!agree

@Legiondude is there a reason you have to use Visual Studio?

seems like it'd be easier to just code in python in something like Visual Studio Code

if you use python you don't need to worry about a C++ compiler, and you'll be able to write code a lot faster

you don't need to worry about all the low level junk

python would be a good language to learn if you get time

nothing!

lol

you never get compile errors 😃

all the bugs happen at runtime

the way God intended

Cython is probably the fastest way to do Python, though it's a little different.

Just saw someone post this on facebook https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44588939

the joys of politics...I feel like it's the worst its ever been

lol

I disagree with equating git to C++

when you work in a language, the more projects you do, the more you start to get a deeper understanding of the language and it's features...but with git, you can go years never needing to do more than 3 commands (pull, merge, push)

so you aren't working your way to a better understanding of what git can do, something goes wrong and you just have to panic google until it isn't going wrong anymore

I'm the git "expert" in my company, so whenever something goes wrong people come to me to figure it out, and if my bag of tricks doesn't work, it's back to panic googling lol

how is something he suggested a year ago in a private meeting but never did news?

yeah, honestly replacing Maduro back then would probably have been better for Venezuela

the problem is with Dictators, you can't even provide foriegn aid for the citizens because they'll restrict your ability to distribute or want all aid to go through the government

@Reaps don't you know, it hasn't really been tried yet, if we REALLY tried TRUE Communism then it'd be great!

I wonder who was in the room...early in his administration he still had a bunch of Obama holdovers, if any of them were in the room I'd put money on it being one of them

haha, I was being sarcastic...it's the no true Scotsman fallacy that people constantly use defending Socialism or Communism

the interesting thing is, people pull out the text book definition of Socialism to show why it has never truly been tried, but then all their Socialist policies need to be implemented by the federal government, so they basically push towards an extremely powerful central government like all the "not true socialist" countries had

to move towards "true" socialism you basically need no government, and everyone simultaneously opting in to communal living (not taking a paycheck, everyone contributing what they can contributing and taking what they need)...and that'll never happen (and if it did we'd all end up starving to death, because farming sucks and no one would want to do it)

lol, I don't code in C++ so I probably wouldn't 😛

I get your point, but I feel like developers deepen their knowledge of the languages they work in as they work in them

but for git, unless you're doing somethign weird, you never go beyond like 3 commands

haha, I work in golang, which is a beast too

yeah, that kinda supports my point though, as you used C++ you learned about those 5

you'll never learn all of C++, but you'll continue to learn more about it , and learn more about how it works

maybe we can agree to disagree...with git, a lot of people never go beyond push, pull, checkout, merge

maybe you're right, maybe I just get a lot of projects to force me to learn more about the languages I use

I assumed that was the case with most people

wait, the NHS isn't thriving? in the US we keep getting told single payer plans are the future 😛

the strike like last February or 2 ago was crazy, I'd never heard of doctors going on strike before that

I mean, if I can make as much with a 4 year comp-sci degree, why spend the 8 years plus specialization to be a doctor?

honestly I think private healthcare with price transparency makes the most sense

in the US, you don't know what a bill is going to be until you've paid it

I've had talks with friends about this...if you aren't going to restrict immigration to net contributors, then you have to restrict the benefits that immigrants can receive

at the very least, if you're going ot a country as someone who needs welfare, you should be forced to learn the language and take some job training

with a reasonable timeperiod

if you aren't passable in english after 2 years, then you have to go

I saw a stat that 25% of DREAMERS speak no english, and as many will be on food stamps in the next decade, 40 something % can't speak passable english

I agree, but when I'm discussing this with people who are pro open borders, I throw out things I think we can agree with

yeah, you don't have the problems we do yet

I'd be more open to the idea if we agreed they didn't qualify for any welfare at all, originally we got immigrants who had no expectations from the governemnt, and worked their asses off (my great grandparents were farmers from Italy for example)

my grandpa on my dad's side spoke NO french at home, so my dad speaks no french, because they wanted to assimilate

(french canadian)

but I feel like that isn't how it goes anymore

haha, take back your sovereignty!

it's crazy how much feet dragging their is with brexit, the referendum happened, EU people lost, now follow through

it's funny, leftists really hate democracy, and every tiem it doesn't' work out for them they claim conservatives are the ones breaking it (I use US reference points for left and right, I know they'r edifferent in the UK)

idk, Golang is basically what C would be if it were written today

there are some things I'm not a huge fan of, but in general it's a good language

yeah, eventually change will be forced too...like the US our Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid will be insolvent before 2030 (I think the dates change depending on where you read them) so we'll have to figure something out by then...I think if we hit that date, payments just get scaled back, they don't go away...the US and UK are def some of the best places to be born in the world though, so even with all the bad it is still overwhelmingly good

yeah...I really do want my nurse to have gone to nursing school lol

we have a shortage of programmers though...so not all tech is overpopulated...it can feel like it because a lot of companies don't want to hire from the bottom 50% of programmers

lol, too soon @Goblin_Slayer_Floki 😛

a lot of people are feeling the MAGA now http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/394384-poll-trump-approval-rating-ticks-up-to-47-percent

lol

lol, there's a reason why immigration is only going in 1 direction

yup, they need to come in to overthrow him

they love their neighbors, but there's no way they've ever met that neighbor

haha

haha, because people don't know what "computer programmer" means

I helped fix my friends computer, and she goes "so this is what you do all day for work?" 😦

I told her I have IT people to fix my computer for me at work...but a lot of people just don't understand the differentiation between different tech specializations

lol, what a joke

Trump has the chance to stack the Supreme Court with a conservative majority for the next few decades, and he's going to give that up to help the people calling him and his followers Nazis?

there are people talking about the Democrats increasing the number of justices to 11 once they win back Congress...they seem to forget that Republicans can just pack the court again when the pendulum swings

his last appointment was good, the people on the short list this time look okay

if he could get 2 more SC seats we could get a decent court 😃

@DanielKO that woman is actually his favorite from the short list I think

yeah, I don't think he'll pick her, I think she'd be really good though

lol

@Achlys I disagree with picking a neutral judge

the problem we have is that people expect justices to "interpret" the constitution through a progressive lens

we need judges who read the constitution and interpret it based on what was intended by the writers

in Chrisitanity there's this idea of Hermeneutics

basically looking at what society was at the time the verses were written, and using that context when interpreting them (as well as other relevant verses)

I'll have to watch it later

the problem when you just use the court to say way you want, like for gay marriage or abortion, then it can be overturned when other justices get appointed

the right way to make things permanent is for Congress to do its job, make a Bill or ammend the Constitution

but for gay marriage for example...they couldn't get the votes in Congress, so they decided to bypass it and use the SC to get it done instead, and this is where you see the Originalism argument coming into play a lot of times

there honestly aren't a ton of benefits to being married, right now insurance, getting the other person's estate if they die, and immigration status are the big ones

yeah, if one of the people wants to be a stay at home parent, the working person can declare them as a dependent and get a tax benefit

but if you're both working and making a decent income than you don't really get a benefit

honestly, the metoo movement won't affect people in committed relationships

the hookup culture is going to go away, as a guy it just isn't worth the risk...and I'm not sure it was ever worth the risk for girls anyway (I've heard some sketchy stories from friends)

I think metoo has been hurt by people coming out who weren't victims of assault or rape and just attaching themselves to the movement

and false rape claims hurt the idea of believing the victim, because we have really visible cases where the girl lied

but I'd guess the culture of picking girls up in bars or clubs doesn't go away...the library is going to be the new place

no chance of anyone claiming they were drunk and couldn't consent at the library (or if they were, that'd be a huge red flag lol)

idk, we've had some crazy stories in the US, the big one now is a guy who pre-emptively made a title 9 claim against a girl, because whoever makes the claim first wins

like if you hookup, and you're like "oh shit, we were both drunk" pre-emptively filing a claim is the only way to guarentee your safety

yeah, but you still get expelled from school, or suspended until the person who made the claim graduates, a lot of times it's pretty public