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  1. Re:Kids these days... on Someone on Medium Just Said C++ Was Better Than C (medium.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You are dead wrong. I wish I had the points to downvote your post.

    Perhaps you should read the moderation guidelines then.

    I used to program in about 10 different assembly languages.

    So, again: It is not worth learning assembly.

    The rest of your post is 90% wrong, I don't bother to answer to it.

  2. Re:Indeed on Someone on Medium Just Said C++ Was Better Than C (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    It is not defined in which order the left and the right side of the less sign is evaluated.
    You should consult the manual of C/C++ - which ever you use - again.

  3. Re:slashdot really needs to sync its servers with on Jetpack Entrepreneur Creates Iron Man-Style Human Flying Suit (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    And the comments section here has orange headlines, causing me eye cancer :-/

  4. Re:Kids these days... on Someone on Medium Just Said C++ Was Better Than C (medium.com) · · Score: 0

    It is not worth learning assembly.

    Chances you will ever use it is basically zero. And: there is nothing to learn from it that translates into your high level usage of languages. The idea that only C or assembly programmers know "what he machine is doing" is a myth.

    As a hobbyist, or a professional, who is interested in it, I would simply read about SWEET16 and try to implement it in a language of choice. More fun ... in all regards.

    I used a Groovy DSL to have a SWEET16 interpreter ... taught me much about Groovy and DSL's ;D (SWEET16, I literally leaned when I was ... well, 17)

    SWEET16 is a virtual machine/assembly language invented by Steve Wonziak to implement parts of Apple ][ integer basic. A virtual machine with 16 16bit registers and something like 15 or 16 op codes.

  5. Re:Kids these days... on Someone on Medium Just Said C++ Was Better Than C (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Coding in assembly is much easier than coding in a high level language and "doing it right".

    No idea where this Myth "if you can not do it in assembly you are not a real programmer" comes from.

    On the other hand, I pitty those who need to do assembly in 86k and its derivations.

  6. Re:Indeed on Someone on Medium Just Said C++ Was Better Than C (medium.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    WTF, I have to escape less and greater inside of a code tag?

    There are no pointers involved, nor objects.

    The whole thing is for some strange reason "undefined".

    But actually it is pretty clear, why the C community made it "undefined" is beyond me, well: they did not want to impose a rule. But that is mere stupid.


        int s = 1;
        int b = 2; // s means small, b means big

        s < b; // true
        s++ < b++ // true ... usually, because here it starts, it is actually undefined, facepalm

        s++ < s++; // ok, here we have a point, obviously "it should be false" but it is undefined, and somehow makes sense to be undefined -- for me it makes no sense, in Java this is false

        s++ < s; // undefined in C, false in Java. // the original question
        C++ > C; // is only undefined because some guy thought, using the same variable in an expression involving ++/-- more than once is problematic. // actually they should simple have defined the behaviour. E.g. evaluate from left to right and be done with it

  7. Re:Indeed on Someone on Medium Just Said C++ Was Better Than C (medium.com) · · Score: 0

    There are no pointers involved, nor objects.

    The whole thing is for some strange reason "undefined".

    But actually it is pretty clear, why the C community made it "undefined" is beyond me, well: they did not want to impose a rule. But that is mere stupid.


        int s = 1;
        int b = 2; // s means small, b means big

        s C; // is only undefined because some guy thought, using the same variable in an expression involving ++/-- more than once is problematic. // actually they should simple have defined the behaviour. E.g. evaluate from left to right and be done with it

  8. Re:Reusable - like the shuttle? on SpaceX Makes Aerospace History With Successful Launch, Landing of a Used Rocket (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Learn to read.

    The shuttle crashed because tiles where missing.

    I did not mention why they are missing, yes, they where destroyed by the foam/ice that hit the wing before launch.

    What has that to do with my post?

    And nobody suggested changing the re=-entry path because nobody suspected there was a hole.
    That was in the news after the crash. In my country at least. Blame your news feeds if you have not heard about it. The NASA guys who had suggested a change in reentry path were fired shortly afterward. That was covered here in /. I guess you find it with the search function ...

  9. Re:Reusable - like the shuttle? on SpaceX Makes Aerospace History With Successful Launch, Landing of a Used Rocket (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The second crash was.

    But the lame thing about is: some guys had ideas how to change the reentrance path, which might have saved the vehicle and the crew, but some dick heads refused to try it. Knowing that the chance to survive without a change was basically only 1% or lower.

  10. Re:Always listen to experts on SpaceX Makes Aerospace History With Successful Launch, Landing of a Used Rocket (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Aldrin actually figured out a kind of continuous transport between Earth and Mars.
    This are space crafts slightly behind the orbit of the moon, ah well to complicated to explain. They fly on an orbit around the sun, but are close enough to Earth and Mars alternating that they can be used as a kind of bucket chain or pipeline to transport goods to Mars. A bit like a gigantic ferris wheel. They are close to earth, about as far as the moon. Kind of eccentric orbit, touching Earth and Mars regularly.

    Here is a good explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  11. Re:Always listen to experts on SpaceX Makes Aerospace History With Successful Launch, Landing of a Used Rocket (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    "that breaks the laws of thermodynamics" it probably is impossible.
    Yeah, but it is actually more likely it "is a lie" or lets say "lame excuse". I never saw a post on /. about thermodynamics where the person talking about it was right.

    Americans seem to learn in school that you can use thermodynamics for everything ... but is actually one of the smallest niches in physics. E.g. only 7 or 8 "laws" :D

  12. But they also did not have retarded Juries like in the USA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  13. Re:Enough with the cynicism on SpaceX Makes Aerospace History With Successful Launch, Landing of a Used Rocket (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    And what is shit about it?

    If the USA are to retarded that a hyperloop wont be used when it is finshed he will just build them in other countries.

    Man kind will sooner or later go to Mars. And for me it makes more sense to go there to colonize it right away then having return trips.

    If he/they go sooner we have the fun of watching and the younger ones the fun of participating. If it was not so complicated to get a work visa for the USA, I would already work since years for him. Because I would love to take part in such an adventure, even if it is staying on the ground as software developer only.

  14. Depends in what country you life ...

  15. Re:It has a security hole every week on What Killed Adobe Flash? (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 1

    3.3.2 An Application may not download or install executable code. Interpreted code may only be used in an Application
    That is why they use a web browser, email or dropbox to 'download' their code. Which then 'open in' or copy paste to the interpreter.

    What tricks they do to run Flash I don't know. Point remains: there are Flash capable browsers on iOS, since years.

    The main point was that you falsly claimed that there are no 'interpreters alowed' on iOS, I have about 10 installed on my iPad ... from the AppStore, a few quite expensive if you consider typical App prices.
    NovoCard - integrates via DropBox
    CS At Once - downloads scripts from the internet, but only executes them as parts of the scripts you write, hence no 'automatic download and execution right away'
    TechBasic
    TouchLua+
    Basic!
    Smart BASIC
    The Python interpreter does not run on my iPad OS: Pythonista

    You only need to interpret Apples paragraph 3.3.2 correctly, and now you have an internet downloadable interpreter on yor iPad/iPhone. The point is: that download and interpretation are two seperate steps. E.G. CS At Once, only stores downloaded JS libraries in a folder structure.
    If you want to use them in HTML, or JS based applications, yoi have to programatically import them from there.

  16. Re:Maturity is key. on Ivanka Trump To Take Coding Class With 5-Year-Old Daughter (hollywoodlife.com) · · Score: 1

    Sometimes I use school/university example, but that works better in german.
    1st black belt: end of college(or high school)
    2nd black belt: bachelor or more likely master
    3rd black belt PhD
    4th black belt professor at an university

    The higher ranks are those that organize universities, think about new areas of studies, define what a PhD is and how to become a professor etc.

    However the car analogy emphasizes much better that the first black belt is nothing special. I expect everyone coming into my Dojo to sooner or later reach that level.

    The university example sounds more fancy as the entry black belt already has spent 10 - 12 years in school, which might imply to some people that it is a great achievement.

    You are right, I unfortunately know quite a few who either stopped after achieving the first black belt or stopped having goals for more progress.

    On the other hand I don't care, it is their life, not mine.

  17. Re:Should be interesting on Ivanka Trump To Take Coding Class With 5-Year-Old Daughter (hollywoodlife.com) · · Score: 1

    Fixing that for you:

            public enum TrumpBoolean{ true, false, alternative_true, file_not_found }

  18. Re:What do you get with a TV-celeb as prez? on Ivanka Trump To Take Coding Class With 5-Year-Old Daughter (hollywoodlife.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do you post so many idiotic posts?

    I'm 50, what do I care about what young coders/programmers/software engineers learn? I have over 35 years experience ... In 30 years, I will start worrying when they perhaps have the same experience I have right now and I'm perhaps declining in mental capabilities. In other words: I fear no one. Why should I?

    And why is your post idiotic, you ask?

    A five year old should learn to read/write and a bit of math, and a bit of sports and playing ...

    As long as it is not able to do simple math and write it is completely pointless to put it into what ever "new invented way how to teach coding" class.

  19. Re:Maturity is key. on Ivanka Trump To Take Coding Class With 5-Year-Old Daughter (hollywoodlife.com) · · Score: 1

    It is also to remembered, the first black belt is a beginners rank. Or as in a car analogy: 1st black belt is a driving license, 3rd black belt is a driving teacher, 4th black belt is a driving examiner, and the higher ranked black belts are those that grant teaching licenses and examination licenses (and define how the teaching and the examinations have to be conducted).

  20. Re:It has a security hole every week on What Killed Adobe Flash? (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 1

    Let me clarify my original comment slightly. iOS App Store policies explicitly forbid the use of interpreters to run scripts downloaded from the Internet
    This is no longer true, And via eMail or a web browser and cut/paste this was always possible anyway.
    The code download from the internet may not "script" the application in which it is running. But there are plenty of Applications, e.g. "CS At Once", that directly download JavaScript Code from the internet (and install it as a local library)
    .
    Many Script-Interpreters simply integrate DropBox and other cloud services to download/install scripts from the internet, e.g. NovoCard (a simple HyperCard clone with JavaScript as programming language)

    So, in the cases above: the actual loadiang and then executing are two steps. There is no "down load without notice of the user and directly execute it", I believe that this was it what Apple liked to prevent.

    However, it is not possible to provide a generally functioning Flash Player Plugin on iOS
    There are several browsers that just do that, in the Apple AppStore.
    Look in my previous posts, I sent a link to a review web site that tested them. Ah ... found it again: http://mashtips.com/flash-play...

  21. Ah interesting, thanx.

    I have a Git-Shell installed and most of the time use the unix/linux find command.

  22. Re:Look like spec on Samsung Launches Galaxy S8 Smartphone (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    This is not how embedded device companies think/plan.

    I want to sell 4million S8s over the course of a year for a price below X (X related to prices of the competition).

    If I pay $10 more in RAM for each unit, then the production price goes up by about $40 (rule of thumb: $x more spent in production for one part ends up as 4 * $x in the final costs .. YMMV).

    So: what now? If we increase the original planned selling price, we are "cost neutral" but might miss the market.
    If we swallow the cost, then we have to give up $160 million ($40 * 4million) in earnings.

    In other word: every $1 extra spent in production of a single unit will cost me millions in sales, the more I sell the more I lose, you could argue.


  23. Dragging a window from one screen to the other or releasing it to close to the edge ...

    Yes you can.
    No you can't. It only "works" if you hit the edge of the window with the tip of the cursor.
    A cursor looks like this: <-> and you should be able to drag any edge of the window when the _ is over the edge. And not only when either (depending which side you drag) < or > is directly on a 1 pixel thin window border + 2 pixels or something.

    A Mac in 1987 wasn't a laptop with multiple displays
    Why you refer to laptops is beyond me. I worked with plenty of multi monitor Macs before 1990.

    That's on you, because as soon as you unplugged the laptop from the docking station you told Windows "Hey, I don't have a second monitor anymore." and it shuffled everything to the laptop's display so you can use them as soon as you open the machine.

    WRONG: the laptop is in sleep mode when I unplug it and later plug it again. Of course the vendor and Windows together mess it up, as they wake up the laptop when it gets unplugged. How retarded that is I can not even express ...

    overlap screens just fine if your screens are the same size
    Yeah! Same SIZE, now you get it!!!

    aligned to the proper positions, and have the same DPI.
    My Mac Laptop and external display have not the same DPI, but work fine. Not so windows.

  24. Re:It has a security hole every week on What Killed Adobe Flash? (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 1

    There has never been any version of Flash available for iOS, bundled or otherwise, because Apple doesn't allow any third-party interpreters on the iOS platform.
    This is wrong.

    There are hundreds of interpreters in the AppStore. I have about 10 programming languages on my iPad 2.
    And there are a few browsers that support Flash.

    SJ's refusal to allow it on the iOS platform was the final nail
    He did not disallow it, Apple simply did not support it in their own browser.

    See: http://mashtips.com/flash-play...

  25. Re:What? on What Killed Adobe Flash? (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 0

    Obviously Apple on that graph is by FAR the market leader.

    You seem pretty dumb ... amoung how many Android device sellers is the Android pie divided? Hu? Probably hundreds.

    Perhaps one of them, Samsung or Lenevo might come close to Apples sales with their Android sales.