Thanks for the warning. Never leave your phone number, check...

Actually I noticed some of the same behaviour from dx.com - I sent a bad review for some stuff, and those never got accepted, then vanished from my review list.

A lot of sellers give false information about their products, and they get really angry when you complain about it.

Just look for "philips 50000mAh" power banks, for instance.
They often defy physics by having more storage capability per weight than is theoretically possible for LiPo batteries.

LED lights and similar often exaggerate their light output by at least a factor 2, sometimes 10.

That said, I'm happy with quite a lot of aliexpress products, so I think that aliexpress would be great if they started to clear out the false information.

It's just a pity that all ioT talks different languages. If only there were a secure, simple protocol so that they could talk to each other...

SMNP would have worked, but it completely stupid in its ambition to be a superstandard....

So, they didn't redshift the photon, they made it slower with the same wavelength?

If they could blame this on the subcontractors, wouldn't they have done that already?

Do they have installers themselves already (in competition)? Otherwise I doubt they change anything. (If they survive.)

Isn't the main problem that while systemd might solve problem, it's sharply going away from the simple solution that worked to make Unix good?

Systemd isn't simple. If it's not simple, I don't think I want it on my Linux.

PA and Gnome isn't simple either. And creating more problems (albeit while solving others). I believe the same thing will be true about systemd.

It seems weird that you can't upgrade if you delay. Really weird.

Does that mean that when they finally made a car with comfortable seats, it sold out? :)

(My main problem with buying an S is that the seats actively hurt my back. Maybe because I'm 6'4. I don't know.)

Also, does Tesla need systems developers? :)

The UK government really don't like it's people.

Pity Scotland didn't manage to leave.

Turn it around instead. Let the people see all official documents and plans.

Isn't it very likely that something very basic like the pythagorean theorem was discovered more then once? Probably several times in the region we now call India.

We know of the greeks because we got to copy their stuff before it was burned, but we burned thousands of equal amount of historical accounts, philosophy and science from other sources. We've had long-lasting cultures who mainly destroyed other cultures and all their records.

We were just lucky the romans thought that the greeks were cool. If that hadn't been the case, all that would have been destroyed as well.

You can't go from to 5.0.1? (Not that 5.0.1 is worth it, but...)

Since Lollipop has a lot of bugs and nothing of the new features is any better than the old ones (lockscreen, face recognition, calendar... I hated all new changes), why would you upgrade?

5.1 might be worth it.

It shouldn't be impossible to go fully functional using only C++. Is it a challenge? :)

This is true. But I don't think you can be a good programmer if you only know one single language in one single paradigm.

I usually program in a mix of functional, object-oriented and iterative; whichever solves just this problem the best at the moment. (Bonus if it also creates the most readable code. Which is, of course, part of 'best'.) I don't think I could do that as well if I hadn't programmed in both assembler, lisp, C, C++ and LPC.

(I'm not sure what ARM C++ is; I write C for ARM but except the hardware registers that I hide away in hardware layers, there's nothing special over the C. Well, it doesn't have things like printf, signal or exit. But it really isn't a different programming language than say C for DOS.)

I wrote a C compiler in interlisp once. That was fun. (To lisp.) (As a project.) (After learning LISP for about three weeks. It could probably have been much better LISP, but the principles in LISP and functional programming are actually really easy to understand. Easier than being able to read all the parenthesis...)

Writing such projects - as well as doing things like implementing a scheduler or a TCP/IP stack - makes you understand things a little bit better. :)