Comment Re:BASIC (Score 1) 315
Ignoring GOTO (just remove it from the language), what fundamentally bad habits does BASIC teach?
Ignoring GOTO (just remove it from the language), what fundamentally bad habits does BASIC teach?
What kind of IDE/environment are you using?
I think the biggest hurdle is not the language choice, but how to get things to run.
My first language was Logo. Couldn't do much with it, but it was fully interactive, which meant that you got immediate feedback as soon as you pressed Enter.
I've recently had to make a simple graphics language for my day job, including an interactive editor which ran the program (= redraw the image) on every change; feedback while you're typing. The language is quite strict and unforgiving, but if a similar language could be made friendlier, it could be a great kids' language.
Subtle things like...
- Not being so darn stubborn when a salesperson sells a 12 month project to be delivered in 3 months.
- Taking up leave days, even though running behind on schedule.
- No longer working late or taking work home.
- Generally being cheerful and somehow more "care free".
Laws apply to all, rules just apply to those who want to.
If you're good enough and they really want to have you, you'll be able to negotiate.
Disallowing foreign competition is what is distorting the playing field.
You mean like disallowing customers to import goods sold on foreign markets at lower prices? You know; import protection.
If companies are against protectionism, they shouldn't get benefits of protectionism either.
This is billionaire douchebags saying they could become even bigger billionaire douchebags is only they could bring in more foreign billionaire douchebags to replace American billionaire douchebags.
FTFY
commercial libraries often come with legal indemnification clauses, which bring extra business value.
I know of NO software, whether it be libraries or applications, open source or closed source, that don't have a legal disclaimer in their license.
You're equating porn with advertising? Surely you are joking. One is filth-ridden trash, demeaning to women and men alike, imagined by sociopaths and enjoyable only to the sickest of perverts, the other is just people having fun in bed.
There is a difference between group projects, where each individual takes on a different part, which are then combined, and pairing, where two people work on exactly the same thing, at the same time, sitting next to each other.
It's not the amount of money, it's the sheer number of people he tried to extort.
That he asked so little money and still managed to fail most of the time is no excuse.
...and he blackmailed the people on the pictures.
It's still not rape, but it's quite a bit more evil than "just" posting private nude pictures without permission, which is pretty bad to begin with.
I wonder; was there ever such a thing as "Pair architecture" or "Pair mathematics"?
Except that their employment costs more tax money than their unemployment benefits would.
It's "art" because your tax paid for ~4 years of somebody slacking off and now he had a thought that everybody else already had years ago.
Meanwhile, Google and the like will get requests to add a new CA, they will research the new CA and find the same slimeballs in charge and never add the new CA to begin with. Nothing hurt but the pockets of some slimeballs.
"Beware of programmers carrying screwdrivers." -- Chip Salzenberg