A low speed limit is dangerous when it is obvious to everyone with a basic level of driving skill that they should be driving faster. Those people will then suddenly run into people driving the 'limit' around a corner or over a hill.
You could argue that nobody should ever exceed the speed limit, but that's just irrational stupidity. People will for the most part drive what seems like a safe speed for them, not accounting for over-aggressive or over-cautious drivers of course, but those are rare enough. On a given stretch of the 401 here in Ontario, you can be assured everyone is doing 120-130 even though it's posted at 100. At another point on the same highway, everyone will be driving no more than 115 because its too narrow and unsafe to go faster.
People adjust because we almost all realize that speed limits should have been updated aeons ago, when most cars now have seatbelts, air bags, ABS, traction control and high grade tires but the limits were set before all those things.
People seem to miss the opportunity for incredibly bad behaviour. What about if a company like Google starts reporting on who you want to vote for? There are a lot of reasons the post office doesn't open the mail -- and our electronic equivalents should respect that same privacy.
Agreed. Even good outcomes do not justify bad behaviour. We should not be happy that Google is perusing the content of our E-mail with anything but automated tools (for advertising, etc.)
Canada has spent over a billion dollars on genomic research in the last seven years or so, this is an interesting project but he's a bit shy of 'world leader' status with this investment.
Where's all the pro-science crowd who keeps telling us to blindly trust medical science when the stories of people (mistakenly) avoiding certain well-tested drugs come up?
The rhetoric does nothing but defeat their actual viewpoint and this is why -- bad science is being done, and it needs to be accounted for to the sceptics, no matter who insane they may seem. Bad science is the enemy of good science because it undermines trust in the system.
Oh quit whining. Asking incredibly gifted people to continually stifle their feelings because of everyone else's is just as unfair.
The GCC people don't have to care what he thinks, but if they do, now they know. Nobody got berated in person, nobody got flogged, nobody got fired (yet).
I for one hate dealing with people who tiptoe around their feelings. If I ask someone what they think of something, I want to know what they think, not some edited version they prepared to spare my feelings.
Based on the NSA's spying behaviour and the number of federally sanctioned assassinations (by drone or otherwise), I could've sworn the commies lead the US into darkness, not the other way around.
Actually I'd argue it is the government's job to protect cultural value; that's precisely why they fund libraries and museums. They just shouldn't be doing it by forcing Amazon to charge shipping.
So you think Amazon should know exactly how many books its going to ship in advance so it can divide a known quantity (bulk shipping costs) by an unknown (total shipments)?
Or maybe you think Amazon should retroactively bill people for their shipping at the end of the year?
Amazon can charge you $50/book for shipping if they want, or $0.01... so long as they're paying the shipping company what the company expects to be paid, it can't possibly matter.
What you meant to say was that "even though writing your own JavaScript identical to what Dart can be translated into would execute just as quickly, I doubt the capability of the Dart compiler to find speed benefits in JavaScript that I wouldn't find."
What problem have you ever had with indent-based parsing?
Many many people have a problem reading other peoples' C and C++ code because of how it is not always enforced and allows some incredibly poor legibility.
You may not personally have this problem *writing* code but you've almost certainly had it when reading code.
Not all Python is readable, but forcing programmers to use good style is one of the first problems in a braces-based parsing environment. Python just formalized it.
Could have been worse? Python is a fantastic first language to learn how programming is done, especially in the context of getting another job done (Science, Math, etc.)
It takes N hours to develop and test a solution on platform X.
Given that the platform in question is working, easy to deploy, and fully tested, adding platform Y to the mix would require another investment of time and resources that are unnecessary when staying with platform X.
I understand fully why some people only develop Windows software for the same reason. In our case, we develop Linux-based servers, Android and WinMobile based handheld industrial software, and some basic Windows-based interface software for said database.
Deploying the database system on Windows would be a huge hassle and a totally unnecessary cost to clients.
Sure, maybe... for the vast majority of cases, I'd rather users *never* send attachments by E-mail and instead use corporate web-based sharing for secure documents.
Attachments downloaded from servers can be verified as transmitted, and how many times, and by whom. E-mails cannot. You can't even guarantee a user received the E-mail.
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A low speed limit is dangerous when it is obvious to everyone with a basic level of driving skill that they should be driving faster. Those people will then suddenly run into people driving the 'limit' around a corner or over a hill.
You could argue that nobody should ever exceed the speed limit, but that's just irrational stupidity. People will for the most part drive what seems like a safe speed for them, not accounting for over-aggressive or over-cautious drivers of course, but those are rare enough. On a given stretch of the 401 here in Ontario, you can be assured everyone is doing 120-130 even though it's posted at 100. At another point on the same highway, everyone will be driving no more than 115 because its too narrow and unsafe to go faster.
People adjust because we almost all realize that speed limits should have been updated aeons ago, when most cars now have seatbelts, air bags, ABS, traction control and high grade tires but the limits were set before all those things.
You mean the 95% of drivers who are speeding on highways without accidents? Yes, they must be stupid.
People seem to miss the opportunity for incredibly bad behaviour. What about if a company like Google starts reporting on who you want to vote for? There are a lot of reasons the post office doesn't open the mail -- and our electronic equivalents should respect that same privacy.
Agreed. Even good outcomes do not justify bad behaviour. We should not be happy that Google is perusing the content of our E-mail with anything but automated tools (for advertising, etc.)
Canada has spent over a billion dollars on genomic research in the last seven years or so, this is an interesting project but he's a bit shy of 'world leader' status with this investment.
Where's all the pro-science crowd who keeps telling us to blindly trust medical science when the stories of people (mistakenly) avoiding certain well-tested drugs come up?
The rhetoric does nothing but defeat their actual viewpoint and this is why -- bad science is being done, and it needs to be accounted for to the sceptics, no matter who insane they may seem. Bad science is the enemy of good science because it undermines trust in the system.
The people who respond on Slashdot about Linus aren't in any position to have opinions but they feel the right to share them anyway.
Meanwhile, Linus is in every position to have the right to his own opinions about the things he rants about.
Oh quit whining. Asking incredibly gifted people to continually stifle their feelings because of everyone else's is just as unfair.
The GCC people don't have to care what he thinks, but if they do, now they know. Nobody got berated in person, nobody got flogged, nobody got fired (yet).
I for one hate dealing with people who tiptoe around their feelings. If I ask someone what they think of something, I want to know what they think, not some edited version they prepared to spare my feelings.
Based on the NSA's spying behaviour and the number of federally sanctioned assassinations (by drone or otherwise), I could've sworn the commies lead the US into darkness, not the other way around.
Its only brilliant if you do something nobody else has already done. Imitating success is not brilliant, its obvious.
If you value that book Amazon doesn't sell, and its publisher isn't bright enough to sell it to you somehow, they deserve to go out of business.
Actually I'd argue it is the government's job to protect cultural value; that's precisely why they fund libraries and museums. They just shouldn't be doing it by forcing Amazon to charge shipping.
So you think Amazon should know exactly how many books its going to ship in advance so it can divide a known quantity (bulk shipping costs) by an unknown (total shipments)?
Or maybe you think Amazon should retroactively bill people for their shipping at the end of the year?
Amazon can charge you $50/book for shipping if they want, or $0.01 ... so long as they're paying the shipping company what the company expects to be paid, it can't possibly matter.
Then maybe you should check again.
What you meant to say was that "even though writing your own JavaScript identical to what Dart can be translated into would execute just as quickly, I doubt the capability of the Dart compiler to find speed benefits in JavaScript that I wouldn't find."
See optimizing C++ compiler vs. ASM arguments.
"If you can convert C++ to Assembler, I don't get the point of C++ ..."
So you can write your code in a nicer language, obviously.
What problem have you ever had with indent-based parsing?
Many many people have a problem reading other peoples' C and C++ code because of how it is not always enforced and allows some incredibly poor legibility.
You may not personally have this problem *writing* code but you've almost certainly had it when reading code.
Not all Python is readable, but forcing programmers to use good style is one of the first problems in a braces-based parsing environment. Python just formalized it.
Could have been worse? Python is a fantastic first language to learn how programming is done, especially in the context of getting another job done (Science, Math, etc.)
What percentage of their total hosted IPs are illegal or malware?
Sounds to me like the old "Windows has more viruses because its more popular" argument, used against NO-IP.
If I had a dollar for every user that complained about my 15MB attachment restriction ...
I liked the configuration files myself ...
Yes, I'm sure this configuration file was violating Copyright https://github.com/CyanogenMod...
It takes N hours to develop and test a solution on platform X.
Given that the platform in question is working, easy to deploy, and fully tested, adding platform Y to the mix would require another investment of time and resources that are unnecessary when staying with platform X.
I understand fully why some people only develop Windows software for the same reason. In our case, we develop Linux-based servers, Android and WinMobile based handheld industrial software, and some basic Windows-based interface software for said database.
Deploying the database system on Windows would be a huge hassle and a totally unnecessary cost to clients.
Sure, maybe ... for the vast majority of cases, I'd rather users *never* send attachments by E-mail and instead use corporate web-based sharing for secure documents.
Attachments downloaded from servers can be verified as transmitted, and how many times, and by whom. E-mails cannot. You can't even guarantee a user received the E-mail.
I believe you. Its incredible to me what people put in E-mails.
I told a security contractor to call me once to get the new password and he replied "can't you just E-mail it to me?"