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by chton 12y ago
I'll counter your ArnoldC with http://shakespearelang.org/ But only because You are as brave as the sum of a fat little stuffed misused dusty old rotten codpiece and a beautiful fair warm peaceful sunny summer&#x27
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The Gates Foundation is backing a remote-controlled contraceptive implant(techspot.com)
1 points by chton 12y ago|0 comments
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by chton 12y ago
Not again, they're basically saying "Remember the last time we said it? turns out we were right."
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by chton 12y ago
The speed it already has. There's practically no friction in space, so any speed it picked up from its engines and gravitational slingshots is kept. Newton's first law.
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by chton 12y ago
That's true, it does make it easier to evolve the syntax. The negative side of demanding a terse syntax is clear enough in the C# 6 changes ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dn683793.aspx ), which are
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by chton 12y ago
Ambiguity in the language is a whole problem of its own. Ambiguity in parsing is also ambiguity in writing, so a language should avoid it all cost. It's true that forcing actions to come with extra words is a way to do that, but it&#x
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by chton 12y ago
elegance is debatable, and consistency is a matter of how the rest of the language is built. But you can still eliminate the superfluousness (is that a word?) by using greeting as String or even greeting :: String Either is f
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by chton 12y ago
More than anything, I'm surprised at how many of them do their creative work in the morning. Only a few did any real creating in the wee hours.
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by chton 12y ago
I believe it the usage of 'as' comes from the idea that whatever value the variable contains, it should be seen AS and present itself AS the type you're supplying. It doesn't need to be a string, it just needs to act &#
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by chton 12y ago
I think that's a matter of habit. I've gotten far more used to the more condensed syntax, so for me that's faster to read and scan. I tend to prefer languages where there is little syntax wasted as a consequence.
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by chton 12y ago
Even that isn't smooth enough for me. Why is the 'var as' still there? it's superfluous, ofcourse we're declaring a variable, there's nothing else that makes sense at that point. Why not: def hello(String
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by chton 12y ago
This is a great suggestion. Make sure to buy all 3 books. Then, next time you come across an article about any of the techs in the book, spend the time reading how it was built. You'll learn loads.
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by chton 12y ago
Dive into design patterns. Get yourself a good book listing them. The bible of all developers is the Gang Of Four ( http://www.amazon.com/Design-Patterns-Elements-Reusable-Obje... ), but there are plenty good ones out there
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by chton 12y ago
The tone of the post makes it seem like your only major gripe with the device is the battery problems. A defective battery is something that is covered in the warranty, so you could get it repaired, but instead you return it. I understand
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by chton 12y ago
2 Things: Firstly, the quoted sentence, if you shorten it, says "In an emergency it could activate in milliseconds". This is quite different from the speed or time to get away, just how long the engine takes to start burning and
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by chton 12y ago
I agree, the article may put this somewhat strongly. I guess we'll see with that first launch what is so special about it. A fully automated launch-to-landing sequence would have been hard to do in the sixties, but I also wouldn'
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by chton 12y ago
I do believe so. 'Full automation' has been mentioned related to Orion as early as 2010 ( http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1007/21boeing/ : "Boeing's spacecraft design could accommodate
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by chton 12y ago
I assume they want to be independent of external companies. Nobody else is seriously developing capabilities to lift >100 tons in orbit at the moment, considering the only other craft ever capable of that was the Energia. If nobody els
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by chton 12y ago
None of those went beyond LEO, though. They were also remote controlled, rather than entirely automated.
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by chton 12y ago
Not for the US, but for NASA in particular. They haven't been able to send anyone themselves since the Space Shuttle, and they sorely need more capabilities in that area. It's mostly notable for its deep-space focus, directly i
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NASA, Boeing ink $2.8 billion deal to develop SLS rocket for deep space mission(techtimes.com)
21 points by chton 12y ago|19 comments
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by chton 12y ago
"I bought a defective device, and rather than return it to a Microsoft Store and get a fixed/new device, I'll complain about it on the internet." You have some valid points about the keyboard, Wifi and sensitivity, and t
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by chton 12y ago
As a consultant, I've known several programmers that started later in life. Some at 30, some at 40. One was a car mechanic for 20 years before starting a CS career. All of them are very good at their CS job. I think the years of exp
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by chton 12y ago
I've got 10 years on you, and while that still isn't much, I can at least give you some advice on how to deal with this. Nobody can keep up with the entire industry. It seems like you're trying to know everything about every
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by chton 12y ago
instead of commenting, i'm just going to link you to http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2722 .
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by chton 12y ago
There are no other good theories. Most alternatives that don't involve dark matter or dark energy posit that our current theories are wrong on a very large scale, which we don't have any evidence for at all. On a different note,
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by chton 12y ago
Oh absolutely, the type enhancement is what makes it so interesting to use, but the point is that it's not necessary for it to be a mixin. It's a very nice extra. I'm not sure about python, but Ruby completely inlines the mix
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by chton 12y ago
This is going to lead to super- and hyper-injunction levels of stupid.
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by chton 12y ago
I agree. Since it would also be unethical for them to include cases of abuse or the naked images, the premise of the site is flawed. They want to show us the good and bad sides of the ruling, but can only show the bad side without doing b
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by chton 12y ago
This is going to unleash hell when it gets big enough to be near the top google search results. Not only will anybody googling somebody know what they did, they'll know the person wanted it removed. I wonder how long it will take for

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