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New comment by sureaboutthis in "Internet Explorer Is Evil (2002)"

sureaboutthis — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 23:55:04 +0000

I remember the day you posted that online!

New comment by sureaboutthis in "Googlers Are Protesting Company’s Deals with Big Oil"

sureaboutthis — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 17:17:16 +0000

I wonder how many Googlers would lose their job if Google dropped those contracts.

New comment by sureaboutthis in "Nobody talks about the real reason to use Tabs over Spaces"

sureaboutthis — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 13:23:06 +0000

The post is about "the real reason" and the real reason was never for impaired workers and it is not "the real reason" in almost all cases!

Quit using the minority to represent the majority!

New comment by sureaboutthis in "Nobody talks about the real reason to use Tabs over Spaces"

sureaboutthis — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 12:07:38 +0000

Quit making up things I never said.

New comment by sureaboutthis in "Nobody talks about the real reason to use Tabs over Spaces"

sureaboutthis — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 09:56:35 +0000

I did.

New comment by sureaboutthis in "Nobody talks about the real reason to use Tabs over Spaces"

sureaboutthis — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 09:47:55 +0000

Not every new argument, decades later, is valid either and this is a dim witted one. As made up on the spot as they come.

New comment by sureaboutthis in "The Evolving Infrastructure of .NET Core"

sureaboutthis — Sun, 07 Jul 2019 11:54:21 +0000

It makes less than zero sense to me as to why a BSD programmer would even consider wanting Microsoft .NET frameworks, libraries or software on BSD. You have as good or better tools and languages already there. Perhaps in the off chance of porting a program written with .NET but those are rare and the only people who seem to want this are Microsoft and Windows/.NET programmers who also happen to use BSD.

I have been programming FreeBSD systems for 15 years--actually longer--and it's never crossed my mind to even once think about using .NET or any Microsoft product. Makes no sense at all.

New comment by sureaboutthis in "The Bitter Truth About Olives (2016)"

sureaboutthis — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 12:02:25 +0000

I will put people who say this in the same category. Anyone who thinks added sugar is the same as fruit sugar...well...

New comment by sureaboutthis in "The Bitter Truth About Olives (2016)"

sureaboutthis — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 12:01:26 +0000

Yes, it's what I meant but it will be lost on so many people.

New comment by sureaboutthis in "The Bitter Truth About Olives (2016)"

sureaboutthis — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 11:48:21 +0000

Maybe some Vitamin C?! Orange juice is 71% vitamin C! And there is NO added sugar except maybe in the cartons you must be buying at your grocery store.

Olive oil is basically "just fat"?! You make me think that you think the fat in olive oil is no different than the fat in pork or beef.

With those thoughts in mind, most of what you eat is just a little of this and just a little of that and "basically just fat" but it's too early in the morning for me to give you an education.

New comment by sureaboutthis in "Two Billion Records Exposed in 'Smart Home' Breach"

sureaboutthis — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 16:58:21 +0000

That's not the point I made to the statement he made so your comment has nothing to do with this.

New comment by sureaboutthis in "EFF warns people of the dangers of using Slack"

sureaboutthis — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 12:15:13 +0000

Most? I've never worked anywhere that uses it.

New comment by sureaboutthis in "Two Billion Records Exposed in 'Smart Home' Breach"

sureaboutthis — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 12:10:43 +0000

I will immediately tell my Mom to not rely on such services and install something else.

New comment by sureaboutthis in "American Suburbs Swell Again as a New Generation Escapes the City"

sureaboutthis — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 12:30:23 +0000

People who don't live in the area are thoroughly clueless as to the geo-political makeup of what we citizens here call St. Louis. Proof of that are the countless articles pointing to the population of the city being less than 300K while completely ignoring the nearly 3 million of us who live in the area outside the 66 sq miles of the city.

And I haven't a clue how they make a connection between Anheuser-Busch--which is just as active in the city of St. Louis--and Glendale down the street from me.

New comment by sureaboutthis in "Dear Agile, I’m Tired of Pretending (2018)"

sureaboutthis — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 01:57:48 +0000

People get far more done if they spend less time labeling things and thinking there's a new canned technique that's better than what's been done before.

New comment by sureaboutthis in "As a system programming language, C still deserves learning today"

sureaboutthis — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 19:16:02 +0000

nginx is written in C. The new hotness, h2o, is written in C.

New comment by sureaboutthis in "As a system programming language, C still deserves learning today"

sureaboutthis — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 13:33:37 +0000

6 of the 8 things you list are C or C++ which is, essentially, C with benefits--most of the code in C++ is identical to C except for interfaces--classes/inheritance/and all that. AI/ML are a small slice of the programming pie that is performed by people who wouldn't use C at the top level but you ignore the fact that, when speed is needed, C is used even there.

I'd go into this more but I don't feel like explaining these things to people ad nauseum. C is one of the most used languages around the world, in new projects, too, and nothing you've said changes that.

New comment by sureaboutthis in "As a system programming language, C still deserves learning today"

sureaboutthis — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 12:41:53 +0000

You are incorrect in everything you said.

New comment by sureaboutthis in "As a system programming language, C still deserves learning today"

sureaboutthis — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 12:29:41 +0000

In the meantime, it's one of the most used languages in the world and embedded in every device you use.

New comment by sureaboutthis in "As a system programming language, C still deserves learning today"

sureaboutthis — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 09:42:49 +0000

Well I'm glad that other languages prevent experts from writing wrong code.