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Comment Re:Well, sure, but... (Score 4, Insightful) 295

The mistake isn't the GMO part. The mistake is considering *grains* food at all. It is not.

ok, here's where you know you've gone off the deep end....when a food that people have eaten for millennia is considered not a food, you need to re-evaluate your dietary ideas.

Cool history fact: do you know that the ability to store grains through the winter might be one of the major things that allowed humans to stay in the same place and build settlements? It helped them to rise above hunter/gatherer.

Comment Re:Well, sure, but... (Score 5, Insightful) 295

therefore they have a right to know whether or not the food they buy contains GMO ingredients

Then they should only buy food labeled as "GMO Free," which is manufactured specifically for people with those kinds of concerns.

the federal government has a duty to endure that foods and other products are properly labeled, which in this case, would be a large, conspicuous "GMO" on the front label.

Large, conspicuous, and the front of the label? You aren't interested in people being able to inform themselves. If that were the case, you would be satisfied with a line in the ingredients. Your goal is to make GMO scary to people, with a large scary label on the front.

Comment Swift (Score 5, Insightful) 365

Swift isn't going to make it so "anybody can write apps." That is something that's been tried for decades, with things like drag-and-drop programming. SQL was originally intended for non-programmers. It doesn't work, because the difficulty of programming isn't the syntax. The difficulty of programming is logic. You have to learn to think like a programmer, describe a sequence of steps, ask "what will happen in the user does.....X." You have to reasonably understand the if several things in a row are true, but the next one is false, then all of them are false (if anded together, but not if or'd together).

The logic of programming is why it's good for everyone to learn programming. If it helps people learn to think a little more formally, then it's worth it.

Comment Re:Change Is Life (Score 1) 149

You seem to be ignoring the overwhelmingly positive utility of a site like that.

Please note, I didn't say that the website has no utility......the utility comes from compensating for weak developers and weak projects. If the developers are not weak and the projects have high discoverability, then there's no need to ask questions about it on stackoverflow.

(Of course, it can still fill a role, but all the basic questions would be gone).

Comment Re:Here's the list (Score 1) 119

My first thought on reading this is that this guy started coding this year. #1-3 is solved by using GitHub, TFS online or one of the popular choices most FOSS projects already seem to use. (e.g. How would an experienced developer get these problems in the first place?)....I see he's employed by Red Hat. Does this list as news suggest that Red Hat's internal development processes are immature too?

He wrote the list based on things he'd seen in Chromium, so it's Google's problems. Here is the full list. Not surprising, since they used to jam all their code into a single repository.

(It's hard to fault them for a 100+MB source code download though, unless there's a lot of redundancy in the code).

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