
Yes it still does that, recent versions of visual studio (2013 in my case) run two or more compile/link threads, one sub-project per thread. We had been stuck on 2008 for a long time (due to itanium support) so it confused the hell out of me until I realised what it was doing.I have not noticed any significant speed increase using the threaded compiler, disc speed still appears to be the main determinant of build time.
I did find I had to explicitly state every sub-project's build order dependencies after visual studio upgraded the project files. With a single thread you can build your libraries first and simply ignore the build order dependencies. I don't understand why the user has to specify build order dependencies in the first place, surely the tool could work it out from the linker dependencies that the user has already defined? Also when opening a large project to make a small change, 'intellisense' is working its arse off in the background and slowing down the GUI response time, so much so that I now prefer notepad for minor changes to the project/solution files.
Having said that, I still think VS is the best (free and proprietary) IDE for developing C/C++ code on windows. Eclipse is comparable to the free version of VS but you are very likely to find VS is already mandated in a commercial setting. In most places this is simply inertia, ie: there is nothing about Eclipse that is worth the migration/integration effort.
Not picking on you personally but why are so many people interested in what others do with their privacy? What effect does it have on you if I give it away? I'm not talking about state sponsored spying, I'm talking about people who buy and sell eyeballs. Why do other people give a flying fuck that hearing aid and dental adverts follow me all over the internet?
The GP has a (well hidden) point, price gouging is a problem in Oz, particularly with software and other forms of IP, but it has nothing to do with this story or the exchange rate. Also fresh food is dirt cheap compared to (say) the UK, and we are second only to iceland when it comes to average number of books sold per head of population, so the claim that books are "overpriced" doesn't hold water either.
Keating threw out protectionism (tariffs), floated the dollar, and gave the lower and middle classes greater access to the financial system, this all happened way back in the early 80's, IMO it was one of the best things any politician has ever done for us, someone had finally realised our economy had stagnated in 1955 and did something about it, and he was a traditional lefty to boot!!!.
Anti-protectionism has been a bipartisan issue for a couple of decades now, the current right wing government are so anti-protectionists that we no longer have an auto industry, they packed up and left when their government subsidies were not renewed in the budget. I'm not sure if that a unilateral decision to drop subsides was a good or bad idea, other nations have no obligation to follow suit. It takes foresight and international cooperation (treaties) to do what Keating did, Abbot didn't appear to have any of that, but you never know, so I reserve judgement on his "scorched earth" policy for the next decade or so.
Can't tell if you are serious or not but most Aussies are keenly aware that the exchange rate is what defines "how much $1 buys you in your respective countries and how hard [it] is to earn it".
Agree. Our consumer cops are anything but toothless tigers. If the headline were true the ACCC would drag Apple into court, again.
Aussies are accustomed to the dollar going up and down, our reserve bank tries to dampen the swings and keep it under parity. Recently our dollar has been high (GFC safe harbour + mining boom), good for importers, bad for exporters. The GFC is over and so is the mining boom, the exchange rate is now coming back to its normal rate (historically speaking). It's a tough balancing act for the reserve bank, they don't have control over the rate, the best they can do is influence it. I'm old enough to remember when Keating decided to float the Aussie dollar (early 80's), on the whole I think it has worked more or less as advertised.
Bitching about the effect it has on "app store" prices comes across as naive and trite to me, are they so busy looking thru the app store window that they don't notice the robust economy that makes it possible to look thru that window?
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The neo-puritan push comes from student unions, they appear to have the power to dictate who can say what on campus. Such as shame since those same universities were the home of free speech during the civil rights movement.
Jews have been persecuted for 2000yrs and have also persecuted of others for a similar length of time. The money thing is related to the historical fact that Jews were the only one of the three main religions that permitted a money lender to charge interest. Christians and muslims considered it a sin but it was ok to borrow from them, this changed when the Medici family invented modern banking. Remember, baby Jesus threw the 'evil' money lender's out of dad's house, right?
AFAIK poppies come in a variety of colors and potencies. Here in the real Oz the red poppy means one thing, href="http://www.greatwar.co.uk/poems/john-mccrae-in-flanders-fields.htm">Flander's Field. Legend has it that all the poppies in Flanders Field where white, the bloodshed of WW1 turned them red. There is a national holiday where lots of people wear the (fake) red poppies that are sold by the 'RSL' - a highly regarded returned soldiers charity.
"Base load" in FUD dreamt up by coal miners and adopted by nuke enthusiasts.
:base load" curve into the required wavy demand curve can also be used with solar and wind, In the case of solar it may be that you need less of this infrastructure since peak sunlight conveniently coincides with peak consumption. If the people building this plant are contemplating molten salt for storage, it implies hydro storage is impractical or impossible in that particular location.
No city in the world has a flat demand curve, no coal/nuke plant can meet that non flat demand curve without extensive use of hydro storage and fast switching gas fired turbines. In fact there is no technology that comes close to meeting an average city's demand curve without storage. The exact same infrastructure we currently use to bend the flat
I think it's the QM equivalent of confirming the light goes out when you close the fridge door.
So when your preferences are common knowledge, we suddenly throw out common law AND common-sense?
The US telco industry is proof that monopolies are inefficient, likewise 6 out of every 7 US prisons should also go out of business. I dare say that lowering the US prison population by 80-90% (to be in line with EU, China, AU, etc) would save the US taxpayer a hell of lot more money than overcharging prisoners for phone calls. However, the US prison system is not just inefficient and greedy, it's sociopathic and unnecessarily destructive.
PS: On a more positive note for the environment, it is now cheaper for India to build solar/wind farms than it is to build coal fired plants fed by imported Aussie coal. That's a GoodThing(TM) for everyone except Aussie miners and their dependent industries. India expects to connect 400 million people to electricity, sewerage, and water in the next decade, that's roughly the same number of people as the US/UK/AU/NZ combined. They are very serious about that goal since the current (popular) government was elected on a promise of "clean electricity" and "an indoor toilet in every home". Solar and wind are popular ideas with rural Indians who in general despise mining companies, IMO for good reasons in many cases.
Here in Oz we dig up bauxite in the north and ship millions of tons of the stuff thousands of km south to be smelted then ship it north again to be sold. Why? - A couple of decades ago the state government in the south built a new coal powered generator and port facilities specifically for the new smelter that now supplies the company with (very) cheap electricity. Why the corporate welfare in the guise of "public" infrastructure? - because "jobs".
The mine itself is in NT, NT has more sunshine that Arizona and a high unemployment rate, the sensible thing to do would have been to build a solar generator and the smelter near the mine (and the chronically unemployed), but local politics and global economics are not interested in sensible when it costs them "jobs" or money.
In some cases that's true but the real reason is domestic politics. Here in Oz we have the ABC/SBS which is modelled on the BBC and is almost as old as the BBC. We used to have TV/Radio licenses when I was a kid in the 60's but we dumped them decades ago, it's an antiquated system based on the idea that TV/Radio's are a luxury item. People who pay license fees believe they own something and don't think others should get it for free (UK), people who pay for the same thing via taxes may object to doing so but do not care if others use it (AU).
As with the UK, the ABC/SBS is set up and run as an independent statutory body and is by far the most trusted news outlet in the country, this is despite recent attacks on its integrity from Murdoch's newspapers and his pet politicians. That tactic doesn't work very well with Aussie voters because most Aussies have seen the ABC attacked as biased by ALL sides of politics, its track record over the decades has earned our trust, we value its existance much more than the politicians who determine its budget.
seems to be the essence of modern progressivism
Progressive's strongly support free speech. These people are more correctly labelled neo-puritans, they have invaded the student bodies of universities all over the US and to a lesser extent the UK/AU. They're a new flavour of narrow-minded puritan that progressives fought against during the civil rights movement.Outspoken progressives such as Dawkins and Maher are calling them out for what they are; puritans in progressive clothing.
You're probably someone who considers themselves and 'old school hacker' and have been out of a programming job for twenty years. Things have changed, dude.
I'm not the GP but I have been coding in C/C++ for a living for the past 25yrs, I even spent a couple of years teaching it to CS undergrads. IMO K&R is every bit as elegant an informative as Knuth, with the added advantage that the examples are in a real code rather than pseudo-code, the shell sort example is still one of the best examples of beautifully simple code I have ever seen. Swallow your pride, retrieve the book from the trash and take another look, virtually every example has all the good bits of modern OO design, before the term "OO design" was even invented.
In short you sound like a freshly minted "hacker" that has never seen the inside of a commercial software house.
[On] a c++ project that compiles on multiple operating systems, it's really hard to continue using precompiled headers
In practice, not so much...
#ifdef OS_WINDOWS
This is where you specify windows eccentricities
#else
This is where you specify *nix eccentricities.
#endif
compiling single files from multiple projects in parallel
Yes it still does that, recent versions of visual studio (2013 in my case) run two or more compile/link threads, one sub-project per thread. We had been stuck on 2008 for a long time (due to itanium support) so it confused the hell out of me until I realised what it was doing.I have not noticed any significant speed increase using the threaded compiler, disc speed still appears to be the main determinant of build time.
I did find I had to explicitly state every sub-project's build order dependencies after visual studio upgraded the project files. With a single thread you can build your libraries first and simply ignore the build order dependencies. I don't understand why the user has to specify build order dependencies in the first place, surely the tool could work it out from the linker dependencies that the user has already defined? Also when opening a large project to make a small change, 'intellisense' is working its arse off in the background and slowing down the GUI response time, so much so that I now prefer notepad for minor changes to the project/solution files.
Having said that, I still think VS is the best (free and proprietary) IDE for developing C/C++ code on windows. Eclipse is comparable to the free version of VS but you are very likely to find VS is already mandated in a commercial setting. In most places this is simply inertia, ie: there is nothing about Eclipse that is worth the migration/integration effort.
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Not picking on you personally but why are so many people interested in what others do with their privacy? What effect does it have on you if I give it away? I'm not talking about state sponsored spying, I'm talking about people who buy and sell eyeballs. Why do other people give a flying fuck that hearing aid and dental adverts follow me all over the internet?
I'm pushing 60, the idea that human nature was somehow better in the "old days" is called nostalgia, it is wishful thinking with no basis in reality.
The GP has a (well hidden) point, price gouging is a problem in Oz, particularly with software and other forms of IP, but it has nothing to do with this story or the exchange rate. Also fresh food is dirt cheap compared to (say) the UK, and we are second only to iceland when it comes to average number of books sold per head of population, so the claim that books are "overpriced" doesn't hold water either.
Keating threw out protectionism (tariffs), floated the dollar, and gave the lower and middle classes greater access to the financial system, this all happened way back in the early 80's, IMO it was one of the best things any politician has ever done for us, someone had finally realised our economy had stagnated in 1955 and did something about it, and he was a traditional lefty to boot!!!.
Anti-protectionism has been a bipartisan issue for a couple of decades now, the current right wing government are so anti-protectionists that we no longer have an auto industry, they packed up and left when their government subsidies were not renewed in the budget. I'm not sure if that a unilateral decision to drop subsides was a good or bad idea, other nations have no obligation to follow suit. It takes foresight and international cooperation (treaties) to do what Keating did, Abbot didn't appear to have any of that, but you never know, so I reserve judgement on his "scorched earth" policy for the next decade or so.
The guy with iphone has as much control over the exchange rate as Apple or you do, "absolutely fuck-all".
Can't tell if you are serious or not but most Aussies are keenly aware that the exchange rate is what defines "how much $1 buys you in your respective countries and how hard [it] is to earn it".
Agree. Our consumer cops are anything but toothless tigers. If the headline were true the ACCC would drag Apple into court, again.
Aussies are accustomed to the dollar going up and down, our reserve bank tries to dampen the swings and keep it under parity. Recently our dollar has been high (GFC safe harbour + mining boom), good for importers, bad for exporters. The GFC is over and so is the mining boom, the exchange rate is now coming back to its normal rate (historically speaking). It's a tough balancing act for the reserve bank, they don't have control over the rate, the best they can do is influence it. I'm old enough to remember when Keating decided to float the Aussie dollar (early 80's), on the whole I think it has worked more or less as advertised.
Bitching about the effect it has on "app store" prices comes across as naive and trite to me, are they so busy looking thru the app store window that they don't notice the robust economy that makes it possible to look thru that window?
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