Comment Re:Tesla a TRUE innovator! (Score 1) 140
Wouldn't it be quicker to just type the second d?
I guess the apostrophe stands for "erat"?
Wouldn't it be quicker to just type the second d?
I guess the apostrophe stands for "erat"?
Ignore the trolls.
TFA addresses this: if you ignore the trolls, they escalate.
Prevent the angry dissent by not making yourself a target for angry dissent by posting bullshit people will call you out on.
Which "bullshit" are you talking about here, specifically? You basically seem to be saying that you should never post anything online that anyone may disagree with. Do you really think it's right that a small, but angry, minority should be able to silence others through threats of violence and intimidation?
I remember growing up I was taught that "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me."
Have you ever considered that, just possibly, something you were taught at school wasn't 100% accurate? That perhaps bullying, intimidation, threats may in fact have a serious adverse psychological effect? Do you really believe that sort of behaviour is OK? (hint: it's not OK!)
people making fun of someone for being a complete fucking cunt.
Can you give more details on exactly what you mean by "being a complete fucking cunt", and why it deserves such an unpleasant response? Or is it just a case of "I don't like them, so anything goes"?
When the Apple II, PET 2001 and TRS-80 were all released in 1977, all three had BASIC as their primary programming language and operating environment. Upon boot, a BASIC interpreter in immediate mode was presented, not the command line interface used later.
This is where BASIC took off.
And who wrote the (level-II) Basic for the TRS-80?
A diff should be just fine.
Unfortunately not. The thing is, tabs don't mean "<x> number of spaces" (with <x> configurable by the user) - they mean "Move rightwards to the next column that is a multiple of <x>". So, a tab in column 0 moves to column 8, but so does a tab in column one, two or seven.
This doesn't play well with diffs, because diffs tend to add some number of characters to the start of each line (typically one for "unified" diffs, or two for "context" diffs). So if a changed line in the file being context-diffed is indented with a single tab, and the user has set their terminal/editor/whatever they're viewing the diff in so that tabs are (say) three characters, then since the tab is s now preceded by two extra characters, the next multiple-of-three column is column 3, so the tab will result in the line being indented by only a single character (relative to the rest of the code in the diff).
The Office functions might be known to C#, but Office admins (those creating/maintaining the scripts) definitely do not know C#
This - and the fact that C# is not built into Word/Excel/Powerpoint/Outlook, whereas VBA is.
It works for EVERYBODY,
... unless you want to look at diffs, in which case it breaks
Look at the 3,000+ page document that gives the specifications for modern POSIX compliance and then ask that again.
Do you think you could possibly narrow it down a little?
1 cup of flour is trivially measured by volume: Just grab the "1 cup" cup from your set of measuring cups, scoop up flour from your storage container, level. You're done.
This is indeed easy—but very inaccurate: it can lead to the measurement being out by as much as 30%.
The problem is that flour is compressible—so measuring it by weight is inherently more accurate.
The compiler replaces it with a fixed constant which indicates how many bytes are needed to store the argument (which is either a symbol or another constant)
No, it can be any expression or any type. Doesn't have to be a symbol, and doesn't have to be constant.
yes, it's called FreeBSD, or any of the BSDs. Top notch documentation, and sane userland.
... and is a suitable replacement for every piece of software ever? Wow!
If something isn't documented properly, and doesn't work the way I expect... I'm not going to dig into the source code and try to decipher it... I'm going to RUN SOMETHING ELSE.
I wish I lived in your world where there was always an alternative that's well-documented and sane... in fact, I'd settle for well-documented OR sane
I can see how Java being in a VM to begin with presents a similar model to running assembly on the actual machine but comparing the two in terms of efficiency and overhead is laughable. I was signalling my cognitive dissonance of conflating Java and assembly so directly.
You are aware that there are CPUs capable of executing Java bytecode directly? I.e. that use Java bytecode as (one of) their native assembly instruction set(s)?
Physician: One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well. -- Ambrose Bierce