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  1. They will move very fast, so celestial navigation should not be a problem.

  2. Re:Haiku on Is The Linux Desktop In Trouble? (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually it is a quite complete thing.
    Obviously it supports Web-browsers, eMail etc. has a C++ compiler suit (which supports Qt and KDE Apps) and runs Java (including Swing). Most command line linux tools port easily. The standard shell is bash ... what do you want more?

  3. Re:Ooooh, it is round... on Flat Earther Now Wants to Launch His Homemade Rocket Into Space (phillyvoice.com) · · Score: 0

    Commercial airplanes fly about 35,000 feet.

    So: no, you did not see any earth curvation.

  4. If you get paid for LOCs, does your shop hire?

  5. You seem to mix up hobbyists with professionals Armies of PHP5 programmers would like to proselytize their language to you.
    The rest is just an insulting rant and hardly even correct, except for the function call speed. Good luck with that attitude.

  6. Re:Productivity on Alibaba Founder Defends Overtime Work Culture As 'Huge Blessing' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The high amount of work hours keeps the people exhausted and ready to drink and do other recreational drugs and keep them away from critical thinking and pushing reforms or a true change or a revolution, that is all what it is about.

    Work slaves who drink themselves into sleep to get up next morning early, have no time to think about revolting ...

  7. Re:There is a name for this .., on Alibaba Founder Defends Overtime Work Culture As 'Huge Blessing' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I really wonder when it will be widely accepted that the optimal amount work hours for intellectual work (aka programming) is 6h a day, and probably over a course of a week, 4 days are optimum.

    Intellectual workers, aka programmers, have several mental subprocesses anyway, that work all day and all night.

  8. That is a bit tricky issue as many languages are:
    a) compiled to a bytecode - the bytecode is interpreted
    b) jit compiled from bytecode to machine code
    c) have a subset that compiles to machine code (CPython e.g. or the SmallTalk Cog engine): http://www.mirandabanda.org/co...

    Even old school basic is "tokenized" and then interpreted.

  9. Re:Raspberry Pi caused the rise of Python on The Most Loved and Most Disliked Programming Languages Revealed in Stack Overflow Survey (stackoverflow.com) · · Score: 1

    You obviously never have been at a university that stayed at the edge of "der Puls der Zeit".

    In my university everyone and his dog jumped on Python the day it "went viral" in the usenet/news.

  10. in the 1980s SQL was a QUERY language.
    Fixed that for you.

    Every SQL dialect has a full fledged programming language built in ... behind what moon did you live the last 40 years?

    And your base statement way wrong anyway. Old school SQL is two languages: data manipulation language and data definition language ... go figure, nitpicking with no clue is worth than nitpicking ...

  11. Good luck then ...

    How would you apply to a job that "needs Perl" because all the code base is in Perl? I mean: if you can not write Perl (yet) obviously you could apply anyway. The requirement is for the _job_ not for you as a _person_

  12. Nope.
    All big shops I worked for, use Shell (bash or ksh) over Perl, I did actually only once meet a company that had a small set of Perl scripts and they needed a decade to replace them with Phython.

    I'm not a ware that my mac or any linux box I used recently has any init scripts or other infrastructure scripts or anything network related that is based on Perl.

  13. No. Just no. Java can be fast if you just include what you need and don't pull in the entire swing.
    A program does not get slow just because it uses a certain GUI library, your post is nonsense.

  14. Your previous ranting about Python was already extremely ignorant, if not even dumb.

    and the compiler that allows you to tell it to pretend "A" and "5" are of the same type.
    You made typo. If you want to multiply A with 5, you write 'A' * 5. And most (old school) C compilers happily compile it. Hint 'A' is a char, which is promoted to int. 5 is in an int. multiplying to ints is fine.

    Even writing a * in front of it and dereferencing it is fine .... perhaps you need some casts, though.

    Perhaps you should actually learn some programming languages instead of bashing them.

  15. I don't remember when I used Perl the first time, probably around 1990, Perl 4.
    I started with C++ a little bit earlier.

    I just found this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... I used C++ on Sun Solaris (cfront obviously, not sure when we had a g++ compiler), Think C was the first software I bought, well, cant remember what I bought for my Apple ][, probably I only used school licensed software.

    So I guess I started C++ around 1989, I started studying at the university 1987 ...

  16. Then you should learn from your experience and avoid shops that are either run like shit or run their projects like shit.

    What the funk has the programming language to do with it? If it was a C++ project with unexperienced programmers, I would understand your grudge, but would still blame the shop hiring unexperienced people.

    shitpile of a language, even at the expense of them running within reasonable time/resource constraints.
    In the real world, no one considers it "shit" and the time / resource constraints hardly matter. Or they had chosen different ... it is not like that people don't know how to chose a suitable language.

    And then again: the biggest enemy of maintainable software is: success!! Because it is successful it gets extended, upgraded, transformed and so on ...

  17. So you did not both to learn C++ just as an intellectual mind masturbation fun?
    What a shame!

  18. It won't be long before people think you can write serious, user facing applications with that steaming pile.
    No idea why you consider it a "steaming pile".
    a) the language is beautiful, you hardly can claim that about any other language
    b) the libraries are excellet
    c) you are simply wrong, there is plenty of large software written in Python, e.g. Eve Online, the MMO with the biggest concurrently online community in a single game world on the planet.
    d) the language is portable and has enough GUI bindings to deploy on all majour PC, unix and mobile platforms

    Probably you are not aware what desktop applications are actually on your PC written in Python ...

  19. Re:Only accessible by sea on New Human Species Found In Philippines (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    It is actually more or less a fact that except for very few very small gaps Australia was connected via Indonesia with Asia. So no idea why they think Luzon was not included.

    https://www.iceagenow.com/Sea_...

  20. Re:Wow. What will the stock holders going to say? on Toyota Will Share 23,740 Hybrid Vehicle Patents For Free (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    This is an easy way to get the companies not already invested in Hybrid tech, to start a partnership with Toyota, by having them use toyota tech.
    I would assume that a good deal of those patents can be useful in pure EVs, too.

  21. Re:That's fantastic! on Toyota Will Share 23,740 Hybrid Vehicle Patents For Free (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless there is a construction problem, electric engines last basically for ever. I could however imagine that in a car you need lubrication for the bearings and thats it.

  22. Re:Corrections on Toyota Will Share 23,740 Hybrid Vehicle Patents For Free (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I just wonder what we will do with all that extra oxygen hmm
    Oh, nothing. Why would we worry? It recombines with H2 in a fuel cell ... to water.

  23. Re:Corrections on Toyota Will Share 23,740 Hybrid Vehicle Patents For Free (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You seem to live close to the gas station, and don't mind the smell and the traffic? And you have no trouble to adjust your drive paths according to your gas level?

  24. Re:Self interest on Toyota Will Share 23,740 Hybrid Vehicle Patents For Free (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I disagree. Batteries are a huge fraction of the cost of an electric vehicle, and will remain so for the foreseeable future, making them far too expensive for most people to consider.
    Yeah, but hardly as expensive as all the fuel you would burn otherwise.

  25. Re:correlation on The World's Leading Cause of Death? A Bad Diet (nbc12.com) · · Score: 1

    I eat regularly Japanese food. Except perhaps YOUR miso soup, there is nothing particular salty in the typical dishes.

    Obviously if you eat a salad made from kelp or other sea plants you get more salt.

    As you pointed out processed food often contains to much salt, especially in countries with no regulations on that.