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  1. Programming and System Design on Dumbing Down Programming? · · Score: 1

    Today the real problem is in system design. While is some cases you create a special language to solve a special problem of a domain (domain specific languages DSL), in other places you use generators. Even though modern languages are all able to express component, class and object structures. In principle you can express modern OO designs in any language. If they have created a new language then they can most likely reduce the number of typed characters, but what they cannot reduce is the number of rules and definitions which make up the specification of the application.

    Also most time in modern software design is spent for requirements engineering and development of the architecture. Followed by test planning and test implementation (if not done automatically from the specification). And only 1/3/ - 1/4 of the time (sometimes even less) is used for implementation. So honestly I do not believe their advertisements and I do not believe that their language is sooooo much easier to use than all the other languages available.
     

  2. Re:What? on Vulgar Comment On Newspaper Site Costs Man His Job · · Score: 1

    Obviously he has a boring job. And no real news he can report on. Or to be more precise he does not want to report on important information (who cares if the world falls apart). He needed something with more juice. And - as everyone knows - sex sells. And reporting on other peoples likes is even more "interesting".

  3. Re:Naughty words, or not. on Vulgar Comment On Newspaper Site Costs Man His Job · · Score: 1

    The question they will ask you if you have eat
    - pussy and cat
    - pussy of cat or
    - pussy the cat

    Depending on you location and answer, they either arrest you, shot you or just kick you out of your job. That have something to do with the fact that people like cats or pussies.

  4. Re:Pussy. There, I said it. on Vulgar Comment On Newspaper Site Costs Man His Job · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Because you are offtopic. Or
    The crowd is today in a very humorous mood.

  5. Honesty on Vulgar Comment On Newspaper Site Costs Man His Job · · Score: 1

    That's what you get today for being honest. First asking what strange this you have eaten, and what could be more strange than a cat. Well some people eat dogs. In Sweden they have even these nice T-shirts with a fork, a dish, a knife (because they are civilized) and a cat on the dish. Maybe he should have added that the was in Sweden by that time.

  6. Re:Wrong year on NASA Attempts To Assuage 2012 Fears · · Score: 1

    I thought the end is 2038.

  7. Re:What if the bible predicted this? on NASA Attempts To Assuage 2012 Fears · · Score: 1

    Thanks god there is no definite date for the end of the world in the bible. However, that has not stopped people from believing that the bible contains such information. But still I would not believe it just on the basis some person 1700 years ago haggled the book together. The same is valid for the Koran. And we all know were the Torah comes from. I would rather go for science here even when science is based on a logic which cannot be proven to be true.

  8. Re:Will you LISTEN to yourselves? on NASA Attempts To Assuage 2012 Fears · · Score: 1

    It is stupid to believe that Earth will be ending in 2012 and it will not becoming less stupid just because other people think the swine flu is more dangerous than other flus. And same for the rest. It is more dangerous to die in a car accident than to be killed by a terrorist. And I will not text on the (not so) free market and its flaws, because you can find all information elsewhere.

    Please read: Manufactoring Consent from Noam Chomsky

  9. Re:OMG! on NASA Attempts To Assuage 2012 Fears · · Score: 1

    I spend all my money and bought a new calender.

  10. Re:Easy strawmen to knock off?.. on NASA Attempts To Assuage 2012 Fears · · Score: 1

    Who cares Santa is a fake. The presents are delivered by the Christkind (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christkind) at least in the civilized world. Only protestants believe santa who is in real Odin brings the presents. And in most times he is confused with Saint Nichols who really lived, but who is correctly celebrated on December 6.

  11. Re:In other news on NASA Attempts To Assuage 2012 Fears · · Score: 1

    I won't be worrying until the dolphins are gone. And I know where my towel is.

  12. Re:I see potential in this on NASA Attempts To Assuage 2012 Fears · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And if the "ritual" have been performed in the right way (after some training of course) the planet never shows up. So you were right, weren't you. And so you are a real Mao Shan Master.

  13. How stupid are people? on NASA Attempts To Assuage 2012 Fears · · Score: 1

    You go in a movie theater, watching a movie with fancy effects and a lot of sound and destruction which so ridiculous that is obvious that it is not a documentary or a feasable forecast. How could anyone really believe it? Do they have no education at all? Or are they just dumb from watching too much TV?

  14. Re:I mention this on CERN Physicist Warns About Uranium Shortage · · Score: 2, Funny

    You want to go out with wet hair in winter?

  15. Re:I mention this on CERN Physicist Warns About Uranium Shortage · · Score: 1

    The usage of the sun will be possible for the next 2 billion years. Until then we can use it to power our technology. But nuclear energy will run out of fuel very soon and then we can care for the wast for millions of years. Thanks.

  16. Re:Alternative materials? on CERN Physicist Warns About Uranium Shortage · · Score: 1

    You cannot run a reactor for enriched-uranium with plutonium. And plutonium is also a very limited source.

  17. Coder vs. Computer Scientist on Are You a Blue-Collar Or White-Collar Developer? · · Score: 1

    I guess that is your question. And honestly you cannot compare these two. Yes a good computer scientist shall be able to program. He or she might even be a very skilled programmer. But to develop good software you do not need mainly good coders (well they will help) you need a good application design. You also need someone who is good at requirement engineering. No successful big software project nowadays is just coded. They are planned and designed and then implemented. And we use DSLs and generators and other stuff to create the final structure of the software.

    So to make it short I use an analogy to build a house, you need an architect, someone who knows what the house is for, and you need people who build it. And therefore coders are for coding and software architects are for planning and designing.

    And BTW some theoretical knowledge helps you to improve your coding techniques, because its not only knowledge on a programming language which is required.

  18. Re:Deceptive headlines on Two Earth-Sized Bodies With Oxygen-Rich Atmospheres · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Feel manipulated? Watch the news on TV or read a newspaper when you really want to be manipulated.

  19. Re:I feel inspired to change my SIG! on German Killers Sue Wikipedia To Remove Their Names · · Score: 1

    Why should Germany bother with this situation. Just two murderers sued Wikipedia for mentioning their names. First they did this in Germany were the equilibrium between free speech(tm) and privacy is at another point on the scale. And now they try to do the same in the US.

  20. Re:Get your lawyers ready /. on German Killers Sue Wikipedia To Remove Their Names · · Score: 1

    They already did. You are too late. This post is about something in Germany and therefore the Nazi thing comes up. Well Goodwins Law works well on /. Also I want to add that if the post has anything to do with Germany, Germans etc. the distance between first post and the first Goodwin Law fulfillment post is shorter than in the total set of /. posts.

  21. Re:Get your lawyers ready /. on German Killers Sue Wikipedia To Remove Their Names · · Score: 1

    I think even with totally perfect courts, the death penalty is not an acceptable punishment. First, if the state kills a person this person cannot learn from its mistakes and second, it would make society not better than the one who did the first murder. So the question is why do we have prisons and courts?
    a) To keep violent or dangerous people way from the rest
    b) To help people to follow rules (ensure and support ethics)
    c) To punish people for their crimes so they learn that they have done something wrong and that this has consequences
    d) To (re)integrate those people back in society after punishment (however, this point is normally not achieved)

    But it is definitely not for vengeance.

  22. Re:Bubby? Is that you? on German Killers Sue Wikipedia To Remove Their Names · · Score: 1

    That's why you request a code of conduct document from your new employees, also you can ask them on that topic.

  23. Re:There's a whole lot of the wrong argument here. on German Killers Sue Wikipedia To Remove Their Names · · Score: 0

    There are two rights involved here.
    a) Free distribution of information
    b) The personal rights of a person who do not want to be prejudged just because he made a mistake in the past.

    If you really think that you have to provide every information about yourself on the net, why do you not post your age, your address, your religion and your drug abuses on the net (if any). Putting your crimes on the net would lead to discrimination. And therefor such information has to be removed. The law is not ridiculous. You are in positioning your right of information higher than someone else right to be not discriminated.

  24. Re:But here in the good old USA... on German Killers Sue Wikipedia To Remove Their Names · · Score: 1

    So you better fly to Germany, where is would be perfectly legal. However, with our new government I am not sure if this stays that way. So take your chances now.

  25. Re:Can the victim pretend that it never happened? on German Killers Sue Wikipedia To Remove Their Names · · Score: 0

    So your not part of the modern society. Because otherwise I could not understand that you want to put someone for their crimes in the pillory. They got their punishment. Period.