alberich
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The electronic devices are, from a technical point of view, flawed. That doesn't mean the votes have been tampered... though I agree that this should be fixed.
On the other side, this same electronic devices are in use since 1996, thus all elections ever since fall under the same suspicion (even the one won by FHC).
The problem is that political parties only act when they are loosing. Now, the losers claim the devices can be tampered with... of course they can. But why didn't they make these devices right when they were in power?
I never said that most people ask for a coup. I said that seeing people doing this is crazy. You read what you wanted to read, not what I said.
>> Just an aside: this whole thread has already derailed completely from the original link and it has become a point for the Brazilians to discuss politics and each to show their allegiances. I'm all for a good, rational discussion, but I'm yet to see this irt politics, especially in Brazil. Instead of arguing on the ideas, people make "their" political party as part of their identity and simply refuse to have constructive dialogue. It is worse than football. How about we keep this off Hacker News?
This is what I meant when I said that I wish for the day when people will not make judgements based solely on their political affinity.
Sadly, it is almost impossible to talk about politics when people start to see you as an enemy just because you disagree with them. It is even worse when you see, as it happened in Brazil, people with good education going to the streets asking for a military coup... that is crazy. A democracy is better than a dictatorship, even a corrupt democracy, at least you can change the president after a couple of years.
So, this is your best argument?
Very reasonable.
Good points. I just don't agree with the rethoric that this is the worst Brazil ever had. Specially ignoring that in the nineties no corruption scandal was ever investigated... there are numerous cases... sadly all hidden under the carpet.
I hope that someday people will judge their representatives not based on their sympathy for a given party, but on actual meritocracy.
I don't think the actual government is the best, I just think it is the least worst we could get at the present time.
Get your facts right. The devaluation happened in 1999, a time when thinking that Lula would win an election was actually a joke.
If you go to BACEN you can look for yourself to get the historic data on inflation and SELIC interest rates. FHC was able to both have high interest rates, high inflation rate and a broken economy (or did you forget that brazil had to ask IMF for a huge money lend?)...
I don't know what you mean by a coupe... but it is well known that FHC paid congress men to pass the law allowing him to be re-elected. Curiosly, now they think re-election is bad... go figure.
The current government is just so bad?
Come on, just look at SELIC during the second FHC government... the interest rates went sky high, the Real had a monstrous devaluation overnight (from R$ 1.32 to U$1 to R$2.16 to U$ 1).
FHC sure helped to stabilize inflation rate, but he almost destroyed brazilian economy. His second government was nothing short of a disaster.
SELIC history: https://www.bcb.gov.br/?COPOMJUROS
>> By simply changing your language to one with a modern implementation, you can save considerable money on hardware.
Well, maybe thay can save even more money on developers by not switching languages. After all, if raw performance was all that matters people would probably still be programming in assembly.
well, you're supposed to validate user input before passing it to the function.
I'm not sure this can be considered a bug.
Here in Brazil (at least in some cities) we have the worst of both worlds... you pay for it, and there is not enough space... it is a complete crap. No wonder so many people are on the streets manifesting against it.
Cool, I thought it could not use the extensions and thus would be slower than other options like Xen or KVM.
Does someone knows why FreeBSD doesn't offer any virtualization platform based on Intel VT or AMD-v? Is there any architectural incompatibility or is it just a case of virtualization not being a high priority?
This theory is fine, but isn't the Taliban the strongman in this case?
Now that is what i would call a "success story". How many distros can claim to be used in the space? :)
I'm glad to see Debian being recognized for it's rock solid stability.
why the downvote? Donald Knuth himself describes programming as an Art.
I'm a bit curious, why do most programmers like to call themselves engineers even though programming is not engineering?
Unless you are the Black Knight, eh? It's just a flesh wound!
I think i'm missing something. On slide 4 it says (the code) it has 0 exceptions and is robust, but then on slide 7 it says that (the system) it crashes without stack traces? Is that right?
What did the OP meant by being robust, when the code crashes unexpectedly?
Do they? I've heard (I must confess it was years ago) that google paid less. People went there because it was cool and all that hype.
The comparison is not really valid. The point was that one has to spend "less" time to learn Lisp's syntax.
Thus, learning binary syntax vs. decimal syntax is indeed easier, as it is easier to learn Lisp's syntax when compared to other languages like, say, Java or C++.
besides, obtaining a PhD, even at an early age, doesn't make you a genius... well, at least not an Einstein-like genius.
> but because after two years no one on staff was proficient in the language
Hm, I wonder if they tried to train someone or if they waited to see if someone would study Erlang at home for free.
Do you experience this while reading foreing languages, once you know the meaning of the words?
> I'd really like to see this power in a companies hands that is not against the concept of privacy
Is there any company like this? I mean... it seems companies won't be against privacy as long as it doesn't get in the way of making profit.
This could catch some programming bugs, sure, but it wouldn't make the OS much safer. You can still have attacks on integrity, privacy and availability.
Hm. I thought the post was referring the troubles of maneauviring during a slowdown, as airplanes can only go forward.
If falling of the sky is the trouble, you can still use parachutes as a safety measure. Like this one (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_Recovery_Systems).
Anyways, I don't think flying cars are impossible. We just don't have enough technology yet to make it viable.
>> Not to mention that it's impossible to simply stop in the air.
What if they invent one that flies like helicopters? Who knows what will come in the future...
>> The problem is, as he says, that the programmer already knows everything that needs to be written.
When I was working as a programmer, most of the time we didn't know exatcly what needed to be written. Programming requires so much focus because of the myriad of ways that you can implement a high level concept, and you have to take into considaration all kinds of things like performance, extensibility, portability, ease of maintenance, and so on.
This kind of reminds me of that journalist in the movie Das Boat, reflecting on his motives while stuck at the bottom of the sea.