Comment Re:Amusing ourselves to Death :o (Score 1) 38
Comment Re:I hope they don't expect Rust to do magic (Score 1) 52
Comment Re:The latest New Shiny Bandwagon ... (Score 2) 52
Reminds me of when every webdev was extolling the virtues of Ruby to whoever would listen.
Ruby on Rails is the best dynamically typed language available for Webdev. Python has more developers, so if you build on RoR, you might need to train some people. If you want a statically typed language for webdev (usually better on very large projects), C# as a language is great, but the ecosystem around Java is better.
Wtf is the point of Rust at the to-the-metal level when by definition most of what you do will be unsafe memory wise?
Rust is useful when you have to work with incompetent programmers, which is most of them these days, especially those who write kernel drivers. If you encapsulate the driver accesses in functions or classes, then it's not that big of a deal. Encapsulation of some type is important though, you don't want to spread GPIO accesses throughout your code, that's sloppy redundant and repetitive.
Comment Re:I hope they don't expect Rust to do magic (Score 1) 52
They have absolute proof that they cannot do as well as the community, but they absolutely refuse to let the data flow.
I really wonder what they think they are hiding.
Comment Re:architecture (Score 4, Funny) 38
Comment Re:Weird but kind of cool (Score 2) 38
that give many a slashdot commenter raging hardons.
You saying
No, I'm saying the second line in my hosts file is:
104.18.4.215 www.pornub.com
Comment Re:Now I want to go (Score 5, Insightful) 38
"Good at getting quoted" is an orthogonal skill to "being a good judge of art," and it's apparent that Lucas did not appropriately kowtow to the establishment in the way necessary to get promoted. The critics can't outright say it's bad, because if it's popular, then people won't trust them.
Comment architecture (Score 5, Informative) 38
It was originally intended to look like this, but I think the final design is an improvement.
Comment Why (Score 5, Insightful) 38
All the works on display were chosen for their ability to tell a story, frequently in a single frame, Hobson told members of the press on September 2...
and
I left the Lucas without a clear sense of how the museum is positioning itself or, frankly, without learning much about anything beyond what I already knew...." wrote Maximiliano Durón
It's positioning itself as a display of art that tells a story, frequently in a single frame. I would give Maximilliano a break if he'd written his article on September 1, but he wrote it on September 3. That's on him.
Comment Re:Ah yes (Score 1) 113
China was communism, was a dictatorship, but is no longer since roughly 1990.
China was never communism (it was socialist, moving towards communism but fully aware they hadn't arrived yet, just like Russia).
China does have a dictator. He's been killing his rivals.
In China, anyone can consult with a modern barefoot doctor if they need to, but they can't get more than basic healthcare without money, including money to bribe the hospital for an appointment. There is constantly crowdfunding to help people see a doctor.
Comment Re:Offtopic (Score 1) 52
Comment Re: Projection? (Score 1) 267
It is not the fault of the entire world that the US of Awesomeness does not teach Geography in school. I was not even 10 when I learned all the map projections
American schools also teach map projections before age 10 (at least, they used to). I'm not sure where the uproar is coming from.
Comment Re:I hate it here (Score 1) 267
Well... there aren't really any human races anymore. At least there aren't any defensible boundaries. You could, however, pick defensible centroids it were important to you.
Interesting way of phrasing it.