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  1. Re:socialism's benefits on The Solution To Argentina's Banking Problems Is To Go Cashless · · Score: 1

    Good thing the brilliant Great Leaders of Argentina banned gold trading almost three years ago. No wonder their economy is the pride of South America. They've applied their benevolent justice to thwart every scheme those dirty capitalists have attempted!

  2. Re:Pretty weak on Criticizing the Rust Language, and Why C/C++ Will Never Die · · Score: 1

    You're exhibiting some reading comprehension problems.

    Google has not stated that outside contributors must not use exceptions. They declare:

    "We do not use C++ exceptions"

    The "We" in that is inclusive. Google themselves "do not use C++ exceptions." They also elaborate on exactly why they themselves do not use exceptions.

    There is no reason to interpret the Mozilla policy as applying only to outside submissions either. Unless, of course, this is not to your liking and you invent fictional reasons.

    There's any number of style guides that endorse C++ exceptions, but they aren't typically as public-facing.

    Cite some. How you know this about non-publicly facing policies is an interesting question.... but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt if you do, remembering that others around here might call you on it if your claims aren't correct.

    And Microsoft doesn't count. They've integrated their deviant compiler with their proprietary OS according to their own questionable design and vertical implementation.

  3. Re:socialism's benefits on The Solution To Argentina's Banking Problems Is To Go Cashless · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's all lies. Argentina has no reason to seek alternatives; they have a fair, equitable socialist government that would never manipulate its fiat currency to raid savings.

    We must outlaw these robber baron digital schemes right away. These digital currencies are a threat to The Good and the Great's ability to provide the fair and just governance the people of the world deserve.

  4. Re:How is killing him Unislamic? on Third Bangladeshi Blogger Murdered In As Many Months · · Score: 1

    supporting references

    Islamic "scholars" and Islamist apologists opining about the meaning of Jihad. They and Benny Hinn have approximately the same credibility.

  5. Re:How is killing him Unislamic? on Third Bangladeshi Blogger Murdered In As Many Months · · Score: 1

    That whole page is the worst piece of weasel word riddled crap I've ever seen on Wikipedia.

    On the other hand, some scholars argue that such verses of the Quran are interpreted out of context, and argue that when the verses are read in context it clearly appears that the Quran prohibits aggression

    Multiculty claptrap straight out of The Guardian. "some scholars argue" and "clearly appears."

  6. Re:Pretty weak on Criticizing the Rust Language, and Why C/C++ Will Never Die · · Score: 1
  7. Re:better reasons on Criticizing the Rust Language, and Why C/C++ Will Never Die · · Score: 1

    The only one on your list that actually worries me is the compile times.

    It's explicitly not a goal to produce the most concise language possible. It's not a competitor of Haskell/Ocaml/F#/etc., and it doesn't need to be to succeed. Cargo is a build system for a beta language.... fixable. Slow regex isn't inherent to the language.

    But if Rust suffers Scala like compile times then yeah, that's bad. Compile time matters.

  8. Pretty weak on Criticizing the Rust Language, and Why C/C++ Will Never Die · · Score: 1, Troll

    I'll limit myself to the 286 word (!) summary and not RTFA — because Damn! — that's bad enough.

    [W]hat actually makes Rust safe, by the way? To put it simple, this is a language with a built-in code analyzer

    What makes Rust safe is language design that permits that code to be analyzed. Costly C++ code analyzers that hardly anyone actually uses can't match Rust's built-in, for-free, automatic analyzing compiler because the C++ language itself precludes this.

    The rest of the first paragraph amounts to `Rust isn't necessary because C++ is improving.' Anyone that's been watching C++ develop for the last 30 years knows there are both technical and political limitations to how much C++ can ever improve and some people can't wait another 30 years to get halfway there.

    Then we get into this drivel;

    I can generally understand why it doesn't have a decent inheritance and exceptions, but the fact itself that someone is making decisions for me regarding things like that makes me feel somewhat displeased.

    Decent? C++ has `decent' inheritance? I'd be surprised if the author actually understood C++ inheritance. I know most C++ programmers don't. Rust spaces that '80s OO crap and gives you a clean, simple system of traits. You're not limited in any way by that design unless you're employed to write FAQ answers and blog posts about the subtleties of mis-designed C++ OO.

    As for C++ exceptions; here is Mozilla's policy on C++ exceptions: "do not use try/catch or throw any exceptions." Here is Google's policy on C++ exception's: "We do not use C++ exceptions." C++ exceptions are broke. Full Stop. These people understand this. The author doesn't.

    If the lack of C++ inheritance and C++ exceptions are the best you can come up with to disparage Rust then sign me up for Rust.

  9. Re:Ebola on World Health Organization Has New Rules For Avoiding Offensive Names · · Score: 1

    The Ebola River for which the disease is named is sensitive and doesn't like having horrible diseases named after it.

    The best policy is to simply not name these sort of things until they appear in a Western nation somewhere. The media could refer to Ebola, for instance, as the Unidentified Tropical Wasting Syndrome until a nurse in Texas catches it, at which point may be named the Dallas Hemorrhagic Fever, or DHF.

    Far more equitable and highly unlikely to incur the wrath of WHO.

  10. Re: No. on Is It Worth Learning a Little-Known Programming Language? · · Score: 3, Funny

    And it becomes even less productive than it already was when it becomes necessary to hire Java, C# or even PHP devs

    Yeah, I've noticed how everything written in Java, C# and PHP are brilliantly fast and bug free.

  11. Re:i don't understand the premise of the post on VA Tech Student Arrested For Posting Perceived Threat Via Yik Yak · · Score: 1

    The First Amendment

    The Constitution isn't a suicide pact. We are not obligated to ignore threats.

  12. Grievance Mongering on Native Hawaiian Panel Withdraws Support For World's Largest Telescope · · Score: 1

    Blaming this on "religion" is a cop-out. They're waving their "religion" in your face because they know you will crawl on your belly over hot glass to avoid "offending" their "native" sensibilities.

  13. Re:Where did they get the $250M figure? on Obama Announces e-Book Scheme For Low-Income Communities · · Score: 3, Informative

    Now how exactly did they calculate how much the "free" ebooks were worth?

    The amount is calculated as a function of the number of authors and publishers the Democrat bundlers designate for the funds, multiplied by the amount each of those individuals and organizations are permitted to contribute, times the factor needed to make the contributions a small enough fraction of the total so that it can't plausibly be called a straight laundering operation.

    In the end the Clinton's hard money coffers will net somewhere between 2-3% of the total; a typical ratio for laundering public money back to politicians that know how to play the game and stay out of prison. $5-7 million, in other words. The other 97-98% go to politically favored authors and publishers who write to children primary on the topics of race, gender and sexuality grievances, climate change, diet and assorted atrocities in American history, not necessarily in that order.

  14. Re:JQuery is something to learn? on JavaScript Devs: Is It Still Worth Learning jQuery? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Same here. $('select something').do_stuff(function (e) {...});

    That's about it. I don't feel as though I have some big investment there.

  15. Re:Cue the whiners on ESPN Sues Verizon To Stop New Sports-Free TV Bundles · · Score: 1

    Verizon still has to abide by the contracts.

    And who claims they aren't, aside from ESPN? Abusing the court system to impede (otherwise legitimate) things isn't some rare phenomena one shouldn't suspect. Or Verizon may think it feasible to break the terms by having the terms found "anti-competitive," possibly on the basis of tying.

    Getting wrapped around the contract dispute axle misses the point. The point of this story is that a major access provider is finally, at long last, breaking the logjam and at least starting to move in a desirable direction. The ESPN lawsuit is a sideshow that isn't particularly important in the long run because contracts expire.

  16. My sympathies on We'll Be the Last PC Company Standing, Acer CEO Says · · Score: 1

    Determined to be the last of a dead market segment! Quite the aspiration you have there.

    Bunch of nonsense anyhow. PCs aren't going away.

  17. Re:Can't they just get it right? on AMD Publishes New 'AMDGPU' Linux Graphics Driver · · Score: 1

    I looked through those threads. The first solved his problem by disabling some nvidia power management feature that caused glitches with his $300 "professional" external audio interface. The second is someone struggling with his $999 quad DSP board and the third is yet another high end external audio system.

    That sort of high end audiophile grade stuff is never glitch free. You and the other 8 people on Earth attempting to operate your external quad DSP board are expected to cope with such things. The other 99.999% of us are just running ordinary cmedia xonar, realtek or whatnot audio and have zero problems with NVidia. If you are going to wade into that audiophile mess you need to man up and deal with the glitches.

    Whether you do or not at least I'm convinced your concerns are irreverent to almost everyone else.

  18. Re:Missing one detail ... on George Lucas Building Low-Income Housing Next Door To Millionaires · · Score: 1

    This isn't about retaliation

    Clinical naivety.

  19. The first thing I thought of reading the summary was a CCD, which is a type of CDA from the HL7 spec you cite. Just because a document follows a standard doesn't make it usable.

    I've seen huge CCDs; documents so vast they can't possibly be entirely meaningful without an analysis squad. So obviously providers are only reading the most recent additions to it. The acronym is Continuing Care Document — the operative word being `continuing' — so by it's nature it becomes very long, and the various entities and their systems are often very verbose and redundant in how they amend the CCD, repeatedly transcribing lengthy treatment instructions and whatnot. So it grows and grows into tens of megabytes of XML....

  20. Re:Pot vs. Kettle on Microsoft: Feds Are 'Rewriting' the Law To Obtain Emails Overseas · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Indeed. ACA employer mandate causing politically inconvenient layoffs in election years? Punt that down the road. Three times. Yay! ACA Cadillac plan excise tax giving your union constituents heartburn? Punt that one to 2018. Yay! Immigration laws angering your constituents? Ignore/rewrite that stuff. Yay! Medicare Advantage cuts have the AARP up in arms? Pencil whip that one out of existence. Yay!

    NSA playing fast and loose with your papers and effects? (selective) OUTRAGE! (selective) OUTRAGE!

    A government powerful enough to deliver all the social justice you demand is powerful enough to exercise its own prerogatives.

  21. Re:And it's not even an election year on Ten US Senators Seek Investigation Into the Replacement of US Tech Workers · · Score: 2

    It's incorrect to say that the home countries of H1-Bs don't benefit. In the first place, a lot of people send money home to their families.

    Trading your energetic youth for subsistence income is a benefit? I guess that's why Mexico is no longer a kleptocratic hell-hole where cartels no longer slaughter students en-masse after the police round up their victims for them.

    Oh. Wait...

  22. increased awareness? on Google Is Too Slow At Clearing Junkware From the Chrome Extension Store · · Score: 2

    At what point did these monkeys "increase" their "awareness" about anything that didn't involve some cultural grievance? The only reason they aren't still opening every single word doc they receive is because the MUAs impede them enough to allow laziness to dominate.

  23. Re:one person != some developers on Why Some Developers Are Live-Streaming Their Coding Sessions · · Score: 1

    He's not the only one.

    I've been watching Jonathan Blow develop a game programming language since late last year. Smart cookie. A mix of pragmatism about the supposed value of some cherished ideas mixed with a laser focus on what the game programmer really needs is leads to interesting design choices.

  24. Re:Unnecessary, but profitable. on The Dystopian Lake Filled By the World's Tech Sludge · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The operative word there is "was". That plant is gone now, moved to Asia in 2014. Also, it was an "assembly" plant; the major components were made in China, as you suspected.

    There were big claims made and lots of happy talk about 'merican jobs, herp derp. The cold reality is the plant is gone, the 'experiment' failed, and whatever statements about how it "wasn't cost considerations" is just so much corporate grifter B.S.

    The ability of the West to feather its environmental regulatory nest without multiplying the cost of manufactured goods depends entirely on evacuating the industrial base to unregulated third world Asian hell holes. That is reality. Don't like it? Feel free to substitute whatever fiction you like best, just like everyone else does.

  25. Mix in a real story at some point? on Mutinous Humans Murder Peaceful Space-going AI · · Score: 1

    ...?