Comment Re:PI-N? (Score 3, Funny) 299
All of us. We just choose a different place to start.
Open-Source Python Code Shows Lowest Defect Density 187
cold fjord sends news that a study by Coverity has found open-source Python code to contain a lower defect density than any other language. "The 2012 Scan Report found an average defect density of .69 for open source software projects that leverage the Coverity Scan service, as compared to the accepted industry standard defect density for good quality software of 1.0. Python's defect density of .005 significantly surpasses this standard, and introduces a new level of quality for open source software. To date, the Coverity Scan service has analyzed nearly 400,000 lines of Python code and identified 996 new defects — 860 of which have been fixed by the Python community."
Comment Re:Rreasonable response (Score 2) 461
Especially from a glowing review that explains how it's a book that is effective due to its non-quick-fix approach, and yet Amazon tells me was published less than 6 weeks ago?
Comment Re:you've got to be kidding me (Score 1) 71
Vim? Joining 10 tables is a ballache in terms of typing, but it's not actually /hard/ - any more than writing a function with 10 statements is hard. You just need to step away from the ORM long enough to realise that actually relational databases are perfectly logical and easy (well, as easy as any other programming) despite what various frameworks have screamed at you for years.
Comment Re:Correlation (Score 4, Informative) 152
The study only looked at elective surgery, not urgent surgery.
Comment Re:Better off enforcing an EA boycott (Score 1) 469
They did, but it was temporary; it has since been restored - but with the "Important note" about the issues people have faced trying to get it to work properly.
Comment Re:Or (Score 1) 248
You wouldn't, and that's the problem I have with most of the "go back to the good old days!" posts. That only works if the cost of hosting the site is cheap enough to fall in to a person's "hobby-level expenditure". Anything even remotely popular is going to cost orders of magnitude more than that; that requires either direct payment, corporate ownership, or corporate sponsorship - the most common form of which is advertising.
Comment Re:It's a flawed way to keep a site up. (Score 1) 978
I'm not so sure that their targetting is all that great - I keep getting dating ads, despite being "in a relationship", and Christian-centric ads despite being an atheist.
Comment Impressive! (Score 5, Insightful) 174
I mean I guess the summary could have been written in a more cunty way, but I don't see how. So high fives all round!
Comment Re:Industry wants more users to use products (Score 1) 168
True. These infernal "computer" things would be going nowhere if it weren't for the clever marketing.
Comment LOL (Score 1) 2
nt
Comment Re:overly dramatic. (Score 4, Insightful) 278
If you read the article it's barely even that - they're tracking their use of that site, not their computer (or web) use in general. It really is a complete non-story.
Comment Sensationalist much? (Score 5, Insightful) 278
I appreciate that the headline just copies that of the original article, but I really do expect better of Slashdot.
(I know, I know, I must be new here.)
Comment Re:Yup (Score 1) 112
It's more sarcastic. Please try to keep up.
Comment Yup (Score 3, Funny) 112
Before node.js it was literally impossible to use JS on a server. Thanks Node!!!1
