Scala also runs on the JVM, so it's fast as opposed to Python.
It's probably wan't your intention, but you make it sound like it is the running on the JVM part that makes Scala fast, rather than Scalas design and implementation eg static typing etc.
By itself, just running on the JVM is not some magic fairy dust that's enough to make highly dynamic languages run like Scala. ie most of the time Jython is actually slower than CPython.
Redhat was around long before debian,
Just curious, how do you figure that?
Date of project/company founding? Date of first public announcement? Date of first public 0.x release? Date of first 1.x release?
As far as I can tell, they both had various milestones before the other and their initial development overlapped somewhat - eg Debian started first and (probably) got prereleases out earlier, but Redhat got to 1.x quicker. But I can't see any way to claim Redhat was around long before Debian.
All these people complaiing about how "horribly corrupt" the US government are are just playing a huge round of "First World Problems". The US is #19 on the Transparency International list.
Changing the topic slightly...
Kim Dotcom's extradition hearings are being held in a country that's first equal on that list. And whose courts are not automatically bending over to take the various government agencies purely on their word. He's getting plenty of opportunity to defend himself.
If he does still get extradited, he's going to have a hard time claiming it was due to corruption. No doubt he will try though.
Not really, there's also Dart, an actually forward-looking systems language with a lot of real thought behind it. But nobody pays attention to that, because it's not by Apple or Google. Far better to keep favoring whatever Google's current ga-ga for
Dart is a Javascript replacement and is by Google. Maybe you meant Rust or something else?
No, no, no. Try this one instead:
This whole cloud thing will blow over. As someone already noted, if you replace "cloud" with "other people's servers" it sounds a lot less appealing and a lot less manageable.
Isn't the point of deploying OpenStack yourself that "cloud" != "other people's servers"?
Pressure is mass per unit area? Sounds like a specification for paper density.
Surely you meant force per unit area?
Its called exaggeration. If I must spell it out, it was to highlight the absurdity by contrasting the nonfree IIS / schannel (not vulnerable to the biggest security flaw in a decade) with the free OpenSSL (vulnerable).
Well if you're going to exaggerate to the point of bullshit, then you could just have easily made it a 'Free' vs 'Open' ideological argument.
And then your inner RMS would claim that none of the GPL licensed (or dual licensed) libraries (gnutls, polarssl, jsse) leaked private keys while the biggest BSD licensed one did. Thus proving the technical superiority of code written using the GPL.
See? Bullshit works both ways.
I don't know where you got the idea RMS is a libertarian
Maybe he's a... Libretarian
everything that wasnt IIS just got their private keys stolen
Hmmm... I'm sensing some level of overstatement here. I can't quite put my finger on it though.
I like the standard keys. And really, just because one manufacturer happened to use a defective part, we lose them? Key switches have been around for decade and are reliable. Just fix the reliability issue in that one model and that's it.
Another reason I like having an older car with a plain old stainless steel non electronic key. I can just hang it around my neck under my wetsuit when I go surfing and leave the car locked.
Those with newer cars are hiding their keys in wheelwells etc while hoping nobody nefarious is watching, or having to use annoying lockboxes to put their keys in.
Probably not a big deal for the average slashdotter though.
You're 55 and have no kids? You've failed your (biological) purpose in life, which is to have kids. You're too old for that now so you can't make amends once you get truly old and start having regrets about not creating life and instead just spending it all on yourself.
I say this as a parent* myself... fuck off!
There are plenty of perfectly valid reasons for not having kids, and plenty of people that want them but can't have them.
* yes I feed trolls offline too!
You weren't asking me, but syntax highlighting in vim is way nicer on the eyes with 256 colours.
That is the only thing I want to have it for though.
The Adobe Exploit Runtime offers simultaneous support across Windows, OSX, and Linux for a cutting edge vulnerability
Not so fast... most of us Linux users are falling behind in our access to cutting edge vulnerabilities.
Sure we still have plenty of the old ones to play with, so it isn't all bad.
I imagine we'll end up with the Nutrimatics version of that instead.
This restaurant was advertising breakfast any time. So I ordered french toast in the renaissance. - Steven Wright, comedian
