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Then you're as stupid as the cops. Its the cops' job to put themselves into "dangerous" situations in order to protect the public. Cops are scared of "stalkers"? As if stalkers wouldn't exist without a phone app??? Should cops be scared of breathing city air? Should we be providing them breathing masks along with their bulletproof vests and 17 round firearms?

Those two cops that were murdered in NYC were not killed because of an app. They were killed because a deranged shitbag got the jump on them. If cops feel justified killing misdemeanor lifestyle criminals with dangerous, prohibited chokeholds, then they should not feel like the people who pay their salaries support them.

Use your brain. The cops don't want waze because it makes it harder for them to meet their arrest quotas. That is the only effect a speedtrap app can have

Only a moron would depend on a voluntary participation app to keep him from getting arrested in a bank robbery. Don't go into crime, you'd get arrested with the other dumbasses.

The main advantage of subclassing over switch statements isn't the number of lines, it's that if you want to make a change in the future, you only have to change the decision point in one place, instead of once for every overridden function.

You can tell that subclassing is useful sometimes because people do it in C also, with structs filled with function pointers. It's just not useful to always force your code into a class hierarchy (and indeed, is counter-productive to attempt).

As for the 'useful' independent studies, I'll have to look again when I go home. But you didn't specify 'useful' in your original post. :)

What difference does it make? If it's not commerce, the federal government can create a tax that will confiscate all the man's grain. Problem solved.

If a majority of the people want a larger federal government over a long-enough period of time, no constitution ever written will prevent it.

I'm interested in your follow-up question, though.

That's good. Now all you need to do is convince a significant portion of your fellow citizens to agree with you on the topic. Right now more voters disagree with you than agree.

Because it wouldn't get as many views as you think.

Because it's not as juicy as you think.

I was pointing out that actually there are theories metrics, and independent studies, which addressed your original comment. I wasn't claiming that you should like the book.

More wordy?? Hey, you have to cut it off at around 1,200 pages. Printing presses can't handle much more!

You become what you hate.

4.4 won't run on devices with less than 512M so even if the carriers wanted to they can't upgrade.

How do they handle the fact that different platforms require (sometimes vastly) different calling conventions at the assembly level (i.e., which registers are saved registers, etc).

Hard to read, plus poorly researched, plus didn't demonstrate that they are commonly needed, plus the fact that trying to jam everything into design patterns results in bad software, plus the fact that they don't really help programmers become much better......

What???? it's totally unreasonable for a web connected but embedded OS.

Is that a rhetorical question, or do you really not understand the capricious nature of the mainstream news, the primary goal of which is to get views?

Yeah, we're agreed on this one. I kind of wonder if they started the campaign because they think it's some kind of Republican conspiracy, and they want to expose it.

Also, I am kind of skeptical of someone who is "an old friend" of anonymous, without being anonymous herself.