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Comment: Re:Designing is thinking about types. (Score 1) 256

by Chrisq (#43791595) Attached to: Dart Is Not the Language You Think It Is

The article mentions that you can leave types aside for a moment, when you want to rapidly develop something.

That's the worst programming advice ever.

Good design starts from typing.

This is my feeling too, you will spend longer debugging and much longer supporting any significant sized project. However we must acknowledge that many people have an opposing view, that totally dynamically typed languages can speed up the total cycle not just initial writing.

Comment: Re:Manhunt? (Score 1) 28

by Chrisq (#43791545) Attached to: Special Ops Takes Its Manhunts Into Space

Since when have we accepted this term into our everyday language?

Sorry, that was not PC. How about Personhunt?

Where is the justice in a "hunt"? Hunting ends with a kill, not with a prosecution. Honestly I don't know why we tolerate such dehumanisation. All I have to say is fuck Soulskill for posting this and contributing to the decline.

I think that "hunt" is entirely accurate in describing what special forces do, and in the case of Muslim terrorists entirely justified.

Comment: Re:Learning is great (Score 1) 222

by Chrisq (#43781533) Attached to: Australia Makes Asian Language Learning a Priority

Yes, they have like 22 native languages in India in total, not counting dialects, if I remember correctly. Having a common and easy to learn language does make sense. From a technical viewpoint: In information technology we don't use the most complicated 'languages' to transmit messages, where errors are more likely to happen. For human communication Esperanto never gained enough popularity, so English is currently the best choice.

I agree that English is currently the best choice because of popularity, but it certainly is not the simplest. Discounting invented languages like esperanto and creols like Tok Pisin, Afrikaans is probably the simplest language

Comment: Re:Learning is great (Score 1) 222

by Chrisq (#43780933) Attached to: Australia Makes Asian Language Learning a Priority

Indians also shouldn't have a hard time to grasp English since their languages are still part of the Indo-European languages and share similarities.

Generally true of Northern Indian languages, though the Dravidian languages spoken in the South are more different to Hindi than Hindi is to English. Also some areas in the Himalayas speak languages closer to the languages of Tibet and Mayamar, which are completely different again.

Comment: Re:Learning is great (Score 4, Insightful) 222

by Chrisq (#43780587) Attached to: Australia Makes Asian Language Learning a Priority

Every corporate senior person I've met from India - Director type level - not only speaks several Indian languages, but also has flawless English in terms of grammar and vocabulary

If you were dealing with workers on a factory floor, even skilled ones, your experience would be different

Comment: Re:I would start looking at the algorithms (Score 3, Interesting) 161

by Chrisq (#43772681) Attached to: NWS Announces Big Computer Upgrade
Also, though I would like to believe that Europeans have superior algorithms, realistically the hurricane prediction could be a "one off". We know that modeling weather can gibe widely different results based on small variations of starting conditions, assumptions, etc. Unless there is evidence that European forecasts are consistently better it could just be luck. With the known chaotic nature of storm systems it wouldn't surprise me if the "butterfly effect" of the rounding errors when converting from C to F would be enough to displace a storm by hundreds of miles!

Comment: I would start looking at the algorithms (Score 5, Insightful) 161

by Chrisq (#43772641) Attached to: NWS Announces Big Computer Upgrade
It appears that the computers that Europe was using for the "better forecast" were not as powerful as the old system being replaced. Upgrading because Europe's forecast better would be like taking a slow route to a holiday destination then buying a Porsche because your neighbours got there sooner when all you need is a new roadmap.

Comment: "X ray goggles" app (Score 1) 315

by Chrisq (#43772199) Attached to: Head-mounted displays / sensors like Google Glass are:
I think it would be good cough creepy if they had an app that could scan the image for female bodies then look at a database to find a naked image of the same body type, which could then be displayed in the correct location. This would be like a working version those "x-ray goggles" that used to be advertised in the back of comics, but would really work

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