Of course it's impossible for static checking to catch all bugs - this is a well-known result. And of course programmers should write tests. But a compile-time error (or static-check error, if you prefer) costs less programmer time to debug than a run-time error - IIRC estimates I've seen vary from a factor of 3 to 10. A mistyped function name is something which can easily be picked up by static checking and result in an error or, if eval is invoked somewhere, at least a warning.
The list handling is great if someone teaches you what it's for. I taught myself BASIC and Logo from the Amstrad CPC6128 manual, and later used that manual as a language reference to implement a Logo interpreter in Blitz BASIC on the Amiga - but I didn't bother with the list handling functions, because I couldn't see the point of them. It was only when I was taught SML at university that I realised how powerful they were.
I'm certain you don't understand my comment, because my intention isn't to insult anyone. Rather it was to show that either the post I was replying to was, as I say, balderdash, or more than 99.9% of native English speakers are idiots. Read the previous anon coward's post and you'll see I was quoting.
I consider "descriptivist" a more elegant description than "anti-grammar-Nazi Nazi". Descriptivists don't deny that rules exist, but consider that prescriptivists (grammar Nazis) tend to get the rules wrong. Either they make up their own rules or they follow "authorities" who made up their own rules, or imported them uncritically from Latin.
Also known as Old English, which evolved into Middle English, which evolved into Modern English. I find Tudor English sometimes difficult. "Language is fluid" is a scientific observation.
Balderdash. Try reading Beowulf in the original. If you don't understand it perfectly, is that because you're lazy and stupid or because the English language has changed?
Who is the "we" on whose behalf you speak? I've come across people who consistently use "euro" as the plural, and people who consistently use "euros", but I was unaware that there are some who use both and place semantic weight on the decision of which to use.
If it's interesting then he shouldn't need to post it himself because someone else will. But it's also an ethical issue: if he had been up front and added a brief disclosure (as, for example, the editors do when a story relates to another Geeknet property), I wouldn't have any complaint.
Anyone prepared to take a bet that the CW of CWMike stands for ComputerWorld, and this is a blatant attempt to drive traffic towards an article he either wrote or published?
The two are hardly incompatible, because Thatcher is British, Colbert is American, and liberals in the U.S. are more conservative than conservatives in a lot of countries.
Maybe more troll than flamebait, but either way it's almost guaranteed that the comments will contain more heat than light, and there isn't exactly a nerd angle in the summary to justify selecting the story.
Britain didn't really shed the class system as a cornerstone of their society until the 70's.
I think you can safely drop the last three words. Maybe it's different in Scotland or Wales, but read an anthropological study of the English and then tell me that the class system isn't a powerful part of today's English culture.
Why? This isn't a bug in WiX, it's a bug in Microsoft's unit tests for MSIs, and according to the first hit on their page when I google Vista logo certification you have to use MSI and pass ICE57 if you want to be certified. So it doesn't matter what you use to create your installer: you still come up against the buggy unit test.
Except when the warning or error is wrong. I spent Friday afternoon trying to avoid an error in a WiX compilation and concluded that the only way to do it was to deliberately introduce a bug. ICE57 believes that the DesktopFolder is "per-user", whereas it should be "per-user or per-machine" because it changes according to the installation context.
I was taught quadrature methods (although under the name of "finding the area under a curve") as part of GCSE. I think in the third year of secondary school. So it's pre-high-school if I understand the US system correctly.
If you're going to take the credit for what your forefathers did in the 18th century (assuming that they were among the residents of the 13 colonies, which probably isn't the case for a large number, if not a majority, of current US citizens), then don't you also have to take the blame for all the mistakes and crimes the US has committed since then? Is the total still in your favour?
Yeah, because a segregated runway will stop someone from hijacking an airliner in flight, and crashing it into a building. That sounds reasonable.
A segregated runway would be just as effective at stopping people from crashing the plane before they land there as fingerprinting them, iris scanning them, etc. after they land currently is.
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Of course it's impossible for static checking to catch all bugs - this is a well-known result. And of course programmers should write tests. But a compile-time error (or static-check error, if you prefer) costs less programmer time to debug than a run-time error - IIRC estimates I've seen vary from a factor of 3 to 10. A mistyped function name is something which can easily be picked up by static checking and result in an error or, if eval is invoked somewhere, at least a warning.
The list handling is great if someone teaches you what it's for. I taught myself BASIC and Logo from the Amstrad CPC6128 manual, and later used that manual as a language reference to implement a Logo interpreter in Blitz BASIC on the Amiga - but I didn't bother with the list handling functions, because I couldn't see the point of them. It was only when I was taught SML at university that I realised how powerful they were.
I'm certain you don't understand my comment, because my intention isn't to insult anyone. Rather it was to show that either the post I was replying to was, as I say, balderdash, or more than 99.9% of native English speakers are idiots. Read the previous anon coward's post and you'll see I was quoting.
I consider "descriptivist" a more elegant description than "anti-grammar-Nazi Nazi". Descriptivists don't deny that rules exist, but consider that prescriptivists (grammar Nazis) tend to get the rules wrong. Either they make up their own rules or they follow "authorities" who made up their own rules, or imported them uncritically from Latin.
Also known as Old English, which evolved into Middle English, which evolved into Modern English. I find Tudor English sometimes difficult. "Language is fluid" is a scientific observation.
Balderdash. Try reading Beowulf in the original. If you don't understand it perfectly, is that because you're lazy and stupid or because the English language has changed?
Who is the "we" on whose behalf you speak? I've come across people who consistently use "euro" as the plural, and people who consistently use "euros", but I was unaware that there are some who use both and place semantic weight on the decision of which to use.
Wow, the feminists you know are surprisingly mild. I'm more used to hearing that women are superior to men in every single way conceivable.
he does great work in this area but often gets quite a bit of it wrong.
Example?
If it's interesting then he shouldn't need to post it himself because someone else will. But it's also an ethical issue: if he had been up front and added a brief disclosure (as, for example, the editors do when a story relates to another Geeknet property), I wouldn't have any complaint.
Anyone prepared to take a bet that the CW of CWMike stands for ComputerWorld, and this is a blatant attempt to drive traffic towards an article he either wrote or published?
The two are hardly incompatible, because Thatcher is British, Colbert is American, and liberals in the U.S. are more conservative than conservatives in a lot of countries.
Maybe more troll than flamebait, but either way it's almost guaranteed that the comments will contain more heat than light, and there isn't exactly a nerd angle in the summary to justify selecting the story.
Can we just tag this story flamebait and be done?
Given that the plan involves all passengers being naked, the incision where they replaced the kidney should be fairly noticeable.
So it would break when the population increases?
Britain didn't really shed the class system as a cornerstone of their society until the 70's.
I think you can safely drop the last three words. Maybe it's different in Scotland or Wales, but read an anthropological study of the English and then tell me that the class system isn't a powerful part of today's English culture.
Why? This isn't a bug in WiX, it's a bug in Microsoft's unit tests for MSIs, and according to the first hit on their page when I google Vista logo certification you have to use MSI and pass ICE57 if you want to be certified. So it doesn't matter what you use to create your installer: you still come up against the buggy unit test.
Except when the warning or error is wrong. I spent Friday afternoon trying to avoid an error in a WiX compilation and concluded that the only way to do it was to deliberately introduce a bug. ICE57 believes that the DesktopFolder is "per-user", whereas it should be "per-user or per-machine" because it changes according to the installation context.
I was taught quadrature methods (although under the name of "finding the area under a curve") as part of GCSE. I think in the third year of secondary school. So it's pre-high-school if I understand the US system correctly.
Neither. You appear to be neglecting both the parenthensis and the context provided by the post I was replying to.
If you're going to take the credit for what your forefathers did in the 18th century (assuming that they were among the residents of the 13 colonies, which probably isn't the case for a large number, if not a majority, of current US citizens), then don't you also have to take the blame for all the mistakes and crimes the US has committed since then? Is the total still in your favour?
But isn't PayPal based in Luxembourg? What's been leaked about the Grand Duchy?
Yeah, because a segregated runway will stop someone from hijacking an airliner in flight, and crashing it into a building. That sounds reasonable.
A segregated runway would be just as effective at stopping people from crashing the plane before they land there as fingerprinting them, iris scanning them, etc. after they land currently is.
Only in America's broken system would you run the risk of losing money by just giving people your account number.
Or the UK.
Yes, and guyminuslife's point was that Estonia isn't currently minting Euros, but France, Germany, Spain, Italy, etc. are.