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  1. Re:I tried Python on IEEE Spectrum Declares Python The #1 Programming Language (ieee.org) · · Score: 0

    Programming languages that start counting with 1 simply place the address of the array X one byte/word lower, problem solved. Erm ... there was no problem. And there is no extra + 1 if you concatanate.

    Bottom line 0 indexing in C comes from the fact that C was designed as a portable assembler, and from a assembler programmer point of view the first index is zero, the highest is all bits 1, and the next index is 0 again, which sets the zero flags and epual flag and if available the plus flag, on that you do react for incrementing a base register if needed.

    So, you argue if your C code uses 0 as first index, indexing and incrementing the index register maps more easy to assembly languages.

    For humans starting with 0 is a pain, if they don't have that background.

  2. Re:What is the interpreter written in? on IEEE Spectrum Declares Python The #1 Programming Language (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    I does not.
    It is faster and easier to generate C code with Python than with C.
    Developers are faster in Python than in C.
    And the third point is unimportant.

  3. Re:What does this do that Java does not? on IEEE Spectrum Declares Python The #1 Programming Language (ieee.org) · · Score: 2

    What does Python do for you that Java does not do better?
    Obviously all the things Java does not have:
    o dynamic typing
    o modules/functions
    o string template expansion with dictionaries

    Should I go on?

    statically-typed bondage-and-discipline language like Pascal? No, Java has Reflection
    What is that supposed to mean? Reflection has nothing to do with static typed or not ....

  4. Python is old, too. Not much younger than Perl.

  5. Re: Lingua Franca on IEEE Spectrum Declares Python The #1 Programming Language (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    you're using Python then you're doing it wrong

    You are an idiot.

    Plenty of web sites are written in Python, Eve Online is mainly Python (Frontend and backend), most climate and weather research code I have seen is in Python.

    Get out from under your rock!

  6. Re:sense of community on Norway, the Country Where No Salaries Are Secret (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Norway actually has a very low population density. The one in USA is 6 times higher and Japan 20 times.

  7. Ah, interesting link.
    Perhaps I underestimate the amount of Apps that do backroundwork (for what ever reason).
    As I said, on my iPad I rarely quit an app, and don't see differences in battery, besides screen brightnes and activating flight mode when I read on iBook.

  8. Re:Only works if they stay a "high trust society" on Norway, the Country Where No Salaries Are Secret (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Scandinavian countries have an extremely low crime rate.
    Also they value assimilation for immigrants very high.

    On the other hands immigrants are received with a relatively high standard of living. The total amount accepted by those countries is relatively small.

    No idea why you think those immigrants would suddenly start robbing 'rich natives'.

    Robbing anyone,regardless of rich or native, is a 'ticket home' ... from what ever hell they came (after serving prison time).

  9. They need to stop peddling the fiction that ALL background apps don't use any resources.
    No one at Apple said that.

    Point of the article is that "some people think" that force quitting is a good thing. But that is in practice not really true.

    Obviously it is a waste of time. Unless you are a developer and have an idea what apps are doing it is quite difficult to spot which app is using CPU.

    Obviously if you have a map up in the background, that will use CPU and battery, more obvious is a music player ... however I have so many apps open on my iPad I can not count them. The battery life is basically only dependent on my screen brightness.

    Ofc it uses more battery when I'm surfing a lot, and wifi is activated. You can save quite some power by deactivating the cellular mode and stick to wifi only, or do the opposite ... depending if you have accessible wifi or not.

    On the other hand, it does not hurt you to kill apps you know you don't need.

  10. Re:Ask Slashdot: on EU Court to Rule On 'Right to Be Forgotten' Outside Europe (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    I would suggest to compare Germany/Europe to a country that definitely has no free speech.
    Claiming that Europe has no free speech just because some countries here have hate speech laws: is idiotic
    But feel free to be such an idiot. America seems to be full with idiots like that.

    You still have never known freedom, or even freedom of speech for that matter.
    Of course I have. I for my part have no urge to deny the holocaust or shout nazi propaganda.

    I can freely express what I want ... if your are to dumb to grasp that then you should not take part in discussions about free speech in Europe.

  11. Re:The storage problem is working itself out on Here's Elon Musk's Plan To Power the US on Solar Energy (inverse.com) · · Score: 1

    There are not many sources, except doctors without borders and greenpeace.
    The WHO used to have the original numbers and then buckled down to the "official russian" numbers.

    In Germany we treated about 100,000 kids against thyroid cancer. The death toll amoung them is already several hundreds.

    Russia used drafted recruits to clean up the area, about 600,000 if I recall correctly. Now 30 years later, more than half of them are dead.

    Unlike your country, here that is "news" and gets reported in TV and newspapers.

    No go back into your cave and sulk, no idea how a person in our days can be so dumb.

    In this article here, the WHO estimate is claimed to be 4,000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    As I said before: I eye witnessed about 10,000 dead. You probably are to young, but the first few thousand dead where put on public viewing on the red place in Moscow. They stopped that when riots started, that was 1986 ...

    You probably never checked what actually happened at Chernobyl. Otherwise you would not be so incredible dumb.

  12. iOS as far as I can tell has no GPS lock "all the time" either.
    iOS devices have an icon in the title bar that shows when an app is accessing the GPS code.
    Basically that only happens when an app like google maps or a local public transport app is in front and active.

  13. Thy have to be special programed for that.
    And actually you are supposed to give them permission after installing, as far as I know.
    A web browser or a ebook reader is frozen.

  14. Re:Ask Slashdot: on EU Court to Rule On 'Right to Be Forgotten' Outside Europe (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    We have free speech with a very selected few exceptions.
    Get over it, we discussed that here often enough.
    Idiot. How fucking stupid can you possibly be?
    Exactly, how fucking stupid can you possibly be?

  15. Re:Adjustment needed on Say Goodbye To Spain's Glorious Three-Hour Lunch Break (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    The siesta is entirely inappropriate for almost everyone in modern, urban Spain
    Sorry, that isutter nonsense.
    Siesta is a climate and cuktural habit thing.
    It will never go away.

    Inappropriated for what? Skype calls to USA?
    Rofl ...

  16. Re:The Siesta only works if... on Say Goodbye To Spain's Glorious Three-Hour Lunch Break (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    In the rest of the world, people usually don't commute for hours to work :)
    YMMV.

  17. Re:Is there any actual benefit to that schedule? on Say Goodbye To Spain's Glorious Three-Hour Lunch Break (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually over land busses in Greece, e.g. make a 2 - 3 hours break and stop at a restaurant so the travelers can have their food and siesta and the driver, too.
    The idiots posting this article seem not to get: the siesta is for every one, except the poor sods working in a shopping mall, serving idiot tourists, who don't get it.
    So in other words: during 12:00 - 15:00 only restaurant stuff, Air traffic controllers, hospital stuff and similar people are working.

  18. Bollocks ... on Say Goodbye To Spain's Glorious Three-Hour Lunch Break (citylab.com) · · Score: 2

    The article is bollcks as always.
    You can take your break as lomg as you want, it is not mandatory or anything.
    And if one had lived in Spain (or Italy or Greece) one would know: business is still going on during siesta, and it is damn mandatory to have a siesta if you work ... as it is DAMN HOT!

  19. Re:Where's Task Manager for iOS? on Public Service Announcement: You Should Not Force Quit Apps on iOS (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 1

    Actually it is command+alt+ ESC.

  20. Re:Why do they care? on Public Service Announcement: You Should Not Force Quit Apps on iOS (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 1

    Because I boot my jone only once or twice a year and have about 200 Apps on it?
    When I reboot it, chances are: I need it! And don't want to wait for 200 Apps to load.

  21. It is not the GPS signal, it is an App running wild and hanging in the background doing some nasty JavaScript shit.
    The GPS chip is build in into the cellular network chip, so it is basically running all the time if you have a cellular network on your iPad/iPhone or its no true GPS but resting on WIFI/WLAN scanning.

  22. Sorry,
    that is nonsense.
    Frozen apps don't use any resources at all, most certainky not battery life (how you can believe ea sleeping process uses battery is beyond me)

  23. Re:The storage problem is working itself out on Here's Elon Musk's Plan To Power the US on Solar Energy (inverse.com) · · Score: 1

    The WHO, greenpeace, doctors without borders etc. estimate the death toll in Chernobyl around one million.
    As I have eye wittnessed several thousand, probably over 10,000 myself, I fear they are right.

    The rest of your post is again only insulting and utter nonsense.

    Good day my Sir.

    (Why should I give you 'sources' for stuff that is common sense - and you can worst case google your self - is beyond me)

  24. Re:Location not TLD on EU Court to Rule On 'Right to Be Forgotten' Outside Europe (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    So in your world: companie > humans.
    Company 'rights' > human rights.
    You are an idiot.

  25. Re:Ask Slashdot: on EU Court to Rule On 'Right to Be Forgotten' Outside Europe (wsj.com) · · Score: 0

    Seems you don't know what free speech is :)