Comment Re:Public domain (Score 1) 320
What makes you think I care enough to work within the system?
The existence of your comment?
What makes you think I care enough to work within the system?
The existence of your comment?
They are not innocent if they are funding a corrupt administration.
By this logic, no taxpayer in history was ever an 'innocent'.
I'm pretty sure that's exactly the argument that just about every terrorist/freedom fighter in the world falls back on when targeting civilians.
I believe the universe was created by an omnipotent, antisocial hedge-maze 3.5 years ago. Science can do nothing to prove me wrong. You actually *can't* know the truth in these types of questions, which is why it's called faith. Please stop confusing the two.
Oh, and when religious types can't define their faith in non-disprovable ways they are rank amateurs, and should be ridiculed for their ignorance. Attack ignorance, not faith. We'll all just get along better.
-Your friendly neighborhood theological non-cognitivist
Can anyone become a programmer?
Apparently.
I disagree with Kahn calling these Computer Science courses, but I have to admit that I am at a loss as to what to call them.
When you figure it out, you should be able to apply the same term to any grade school course the subject of which they hand out graduate degrees. Math, English, Biology, Physics, History, etc. These beginner courses provide the lingua franca (programming languages) which we use to *begin* teaching Software Engineering (well the parts that aren't just pure engineering principles). If you want the academic, abstruse term, how about "Fundamentals of Algorithmic Expression".
This whole explosion would never have happened if they weren't working under the constraint that it must fly!
Exactly. What they should have done is refuse to do any development until they could perfect interplanetary teleportation. Then they could simplify the design down to just the payload!
So in theory I could acquire a good number of anonymous bitcoin and have my shiny new drugs drop shipped to an ex, or maybe some poor politician I disagree with. Or, I could just ship it directly to me and claim I was being targeted. Just, you know, *theoretically*.
'They will become popular when we get away from the word insects and use something like mini-livestock (PDF).'
Hivestock.
The canaries in this coal mine just started dying. It's news because there's about the be a cave in.
Way to totally miss the point. 14,000 Olympic athletes and 500,000 spectators are at the games. If the competitions were the point of the games they'd be spread out (in location and time) so the whole thing would be less of a logistics nightmare. Now whether you think that the Olympics are about cultural exchange or economics is up to you, but it certainly isn't about handing out 2300 medalions. Broaden your perspective.
Creating unusual object structures:
I once played around with a state machine framework that was object oriented c. It had a virtual table at the top of one base class and at the bottom of a different one. Using the same layout in the virtual table allowed multiple inheritance without any special effort and without any wasted space. It's the only object structure I've ever played with that I couldn't implement with C++ classes and inheritance (I guess a *really* good C++ compiler might be able to optimize to that structure)
Virtual Static members and member functions:
There are occasionally times when I need polymorphic behavior, but the behavior itself isn't instance specific. As a contrived example, imagine needing to query an instance of an object for the total number of peer objects that are in existence (I'm probably managing a count during construction/destruction). I need to call some member that is class specific, but that member will only need to use static members to execute. As it is this ends up being declared virtual and the this pointer is (needlessly) passed in.
Those are the only two instances I've run across where I actually wrote code up to the point of noticing that I couldn't do that in C++ (I'm actually still shocked ten years later that there's no such thing as a pure virtual static function).
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