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Comment Re:Punishment isn't working. (Score 2) 88

Nope, his notoriety will increase, the criminal record will be ignored and once he gets through the hard times of the hooplah he will be paid even more

Reality is that he didn't do anything requiring any marketable talent. Anyone can go and smash up things. And it is clearly evident to everyone that his actions were caused by utter uncontrolled stupidity.

You wouldn't give him a job as a taxi driver, because you'd have to fear that he smashes up all your taxis at any time.

Comment Re:Psthetic (Score 1) 85

It isn't, but in Japan as in many other cultures the woman is considered to have joined her husband's family and her showing respect for his family is more important than him showing respect for her family.

If my daughter's new husband doesn't respect her and her family, I'll just give him a good spanking so he can't sit for a week. And that can be repeated as often as needed.

Comment Re:Not good at math (Score 1) 54

Lotteries are for people who are not very good at math and probabilities.

Well, no. Lotteries are for people who think they will never be able to become millionaires through talent, hard work, or just by having rich parents, and who are willing to pay a small amount for the _possibility_, no matter how unlikely, to become a millionaire during the next week.

If the _possibility_ of becoming a millionaire makes you happy, then buy a ticket.

Comment Re:The name game (Score 1) 85

What I can't understand and don't like is all this ridiculous hyphenation stuff. It makes everything very long and complex. I suppose it was meant to be some type of strange compromise, but it is more of a kludge. I don't care what your last name is, I just wish everyone WOULD JUST PICK ONE NAME. At marriage, my mother changed her middle name to be her maiden name.

In Germany, everybody has a family name. When you get married, you pick one of the two possible family names. And then you can pick oldname-hyphen-newname if your family name wasn't picked The children get the family name, which is never hyphenated.

Comment Re:Psthetic (Score 2) 85

Either the woman marries her husband or she marries her job. Keeping her surname is disrespectful to her new family. Iâ(TM)m surprised thereâ(TM)s public support for this kind of legislation

Either the man marries his wife or he marries his job. Keeping his surname is disrespectful to his new family. Iâ(TM)m surprised thereâ(TM)s public support for this kind of legislation.

Comment Re:Wrong reason... (Score 1) 36

That's what API's are for. You can run amuk all you want on the outside, then you ask the kernel for information or to take action by calling an API. There the system's code runs, which we expect will already be carefully tested and validated before it momentarily elevates privileges to do the work. If you made a stupid request, it gets ignored and control returned to you instead of crashing the kernel space. Then do whatever stupid things you like after the API return. At that point the system doesn't really care if you blow up because life will go on without you.

API's allow for "compartmentalization" of execution, and keep the dirty little fingers of random developers out of sensitive areas.

Comment Principles for decisions (Score 1) 181

You can make good decisions if you follow two simple steps: 1. Decide what you want. 2. Decide how to get it.

In my complete worklife I've always run into too many people who were exceedingly bad at (1). Their first question was always "what should I do". Instead of asking and answering the real question "what do I want to achieve".

Comment Re:you know why? (Score 1) 44

Except this wouldn't actually solve this. You'd be able to share the business logic, which would be a benefit. But you wouldn't be able to share any of the UI, system, or OS interaction code which is where all the incompatibilities come. If you just wanted to share business logic, there were already ways you could do that (write it in C would be one way).

Also, if they really wanted to do that, they should consider going the opposite way and bringing Kotlin to Swift. Kotlin also has a significant server side use that's growing (mainly by replacing Java), Swift is iOS and Mac only. They'll find a lot more people willing to learn Kotlin than Swift. Of course Apple won't consider that due to NIH and control issues.

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