If you participate in this, you're a fucking moron.
We're not only going to be ripped off by companies, but we're going to pay for them to do all the research and development up front... and you think what, the price will be lower? They'll be more altruistic? Something will magically be better?
This is fucking stupid, and I can't say the word fucking enough her to get the point across.
You do not crowd fund a fucking company, thats the companies job. They aren't going to crowd fund your ass when you get laid off or fired, why the fuck would you give them a bone?
If a TV show like that offends you, you're the one with a problem.
You're taking offense because of your own personal issues, not because the show is 'insulting' you in some way.
Considering a couple of the actors have actual geek cred and all you have is a slashdot account, I'm really not sure why you're getting pissed off instead of being thankful.
Its not about the 'best' of a culture any more than Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Honeymooners, The Simpsons, Family Guy or any other TV show.
ITS A FUCKING FICTIONAL COMEDY OF COURSE IT PICKS ON STEREO TYPES AND YOU JUST CONFIRMED ITS RIGHT TO DO SO, Sheldon.
Seriously, you just gave the show even more cred by making these this stupid post.
but suffice it to say 25 years ago when MS Words was cool we did not know any better, but now if you are doing a science book, do it in LaTex.
Tex was the format of choice 25 years ago, and Word wasn't cool then either.
The kindle is an extremely limited device which simply isn't going to do what he wants regardless of format.
He wants EPUB 3 or iBooks, probably iBooks since its pretty freaking awesome once you get over the shitty side of it being so locked into Apple which means you aren't going to use it since its really worthless outside of Apple:( Damn shame.
And yet, I also know that I am definitely impaired before 0.08%. From my subjective point of view, the 0.08% standard is absurdly high.
And yet I've blown.14 and passed the field sobriety tests (Wasn't driving!) so lets stop pretending that you have any clue what you're talking about, mmmmkay..08 is two beers or less to most people who are fatasses, so unless you weigh 85 pounds or actually never drink beer, you're lying.
If you drink regularly (a beer or two every day) you'll also have somewhat of a tolerance until your liver/kidneys give out, at which point it'll be ugly for you, but thats another story.
The reality of it is, we have stupid legislatures because of people like you. You can hit 0.04 from swallowing too much mouth wash for fucks sake.
DUI doesn't require knowledge or consent in most states. Ignorance of the law or how you're breaking it does not make you innocent, its mind blowing that people keep parroting that sort of crap.
Mens Rea != Ignorance is bliss
And no, she shouldn't lose her license, thats fucking retarded ignorance by assholes who don't understand how the world works.
This woman shouldn't be prosecuted... and wasn't after the truth came out. Good. This is a judge doing the right thing even though he legally could have hit her with a class 1 DUI in NY (highest of the high) due to the extreme level of her intoxication based on how the laws are written in a stupid way that acts as if percentage is a strong indicator of intoxication. I've watched people in court go to jail for DUI because they got caught in a speed trap where the cop pretty much charges EVERYONE HE SEES with a DUI because they are driving from downtown at 2:30am and sits in an area where the is a hidden 35mph sign that no one can see and everyone regularly does 55mph past it. I've seen people pulled over and taken to jail on a DUI charge at this particular place and blowing exactly 0.000 when taken to the police station. Its only been in the last 3 months that this particular officer has been dismissed... after going on for years with multiple newspaper articles about him specifically and his buddies who hang out in that particular area when they want some tickets. In the case of my friend, the JUDGE told his lawyer that he should file some sort of charges against the officer because of this bullshit. Thats how fucked up DUI crap is.
The burden of guilt for DUI is basically 0, so if you get charged, you're almost certainly going to be smacked with a bunch of bullshit, regardless of your actual ability to drive. Tell a cop someone has been drinking (and they never have and are completely sober), have the cop do the field tests and every single person he/she sees will qualify as intoxicated. The whole DUI thing has turned into a massive money making racket.
She should be allowed to drive in a safe way, IF THAT IS POSSIBLE. First off, since she is constantly exposed to alcohol, her body has a tolerance, which is why she was able to still even stand up at that level of BAC. Put that much into someone who never drinks and they'll be lucky if they aren't dead by morning, again illustrating how fucking retarded DUI laws are. Since she's been doing this shit for more than half her life, you have to be an ignorant prick to not recognize the possibility that it effects her differently than you.
She was too intoxicated to drive, no argument, but now she has the information required to manage the situation, and working with medical professionals she can continue to do things that will lower that level to the point that she exhibits no symptoms of the alcohol... because she's built up a level of immunity to it. She's been doing it every day for years... and this is the FIRST time its been a problem, and there is a KNOWN explanation for why it was so bad this time (dietary issues at the moment).
Do you think people who have seizures should never be able to drive? Cause I can give you some simple medicines that by themselves do nothing, but taken together will cause a seizure in some people... all you have to do is know that and not take the two together and you won't have a seizure... should those people not be allowed to drive too, due to your ignorance?
This isn't a black and white case and you are certainly wrong in every way that matters. Fortunately, it doesn't look like the NY legal system is as dumb about it as you are.
So take your 'everything is black and white' attitude about DUI and shove it up your ass:) People like you are a part of the problem. Not as big of a problem as the actual drunk drivers who should be hung high, but pretending that one size fits all just shows how absolutely utterly ignorant you are.
or don't have editors configured for it correctly.
And thats when you should have realized you were working with a shitty language and why whitespace for syntax is fucking stupid. The fact that you keep going is mind numbing.
When a misconfigured editor can break your code or cause bugs, you've already lost before you started writing code.
Anyone who uses one line if statements in C/C++ shouldn't be writing code.
That behavior will get you fired if we find it more than a few times in code reviews.
No dev with any real experience uses if's without braces, that is one of the more stupid 'features' of C like languages and anyone who sees it instantly knows thats an bad pattern.
Brackets are how I communicate structure. Indentation for structure just makes you stupid since my editor may use 2 or 4 spaces or tabs and you can't simply 'reindent' to match the editors style. Indentation is a
that never happens in Python.
Yes it does, I've seen it MANY MANY times because it doesn't cause an error in the script it causes different behavior. Its never caused a problem for you because you just haven't discovered it (or haven't written very much code). Just discovered a bug in a script last week that was due to someone having a line tabbed in too far and being considered part of the if when it wasn't and should have been executed every pass, instead, it happened only under a special case which rarely occurred... end result, about 30k worth of items weren't billed and had to be corrected. Fortunately, 30k items is pretty trivial for us and no one was too pissed off but if you think it doesn't happen you're just utterly inexperienced.
Python has made the choice to use indentation as part of its syntax to enforce a style. That was utterly fucking stupid, as is anyone who thinks otherwise. Its as stupid as people who don't understand why people prefer tabs versus spaces for indentation and in fact is the exact same sort of stupidity. Its a shithead way of some asshole enforcing his preference on everyone else.
If the point was clean style, then it still would have required block delimiters and simple wouldn't execute if the indentation didn't match the block count... but no, thats not what they did, they half assed it and resulted in a language thats used by people too stupid to find a good one.
Again I state, you CAN NOT offer ONE valid reason why whitespace is a flow control.
Let me help you and show you where its stupid:
Copy and pasting code from some other location, have to figure out and fix the indentation... or do you have some magical editor that can read your mind and fix the indentation automatically (You don't, even fi you think you do, again you just haven't found the bugs yet)
Pasting code from python a multitude of websites results in an unusable mess of code because of so many that screw with formatting and trim spaces.
One space versus 2 is difficult to see, but is a completely different meaning in python. Good luck working on any sort of large scale project with very many contributors, your choice in shitty language will cost you god knows how much time figuring out someones intention after someone screws up a merge but you can't see it because half is using tabs and the other half is using spaces.
2 space 'tabs' in your editor is different than 'tab' in my editor (which uses tabs), and both are different than anyone who prefers 4 spaces or one...
GNU indent/astyle and other style fixes can not work on python, they can not infer what your intended logic is and magically fix it.
The list is far longer, but I'm tired and this is a silly debate. If you like unreliable code, great! The rest of us can safely avoid python as its a big glaring 'I'm an idiot!' kind of language. People who think its great are either stupid or just don't know any better because someone told them it was great, the second is correctable, the first is a birth defect.
So he has no real credentials on the subject then, cause nothing in there means he is an authority on the subject, any more than anyone else. He has no more 'credentials' on the subject than the POTUS does about women in politics. Neither are educated on actually evaluating the situation, they are simply participants in the field (tech and politics respectively).
Just cause he can write code, doesn't mean he knows anything about psychology, does it?
He also made it a goal to remove historic education portions of the HAM certs, as you point out, that just makes him short sighted.
Believe me, I've been there. After three books, hundreds of published papers and articles, and decades of consulting to Fortune 500 firms, I have been on the receiving end of the misogynistic "swinging dicks" who couldn't write a competent subroutine or draw a working circuit if their lives depended on it. I can (and, in the past, have) named names and identified organizations where women dare not go. What's interesting is having the CEO of a Fortune 500 company hire me (at $2,500/day) and then have twerps three years out of school decide they know more than I and refuse my counsel because my anatomy is different from theirs. Usually, there's a competent male around who steps in and shuts the abuse down. When there's not, I have developed a strong skill in suckering such blithering idiots into cul de sacs of their own ignorant reasoning, until they are reduced to mumbling to themselves. But, why should I ever have had to DEVELOP that skill?
You think that has anything to do with you being female? If you do, you really aren't that smart. A large portion of 23-28 year old * will behave that way towards *.
Its not your vagina, its that they are immature young adults fresh out of a university and even without the university they think they know everything, certainly far more than you would (so they think).
I'm male and go through the same shit regularly since I work at a company that pride itself on hiring people fresh out of school (we're on campus even). We get 2-4 new devs from NC State every year, and it doesn't matter if they are male or female, the ratio of assholes to people at that age is significant, regardless of sex.
If I were to write your post as a male, and switch the sexes... I'd be a misogynistic asshole. Pot, Kettle, Black. Your blurb at the end doesn't absolve you of doing exactly what you're pretending to be the victim of.
People who we raised by wolves are qualified as being part of the 'autism spectrum' because they reclassified it so that pretty much anyone on the planet has multiple qualities that make them 'mildly autistic'
The reality of it is that most of these guys are just fucking assholes.
You mean someone didn't do ISNULL() on the returned value and let the connector interpret...
That makes both the connector and the developer stupid:) The connector should have returned NULL or an error/exception.
Just for reference, NULL behaves like that in any sane language, excluding C/C++ due to its low level nature, though the compiler will effectively fix that flaw in the case of most processors where it can do so intelligently since page 0 is almost universally 'protected' against reads AND writes by operating systems that use MMUs or MPUs, and the compilers will warn or error when using NULL on a integer type since that is indeed confusing and value types can't actually ever be NULL.
0 is a valid number only when representing numbers... in which case you actually use an additional number to represent that the first value is or isn't null... that additional number (or bit or whatever) immediately has a duplicate meaning since you're repurposing one value for another (encoding it).
In both instances, you're still using zero (or not zero) to represent null, you're just pretending you're not because you've encoded it.
In C like languages, NULL == 0 is that encoding. int i = NULL makes you stupid, not the language, because you just used a shitty encoding for that particular data type, and caused yourself a world of trouble.
Just because you're incapable of seeing the pattern your using is the same doesn't mean it isn't.
If you're using variable-width fonts for coding, you're doing it wrong.
Also, in Python you indent the same way you should be doing anyway, just without the braces. Unless, of course, you're also doing indentation wrong.
You're right, designing a language the fucks up based on different text editor default preferences makes the users that are complaining about that design decision wrong...
Please explain the advantage of white space sensitivity without sounding like a moron, go:
The people who have their own ideas about how it should evolved are called architects, and they have their own opinion so that the language has some sort of coherency and isn't a complete and utter mess, which is what results when you do design committee.
Nice inflammatory summary though, no bias.
Swift's developers don't want to replace Brace Syntax with Python-style indentation.
No shit, they aren't retarded. Have you people not learned how stupid that is yet, how many retarded bugs do you have to have from the wrong spacing before you get it through your heads that it was a stupid fucking idea?
They don't want to change boolean operators from && and || to 'and' and 'or'.
No shit, they aren't idiots.
They don't want to rewrite the Swift compiler in Swift.
No shit, they aren't retarded. Other than proving something, WHY WOULD YOU? NO ONE DOES THIS unless they are just trying to swing their dick around. You write your languages in C with ASM for the places it makes sense. Unless you just like to make yourself need two compilers, one to compile your language so you can build your compiler in your language. Again, retarded.
They don't want to change certain keywords like 'continue' from their C precedents.
No shit, they aren't idiots.
And they have no interest in removing semicolons.
No shit, they aren't idiots.
If you had half a clue, or simply had read the second sentence under most of those things I wouldn't be the one pointing out that you're not qualified to be talking about language enhancements. Hell, as stated, almost all of these things are changes for someones personal pet preference, not because its useful for anything.
Swift IS INTENTIONALLY C like, intentionally. ALL of those requests are utterly stupid when your talking about a language that is intentionally like C/C++. If you want python... USE PYTHON.
Nope, Apple didn't mess up. Just idiots like you who parrot shit someone else said without actually knowing if the person saying it was anything other than a rabid fanboy like yourself.
The only people who say stupid things like what you're claiming are people who don't know what they are talking about. If those are the people you are using for reference when it comes to computers, you're probably just as stupid as they are. Its generally a good idea to take your cues from people in the know, rather than end users and morons.
Nothing is 100% 'secure' so just get down off your high horse, shove your head way back up your ass where it fits so nicely and... well STFU ignorant troll.
OSX has a good default security policy and its small marketshare doesn't make it a target. Ironically, fanboy, thats the same thing that gives Linux a good reputation. Good default policy and being almost the smallest player on the block means you don't get targeted, so the perception about you is entirely different.
More important to note is that the only reason you're given a chance to make such an ignorant comment is because Apple self-reported the majority of those flaws found and fixed them, making it more secure.
Awe, thats cute, you're one of those spoiled kids that doesn't know how the computer works because you use high level languages that abstract everything from you.
To store 'NULL' you have to encode it SOMEHOW for the processor to have any usefulness to it, that encoding could ALWAYS have another meaning. Processors have absolutely no concept of NULL, so NULL is effectively ZERO to any programmer who actually understands how computers actually work.
Sure, in Java,.NET and many other high level languages, there is an object that actually represents null that abstract the problem away from your code, but it remains, just hidden from you.
So before you talk about 'how it should be', keep in mind that what your CS professor taught you... isn't actually how the real world works.
I haven't been interested in watching the new one... but if Lucas is complaining about it, I may just watch it, his disapproval is a strong indicator its not shitty
If you built it in my back yard, you'd be an idiot since I live near a sandy coastline, which means it could leech into the ecosystem rapidly. Rather you bury it somewhere that its going to have a really hard time getting out of while its still dangerous... like all the current storage sites, you put it in a massive salt deposit, which naturally seals itself. Problem fucking solved. I'll build a brand new house for me and my son right on top of the thing and live a happy life if it means we can actually fucking use nuclear power elsewhere without all you idiots acting like its going to kill as all.
I'm not an ignorant paranoid nut job and actually understand whats dangerous and why. You should try it sometime.
You're the kind of person that will die from cancer or mercury poisoning from the coal powered plant 2 states over that produces way more toxic output and pushes more radioactive materials into the atmosphere than all nuclear accidents combined, plus the bombs dropped on Japan, plus all the atmospheric nuclear testing thats been done because you're too stupid to understand whats dangerous and whats not and you continue to believe idiots. And you'll ignore that that is only one plant out of thousands around the globe.
Every instance of solar power you can demonstrate produces FAR more toxic output than an equivalent nuclear power station. Don't think just because we're polluting China's environment that its 'green'.
PV cells use absolutely ridiculously toxic production processes.
The factories were probably not carbon neutral until after they had a carbon neutral supply, can't count your chickens before they hatch, but don't let that stop you from making an ass of yourself.
Then you go on to bitch about emergency safety systems? Fucking seriously? The fire extinguishers at any given data center in the US are far more toxic than the entire generator output of the life span of a nuclear planet's test cycles. And if you think its better to not have a nuclear plant and use something else instead of having generators that are tested once in a while than you are truly demonstrating how stupid you are and how you like to cut off your nose to spite your face.
And those 'electric cars' you think are so awesome... get their power from coal and gas fired plants, so they aren't in any way neutral, you, like typical morons just want to ignore the parts of energy production that don't favor your particular favorite method of pretending to be green while being no such thing.
And NC only requires any one of the primary parties of a conversation to consent to recording.
I.E. If you and I have a conversation, and I record it, its perfectly legal regardless of your opinion on the matter. So if you're doing something wrong, its is perfectly legal for me to secretly record you and then make it public as long as I'm a principal participant in the conversation. That means that if you and I are talking, I can record it... but my wife sitting next to me and not involved, could not.
. It does however produce toxic waste that will need to be buried and managed for the next million years
No, it doesn't.
They do produce toxic waste, so does coal, gas, solar and wind if you stop ignoring certain parts of the production process that produce the toxic bits. Photovoltaic is WAY fucking worse than nuclear when you take production byproduct into account.
Things with long half lives aren't very dangerous. Anything that last that long is about as dangerous as lead... If you EAT ENOUGH OF IT... Just like lead.
The dangerous parts have half lives numbered in single digit years or days. 12 years is about the longest half life of the 'dangerous stuff', which means you stop caring in a hundred years or so AT MOST.
You have to get down into hours and minutes of half life before its dangerous just being near it as long as you don't inhale or eat it.
The danger with nuclear materials to living tissue is the energy release during radioactive decay. Long half live = little energy emissions = lower risk. Short half life = higher emissions in the same period of time = higher danger level.
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If you participate in this, you're a fucking moron.
We're not only going to be ripped off by companies, but we're going to pay for them to do all the research and development up front ... and you think what, the price will be lower? They'll be more altruistic? Something will magically be better?
This is fucking stupid, and I can't say the word fucking enough her to get the point across.
You do not crowd fund a fucking company, thats the companies job. They aren't going to crowd fund your ass when you get laid off or fired, why the fuck would you give them a bone?
Unions are not just about wage growth. They're also about protecting employees from abuse.
Awe thats cute, how old are you, 10? 12?
Unions are about filling the union leaders pockets. Full stop.
Anything else is an accidental side effect that in general, they will work to prevent from happening in the future.
You've never actually seen a union in action with an open eye, have you?
If a TV show like that offends you, you're the one with a problem.
You're taking offense because of your own personal issues, not because the show is 'insulting' you in some way.
Considering a couple of the actors have actual geek cred and all you have is a slashdot account, I'm really not sure why you're getting pissed off instead of being thankful.
Its not about the 'best' of a culture any more than Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Honeymooners, The Simpsons, Family Guy or any other TV show.
ITS A FUCKING FICTIONAL COMEDY OF COURSE IT PICKS ON STEREO TYPES AND YOU JUST CONFIRMED ITS RIGHT TO DO SO, Sheldon.
Seriously, you just gave the show even more cred by making these this stupid post.
but suffice it to say 25 years ago when MS Words was cool we did not know any better, but now if you are doing a science book, do it in LaTex.
Tex was the format of choice 25 years ago, and Word wasn't cool then either.
The kindle is an extremely limited device which simply isn't going to do what he wants regardless of format.
He wants EPUB 3 or iBooks, probably iBooks since its pretty freaking awesome once you get over the shitty side of it being so locked into Apple which means you aren't going to use it since its really worthless outside of Apple :( Damn shame.
And yet, I also know that I am definitely impaired before 0.08%. From my subjective point of view, the 0.08% standard is absurdly high.
And yet I've blown .14 and passed the field sobriety tests (Wasn't driving!) so lets stop pretending that you have any clue what you're talking about, mmmmkay. .08 is two beers or less to most people who are fatasses, so unless you weigh 85 pounds or actually never drink beer, you're lying.
If you drink regularly (a beer or two every day) you'll also have somewhat of a tolerance until your liver/kidneys give out, at which point it'll be ugly for you, but thats another story.
The reality of it is, we have stupid legislatures because of people like you. You can hit 0.04 from swallowing too much mouth wash for fucks sake.
DUI doesn't require knowledge or consent in most states. Ignorance of the law or how you're breaking it does not make you innocent, its mind blowing that people keep parroting that sort of crap.
Mens Rea != Ignorance is bliss
And no, she shouldn't lose her license, thats fucking retarded ignorance by assholes who don't understand how the world works.
This woman shouldn't be prosecuted ... and wasn't after the truth came out. Good. This is a judge doing the right thing even though he legally could have hit her with a class 1 DUI in NY (highest of the high) due to the extreme level of her intoxication based on how the laws are written in a stupid way that acts as if percentage is a strong indicator of intoxication. I've watched people in court go to jail for DUI because they got caught in a speed trap where the cop pretty much charges EVERYONE HE SEES with a DUI because they are driving from downtown at 2:30am and sits in an area where the is a hidden 35mph sign that no one can see and everyone regularly does 55mph past it. I've seen people pulled over and taken to jail on a DUI charge at this particular place and blowing exactly 0.000 when taken to the police station. Its only been in the last 3 months that this particular officer has been dismissed ... after going on for years with multiple newspaper articles about him specifically and his buddies who hang out in that particular area when they want some tickets. In the case of my friend, the JUDGE told his lawyer that he should file some sort of charges against the officer because of this bullshit. Thats how fucked up DUI crap is.
The burden of guilt for DUI is basically 0, so if you get charged, you're almost certainly going to be smacked with a bunch of bullshit, regardless of your actual ability to drive. Tell a cop someone has been drinking (and they never have and are completely sober), have the cop do the field tests and every single person he/she sees will qualify as intoxicated. The whole DUI thing has turned into a massive money making racket.
She should be allowed to drive in a safe way, IF THAT IS POSSIBLE. First off, since she is constantly exposed to alcohol, her body has a tolerance, which is why she was able to still even stand up at that level of BAC. Put that much into someone who never drinks and they'll be lucky if they aren't dead by morning, again illustrating how fucking retarded DUI laws are. Since she's been doing this shit for more than half her life, you have to be an ignorant prick to not recognize the possibility that it effects her differently than you.
She was too intoxicated to drive, no argument, but now she has the information required to manage the situation, and working with medical professionals she can continue to do things that will lower that level to the point that she exhibits no symptoms of the alcohol ... because she's built up a level of immunity to it. She's been doing it every day for years ... and this is the FIRST time its been a problem, and there is a KNOWN explanation for why it was so bad this time (dietary issues at the moment).
Do you think people who have seizures should never be able to drive? Cause I can give you some simple medicines that by themselves do nothing, but taken together will cause a seizure in some people ... all you have to do is know that and not take the two together and you won't have a seizure ... should those people not be allowed to drive too, due to your ignorance?
This isn't a black and white case and you are certainly wrong in every way that matters. Fortunately, it doesn't look like the NY legal system is as dumb about it as you are.
So take your 'everything is black and white' attitude about DUI and shove it up your ass :) People like you are a part of the problem. Not as big of a problem as the actual drunk drivers who should be hung high, but pretending that one size fits all just shows how absolutely utterly ignorant you are.
Yea, you're totally right. Taking responsibility for your actions, and those of your children is a problem.
The problem is that assholes like you think that its someone elses responsibility to parent for your children.
Grow up and be responsible for your actions, twit.
or don't have editors configured for it correctly.
And thats when you should have realized you were working with a shitty language and why whitespace for syntax is fucking stupid. The fact that you keep going is mind numbing.
When a misconfigured editor can break your code or cause bugs, you've already lost before you started writing code.
Anyone who uses one line if statements in C/C++ shouldn't be writing code.
That behavior will get you fired if we find it more than a few times in code reviews.
No dev with any real experience uses if's without braces, that is one of the more stupid 'features' of C like languages and anyone who sees it instantly knows thats an bad pattern.
Brackets are how I communicate structure. Indentation for structure just makes you stupid since my editor may use 2 or 4 spaces or tabs and you can't simply 'reindent' to match the editors style. Indentation is a
that never happens in Python.
Yes it does, I've seen it MANY MANY times because it doesn't cause an error in the script it causes different behavior. Its never caused a problem for you because you just haven't discovered it (or haven't written very much code). Just discovered a bug in a script last week that was due to someone having a line tabbed in too far and being considered part of the if when it wasn't and should have been executed every pass, instead, it happened only under a special case which rarely occurred ... end result, about 30k worth of items weren't billed and had to be corrected. Fortunately, 30k items is pretty trivial for us and no one was too pissed off but if you think it doesn't happen you're just utterly inexperienced.
Python has made the choice to use indentation as part of its syntax to enforce a style. That was utterly fucking stupid, as is anyone who thinks otherwise. Its as stupid as people who don't understand why people prefer tabs versus spaces for indentation and in fact is the exact same sort of stupidity. Its a shithead way of some asshole enforcing his preference on everyone else.
If the point was clean style, then it still would have required block delimiters and simple wouldn't execute if the indentation didn't match the block count ... but no, thats not what they did, they half assed it and resulted in a language thats used by people too stupid to find a good one.
Again I state, you CAN NOT offer ONE valid reason why whitespace is a flow control.
Let me help you and show you where its stupid:
Copy and pasting code from some other location, have to figure out and fix the indentation ... or do you have some magical editor that can read your mind and fix the indentation automatically (You don't, even fi you think you do, again you just haven't found the bugs yet)
Pasting code from python a multitude of websites results in an unusable mess of code because of so many that screw with formatting and trim spaces.
One space versus 2 is difficult to see, but is a completely different meaning in python. Good luck working on any sort of large scale project with very many contributors, your choice in shitty language will cost you god knows how much time figuring out someones intention after someone screws up a merge but you can't see it because half is using tabs and the other half is using spaces.
2 space 'tabs' in your editor is different than 'tab' in my editor (which uses tabs), and both are different than anyone who prefers 4 spaces or one ...
GNU indent/astyle and other style fixes can not work on python, they can not infer what your intended logic is and magically fix it.
The list is far longer, but I'm tired and this is a silly debate. If you like unreliable code, great! The rest of us can safely avoid python as its a big glaring 'I'm an idiot!' kind of language. People who think its great are either stupid or just don't know any better because someone told them it was great, the second is correctable, the first is a birth defect.
So he has no real credentials on the subject then, cause nothing in there means he is an authority on the subject, any more than anyone else. He has no more 'credentials' on the subject than the POTUS does about women in politics. Neither are educated on actually evaluating the situation, they are simply participants in the field (tech and politics respectively).
Just cause he can write code, doesn't mean he knows anything about psychology, does it?
He also made it a goal to remove historic education portions of the HAM certs, as you point out, that just makes him short sighted.
Believe me, I've been there. After three books, hundreds of published papers and articles, and decades of consulting to Fortune 500 firms, I have been on the receiving end of the misogynistic "swinging dicks" who couldn't write a competent subroutine or draw a working circuit if their lives depended on it. I can (and, in the past, have) named names and identified organizations where women dare not go. What's interesting is having the CEO of a Fortune 500 company hire me (at $2,500/day) and then have twerps three years out of school decide they know more than I and refuse my counsel because my anatomy is different from theirs. Usually, there's a competent male around who steps in and shuts the abuse down. When there's not, I have developed a strong skill in suckering such blithering idiots into cul de sacs of their own ignorant reasoning, until they are reduced to mumbling to themselves. But, why should I ever have had to DEVELOP that skill?
You think that has anything to do with you being female? If you do, you really aren't that smart. A large portion of 23-28 year old * will behave that way towards *.
Its not your vagina, its that they are immature young adults fresh out of a university and even without the university they think they know everything, certainly far more than you would (so they think).
I'm male and go through the same shit regularly since I work at a company that pride itself on hiring people fresh out of school (we're on campus even). We get 2-4 new devs from NC State every year, and it doesn't matter if they are male or female, the ratio of assholes to people at that age is significant, regardless of sex.
If I were to write your post as a male, and switch the sexes ... I'd be a misogynistic asshole. Pot, Kettle, Black. Your blurb at the end doesn't absolve you of doing exactly what you're pretending to be the victim of.
People who we raised by wolves are qualified as being part of the 'autism spectrum' because they reclassified it so that pretty much anyone on the planet has multiple qualities that make them 'mildly autistic'
The reality of it is that most of these guys are just fucking assholes.
You mean someone didn't do ISNULL() on the returned value and let the connector interpret ...
That makes both the connector and the developer stupid :) The connector should have returned NULL or an error/exception.
Just for reference, NULL behaves like that in any sane language, excluding C/C++ due to its low level nature, though the compiler will effectively fix that flaw in the case of most processors where it can do so intelligently since page 0 is almost universally 'protected' against reads AND writes by operating systems that use MMUs or MPUs, and the compilers will warn or error when using NULL on a integer type since that is indeed confusing and value types can't actually ever be NULL.
0 is a valid number only when representing numbers ... in which case you actually use an additional number to represent that the first value is or isn't null ... that additional number (or bit or whatever) immediately has a duplicate meaning since you're repurposing one value for another (encoding it).
In both instances, you're still using zero (or not zero) to represent null, you're just pretending you're not because you've encoded it.
In C like languages, NULL == 0 is that encoding. int i = NULL makes you stupid, not the language, because you just used a shitty encoding for that particular data type, and caused yourself a world of trouble.
Just because you're incapable of seeing the pattern your using is the same doesn't mean it isn't.
Thank you for proving my point even though you don't understand that you did so.
If you're using variable-width fonts for coding, you're doing it wrong.
Also, in Python you indent the same way you should be doing anyway, just without the braces. Unless, of course, you're also doing indentation wrong.
You're right, designing a language the fucks up based on different text editor default preferences makes the users that are complaining about that design decision wrong ...
Please explain the advantage of white space sensitivity without sounding like a moron, go:
The people who have their own ideas about how it should evolved are called architects, and they have their own opinion so that the language has some sort of coherency and isn't a complete and utter mess, which is what results when you do design committee.
Nice inflammatory summary though, no bias.
Swift's developers don't want to replace Brace Syntax with Python-style indentation.
No shit, they aren't retarded. Have you people not learned how stupid that is yet, how many retarded bugs do you have to have from the wrong spacing before you get it through your heads that it was a stupid fucking idea?
They don't want to change boolean operators from && and || to 'and' and 'or'.
No shit, they aren't idiots.
They don't want to rewrite the Swift compiler in Swift.
No shit, they aren't retarded. Other than proving something, WHY WOULD YOU? NO ONE DOES THIS unless they are just trying to swing their dick around. You write your languages in C with ASM for the places it makes sense. Unless you just like to make yourself need two compilers, one to compile your language so you can build your compiler in your language. Again, retarded.
They don't want to change certain keywords like 'continue' from their C precedents.
No shit, they aren't idiots.
And they have no interest in removing semicolons.
No shit, they aren't idiots.
If you had half a clue, or simply had read the second sentence under most of those things I wouldn't be the one pointing out that you're not qualified to be talking about language enhancements. Hell, as stated, almost all of these things are changes for someones personal pet preference, not because its useful for anything.
Swift IS INTENTIONALLY C like, intentionally. ALL of those requests are utterly stupid when your talking about a language that is intentionally like C/C++. If you want python ... USE PYTHON.
Nope, Apple didn't mess up. Just idiots like you who parrot shit someone else said without actually knowing if the person saying it was anything other than a rabid fanboy like yourself.
The only people who say stupid things like what you're claiming are people who don't know what they are talking about. If those are the people you are using for reference when it comes to computers, you're probably just as stupid as they are. Its generally a good idea to take your cues from people in the know, rather than end users and morons.
Nothing is 100% 'secure' so just get down off your high horse, shove your head way back up your ass where it fits so nicely and ... well STFU ignorant troll.
OSX has a good default security policy and its small marketshare doesn't make it a target. Ironically, fanboy, thats the same thing that gives Linux a good reputation. Good default policy and being almost the smallest player on the block means you don't get targeted, so the perception about you is entirely different.
More important to note is that the only reason you're given a chance to make such an ignorant comment is because Apple self-reported the majority of those flaws found and fixed them, making it more secure.
Awe, thats cute, you're one of those spoiled kids that doesn't know how the computer works because you use high level languages that abstract everything from you.
To store 'NULL' you have to encode it SOMEHOW for the processor to have any usefulness to it, that encoding could ALWAYS have another meaning. Processors have absolutely no concept of NULL, so NULL is effectively ZERO to any programmer who actually understands how computers actually work.
Sure, in Java, .NET and many other high level languages, there is an object that actually represents null that abstract the problem away from your code, but it remains, just hidden from you.
So before you talk about 'how it should be', keep in mind that what your CS professor taught you ... isn't actually how the real world works.
I haven't been interested in watching the new one ... but if Lucas is complaining about it, I may just watch it, his disapproval is a strong indicator its not shitty
If you built it in my back yard, you'd be an idiot since I live near a sandy coastline, which means it could leech into the ecosystem rapidly. Rather you bury it somewhere that its going to have a really hard time getting out of while its still dangerous ... like all the current storage sites, you put it in a massive salt deposit, which naturally seals itself. Problem fucking solved. I'll build a brand new house for me and my son right on top of the thing and live a happy life if it means we can actually fucking use nuclear power elsewhere without all you idiots acting like its going to kill as all.
I'm not an ignorant paranoid nut job and actually understand whats dangerous and why. You should try it sometime.
You're the kind of person that will die from cancer or mercury poisoning from the coal powered plant 2 states over that produces way more toxic output and pushes more radioactive materials into the atmosphere than all nuclear accidents combined, plus the bombs dropped on Japan, plus all the atmospheric nuclear testing thats been done because you're too stupid to understand whats dangerous and whats not and you continue to believe idiots. And you'll ignore that that is only one plant out of thousands around the globe.
Every instance of solar power you can demonstrate produces FAR more toxic output than an equivalent nuclear power station. Don't think just because we're polluting China's environment that its 'green'.
PV cells use absolutely ridiculously toxic production processes.
The factories were probably not carbon neutral until after they had a carbon neutral supply, can't count your chickens before they hatch, but don't let that stop you from making an ass of yourself.
Then you go on to bitch about emergency safety systems? Fucking seriously? The fire extinguishers at any given data center in the US are far more toxic than the entire generator output of the life span of a nuclear planet's test cycles. And if you think its better to not have a nuclear plant and use something else instead of having generators that are tested once in a while than you are truly demonstrating how stupid you are and how you like to cut off your nose to spite your face.
And those 'electric cars' you think are so awesome ... get their power from coal and gas fired plants, so they aren't in any way neutral, you, like typical morons just want to ignore the parts of energy production that don't favor your particular favorite method of pretending to be green while being no such thing.
And also, its North Cakalack or North Cakalacky, not Nawth Ca'lina. This isn't boston.
And NC only requires any one of the primary parties of a conversation to consent to recording.
I.E. If you and I have a conversation, and I record it, its perfectly legal regardless of your opinion on the matter. So if you're doing something wrong, its is perfectly legal for me to secretly record you and then make it public as long as I'm a principal participant in the conversation. That means that if you and I are talking, I can record it ... but my wife sitting next to me and not involved, could not.
Ag Gag laws don't override that.
. It does however produce toxic waste that will need to be buried and managed for the next million years
No, it doesn't.
They do produce toxic waste, so does coal, gas, solar and wind if you stop ignoring certain parts of the production process that produce the toxic bits. Photovoltaic is WAY fucking worse than nuclear when you take production byproduct into account.
Things with long half lives aren't very dangerous. Anything that last that long is about as dangerous as lead ... If you EAT ENOUGH OF IT ... Just like lead.
The dangerous parts have half lives numbered in single digit years or days. 12 years is about the longest half life of the 'dangerous stuff', which means you stop caring in a hundred years or so AT MOST.
You have to get down into hours and minutes of half life before its dangerous just being near it as long as you don't inhale or eat it.
The danger with nuclear materials to living tissue is the energy release during radioactive decay. Long half live = little energy emissions = lower risk. Short half life = higher emissions in the same period of time = higher danger level.