emergentcypher

Umm, newspapers enjoy freedom of the press because the 1st amendment explicitly guarantees freedom of the press.

> Congress shall make no law [...] or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press

The only time I could ever see us adopting new calendar systems is when (if) we eventually migrate off-planet into space colonies or onto other bodies in the solar system. Why? Because only then will each colony have a completely different notion of what a solar year is, and different (or even entirely artificial) notions of solar days. In these colonies a standardized calendar system may arise. Or a chaotic web of independent calendar systems.

Good. Get off this ride. I'm asking why the hell we are still stuck with the current packaging schemes.

This attitude is exactly why Linux has such a horrible, horrible packaging experience. Building cross-distro packages is awful. Teaching users how to install packages is awful. Installing custom apt sources or repos to get newer versions of packages is awful. And we're getting stuck up on some inconsequential thing like a library will be duplicated. Guess what, OSX has been doing it successfully for years.

The Linux community is missing the forest for the trees.

Can we please stop talking about these "laws" that are based on absolutely nothing but observing an apparent trend that may not continue past tomorrow? Seriously, spoken to too many undergrads who think there's some sort of physical process or causal relationship driving Moore's law. It's bullshit. It's just people saying "growth has been this fast, and I don't know why, but I sure hope that growth continues to be this fast!"

Are there plans to work on integrating PGP encryption? N1 really looks nice but there are many people, like me, who can't move over until it gets e-mail encryption support.

OK, I'll grant it this, PHP performance has improved quite a lot in recent years.

Anything else.

Does it have encryption yet?

- PHP is slow. Unlike JS, it's generally interpreted and not JIT (unless you're Facebook).

- Drupal has to bootstrap itself and all modules on every request.

- Drupal makes waaaaay too many SQL queries

- Drupal generates horribly performing SQL queries

Drupal has always performed like shit. 10/sec is actually pretty good for Drupal It's only good for managing static content, the only way you get any sort of performance out of it is super aggressive caching.

PHP is a slow abomination. The entirety of Drupal and all modules have to be bootstrapped and run on every request. It runs far too many SQL queries and those queries look atrocious (nested selects, tons of joins, etc).

Same with Magento Commerce. I was always shocked at just how slow it is.

That wording is worse than absurd. It's comical. Their ability to use a thesaurus does not make them intellectuals, in fact the exact opposite.

Howabout the question is, should Congress repeal the All Writs Act.

Really? What is this 10%?

We're using Haskell for server-side programming at my work and it's been fantastic. Functional programming is so well suited for stateless web services.