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Can you separate belief from labelling someone prohpetic/visionary? I label a dog a dog because I believe it's a dog. I don't call a cat a dog with plenty of skepticism. I'm not going to give anyone the label of prophetic/visionary, even with plenty of skepticism. As a non-mormon I consider the prophetic/visionary concept to be fiction, and won't use it on anyone because I don't consider it possible - skepticism doesn't even begin to enter the equation - and labelling someone as something I consider them not to be would be odd. I might just as well label them president.

disputinon Fasting triggers stem cell regeneration of damaged, old immune system (2014)

Are mormons not christians?

disputinon Fasting triggers stem cell regeneration of damaged, old immune system (2014)

"what non-Mormons might call a prophetic / visionary role"

Isn't that the other way round? As a non-mormon I'm not about to call anyone prophetic/visionary.

disputinon A Dangerous and Costly Photo in Japan

Exactly. Heads in the clouds, or heads in the sand. The sport world is rife with corruption, the big events are scams, and half the participants are doping. I won't miss robots replacing this lot.

disputinon The Death of Agile [video]

The theatrical form of agile as it has been peddled with all of its prescribed practices is nonsense piled onto the idea of agility so that it appeals to managers, for sale by consultants, and that agility is important in its toned back form, without the annoying rules that have no regard for context.

I hope this means the death of scrum.

disputinon “2014 has probably been the best year in history”

I don't have the power to down vote. The Dresden marches have had at most, from what I've seen in the news 17 000 people - I don't think that is enough to say that the EU has a nazi problem. It might be considered that a single nazi is a problem, but in terms of nazis being a threat to the EU, 17 000 is not a problem. Somewhere in the region of 250 000 Brits declared themselves Jedi in the last census, if that puts it in perspective. The last video I saw of the marches showed a black guy up front: http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/dec/23/thousands... I guess that's open to interpretation. I think a problem the left have is that when they go around blanket labelling everyone racist they are as over-excitedly left as the neo-nazis are over-excitedly right. The left is seen as good, and so people on the left wanting to be more good keep jostling to be more left. The right is seen as bad and so there is a limit to how far right people will move before there is disapproval, that point easily identified as racism, but there doesn't seem to be this obvious limit on the left. It looks to me as though the left limit might be when the left start labelling everyone as racist.

disputinon “2014 has probably been the best year in history”

Islam has become a race?

disputinon Elixir plugin for SublimeText 3 providing code completion and linting

"As long as it stops autocompleting `do` to a docstring"

This made me laugh. I could do with that change too. I'm enjoying Elixir, the language and the community, so looking forward to trying this out.

disputinon A New Way to Reach Mars Safely, Anytime and on the Cheap

"I hate all the fluff in this article." Glad to hear it, because if that's considered clever and impressive then the rocket industry needs me.

disputinon Did North Korea Really Attack Sony?

" if someone uses a British English locale, that isn't proof that it can't be an American" -- I'd take that further and ask, if this was such an advanced attack, wouldn't a bit of language misdirection be thrown in?

disputinon Why is everyone so busy?

Could the people who voted down the above comment please explain why. I too understand Marxism as described above. I might amend it slightly from "people who berate it as an ideology are correct" to "people who berate it as an ideology would be correct if it were one", but otherwise what's the issue?

disputinon World’s First Connected Bike Grips

I've found that cars drive closer to me when I wear a high visibility jacket. Seems that because they can see me better they feel comfortable driving closer.

disputinon North Korea, Denying Sony Attack, Proposes Joint Investigation With U.S.

Yeah, call me a conspiraloon, but the people who have the most to gain from this are the US gov.

disputinon Things I wish people who write job postings would stop writing

A pet hate of mine. Used by politicians, CEOs, recruiters. Good spot.

disputinon ParisIsBack – The Paris Tech Guide

Be careful highlighting government inefficiency around here - apparently it's a hackneyed cliché.

disputinon ParisIsBack – The Paris Tech Guide

Why are the Irish leaving? http://emn.ie/emn/statistics (Question, not argument.)

disputinon The world's best online Jacob-dating service

"It’s about getting seven billion people in touch with Jacob"

Male, female, straight, gay, married, single, infant, octogenarian, ...

disputinon Explore how people in the U.S. aged 18 to 34 have changed over four decades

In the context of Spain: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f7bdd5ce-995e-11e3-91cd-00144feab7...

disputinon Explore how people in the U.S. aged 18 to 34 have changed over four decades

They do have the option to leave, and looking around London that's exactly what they're doing, which is not good for the countries they're leaving. I'd say it's more important that they have the means to change that system.

disputinon Explore how people in the U.S. aged 18 to 34 have changed over four decades

(i.e. always)

Based on above comments I hope you're voting for Podemos.

* if the government gets its act together*

That won't happen spontaneously.

disputinon Explore how people in the U.S. aged 18 to 34 have changed over four decades

That's not the competition I talking about, but it is good to hear that it's there. The UK is also sick of its traditional parties, but is voting to the right, away from Europe. Party loyalty is usually ideology loyalty, and in a changing world the suitability of an ideology to the global context will change, so the traditional parties are likely a write off as their idea of keeping abreast is fringe tinkering. My point was that all of the responsibility of competition shouldn't have to fall on the worker when there is scope for the government to ease things for the worker. I'm not saying eg get rid of the health service, (Republicans, we're talking Europe here) but aligning processes with countries that have obviously more efficient ways of doing things. A chap on TV the other night was talking about this, he'd moved north, iirc, Denmark, giving an example of company registration taking a matter of hours. What excuse is there for the Spanish government to slack off on such trivial lubricants, the result of which then weighs on the worker?

disputinon Explore how people in the U.S. aged 18 to 34 have changed over four decades

Presumably that means many people think it, yet nothing is being done about it.

disputinon Explore how people in the U.S. aged 18 to 34 have changed over four decades

A cliché? Or general agreement? I thought people generally agreed that Spain has issues in that regard.

"I know the states and bureaucracy..."

I wasn't referring to states in general, you were talking about Spain, I was responding about Spain. I'm not a ranting libertarian, I'm aware of a state's role in society. Knee jerk pouncing on a cliché that wasn't here.

we've been told over and over again that we have to stay competitive, which is just an euphemism for working more and earning less

How much of that extra work is unnecessary (in Spain)?

disputinon Explore how people in the U.S. aged 18 to 34 have changed over four decades

Seems to me it's the government which needs to stay competitive, not the workers, ie regulation and bureaucracy.

disputinon Why you should move your startup to a small fishing town

Cycling in the rain in the city your tyres can slip on oil - unpleasant results even at starting speed. The oily puddles also stain clothes, which probably aren't cycling gear on a short 15 minute ride. My last job was a Chiswick to Tower Hill ride, gear up and get dirty, but the worst part was the state of the toilets we had to change in.

disputinon Chinese economy overtakes the U.S.’s to become the largest

Agreed. UK housing is a third world problem in a supposedly first world country.

disputinon Go: Planning the 1.5 release

Hi,

  $ ./dns-win-xc.bin
  err: lookup feeds.feedburner.com on [178.22.66.167]:53: no such host
  $ ./dns-lin.bin
  addr: [173.194.116.64 173.194.116.69 173.194.116.71 173.194.116.65 173.194.116.73 173.194.116.70 173.194.116.67 173.194.116.66 173.194.116.72 173.194.116.78 173.194.116.68 2a00:1450:400c:c0a::76]

Win 8.1, go1.3.3., Centos 7. There's a downvoter for some reason, maybe they have something to add...? Don't let me lead you astray - I haven't yet read that article I linked to, but a quick glimpse suggested to me that this isn't a bug.

disputinon Go: Planning the 1.5 release

Not sure it's a bug, may be "a well-known limitation" (unknown to me) - https://inconshreveable.com/04-30-2014/cross-compiling-golan...

Have a Go: package main

  import (
          "fmt"
          "net"
          "os"
  )
  
  func main() {
          hostname := "feeds.feedburner.com"
          if len(os.Args) > 1 {
                  hostname = os.Args[1]
          }
          addr, err := net.LookupHost(hostname)
          if err != nil {
                  fmt.Printf("err: %v", err.Error())
          } else {
                  fmt.Printf("addr: %v", addr)
          }
  }
  
  set GOOS=linux
  set GOARCH=amd64
  set CGO_ENABLED=0

disputinon Go: Planning the 1.5 release

"the goal is to eliminate C from the source tree so that—except for programs that use cgo"

What does the future hold for cgo? Yesterday I ran into erratic DNS success with a cross compiled program, win to lin. Haven't had a chance to look further, but I'm wondering when I'll run into similar snags again.