Quotes about programming languages

shenglong · 4 days

I feel a little bit of my soul died after reading that.

sortofSufi · 5 days

Maybe this can take away those tears:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW3d1vQvPNg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=aAoeB1pK4ac (in spanish)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrKRygy5LO0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JGKjHucSXU

lauhakae · 19 days

Is it 3.8 good or bad? Where I live the top marks are 9 or 20, depending on the institution.

davidreiss666 · 22 days

What you are describing is basically the way the system works in a lot of places, Latin America, for example. I'm a product of the free college systems and proud of it. In fact, in my country most public colleges have better reputation than private ones. The former don't have incentive to graduate incompetents, but in the later you can buy a degree.

What you should keep in your system is the research & development and the variety of courses you can take.

fosskers · 29 days

I just want to congratulate you for your intentions. It's better to do something before you start to having a problem than try to solve it once it has grew.

soupisawesome · 1 month

What I like about this movie is that it has in fact many lectures. We have humans being treated as animal and apes taking their place. On the other hand there is the subtext tha we are the violent ones (Heston willing to kill everyone in his way, the destiny of earth). And besides, we have the interesting class division between the apes: chimps, the scientific, orangutans, the religion and politics, and gorillas, the military.

As a curious note, the make up of the movie required so much work that the extras had to use it all day. When they were not filming, something curious happened: chimps gathered with chimps, orangutans with orangutans and gorillas with gorillas, forming their own segregated classes.

Nickster79 · 1 month

How could he didn't see that the joke was on him?

magister0 · 1 month

I can't disagree more. Men and women, boys and girls are different. They have different organs and glands that produce different hormones that alter their brains in different ways. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't a lot of scientific studies that prove this? Spatial abilities, physical strength, color and smell sensibility, percentage of body fat, likes and dislikes. And not only that, but this differentiation is probably older than human beings. Maybe that's why females baby chimpanzees prefer to play with dolls and male baby chimpanzees prefer to play with toy cars. Or are they being oppressed too by a chauvinistic ape society?

And about women having it hard being subjugate to social norms that impose them a brand of femininity: how is that different to men? Society is a cruel institution that molds and normalize everyone, men and women. Women have to be feminine or pay the price society impose to free spirits. Same for men. Women can't be assertive (says some societies), men can't cry. Women have to be thin, men have to be strong and wealthy. And know what to do every single moment of their lives, and never show vulnerability or weakness, not even to their loved ones.

And finally the point of objectification. Maybe my definition is different than yours, but I think everybody objectify everybody else. The cashier at the mall maybe is a person with dreams and aspiration. For me it's just an stop between me and my shopping. And I don't have any expectation that I'm special for he or that he appreciates me for my quirky sense of humor. I'm just one more in the long queue of object-people he has to deal with any day to get his pay.

electronics-engineer · 2 months

Sounds interesting. Do you have a link?

merent · 2 months

But that's the thing. My vision of the world is not as simple as white hats and black hats. The message is not "f*ck america!". It is that the military complex (any military complex in any time) is designed to foment the kind o behavior that made this news. That those atrocities are way more common and not isolated incidents and that the extraordinary thing is that this time they made it to the news.

You commented about the school, roads and market constructions made by the military. I think you have an engineer corps that goes whenever are natural disaster to help to rebuild. And I applaud it. At least in the places where a sovereign government have the chance to accept the offer of help.

And we come again to the simplistic black/white mentality. I never said that every single act that US army has made in Afghanistan is evil. How hard would that be? Look at it on this way: during the middle ages the catholic church had an important role as a solid institution. It helped to preserve the knowledge and to organize people. But that doesn't mean we should pretend that the inquisition never happened.

merent · 2 months

Does back people have a central command that determine their goals? Do they have their own court system? Are they an institution?

I'm not saying "all american soldiers are criminal". I'm saying that the army institution (any army, but in particular the ones that seems to be invading countries every year), acting in times of war, fails to prevent or punish human right violations. In fact it foments them. I don't think that's a controversial fact. And I guess most people believe it, when they're not talking about their own military.

I'm sure that private John Smith, they guy in charge of repairing computers in Kabul central command is a good guy and has never do anything bad in his life. At the same time I'm sure that private Jack Johnson, the one that killed an innocent civil because he was nervous after his third ambush this week didn't report it as an error, but as an insurgent or suspect attack. If he had tried, his commander would have laughed at him.

merent · 2 months

Not at all. My question is how many isolated incidents are needed to silence "it's not the army" thing? Ten, one hundred, one thousand? When stops being individuals and when start being the institution?

Is this "incident" really incidental? During Vietnam war, reporters used to have a collection of the atrocities soldiers committed and their newspapers refused to publish. Today we have embedded reporters, so there's no more documentation of how frequently there atrocities happen. Isn't that progress? In this same site you can read stories told by soldiers and mercenaries of what they really do when nobody watch them.

An army, specially an occupation army has no particular interest in the wellbeing of the indigenous population. They are not payed to "help" the people, but to control them. Racist feeling on part of the occupation army are fomented end encouraged (towelhead anybody?).

There's no interest in to bring justice or accountability to that kind of excess. No one will receive a full punishment. If someone goes to jail, he will not stay there for the full amount of his sentence.

I understand. These soldiers are your brothers and sisters, your fathers and mothers. You want them safe and at home. That's all good. But please, don't pretend that they are behaving morally during the execution of the most immoral political act that exist: war.

merent · 2 months

this person isn't represenative of the U.S. Military as a whole.

Yes. All cases of abuse, torture, rape and murder are individual, isolated incidents and under no circumstance we should put them together and make conclusions.

eaturbrainz · 3 months

So, the government is bad because it is corruptible by corporations. Then, the obvious solution is to kill the government... and leave corporations free to reign (!).

DrJulianBashir · 3 months

So...Apple's recent success is based on consumer electronics devices, not general purpose computing or operating systems.

In fact, that was Job's policy after his come back. They even drop the "computers" from "Apple computers" for that reason.

REDDITONLYWHILEDRUNK · 3 months

I can't talk about APL, but I studied one of its successors, J. The language is simple, with few rules and concepts. But it's not easy on the eye.

salamanque1 · 3 months

Yes, because it was Greeks' vacations and not the banks who destroyed billions of dollars.

AyeMatey · 3 months

I've never heart someone calling himself euro-american. In latin america "black" isn't a bad word. A lot of times it's used as a darling nickname between couples ("my black one") or siblings ("the black"). When I was a baby, my mother used to sing me "Sleep little black boy" (which is curious, me being caucasian).

Ojimaru · 3 months

For a lax enough definition of selfless.

KoulMomo · 4 months

Excellent answer. Sadly, there's a lot of economist and politics that try to sell the idea that free market = no regulations. In the name of the free market they're fighting to reduce the government to its minimum, so cartels and monopolies don't have to compete. Isn't it ironic?

maxwellhill · 4 months

You omitted the "raise the tax collection" part. And the "increase the percentage of direct investment in people" part. And more democratic laws. Pretty much the whole article.

stesch · 4 months

Can you elaborate on "Ruby's half-hearted blocks"? I'm not a ruby programmer, but from an outsider, they look nice.

makanguru · 4 months

The old "reddit is this, reddit is that", again. Reddit is not a person, "it" doesn't have a unique position on anything. /r/worldnews has 1,101,113 subscriptors, some of them are antisemitic, some of them are jews, some like to play electric guitar in the shower. Additionally, selection bias: news about an attack to Iran will attract a different crew than news about an attack to Israel.

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