Really? Python reads so much like English that it's really clear. It may be because you are an existing programmer - I have found those that come into Python from other languages tend to fight the language a lot, and are so used to conventions from other languages, they have problems with Python as it doesn't follow them.
Exactly - lost hundreds of hours to code reviews for not following the style guide? Is this guy an absolute moron? Learn to write to the style given! It's not a hard task.
You say that, games are actually going the other way, well, console games anyway. As the hardware ages and game developers want stuff to look better, they keep lowering the framerate to allow the consoles to cope. A lot of games are now 30fps on consoles.
It really isn't, in my and my friend's experience in any case. As far as I can tell, it's a giant myth (or affects very few people) being perpetuated by everyone parroting it. Either way, even if you do have that association, 10 minutes into the film you are going to forget it.
Really, I don't get this, me and two friends went to see it at 48fps and didn't find it distracting in any way at all. No one I know who has seen it in the HFR version has said it was.
I've just started using OS X (got a Retina MBP, great hardware), and it's way less convenient than Linux. I'm probably going to switch off it soon as some stuff is really starting to bug me - the main one being the lack of a good package manager. Sure, homebrew exists and it kind of does the job, but it's horrible compared to what I'm used to with Pacman and the AUR under Arch.
Obviously, I'm not saying I'd rather see JS gone (well, not without a replacement - JS as a language is ugh), but rather I wish more sites would fall back to a non-JS version.
Am I the only person who misses having the internet viewable without JS? I mean, don't get me wrong, JavaScript can do great things but a lot of the time it really isn't necessary, and often doesn't fall back nicely when JS isn't available.
Faith and trust are different things. I trust someone after I know them and have reason to believe they are likely to be trustworthy. Faith is believing in something blindly, which is a bad thing to do, full stop.
I wish the UK government would do that already. It's insane we are metric for everything, but have roads in miles. They are not even putting both measurements onto new signs or anything.
You say that, but here in the UK, we introduced £2 coins ($3.2USD - must admit, I find a note for around 60p crazy, our lowest note is £5, or $8USD) and while, yes, there was a small period in which it was a little awkward, fast forward a few years and it was all sorted. It really didn't take long.
There are a lot of calls here to scrap 1p/2p coins, actually, as everyone doesn't really value them, and there is literally nothing you buy for less than 5p any more.
But we have fossil records and we have seen evolution work on a smaller scale and can extrapolate. Change my example to seeing people fill their cars with petrol and extrapolating that diesel cars might happen to work the same way.
You don't need to use evolution is disprove God, because there has never been anything even approaching reasonable proof for a God. Take anything else in the world, try and apply the 'logic' people use to say that there is a chance a God exists, and you will not believe it.
Why say 'I believe God created the heavens and the earth' when you can just say 'well, we have proof of a big explosion that caused a lot of matter to form, but what caused that? We don't really know.' (Feel free to shorten to the last four words). There is no reason to believe in a God over anything else, or nothing at all. If you believe without proof, evidence or reason, then feel free - but I don't understand that.
I love the idea that you look at the process, see how the process would work, then believe that what actually happened in some guy came along and did it all. It's like seeing someone drive to a petrol station, fill their car with petrol, drive out, and go 'Ah, so cars run on petrol - except when they are newly made. When they have just been made, they run on pixie dust!'.
I would argue the biggest problem is the perception that 'faith' is a good thing - faith, by definition, is believing in something without a good reason to do so. That is literally insane and is the worst thing we could teach our children, however, if you look at children's films (and often adult's films), they are packed with it. The idea that 'faith' is a good thing has become engrained in culture. I'm sure this is part of the reason why people get scammed so often too.
Schools, just like our legal system, should be based on logic and fact. We should teach the most likely explanation (or that we simply don't know) given experiment, research and evidence. That is the only sane way to proceed.
Of course people should be allowed to believe whatever they want - but that does not belong in the classroom or law, as it's not based on logic and reason. (Naturally, subjects like RE are fine as they are about the fact that many people do believe in religion, and the culture around it. Unfortunately, my experience of RE was a teacher peddling logically unsound stuff (pascal's wager, paley's watch, etc - pseudo-logic that is damaging to children as it will set bad precedent for their reasoning skills.)
Surely it'll just turn into the case we have with graphics card manufacturers, where we'll have some company providing CPUs soldered to a simple board with pins on, and enthusiast motherboards with sockets like we have now.
You give examples of a few rare cases (games) where performance is of the utmost concern - that's not really the norm in software. In that specific case, I'd agree that higher-level languages are not yet there with regards to performance. That said, things change and compilers and virtual machines are getting smarter and smarter. There was a time when you needed to write in assembly to be efficient, now compilers can outperform humans in that area and C is the norm for performance programming.
As things developed in those languages being a pain, I've never had that experience at all. I just like being able to use the software on any platform I want.
Anyway, this discussion is getting a little vague, so I'll call it there before we descend into just saying 'I disagree' a lot.
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Really? Python reads so much like English that it's really clear. It may be because you are an existing programmer - I have found those that come into Python from other languages tend to fight the language a lot, and are so used to conventions from other languages, they have problems with Python as it doesn't follow them.
Python has PEP-8, which is followed pretty well by most projects.
Exactly - lost hundreds of hours to code reviews for not following the style guide? Is this guy an absolute moron? Learn to write to the style given! It's not a hard task.
You say that, games are actually going the other way, well, console games anyway. As the hardware ages and game developers want stuff to look better, they keep lowering the framerate to allow the consoles to cope. A lot of games are now 30fps on consoles.
It really isn't, in my and my friend's experience in any case. As far as I can tell, it's a giant myth (or affects very few people) being perpetuated by everyone parroting it. Either way, even if you do have that association, 10 minutes into the film you are going to forget it.
Really, I don't get this, me and two friends went to see it at 48fps and didn't find it distracting in any way at all. No one I know who has seen it in the HFR version has said it was.
I've just started using OS X (got a Retina MBP, great hardware), and it's way less convenient than Linux. I'm probably going to switch off it soon as some stuff is really starting to bug me - the main one being the lack of a good package manager. Sure, homebrew exists and it kind of does the job, but it's horrible compared to what I'm used to with Pacman and the AUR under Arch.
Sorry, that's just me remembering it incorrectly, I thought the factory was in England, not Wales. The welsh factory is producing Model Bs.
Obviously, I'm not saying I'd rather see JS gone (well, not without a replacement - JS as a language is ugh), but rather I wish more sites would fall back to a non-JS version.
The ones from the English factory are Model Bs.
Android isn't a desktop operating system.
Am I the only person who misses having the internet viewable without JS? I mean, don't get me wrong, JavaScript can do great things but a lot of the time it really isn't necessary, and often doesn't fall back nicely when JS isn't available.
Faith and trust are different things. I trust someone after I know them and have reason to believe they are likely to be trustworthy. Faith is believing in something blindly, which is a bad thing to do, full stop.
I wish the UK government would do that already. It's insane we are metric for everything, but have roads in miles. They are not even putting both measurements onto new signs or anything.
The US also uses Imperial measurements for general usage, so I think a 25c coin is the saner of the problems on hand.
You say that, but here in the UK, we introduced £2 coins ($3.2USD - must admit, I find a note for around 60p crazy, our lowest note is £5, or $8USD) and while, yes, there was a small period in which it was a little awkward, fast forward a few years and it was all sorted. It really didn't take long.
There are a lot of calls here to scrap 1p/2p coins, actually, as everyone doesn't really value them, and there is literally nothing you buy for less than 5p any more.
But we have fossil records and we have seen evolution work on a smaller scale and can extrapolate. Change my example to seeing people fill their cars with petrol and extrapolating that diesel cars might happen to work the same way.
The problem with what you have said there is the implication that there is a need or reason for 'faith' or 'belief' to be a thing.
You don't need to use evolution is disprove God, because there has never been anything even approaching reasonable proof for a God. Take anything else in the world, try and apply the 'logic' people use to say that there is a chance a God exists, and you will not believe it.
Why say 'I believe God created the heavens and the earth' when you can just say 'well, we have proof of a big explosion that caused a lot of matter to form, but what caused that? We don't really know.' (Feel free to shorten to the last four words). There is no reason to believe in a God over anything else, or nothing at all. If you believe without proof, evidence or reason, then feel free - but I don't understand that.
I love the idea that you look at the process, see how the process would work, then believe that what actually happened in some guy came along and did it all. It's like seeing someone drive to a petrol station, fill their car with petrol, drive out, and go 'Ah, so cars run on petrol - except when they are newly made. When they have just been made, they run on pixie dust!'.
I would argue the biggest problem is the perception that 'faith' is a good thing - faith, by definition, is believing in something without a good reason to do so. That is literally insane and is the worst thing we could teach our children, however, if you look at children's films (and often adult's films), they are packed with it. The idea that 'faith' is a good thing has become engrained in culture. I'm sure this is part of the reason why people get scammed so often too.
Schools, just like our legal system, should be based on logic and fact. We should teach the most likely explanation (or that we simply don't know) given experiment, research and evidence. That is the only sane way to proceed.
Of course people should be allowed to believe whatever they want - but that does not belong in the classroom or law, as it's not based on logic and reason. (Naturally, subjects like RE are fine as they are about the fact that many people do believe in religion, and the culture around it. Unfortunately, my experience of RE was a teacher peddling logically unsound stuff (pascal's wager, paley's watch, etc - pseudo-logic that is damaging to children as it will set bad precedent for their reasoning skills.)
Seriously, if it takes anyone on your team 3 weeks to learn how to use GIT at a basic level, you need to find new people.
Surely it'll just turn into the case we have with graphics card manufacturers, where we'll have some company providing CPUs soldered to a simple board with pins on, and enthusiast motherboards with sockets like we have now.
You give examples of a few rare cases (games) where performance is of the utmost concern - that's not really the norm in software. In that specific case, I'd agree that higher-level languages are not yet there with regards to performance. That said, things change and compilers and virtual machines are getting smarter and smarter. There was a time when you needed to write in assembly to be efficient, now compilers can outperform humans in that area and C is the norm for performance programming.
As things developed in those languages being a pain, I've never had that experience at all. I just like being able to use the software on any platform I want.
Anyway, this discussion is getting a little vague, so I'll call it there before we descend into just saying 'I disagree' a lot.