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Comment Re:Greenspun's Tenth Rule (Score 1) 254

I'm thinking more like the Python interpereter, but with your code being stored in your source files automatically. You can then open the files and add breakpoints as you like. If a function isn't defined, it'll request you build it on call.

Note: for particularly lazy programmers, this could add more issues, especially with functions that are only called on rare cases.

It'll be a nice feature I'm sure. I just think the suggestion of the TFS, as if it is something revolutionary... is a few decades out of date.

Comment Re:Visual Studio (Score 2) 254

OK. I've yet to find a better overall environment (though Eclipse + Java beats VS in some aspects of debugging, neither seems better at every aspect). However, I don't see the point of your post. In reality "care" would have been implementing this YEARS ago. I mean, I've used Python for a long time, and all I can think is "I have this in Python. WTF is novel or research about this? Just %$#@ing do it.

Comment Re:Talk about forgetting your password! (Score 3, Interesting) 104

Since when is "works correctly 99% of the time" good enough for an authentication system?

And how often do you mistype your password? I doubt many get their password right even 90% of the time unless they have rather bad passwords.

Also, there's false positive vs. false negative. False negatives aren't so bad (especially at 1%, when retries are possible). False positives are what are really of concern.

Comment Re:Walk by lockouts (Score 4, Funny) 104

I'm more worried about them realizing I'm not human, from my brain waves. I don't want to go back to my homeworld! Also, how much testing did they do to ensure there aren't issues with emotional state or distraction? If I had a family even and was stuck listening to Beyonce or Katy Perry thanks to my sister's atrocious taste in "music"... Is having that crap stuck in my head going to prevent a login?

Comment Re:News Flash! (Score 2) 315

Yeah, but their complaint is pretty retarded.

It'd be like Pepsi complaining that Coke were trying to use a Trojan Horse to dominate the market, if Coke gave away free drinks, and also made the recipe freely available.

Sure it might give them market share, but given the 'free recipe' bit... kinda hard to dominate the market and keep others from using it to do the same thing.

Comment Re:Carbon dioxide? (Score 3, Informative) 203

usually too much radiation just makes things sick, lethargic and dead.

CO2 doesn't suffocate stuff, lack of oxygen, and CO will suffocate. Anyway, in the water, CO2 turns into carbonic acid, which becomes carbonates and bicarbonates, if I remember correctly.

O2 binds to hemoglobin stronger than CO2, so with enough O2, CO2 isn't a problem, though it may cause discomfort since your body detects it's presence, rather than the lack of oxygen. CO however, binds to heme more strongly than O2, so it is an issue.

Comment Re:Well, that's it. (Score 1) 203

yes, and then they are more of a threat to the poor creatures they eat, and the population of those things are reduced.

And saying it is a building block of life, and not pollution is a false dichotomy. Would you like to live in a 50% oxygen atmosphere (same temperature and pressure)? A requisite of life can be bad if there is too much of it.

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