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  1. Re:Like Latin... on Can Learning Smalltalk Make You A Better Programmer? · · Score: 1

    I thought you were a professional software developer.
    Did you not say so in older posts?

    Sorry, but this idea that any language has borrowed from C (except C++) is idiotic. Considering that most languages predate C anyway ...

    I guess you are the prime example for a developer who can learn great deals about programming if you would learn SmallTalk, Lisp and/or Prolog.

    C does not make you a better programmer. It is useful. And that was it.

  2. Re:depends on Can Learning Smalltalk Make You A Better Programmer? · · Score: 1

    Neither COBOL nor LISP are dying or dead.

    And Eiffel is a language that has variations like Sather/Sather-K that are very popular in the academic community.

  3. Re:No. on Can Learning Smalltalk Make You A Better Programmer? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Is that an attmept to be funny or are you retarded?

    The fact that no other system adopted the 'image' idea of SmallTalk clearly shows how less the people writing the article and the comments in this story actually have comprehended about SmallTalk.

    And Smalltalk does not use special punctuation for its syntax, you must mix it up with something other (C++/Java?)

    Except for being OO â" more or less â" the other languages have not really adopted much from SmallTalk. There are still 'programmers' on /. that debate the usefulness of lambdas in Java 8 ...

    The good things of SmallTalk besides being OO:
    - seamless melding from runtime to language system and OO, global dictionary etc.
    - all majour language constructs are represented as objects
    - can be queried, augmented, inspected used in reflection etc.
    - 'bytecode' can be inspected, transformed etc.
    - everything is in the 'image', the IDE is included in your program, unless you strip it
    - oo database included, files only used for data exchange

    You don't need 'constructors' to set up a complicated UI, you simply create them in the REPL of the IDE, move them where you want them, save the whole running program as an image, next time you 'restart' it, the UI is 'just there'.

    SmallTalk is still light years ahead of any other programming system ...

  4. I was just kidding about the people who might think sea level rises causes tsunamis ;D hence the ironic smiley.

    And sea level rises of a foot or so, does not really impact tsunamis significantly. The shape of the coast, aka how quick the sea floor is rising or more precisely: how long the low water stretch is, that forms the coast, has stronger effect by magnitudes.

  5. Re:Only in America... on NASA Designs 'Ice Dome' For Astronauts On Mars (phys.org) · · Score: 2

    It does not matter if it is cheap or not, as you are not competing with one who makes it cheaper than you.

    Also keep in mind, the saline water is excellent for electrolysis, hence H2, and O2 for breathing and/or clean water production and/or electricity via fuel cells and/or with CO2 from the atmosphere perfect for making CH4 and more O2.

    Regarding underground "mining" I would consider boring and not strip mining the better approach. But to be sure about that we would need some real experts that analyze a real deposit ...

  6. Forest and Agriculture does not grow fast enough to have any measurable effect on AGW.

    You forget we just burned in about 100 years roughly the amount of coal/oil the planet created the last 200million years. So to sequester the amount of CO2 out of the atmosphere by planting woods and storing the wood underground we would need about 2 million years, give or take, to remove the CO2 from the atmosphere.

    Well, we could argue: we can leave it as it is and only fight the further increase. Nevertheless with plant growth alone that is not going to happen.

  7. But I guess YOU at least know that climate change does not cause Tsunamis ;D ?

  8. Re: we saw that the science was falsified by the C on Wisconsin's Department of Natural Resources Site No Longer Says Humans Cause Climate Change (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Apparently some climatologists are convinced that exaggeration and alarmism are justified to push the public into action. But by eroding their own credibility,
    You seem to miss the fact that climate change researchers and the IPCC are downplaying their predictions and concerns since decades to "not sound alarmist".

    That is why we get more concerned voices lately because the "scientific community" does not longer want to downplay it.

  9. Re:You gave Trump's plan on Automatic Brakes Stopped Berlin Truck During Christmas Market Attack (dw.com) · · Score: 1

    Germany has no borders to secure.
    We are surrounded by Schengen states.

    Regarding the groping we will see how tha goes this time.
    The painfull truth is not that it happened, but that:
    a) so many veilants got away with it
    b) basically no german man stood up and beat them up
    c) and most women silently endured it as well

    The police only got 'informed' days later when more and more women realized: oh, I was not the only one!

    And after all, as it most obviously was some kind of organized action, we still have no clue about the men behind.

  10. Re:Double edged sword on Automatic Brakes Stopped Berlin Truck During Christmas Market Attack (dw.com) · · Score: 1

    You forget AGAIN to mention that jews and Christians ARE BELIEVERS, because they are decendants if Abraham and believe in the same god, facepalm.

  11. Re:what's so "unthinkable"? on Is Microsoft 'Reaping the Rewards' From Open-Sourcing Its .NET Core? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    About what?

  12. Re:Double edged sword on Automatic Brakes Stopped Berlin Truck During Christmas Market Attack (dw.com) · · Score: 1

    Because the parking break is designed to hold a resting car, not to stop a moving car. Hence the name, I would guess?

  13. Re:SubjectIsSubject on Automatic Brakes Stopped Berlin Truck During Christmas Market Attack (dw.com) · · Score: 1

    The Koran actually does not prohibit drinking.
    It prohibits 'getting high' (as in loosing control) from any drug.
    In other words it allows drinking with measure (and in plenty of islamic countries drinking is common).
    But then came the Sharia ....

  14. Re:SubjectIsSubject on Automatic Brakes Stopped Berlin Truck During Christmas Market Attack (dw.com) · · Score: 1

    As your parent already pointed out: germans are not christians, 80% or more are agnostics or atheists.
    Going to church on christmas or voting for CDU or even being a member does not make you a Christian.
    I bet minimum 30% of the non Jew, non Muslim and non others even explicitly left Church to safe the church tax.

    After France Germany is most likely the country with the biggest 'non Christian' population and in Europe most certainly the biggest 'non believers' population.

  15. Re:what, wait a second on Automatic Brakes Stopped Berlin Truck During Christmas Market Attack (dw.com) · · Score: 1

    No, the system is designed (in this case, this is not an autonomous car or driver assisting car) to give an audio alarm. This alarm has to be acknowledged after a second or two by the driver. If the driver does not hit the 'dead man switch' the car performs an automatic break.
    The attacker in this case did not know about that system and/or where the switch is.

  16. Re:Double edged sword on Automatic Brakes Stopped Berlin Truck During Christmas Market Attack (dw.com) · · Score: 2

    Slitting the break lines does not work in a truck.

    Trucks have a breaking system that uses pressured air to keep the breaks open.

    If you cut a line, the air pressure vanishes imediatly and the breaks close and the truck stops.

    I guess you have heared the puffs and whistles when a truck starts moving, this is the air preassure opening the breaks.

  17. Re:You gave Trump's plan on Automatic Brakes Stopped Berlin Truck During Christmas Market Attack (dw.com) · · Score: 1

    If you don't know democratic countries where the majourity is Muslim, you probably should ask google.

    Or ask yourself if you still have the right to remain in your country if you ask such questions from immigrants.

  18. Re:Double edged sword on Automatic Brakes Stopped Berlin Truck During Christmas Market Attack (dw.com) · · Score: 1

    You are an idiot.

    Fleeing islamic terrorism, might it be IS, or ISIS, or Sadad is the same as fleeing for economic reasons.

    No food is no food, regardless if it gets burned, confiscated, stolen, or did not grow in the first place. And it does not really matter if you get bombed by ISIS or Sadam or the Russians ...

    The Islam does not demand murdering 'non believers'. It demands spreading gods word to heathens, just like the catholics do. And: neither christians nor jews are heathens or non believers, idiot.

    They all are decendents from Abraham and under explicit protection by the Islam.

  19. Re:SubjectIsSubject on Automatic Brakes Stopped Berlin Truck During Christmas Market Attack (dw.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you should learn german and read german news.

    This was not a refugee but a planted "terrorist" or call him an insane criminal who planted himself with plenty of false documents.

    If you have an idea how to handle the refugee crisis, then speak up. If you only has malice for the people suffering then please keep it for your self.

  20. Re:Double edged sword on Automatic Brakes Stopped Berlin Truck During Christmas Market Attack (dw.com) · · Score: 1

    If the auto break is on, it does not matter if the accelerator is pushed.
    The break is always stronger than the engine and will kill the engine.

  21. Re:Very interesting on Chinese Rocket Fails To Put Two Satellites Into Correct Orbits (spaceflightnow.com) · · Score: 1

    Or even for a test to shut down/disable other satellites.

  22. Re:Same as every year:The Bible. on What's the Best Book You Read This Year? · · Score: 1

    No comment on the first part :D
    As plenty of the translation in "The Kings Bible" are plain wrong ;D

    Why not do something that in comparison has some value, like translating Lord of the Rings into Klingon?
    Planning to do that. However I wanted to wait for a clean version in high Elvish. What you think? Is it worth it to start sketching a klingon version and fix the obvious mistakes later? On the other hand ... there is a big culture gap, I mean as in Elves having some kind of culture and Orcs on the other hand, oooops Klingons ...

  23. Re:Neal Stephenson continues to amaze on What's the Best Book You Read This Year? · · Score: 1

    Hehe, I think people who dislike big books have not learned yet: you can put books away for a few days. Much easier than stopping and restarting a video after a few days, imho. But well, that might be just me.

  24. Re:Eagleworks on Prepare For Even More Volatile Weather in 2017 (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Unlike you, I have a degree in physics.

    And unlike yours, my arguments make sense. Yours don't.

    The EmDrive is a fantasy fueled by those with more exposure to Star Trek than Einstein.
    E.g. this is an idiotic argument.

    If Q, Therefore P. P, Therefore Q. Logically, you cannot exclude the possibility that it produces thrust in violation of CoM.
    Are you sure you really wanted to write this? Because logically this is wrong. But your conclusion makes even less sense ... so no idea what you actually wanted to write.

    This is not being described as a super-high-efficiency ion thruster, it is a basic electromagnetic device which claims to affect motion without reaction mass
    You get it simply wrong :D
    First of all there is nothing claimed.
    And secondly your sentence needs to be "without additional reaction mass"

    I really wonder why people who think to have a grasp on physics not simply read the relevant papers.
    Explain me why the papers are wrong instead of inventing new theorems and and then disproving them (there is a name for that fallacy btw.)

    For an exactly analogous scenario, imagine you are in a space in free fall in the center of a 10m cubic room. 1) Einstein, Newton, and Galileo say that you will never be able to reach the sides of that room without throwing a ball or 2) otherwise changing your mass.
    1) None of the three ever made such a statement ...
    2) You don't need to change your mass ... (hint: solar sail, or ordinary sail on earth, or magnetic acceleration or electric acceleration or acceleratin by gravity ... )

  25. Re:what's so "unthinkable"? on Is Microsoft 'Reaping the Rewards' From Open-Sourcing Its .NET Core? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Android was not the point.

    But plenty of phones still support Java ME - or claim so.

    And: you indeed can run Swing on Android ;D not sure to what exptend but I saw a friend running an Enterprise Application I was involved developing in on an Android device. He basically ported it for fun, but I don'r know which toolkit/tools he used.