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Comment Re:You wouldn't steal a car (Score 2) 50

"Made it public"? I mean, they published it. You can play Pac-Man, if you have a quarter. You can watch _Spirited Away_, if you bought the DVD or are willing to pay for a streaming service that carries it.

But you've never been allowed to then publish your own works featuring Pac-Man or Spirited Away Monster just because you paid a quarter. How is this different?

Comment Actually, all these horses are the same color. (Score 2, Insightful) 224

The four-month program began with seminars on Western civilization, U.S. history, and leaders including Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill [...] hiring university students now means hiring people engaged in "platitudes."

"Jack, just say 'libruls', this is taking forever."

Comment Re:I don't program (Score 3, Informative) 38

JavaScript doesn't have type checking. This means that when you program your fancy robot surgeon "medbed" in JavaScript, and it asks you to put a scalpel in one gripper and a needle-and-thread in the other, but you decide to put a chainsaw in both instead, it doesn't check to see if it has a scalpel or a needle, it just goes ahead and uses the chainsaws.

TypeScript is JavaScript with type checking to prevent that sort of thing.

Comment Re:DST is DUMB (Score 1) 167

The point of daylight savings is that everybody's clock changes at once, so we can all follow the sun during business hours without changing the "hours" sign in the shop window. If we stop switching the clock, it doesn't matter for your sleep schedule WHAT hour of the day we (accurately or not) claim it is. You could adjust your schedule so that the sun rises, on average, at 00:00, if you wanted.

So if you're not changing, there's no advantage of daylight saving time over standard time, or frickin' Tulsa time or Hammer Time for that matter. However, standard time has the advantage that it's not wronger than it has to be on purpose.

Comment a-BUH-buh, buh-buh (Score 0, Troll) 125

"A" doesn't mean anything. Because you haven't assigned a meaning to it! Except maybe, "This guy got got 90% of the test questions right." Who cares? You're a professional educator. I wanted you to teach him 100% of the subject matter, and you didn't.

That he got one more percentage point than the next guy down doesn't exactly move me. Because I don't care about ranking people! Your shouldn't either; it's dumb. Teach everybody everything.

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