End the FUD. Next-generation nuclear will be the safest ever.
Posts by maxregister
16 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Aug 2014
Rising sea levels? How about the rising risk of someone using a nuke?
Slashing regulations literally more important than saving American lives to Donald Trump
Sorry, but those huge walls of terms and conditions you never read are legally binding
The future of Python: Concurrency devoured, Node.js next on menu
>JavaScript has a better back-end story than Python has a front-end story right now
That's obviously true because Python's frontend is virtually non-existant. html and Google & Apple's native languages are the ones that will hold the frontend spotlight for the foreseeable future.
Frontend python will never be popular. That does not, in any way, indicate that server-side javascript will ever be popular.
Teen girl who texted boyfriend to kill himself guilty of manslaughter
Re: Unwise decision?
"It's pretty much the same situation if you could press a button to let someone live. If you decline to press it, knowing full well the outcome of your inaction, it's just as bad as if you pressed the button to kill them instead."
That may be true on a moral level, but on a legal level in the US you have no obligation to help anyone. You are well within your rights to do nothing.
Now, actively making the situation worse as she did, is a completely different matter.
Haven't deleted your Yahoo account yet? Reminder: Hackers forged login cookies
Totally not-crazy billionaire Elon Musk: All of us – yes, even you – must become cyborgs
Sony takes $1bn writedown: Streaming has killed the DVD star
MicroServices-friendly Java lands on Eclipse
Cloud! IoT! APIs! Collect all the data! Samsung wins today's tech bingo
Wikipedia’s biggest scandal: Industrial-scale blackmail
The Raspberry Pi is succeeding in ways its makers almost imagined
Would YOU make 400 people homeless for an extra $16m? Decision time in Silicon Valley
Linux turns 23 and Linus Torvalds celebrates as only he can
What's that? A PHP SPECIFICATION? Surely you're joking, Facebook
Re: In my experience...
"...which is utterly irrelevant if you're surrounded by crap developers."
Crap developers and great developers aren't the ones we should cater to. Statistically speaking, most of us are average. So to me, the test of a programming language is whether average devs can create safe, working code, and whether their eventual replacements (who are also average) can maintain and extend that codebase.
For my money, PHP* passes this test, provided that the devs religiously use unit testing, continuous integration, etc.
* and this applies to every language, really.