It's a good thing most actors aren't good at programming.

Seriously, why do we feel we must constantly reel words, which were perfectly content in their familiar habitat, into the jargonic fold? "Actor"? Couldn't we have used one of dozens of words already used in everyday English: programmers, hackers, thieves, people? That last suggestion brings up another question: which of the two instances of the word "malicious" could safely be removed from the sentence? Both. After a long introduction about a security hole, we're so ready for a scenario about villainy that we would be positively thrown off otherwise. At least they said "could create" and not "could potentially create."

There.

After the lawsuit from Oracle and now this, if I were the one who chose Java as Android's language, I would be kicking myself just about every day now.

I also will always remember it. In my formative junior high years, I took a video class that had among its gear an Amiga 2500, and I tried to make something like a live-action take on Animator's Revenge with Daffy Duck. From the article:

In the hands of an imaginative seventh grader, the Amiga Toaster was a ton of fun. For the same reason, the execution severely lacking, my videos were hard to watch for anyone but family and friends.

You mean Stephen Elop, not Elon Musk. Quite a difference, but I can see myself making the same Elop flip-flop.

I can't wait for this generation to saturate the industry. Fewer bugs, better features, from less nonsense to code programs with. They might even be better as people, with clearer heads. Python might even help you think more clearly.

Years of experience, to me, is at least as important in programming as in any other field. Experience makes you better at your job, not just 25% better, several times better.

Programming is designing. The hard things in programming are design choices, not learning some new syntax. Anyone can learn a language in a matter of weeks. But a designer can keep improving over the course of his whole life. As Steve Jobs said, the difference between an average taxi driver and the best taxi driver in the world is maybe 10-30%. But between average software and the best, ten or a hundred times.

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Speed up PHP? It already runs in a fraction of a second. The database queries, meanwhile, can take many times longer.

First, why hasn't Fox put out DVDs or Blu-rays themselves?

Second, why would Disney scoff at such a deal? Even minus some to Fox, Disney would make a lot of money.

The originals in high resolution would be snatched up, both by fans who just like them that way and by collectors who deem first things higher.

I have an unpopular theory that things should be as simple as possible, and specifically as purely mechanical or purely electronic as possible. The mixture of both gets me worried.

In general a computer is most advanced when it has no moving parts: no fan, no spinning disk. Keys are okay, but not on a smartphone.

On the other hand, I would rather advances in cars be mechanical, not electronical. It amazes me how little cars of the same size and shape have improved in miles per gallon over the decades. A 2014 Volkswagen Golf gets 39 MPG, but a 1982 Volkwagen Golf got 37 (http://www.fuelly.com/car/volkswagen/golf).

A lot of this can be chalked up to my first car being a 10-year-old 1985 Oldsmobile, full of automatic but old features, which all failed. My second car was stick shift, crank windows, etc., on purpose. Simpler is fewer things to break, to go on the fritz, to flake out, and to be expensively repaired.

Although I understood in the end, a few more commas and the word "that" could have helped smoothe the summary:

Not possible.

Especially given:

There is a chance that you are ready and all there is to it is for you to find a capable replacement for yourself. But there is a ever-so-slightly greater chance that you aren't ready, that you'll be a micromanager, making yourself and subordinates totally miserable.

"Think of SQLite not as a replacement for Oracle but as a replacement for fopen()" --- About

It is preprogrammed for learning spoken language. You might read Stephen Pinker's The Language Instinct.

I thought clunky names were an engineering tradition, like CSMA/CD (Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection), which means, Listening Among Others for a Chance to Speak.