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If you think atheists drive evangelical conservatives nuts, you ain't seen nothing yet.
The bible-belters have been so into denying gays & lesbians their rights they've been completely overlooking these people.
It's time for some perspective, with a side of crow.
I had a C64 for years and at one time was slaving it to an Apple ][ with a nifty little interface, which I still have in a box somewhere. It was a dream to hack and play games on, despite having a mainframe at work which could do things I could only dream of at home (such as load/save from/to a HDD). My brother bought a 128 but never did anything with it as he wasn't a coder and had no idea what I was doing. Eventually I'd move to an Amiga 500 and then to a 2000 (which I still have.)
PL/I pioneered the free-form syntax used by C, C++, PHP, Java, C# and most other modern languages.
What other sins has it committed?
PL/1 incorporated all manner of ugly ways of doing things, borrowing some I/O from COBOL or having something else hacked into it. Inexplicably I had to go back to using PL/1 on one system implementation because the I/O library could hack large I/O buffers, where most other compiler libraries were incapable and was reminded what a sloppy mess of a language it was. You could do just about anything, but it didn't do much of it elegantly. Unless you documented heavily it was difficult to come back to and figure why you did something a particular way.
One fellow I knew who worked at IBM shunned it for most of the same reasons, it was a quick and dirty language, which was a dumping ground of interfaces.
Same here. Chrome locked me in through my Google account, and I use Firefox for work related stuff and some websites i like to keep separated (at home).
Chrome is like Democracy, the worst solution except all the alternatives. I'd like Chrome a lot better if Google would stop changing things for the worse. I swear it was at its peak about 2 years ago. It is seriously aggravating now.
I had a B-School professor who owned a website
What is a "B-School"? New term to me....
Didn't attend a university, did you? Either that or you didn't spend much time among peers. Everyone refers to Business Schools, within the University context, as B-School.
Just like announcing you are a CS major proclaims to the world you are only too happy to go our for a litre of Mountain Dew and something with a lot of sugar in it, as soon as you can pull yourself away from the keyboard for a second.
What? No love for NCSA Mosaic?!?
He has taken every single one of GWB's radical policies, and cemented them as the new normal.
Which is why I find it infuriatingly ironic when I see these ignorant bumper stickers railing against the "hope and change" campaign. There was no change, and now, even less hope.
Jobs are drying up so fast yet the population just keeps growing.
Hey, someone still needs to feed and care for baby robots!
What would your programming language look like if the Pointy-Haired Boss had to be able to understand it?
Ruby and Cucumber (at least for your test code)?
How about something from at least the 1960's or 70's? I can still hear those card punching machines - tick-tick-tack-tick-tick...
At the time you had... Fortran... and Assembler. COBOL was a godsend to the business community. Because of it companies actually invested in computer equipment to do things... that investment reduced the cost and increased its capabilities. Eventually allowing the creation of that smart phone in your pocket. If it wasn't for COBOL it is doubtful that companies would have made the investments.
Having programed in both COBOL and Fortran... I'll take COBOL for anything business related.
Yes, it's verbose. But, it was a product of it's time. And quite the amazing language if you know what you are doing with it.
Anyone who has actually been suffered to write business applications in FORTRAN IV* would rather be disemboweled by a pack of rabid were-weasels than have to do that again and COBOL would appear to be a gift from Heaven.
I began my education with, what I considered being taught a load of dead or dying languages, while Object Oriented languages were just on the horizon and Pascal and c were gaining degrees of acceptance. c is still around, but I haven't heard from Pascal in ages - it was fiddly, like Modula2 and seemed to embrace the wordiness of COBOL over the conciseness of c. I've converted systems written in COBOL and at least they were readable - what the coder was doing. FORTRAN business apps are nearly unintelligible.
* note: use of all caps
"Serial rapist upset at having his identity revealed, and activities detailed in the press; dejected that the President won't come and visit him and tell him he's doing a great job."
I think we can blame all the faults of COBOL on the fact that she wanted it to be human readable by business managers. What would your programming language look like if the Pointy-Haired Boss had to be able to understand it?
Let us not even broach the sins of PL/1
is much of the modern computing world.
Without her Jobs, Gates, Zuckerberg, Bezos, etc. would not be where they are today.
* this is in no way to diminish the other pioneers in the field - Touring, von Newman, von Lovelace, etc...
We stand upon the shoulders of giants - paraphrased from Bernard of Chartres
thank you for releasing a press statement claiming that you are standing up, in a way that mollifies those concerned about their privacy, while lacking any substantive evidence of resistance
American corporations, and these 5, in particular, have shown a history of not minding deceitful marketing in the slightest. I feel no compelling reason to trust them.
Facebook is becoming a serious pain to use - reordering news thread, pop-up ads, reloads of ads in the right margin, etc.
Aside that, when I look at something on a website I'm particularly irritated to see facebook plugging the same thing.
Physics is still physics even in your Star Trek fantasy land. That's to say nothing of the regulatory and liability hurdes. However, the main problem with these flights of fancy is the extra energy expenditure involved. It is perhaps the least energy efficient method of transport you could possibly come up with.
What do the people that actually move things around have to say about this? Amazon is just a clueless customer of someone else's delivery service.
Finally, the DVD mailer still remains the best product of the company that killed blockbuster. It avoids many of the problems that people IGNORE when considering ALL of the issues involved in video streaming.
Even bandwidth isn't free and streaming licenses certainly aren't.
We've read recently that the NSA types are becoming disaffected by their jobs.
So letting them play WoW on company time will help with that, eh?
More like...
"is your elf now or has ever been a member of the bolshevist glorious workers party opposed to trollish bourgeois oppressors?"
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