The current climate change is an event happening since roughly 100 years, or lets make it 150. During that period there was no change in the sun. So: the sun has nothing to do with it. We have on the other hand sun spot cycles which usually are about 11 years long, with an sunspot maximum at one end and a minimum at the other end. This again has a neglectible influence on the climate. However due to xrays etc. they influence the high atmosphere and the weather.
The temperature difference of the sun surface between a minimum and a maximum is not even 1%.
They have few resources aside from fossil fuels, and climate change might produce more arable land there. It likely would not. Just because some perma frost is melting does not make that land arable. The limiting factor for grain and potatoes is the length of the growth period, not strictly speaking the temperature.
I suggest you visit such a perma frost area once in summer, it is blazing hot then.
You are not a denier but an idiot. And you are nt worth down modding, what would be the point? We rather mod the posts up that are good, informative, insightfull etc. instead of wasting mod points on idiots like you.
I thought economics was a science Economics is a topic a lots of books are written about. You can even study it in universities. But: it is not a science.
Since we don't have gold backed currencies anymore, 90% of the old books are irrelevant. (And that is a good thing)
Make that change and the rest will quickly sort itself out. In america? Nothing will sort out there soon. The whole nation is so dumb, you should deport them and diaspora them all over the planet, with the goal to find their way back home.
Perhaps then they would realize that a fleet of ten carriers does not make them a first world nation. Nor does their nuclear weapons.
Well, I don't know what the differences between different working permit visa in the USA are. However demanding a minimum wage (yes the germans did the same mistake), means: the applicant goes to a place where such wages are payed; were rents are high and other living costs, too; were probably already is tough competition around those good paying jobs. And frankly, most asians, regardless from were, are much better in doing the math: how much coin is left in my bank account at the end of the year. I for my part rather would life in Thailand and earn $500 a month than work in New York or San Francisco and earn "only $150k". Considering the healthcare, pension and other social care mess the USA is in, I'm surprised that there are actually so many people still going there "for a job". Well, bottom line they are not that many, but enough to concern the/. crowed.
The only math I deal with is splitting up a 1M+ item security scan spreadsheet with a half-dozen coworkers to remediate in three weeks. Pretty similar for me. While I wrote math heavy software, that heaviness lay in the amount of numbers to crunch, not in the math.
The software I work right now on is for administrating schools and for the ministry of education. The only math I found so far is computing the average of to half year term grades.
The rest is simply "data management". Which teacher is when in which room with which class...
It is astonishing how such a simple software can have so many bugs that they pay my price and hire me to fix them.
Most companies have absolutely nothing to do with patents. Copyright can be assign to the customer or usage rights can be licensed and "no usage" for the contractor can be agreed upon in a contract.
Using STL fundamentally causes multiple problems. Have you ever tried debugging it for example? Yes? What is your point? Why you are debugging "the STL" is beyond me anyway. You should debug you own code that is using it.
C++ includes all the traps that C has, and adds a whole lot more. That is not my opinion, it is a measurable and countable fact. If that is so, then you are writing C and using a C++ compiler to compile it.
Learn to use your tool properly and do C++ instead.
I don't think that generating HTML from JavaScript is a bad idea. Some people don't like paradigm switches. Bottom line the HTML generation is done by the framework/library, so the programmer only has to deal with one "concept".
I for my part I'm pretty bad with HTML, it never interested me. When i can construct a GUI - like with GWT/Vaadin . with function calls instead of manually creating HTML - setting ids or classes or names - as in having real objects, I'm up for it.
In original C, K&R the idea of a "sequence point" did not even exist.
You appear to believe that the language designers looked at this special case and said "lets leave this undefined". No, I don't believe that. I know it. Facepalm.
They said "reading a variable while writing it or writing a variable while reading it is undefined." Yes. And? It actually is not undefined. If you brain dead code it down to assembly it basically defined in every assembly I know to "work as expected". And you could simply have made the definition that it works as expected. Every language except C/C++ does that. E.g. Pascal/Ada/Java.
They said "reading a variable while writing it or writing a variable while reading it is undefined." This is not happening in this case.
There are not many people doing assembly programming.
So being world class is actually very easy.
I did not meet anyone below age of about 45 who ever did assembly. Basically only old guys who remember pre C times, or had an Apple ][ or Commodore 64 etc. or are really old and worked on General Data, PDP/11 etc. or on Mainframes when assembly still was en vogue, know about it.
This/. talks about assembly and "knowing how the machine real works" are completely bollocks.
A CPU has a status register, depending on architecture an accumulator, but usually in our times lots of general purpose registers. Older ones had data registers and address registers...
In other words: programming in assembly is probably the most simple and easiest way to program. Bottom line you don't need to know anything except the opcodes.
Programming in LISP, PERL, SQL, Prolog are a complete different thing. That is challenging.
If one in my company would claim assembly is more "complicated" than a complex SQL query I would be tempted to fire him.
I programmed 6502, 68k, ARM, SPARK, PowerPC and MIPS in assembly. I started with the first one around 1985. Except for 68k (the first sane high level processor) and ARM (the first intelligent OP code design) the others were a waste of time. The compiler, regardless of Pascal or C, produced better code than you could do by hand... and that was 20 years ago!
If you want to learn assembly because you like intellectual masturbation, then learn ARM. In real live you will never need it. I doubt if you google you will find a job offer for an assembly programmer.
The repeated comparisons showing C++ to be a better C is stupid because C++ has all the traps that C has, and adds a whole lot more. If that is your opinion, you don't know much about C++ and should consider to use it more, e.g. instead of Java.
Well, perhaps you are right. I learned to avoid "decisions" based on code like this. Perhaps the "defined" or "undefined" state changed recent years or decades.
The expression 'C++ > C' is not well defined because the outcome cannot be predicted every time. That is nonsense. You could simply define: evaluate from left to right. Then it would always be false because the left side would be less than the right side. There is nothing special in that expression. Except: it is undefined. Pretty odd that a modern day programming language leaves behaviour like this "undefined".
Most modern mobile or other "single page" web applications that are written in JavaScript (AngularJS / ReactJS / ProcessingJS etc.) either have a very simple static HTML and get enhanced via JS or are completely written in JS.
I e.g. program right now with Vaadin. A Java framework running completely on the server, pushing GUI update events via WebSockets to the client, and the client is rendering everything using JavaScript. There is basically no HTML involved at all.
You program your application like a Java/Swing programmer would do: https://vaadin.com/home and the cross compilers (based on googles GWT) compile it to Websocket/HTTP pushs and JavaScript.
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The current climate change is an event happening since roughly 100 years, or lets make it 150.
During that period there was no change in the sun. So: the sun has nothing to do with it.
We have on the other hand sun spot cycles which usually are about 11 years long, with an sunspot maximum at one end and a minimum at the other end. This again has a neglectible influence on the climate. However due to xrays etc. they influence the high atmosphere and the weather.
The temperature difference of the sun surface between a minimum and a maximum is not even 1%.
They have few resources aside from fossil fuels, and climate change might produce more arable land there.
It likely would not. Just because some perma frost is melting does not make that land arable. The limiting factor for grain and potatoes is the length of the growth period, not strictly speaking the temperature.
I suggest you visit such a perma frost area once in summer, it is blazing hot then.
Well, the magazine is called "popular science" :D who had guessed that there could be actual science in it.
You are mixing up scientists with news reporters ....
No scientist ever claimed that enough ice will have melted till what ever year you pick from your list ....
You are not a denier but an idiot.
And you are nt worth down modding, what would be the point?
We rather mod the posts up that are good, informative, insightfull etc. instead of wasting mod points on idiots like you.
The big IT workforce companies, like Accenture etc. have no patents.
And patents as well as contracts are usually enforceable all over the world.
The idea that a patent or contract does not work in China or the courts would rule in favour of the local guy are a myth at best, or a simple lie.
I thought economics was a science
Economics is a topic a lots of books are written about. You can even study it in universities.
But: it is not a science.
Since we don't have gold backed currencies anymore, 90% of the old books are irrelevant. (And that is a good thing)
Make that change and the rest will quickly sort itself out.
In america?
Nothing will sort out there soon.
The whole nation is so dumb, you should deport them and diaspora them all over the planet, with the goal to find their way back home.
Perhaps then they would realize that a fleet of ten carriers does not make them a first world nation. Nor does their nuclear weapons.
Germany made a mistake, imho, by also requiring a minimum wage for "indian" computer workers when we introduced a special visa for them.
Germany does not import food or natural resources, except oil ofc. And food imports are just exchanges like our cheese for french cheese.
How do you come to the idea that we would "import our food"? Germany is in most regards self sustaining, except for oil and gas (natural gas).
Ofc, we import coal, but simply because it is cheaper.
As you see high labour costs are not a problem, after all the workers have a high income and buy "german cars" etc. p.p.
Actually "Deutsche Mark" is still a high used currency in the east and north Africa ... just mentioning it.
No chance, you spelled Casanova wrong ;)
Well, /. crowed.
I don't know what the differences between different working permit visa in the USA are.
However demanding a minimum wage (yes the germans did the same mistake), means:
the applicant goes to a place where such wages are payed; were rents are high and other living costs, too; were probably already is tough competition around those good paying jobs. And frankly, most asians, regardless from were, are much better in doing the math: how much coin is left in my bank account at the end of the year.
I for my part rather would life in Thailand and earn $500 a month than work in New York or San Francisco and earn "only $150k". Considering the healthcare, pension and other social care mess the USA is in, I'm surprised that there are actually so many people still going there "for a job". Well, bottom line they are not that many, but enough to concern the
The only math I deal with is splitting up a 1M+ item security scan spreadsheet with a half-dozen coworkers to remediate in three weeks.
Pretty similar for me. While I wrote math heavy software, that heaviness lay in the amount of numbers to crunch, not in the math.
The software I work right now on is for administrating schools and for the ministry of education. The only math I found so far is computing the average of to half year term grades.
The rest is simply "data management". Which teacher is when in which room with which class ...
It is astonishing how such a simple software can have so many bugs that they pay my price and hire me to fix them.
Most companies have absolutely nothing to do with patents. Copyright can be assign to the customer or usage rights can be licensed and "no usage" for the contractor can be agreed upon in a contract.
There are not many compiler writers.
And they write the compilers in C++ or Java. Usually using tools like ANTRL.
Get a clue instead of nitpicking ...
Using STL fundamentally causes multiple problems. Have you ever tried debugging it for example?
Yes? What is your point? Why you are debugging "the STL" is beyond me anyway. You should debug you own code that is using it.
C++ includes all the traps that C has, and adds a whole lot more. That is not my opinion, it is a measurable and countable fact.
If that is so, then you are writing C and using a C++ compiler to compile it.
Learn to use your tool properly and do C++ instead.
What is wrong with Swing?
I don't think that generating HTML from JavaScript is a bad idea. Some people don't like paradigm switches. Bottom line the HTML generation is done by the framework/library, so the programmer only has to deal with one "concept".
I for my part I'm pretty bad with HTML, it never interested me. When i can construct a GUI - like with GWT/Vaadin . with function calls instead of manually creating HTML - setting ids or classes or names - as in having real objects, I'm up for it.
In original C, K&R the idea of a "sequence point" did not even exist.
You appear to believe that the language designers looked at this special case and said "lets leave this undefined".
No, I don't believe that. I know it. Facepalm.
They said "reading a variable while writing it or writing a variable while reading it is undefined."
Yes. And? It actually is not undefined.
If you brain dead code it down to assembly it basically defined in every assembly I know to "work as expected".
And you could simply have made the definition that it works as expected. Every language except C/C++ does that. E.g. Pascal/Ada/Java.
They said "reading a variable while writing it or writing a variable while reading it is undefined."
This is not happening in this case.
If you know about typedefs then using the STL should not be "verbose" or any problem at all :D
There are not many people doing assembly programming.
So being world class is actually very easy.
I did not meet anyone below age of about 45 who ever did assembly. Basically only old guys who remember pre C times, or had an Apple ][ or Commodore 64 etc. or are really old and worked on General Data, PDP/11 etc. or on Mainframes when assembly still was en vogue, know about it.
This /. talks about assembly and "knowing how the machine real works" are completely bollocks.
A CPU has a status register, depending on architecture an accumulator, but usually in our times lots of general purpose registers. Older ones had data registers and address registers ...
In other words: programming in assembly is probably the most simple and easiest way to program. Bottom line you don't need to know anything except the opcodes.
Programming in LISP, PERL, SQL, Prolog are a complete different thing. That is challenging.
If one in my company would claim assembly is more "complicated" than a complex SQL query I would be tempted to fire him.
I programmed 6502, 68k, ARM, SPARK, PowerPC and MIPS in assembly. I started with the first one around 1985. Except for 68k (the first sane high level processor) and ARM (the first intelligent OP code design) the others were a waste of time. The compiler, regardless of Pascal or C, produced better code than you could do by hand ... and that was 20 years ago!
If you want to learn assembly because you like intellectual masturbation, then learn ARM. In real live you will never need it. I doubt if you google you will find a job offer for an assembly programmer.
The repeated comparisons showing C++ to be a better C is stupid because C++ has all the traps that C has, and adds a whole lot more.
If that is your opinion, you don't know much about C++ and should consider to use it more, e.g. instead of Java.
STL code becomes unreadable FAST
Hint: learn about the keyword "typedef".
No idea what you want to point out.
All majour computing platforms in our days are RISC.
86k is on the fly translating old 86k code into VLIW/RISC instructions.
The core of an i5 or i7 is RISC. Basically all other processors are RISC from bottom up. ARM as the prime example.
Well,
perhaps you are right. I learned to avoid "decisions" based on code like this.
Perhaps the "defined" or "undefined" state changed recent years or decades.
The expression 'C++ > C' is not well defined because the outcome cannot be predicted every time.
That is nonsense. You could simply define: evaluate from left to right. Then it would always be false because the left side would be less than the right side. There is nothing special in that expression. Except: it is undefined. Pretty odd that a modern day programming language leaves behaviour like this "undefined".
Most modern mobile or other "single page" web applications that are written in JavaScript (AngularJS / ReactJS / ProcessingJS etc.) either have a very simple static HTML and get enhanced via JS or are completely written in JS.
I e.g. program right now with Vaadin. A Java framework running completely on the server, pushing GUI update events via WebSockets to the client, and the client is rendering everything using JavaScript. There is basically no HTML involved at all.
You program your application like a Java/Swing programmer would do: https://vaadin.com/home and the cross compilers (based on googles GWT) compile it to Websocket/HTTP pushs and JavaScript.