Comment Re:And Slashdot (Score 0) 457
And if email was away as well, we could probably solve our economic crisis.
And if email was away as well, we could probably solve our economic crisis.
Keep China's high population, the latter's geographical repartition (mostly to the east), its economy's high growth rates by western standards, and the fact that it's a developing country (still under-equipped) all in mind. Not to mention its government's authoritarianism. In that light, 40 million connected households in two years is not unrealistic imho.
Nah, the brainfuck version is a mere google away:
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programming is not out of reach of the average person
Given enough time, a monkey banging at random on a keyboard will produce the complete works of Shakespeare. Does that mean that writing is not out of reach of the average monkey?
Is there any other place to get Barium besides China?
They're called rare earth metals not so much because they're rare, since they're a bit all over the place, but because they're not concentrated enough to mine efficiently. This makes it highly polluting to extract them.
The US a couple more countries used to extract them, until China came along with no pollution standards, and priced everyone out of the market. Trouble is, you can't "just restart" such a mine. It's a decade long process to do so -- and it's in progress insofar as I've been following, because China decided to keep these strategic minerals for itself so as to keep high tech manufacturing at home.
which is used as contrast for upper and lower GI studies
What the hell are these studies and why is it assumed Slashdot readers would know what they are? What's a "contrast" in this context?
Gl stands for Glycemic load. Barium is a rare earth metal. No idea how the test works exactly.
Is the submitter seriously asking us to suggest alternatives to barium? Worst submission ever. It could have explained what this bullshit means, and why China needed to improve safety?
Mining rare earth metals is very polluting. In the past two decades or so, most countries stopped producing rare earth metals, because China was producing enough and at a lower cost than they did. (It helped to have no pollution standards.) recently, China decided to keep its rare earth metals for itself to keep electronics manufacturing at home, and sharply cut exports. At the same time, its local population is increasingly vocal about pollution.
And agreed... TFS sucks and the question it concludes on is absolutely ludicrous.
There's a part he gets slightly wrong, though, if he's hounding pussy. In that case, it's much more ideal to immediately offer to have a coffee in a public place, so as to get to know each other. A surprising number of chicks will accept -- likely more, in fact, than after a lengthy conversation.
I don't understand how this is even
Consider the number of young readers who live at their parent's place. Or the number of more seasoned readers who might be divorced, or still single, and aren't going as much as they should.
You forgot a few:
- php sucks: 47 million.
- ruby sucks: 6.3 million
- python sucks: 3.7 million
- JavaScript sucks: 26.5 million
And even though they're not Turing complete:
- HTML sucks: 76.2 million
- CSS sucks: 4.3 million
By your metric, JavaScript is the most popular:
http://www.dodgycoder.net/2011/11/stackoverflows-programming-language.html
Java though... makes me doubt the validity of TIOBE heavily, object-C doesn't help either, I get that there's a lot of android/iOS programming going on (I believe this is what object-C is used for mostly nowadays, but... more than 90% of businesses combined using
And therein lies the rub in your argument. Many companies actually are web based. Many others are into mobile. And a shit ton of stuff is embedded or low level enough that
In my own industry (telco/finance), hardly anyone I'm aware of uses C# or VB.Net. It's almost all C for the low level stuff, Java for the enterprisy stuff, and java/Obj-C for mobile stuff. Oh, and there's some COBOL for legacy stuff, too.
In my brother's (automation/machine tools), it's mostly C for low level stuff, and C++ for higher level stuff.
In my sister's (public administration/archives), it's mostly web-based intranets.
And best I'm aware, games are mostly coded in C++ or (more recently) Obj-C++.
Admittedly, I haven't touched a Windows box in years, and my sample is too small to be noteworthy. In each case, though, note that
At any rate, if TIOBE's metrics includes new lines of code produced per year, I for one am actually surprised that
What? Proper diet, exercise and eating less will make you lose fat. Its not really hard to understand.
Actually, you're incorrect -- things are not so simple.
because he seems to be, even though he admittedly found it necessary to ask his math teacher for information on vectors
"even though"? Are you somehow under the impression most smart people personally rederive the entire field of mathematics from scratch without any outside instruction?
Not. But fwiw, at his age, the brightest kids in a the class are frequently looking into what's coming next, as in what's taught a year or two later. On a more personal note, I never felt like an exception in doing so -- the brighter kids in some other classes did as much, and we had the nerdiest of conversations when we shared and discussed our findings. At any rate, at his age, many kids have a rather precise idea of what a vector is, or a matrix for matter. Some actually know enough of the latter to never need to ask about the former.
Also fwiw, and fyi, there actually are people out there who rederive a heck of a lot more than their teachers or peers wish they did. In particular in social sciences. But don't get me started.
He merely wrote code under the supervision of his daddy.
Sunds like you've no idea what he actually did. He got his name in an article for having written a couple of lines of code under the supervision of his daddy.
Testing can show the presense of bugs, but not their absence. -- Dijkstra