• Hortical (unregistered) in reply to boog
    boog:
    The only thing I really opposed you on (so far) was the notion that those who don't have the means to survive will simply die. I said that instead they will take from those who do. Because they would. Because they're desperate. You hastily jumped at the opportunity to criticize my suggestion that we support the ever-overpopulating "can-nots", when in fact I never made any such suggestion. You say you want to know my take on it? Why should I even bother, when you already assumed my opinion for me from the beginning?
    When you gave me such an obvious rebut I felt the need to take things a step further, thinking there's more to what you're saying, but there wasn't. My fault.

    "People won't just starve!" Yes... so... what then?

    You don't have anything to offer but excuses.

    boog:
    Potato chips for the intellectual mind, this discussion is.
    Like feeding strawberrys to hogs.
  • Lucent (unregistered) in reply to boog
    boog:
    The only thing I really opposed you on (so far) was the notion that those who don't have the means to survive will simply die. I said that instead they will take from those who do. Because they would. Because they're desperate. You hastily jumped at the opportunity to criticize my suggestion that we support the ever-overpopulating "can-nots", when in fact I never made any such suggestion. You say you want to know my take on it? Why should I even bother, when you already assumed my opinion for me from the beginning?

    Potato chips for the intellectual mind, this discussion is.

    So you have nothing to offer, but chime in anyway to sound smart.

    It didn't work.

  • (cs) in reply to Lucent
    Lucent:
    boog:
    The only thing I really opposed you on (so far) was the notion that those who don't have the means to survive will simply die. I said that instead they will take from those who do. Because they would. Because they're desperate. You hastily jumped at the opportunity to criticize my suggestion that we support the ever-overpopulating "can-nots", when in fact I never made any such suggestion. You say you want to know my take on it? Why should I even bother, when you already assumed my opinion for me from the beginning?

    Potato chips for the intellectual mind, this discussion is.

    So you have nothing to offer, but chime in anyway to sound smart.

    It didn't work.

    As proof of boog's opinion, I offer you Mexico. The have-not's started out by robbing the American tourists. Now that they're all dead, they've moved on to their own countrymen.

    Eventually, the parasite class kills everything.

  • Hortical (unregistered) in reply to hoodaticus
    hoodaticus:
    boog:
    The only thing I really opposed you on (so far) was the notion that those who don't have the means to survive will simply die. I said that instead they will take from those who do. Because they would. Because they're desperate.
    As proof of boog's opinion, I offer you Mexico. The have-not's started out by robbing the American tourists. Now that they're all dead, they've moved on to their own countrymen.

    Eventually, the parasite class kills everything.

    Ok, so instead of progressing the discussion on my assumption of boog's opinion is (which he then partially confirmed), I'll ask: what do we do? What happens next?

  • (cs) in reply to Hortical
    Hortical:
    When you gave me such an obvious rebut I felt the need to take things a step further, thinking there's more to what you're saying, but there wasn't. My fault.

    "People won't just starve!" Yes... so... what then?

    You don't have anything to offer but excuses.

    Wow, really? I make a comment that doesn't totally agree with your comment, so you assign me a position in the argument (opposite you), and when I repeatedly tell you that it's not my position, not my world view, you tell me I have nothing to offer?

    Shit, it sounds to me like you just want to argue.

    In that case, I should point out that calling out your false dilemma (indefinite support vs. being overrun by thieving grasshoppers) should have been quite an offering.

    Hortical:
    Like feeding strawberrys to hogs.
    But only if the hogs can find strawberries on their own, right?
  • (cs) in reply to Lucent
    Lucent:
    So you have nothing to offer, but chime in anyway to sound smart.

    It didn't work.

    How very meta of you.

  • iMalc (unregistered)

    Knead more enums?: std::pear< std::pier<Enum, Enum>, std::peer<Enum, Enum> >

  • Spoc42 (unregistered) in reply to Peter
    Peter:
    Spoc42:
    Been there, done that. I had to use such a system of contants during the development of an embedded system programmed in assembler for a 6502-derivative. I needed two sets of contants for precisely those reasons. System is still running over 20 years later, so I must have done something right. . .
    Twenty years later and it's still running? Isn't that rather a long time? In every system I've ever programmed, the aim has been for runs to finish in substantially less than twenty years.
    Good one. Of course, embedded systems are intended to be like the Energizer Bunny: going on and on and on and on . . .

    This one was software controlling an interface between two systems, which themselves ran 24/7.

  • (cs) in reply to Hortical
    Hortical:
    hoodaticus:
    boog:
    The only thing I really opposed you on (so far) was the notion that those who don't have the means to survive will simply die. I said that instead they will take from those who do. Because they would. Because they're desperate.
    As proof of boog's opinion, I offer you Mexico. The have-not's started out by robbing the American tourists. Now that they're all dead, they've moved on to their own countrymen.

    Eventually, the parasite class kills everything.

    Ok, so instead of progressing the discussion on my assumption of boog's opinion is (which he then partially confirmed), I'll ask: what do we do? What happens next?
    The parasites move on to another host, of course.

  • Design Pattern (unregistered) in reply to ac
    ac:
    frits:
    Java was right for leaving out enums. Otherwise you get this kind of trash. If you want to have different types, use polymorphism. If you want constants, use, well, constants.
    Right. Because nothing replaces a mechanism for creating closed/fixed sets like two mechanisms for creating open sets.
    Javas polymorphism, aka subclassing, DOES allow creating closed sets.

    Just make all constructors of the base class private; so you are forced to create all subclasses as inner classes in the same file as the base class -> problem solved.

  • Luiz Felipe (unregistered) in reply to dohpaz42
    dohpaz42:
    pjt33:
    frits:
    Java was right for leaving out enums. Otherwise you get this kind of trash. If you want to have different types, use polymorphism. If you want constants, use, well, constants.
    Not bad. I'll give you an 8. Would have been a better troll with references to PHP and VB.
    <?php
function enum(Array $enums) {
    foreach ($enums as $k => $enum)
        define(strtoupper($enum), $k);
}

enums(array(
    'frist',
    'wtf',
    'file_not_found',
));

echo FRIST . PHP_EOL;
echo WTF . PHP_EOL;
echo FILE_NOT_FOUND . PHP_EOL;
?>

    I admit that at one point in my early career, I used the above paradigm for creating enums. Thankfully, I've matured since then, and I don't do this anymore.

    You mean, you dont use php any more, correctly? i hope so.

  • Luiz Felipe (unregistered) in reply to Severity One
    Severity One:
    just me:
    Very easy to abuse white space: 
    if (i != 0)
    printf("i is not zero, let's divide something by it!");
    int y = 100 / i;
    There are languages, such as Python, that are not context-free and as such, this would work (if we ignore for a moment that the above is not valid Python). Indenting your code is always important, but it's really important in Python.
    This is a thing that need to stay buried with the cobol. But, no, someone has to revive this kind of shit.

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