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Comment: Personal Reasons (Score 1) 530

by Lando (#39911547) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Language Should a Former Coder Dig Into?

There are thousands of languages out there and your asking which one you should learn? Without information as to what type of programming you want to do or why you want to learn, it's a total crap shoot. If you just want to learn a language easily, python is a good starting language. If you want to do "real" programming than C/C++ is probably the best way to go. If you want to just do programming for entertainment, pick a project off sourceforge or github and use whatever language it uses. If you want a programming language that focuses on computer control Perl is always nice. If you want to design device drivers assembly is fun.

Really without a clue as to what kind of programming you want to do, your basically posting to a car enthusiast's site asking what kind of car to buy. Without a list of requirements you can get anything from a yugo to a hummer to dump truck.

Comment: Toys (Score 1) 170

by Lando (#39876583) Attached to: Automated Dorm Room Causes a School Inquiry

Well, the system looks interesting; however, I'm more interested in the camera work a video editing. It seems, especially at the beginning, to have been professionally done. Is that the level of sophistication of today's modern video recorders and editing software, is this guy into video production or was there outside help? It seems a mismatch in skills as the hacking is fairly insignificant in comparison to the video skills.

Comment: Re:Unbelievable Gravity (Score 1) 127

by Lando (#39876519) Attached to: Astronomers See Another Star Torn Apart By a Black Hole

Hmmm, also terminology you are using seems a bit wrong. The fact is that you aren't falling towards an object if you are in orbit because the horizontal velocity is such that even though you are being drawn together your horizontal position is keeping you from ever hitting. Again, you are always falling towards the object, stable orbit just means your horizontal velocity causes you to miss all the time.

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