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  1. Re: Wait a minute... on TypeScript's Quiet, Steady Rise Among Programming Languages (wired.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    No. The typescript compiler generates map files for your .ts, so you debug typescript not JavaScript.

  2. Re: Just always apply hardware access controls. on Google Researchers Say Software Alone Can't Mitigate Spectre Chip Flaws (siliconrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    I am looking forward to your upcoming book on how to write useful, high-performing programs without using conditional branch instructions.

  3. I see what you did. You attempted to read between the lines and came away with a lot of impressions of things I didnâ(TM)t actually say. Try just sticking to the words written.

  4. Obviously you have no idea what you are talking about. And why are you discussing ethnicity? I didnâ(TM)t have any ethnicity in mind. Why did you? I didnâ(TM)t say children donâ(TM)t need our help. All I said is that parents are not doing their share, and it is not fair to ask teachers to pick up the slack. Which is what happens. I know. Personally. What happened in your great-grandmotherâ(TM)s 1940s or whatever one-room schoolhouse has nothing to do with the fact that parents send their kids to class without supplies, donâ(TM)t help them with their homework, and freak out if you ask them to put in any effort on their own. Parents of ALL ethnicities do it.

  5. The problem with public education is exactly this mentality. Somewhere down the line public schools switched from being places of discipline and learning into places of accommodation. âoeThe customer is always right.â Teachers go to work every day being tasked with more and more responsibilities in order to pick up the slack of parents who not only fail to do the bare minimum for their chidrenâ(TM)s education, these parents actively sabotage it. The moment a teacher attempts to hold a parent or student even minimally accountable for a childâ(TM)s education, the parent comes in and raises hell with administration and basically makes a teacherâ(TM)s life miserable. They do this in front of their little angels, this teaching the kid that they do not need to respect teachers, administration, or education, just continuing the cycle. Schools are feeding kids breakfast, lunch, snack, providing school supplies. Teachers are put in a position where they have to not only educate, but teach kids hygiene, be emotional counselors, therapists, etc. I personally know teachers who were buying clothes and carpooling children because the parents werenâ(TM)t doing it. What we need is a system where parents are held accountable to their childrenâ(TM)s education.

  6. Re: It's great.... on Is Python the Future of Programming? (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    You are in luck because there is already a high performing JIT compiler for python: Pypy. It performs on par with node.

  7. Re: Hypocrisy, thy name is Boshevik Republican on Scott Pruitt Resigns as EPA Administrator (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Literally none of that is true. FBI investigated a lead. No one was âoeplantedâ in a campaign. As Trey âoeBenghaziâ Gowdy said: This is what you want your FBI to do. There has been no actual charge that any FISA warrant or unmasking was done improperly, just a bunch of for-show outrage with no facts to back it (because if there were even a whiff of illegality, congressional Republicans would have people in handcuffs). If the FBI wanted Hilary to win, why did they tank her campaign at the last minute by revealing the big nothingburger Weiner laptop reveal, yet not a peep announced or leaked about the Trump campaign investigation which had been ongoing?

  8. Re: Another PATENTLY RETARDED and SUPERFLUOUS prom on President Trump Directs Pentagon To Create New 'Space Force' Military Branch (defensenews.com) · · Score: 1

    Woah there cowboy... I think someone took one too many patented Infowars Brain Force Alpha Power Tabs this morning!

  9. Not sure if it makes a difference to your opinion on the matter, but many of these telemetrics SDKs just use HTTPS to phone home. That being said, any hacker one leave above script kiddie level would look at the destination and with some digging, determine what service is being used. But unless they can somehow decrypt your HTTPS traffic, youâ(TM)re probably OK. If they can decrypt it, youâ(TM)re basically already screwed anyway...

  10. Try to find a mobile game that isnâ(TM)t using Game Analytics SDK or the like. It wonâ(TM)t be as easy as you think.

  11. Mostly the work of a previous administration.

  12. Re: Very high spending, low results on Wages Aren't the Only Reason Teachers Are Striking (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    If you want to know why children in other countries do better in school than in the USA, just look to the parents. If you can, that is, because theyâ(TM)re often nowhere to be seen. My wife is a teacher. She has paid for things for the classroom, which sucks, but it hasnâ(TM)t been a hardship on us because I am a developer and make more than enough for the both of us. The real issue is a âoerun school like a businessâ âoethe customer (parent) is always rightâ mentality from the district, and parents who are not involved in their childrenâ(TM)s education, or whose own lack of respect for education is actively being taught to their children.

  13. Only followed the link to the comments to see how many comments before someone claimed she only got the award for being a woman.

  14. Re: Pet Windows Programs on Munich Council: To Hell With Linux, We're Going Full Windows in 2020 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    And what the hell is going on with iOS using the wrong code page now?

  15. Re: Pet Windows Programs on Munich Council: To Hell With Linux, We're Going Full Windows in 2020 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Informative

    You forgot to address one of the more important points: âoeUsers didnâ(TM)t like it.â I like and use Linux, but if you think itâ(TM)s better on the desktop for non-power users, youâ(TM)re deluding yourself. Windows is solid - I hardly ever have crashes, itâ(TM)s fast, and itâ(TM)s compatible with everything. The only issue I have is drivers no longer being kept up to date, primarily my for Bluetooth and WiFi.

  16. Re: Horrible language on Programming Language Go Turns 8 (golang.org) · · Score: 1

    That it is forced on you.

  17. Re: Horrible language on Programming Language Go Turns 8 (golang.org) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I think the language is alright, and I use it regularly because it is the best alternative to C and C++ that I have discovered so far (need to look into rust). That said, I share your annoyances and add some more: * No method overloading. Itâ(TM)s annoying to have to come up with a new name for permutations like: func (matrix *Matrix4) SetTranslation(x, y, z float32), func (..) SetTranslationVector3(vector *Vector3), SetTranslationMatrix4(matrix *Matrix4), ad infinitum. * I find the previous issue ironic given their reason for omitting overloads, that it makes code less readable, yet their habit of using abstract, one or two character identifiers for everything * Public members are PascalCase, private are camelCase as a rule. This was especially annoying before go-aware refactor tools were available.

  18. Itâ(TM)s time on Republican Tax Plan Kills Electric Vehicle Credit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    I am very much looking forward to the day that I can economically and conveniently own an electric vehicle. That being said, I think itâ(TM)s time to eliminate the credit. Car manufacturers are certainly including that credit in their manufacturing and cost and profits. Eliminate it and watch EV manufacturers bring the costs down in kind.

  19. Re: My experience... on 95% Engineers in India Unfit For Software Development Jobs: Report (gadgetsnow.com) · · Score: 2

    No, it doesn't have to be specific to India. Incompetence knows no borders. But there are large Indian companies who run their businesses in this way. Best and brightest in front of customers, bottom of the barrel talent that can be paid low wages offshore.

  20. Re: My experience... on 95% Engineers in India Unfit For Software Development Jobs: Report (gadgetsnow.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Similar to my experience as well. We hired offshore teams to help migrate away from some mainframe systems. Of course, the few guys they sent over to work on site were incredible: Professional, knowledgeable, and excellent communicators. On the other hand, the work churned out by the offshore team was abysmal. Inefficient, convoluted, and just plain dumb in many cases. For example: I was working for an insurance company. The company was developing the software to sell a new type of product. We had a database already with all the tables necessary to support the existing product. The offshore team, in some cases literally just added columns to existing tables for this new, unrelated product. I'm not talking just a few new columns. Entire tables' worth of columns. There were no shared keys or anything between the two data. It was like building a table for payroll, then adding more columns so that you could also store warehouse inventory.

  21. Re: Why are these fucking Americans hacking banks? on NSA-Leaking Shadow Brokers Just Dumped Its Most Damaging Release Yet (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    My uneducated guess would be that they would use it to follow the money.

  22. Re: We don't need a new language on Douglas Crockford Envisions A Post-JavaScript World (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Some would JavaScript is already the web browser's VM. There's no reason why a VM has to execute bytecode. Why not javascript as "bytecode?" If the coder never sees it then what difference does it make? There is no shortage of languages that compile to JavaScript if you want something more your flavor: CoffeeScript, TypeScript, python, haxe, dart, kotlin, etc. many of these are statically compiled with type checking, etc. Insofar as web assembly, it's a waste of time. Reinventing the wheel. Java, .NET CLR are already perfectly well suited for this task. Maybe Java's history of vulnerabilities nixes it from the list, but .NET is secure and already has a sandboxed version for the web, Silverlight (which Microsoft unceremoniously dropped).

  23. Re: Multi core programming is too much work on Douglas Crockford Envisions A Post-JavaScript World (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    JavaScript already supports multi threading via web workers. It functions a bit like .NETs threadpool, only with even more restrictions to prevent common issues with memory sharing and calls to non thread safe APIs.

  24. Re: Multicore is a real issue on Douglas Crockford Envisions A Post-JavaScript World (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Web workers can be run concurrently if the individual's browser allows for it. The biggest limitation to web workers is that memory cannot be shared between workers. Data is always copied and sent via message between workers and the main thread, so there is some overhead. https://developer.mozilla.org/...

  25. Re: News for Nazis on Donald Trump Is Sworn In As the 45th US President (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Googled that for you: https://www.google.com/search?...