And the statement, "... The eclipse will take place during the middle of the night..." is kind of a no-brainer. *Every* astronomical event takes place during the middle of the night on Earth somewhere!
More to the point, it is impossible for a lunar eclipse to take place during the day, because the Sun must be on the exact opposite side of the Earth to the Moon.
It is, of course, inevitable that it will be daytime somewhere during a lunar eclipse, but nowhere that the eclipse is visible.
Fair point. It's also true that a lot of these projects don't have that many people working on them.
LLVM and tensorflow are good examples of software projects where you need to have a minimum level of knowledge of the problem domain to make any meaningful contribution. So while a lot of people use those projects, not very many contribute.
Boost, of course, has a very strict code review policy before it accepts new functionality.
Oh I'm certain that there is a lot of C++ code out there that would be better written in some other language. And on github it probably isn't too hard to find.
But this is also true of your favourite language, assuming your favourite language has a critical mass of people who think they know how to use it.
Any of the web sites run by Jestin Coler would count. Most are defunct now, but Firebrand Left and Conservative Frontline are both excellent examples of fake news sites.
If you didn't know, ActionBarSherlock is a piece of Android infrastructure. Given that, these all seem very reasonable.
How about C++? What do you think would be the most popular C++ open source projects? Here they are:
C++ projects: node-webkit, phantomjs, mongo
Mongo seems reasonable, but... those other two! There's no Mozilla, no Boost, no tensorflow, no LLVM... not even webkit, just two webkit clients, both of them javascript bindings.
I thought it was clear that this was a joke. In many countries, beer is served cold to the point where you can't discern the subtle notes of a good ale. British drinkers often make fun of this.
I live in a SI country. The customary units for everything use whatever scale prefix makes the most sense.
Cans, bottles, and glasses are measured in millilitres (pronunced "mil" for short), and reservoirs are measured in megalitres. Road signs are in kilometres. Weather reports give air pressure in hectopascals. The energy content of food is measured in kilojoules.
They probably don't know who leaked it to the press, and they certainly don't know who subsequently leaked his name.
Also worth noting is that none of the people who responded positively on the internal forum (some of whom were, reportedly, much less charitable than him) have, to my knowledge, been fired.
Only to counter the nonsense that Twitter is left-wing. They're just as happy to shut down a left-wing harasser as a right-wing harasser, or to ban left-wing fake news as right-wing fake news. Which is to say, they are not happy at all and only do it reluctantly.
Pretty sure 'The Enlightenment' never addressed identity politics, [...]
Hoo boy it sure did. The early Enlightenment philosophers had a lot to say about Catholics, for example.
But you raise a good point. In the 18th century, Anton Wilhelm Amo could teach philosophy at a German university, but only because white nationalism hadn't been invented yet.
I was of course being sardonic. For what it's worth, Russkaya Natsionalinaya Coutsialisticheskaya Partiya (Russian National Socialist Party) may not be the nazi party but it is a nazi party.
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And the statement, "... The eclipse will take place during the middle of the night..." is kind of a no-brainer. *Every* astronomical event takes place during the middle of the night on Earth somewhere!
More to the point, it is impossible for a lunar eclipse to take place during the day, because the Sun must be on the exact opposite side of the Earth to the Moon.
It is, of course, inevitable that it will be daytime somewhere during a lunar eclipse, but nowhere that the eclipse is visible.
Fair point. It's also true that a lot of these projects don't have that many people working on them.
LLVM and tensorflow are good examples of software projects where you need to have a minimum level of knowledge of the problem domain to make any meaningful contribution. So while a lot of people use those projects, not very many contribute.
Boost, of course, has a very strict code review policy before it accepts new functionality.
Mind. Blown.
Everybody should read Karl Marx, but if that is all you read, you will never know just how bad his ideas were.
The problem with Marx is that he got the diagnosis almost exactly right and the treatment plan almost exactly wrong.
He was a pioneer, and pioneers always get stuff wrong. But yes, nobody should only read Marx.
Oh I'm certain that there is a lot of C++ code out there that would be better written in some other language. And on github it probably isn't too hard to find.
But this is also true of your favourite language, assuming your favourite language has a critical mass of people who think they know how to use it.
Any of the web sites run by Jestin Coler would count. Most are defunct now, but Firebrand Left and Conservative Frontline are both excellent examples of fake news sites.
Oh, and InfoWars.
I only believe it if someone in the YouTube comment section thinks it's shilling for some conspiracy.
Be fair. The argument still made sense before C++11 or so.
Fair enough, I didn't know that. Still, as Meat Loaf said, 2/3 ain't bad.
That was my first thought. It turns out that they ranked popularity by number of stars.
When you think of popular pieces of open source written in each language, what do you think of? Here are the ones from the paper:
C projects: Linux, git, php-src.
Python projects: Flask, django, reddit.
JavaScript projects: Bootstrap, jquery, node.
Java projects: Storm, elasticsearch, ActionBarSherlock
If you didn't know, ActionBarSherlock is a piece of Android infrastructure. Given that, these all seem very reasonable.
How about C++? What do you think would be the most popular C++ open source projects? Here they are:
C++ projects: node-webkit, phantomjs, mongo
Mongo seems reasonable, but... those other two! There's no Mozilla, no Boost, no tensorflow, no LLVM... not even webkit, just two webkit clients, both of them javascript bindings.
Does it break down crime by whether or not the perpetrator arrived in the country by boat? I hear that's an important factor for some reason.
I thought it was clear that this was a joke. In many countries, beer is served cold to the point where you can't discern the subtle notes of a good ale. British drinkers often make fun of this.
I agree, it works with the climate. It still may be a shock.
Oh, while I think of it, there's an old joke, one form of which goes "Which weighs more, a pound of gold or a pound of feathers?"
The feathers weigh more than the gold.
A pint is a pound, the world around.
You're going to get a surprise if you ever order a beer in England.
Your pint will be 20% larger than you think. It will also be lukewarm and slightly chewy, but that's another issue.
I live in a SI country. The customary units for everything use whatever scale prefix makes the most sense.
Cans, bottles, and glasses are measured in millilitres (pronunced "mil" for short), and reservoirs are measured in megalitres. Road signs are in kilometres. Weather reports give air pressure in hectopascals. The energy content of food is measured in kilojoules.
We cope.
They probably don't know who leaked it to the press, and they certainly don't know who subsequently leaked his name.
Also worth noting is that none of the people who responded positively on the internal forum (some of whom were, reportedly, much less charitable than him) have, to my knowledge, been fired.
Only to counter the nonsense that Twitter is left-wing. They're just as happy to shut down a left-wing harasser as a right-wing harasser, or to ban left-wing fake news as right-wing fake news. Which is to say, they are not happy at all and only do it reluctantly.
Pretty sure 'The Enlightenment' never addressed identity politics, [...]
Hoo boy it sure did. The early Enlightenment philosophers had a lot to say about Catholics, for example.
But you raise a good point. In the 18th century, Anton Wilhelm Amo could teach philosophy at a German university, but only because white nationalism hadn't been invented yet.
Nah, just everyone in the Slashdot comment section.
So they predicted stack ranking, outsourcing, offshoring, open plan, and wage stagnation?
I was of course being sardonic. For what it's worth, Russkaya Natsionalinaya Coutsialisticheskaya Partiya (Russian National Socialist Party) may not be the nazi party but it is a nazi party.
Did you know that between 1991 and 1994 there were no communists in Russia? There was no communist party so it must be true.
we're talking about the "firing employees for writing factual-but-politically-incorrect essays" thing
I could have sworn that wasn't Twitter.
"Twitter is known for having a somewhat left-bias"??
The Overton window is a bitch. Silicon Valley Libertarianism is now considered left-wing.