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Presumably this flaw explains why zip files are so obscure and difficult to use. (Yeah it's no great but clearly it's not been an issue)

I'm not a fan of BAD change.

Who does that?

Ultimately a clear majority of the UK population is in favor of leave. This has increased since the vote as the lies of the remain campaign proved not to be true.

Much of the remain support is concentrated in a handful of London consistences meaning that almost all english MPs have a significant majority of leave supporters.

They have to vote for that or they won't be selected in a future election.

In any case. If the government doesn't follow the will of the people, then the 18 million people who votes leave will ensure that we have a new government one way or another.

What exactly are people using the linux shell for? It's fun, but given that you can't easily access windows files and you can't use it to run things like the visual C++ compiler you can't easily use it to script windows programs.

What do people actually use it for?

Bitcoin seems to be going through an issue at the moment where many transactions are taking hours to complete due to a large backlog. This might be transient but when I ask any questions about so what happens if volume doubles, I just get attacked for asking such questions.

It seems bitcoin just doesn't scale very well.

So my question is does ZCash? How will it cope with current bitcoin volumes? Or 10 times? Or 1000?

People STILL confuse the construction of software with the construction of buildings. We can estimate fairly accurately how long it will take to build a building once we have reasonable plans for it. I can pretty accurately say that it will take about 4 minutes to build the software once I have the plans to build it. The compiler pretty much automates the whole job.

Writing software is NOT construction. Much of it isn't even design. Most of it is gathering detailed requirements and writing them down in unambiguous form (code).

My asking how long it's going to take to write a software it's like saying to a building contractor how long will it take to design every single detail of a city block including gathering all the requirements.

Also the requirements for software are much more detailed than building. 100000 lines of code represents 100000 decisions. I bet not many buildings have 100000 decisions. And 10000 is tiny for a software project.

Yeah sure. But it's not a good solution really. First of all I don't really want to pay any more. Secondly, if everyone has to do this in order to get their transactions processed in a reasonable time, then nobody is any better off..

As others have said "mining" is really not a good name for what is happening. What the miners are really doing is the work that is necessary to confirm and secure the transactions.

When they do that, if they are the first miner to come up with the values required to confirm the transaction they are allowed to add a transaction of their own which "transfers" some bitcoins from "nowhere" to them, thus getting rewarded for their work. it is this that incentivizes people to "mine" but it's not the purpose.

I've had transactions waiting for 8 hours now for a confimation. And some more new ones this morning for 3 hours now without a single confirmation.

All of these contains the default fees added by the clients and which were sufficient last month.

I was trying to demonstrate bitcoin to some friends last night. They made wallets and I tried to transfer some coin to them. After an hour they were saying it would have been quicker to drive to the ATM and get cash. I doubt they'll look at bitcoin again now.

This needs fixing and this needs fixing quickly. Waiting half an hour for a few confirmations used to be a problem that needed fixing. Waiting hours will quickly kill bitcoin.

This looks good to me. It looks like it is not just another bitcoin clone, it has genuine, and well thought out improvements. I'll probably try it out unlike all the others.

A whole article about why space elevators would be better than rockets with only the slight problem that we don't know of any way to build one with any materials we have.

If we are allowed to do that, I think we should use star trek transporters. They would be even cheaper and even better. We don't know how to build those either...

If you have windows "Pro".... Which most people won't have.

I think we should define a low level learning virtual machine. Basically something like a C64 but updated to be a bit more modern. Have a virtual 4 core CPU that runs a fake machine code, have memory mapped IO so that you can put a pixel on a screen by writing a byte to memory, you can read a mouse position from a fixed memory address etc.

You could make it more advanced by using the IO. We could define things like a 3d graphics interface by defining virtual registers that take commands. Pretend hardware instead of an API.

Basically a fake blank computer for learning fun stuff on that's a bit more modern than an old spectrum of C64 but still (emulated) basic hardware and no layers or libraries...

Perhaps if it became popular people might create the actual hardware... Hmm, I might make one :P

> It did one thing and did it better than anything else of the same era

I would argue that it still does. It's not a great language, but to just get something working I still can't think of anything better that doesn't require lots of planning or infrastructure

Spoiler: Because they are more interested in pushing their own politics than helping people.

I don't think they got this right.

It's easy to find terms with hindsight that correlated well with what happened (even if you test that prediction with some of your data and reject ones that didn't work). It's not so obvious that they will be any guide to the future.

If aliens attack next week and the market falls for 6 months week by week we're likely in a years to time to find the stock market decline correlated strongly with the use of the word "alien" the week before compared with weeks before the attack when the market was rising and it was hardly mentioned.

It's easy to find correlations with hindsight, the skill is in predicting what they will be in advance

Agree entirely with all this.

You know what you get with C and it just works as you expect always. I always feel refreshed after writing C.

There are perhaps a few very minor enhancements I'd suggest, but I'd be very reluctant to open the floodgates and ruin it.

Really, it doesn't do IPv6?

How could they launch such a faulty product. If it was 3 years ago maybe, but it's not really optional now.

Most of my connections are over ipv6.

If this doesn't support ipv6 then it can only connect to legacy sites. Yes that's pretty much all sites today but this is inexcusable in a new product.

The only people who think that javascript and the javascript "ecosystem" is anything other than an utter disaster seem to be those who've never used anything else.

I have a few hobby projects stored on github and it's easy to get linux VMs so that when I commit something it gets checked out and built and packaged automatically. It's easy to find a VM for a reasonable monthly price. But it seems to be much harder to find reasonable windows options to do the same there?

I currently make it build on my machine at home, but that't not very scalable or reliable.

I don't really want a full windows machine. I want a decent windows machine for doing builds that only runs for a few hours in total each month and is cheap.

Is there such a thing?

I do feel that the javascript people have made C++ look simple. Not so much the language perhaps, but making programs in it..

Good. The problem of course is that you still need the coal generation capacity for winter, and if you hardly use it other times, it becomes really expensive for the capacity it's providing.

Awesome!

Absolutely. Sure, minimize loss of all life where you can of course. But the purpose of the device is to protect the driver. If it can't even manage that it's broken.

This isn't hard.

First prioritize the car occupants. The _whole_point_ of the device is to drive them. Second, don't swerve off course to make value judgements on who should live. That is just murder. Third try to minimize loss of life it all else is equal. Save cats and dogs where you can of course but they can't even be the priority.

It would be interesting to see visual c++ on there too, although I imagine both the practical and licensing aspects make this too difficult

Ooh nice, I like being able to compare two compilers or options

I got the same a number of years ago when I went through a difficult recruitment process to get a job, and got the offer and in the end turned it down because after extended consideration that it just wasn't the right job for me even though it was a good job with a significant pay increase. It was using technologies I didn't specially want to work on, for a company that didn't really interest me, and who hadn't persuaded me that they were doing anything I'd be interested in. Nothing wrong with the job, or the offer, it just wasn't the right place for me.

I recruiter was not happy and basically told me that I wouldn't get anything else, and if I got a reputation for turning down jobs I couldn't expect agencies to ever put me forward for anything else. They just screamed at me on the phone.

I did get another job and it was far better (for me) than the one I turned down.