Easy to say when he's not losing anything.

$you->can(not have('clear')) && read ABLE, $source, ~~ q[code]
    unless $you->include('natural')('language');

Good point. I do notice on some developer lists the main developer will put up a release candidate that he built on Linux for Windows and ask for testing and other times ask for help with Windows. These are usually text mode programs but I'd think that it could work the same for graphical programs if there is a demand.
Of course demand is the question. There's lots of native windows programs and for people who don't care about propriety software...

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Someone should start a KickStarter which will deliver working Unicode to Slashdot :D

Are there any crowdfunded projects that have lived to be successful long term businesses that sell products or services? The only ones I ever hear about are the likes of solar roadways, or something that everyone says is a great idea (or more likely a stupid idea that goes viral over its stupidity), then you never hear from them again.

Not as bad as child molesters

They can. It's really old. It works at radio or microwave frequencies. They call it radar.

of the war on drugs, which is getting rid of undesirables.

Think of it like this. If you're poor odds are good you take some drugs to cope or know somebody who does. Now, ask yourself what happens if you wander into a a well-to-do neighborhood to say use their parks or send your kid to their schools? You get arrested. And with Civil Asset Forfeiture law you don't even have to be guilty of anything.

Don't believe me? Who were the biggest pot smokers around the time it was made illegal? Answer: Mexican migrants. Who do we associate most with opioid addiction? The Chinese. And take a look at our current drug policy of 'legal on the state level but not on the federal'. It's the best of both worlds. You can still crack down on the poors while letting the rich toke up.

Basically, it's yet another example of class warfare. If you're paying attention you'll find plenty of folks denying that a class war's going on. That's because the best kind of war is one the other side doesn't know it's fighting.

Tell me what's going to happen tomorrow. No? Ok then.

The idea that Perl doesn't do one thing well just goes to show people haven't changed; they latch onto a catch phrase then go running around seeing who they can whack with it, apparently proving to themselves how clever they are.

PERL's wheelhouse from back in the day was right there in the name: practical extraction and report language. People who actually did that stuff for a living had no difficulty grasping PERL's significance: it made your job easier.

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"Log in to see the price" is part of how sites work around "minimum advertised price" (MAP) policies imposed by manufacturers.

Just read this article. http://www.businessinsider.com... found it interesting about the radiation on mars. Doesn't sound all that friendly.

When AI takes over, it will be with our consent. Humans will simply accept their higher efficiency at accomplishing tasks we feel are too tedious or time consuming to do ourselves. We have already accepted calculators for performing math equations and spell-checker for keeping our words correct. The more people don't want to sweat the details, the more reliant on AI we will become, until they literally run the very basics our our day-to-day lives.

Well, actually having been in the position of developing products, the part you're missing is the way novelty and utility dovetail. A pragmatist won't buy something until it's proven to work. The way you do that is you sell novelty to early adopters and prove that it works with them.

You can't use the same message for early adopters and pragmatists; you can't sell to them both at the same time. But they're both on the long term path to success.

Let me make this absolutely clear to you on this point: you have no fucking clue as to why my clients specify "certified Unix" sometimes as they don't detail every single reason behind their requirements. But unlike you I don't presume to know MORE than my client about their needs especially when they make a specific requirement.

Let me guess about the person that you are: if you were a waiter in a restaurant and a skinny person ordered diet soda, you'd just replace it with regular sofa because they didn't need to lose any weight. The fact that they might be diabetic doesn't matter to you. You know more than them and are willing to risk their lives for your fucking ego.

Having dialects, semantic ambiguity, or whatever a 'phonology' of a programming language could be is bad, because a programming language is created to speak to a computer/compiler, not to a human.

You're probably not as aware of the ambiguities of the C language at the machine level as you ought to be.

Logic is underappreciated and overvalued. Few programmers are really good at logic (the underappreciated part), and it isn't the whole story, either (the overvalued part). I assure you, Larry understands that permissible ambiguities in programming languages are orders of magnitude smaller than for human language.

To quote Moneyball: it's a metaphor.

I'll be happy if Perl 6 is someday redeemed as an important, if eccentric, stepping stone on the path forward. At my age, though, I'm less optimistic about still being alive to see this happen.

And I'm not even that old.

The RSA crypto used to negotiate a session's ephemeral AES key still uses semiprimes.

Yes there is a standard the SAE J3016_201609.
The whole issue that this article is talking about is Musk said that they now have a car coming to market that can do level 5 which for a simple definition is a car capable of "the full-time performance by an automated driving system of all aspects of the dynamic driving task under all roadway and environmental conditions that can be managed by a human driver" and the standard goes into definition of what that all means.

Sounds to me like you want to play word games that just go back to the original squabbles among the fabulous founders as they tried to induce enough states to ratify the new Constitution. My substantive reply is included in my response to the other branch of this discussion.

Windows Vista uses an unaccountably large amount of RAM, but they fixed that for Windows 7. Early versions of Win7 would run fine in 512MB, and even the latest versions will do OK in 1GB. And unlike Apple operating systems, you can turn off literally all of the eye candy options — until you're left looking at essentially the Windows 2000 interface. The theme engine gets completely disabled, for example, not just the fancy-pantsy Aero Glass stuff, and you get back to windows drawn with simple primitives which are accelerated by even the most pathetic of supported video cards. (That stuff worked surprisingly well back in Windows 3.1 — it's dead-nuts reliable and incredibly fast basically ever since Windows 2000.)

As soon as you go to Windows 8 you're screwed again, and even Windows Vista will not run worth one tenth of one shit on anything other than a powerful PC, but 7 is actually plenty lean. I've got it on a single-core, dual-thread atom with 2GB RAM and it's actually completely usable. I use it to run VAG-COM software, which is a complete Audi/VW scan tool emulator which depends on an expensive cable. I'm basically committed to having a Windows laptop for as long as I have my A8, and that was my solution.

because i dont want to spend hundreds of dollars for a product that does not exist, build it, test it, when it is a verified product that actually does what it is supposed to do then i will buy it, LimeSDR is one that caught my interest, they claim to have a product, but i never seen it for sale at amazon, HRO, gigaparts, or dxengineering or anywhere else reputable and trustworthy for selling high tech electronics

My evolving theory is based on the data that Paddock make LOTS of money by gambling against suckers on the Internet. It was a faceless crowd, but he knew how large it was and how many enemies he was making. He had a fortune to defend, and he started buying more guns to defend his fortune from the suckers. Or maybe he just had to spend the money on something? Or maybe he found out he had a terminal disease? Or, as you suggested, maybe he just wanted his 14-1/2 minutes of fame?

Whatever the reason, he decided to start a war against the suckers. No question but that he was a raving lunatic at the end.

Because of the American gun fetish around the 2nd Amendment, he was able to get the best tools for the job. If the nuts had their way, the best tools available under the 2nd Amendment might include nuclear weapons. After all, that's what the security of a free state actually depends on. Just ask North Korea.

My main point is that the original motive of the 2nd Amendment was "security of a free state" so that the free states in the South could keep slaves. Fundamental paradox that was resolved by Abraham Lincoln when he effectively repealed the 2nd Amendment. At great cost in lives and treasure.

The individual right to bear arms is a more recent fantasy. It's actually a kind of blood legacy. The Dixiecrats were descendants of people who needed their guns to keep their own slaves in line. The descendants of the Dixiecrats are now controlling the so-called Republican Party, which should be renamed the Bolshevik Republicans or Junior Bolsheviks or something.

In an upper division undergraduate CompSci/CompEng course that I teach, I always tell the students, "spent more time reading code than writing code, being able to read code is more important and valuable to a programmer than being able to write code." I have has several students disagree strongly with that assertion. However, I use the example of learning a foreign language.

I know that programming and human language are different. However, I think that the same principle of learning the language structure (e.g., grammar, syntax, etc.) in order to first master reading holds for both sorts of languages. That is, one does not claim to be proficient in Spanish, French, or Japanese based on being able to speak it but not read it.

I was a terrible programmer for a very long time and what finally made the difference for me was to learn how to really read code. Once I had mastered that, I feel like I improved by leaps and bounds. I really wish that reading code had been emphasized as a core programming skill more when I was in school.

And getting demerits on your credit report for failing to remember to pay a monthly bill.

That example is good. The whole question is wrong, Stack Overflow shouldn't be a site for brand new programmers. Spend some time learning the language before you ask how to do something that anyone with one month's experience can do. In the early days of Stack Overflow the questions were very interesting questions, about subtleties in a language, mysterious problems to overcome, and so forth. Now the questions are "help me do my homework!"

Then you've probably already run into a lot of demands to whitelist a site.

Private Browsing in Firefox enables tracking protection, a built-in blacklist of servers involved in tracking a user's behavior from one site to another. Numerous ad-supported websites depend on this tracking for interest-based advertising and aren't smart enough to fall back to self-hosted ads if the tracking servers can't be reached. So if tracking doesn't work, a site like TV Tropes pops up a demand to disable tracking protection. Though users can work around this on many sites by disabling JavaScript, I see room for sites to get smarter about insisting on allowing tracking by putting everything past the first paragraph in an AJAX request.

Yup, I rarely find quality answers on stack overflow, but I do find links to other sources of information that lead to good answers.

Yeah, crap like OS updates.

What, you can't work that out?

This is why if feels so wrong. Any idiot can answer, but you have to grind the point before you can comment. Newcomers will be confused and likely look at the answers first. But over time even the commenters have become clueless, so you can't trust the comments either anymore. The only way to use it is to not trust it; read all the answers and comments, if it feels off then follow the "related questions" instead, and soon you may be at an older question answered back when people who actually knew things participated.

Indeed. No problems whatsoever on mine.

While it may be useful for a programming language to somehow resemble the syntax of a natural language, you want to stay far away from pretty much everything else.

Having dialects, semantic ambiguity, or whatever a 'phonology' of a programming language could be is bad, because a programming language is created to speak to a computer/compiler, not to a human. The two computational system have very different requirements. It's the same reason you don't want to use humanoid robots in a warfare scenario. Yes, they are cool, but a tank does the job much better.

Hm, my father's 4S, running he latest software available for it, is doing fine. No problems with sluggishness whatsoever. And he has a lot of junk on it, but not enough to completely fill its storage capacity. Maybe you should just remove some stuff from the phone?

Add a link to the markdown info page. Many people browse with noscript, which makes some of these blog/forum oriented sites extremely vague (and no, they do not all use the same mark up/down syntax and the syntax will likely change in a couple of years anyway).

I lost all my weed in a series of small fires.