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Comment Re:Random vs Heuristic (Score 2, Insightful) 847

Evolution is defined as natural selection of random mutations.

Haven't you just defined a specific form of evolution, known as evolution by natural selection ?

Most domesticated species (eg dogs) have evolved over the centuries as a direct result of human selection. Of course, until the twentieth century that selection was entirely based on external phenotypes, but this was still selection indirectly based on genetic information.

Comment Re:wow FUDSTER (Score 2, Insightful) 245

For one thing, if I have a class called Fruit, and I create a new subclass which extends Fruit, say Apple, then the following code samples are equivalent:


class Apple extends Fruit {
    function Fruit() {
        echo 'I am an apple';
        parent::Fruit('apple');
    }
}

and


class Apple extends Fruit {
    public function __construct() {
        echo 'I am an apple';
        parent::__construct('apple');
    }
}

However, if I now rename the parent class to RipenedOvary, in the first example I will also need to change every reference to Fruit(); in the second example I will only need to change the first line.

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