Comment Poor John Smedley (Score 5, Funny) 131
I don't know what's worse: being blown out of the sky with explosives or having to stay in Phoenix.
I don't know what's worse: being blown out of the sky with explosives or having to stay in Phoenix.
The question is, who is "you" and when does that checking happen? I don't do a lot of work in Python, Ruby, etc. and all of the programmers that I know who do are fairly young and working on fairly small projects so they don't have a good answer for refactoring.
If I change the arguments to a method in a statically type language any place where I forgot to change the call to that method will be exposed at compile time. As far as I've been able to learn so far, in most dynamically typed languages that check won't happen until runtime. The pat answer to that is "you should have unit tests that cover everything" - but getting complete code coverage is hard and for large projects, the test suite takes a non-trivial amount of time to run - usually much, much longer than compile time. So, you wind up with bugs at runtime. Or is there a better solution?
OK, that's bullshit.
I'm reminded of the old joke:
"What famous event happened in 1732?"
"George Washington was born."
"Very good. Now what famous event happened in 1743?'
"George Washington became 11 years old."
It must be an old joke alright, cuz I've never heard it, and it ain't funny.
Correct me if I'm wrong but... would you happen to be rooting for India by any chance?
Technically, I see how it works but why would a merchant accept this thing? It doesn't look like a credit card and it's missing all of the anti-fraud elements built into the physical cards. According to their FAQ, Coin is trying to substitute an image on your smart phone plus their gadget for your physical card but I don't see that any of the actual credit card issuers are actually endorsing this. As a merchant you might be in violation of your merchant agreement by accepting this thing.
The Blu-ray disc needs to be mounted before it can be accessed. The ratio of robotic mechanisms to discs becomes important. If you need to mount ten discs, it takes ten times as long (if they're all using the same arm) whereas you could spin up ten hard drives simultaneously.
I've worked with large scale robotics since the late 80's. The performance of the arms has not increased significantly since then. When you're dealing with scientific datasets or backups it's not as much of a problem. In random access storage, though, it starts to be an issue.
The Internet of Things is a buzzword. Buzzwords don't need securing. Problem solved.
Also, as they proliferate, they're going to have to deal with vandalism. A gas station is a neatly concentrated resource with oversight, security and even they still get vandalized.
Don't whiz on the electric fence!
Things like pricing can always be messed with. I think the maintenance issue, as the network grows, will become challenging. We'll see, though.
And in 1900 the same arguments applied against gasoline cars and you could get food for your horse, have a stable to keep it in, find a blacksmith to put new shoes on your horse, etc. just about anywhere.
The technology for EVs is still pretty early and just starting to improve. Give it another 10 years and it will probably address most of your concerns.
Superchargers aren't "free" - you pay $2K for access and then it's "free" for the lifetime of the car. This guy thinks that Tesla actually makes money on the program
If there's one thing I've learned reading all kinds of award-winning books, is that more often than not, the award is a big warning that the book is shit, or pompous, or written specifically to woo often sophisticated, pedantic jury members into giving the award.
In short, I usually go for stuff that hasn't been awarded certain kinds of awards. The Hugo certainly seems overrated these days, and has been for many years.
Some people like nested virtual machines, some people like candy colored buttons. What else are you going to do with all those resources?
Despite the name, DOS was not an operating system
It's kind of silly but no worse than network file systems. And, containers don't have that virtualization overhead.
With your bare hands?!?