The article mentions that you can leave types aside for a moment, when you want to rapidly develop something.
That's the worst programming advice ever.
Good design starts from typing.
This is my feeling too, you will spend longer debugging and much longer supporting any significant sized project. However we must acknowledge that many people have an opposing view, that totally dynamically typed languages can speed up the total cycle not just initial writing.
Since when have we accepted this term into our everyday language?
Sorry, that was not PC. How about Personhunt?
Where is the justice in a "hunt"? Hunting ends with a kill, not with a prosecution. Honestly I don't know why we tolerate such dehumanisation. All I have to say is fuck Soulskill for posting this and contributing to the decline.
I think that "hunt" is entirely accurate in describing what special forces do, and in the case of Muslim terrorists entirely justified.
Yes, they have like 22 native languages in India in total, not counting dialects, if I remember correctly. Having a common and easy to learn language does make sense.
From a technical viewpoint: In information technology we don't use the most complicated 'languages' to transmit messages, where errors are more likely to happen. For human communication Esperanto never gained enough popularity, so English is currently the best choice.
I agree that English is currently the best choice because of popularity, but it certainly is not the simplest. Discounting invented languages like esperanto and creols like Tok Pisin, Afrikaans is probably the simplest language
Indians also shouldn't have a hard time to grasp English since their languages are still part of the Indo-European languages and share similarities.
Generally true of Northern Indian languages, though the Dravidian languages spoken in the South are more different to Hindi than Hindi is to English. Also some areas in the Himalayas speak languages closer to the languages of Tibet and Mayamar, which are completely different again.
Every corporate senior person I've met from India - Director type level - not only speaks several Indian languages, but also has flawless English in terms of grammar and vocabulary
If you were dealing with workers on a factory floor, even skilled ones, your experience would be different
How many Australian luddites are going to look at this say that the national fibre-optic broadband network rollout is going to be made obsolete by this wireless tech?
A 1km range is next to nothing for rural Australian
Also, though I would like to believe that Europeans have superior algorithms, realistically the hurricane prediction could be a "one off". We know that modeling weather can gibe widely different results based on small variations of starting conditions, assumptions, etc. Unless there is evidence that European forecasts are consistently better it could just be luck. With the known chaotic nature of storm systems it wouldn't surprise me if the "butterfly effect" of the rounding errors when converting from C to F would be enough to displace a storm by hundreds of miles!
It appears that the computers that Europe was using for the "better forecast" were not as powerfulas the old system being replaced. Upgrading because Europe's forecast better would be like taking a slow route to a holiday destination then buying a Porsche because your neighbours got there sooner when all you need is a new roadmap.
So whatever the majority of scientists say is canon, and if you go against it, you're being heretical. If you're being heretical, then you float, which means you're made of wood, and therefore, are a witch. BURN the witch!!
I can't disagree... witches are a renewable resource
Are written by quack pseudo science climate DENIERS! They should have their credentials revoked. They're not practicing science, they're practicing DOGMA! Everyone KNOWS that climate change is 100% man-made! Data from billions of years ago proves it!
Of course there are sheningans abound.
To start with, I'm pretty sure that at least 97% of all scientific papers aren't about global warming, greenhouse gases, or atmospheric science at all.
Like the cat food advert, this should probably say " 97% of all scientific papers which expressed a preference..."
Not a "gentle, painless electrical current applied to the brain ", more like a smack round the head.
Student performance often improved dramatically, and no permanent damage seemed to be done.
That reminds me of three men in a boat, where the narrator reads an advert for liver pills.
In the present instance, going back to the liver-pill circular, I had the symptoms, beyond all mistake, the chief among them being "a general disinclination to work of any kind."
What I suffer in that way no tongue can tell. From my earliest infancy I have been a martyr to it. As a boy, the disease hardly ever left me for a day. They did not know, then, that it was my liver. Medical science was in a far less advanced state than now, and they used to put it down to laziness.
"Why, you skulking little devil, you," they would say, "get up and do something for your living, can't you?" — not knowing, of course, that I was ill.
I remember reading this as a kit and lamenting that my teachers also had no idea that this was a medical condition. But then he goes on:
And they didn't give me pills; they gave me clumps on the side of the head. And, strange as it may appear, those clumps on the head often cured me — for the time being. I have known one clump on the head have more effect upon my liver, and make me feel more anxious to go straight away then and there, and do what was wanted to be done, without further loss of time, than a whole box of pills does now.
The Zebra mussel has become a part of the Baltic coastal ecosystem in many areas around the Baltic Sea, but the distribution is patchy, partly depending on the availability of suitable habitats and limited to areas of less saline water.
THIS is why I give my business to companies like NewEgg, and have and will NEVER buy a single damn thing from ones like Amazon.
Amazon settled because it is also a patent troll. Blood runs thicker than water, especially between patent trolls.
Amazon are not pure patent trolls or they would not have been sued. They actually use their technologies. I'm not saying they are squeaky clean, I certainly didn't like their 1 click patent, but they are not a complete troll.
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The article mentions that you can leave types aside for a moment, when you want to rapidly develop something.
That's the worst programming advice ever.
Good design starts from typing.
This is my feeling too, you will spend longer debugging and much longer supporting any significant sized project. However we must acknowledge that many people have an opposing view, that totally dynamically typed languages can speed up the total cycle not just initial writing.
Is this just a fancy term for an interpreter?
Since when have we accepted this term into our everyday language?
Sorry, that was not PC. How about Personhunt?
Where is the justice in a "hunt"? Hunting ends with a kill, not with a prosecution. Honestly I don't know why we tolerate such dehumanisation. All I have to say is fuck Soulskill for posting this and contributing to the decline.
I think that "hunt" is entirely accurate in describing what special forces do, and in the case of Muslim terrorists entirely justified.
Is it a time machine??? How can he promise a conference last week?
Its cheaper, you just have to tell all the interested parties "sorry you missed it"
Discounting invented languages like esperanto and creols like Tok Pisin, Afrikaans is probably the simplest language
Huh, haven't you forgotten Riau Indonesian?
I didn't know about it, I'll have to read up on it
Yes, they have like 22 native languages in India in total, not counting dialects, if I remember correctly. Having a common and easy to learn language does make sense. From a technical viewpoint: In information technology we don't use the most complicated 'languages' to transmit messages, where errors are more likely to happen. For human communication Esperanto never gained enough popularity, so English is currently the best choice.
I agree that English is currently the best choice because of popularity, but it certainly is not the simplest. Discounting invented languages like esperanto and creols like Tok Pisin, Afrikaans is probably the simplest language
In rural Australia 100 miles is "neighbors" :(
Please don't mention Australia and neighbours in the same sentence. Now I have that terrible signature tune going through my head.
Indians also shouldn't have a hard time to grasp English since their languages are still part of the Indo-European languages and share similarities.
Generally true of Northern Indian languages, though the Dravidian languages spoken in the South are more different to Hindi than Hindi is to English. Also some areas in the Himalayas speak languages closer to the languages of Tibet and Mayamar, which are completely different again.
Every corporate senior person I've met from India - Director type level - not only speaks several Indian languages, but also has flawless English in terms of grammar and vocabulary
If you were dealing with workers on a factory floor, even skilled ones, your experience would be different
How many Australian luddites are going to look at this say that the national fibre-optic broadband network rollout is going to be made obsolete by this wireless tech?
A 1km range is next to nothing for rural Australian
I really don't understand why Linux gets so much hate. Especially considering that it is the LARGEST, most successful open source project ever?
I think it is because Linus himself has a reputation. As you say though, on a large project there must be plenty of helpful people too.
Also, though I would like to believe that Europeans have superior algorithms, realistically the hurricane prediction could be a "one off". We know that modeling weather can gibe widely different results based on small variations of starting conditions, assumptions, etc. Unless there is evidence that European forecasts are consistently better it could just be luck. With the known chaotic nature of storm systems it wouldn't surprise me if the "butterfly effect" of the rounding errors when converting from C to F would be enough to displace a storm by hundreds of miles!
It appears that the computers that Europe was using for the "better forecast" were not as powerful as the old system being replaced. Upgrading because Europe's forecast better would be like taking a slow route to a holiday destination then buying a Porsche because your neighbours got there sooner when all you need is a new roadmap.
So whatever the majority of scientists say is canon, and if you go against it, you're being heretical. If you're being heretical, then you float, which means you're made of wood, and therefore, are a witch. BURN the witch!!
I can't disagree ... witches are a renewable resource
Are written by quack pseudo science climate DENIERS! They should have their credentials revoked. They're not practicing science, they're practicing DOGMA! Everyone KNOWS that climate change is 100% man-made! Data from billions of years ago proves it!
They should burn their papers ... oh wait!
Of course there are sheningans abound. To start with, I'm pretty sure that at least 97% of all scientific papers aren't about global warming, greenhouse gases, or atmospheric science at all.
Like the cat food advert, this should probably say " 97% of all scientific papers which expressed a preference..."
I will buy old Slashdot accounts. For 2-3 digits you can get hundreds of dollars. Contact me at buy@chammy.info !
... and for those who do not know you sold have your reputation tarnished by blatant shill posts
It's good to see then taking the Muzzy threat seriously. And they needto:
Florida Man Charged With Plotting Terror Campaign in Name of Islam
Florida Terrorism Suspect Planned New York Attack, Feds Say
Hafiz Khan, Florida Imam, Convicted In Terror Case Of Aiding Pakistani Taliban
Witness Is Silent in Terror Probe
Not a "gentle, painless electrical current applied to the brain ", more like a smack round the head.
Student performance often improved dramatically, and no permanent damage seemed to be done.
That reminds me of three men in a boat, where the narrator reads an advert for liver pills.
In the present instance, going back to the liver-pill circular, I had the symptoms, beyond all mistake, the chief among them being "a general disinclination to work of any kind."
What I suffer in that way no tongue can tell. From my earliest infancy I have been a martyr to it. As a boy, the disease hardly ever left me for a day. They did not know, then, that it was my liver. Medical science was in a far less advanced state than now, and they used to put it down to laziness.
"Why, you skulking little devil, you," they would say, "get up and do something for your living, can't you?" — not knowing, of course, that I was ill.
I remember reading this as a kit and lamenting that my teachers also had no idea that this was a medical condition. But then he goes on:
And they didn't give me pills; they gave me clumps on the side of the head. And, strange as it may appear, those clumps on the head often cured me — for the time being. I have known one clump on the head have more effect upon my liver, and make me feel more anxious to go straight away then and there, and do what was wanted to be done, without further loss of time, than a whole box of pills does now.
Apparently they could survive in seawater.
From your linked article:
The Zebra mussel has become a part of the Baltic coastal ecosystem in many areas around the Baltic Sea, but the distribution is patchy, partly depending on the availability of suitable habitats and limited to areas of less saline water.
"lets you influence drinking trends in real-time by incorporating your suggested tweaks on popular recipes."
Roofie for the cute blonde girl
THIS is why I give my business to companies like NewEgg, and have and will NEVER buy a single damn thing from ones like Amazon.
Amazon settled because it is also a patent troll. Blood runs thicker than water, especially between patent trolls.
Amazon are not pure patent trolls or they would not have been sued. They actually use their technologies. I'm not saying they are squeaky clean, I certainly didn't like their 1 click patent, but they are not a complete troll.
On your screen before you even thought of searching for it!
Quantum porn - you can't tell both what position they are in and how fast they are going at the same time
I'd be curious what computer language they use to program this thing.
Objective Quark.
Or C±±
What will happen then, when the computer we build is 100x or even 1,000,000x more capable than our brain ?
Maybe you will be offered an upgrade