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Comment Re:So rich guy loses court case with bank (Score 0) 117

"Yes, yes it does. Try a dictionary. It might help."

Apparently you don't understand the difference between "frequent occurance" and "normal". I suggest you buy yourself a dictionary unless you allow any condition that suits your political leanings to be encompassed by the term normal so rendering it meaningless.

"As before, gays have been part of normal society for longer than it's been civilized."

So have psychopaths.

  "Right, only in the last few decades have we permitted homosexual people to admit that they exist without persecution, which is how people like yourself can be so hilariously confused: willful ignorance."

I suggest you take a trip out of your comfort zone to countries away from the cuddly comfy west and see how "confused" I am. Give your boyfriend a kiss and cuddle in the middle of a street almost anywhere in the middle east, africa, russia, central america or the more conservative parts of far east and see how long before you're beaten up or in prison. Hell, even do it in a lot of southern US states and see what happens.

Comment Re:Japanese Paradox (Score 1) 38

I suspect even algorithms - except at the hardware control level - will be surpassed once neutral networks become viable for most things. And once you've taught a neural net to do something you just copy its pattern like a piece of software onto other machines. The fact that they can learn means they won't need to be programmed in the conventional sense though someone will probably have to literally show them how to do something.

Comment Re:Japanese Paradox (Score 1) 38

"For us tech workers things will be very good,"

I wouldn't bet on that for much longer. The smarter computers get the more likely they'll be able to figure out how to do a task on their own rather than being explicitely told whether it be doing a nightly backup, troubleshooting their own DB or implementing new tasks that previously would have required programming.

I'm sure in 100 years there'll still be humans doing these sorts of jobs - in the same way you can still find people making horse shoes - but not in anything like the same numbers. IT for humans will go back to being a niche, almost hobby activity.

Comment Is someone trying to replace COBOL? (Score 2) 96

I wonder if some lead IT whizz kid decided it would be really "kool" and look good on his CV to replace all that crufty old cobol running on the cobweb covered mainframe in the corner with this months latest hot language?

I'm exaggerating a bit, but it does seem to me having worked in the dev industry for > 20 years that a lot of the younger devs really don't understand the serious reasons behind the phrase If It Ain't Broke... If you mention it they either think you're being ironic or just too old to "get it". Sadly its them who don't get it but they're too arrogant/naive to realise it.

Comment Re:Never underestimate (Score 1) 173

>Because that's ugly when integrated with normal code.

Is it? Seems cleaner to me. HYMMV.

>These are really dumb reasons.

They seem like good reasons to me. I think you're the one trying to argue your prefered method without any decent reasons to back it up other than you prefer it aesthetically.

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