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  1. Re:Different applications. on Employers Want JavaScript, But Developers Want Python, Survey Finds (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes Mr Torvalds, I've read your resumé. But we only consider actual commercial *paid* experience. Not hobbies.

    I'm sure things along those lines have happened.

  2. Re:That fits with what I think on Employers Want JavaScript, But Developers Want Python, Survey Finds (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, for one thing, the white space wouldn't minify very well.

    There are, in theory, ways around that. Instead of using whitespace as a 'level tag' on each line use some kind of token at the start and end of each level.

    I think it's important to have a mnemonic, as sort of visual metaphor for what symbols do. So think of a pair of hands, or if you like halves of a shell, holding something like ( this ). Since that particular type is common in mathematics it might be best to reserve them for that but there are others, like [ these ] or even { these }.

    It's even possible, with advanced techniques like counting up at a lefty and down at a righty, to nest them ( like (this) or (this) ).

    Heck, if you didn't mind being a bit verbose you could go dne foo bar dne bla end end.

    Crazy talk, I know.

  3. Re:Perhaps a documentary? on Ask Slashdot: What Kind of Societies Will the First Mars Colonies Be? · · Score: 1

    Mars doesn't have much of a magnetic field. Even if you did get an atmosphere there, it would get stripped off by the solar wind like [they think] the original one did.

  4. Re:The same as on earth. Perhaps a little calmer. on Ask Slashdot: What Kind of Societies Will the First Mars Colonies Be? · · Score: 1

    When something that can turn Jupiter into a star tells you to do something, it's generally wise to comply.

    Hand it in on the way out, please.

  5. Re:Static typing; sharing server logic with browse on Employers Want JavaScript, But Developers Want Python, Survey Finds (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    People moved from assembly mainly to dynamic typed languages like LISP and Smalltalk.

    I'm not sure they did, except in niche applications & academia. But in any case it's a huge leap to say they did that because they're dynamically typed, and it's another one to say that just because a lot of people do something that means it's not retarded.

  6. You should not judge about languages you are not fluent in.
    COBOL e.g. is an excellent language for business programming.

    And you shouldn't post things from the first hit on Google about languages you've never used. Because nobody who's actually used it for actual fucking work(tm) likes it. Certainly it has a few features - packed decimals and file/record handling that are useful. But it's verbose in the extreme and its modularisation and control flow suck big time.

  7. Re:Static typing; sharing server logic with browse on Employers Want JavaScript, But Developers Want Python, Survey Finds (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    what automated process would you use to translate server-side authoritative input validation written in Go into JavaScript in order to ensure that the client-side prevalidation enforces the same rules?

    I'd probably hack something together using Python if it was a quick and dirty job. Maybe a combination of bash, sed, PHP, awk & sed if I had the luxury of doing it properly.

  8. Re:Different applications. on Employers Want JavaScript, But Developers Want Python, Survey Finds (infoworld.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I only look for jobs that use Simulink, Matlab, and embedded C/C++.

    We're hiring right now. Do you know C++ one seven? Give me a call if you have at least 5 years experience.

  9. Re:the (actual) shooter on Two More Gamers May Be Charged in Fatal Kansas 'SWAT' Shooting (kansas.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't care what the call sounded like. Are cops too stupid to use their own eyes and ears and what's between them? Or is it even worse than that?

  10. Re:How many factories do not have any problem? on Tesla Employees Say Gigafactory Problems Are Worse Than Known (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That would be invertunate.

  11. Re:How many factories do not have any problem? on Tesla Employees Say Gigafactory Problems Are Worse Than Known (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    would it have been much different if the IBM PC has been introduced a year later?

    Possibly. In that time an alternate standard could have become entrenched.

  12. Re:Creating a product only half the battle on Tesla Employees Say Gigafactory Problems Are Worse Than Known (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I mean, besides their generic manufacturing experience.

    That alone would be quite an improvement compared to the present situation.

  13. Re:How many factories do not have any problem? on Tesla Employees Say Gigafactory Problems Are Worse Than Known (cnbc.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    What can I, AC, do?

    You could try to rectify the situation.

  14. It's a 10^9 factory on Tesla Employees Say Gigafactory Problems Are Worse Than Known (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's a 10^9 factory, but they were expecting 2^30?

  15. Re:They talk funny on Why People Dislike Really Smart Leaders (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Regulations often make things WORSE. e.g. the American mortgage mess.

    Are you still clinging to the myth about the CRA?

    That was debunked so long ago the last 'e' wasn't silent.

  16. Re:No we didn't on Scientists Discover the Oldest Human Fossils Outside Africa (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Good spot. I consider myself to be a pedant of the first order but I missed that one.

    Oh, and fuck the mods with a broken bottle.

  17. Re:I thought on Scientists Discover the Oldest Human Fossils Outside Africa (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    At least we still have physics as a real science.

    *cough* dark matter *cough*.

  18. Re:Obviously on Scientists Discover the Oldest Human Fossils Outside Africa (npr.org) · · Score: 5, Funny

    You hunt animals, you gather plants.

    Maybe these people really did do it the other way round.

    Do you have a more plausible explanation for why they're all dead?

  19. Re:Income, not jobs... on Bill Gates Thinks AI Taking Everyone's Jobs Could be a Good Thing (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    If feudalism hadn't been so shit communism wouldn't have been invented.

  20. Re:Man who already is stinking rich... on Bill Gates Thinks AI Taking Everyone's Jobs Could be a Good Thing (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    because he understood that they weren't just workers, they were also customers, and good wages meant they had more money to spend and in the long run he would sell more cars.

    So, take one of these dollars that Ford pays his workers over and above what he could get away with and trace it through the system. Let's assume that the worker doesn't spend one cent on beer or hookers or flower arranging classes. So eventually, that dollar gets used to buy a car from Ford.

    But that dollar he gets back in the sales sale isn't pure profit. There might be, I dunno, 40 cents of raw materials, 20 of energy, 10 of labour and so on. Maybe he's left with a nickel and a dime. So wouldn't he have been better off just hanging onto that dollar in the first place?

    Am I missing something? I'm familiar with Keynes' multiplier but I don't see how it makes a difference here.

  21. Re: Man who already is stinking rich... on Bill Gates Thinks AI Taking Everyone's Jobs Could be a Good Thing (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    You'd need to buy raw materials, energy, and robots.

    Phew. Lucky for us that robots will never be able to produce those things!

  22. Re:BEST money is backed by the GUN on $500 Million Worth of Cryptocurrency Stolen From Japanese Exchange (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Oil sales are denominated in dollars. That doesn't mean dollars are backed by oil.

    By that logic the Irish Punt was backed by Guinness.

  23. Redundant duel backups

    You mean one with swords and the other with pistols?

  24. Re:If imaginary money is stolen is it still theft? on $500 Million Worth of Cryptocurrency Stolen From Japanese Exchange (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    They're backed by the fact that you can pay your taxes with them, and so avoid an extended stay in uncomfortable accommodation.

  25. Re:Were they migrating into or out of Africa on Scientists Discover the Oldest Human Fossils Outside Africa (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Same way they always do.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...