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The Vietnam War ended, astronaut Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, Richard Nixon resigned over the Watergate scandal, communism collapsed and the world entered the computer age.

Americans tend to overestimate the importance of their events to describe the world changing.

There is nothing worse than library or language maintainers who do not understand that "pure" error messages are absolute hell. If 99.99 % of the time a user should simply write x instead of y, the message should absolutely state that if possible.

I don't understand why was the next version of IP not just identical to IPv4 but with more bits in address space? Were they trying to do too many things at once in the 90's?

Your boring programmer maintaining a 10 year old Java app written with vanilla Js earns more than most game programmers.

I have a feeling this article is not written by any professional programmer

from the coursepage

Brief Course Description: More abstract than calculus, this course aims to develop basic algebraic tools for work with problems involving many variables. Starting from systems of linear equations and vectors in 2-space and 3-space, this course develops ideas about length, angles and resolving a general vector into useful components, identifying features of linear systems or processes in order to choose a basis that is well-adapted to studying a particular phenomenon and move between different points of view to reveal the essential underlying structure. Companion course to 201 (Multivariable Calculus). Discusses matrices and linear transformations, linear independence and dimension, bases and coordinates, determinants, orthogonal projection, least squares, eigenvalues and their applications to quadratic forms and dynamical systems.

Definitely NOT a math class

Because of the people continuing to defend this kind of behavior, and blaming the poor sales guy for not being "technical" enough.

Imagine someone messing with your car. Might be an easy fix if you are a mechanic. Most people are not.

That was extremely inappropriate behaviour from you if this story is true. I feel bad for everyone else involved.

Zeloof’s family was supportive but also cautious. His father asked a semiconductor engineer he knew to offer some safety advice.

As impressive and independent as this is, you have to wonder if any other gifted child could have done the same feat. The article seems to skip over this point, how many people know a "semiconductor engineer"?

Another programming language being popular by no means mean that it is a derived language of any sort. Any development is of course retrospective, but it is sorta like saying all music is descendant from pop.

While a programming language and ecosystem includes some of the culture, bad code and project structure IMO should not be blamed on C. Modern C projects are a breeze

If a user wants to parse integers etc. from a string, the function snprintf and family is often applied. It is a neatly simple function. This article seems to invent a problem rather than an organic one.

the build process of C is one of its absolute benefits. Each unit compiles on its own, producing an object file. The fact that people have now started to make header-only libraries makes the story even better! Each function gets a name. No namespaces, classes, scopes, modules, w/e. You can even just declare a function as extern at compile time!

Why would you think Java is a descendant of C++? There may be overlap in some syntax, mainly from C. C++ is not, and was not, the only OOP language, and I have heard no such that that is should be descendant of C++.

Why is it that all weed enthusiasts always believe that MJ has any relevance to the, in this case Danish, economy? The amount of MJ use in Denmark is minimal compared to other countries, and certainly there is no where near "billions" of Euros sold. Certainly "drug tourists" make little to no impact on the tourism of Copenhagen.