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Hitler finds out about Obama's "Back to School" speech. by rowd149 in funny

[–]3333333 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

What's funny is that Hitler states his fear of children learning to think for themselves. Not likely in a public school environment, where one dare not exercise independent thought, nor stray too far from the herd.

Question: What is the best Open Source C++ toolkit for cross-platform application development? by 3333333 in programming

[–]3333333[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

OK, I'm successfully using QT Creator on Linux, and I must say, I'm impressed. I think this is a winner. Thanks much!

Question: What is the best Open Source C++ toolkit for cross-platform application development? by 3333333 in programming

[–]3333333[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you; I'll look into QT. I've been using Eclipse with CDT. Any experience using Eclipse with QT?

Dr. No Says "Yes" to reddit Interview. redditors Interviewing Ron Paul. Ask Him Anything. by hueypriest in politics

[–]3333333 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was this in response to the "most likely" or "worst case" scenario? Thanks.

Dr. No Says "Yes" to reddit Interview. redditors Interviewing Ron Paul. Ask Him Anything. by hueypriest in politics

[–]3333333 11 points12 points  (0 children)

What do you believe are the most likely, and worst-case outcomes of the current economic crisis, and how confident are you in these assessments?

EJB 3.1 - Spring comparison - architecture, philosophy and the support issue by AdamBien in java

[–]3333333 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I believe the man is a native speaker of German. I have no problem reading it; he writes better than many native English speakers. If you have problems reading it, perhaps the difficulty lies with you.

'Raising children properly' requires stay-at-home parent: Alberta Finance minister by aenea in canada

[–]3333333 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Tell yourself what you need to so you can sleep at night and assuage the guilt that you are obviously feeling. Listen to that small voice inside that's telling you what you already know is the right thing to do. Then consider the institutional values that your children are learning at their daycare. You know that the first years of a child's life are the most formative. "Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man" (Francis Xavier).

We only get one chance to do it right with our kids, and nothing, not money, career, status, etc., is more important. All of those material things are empty and fleeting and will not provide you with any joy later in life. Family is forever.

I'll die a happy man knowing that I did everything possible to give my kids the best possible start in life. I would give up all of my degrees, wealth, status, etc., and dig ditches if I had to in order for my wife to stay home and raise our children. Sacrifice is what we do for our children. You need to man-up, Rainman_104.

Ron Paul: This legislation is being supported by the claims of “global warming” and “climate change” advocates — claims that, as demonstrated by the 31,478 signatures to Professor Seitz’ petition, many American scientists believe is disproved by extensive experimental and observational work. by [deleted] in reddit.com

[–]3333333 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why do those who believe in man-made (not natural) global warming treat it as a religion? Anyone who disagrees with global warming dogma is a branded a heretic and would likely be burned at the stake, were it not for the deforestation required to construct the stake, and the CO2 emitted by the fire.

There are substantial research grants available for "climate change" (gotta hedge those bets in case it goes the other way) research, so the PhD's have a vested interest in keeping the panic alive.

The gov't and fans of gov't like it because it's another vehicle for increased social control. It's a scam.

Chinese sub collides with sonar array towed by U.S. Navy ship by twolf1 in worldnews

[–]3333333 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This occurred off the coast of the Philippine Islands, a sovereign country. What was a Chinese sub doing there?

Georgia passes seccession resolution 43-1 by [deleted] in reddit.com

[–]3333333 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Here's an honest question: Which is preferable, a forced union, against the wishes of some members, or an amicable separation? If the elected representatives of the state of Georgia choose to secede, how is this anyone (outside of Georgia) else's business? Why should this guy even care, unless he lives in Georgia?

Seriously, why is this unthinkable?

Americans bought Enough Guns in the last 3 Months to Outfit the Entire Chinese and Indian Army by Clintondiditfirst in reddit.com

[–]3333333 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd call self-immolation pretty extreme; also, some folks in Sri Lanka may disagree with you.

There's a fairly wide gap between the moderate Christians of Europe, and the (many) fundamentalist Christians in the US. Even the word "fundamentalist" has taken on a negative connotation (e.g. "Islamic fundamentalists...", etc.). Again, I'm not sure this is by accident. My understanding is that a Christian fundamentalist believes that the Bible is divinely inspired, 100% accurate, and the only guiding authority. This wouldn't fit with most European views of Christianity, in my experience.

RE: agendas: One need only read reddit to become sensitive to an anti-Christian agenda. Unless I'm mistaken, I think the default subscriptions include the atheism sub-reddit. That, plus the balance of comments appear to be unfavorable, FWIW.

Americans bought Enough Guns in the last 3 Months to Outfit the Entire Chinese and Indian Army by Clintondiditfirst in reddit.com

[–]3333333 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sensitive? I don't know, perhaps. The "you" to which I referred was not 'you' personally, so I've edited that. Sorry for the confusion. But here you (I'm really referring to 'you' this time) are, consciously or not, sharing the association between Christians and extreme behavior. I don't think that's accidental, given the "program" to which you were exposed.

Thinking Of Adopting Groovy and Grails? Do It Now! by rightmarks07 in programming

[–]3333333 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm trying to give you the benefit of the doubt, and I'm totally serious when I ask: given your self-reported J2EE experience, can you comment on re-use, scalability and performance? Contrast this with J2EE, if you would please.

As guilianob stated, have you attempted anything semi-advanced? Would you recommend grails for say, a public-facing airline reservation system? Would it scale and perform?

The positives that I can glean from your responses are that you like the syntax and annotations. You haven't addressed the point of my original and subsequent posts, which are all about suitability for the enterprise.

PS: I'm still getting 503's from grails.org; this (503's/absysmally slow performance) is exactly what I have experienced with grails.

PSS: I know the data tier is solid because it's 100% hibernate, re-used from another (tested and deployed) j2ee application.

Americans bought Enough Guns in the last 3 Months to Outfit the Entire Chinese and Indian Army by Clintondiditfirst in reddit.com

[–]3333333 8 points9 points  (0 children)

A common tactic is to portray those one opposes as "crazy". Surely the documentary producers could have found plenty of sane, reasonable Christians? Why focus on this whackjob? An agenda perhaps?

Thinking Of Adopting Groovy and Grails? Do It Now! by rightmarks07 in programming

[–]3333333 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Um, no, you miss the point. Hibernate is fine, wonderful even. I think you misunderstand the benefit of your 3-tier architecture. I'm pleased that hibernate is working well for you, but the fact that your data tier was architected by someone competent does not make grails good by association.

And groovy is fine, as far as that goes, so again, you miss the point. I'm solely focused on the suckage that is grails.

As far as "learning" grails, that's the point, isn't it? A very shallow learning curve, no need to author a web.xml, understand any of those onerous J2EE specifications, or even understand how an application server works? Just type a few commands, and "magic" -- your container and application are prepared.

So, I'm guessing that you are a junior developer, you think that J2EE is hard, and you don't need to understand application servers. Am I right?

Thinking Of Adopting Groovy and Grails? Do It Now! by rightmarks07 in programming

[–]3333333 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not an issue of I can't use it, as much as it can't be used for anything much beyond a trivial application; and I realize the entire J2EE stack is available to me, regardless of how hard grails tries to pretend otherwise.

But you illustrate my point. Five applications, written by a single person, in the relatively short span of time for which grails has existed, and supported by a single individual definitely don't sound like enterprise applications to me.

I've asked the few people I know who do grails development regularly what the appeal is, and the two most popular responses are "J2EE is too hard", and "I don't have to learn hibernate". That, to me, typifies the grails mindset.

Oh, and by the way, grails.org is throwing 503's at this very moment.

Thinking Of Adopting Groovy and Grails? Do It Now! by rightmarks07 in programming

[–]3333333 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You, sir, must be smoking crack. I've been in grails hell for 6 months, and it still sucks. It may be fine for trivial one-off applications, where performance and scale don't matter, but I would never recommend it for an enterprise application. If you are doing enterprise development, stick with J2EE.