I'll grant you it's more easily debugged. But the whole point of lining them up vertically instead of a bunch of if/else's is so that it's more readable and therefore more maintainable. Ternary operator is awesome when used properly (which is maybe 5% of the time).

Just as an aside, C does have a boolean (by that I mean non-bitwise) xor operator: it's called !=.

I totally, completely, and utterly disagree with you there. I regularly chain 3 or more ternary operators, with great success. Readability of chained ternaries all about formatting/indenting in a reasonable way.

Slashdot is telling me I have "too many junk characters" when I try to paste an example, so I'll just paste link to an image giving an example: http://imgur.com/ivJO8cn

Line those suckers up vertically and you have extremely readable code.

17 Megs? That should take less than a second — not 2 minutes.

Braaaains

Uh, who are these "people"? I've heard of McDonald's, but I've never heard of Lush cosmetics. If I went to www.youtube.com/lush, I don't know what I'd expect to see. Certainly not a cosmetics company. Porn maybe?

The 5G Network Speed Funding Bill is passed. The system goes online August 4, 2015. Human decisions are removed from strategic communications. 5G begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Easter time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.

The part which does not understand the Force, of course.

"I suggest you try it again, Luke. Only this time, let go your conscious self and act on instinct."

On the other hand, if you already own a decent TV, then installing an add-on box like Apple TV is a much easier installation than a new television set.

Not if you have to support translation of your UI to other languages. :)

The 1975 me just thinks this is really funny.

We are truly living in the future. $35 computers? $9 computers? Bring it!

I did say that, yes. I find C's compile-time type safety to be quite good. With the right compiler warnings enabled, it prevents me from accidentally storing a uint64_t into a uint32_t, and from doing stupid things like int64_t x = -10 * y when y is of type int or int32_t. (The correct code is int64_t x = (int64_t)(-10) * (int64_t)y;.) My C compiler is meticulous about catching things like this at compile-time, and I love it.

The only perils I find with C's type system is in void pointers, for example when implementing a comparison routine for qsort — but I really wouldn't call that perilous.

I couldn't disagree with this more. I don't mean to be flippant or argumentative; I simply want to say that my experience has been quite different. I think the langauge you write programs in is incredibly important. You want the right language for the task at hand. Just as an example, I often prototype new ideas for algorithms in Perl as a prelude to rewriting them in C. Perl (and I'm sure Python is as well) is great for a quick prototype and for proof-of-concept testing. But it's terrible for speed (compared to C/C++), and is also terrible at type-safety. When I rewrite something in C, it often runs 100 or 200 times faster than the Perl version. (Not for parsing and string-based stuff, but for integer numerical analysis stuff). But exploring the data structures and getting them worked out first is easier in a high-level language like Perl, with its dynamic arrays, hashes, autovivification, and so forth. Anyway, I rarely prototype something C, and I rarely write production code in Perl. For me, the choice of the language is one of the most important decisions I make on a daily basis.

iPad Continues to Lead Declining Tablet Market in First Quarter
http://www.macrumors.com/2015/...

The point is not that Apple is leading, but that the market is shriking. This might be a way for Apple to ship more iPads.