Comment Re:Apple vs Samsung (Score 2) 49
You think if Samsung do the gangnam style, the jury will realize their mistake and overturn the verdict ?
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Comment Re:Security through Antiquity? (Score 2) 481
No Skynet to launch Nuclear Missiles and start a machine vs human war :D
Comment Re:He's right because VB6 is no longer available (Score 1) 581
I am sure if VB6 is still around instead of the VB.net. Most of the unemployed coal miners will be employ by companies that required quick and dirty solutions that just works.
My company still have a VB6 program written by a guy with little education and very little programming experiences. He learnt VB6 in a week and create that simple program in 4 weeks. That simple program have been running for more than 10 years.
The OOP have created unnecessary complexity and increase the learning curve. Many real world situation just need a simple approach to solve very simple problem.
Comment The weather will murder you :) (Score 1) 386
The reason why there is no murder there is because nobody report the murder by extreme bad weather.
Comment Why should they upgrade ? (Score 1) 641
Many companies are still using Windows XP because they have very basic needs. A Windows XP PC with barcode scanner, scanning data and sending the data to the database server. These PC are not connected to internet so they are quite safe from malwares. There are also many VB6 programs that run on XP. It is difficult to convince the management to spent money to upgrade the system since it doesn't really improve productivity or help the company save cost.
Comment Re:$300? (Score 1) 196
It is not a flaw, it is a feature.
In case you forgot your login password, your brain is totally blank.
That you would remember [blank] = [space]
Type in [space] and you will be able to login.
Unfortunately, you won't be using Xbox to login to shoot Nuclear missiles at Russia.
Comment main culprit is copy and paste (Score 1) 391
Programmer efficient increase when they can reuse some code from other programs to their new program but unfortunately sometimes they also copy and paste bad code from one program to another.
Comment Let test the theory in prison :) (Score 1) 459
Let those prisoners on life sentence try the low protein diet and see how long they can last :)
Comment money laundering with bit coins? (Score 1, Interesting) 695
It seems too much of a coincidence that it happen after a mexico drug cartel was arrested. Could it be money laundering with bit coins?
1st International Longest Tweet Results 44
Dr_Evil6_6_6 writes "Slashdot had a story about the 1st International Longest Tweet Contest last month, and the winners have just been announced." The winner is impressive.
Good Language Choice For School Programming Test? 407
An anonymous reader writes "The Australian Informatics Olympiad programming test is being run in a couple of months. I'm an experienced programmer and I'm thinking of volunteering to tutor interested kids at my children's school to get them ready. There will be children of all levels in the group, from those that can't write 'hello world' in any language, to somewhat experienced programmers. For those starting from scratch, I'm wondering what language to teach them to code in. Accepted languages are C, C++, Pascal, Java, PHP, Python and Visual Basic. I'm leaning towards Python, because it is a powerful language with a simple syntax. However, the test has a run-time CPU seconds limit, so using an interpreted language like Python could put the students at a disadvantage compared to using C. Is it better to teach them something in 2 months that they're likely to be able to code in but possibly run foul of the CPU time limit, or struggle to teach them to code in a more complicated syntax like C/C++ which would however give them the best chance of having a fast solution?"
