Why is there no similar paranoia over files? If I am supposed to completely abandon C/C++ because pointers aren't automatically deleted for me, then why should I be moving to a language that won't also automatically close my open files? What's the difference?
trying to do raw dynamic memory allocation without reference counting smart pointers is just insane
It really depends on how you use your objects. There really is no need for a smart pointer as a private data member, for example, if you only allocate it in the constructor and only free it in the destructor.
But they didn't go the US! That's the point. Looking this up, I am slightly in error. The importation of slaves was not criminalized until 1808. It was part of the "Great Compromise" of the US Constitution, which is why I confused the date with that of the ratification.
Yes, there was demand in the US. The demand was in the south, with the plantation agricultural system. There was much less demand in the north, or in Europe. The demand existed not because the caucasians of the US were particularly cruel, but because cotton was extremely labor intensive.
But the Right exclusively, since 9-11, has characterized anyone who even questioned them as terrorist sympathizers.
And the Left excusively, since 2000, has characterized anyone on the right 51% of the spectrum as being a deranged warmongering theocrat.
Do you know of a Democratic president who tried to repudiate the separation of powers?
Uh, Clinton? Affirmed the right to domestically wiretap and engage in military activities without congressional approval. But since it was done under the aegis of a politically correct ideology, no one cared.
Don't place all the blame on this at the feet of the "Right". The current situation didn't arise out of a vacumn, but occured over many presidencies, several of which were Democrat presidencies. Bush has the power he does because earlier presidents and earlier congresses gave it to him.
Don't bitch at me about it! Bitch at life! Because it's life that truly has a heart of black lead. Whether you are a free man or a slave is up to you and you alone.
occasionally working less over time is not an option.
Working less hours is ALWAYS an option. What's the worse they can do? The worst is to fire you. More likely they'll just let you work less hours. The mere fact they have you working all those hours means you are valuable to them. They would be stupid to fire you when they need your hours so much. If they do, then it's out of spite, and you don't want to be working for a company like that to begin with.
You are the master of your life, so start acting like it.
Whoever said non-academic liberals had a skewed and unbalanced viewpoint? It wasn't me! Really now, some of you guys are far too defensive for your own good.
Outside of insular environments (universities, military, etc), political viewpoints tend to follow a normal distribution curve. This is because the dominant political viewpoints will distribute themselve about the middle. The reasons for this are varied and belong to a different topic.
But you do not find normal distribution curves in insular environments. Universities are predominantly liberal. The military is predominantly conservative.
Let me clarify my statement. The rules of academia do not follow those of the "real" world.
The university is an insular environment, often with its own police department, restaurants, theaters, etc. It is shielded from the rest of the city in which it resides by a thick layer of "college town". One can go for years without ever meeting someone unrelated to the university. This type of environment leads to a skewed and unbalanced political viewpoint.
Then there is the fact that universities, even most private universites, are funded by the government. This pre-disposes professors to a big-government pro-social-spending world view.
The best anecdote I remember from my university days was a literature class. This was in the 80s. A student once asked the professor "what's a libertine?" The professor then gave the text book answer, witha couple of examples drawn form the French plays we were studying. He then said "Reagan. Reagan is a libertine. He as no morality."
Looking around the class room, I was shocked to see many students dutifully writing down that answer.
Well duh. All businesses want to increase profits. In fact, I greatly suspect you're not much different, and you even do stuff to try to increase your own salary. Shame on you!
I would LOVE to live in a small town. I was born and raised in one, and I hate the big city life. I would gladly trade a third of my salary for the same job in a small town. No commute, no traffic, no crime, affordable homes, friendly people. Someone, please exploit me!
Now go back to the link I gave you and follow it. This isn't a he-said/she-said issue, no matter how loudly you scream to the contrary, because one side actually has some numbers associated with names from both sides of the aisle.
the existing saved copy of the board has almost no imflammetory comments
Of course not! Haven't you been paying attention? They had people actively deleting the inflammatory posts BEFORE they gave up on the avalanche and deleted everything.
And this is something Slashdot will not be able to determine for you. For each product the answer will be different. For a graphics intensive game, anything older than last weeks GPU might not pay. But for a vertical app, you might have to support SunOS, DOS, etc.
It depends on your definition of "support". To many web developers, "support" means you deliberately prevent the site from working on unsupported browsers. A slightly more lenient web developers will instead throw up a "hey idiot" message to users that they aren't using an approved browser.
What you need to do is to make the page conformant to standards. Don't use yesterday's revised standard, use something that reasonably supported by a lot of browsers. And use only what you need, because the more odd corners of CSS you decide to use, the fewer browsers the page will render correctly in.
Dish out IE-specific pages to IE, because it whines if it doesn't get them. Then dish out standard HTML/CSS/Javascript to everything else. If you want to be thorough, dish out HTML 3.2 for older browsers.
You will want to *test* the page on a lot of different browsers at a lot of different versions. You should be doing this anyway, without having to ask Slashdot for permission.
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Why is there no similar paranoia over files? If I am supposed to completely abandon C/C++ because pointers aren't automatically deleted for me, then why should I be moving to a language that won't also automatically close my open files? What's the difference?
trying to do raw dynamic memory allocation without reference counting smart pointers is just insane
It really depends on how you use your objects. There really is no need for a smart pointer as a private data member, for example, if you only allocate it in the constructor and only free it in the destructor.
WTF? I'll just call him. Sheesh.
The rest of your post is useless fluff that I didn't quite understand.
The rest of the post is warmed over regurgitated Stallmanist ideology.
Everytime I see a business with an AOL email address they lose credibility with me, just like people with the same. I see them as not very tech saavy.
Is it a requirement for you that businesses must be "very tech saavy"? Even restaurants, maid services and chimney sweeps?
But they didn't go the US! That's the point. Looking this up, I am slightly in error. The importation of slaves was not criminalized until 1808. It was part of the "Great Compromise" of the US Constitution, which is why I confused the date with that of the ratification.
Yes, there was demand in the US. The demand was in the south, with the plantation agricultural system. There was much less demand in the north, or in Europe. The demand existed not because the caucasians of the US were particularly cruel, but because cotton was extremely labor intensive.
Those infamous slave ships were not US ships. While slavery was still legal, the importation of slaves was not.
But the Right exclusively, since 9-11, has characterized anyone who even questioned them as terrorist sympathizers.
And the Left excusively, since 2000, has characterized anyone on the right 51% of the spectrum as being a deranged warmongering theocrat.
Do you know of a Democratic president who tried to repudiate the separation of powers?
Uh, Clinton? Affirmed the right to domestically wiretap and engage in military activities without congressional approval. But since it was done under the aegis of a politically correct ideology, no one cared.
Don't place all the blame on this at the feet of the "Right". The current situation didn't arise out of a vacumn, but occured over many presidencies, several of which were Democrat presidencies. Bush has the power he does because earlier presidents and earlier congresses gave it to him.
You sir, have a heart of gold.
Don't bitch at me about it! Bitch at life! Because it's life that truly has a heart of black lead. Whether you are a free man or a slave is up to you and you alone.
When student loans have to be paid off, that's pretty bad.
Then it's your choice to stay, so stop complaining about how you want to get out. It's your life.
occasionally working less over time is not an option.
Working less hours is ALWAYS an option. What's the worse they can do? The worst is to fire you. More likely they'll just let you work less hours. The mere fact they have you working all those hours means you are valuable to them. They would be stupid to fire you when they need your hours so much. If they do, then it's out of spite, and you don't want to be working for a company like that to begin with.
You are the master of your life, so start acting like it.
Whoever said non-academic liberals had a skewed and unbalanced viewpoint? It wasn't me! Really now, some of you guys are far too defensive for your own good.
Outside of insular environments (universities, military, etc), political viewpoints tend to follow a normal distribution curve. This is because the dominant political viewpoints will distribute themselve about the middle. The reasons for this are varied and belong to a different topic.
But you do not find normal distribution curves in insular environments. Universities are predominantly liberal. The military is predominantly conservative.
I think you need to pick up a dictionary and look up both the words "libertine" and "morality".
Let me clarify my statement. The rules of academia do not follow those of the "real" world.
The university is an insular environment, often with its own police department, restaurants, theaters, etc. It is shielded from the rest of the city in which it resides by a thick layer of "college town". One can go for years without ever meeting someone unrelated to the university. This type of environment leads to a skewed and unbalanced political viewpoint.
Then there is the fact that universities, even most private universites, are funded by the government. This pre-disposes professors to a big-government pro-social-spending world view.
The best anecdote I remember from my university days was a literature class. This was in the 80s. A student once asked the professor "what's a libertine?" The professor then gave the text book answer, witha couple of examples drawn form the French plays we were studying. He then said "Reagan. Reagan is a libertine. He as no morality."
Looking around the class room, I was shocked to see many students dutifully writing down that answer.
...what should that tell you?
That perhaps the academic community is too insular? Too cloistered?
Yes, there is crime. But nowhere near the levels of a big city.
Well duh. All businesses want to increase profits. In fact, I greatly suspect you're not much different, and you even do stuff to try to increase your own salary. Shame on you!
I would LOVE to live in a small town. I was born and raised in one, and I hate the big city life. I would gladly trade a third of my salary for the same job in a small town. No commute, no traffic, no crime, affordable homes, friendly people. Someone, please exploit me!
IT. IS. A. LIE.. Do you understand? That is why people are upset.
WHEN. YOU. DENY. STUFF. TOO. LOUDLY. PEOPLE. STOP. BELIEVING. YOU.
Now go back to the link I gave you and follow it. This isn't a he-said/she-said issue, no matter how loudly you scream to the contrary, because one side actually has some numbers associated with names from both sides of the aisle.
...or at least one the Administration delibrately caused them to make.
Warning: your tinfoil hat is showing.
Oh yeah. She wrote the damn article, and refused to do anything about, and ended up in a online fight.
She did do something about it.
the existing saved copy of the board has almost no imflammetory comments
Of course not! Haven't you been paying attention? They had people actively deleting the inflammatory posts BEFORE they gave up on the avalanche and deleted everything.
Are you saying no Democrat was ever corrupt?
For non-web platforms: as long as it pays.
And this is something Slashdot will not be able to determine for you. For each product the answer will be different. For a graphics intensive game, anything older than last weeks GPU might not pay. But for a vertical app, you might have to support SunOS, DOS, etc.
It depends on your definition of "support". To many web developers, "support" means you deliberately prevent the site from working on unsupported browsers. A slightly more lenient web developers will instead throw up a "hey idiot" message to users that they aren't using an approved browser.
What you need to do is to make the page conformant to standards. Don't use yesterday's revised standard, use something that reasonably supported by a lot of browsers. And use only what you need, because the more odd corners of CSS you decide to use, the fewer browsers the page will render correctly in.
Dish out IE-specific pages to IE, because it whines if it doesn't get them. Then dish out standard HTML/CSS/Javascript to everything else. If you want to be thorough, dish out HTML 3.2 for older browsers.
You will want to *test* the page on a lot of different browsers at a lot of different versions. You should be doing this anyway, without having to ask Slashdot for permission.
I can get paid to write "Hello World!" programs? Where do I sign up?