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The US started targeting defenseless civilians in Japan via fire bombing, and the majority of the Japan's cities had already been destroyed by the time they deployed the atomic bombs. The attacks on civilians in Japan were the first examples of what is now standard procedure in the air force, now known as "strategic bombing".

Mark Selden, a researcher at Cornell University, wrote an excellent article detailing this: http://apjjf.org/-Mark-Selden/2414/article.html

He points out how the attacks on civilians in Dresden, for example, were met with shock by Europeans at the time. But the Americans never reacted as strongly to the same bombings in Japan.

Several cities of civilians were destroyed in the Korean War. In Vietnam city bombins and chemical weapons were deployed against civilians. Carpet bombing was the term for targeting civilians in Iraq I. Etc etc etc. It's all basically the same.
Whoever wrote that isn't concerned about the people in almost certainly crowd. Writer is curious about the others that made it anyway and why. Much more interesting question with possible, practical applications. :)
> Yes, one of the benefits of Rails most overlooked by it's opponents is how immensely productive it is for small to medium sized apps.

That's the only justification anybody ever uses for choosing Rails, so I'd hardly say it's overlooked.
Set up an LDAP server to handle authentication, and configure PAM to talk to that LDAP server.

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It's really up to what kind of project you want to work on and how much resources (time/effort/stress/money/etc..) you want to put into it. The learning curve for something new is definitely not negligible, especially as you get deep into your project.

Newer languages/frameworks look great when you run through tutorials, but you're going to have issues once you need to do more complicated stuff. Very new frameworks are unlikely to have much documentation and discussions, which means that at some point, you're probably going to need cross your fingers and hope someone replies to your questions or dig into source code yourself. There's nothing wrong with this, it's just the cost of using something that isn't old and popular.

Maintainability for large projects and bad performance are an issue in whatever language or framework you use. A lot of the problems are avoidable once you move past relying on the magic of your web framework and understand how all the stuff you're using works under the covers. After playing with a few languages and frameworks, I'd say it's really useful to just choose one to become an expert in. Being an expert in one and knowing how to mitigate all the warts will help you infinitely when you do eventually move to something new. I think it's much more valuable to be an expert in one stack and intermediate in two than to be intermediate in 20 stacks.

If you have something you really want to build and are already comfortable with Java, I'd suggest just sticking with Java. Newer frameworks like SpringBoot or Play! remove a lot of the XML, if that's your primary complaint. Verbosity... well, every language is going to have something that doesn't match your personal aesthetics. A lot of the really verbose Java can be avoided by changing up your coding style.

If you're just going for self-enrichment, sticking with an FP until you're comfortable with it is great. Just be aware that you may never use the language/framework as an employee. But you'll definitely get huge benefits in your overall skills by learning an FP.
when i was learning to program, i used to think of ways to maximise my knowledge acquisition. one of those ways was toying with lucid dreaming - allowing me 6 or so extra hours every night to hone my skills.

turns out my subconscious isn't the greatest compiler, and i was too busy winning the world series or saving the president to worry about unrecognised selectors and off-by-one errors.
There are many views on the bombing. The difference is that Americans do not hide it. It's controversial, but people know about it.

Same with Germans. People know about how the Germans behaved in WW2, they're not proud about it, it's learned in schools, and they do not hide it.

Japan on the other side, actively hide their actions. Japanese schools present a revisionist version of history in which all their horrible and brutal war crimes never happened. The Japanese people promote a vision of Japan with a tradition full of honor and virtue. Do they teach their kids that they dropped a bomb carrying the bubonic plague? or the massacre of Nanking? the mass beheadings of people? the sexual slavery? and many other horrible crimes, even targeting kids... probably not. This is the difference.
Thanks for trying it out! We are working on integrating the software with Moodle and other course management systems so that I don't have to force schools to adopt a new service grade the assignments.
The picaresque novel "Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me" by Richard Farina (classmate of Tom Pynchon's) has an incredible scene where a traveling student drinks martinis in Vegas with rich oilmen as they watch the bombs go off before dawn. At first I thought this was pure fiction, but it's incredible to know that scene was based on a terrifying reality.
>I think would much rather my leaders just sign some sort of an armistice agreement rather than annihilate "enemy" civilians.

Great idea! Now, how do we persuade the other side to sign that agreement?
I remember this article. It was really fun. Now, anyone know of modern research or simulations that has made some headway on how these people might have survived? And best odds of duplicating that should one find themselves 10,000+ft in air with no parachute? Or just idiotic basejumpers trying to create a new category in Guiness?
US$200B will buy a lot of self-contained archaeology. Think 20km x 20km x 300m environmentally contained city with integrated everything. Not saying US$200B of canals won't be good, but if you have 200B to burn and 30 years to do it then maybe you get do better for your buck.
> There's really no reason to believe that they'll do anything other than what is in their own best interests

This is true of every country, I don't really see what the point is here.

For example, one of the presidential candidates for the US is campaigning on the popular platform of getting a neighboring country to pay for a wall between itself and the US by threatening to withhold financial remittances to that country.
The bubble in computer sales never burst - it just leveled off some and some sales moved to phones and tablets, which grew at an even faster rate[1]

The are plenty of similar examples.

[1] http://static1.squarespace.com/static/50363cf324ac8e905e7df8...
Ironically while reading this I got the distinct impression that the writer was a manipulative asshole.
I guess you meant this as confirmation of his/her statement?
> But the thing is they are never equivalent.

You can say: it's too much hassle to refute the null hypothesis.

(Ie they are equivalent enough.)
The most interesting thing in old magazines and newspapers are the ads.
This ignores the changes since Iraq War I though. Carpet bombing is no longer standard procedure, because more accurate bombing became a lot cheaper.
This is not a problem with Windows. This is only a problem if the site's implementation allows rich text, which I have never ever seen in a password field.

Windows will paste plain text unless the text field in question is explicitly identified as rich text.
And I think this model's success is reflected in Dota's reputation compared to that over games like League of Legends.
LoL has a lot of characters and a lot of them cost money (at least for a time). And they keep adding more. Regardless of whether or not the characters they add that cost money are better than the others, it still makes the game less balanced and less competitively interesting in the low-to-mid level than Dota is. Sure, high level LoL is probably interesting, but I do not have the money to find out if I could ever enjoy that myself
BD's nationhood is because of India's so called "Roughshod". To compare US and India about regional power in a very skewered form is not even funny, but hey, ask LatAm and Carib about American hegemon and compare that with BD under shadow of India.

edit: also India did not take any territory post-1971 in spite of being a victor, now compare that to US and Mexican war. Talking about roughshods!
Relevant reply by Chris Lattner on the Swift Evolution mailing list: https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mo...
My personal favorite uranium rush song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LuXCkibX-k
Americans may not hide their actions, but they certainly paint the actions in a light favorable to the American self-image. Germany on the other hand exhibits complete contrition and there is no denial of the wrongness of the actions that happened. There are extreme and fringe holocaust denial beliefs in some sub-groups in Germany, but as a government policy what I've said is true.
The invasion of Okinawa is not at all comparable to a potential invasion of Japan. I won't address your main point. I'm posting to correct a grave misunderstanding about the relationship between Okinawa and Japan during this period. Okinawa is a distinct cultural entity, and the island was viewed by Japan as occupied territory. Japanese forces slaughtered Okinawans, going so far as to use them as human shields. Some Okinawans were ordered to kill themselves and their families to avoid the horrific fate that the Japanese promised at the hands of American troops. Others, including schoolchildren, were pressed into front-line service or sent on suicide missions. Others were simply murdered, whether for their food or supplies, out of paranoia to root out "spies" (those who made the grave mistake of speaking in Okinawan within earshot), or for entertainment. I'm not saying Americans didn't kill Okinawans too. What I'm saying is that the Japanese could not have cared less about the survival of Okinawa: the land, culture, or people.

While the Japanese were certainly willing to use civilians for tactical or strategic gain, one cannot assume that their military forces would have raped and pillaged their own populace in the same manner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Okinawa#Civilian_los...
We do the equivalent of CDO to our networks at Google. (Ie tcp can't deal with packet loss, so needs the best tranche; especially if user facing. Some long running copy operations with fountain codes only care about total throughput, not lost packages, so get the `equity' tranches.)
> Leaning on the Objective-C runtime feels like a temporary solution because it only exists on the Mac and iOS.

That's not entirely true; libobjc2[0] exists, for example, and is fully compatible with objc4.

[0]: https://github.com/gnustep/libobjc2
I remember the first time that I played Super Mario bros on the NES. I was so absolutely blown away, that words don't make justice. I had previous experience with many consoles and computer games. But this thing -Mario Bros- was so incredibly well designed, that it was beyond unbelievable. This little box, packing this strange, exotic world, full of inexplicable, surprising creatures and devices. With many different areas full of mysteries. Reinforced by the perplexing, hypnotizing music. I still can clearly hear it. The amazing sound effects. I can still clearly hear the sound of entering a pipe, and descending into the underground. The amount of engaging and continually fresh motion, required to overcome the always changing obstacles, was absolutely unequaled at the time.

There were moments that I would be idle, pondering how it was possible to pack so much brilliant design on a thing. I would then be also tremendously impressed by other games of the time, notably Zelda and Super Mario Bros 3. That I would become a big fan of Japanese game design for life. Investigating and following the individual game creators. Since then, I slowly noticed that the Japanese, and some Asians, have a unique sensibility that gives their games a peculiar flavor. Many people -mainly westerns- don't resonate with this peculiar uniqueness, that rarely exist in western games. And that is ok, just interesting. It is like they can achieve a laser focus on a particular set of simple, essential human emotions. It can be found on how they draw things, the stories that write, etc. That particularly inspires some people.

For many people, Nintendo games of the time were so dramatically better designed, compared to the standards of the time, that they were like gold compared to the others dirt. That was an important factor, possibly the biggest, in the creation of the generation Nintendo. It is very interesting to know what were the conditions and events, that allowed Nintendo the company, to come up with these absolutely brilliant products at the time. That allowed it to achieve legendary status among so many people.
Amen. I interviewed with a company that touted a "No Jerks Policy". Both the HR recruiter and the CEO bragged to me about how they have and will fire "jerks" on the spot. I ran far away from that job after the interview.
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Take the easy way out why don't you! Meanwhile, I think it's more fun to contemplate the possibilities.

I'm thinking I'll build a multi-story, Tempur-Pedic mattress maybe on top of shallow lake. Put some nets around it that extend high into the sky. The person landing on it gets cushion from the water and compression along with soft surface. Will hit it, slow down, and any bouncing contained within nets. Just need some idi... brave adventurer to both fund this structure and use it.

Note: Too great a chance of bouncing outside the nets. A spring or rocket activated top could help but hurts as much as the ground. Make hamburger out of them probably. So, a parallel, Tempur-Pedic surface that springs across the top or is moved into place with helicopters. That should be safer for high-energy, upward bouncing.
I don't understand why Android continues to do so badly in comparison to iOS revenue numbers. As an Android user it's very disappointing. Bigger user base, but almost inconsequential when it comes to revenue. I'm surprised game developers support Android at all, I want the games that are on iOS for my phone but even I'm not sure it's worth it.
The linux kernel is and has been pretty buggy, especially by cryptographic standards.
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There are also groups of Americans that condemn such actions. There is also compassion for the victims. There is a mainstream ethical debate, which is what allows society to move forward.
Analyzing IMDB data: Actors vs. actresses
I'm still confused by what you meant by "a few days later". The parent comment didn't mention any event for you to be basing your timeline on.
It's a great scene (even though it's highly fictionalized), and it's a shame that the film itself is so mediocre. In particular, Oppenheimer and Leslie Groves were horribly miscast. Sam Waterston in the Oppenheimer (1980) miniseries was much more true to life.
A Trump presidency is a hypothetical; India's Interlink project is apparently a reality. Putting that aside, Mexico is probably going to be okay if the wall gets built. Bangladesh will starve when water from the Ganges and/or Brahmaputra is "reduced".

The point is that this isn't a question of self-interest causing a small amount of inconvenience to a neighbor -- it's self-interest that could cause grievous, existential harm to a smaller country.
It's too bad about the Volt. I drove one a few times... It isn't a terrible car at all, and bypasses the gaping flaws in a pure electric vehicle.
Two car households look like a large enough market to get past the chicken and egg problem. The vast majority of daily driving is within the range of a base model Tesla.
Yeah, about that... None of what you said would work. People think water is this "cushion" like thing. In reality it is as solid as a brick unless the surface is broken (the mattress is not enough). A human would just end up breaking every bone in their body attempting to do this.
An economist named Harry Dent has said the same thing for quite a while and wrote a book (which is a bit hard to read without being versed in financial terms). He had a debate with Jim Rickards where they wound up both saying deflation would happen due to demographics, but disagreed on the power and will of governments to enact inflation to counter it.
> The Indian water resources ministry spokesperson said: “The Indian government is addressing Bangladesh’s water problems too,” adding that ministers from the two countries had discussed the water issue in the past. “We don’t have the details, but we will ensure Bangladesh gets its share of water too.”

I have absolutely no faith in the ability of the government of a bigger nation to think in the best interests of a smaller neighbor. (Just look at US history with Latin and South America.) What does "its share of water" mean? Does it mean that they'll flood Bangladesh when there is too much water for the reservoirs to hold? Does it mean that practically all the water flow will stop in the dry months? Put yourself in the other side's shoes. Would you trust them? Why? On what basis?
How did you get that impression?
Yep. We'd rather slowly become more and more sclerotic rather than face so much as a tiny increase in price level.
> Who are we to condemn India's actions? Let's just hope the project minimizes ecological impact.

I think Californians have every right to condemn this project. Not only have we experienced the benefits of huge water projects like this, but also the costs. The disruption of the delta (take note Bangladesh), Owens Lake that has been turned into stinging alkali sands, a Colorado river that rarely makes it to the sea, Hetch Hetchy, a beautiful valley in Yosemite that a century ago was sacrificed in order for San Francisco to have clean water (not a judgement call, the water in SF is fantastic, but there is a price..) and so on. Now we are gearing up to tunnel around the delta so Southern California can suck even more water out of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers; there will be an environmental price for that as well.

My concern with this project is that Bangladesh will get the short end of the stick. They already are in a difficult spot with the sea level rising, and, if a reduction in water flow also reduces the amount of silt reaching the delta there will be more subsidence and an already difficult problem will be made even worse.
> I haven't played Assassin's Creed, but it makes sense to me that a AAA game franchise has a better chance standing out on mobile as a premium game, rather than associating with less prestigious IP.

A little more context: Assassin's Creed was F2P during soft launch, but player feedback drove Ubisoft to retool it as a paid title without typical F2P gimmicks (although online-only requirement remains): http://toucharcade.com/2016/02/24/assassins-creed-identity-b...
A ski mask, maybe. If you're wearing a surgical mask people will think you're sick.
Wait, isn't refusing clients/opportunities/etc. because of "asshole-ness" in its own right also an asshole move? I mean sure you have good intentions, but isn't "no I'm not letting you into my lane cause your an asshole" kind of a hippicritical thing to say?
This is just my guess, but Android phones are on average much cheaper than iPhones. An iPhone costs $400-800, the only Android phones in that range are the very top of the line (Samsung S7, LG G5). Most of the huge Android user base is on inexpensive phones sold for $0-100 on contract.

While you can't say for sure that Android users have less money, you can say they're spending less money on their phones which likely means they'll spend less on apps on that phone.
I agree. I think the lesson I've learned is that selfish people will just use your "values" as political weapons for self-advancement, no matter what the value is, even if it's "selflessness."

This shouldn't be surprising; the idea that a person would fundamentally reshape their whole personality and outlook on life because some dude in an office ("boss") put it on a piece of paper on the wall (made it a "value") seems far-fetched.

That said, it sounds like "politics" falls into their "asshole" category, so perhaps they will find a way. So long as the politicians don't learn to hide their politics...
Brings back memories as I followed the three languages for a while. Good to see a link to one plus arthurcolle's great link to a summary of Fortress's strong points. A recent foray into this theme is ParaSail language below.

http://www.embedded.com/design/other/4375616/ParaSail--Less-...

Meanwhile, functional approaches like Erlang and Haskell have been most impressive. Still a need to improve with languages already there. Cilk (below) was one for C. I've also included a list on Wikipedia for people interested in this topic.

http://supertech.csail.mit.edu/cilk/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Concurrent_programmin...
Monument Valley is one of the first mobile games I paid for, and I'm glad that it provided such an excellent experience -- unparalleled by anything I've tried since -- because even though other games I've bought since haven't been as beautiful or as fun as Monument Valley, it made me feel okay about buying games in general. If Monument Valley hadn't been good, I never would have ponied up for Smash Hit or any of my other favorites.
As an American, this is a question I struggle with. The the atomic bombs did what they were meant to, a swift end to the war with a full capitulation by the Japanese, before the Russians were able to mount an invasion of their own. This is generally forgiven because it in theory saved the lives of American soldiers who would have had a hard fight to take Japan.

But all of this was done, and with an understanding that it would, cause a massive number of civilian casualties. The US and allies did this to Tokyo and Dresden with non-atomic weapons as well.

To me these are crimes that we as a country have never really admitted to. We discuss it openly, but we have never truly said that we were wrong to kill so many innocent people. I believe that this is partly why we today do not also hold ourselves accountable to the large number of civilian deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Edit: I should include Vietnam as well in which we killed some multiple of millions. But even that has the list too short. We as Americans suffer from the Sam euro centric view we've always had, if your white, it's a death worth counting, if not, eh...
Buying the device itself instead of building one yourself is still probably cheaper once all of the hardware is said and done, unless this isn't what you were going after.
I don't think he's a manipulative arsehole, but it does seem very aggressive and judgemental to use the term arseholes. Normally it's only arseholes who tend to call other people arseholes, after all :-)
US is #8 in HDI which is the formal measurement for standard of living.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Dev...
Thanks for the detailed reply!

> What's your background ?

I went something like game dev (C++) -> enterprise client/server apps (C++/Qt) -> web dev (Python/Django)

Django, like Rails is fantastic for hashing out small-med sized apps, but I've been looking to add another tool to the box. Something statically typed, more performant relative to Python, and with a large ecosystem to draw from to get stuff done quick.

I've been using Java on and off since the late 90s... it's overly verbose but it seems like it's gotten a bit better w/ Java 8 and the code gen features available in IntelliJ. I've also avoided J2EE/JEE like the plague. Coming from Django, and not wanting anything to do with JEE makes Play a rather appealing choice on the surface.

Go seems like the only viable alternative as I do not want to switch to a MS hosting stack to host .NET.

Of course there are all of those other JVM languages to poke at!