I was going to respond with Germany. Specifically, the East German state did not own up to it like the West despite it being great propaganda for the founding of a communist state.
A government does not gain from showing its society a proper mirror. It runs the risk of losing ground by having "insulted" the guilty older generation and national identity, and simultaneously plants the distrust for itself (it mostly is that older generation) to form a youth revolt (the RAF supposedly formed from this distrust in West Germany.)
> just replace the value of "ns.someService" worldwide with a mock.
Having a window-wide namespace might make sense in the test, but it is pretty risky/limiting if you are writing a component that should be reused in contexts you don't fully control. There are other ways around that besides DI, but they will probably have similar trade-offs in safety EOU, etc.
you can start with:
1 1 + .
(+ adds, . prints and this is clearly reverse polish notation)
FORTH is in essence an accumulator CPU like the 68000, except it has an easier abstraction to define new instructions (aka "Words") to act like the + or . above.
A CPU with an accumulator register (default locations that accepts the result for each instruction and is usually one of the operands in each new instruction.)
I guess that is a bit less capable than an actual stack machine like FORTH but sort of the starting point of this programming mentality (at least as I think of it.)
Incidentally, a gallon of gas seems to weigh about 6 pounds. So 7 pounds is a bit over a gallon, which probably gets you around 30 miles or so in an average car with decent fuel economy. On the commuting statistics I can find, look like around 8% of Americans commute about that far. So OP is probably a standard deviation or so past average for either distance or fuel economy, but nothing crazy.
Assuming he didn't just make up the weight number, of course.
Yeah, I don't think it is odd for an American in general just in the context of valuing time.
You don't think about the 30-60 minutes in the car because you are sitting there killing yourself faster, but wasting less bodily energy than sleeping.
The time spent making coffee is probably good for your lifespan, but standing around, moving and cleaning things feels bad for us lazy apes..
I was trying to use the US average. A 15 mile commute each way is about 1 gallon of gas per day. I thought that was 7 lbs, but my memory was incorrect as that is the density of diesel/jet fuel. Gasoline is closer to 6 lbs per gallon as you say.
I was thinking the JavaScript for absolute beginners also looked like a good one for getting non-programmers into.
I don't think that JS is necessarily the best learning language, but it's definitely about as wide spread as it gets (being out of the box for every modern OS that comes with a browser).
Thank you and thanks also to the good people at archive.org.
The whole situation makes more sense now, given those links. I also just remembered that the original video of the interview was region-locked for Germany (where I live) on youtube, so residents of non-Germany recieved a "blocked in your country" message. Smells like somebody badly misjudged and sold territorially limited broadcast rights for the interview.
I still don't understand why a consortium of insurance companies doesn't run studies looking for better outcomes with out-of-patent and un-patented drugs.
Their tests would be of already approved drugs.
In many situations they could save a bundle and in others they would dissuade drug companies from pushing the advertising and costs.
The statistics on everything they test would show their general level of bias (assuming drugs aren't getting any worse.)
Um, no offense, but do you have any idea what insurance companies are really all about? That sounds, well, crazy to me (as someone with a) a serious medical condition and b) who used to work for an insurance company).
Many insurance companies (I think that now perhaps all of them in the US, thanks to ObamaCare) have to pay out a certain percent of what they take in to health providers. Thus if they want to increase premiums, and therefore profits, the only way to do it is to increase the cost of care. Preferably, they increase the cost of care for everyone, which drives more people to buy insurance, and means that some other company isn't able to undercut them on premiums by reducing costs. Of course, they als get more float, which insurance companies love. That is the model that health care insurance companies follow, and ObamaCare was a huge gift to helping them out.
It also doesn't suffer from the "too easy" problem of 10 pin. For example, no one has officially bowled a perfect candlepin game.