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  1. Re:International Laughing Stock on The US Can't Leave The Paris Climate Deal Until 2020 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    We did not talk about genocide, but imperialism.
    But if you want to find an example for genocide: Vietnam.
    If you want an example for plunder: central and south america, except Argentinia and Brazil.

  2. Re:Misleading Headlines Again... on It's Been So Windy in Europe That Electricity Prices Have Turned Negative (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Your assertion is idiotic.
    But beleiive what you want.

    Hint: what happens if you have to power down a nuclear plant completely, and you need it back online in 6h?

  3. Re:Think of it this way on Cook Says Apple Is Focusing on Making an Autonomous Car System (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple is to late for that.
    Most of the software for autonomous cars are owned by Toyota and Continental, smaller stuff by Audi, BMW and Mercedes Benz.
    They all have already autonomous cars, partly over a decade (Continental is only a supplier for them and is not manufactoring cars themselves), with millions of miles of runtime on real roads. Even google had its first autonomous car minimum a decade ago.
    The industry is basically only waiting on two things: change in legislation and price drops for stuff like lidar.

  4. Re:There is more than one app store on Report Reveals In-App Purchase Scams In the App Store (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    The articke is clearly tagged as #apple, the source is macrumours.com (written below of the headline), besides the number of posts is the iOS icon.
    What do you want more? I'm not aware of another app store anyway, the other 'appstores' have different names like "google play store"

  5. Re:Why Was He Mucking With It In The First Place? on Developer Accidentally Deletes Production Database On Their First Day On The Job (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    DevOps have/should have nothing to do with production.
    They usually are the "admins" of the test environments, hence the name: a mixture between operators and developers.
    Most DevOps are actually having 2 or 3 roles: developer, tester, admin. If the organization is advanced, they might "prepare" Docker templates etc. for production, but they don't work on production servers. If that was the case you called them admin or operator.

  6. Re:International Laughing Stock on The US Can't Leave The Paris Climate Deal Until 2020 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You seem not to get the point.
    Europe stopped after 1945.
    The USA did not.

  7. Re:It's not a thing on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On Sloot Compression? (youtube.com) · · Score: 1

    What has your question to do with my statement?
    {
        mins = 90;
        framesPerSec = 24;
        colour = x005500;
    }

    That is a compressed light blue screen for 90 minutes with a frame rate of 24 frames per second. In human readable form even. If you code it binary it is 5 bytes ...

  8. Re: "Native" C# Developer on Ask Slashdot: Will Python Become The Dominant Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    Variables in Python are typed. You simply have not to declare any type.
    A variable is either null or has the type associated of the value it holds.

    If you have trouble to follow a stack trace, you should ask a friend/coworker to help/teach you.

    With a stack trace of x lines it should not take longer than x seconds to find the spot of the mistake. I find it usually on a first glance.

  9. Re:No, because meaningful whitespace on Ask Slashdot: Will Python Become The Dominant Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    You seem to have the same reading conprehension problem you accuse me for.

    Python gives an IndentationError exception when you have whitespace the interpreter can't parse.
    Obviously.
    And if it can parse it, but the intendation is wrong nevertheless, it executes it.
    Hence the rant of the Python haters in this thread.
    I quote it again for you, if you read it slowly you migt grasp that we both said the same thing:

    Whitespace IS visible, and the interpreter will happily point out where you (or your editor) screwed up.
    In Python? No. Either the code can be interpreted then it runs, but gives the wrong result ... or it is a recognized error, and no one is complaining about the later. All hate the former.

    IDEs are evil
    No they are not. They are just a tool chain in one Application that happens to contain an editor. Which you probbaly just configure like your favourite one if you cared to RTFM or simply open the settings.

  10. Re:Betteridge says: on Ask Slashdot: Will Python Become The Dominant Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    First of all: I did not say staying to your roots sucks.
    Secondly, Coldtrain played other instrunentfs before he settled on sax.
    Thirdly, there is nothing wrong to seek insight or depth in what you do best. After all he studied enough other instruments/playin gstyles to be later recognized as the inventor of "sheets of sounds".

  11. Re:The big lesson on Museum of Failure Opens In Sweden (failuremag.com) · · Score: 1

    I actually own a Go, nice device, nut never really used it. I could not find a development environment for it.

  12. Re:What failure really means... on Museum of Failure Opens In Sweden (failuremag.com) · · Score: 1

    I usually din't use add blockers.
    And actually I'm not aware of friends/family that does.
    If sites are to full with adds, like the ones on the bottom of /. I simply don't visit them anymore.

  13. Re:What failure really means... on Museum of Failure Opens In Sweden (failuremag.com) · · Score: 1

    He has broad shoulders, obviously two seats are better for him.
    I have broad shoulders, too. If the space is small like in a tram, only small ladies fit easily besides me.
    I see nothing wrong with that.

    My lady however is of normal build, not particular broad shoulders but not the last century type of big hips with small shoulders. To sit comfortably on two seats in a subway she has to lean on me and cuddle with me. I see nothing wrong with that, either :)

    Ah, you wanted to imply that he is fat? Wow, you must be an idiot. He has pictures of himself on his web page. I know literally thousands of places where he would be swarmed by girls. Not sure if they would notice you, though.

  14. Re:"Native" C# Developer on Ask Slashdot: Will Python Become The Dominant Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    You just get a runtime error, and then you need to trace back to find where the badly typed value started to be badly typed.
    Which is obvious from the stack trace.

  15. Re:Ok, I'll bite... on Ask Slashdot: Will Python Become The Dominant Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    I already can C++, Java, C, various assemblers, etc. p.p.
    Obviously I mostly google for languages 'I don't know yet good enough' and actually I don't google for the language but for a tool/library: how to parse html to extract data with Python? That points me to useable libraries, but not to a Python tutorial.

  16. Re:The answer is no on Ask Slashdot: Will Python Become The Dominant Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    Can't make first class apps for iOS or Android
    https://kivy.org/#home

  17. The correct rebut is: there are no stupid questions, only stupid answers.
    I believe you just gave one.

  18. Re:No, because meaningful whitespace on Ask Slashdot: Will Python Become The Dominant Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    You are both idiots.
    This is the endless argument always given in this stupid war.

    As long as no one knows what the program actually is supposed to do, there is no bug. Both ways of formatting it either in C or in Python just make the program run just fine, but with different results.

    Who am I to decide which result is correct and which program is buggy?

  19. Re:No, because meaningful whitespace on Ask Slashdot: Will Python Become The Dominant Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    You accidentally left a few superflouvious space chars, e.g. in the condition of the first if and the final return :)
    You waste so much space, man!

  20. Re:No, because meaningful whitespace on Ask Slashdot: Will Python Become The Dominant Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    Every IDE contains an editor.
    I find such posts as yours simply idiotic.

    Whitespace IS visible, and the interpreter will happily point out where you (or your editor) screwed up.
    In Python? No. Either the code can be interpreted then it runs, but gives the wrong result ... or it is a recognized error, and no one is complaining about the later. All hate the former.

  21. Re:No, because meaningful whitespace on Ask Slashdot: Will Python Become The Dominant Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    Basically every code editor can display white spaces, it is probably even easy to find in the settings.

  22. Re: No, because meaningful whitespace on Ask Slashdot: Will Python Become The Dominant Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    That said, C really screwed up by making them optional for single statement blocks.
    How can that be a screw up when clearly a single statement is not not a block? Cough, cough, cough ...


          if (c) v = something;

    If you are scared about programming errors due to misplaced or missing braces then write one liners like above. Problem solved.

  23. Re: No, because meaningful whitespace on Ask Slashdot: Will Python Become The Dominant Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    Sorry,
    but this discussion over whithe space usage in Python is pretty pointless.

    If it would use { and } or BEGIN and END, people who discuss about its usage of white spaces would not use the language anyway. They simply would find another reason why they don't like the language.

    The only mistake Guido made is that he allows space and tab being mixed as leading intro and treats a single tab like a single space.

    He should have made one of both a syntax error. (I believe there is a compiler/interpreter option to disallow tabs)

    I for my part like the white space usage which makes Python executable pseudo code. But I hate the idea that methods need an explicit 'self' variable as first parameter.

    On the other hand I only used Python once for a job interview. I wrote a prety complex program, downloaded stuff from the internet, extracted data from the HTML pages, calculated some means and other things, and plotted a graph, uploaded the results to a different web site, etc. However the interviewers where fair and gave a list of libraries to use for which task, otherwise I never had made it in the timeframe they gave.

    Bottom line I had something like 250 lines of code, about 15 functions doing the releevant steps, programmed in 4h.
    I was the only one who had a nearly perfect program. I had never programmed in Pyton before.

  24. Re:Betteridge says: on Ask Slashdot: Will Python Become The Dominant Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    To learn more how computers actually work? To learn more how YOU mind actually works? To learn more about how to tackle a problem from different points of view?

    If you can not do at least one command line shell, one compiled language, some variation od SQL/OQL/HQL and at least one language that follws or emphasizes a differen paradigm than your main language you are like a musician who can only play one instrument.

  25. Re:Error reduction on Ask Slashdot: Will Python Become The Dominant Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    "More intelligent programmers dont't make fewer mistakes, they make more intelligent mistakes."
    One of my profs used to quote that, don't remember from whom he had that quote.