svdree

Worrying so much about everything that might be bad for you, is probably bad for you.

> If we did, there wouldn't be mass surveillance

Are you sure? Outside of this little bubble we live in, there are lots of people willing to give up every last bit of privacy ("nothing to hide"), in exchange for the government giving them the feeling of "safety".

You do realize that islam is a religion, not a race, right? Playing the racism card in situations like these is quickly becoming the new Godwin.

Besides, given that most Americans wouldn't even know what kind of cartoons we're talking about, it would have actual news value to show them.

"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."

> commercial vehicles require more regular tests because they do far more miles

That doesn't make any sense. Sure, high mileage cars probably need to be checked more regularly, but that goes for non-commercial vehicles as well. The fact that money changes hands after a ride does not do anything to the technical state of the car.

Same thing for the insurance: if I drive a friend to the airport, that's OK apparently. But if I drive someone else to the airport for money, suddenly I'm not insured anymore?

To me this just sounds like people making up rules to protect their own interests.

Another reason might be that supersonic flying doesn't really gain you all that much. You still have to spend time getting to the airport, being there a couple of hours in advance, go through all the security measures etc, and jump through similar hoops upon arrival. Cutting your flight time in half sounds nice, but the effect on your actual travel time is a lot smaller.

Android fragmentation is real, but screen sizes are not part of the issue. The whole system is built around the idea of supporting different screen sizes, and provides you with the tools you need to handle them.

The real fragmentation is in hardware support (don't get me started on OpenGL-ES drivers) and manufacturers that modify the OS in crazy ways. It's quite frustrating to receive crash reports with stack traces showing a crash originating in some manufacturers custom code, with no way of knowing what went wrong.

Beginners can always use something like Unity3D, or any of the other gazillion libraries that are available. IMO beginner-friendly stuff has no place in the spec.

It seems to me that many people these days aren't willing to invest time to learn certain technologies anymore. They just want to be able to slap a bunch of components together quickly, and don't want to invest time in actually learning anything. Well, good luck doing that with 3D. Even if you manage to find an API that is simple enough, you probably still don't understand the 3D math behind it, or why your renderer is dog slow even though you only draw a handful of triangles

This guy should try some OpenGL-ES development on Android. Suddenly vendors A, B and C don't sound so bad anymore...

"I have yet to see any test-driven developers flying airplanes into buildings..."

When a blog begins like this...

But these experiments don't really prove anything w.r.t. basic income, do they? Of course, if you give a small, isolated group of people more money, their lives will improve. But that doesn't generalize to the entire population, especially since that population has to come up with the money to begin with.

From TFA: " I don't mind certain art, like films or computer games being censored"

Right. He doesn't mind censorship, he just disagrees with where the line is drawn. Which is what a lot of debate seems to boil down to these days: we don't care about anything unless it affects us personally.

And, as others have said, trying to keep teenage boys away from porn can only fail in the most spectacular way possible.

Hehe, it's not often that you see the comments to an article prove its point so strongly ;-)

Delft University of Technology (the Netherlands) did it in 1995 ;-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwNQqePk8Kg