[...] There's a perennial C logic bug where you take an if statement with a one-line body and add a second line without adding braces to denote a block; that never happens in Python.
This is why Swift explicitly does not allow for one line statements without curly braces.
more generally speaking, the language tries to avoid things that lead to dumb mistakes, no default fall through on switch case statements, explicitly requiring every case in a switch to be accounted for, etc. Anytime you imply meaning you introduce the potential for had to find bugs - especially later in the code development cycle when someone adds seemingly innocent changes.
If you're pasting a large enough block it is easy to miss one line and fail to indent it (or miss it in the copy). Now you have a bug, that may be extremely difficult to find. On the other hand, with curly braces, not only will you have a compile time error if you fat finger something, the editor also can automatically indent everything correctly - saving all sorts of productivity.
Yes, it still is possible to make a mistake with copy/paste, trying to make something idiot prof will only result in better idiots. That said, I want my languages to compile time fail on as many errors as possible - those are the easiest bugs to fix.
Code does not have freedom, code is not forced to do stuff. Programmers can try to achieve freedom, and programmers may or may not be forced into implementations depending on their jobs, time, predilections, etc. If a programmer wants the freedom of working on code that they then chose to release under a GPL licensing agreement then the GPL has given them the freedom to provide a service under the terms they want. The rest is just anthropomorphizing code, and code really hates being anthropomorphized.
BSD licensed software allows someone to take it, modify it in some meaningful way, and not share those changes back with the community at large. In that sense, it is possible for software licensed under a BSD license to lose the freedom it had. The developers did not lose any freedoms, the source did. GPL does not force you to be benevolent, it just requires that if you want to use GPL'ed software that your contributions remain benevolent (to use your term). If you don't want to, then chose some other solution, no one is forcing you to use GPL. Both licenses have their strengths and weaknesses. Both cater to different needs and are appropriate for different (possibly overlapping) uses.Neither is a one size fits all, and neither is better than the other.
It does mentione NASA. The first line of the summary:
Taking a page from NASA's rocket powered landing craft from it most recent Mars landing mission, the European Space Agency is...
So your excuse is that you didn't read the article, and you didn't read the first sentence of the summary to completion. You can't claim that you read the headline, because that doesn't mention NASA.
It's more like: Please put your content on our service so that that we both benefit (you get some ad revenue and exposure, we get ad revenue and become the 800 pound gorilla of online video)... [some time passes]... ok now that we are the 800 pound gorilla we want to change the service and if you don't like it we will kick you to the street. Oh incidentally, the other 800 pound gorilla (RIAA) like the terms we gave them but that's a coincidence and you shouldn't see too much into that.
When everything was analogue, you needed a custom device for each service (phone, TV, fax, etc). In the digital era that way of thinking is as archaic as the dinosaur. I do not want an internet connection that might be slightly better than my current phone, only to be left in the dust in a couple of years. I want a system that allows me to add my phone's internet the car seamlessly.
Yes someone is monetizing my mobile internet; no that doesn't mean that I want everyone monetizing it over and over again.
There is more that one way to skin this cat. Refusing to do anything about it because panic, which summarizes the solution that you seem to think is the only one is just one solution. Here's another http://pando.com/2014/04/09/my... there are others, if you look.
[I was beaten to this by an AC, but since many filter AC comments I'll jump in...]
The Taxi companies have no interest in something that will effectively reduce their revenue.
Rural roads are an other good place to use them. When you approach a turn, dim them and you will be able to tell if a car is coming in the opposite direction (you'll see their lights) and you can take the turn knowing that you won't blind them.
And of course, once they see the pedestrians they can turn their high beams down. You know, not turn off the headlights. Not drive with just their parking lights, simply dim the high beams. It's all perfectly safe. It is how the car was designed to be operated. And as a bonus it is courteous to your neighbors. I recommend trying it some day.
Considering this is for the i8 they got rid of the idle and the vroom-vroom. It's an electric car, so anything to save battery consumption is a good thing (tm)
Who really wins if the FAA/FCC ban inflight cell coverage? The airlines that have built a pay service for internet connections. If we allow cellular coverage in the air, they lose a revenue stream. The airlines already have processes in place for annoying passengers. If you are really annoyed by the person next to you they don't need new rules to deal with yapping on a cell phone. On the other hand, I would enjoy being able to read news while traveling. I would enjoy getting work done with reference materials available while traveling. Please don't knee jerk away a gain for consumers.
I had a prof who would take a vote on which day we would have our test. Once he gave us the choice of next week monday or friday. The vote was overwhelmingly monday (I can't remember but something like 2/3). Immediately after he realized that wednesday was also an option, so we had a re-vote. Friday won out with a majority (not plurality) vote.
So, no, I don't think that guans are wired for logical decision making. Animals, I still hold out hope for.
You can leave your gun in your car, you can not leave your skin color, sex, religion*, sexual preference, disability at the door before walking in. That is a huge difference and has nothing to do with "progressist" anything.
* religion can also include your religion for or against gun control laws, and you may discuss your religion while on premise.
I moved here from Europe. I spent my early childhood in India, Pakistan, Israel and Lebanon. Yes, in some cases moving is quite easy. But once you buy a house, start a family, have elderly family members that rely on you, etc it becomes difficult to the point of impossible to move. Some are luckier that others - My sister typically moves from one continent to an other every 2-3 years. Just because some people can move easily doesn't mean that it is a realistic to say "if you don't like the state you live in move to one that works for you".
I can't leave the city I live in - not if I want to continue being a father for my children. Saying that it is easy to pick up and move is a fallacy for many if not most people.
Is Ohio deciding how to deal with California trade, or are a few making choices that will harm the many. The parent comment about moving everything to the state level was in response to the comment that local politicians are easy to lobby (let's not call it bribe). I find it inherently wrong that a few with money can carry so much leverage in our political system.
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[...] There's a perennial C logic bug where you take an if statement with a one-line body and add a second line without adding braces to denote a block; that never happens in Python.
This is why Swift explicitly does not allow for one line statements without curly braces.
more generally speaking, the language tries to avoid things that lead to dumb mistakes, no default fall through on switch case statements, explicitly requiring every case in a switch to be accounted for, etc. Anytime you imply meaning you introduce the potential for had to find bugs - especially later in the code development cycle when someone adds seemingly innocent changes.
If you're pasting a large enough block it is easy to miss one line and fail to indent it (or miss it in the copy). Now you have a bug, that may be extremely difficult to find. On the other hand, with curly braces, not only will you have a compile time error if you fat finger something, the editor also can automatically indent everything correctly - saving all sorts of productivity.
Yes, it still is possible to make a mistake with copy/paste, trying to make something idiot prof will only result in better idiots. That said, I want my languages to compile time fail on as many errors as possible - those are the easiest bugs to fix.
Code does not have freedom, code is not forced to do stuff. Programmers can try to achieve freedom, and programmers may or may not be forced into implementations depending on their jobs, time, predilections, etc. If a programmer wants the freedom of working on code that they then chose to release under a GPL licensing agreement then the GPL has given them the freedom to provide a service under the terms they want. The rest is just anthropomorphizing code, and code really hates being anthropomorphized.
BSD licensed software allows someone to take it, modify it in some meaningful way, and not share those changes back with the community at large. In that sense, it is possible for software licensed under a BSD license to lose the freedom it had. The developers did not lose any freedoms, the source did. GPL does not force you to be benevolent, it just requires that if you want to use GPL'ed software that your contributions remain benevolent (to use your term). If you don't want to, then chose some other solution, no one is forcing you to use GPL.
Both licenses have their strengths and weaknesses. Both cater to different needs and are appropriate for different (possibly overlapping) uses.Neither is a one size fits all, and neither is better than the other.
The knowledge of a low UID... clearly you have wisdom and insights on how the internet actually works that transcends any RFC. *I bow to your wisdom*
It does mentione NASA. The first line of the summary:
Taking a page from NASA's rocket powered landing craft from it most recent Mars landing mission, the European Space Agency is ...
So your excuse is that you didn't read the article, and you didn't read the first sentence of the summary to completion. You can't claim that you read the headline, because that doesn't mention NASA.
a customized quadcopter drone that uses a GPS, camera and inertial systems to fly into position .....
Yup, hate to break it to you rocket scientists at NASA, but there is a slight flaw in this design for use on Mars.
I hate to break it to you, but ESA is the rocket scientists in Europe, not NASA....
It's more like: ... ok now that we are the 800 pound gorilla we want to change the service and if you don't like it we will kick you to the street. Oh incidentally, the other 800 pound gorilla (RIAA) like the terms we gave them but that's a coincidence and you shouldn't see too much into that.
Please put your content on our service so that that we both benefit (you get some ad revenue and exposure, we get ad revenue and become the 800 pound gorilla of online video)... [some time passes]
You must be new around here...
Not true - you an repair a carbon bike. Calfee will be happy to do it for you
http://calfeedesign.com/repair...
When everything was analogue, you needed a custom device for each service (phone, TV, fax, etc). In the digital era that way of thinking is as archaic as the dinosaur. I do not want an internet connection that might be slightly better than my current phone, only to be left in the dust in a couple of years. I want a system that allows me to add my phone's internet the car seamlessly.
Yes someone is monetizing my mobile internet; no that doesn't mean that I want everyone monetizing it over and over again.
There is more that one way to skin this cat. Refusing to do anything about it because panic, which summarizes the solution that you seem to think is the only one is just one solution. Here's another http://pando.com/2014/04/09/my... there are others, if you look.
[I was beaten to this by an AC, but since many filter AC comments I'll jump in...] The Taxi companies have no interest in something that will effectively reduce their revenue.
Ah. Did not know that. thank you.
Rural roads are an other good place to use them. When you approach a turn, dim them and you will be able to tell if a car is coming in the opposite direction (you'll see their lights) and you can take the turn knowing that you won't blind them.
And of course, once they see the pedestrians they can turn their high beams down. You know, not turn off the headlights. Not drive with just their parking lights, simply dim the high beams. It's all perfectly safe. It is how the car was designed to be operated. And as a bonus it is courteous to your neighbors. I recommend trying it some day.
Considering this is for the i8 they got rid of the idle and the vroom-vroom. It's an electric car, so anything to save battery consumption is a good thing (tm)
Who really wins if the FAA/FCC ban inflight cell coverage? The airlines that have built a pay service for internet connections. If we allow cellular coverage in the air, they lose a revenue stream. The airlines already have processes in place for annoying passengers. If you are really annoyed by the person next to you they don't need new rules to deal with yapping on a cell phone. On the other hand, I would enjoy being able to read news while traveling. I would enjoy getting work done with reference materials available while traveling. Please don't knee jerk away a gain for consumers.
I had a prof who would take a vote on which day we would have our test. Once he gave us the choice of next week monday or friday. The vote was overwhelmingly monday (I can't remember but something like 2/3). Immediately after he realized that wednesday was also an option, so we had a re-vote. Friday won out with a majority (not plurality) vote.
So, no, I don't think that guans are wired for logical decision making. Animals, I still hold out hope for.
You can leave your gun in your car, you can not leave your skin color, sex, religion*, sexual preference, disability at the door before walking in. That is a huge difference and has nothing to do with "progressist" anything.
* religion can also include your religion for or against gun control laws, and you may discuss your religion while on premise.
I moved here from Europe. I spent my early childhood in India, Pakistan, Israel and Lebanon. Yes, in some cases moving is quite easy. But once you buy a house, start a family, have elderly family members that rely on you, etc it becomes difficult to the point of impossible to move. Some are luckier that others - My sister typically moves from one continent to an other every 2-3 years. Just because some people can move easily doesn't mean that it is a realistic to say "if you don't like the state you live in move to one that works for you".
I can't leave the city I live in - not if I want to continue being a father for my children. Saying that it is easy to pick up and move is a fallacy for many if not most people.
Is Ohio deciding how to deal with California trade, or are a few making choices that will harm the many. The parent comment about moving everything to the state level was in response to the comment that local politicians are easy to lobby (let's not call it bribe). I find it inherently wrong that a few with money can carry so much leverage in our political system.
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