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Submission + - Aaron Seigo talks about KDE SC 5.0 and more (derstandard.at)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: After years of focusing on further improving KDE4 two weeks ago the developers of the free desktop announced the next big step for their project: KDE Frameworks 5.0. But as long-time developer — and Plasma team leader — Aaron Seigo points out in an interview with derStandard.at/web, the source-incompatible changes shall be held to a minimum. Also calls Frameworks 5.0 only the "first step", new Applications and Workspace releases are to follow later, Seigo goes on to talk about the chances in the mobile market with Plasma Active and further areas of collaboration with the other big free desktop: GNOME.

Comment Re:BASIC is irrelevant (Score 1) 548

by irishxpride (#31434020) Attached to: The Value of BASIC As a First Programming Language

It's far better to teach beginning programmers in Pascal or Java than it is to use Perl, for example.

Could you elaborate on this point? I am not primarily a programmer; I am a networking nerd for an ISP. I have however, in the course of my duties, had to utilize a variety of programmer-like skills. I learned programming originally in perl, because it was the closest thing to shell scripting (which I generally understood enough to accomplish my goals) that met my immediate needs. I'm curious what kind of bad habits I may have inherited from my initial exposure to perl as opposed to, say pascal. Specificity would be appreciated as my goal is not to argue, but to hopefully learn and save myself some headaches...

Submission + - Chilean earthquake shortens days (businessweek.com)

Submitted by ailnlv
ailnlv writes: According to TFA, days just got shorter. In brief, the recent earthquake slightly shifted the Earth's axis by about 8 cm and shortened days by 1.26 microseconds

"The changes can be modeled, though they're difficult to physically detect given their small size, Gross said. Some changes may be more obvious, and islands may have shifted, according to Andreas Rietbrock, a professor of Earth Sciences at the U.K.'s Liverpool University who has studied the area impacted, though not since the latest temblor."

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