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Re:Tesla’s $140,000 Model X SUV Does 0-60 in 3.2 Seconds
on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @04:56AM (#10302618)
Inexperienced drivers and drunk drivers. Where I'm from there are many inexperienced drivers with lots of money due to political connections. In fact inexperienced drivers are almost a target market for cars in that price range here. There are also brats with rich parents. There's also pretty widespread drunk driving across the board.
Re:Tesla’s $140,000 Model X SUV Does 0-60 in 3.2 Seconds
on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @03:41AM (#10302373)
Oh great, another urban tank, this time with much more power.
Re:Kotlin: A New Hope in a Java 6 Wasteland
on Monday September 28, 2015 @12:22PM (#10291237)
Probably Scala (although I hope Kotlin makes some inroads too), but I don't think it will ever displace Java in a significant way. Scala, outliers aside, is well loved by it's users [1], but not everyone wants to spend the time to learn it. Java remains popular because it's the nobody got fired for picking it default, not because it's technically superior to Kotlin, Celon etc. The Java language has become one of the poorest choices on the JVM and is showing its age when compared to the alternatives. We ditched Java for Scala for most work. It's fantastic to work with once you've learned it, but it's not a path for everyone who doesn't have the inclination to spend the time learning.
[1] http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2015#tech...
Re:Disabling SSLv3 and RC4
on Friday September 18, 2015 @03:49AM (#10237961)
They might instruct all their customers to use IE6 for "security".
Re:Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users
on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @09:45AM (#10226503)
I've used it for at least 4 years, only got one spam message ever. I blocked the sender. I didn't uninstall whatsapp.
Re:'Hackers' at 20
on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @04:12AM (#10225300)
Antitrust was great, a longtime favourite of mine. They at least had some focus on coding etc. rather than just mindless bashing on a keyboard to "hack" random systems.
Re:New human-like species discovered
on Thursday September 10, 2015 @11:06AM (#10198492)
> Incidentally, though the article says it was scientists who discovered the fossils - they were actually discovered by amateur cavers.
Indeed, some more details here: http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Accountant-found-Homo...