I don't believe that's true. Quite a few people down a bottle of spirits and pass out and never wake up. It's probably next to impossible to kill yourself with beer purely through the acute toxicity of alcohol, but the same is not true of (say) vodka.

It's normally kids without sufficient experience to understand that although it's physically possible to drink an entire bottle of vodka in a few minutes, it's quite likely to end your life. The LD50 of ethanol translates to a little under half a litre of vodka (or gin, or whatever). That's not very much.

But that doesn't matter.

I know e e cumming's work well - possibly my favourite poet - and I can't help but think that he has earned his specific usage of capitalisation through his (often rather underrated) work. Can't speak about k.d lang, but this made me smile.

I don't think that circletimessquare has earned his pissyness though - though he doubtless believes that he has.

You've got to admit though, you *are* pretty pissy about it.

Also: Conformation does not mean conformity. I assume that you don't care about what the words you're using actually mean, preferring instead to rant (in lower case) about how we all know perfectly well what you mean, and shouldn't worry about what a mere dictionary has to say about the matter.

You know, for someone who says that they're relaxing, you really are awfully uptight.

Great name, Samsung. Nice work.

Though true, there are some languages that lend themselves to compilation more than others. Anything with an 'eval' statement, for instance, doesn't lend itself to compilation.

It should be though. If V8 compiles the javascript to machine code, why isn't it fast? I know it isn't, because it's an order of magnitude slower than the equivalent code written in C, and I think a fifth of the speed of code written in Go (from memory...). What's the deal?

Still marginally less entertaining though.

That's great that you always have access to your editor-of-choice.

Sometimes one has to use whatever command-line editor happens to be lying around, nano or vi or whatever. Sometimes (yes.. I know...) you might be on Windows trying to use notepad. Notepad++ isn't much better in this respect.

The problem with python is that your code can look fine in any of these editors, but not actually be fine. If I can't find simple syntax errors in code just by looking at it, then there is a problem with the language.

Also, it's not less to type in a syntax-aware editor (in a non-syntax aware editor, python is much worse).

In C: it's "{ \n <code> }" to type a new block
In Python it's ": \n <code> \b" to type a new block.

Oh ok, I see what you mean. Yes, you could use the zeroth element to store the length, but now you're presumably going to do bounds checking on every access (or what's the length for?), which is even more expensive. Also, storing the length at element zero is problematic if the array is large and the width of the array elements are too narrow to represent it.

Or you could just waste the space, which seems to be a pretty weird approach.

I don't know - it does seem to me that 1-based array indexing is just ever so slightly more difficult and ever so slightly less efficient and far far less common. So, why?

It is if both the array and the index arrive as variables - so that the compiler doesn't know what they're going to be. In that case you do have an extra instruction to perform.

I would estimate, not being even remotely qualified, that the number of devices you'd need to effectively search the entire oceans for submarines would be an order or magnitude greater than the number of devices you'd need to search the land for, er, land submarines. I mean, armoured trucks or something. And if such an effort did signal the end of submarines, then what are all your small cheap robot drones actually for now?

Damn things would probably turn around and take over.

Whereas the article, should you choose to read it, makes it perfectly clear that there was plenty of video on the internet prior to youtube.

The point it, I think, the youtube was the first one to do it that didn't suck. In a way it's sad, but very often the revolution comes along when someone suddenly decides to implement technology in a way that doesn't suck.

That's a really silly position to take. Operator overloads are incredibly useful, and are one of the things that really helps to make a language more expressive. They can be abused, but so can any part of any language, and taking them out because once you saw someone do something bad with them was an overreaction. And you can't seriously imagine that it's even remotely possible to provide built-in language support for mathematical operations on all possible mathematical objects.

Good lord I've been doing it wrong for years....

Well - that's a pretty fair point. I would like to think that there's something between 'children' spaces - and completely no-holes-barred burning-alive-videos-ahoy spaces. I'm not sure I'd exactly consider youtube to be a 'childrens' space - it's certainly not curated with 'children' in mind - but I'm very happy that they take down the ISIS videos from there.

Presumably there are spaces where these videos don't get taken down, and if there was something deeply wrong with me and I actually wanted to see someone get beheaded, then I suppose I could go there and watch such things. Seems to me it should probably be treated on a par with child pornography though.