Because .08 is a fucking bullshit number. A breathalyzer is an arbitrary device that does NOT calculate how impaired you are. The amount one can drink before imparidness differs greatly from person to person. .08 is lower than what the medical field established in the 70s. It is low because governments take in LOTS of money from the DUI industry. Therefore, .08 is VERY political.

The bullshit here is that the measurement for ".08" is bullshit. It's calibrated for a 100lb woman and is only meant to "get" as many people as possible. The problem is that you're saying people who have .08 are at a certain impairment, but it's a scam. A complete bullshit scam, that breathalyzers actually can measure impairment impartially and justly.

This is the same as saying "I'm OK with the death penalty as long as..." In my case, I'm telling you, I had one beer. I am an (almost) anonymous internet poster, and I have no reason to lie. I live in the USA where there are checks and balances. The behemoth system was there to get money, and it got some from me. The large dispute against "We should legislate against those who would harm us" sounds like it's an easy and obvious case, but I'm telling that it fails and it failed 1000% percent in my case. My life would be ruined if you had your way, and God can only help us if you evil scum have your way to lead the USA to the laws of Saudi Arabia.

Amen. I wish people would think through these things.

As a person who was charged with a DUI after having ONE BEER (I was in no way impaired) when stopped at a roadblock, there are serious problems with your strategy. Many local and state conservative governments like to have things but not pay for them, so they use DUIs as a grossly unjust money-generating source of revenue. Luckily I'm a upper-middle class white man so I was able to buy my way out of it.

It's people like you that ruin people's lives, not me.

Can anyone recommend an Android app that can filter the screen by either dimming it past what it normally does with the built-in settings, or removes certain light frequencies?

Yeah, this is definitely true. What is pissing me off more than build times (which seems to have been settled greatly in the 1.0 release - now I don't notice the difference) is the slow speed of the editor itself. Repainting, auto-completions, tabbing through, etc. is slow, etc. There are a few missing features from Eclipse (although there are new features as well). I just hate the feeling of being forced to downgrade.

However, in all seriousness, I don't think Android Studio is a piece of shit - I think it was just too early to switch. But I realize I will get used to it in time.

Yes. And duh, I did turn the AV off, numbnuts. As I mentioned, turning it off improved build times immensely, but I never had to turn off AV in Eclipse. There are two speed comparisons: 1. the Gradle build system, and 2. the speed of the IntelliJ IDE.

1. Gradle in Android Studio takes longer than the backend of Eclispe. In optimal conditions, it's as fast. But it's been worse in our project.
2. You can watch the IntelliJ IDE repaint itself when switching editors. It's pathetic. There are also the intermittent pauses which happen a LOT, a lot more than in Eclipse.

A thousand upvotes, sir. Android Studio and Gradle has been a clusterfuck hair-tearing horror which has cost us dozens of hours of downtime. Well, maybe I exaggerate about the hair-tearing, but sure as hell not about the dozens of lost hours.

THIS. I can't fucking stand it when people say it's faster to program in Notepad or Vi or whatever than it is in Eclipse, Android Studio, or whatever. It's absolutely not; if you can go fast in Notepad then you can go fast in a "bloated" IDE.

The worse decision we ever made in my team was to switch to Android Studio. It's much slower, and the few items that are better are by far outweighed by the many items that are worse.

Better:
* Expands R.id.string identifiers into the English text
* Condenses some verbosity in Java, such as inner classes with a single method (think OnClickListener)
* Shows colors on the left margin

However, there are so many worse things. It doesn't have all of the refactoring features available in Eclipse. But by far and away the worse thing is its speed. I saw build times of 10+ minutes, gone up from 15 seconds (granted, we believe this was the antivirus, but still, on a good day it was 1 minute 30 seconds). You type, and every 30 seconds or go it will just pause for a blip and make you wait one second. It takes about a second for the screen to completely redraw as you ctrl-tab to switch editors. It starts up slightly faster than Eclipse, but startup time is microscopic compared to the time you're not starting up your IDE.

The Gradle build system did not live up to its hype. It is absolutely no better; it's just different. You have to learn everything again, and it's hard to customize builds because of the sparse documentation. Ant was a piece of shit, but well documented and stable. They really could have changed the game with Gradle, and they simply didn't. The build flavors sound so good but they are surprisingly limited; you can't do anything with them except what Google planned on. For example, you can't make Amazon and Google builds because you can't change targets with flavors. You can, of course, write a custom script to do so, but then what the hell have you gained - we already had to write custom scripts!

Honestly I could go on and on, but switching to Android Studio has cost my team dozens of hours of wasted productivity losses.

I'm really looking forward to see improvements in Android Studio - because I'm going to have to deal Android Studio for many, many years.

No, it definitely hasn't. Even the Facebook SDK doesn't include instructions for Gradle/Android Studio (at least not a month or two ago when I looked)

He sort of did, in fact. It's the new covenant vs. the old. Most (not all) people hold that wearing polyester is no longer a sin, for example. Most use http://biblia.com/bible/niv/He... (Hebrews 8:13) as the proof. Then again, one is free to cherry pick the bible as one pleases.

Well, there you go. Belonging to a community is different from being an atheist. I am an atheist and have never been in a "community", websites, etc. There's no dogma behind being an atheist. There's probably dogma in many communities of anything, including atheists.

LOL :)

Totally not trolling here - can you explain that? It seems to me that any statically-typed language is equally capable of finding problems at compile time.

Are you referring to the fact that it's possible to typedef integers in C++ and not in Java/Ruby? So using an int incorrectly in Java/Ruby wouldn't cause a compile error? That seems like a big stretch to me, that that's actually a quantifiable boon to C++.

Quietly shitting exceptions into a log file is actually better behavior than crashing (unless there's data corruption involved), and in fact, sounds like expected behavior.