I have some degree of experience with a whole bunch of languages, but the ones I use most frequently, in descending order, are C, C++, Java, Papyrus (Bethesda games scripting language), PHP, Python, and x86 assembly. As someone else said in this thread, knowing specific languages isn't that important in the real world, because as long as you understand the programming paradigm they operate under (OO, imperative, etc) it's pretty easy to move from one to the other.

There is no irony here. People whining and pretending to be offended by a silly boob joke is stupid and silly. People reacting to that whining as if it were legitimate, and censoring software developers because of it, is dangerous and wrong. Especially in the context of "free" software, we cannot give political correctness a veto over legitimate (or humorous, or offensive) speech.

Who the hell are they to tell me what is and is not OK? I'll objectify whatever I want. People like sex, people like sexy things, and rational people have no problem seeing ads that feature attractive people of the opposite gender used to market things to them.

This entire issue isn't about people getting offended anyway. It's about people pretending to be offended so they can show everyone how upstanding and moral and non-sexist and great they are. It's ridiculous and we all need to stop catering to it.

Jet fuel as used in commercial turboprop and jet airliners is much more similar to kerosene than gasoline in terms of volatility. Its flashpoint is generally above 38C (depending on exact mix) while gasoline's is minus 43C. Jet fuel will explode if pressurized and vaporized, which is why airplane crashes can produce spectacular explosions, but it is actually difficult to light an open container of jet fuel with a match.

All that to say, uncontrolled combustion, let alone explosion, of jet fuel in a moving aircraft is a very unlikely event.

When you are trying to charge between $30 and $40 for information that can easily be obtained more accurately on any number of wikis, to say nothing of the $70-$80 "Special Editions" with cardboard sleeves to hold even more useless junk, it's long past time you went away. I thought game guides were passe when I used to see them at CompUSA in the 90s, it's almost shocking they are even a thing today. Good riddance.

No matter what Trump does, someone will complain. He could achieve permanent world peace, and half the US would complain he's decimating the defense industry and costing jobs.

Not in this case. He is threatening pain, but giving the UPU nations time to broker a new deal before the US withdraws.

It's like on-disc DLC for cars.

Oh, wait, this took place on the Obama adminstration's watch? Well, down the memory hole with you!

No, it just reinforces a hive mind. You can theoretically say whatever you want on social media, but if you go against the dominant narrative on the platform you get modded down, downvoted, blacklisted, or brigaded. Say something bad enough and you'll get doxed and your life will be ruined. But if you can somehow manipulate the narrative to bring it in line with your goals, be they political, commercial, or social, you can saturate social media with a message that will be omnipresent and which noone will challenge for fear of the consequences.

You're assuming social media will always reflect rational self-interest. But it won't, it will be manipulated by money and politics. That train may be a total waste of taxpayer dollars, bu: turn it into something the rich will pay for and it becomes social justice, turn it something that reduces automobile use and it's environmentally friendly, etc. So what if there's a water crisis, those bad rich people use too much water anyway, so punish them and raise prices to keep them from wasting it. Play that record enough times and spin it the right way and your message will be unstoppable.

You left out leverage, best-of-breed, and synergy.

I see a lot of people hyping blockchain technology for non-cryptocurrency uses, but I have yet to see an application to which it is better suited than current transaction systems. I understand that a distributed ledger potentially lets you do away with things like reconciliation transactions. But there are some downsides with that: every participant has to keep a full copy of the ledger, and participants still have to use double entry accounting, which means essentially keeping two sets of books. And while the ledger itself may be secure and tamper-proof, there still has to be some way to turn entries into actionable financial transactions, which requires another system that can itself be compromised (e.g. the Bitcoin exchanges that have experienced some famous security breaches).

Maybe I'm just not looking at it right?

Being a girl doesn't give you blanket amnesty when you're being an asshole to customers. She simply decided to be a jerk to a guy who commented on one of her public tweets. His post was insightful and polite, but she decided to blow a gasket and tell him to fuck off. Then, it being Twitter, others got involved, and when it got out of hand, she started crying sexism and mansplaining. Pathetic.

Similar situation here, I've been developing realtime traffic-management systems for 24 years. I have always used C for my own new projects, but I have had to learn C++ in order to support projects that I inherited. There's nothing you can do in C++ that you can't do in C; C++ just adds a bunch of constructs that are supposed to make software more modular, reusable, standardized, and "safe" from bad coding. In real life, it just makes for code that is harder to understand and harder to port to newer environments due to changing standards.

More like Theranos. An idea ahead of its time, charismatic founder, and a bunch of investors with more money than sense.