Haskell is really far from fringe, and it's what's commonly used to teach functional programming in schools.

That said, it's terrible and I hate it.

It is illegal to hire an H1-B worker if the position can be filled by a legal resident/citizen. You've just admitted that you break the law. So fuck you. Yes, you are evil management. I hope you lose your job, your pension, and your wife fucks the poolboy.

I'm starting to think the only way to stop these companies from wholesale firing so they can replace everyone with cheap H1-B workers is to make them targets for massive cyber attacks. Not that I can do that. It's not my skillset. But if it ever does happen, I'm going to sit back with a big bag of popcorn and laugh my ass off.

Yup. Fark is getting less fun ever day because Drew sold out. The very reason we go to fark is for the outrage and silliness. But all too often a moderator obviously born a Puritan steps in and ruins the fun.

Also, their moderators are idiots. When I called out someone who said something extremely racist and offensive, I got a 24 hour ban. When I complained the fucking moron of a moderator insisted the statement I referred to wasn't racist. Yes it was. It was extremely offensive to Filipino women. I know, because I asked my Filipino niece. Fark either needs to get moderators who aren't racist morons.

It's actually one year

Yes, but if something goes wrong in-flight, and you lose the approach plate, it's not something that is necessarily dangerous because the controller can provide the same information. However, if your emergency handbook is on the tablet and you lose it, then you're in a real bind.

They still carry a paper copy of their emergency handbook, the one with all the emergency procedures in it. The iPads failing in the air wouldn't be a safety issue so long as the radio didn't fail, since I don't think there's any information in the iPad that the controller can't talk the aircraft through.

Return to gate to get on wifi to fix it vs return to gate to get backup paper documents. Either way they'd have been in the same boat.

In the USA, this would likely require a constitutional amendment, it is widely held that the Fifth Amendment "Right Against Self-Incrimination" protects the right not to divulge an encryption key.

And how many of those phones have been sold? Making sapphire screens is not impossible, it's just very hard to do in large quantities. When you sell as many phones as Apple does, you can't afford to let one component bottleneck production.

For varying values of "easy", sure. It's still not easy enough to be practical for use as a mass market smartphone screen. Possible, but not practical.

Why would the Fark Nitpicking Patrol be on Slashdot? Are there not enough typos on Fark to satisfy them? I know that can't be the case, there are thousands of man-hours of work just correcting misused apostophe's alone.

Your argument can be summed up with "stop liking what I don't like."

Just like how AT&T eventually succeeded in buying T-Mobile, right?

Wheeler is 69 years old. I would imagine his next post will be retirement. That may play a factor in his willingness to rock the boat.