Testy!

From a short interview of Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of the C++ programming language (emph. added):

C++ was and is meant to be a tool for professionals and for people who takes programming seriously. It can and is used by novices, but the too often heard complaint that “C++ isn’t for everybody and not every project is easily done using C++” is based on a seriously miscomprehension. There can be no programming language that is perfect for everybody and for everything. C++ doesn’t try to be everything for everybody, but it is rather good at the tasks for which it was designed – mostly systems programming, software infrastructure, and resource-constrained applications. C++ dominates the fields where its strengths are needed. The fact that you can write a simple web app easier using JavaScript or Ruby does not bother me. Basically, C++ was not primarily designed for tasks of medium complexity, medium performance, and medium reliability, written by programmers of medium skills and experience.

So he says now.

There are many ahems one might link to. Since he is a hero of mine, I'll be kind and leave it at this "How long" question.

(h/t: StatusCode issue 45)

Line of the Day: 2013-08-19

I usually just ignore Twitchy, which isn’t really a news site so much as an effort to stoke and direct the apparently bottomless desire of right wingers to harass people online, which they appear to mistake for activism.
    -- Amanda Marcotte

May be the most polite thing anyone (to the left of Limbaugh) has ever said about Malkin.

(h/t: TBogg)

Props where they're due

I am not alone in finding Ross Douthat variously tiresome or mockable, and I almost didn't want to link to this piece because, come on, he's using Rod Effing Dreher as a voice of authority. But this is a good line:

To the trends weakening institutional faiths across the Western world — the rise of spiritual individualism, the influence of the so-called new atheism, the gap between traditional Christian sexual ethics and present-day realities — the Roman Catholic Church has added scandals, sclerosis and a communications strategy apparently designed to win the news cycles of 1848.

Ouch

Writers like Rod Dreher and Daniel Larison tend to be ...

On the other hand, Daniel, it was David Brooks doing the lumping together.

(If you don't already know those two names, this'll illustrate it as quickly as anything: Larison | Dreher.)

I'm so sorry to steal your closing paragraph, Erik Loomis, ...

... but I just can't help myself.

Think of it as Bloggy Jeopardy. What several paragraphs could have led to this?

….Also, while we lack concrete evidence that Glenn Reynolds bought the wine for this UT Young Republican night of pranks, it would be irresponsible not to note that we also can’t rule it out.

This guy, if you didn't already know.

the ur-Butt Chugger?

(h/t: Substance McGravitas | pic. source)

Such is blogging

Deadspin, 24 Aug 2012, 4:25 pm:

So, Gonzalez, Crawford, and Beckett for Loney and parts. … L.A. can't possibly be dumb enough to actually do it.

Deadspin, 24 Aug 2012, 9:08 pm:

Reports: Boston Red Sox And Los Angeles Dodgers Agree To Crazy Trade

[Update 2012-08-25 17:02 EDT] The NYT is now quoting Bobby Valentine calling the trade "semi-official." Bosox press conference might be happening now; Dodgers do theirs at 5:30 EDT.

[Update 2012-08-25 17:40] Now a done deal. Deets from the LAT.

Line of the Day: 2012-08-24

Mitt Romney would do a soccer potluck with Idi Amin and the Tamil Tigers if it got the Family Research Council off his back for a week.
    -- Jesse Taylor

Turns out, there IS something worse than the talking paper clip

Maybe Steve Ballmer just didn't want to be the fattest sweatiest one anymore liked his looks?

“With a strong set of products and an exciting pipeline for the next year, Mark’s experience and out-of-the-box thinking will help us more effectively reach new consumers and grow market share,” Mr. Ballmer said in a statement.

Yeah, Mark.

Mark Penn.

The epitome of "out-of-the-box thinking."

(pic sources: Ballmer | Penn)

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[Added] See also.

New record set for Inside Baseball

With a little clicking and scrolling, you'll find yourself down a delightful rabbit hole here: "New Statistics Unveiled, Oddibe McDowell Likely a Hall Of Famer."

Salad Days at Applebee's

I have always counted on Doghouse Riley to keep me on an even keel about David Brooks's lifetime sinecure at the NYT, but …

My theory is that Bobo’s primary purpose in writing columns these days is to provide material for Pierce.

… I can't argue too much with that.

Especially when you get bonus nuggets like this:

It was time for his daily walk with Geppetto, the busboy who worked the kitchen, as opposed to Douthat, the busboy who worked the big parlor with the fireplace and got all the good tips at Christmastime.

That calls for our favorite flowchart, wouldn't you say?

(title: cf.)

Smell that? Mmm. Ahhh. Yes, the blogosphere just got measurably smarter.

Guess who just went Galt.

And M.B. is right about this, too, x2: don't miss Susan of Texas in comments over at Inside the Beltway.

Parting song.

Surely there is a Conor Friedersdorf joke to be made here somewhere

But if Henke and Ruffini is all you can bring, bring it.

(h/t, not that they intended it: Atwood and Spolsky)

__________

Henke and Ruffini?       Friedersdorf?

Oh, my

If Scott Adams has any friends, now might be a good time for them to step in.

P.S. Don't miss Bérubé in the comments at that link.

P.P.S. Who knew that PZ has been carrying a grudge against this guy for years? (With good reason, it sounds like.)

Apparently, no one bothered to tell Little Miss Attila about the PJM gravy train ...

... and how it ground to a halt two years ago, due to the utter lack of traffic.

But seriously ... begging for hits from RaciSt McCain?

It doesn't get any more pathetic than that.

(Yes, I know that I say that about every other week, concerning Greater Wingnuttia. But for some reason, I remain optimistic that this time, this time, we have truly reached bottom.)

"Godwink's Law"

Well done, William K. Wolfrum!

(h/t: that podcast)

(?, ?)

Congratulations, Blue Gal and Driftglass!

Sounds like things worked out better than it did for the couple in v1.0 of your podcast poster. Here's hoping, anyway!

News broken in the 2/11 show. (Never forget!)

Stream it from the site, or right-click and save this direct MP3 link.

[Added] Ring pic there. (Click it to big it.)

Journamalism Watch: kausfiles has found a new home

(embiggen)

TBogg has passed along some sad news.

[Added] Wolcott has now heard about it, too.

(x-posted | pic. source, pic. source, pic. source, pic. source)

Victory is ours at Edrosothon

Erstwhile young punk Roy Edroso has consented to put up a PayPal button of his own. And other good news. Now if only some major publication would come to its senses and hire him full-time.

If you helped, Internet readers everywhere thank you. Also the puppy.

driftglass FTW

Blog post title of the day:

Absolverines!

(?)

(h/t: bonkers)

This says something troubling about the state of our union

Spencer Ackerman explains why he's moving his non-day-job blog from Firedoglake to a new site:

… this is going to be my last post for FDL, a community I’ve been honored and fucking thrilled to join ever since Jane let me take Attackerman 2.0 here in June 2008. My departure is pretty mundane: the congressional press galleries are wary of giving me permanent credentials while I’m affiliated here …

Agree with his views or not, Spencer Ackerman is a respected reporter on national security issues. I wonder how many conservative news sites and bloggers have credentials for the congressional press galleries.

On the other hand, maybe this is all due to Jane Hamsher's alliance with that guy who wants to drown the government in the bathtub. I guess I could see that.

In any case: Attackerman now lives here.