No, I'm not baffled that + is used for both, number addition and string concatenation. I know about operator overloading, but I'm against weak typing, number+string without explicit casting should always raise an exception, not doing so exposes you to code that passes the predictable tests but produces hard to track bugs in unpredicted cases.
No, NaN and Infinity are not sane responses, and yes this is JS specific, any other language that does it doesn't exist for me, in any case you say this as if being JS specific is the only wrong thing with returning a useless singletons whose only purpose is to not raise an exception which *is* the sane thing to do when dividing by zero or doing other invalid math operations.
No, returning undefined is not a sane response when asking for non-existing properties. For starters, the fact that it is a value that can be passed around means that undefined doesn't mean "this property is not defined" but "this property maybe isn't defined or maybe it was, but it was assigned undefined elsewhere". It is crazy that you have to test for false and null AND undefined, and it's crazy that you have to wait until you operate on the undefined result to discover the thing you have been carrying all along didn't exist.
And surely you mean messing up the Object prototype is not UNcommon thing to do, did you? Messed up Object is a fairly common thing to encounter if you work with multiple applications, built with multiple libraries by multiple persons. The fact is that map-like iteration in JS is a LBYL thing.
And you didn't comment on the scoping rules, like the fact that dropping local declarations inserts names in the global namespace, which following your pattern of response will probably be responded with "but it's predictable behaviour!" but that's not a sane default. And actually it's not locally predictable, it's the complete opposite in fact. It's only globally predictable, meaning you have to know the entire program to know from where this global name is getting injected.
And then we have "this"... well that's a huge subject by itself, There are good and bad points that could be made about it and I can conclude that it should behave differently, you can ask me about it if you are interested.
And then you finish with, "yeah the syntax could be better but it's not crucial" I'm not talking about crucial, you are completely misunderstanding me. JS is workable, but the list of things that I would change in it is large enough that I would rather drop it for any other of the major scripting languages out there, except Perl.
Also, the users of both languages would probably get annoyed at them being called scripting languages.
Well, I don't. I use Python for both applications and small scripts. I find bash and sh weird with its if-fi case-esac things and have troubles remembering all its rules and how-tos. I already know Python, I don't need to learn sh. Even Perl is easier to grep than sh.
Obviously I can read enough sh to know to look for things like `sudo rm -R/` but not enough to write complex scripts by my own.
Organise with people to buy from reject EULA. Throw class action suit against EA for taking your money then giving you a product wrapped in shitty EULA. But yes, companies are out of their fucking minds, mad with power, they deem their selves above the law. This is the most disgusting thing a fucking *game* company has ever done, to my knowledge.
Please no. Javascript is a horrible language. Ok not MUMPS horrible but still pretty wicked.
It is both dynamic typed AND weak typed, and it ignores it's exception facilities in favour of weird behaviour, such that the sum of two variables can be a number, string, NaN, or fucking Infinity. Let alone that properties can return `null` or `undefined`. It lacks a true hash/dictionary type and abusing the object type for similar effects ends up causing weird bugs with inheritance. Its half assed attempt at bringing Java syntax to a classless OOP language means it neither has the elegance of Self or Io, neither it has anything resembling Java semantics or syntax except for the more superficial aspects.
Its scoping and "execution context" rules are messy and the only thing that saves it is the generous abuse of in-lined functions to contain them in closures. And of course it lacks many of the niceties of scripting languages like Python or Ruby. Like unpacking assignment, list comprehensions, iterators and generators.
And I write this as someone who writes AJAX applications for a living. Switching to Python or the like sounds like a great idea.
Coffeescript is in fact an impressively elegant and featured language but I'm afraid of getting bitten by bugs hidden in the translation.
Alright then, I'll play the foreign card as I don't even live in an Anglophone place, "skill" and "ability" are both translated into Spanish as "habilidad".
uhm... acording to The Free Dictionary abilities can be either natural or developed. So http://www.tfd.com/skill>"skill" is a subset of "ability". Since nobody is born knowing how to do long divisions I think is fair to say that in the context of budgenator's post skill and ability refer to the same things.
Most of the time, they will not help in a classroom.
Sure they do, they are far better than textbooks which are heavier, lack search facilities and tend to get lost or left behind. They are also supreme for note taking, how much I wish I could just hyperlink notes on my notebook back in school. They are also good for checking up exercises, they can tell you when you got a wrong answer without spoiling the right answer. In teaching math, they can be used in CAD-like software to calculate and measure geometrical figures in the screen rather than using transporters and rulers.
In short they are excellent replacements for traditional student equipment. As long as they are only used as replacement for textbooks, testbooks, notebooks and office equipment, I don't see how they can't be of tremendous help.
Yet, they only help in making school more enjoyable, kinda like A/C in classrooms. It won't magically make bad students good.
The article makes it seem that start formation requires the presence of heavier elements (besides lithium) for a star to form, but aren't heavier elements (besides lithium) only formed within stars?
In a way, yes, so what? I mean, this is a Visual Studio plugin, if you are not in the market for VS then you are not in the market for this plugin much in the same way that Windows users don't give a flying fuck about Gnome-Shell.
The fact is that I don't see the market for this thing. One uses python because it's a free, cross-platform language with excellent unix support and decent Windows, whereas one would use VS because one sells enterprise software for microsoft-centric business or just MS-centricness in general. One usually tries to travel the most transited path to get the most out of other people's experience.
Using a python plugin for VS means neither Windows programmers nor Unix programmers can help you out. I mean, yes sure they exist, but I wouldn't be surprised if the main users of this product were it's developers.
No seriously, read this page, right now, the devs are roaming it in trying to turf it as much as possible, being all helpful and shit. It's cool, actually. But that's pretty much the level of interest that surrounds it.
Thank you. And I'd like to add that another the reason to come to slashdot to complain about Google is so that we can, through discussion get a better understanding of the issue and that, besides just confronting Google. It is possible and I'd say recommended to engage a) the government, when pertinent (as is the case in Germany for instance) and b) The public at large. If the public complains about something Google will listen to them much better than random nerds on slashdot.
I don't know why you get modded troll but it seems like you are bragging. Even if we take it positively it's not really transferable advice, there isn't a single sport I'd like to do for 92 minutes a week.
Climbing is a *little* interesting but the most interesting places to climb are the most dangerous. The safer ones are total boredom. Swimming is also kinda nice but only because I don't do it often. Since I get bored of swimming after a day when I go to hotels and such, I'm pretty sure I'd get tired of swimming if I did it with any regularity. Oh wait I did. there was a time I was swimming once a week because I paid a subscription, it did got boring, it wasn't something I was looking forwards to. Competitive sports are not my thing. Combat ones are the most interesting but I don't want to get hurt. Gottcha is the closest thing to playing video games I could get in real life and while it's fun, it's very expensive. At least where I live, I just can't afford it. And I'm just sure that some how it is not real exercise
So to me exercising means doing something repetitive like biking while listening to music and watching the clock. I'm pretty sure that for a lot of slashdotters this is the case, you are more of an anomaly.
But this is only a very modern, excruciating effort to put the Eden story into good light.
You are leaving out a lot of details that the primitive men who wrote and read these text clearly meant. The introduction of death and suffering at the end is not a direct consequence of having free will, but a curse, an externally imposed punishment for exercising already possessed free will.
Because how could they choose to have free will if they didn't have it to begin with? You are projecting a need for a life of "greater consequence" that is very modern. Originally they were just greedy, gluttonous and disobedient. And of course it is false that we come from a perfectly ordered universe.
This "whole point of the story" is clearly not the message originally intended.
redemption from what? We aren't going to hell. And no, we don't live on hell on earth right now. The fact of the matter is that mankind is proving its own saviour, we live in a technological paradise where we worry more about being bullied at school than being eaten by lions or starving to death. Of course, it hasn't come without its drawbacks, but secular society has being doing great.
But the truth of the matter is that the Bible is not a guide to personal improvement, its a guide to gaining the favours of supernatural ghosts, if you are only asking me to take the best possible secular interpretation from it I might as well just drop it.
Oh no, don't opt-out from this so soon. Saying that all stories have variable meaning based on the reading sounds nice but I still dare you to explain to me how the garden of Eden relates to reality. And I'm not going to invest days of my life to study a book which I'm sure also doesn't relate to reality and that ultimately you would dismiss any conclusions I draw from it as just "another interpretation".
Please spare me the pain and tell me your own interpretation of how the story of the garden is supposed to be [true, as long as you're using "truth" carefully]
In this case, Genesis as a mythic creation account is an explanation of why the world doesn't seem to be fair, why bad things happen to good people, and why there is still hope.
Bullshit
Sad to tell you this because you seem so reasonable, but how is the biblical creation myth an explanation of such things? It's easy to say that it is an methaphor, but it seems impossible to apply it to the real world. Animal Farm is an allegory of the Soviet Union, Adam and Eve in the Eden are an allegory of failing to understand the natural course of the world, deem it dirty, then blame it on us for the crime of falling short of absolute obedience.
The Eden story is nothing but the first in a long collection of scare tales meant to promote self loathing and alliance to the authority.
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You understimate me.
No, I'm not baffled that + is used for both, number addition and string concatenation. I know about operator overloading, but I'm against weak typing, number+string without explicit casting should always raise an exception, not doing so exposes you to code that passes the predictable tests but produces hard to track bugs in unpredicted cases.
No, NaN and Infinity are not sane responses, and yes this is JS specific, any other language that does it doesn't exist for me, in any case you say this as if being JS specific is the only wrong thing with returning a useless singletons whose only purpose is to not raise an exception which *is* the sane thing to do when dividing by zero or doing other invalid math operations.
No, returning undefined is not a sane response when asking for non-existing properties. For starters, the fact that it is a value that can be passed around means that undefined doesn't mean "this property is not defined" but "this property maybe isn't defined or maybe it was, but it was assigned undefined elsewhere". It is crazy that you have to test for false and null AND undefined, and it's crazy that you have to wait until you operate on the undefined result to discover the thing you have been carrying all along didn't exist.
And surely you mean messing up the Object prototype is not UNcommon thing to do, did you? Messed up Object is a fairly common thing to encounter if you work with multiple applications, built with multiple libraries by multiple persons. The fact is that map-like iteration in JS is a LBYL thing.
And you didn't comment on the scoping rules, like the fact that dropping local declarations inserts names in the global namespace, which following your pattern of response will probably be responded with "but it's predictable behaviour!" but that's not a sane default. And actually it's not locally predictable, it's the complete opposite in fact. It's only globally predictable, meaning you have to know the entire program to know from where this global name is getting injected.
And then we have "this"... well that's a huge subject by itself, There are good and bad points that could be made about it and I can conclude that it should behave differently, you can ask me about it if you are interested.
And then you finish with, "yeah the syntax could be better but it's not crucial" I'm not talking about crucial, you are completely misunderstanding me. JS is workable, but the list of things that I would change in it is large enough that I would rather drop it for any other of the major scripting languages out there, except Perl.
Also, the users of both languages would probably get annoyed at them being called scripting languages.
Well, I don't. I use Python for both applications and small scripts. I find bash and sh weird with its if-fi case-esac things and have troubles remembering all its rules and how-tos. I already know Python, I don't need to learn sh. Even Perl is easier to grep than sh.
Obviously I can read enough sh to know to look for things like `sudo rm -R /` but not enough to write complex scripts by my own.
Organise with people to buy from reject EULA. Throw class action suit against EA for taking your money then giving you a product wrapped in shitty EULA. But yes, companies are out of their fucking minds, mad with power, they deem their selves above the law. This is the most disgusting thing a fucking *game* company has ever done, to my knowledge.
Please no. Javascript is a horrible language. Ok not MUMPS horrible but still pretty wicked.
It is both dynamic typed AND weak typed, and it ignores it's exception facilities in favour of weird behaviour, such that the sum of two variables can be a number, string, NaN, or fucking Infinity. Let alone that properties can return `null` or `undefined`. It lacks a true hash/dictionary type and abusing the object type for similar effects ends up causing weird bugs with inheritance. Its half assed attempt at bringing Java syntax to a classless OOP language means it neither has the elegance of Self or Io, neither it has anything resembling Java semantics or syntax except for the more superficial aspects.
Its scoping and "execution context" rules are messy and the only thing that saves it is the generous abuse of in-lined functions to contain them in closures. And of course it lacks many of the niceties of scripting languages like Python or Ruby. Like unpacking assignment, list comprehensions, iterators and generators.
And I write this as someone who writes AJAX applications for a living. Switching to Python or the like sounds like a great idea.
Coffeescript is in fact an impressively elegant and featured language but I'm afraid of getting bitten by bugs hidden in the translation.
I'm sorry he insulted your boyfirend.
(logged in to take the karma burn)
Definitively not biased at all. Congratulations, you can now become an slashdot editor.
I think Unununium, an OS written in Python, was an even cooler toy done just for the sake of it.
But Mono is 100% compatible with .NET, Miguel de Icaza told me so! /troll
See, Mono is mostly a wasted effort. I mean I can see the need for an OSS C# compiler runtime, but it is always going to be an uphill battle.
Alright then, I'll play the foreign card as I don't even live in an Anglophone place, "skill" and "ability" are both translated into Spanish as "habilidad".
uhm... acording to The Free Dictionary abilities can be either natural or developed. So http://www.tfd.com/skill>"skill" is a subset of "ability". Since nobody is born knowing how to do long divisions I think is fair to say that in the context of budgenator's post skill and ability refer to the same things.
Most of the time, they will not help in a classroom.
Sure they do, they are far better than textbooks which are heavier, lack search facilities and tend to get lost or left behind. They are also supreme for note taking, how much I wish I could just hyperlink notes on my notebook back in school. They are also good for checking up exercises, they can tell you when you got a wrong answer without spoiling the right answer. In teaching math, they can be used in CAD-like software to calculate and measure geometrical figures in the screen rather than using transporters and rulers.
In short they are excellent replacements for traditional student equipment. As long as they are only used as replacement for textbooks, testbooks, notebooks and office equipment, I don't see how they can't be of tremendous help.
Yet, they only help in making school more enjoyable, kinda like A/C in classrooms. It won't magically make bad students good.
Are you aware that skill and ability are synonyms right?
The article makes it seem that start formation requires the presence of heavier elements (besides lithium) for a star to form, but aren't heavier elements (besides lithium) only formed within stars?
Anonymous claim of attacking WikiLeaks originating from IP addresses owned by The Guardian...
In a way, yes, so what? I mean, this is a Visual Studio plugin, if you are not in the market for VS then you are not in the market for this plugin much in the same way that Windows users don't give a flying fuck about Gnome-Shell.
The fact is that I don't see the market for this thing. One uses python because it's a free, cross-platform language with excellent unix support and decent Windows, whereas one would use VS because one sells enterprise software for microsoft-centric business or just MS-centricness in general.
One usually tries to travel the most transited path to get the most out of other people's experience.
Using a python plugin for VS means neither Windows programmers nor Unix programmers can help you out. I mean, yes sure they exist, but I wouldn't be surprised if the main users of this product were it's developers.
No seriously, read this page, right now, the devs are roaming it in trying to turf it as much as possible, being all helpful and shit. It's cool, actually. But that's pretty much the level of interest that surrounds it.
Firefox's RequestPolict.
Thank you. And I'd like to add that another the reason to come to slashdot to complain about Google is so that we can, through discussion get a better understanding of the issue and that, besides just confronting Google. It is possible and I'd say recommended to engage a) the government, when pertinent (as is the case in Germany for instance) and b) The public at large. If the public complains about something Google will listen to them much better than random nerds on slashdot.
There is only one way to communicate with Sony, ask Anonymous.
at the end of every poll.
Agreed. Ever since I started using RequestPolicy I'm flabbergasted at how much useless and miscelaneus tracking systems are there on each page.
Indeed. Standing desk. Proper diet an a minimum of exercise for the nerds.
I don't know why you get modded troll but it seems like you are bragging. Even if we take it positively it's not really transferable advice, there isn't a single sport I'd like to do for 92 minutes a week.
Climbing is a *little* interesting but the most interesting places to climb are the most dangerous. The safer ones are total boredom. Swimming is also kinda nice but only because I don't do it often. Since I get bored of swimming after a day when I go to hotels and such, I'm pretty sure I'd get tired of swimming if I did it with any regularity. Oh wait I did. there was a time I was swimming once a week because I paid a subscription, it did got boring, it wasn't something I was looking forwards to. Competitive sports are not my thing. Combat ones are the most interesting but I don't want to get hurt. Gottcha is the closest thing to playing video games I could get in real life and while it's fun, it's very expensive. At least where I live, I just can't afford it. And I'm just sure that some how it is not real exercise
So to me exercising means doing something repetitive like biking while listening to music and watching the clock. I'm pretty sure that for a lot of slashdotters this is the case, you are more of an anomaly.
But this is only a very modern, excruciating effort to put the Eden story into good light.
You are leaving out a lot of details that the primitive men who wrote and read these text clearly meant. The introduction of death and suffering at the end is not a direct consequence of having free will, but a curse, an externally imposed punishment for exercising already possessed free will.
Because how could they choose to have free will if they didn't have it to begin with? You are projecting a need for a life of "greater consequence" that is very modern. Originally they were just greedy, gluttonous and disobedient. And of course it is false that we come from a perfectly ordered universe.
This "whole point of the story" is clearly not the message originally intended.
redemption from what? We aren't going to hell. And no, we don't live on hell on earth right now. The fact of the matter is that mankind is proving its own saviour, we live in a technological paradise where we worry more about being bullied at school than being eaten by lions or starving to death. Of course, it hasn't come without its drawbacks, but secular society has being doing great.
But the truth of the matter is that the Bible is not a guide to personal improvement, its a guide to gaining the favours of supernatural ghosts, if you are only asking me to take the best possible secular interpretation from it I might as well just drop it.
Oh no, don't opt-out from this so soon. Saying that all stories have variable meaning based on the reading sounds nice but I still dare you to explain to me how the garden of Eden relates to reality. And I'm not going to invest days of my life to study a book which I'm sure also doesn't relate to reality and that ultimately you would dismiss any conclusions I draw from it as just "another interpretation".
Please spare me the pain and tell me your own interpretation of how the story of the garden is supposed to be [true, as long as you're using "truth" carefully]
In this case, Genesis as a mythic creation account is an explanation of why the world doesn't seem to be fair, why bad things happen to good people, and why there is still hope.
Bullshit
Sad to tell you this because you seem so reasonable, but how is the biblical creation myth an explanation of such things? It's easy to say that it is an methaphor, but it seems impossible to apply it to the real world. Animal Farm is an allegory of the Soviet Union, Adam and Eve in the Eden are an allegory of failing to understand the natural course of the world, deem it dirty, then blame it on us for the crime of falling short of absolute obedience.
The Eden story is nothing but the first in a long collection of scare tales meant to promote self loathing and alliance to the authority.