Secondly, it's an important biomedical advancement made by citizen scientists. (The important part of that sentence is "by citizen scientists".)
Why is that important? Are most scientists non-citizens? Or does that just mean they're citizens of the country where the work is done as opposed to citizens of some other country?
This message brought to you by Boeing and the people committee for bringing back jobs to the U.S.A.
The Geneva convention does not apply. Neither am I going to war, nor are any of the affected parties non-combatants. I do not plan to use it on POWs or on shipwrecked people.
Not to mention that I never signed it and I, as a person, cannot become a signing party considering that only nations can.
Reminder that 'flame *throwers*' throw *napalm*, which, I'm pretty sure, is illegal even for governments to use since the Geneva convention.
I think you can make your own napalm-like substitute out of gasoline, styrofoam, and benzene. Apparently it works almost as well as the real thing, but I've never tried it myself.
Umm, that's why I originally said that languages should explicitly support both trapping and non-trapping versions.
If that's all the variable is used for, won't the compiler optimize it out of existence anyway? Or is that too fancy yet?
I think a lot of people don't really understand how the compiler actually works. Not even at a basic level.
Well, no, I don't. That's why I asked. It sounds like the answer to my question is yes?
But as for taking production back to Wolfsberg, last I checked there were still lots of VWs made in Mexico.
Right. Don't buy them. They specifically moved the Golf back to Wolfsberg. Be careful, though, because I think they moved it back to Mexico more recently. You can get e.g. a "VAG VIN Decoder" app for Android, or just memorize which place in the VIN to look at and a handful of plant codes. Then you'll know precisely where the vehicle was produced.
If adding a variable aids readability, add the fucking variable! Shove all the results into a meaningful, readable variable name and then shove *that* into your function argument, not some long series of nested function. It's not the 90s. You don't have to save memory! Memory is there to make your code readable. Use it!
If that's all the variable is used for, won't the compiler optimize it out of existence anyway? Or is that too fancy yet?
Ars Technica just lost my respect
Welcome to the party, it began several years ago.
Please tell me you already feel this way about Gawker.
I got my job just because the company I work for had over twenty developers that were all male, and it looked bad on their EEO report.
Not because you were the most qualified applicant? That means the company you work for hired you not because they should have, but because they were strong-armed into it. In fact, they should not have had to have hired you, they should have been able to hire the best-qualified applicant.
The reality is that society needs children.
The reality is that you are asking employers to pay for that, but making children isn't their business. If society needs children, then society should pay for children, through income redistribution. Oh wait, guess what? We already give people a tax break for having children. I've known people who made more than me but paid no taxes because of their children. Now you want employers to pay again?
Of course the rules should apply equally to both genders. You could argue that people who don't have kids should get more time off,
Or you could argue that people who do have kids don't deserve to get paid for their time off. A person who doesn't have kids is worth more to their employer. If people can't afford to survive while they have kids (they can) and we need more people (we don't) then it would be worth it to pay people to have kids. Big problem with that is there are too many humans on this planet already, at least while we operate in our current mode. You want more people made, but that's the opposite of what we need.
If I want a car assembled correctly, I buy one which was put together in Germany
You mean like all those VWs built in Mexico?
No, completely unlike those VWs built in Mexico, which are built like shit. The only thing more embarrassing to my heritage than how shit UAW puts together cars is how shit Mexico puts together cars. It's interesting that you mention Volkswagen because Mexicans are known to be particularly bad at that. When VW brought USDM Golf production to Mexico, reliability plummeted. When they took production back to Wolfsberg, it came right back up to the German standards that we know and love.
Anyone who buys a VW built in Mexico is a moron. All of my imports to date have been built in their designing nation, and came over here on a boat fully assembled. Started with imports with a 240SX, then I had an Impreza GC5, couple of 300SDs (still have one) and an A8. That last has electrical problems but the mechanicals are good, anyway. And there's the rub with VW; their electrical is a bit garbage, even out of Germany.
It's a government project. They'll need to solicit bids from at least six distinct vendors, gets cancelled and reinstated at least twice due to budgetary constraints, gets monumentally fscked up by the contractor in China because they can't read English and only write in Engrish, and gets into massive cost overrun because their accounting do their maths extremely well, tied up in committees for months over if the wording in the contract required a period instead of comma, then finally deployed, and discover it's still broken.
A guy whose evidence is "I've seen stats", without linking to them shouldn't be lecturing about hard evidence.
"May your future be limited only by your dreams." -- Christa McAuliffe
