To properly need to debug such a language, you would need to be aware of all of the possible rules, pitfalls, bugs, and race conditions of every language under its hood.

At a basic level, is your "if else" condition running on it's Java or C++ or C version? Does it catch exceptions? Where is data being handled in memory? Are buffer overruns possible in some of these languages?

No one human could possibly we simultaneously cognisant of all possible sources of error. Programs in such a language would be a security disaster waiting to happen.

The standard NSA tatctic for introducing security holes into a system is to obfuscate things so that holes are hard to spot and find. SELinux is probably such a system, and this polglot language -- which effectviely makes debugging impossible -- is likely another.

We do need to talk about cost but we
need to talk about ALL the costs not just the operating costs but all the externalized costs as well.

We don't need to talk about costs at all. Costs are measured in the monopoly money we call "currency", and subject as they are to the vagaries and panics of the financial classes, are not an indicator or metric which we should rely on when planning our energy policies.

We need to talk about watts, mega-watt hours, materials, hours of labour, and disposal of waste. We need to talk about physical things, things we know, understand, and can do in the physical world. Not about intellectual casino chips which are magicked in and out of existence like pixels in a video game.

Energy policy is a long game that humanity is playing with the forces of the natural world. Our (dysfunctional) systems of money are about as relevant as our spoken languages in this debate.

He probably works in finance now.

None of these or any other internal arcana of c have anything to do with designing algorithms or programming computers.

It is most certainly bullshit if your cavalier attitude towards my resources causes my application to grind to a halt because you are too greedy and there simply isn't enough to go around.

Engineers study the sciences, and math. Why should it be any different for computing professionals? They should be exposed to the same kinds of "fundementals" you would associate with other "serious STEM" programs.

You never know. He might have and those are just pay stubs. It all could just be a colossal misunderstanding on this part.

A fictional character can be as much of a dufus as the rest of us.

...or better yet. People that like to whine about documentation actually contribute to that documentation once they have gone to the trouble to sort themselves out.

You determine your own level of involvement with project mayhem.

Data is easy to keep but it's also easy to leak. And given the consequences of leaks, companies need to start asking themselves whether it is worth storing all this data in the first place.

How many times did Mozilla ever actually use all this personal data internally? How many times on average the data for each of the 76,000 developers used? How many records were never accessed at all?

If you don't need all this data, then just don't store it. It's easy!

Government paying for birth control? I thought that was about corporations being "forced" to pay for birth control. Although that was all about corporations being "forced" to allow the employees to spend the money in question.

The government paying for birth control in general is not such a bad idea. The poor ones might actually use it and breed less poverty.

You would think that Republicans would be all about shrinking the welfare rolls and doing pretty much anything to do it, even kicking fundies to the curb in the process.

> what a person that builds a car?

Cars are much more complex than computers. The PC form factor has always been designed like a big Lego set. If you can put together a toy or follow a recipe, then you can "build" a PC.

Just putting cars and computers in the same post here shows such disrespect for mechanics that you might as well go to your nearest garage and start pissing on everyone.

> if you're required to resort to a daily PPA

All this represents is the latest product available. It's like going to a hardware vendor's site for the latest version of their driver. Except the Ubuntu version is actually MUCH MUCH easier.

You're whining about having to install something, as if this is a great tragedy on any commercial platform.

Total double standard. Extreme hypocrisy.

Microsoft has the benefit of being a market abusing behemoth with a large legal department. They get to play by a different set of rules than the rest of us. That's why Microsoft gets to get away with using trademarks that never should have been allowed.

Smaller organizations actually have to obey the rules.