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Comment Securing rights ofr the dead. (Score 0) 470

I notice that all the sponsors are democrats. So what clause in the bill preserves the right of the dead to vote.

Wait. I got it. Paper ballots make it harder to tabulate votes and catch voter fraud. Not to mention all those ballots that Democrats conveniently find in the trunk of cars a day after the election.

Electronic vote tallying could be much safer and cheaper. Keep the machines off the internet, except for write only reporting or highly secure connections. Start a commission, through some high level CIA technicians on it and design a system.

Comment Not just small devices. (Score 1) 374

Reducing compute times/memory usage by 0.1% in big data centers reduces the cost of electricity and cooling by millions.

Reducing compute times/memory usage in battery powered devices increases battery lifetime.

I view C++ as a better choice then C though, who can code a linked list from scratch more efficient then what they do? You get more abstraction power.

Comment Don't miss them. (Score 1) 600

Recursion is either so easy it is more of a trick than a useful tool, or it is more complex in which case it is generally much harder to get the terminal conditions right then it is to avoid recursion.

I remember when I learned C, digging through K&R to find how to do goto. I also remember learning ruby and not even thinking about whether or not goto was supported. It really isn't needed and as Dikstra pointed out is mostly used for creating sloppy code.

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