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I don't see us living there for extended missions either. I do see the importance of what we learned and the inventions that came out of the Moon missions that have positively impacted our lives on this rock. The journey thing. What I don't get, at all, to this day, is why...we still don't have a Moon base.

Read your second sentence in the context of the first.

> I hate this analogy. Not only does it enforce the bullshit teleology of the White European as "discoverer" (you know people inhabited these continents, right?)

Thanks, agreed. On the last part though, it doesn't hurt to explore, a lot can be learned in the process alone, outside of actually finding anything.

> Sadly the pathogen make up of the Americas made safe exploration an impossibility

Indians had no trouble crisscrossing America.

Agreed. The Native American Indians knew how great America was.

Recover material from asteroids much?

Check this fact, see the graph:

http://www.cfr.org/defense-budget/trends-us-military-spendin...

I'm not degreed so this is just my off the wall thinking but asteroid mining yes, definitely. I still think we need a Moon base, need to show we can run it successfully for around 2 decades then start seriously planning a Mars mission. As a kid, I'd have imagined we'd already have a successful Moon base.

Asteroids, since I assume they move and possibly in odd orbits might be difficult to reach in emergency situations, I'd rather not see any nation's Astronauts stranded on a remote asteroid.

We aren't close to ready for Mars. We need a base on the moon.

Their newest snapshots looks like they're getting back on track, I wasn't into 1.9. Wishing them the best though.

> They did say that Java MC isn't going anywhere.

Embrace, extend, extinguish is how it always plays out.

I think it was great before mods and quite popular. Notch left and it's not as popular now.

You had better back that claim up. I've seen slow Assembly programs; operating close to the hardware is not a guarantee of better performance.

You're comparing today's Minecraft with all the bells and whistles to Minetest. The original comment about trying to extend it in C++ compared to Java is perfectly valid. It's why Java rose to power and remains. It's why it takes so long to roll out new features in the Windows 10 Minecraft client (which is basically the PE client).

I remember one of the first VOIP clients (if not the first) PowWow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowWow_(chat_program)

I think mbfg got it right.

> enormous scale

Add more nodes. Scaling is not difficult.

> But ask yourself: how does your browser layout engine and scripting engine work?

[But ask yourself: how does your car's engine work?]

He's saying every company needs a Sheldon or two; they don't need a company full of Sheldons.

That is a wonderful site, so much information, they even had full emulators for favorite old programs and games that run in the browser. (Curse JavaScript for working so well.)

I graduated High School that year, I'd done some BASIC programming on an Atari 2600 with a BASIC cartridge. I imagined a consumer computer like the ones on that cover but with several tape machines and a loader top program so the user wouldn't have to load tapes manually for common programs. Little did I know the hard disk had been invented by IBM in the 1950's.

Today kids learn Java in High School and carry powerful computers in their pockets and on their wrists. I'll probably be pushed out of the Java industry before I even retire by one of them.

I'm liking my Nexus 6 but it feels a bit big at times so I think the trend towards 5 or 5.5 is a good thing. Not sure about the price though, my 6 would have to completely croak before I upgrade from it.

I like the DOM, basic CSS is fine. The twisted stuff some people do with CSS I'm not fine with but yeah I know. JS isn't going away, what irks me the most is the naivety around trying to push it to the backend. It doesn't belong in the backend when the frontend story is so messed up.

> We can only consider applications from the US states of Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, North Carolina, and Oregon, and anywhere in Canada.

I'm curious why those states?

JavaScript has been around since the 90's; a quick scan of this page reveals around 2 dozen JavaScript technologies. The only solution is to remove JavaScript from all browsers and replace it with Java.

> Web application development is hard

Replace JavaScript with Java in all browsers and make it much easier, dependable, predictable and reliable.

Data federation is the key to complex data. In a month or two, the first cut anyway, I doubt it could be done in a week-end.

If that many people are making the point, maybe they have a point.

Your points would be more salient if you could make them without falling back on profanity.

> That's like saying Linux would be better if they only gave you ls, cat and nano because vi, sed and xargs were too complicated.

That's a rather condescending thing to say and not accurate or supportive of the view of git you seem to hold.

> The truth is commands like filter-branch, rebase, cherry-pick, etc. which are notoriously difficult to use... you don't even have to use them.

Until someone on the team _does_ use them and then things can become messed up in ways it takes a git expert to figure out how to fix. I've used git for several years and had never even come across filter-branch, I'd have to chase down the git docs to see what it even does. I never had to filter anything with CVS, Continuus, Perforce, SourceSafe or Subversion.