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Comment Re:Flawed Premise (Score 1) 454

Your implied premise couldn't be more wrong. There is no link between autonomously driving cars and car sharing. Autonomous driving is just another feature a new car will have. Like cruise control and self parking. These features contributed nothing to peoples desire to give up car ownership. Autonomous driving will not either.

The overhead we accept because we have to store, maintain, and insure our own vehicles is enormous. Likewise with parking them at our destination. Imagine an Uber-like app which allows you to request a car, which comes to your doorstep, takes you where you want to go, and then leaves. No parking fees, no speeding tickets, no insurance costs. Why would anybody want to own a car if they don't have to?

Comment Re: Not resigning from Debian (Score 3, Insightful) 550

Death wishes are never cool.

But what do you think people should do instead of escalate?

Maybe accept that the larger group of people you're a part of has come to a decision you disagree with, and move on? People who can't let go of their personal hobby horse can be utterly poisonous to an organization, no matter how righteous they view their cause to be.

Comment Re:marketing (Score 4, Insightful) 101

no you tape them refusing to adhere to the encryption and if the company suffers a breach or IP is stolen digitally then you pull out that recording and CYOA

I would suggest that clandestinely taping your boss being an idiot is a pretty good way to find yourself out of a job.

How about, oh, I dunno, following up such conversations with a friendly, informative email summarizing the discussion and your recommendations, so there's a paper trail?

Comment Really? (Score 2) 112

the company just doesn't understand what makes a device good or bad.

OK, I definitely don't understand the thinking behind the Fire phone, but the Kindle Touch is an absolutely fantastic device. And popular enough to dominate its market as well.

So what the hell is this guy talking about?

Comment Re:Everest (Score 1) 594

Yes it's stupid.... but its no more stupid than all the stupid idiots who climb everest at significant expense.... a significant number of which never come back.

I think the Everest comparison is specious. Yes, climbing Everest is a recreational thrill for rich people. But at least it involves significant personal commitment and sacrifice. The rich person still has to climb the mountain. Space tourism is an amusement park ride: pay your cash, get strapped in, whee! It's the difference between a log ride at an amusement park and paddling your own kayak through class V rapids.

Comment Re:Most uninteresting (Score 1) 158

The idea is that in other languages, if-then-else is a built-in construct. You can't do something similar yourself without hacking the compiler. In Tao3D, if-then-else is a library element like printf in C. So you can change it.

Let's say you often use a specific kind of for loop. In Tao3D, you simply add the notation you need, and now your code is shorter and more concise.

Am I the only one who thinks this is a fucking terrible idea? It's a recipe for obfuscated, unmaintainable code.

Dear Programmers: Quit filling your code with goddamn macros. Use the language as implemented, so everybody else can figure out what the fuck you're doing.

Thank you.

Comment Non-story (Score 4, Informative) 1007

From TFA:

University officials say they have no plans to interfere with the event. “Free speech is at the heart of academic freedom and is something we take very seriously,” said Kent Cassella, MSU’s associate vice president for communications, in a statement. “Any group, regardless of viewpoint, has the right to assemble in public areas of campus or petition for space to host an event so long as it does not engage in disorderly conduct or violate rules. While MSU is not a sponsor of the creation summit, MSU is a marketplace of free ideas.”

The university is going to let the crackpots say whatever they like, and then ignore them. Which is as it should be.

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