Apart from the blood mentioned in a sister post, the prosecutor's main argument was that everybody who knew Nina Reiser agreed that she wasn't the kind of woman who would leave her kids and run away. The items left behind at the scene are also at odds with the idea that Nina was planning to leave - many of them were perishables, for instance. Life for Nina was reasonably good at the moment - there might have been other times when she would have been tempted to leave, but at that time she was on her way to become a licensed nurse, she was in a relationship, Hans and her had worked most of their problems out (except for Namesys, IIRC, which I probably don't). So: if she suddenly vanished off the face of the earth, it is more likely than not that she did not intend to vanish.
Atleast, that was the argument. I found the ran-away-to-Russia theory very convincing when I first heard it, and Hans really seemed like another geek with problems; after going through the live blogs of the trial (not in a great amount of detail, I admit), I'm more open to the idea that something bad happened to Nina, and that Hans knows more about it than he's admitted. As to whether he killed her, I don't know, and I wouldn't have convicted him - but then I didn't spend several months listening to all the evidence on both sides.
Not necessarily: BODY is optional. You can have a page with only a HEAD. Will the court be lenient if only a HEAD or - even worse! - only a TITLE is returned?
Hal_Porter: But you can't be! You see, The Batman would never ever reveal his identity -- that's his great secret. So, what you're actually looking for is someone who has, say, dresses in black and fights crime late at night, but when asked "Are you The Batman?" he replies, "Absolutely not," Sir. alcmaeon: But, wait a minute! Hal_Porter, *you* dress in black and fight crime late at night... oh, Hal_Porter! Are you The Batman? Hal_Porter: Absolutely not, Sir. ggvaidya: Hurray!
M Night Shyamala[n]adingdong Jesus, you got the name (almost) right in the first 15 characters; why did you have to waste your time with adding spurious onomatopoeic words at the end? Was there a point?
Beowulf having sex with Robert Fulton at the first battle of Antietam A mythical warrior returns to fuck the inventor of the commercial steamboat during the American Civil War? It could be the summer blockbuster of 2009!
Seriously, though, that's a better plot than Indiana Jones and Skull.
When you're developing for web applications, wouldn't most languages beyond a point be equally "powerful"? I mean, all you really need to do in terms of "power" is process files, talks to databases and spit out HTML. Yes, Ruby is slow (but as you say, easy), but it's perfectly fine for a low-usage website, along with Perl, Python, C#, Java, and most other languages. So I'm not sure that "Power" is still a major problem for languages.
Two other factors you missed out IMHO are expressivity and ease of maintenance. I'd argue that Java is a pain to *develop* in compared to Python or Ruby; it is, however, much easier to maintain as it tends to force people to code in certain standard ways (as opposed to Perl, for instance, where there's more than one way, etc), and because the strict typing makes it easier to make different modules written by different programmers (or yourself, several months apart) work together in predictable ways. Perl (I know) and Python (I've been lead to believe) are incredibly expressive, allowing you to write what's going on in your head down onto paper with as little difficulty as possible, whether you need to use recursion, lambdas, closures or some completely bizarro construct (I'm thinking of Perl, now) to make it happen.
This is my longest post on Slashdot in a while, and might be a sign I need to spend more time off this site. Apologies!
No, no, you're supposed to make it say "Just another Python hacker".
Noob.
(I keed, I keed: I'm just glad I've got something to show all those "you use Perl why man it's crap on big projects you need something simple something obvious something straightforward may I recommend Python" people...)
I suspect that in the former case, it would be somewhat filling, and have negligible deleterious effect unless you made a habit of it. But can you literally shit bullets? Will that be a problem?
A remember a book in which bullets are smuggled into a village by force-feeding them to a goat, then sewing the goat's anus shut. Wait, is that too far off topic?
So intuitive! But thanks:) I'll write that down for future reference.
It all worked out good, somebody obviously managed to get in touch with the editors, as the link to the e-mail address was removed within thirty minutes of my post. So yay!
Does anybody know the e-mail address of the editor "on watch"? I can't find it in the FAQ. If we e-mail them, and they anonymize the name a bit, we could spare everybody a whole lot of pain tomorrow.
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Microsoft and Opera Software ASA aren't really friends :-)
Actually: is Microsoft friends with anybody?
Apart from the blood mentioned in a sister post, the prosecutor's main argument was that everybody who knew Nina Reiser agreed that she wasn't the kind of woman who would leave her kids and run away. The items left behind at the scene are also at odds with the idea that Nina was planning to leave - many of them were perishables, for instance. Life for Nina was reasonably good at the moment - there might have been other times when she would have been tempted to leave, but at that time she was on her way to become a licensed nurse, she was in a relationship, Hans and her had worked most of their problems out (except for Namesys, IIRC, which I probably don't). So: if she suddenly vanished off the face of the earth, it is more likely than not that she did not intend to vanish.
Atleast, that was the argument. I found the ran-away-to-Russia theory very convincing when I first heard it, and Hans really seemed like another geek with problems; after going through the live blogs of the trial (not in a great amount of detail, I admit), I'm more open to the idea that something bad happened to Nina, and that Hans knows more about it than he's admitted. As to whether he killed her, I don't know, and I wouldn't have convicted him - but then I didn't spend several months listening to all the evidence on both sides.
Not necessarily: BODY is optional. You can have a page with only a HEAD. Will the court be lenient if only a HEAD or - even worse! - only a TITLE is returned?
Hmm, would've been funnier as:
... oh, Hal_Porter! Are you The Batman?
Hal_Porter: But you can't be! You see, The Batman would never ever reveal his identity -- that's his great secret. So, what you're actually looking for is someone who has, say, dresses in black and fights crime late at night, but when asked "Are you The Batman?" he replies, "Absolutely not," Sir.
alcmaeon: But, wait a minute! Hal_Porter, *you* dress in black and fight crime late at night
Hal_Porter: Absolutely not, Sir.
ggvaidya: Hurray!
[Victory is assured]
And how come NZ is a member, but Australia isn't?
Seriously, though, that's a better plot than Indiana Jones and Skull.
"Help, help, it's reformatting my hard disk!"
Hehe. Nicely done!
Once again, Perl FTW!
"What makes a programming language successful?"
The Book Of Knuth: "A language will not succeed without a good name"
That's it, I think. Discussion over. Slashdot can delete all the other posts now: we have An Answer, from The Wise Old One himself.
I'm an Apple weenie - it's all Objective C, you insensitive clod!
When you're developing for web applications, wouldn't most languages beyond a point be equally "powerful"? I mean, all you really need to do in terms of "power" is process files, talks to databases and spit out HTML. Yes, Ruby is slow (but as you say, easy), but it's perfectly fine for a low-usage website, along with Perl, Python, C#, Java, and most other languages. So I'm not sure that "Power" is still a major problem for languages.
Two other factors you missed out IMHO are expressivity and ease of maintenance. I'd argue that Java is a pain to *develop* in compared to Python or Ruby; it is, however, much easier to maintain as it tends to force people to code in certain standard ways (as opposed to Perl, for instance, where there's more than one way, etc), and because the strict typing makes it easier to make different modules written by different programmers (or yourself, several months apart) work together in predictable ways. Perl (I know) and Python (I've been lead to believe) are incredibly expressive, allowing you to write what's going on in your head down onto paper with as little difficulty as possible, whether you need to use recursion, lambdas, closures or some completely bizarro construct (I'm thinking of Perl, now) to make it happen.
This is my longest post on Slashdot in a while, and might be a sign I need to spend more time off this site. Apologies!
I don't follow: import x.y.z.a.b.c.e.f.g.h.i.*? IDEs? Or do you mean classpath on the Java command line?
personallyIHateCamelCaseInProgramming(PerlHasAlsoSpoilt, MeOnNamedArguments, SoTheCWaySeemsPrettySillyNow, Sorry);
No, no, you're supposed to make it say "Just another Python hacker".
...)
Noob.
(I keed, I keed: I'm just glad I've got something to show all those "you use Perl why man it's crap on big projects you need something simple something obvious something straightforward may I recommend Python" people
Despite the capitalization, this is not a reference to the Thinking Machines Corporation, recently featured on the DailyWTF.
A remember a book in which bullets are smuggled into a village by force-feeding them to a goat, then sewing the goat's anus shut. Wait, is that too far off topic?
Tell me you didn't just say that about the God of War?!
Man, are you in trouble.
The house always wins.
.. said njfuzzy. Suddenly, a chair!
Silence fills the computer room.
So intuitive! But thanks :) I'll write that down for future reference.
It all worked out good, somebody obviously managed to get in touch with the editors, as the link to the e-mail address was removed within thirty minutes of my post. So yay!
Not just me then :P
Does anybody know the e-mail address of the editor "on watch"? I can't find it in the FAQ. If we e-mail them, and they anonymize the name a bit, we could spare everybody a whole lot of pain tomorrow.
Don't use your work e-mail address when you call your clients "stupid" in a public forum?
(It's two a.m. here, I bet somebody'll point out some completely idiotic assumption I made in about two seconds. Oh well, so it goes.)
Oh. I guess we'll all need to start welcoming our British overlords. Again.
I'll bring the tea.