Comment Re:Cuba (Score 1) 180
I didn't say it would be good for Ukraine, did I?
I didn't say it would be good for Ukraine, did I?
It's called a dictionary. Use it.
Their ships and exocets were effective, deadly, and few.
I'm sure the US won't have a problem with Russian bases on Cuban soil. Or perhaps even Mexican soil.
What's that? It's been done? What was the US reaction? 50 years of petty isolationist aggression towards a state that didn't tow the line?
If the Russians want use the American model, embargo trade with Ukraine and be done with it. The rest of your post is histrionic babble.
See, you know how we can tell you're a Russian hack? A REAL Slashdotter would have said "USian" out of disdain. You Russian astroturfers are pathetic. Get a real job.
Do Russian soldiers often take their tanks on vacation with them? How stupid do you have to be to believe this?
The dividing line between whether a high or low-fat diet helps or hurts is vigorous exercise. In fact, there are a good many nutritional bogeymen whose danger relies on Americans' sedentary nature. Running and lifting will forgive a multitude of nutritional sins.
What, I have to Google it myself?
I have it at on good information that it stopped being cool at user ID 535826.
Huh? The GPL makes explicit use of both capitalism and copyright law.
Today, the inmates run the asylum.
Oh yeah! I forgot; we had #ifdef __posix, too!
Absolutely non-obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/927/
But yeah, I was ripping out a lot of legacy code and replacing it with POSIX; this was the late 90's, so it was already well-established.
Ah, I remember fondly the old days of MUD code in C, written to support 15 flavors of UNIX, MacOS, and 3 flavors of DOS. The #ifdef's on the socket code could go on for miles.
An ideal solution solution would be to have a cross platform higher level language, and to just use C++ for it's intended use on these platforms which is primarily just computation or providing access to an existing library, not driving the actual logic of the overall app.
In software development, you never get to use the "ideal solution" because it invariably, as exemplified by this case, doesn't exist. The "best tool for the job" is always a local optimum.
I suspect it is more likely that they are using a critical library that is easier to code around than to reimplement in another language.
A list is only as strong as its weakest link. -- Don Knuth